ONE FAMILY PLAN
Return to Void
"Bohm's idea that the universe can be viewed as the compound of two basic orders, the implicate and the explicate, can be found in many other traditions. The Tibetan Buddhists call these two aspects the void and nonvoid. The nonvoid is the reality of visible objects. The void, like the implicate order, is the birthplace of all things in the universe, which pour out of it in a 'boundless flux.' However, only the void is real and all forms in the objective world are illusory, existing merely because of the unceasing flux between the two orders."
The Void is a seamless totality and cannot be described in words. The Nonvoid is "a totality in which consciousness and matter and all other things are indissoluble and whole." It too cannot be described in words... "Herein lies a paradox, for despite its illusory nature the nonvoid still contains 'an infinitely vast complex of universes.' And yet its indivisible aspects are always present."(Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe, p 287)
"In a universe thus composed, everything interpenetrates, and is interpenetrated by, everything else; as with the void, so with the non-void - the part is the whole." (John Blofeld, Tantric Mysticism, pp 61-62)
"One should know that Nature is illusion (maya), and that Brahman is the illusion maker. This whole world is pervaded with beings that are parts of him." (Svetasvatara Upanishad, Stutley, Hinduism, p 27)
It is maya that keeps us from realizing there is no such thing as separateness... "The entire creation is an illusory projection of the transcendental aspects of God... for every reflection of reality, even remote, broken up and transient, necessarily possesses something of its cause." (Leo Schaya, The Universal Meaning of the Kabbalah, p 67)
The Zohar, Kabbalistic commentary on the Torah, notes the Hebrew verb baro, 'to create,' implies 'creating an illusion,' (see Schaya's Meaning of the Kabbalah) thus the creation of God in the book of Genesis is illusion.
As Above, So Below...
"The twelfth-century Sufis summed it up by saying simply that 'the macrocosm is the microcosm,' a kind of earlier version of Blake's notion of seeing the world in a grain of sand. The Greek philosophers Anaximenes of Miletus, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, and Plato; the ancient Gnostics; the pre-Christian Jewish philosopher Philo Judaeus; and the medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides - all embraced the macrocosm-microcosm idea." (Talbot, p 290)
"The without is like the within of things; the small is like the large." (Hermes Trismegistus, from Brian Brown's The Wisdom of the Egyptians, p 156)
"What is here is everywhere." (Hindu Visvasara Tantra, Woodroffe, Serpent Power, p 22)
"Anywhere is the center of the world." (Black Elk, John G. Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks, p 36)
"God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere." (Greek Philosopher Empedocles, Tyron Edward's A Dictionary of Thought, p 196)
"In the same way, each object in the world is not merely itself, but involves every other object and, in fact, is everything else." (Sir Charles Elliot, Japanese Buddhism, pp 109-10)
"Probably the central concept of shamanism, wherever in the world it is found, is the notion that underlying all the visible forms in the world, animate and inanimate, there exists a vital essence from which they emerge and by which they are nurtured. Ultimately everything returns to this ineffable, mysterious, impersonal unknown." (Douglas Sharon, Wizard of the Four Winds: A Shaman's Story, p 49)
And so we return...
It is the "shamanizing of modern humanity... an evolutionary thrust toward higher consciousness for all humanity." (Kenneth Ring, Near Death and UFO Encounters as Shamanic Initiations, p 16)
"I think that they [UFOs] are probably midwifing our birth into the nonphysical world - which is their origin. My impression is that the physical world is only a small instant in a much larger context and that reality is primarily unfolding in a non-physical way. I don't think that physical reality is the original source of being."(Strieber Whitley, Magic Blend, Daab and Langevin, p 41)
"Numerous ancient traditions speak of a time when the hologram of physical reality was much more plastic than it is now, much more like the amorphous and fluid reality of the afterlife dimension... the Australian Aborigines say that there was a time when the entire world was dreamtime... The Aborigines assert that the day will come when the earth returns to the dreamtime."(Talbot, p 299)
The earth was "at first merely in the nature of though-forms or visualization made by pushing themselves out of themselves in whatever manner desired... Then came materiality as such into the earth, through Spirit pushing itself into matter." (Edgar Cayce)
It is said that human consciousness began as a ripple and decided to leave the ocean of "consciousness as such, timeless, spaceless, infinite and eternal." (Hindu Myth, quoted by Ken Wilbur, The Holographic Paradigm, p 161)
When it awoke, its memory of being one with the infinite ocean was forgotten and it began to feel isolated and separated. Adam and Eve tell this story as we left our home, the Garden of Eden, the Kingdom Within, and forgot that we are a part of the cosmic wholeness of all things.
And yet the wake-up call of our collective psyche sounds its alarm. The Trumpet sounds the return!
"After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, 'Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.' At once I was in the Spirit..." (Revelation 4:1-2)
"...Be reconciled to God." (2 Corinthians 5:20)
"When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all." (1 Corinthians 15:28)
"We are, in fact, closing distance with the most profound event a planetary ecology can encounter - the freeing of life from the dark chrysalis of matter." (Terence McKenna, Magical Blend, p 60)
"Swedenborg's realm of streaming light would be tantamount to plunging us into a completely fluid LSD hallucination. And we are not yet mature enough or in enough control of our emotions, attitudes, and beliefs to deal with the monsters our psyches would create for ourselves there... And perhaps that is why the beings of light tell us again and again that the purpose of life is to learn... We are, as the Aborigines say, just learning how to survive in infinity." (Talbot, p 302)
