The Viewmaster - Videos

Posted on Jan 3rd, 2008 by

The Viewmaster – Part Two
Part One

Some of you may recall that little toy from your past called the Viewmaster. A small binocular like toy that opened up new worlds with images on a slide placed on a round, flat reel that is inserted into the viewer. To get there, you had to use an object that required you to point it to a bright light source as you peered through the eyepieces and observed a miracle: gorgeous color images of national parks, cartoon characters, or perhaps animals in incredible three-dimensional realism!

So to when you allow yourself to view the inner perspective through the Viewmaster of your consciousnesses, the witness of one’s authentic self, you can see through to the shadows of our interiority. An inner light devoid of fear that brings with it the objectification of our subjective experiences that has led us to interpret our everyday experience through past experience. Yet we begin to believe that we are the result of those experiences as opposed to experiencing what is right now as it really is, uncolored from our past.

Wheel of Experience

Just as these thoughts appear in the theater of your mind as images of experience, so too do the images of the slide of the Viewmaster. The key to our own personal understanding is the relationship we have with those images that make up what we call our SELF, or SELVES.

Instead of thinking of our SELF as the many images, we need to appreciate and understand that the images are just the colored emotional make up of our Psyche, our true self is the LIGHT itself, the witness of those experiences. Try to imagine that deep within your being resides at birth a pure crystal polished glass that sees all things as they truly are. Think of it as a universal lens or eye of God, nature, self etc.

“The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye
and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love."
Meister Eckhart

But as we experience this life one of two things happens. We grow up feeding our ego through attachment to desire, vice, wants and needs which clouds that polished glass and increasingly adds layers of dirt, mud and so on covering the access to the light. This leads to shame, guilt or remorse for things done or done unto us. As Eric Fromm says in Man for himself, an inquiry into the psychology of ethics (1947), Psychology is nothing more then man dealing with his own morality. Or what one can call the disloaction of the self from the incompatibility of a persons life pattern and belief system that leads to collapse and the need for rebuilding or transformation.

Broken Dreams

The second is that there may have been a traumatic experience that actually cracks or shatters this EYE leading to a shattering of self splintering into many selves and can actually lead to what we know as multiple personality disorder. This feeling of broken dreams of what could, or should have been that literally causes a break within the self where one walks alone in the shadow world of a dark and broken spirit cut off from reality of the here and now always stuck in the past.

Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams

For most what is required is an inner cleansing and objectification that things we have done do not define who we are. For those whose glass is broken or maybe even shattered, thereapy will likely be required to help put the pieces back together again.

Those who have experienced the interiority of their inner self through meditation and contemplation have found a medium in which to polish that lens help to resolve the inner demons by confronting them in the light of your awareness. To look into the mirror of your soul and begin the much needed housecleaning that polishes that glass of your inner being and uncovering the layers of a lifetime of an ego filled life. To learn as did the Zen monk, “No Self, No problem,”

Meditation

Do not try to become anything.
Do not make yourself into anything.

                                                       Do not be a meditator.
                                                       Do not become enlightened.
                                                       When you sit, let it be.
                                                       What you walk, let it be.
                                                       Grasp at nothing.
                                                       Resist nothing.

To this end, Binaural beat technology is a fantastic aide in interior exploration as it literally settles the mind in the Theta and Delta state to perceive through the “I” of the witness of your true self, the Viewmaster.

However, if you have experienced trauma, the confrontation with your shadow self can be deceiving as you will ultimately seek to distance yourself from those repressed memories. Memories that are too painful to revisit so the need for therapy is needed to help put the pieces back together again with the help of a trained guide of the psyche. Like Humpty Dumpty, the inner lens has been cracked, and such a person feels broken as so many pieces of broken glass distorting reality through the many shards or painful experiences that have yet to be dealt with.

It’s easy to see thru your viewmaster if you look at this witness as the consciousness of your inner light that peers through your experiences. But our ego filters these through the past to establish the meaning for the present. More often than not we identify with all the wrong things as we peel the layers of our Selves only to ask upon our awakening, Who am I?

Or as Joseph Campbell asks…
“What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle? This can be metaphorically understood as identifying with the Christ in you.”

