The Fifth Element

or,
The Omnidirectional Waveform of Consciousness

1.

At the subquantum root of Matter
sprawls the indivisible omniversal flux
of pure unqualified
Consciousness.

It is the omnipresent
Alpha and Omega
of all processes and all activity in the cosmos;
its energetic verve powers
the spin of the smallest electron
and the revolution of the vastest stars.

The ontological wholeness of Reality
is never static or complete,
but abides in this unending process
of undulating flux
and gradual unfoldment,
this unbroken momentum
of undivided flow.

This fiery Heraclitean flux is
the cosmological process of becoming itself,
while all the objects, entities, and events
of the phenomenal universe
are (more or less) evanescent,
momentarily concrete forms
abstracted from this undulating process.

2.

Like a flowing stream
(whose rippled surface
from moment to moment
is never quite the same)
the manifold phenomena of Life abides
as an ever-changing pattern
of vortices and ripples,
having no independent, separable existence
outside of the restless movement
of the gushing current itself.

There is a drift
in the stream of our abstract
daylight consciousness
the same as a surge
in the fleshy stream of our concrete
bodily matter.
The abstract objects of consciousness
are not divisible or separable
from the concrete reality to which they refer,
but are rather co-present
via hyperlinks in the holomovement
that unfolds moment by moment
and in the next moment enfolds
in the incoming and outgoing tides
of the aeonic flux.

(Which is a long way of saying that,
at the most fundamental stratum of reality
(and in the deepest sense of the word)
mind and matter
are implicitly
One.)

3.

The phenomenal Universe as a whole
is a transcendent Object
abstracted from the flowing movement
of a ubiquitous Waveform,
a unified Organism whose every aspect
is cyclically arising and vanishing
in the total process of the flow.

This universal, Quintessential flux
cannot be defined or explored explicitly,
but can be known only implicitly,
as evidenced and indicated
by the explicitly definable shapes and forms
that momentarily beach themselves
where the flow of the cosmic Quintessence
bifurcates into the shifting seas and sands
of mind and matter.

4.

The streaming life of Matter
– a tapestry woven of atomic nuclei
divisible into elementary particles
that are further divisible
into rogue quanta –
is in essence an abstraction
from an unknown and indivisible Totality of movement
best defined as
an implicate Urgrund
of bottomless potentiality.

This subquantum stratum is
the Ontological Continuum
by which and through which
each and every created being
assumes an idiosyncratic identity:
the sentient current that undergirds Spacetime
with a dazzlingly complex informational architecture:
the pure signal from an extradimensional Omniverse
that is continually beaming our Universe
into manifest existence.

It is the vitalizing Quintessence
(or ‘dark energy’)
that accounts for perhaps two-thirds
of the cosmological bulk,
a supersymmetrical Waveform
pushed by gravity
into a more or less uniform haze
permeating every nanometer of the cosmos.

It is the Dance of the God Shiva --
He whose gestural swayings are
the primal Word come alive,
He whose choreography is
the dynamic whirligig
of continuous creation,
He whose very presence
over the waters of the primal abyss
stirs the resonance pattern of Life
into manifest being.

5.

This vitalizing Consciousness is
the proverbial ‘Fifth Element’
-- a dynamic subquantum Quintessence
that thrills even the emptiest chasm
with a vibrantly creative lust for life.

Beyond the quantum duality of particle and field
(where measurement of space and time
fades into an improbable immateriality)
the structure of the cosmos recedes
into an immense ‘zero-point’ background
of energetic potentiality.
All that lives appears here
as a tiny quantized ripple
upon this placid crystalline Sea,
this sacred Plenum of unplumbed vitality.

The objects, entities, and events
of the phenomenal Universe are thus
inhomogeneities in the primal Quintessence
through which Consciousness takes on
its diverse plurality of form
-- etheric bubblings through which
the omniversal Absolute upwells continually,
further impelling Matter’s evolutionary ascent
to greater and more novel degrees
of complexification.

6.

