Prime Energy - Source Awareness

Above and below spins the orb of luminosity in a perennial field of awareness; today's recipe comes from Patanjali's Yoga-sutra. Patanjali (150 BCE) synthesized a "yogic summary code" on the basis of the essence of extant traditions coupled by direct contemplative experience. He also understood the cognitive and existential roles of Isvara and Pranava (alias "God" and "Word of God"), two prime roots commonly emphasized in religious traditions featuring faith, prayer and worship as the practice for deliverance.

The following passages are translated from the first chapter ("Samadhi-pada") of Patanjali's Yoga Sutra, a discourse on the nature and sequences of Samadhi (luminous union of awareness) that leads to the complete resolution and pristine unification of fragmented human awareness.

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atha yogānuśāsanam ||1||

yogaś citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ ||2||

tadā draṣṭuḥ svarūpe ’vasthānam ||3||

"Then, instructions on connection (yoga). Yoga is the cessation of fluctuating awareness. There, pure awareness is understood in its perennial state."

śraddhā-vīrya-smṛti-samādhi-prajñā-pūrvaka itareṣām ||20||

tīvra-saṁvegānām āsannaḥ ||21||

mṛdu-madhyādhi-mātratvāt tato’pi viśeṣaḥ ||22||

"For some, realization is preceded by faith, vigor, mindfulness, mental focus and wisdom. Its nearness is proportionate to the ardor of spirit; specifically, as mild, medium or of the greatest measure."

īśvara-praṇidhānād vā ||23||

kleśa-karma-vipākāśayair aparāmṛṣṭaḥ puruṣa-viśeṣa īśvaraḥ ||24||

tatra niratiśayaṁ sarvajñatva-bījam ||25||

sa pūrveṣām api guruḥ kālenānavacchedāt ||26||

"Or by fixation on Master God (Isvara). God is a specific kind of sentience untouched by afflictions or residual imprints of action. In that, it is an incomparable seed of omniscience. Unhindered by time, it was also the teacher of the ancients."

tasya vācakaḥ praṇavaḥ ||27||

taj-japas tad-artha-bhāvanam ||28||

tataḥ pratyak-cetanādhigamo’py antarāyābhāvaś ca ||29||

"Its utterance is the living sound (Pranava). By its mutterance, its purpose is understood. Then, awareness becomes inbound and obstacles disappear."

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For the Ancients of East, the living sound was the syllable Oṁ (AUM: ॐ), the voice first heard in perennial emptiness; and it was the sound of the breath of God ("prana") that evolved. In accordance with their desires and methodologies, they sought Prime Awareness in diverse intelligible forms and domains, and ultimately beyond the worlds of names and forms, following the inner breath and voice of God.

For the Ancients of West, this self-same living sound echoed at the dawn of emergence; God contemplated over the void, and Amen ("so be it") — the creation came forth and expanded. "These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation." (Rev 3:14) Amen is a Word from God's heart; therefore say /ɑːˈmɛn/ to feel the breath of God and Word of truth in your heart; /eɪˈmɛn/ is a half-hearted twist of sounds.

For the Moderns of East and West, much of the universality of these ancient teachings are lost in a jungle of obsessive particularity. Since the falling of the Tower of Babel, since the dawn of the Age of Quarrel, mankind has struggled to find unity among their manifold concepts and languages. Religious disagreements are generally a result of superficiality and narrowness of perception. Out of the shadows and into the substance — dig in and expand!

Son of Man and Seven Inner Churches of Asia

The theme of ancient systems of inner cultivation and ascension continues from last week's rapture with a deeper look into the Book of Revelation. Book of Revelation is the final book of the New Testament, an apocalyptic parable written by John of Patmos, revealing the luminous path of the Son of Man and the Kingdom of Heaven within.

While the text is often taken for a prediction of future events, the events to come are primarily internal in nature — so much so that the narrative even features Son of Man in sequential future forms, inspiring each "earlier" church to move forward. The Book of Revelation is a revelation on how to build the Kingdom of Heaven within; with parallels in mystic traditions the world around.

