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Review: Science and Human Transformation – Subtle Energies, Intentionality and Consciousness

About a month ago I ordered the next book in my research studies, Science and Human Transformation – Subtle Energies, Intentionality and Consciousness by William A. Tiller, PHD. I imagined the book would be a follow up for Tuning the Diamonds by Susan A. Renison. While I am not quite done with the book I’ve got about a chapter left, I will write the review. The book is definitely a step up from Tuning the Diamonds in technicality but the subject is for the most part is similar if not the same.

This book deals with these supersensible domains of Nature and how we might expand our present-day scientific thinking to meaningfully map out these new territories. The break with the past will come, in part, by accepting that, like light and sound, our present band of cognition gives us a window on only a very small portion of Nature’s total modes of expression. Likewise, space and time, although key variables the brain uses for cognition of the information impinging on our physical sensor arrays, are not necessarily the only nariables or the best variables for cognition of the broader domains of Nature. – Preface (pg iX).

Tiller spent many years researching subtle energies and their effects on human intentionality and consciousness. The book begins similarly to most books on the subject of metaphysics and subtle energies where the scientist tries to change the current “paradigm” of modern physics to include subtle energies and their thoughts on the subject. I don’t think changing the paradigm of modern physics is the right answer, but rather create a new universal model to include subtle energies, which I suppose could be seen as the same thing? The first chapter has discussions such as; A Biological Radiation Detector, A Few Other Psychokinesis Studies, Monitoring Subtle Energy Events in A Healer, Some Photographic Evidence of Subtle Energies, A Partial Catalogue of Subtle Energy Phenomena, Children As Subtle Energy Detectors, Magnetism As A Factor In The Subtle Energy Arena and A Working Hypothesis. This book is definitely not for someone who is new to the subject and has no scientific background of the Universe. It is a fabulous follow up for Tuning the Diamonds, but it definitely could use some work. The Source Field by David Wilcock and Tuning the Diamonds by Susan A Renison have one thing in common and that is a theory or overall concept where they research their concept and write the book according to their own theory/concept. The difference in Science and Human Transformation by William A. Tiller is that there isn’t a major theory/concept but discussions and reports from experiments he’s done. So it is a little hard to follow for the average reader if they, again, do not have a scientific background regarding the Universe. However, it is an excellent book to provide “food for thought” as it describes experiments done by Tiller and his colleagues.

 

There is an unseen matrix which gives form to the seen. It is in constant flow and harmony through an instantaneous exchange of information in every direction. From a higher dimensional perspective the multiplicity of seemingly disparate laws that govern our observational experiences appear to come from a common simple origin. According to Tiller, “—the entire human species seems to be part of one vast organism”. Thus, each individual influences the dynamic equilibrium of this multidimensional model. In Tiller’s negative space/time model, the subtle energies which make up our etheric body vibrate at speeds fast than light. The flow is not only outward, but echoes back to the source in a panholographic pattern that reflects the state of each individual element,  the part reflecting the whole and the whole influenced by every part. Each person may be defined in terms of a vibrational tone, merging with others into chords creating greater or lesser harmony, all part of a grand symphony with harmonic and subharmonic scales and overtones all merging into the one note of Creation, the vibration of love. – Preface,Science and Human Transformation (pg iX)

 

The next book I am going to read next is ‘Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation’ Rupert Sheldrake. I’m excited for this book. Sheldrake please don’t let me down 🙁

When A New Science of Life was first published the British journal Nature called it “the best candidate for burning there has been for many years.” The book called into question the prevailing mechanistic theory of life when its author, Rupert Sheldrake, a former research fellow of the Royal Society, proposed that morphogenetic fields are responsible for the characteristic form and organization of systems in biology, chemistry, and physics–and that they have measurable physical effects. Using his theory of morphic resonance, Sheldrake was able to reinterpret the regularities of nature as being more like habits than immutable laws, offering a new understanding of life and consciousness.

In the years since its first publication, Sheldrake has continued his research to demonstrate that the past forms and behavior of organisms influence present organisms through direct immaterial connections across time and space. This can explain why new chemicals become easier to crystallize all over the world the more often their crystals have already formed, and why when laboratory rats have learned how to navigate a maze in one place, rats elsewhere appear to learn it more easily. With more than two decades of new research and data, Rupert Sheldrake makes an even stronger case for the validity of the theory of formative causation that can radically transform how we see our world and our future.

RUPERT SHELDRAKE, Ph.D., is a former research fellow of the Royal Society and former director of studies in biochemistry and cell biology at Clare College, Cambridge University. He is the author of more than 80 technical papers and articles appearing in peer-reviewed scientific journals and 10 books, including The Presence of the Past, The Rebirth of Nature, and Seven Experiments That Could Change the World.

