In his book Decoding Reality:
Within our reality everything exists through an interconnected web of
relationships and the building blocks of this web are bits of information.
We process, synthesize, and observe this information
in order to construct the reality around us.
As information spontaneously emerges from the emptiness
we take this into account to update our view of reality.
The laws of Nature are information about information and
outside of it there is just darkness.
This is the gateway to understanding reality.
And I finish with a quote from the Tao Te Ching, which some 2500 years earlier,
seems to have beaten me to the punch-line:
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.
The named is the mother of the ten thousand things.
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one sees the manifestations.
These two spring from the same source but differ in name;
this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.
As the capacity of the quantum mind is further enhanced,
one may experience a much more intuitive functioning along the lines of
extrasensory perceptions such as telepathy, clairvoyance,
and observations of unexplainable synchronicity.
Omniscience is simply the ability to decode information that
makes up everything in the universe.
A moment of enlightenment is a sudden ability to see or read
the overall information blueprint for the entirety of reality
regarding consciousness and being.
These quantum super-insights appear from the nothingness
or emptiness from which all information arises spontaneously.
This space could be called the quantum space of “superposition,”
the yet not actualized dimension of infinite possibility.
This superposition state is also known as the non-local wave state.
When the non-localized wave state of light “collapses”
due to being observed or measured, it appears as
a localized “particle” or photon in space and time.
So light can appear as a particle or as a wave.
Our individual consciousness appears to have the same characteristics,
as we will discuss further below.
It would seem a worthy task to access or enhance our quantum mind
as much as possible rather than remain with the highly limited
and task-focused perspectives of our brains.
To accomplish this we need to differentiate the two systems used
for all our information processing.
Normal thinking and conceptualizing are the everyday functioning of the classical brain. Non-conceptual awareness and cognitive insights
are the most prominent functions of the quantum mind.
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By taking the position of residing in non-conceptual awareness,
we observe the operations of the classical brain as they arise.
We notice an endless stream of thoughts, images, and their stories.
We also notice a sense of self-identity as a subjective self within various stories.
This sense of personal self is strictly a construction of
stimulus-response conditioning within the classical computer.
This mind takes its information and turns it into concrete,
separate subjects and objects holographically.
That’s why our world seems so solid and enduring,
even though physics has shown it is not solid at all but mostly space .
Recent Rainbow Body Experiences
Lama A – chos told Tiso that it takes sixty years of intensive practice
to achieve the rainbow body.
“Whether it always takes that long, I don’t know,” acknowledges Tiso,
“but we would like to be able to incorporate, in a respectful way,
some of these practices into our own Western philosophical and religious traditions.”
At the same time, continues Tiso,
the research team plans to expend the scope of this research
beyond the confines of the Tibetan culture,
so they can compare the rainbow body phenomenon
with the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
To our knowledge, says Tiso,
the bodies of most Christian saints did not disappear or shrink after their deaths.
“Highly realized saints in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity
tend to move in the direction of incorruption,
so that the body does not decay after death.”
They say this light body tradition goes back to the time of Christ.
This poem by St. Symeon the New Theologian is from the tenth century:
How is it that you have clothed me in the brilliant garment,
radiant with the splendor of immortality,
that turns all my members into light?
Your body, immaculate and divine, is all radiant with the fire of your divinity…
with which it is ineffably joined and combined.
This is the gift you have given me, my God:
that this mortal and shabby frame has become one with your immaculate body
that I have been made one with your divinity and have become
your own most pure body, a brilliant member, transparently lucid, luminous and holy.
I see the beauty of it all, I can gaze on the radiance.
I have become a reflection of the light of your grace.
The light body is called tselem in Hebrew, meaning
“the image of God as created in the soul of man.”
Here’s a quote from the fifteenth century by the Kabbalah master
Rabbi Moses Isserles of Cracow:
For in truth, it is fitting to describe Him
by this parable and metaphor, for light is found with Him, on Him
all those who gaze see, and each one sees in Him like one gazing in a mirror.
For the coarse matter that is in man stands opposite…
the one who contemplates, behind the clear light that is in the soul,
which I liken to a mirror for him, and he sees in it,
in an inner vision, his own form.
For this reason the prophets compared the divine glory (Kavod)
to a human image, for they saw their own form.
But Moses our teacher, because he had removed from himself all corporeality
and there is none of the dark matter from without,
left within him saw naught but the brilliant Light itself,
and there was no (reflected) image,
but he saw only the clear aspect.
We can access or re-enter this level of the original Clear Light perception
through various means.
It’s interesting that in the Judeo-Christian mythos
we have the notion of “fallen” mankind.
Perhaps we could use the term collapsed equally.
Our fallen state is actually a quantum collapse.
