P A R A D I G M S H I F T

Written by Gary Osborn in 1997. Updated 2005 and 2006

Copyright © G Osborn. 2005. All Rights Reserved

Figure 1: The Primal Vibration Om. (The Word) Rajasthan. C.
(19th century, ink on paper)

‘Sunya is not simply a void. It is that void which voids all voids. Sunya is the ultimate reality’. [1]

Sunya is an ancient Sanskrit word meaning ‘Zero.’ This last decade, has seen many books written and published about the Zero – but mainly with emphasis given to its deeper numerical and mathematical meaning. One book in particular entitled, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife, presents some very interesting ideas. Here’s a few lines from the dust jacket:

‘Today it’s a timebomb ticking in the heart of astrophysics. Zero [Seife’s book] follows the number zero from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe and its apotheosis as the mystery of a black hole.’ [2]  
   
The significance this has for me is that after an experience I had in 1993, one of the insights that came to me as a result, was that the theory of black holes in astrophysics is directly related to the mystery of consciousness. I could see that our western conception of the 'black hole' is also related to the transcendental void of eastern mysticism; the numerical zero, the limitless energy of the vacuum known as zero-point energy, the theory of non-locality, as well as the Collective Unconscious of Carl Jung. 
After my experience, although I became passionately interested in many subjects, I was particularly drawn to studying ancient Egyptian history. In essence, I found that all these concepts that had become connected to this 'holistic picture' that was slowly developing in my mind, were already combined in the ancient Egyptian conception of the Duat ('Underworld') or what they called Amenta, which itself was based on shamanic experiences and the universal cosmology that came as a result. Indeed we find that many of our imagined descriptions of the predicted phenomena associated with 'black holes' in outer space, is in essence similar to what the shaman and Near-Death experiencers describe when trying to convey their own internal experiences in which one feels as if he or she is being drawn into or through a 'black vortex' or 'dark tunnel' to reach the 'otherworld'. 
Firstly, let’s take a look at zero-point energy (ZPE) and the concept of 'Non-locality'.

Part 1: ZPE and Non-Locality

Zero-point energy is now being referred to as the aether of space. Most people are of the opinion that it is an underlying field of energy – also referred to as the quantum field or quantum potential that spans the entire universe. One of many Websites on the Internet now dedicated to zero-point energy and vacuum physics describes it thus:

‘Contrary to our current limitations in measurement, this universal field: exists everywhere, radiates in every direction with equal pressure, and has no vibration. Radiation implies vibration, but this is not necessarily so. Like the depths of the ocean, an object at the bottom receives the pressure from all the water above it. This “fluid pressure” is equal in all directions, and is why we haven’t noticed its effect before the advent of Quantum Mechanics.’ [3]

Within the related subjects of this article, I am putting forward the idea that what we call ‘zero-point energy’ is really the pure energy of consciousness itself and although this association would be an obvious one to make when arriving at the limit of all our measuring and weighing up of the universe, it is not generally stated or acknowledged by physicists when they write or talk about ZPE.

‘ . . . The universal ZPE field is like the surface of an absolutely still pond. It has no movement. It is all one surface. However, when something moves through the surface of the water, it disrupts the surface, creating waves. The high parts of the wave is still made of water, just like the low parts. Similarly matter is made up of ZPE, just a more complex form. [4]

This is a very good description; but likening this energy to be spread out like a “pond” or “field” is a misconception and still shows our need to think of this source of all energy in ‘dimensional’ terms. 
“Field” implies dimension – i.e., length, height and breadth, and this of course is the way that we would naturally perceive the source of this energy and understand it. But in actuality, this energy exists within one non-dimensional, ‘point of singularity’.

We know that everything in reality is 'localised' - i.e., has its own place - a coordinate in time and space.

In everyday life, of course, locality is a given. You're over there, I'm over here; neither of us is anywhere else. Even in Einstein's theory of relativity, where distances and timescales can change depending on an observer's reference frame, an object's location in space-time is precisely defined. [5]

However, not everything is as it seems or appears. Physicists are now talking about the 'non-local connection' - again, what they see as an underlying "field" - an almost indescribable 'non-place' or 'non-time/non-space' - external to all physical laws, and outside or beyond our reality - where all the information about the objects we see located in space and time is stored. Indeed if all the information (raw data) about everything in reality - and this means us and all matter, from the macrocosm of galaxies and quasars to the microcosm of elementary particles, is superimposed or fused together within the 'non-local' - then we can see how everything is really - invisibly - connected. 

The ancients also conceptualised this 'non-place' where everything is connected, and had a name for it . . . the Void.

Again, the void is ‘non-local,’ meaning it is 'no-where' – having no location in physical reality. But when we speak of ‘non-local’ or ‘no-where’, we see here yet another example of duality. In speaking of 'no-where' we become trapped again in the limiting illusion of duality again.

'No-where' or 'nothing' is related to the negative polarity. And if so, then to go beyond this limitation, we must realise that the 'non-local' must also express the positive polarity – being the exact opposite to ‘non-local’ and ‘nowhere’, which must mean that the void is also “local” – meaning that it is also “localised” in our reality.

How can this be?

Well what if the non-local is fundamentally 'localised' as the CENTER of all things which cannot be seen or perceived by the physical eyes or senses – being the vanishing point - the zeropoint, the “beating heart” center of all elementary particles . . . everywhere?

In this way, the void is 'nowhere' and yet 'everywhere' . . . 'nothing' and 'everything' at the same time and yet it is always at the center - the ultimate paradox and indeed the source of all paradoxes.
This understanding is communicated in the ancient eastern, Mandala symbol.

Figure 2: Hindu Mandala

Part 2: Mandala

The word Mandala,’ is taken from the ancient Sanskrit and means “Whole World” or “Sacred Circle.” Mandalas are universal geometric symbols. These beautifully crafted symmetrical designs can be found all around the world. It is through the Mandala that man endeavours to illustrate his ideas about consciousness and what it would look like if looked at from the outside in. And again, the most basic of Mandalas would be the ancient Egyptian sun symbol, which is a simple circle with a dot at its center.   

