Improving Relationships using the concept of Harmonic Vibration, Pt I

As seen in previous posts, our concept of reality must change in order to 'see' our world and ourselves in a clearer light. When we understand our true state of being, then only can we improve ourselves and the world.


A Recap on the Vibratory nature of Being

When we cast aside our learned social presumptions about the reality we experience around ourselves everyday, we will realize that the ancient ones were correct when referring to our world as an illusion. In ancient Yogic, Tantric and Kabbalistic scripts; the world was likened to the metaphoric use of divine sound or the words of God. In the Veda is stated: In the beginning there was the Word, and the word was Brahman. This is reflected in John 1:1 as well: In the beginning there was the Word, and the Word was God. In Kabbalah (of which the Sepher Yetzira and Torah are found in Christian, Muslim and Jewish scriptures), it is stated that, in the beginning, God spoke the three primal words: A, M and Sh. In tantric cosmogenesis, the universe was brought into existence by Purusha (the One consciousness), and gave rise to three primal gunae - Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. All these ancient texts base their knowledge upon the fact that we and our universe is mere illusory vibration. ^

Take modern physics, noticeably so with M-Theory (which is still frowned upon by conservative physicists): all matter (fermion based) are mere different frequencies of vibrating M-Branes in 11 dimensional space. Funny, Kabbalah mentions 11 dimensions as well, and even has names for all of them! ^

When considering your body (and the whole universe for that matter), is made - as mentioned in earlier posts - from fermionic (thus asymmetric spinning) wave form, called atoms. Your whole body - just like the earth - is enmeshed with electro-magnetic activity. Your heart emits electro-magnetic waves (EKG monitored) at a constant beat, traceable by sensitive equipment up to 10 meters from your actual body. So does your brain (EEG monitored). Electro-magnetism, is wave = vibration. In fact, there are 7 major areas in your body that constantly emit these electro-magnetic waves: the 7 major so-called chakras of the body which together, shape the 'aura' (captured on film with Kirlian photography). These chakras all have their own frequency ranges and positions, and 'coincide' perfectly with neuro-endocrine systems of the body as well as the Pythagorean Lambdoma (see The Sleeper Must Awaken for the details).

Harmonic vibration as key to relationships

Harmony in music - not unlike harmony as thought of in relationships alone - is based on the Greek word harmonia, which means to be joint or in accord. The concept of harmony in music is - to cut to the chase - the study of how to place different interval notes (different frequencies of sounds), in such an order, that it 'sounds' good or pleasant to the ear. Many studies have shown how certain types of music can influence from plant welfare and ice-crystal formation to delta-wave creation in human brains (see the study of cymatics by Dr's.Jenny & Masaru et al*).

The reason for this is quite simple: harmonic music, is vibration in air current that creates beneficial resonance in surrounding vibratory forms (thus fermions or matter - the stuff we are all made from). When sound or music becomes disharmonic, it creates havoc in surrounding waveform. Sound or waveform, can thus heal, or destroy, depending on the harmonics used and projected. Ancient ones also knew about this, and can be seen in concepts such as mandalas, which are cymatic representations of the different frequencies in chanting.

This is true for all other waveform as well, especially so with our thought forms creating harmonic or disharmonic electro-magnetic waves that can either resonate in a beneficial way with others' waveform, or not. This is the root of relationship struggles as well as the improvement of relationships - from individual to global level.

Unfortunately, we always try and move the projection, which is impossible. We need to know where the projected problem comes from, and solve it at 'projector level', which is beyond our body-brain concept. It lies in the deep levels of mind, the light beam of the projections from 'spiritual level'.

In Part II, we will take a closer look at just how to improve relationships from a deeper level.


* Jenny, Hans (1967). Kymatik. ISBN 1888138076
* Good Vibrations, Joyce McLaughlin, American Scientist, July-August 1998, Vol: 86 Nmbr: 4 Pge: 342,
* http://www.masaru-emoto.net/
^ See The Sleeper Must Awaken for comparative and integrative explanations.

Understanding 'Ego' and improving relationships

Ego is seen and understood differently by many schools of thought. It was thought by Freud to be the Ich, thus 'I'; and many people think of their ego as being the Self. But let's take a different look at 'ego' or the Self.

