“God said: Your picture of the world is your picture of the world. The objective world does not exist. The subjective world exists for you. All matter is a thought that manifested itself into your supposed reality.
…There is a silent part of you that is aware you are in a story, yet, still, regardless, you are in that story. Willy-nilly, you ride an imaginary horse. It is real to you, and, yet, it is all fantasy. There is no horse. There is no you. There is no riding. Being, for a while, tells a tale and believes in it as if Being were not.” HL 3942
“It seems to you that the Holy Spirit does not produce joy consistently in you only because you do not consistently arouse joy in others. Their reactions to you are your evaluations of His consistency.
…It is perfectly obvious that if the Holy Spirit looks with love on all He perceives, He looks with love on you. His evaluation of you is based on His knowledge of what you are, and so He evaluates you truly. And this evaluation must be in your mind, because He is. The ego is also in your mind, because you have accepted it there. Its evaluation of you, however, is the exact opposite of the Holy Spirit’s, because the ego does not love you.” ACIM 9-6/7
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COHERENCE
We are starting to discover that the universe is defined more by information than by matter, energy, time, and space. Ultimately, if the physical universe is reducible to electromagnetic waves that carry information, we could say that the cosmos is a big hologram, an organic whole that constitutes itself the information about itself. The Greek word Kosmos originally meant the object we are taking care of, the object we are decorating, embellishing (cosmetics). Then it meant order, coherence.
But what is the fundamental nature of this information? Information is the knowledge about an identity delivered by and through communication. Living organisms carry very complex pieces of information about their singular and collective identity through complex channels of communication. So how can all this information hold itself together, how does it get its coherence, its consistency? We could postulate that, at the level of the universe or the cosmos, information is communication. It is essentially abstract.
A fundamental requirement for coherence of information is that reality does not and cannot change. Moreover, the mind sustaining that reality does not change its mind about that reality. There is only one response to reality because reality does not hold any conflict. This means that, despite our interpretations of reality which are meaningless in our divided state of mind, there is one interpretation that remains constantly true. And what else than the interpretation of One can be constantly true? This one response to reality is what we call awareness. It doesn’t hold any conflict because it is not divided in itself.
One is its own interpretation. That is what establishes its Truth. What is true has to be self-referential, analogous, yet never tautological or redundant. Holography is analogical. Fractals are analogical in their structural isomorphism(see blog #61: The fractal-brain metaphor). What is binary, that is non-analogous, is what changes because change expresses alternation between yes and no, to be or not to be. Something appears in time and space, then it disappears. It does not have any coherence because it is not self-referential.
It is now known that the only “real” fundamental state of the universe is a quiet quantum field (not a real vacuum) with constant minimal oscillations or pulsations. At that level, photons are treated as identical particles. In this almost frozen state near the absolute zero, the atoms themselves, according to Einstein, lose their individuality and look and behave like one giant atom. At the subatomic level, a particle, when not localized, can be considered as occupying the totality of space. It appears to be ubiquitous, which is at several locations at the same time. But in reality, it is nowhere in time and space because it is everywhere. Hence it does not belong to time and space,
We can no longer say that the universe is the reality but it would be appropriate to say that it is the non-conflictual response to reality or truth. Reality or truth itself as one is beyond the universe because it includes everything and it is nothing in particular. The idea of a universe is in itself a limited idea. That is why we have to postulate something beyond consciousness. This something is Being, I am, the Undefinable.
A science that is aiming at remembering
The quantum field contains the memory of the universe. It is also called the Akashic field (ether or field A). It seems to contain all the vibrational signatures of all the processes that are going on within the bodies of the universe as well as between those bodies. These vibrational signatures ensure the coherence of the separate identities as well as the coherence of the whole as a single identity. Each part contains holographically the whole. It is as if the bodies in the universe had their inner coherence or consistency orchestrated by this omnipresent quantum field and that the individual brains, bodies, DNA, and even consciousnesses were transducers of this coherent information recorded in the Akashic field. It is those vibrational signatures (electromagnetic frequencies) that ensure the coherence of the universe as one. Photons of light, being fundamentally identical, are the memory of this oneness. They have to behave as one. This coherence is ensured by the law of self-reference, analogy, non-locality, simultaneity, and synchronicity. It is non-local because it is not linear like time and space. It is vertical and it works by superposition.
But what is the use of that quantum or Akashic memory? Memory is what helps us to recognize, that is, to know again. Implicitly, in the idea of knowing again is the idea of forgetting. In fact, it is the memory that makes it possible to forget but not the opposite. Oblivion, which is an absence, cannot make it possible to remember. Forgetting would be impossible without memory and memory is only useful to allow us to forget. Aren’t all the seemingly forms in the universe expressions of the oblivion of oneness? Memory allows us to forget who we are and to dream we are something else by embodying ourself in time and space. But forgetting is a lost game if it is not to remember better. It is pure incoherence. That is why the memory of who we are is indelible and it is embedded in a safe place in our individual and collective mind outside of time and space.