Figure 3: The Ancient Egyptian Sun Symbol

As we know this primordial symbol of a circle with a dot at its center is also found in India - known as the bindu. The bindu is said to be located just above the head being the center of the seventh chakra (Sahasrara) - the highest center, also known in various esoteric circles as the 'inner sun' - and this says as much about the creative, life-giving source of all consciousness as it does about the life-giving sun at the center of our solar system.

                                     

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The circle symbolises the womb, ovum (egg) or cell of creation – again, the most important part of the Mandala being the centre – the nucleus, germ or 'seed' of all creation - also known in the Hindu esoteric mysteries as 'the Diamond'.

  

Figure 6: Photos of Hindu Lingam and Yoni symbols – the Lingam (phallus) piercing the centre of the circular

Yoni (vagina-womb-egg) - the phallus taking the place of the dot (seed) at the centre of the ancient Egyptian Sun Symbol in two dimensions

[LINK to AKH: see commentary on Atum-Ra and the ancient Egyptian Creation myth]

Although it is two-dimensional in its design, the Mandala could be described as an interdimensional gateway that takes one’s consciousness from its peripheral focus on its own vortex of creation – the matrix – which contains both the illusory realms of external phenomena and internal archetypal imagery which are often shown as different images arrayed around the circle - through to the Infinite source which is represented by the centre. This source-centre of creation was also represented by the ancient Egyptian god Atum-Ra, the Sumerian Anu, the Greek Zeus, the Hindu God, Brahma and the Buddha of Buddhist faith.
For thousands of years now, the Mandala has served as a means to an expanded and altered state of consciousness. Mandala imagery transcends the rational ego and its linear form of language and expression and I would say it also confers on its more sensitive meditators, a profound wisdom of universal knowledge and a deeper understanding of the nature of consciousness.

Mandalas originated in India and were developed in Tibet. It is in the East that they have been explored and developed and to an exceptional degree. They appear in Tibetan and Native American sand paintings and offer one way in which the individual can re-synchronise his or her consciousness with the intrinsic harmony and balance of nature.
As shown above, the Hindu and Tibetan Mandalas are highly complex in peripheral imagery and detail. These images represent the division and fragmentation of consciousness into its many patterns and forms – i.e., the phenomena relating to the realms of mind and matter that stem from of the infinite zero energy that is found at the centre. 

As we can see from the example given above, the typical Hindu Mandala is comprised of a circular border and one or more concentric circles enclosing a square which is then divided into four triangles. In the centre of each triangle, and in the centre of the Mandala itself, are other circles containing images of divinities and/or their insignias. This square is represented by the four faces of Brahma that look towards each of the four sacred directions of North, South, East and West, (see figure 16 below) and is also represented by the Great Pyramid - the 'primordial mound of creation' -again, expressing the four directions of earthly, material reality - its inclined sides reaching both inwards and upwards towards the apex or center.
The Mandala is sometimes used in initiation ceremonies into the mysteries: 
A Guru blindfolds his disciple and places a flower in his hand. The initiate is then told to throw the flower into a huge Mandala laid out on the floor. The section into which the flower falls reveals the divinity that best represents the initiate – also revealing his inner nature and more so the condition of his mind. 
The internal symmetrical divisions within the overall geometrical design of the Mandala reveal the inner workings of nature and the inherent order of the universe; in other words, these divisions embody the mathematical principles found throughout all of creation.
   
Mandalas are everywhere and in everything – from the spherical and circular patterns of macrocosmic galaxies, right down to the microcosmic cells, atoms and subatomic particles. All are physical and material forms that in their circular or spherical shape reflect the same picture of consciousness that is embodied in the artist’s Mandala. 
Below is a photograph of a carbon particle, revealing a surrounding, spiralling energy field.

Figure 7: Spiralling Energy field surrounding a carbon particle

The shape of the known universe is thought to be spherical or elliptical much like a balloon, which is expanding from a center point – being the original location of the so-called “Big Bang.” Physicists are now saying that the universe is actually expanding from every point within it. My own view is that both versions are correct. 
Below left, we see a a photo of a spiral galaxy, where the matter of stars, planets, rocks and gasses are all being drawn and sucked into the super massive blackhole at its centre. 
Our Solar System with its planets, which orbit the sun at the Centre, is a Mandala. The sun, the moon and the planets like our earth are all spherical domains and matrices, and like the Mandala are all considered to be three-dimensional creations of consciousness - all of which reflect the spherical likeness and "shape" of consciousness itself.

  

                    8: A Spiral Galaxy             9: Our Planetary Solar System with the Sun at the Centre              10: Our Planet Earth

We all know that gravity is a force that pulls things together. All spherical bodies possess a center, a dwell point, which is its point of gravity, and it is this which holds the sphere together. Again, the cause of the strongest gravitational effect in the universe is a ‘blackhole,’ which sucks in all matter – even light. 
Now logic tells us that if all spherical bodies have a center of gravity, and that blackholes have the strongest gravitational force in the universe then surely the center of things must be a vacuum; perhaps something akin to a blackhole – but not just a blackhole – rather an alternating blackhole-whitehole. (See also Parts 3 and 4 below).
The blackhole pulls things together, the whitehole pushes things out. This means that at the center of everything there must exist a “push-pull” effect. This ‘in’/‘out’ alternation of energy around the center stabilizes the mass of the sphere: neither can the whole mass of the sphere be sucked into its own centre and neither can the whole mass of the sphere be thrown out in all directions for very long. Equilibrium is reached when the mass of an object is in proportion to the frequency of the fluctuating energy at its center. 
Again following logic, this means that the tiny spheres of energy we call atoms and subatomic particles are two-way flowing vortices – like what we see in the toroidal vortex (see Fig 10 below) - and that each of these tiny vortices has a blackhole/whitehole centre to them from which the vortex is actually being created by expanding from its own center and then being destroyed by being sucked back into its own center, and all in rapid succession.

