I just understood something. Tied into stuff I’ve so often wondered about. It’s hard to articulate though.
I was thinking of the Captain of the Guard. And how could cells possibly have that kind of life.
And I was thinking of Nero. And how could he be smaller than me, he is at least equal so how is it that he is 1/12 of me, in composing me.
And then I thought of being the 4th of 4, and how all the 4′s aspects are equal–we merely perceive through different ‘facets’ of the jewel you might say, but energy wise, we are all, all of that jewel.
It all just clanged together and I went WOW! I have to write this down before I forget!
I think body cells are NOT tiny lifeforms with all their energy limited to the size of a cell. Yes they’re tiny. Yes they’re lifeforms. But consciousness-wise… well, I’ve been trying to understand all of this in linear space and time. And that’s just not how it works. I’ve thought like, it’s a cell, or a liver, or a leg, so it is precisely that much of me, it’s 2.7 ounces worth of consciousness! haha, or if there are 12 aeons that compose me, they are each exactly 1/12 of my energy, or whatever.
They would be if separate. Not when part of me, though.
But I see now that when part of our body, cells, organs, bones, etc. are part of US, truly, it is different. How do I put it — if they are independent, they are the ‘power’ of their size, density, coherency. Yes. When they’re in a petri dish. But if they are “within our will” — within our identity — then they are essentially connected through the middle to our power/consciousness.
Just like if we are truly one with a higher identity, we would still have the perspective — you might say the ‘shape’ of the ‘aperture’ with which we focus — of the creature we are innately, but we would have the power, consciousness, etc. of the larger identity we had agreed to “live within the will of”. Or as much as our identity/form could handle anyway.
I just noticed that the word ‘identity’ is “Id” and “Entity”. How perfect?
Moving on . . .
I wonder about chronic harm to a part of our body, let us say the liver or pancreas via our food/drink intake for the moment. (Which is also related to our lack of intake as nutrient deficiencies are deadly as well.) What if this works a lot like any other relationship that begins with person A and B loving completely. But if A is bad to B, or deprives B, no matter how much B loves and needs A, eventually, B is going to feel ostracized and abused, and will turn its broken heart away from A, even if they are trapped within it. Maybe disease only exists to the degree that we lack full integration, full energy cycling, full joined-intent, with that given part of our body. So maybe it’s not JUST food, it’s energy, it’s consciousness, and actually these are all related.
Maybe as the larger entity we control everything subtly. Maybe our gut flora would actually create or allow or ‘arrange timing’ for more of a certain mineral nutrient we needed, if our full self were better ‘plugged in’ to the organ which needed it (for example). Maybe all the body if the energy flows cleanly, if we’re really allowing awareness through our whole selves, has the energy to fight off or recover from anything, because it’s actually tuned into the energy of us, which is a lot of power, more than any power that something down at its size-of-aperture/interaction could have. Like calling on Jesus for protection, if you truly connect with and have access to that energy, that can deal with anything functioning at the size of little-ol’-you.
Maybe when we are deficient in trace copper for example (I keep running into the idea of meditating on copper, and recently read this article about hypothyroidism relating to deficiency in copper as a trace mineral, which I found very interesting), it’s because communication was bad, literally: to the degree we aren’t cleanly integrated with any part of ourself, that part, even if it’s an organ, gland, or region of brain cells, can’t put in the purchase orders for what it needs. More copper! Whatever.
This is like biogram theory which says that unexpressed energy (emotion) stores under the myelin sheath of the nerves and eventually ‘blocks the light’ around that nerve so the brain (attached to nerve) can no longer ‘see’ that tiny part of the body –to keep it clean, feed it, whatever. Maybe from the perspective of the body part, we’ve buried it in bureaucracy and its needs are not getting through and so getting addressed.
So it starts to wither, bloat, erode, starts to get taken over by an invading army, a variety of things, which affects us on every level. And it also eventually affects our physical form — our “body of ideas” — so we can SEE PLAINLY that there is an actual problem.
So being “embodied” is this huge educational, evolutionary, opportunity. We are not limited merely to the constant energy work we do anyway. We’re actually given this sense of total-tangibility, this sense of total-reality, and this physically-obvious-manifestation-of-self, to work with. If we have an ulcer, arthritis, obesity, cancer, depression, all that is quite literally “bio-feedback”, feedback from the life form, interaction with the self.