Thinking about thinking

If you think about yourself, what do you define as 'yourself'? What makes you 'you'? Most of us see our bodies and brain as Self (reductionists thinking that 'this is it', nothing more to it). Concepts like 'mind' and 'spirit' are words given to ideas that arose from some thinkers who dared cross the 'normal' threshold of 'thinking'; thinking about thinking and wondering about wondering. Try it now: try to trace back your thoughts from their origin. Each and everyone, going 'back' and 'back' into a non-existent place, that simultaneously feels never ending. Thinking deeper about this concept of thought, you will also realize that thoughts are not 'separate'; they are not packets of separate things, but 'phases' of something (or nothing) that flow into one another from nowhere and everywhere simultaneously. Think about this for about one minute...

Have you realized that thinking about this made you forget about 'you' for a while? 'You' were somewhere 'inside' the thing (or body) you perceive to be 'you'. Can you feel that difference?


Inside and out

There is an inside and an outside to 'you'. The inside is a mysterious place; the place where your thoughts, fantasies and dreams dwell; a place that seems to lack time and space or 'reality' for that matter - but yet, you are aware of it.The outside is what most others perceive to be 'you': how you look as a physical being, what you wear, how you keep your hair and mannerisms you have as the 'you' you know yourself to be. But, what makes you wear that particular style of clothes? What makes you listen to the music you listen to, and watch the movies that you do? What makes you the way you are now? Why does it differ from others, and is it permanent, or could it be changed?

It is interesting to see how some 'wonderful' people will turn into devils with fortune and fame (while others don't), and how some bastards will change into saints with a near death experience etc. Even in the case of profound hallucinogenic experiences (such as seen with Dr. Rick Strassman's research with DMT), have people changed their ways to such an extent that it defies logic. Does this then answer the question "could 'ego' be changed"? And what about the question "why are you the way you are"? Take a deep hard look at your past (since birth) and notice what external influences played a major part in the shaping of what you call 'yourself'. You will be surprised to see (if not in total denial) just how much parents, teachers, peers, television and music played it's part; but also how you chose to respond to these external stimuli, pre-programmed by your first impressions as a child in your particular home, town, state, country and time. All these factors coincide to shape you into what you are today; and indeed still shapes you - have you noticed looking at your pictures over the years, how your taste in hairstyles and clothing has changed? We are all completely influencable, and very unaware of this.


The reason for gullibility

We need to change our views of ourselves and the universe that we perceive to be 'real'. We are all made from atoms thus fermions, which in essence is asymmetric waveform. This makes us all forms of vibration in a larger cosmos of vibration, thus, songs in a larger symphony. If we are vibration, then we will follow the principles of resonance: falling in with surrounding vibration. It is like the phenomenon of two similar glasses standing next to one another - make the one vibrate, and the neighbour will vibrate as well; change the one's frequency by adding water, and it will stop resonating with the other. In return - being vibratory forms - we are the same. We resonate with our surroundings; from the family home, to school and society in general: the French tend to share cultural qualities which is different from Americans. If you would to grow up in Africa, you would be different as well. These 'resonances' - our response to 'external' stimuli in which we are vibratory dispersed in - is what shapes the so-called ego. And as we have seen earlier, is changeable.


The function of ego

Then why do we have and ego? In very basic terms, ego can be seen as a programmable operating systemhelping you interact with 'reality' as a human being: from language to mannerisms to keeping up with the social trend. It is the thing which makes you a fairly functional part of the society you find yourself in. Thus, ego is merely a part of 'you', and not you per se. It can be a 'good' thing (as operating systems go), but could equally be dysfunctional, harming yourself and others around you. Some of us have an ego 'programmed' to be 'lower' than others' and vice versa. If it is in 'lower' mode, we tend to be submissive to others and society in general, causing stagnation in life and repressed anger, breaking out as depression, certain diseases (such as certain types of cancer: see psychoneuroimmuology's linking of Type C personalities, suppression of T-Cells and cancer) or worse, campus shootings. When programmed to be 'higher', we get individuals who 'bully' others ranging from a small a scale (such as snob-ism and domination at work or home), to a more serious scale, such dictatorships and serial killings. Groups of people share a collective ego as well: from religious groups to Gothic death-metal fans and towns to nations. These collective egos can do just as much damage - look at cases such as the Waco incident, the continuing burning of churches in Norway and more severely, genocide as was seen with the holocaust.

If we can understand that ego is a mere part of our multi-dimensional selves, forming a kind of 'bridge' between our inner and outer worlds; that it helps us interact with the world around us and is changeable - then we can balance our egos, and make it interact better with others' egos.

This will lead to better relationships - from individual to international level - if applied correctly (as we will look into in a later post).