Figure 11: The Toroidal Vortex

The center (beginning/alpha point) and the extreme point of the energy’s extension or projection in reality before the energy turns back (end/omega point) – is where both ‘life and death’ hangs in the balance – as one experiences during the enlightenment experience known as a Kundalini Awakening, which we will come to later.

The pull of the center when it momentarily becomes a vacuum (‘blackhole’) describes the force known as the strong nuclear force which keeps the nucleus of an atom together, and the push and thrust of energy from the center when it is a radiating ‘whitehole’ describes the excitation of electrons which when excited will leap to the outer shells of the atom. 
Now wherever these atom and subatomic vortices are gathered together, there you will find a larger spherical body and so on. Again following logic, this means that every celestial and heavenly body is a spinning toroid; a spherical vortex, and at the center of all these celestial and heavenly vortices there is an alternating blackhole-whitehole.
Astrophysicists have accumulating evidence that a Supermassive Blackhole exists at the nucleus centre of every galaxy – which again means that our galaxy is a gigantic spinning toroidal vortex . . . "as above, so below". 

Figure 12: An Image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of the Supermassive Black Hole

with a mass 3 billion times that of the Sun at the centre of the galaxy known as M87.

(Acknowledgements to the Space Telescope Science Institute and NASA.) 

Two possibilities are given for the formation of these 'Supermassive Blackholes':
1.) A normal sized Black Hole at the centre of a galaxy swallows material over millions of years and slowly increases in size.
2.) Many individual black holes have merged together and so their individual masses combine to form a Supermassive Black Hole. 
But again as always we are only seeing half of the picture: the galactic core is not just a blackhole, most likely it is also a whitehole.

Physicist, Paul A. LaViolette in his book, Earth Under Fire, (1997) has put forward his theory that the galactic centre is not a blackhole but is a “supermassive energy object which explodes periodically – meaning that the centre is “beating like a heart.” 
His hypothesis is that the pulsation of radiating energy from the center sends out a wave of cosmic rays which then fills the surrounding galaxy and our solar system with interstellar gas; re-igniting stars and increasing solar flare activity. He uses his theory to explain Earth changes and natural disasters.
LaViolette states that the last burst of energy from the galactic centre happened some 14,000 years ago, and that this burst of cosmic rays was responsible for the ending of the last Ice Age, and has caused all the major physical changes recorded since that time. Again, stating that the galactic centre is not a blackhole, means that like many of us, LaViolette is only "seeing" half of the information.

Now if the galactic centre is “beating like a heart” as LaViolette says, then does this not mean that this centre is both a blackhole and a whitehole? The Centre is both a ‘Creator’ and a ‘Destroyer,’ and it is due to this fluctuation between creation and destruction, that the Universe is preserved.

Part 3: Creation and Destruction . . . a Continuous Cycle

As in the cosmology of most ancient cultures, the different characteristics of the gods and goddesses of Hindu and Tantric cosmology are very complex, and for the first-time reader, their assigned roles in the scheme of things can at first seem highly confusing and often contradictory. However for most Hindus the Source of everything is Brahma, 'the Preserver', which is beyond the creative/destructive dualism of this Center which is in all things. 
The creative side to this Center is symbolised by the Hindu God Shiva, who is depicted as having white skin and the destructive side to this center is Shiva’s consort or Shakti, the Goddess Kali who is depicted as having black skin (Figure 13.)

Figure 13: Shiva (white) and Kali (black)

To get back to the calm stillness of the Source that is Brahma, both Shiva (masculine principle) and Kali (feminine principle) need to be united or fused together into one single whole, and this is further symbolised by the mutual orgasm reached in their sexual union. Now we can see the reason for the Hindu Lingam and Yoni symbol - meaning that the processes of consciousness - which governs physical phenomena - are in essence the same as the procreative process - the union of opposites.    

Figure 14: Shiva and Kali in Sexual Union

Shiva and Kali reflect our own dual-perception, and so before we can perceive the Truth which is Brahma, we have to go beyond the duality of appearances – i.e., our tendency to see only half of the information – as in a thing being either one thing or another – an example being our tendency to observe an electron as being either a particle or a wave. Using Tantric terminology, the state of consciousness that allows one to see this nondual aspect of reality, where both opposites become one thing, is turya. 
So, while the matter of a galaxy is slowly being swallowed up by the center being a blackhole, the galaxy is being recreated by the discharge of energy in the form of cosmic rays from the center as a whitehole. In other words, periodically, matter is being drawn inwards one moment and matter is being discharged the next, and all from the same center. Of course the frequency cycle of this alternation is slow, compared to the frequency of an atom or subatomic entity. The large-scale activity at the center of a galaxy is a good example of what I have described above; the same activity is happening at the quantum level as regards the tiny “galaxy” we call an Atom.
These centers – and I mean ‘all centers – really are the ‘beating hearts’ of our reality. Like the heart which is the center of the human body through which the vital life-giving blood is being recycled and distributed throughout the system, it is through these centers that energy and matter is being recycled throughout the universe.
All these centers "are" and reflect the same Center of consciousness.

The universe is being re-created every moment and again, the “mechanism” that underlies this recreation is similar to the procreative process, and this is something I will come back to later.

Like the Hindus the ancient Chinese also understood that at the center of all creation is the Void. The Void of “nothing” is the ‘blackhole’ phase of the process regarding this Source and Center, which is also “everything” during its ‘whitehole’ phase. Like the Hindu God, Brahma, the Center is ‘everything’ and ‘nothing;’ ‘everywhere’ and ‘nowhere’ at the same time. 
This ancient understanding of the Void at the center of creation is repeated throughout Chinese art – even in the design of their Mandala-like coins, in which the center is an open void or vacuum. This hole also had a practical usage so one could string the coins together.

Figure 15: Ancient Chinese Coin

As many of us will know, the Center represents Brahma and the four sides of the square hole of the Chinese coin hints at the four faces of Brahma. 

