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KIT 73 - Human Understanding  -  Divine Meaningfulness

"There is geometry in the humming of the strings; there is music
in the spacing of the spheres."
PYTHAGORAS

            The pilot of our being, our mind-brain that extends
throughout our body to our whole nervous system, right into the
nuclei of each cell, needs a wide scope of understanding and
stimulation to reach a state of fulfillment.

            Imagine, it took fifteen billion years of the
cataclysmic convulsions in the birth pangs of umpteen cosmic
galaxies to fashion the hundred million trillions of atomic
particles constituting the fabric of our bodies. It took that
amount of time to coordinate them to the point that they may, in
their cooperation, offer a support system to the mind of the
universe that we call the mind of God customized into what we call
our thinking!

            The very structure of our cells and organs and the
organization of our body functions illustrate laws of harmonic
resonance. It bears the stamp of the thinking of the universe that
evolves as its material support systems become more elaborate.
Reciprocally, the support system perfects itself as it evolves,
just as our brain (and body for that matter) develops latent
faculties as our thinking brightens and we exult in our grasp of
meaningfulness. Our thinking perfects itself as our brain (and its
extension as the nervous system) gets activated. Yes, the nuclei
of our body cells are endowed with a degree of pragmatic
understanding greatly enhanced by their cooperation.

            In turn, by virtue of our tacit covenant with the
universe of which we are a part, the cosmic mind, called the mind
of God, delegated to our minds gains vistas, albeit latent in the
domain of responsibility assigned to us to ensure the orderliness
of that divine sovereignty. By so doing, we foster the mutation of
the software of the universe, fluctuating it by our personal
incentive. 

"For tonight the teeming world gives birth to the world
everlasting."
RUMI

            Since the divine mind (or mind of the universe) is the
matrix of our mind, it can never be the object of our cognizance.
Yet we can invite more of its bounty to percolate as our thinking.
To do this, we need to extirpate the mental restrictions we impose
upon our thinking by our very notion of ourselves as a fraction of
the totality and by the same token as 'other than God'. That is
the very principle of the Islamic Shahada:

"Thou art not thou: thou art He, without thou; not He entering
into thee, nor thou entering into Him, nor thou proceeding forth
from Him or Him proceeding forth from thee."
IBN 'ARABI

            Our limited way of thinking evidences our having
failed in our commonplace thinking to make the step in the
evolution of human thought landmarked by the holistic paradigm  - 
and beyond this even, realizing, that, while the fraction of a
hologram functions like the whole hologram, it functions less
effectively, but acquires a uniqueness that makes for variety and
cooperation in the interest of the whole which would not occur if
everything were undifferentiated.

"Know whereby you are God and whereby you are not God."
IBN 'ARABI

            The functioning of our minds is illustrated most
pertinently by the DNA. Each cell organizes the fabric of the
environment absorbed in its tissue on the model of the blueprint
of the universe, which ensures that the cells differentiate to
cooperate in the interest of the whole body. Similarly every human
psyche is formatted by the software of the cosmos, albeit each
psyche customizes the principles governing that software in its
own unique way and thus processes the environment differently from
its neighbor. Thus the complex structure of our body serves as the
support system for that very intelligence configured in the cosmic
blueprint, by turning certain genes on and others off. Even so
with our minds, although they carry potentially the mind of the
universe, they are diversified, thereby restricted by their
vantage points and their specializations.

            Karl Pribram showed: the brain functions jointly as a
hologram and as a network of circuits  -  may I add; ensuring both
the transpersonal and the personal dimensions of our motivations.
The more transpersonal, the more the holistic mode of our thinking
prevails over our personal opinion. This is what is meant in
mysticism by awakening to God consciousness. It is as though one
were de-scotch-taping one's personal constraints to one's
understanding of meaningfulness, more precisely one's personal
interpretation of situations and problems which is exactly what is
meant by maya.

            But the exhilarating aspect of the whole marvel of
which we are a contributing part is that the spring-head behind
its superb alacrity is sheer excitement! The brain needs
stimulation; the mind needs the joy of discovering ideas; and the
psyche needs ecstasy.

            Dr. Alfred Tomasis, a physiologist, found that our
brain requires three thousand million stimuli a day to keep awake.
These include of course light and sound, smell, taste and tactile
impressions. These sensorial stimuli are translated by the brain
as energy pulses stimulating the mitosis of nerve cells. We know
that our body cells, particularly our nerve cells absorb light
from the environment that catalyses their powerhouse, freeing
their electrons from their initial constraint for a split second
of spree into a degree of freedom, and that they are picking up
and communicating sound messages. Hence the importance of music as
fuel for our brain, also for our communication with the physical
environment which is nothing less than a communion of light
between the light fluoresced by the environmental objects, the
sun, the stars; and is of the light thrust by our brain through
the optic nerves and retinas into the environment.