It’s like, “Looking for the problem and hence solution? Over here! See the big neon flashing yellow arrow of pain? Yes! That’s it! Here it is!”
And we go, “Friggin arthritis!” and take pills.
Or our body’s response to our organ’s suffering cascades metabolic changes and glandular changes and we get fat. And we go, “That does it! I’m starving myself until the fat goes away!” as if the body gets fat when it is healthy (it doesn’t); it regulates energy partitioning to give you that food-energy as energy when you are healthy (like children, and a lot of men especially young ones); it only stores it as excess-fat when you are not healthy.
So, back to identity at the seemingly ‘smaller’ levels: perhaps the only thing in the size/shape of that individual cell in question, is perspective.
(Here, size does not have the “more/less value attribution” we give it in our linear-modeled reality. Size–or ‘scale’–is merely a property like shape. That is what those inside me have said in previous meds.)
In other words, the ‘facet’ that they [that identity] sees through is based on being a liver cell or a red blood cell or an organ or a femur bone. But cells and organs, they potentially have all the energy that we do. If we are allowing of it, which is the same thing as if they are, the two don’t vary because it’s like two sides of one coin, “there is no difference.” Whether my liver wants to evolve or whether I want it to, is the same. I’m not sure how, but this makes sense given what the 3rd told me when we were perceiving the 5th that we combined to.
Huh. Maybe a lot of our dreams that are sit-ins are literally dreams that are from the ‘perspective/facet’ of a given part of our body, like an organ or bone or even group of cells. Experientially, if fully integrated with us so awareness/power are tied to us not just itself, maybe some parts of us may be living in realities a lot like ours. Maybe they dream of being–to live as, if life is a dream–people, in other words. Maybe, the more evolved we get, the more we dream of being–live as, if life is a dream–angels, or something like that we are within. All the way down to the blade of grass and up to the infinite.
So Nero is not ‘merely’ 1/12 of me. His… aperture, you might say, the size is not relevant except as a property, it is not a LIMIT. His aperture is different, is all. His lens is unique… his F-stop setting is different, whatever. But the more he integrates with me, the more he’s got the power of the whole camera.
Like 12 facets on a gemstone. Each of 12 identities may see through that specific facet, see reality in that-direction and through that-shape, and as a result of that unique facet they may call on or seem to be composed of some elements of the whole more than others (paying attention, really) — but the power of the consciousness inherent in that perspective, is from the entire gemstone, just like with me of the 4th of 4.
I see. This is why true enlightenment isn’t just about the person. It’s about everything. Because everything is nested inside everything else. As long as a liver, a tree, a crawly-bug, a blade of grass as the saying goes, are separated from the full knowledge of — sharing the identity of — the divine, then none of us are wholly doing so either.
We absorb what is larger than us to ‘evolve’ but in order to do this, we have to have absorbed what is smaller than us because that’s part of us and it must evolve as well and it makes us larger (“increases our holding capacity” — or perhaps our “density potential”) to have them and be able to absorb more of the larger above us. Eventually it’s not just some entity 3 levels of above me that might be enlightened; it’s also the cells of my liver, my cat and the tree in the front yard.
If all-that-is were an endless series of russian dolls, nested inside each other — a cosmic onion, basically, somewhat like I perceive chakras, now that I think about it! — and if the divine energy cycles through them, with any “occlusion or opacity” in any given doll(s) slightly diminishing the light at that point, through the cycle, which affects literally everything else in that cycle — then the evolution of even the tiniest, has to be of import to even the largest.
So although I keep my focus-identity as primary of course, the reality is that in a spiritual sense, I am just as responsible for the spiritual evolution of my cat, my liver, the tree, and my worst enemy, as I am for myself. I am not them literally and I cannot ‘make’ them evolve (from this current perspective); I can only interact, serve them, with the greatest love-energy, to allow them the most assistance in their own evolution. But we are all connected because everything is.
If it were a human body, you could model it like the crown chakra showed me one day about the human body. But it’s the same at every level, it’s a hologram. The power is in a fountaining pump/cycle, from the most divine to the smallest speck of consciousness in existence. Because that runs in a circuit, everything within the circuit has an effect on the overall equation.