This nonlocal Consciousness
is the primary Absolute of all cosmologies;
the heaving Ground of all Being:
a cloudless reservoir
of boundless potentiality
and limitless possibilities.

It is both an emanation from on high
as well as a welling-up from below.
It is itself the blueprint of the human race
as well as the cornerstone
of its future crowning superstructure.

This Transcendent Conscious Being
(slowly explicating itself in Matter)
is the subquantum Source
of everything in the Universe,
the Fountain from which
all our lesser existences
pour fourth inexhaustibly
-- all created things being
lesser or greater unfoldments
of its enfolded,
infinitely creative potentiality.

The more or less limited wholeness of all beings
at all grades of evolutionary complexification
is thus representative of
a graduated attunement of the cosmic Unity,
an as yet imperfect reflection
of the crystalline clarity of the Omniversal One.

7.

Evolution (the slowly unfolding
succession of the living) is
the track record of this Consciousness,
always perfecting
and further refining its relationship
to its earthen biological interface
-- every new permutation and metamorphosis
positing a further step towards
the further manifestation of its overall design --
each new species better adapting
the cosmic playground
for greater manifestations of conscious activity
than the last.

The gradual emergence
of elemental Quintessence
from implicate potentiality
to explicate hyperstructure
has but one goal –
maximum expressive manifestation
in the creative cosmos,
the mastering of material dimensionality.

Cosmogenetic creation is thus
not a specific ‘alpha’ event in the long past --
the vast cosmos is itself
a unified Organism
that is being created continually,
maintained moment by moment
by the unbroken influx
of a hyperkinetic Quintessence
which is continually metabolizing
the ambient sparkle of
a hyperdimensional Other
into material Spacetime.

So long as our universe continues to inflate,
the adventure of Consciousness will never arrive
at any final destination,
will never achieve a finished destiny,
but will continue always to expand and diversify,
hyperlinking the cosmos from one end to the other
with the gossamer mappings
of a transdimensional Beyond.

********************************************* (to be continued ...)

Apropos.

A shining miracle exists everywhere in Creation.

There are no truly empty or barren places
in all the cosmos –
all that lives is a sacred part
of the seamless fabric of Creation.

Life is everywhere,
both visibly and invisibly,
omnipresent;
all of Reality is infused
with the quickening presence
of a vitalizing Quintessence.

· As a river flows windingly through its course, and thereby fills it — the breath of the Spirit breathes through all things, and thus takes all creation for its body.
(Keys of the Kingdom, 22)

· A nature found within all creatures but not restricted to them; outside all creatures, but not excluded from them.
(Anonymous, author of The Cloud of Unknowing)

· God is both the ocean-source from which we spring, and the reservoir into which our many rivers empty.
(Keys of the Kingdom, 10)

· Some say a soul is mingled in the whole universe -- which is perhaps why Thales thought that everything is full of gods.
(Aristotle, Metaphysics)

· As a wave that seethes and foams is but a tapestry of beaded water, as a drapery in its warp and weave is but a pattern of singular threads — so is the world in all its restless turning but the passionate unfolding of the God-Self within.
(Keys of the Kingdom, 8)

· Reality is not the sum of things. It is the unity in which all things, coming together, are transmuted.
(Francis Herbert Bradley, The Absolute)

· As the spokes of a wheel hold to the nave — so does all creation hold fast to the midmost Spirit.
(Keys of the Kingdom, 21)

· We can find no province of the world so low but the Absolute inhabits it. Where we can point to reality, there is the one undivided life of the Absolute.
(Francis Herbert Bradley, The Absolute)

· To be born is not to come into this world — all that lives comes out of Creation like a wave from the ocean.
(Keys of the Kingdom, 36)

· The imperfection of the instrument does not detract from the excellence of the Master. The insufficiency of temporary channels does not lessen the fullness of the Eternal Fountain.
(Zolar, The Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge)

· All things are as doors through which the all-seeing Eye looks out into its own infinitude.
(Keys of the Kingdom, 71)

^Upwinger^

Posted by Upwinger at July 7, 2005 11:51 AM