            But contemplate now the degree of excellence attained
with the extraordinary variety of frequency resonances in the
already complex atomic configuration of vocal cords, guts, wood
and metals of musical instruments, already reflecting the
orderliness of the blueprint of the universe, may be further
configured by the mind of God when funneled by the human as in
symphonies and choruses of our civilizations! Or when the
latticework of the internal fabric of stones and glass and ceramic
are assembled into a statue or cathedral. Or the gossamer film of
paints which in many ways are of the nature of liquid crystals
already so splendid in themselves are blended into a painting!

            Paint, like sound, is a noble expression of the
software of the universe and does not need to be fashioned to copy
perceived objects like the paintings of old, or like Beethoven's
description of a thunderstorm in the 6th Symphony, or Honneger's
imitation of a train puffing along. Albeit the form of a flower,
or the countenance of a human face, figure at the prow of the
evolution of divine thought configured as form and the soul-
searchings, the aspirations, the misgiving, the compassion, the
wit, erupt in human emotions. These are described for example by
Brahms, who dramatizes the mutations incurred by the divine being
in the existential condition. The mutations represent a progress
in comparison with the sounds of nature in mineral or plant life
sometimes depicted in the dehumanized austerity or exuberance of
some of our modern music.

            When these media are fashioned to express our creative
thinking, they enrich the software of the universe. Our thinking
that customizes the divine thinking, having projected itself into
matter that already carries the hallmark of thinking at the cosmic
level, is recycled into the cosmic thinking. Our minds and
emotions delight when carried beyond the trite commonplace by the
inspiration of poets, rearranging the divine thinking in
unexpected ways! We discover new horizons of meaningfulness
evidencing the splendor seeking to transpire through the
appearance of things. Our mind-brains feast at the banquet offered
by the creative geniuses who have conceived our great
civilizations. We are thereby enriched and transformed.

            What of the light that we awaken ourselves (probably
as phosphorescence) by our visualizations as has been demonstrated
by Dr. Motayama's experiments with meditators in light-proof cells
equipped with photoelectric sensors? Can we imagine the delight of
composers improvising musical themes emerging from inside as it
was projecting an inner mandala in a visible or audible structure?
Like a Toccata and Fugue of Bach or a Prelude of Chopin or a
Sonata of Brahms! Most all of us have that uncanny ability as we
hum randomly, yet it gains incomparably in excellence when
cultivated.

According to Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan, as we turn within in
meditation, we discover our ability of awakening the sound of the
universe, the audiosphere. May I add this sound is written right
into the fabric of our body cells. They carry not only the memory
of the sonic outbursts accompanying the birth and demise of the
nebulae, whose star-dust has coagulated into the atomic fabric of
our body cells, but the present resonance of the subatomic
structures of our cells that are affected by our psychological
attunements. What a miracle is the human skill which translates
this ubiquitous symphony of the spheres into music meaningful to
humans!

            Further Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan points out the way
to arouse the light within that flares like a flame. The ebullient
incandescence that burst out of the cataclysmic conflagration of
the big bang is stored in the very fabric of our bodies. It is
released as phosphorescence whereby we transform the atomic
structure of our body cells into light  -  a capacity found in the
glow worm and which we also possess, and can be released by dint
of the appropriate visualizations.

            It is not just the energy of stimuli which charges the
powerhouse of our brains, but the meaningfulness of the universal
blueprint conveyed by these stimuli. There are configurations, of
the atomic structure of the fabric of the environment and of our
very flesh that our minds grasp because they are modeled on the
mind of the universe. Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan adds: it is not
light or that sound spells awakening, but the vistas that they
trigger off in our intelligence. Every 'aha' moment triggers off a
peak experience  -  a tidal wave of delight. The spring-head of
the whole phantasmagoria that we perceive as the universe, divine
nostalgia, spills over into our psychological attunements as we
discover the intention behind it all written right into our deep
motivations. But this only happens when we reach beyond our
limited thinking, limited vantage point, and limited self-image.
Imagine: our psyche is garnished with our misassessments of the
physical and psychological environment!

            Consider the impact upon the brain cells (and
similarly upon the whole body) of our mind's ability to reach
beyond its middle-range and of our emotions reaching into the
many-splendored shimmering gamuts of cosmic ecstasy! This is
precisely what we achieve with our meditation skills, in Samadhi
practices, Vipassana, Kabala, the theology of Aquinas, the Sufi
dhikr. A major aspect of meditation consists in learning how to
think beyond the commonplace syllogism. P. D. Ouspensky announced
in Tertium Organum the advent of a super-logic surpassing the
simplistic syllogism: Men are mortal; Socrates is a man, ergo,
Socrates is mortal.

"Our ordinary logic helps us to gauge only the relations existing
in the phenomena world. ... We must come to the conclusion that
separateness and combination are not opposites in the real world,
but exist together and at the same time without contradicting each
other."
OUSPENSKY

"What worlds mysterious roll within the vast,
 The all-encompassing ocean of the mind!"
RUMI                                     

[ I (sa) assume that the preceeding two lines, both set by Kaivan
in blue_font, as quotes,  are one continuous quote from Rumi. ]



    
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