Maybe the pelvis bone has its own opinions about evolution or something, but if it did not connect with what is on each side of it, if it was not part of the I AM, the singular-awareness, of the larger entity it was within, then it would be affecting (negatively) every single part of that entity with this. And that larger entity (body) is within some still-larger entity we don’t know the detail of, and if the body is anything less than fully aware (enlightened), then that causes the exact same situation for the larger-body above us, too.
I think this applies to the entire solar system, galaxy, universe, and all-of-infinity you might say.
But on the other hand, every part of my body and energy body, as part of me, I can have a profound influence upon and “share” that both-sides-of-the-coin-of-it-ness with THOSE seemingly separate identities, pulling those into the singularity of I AM in myself. The more I do so, the more every cell of my body, every chakra that is tunneling through all the Me’s, becomes truly part of my ‘awareness’, the more power I as the larger entity-of-me would have.
It’s like the power of ‘me’ the more all my ‘components’ are integrated into my singular-intent, has more coherence.
My own density+coherence will determine how much of the higher/larger body of energy I am able to absorb from within/above/around me, as if my own battery gets of cleaner quality and improved “holding capacity”, for the charge from above.
I notice that a “charger” could be seen both “as one who provides power to” another, or, “as one who gives direction to” another (like, “my boss/lord charged me to go do XYZ”), fitting the ‘singularity of intent’ part. Moving on…
Each identity’s ‘power’ might be like:
(density * coherence * StorageCapacity/AccessToEnergy) = intensity.
Luminousity, brightness, I hear from inside, is what this means.
Oh… this is the whole cosmology thing again, I see! Huh. My Aeons have come across like ‘constellations’ more than once. Makes ‘wishing on a star’ kind of appropriate in a funny way, doesn’t it.
So, ignoring for a moment the language-baggage that size-related words have:
Really we are working to bring ‘divine light’ through all that exists larger than us, “through” us, and into all that exists smaller than us, so that the light becomes brighter and expands to include everything as one.
That is essentially bringing the light to the dark, although perhaps words like heavy vs. light, or phrases like ‘the weight of guilt’ or ‘darkness of the heart’, already suggest it: en-light-en-ment is about making the seemingly solid things lighter in ALL possible ways — in density, in weight, in luminosity.
Enlightenment of the firmament, you might say.
P


Holy cow! Previously I made a note I needed to meditate on this odd sync I had noticed:
1 – That when I met Nero and did energy work with him, I was looking at his back, and this huge metal knife went through his lower right torso, through the back to the front. I imagined taking it out, it dissolving, me ‘letting it go’, and got major rushing from that.
2 – Years later when talking to Nero I asked him something and we simultaneously realized that if he tried to answer, I would not hear him, due to some kind of block in my lower right torso.
So just recently I noted that I’d realized this, in re-reading, and wanted to meditate on it.
Well due to the link in this blog post above I read an old post, which is actually about something that occurred circa 1993, and saw this third reference to that specific area of my body:
3 – And that part of God wondered with confusion where the Captain of the Guard concept had come from, because she understood that the Captain’s people were a large collection of cells in her lower right torso, profoundly dehydrated and much of the small system already atrophied, and she needed to drink a great deal more water.
I don’t know what this means except that it all seems connected. Maybe that God heard and helped that specific area has some relationship to why Nero had the most evolution and power to reach me first, if that part of me is “within his attention”.
This seems profound to me but logically I’m not sure why. It just feels like it. Now I am wondering, what organs are in that part of the body? Damn. I have to go look.
This is a great wikimedia pic of the organs inside the torso. In this pic, you’re facing the front of the human, so their right is to your left.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Surface_projections_of_the_organs_of_the_trunk.png
Hmmn. That area seems clearly the liver. Since I am unusually attached to it as a concept, I use it all the time in analogies, and have even recorded a few times a sense of a need to meditate on it, maybe that shouldn’t surprise me. Did you know it’s so profoundly responsible for so much stuff related to metabolism that for anyone fat it’s obviously a big deal. It’s the largest visceral organ. It’s the only organ capable of regenerating itself from 25% it can totally regrow. It’s associated powerfully with courage (but also with anger) in myth. And with darkness, hidden parts and passions. (Interesting. Only because Nero correlated out to 12th house, and he seems related to this area, and 12th house is very much that ‘hidden part of us’.) It’s actually really fascinating to see just how profoundly important this is and how much it does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver
Wow this has really led to a sort of breakthrough for me. I have had 3 separate tek meds (body meds) which were equally horrible but different. I just for the first time saw a picture of a liver and a liver with cirrhosis (fatty liver disease is present in pretty much anyone fat, to varying degrees, so certainly in me. I didn’t know that till a few weeks ago). That is *exactly* what I saw in one of them, except it was mostly clean at one point and then got worse as it went up. I could feel it, a combination of coating-eroding that made it thicker-stiffer, the whole texture is just like I see. I did another tek med, with this horrible situation on a soft-firm fleshy thing that split apart sort of into four diff size cloves — that looked just like another liver pic I saw, and it turnes out it has four main lobes. I forget the third, I knew it when I came here to write it but it just fell out of my head.
