Inner Worlds Outer Worlds

In the beginning was the Logos,

the Big Bang, the primordial Om.

Big Bang theory says that the physical universe

spiraled out of an unimaginably hot and dense

single point called a singularity - billions

of times smaller than the head of a pin.

It does not say why or how. The more mysterious

something is, the more we take for granted

that

we understand it.

It was thought that eventually gravity would

either

slow the expansion or contract the universe

in a big

crunch. However, images from the Hubble space

telescope

show that the universe's expansion seems to

be actually

accelerating. Expanding faster and faster

as it grows

out of the Big Bang. Somehow, there is more

mass in the

universe than physics predicted. To account

for the missing mass,

physicists now say that the universe consists

of only % atomic matter

or what we consider normal matter. % of

the universe is dark matter

and % is dark energy -what we previously

though of as empty space.

It is like an invisible nervous system that

runs throughout the universe

connecting all things.

The ancient Vedic teachers taught Nada Brahma

-

the universe is vibration.

The vibratory field is at the root of all

true spiritual experience

and scientific investigation.

It is the same field of energy that saints,

Buddhas, yogis, mystics, priests, shamans

and seers have observed

by looking within themselves. It has been

called Akasha, the Primordial Om,

Indra's net of jewels, the music of the spheres,

and a thousand other names throughout history.

It is the common root of all religions,

and the link between our inner worlds and

our outer worlds.

In Mahayana Buddhism in the third century

they described a cosmology not unlike the

most advanced

physics of modern day.

Indra's net of jewels is a metaphor used to

describe

a much older Vedic teaching which illustrates

the way the fabric of the

universe is woven together.

Indra, the king of the gods, gave birth to

the sun and moves the winds and the waters.

Imagine a spider web that extends into all

dimensions.

The web is made up of dew drops

and every drop contains the reflection of

all the other

water drops, and in each reflected dew drop

you will find

the reflections of all the other droplets.

The entire web, in that reflection and so

on,

to infinity.

Indra's web could be described as a holographic

universe,

where even the smallest stream of light

contains the complete pattern of the whole.

The Serbian-American scientist, Nikola Tesla,

is sometimes referred to as the man who invented

the

th century.

Tesla was responsible for discovering alternating

current

electricity and many other creations

that are now part of every-day life.

Because of his interest in the ancient Vedic

traditions,

Tesla was in a unique position to understand

science

through both an eastern and western model.

Like all great scientists, Tesla looked deeply

into the mysteries of the outer world,

but he also looked deeply within himself.

Like the ancient yogis, Tesla used the term

Akasha

to describe the etheric feel that extends

throughout all things.

Tesla studied with Swami Vivekananda, a yogi

who brought the ancient

teachings of India to the West.

In the Vedic teachings, Akasha is space itself;

the space that the other elements fill,

which exists simultaneously with vibration.

The two are inseparable. Akasha is yin to

prana's yang.

A modern concept that can help us to conceptualize

Akasha,

or the primary substance, is the idea of fractals.

It wasn't until the s that advances in

computers

allowed us to actually visualize and reproduce

mathematically

the patterns in nature.

The term fractal was coined in

by mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot

who studied certain simple mathematic equations

that,

when they are repeated, produce an unending

array of changing mathematical or geometrical

forms

within a limited framework.

They are limited, but at the same time, infinite.

A fractal is a rough geometric shape

that can be split into parts, each of which

is approximately

a reduced sized copy of the whole pattern

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a property called self similarity.

Mandelbrot's fractals have been called

the thumbprint of God.

You are seeing artwork generated by nature

itself.

If you turn the Mandelbrot figure a certain

way,

it looks sort of like a Hindu deity or a Buddha.

This figure has been termed

the "Buddhabrot" figure.

If you look at some forms of ancient art and

architecture,

you will see that humans have long associated

beauty

and the sacred with fractal patterns.

Infinitely complex, yet every part contains

the seed

to recreate the whole.

Fractals have changed mathematicians' views

of the universe

and how it operates.

With each new level of magnification,

there are differences from the original.

Constant change and transformation occurs

as we traverse

from one level of fractal detail to another.

This transformation is the cosmic spiral.

The embedded intelligence of the matrix of

time space.

Fractals are inherently chaotic-full of noise

and order.

When our minds recognize or define a pattern,

we focus on it as if it is a thing.

We try to find the patterns we see as beautiful,

but in order to hold the patterns in our minds,

we must push away the rest of the fractal.

To comprehend a fractal with the senses

is to limit its movement.

All energy in the universe is neutral,

timeless, dimensionless.

Our own creativity and capacity for pattern

recognition

is the link between the microcosm and macrocosm.

The timeless world of waves and the solid

world of things.

Observation is an act of creation through

limitations

inherent in thinking.

We are creating the illusion of solidity,

of things by labeling, by naming.

The philosopher Kierkegaard said,

"If you name me, you negate me."

By giving me a name, a label, you negate all

the other things I could possibly be.

You lock the particle into being a thing

by pinning it down, naming it,

but at the same time you are creating it,

defining it to exist.

Creativity is our highest nature.

With the creation of things comes time,

which is what creates the illusion of solidity.

Einstein was the first scientist to realize

that what we think of as empty space is not

nothing,

it has properties,

and intrinsic to the nature of space

is nearly unfathomable amounts of energy.

The renowned physicist Richard Feynman once

said,

"there is enough energy in a single cubic

meter

of space to boil all the oceans in the world."

Advanced meditators know that in the stillness

lies

the greatest power.

The Buddha had yet another term for the primary

substance;

what he termed kalapas, which are like tiny

particles

or wavelets that are arising and passing away

trillions

of times per second. Reality is, in this sense,

like a series of frames in a holographic film

camera

moving quickly as to create the illusion of

continuity.

When consciousness becomes perfectly still,

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