Our sentience extends beyond our personal sphere into cultural, collective, archetypal and universal spheres. At each level of awakening and access, our perceived reality changes. Thus life, as a single unifying organism, responds to the invitation of our perception. In the research and therapeutic style of phenomenology, when we deconstruct our false beliefs, life automatically presents truth. In other words, perception is the means by which we select our relationship to the macrocosm and also how the macrocosm selects its appearance to us. The universe meets us at the epicenter of our attention.

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I discovered that when I simply focused my attention on the subject of my research, and suspended any thought, belief or interpretation, insights flowed into my awareness, seemingly from an immense depth within me. Sometimes, my awareness transported itself into mind and soul realities. Other times, when I turned my vision inward and focused on the perceptual darkness, a subtle light and archetypal images appeared. I was intuitively teaching myself how to meditate. When I drew and journaled about these images, further insights occurred. There was a call within me to ask for a greater truth, to reach out within myself, forming a greater connection to holiness. I dared to put away the security of familiar and accredited things and thoughts, and to touch the void. Life met me there. Waiting right there on the periphery of my attention, life, noesis, spirit, and holiness touched back.

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In my house there are many mansions. Physical reality appears to be composed of solids and spaces. In David Bohms quantum model, the reality results from levels of reality composed of implicate and explicate orders, in which these solids exist only as oscillating, flashing on and off, probability fields of dimensional substance. The metaphysical premise as above, so below invites us to see the inner and outer, or physical and transcendental worlds, as a causally reflexive relationship. Similarly, Jesus said to Peter: What you loose on earth, is loosed in heaven, and what you loose in heaven is loosed on earth. David Bohm, in his cosmology of quantum physics, described this enfolding/unfolding relationship as local events and non-local causality,

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The term noetic field refers to an infinite set of relationships and contexts, all of which exists in a dynamic process of life. In the pre-Nicean (or Gnostic) Lords prayer, this concept was expressed eloquently as: The All Parent that is in us and all around us. As we pursue our understanding and mastery of the ancient teachings, we will inevitably transform the structure of our minds. Soul-centered mind and ego-centered mind perceive contrasting realities.

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Close suggests that a primary consciousness produces and sustains the universe as we know it. The simplest example of this is the Double Slit experiment, in which light observed one way appears as a particle and when observed another way it appears as a wave. The emphases here is that light exist in a pre-observed state, and that depending on how we look at light, it appears as a wave or particle. This is called the observer effect. According to Close, this proves the necessity of developing a model for physics that includes consciousness. I ask that you seriously consider that we, as the perceiver, create our reality through a quantum dialogue with the universe. How this occurs remains a mystery. How to work it in terms of practical transformation is available to us, if you choose to embrace our role as co-creative agents.

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Freud made us aware that our social and cultural mores caused us to suppress our basic drives. This suppression resulted in aberrant behaviors toward ourselves and others. Some of these behaviors were collectively condoned and some were not. Jung led us to a deeper view of causality. Great archetypal forces exist in the unconscious that shape the context in which we act and perceive reality. These are the unconscious gods and metaphysical deities of tribal rituals. Lucifer, Satan, and Jehovah are some of the archetypal forces in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Zues, Jupiter and others preside in Greek antiquity. We could go on for pages, listing the equivalent discoveries of people around the globe. In short, Jung grouped all transcendental and extra-terrestrial forces into a band of archetypal forces and beings that have impact on humanity for good or ill. Then we must ask: is good versus evil a reality, or does humanity have within its archetypal nature, and geometric programing, information that limits us from seeing the bigger picture. For this reason, I think that wars and conflict are decoys that keep us distracted from discovering the true nature of ourselves and the workings of the universe.

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I concluded then that to engage in conflict, to win by being against, would ultimately create a lose/lose situation. Light battling dark would leave the winner with yet another source of energy. The shadow of this is that the new source, no mater how nobly won, was not renewable. The spoils of conquest, spoil. In a sense, the victor would already be dead.

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There is a covenant written in our souls that says we can retrieve ourselves from any reality we choose by remembering that we are Divine. However, we are finally able to remember that we have believed that we are belief and forgotten that we are divine. That is the key that locks the door. This is the method by which we coalesce experience as soul-wisdom. We are the foot prints of eternity. Foot prints one day wash away or blow in the wind and forget the imprint that they held. So, we must remember our eternity. Regardless, the wind will take us and sea will receive us, but we may not remember the journey, because we did not save any of our experience for the journey home.