HACKING THE COSMIC CODE (Karma)
A few words about karma…
Nature (3) records every occurrence into a standing wave that we currently think of as the Zero-Point Field (ZPF) (1). That which has occurred in the past is thus made more available as a Form (2) to Nature, should it ever occur again—it’s easier the next time around. With every iteration, Nature modifies its standing wave to better replicate details of the occurrence. Nature is primarily concerned with maintaining balance, and recording “what is” into a standing wave pattern available to the present in every moment helps it to do that. Nature does not judge between good and bad events. It does rate a new event as a stressor that requires a measure of balancing action. Due to Nature’s recording of past events in the ZPF, the recurrence of a similar past event rates as a lower stressor—easier to balance.
Human O-Consciousness (4) is primarily concerned with progress or evolution. Balance is a necessary evil to operating in Form. Balance can be experienced as pleasant, but Human O-Consciousness will inevitably reject it as insufficient to a worthwhile life or experience. For humans, experience is about growth and positive change, which invariably involves tipping into imbalance in order to create improvement.
Over time, humans have learned that the recording of events into the cosmic log of the ZPF has unpleasant consequences. Our failures are not only recorded by Nature, they are made more easily repeated. Thus a new, but successful behavior is harder to initiate than repeating a failure. It became important to Human O-Consciousness to erase the history of failure or mistakes that went into the learning of important lessons, so that the new positive behavior can be more easily propagated. If the evil past event is easier to propagate because Form has encoded it, then even when we’ve learned our lessons, we’re tending to be dragged down into the quicksand of the past. Human O-Consciousness has tried to counteract this problem in various ways throughout history, individually and in groups, both during life and in the after-life.
One option has been to create an event that artificially represents the antithesis (5) of the previous event. In theory, we wipe the slate clear by inducing an event that encodes into the ZPF a dynamic that’s antithetical to the first occurrence. From this notion has sprung most of what we consider to be justice, including revenge, punishment, war, violence, and conquest. Revenge is not only an immature emotional response to a perceived violation, it’s a specific attempt to unmake a previous event in meaning and consequence by what we perceive as an opposite act. The belief in punishment in the after-life is another such balancing mechanism.
Over time, humans have tried many things to expunge their record of mistakes and mishaps, and as we learned more about the nature of Form itself, we’ve become better at designing methods by which this might be accomplished. Other methods that can be observed in living history are cataclysmic resets (as in Atlantis or the pre-Ice Age human civilization), purgation via obscurity (as in the dark ages or Knights Templar), and ritual tribute (as in the the Christian practice of Communion, or Hebrew of Yom Kippur). More mysteriously, we’ve cultivated methods that make use of our experiences in the afterlife to bring about a righting of the scales. Our capacity to re-incarnate is often used not only to continue to learn and grow, but specifically to undo in Form the events of our pasts.
The experience of Form from the perspective of Human O-Consciousness has gone through many phases. At first, the soul was more or less trapped in a cycle of death and re-incarnation by the memory loss that seemed inherent in the process of being born and the confusion that resulted from death. The soul took its sense of self for granted and did not retain its vast wisdom or capacity to cohere as a Consciousness (4) when projecting itself into a human form. The portion of the soul that was projected into the form was thus stuck, like a monkey with its hand stuck in a rice jar because of the fist full of rice it has grabbed, until it learned to free itself at will. Upon death, Consciousness experienced a cacophony of cries from the dying form, emotionally in particular. Having then died, Consciousness experienced a sudden comparative vast sense of emptiness, having lost access to the sensory system and that habituated data stream. In this early phase, Consciousness reflexively re-incarnates, using as its parameters for the new form only the feelings of confusion and emotional outcry that it experienced at death, and the fear of the vast emptiness that follows. Human O-Consciousness was locked into this back-and-forth for millenniums during which it explored the deeper, limbic aspect of its manifestation in Form. In life, it hardwired certain behaviors into the DNA of human form to give itself better starting points upon birth, and in death it started to develop coping strategies for holding one’s focus in the sudden vast emptiness.
