Hello everyone!
I had a very productive day yesterday. I feel great!
I hope you are all well, finding your flow, living your dreams.
Today, I’m excited to continue our discussion on the issues of life and death.
THE ABSOLUTE
Yesterday, I shared key distinctions on the word “GOD, God and god”. Let’s continue from there so we can better understand the nature of life and death.
“GOD” means the same thing as “ABSOLUTE”. An Absolute can’t be known. It can’t be measured. Anything that can be measured and labeled as this or that is by definition relative; you can’t comprehend or “know a thing as” unless you have a reference point.
For example, if I were to ask someone “how big is GOD”, the biggest frame of reference we have is The Universe. But, the universe is a “thing”. We know it’s there – we live in it. We don’t know how big it is. Every time we build a bigger telescope, the Universe gets bigger!
Therefore, the Universe is essentially the biggest thing we can comprehend, yet we are each left to our imagination to conceptualize just how big it may be?
Because we know the Universe is in space, and we also know that space itself is relatively empty, the Universe is as something in an Ocean that appears as relatively No-Thing.
Outside the universe is Unbound Space. Inside the Universe, space appears empty, yet, it is FULL of relationships! When you walk through a room in your house, the space you are walking in is empty, or you couldn’t walk through it.
Yet, it is because there are four walls and furniture sharing relationships in space that you know you are in the space of the room.
In my diagram above, you see the black box labeled ABSOLUTE – ZERO PT. FIELD. The Zero Point Field is a quantum physics term used to describe the source from which unbound space or Pure Potential emerges to become relative or relational space.
The Zero Point Field (ZPF) contains immeasurable energy potential. Metaphysically speaking, I correlate the ZPF with CONSCIOUSNESS. CONSCIOUSNESS can’t be a thing. If CONSCIOUSNESS were a thing, there would be no other thing comprehendible in mind.
CONSCIOUSNESS is as an empty page or black board, which allows space for you to write on. Once you write on a page, you enter the realm of relativity or conditioned space; you only know someone has written on a page because of the relative relationship between the markings on the page and the empty page; remember though CONSCIOUSNESS isn’t a physical page like a piece of paper.
CONSCIOUSNESS is that which is Unbound, ABSOLUTE. Therefore, the Universe is written on the page of the ABSOLUTE or ZPF. Because the Highest Truth is without body, mass, size or dimension – ZERO – it is EVERYWHERE and NOWHERE at the same time.
This means that CONSCIOUSNESS is source, sum and center of ALL that IS; it can’t possibly die.
Everything that is this or that is literally saturated with CONSCIOUSNESS.
If the Universe were imagined as a giant sponge, it would be ABSOLUTELY drenched in CONSCIOUSNESS. Therefore, everything that is, is in GOD, as God; the Universe then, represents the God that can be known in relationship.
Where God IS, God represents and IS (I = SELF, S = SPIRIT) All Relationships; God is in relationship to GOD.
Each sentient being, from the smallest of microorganisms to the largest of living sentient beings, is a god. Where there is a “god”, there is a soul; soul means consciousness. There is a soul wherever there is an inside and an outside.
As a side note, an atom has an inside and an outside, and therefore has atom consciousness, and therefore, an atom-soul, which is a relatively inanimate soul compared to that which we would refer to as a sentient soul, such as that of a microorganism or worm, or dog, or a human being; without atoms, you’d have no body!
In my diagram, you see the tai-chi symbol. That symbol represents the two essential qualities of THE ABSOLUTE meeting each other. You can think of yin as THE FULL (ALL MATTER – DARK) and yang as THE EMPTY (ALL LIGHT – LIGHT).
Einstein, physics and quantum physics has shown us that matter is essentially composed of light. Paradoxically, a photon has no mass. It’s empty!
MIND is a word that represents ALL RELATIONSHIPS. MIND represents relational space; the relationships between something (mass) and no-thing (NO MASS).