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A Better Understanding of Mind, Body and Spirit

Introduction

A lot is said and written about mind, body and spirit. It even has its own genre on the book shelf. But how many of us truly understand this triumvirate concept fully?

In the next essay, I will - as explained at length in my book The Sleeper Must Awaken - give a shorter version of my views on this important concept.

If one truly understands this triumvirate, it could prove life altering.

The Body-Mind-Spirit union and Oneness

Before tackling this triumvirate concept, it is important to understand the concept of Oneness. Again, so many write about it and say: all is One. But most never truly think or meditate upon it.

Let me start with a crude metaphor: in your living room, you will sit quietly while the sun is shining through the window, gently baking on your lap. You look around and see a few things you own; like the TV, stereo etc. Apart from that, you experience your living room as empty. But this is only because you cannot 'tune in' to everything in that living room.

In that very 'quiet' living room of yours, you will find all possible radio as well as TV station radio frequencies occupying the same 'space'. There is also the millions of Internet data transfers happening via cellular microwave frequencies and WiFi radio frequencies. The very sunlight falling unto your lap is not just mere sunlight; it is a plethora of visible as well as invisible electro-magnetic frequencies, ranging from visible light to infra-red and ultra-violet, to x- and gamma rays, intermingled with the odd neutrino now and then. There are sub and ultra sound frequencies from various earth activity, and so it goes.

Best of all: all this inaudible and invisible 'noise' mentioned above is only in the 3d dimension. I haven't even touched the other dimensions yet.

My point is this: even though you cannot see or hear all of this 'noise', it is there, part of your world. As a matter of fact, you are not separate from it. All that 'noise' is in fact vibration, just like your body (explained later) as well as your brain waves, transmitted or broadcast into space and time.

But the interesting thing about 'Space & Time' is this: it is an illusion. It is a mere spectre, projected from a deeper 'unseen' dimension' as can be seen from David Bohm's explanation of Alain Aspect experiments done in Paris in the 1980's* - electrons separated from their 'mother' atom, will 'communicate' with each other faster than the speed of light, which violated Eistein's relativity theorem. David Bohm (a physicist and contemporary of Einstein) postulated that there is no such thing as 'separateness'; that separateness is only an illusion of 'enfolded space' observed by us.

Imagine this: you are sitting in a little boat on the ocean with two icebergs; one in front and another behind you. Then, suddenly 'God's Hand' will come from the heavens, and press on the iceberg's tip in front of you. Suddenly, the iceberg behind you also moves, and you wonder: how can both icebergs move if only one was touched by the 'Hand of God'?

But if you would to dip your head under the surface of the water, you would notice that it is indeed one iceberg with only two little exit points above the surface!

Indeed, our consciousness mostly drifts in a little boat on the surface of the universe; very few of us noticing this...

This is how we (and EVERYTHING else) are connected: we are all connected in a hidden 'inner' dimension/s; our bodies merey the tips of the One iceberg.

Now, let's play 'reductionism made simple', and see body, mind and spirit in the falsified 'seperate' mode.

Body

As mentioned above, our bodies, and all the 'seperate' things here on planet earth, are the tips of the iceberg called Oneness. Let's investigate the Body:

Consider your own body. It is made from trillions of cells - like bricks of a house. Each cell - a miraculous self-sustaining micro-machine - will be made out of organelles. These organelles made from molecules, made from atoms. Atoms consist of Neutrons and Protons at the center, and Electrons surrounding the center in a cloud of uncertainty (Uncertainty Principle of Heisenberg). These sub-atomic 'particles' as a group, are called Fermions: M-Branes with an asymmetric wave function. These make up the 'physical' part of our universe, as well as your body.

We also get Bosons: symmetric wave M-Branes giving 'birth' to elements carrying 'energy' of our universe - from light to gravity (postulated by M-Theory).

And this is your 'body': a single melody in a symphony of fermionic and bosonic vibration called the universe of the 3d dimension. But there is more to this body of yours...

The fleshy part of your body - thus the only one you're aware of - is only the 3d dimensional part of the mutliverse occupying YOU/ SELF. In Tantra, Yoga and many other ancient scriptures, the body was divided into many seamlessly integrated 'parts' called the physical, etheric and astral bodies. This idea is better understood by Astral Expert Robert Bruce, who wrote an excellent book called Astral Dynamics, in which he explains this concept well.