Some souls have learned enough about their own nature to retain some control over their cycles through re-incarnation. With greater levels of this power, they are even able to retain their memory of the larger Self after re-incarnating into a new Form. Strong relationships developed between persons during life are often retained in the afterlife. Consciousnesses have always had the ability to contact each other, even under whatever limitations pertain in the afterlife, but were limited in using the ability. A corollary would be on earth how we all have the ability to phone each other, but if we don’t have the right phone number, we can’t make use of that ability. Living a lifetime on earth encodes into Consciousness the afterlife version of a “phone number” to maintain a communication stream with other Consciousnesses; a kind of habit of perception that allows for some overlap from a specific “other.” Consciousnesses value this retained communication stream and build upon it from lifetime to lifetime for two reasons: first as a coping mechanism for the seeming emptiness experienced immediately following death, and eventually as a learned behavior, because teamwork proved to be massively successful in doubling their effectiveness, both in life and death. When a member of a pair or team of friends learns to hold their status in the afterlife, then, they would often opt to stay in the afterlife and use the comparative perspective and functionality of that level to assist the other member or members through their incarnations in Form. The ancient peoples of our known history think of these people as ancestors, spirits, angels or guides. Modern New Age lingo for them is spirit guides or angels.
Even more evolved souls learn to bypass the need to re-incarnate to appear in Form. They descend into the realm of Form and then ascend back to their afterlife level by power by conscious choice. This ability requires not only the soul’s powerful coherence of Self but also a simultaneous acknowledgment and facility with Form at its most fundamental level. The combination of these two abilities manifests in the afterlife as a power to manipulate others’ perceptions. These souls can project into the perceptions of others in that realm as the soul does into the realm of Form. In addition, they can manipulate the perception of others in order to bring up perceived environments from the other Consciousness’s own memories. These evolved souls have sometimes taken it upon themselves to use their power to exert influence on the course of human events as they perceive them. They guide, teach and train people through those perceptions over which they can gain control, in addition to their duties as guides to members of their teams. One name for a large grouping of such souls was labeled by the living long ago: the “White Brotherhood.” (Bear with me; this is not about white race.)
This was not the name they chose for themselves, but they’ve accepted it for the purpose of continuity. It is made up of souls that are male, female, and that defy those concepts. It is most certainly made up of Consciousnesses that have, while alive participated in vastly different ethnicities. To that variety it is important to understand that its members have had experiences with alternate realities and states of being that are not fundamentally human in nature, are not limited to earth, or our particular version of history.
From their collective actions, humans have gained a measure of continuity in their life-death cycles. Through this continuity, a living perception of what the afterlife is about or for has developed. This conceptualization, though, varies based in part on the system that was designed by groups of these higher souls. Thus, different religions adopt vastly different beliefs concerning how they are to be treated and guided in the afterlife. Very often, it’s the higher souls themselves that preside over the perceived “judgment day” that follows death, and issues the young soul a commandment about how to proceed. This highly stylized, ritualized procedure has had an enormously formative effect on living beings. The Consciousness that projects into the living Form has proven able to remember some aspects of these rituals and allows its lives to be guided in part by the lessons learned there. The collection of beliefs and rules that relate to this system of afterlife guidance to rectify past mistakes into Nature’s “memory” is what is commonly called karma.
Over the millennia, humans have learned exactly to what degree it seems possible to expunge a portion of the cosmic record of events. One of the most significant discoveries by humans was that the most powerful grip on the past event is maintained in the collective memory of humans themselves; that if humans could collectively forget that an event ever occurred, then the cosmic record could be more readily altered. Unfortunately, human memory persists and lessons in life are passed on to succeeding humans through oral tradition and writing. Thus, information systems in the realm of Form are static despite the learning and perspective gained in the afterlife, and the persistence of these systems tends to outweigh the guidance from that other realm. Additionally, the same or similar events continue to repeat themselves, thus deepening their footprint in the cosmic record. Often, it has required massive events collected together into short spans of time to offset the records of the past. One common form of such a mass event is what we know as war. Another is catastrophic natural disaster.