Altar/Meditation Space

Since spirituality seems to be an ever increasing presence in my life, I think its about time to get an altar/meditation space. My current desktop altar isn’t cutting it. I need a space in my room that is *specifically* for meditations. I’ve been thinking about cleaning out one corner of my room that faces west. Now the religion I have only really known to use an altar is the Wiccan/Pagan religion and they align their altars to North. But my desktop and computer area is already facing north and there is no way am I going to move my desk around. My desk came with a miniature extension table to store a printer. Since I’m home from school, I’m gonna have to clean that off since its’ storing craft supplies right now and move my printer to it. Once I clean that area out I think I will have enough space for a small meditation altar.

HOWEVER, this space is facing West. So I’ve been doing research about the significance of having an altar face West and apparently there’s some significance from the eastern traditions which is perfect.

 

In the Buddhist tradition,

B. The Location of a Buddhist Altar

It is ideal to set up a Buddhist altar in a dedicated room. If the building is of two or more stories, it is proper to set it up on the top floor. If there is no dedicated room available, a quiet place or a room which can be closed up for quiet meditation at the regular practice time should be selected.

The orientation of a Buddhist altar depends on the main Buddha worshipped. If the practitioner majors in the Pureland school, the main Holiness should be Amitabha Buddha And hence the altar

should be oriented toward the East. In case of the Healing Buddha who eliminates misfortunes and prolongs lives, it should be orientated toward the West. (All notes below are added into the English translation by Dr. Lin. Note 1: Amitabha Buddha’s Pureland is in the West, hence the altar ideally is to be set up such that when we face Him, we are facing the West. A similar remark applies to the case of the Healing Buddha whose Pureland is in the East.) If the wall available is not of the ideal orientation, it is also fine to ignore this point. It is proper to select a wall with sufficient illumination so that it is easier for the practitioner to concentrate on gazing at the holy images .

The north doesn’t feel right to me. I just don’t seem to have any spiritual connection to the North, however, only during rituals and meditations do I face the North… I really do feel a strong pull towards to the to set up this altar.

The early Christians also faced West,

Worshippers in the courtyard could witness the sacrifices offered in front of the holy of holies, and knew that therein God dwelt behind a series of curtains, through which only the high priest could pass.  Priests and people faced west toward the Presence of God, the Shekinah.  With the entrance in the east, sunlight was admitted in the morning, while the structure provided a modicum of shade over the courtyard in the hot afternoon.

Most spiritualists say you should put a place that is easiest for you. Just orientate the ritual/circle to north when you are actually doing one. For some reason I seem to have a strong elemental connection to water (the element of the west) right now. Dunno why.

Upon doing more research however I found this pagan thread in a forum where someone asked the question, The Altar-is it ok to have it facing the west? 

One reply really resonated with me,

Your altar should face the direction that is taught in your tradition. Usually this would be the North or the East. The West is the direction of endings, imagination, the subconscious, and dreams; I don’t know of any tradition which uses it on a regular basis.

Of course!! Subconscious, dreams, imagination, all things related to the third eye! No wonder I feel a strong connection there. But I *DO* like what other traditions say about the Presence of God being in the West. Also I get a lot of sunlight this time of year and to have it shine down on my altar would be cool. So I think that’s settled, I will put near that wall when I’ve saved enough monies for the table I’m thinking about buying.

Tremont Tearoom

I went into Boston today to do an interview as a tarot reader at the Original Tremont Tearoom. After trying to find it for a good 15 minutes the owner had an emergency to take care of so I had to wait around until someone showed up and let everyone in. Felt very at home there despite being comfortable I was so nervous I don’t know why! The staff member that I read for kept telling me to not to be nervous lol! I did a usual reading for him and then he asked me some questions to answer intuitively. He said my readings were fair and that my intuition reading skills were stronger than my tarot reading skills. He says I would be able to do intuitive readings without cards. He also said I had a lot of potential which is really good to hear. I’ll hear Wednesday! Keeping my fingers crossed.

I had the craziest dream last night. My pineal gland was pulsating and then I had this crazy dream that I was at a party and a family friend was there. In the other room I was kissing a younger man and he then went online and bragged about it to his friends he said it was “So quick and easy”. Then the hosts’ dog came into the room and next to the dog was a ghost of a golden retriever. Dear god did he torment my intuition. He kept trying to come through to me and make me help me his presence known. He kept saying that his owner was dead and worked for public transportation and was an English gentleman kinda owner (appearance not status). The live dog was a mix between a terrier and bull dog kinda thing. I said to the family friend (male) that there was a ghost of a dog in the room and that the owner was an English gentleman who worked in public transportation (putting up signs on the side of the highway, etc). Then I left the party and the dog followed me home. I was in my computer chair closing up my computer and I felt the ghost dog in my dream then I charged at him while my chair and shrieked to get him to go away. I succeeded and I woke up with my mouth open too! The message at the end of the dream said I’d be working in a company that worked with symbolism and signs. My first thought was the Tremont Tearoom, so on Wednesday it’ll be interesting to see what comes of it.

