The Omega Point

In the last blog I mentioned that I had been writing on a particular life changing event that seemed to go on and on.  I thought maybe I would try to refine it a little and just give the general outline of some of it. When I was asked to write about five things the First Thing that came to mind was my perspective on No-Thing or what I call the Omega Point. An unspace that represents the same meaning as John Lilly’s the quiet Center. The Universal Center of Everything found at the X and Y axis in a space of No-thing.

There are many ‘paths’ and ‘ways’ one can journey to attain to the realization of the infinite. A hero of mine and one who enabled me to better understand emptiness was Miyamoto Musashi who speaks of his Heiho which literally meant the path to enlightenment. On emptiness or No-thing he says,

“The meaning of ku is emptiness: that which cannot be known is ku. Of course, ku is emptiness. By knowing form, one knows emptiness. This, in short, is ku.”

Sri Nisargadatt Maharaj has a book entitled “The EXPERIENCE of NOTHINGNESS” where the second chapter is entitled, “At the Highest Level Nothing Is; At the Worldly Level Everything Is.”

You can go on and on an on and the key point here is that you must empty yourself in order to be filled with the divine that is in you from the beginning. We have replaced God in our lives with ‘things,’ ‘feelings,’ ‘ideas,’ 'desires,' ‘experiences’ and as Eckhart Tolle’s says “and so on.’

 
St. John of the Cross 1542 -1591 says it so
beautifully that I had to add just one more.

Of All forms and manners of knowledge
the soul must strip and void itself
so that there may be left in it no kind
of impression of knowledge,
nor trace of aught soever,

but rather the soul must remain barren and bare,
as if these forms had never passed through it,
and in total oblivion and suspension.

The soul that is attached to anything,
however much good there may be in it,
will not arrive at the liberty of divine union.
For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender
and delicate thread that holds the bird,
it matters not, if it really holds it fast;
for until the cord be broken
the bird cannot fly.

So the soul, held by the bonds of human affections,
however slight they may be, cannot, while they last,
make its way to God.”

Like many of you I came to realize that what I thought to be my experiences in reality are really just projections of  past experiences filtering the present moment to moment to moment to moment…..  Reality as we believe it to be, is not reality at all,  but what is called naïve realism. Plato’s cave of the shadowy matrix is nothing but a dream world that we can walk out of at any moment. We then can learn to write our mythic tale of our own personal hero’s journey alla Joseph Campbell and follow our bliss.

This portal to the universe at the Center of the X and Y axis, or what I call the Omega Point is the one universal unspace where I believe all things manifest from, the implicate order of Bohm’s universe,  the creative center of everything. Here one can traverse into another realm of the un-manifested space of no time to discover everything and no-thing in an instantaneous Flash or what I call the Photizo.

 
When my own personal experience led me down the inward journey to the center and ground of my being I discovered everything and no-thing in an instantaneous flash or Photizo of the Omega Point. I later found out that this journey was extremely similar to that of the Hekhaloth’s in methodology and the words of Plotinus.

 
"...The earliest Jewish mystics who formed an organized fraternity in Talmudic times and later, describe their experience in terms derived from the diction characteristic of their age. They speak of the ascent of the soul to the Celestial Throne where it obtains an ecstatic view of the majesty of God and the secrets of His Realm. A great distance separates these old Jewish Gnostics from the Hasidic mystics one of whom said:' 'There are those who serve God with their human intellect, and others whose gaze is fixed on Nothing.... He who is granted this supreme experience loses the reality of his intellect, but when he returns from such contemplation to the intellect, he finds it full of divine and inflowing splendor.' And yet it is the same experience which both are trying to express in different ways."

     - Gershom G. Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941/1961) p. 5

According to Plotinus (205-270 AD),

"there are stages in the soul's ladder of ascent. The first includes
purification, the freezing of the soul from the body, and the practice
of the cardinal virtues. In the second the soul rises above sense-
-perception to Nous through contemplation. A third and higher
stage, already ineffable, leads to union with Nous. Finally there
is the climax of the whole ascent in mystical and ecstatic union
with the One."

    John Ferguson, An Illustrated
Encyclopedia of Mysticism and the Mystery Religions

 
After this ecstatic spiritual practice and experience you come back down to earth if you will and back from the space of within that leads to without. Here, as Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe the German philosopher, scientist & writer expresses so well, you soon find that

“Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.”

Or as I like to say

“The brighter the light the darker the shadow.”

 Hope of experiencing sustainability is found in the words of Plontius,

 "He will lapse again from the vision: but let him again
awaken the virtue which is in him, again know himself
made perfect in splendor; and he shall be again lightened
of his burden, ascending through virtue to Nous, and then
through wisdom to the Supreme."