    

Figure 16: Four faces of Brahma on a tower at Ankor Thom, Cambodia

As said, in Hindu religion and mysticism, Brahma is the Source and also the source of all knowledge necessary for the creation of the universe. 
It is said that the four faces represent the four directions or cardinal points of the compass illustrating Brahma’s omnipresent. 
The four faces are also said to represent the sacred knowledge of the four Vedas (Rig, Yajur, Sama, and Atharva.)
The fact that there are four sides to the Egyptian Pyramid is also implicated here.

The Mandala then is everywhere – especially within the natural world that surrounds us – from the symmetrical beauty of a simple snowflake to that of a flower.    

                                     17. Snowflake                                        18. Blue Lotus                                            19. Rose                       

In the East the 'sacred flower' is the Lotus Blossom. In the West – and especially in England, the 'sacred flower' is the Rose – and again, both are used as metaphors for the spherical vortex we call a toroid which is the very form in which things first become manifest in reality. The Lotus, the Lilly and the Rose symbolised the female vagina through which a person is born into the world. This is why the vagina also symbolised the void of creation and the portal between this world and the next. With this in mind, its no surprise to find that the Lotus, the Lilly and the Rose, also symbolised the Chakra vortex, of which there are seven that align the human spinal column - each related to one of the seven endocrine glands. The chakras have been described as toroidal vortices that knot the spiritual body to the physical body and are seen as portals between this world and the next - each center again, representing the one void of creation.    
In the West we find the Mandala in the tainted-glass rose windows of cathedrals as the photo below taken of the south side of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris shows.

   

Figure 20: Rose Window Notre Dame, Paris

The Mandala then represents the sphere of one’s consciousness with its source at the Center, so it’s not surprising to find that Mandalas are to be found everywhere, and in every form of human culture – and especially where an awareness of harmony and unity is understood. We should not forget the Labyrinth - again based on the Mandala. An excellent example is the Labyrinth which has been set into the floor in Chartres Cathedral, and on which one symbolically walks the sacred path to the center - see figure 21 below on left. Note the flower at the center. 
The most revered of all the Hindu Mandalas, is the Sri Yantra, or “Yantra of Creation” (figure 22).

                     

      Figure 21: The Labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral near Paris.                                           Figure 22: The Sri Yantra
          The labyrinth is set into the floor and dates from 1200 AD.

The Sri Yantra is said to be the image of the ‘OM’ sound mantra. ‘Om’ is understood to be the primordial sound of creation.  
The nine triangles at the center of the Sri Yantra, interconnect with each other to form 43 smaller triangles dotted here in yellow – thereby creating a state of perfect balance and harmony. 
In his book Rhythms of Vision, Lawrence Blair writes that when 'OM or Aum is correctly intoned into a tonoscope (a device that transforms sound into a visual representation on a screen), it first produces a circle. As the tone is completed, the circle is filled sequentially with concentric squares and triangles and finally, as the last traces of the “mmm” have died away.’ [7]
   
Now some people are beginning to realize that the OM center of the Sri Yantra and all Mandalas – which are illustrations of the surrounding toroidal matrix of positive and negative energy from the microcosmic particles to the toroidal-shaped macrocosmic universe – represents the location of zero-point energy, and so the OM Mantra is the signature of zero-point energy – known as prana to the Hindus and c’hi to the Chinese.)
Below are two three-dimensional representations of the Mandala and the Sri-Yantra. As we can see, these also remind us of the upwelling of energy symbolized by the shamanic ‘world mountain’ or ‘sacred mount’ as expressed in the ancient Egyptian pyramids of Giza, the stepped pyramids of both Egypt and South America, the Mesopotamian Ziggurats, the Buddhist Pagodas and Stupas of India and the Far East and the sacred mounds of Europe - all of which usually have seven levels to them. These designs really symbolize the inward gathering of energy as it ascends the human spinal axis to the top of the head. The center or apex - the bindu - is the true location of ‘zero-point energy’ . . . associated with pure consciousness and the ‘Eternal Now.’ We can see that its also obvious that the Kundalini enlightenment experience, which centers on the spine, and the principle knowledge associated with it as expressed in all variations of the Mandala symbol with its emphasis on the center or apex, is what these pyramid and ziggurat structures are really all about, but do the scholars ever state this?

 

                                           

Figure 23: Three-dimensional Sri Yantras

Part 4. Mini Blackholes-Whiteholes

For some time now, a few notable theoretical physicists have been theorizing about ‘mini-blackholes’ – also called “naked singularities” (having no event horizon) – which they say may very well exist at the centres of all elementary particles such as the electron.

As mentioned above, these points or centers rapidly fluctuate between being a whitehole one moment and blackhole the next, and so they are both emitters and absorbers of energy. The tiny mass of a subatomic particle is created by the rapid . . . In . . . Out . . . On . . . Off pulsation of energy from its own centre. [8]  
The mass of an electron in an atom is the consequence of its waves being tightly packed together with the other electrons that are orbiting the atom: the electron’s mass being created out of the interlocking lattice structure of spherical standing waves – waves that are trapped within a certain measure of space. 
An electron then, is really a tiny compression of energy: a small ‘packet’ of standing waves. The vastness of space is created out of very low, oscillating, ‘long-waves’ of the same radiating energy. Of course all these waves are invisible to our senses. The universe is itself is a spherical standing wave. 
Energy then, is being emitted and absorbed at different frequencies and from all these points or centres throughout the universe. In other words, energy is being emitted from these points when they are whiteholes, and the same energy is being absorbed by these points when they are blackholes. Also, the unrelenting lower frequency waves being emitted from all these pulsating centres, which are everywhere, also carries on throughout the universe; creating the large magnetic field of space, which is why the underlying field of space can never be the ‘zero-related,’ vacuum which our physicists say is the ultimate vacuum containing zero-point energy . . .
   