Now I’m so tired, and overwhelmed with emotion that I just want to break down and cry. I really don’t know why I feel this way. Perhaps its because of the lack of sleep that I got from the dream since the ghost dog tormenting my intuition terrified me.

Correspondence

Lately, I’ve been thinking about Correspondence in terms of energy work. Last new moon I did a meditation ritual regarding employment. I drew a mandala featuring symbols that symbolized the place I want to work in, as well as the kind of work I wanted. I used symbols for moving and desire. This is the full moon and I’ve gotten two responses from my resume. Nothing is settled yet, as one isn’t that consistent but it would get me experience and probably move out of my parents’ house (which I need). I burned (released) the mandala in the ritual and put the ashes with Cinnamon oil and amethyst under my pillow in a pouch for the entire moon cycle. Seems to have worked. Again, I haven’t made any decisions, as I don’t know much about these positions. BUT its a start. I could really use the experience but I have to figure out my living situation first before I could do anything.

In terms of correspondence, what really helped me realize and understand how to use correspondence is that symbols, color and other forms project a subtle energy and when used properly these subtle energies are attracted to you. Different colors and forms when coupled with each other create different energy patterns and these patterns are attracted to the energies you seek.

I think I’ll definitely be using this method in the future when I’m finding myself in a hole in my life.

 

EDIT: So one that looked promising ended up being a scam. Oh well back to square one. Let’s hope the other one will come through.

Seven Cosmic Laws = Seven Design Principles

I began the second rewrite of my book since I have a better way of organizing it. I’m still debating whether or not to make this book simple and to the point, making it more of an art book with text, or a book that is basically a research paper that’s been published. Many of the books are of this format, taking a concept/thesis and then expanding it and backing it up with research. Unfortunately, a lot of the time the information gets recycled and is written about in different ways. I just finished Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism and Spiritual Evolution by Susan Rennison and it was very similar to David Wilcock’s The Source Field Investigations. Although I suppose the point is that I learned something new from both books. Anyway, I’m leaning towards the art book model because the book is about design principles being applied to the universe; macrocosmically.

 

While researching this past week, I wondered if the esoteric tradition had anything like principles or laws about the cosmos that they followed. Sure enough, the Hermetic tradition has 7 so-called Cosmic laws, and amazingly so they mirror or match the seven design principles I’m working off of! SO I have rewrote my book to be outlined via these laws/principles and I am going to find the research that backs up these laws and put them into these laws/categories. I think that’s the best way to go about this book, since its so complicated in its’ nature. How do you make a model of the universe easy to read and comprehend to those who can’t see inside your brain?
Below is what I have summarized about these laws in my book’s intro:

According to the esoteric Hermetic tradition there are seven cosmic laws. Eerily they mirror or equal the seven design principles that I have applied macrocosmically. These seven cosmic laws are; the principle of SPIRIT (space), the principle of Cause and Effect = Karma (balance); the principle of correspondence or analogy (contrast); the principle of resonance or attraction (emphasis); the principle of Harmony and balance (harmony and proportions); the principle of rhythm or vibration (movement); the principle of Polarity and Sexuality (unity).

I got so very excited!

Repertoire of the Cosmos

I read everything I can get my hands on about the cosmos these days. Some of it is pure fiction but some of it has a good vibration and reads as non-fiction. I seem to be attracting more and more people who claim that they are not of this world and need guidance in learning what this feeling means. I have never felt like I was “apart” of this world (if that makes sense) I was always much more mature than my generation and could never really connect to my generation and only to those who are a bit older than I was. I didn’t mind, as I hated drama anyway. Its always weird trying to tell someone you’re close to that you’ve had this otherworldly feeling about yourself since childhood and could never fully explain it, so the internet has help lots in finding like minded people and it seems like more and more people are “waking up” realizing that they too may not be from this world. There is a reason! The major consensus is that earth is undergoing energetic changes and these changes if not gently handled, would have significant problems for humans, energetically. Therefore, higher evolved beings are called to be reincarnated onto earth to balance out these energies and this is why we are sometimes confronted with children who are wise beyond their years, simply because they are! at least their spirit. Anyway, I was one of these children and since childhood I had become determined to figure out what this feeling is and why I am feeling it. Some odd 10 years later I am grateful to have been so determined to finding out otherwise I may not have had that spiritual awakening or found myself better. I have only begun reading more into this after my spiritual awakening as it made me believe that I am seriously being pulled in a specific direction in my life! Sounds crazy I know, but I don’t know how else to explain it. Anyway, here is a repertoire of the cosmos I have started to put together and will continue to add to it once I finish reading a book, watching a documentary or reading an article! >> Repertoire of the Cosmos

 

While reading Tuning the Diamonds I came across a Hindu phrase and I am seriously adopting it once my research become more established, “Paramanu – beyond the atom”. How perfect for a lab that investigates phenomenon beyond the physical??