In addition to expunging past mistakes, Human O-Consciousness has in the past few millennia begun to explore reenforcing our positive accomplishments using the same methods as have been used to unmake the past. Fairly recently, a method has been developed by members of the White Brotherhood of making use of the same recorded history of human actions and events to “flip the coin,” which is to say to analyze the events for their useful and successful dynamics, scour them clean of negative or volatile influences, and then re-introduce the revised methods to the living as alternative behaviors. As part of the process, the White Brotherhood imbues the new methods with various qualities of inter-dependence and synergistic support such that the method retains its current coherence in Form (2). “Flipping the coins” of our past, the White Brotherhood has found that they can make use of the ease-of-use aspect of Nature’s (3) cosmic record, while still enforcing a better way than might have been originally practiced. Since the historic event may have had poor outcomes precisely because the humans involved where confused or less coherent, by introducing a highly coherent version of the events as a new possibility, it proves just as easy to duplicate as the previous faulty version, and sometimes easier, because Nature (3) notices that it requires less balancing.
Additionally, the White Brotherhood has understood for eons now that some active manipulation of human memory is essential to fully expunging the limiting atrocities of our pasts. Thus, history as a subject has grown dramatically in importance. This might seem counter-productive, as writing down historic events further encodes the event into existence making it difficult to alter. But, in the current social realm one can see that on the other side of that activity comes the rehashing and reinterpretation of past events through deeper reflection that allows us to actively reinterpret, and thus change, our perception of the historical event itself. With every new wave of books and articles, for instance, we gain greater insight into the intricacies of war, not only its deaths and killing, but also its effects on the living, cultures, infrastructure and future diplomacy.
With all these upgrades in method, we’re finding that our present is drastically changing. While our past was so very hardwired and unchanging, it was easier to predict our futures. There was a time when, if you were born a peasant, you died a peasant, and if you were born a noble, you died one too. Once upon a time, humans encouraged the young to choose their profession at an early age and to pursue it exclusively for the rest of their lives (some still do). The same with mates. Fortune tellers and prophets were easy to find and had an uncanny ability to accurately prophecy futures. With our pasts written so clearly, so too were our futures. Our presents and futures were understood to be reactions to our pasts. Cleaning out the pasts, and increased flexibility dealing with them, has led to greater facility in the present and a less sure future.
I believe that the immediate future will hold many interesting surprises.
First, I think that we’ll find that the cataclysms predicted to end mankind will largely short-fuse. They may still occur, but will do so to smaller degrees than anticipated.
Second, we’ll find that psychics are less able to give accurate predictions, and spirit advice will trend further into perspective and positioning, rather than rules, consequences and predictions.
Third, I believe that more scientists will explore the nature of consciousness and the interactivity between consciousness and the fabric of reality. The resulting discoveries will engender entire societies of aspirants toward a hybrid form of the traditional professions melded with the benefits of expanded consciousness. Thus, meditation and specific techniques to develop the powers of consciousness will result in psychic reporters and journalists, mind-map-makers, telepathic teachers, intuitive detectives, co-creative nature farmers, afterlife historians, etc. In a more practical sense, the ready availability of systems by which anyone, rich or poor and those of any ethnicity, may consciously develop their power of memory, communication skills, emotional stability, intuitive capacities, comprehension and ability to feel happiness, love and compassion will transform every aspect of so many lives that the very structure of our societies will change.