‘The entire universe is imbued with magnetism, from the vastly distant nebulae down to the most minute elementary particles. The earth on which mankind exists is also a gigantic magnet. Magnetic fields are present in the interstellar space of the galactic system as well as in the more remote regions of the universe. The nebulae, which are composed of various kinds of cosmic dust or gaseous atoms, and are destined to evolve into stars, also possess magnetic fields. These nebulae of gas or dust are constantly subjected to the action of gravitational forces, which act to retract each nebula into its centre. However, the magnetic lines of force are also drawn in, along with this matter. Except for the fact that the state of the system is maintained by this magnetic field, which revolves along with the system as a whole, the immense gravitational forces, acting over long periods of time, would crush the galactic system, concentrating the mass of the system at its centre. The ensuing gravitational collapse would be followed by a violent explosion. Thus the magnetic field constitutes a robust framework, which protects the galactic system from the destructive action of gravitation. Furthermore, if the earth did not possess a magnetic field, then it would long since have been devastated by cosmic rays and reduced to a desolate state, uninhabitable by living organisms. Thus magnetism is a vast celestial entity which maintains order in the physical universe.’ [9]

In other words, the ‘perfect vacuum’ – containing the zero-point energy that our physicists seek – is situated within the pinpoint centers of all subatomic particles and not in the space between them – nor in the field in which they are suspended. The field or space that surrounds those points and everything in it is made-up of magnetic waves . . . positive and negative energy.
As we will see, our ancient ancestors understood this in their own way and communicated it through such symbols as the Mandala for instance – which is a circular or spherical design representing the surrounding matrix patterns that comprise an individual’s reality – at the same time giving emphasis to the point at the center. 
In this we derive the insight that the three-dimensional ‘projection space’ of our reality is made up of a spherical matrix of magnetic fields radiating from every similar charged body or particle that has its location within it. 
Although to us it is a ‘physical vacuum,’ space is created from the magnetic field, which fills the spaces between all things . . . in other words; the physical vacuum of space is the magnetic field.
The field of space is still made up of invisible, magnetic waves of positive and negative energy, which is radiating from all these tiny centers. This means that the field of space is still mass energy made up of invisible and often distorted waves of magnetic energy and so not a vacuum at all! A perfect vacuum can only be comprised of pure energy having ‘zero’ or ‘infinite mass’ – having no measure, no waves, no particles, no temperature, no field . . . and no dimension - i.e., non-local. 

My argument that the underlying field of space can never be the ‘ultimate vacuum of limitless energy,’ is evident when we look at recent discoveries regarding the speed of light, which has always been considered to be a constant in what we consider to be the frictionless vacuum of space. 
It seems that the speed of light does vary in the ‘physical vacuum’ and that this is due to the friction caused by the magnetic waves, which are everywhere – even in the ‘physical vacuum’ of space.   
John Davidson, author of The Secret of the Creative Vacuum, writes:

“ . . . as the successors to Michelson’s experimentation discovered in 1932, using a mile length of tube in Pasadena, California, there are variations of twelve miles per second and more. These vary with the season and also within a shorter cycle of about two weeks.” [10]

This variation of the speed of light would be correct if there were vibrations of magnetic waves speeding it up and slowing it down in certain places. The variations dictated by the change in seasons and also within a shorter cycle of about two weeks, indicates that the position of our planet and the other planets in the system, do indeed exert an influence – especially when we note that each orbiting body, radiates magnetic waves and that the oscillations of these waves will alter and change as the planets move around each other in their orbits. 
For example, a conjunction of two planets – whereby from our perspective on earth, one planet is eclipsing the other and blocking or adding to the other’s vibrations (magnetic vibrations, which would normally be reaching our planet) would of course affect the magnetic fields that surround us. This is why our distant ancestors both conceived and studied the perceptive art of Astrology and more importantly, the eclipses – see here – and why many of us still study it today. 
In fact the rotation of the planets and their circular or elliptical orbits, actually reflect the ‘repeating patterns’ that are going on within our consciousness as expressed by writer on Shamanism, Mark Dunn. We could say that the existence of the planets themselves as well as the backdrop of space and the birth-death-rebirth processes related to the stars and the blackhole/whitehole center of each galaxy, are projections/reflections of the same process that is going on within our own consciousness; and that the positions of the planets at any one time actually reflect the state of mind of everyone and everything on the planet. This is something that will be addressed elsewhere.
Again from Davidson’s book:

‘Furthermore, other speed-of-light signals were detected which varied with the compass orientation, the time of day and the polarity of the current. These were like the electro-magnetic signals flowing in an aerial, but the periodicity cannot be readily explained.’ So, all in all, gravity and the speed of light are known to be incompletely described by any of our existing ‘laws.’ They also vary cyclically and seasonally. Its all very interesting . . .’ [11]

‘More recent research by physicists at the University of Alabama, using atomic clocks, spinning discs and gamma rays, have also shown that this constant does vary with periodicity dependent upon the angular velocity of the disc. But they have had considerable difficulty getting their work published, because, “everybody knows that the velocity of light in a vacuum is a constant.” These experimental results, however, are quantifiably explicable by their model of the physical vacuum as a web of energy focuses, ultra-minute ‘particles,’ or spatial quanta.’ [12]

This supports what I am saying: “Spatial quanta” in the physical vacuum, is a “web of energy,” as in the magnetic field radiations consisting of various frequencies, each of which are being produced from the emissions of energy from every center of every particle that makes up a larger dense body. The density of the body is of course due to tightly-packed magnetic waves. Of course, the peaks and dips of these magnetic wave emissions can affect the speed of travelling light like the waves of the sea can affect the speed of a travelling boat. This means that the ‘physical vacuum’ of space, cannot be the ultimate vacuum. 
The ‘ultimate vacuum’ is a non-dimensional, non-local, point of singularity – possessing infinite energy . . . all the energy and information of the universe superimposed within it. 
However, this non-dimensional point is also everywhere in the field of 3D space as the center of every elementary particle or tiny unit of polar energy.  

Again I emphasize: the physical ‘vacuum field of space’ is not the ‘ultimate vacuum,’ but the ‘ultimate vacuum’ can be found at every point within it. 