Working with life-form archetypes

Did not write this copied from a PDF

On June 15th 1989 the Swiss company “CIBA-GEIGY” (Basel) got an European patent (No.0351357): without genetic modifications, just with electrostatic fields they can create fossil forms of fish, fern, mushroom …today nobody remembers these experiments anymore…

BACKWARDS IN EVOLUTION:
Heinz Schürch, who watched over the experiments until 1992, shows us some pictures with strange looking plant archetypes of wheat and corn.

The wheat doesn’t grow high, it crawls on the ground, just the tip of the culms (where the spikes are) grows =20cm high.

The corn looks more like the modern corn we know today although it’s much smaller and it has not only two big but up to eight little corncobs growing out of the stem.

The amazing thing is: these archetypes were grown out of grains of the modern plants.

It’s no alchemy or gene technology, it’s just experimenting with plants and electrostatic fields (stress fields, no electric current).

Electric current, would produce a direct biochemical alteration, an electrostatic field does not.

Test arrangement:

Aluminum Plate

Wheat or corn For three days

Aluminum Plate

direct current between the two of them

After three days the grains grow in a pot or a greenhouse like every other plant.

These three days at the beginning of the germination process are enough to set the archetypes.

Electrostatic fields are regulative fields. Nature comes out of chaos; it needs regulative structures to manifest something. This is the idea behind it; a certain electrostatic field brings a certain structure into nature, that’s what we know out of the experiments. But we do not know of any legalities so far. We cannot tell how strong a field it needs (electric field strength) to go back to a certain time in evolution. We don’t even know how it really works. Our theory is, that the plants in the field get information, which makes them go back to the archetypes i.e. the wheat remembers it once was a grass. (In Peru you still can find this type of wheat). “The “new-old” wheat contains new” etc.

This type of wheat could be used in regions where there is a short spring and summer (the modern wheat couldn’t grow there at all): you wouldn’t need to use pesticides or herbicides.

The pest cycle is the same as the one of the modern wheat life.

They would not yet be developed when the “new-old “ wheat is already harvested after 4 to 8 weeks.

The germination rate of the grains is much higher as well.
The “new-old” species could be used to grow plants, which are healthier and more resistant to pests (cross with modern plants).

FERNS:

Heinz Schürch shows us a bowl with something green in it. A look under the microscope reveals “seedlings” of a fern-archetype. They have grown much longer under an electrostatic field than the wheat or the corn. They stayed in the field for approximately one month: the bowl has been kept closed for three years.

These “seedlings” (protallium) are important for the reproduction of ferns. Today there is only one “seedling” per fern-leaf, which becomes pubescent. The other ones are falling to the ground and die. The “seedlings” of this “ur-fern” behave different. They are all connected through a grid-type network. That’s the reason that there is more then one “seedling” which is able to become pubescent. Still we don’t know exactly how this network works. A close look with the microscope shows us this amazing network. The connections between the single “seedlings are always the shortest possible way. It almost looks like somebody created it with the intention to save material. The tubes between the heart-shaped plants are ultra-thin, very straight and are shining, silvery.

There is no information about these tubes in any scientific literature. We assume they are used to transmit information between these plants. But we don’t have a clue what kind of information this could be. More secrets are to be found in the growing process of the fern itself. The “seeding” of a common worm fern grew into another type of fern after being in the electrostatic field. Instead of pinnate leafs it had rounded ones (like tongues). Since these leafs are known from fossils, the new-old fern was named “Ur-fern” (ancient fern). The spores of the ancient fern were examined and they didn’t show any similarities with “modern” ferns. Scientists still didn’t believe in the possibility of altering plants by use of an electrostatic field.

In the following years the ancient fern grew different leafs every year, it nearly looked like, the fern remembered that it was created out of a worm fern. It seemed that the fern was going through the whole process of evolution in his growing process. We examined all it’s new spores, they were all the same. But out of them grew different kinds of ferns. There were: worm ferns, beach fern, some south African leather ferns, …The ancient fern seemed to be able to develop every kind of fern. The biggest surprise awaited us, when we came to analyze the chromosomes. The worm fern had 36, another one had 41. In all of scientific literature we never heard of anything like this. Another amazing, new, not- fern-like thing was, that every evening the fern would emit scents.