Behind all the forms of personality of the plastic personification we manifest to best suit the present circumstance there is behind this mask, the true “I”. Like Eckhart Tolle who realized when he said to himself, “I can’t stand my SELF!” This simple statement makes it easy to appreciate the separateness of our self from our authentic Self. And it is in moments of meditation that you can experience the true self literally watching the mind of what you think is you, working, thinking, driving, talking and carrying on the everyday experience of life. We watch our thoughts as they continue to arise in the mind, happy, sad, convinced, confused, and angry. Which of those thoughts are you? Which one do we identify with? Who is it that experiences all of these thoughts? Who am “I?” These are the universal pursuits of those awakening from the nothingness they feel inside and who want to heal and let go of all the pain they’ve held so long till they break away from the idea of me and find the SELF. As Linking Park sings in

Somewhere I Belong
Linkin Park

Linkin Park - Somewhere I Belong

All of us have a running movie in our mind that when making us feel good, is engaging and we find our SELF engrossed in the images as we release the emotion we desire. But the movie that we see we feel is US. Instead of looking at the screen, what if we looked behind the image. What would we see? We would see little transparent frames like the slides on the Viewmaster . What is happening is the little frames are moving as the light shines through the frames and projects onto what you perceive to be the theater of your mind.

The Moviemaker

But because the frames are moving from moment to moment to moment you see this as motion and think these experiences define who you are.By looking outward through these moving images we see this projection as experience censored or colored by previous experience. But what if you were to turn inward as in meditation?

When you look in you see the stream of thoughts that is constantly in motion like clouds of thoughts moving through the sky of your awareness. At night when you can’t sleep, these clouds are in such abundance that it seems as if a storm of thoughts is racing through your mind, rushing from one worry or anxiety to another. In meditation when we turn inward the idea is to SLOW down the thinking process and see each of these thoughts for what they are until we begin to see the clear blue sky of our own awareness.

The Theater in Your Mind
“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you focus your attention on these thoughts to watch the mind, the images slow down and in the state of relaxation we begin to have clarity, as the fast moving slides slow down to a point where we can see the transparency of them. And this is where it can start to get interesting. It’s unfortunate that many can never get here long enough to appreciate it. There life is moving at fast forward, mind racing, emotions unresolved, suppressed to the point of creating an internal sate of depression. It is these excessive and compulsive thoughts that Eckhart Tolle calls mental noise or the pollution of your soul.

Ever talk to yourself? Ever been in a big city where there were people talking to themselves out loud and you thought they were crazy? Have you ever driven your SELF crazy with self talk?

The doorway to Divinity is located and available as a direct experience in the exact split second of 'NOW' which is discernable between the space of the emptiness of two thoughts.
The readiness to initiate the journey cannot be forced nor can people be faulted if it has not occurred in them as yet. The level of consciousness has to have advanced to the stage where such an intention would be meaningful and attractive. Meditation and Contemplation are keys to unlock the soul and the pathway to free the mind of itseself by peering through the viewmaster of the authenic SELF.

The Viewmaster

The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body
also is full of light; but when [thine eye] is evil, thy body also [is] full of darkness.

Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

If thy whole body therefore [be] full of light, having no part dark, the whole
shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.

DEO

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Cool Libraries of The World

Posted on Jan 12th, 2008 by

Photizo

It is impossible to enter a large library... without feeling an inward sensation
of reverence, and without catching some sparks of noble emulation, from
the mass of mind which is scattered around you. - James Crossley

Abbey Library St. Gallen, Switzerland

Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria

Biblioteca Angelica, Rome, Italy

Melk Monastery Library, Melk, Austria

Sansovino Library, Rome, Italy

Wiblingen Monestary Library, Ulm, Germany

Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, England

El Escorial Library, San Lorenzo, Spain

George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-Generaal
Den Haag, the Hague, Netherlands

Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA

New York Public Library, New York, USA

Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura Rio De Janeiro,
Brazil (Possibly the most beautiful library of them all.)