This is why some of our physicists are now saying that a limitless energy can be found at every point in space – whilst confusing these points or centers with the underlying ‘field’ of space itself! 
Again, we visualize this highly potential ‘point of nothing’ as an underlying, spread-out, blanket “field” of ‘æther,’ when in truth it has no dimension because this 'potential something' cannot be measured – as the eastern term sûnya implies. 
All these centers which are clothed in a surrounding field of positive and negative energy are like “pasted copies” (using computer programme terminology) of the same one-center from which the sphere or “Cosmic Egg” of the universe was created. This primary center, or primary ‘point of singularity’ – which is said to have seeded the universe via the so-called “big-bang” and which has been copied and spread everywhere – is the real ultimate vacuum; containing infinite, potential energy . . . the ‘source of consciousness’ itself. 

As we know, the nature of consciousness is also considered to be the ultimate paradox – being ‘non-local’ – i.e., “nowhere” to our senses, but also “everywhere:” it being the center of all things – again, as in the centers of subatomic or elementary particles, and believe it or not, knowledge of this is encoded within certain symbols, as well as the myths and legends belonging to the ancient peoples of different civilizations from all around the world – which means that this knowledge must have come from a common source . . . an advanced culture that had known about the limitless energy of the ultimate vacuum’ and had probably utilized it in many ways. We will now look at an example of this ancient knowledge in comparison with our modern-day conception of zero-point energy. 

The next logical step for our minds would be the insight that the ‘Transcendental Void’ of eastern mysticism – which is likened to man’s idea of a ‘supreme creator’ – is the ultimate vacuum . . . the primary center – and is the root or source of consciousness itself. This would mean that the void – though ‘non-local,’ has as its “location” – not only the centers of elementary particles, but also the very center of every individual’s consciousness and that it is also the source and center pertaining to the collective. No wonder that eastern mysticism and the various esoteric traditions give the void such ultimate status. 
Again, the only reason why we see the source of zero-point energy as a “field,” is because this ONE point of singularity, also expresses the illusion that it is divided into a seemingly infinite but finite number of copies – just like computer-cloned-copies of an icon that can be pasted everywhere on the monitor screen – and this is why this ‘one point’ or center is at the same time, everywhere – as the centers of elementary particles – but really nowhere – being ‘non-local’ – in itself.
Now many of us would think this absurd, but this paradox is well known in theoretical physics because theoretical physicists have played around with this paradox regarding what they call the ‘quantum potential’ field – a term coined by physicist David Bohm to describe the same field of potent energy that was once called the ‘aether,’ and now being called the ‘zero-point field.’ 
Some of us know that physicists have also played around with the theory of ‘dimensionless points’ known as ‘singularities.’ Again, I would say that this zero-point energy is not a “field” of energy but that it is found within these dimensionless points within the illusory field, known as ‘singularities,’ which our physicists have also theorized. Moreover I would also say that the plural terminology – i.e., ‘point(s)’ – is really describing an illusion . . . because all these points are really one point . . . one source . . . one center. 
The ancient people who designed and built the Great Pyramid understood this and constructed the Great Pyramid so that it would act as a both a symbolic and practical contraption that would facilitate a psychic ‘right of passage’ or ‘rite of entry’ into this source – also known as the ‘Absolute’ or 'Godhead' – again, the ‘Transcendental Void’ and also the ‘Tao’ of the far-east traditions.
These insights are supported by a paper found on the Internet. The following is taken from ‘What is Sri Vidya?’ By Swami Veda Bharati:

‘ . . . When you begin to see these relationships, then you immediately begin to drop the relationships, because relationships are between two. Until the number two is dropped, the unity will not be established. Without that unity, the merger of consciousness into the pinpoint of light will not occur. Until one sees it all into that single pinpoint of light you will not understand that the universe actually is not even expansion of the pinpoint of light, but rather replication, the same point occurring again and again and again. The same one point. And the point, having occurred so many times, having replicated itself, identical to the very original pinpoint, becomes a light, becomes a ray, becomes a line, becomes a ripple, becomes a figure.’ [13]

Bharati is telling us that unless we drop our differences between one thing and another; between the “observer and the observed” – which underlies our perception and interaction in the world of two – the opposites – then unity, being a fusion in consciousness, will not be established. 
In other words, until we can see into that single pinpoint of consciousness by experiencing it via the enlightenment of a ‘Kundalini awakening,’ then we will not understand the above insight; that this same original point of consciousness is everywhere and at the center of everything. This is why we were taught in prep school that “God” is in “everything” and that we better be good because “God” can see us, and will know if we are being good or not.
We find that the above insight into the nature of ‘being’ and ‘reality,’ has to date, only been touched on by science. To illustrate this, here’s an extract from another book by the late Michael Talbot titled The Holographic Universe:

‘At the level of our everyday lives things have very specific locations, but Bohm’s interpretation of quantum physics indicated that at the subquantum level, the level in which the quantum potential operated, location ceased to exist. All points in space became equal to all other points in space, and it was meaningless to speak of anything as being separate from anything else. Physicists call this property “nonlocality.’ [14]

In short, what physicists found was that a subatomic particle like an electron would somehow know what another electron was doing. It didn’t matter how distant and far apart the two electrons were; both seemed to be communicating with each other across the distance of space simultaneously – meaning that they communicated instantly – higher than the speed of light, as if both particles were ONE – known by the term Superposition. This implies that each subatomic particle in an entire ocean of particles behaves as if it knows what an infinite number of others are doing. 
Einstein said that this was impossible in our universe. Einstein’s special theory of relativity implied that instantaneous communication or travel would mean breaking the time barrier – being the ‘speed of light constant’ – and so the possibility of such a thing would open a “Pandora’s Box,” containing all kinds of unacceptable paradoxes. 
But as I have said, all division is an illusion, which means all distance measured by either space or time is also an illusion. 
This would imply that all electrons are really the very same One – again like a large number of photocopies – pieces of the same hologram – something, which had already been casually hypothesized by Bohm and others – and this is why subatomic particles act as if they are ‘one entity.’ In our view, all elementary particles are united by their non-dimensional centers, which again, is the very same center. 
As the author of the above extract says: 

“All points in space become equal to all other points in space.” 