Many ferns are dying out these days. That makes the ciba-Geigy-experiments extra valuable. For example in Germany there are more than 12% endangered fern-species. Ferns are extremely sensitive to environmental pollution. A possible explanation (the reason for that) might be, that the atmosphere of the earth used to be different back in the days when ferns ruled the world. There were more and stronger thunderstorms and the electric fields in the earth’s atmosphere changed often. It could be, that every time we use an electrostatic field with the ferns, we create a condition of a time long ago when this field did exist. But this is only a theory.

If I can change the set of chromosomes and grow ancient (long dead) plants just by using a simple electrostatic field, I have to pronounce the question whether all the information about the shape of creatures is really in the genes, the DNA, the nucleus? I think the electrostatic charging of the atmosphere is also a factor.

The memory of nature seems to go back to the very beginnings of life. BRINGING BACK THE SAURIANS?

Out of a drilling-core, which came from depths of 140m. In a 200 million year old Rhine- salt-mine, was taken a probe. Analyzing this probe under a microscope shows us bazaar crystal forms out of which grows tiny creatures. These are mushrooms, which came back into life through an electrostatic field. All experiments to bring them back without the field didn’t work out.

Heinz Schürch shows us a patent, the only announcement of the company in which they talk about the electrostatic fields.

We didn’t want to experiment with plants only but also with animals. But we got the strict instruction not to mess with the germ line of animals. That’s why we thought of taking the eggs of a rainbow trout and put them into a field for four weeks after their impregnation. After four weeks we put them into aquariums and raised them. The result are fish, which are much stronger and robust than our rainbow trout. They have more teeth and a different color. Grown males have a hook-jaw (like wild salmons). They behave wilder and more aggressive. We needed to heighten the fence around the aquarium because the fish would jump higher. They are an archetype of our trout’s, dead since 150 years (they were identified with the aid of old drawings).

The flesh of the fish is firmer and more delicate. The fish are more resistant to disease. That’s why there is no need to put antibiotics or pesticides into the water. There is a standing joke in the company about bringing back the dinosaurs.
Heinz Schürch: “It is just a joke. I wouldn’t dare do it. You can’t control a dinosaur. We would just have to use bird-eggs, for the birds are the descendants of the saurian.

But we don’t even know how these fields are working.”

Answers to this question will still have to wait, as the CIBA-GEIGY-team doesn’t exist anymore.

EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION Improved Fish-Farming

A new procedure is described, based on the short-term application of electrostatic fields, which results in useful and desirable qualities of fish.

Description:
Aquariums (insulator) with fish-eggs are put between two electrodes of a capacitor. The direct voltage can vary from 1 to a couple of 10000 volts.

Because there is no electric current, the chemical identity of the system “fish” is not altered.

The eggs stay in the field until the “little” fish start to slip. Then they are brought into bigger aquariums and raised. These fish are more vital and grow up earlier than the ones, which were not put into an electrostatic field. The most used voltage varies between 100- 10000V(most special: 300-3000V) the distance between the electrodes depends on the size of the aquarium, but preferable it should be between 1-10cm.

Time-Space Physics

I am almost finished with The Source Field Investigations by David Wilcock. I must say, I really enjoyed the read. I also was surprised how I agreed with most of what he said about the source field being Einstein’s “Holy Grail” i. E the Unified Field Theory. THOUGH, the only thing I don’t agree with is his take on gravity. He says gravity is a force within the Source Field. I don’t think this is the case. I think gravity is the reason why things are the way we view them, in space-time, if we flip gravity, we will be in time-space.

He has also opened my eyes into investigating the Time-Space parallel reality of Space-time. See the problem here folks is that mainstream scientists focus on the space-time science of things, however, it seems individuals are breaking into the time-space side of things and this obviously is upsetting the status quo. Thus contradictions, and suppression of amazing technology. We must be open to the idea of a parallel reality that is opposite entirely in nature to the space-time we’re so familiar with.. Time-space to me is where all the weird paranormal activities originate from. These anomalies pop over into space-time and we see them, but they are of time-space origin.

Wilcock helped me realize that the Golden mean may be in fact what we need to make matter be time-space material. The vibration or geometry to make matter atoms pop into time-space. Earlier I posted about in putting the Golden Mean in E = Mc2 it just occurred to me that may perhaps be a clue to turning everything into time-space material. Speeding things up so they enter Time-space. I’m thinking mysticism may in fact be the time-space science and that is why it doesn’t react the same in the space-time reality because once upon a time it was time-space and so the science worked, but the galaxy flipped over into space-time and so that knowledge is outdated. This also backs up my assertion that the Golden Mean spirals are expressions of light. They are coming directly from time-space and popping over into space-time. And their signature is a spiral.