'According to the natural law of ethics, the moral standards that govern human behavior trace to the nature of human beings, God. According to natural law jurisprudence, the fundamental principles of all law derive from nature and the natural world, or from a supreme being, depending on the particular perspective—but it is never the creation of human societies or governments.'

 Wisdom or Sophia is the gateway to the Supreme, when one no longer has the eyes of just ourselves, but the awakened eyes of all those around us, the eyes of the collective Noosphere, and then again the eyes of Wisdom that looks upon the Noosphere till we gain the singular eye of God who sees all things in all times and in all dimensions of all space, both manifested and unmanifested.

 This is the quantum leap that takes the viewpoint of all positions in all space and in all time from the infinite amount of perspectives or Many Worlds Theory where each photon acts as a conscious observing entity of energy, light, spirit or God. Whatever construct you wish to see in your mind, whatever label helps you to understand, the universal meaning of the term God is understood by all. My personal favorite words on this are by Arthur Peacocke who said,
 

The final resting place of the spirit that attains the Peace, Joy, Bliss, Love, Harmony that enlightened mystics, sages and shamans or whatever construct you want to call it have described for centuries. I took my walk with the essences of several woman that I call the seven sisters of Wisdom that are likened to the seven Pillars for which Wisdom stands. Justice, Judgment, Counsel, Understanding, Discretion, Instruction, Knowledge and what I like to call the seven Sisters of Wisdom. Faith, Grace, Charity (Love), Prudence, Patience, Hope and Joy, all feminine elementals if you will that express a value, an ineffable quality that describes as best as words can, the essence of the existence of such a word existing at all. This can really be appreciated when understood in relation to the fullness of Sophia or Wisdom or The Holy Spirit that finds expression in motherly affairs, such as the new birth, healing and nurturing and the comforter of the children of God.

 
The words here are mere mental constructs to help one point to the moon as it were. The real question is whether the metaphor clearly, concretely, and persuasively communicates the nature of God.

 In relation to the Spirit as Sophia or Wisdom, the Holy Spirit or Mother in the Trinity is a construct, metaphor or language that even a child can comprehend. It certainly is worthy of the reasonable man to realize that this may be the best language to communicate the spiritual reality of the Spirit for all people because it does not depend on abstract reasoning or speculation on unfathomable realities. It reaches to the core of our very existence with life through the relationships necessary for life itself, a relationship with a Mother.

 These virtues for which Plontius speaks of are the experiential realties of the very essence that each virtue relates to. The capacity for which we allow receivership of our spirits to accommodate these spirits or energies within our being is in direct proportion to our understanding and relationship that we have to the Spirit of Life itself.

 The Spirit can be said to be the mother of all living things because she, lets call her the Holy Spirit, brings everything to life. When man was made from a clump of earth in the bible it was the breathing of life of the Holy Spirit or breath of God into the man that animated his flesh and gave him Soul. At least this is a construct we are given in this instance so we could say for metaphor that the Holy Spirit is the mother of all living souls in a general way. For when we breathe our last breath, we give up the ghost as it were and cease to have life and have passed on to death.

 
But we are trapped in our own self made prison, numbed to our own experience by all of our previous experiences. We wish to see things as we want them to be rather then what they really are. We create pictures in our minds eye of dreams, visions, fantasies, or what Robert Anton Wilson calls our personal quantum tunnels. We have become blind to our own actions fueled by desire and attachment for something or to someone. When we follow the four noble truths, we descend into the sphere of no space and no time and realize that the potential of our human experience is unlimited and our belief is what keeps us from experiencing the fullness of our understanding of how to live in relation to God in an infinite universe. A universe that is just as much infinite within as it is without. As above, so Below. In the end, we have to face our own personal demons, and continue our journey of following our bliss.

Yet we seek out maps to help guide and direct us but we soon learn that the Map is not the territory, and the menu is not the food.

Alford Korzybski stated, "A map is not the territory it represents, but if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness". Which simply means that our perception of reality is not reality itself, but our own particular belief or version of it.

When one realizes oneself, one realizes the essential nature of the universe and the existence of duality is only an illusion. When the illusion is undone, the primordial unity of our own nature and the nature of the universe is realized. We become aware that we are literally self-reflecting mirror-images of God and self-realization of our self is our responsibility to awake beyond fear of this fact. As Meister Eckhart has said,

 So the first thing you may not know about me is that I believe that there is a creator, a living God that is unmanifest yet "IS" manifested in everything. As Black Elk has said,

"The center is everywhere"