MIND represents MOVEMENT, which creates TIME. Anything that is something has some degree of mass or embodiment. Physics teaches us that every something begins to radiate, to decay as soon as it is born as this, or that.
Therefore, that which is ABSOLUTELY FULL (EVERYTHING) has no direction to go save becoming LESS until it becomes ABSOLUTELY EMPTY. THE EMPTY has no direction to go but to become THE FULL; this Infinite Relationship produces God’s Breath.
Metaphysically speaking, the IN-BREATH of God represents the decay of the Universe until it becomes NO-THING again; the OUT-BREATH of God represents the Universe in transition from being NO-THING to being EVERY-THING.
The period in which something decays (entropy), progressively becoming no-thing is an expression of time; God represents All Relationships expressed by the terms birth and death – in Time.
The word “Spirit” is exemplified in the tai-chi symbol as the “S” created in the relational meeting of yin and yang; Spirit is a word that means transition.
It is only because of Spirit (transition) that we can experience life in and as “time”. This is the meaning of the saying, “life is movement”.
To breathe exemplifies spirit; breath is a transition from being more full to being less full. Every atom breathes in this regard.
The LOVe Principle
When religions refer to God as LOVe, they are referring to the reality of God as All expressions of GOD (ABSOLUTE, ZERO- PURE POTENTIAL – UNCONDITIONAL LOVE).
THE ‘L’ OF LOVE represents Desire. Desire receives Love. Whatever moves to fulfill Desire, expresses Will. Will then, represents Giving LOVe. Life is a process of giving and receiving love. Where then is death?
Death is a relative concept. Just as you have a heads (life) and tails (death) to a coin, neither side has any relative value or meaning without the other; yet, what’s in-between heads and tails, paradoxically, is:
A. Neither heads or tails, yet
B. ALLOWS heads and/or tails to be expressed; without the middle (TAO – GOD), there can be no relative value or expression. If you melt a coin down to liquid, heads and tails merge into non-being, losing their identity (ego!). The middle of the coin then (UCL) has no identity, yet allows identity to exist; Existence.
The sign wave exemplified in my diagram here, represents vibration. In Eastern metaphysics, “OM” exemplifies ALL VIBRATION. God (Brahma) then, represents All Vibration (+/heads ~0~ −/tails), and is exemplified in the tai-chi symbol as to the outer circle containing the symbol, and everything within the symbol.
LIFE and DEATH
If you look at my diagram “Cosmic Deities”, you see what is referred to as the Holy Trinity at the top (I.C.F = INTELLIGENT CREATIVE FORCE – ABSOLUTE – ZPF) of the diagram.
What we refer to as life is an emergent property of movement, which can only occur in relational space. Movement can’t be known as movement unless it is relative to something else.
If you were flying in a jet at 500 miles per hour, without something at least a mile big as a reference, you couldn’t possibly know how fast you were going.
Therefore, time and movement are relatives in relational space. The qualities listed under SON and Wholly Ghost are not fixed, they are merely relational.
Below the tai-chi symbol (which again, represents EVERY-THING becoming NO-THING, which occurs on the most-grand scale in, and as the Universe (OM = All Vibration = One Song), you see the heading ETHER/SPACE. “Ether” is a word that essentially means subtle energy or source of; LOVe isn’t a “thing”, but as a subtle energy, we feel, and know it exists, is real.
Next, you see five circles. The middle one, labeled ETHER FORCES represents the transition point at which the ZPF (UNCONDITIONED POTENTIAL) become conditioned; ether is represented in the tai-chi symbol as the outer circle and all it contains, which is existence.
Ether is the most-base element of creation, which is space. Nothing created can be created unless it is both in, and of space; God, and Life are both in and of space.
Ether is essentially the conductive medium in which all vibration transmutes. It is not this, not that, but like the middle of the coin, allows this to be this and that to be that; creates space for relationship.
To the left of the ether circle, you have EARTH/LIFE, FIRE/WARMTH and to the right of the ether circle you have WATER/TONE and AIR/LIGHT.