 

Esoteric Meaning of our Motto: “The Way of Light”

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”Esoteric Meaning of our Motto: “The Way of Light“” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” el_class=”widget-title”][vc_column_text]One of the things I do as an artist or as most artists do is make the world meaningful. I look at the world through a prism of vibration, light and form which means half my time I spend reading and researching a wide variety of subjects and the other half is assimilating, hypothesizing, philosophizing the information which I then create something from it. This insight came to me in a bit of an epiphany of sorts and has led me down the rabbit hole of trying to figure out what this vision means to me and how to express it. I can explain what I do as an artist in a simple sentence, “I convey my experiences with subtle energy through my art” but even in a simple sentence like that leaves one hanging. This allows me to combine the spiritual, scientific and artistic disciplines. In fact this method of conveying experiences is not that different from what the ancient people of earth did. They conveyed scientific meaning through symbols, mythology, story lines and words. I just modernize this method. For example, as a semester project for one of the senior art classes at Moravian that I took in this previous Spring semester, I took an alternative scientific experiment and turned into an art form. This project’s objective was to photograph the life force energy of organic materials using subtle energy and exposing it onto traditional photographic black and white paper.

As an artist whose interested in the religious, spiritual and scientific side of things I am often finding myself diving into strange topics and discovering people that did incredible things that not many people are aware of and then I try and figure out how to visualize it and make it artistic. All of these interests have combined themselves into a weird artistic philosophy and I am often finding myself reading the great works of Aleister Crowley, Eliphas Levi, Manual P Hall and other great philosophers who have contributed to the development of human consciousness through distributing esoteric knowledge. I am one who believes in synchronicity and looks for the subtle hints and signs that appear in my life that help me guide my way through the chaos of the manifest world. As an artist and graphic designer I have taken interest in symbols and religious iconography and interpreting the esoteric meaning of it.

I had sadly forgotten what Moravian College’s motto was until Graduation when Dr. Gary Olsen mentioned it in his wonderful commencement speech. Something told me to take note of the motto and I’m glad I did. After graduation, I have been spending the Summer reading and researching more about this weird artistic philosophy that I have developed and one of the books I read is a book on decoding the Christian mythology and religious iconography: its called, “The Secret of Sion” and its written by William Henry. The book itself may be a bit out there for most Christians as it talks about Jesus coming to Earth through a Stargate and wormhole from a place in the center of the galaxy that is called Sion…  But the author makes a fascinating case and supports his ideas and hypothesis with the religious iconography and symbols from the Christian religion we are so familiar with. If you’re wondering, yes, Henry does use Sion and Zion interchangeably. He is also a believer in synchronicity and likes to believe that Sion is a suffix of Ascension, which is a spiritual belief that the human spirit will transcend the physical and become one with God after it goes through a series of tribulations.

From the Secret of Sion, Henry states, “Our destination, says Revelation, is Sion, a mystical place that gave its name to Sion (or Zion), the sacred mountain of the Jews and to Jerusalem, although Mormons believe Sion is a place in America. Both traditions agree that only the “pure in heart” can enter and dwell in Sion. The Book of Hebrews chapter 12, verse 22-23 says Sion is “the Holy City of the living god, the heavenly Jerusalem, and (arrival there marks) our acceptance into an innumerable company of angels and just humans made perfect”. ”

Henry interprets the Christian religion through a gnostic (esoteric) point of view and says that, “For the awakened Gnostic, Christ is a being of light and the Christ narrative is an allegory of a universal internal spiritual experience, the Way of Light.[…] This is the ancient spiritual journey of the Wayshower, Jesus demonstrated. We follow (and will complete) this light path both individually and as a species…” According to modern cosmology we are taught that the Galaxy completes one rotation every 26,000 years. I personally found it very peculiar that the Moravian Star has 26 points. I would like to think that the Moravian Star is actually a symbol to represent the center of the galaxy, the Land of Light (or Heaven), or as Henry interprets as Sion.

Zinzendorf helped settle the Moravian settlements that became known as Nazareth and Bethlehem (as we know very well), he at the time was also head and apart of multiple ancient mystery schools and masonic orders. Could he have insight into the original teachings of Christianity and tried to spread its teachings and ideals when he settled Bethlehem after he broke away from the Lutherans? Zinzendorf, himself was an eager seeker after truth, and could not understand men who at all costs kept to the opinions they had once formed; yet he had an exceptional talent for taking on religious subjects even with those who differed from him (this characteristic is a big give away for anyone who may be a part of an ancient mystery school or masonic order).