Russian National Library, St. Petersburg

Stiftsbibliothek Klosterneuburg, Klosterneuburg, Austria

Strahov Theological Hall - Original Baroque Cabinet

Suzzallo Library, Seattle, Washington, USA

The New Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Trinity College LIbrary, AKA, The Long Room, Dublin, Ireland

Waldsassen Abbey Library, Bavaria, Germany

Wren Library, Trinity Small

"Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

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Right Brain Vs. Left Brain Tests -Balancing Unbalanced Minds

Posted on Jan 15th, 2008 by

Photizo

A Meeting of The Minds

Balancing Unbalanced Brains

So today while surfing the world wide brain I came across a unique test from AI - The Art Institute of Vancover. Having been a long time user and advocate of Holosync I thought I would take the test. Holosync Technology allows for a free meditative experience that among many things, allows through the use of Binaural Beat technology to build a bridge between the two hemispheres of the Brain thus allowing for a more holistic, balanced way of thinking. There are other Binaural beat technology programs out there such as Hemisync and even some NLP programs, but I have found the Holosync philosophy more in line with the my own.

The Holosync Solution

Binaural beat technology is simply sending two different sound frequencies to each hemisphere of the brain to alter your brainwaves. Your brain responds by producing a third sound (called a binaural beat) that encourages the desired brainwave activity by having the two olivary nuclei "Talk" to one another to "Balance" out the two frequncies by making a third. So when I saw the test I thought, Cool, lets see if this has been working. Below are my test results and a link for you to try it yourself.

My Results
Thank you for taking the Creativity Test.
The results show your brain dominance as being:

Left Brain	Right Brain
49%	51%

You are more right-brained than left-brained. The right side of your brain controls the left side of your body. In addition to being known as right-brained, you are also known as a creative thinker who uses feeling and intuition to gather information. You retain this information through the use of images and patterns. You are able to visualize the "whole" picture first, and then work backwards to put the pieces together to create the "whole" picture. Your thought process can appear quite illogical and meandering. The problem-solving techniques that you use involve free association, which is often very innovative and creative. The routes taken to arrive at your conclusions are completely opposite to what a left-brained person would be accustomed. You probably find it easy to express yourself using art, dance, or music. Some occupations usually held by a right-brained person are forest ranger, athlete, beautician, actor/actress, craftsman, and artist.

Mind Mirror Graphs of
Balanced and Unbalanced Brains

Holosync Founder Ed Harris states, If you'd like to meditate as deeply (actually more deeply) than a Zen monk, literally at the touch of a button...virtually eliminate stress from your life...naturally and safely stimulate the production of brain chemicals that dramatically slow aging and increase longevity...boost your mental powers to unheard of levels...eliminate most so-called "dysfunctional" feelings and behaviors...and attain a level of happiness and inner peace few people experience...please read on.

Ed has taken the following images of brain wave patterns of subjects connected by electrodes placed on their scalp to a Mind Mirror, a type of EEG machine.

The bars on the left represent activity in the left brain, and those on the right represent activity in the right brain.

The length of the bar as it expands out from the center respreseents the amplitude, or relative strength, of each brain wave pattern.

Moving from top to bottom in each diagram, each bar represents a different frequency, with the top five bars on either side representing beta waves at 38, 30, 24, 19, and 15 Hz, respectively; the next three bars representing alpha waves at 12.5, 10.5, and 9 Hz; the next three bars representing theta waves at 7.5, 6, and 4.5 Hz; and the bottom three bars representing delta waves at 2.75, 1.5, and 0.75 Hz.

Unbalanced Mind - Non-Meditator

Brain waves of a non-meditator with eyes open. Notice the lack of balance between the left and right hemispheres, with higher amplitude in the left hemisphere showing concentration or controlled attention. Also notice the very low amplitude of alpha waves. The higher amplitude in the delta area is the result of unconscious, autonomic nervous system functions.

Alpha Waves - Balanced Mind

Holosync meditator listening to Holosync designed to induce alpha waves. Notice the low amplitude of beta waves and high amplitude of alpha waves, indicating deep relaxation. The relatively high amplitude of delta waves is associated with unconscious autonomic processes.

Delta Brain Waves - Balanced Mind

Holosync meditator (eyes closed) listening to a soundtrack designed to enhance delta brain waves in the 2.5 Hz range. Notice the high amplitude of the bars representing the delta range, the smaller amplitude in the other brain wave patterns, and a slightly greater amount of alpha (the result of the other sounds on the CD). Note also the relative balance between the two sides of the brain.

Awakened Mind

Long time Holosync meditator with eyes closed (not listening to Holosync). Note the relative balance between the brain waves in each hemisphere, the peaks in amplitude in each of the alpha, theta, and delta areas, and the relatively small amplitude in the beta area. This pattern is very similar to that of the "Awakened Mind" identified by researcher Maxwell Cade.