I would amend this by also including ‘Time,’ and say: 
All points in ‘space’ and ‘time’ become equal to all other points in space and time . . . because all these points are the same point – i.e., zillions of “ghostly, cinematic projections” of the same point or centre enveloped by positive and negative energy/information showing different values of measurement – i.e., quanta.    
In other words: from ‘one center,’ energy is oscillating; it expands and contracts . . . manifests and unmanifests . . . projects and retracts . . . materializes and dematerializes . . . appears and disappears – and this ‘two-way’ activity or process is copied and pasted everywhere to create reality; each copy showing a different rate of frequency and each showing a different value concerning the measure of information that is being expressed in that particular location.
Again, I will quote a few extracts from ‘What is Sri Vidya?’ By Swami Veda Bharati:

‘ . . . The ancient Indian philosophy of physics, called Vaisheshika, speaks of akuñchana and prasarana, contraction and expansion as interlinked principles. The Sanskrit texts discussing the attraction of gravity and the basic principles involved in it, also discussed this question of attraction and contraction, the centripetal and centrifugal forces as well. They also arrived at the conclusion at that time that the minutest atomic particle would have to be simply a point in space, bindu, the point in the centre . . . We are discussing here the bindu, the point in the centre of the Sri Yantra, the point from which the expansion occurs, and into which the circle contracts again.’
   
‘ . . . One of the first principles again is that expansion and contraction in space are an identical process, just as creativity and entropy are interwoven. The boundaries between evolution and devolution cannot be determined.’
   
‘ . . . This expansion and contraction are not opposite principles. They are not to be studied or even thought of in sequence. Evolution is devolution. Creation is dissolution. Creativity is entropy. The beginning is the end in any loop. And the universe is nothing if not a loop. There is nothing in the universe that is not a loop, a chakra, where one does not return to its origins.’ [15]

One energy alternates with itself like the alternating current of electricity (‘On’ ‘Off’) and this alternating activity is what keeps the energy of everything, stable within a reality – including us. 
The ‘On’ energy would be the measured lines of projected and retracted energy that flow between the ‘Off’ energy points or centres. 
We could say then, that ‘alternating current’ is the secret behind gravity because if the energy was only ever projected outwards then it would be travelling outwards forever. And if the energy stayed within that point or centre there would be no creation and therefore no reality. 
Our law of gravity comes from our perception of things remaining at a certain location in space and time and always dropping back to that position. This is because at the center of a body is a point of limitless energy which is both projecting and retracting energy en masse – i.e., “breathing” through all the sub-atomic particles that have massed together to create an object. This would mean that every object is pulsating, but it is pulsating through the centers of all the microcosmic components of energy that make-up its body.
   
The projection and retraction of energy at different rates of frequency would also explain why we always perceive two opposites in our reality – i.e., positive and negative, male and female etc: 
Because the ‘One energy’ is materializing and dematerializing at different rates of frequency and from many different points, which are all at the ‘quantum potential’ or ‘zero-point’ level of our reality, this creates for us the illusion that there are two energies that are alternating with each other; It also creates a reality, which at its information level, is a binary-coded pattern – i.e., positive and negative – ‘On’ and ‘Off’ . . . ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’
All this “machine-like” activity of consciousness creates the illusion of division, but the experiences one has with this ‘Kundalini energy phenomenon’ reveals this illusion. In other words, this experience awakens us to realize that greater part of ourselves so that we can then learn how to find our own way to it by sustaining our awareness at the fusion point of our energy.     
Most of the time we are unconscious because we are only focusing on the world of the ‘On,’ projected energy and the very brief moments, when energy has been externally projected. Particles of light energy are produced at the point in the process ‘when’ and ‘where’ the energy retracts back and we perceive these points of energy all around us in our reality as subatomic particles. 
From these same points, and as the energy retracts back, waves of light energy also extend outwards around these points . . . also pulsating in all directions.

One would comprehend this paradox if one already understood the famous ‘double-slit experiment’ in quantum physics . . .
In highly simplified terms, it has been noted that if one photon is fired at a blank screen, but fired first through a screen with only one vertical slit in it, then the one photon will naturally go through this one slit in the first screen thereby making a slit of light on the second screen. But if there are two slits in the first screen, then again when the photon is fired we only see the one photon go through the one slit, but we will then find an interference pattern on the second screen – i.e., a sequence of light and dark lines. This interference pattern made on the blank screen behind the first screen, attests to the weird conclusion that the one photon has gone through both slits and that the second “ghost” or ‘virtual photon’ is interfering with the first photon. 
This would also mean that if there were hundreds of slits in the first screen, then the one photon would still act as if it had gone through all the slits at the same time. It seems as if the one photon acts out every probability and eventuality associated with all these holes or slits, and that we only see one outcome of many regarding all these probabilities. As the photon goes through all these slits at the same time, the energy is cut up and divided, becoming fragmented, and these divisions and fragments of energy create interference patterns on the blank screen behind the first screen – i.e., one energy “playing with itself.” 
So to recap:   

The source-center itself is divided, into an infinite amount of duplicate copies, and all these virtual, ghost-like “copies” are separated and divided from each other by the “cyclone” of differently measured energy that swirls around each and the differently measured energy that is being emitted from each (quanta). 
The friction these tiny toroidal “cyclones” make with each other creates all the interference patterns that become the images and objects of our reality.       
Now then, if all energy is really superimposed or fused together within a non-dimensional, nonlocal point, then how is it, that this same energy is also divided and fragmented into bits, separated and spread about in very specific locations at our level of perceptive reality? 
Simple . . . it is both these configurations at the same time – i.e., everything in one point and everything spread out outside that point. (See the discussion The “Sleeping” God at the Centre: “Dreaming” the Holoverse into Existence)  - soon to be placed on this site.
   