Consider if you have memories of events that you’d rather never have happened. What if you could make them not have happened and still be you? To heal the event from its inception right up until your now, so that you retain only the lesson and nothing further? What if there were suddenly no family pressures to be anything, or accomplish anything in particular? What if you were truly free to create your life from moment to moment? What if there were a kind of work that you could do and get paid for that you could do almost anywhere, carry with you, and could be applied to whatever you happen to be doing, so you could explore possibilities based on your own desire and still earn your way in the world? I believe that these what ifs inspire ideas about how you could function optimally in this world. Your work, and our work together as people, is to remove the obstacles between those ideas and the reality we experience every day.
Good luck,
Lihai
(c) I Qi You, 2006. All rights reserved.
(1) Zero-Point Field or ZPF (1) is a scientific concept applied to physical reality as measured when a vacuum is vacated of as much as current science is currently able to remove from it. If all particles are sucked out, and energy is leached from it via extensive cooling, scientists have still been able to measure extremely refined emissions of energy, a kind of background energy noise they can’t seem to get at, or get out. Furthermore, though some have designed ways to make this background energy do some work in devices, no one has ever measured a diminishment of the amount in any isolated space. It is therefore theorized that the ZPF (1) pervades all space and time, and somehow retains some small oscillation as a kind of memory of all energy that has spread throughout the universe and through all time.
(2) Form defined: throughout this blog article, and through much of my work, I make use of the noun “Form” with a modified understanding from its normal use. Originally redefined by author Machaelle Small Wright in her paper “Co-creative Definitions Dealing with Nature, Life, Science, the Universe, and All Else by Nature and Friends,” published by Perelandra, Ltd. in July, 1990, the term refers to a perspective in which things that can be sensed by the 5-senses, or have some structural part to play in things that can be sensed, are differentiated from those things that cannot, or don’t. According to this definition, Nature (3) as a Consciousness (4) independent from that of humans has participated in allowing a thing to be or exist by providing it with the various structural requirements to do so. This implies that existence is not limited to things that can be sensed with the 5 senses, or that is dominated in any way by Nature (3) as a Consciousness (4). The definition is required by a perspective that purports that whatever Human Consciousness (4) is, is not created by or under the purview of Nature (3) as a Consciousness (4). They would be siblings, so to speak, or cousins. But, to the degree that Human O-Consciousness (4) participates in 5-senses Form (as defined herein), Human O-Consciousness (4) participates in a kind of co-creative partnership with Nature (3) as a Consciousness (4) to create something for the Human O-Consciousness (4) to operate inside of, and participate in what goes on with all these other 5-senses things. In order to distinguish the use of this term from the more common version, I capitalize the first letter: Form. So, something in its form (lower case), can be interpreted as you would any other common word—perhaps that something is distinguishable in shape or state. However, something in Form (initial capital) should be interpreted as having been given a 5-senses designation at least by Nature (3) as a Consciousness (4), and when referring to humans and their various endeavors, in part also by Human O-Consciousness (4). In the above article, it’s an important distinction, because what occurs to a human Consciousness (4) after death may need to be described as happening outside of Form as provided by Nature (3) as a Consciousness (4). It might not, but the area becomes grey, because who can actually attest to how that works? At the vary least, the after-life appears to operate to some degree free of many of the limitations associated with the natural world that we, the living, observe each day. So, I differentiate being “in Form” from being “out of Form” to specify that the continuous Consciousness (4) can have experiences in either case, but that there are distinct differences to how that Consciousness (4) functions and what data seems immediately available to it. A Consciousness (4) that is “in Form", therefore would pertain to the experience most of us on earth appear to have in common, and the subject of this article posits how the experience of being “out of Form (2)” might inform the former.