"If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man. (1 Corinthians 15)

Today's studies cover Revelation chapters 1-3, featuring John's vision of Son of Man and the mystery of seven churches, lampstands, angels and stars. In these chapters, Son of Man addresses the seven churches of Asia, dictating a series of approvals, cautions, and blessings for those who persevere in spirit — until claiming the everlasting crown of victory.

The last three of the seven inner churches (in chapter three) have been re-ordered for ease of sequential reading from ☺☺☺ Heaven to ☻☻☻ Earth. This is a short illustrated journey into the stars of the churches, although much remains to be said. Suffice it to say that every good child of luminosity should diligently attend the seven churches daily!

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Blessing: "Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth." (Revelation 1:4)

Background: "On the Lord’s Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, which said: 'Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea...
   "The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.'" (Revelation 1:10-11,19)

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Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, "The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is within you." (Luke 17:20)

☺☺☺ [+++] Heaven — Son of Man (Rev. 1:12-16)

Luminous Christ: "I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, and among the lampstands was someone like a Son of Man, dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. In his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance."

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☺☺☻ [++-] Lake — To Church of Ephesus (Rev. 2:1-7)

Speaker: Holder of seven stars who walks among seven golden lampstands. (Speaks from +++ Heaven: Crystal Sea Above the Stars.)
Approval: Deeds, hard work, perseverance, intolerance of wickedness, overturning false apostles, unweariness in face of hardship, aversion to immorality.
Caution: Forsaken their first love; "Repent and learn from your beginning, lest your lampstand be removed!"
Victory: Given right to eat from the tree of life in the paradise of God.

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☺☻☺ [+-+] Fire — To Church of Smyrna (Rev. 2:8-11)

Speaker: Alpha and Omega who died and came to life again. (Speaks from ++- Lake: Well of Soul and Self.)
Approval:  Afflictions, inner wealth in poverty, slandered by misguided hypocrites.
Caution: Trials and persecution; "The devil will imprison some of you; stay firm to the point of death!"
Victory: Will not be hurt in the least by the second death.

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☺☻☻ [+--] Thunder — To Church of Pergamum (Rev. 2:12-17)

Speaker: Who has a sharp, double-edged sword in his mouth. (Speaks from +-+ Fire: Fierce and Grasping Analysis.)
Approval: Faithful despite temptation, living at Satan's throne, faith over fear of death.
Caution: Immorality and idolatry; "Repent or I will fight you with the sword of my mouth!"
Victory: Receives hidden manna and a white stone with a new concealed name.

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☻☺☺ [-++] Wind — To Church of Thyatira (Rev. 2:18-26)

Speaker: Eyes like blazing fire, feet like burnished bronze, searcher of hearts and minds, repays according to deeds. (Speaks from +-- Thunder, Striking Sacral Power.)
Approval: Love, faith, service, perseverance; "Now doing more than you did at first."
Caution: Followers of obstinate female prophet of idolatry and immorality: "Repent or be cast to a bed of suffering!". Others: "Hold on to what you have until I come."
Victory: Given authority to rule over nations with an iron scepter, along with the morning star.

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☻☺☻ [-+-] Stream — To Church of Laodicea (Rev. 3:14-21)

Speaker: Amen, faithful and true witness, ruler of God's creation. (Speaks from -++ Wind: Throat of Word and Testimony.)
Approval: Loved, therefore rebuked and disciplined.
Caution: Lukewarm deeds; "I wish you were cold or hot! I am about to spit you out". Satisfaction in wealth; yet wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. "Buy from me gold refined in the fire, cover your nakedness in white, put salve on your eyes to see."
Victory: Gains right to sit with Son of Man on the throne, as he sat with Father on the throne.