The paradox is solved once it is realized that one of these configurations is an illusion – namely our perception and experience of everything divided and separated in time and space. But to understand how this reality of space and time is an illusion we would first have to consider the premise that this ‘one point of energy’ is pure consciousness – and more to the point, (pardon the pun) that all energy is consciousness – even the illusion of matter. Not many scientists would accept this even though it would answer a lot of things. However, if we could accept this, then maybe we could then consider the following: 
Consciousness is really all contained within a non-dimensional point. But more to the point: All energy, which is consciousness, is contained within a ‘non-dimensional point’ at the same time as all the energy of consciousness is also dispersed and spread outside and around this non-dimensional point. This is why the energy contained within these ‘non-localised’ or ‘non-dimensional’ points is pure potential energy – i.e., limitless – because it is fused energy . . . energy in its original, ‘virginal,’ potentially creative state – again, as like the proto-atom that seeded the universe in the so-called “Big-Bang.”
Of course, this non-dimensional point is the true and original configuration of consciousness, and this is why the pure energy of consciousness cannot be seen, held, touched, or measured. But we know that in our reality we perceive and experience things ‘dimensionally’ – i.e., individualized bits of energy/information expressed as ‘mind’ and/or ‘matter;’ an energy, which is obviously divided and spread out in all directions. 
How can this be? . . How can consciousness be both these configurations at the same time? Well maybe we can answer this with the following: 
Primarily, everything in the universe – all energy, is united, fused, and superimposed as ‘One’ within a point that is limitless and timeless, and this is why subatomic particles are communicating with each other instantly: At their center they each have within them the very same Point of pure consciousness, where all the energy and information of the Universe is superimposed and fused together as One.

Part 6. Conclusion

From the amazing discoveries he had made from his own research, David Bohm had to concede that such a ‘point of wholeness’ existed and he called it the 'Implicate Order'. Conversely, everything that is manifest outside this Implicate Order – i.e., ‘that’ which is divided into quantized packets of energy, Bohm called the ‘Explicate Order.’ In other words, we, and the reality around us, are made out of this divided energy, which Bohm called the ‘explicate order.’ 
Moreover, Bohm had also hypothesized that there must also be a Super-Implicate Order – the Source of both the Implicate (mind) and Explicate (matter) orders, and where both are One.  
From my own understanding, Bohm’s ‘super-implicate order’ is also the “all-non-thing” we call the void, which again is the very center that holds within it the pure energy of consciousness. Of course we could call it ‘God’ if we like. It is a “point” that has no dimension, and so from our space-time perspective, all consciousness and energy would seem to be compressed into a pinpoint – which is not even a point in our reality – as it is non-dimensional. This conforms to the Hermetic statement: “God is an intelligent sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
According to the picture, which stems from our thought processes, this point of all energy seems like a contradiction or a paradox because it looks to us as though consciousness is restricted and limited in its movement by its condensed compression within a very tiny point. But this picture which stems from our thought processes is itself limited because the human mind is working within the realm of divided energy, and therefore cannot comprehend that all this divided energy can be fused into a single whole. So again, this center or point seems to us like the paradox of all paradoxes: 
But if this point has no dimension, then it can have no limitation or restriction put upon it. 
All limitation and restriction comes from our own limited and restricted view of reality which of course is an illusion and so all limitation and restriction is also an illusion, but we need these limitations and restrictions – i.e., the so-called physical laws – as the “ground” and “walls” of our reality. In truth, all the energy of consciousness is total and is pure potential and so from this center it has all the energy, freedom, and choice to creatively express itself as anything it wants or desires.)
I shall end this essay with another quote from Swami Veda Bharati:
       
‘ . . . Keep looking for the central point within, which is the point from which the universe is created, to which the universe is returning. It is the point within your centre to which the universe is returning through its expansion. It is this very point whose expansion is the entire Sri Yantra, the yantras of all your chakras superimposed upon one another, a single stem passing through them, becoming the thousand-petaled sheltering tree in your skull. Even those thousand petals must be dropped. There remains only a vertical line and that vertical line contracts and becomes a point again. This constant evolution-devolution, expansion-contraction, the merger in the unity of centripetal and centrifugal, this expanding and expending goes on constantly as a single process. Understand it. Observe it within. Integrate it and remain true to your practice. Whatever you are prepared for will definitely come to you.’ [16]

 

Author's Note:

Extracts from this article and the ideas and theories presented here "somehow" found their way into Philip Gardiner's book Gnosis, (Radikal, 2005) and (New Page Press, 2006)

UPDATE, 2nd Nov, 2006:

See document: Quantum Bio-Cosmology by Doctor Manjir Samanta-Loughton MBBS - published in 2003.

The ideas and theories about blackholes, zero-point energy, non-locality, consciousness and the chakra system presented in this Paper, supplement and support the theories and insights given in this article as well as the article Dimension Doorways.

 

Notes and References

1. Taken from ‘What is Sri Vidya?’ By Swami Veda Bharati. See here: 

2. Taken from the dust jacket of Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea. By Charles Seife. (Souvenir Press, 2000.)

3. Taken from New Information on ZPE by Dr. Jay Garrett, CEO Garrett Technologies. See here:

4. Ibid.

5. Frequently Asked Questions. Why are Saints Drawn with Halos around their Heads? See: http://www.raptureready.com/faq/faq78.html

6. Taken from article, The Elephant and the Event Horizon by Amanda Gefter, New Scientist,  28th Oct, 2006

7. Taken from Rhythms of Vision, by Lawrence Blair. (Warner Books, New York, 1975.) 

8. See a hyperspatial energy continuum and the human perception of dimensional reality - a series of conjectures on the nature of reality by Charles Noonan Vind.  See here:

9. Taken from The Secret of the Creative Vacuum: Man and the Energy Dance, by John Davidson. (The C. W. Daniel Company Ltd, 1989.)

10. Ibid.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Taken from ‘What is Sri Vidya?’ By Swami Veda Bharati.

14. Taken from The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot. (Harper Collins, 1991.)

15. Taken from ‘What is Sri Vidya?’ By Swami Veda Bharati.

16. Ibid.