These names don’t actually refer to the physical earth, water, fire or air directly. They are representations of Cosmic Octaves.
If you take All possible vibration expressed in and as “OM”, and break them into for octave groupings, the lowest or most base note represents both earth and matter.
Thus, the physical stuff earth and stars are made of is most representative of this base vibrational octave.
Water represents the next octave up the tone-scale, with air next and finally, fire. The subtle vibrations from matter are exemplified by the ether-force labeled life; when you look at a tree, you see the matter of the tree, but you can “feel life”.
Fire’s subtle vibration is warmth; you can see fire, but you can’t “see” warmth, you can only feel it.
Water’s ether is tone; Any and all water-dependent chemical interactions and reactions produce vibrations, which are here referred to as the tone-ether.
The air element expresses its ether as light; you can’t see the light of the sun in space, but you do see it when it interacts with earths (air) atmosphere.
What we call life is a relative perspective that exemplifies embodied movement. Life is a conditional state in which we perceive bodies in motion relative to other bodies.
When you hold a banana in your hand, you hold life in your hand. It is because the banana is a-live that it can give life to you when you eat it. Yet, having been plucked from the banana tree, relative to the bananas on the tree, it is dead.
When you eat a piece of steak, you are eating something from a (relatively) dead animal, yet, there is still enough life in it to add life to your life. If you eat dirt, it is far more dead, speaking relatively, and therefore, has far less life to add to your life.
After you eat your dead banana and toss the peel into the bushes, other organisms that are a-live (moving) consume the dead banana. Eventually, ever atom of the dead banana is converted into life. But, if we ate all the bananas on the planet at once, would we kill bananas forever? No.
The banana idea is first created in MIND; it is an aspect of The Song. If the banana idea were not contained in MIND, then there would be no impetus, no guiding form or force by which to embody. The banana idea isn’t the peach idea.
Just as a trumpet isn’t a trombone, but both are instruments in a band that are used to play songs. Just as you can record music and play the music of the instruments in the band without the instruments being present, MIND expresses All ideas (unique combinations of vibrations).
Ideas are real!thoughts are things. Because thoughts are things, they, like the warmth of the fire, attract other things to them; Like attracts like and opposites attract.
Therefore, eating all the bananas on earth at once simply makes more room for the banana idea, which continues, through Spirit, to embody itself in any environment that contains the conditions optimal for embodying a banana tree, anywhere in the universe.
So, hopefully, in this short blog post, you can begin to wrap your head around the idea that death is only a relative concept; you can kill the kangaroo, but you can’t kill kangaroo dreaming!
When you kill a kangaroo, you don’t kill the dream; my diagram exemplifies the afterlife where you live in your dream until you next embody your dream – rebirth. When you eat the banana, you don’t kill the banana dream.
Because the dream is real (MIND), and exemplifies a complex charged or polarized relationship (thought/dream), death – relative disembodiment – is simply a transitional state in which you loose the physical body (physical being relative to one’s perception of physical). Once the physical body is dropped, what is left!is “your mind!”
When you loose your body, what you once perceived to be your inner-world of body, now becomes your mind-body. Because your mind (ego) is different than mine or anyone else’s, what you experience at death is unique to your ego-mind.
To the degree that your mind is made of judgments, separating ideas, a God that judges, controls, punishes, you live that dream!
Therefore, what people refer to as heaven, or hell exemplifies the ideas contained within “their ego-mind” or unique idea-set; Christian? Buddhist? zen? Islam? Judaism? Atheist?…
Be careful what you believe. IT WILL BE THE DEATH OF YOU!
Be careful what you believe. IT WILL BE WHAT YOU NEXT EMBODY – LIVE!
I believe in LOVe.
In Part 3 of DOES FEAR OF DEATH = FEAR OF LIFE?, I will share my understanding and experience of how a human being comes to be born as and live and die as a human being.
Love and chi,
Paul Chek