(3) Nature defined: throughout this blog article, and through much of my work, I make use of the noun “Nature” with a modified understanding from its normal use. Originally redefined by author Machaelle Small Wright in her paper “Co-creative Definitions Dealing with Nature, Life, Science, the Universe, and All Else by Nature and Friends,” published by Perelandra, Ltd. in July, 1990, the term refers to a perspective in which Consciousness (4) takes at least two forms (and probably more): that of Human O-Consciousness (4) and that of Nature Consciousness (4). Both have many individuated subjects inside their larger definition, but as a whole, they can both be described both as conscious and has active in some way that doesn’t seem to be limited to Form (2). While Nature (as defined herein) can have many qualities, I am mainly in this article referring to it as its own conscious entity with respect to its role in providing Form (2) as a medium through which we Human O-Consciousnesses (4) sometimes interact. The experience we can sense of life here on earth, and that we all seem to be commiserated about would all fall into the category of Form (2), and at least part of what makes it what it is comes from Nature (3). In many cases, most or all of what makes Form (2) is Nature (3). Where I wish to refer to this Consciousness (4), I capitalize the initial letter: Nature. Thus, if I say “the nature of that experience is confusing”, lower-case, I’m using the work nature in its common form to say, perhaps that everyone would be confused by experience, because its just what experience is like. But, if I say “Nature (3) has made experience confusing,” initial capital, then I’m specifically identifying the Consciousness (4) that is Nature (3), and attributing the confusion of experience to a conscious intent on its part.
(4) Consciousness defined: throughout this blog article, and through much of my work, I make use of the noun “consciousness” with a modified understanding from its normal use. Unfortunately, we don’t have language liquid enough to define different aspects of awareness and consciousness. I’ve analyzed my frequent use of the word consciousness in the above blog article, and have determined that for clarity’s sake, I need 4 forms of that word, or other words to serve the proper purpose. 1) The first form is its most common use, that of an awareness that sits idle in our minds and sometimes directs behavior with intent. “I’m conscious of my habits, and nervous ticks, and I try to control them.” 2) The second form is that of the collection of experiences, thoughts, memories, perspectives and intents that float around inside of a person throughout zer’s life that interprets experience and somehow incites meaning. For that form, I capitalize the first letter: Consciousness. In this form, it refers to the general state of something in this little bubble of reality, and also individual examples of those bubbles, like named entities (i.e., Sally, or God). 3) The third use is a step above the former, in which all these bubbles of grouped memories and intents have common qualities or trends of behavior, in the same way one refers to “men,” or “humans.” In this use, we’re referring to the underlying personality of the whole class, even if I’m referring to it as though it were a singular persona. To clarify this unusual use, I’ve chosen to institute the term “O-Consciousness,” as though to imply the Order of all Consciousness. 4) The fourth version of the concept must refer to a specific and defined alternative, in which the O-Consciousness particular to humans is defined as a classification, differentiating for instance from the Consciousness of Nature (3) or any of its subjects. To use it in this way, I’ll just say “Human O-Consciousness,” not to be confused with any particular human’s Consciousness.
(5) Antithesis defined: throughout this blog article, and through much of my work, I make use of the noun “antithesis,” and I do, in fact mean it the way it is usually defined. However, I’ve done some deeper philosophical consideration of the word, and now mean it when I use it. That consideration includes how it relates to the concept of opposition, a word with which it is often confusedly swapped. An opposite is a structural word, implying difference that promotes conflict. An antithesis is a conceptual word which implies difference but doesn’t oppose. An antithesis involves two concepts in which the second renders the original unnecessary, as a kind of solvent. It’s also a device by which the second concept renders the first better understood and more easily chosen. The opposite of “young,” might be “old,” but the antithesis might be argued to be “mature.” The opposite of “propose,” is “deny,” but the antithesis might be “dispose.” The opposite of "speaking,” might be “silence,” whereas the antithesis could be argued to be “understanding.” When I use the word antithesis, I’m trying to imply the concept of dissolving one thing by making the other irrelevant or unnecessary.
Further Research:
Karma and Reincarnation: The Key to Spiritual Evolution and Enlightenment, by Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama, Self-published with California Institute for Human Science (1998).
Tibetan Book of the Dead (Mystical Classics of the World), translated by Robert Thurman and Huston Smith, Bantam (December, 1993)