o two views—Creationist and Evolutionary—could be more divergent. But as logic dictates, only one of N them has to be right… or else—says my home-spun maxim— a subtle layer exists that connects the two…namely that the Creator is also evolving through “pockets of sentience”—us—that are both “it” and its plaything.
Indeed, as we will discuss in more detail further below, the Creator’s greatest conceptualization has to be the Soul. A Soul, it seems, is an aspect of the Creator in the form of a unique perspective—a quasi-independent unit—that reacts differently to different scenarios—even “worlds”—that surround it. Why? Just to make things interesting.
Well, what would you do if you were lonely—alone—and yet had the power to “dream” things into existence? Even a lonely child creates different scenarios for herself and thus becomes a “split personality”…all to make it interesting for herself. The fun, though, only comes in if she makes out her doll to be a living person with a mind of its own.
In the case of the Creator, each “doll”–us—would have to experience an artificial separation with its Creator so that each is able to act authentically as an entity in its “own”
right. Only then can the “fun” begin in earnest. This is the gist of what mystics have been trying to tell us over the ages—
especially those who claim para vidya.
Para vidya is Sanskrit for “a broad ( para) scope ( vidya)
[of Creation]”. It speaks of one able to traverse the broad scope of Creation and be aware of every aspect of it. And just as the brain is the central Intelligence and Awareness system that all 34
sensory nerves, all limbs, and all faculties of hearing feeling, seeing target with providing it with experience, we can equally well be the sensors that feed their experience to an overarching Experience Bank in a paradigm we do not see.
There are two basic ways for Creation to play out spatially.
Some religions believe in a “Flat” system (as in one paradigm and one plane of existence: a universe) and others—including some in Science—speak of a multiverse—thus a “Layered”
system. The Flat system envisages “God” somewhere in space controlling just one paradigm, our physical world. They get rather uneasy when the term “spirit” crops up as they believe in nothing much beyond the physical spectrum we see.
Other religions believe in the Layered system. What makes this rather more understandable today is the advancements of radio and television a mere 200 years ago. These technological innovations made the concept of multiple, inter-piercing
“worlds” rather more credible, that—though clearly having have substance— act as if the physical world hardly exists.
For example, television waves maintain complete coherency when received by a television set (i.e. sound and pictures are clear) even though the waves pass through walls like ghosts.
In fact, the very term “spirit” alludes to an unseen force that nevertheless impacts the physical world. Fortunately, we now know that this “force” is simply a matter of “frequency” or
“wavelength” or “bandwidth”. A single radio or television set can tune into a particular station (‘frequency”) while others are broadcasting at the same time…and none gets into the others’
way because each is a “world” of its own.
Which system would you choose if you were the Creator? It seems that the Creator has run with the Layered system. And just to make it even more interesting (if mystics are correctly understood), that Power has put inside every living creature a
“multi-channel receiver” that, however, can only lock into one frequency at a time. That way, each body has everything in it, 35
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yet is locked out of other paradigms if it does not make itself aware of them and how to get there.
Like a little child crying because he wants to see a change from news to cartoons on the TV set but does not know how, all the adult does is come in and reach for the knob or remote control. We will get to what our knob is.
Meantime, if we allow for everything manifested to occupy the same space as bands of increasing frequency, logically the various inter-piercing worlds can be hierarchically stacked as well. Since sentience is the ruling factor, at the All-Source itself we can expect no separation between thought and its manifestation…while the greatest separation of the same is to be expected in the physical realm we live in.
Here on Earth, we live in a paradigm that mystics call the phenomenal dimension of existence. What this means is that in most cases we first use our mind to conceptualize, then we fashion with tools and hands exactly what we had conceptualized. We are thus ruled by phenomena… actions that follow thought in order to manifest.
Here, matter rules supreme and ideas are hidden though they drive us to shape matter. We do not even see mood, let alone thought. We only “see” it through facial expression and the way a person acts. Mood and emotion, though, can be actively concealed. Here, also, when we want to go to another location, we have to physically travel.
Then comes the Astral Planes—which Plato calls the “World of Ideas”—where communication is through direct “psychic”
transfer and one only has to visualize a place and she is there.
Mood begins to shine through and become visible through an aura or halo that surrounds the thinking part—the head. It changes color according to one’s state of mind—showing to this entire world one’s emotions, level of intelligence, etc.
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factor that gives the aura its color. This takes us into the next level in the hierarchy: the Causal Paradigm.
In the Causal paradigm (also called “Higher Astral”), even motive is visible…as real as a chunk of rock in our phenomenal world. There, it is even harder to hide untruths, and the state of existence is rather more honest and harmonious than below it. At the very border of the Causal World, Mind—the constant companion of the Soul—is left behind at the entryway to the Timeless Region.