In short, your physical body is only the densest frequency of the many of your 'body', occupying the same space-time. It is again like your living room, where only one radio station can be heard when you tune into that particular one, although there are thousands of others occupying the same living room. At present, most of us are tuned into Radio Real (dense, physical, linear, temporary). Most importantly: the physical body is a projection from the 'inner' dimensions, and this is where we come to...

Mind

Mind is the projection's light-beam. Mind is the 'bridge' between your 'body' (and the physical universe) and Spirit (the inner dimension or projector).

Mind is thus something that could be influenced, just like a bridge, transmission line or light-beam: it could be filtered, refracted or worse, severed.

Mind is thus the important umbilical chord between Body (physical universe/ outer dimension) and Spirit (non-physical universe/ inner dimension). This is why it is so important to learn to 'tame' and condition one's mind. If not, it will fall prey to oher controllers (and believe me there are many), and thus control you body (through Ego - later on this), and thus in collation with others, will affect the outcome of 3 dimensional reality on earth.

Spirit

Spirit is the Light Source; the everlasting Universal Energy and Consciousness. It is 'neutral' in the sense that it cannot be fully understood by a simple projected 3 dimensional being with primate DNA (such as ourselves), without transcending the dense 3 dimensional 'world' and body. It is unfathomable with a mere human brain. All that can be said, is that it is the Source of everything: from simple M-Brane to atom, molecule, cell, organism, eco-system, planet, solar system and universe in all different dimensions at once. 'God' is what most of us metaphorically call it, and the way in which we describe 'God' with our religions, falls short of what Spirit really is by a billion miles to the power of a billion.

Conclusion

Body, Mind & Spirit is a triumvirate, interwoven One with different frequencies occupying the same 'space-time' aspect. It is seamlessly connected to one another and the Source of everything, with Body being the illusory 'separate' pinnacle in this dense dimension and Mind the bridge to Spirit, the Source of all.

When one understands this more clearly, then one can move consciousness to a deeper level 'within', and get a more objective, non-linear & non-local perspective of oneself and the profound interconnection not only with other human beings, but to the multiverse entirely.

* Experimental Realization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm Gedankenexperiment: A New Violation of Bell's Inequalities, A. Aspect, P. Grangier, and G. Roger, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 49, Iss. 2, pp.91-94 (1982)

What Life is Really All About

The everlasting question; the everlasting 'Why' , resonates in most of our heads on a daily basis - be it conscious or none: what is the meaning of life?

Everyone has a different idea: some say it is to avoid suffereing by not 'wanting'; others think it's all about finding happiness, be it through mindless consumerism, the latest gossip in glossy magazines, going to church every Sunday, becoming completely atheist or reductionist or by blindly following the new 'Law of Attraction' zeitgeist making millions for some.

But even still then, the real answer avoids all of us like a phantom. We never do find eternal happiness here on old Earth. It is always there for a split second, and then washed away by arguments, the job, the fat, the craving, the traffic, the sweaty metro, pollution, bad news and lost love...

It would also seem that this new 'Law of Attraction' Holy Grail is not working out so well for most of us, answered by the gurus: you are not asking for the right things...

But what if life was not all about happiness? What if life was the ultimate Journey, happiness being the bread crumb trail in your Hansel & Grettle forest?

If we study comparative mythology, we find a golden thread binding existence: the Monomythical Hero's Journey: from Osiris, Moses, Buddha, Krishna, Jesus, Ghandi, Virracocha, Mandella to John Mc Cain and....You - the journey of the Hero: living the ordinary life, being heralded to a higher purpose, crossing the threshold, suffering tremendously and eventually, return home with the elixir of life....

Life is not about suffereing nor happiness; it is not about wanting or not wanting; it is not about mindless glamourous consumerism nor being a fundamentalist environmentalist...

Life is about The Journey....Your Journey. Life is about living life, experiencing the sour and the sweet, happiness as well as despair. Life is learning to love and be loved, to give and be given to.

Life is about living now...so go on and live!

A Sad Debate: Boteach & Hitchens

This debate saddens me a bit. In my humble opinion, I feel that both men are missing the point: they argue from their ego-perspective (especially so in Hitchens' case - a more singular ego-perspective while in a more collective ego-perspective in Boteach's case).

Boteach is very emotional and passionate (which I admire in some respect), but fail to defend the notion of 'God' in a non-Jewish sense. In my humble opinion, 'God' is beyond any organized human thought pattern and metaphor. The concept of God should in this day and age be approached in a slightly more open-minded way such as the profound connection between modern science and ancient mysticism (as I describe in my book 'The Sleeper Must Awaken').