Mind Mirror - Balanced Mind

Experienced Holosync meditator in resting state eyes open (not listening to Holosync). Notice the relative balance of all four brain wave types, and the relative balance between left and right hemispheres, which corresponds to whole brain functioning. The relatively high amplitude of all brain wave patterns, without any areas of extremely low amplitude in any frequency, indicates that tor this person the conscious and unconscious areas of the mind can share information.

Seeing the figure spin clockwise denotes a right-brain person, whereas an anti-clockwise spin is perceived by those more left-brained. With a little practice you can alter the direction many times in one showing. I tried this myself and with practice could make the girl spin in either direction. Upon first try I saw it spin almost exclusively Clockwise till near the end it spun the other way. When I replayed it again for the second time I saw that this was a pretty cool animation as it spun in different directions. Give it a try.

Here is a two girl version so you can play back and see that it is YOU that makes the girls spin different direction. I found it easier to see the difference with the two girls, but either way, it's a trip.

Dancers Twirling Left or Right-Leave UR answer in Comment

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe

For a wild look into this split of the bridge between the left and
right cerebral hemisphers (the corpus callosum) take a look at
this video. A mans left and right brain no longer communicate
through that pathway after having been severed, here's what happens

Split brain behavioral experiments

DEO

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To BEE or Not To BEE?

Posted on Jan 19th, 2008 by

Photizo

The Vanishing of The Bees

Honeybees are the only insects that produce food for humans

Something strange and mysterious has been killing the Western honey Bee since October of 2005. Billions of bees are simply flying from their hives and dropping dead across the U.S. Researchers are working round the clock to find answers and help save the greatest crop pollinators on earth.

Bees from the same hive visit about 225,000 flowers per day. One single
bee usually visits between 50-1000 flowers a day, but can visit up to several thousand.

Even with all the advances that modern technology offers to the American farmer, natures honey bee is still the only efficient way to pollinate crops with the bees moving the pollen from flower to flower. To help put this into perspective bees from the same hive visit about 225,000 flowers per day. And one single bee usually visits between 50-1000 flowers a day, but can visit up to several thousand. In other words, there is just no way to replace the indispensible honey bee. But we are reaching a crisis with this next crop season. Last year, many bee keepers who make their living traveling cross country to pollinate farmers fields have lost up to 70% of their hives. If this season is anything like last season, the bee farmer and the Honey Industry will simply no longer exist but go the way of bankruptcy. A scenario that has not gone unnoticed to Burt’s Bees.

Burt's Bees Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), Honey Bees Dying

All that scientists have come up with so far is a new name for the phenomenon - Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) - and a list of symptoms of Collapsed colonies

1.    complete absence of adult bees in colonies, with few or no dead bees in or around colonies,
2.    the presence of capped brood, and
3.    the presence of food stores (both honey and bee bread) that are not robbed by other bees or typical colony pests (small hive beetle, wax moths, etc.). If robbed, the robbing is delayed by a number of days.

Collapsing colonies

1.    an insufficient number of bees to maintain the amount of brood in the colony,
2.    the workforce is composed largely of younger adult bees,
3.    the queen is present, and
4.    the cluster is reluctant to consume food provided to them by the beekeeper.

And has been reported in 27 states in the USA

and in such countries as Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Poland, India, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Switzerland, Germany, Taiwan, Brazil, Guatemala, The Netherlands, Germany.

Here’s a short little trailer Pollen Nation which follows one migratory beekeeper and a semi-load full of honeybees from Minnesota to California, investigating why bees are dying in record numbers.

Pollen Nation Trailer

In the hives that have been affected by CCD the adult workers simply fly away and disappear, leaving a small cluster of workers and the hive's young to fend for themselves. In CCD-affected hives the honey remains untouched.

Honey bee declines are nothing new as far back as 1896, CCD had been reported only under different names such as ‘Fall dwindle' disease, 'May dwindle', 'Spring dwindle', 'Disappearing disease', and 'Autumn collapse'. But what is baffling the modern day scientists and the bee keeper is the unprecedented scale of the bee hives decimation that looks to threaten our pollination industry. An outlook that you would be well to take notice of for if the pollination industry through the loss of this wonderful creature goes away, so do all the crops needing pollination to sustain it.