If through science, in particular, we are asking questions about the universe, it is because we don’t know. There is no need for questions when we know. And it is impossible to know if we stay localized in time and space because we need to forget to think we are separate. Time and space are devices that make it possible to forget and experience what we are not. Yet, there is a paradox in the statement “we don’t know”. It is only because we forgot that we don’t know. We could not know anything if we didn’t already know. Elements of this knowledge are contained in the akashic field.
So it is interesting that new science (noetics) is ready to integrate consciousness in its quest for knowledge of the universe. Consciousness is the dynamic process of oneness rediscovering the knowledge of itself. In that perspective, it is not only an individual process but a cosmic process as well. If the coherent memory of what we are is beyond the limit of our individuality and residing in this quantum or akashic field, we could say that individual consciousnesses are transducers of the one consciousness of the universe. This global consciousness which thinks as one is also called the sonship. The process of rediscovery is done through learning, and learning is accomplished through information as seeming differentiation of light into the multiplicity of forms. Since the only real information in the universe is analogous, self-referential, then consciousness is the experience of re-discovering oneself, individually and collectively synchronically and non-locally.
Learning is impossible without memory since it must be consistent to be remembered. What ensures the consistency of the learning process is the consistency or coherence of the memory. Only the memory of oneness is coherent and the universe is the memory of oneness in a remembering process called consciousness. What we learn on earth is to remember. The quantum field is holding and circulating that memory. The fundamental value of forgetting is to remember better. Understanding signifies coherence. Light itself is understanding and it is coherent. It is the source of coherence of the universe.
SURRENDER: The coherence of mind and behavior
If there is only one response to reality or truth, this response must be understanding. Understanding is of the nature of light and it cannot contain any conflict. Conflict arises from the absence of light, absence of understanding.
In a sense, the universe is the theatre where consciousness is playing the role of itself in the forgetting mode, in the lack of understanding. It tries to invent its own coherence but it cannot establish it because its interpretations of reality are meaningless in its divided state. Paradoxically, consciousness tries to learn through conflict and fear rather than through understanding. It tries to learn through the past (time and space) rather than through what is ever-present, that is the truth.
Fear and conflict are what we have chosen to remember or recognize oneness from. There is a direct relationship between fear and conflict and it can be expressed the following way: it is always when we don’t make up our mind that fear arises. And we don’t make up our mind because we have conflicting motivations which are expressed through conflicting behaviors.
Conflict is the experience of coherence through incoherence or inconsistency. This inconsistency can be a conflict between what we want and what we do. This conflict can have two aspects. One is that we can choose to do simultaneously or successively things that conflict with each other. Then this conflict is expressed in our behavior and it is painful to the mind that is split between doing something and doing something else. One part of the mind must get frustrated. The other aspect is when we decide to behave the way we think we should but without having the motivation to do so. In that case, even if we are consistent in our choice and behavior, there is a tension created by the fact that we don’t entirely want to do what we decided to do. In both cases, we create a conflict situation where we are doing something that we don’t wholly want to do. This generates anger, tension, sense of being limited and trapped.
So, basically, it is because we don’t want to make up our mind about what we are and what we pretend to be that we experience conflict, aggravation, tension, and fear. And all this mind/behavior inconsistency stems from the fact that we don’t recognize ourself, that is, we don’t recognize our oneness. So we don’t understand who we are. Yet we are surrounded by an ether of memory. In the reality of the one response, we don’t need to learn who we really are but we need to learn to want to.
Understanding means coherence. Light is coherent and light is one. So one means coherence. Oneness is its own meaning, so it is also our meaning. Oneness is the understanding or knowledge of who we are.
That is also the meaning of surrender. To surrender is not a defeat, it is an action: the action of making up our mind. We don’t need to learn to surrender but we need to learn to want to.
JOY
Coherence and surrender must lead to joy. If coherence can be defined by the one response without conflict, then peace, love, and joy are synonyms and are found only in a coherent mind that has a coherent motivation and expresses it through coherent behavior. The mind can only be in conflict if it does not make up its mind about itself. And a mind in conflict with itself cannot experience peace and joy.
A mind that does not make up its mind must confuse joy and pain. The joy of being who we really are must be a very painful thought to the ego. In fact, it is a threat. What is real joy and love must be perceived as “sacrifice” to the ego.
As long as we accept in our mind what is not really there, we deny what is really there but we cannot suppress its reality. We can hide the truth but we cannot make it disappear. Joy waits for us as long as we are willing to remember. And we seem to be surrounded by the ether of joy.
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