Its quite possible that the Moravian faith we became so attached to today may have been an attempt to revitalize the Christian faith as it was originally. Looked at this perspective, Christianity, is really no different than other religious faiths as they all came before Christianity and was just an attempt to rejuvenate the ancient universal internal spiritual experience that humanity seems to be “destined” to complete (if you will). The British philosopher Aleister Crowley once said, “Man will no longer worship God as an external factor, as in Paganism, or as an internal state of consciousness, as in Christianity, but will realize his identity with God.” This realization (or awakening, “Ascension”) of Man’s identity with God is the first step in completing this ancient universal light path and from other sources this awakening and realization is expected to happen when the galaxy is close to completing a 26,000 year cycle. If you are well versed in your Mayan mythology, the great Mayan god, Quetzalcoatl is said to return at the end of a cycle and the beginning of the Golden Era.

If you have been keeping up with the 2012 Olympic news you might have heard somethings released about its logo in 2007. One of the speculations that’s been going around is that the 2012 Olympic logo spells “Zion”. With the knowledge you’ve hopefully learned from this article perhaps the 2012 Olympic logo was supposed to be a warning for what is coming; why the Olympic logo? It will be one of the most well known logos and if badly designed (which it was) it will attract even more attention. According to modern cosmology the galaxy is supposed to make a complete rotation this year (2012) and how appropriate is the speculation about Zion being spelled in the logo?  I’d like to close saying that perhaps today’s logos and iconography from pop culture may be a system for conveying messages like the ancients once did and should be given a second look at what its’ meaning might be.

 

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Changing Matter through Vibration

I was reading The Source Field Investigations by David Wilcock this week and I came across a few things that peaked my interest. I was reading about changing the physical appearance of matter through Magnetic Atoms. One experiment looked very promising as it was done by an ‘ordinary’ guy like you and me. I’m trying to see what art project I can steam from this. Process seems simple enough but I have to really look into it. From the research article it says that Pier Luigi Ighina simply created an electromagnetic field in the magnetic atoms in the piece of matter would take on the vibratory rate of the electromagnetic field and he could easily change it.

The various colours and shapes of matter are due to alterations in the vibration of the atoms that compose it. For example, if a flower has a basic atomic pulsation of 1000, and its external atoms get in touch with other atoms like those of light, heat, gas, etc. the latter change the former’s vibration to 1000.01, 1000.02 which correspond to the colours and shape of the matter. Upon this discovery he made a scale of alterations which showed him that when he would reach a pulsation of 1001, the matter would transform. He classified different categories of atoms: reproductive atoms, motionless atoms, non reproductive atoms, semi reproductive atoms, permanent reproductive atoms, and so on. source

I think his science is “Key” to understanding some of the many ancient philosophical teachings that have been given to us. For example sacred geometry is simply geometry that has taken on vibration. Vibration here is also key in the creation of sacred geometry. Reality is just a prism of shape and color, and if we are able to change the physical appearance of matter just by adjusting its vibratory rate, then this really backs up that reality is an illusion.

Next Esoteric Project: Visualizing Sound

I wanted to do a cymatics setup for awhile now. I was gonna try to do one for my self-portrait in Intro to Photography and use a song I wrote so I could visualize the notes. But I didn’t have time and ended up doing something much simpler but turned out very well in the end. Coupled with this project I also wanted to work with the sonoluminescence experiment which turns sound into light. Maybe something interesting will out out of these. Both projects are about visualizing sound in its inefficiency.

 

Photo 1: Success… that elusive glow! (small bluey-white dot at centre of flask)
Cymatics with water

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quatrefoil vs Vortex

Below is an old art history paper; it discusses the material and militaristic view of space travel versus the spiritual, consciousness expanding space travel through the vortex symbol and the quatrefoil symbol.

figure 1
Artist: Paul Feeley
Subgenre: Sculpture and paintings
Media: wood and paint
Date: 1960s

 

 

 

 

 

 

figure 2
Artist: Janet Echelman
Subgenre: Sculpture
Media: Poles: 105 feet, 125 feet and 145 feet tall Rings: Outer: 100 feet wide; Inner: 30 feet wide Cable: 1 ¾ -inch cable; 1-inch cable Net Dimensions: 100 feet wide at the top – 15 feet wide at the bottom The lowest part of the net hangs 38 feet above the ground. The highest rises to about 100 feet. Wind Load: designed to withstand summer monsoon winds.
Date: 2009

 

 

 

 

 

