Peace Perception (eBook)

“Everything around us, the air we breathe …

are composed of spinning and vibrating atomic particles,

you and I are literally swimming in a turbulent sea

of electromagnetic fields. …

Our sensory receptors are designed to detect information

at the energy level.”

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight

Seeing the Energy Fields ~ Oceanic Architecture

Imagine a fishbowl and you are a goldfish. Suddenly, you become aware of the water that you are swimming in. That is you becoming aware of consciousness.

Consciousness is what you can see with your eyes – it is all matter. It is the table, the tree, the carpet. It is other people. It is anything that you can touch. But it is also the space in the room. It is the air, it is thought, it is emotion. It is anything that you cannot touch. It is both form and non-form. It is the world of logic, reason, and measurement. It is also ideas, imagination, and spirituality. It is perception.

Fengshui is the art of maximizing an effortless flow of energy (Chi energy) in different environments (home, office, and garden) especially through the placement of furniture and other items. This Chi energy is consciousness. The different physical postures of yoga, as well as breathing exercises, seek to maximize the effortless movement of Prana energy through the physical body. Prana energy is consciousness.

Whatever you see, whatever you think, whatever you feel, whatever you daydream about, wherever you go, however you do what you do, why you do it – is all consciousness. “Consciousness is another way of saying soul. The Bible says soul. The psychoanalyst says unconscious. The psychologist says subjective, or subconscious. And the metaphysician says consciousness. All have the same meaning.” – Dr. Ernest Holmes.1

We should begin to separate what is happening in the universe from our emotional interpretation of it. Consciousness is everything that is right about the universe. And that is: everything. Everything that happens in the universe is not right or wrong, correct or incorrect, happy or sad, hopeful or despairing. The universe, an infinite number of fields of consciousness, is simply moving, just as winds blow and seasons come and go. Neville Goddard says, “The world moves with motive-less necessity.” 2

The universe is not choosing, deciding, thinking, hoping, rejecting, or any of the like – it is just responding. It has no agenda of its own. It simply responds and rearranges according to energetic composition, or vibration. Each person, place, and thing has an energetic charge, a spiritual weight. The universe, with fluid peace and harmony, moves all.

The Universe is:

impersonal in its doing

ready to receive all ideas

equally responsive

neutral and without a need

accepting and acting.

It simply takes and works into form

It doesn’t know good or bad

It is unopinionated blind force

Consider gravity. Consider a stream. Water is flowing downhill. It is not choosing to do this – water is just flowing downhill. The force of gravity naturally pulls the water down to the lower elevation. Visualize a whirlpool. See how this geometric shape of water is not a painter at a canvas deciding upon anything; the water is forming into a shape and flow that is compatible and appropriate to mass and composition.

Perfection, balance, and equality are the traits of our universe. We see this in geometry. It is in the symmetrical artistry of the snowflake and the perfect sphere shape of each planet. How could such perfect round-ness come together in space? It is in the geometry of the spider-web, the perfect tilt of the earth on its axis, the symmetry of autumn leaves, petals on spring flowers, a zesty clementine in summer. The examples of geometry in nature, so readily visible, surround us completely. The Stoics say, God geometrizes.3

Why do we only see this in shapes and patterns that are aesthetically convincing? The electrons are zipping on by in celestial highways with no traffic. When a crowd is walking down the sidewalks of New York City, they are displaying the laws of rhythmic motion. A school of fish shows us, in plain sight, the magnetism of the field of consciousness. Any perceived “randomness” in the universe is just our inability to see rhythm and shape.

Several decades ago, one could stand very close to an old television set and see all of these blocks of color that were making the whole picture – almost as if it was a mosaic. Likewise, on a computer, images are measured by pixels. If you zoom in very far on an image, one says it is pixelated. We see this same principle in the film, The Matrix.4 There is a scene where the protagonist sees the entire world through binary code: all furniture, walls, the floor, are an infinite cascade of zeros and ones. The Greek philosopher Pythagoras said that the universe is constructed according to number.5

An unimaginable number of particles make up the universe. The things that we perceive to be whole, solid matter, such as a table, a tree, or even another human being, are not so much a unit, but rather an assemblage. To put it another way: I am not the bread, I am the flour.

It is as if we are living in this sand castle metropolis – with trillions upon trillions of grains of sand being the composite of our buildings, our bodies, nature, animals, and also of the air and atmosphere itself. It’s not that we can look in one direction and say “those are atoms” but then look to the sky or an empty space and say “there are no atoms there.” It is both. It is not in space; it is space. The distinction of a solid item such as a stone and a perceived “empty” area has to do with the concentration of energy.

Alice A. Bailey, in her series of lectures, The Consciousness of the Atom, said, “Science admits a difficulty of drawing a line between the inanimate and the animate.” This small unit of energy, the atom, is quite lively, and it accounts for the geometry, the design, the balance, and harmony of all. Anything we can say of the individual person, we can say of the atom. As the micro, so the macro. Bailey later says, “The method of evolution for every atom is due to two causes: the internal life of the atom itself and the interaction and intercourse with other atoms.”

Each atom, with grace and mathematical precision, moves continuously as the building blocks of the universe. This peaceful intelligence is expressed in how trees look the same or how people consistently have two arms, ten fingers, and so on. Our heartbeat has a consistent rhythm. Our bodies work automatically to breathe and digest food – we do not have to do this work consciously.

Thomas Edison said, “Look at the thousands of ways in which atoms of hydrogen combine with those of other elements forming the most diverse substances. Do you mean to say they do this without intelligence? Atoms in harmonious and useful relation assume beautiful or interesting shapes and colors to give for a pleasant perfume as if expressing their satisfaction gathered together in certain forms.”

How things appear to us is actually a rather unreliable guide to how they really are. Most people live under a very logical, cause-and-effect, sensory experience. They assume, “My eyes show me the truth.” That scheme is a clumsy deduction. “Between two thoughts, all kinds of affects play their game; but their motions are too fast, therefore, we fail to recognize them. … [Thinking] is quite arbitrary fiction, arrived at by selecting one element from the process and eliminating all the rest.” – Friedrich Nietzsche6. Meaning and substance in the universe is non-linear and invisible.

An extremely concise history of perception:

1. From the point of view of a person, Earth, the ground, is down, and the sky is up. The apple falls from the tree to the ground. This is the basic law of gravity. But then where are the sun and other planets going as they’re moving in the sky?
2. We discover the earth is round and is somehow being held up in space by some force. Likewise, gravity seems to be pulling objects towards the center of this round earth.
3. The earth is not the center, but the sun is. So the earth is making these movements through space, rather than simply rotating on an axis.
4. We make the discovery, by movement of earth and other planets, that space is curved, and seems to be remarkably like an ocean.
5. And as an ocean, there are waves. There seems to be measurable areas of this ocean, almost as if this ocean had an architecture to it.

This vast field, within which are contained an infinite number of electromagnetic energy fields – fields within fields, braided, woven, and embedded into each other – are observable in daily living. We need no special instrument to view these fields. We only need right perception.

So the fish in the bowl suddenly becomes aware of the water in which they are swimming. Now, imagine that the goldfish becomes aware of what is...