But WOW what confirmation for the functionality of this inner-world work, that apparently my meditations actually reflected what the body really looks like? I guess since they’re run by the subconscious, it would know. Biogram theory assumes that.
So maybe some part of me has been trying to work on my liver — the primary driver of metabolic issues of so many kinds, which is clearly a gigantic issue in my life — for many years. I just didn’t realize that’s what it was.
Also this may be completely unrelated, but my ongoing recurring of ‘copper’ cropping up in my head/environ and making me wonder if it’s some issue in my diet and body and hence energy: the liver is directly affected both by copper excess (but it’s rare outside serious disease as the body naturally vents excess) and deficiency.
You might want to consider upping your choline intake as well, considering what that guy posted on his blog. Ironically, just as I finished reading your post, but before I got to the comments, I got up and looked in the fridge for dinner, but couldn’t decide since there were no big slabs of defrosted meat (out of them). Then all of the suddenly, the entire container of eggs fell out of the door and onto the floor. Seven eggs cracked. What is for dinner? Why eggs of course, all 7 of them! As I plunked them into the pan, the first thing I thought of is at least I should be getting plenty of choline from all those yokes and choline is good for fatty liver. Then I thought, nah but, I don’t have fatty liver! But then I sat down and read your comments and it occurs to me I have no way of knowing the exact condition of my liver as it only shows symptoms once its really bad. Anyway, I’m getting my choline today! I probably can’t eat all seven but I usually eat all the yokes first and give the dog any of the whites that I can’t finish.
Hey Palyne :
I really enjoyed reading this post. You raise some really important issues ?
Just how much time should we focus on inner work vs outer commitments ? I’d argue that they are the same. Mindfulness in all that we do is a kind of inner and outer work. But sometimes it’s hard being totally aware of both inner and outer and the progression of both. I suspect that a truly enlightened person integrates both worlds in every moment, while being fully EMBODIED – fully present to the body – to all scales of th body. Maybe this process of enlightening ourselves is as simple as integrating the small self and the big self, I and emptiness, on all scales from nothing to the entire cosmos. In various schools of Buddhism,enlightenment is viewed as the full integration of both the material elements of the body/consciousness and the emptiness that resides at the core of all that we take to be self. So, as you would know, wise spiritual traditions talk about contraction (seeing self down to the smallest possible scale – emptiness) and expansion (seeing self up to the largest possible scale – the cosmos). An integrated human being the I AM is perhaps the feeling/thinking integration of all scales. To have compassion is to feel the suffering of another, who is at their core emptiness/cosmic but who may be ignorant of their true nature.
So yeah, I agree about the needs of individual parts on different scales and that they all have energy needs and if untended will affect the flow of energy to different parts and across scales (think horizontal-vertical). When I was sick with cancer, I began healing by tending to the energetic needs of my DNA/RNA and then all my organelles in the malfunctioning cells and then speaking to the collective (in my case the primary tumour and the kidney it lived in).
I have to say though, meditation doesn’t solve all problems, without tending to the energetic needs of the whole body or without integrating the shadow (as you are always suggesting). But as Ken Wilbur suggests, the shadow can be integrated from multiple perspectives. Once again, it’s all about scales.
Thank you by the way for Archmeds. I have integrated your teachings into my own repetoire and have had some unusual and unique experiences that have revealed energy problems that I didn’t know I had.The concept fits well with Big Mind Big Heart, Voice Dialogue and Tonglen and other Buddhist Meditations. So thanks heaps. I really liked your explanation and really appreciated your sharing your gift with the world.
Have a wonderful 2011 PJ !!!
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