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☻☻☺ [--+] Mountain — To Church of Philadelphia (Rev. 3:7-13)

Speaker: Holy and true, who holds the key of David, who opens and shuts with might. (Speaks from -+- Stream: Noble and Open Beating Heart.)
Approval: Deeds, "open door", endurance, patience, recipients of love, of little strength yet faitful.
Caution: "Liars and hypocrites will fall at your feet in acknowledgement", "Spared from the hour of world trials", "Hold on to what you have to keep your crown".
Victory: Becomes a pillar in the temple of God to never return; receives the name and city of God, and the new name of the son of man.

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☻☻☻  [---] Earth — To Church of Sardis (Rev. 3:1-6)

Speaker: Who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. (Speaks from --+ Mountain: Third Eye and Glimpse of Heaven.)
Approval: Some are unsoiled, worthy and dressed in white, walking with the Son of Man.
Caution: Alive in name yet dead in works, unfinished in deeds before God; "Wake up and strengthen the remainder, or I will come like a thief in the night."
Victory: Name will kept in the book of life, acknowledged before God and his angels.

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"Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed — in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: 'Death has been swallowed up in victory.'" (1 Corinthians 15:51-54)

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— Project: Code of Revelation —

Further reading:

≡ Dealing with Rapture Level Scenarios

≡ Enigmatic Soul Matrix of Eight Towers

≡ Ikthys Yogi and the Body of Heaven

≡ "IAHA: I Am Here Absolute" — Art and Perspectives

References:

≡ Book of Revelation (several versions), chapters 1-3
≡ High Resolution Source Images / Facebook Photo Album

≡ Art Foreground: The Transfiguration, Fra Angelico (1400-1445)

≡ Art Background: The Last Judgment, Michelangelo (1475-1564)

Broadband Existential Body and Experience

Exposure to the potentials of Multiple Dimensions of Existence provides you with a wide array of diverse experiences of your existence. Our particular experience of existence is the sum total of everything we are and the ultimate framework and point of reference for all our cognition and action. Cogito ergo sum — a fair starting point for a basic reality check.

Below is an illustration of the key layers of existence I have grown to feel and conceive of as the foundation of my existence and experience of reality, following diverse more and less successful attempts to cross and warp the boundaries of space and time by employing any and all meditation and cultivation methodologies I've come across and found as relevant and applicable enough for me to seriously pursue.

Illustration of a Broadband Existential Body   ·   Click to Enlarge

Fields and Patterns: The Human Existential Totality

This is a generic gloss on the aspects of a broadband existential body or a more holistic experience of diverse material and spiritual realities, enumerating some of the central planes and factors of possible experience, potential, cognition, and holistic human evolution.

Light Plateaus Above, Middle and Below: Non-dual field of absolute cognition and interconnected existence. This is the dimension of ultimate peace and resolution, transcending by its nature the range of diversified cognition, eluding the attempts of the human mind to contextualize it as one or the other.

Middle Plateau: The united cognitive plateau is experienced as the ultimate abode of consciousness and being in the cavern of the existential heart. This ultimate self or non-self is non-different from and intrinsically connected to the collective plateau of non-dual cognition.

Plateau Above and Below: We are connected with the plane of universal cognition through the principles heaven (above) and earth (below), or the fundamental polarities of positive and negative. Their balance creates the harmonic flow and rotation (Tao/Rta/Wyrd) of our existence.

Four Major Lotus Fields: The cognitive crown field above the head (depicted as a pattern lotus) is the ultimate platform of consciousness, the seat of cognitive and existential ascension, and the matrix that translates universal patterns into an individual experience of reality. The heart field is our ultimate ground of existential being, the source of our expansive expression and response to the world, the location of the singularity of being and the center of existential gravity. The navel field is our base of specified existence, a fort of defense and inner power that supports and nourishes us. The sole field is our link to the earth polarity and its power, connecting the universal circuit with the above and the below.

Pattern Body: The ultimate existential body of patterns and principles (dharmas or formulae), the field that gives form and continuity to all individual phenomena, and the dimension of ultimate harmonization and existential logos.