Man is trying to undo the collapse through spiritual and religious means.
However,
one of the most readily available means is meditation.
During the collapse into localized selfhood,
the entire energy field also collapsed into a stepped-down mind state
that now appears as dualistic consciousness,
the mind that functions on the basis of thinking instead of knowing.
It divides the unified field of Quantum Intelligence into imaginary parts,
such as subjects and objects.
This gives the individual the sense of being separate from all “others”
and one’s own deepest holistic self-nature.
Through meditation methods and other more direct means,
one is able to experience the original condition again.
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The thinking mind is always fixated on stories related to the individual self.
This reinforces the sense of separate selfhood by
validating its existence as an independently existing entity.
So we become locked in a dimension of our own creation
through thought and imagination.
By simply taking a position of observing the mind’s phenomena
instead of being the active promoter of its mental activities and stories,
the personal identity shifts into an open state of consciousness
that is not so tightly identified with its imagined role in the stories.
This is similar to quantum phenomena reverting from a
localized, fixed particle state
into an undefined open wave state once again.
Rigpa, the state called samadhi or non-dual awareness.
In samadhi there is no longer a fixed identity located in specific time and space.
The essential nature of consciousness is pure Quantum Intelligence.
All manifestations arise like reflections appear in a mirror
in which Quantum Intelligence is the unchanging clear glass of the mirror and appearances are its reflections.
We can sit in a comfortable manner and simply take the position of being the observer. At first, it may help by labeling thoughts as they arise
by mentally noting “that’s a thought.”
We begin to differentiate our pure observing from its activities.
Notice how thoughts seem to appear on their own;
notice how they disappear all on their own as well.
Notice in the gap between two thoughts that your observing awareness is still present,
even in the absence of thoughts.
It’s this observing awareness that is present during thought
and during the absence of thought that we wish to highlight.
This observing awareness has not been part of the mind’s collapse.
It is always unchanging and is therefore our royal road to
the consciousness of original Quantum Intelligence.
In relying on this method of pure observing,
the collapse into dualistic states of self-centered consciousness is reversed.
We eventually discover that this pure observing IS the awareness of
original Quantum Intelligence present in all states of consciousness.
It is not hidden or covered up.
It is that which is reading these words written on this page.
Look back at what’s looking out your eyes and you will recognize that
Quantum Intelligence to be your true nature that is looking.
Also in the Tibetan traditions of the Great Perfection
(Dzogchen) and Mahamudra, there are methods called
“direct introduction” and “pointing out the true nature.”
In these traditions a master has a one-on-one exchange with a student
and points directly to the Quantum Intelligence that is present and active
but not recognized.
Through a skillful “pointing out,” the student may experience a sudden
and authentic insight that erupts from within the Quantum Intelligence itself.
This would be a flash of enlightened mind.
The student is then directed to rest in that insight,
allowing time for all sources of instability to arise and release
until the original flash of insight becomes a permanent awareness.
However,
What I consider to be the essence of enlightenment,
the real pith instruction that would hit the mark,
is recognizing the knower or knowing quality within all experience.
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In every experience,
whether as the mental phenomena of thoughts, images, and emotions,
or as the phenomena of sensory perception with the five senses,
there is always a knowing present.
As we familiarize ourselves with this knowing quality,
at first it will be defined as a “witness” to experience.
This knower seems separate from what we experience.
But if we look more closely,
we notice it is not just a naked knowing but has some sense of identity,
like “I am” knowing.
If we then examine closely this sense of I am,
we discover a complete story of personal identity that we see is made up wholly of
individual thoughts as memories and mental images all strung together.
If we then examine each of these thoughts and images,
we discover that none of them has any enduring substance or solidity.
We discover the empty aspect of all thoughts to be the same:
empty, impermanent, without any inherent or independent existence.
At some point we may realize that our sense of personal identity
is therefore empty too, because
it is nothing more than our empty thoughts about identity.
There is no substance or solidity to any of it.
When the mind recognizes that the “I am” sense
as a separate witnessing knower is purely imagination,
a mere play of empty thoughts, then a moment of
exquisite clarity may arise wherein the impersonal
naked knowing of all experience reveals itself in conscious awareness.
It is this naked knowingness without any sense of personal referencing
that is our true enlightened nature.
It’s more like aware space rather than some kind of localized entity.
Once recognized,
we bring our awareness to rest in this naked knowing,
free of personal self-definition, again and again until stable.
A wisdom, a gnosis, arises with each fresh moment of recognition
that reveals the core nature of being,
the natural state of the aware knowing.
This self-arising wisdom is the wisdom of enlightenment.
To be enlightened is to recognize that the original knowingness as awareness
is the Quantum Intelligence that has always been present since the beginning
and has never been tarnished or subject to change.
