THE BLUE SKY OF PURE CONSCIOUSNESS

(The book (formerly known as 'The Fifth Element') is finally complete! Reading copies have been emailed to those who requested them. If you would like a reading copy, please contact me through my profile, or leave a comment here. Reading copies are free to any who promise to give at least a decent paragraph of feedback.
Below are the introductory sections. There are 59 sections in all -- the complete Table of Contents was posted on my blog a while ago.)

1.
ON ONE SOURCE ALL THINGS DEPEND
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“One Nature, perfect and all-pervading, circulates in all natures.
One Reality, all-comprehensive, contains within itself all realities.”
Yung-chia Ta-shih

Beyond the furthest reaches, deep within the innermost depths, where particulate reality recedes into a stratosphere of pure potentiality, abides the indivisible omniversal flux of pure unqualified CONSCIOUSNESS.

Smaller than a proverbial grain of mustard, yet vaster than the sky, this limitless Ocean of CONSCIOUSNESS is the primary Absolute of all cosmologies: the heaving Ground of all Being: a cloudless reservoir of limitless possibility and boundless potentiality: both cosmic center and supracosmic circumference.

CONSCIOUSNESS is the root of all that has been, the leaf of all that is, and the flower of all that is yet to be.

It is both the ocean-source from which we spring, and the reservoir into which our many rivers empty.

Or, in the words of St. Dionysus: “God is a fountain flowing unto Itself.”

“As the wind takes shape through whatever it enters, 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.”
from the Katha Upanishad

All that lives is infused with its quickening Presence: it is both an emanation from on high as well as a welling-up from below.

Its energetic verve powers the spin of the smallest electron the same as the revolution of the vastest stars.

It is itself the blueprint of the Human race as well as the cornerstone of its future crowning superstructure.

“Man is in it, as it is in him, for the world-pervading element fills all space, and is space itself, only shoreless and infinite.”
H. P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled

2.
AS WITHIN, SO WITHOUT
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“Within all creatures but not restricted to them, outside all creatures but not excluded from them…”
the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing

CONSCIOUSNESS is the uncreated Godhead, the Thing-in-Itself: Absolute Essence, the imperishable Suchness that within and without us ‘extends without end.’

It is the superfluid Urgrund in which there are no distinctions and no differentiations: the deific potency that empowers and propels each and every aspect of the evolutionary ascent of the Cosmos to ever greater and more novel degrees of complexification.

“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

It is the Ontological Continuum by which and through which each and every created being assumes its liminal identity.

It is the sentient current that undergirds Spacetime with a dazzlingly complex informational architecture.

It is the pure signal from an extradimensional Omniverse that is continually beaming our Universe into manifest existence.

“Do not inquire whether the Principle is in this or in that; It is in all beings. …
It acts not. Doing nothing, there is nothing it does not do.”
Chuang-tzu

CONSCIOUSNESS is the original unconditioned state of all things: the fiery astral Light, the qabbalistic Ain Soph, the mercurial Azoth present in every crook of the body the same as every atom of the soul.

It is the measureless Ocean of Spirit within which all created and uncreated things exist, and by the Life of which they are animated.

3.
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
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“The Absolute is inevitably expressed by the relative, and the relative is inevitably contained by the Absolute.”
Sri Ramakrishna

A universal invarible more elementary than the duality of particle and field, this deific Sea of Consciousness is to be undertstood as a multidimensional implicate order, a totalizing Oneness upon whose mirror-like façade the quantized rippling of interference patterns coalesce into more or less recurrent, relatively stable and momentarily seperable projections of an explicate world of manifest Matter.

“There is but one Thing in the world, not two, as the modern physicists and the mathematicians have begun to realize, and as a child well knows as he smiles at the waves on a sun-swept beach where the same foam seems to have rolled in since the beginning of time …”
Satprem, On the Way to Supermanhood

As in the spiral shell surges the great ocean, so in us the whirling roar of the Cosmos.

Thrilling even the emptiest chasm with a vibrantly creative lust for life, CONSCIOUSNESS surrounds and permeates all Creation in an etheric sheen that warps and weaves its way through the spinning heart of every atom in the Cosmos, its entangled undercurrents concretizing here and there into pinwheels of atomic nuclei, wildly winding and whirpooling and concrescing into the spatial-temporal tide-foam of organized Matter.

“God is like the ocean: for the waters of the ocean cannot be grasped and have no shape except when they are channeled into a vessel, and take on the shape of that vessel; only then we are able to grasp and measure them.”
from the Zohar

4.
THE BLUE SKY OF PURE CONSCIOUSNESS
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All that lives comes out of Creation like a wave from the ocean.

In much the same way as sunlight exists in relation to the sun, so do we exist in relation to God.

Apart from this cosmogenetic process of graduated unfoldment, there is no life, no reality, no being.

Concretized aspects of the Cosmos are what they are by virtue of the serial unfoldment of a localized pattern in Space and Time: their reality consists in their collective emergence and dissolution in the atemporal Whole.

Ultimate Reality is a living, breathing process that is always freshly minted in the moment: it is never idle, never finally resolved or entirely achieved.

CONSCIOUSNESS is an amorphous Divine, never reaching final form.

It is a playful vibratory procession, a ceaselessly evolving act of deific becoming.

It is the bottomless manna of our existence -- the Life that is living us.

“The perfectly peaceful Absolute is not different from the playful relative universe.
The nameless, formless Reality, the transcendent awareness in which you are now permanently awake, is precisely the same Reality that you see blossoming all around you.”
Sri Ramakrishna

Thus, the ontological wholeness of Reality is never static or complete, but abides in an unending process of undulating flux, in which all the objects, entities, and events of the phenomenal Universe are as evanescent cloudforms set adrift in THE BLUE SKY OF PURE CONSCIOUSNESS: inhomogeneities in the primal Quintessence: etheric bubblings through which the deific Spirit upwells continually, taking on its diverse plurality of form -- momentarily concrete patterns abstracted from an unbroken momentum of undivided flow.

Posted by Upwinger at September 3, 2005 08:43 AM