For my design comparisons I chose sculpture by 1960s’ artist Paul Feeley and contemporary sculpture artist Janet Echelman. I had chosen Echelman’s piece first because the exquisite use of light and color, shape and form really struck a chord with me. I am personally attracted to color and shape as they are often used in symbols and signs… for me, color and form in sculpture is like a really large 3dimensional symbol. The sculptures take on a symbol of their own. For some reason, the 1960s really came to mind when I saw Echelman’s sculpture. I then googled for an artist that resembled Echelman’s pieces and fell upon Paul Feeley. Unfortunately there is not a lot on Paul Feeley. The same symbolic appeal that Echelman uses in her works are mimicked in Feeley’s childlike wooden sculptures.  Echelman’s is almost like a sophisticated contemporary version of Feeley’s sculptures.
Feeley appears to be more of a painter than a sculpturer. He’s taken simple shapes and elaborated them using repetition and distortion to the original form. However, the way Feeley uses shape and color in his sculptures and especially his paintings create a subliminal affect of being symbols. His paintings are not symbolic, they are, rather more like patterns… but even then they are not exactly like a tile pattern. Sometimes a form is repeated through out his paintings, sometimes it is just in a certain location in his paintings. He works a lot with the Gestalt Theory and its’ Law of Figure-ground. Echelman also works with the Law of Figure-ground whether it was intentional or not.

In figure 1, remind me of a particular symbol and sign that is often used in religious architecture is the quatrefoil.  This quatrefoil has a lot of significant esoteric influence on religious architecture. Perhaps Feeley was influenced by such a shape that he felt compelled to sculpt. And while we may never know that Feeley was inspired by the quatrefoil we do know quite a bit about the religious and esoteric influence the quatrefoil has. A blog I follow called, “Reconciliation of Science and Religion” uses art, symbols and signs as a foothold to deliver and reveal many esoteric secretes that were once taught in the ancient mystery schools but have been eliminated from “modern” consciousness. In ancient history the mystics where known as the priest-scientists who devised and developed systems and languages of symbols and signs to preserve knowledge. Mystics preserved ancient knowledge through paintings and cosmologies that often times conveyed scientific meaning through a complex system of mythological themes, symbols, storylines, and words. This method has long been lost to humanity because of the so-called Enlightenment era,

[The] Enlightenment was a desire for human affairs to be guided by rationality rather than by faith, superstition, or revelation; a belief in the power of human reason to change society and liberate the individual from the restraints of custom or arbitrary authority; all backed up by a world view increasingly validated by science rather than by religion or tradition. (Dorinda Outram, historian)

On the blog, “Reconciliation of Science and Religion” the author, known as “Raphael” writes about the constant associations each symbol has to each other and is determined to prove Einstein’s “Theory of Everything”. Dr. Timothy Leary, a professor at Harvard University during the 1960s who was fired due to his experiments with LSD and his belief that this drug was a positive stimulant that could be used for expanding awareness of subconscious structures and aspects of the world not perceived in a normal consciousness state, has propagated the quatrefoil sign as a symbol for the League for Spiritual Discovery, or LSD.  Raphael writes,

ASYMMETRY is KEY, and it is easy to prove the ancients were aware of asymmetry. Yes they were AWARE, and we are rather ignorant of this fact, that they were more aware of asymmetry than we appear to be. It seems we have been focused on SYMMETRY far too much, far too long…probably because symmetry implies perfection, and perfection is ‘god’.

It is illustrated that a quatrefoil is produced when inverting a swastika, a sign that is known for being symmetrical in nature. According to the mystic Hindus the swastika was

originally developed to explain the nature of duality; clockwise represents the physical and counterclockwise represents the spiritual. Now it seems that the inversion of a swastika represents subconscious, inter-dimensional expansion, etc and in the version represents the grounding and a conscious state… of being present. From the student-produced magazine, Knowledge of Reality they write,

The electron’s high probability zone formed spiral standing waves around the carbon atom’s nucleus. When this configuration was viewed from certain angles the physicist was surprised to find that the spirals formed recognizable symbols. In the first view a 3–dimensional Aumkara could be seen. From a different angle that Aumkara became a flat, 2-dimensional Swastika. The Swastika, he concluded, was actually 2-D representation of the 3-D aumkara.

What both sculptures have in common is their symbolic associations. According to Raphael’s writing and findings, the quatrefoil represents finding the reality and natural existence of different dimensions in plain view (LSD, consciousness expansion, etc) and then in Echelman’s piece, which visually depicts a vortex, or a kind of inverted wormhole; a technological concept that is used in science-fiction as a means of intergalactic and dimensional travel. One, the quatrefoil, is a rather spiritual version of intergalactic and dimensional travel and the other, the vortex, is a superficial kind of concept for intergalactic and dimensional travel.