Scientists are working feverishly to find the cause of CCD and have put forth such theories as genetically modified Food production, parasites or viruses and Herbicides and Pesticides. A worker bee on a typical pollination run will need to drink lots of water when working on the fields and the bees drink surface water which is loaded with herbicides.

A bee travels an average of 1600 round trips in order to produce
one ounce of honey; up to 6 miles per trip. To produce 2 pounds
of honey, bees travel a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.

Another possibility and one that I find very interesting is electromagnetic disruption caused the indiscriminate use of microwave technologies of the globalized electromagnetic network of telecommunications industry.

Gerald Goldberg, MD puts forth this as a possible common link as he says that “bees orient themselves to light and upon returning to the hive go through a complex dance to relay this information to other bees. However bees also use the electromagnetic fields of the earth as a force for orientation. The bees have a gland that is called the mushroom gland, located in the abdomen, which functions much like a compass. The difference is that is relays constant data back to the brain as to where the bee is, much like the function of a flight recorder. This ability to navigate tells the bee where they are in time and space.

This forms the basis for laying down memory tracts and organizing information, the very basis for learning. The bee's orientation to the earth's electromagnetic signature is a reliable, simple and dependable means of orientation and navigation that is not dependent on the variables of light or weather. However one problem remains. Evolution did not count on the signal being jammed by outside sources. Research has shown that the mushroom gland is sensitive to the same frequencies that are emitted by cell phones, mast towers or satellites. In essence artificial microwave frequencies jam this mechanism and the bees become disoriented. They cannot figure out where they are, lay down memory tracts and become lost. “

This is very similar to what has been happening to the whale population as our military uses advanced sonar technology that regularly disorient our whale and dolphin friends causing them to beach themselves. So this idea is not so far out and given the Lilly wave phenomenon might be something to look into more diligently as thispossible cause has even appeared in this Network news look at CCD.

Bees Disappearing - World May Suffer

In the meantime, watch this trailer of the
“The Vanishing of the Bees” a film produced by
Hive Mentality Films and is an official project of Empowerment Works.

The Vanishing of the Bees

DEO

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Perspective Can Shift Thinking - A Second Look

Posted on Jan 26th, 2008 by

Photizo

^
As
you
can see
Words are;
thoughts in motion,
symbols that help clarify
our ideas, feelings and visions.

In short

language seeks to

Act as a translator or mechanism for the
standardization of our thoughts and beliefs.

Act as an agent to transfer these ideas and experiences.

in order to influence in some way others to understand, comprehend,
perceive what it is we believe we know and what it is we know we believe.

In effect,

Clothe the invisible and unseen
In order that they may become manifest in some way as
To better understand or comprehend its meaning or value.

And that's where the big rub comes. Sometimes words get in the way of describing the paradigm shift the Noosphere is experiencing moment to moment by the uploading of consciousness. Words sometime simply fail for a description of what is happening. However, attempts will always be made to use allegories and metaphors to paint the mental pictures if you will to gain a clearer view. This is why we have seen a multimedia explosion on the Internet as we use pictures and movies with light and sound to give a deeper richer contextual experience of what we are trying to convey. Just look at Apples latest offering,

Or watch Sony's Playstation 3 Kubrick like commercial ala 2001 in 2007 and the Rubiks cube piece for an explosion of consciousness through the awakening of "The Next Generation."

New PlayStation 3 TV ad - hi-res version

PlayStation 3 Rubiks Commercial - hi-res version

Maybe these Google guys new what they were doing after all when
they decided to pay over a billion dollars to ride the 21st century Gutenberg.

http://www.wkrn.com/files/images/ap/technology/2006/11/google_youtube.jpg

Yet it is with our words that we describe and communicate through symbols the ideas and thoughts that run through our mind. For the settled mind, or one who is in a Theta or Delta wave stage of consciousness, words through metaphors describe revelations, visions and epiphanies of the mundane or the sublime. This codification as Maslow puts it, can easily get lost in translation. As the perception of the symbols is filtered and distorted though the perspective of our colored glasses of experience. We have our own psychic filter which reduces our ability to see truth by creating an atmospheric fog of concepts and constructs altering our perception of the very words and symbols used to help us see what is invisible.

