The Fifth Element (continued -- part 2)

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A universal invarible more elementary
than the duality of particle and field,
the nonlocal Waveform of Consciousness
is everywhere winding
through the intergalactic abyss,
its entangled undercurrents
coalescing here and there
into pinwheels of atomic nuclei,
wildly winding and whirpooling and concrescing
into the spatial-temporal tide-foam
of organized Matter.

Beyond the splitting of subatomic quanta
(where particulate reality collapses
into omnidirectional swells of energy)
this subquantum Vitality
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.

Thus it may be said that
the rolling breakers of the Spacetime continuum
are indeed but transient ripples and eddies
upon a tranquil Sea
of self-reflexive hyperkinetic
Consciousness.

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This deific Sea of Consciousness
is to be undertstood as
a multidimensional implicate order,
a totalizing Oneness
upon whose mirror-like façade
the rippling of interference patterns
coalesces into more or less recurrent,
relatively stable and momentarily seperable
projections of an explicate world
of manifest Matter.

The plurality of mind and matter
we cognize as living Reality
is merely the ephemeral shape appropriated by
the nth-dimensional flux of Consicousness
when compressed into a substrate
of limited dimesionality.

What we ourselves transceive through the senses
as contouring space and tethering time
is (in all actuality)
this etheric Plenum itself,
the emergent Ground out of which
all living things germinate and blossom
and into which they must ultimately
dissolve and vanish
like an iceberg melted
into an abstract rippling of water.

All created things therefore
are the fruits of an upwelling overabundance,
the micrcosmic progeny of a supracosmic womb
-- abstract ripplings on a reflective pool
by a chance wind of fate
blown free from the immaterial dark
and concretized
by the variegated light
of Matter’s materializing matrix.

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On the surface of Matter we find
nerve fibers and ganglions;
but there is a soul under the skin,
and deeper still
a communal Consciousness,
an Oversoul,
a Psyche co-extensive
with the cosmos itself.

This Consciousness exists equally in all beings,
inanimate as well as animate,
rocks and flowers and trees
as well as birds and beasts and men.

“At the heart of all
-- whatever there is
in the universe --
abides the Self.” *

All created beings are, in essence,
a spatial-temporal coalescence of energy
in the pulsating cosmic Urgrund
that underlies and sustains
and vivifies all creation.

Created beings differ enormously, however,
in the extent to which this vitalizing faculty,
present in all,
has come to be realized
-- to be knowingly manifested
for what it really is.

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That this gradual revealing
of vital Consciousness
is synonymous with
the measurable degrees of complexity
exhibited by evolutionary biology
is a notion that the anonymous rishi
who authored the Artareya Upanishad
was well acquainted with:

“He who knows how the Self
gradually unfolds within him …
sees herbs and trees and animals,
and knows that in them too
the Self is gradually revealed.

Among animals, moreover,
it can be seen that
the Self is manifested little by little.

… And especially in man
the Self by degrees unfolds itself
-- for man of all beings
is most endowed
with consciousness.” **

Or, as Emerson rightfully intuited:

“We see the world piece by piece,
as the sun, the moon,
the animal, the tree;

but the whole,
of which these are the shining parts,
is the Soul.” ***

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The progressively unfolding Self of the Upanishads
is indeed none other than
the ontological underwiring
by which and through which
every one of us are intimately involved
with the living totality of the cosmos
at each and every moment
-- the gossamer threadwork by which
the entirety of the universe
is at every moment
fully involved in
and revealed through each
and every single part.

It is the Kingdom of Heaven in our midst,
the gift of Eternity already present in our lives,
inscape of rainbow rivers and opal skies,
the unfolding-enfolding holomovement
of the Nonwhere within.

In truth, it is
the One Consciousness
of which we all partake
-- a communal, interplanetary Consciousness
that incarnates billions and billions of times over
in an inexhaustible inflow
of continuous creation.

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* Isa Upanishad, 1.
** Aratreya Upanishad, 2:3:2:1-4.
*** Emerson, The Oversoul

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

Posted by Upwinger at July 11, 2005 09:58 PM