Christopher Hitchens is a great orator (ad verbatim, impressive…) with a dry sense of humour and wit; but his arrogance and sarcastic way of downtrodding millions of believers is very saddening. It is like rediculing and breaking the heart of your child for believing in the tooth fairy or santa clause. This is cruel and sadistic, and neatly glossed with a hidden anti-semitic mindset (saying this not even being jewish myself).

It also saddens me to hear the live audience's response and sub-acute mockery of the Rabbi, who at least have the courage to stand up to a majority. In the words of the Christ: he who has no blemish, cast the first stone…

'God' is beyond egotistic televised debates. In fact the word 'God' does not describe The Presence we all feel; The Presence that has been with 'us' since consciousness started evolving in the incalculable 'past' (past that does not exist as time is a mere illusion in 3d dimensional 'space'). The Presence that IS US and ALL.

To believe or not to believe in this Presence of Self - in whattever peculiar way - is a mere externalization/ unfolding/ projection of The One Consciousness in order to experience Self in the shape of The Journey we call 'life' - from Super String or M-Brane to Molecule to amoeba to human to angel to ET to Universe…

Memoirs of South Africa - January 2008

I break my 3 week silence with this blog, sharing my memoirs of South Africa with you. For those unfamiliar with South Africa, quickly scroll down to the footnote*

Strangely enough, we flew British Airways again (if you can remember my ordeal with BA in a previous blog), mainly due to silly circumstances. The flight was pleasant enough (with a nerve wracking landing at Johannesburg International, made worse thereafter with the news of a BA plane that crash-landed)!

Johannesburg International (OR Tambo) was abuzz with building works as South Africa relentlessly prepares for hosting the 2010 Football World Cup; the hot humid weather pressing down on glistening ivory and ebony faces outside the cool air-conditioned interior of the building.

Soon thereafter, we took our connection flight to the Southern Cape: to my humble opinion, one of the most beautiful places in the word - to visit my parents. The weather was pleasant as always, with temperatures of around 22 degrees Celsius and a cool sea breeze tickling the nape of one's neck. After a few days of leisure - walking on the beach and a few barbeques - we took the road north: through the arid Karoo towards the Free State provence.


Beach near Mossel Bay




A view towards Mossel Bay




Making fire for a barbeque




A B&W portrait/ landscape by my wife, Daleen (near Mossel Bay)




A beach landscape near Mossel Bay



A drive through the arid interior of South Africa (called the Karoo) - is for me - always a pleasure. Through the winding pass of the Swartberg Mountains where the ocean air throws a cloudy blaket over the rugged edges and lush vegetation gives way to succulents over time as the air gets hotter and drier.



The Swartberg Mountain Pass



The Karoo: strangely green after abundent summer rains



Ostridges in the Karoo (near Oudtshoorn)



A rare event: cloudburst in the Karoo



Giant cacti at a fuel station in the Karoo



A tortoise crossing the road in the Karoo


After three hours of traveling, we stopped over in a small town called Beaufort-West by some friends of ours.


Typical architecture of Beaufort-West



Interior of friends' house in Beaufort-West

Having dinner


After a pleasant dinner - chatting about social issues and psychological techniques such as 'gestalt' - we went to bed, trying to sleep in evening temperatures of around 30 degrees Celsius (not an easy task amid the super-imposed buzzing of mosquitos in your hot little ears).

The next morning - just before hitting the road again - my good friend Earle took me on what he calls a 'breakfast-run': on his Vespa, with two steaming hot coffees in hand, we were off to a quiet little spot just outside of town. Amid the Karoo mountains, with the sun just crawling over the tips, backligting our steaming coffees; we absorbed the stillness of the landscape as a Kudu lazilly strolled by - absolutely magical. It just reminded me again how foolish the whole rat-race is again...

Off we were again, on our way to Free State provence to check out our newly bought little house in an almost never-heard-of town.


The Main street in this small Free State town



Our planned future little home



Grassfields of Free State provence


We arrived in Bloemfontein (the capitol of Free State) 5 hours later. After a lightening-fast 2 weeks of catching up with more family and friends, it was time to go back to the gray and dreary winter of the United Kingdom. But this last sunset will keep my heart warm through the last stretch of the Northen Hemisphere winter.




* South Africa - short for Republic of South Africa - is a country at the southern tip of Africa where the famous Nelson Mandella and FW de Klerk won the Nobel Peace Prize for abolishing 'apartheid', and laying the foudations in the constitution for a democracy called 'The Rainbow Nation'.