In the Timeless Region, there is far greater stability and truth than even in the Causal World. Time stops functioning. There is no Grand Dissolution of the sort we saw in our model when, through “elasticity”, all is pulled back to the “origin”. Since thought and manifestation are now very close together, we live in and travers the reality we create, back and forth just like in a dream. There are hardly any bounds. This is the region of the
“Father” that Jesus talks about—we find out next chapter.
What do mystics mean when they separate Soul and Mind?
In Science, there is no true distinction between the two: it is all
“brain”. In mysticism, Mind is the one charged with making sense of the particular World the body is living in. It is thus a
“computer” that draws power from the Soul (which in essence can be anything) and filters it, matching it to the demands and paradigms of the particular World.
In short, it is a filter that acts like a transistor: it catches the unseen waves from the All-Source and rebroadcasts them to a frequency detectable by the Mind at that paradigm. This is just as the radio transistor catches waves we cannot hear and then rebroadcasts them at frequencies we can hear. All this is to help the Soul live in a particular paradigm.
So, just as there are several worlds “inside” of us, so are there bodies within bodies, and minds within minds—each designed for a “frequency”, a paradigm. When the construct of “Time”
stops, the Mind goes with it and it no longer acts as a filter. It dissolves into a border region mystics call “Trikuti”; one that 37
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separates Time (“Kal”) from the Timeless (“Akal”). It is where the Mind originates.
After Trikuti lies the Maha Sunn (“Great Darkness”)—also called “the Void”. Per the mystical tradition, a Soul can only traverse it with the help of another Soul that has been on the other side: the Timeless Regions—who then acts as the Guide.
As we will see soon, it is indeed a case of “No-one reaches the Father but through me”. This brings us to the million-dollar question: in which Region is the Father?
Beyond Time, say the mystics, there are two main Regions or divisions. These are the regions ruled by Akal Purush (Sanskrit for “Lord Beyond Time”). Since we have already attempted to convey what living outside the constraints of Time would entail, we will leave it at that. Suffice it to say that it is a region of great power for the Soul—where the artificial separation between Thought and Manifestation is extremely thin. The
“Father” is the Primal Soul (or Universal Soul) to who all of us are directly connected in ways unseen.
The Father is the one who permeates, sustains—and even dissolves—all other Regions except the Timeless Regions. And a Soul that is in his region has practically all the power of the Father…is “one with Father” and is the Father. The region of the Father is the one that gives shape to the All-Source, and this is also explained in more detail next chapter.
Finally, even beyond the “Father”, there is the All-Source.
As we see next chapter, the biblical passage John 1:1, begins with an attempt to describe the All-Source. But mystics say we can only have an idea of what the All-Source is because it is indescribable. This is why mystics called that region the Anami (“Nameless [Region]) or “Formless Region”. Buddha called it Nirvana…where all things finally rest).
It is the most potent “region” because the bridge between thought and manifestation does not exist at all. Things can get chaotic if just one unqualified Soul was to cross into it. So, the 38
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Chief Guardian is the Father who governs access to all its incredible power.
So, all-in-all—and by some definitions— five Worlds operate within the ambit of “Time”: (1) the Phenomenal World, (2) the Astral World, (3) the Causal World, (4) Trikuti (5) the Maha Sunn. It is possible to subdivide Creation according to different concerns and emphases, so this is but one way to do so.
Two worlds operate outside Time (1) Sach Khand and (2) the
“Regionless Region”…also called the “Nameless Region” or the
“Formless Region. It is unbounded in all things and is at the very heart of everything. Everything is a mere manifestation of it. It is the famous “Seventh Heaven” …now all-but forgotten by Christianity as it changed from original teachings as touched on in the next chapters.
In short, everything is but maya (illusion): there is actually only one reality: the All-Source. “It” centralized all its powers, all its Awareness, in the Father who then created not only the Regions but the Path of Salvation to reach Him… even beyond to the All-Source. One can thus view Creation as a Game that is played until the Grand Dissolution where all five regions below the Timeless Region of the Father “melt back” into one…and a new ethos, a new Game, is set in motion.
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In our earthly bodies, our portal to the Astral World lies in the pineal gland located between the eyes—the “Single Eye” that Jesus speaks of in Matthew 6:22 (KJV). It is the “door” that a Savior opens when his or her disciple is ready to make the journey to the Father—which journey is often called the “Path”
or the “straight and narrow way”.
Naturally, the technique to open that “door” is through a special meditation the master initiates his or her disciple into. Without a Savior, one can reach perhaps the Astral Plane, but so great and varied are the impediments and temptations on the way to the Father that only through a Savior can the initiated Soul reach Sach Khand (aka Sat Loka)…and we touch on this in the very last chapter.
Meantime there is a lot to consider. How is this complex structure we call Creation held together? What is its purpose and underlying ethos? Why are we here? What is expected of us? So, before “Salvation” even comes up for consideration, we must find good answers to all these questions.
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