“The very beginning, the intrinsic core, the universal nucleus
of every high religion…has been the private, lonely, personal
illumination, revelation, or ecstasy of some acutely sensitive
prophet or seer. The high religions call themselves revealed
religions and each of them tends to rest its validity, its function
and its right to exist on the codification and the communication
of this original mystic experience or revelation from the lonely
prophet to the masses of human beings in general.

Abraham H. Maslow
Religion, Values, and Peak Experiences,
Penguin Books, New Yourk, 1964, p. 19

Many men in history have dealt with this problem of language, describing the unseen. I personally like the following excerpt from H.G. Wells in his book, “An Open Conspiracy”, a member of the Fabian society he writes,

Human thought is still very much confused by the imperfection of the words and other symbols it employs and the consequences of this confused thinking are much more serious and extensive than is commonly realized. We still see the world through a mist of words; it is only the things immediately about us that are plain fact. Through symbols, and especially through words, man has raised himself above the level of the ape and come to a considerable mastery over his universe. But every step in his mental ascent has involved entanglement with these symbols and words he was using; they were at once helpful and very dangerous and misleading. A great part of our affairs, social, political, intellectual, is in a perplexing and dangerous state today because of our loose, uncritical, slovenly use of words.

All through the later Middle Ages there were great disputes among the schoolmen about the use of words and symbols. There is a queer disposition in the human mind to think that symbols and words and logical deductions are truer than actual experiences, and these great controversies were due to the struggle of the human intelligence against that disposition. On the one side were the Realists, who were so called because they believed, in effect, that names were more real than facts, and on the other side were the Nominalists, who from the first were pervaded by a suspicion about names and words generally; who thought there might be some sort of catch in verbal processes, and who gradually worked their way towards verification by experiment which is the fundamental thing about experimental science - experimental science which has given our human world all these immense powers and possibilities that tempt and threaten it today. These controversies of the schoolmen were of the utmost importance to mankind. The modern world could not begin to come into existence until the human mind had broken away from the narrow-minded verbalist way of thinking which the Realists followed.

The Open Conspiracy HG Wells

Words then can be seen as the interface between the spirit of man which animates the mind or the observer of the real and the mind of man which is seen as the process of that observation. An observation of that which is observed in the manifest world, or through the senses of the body.

This follows the universal law of “As above so below”. Just as we have three realms of the Terrestrial, Celestial, and what we can call the unmanifested or transcendent, there are three realms ‘Within” us. These three realms can be talked of in many different terms.

Body, Mind and Spirit.

The gross (flesh) , the Subtle (mental) and the Causal (transcendent)

Subconscious, Self-conscious and Super conscious

The Prepersonal, Personal and Transpersonal

The Self (Unconscious), the Ego and the Self (Conscious)

There are many more but these will suffice to say that within us all as the great Christian mystic St. Bonaventure has said, there are three ways of attaining knowledge which he calls the three eyes. There is the eye of the flesh which observes the manifested world of matter in the realm of time and space. The eye of reason, whereby we know of mind, logic and philosophy. And finally the eye of contemplation whereby we attain unto the knowledge of the transcendent and unmanifested reality of the Divine.

This knowledge St. Bonaventure said was a further process of illumination of the exterior, Lumen exterius which is the light of the eyes in the sensory realm of space and time. The Lumen interius which gives rise to the knowledge of philosophy and reason and finally the Lumen superius which speaks of the illumination of the realm of the transcendent in the spirit of man through contemplation. The realm beyond space and time (body) or reason and logic (mind), but of the divine unmanifested (spirit) realm of pure potentiality.

It is with these eyes that we peer into those things which we now see darkly and hope to shed light on. To awake to the realization that by looking inside one-self we acknowledge that life is not a destination but a journey of significance that must be traveled by the inward man. The question is, how far down the rabbit whole are you willing to go? Could the reality we now experience be just a thin veil of a dream, an illusion that must be cast off and looked at from a new perspective? Have we really contemplated the allegory of the cave? I leave you with these quotes that I hope will stir your interest to keep you reading and searching for the truth of the three realms.

“Of these and other things of the same kind, relating to
the true and waking reality of nature, we have only this, and
we are unable to cast off sleep and determine the truth about them."

Plato Timaeus

"The five colors blind the eye.
The five tones deafen the ear.
The five flavors dull the taste.
Racing and hunting madden the mind.
Precious things lead one astray.

Therefore, the sage is guided by what he feels
and not by what he sees.
He lets go of that and chooses this."