Pattern Field: The super-pattern blueprint underlying all structures of reality, the universal patterns and principles of existence that govern the interdependent flux of phenomena across all planes of material and immaterial existence.

These are the basic factors and planes of a syndicated experience of reality with the "fundamentals" of diverse traditions of cognitive and energetic expansion and refinement integrated. There are no doubt a great many variants to this model, reflected through individual experience and insight, perspectives equally valid and legitimate for the individuals at the heart of their perceived existence.

Whatever the details in each individual's subjective sphere may be, I believe it's fair to say that extending one's sphere of existential cognition and experience yields a rich repository of new human potentials. The exact dynamics of these basic planes and fields of existence deserve to be studied in further detail in upcoming articles.

The Rainbow Body of Padmasambhava / Guru Rinpoche

Buddhist Model of Trikaya and Body-mind, Mind-stream and Heart-mind

The Buddhist system of Trikaya explores the totality of the being of a Buddha or a Tathāgata — an awakened and enlightened fully experiencing entity — in three divisions of bodies and three overlapping layers of existential dynamics.

These layers also embody the totality of the potentials of each sentient being, providing us with a working general frame of reference for the psychophysical and ultimate dimensions of human experience. Many individual aspects of the Trikaya totality have already been introduced in more generic terms under broadband existential body.

Nirmaṇakāya: This is the physical or corporeal body made of matter, the vehicle of consciousness in the human world, and the plane of material existence. The physical form of a Buddha is the ultimate Nirmanakaya.

Sambhogakāya: Known as "body of enjoyment", "deity dimension" or "astral body", this is the body or plane containing the totality of our energetic experience, culminations, and powers. Sambhogakaya is the energetic operative means for realizing the ultimate field of the Dharmakaya.

Dharmakāya: Containing the ultimate nature and essence of the uncreated enlightened mind, this body or plane is free from conceptual projection, infinitely spaceous and naturally radiant, transcending duality and cognizable patterns, woven with infinite correlations as the ultimate sheat of existence.

Dharmakaya is characterized by great purity, great realization and great mental expanse. Thence the saying, "He who sees the Dharma sees the Buddha" and vice versa — dharma being the "constituent factors of the experienced world" and their natural flux and combinatorics in our collective experience of reality. Dharmakaya is the ultimate bridge into the nondual plane.

These three bodies operate on three overlapping planes of existence, namely the body-mind (nāmarūpa: "name and form"), the interconnecting mind-stream (citta-saṃtāna), and ultimately the heart-mind (bodhicitta).

Complete harmonization of the three kaya planes and their operative dynamics leads to the holistic realization and manifestation of a Rainbow Body, also expressed and experienced as "deity dimension" of the sambhogakaya, a synthesized and fulfilled energetic body.

When the physical and energetic bodies implode and become absorbed into the dharmakaya, and as the residual patterns of the dharmakaya resolve into themselves, diversified consciousness collapses and is naturally absorbed into the underlying and ultimate non-dual plane, now emerging as the entirety of extant reality.

This existential totality is experienced through the mind-stream flowing and oscillating like a caleidoscope across the diverse planes of cognizable existence, touching their respective potentials while animating and operating the plane of matter and forms.

The totality of the experience is contained within dharmakaya and experienced directly through the heart-mind (bodhicitta) as an enlightenment-body cognizing and transcending universal patterns. These teachings are prominent in the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition (Diamond Vehicle, Esoteric/Tantric Buddhism).

There are numerous other traditions with similar detailed models and methodologies that deserve to be studied in further detail. Upcoming articles will feature Taoist Mysticism and Neidan Internal Alchemy, Consciousness and Vedantic Layers of Being, Kriya Yoga of Mahavatar Babaji, Hatha Yoga and Levels of Kundalini, and many more oriental and occidental systems of internal and holistic transformation yet to be analyzed and assimilated.