CONCEPTUALIZATION THROUGH PERCEPTUALIZATION AND IMAGING

Jack Schwarz said he would have been a Yogi practicing positions if he had been born into the appropriate culture, instead he practiced Western Inner Yoga; he could have called it Free Thought “Full Spectrum” Zen Buddhism. Jack pointed out that transcendence is what keeps the universe healthy; saying perceptions rather than static belief systems need to form our conceptions. Perceptions are based upon sensory experience and knowing. He suggested our concepts should be based upon current perceptions projected through a dynamic belief system onto past experiences. Perceptions are generated by our senses, thought processes, and manners of self-expression, alterations in these perceptions will change the types of experiences we have.

It has been said that attachment is the root of all suffering. We construct our own reality to a great extent dependent on our perceptions and concepts. Attitudes and beliefs determine our future experiences. Attempts to transcend our personal reality distortion fields through conscious denial or erasure can be more than frustrating, since nature hates voids and vacuums.  Instead of attempting to detach, the best way to become free of unwanted thought forms and beliefs is to allow yourself to become unattached. Like somebody telling you to not think about pink monkeys, the best way to release thoughts is to replace them. Through substitution or transposition, they can be allowed to dissipate instead of empowered. Most things balance themselves to a natural state if not perturbed by the conscious control of a mind obsessed from ideals, desires, morality, cultures, feelings of guilt, despair, disgust, shame; or deflected and perverted by social programming to the point where universal forces cannot remain in balance. When agitated by passion, frustration, and turmoil, waves and ripples need to be calmed one at a time by taking away the disruptive winds of mind and thought.

Tantra is aimed at depolarization through sharing, facilitating fusion that releases energy. Couples who learn to commune and communicate aren’t dependant on the sex act to remove polarities, share energies, integrate and move into balance. The longer they know each other, and the more history they have as a couple, the more that imaging and memories play a part. Recognition and body language are significant components of a consummate tantric relationship. Trust is a word that doesn’t exist in every language; those who speak Portuguese have to use the word for confidence. The concept of surrender of self to the good will and intentions of another person is almost sacred, and benefits from constant confirmation. One of the most joyous moments in a tantric experience is when you can reflect on the physical reality of a complementary thread that has intersected the other threads in the fabric of your life, to lend stability, strength, love and compassion.

Jack Schwarz told me he didn’t need to be face to face with a person to feel and see their aura, or the ray entering their energy body, that’s when I understood why photographing a person in a manner that reveals their inner being is so interesting. Flowers, scenery, abstract images and animals can be interesting subjects, but nothing like gazing through the open windows of another soul. Personal images, especially loving and erotic content can increase and multiply essences and energies in an exponential manner. The world is information and technology driven. Media content and the Internet can be used to focus the mindstream. Tools, techniques, visual phenomenon and artificial mechanisms exist now that could never have been imagined thousands of years ago. Media that includes recording, playback, and display methods available today have changed the rules for Tantra. Sound recordings can take the place of chanting Mantras, and video displays can substitute Yantras. Ceremonies, rituals, gestures, repetition, prayer, breathing and yoga techniques for the physical body are all capable of being at least partially substituted by Creative Perceptualization and Conceptualization.

Mantras (vibrational stimulation) and Yantras (visualizations), are basic to many meditational practices, be they physically or merely mentally expressed. A very useful tool for combining Mantra and Yantra is waiting for everybody who has a computer with Windows operating systems. Windows Media Player comes with an underappreciated, seldom utilized, mind altering option called visualizations. By right clicking on the screen while playing music, a drop down menu appears. Clicking on visualizations, a sub menu appears with other options. Selecting Alchemy gives you a randomized display of intriguing visualizations capable of taking you on a cosmic journey. Selecting ‘Battery’ provides another submenu containing dozens of options that can be very interesting. Visualizations can also be downloaded from the internet and integrated into the Media Player program. Having the ability to translate sound waves into dynamic visual representations of geometric forms, pulsing and shooting while mutating goes way beyond simply listening to music or a chant while staring at a static image. Attaching a computer to a large panel display or projector, the right music or vibrations can by hypnotizing. Creative visualization, lucid dreaming, and self-guided hypnotic states have much in common. When psychedelic music appeared at concerts in the 60’s, projected loops of celluloid film, together with intense light projected through glass trays of colored gels and oils were needed for an operator to be able to produce something appropriate to accompany the stage show. Using screen capture programs, you can now compose and record content that was not even imaginable in that pre-laser light era. Mongolian and Tuvan throat singing harmonics, simple chanting, trance dance, tranquil music for concentrative meditation, or fusion music for contemplative meditation all produce different visual representations.

By using a projector pointed at the ceiling, or reflected into a mirror, images can be watched while in bed or in a horizontal position. This is also a great way to watch other video, especially personal erotic content. It’s better than a mirror mounted over your bed. Recognition, sensations, and body language are important elements in Tantra. Personal identification with images of love, compassion, empathy and sharing with a partner has never been as easy. Computers and high definition cameras recording with sophisticated circuits ‘democratized’ production of high quality personal videos. Equipment prices came down, and the quality went up when mechanical transports were no longer needed in consumer camcorders. Modern tools have made a reality of our desire to record ourselves in any manner we choose. Flash memory and computers provide a manner to preserve our memories while protecting private content from unauthorized eyes. USB flash drives are available with built in encryption security, and even access protection. Just as with hard drives, content can also be password protected.

The technology behind flash drives has been with us longer than CDs or DVDs, and USB connections are likely to outlast optical and mechanical transports needed to display discs. Most people are unaware flash memory doesn’t wear out from reading the information, it’s writing and erasing thousands of times that can cause corruption. As prices come down, and storage density increases, flash memory will continue to take over. The newest and best laptops from Apple have already done away with optical and mechanical transports. Now of course we have ‘the Cloud’, but before your flash memories are gone, we’ll have crystals or something else for the long term. Privacy is another issue. You can wrap things up in a series of password protected .RAR file ‘containers’, then just make sure you never forget the codes. If you need to write them down, obfuscate the passwords by inserting or deleting a symbol that is easy for you to remember. If your long passwords contain letters, numbers, and also symbols, the computer power and time needed to break the codes of the shells within the shells approaches infinity, making it all but impossible for somebody to violate your content protection unless they have access to US Defense Department Equipment. Even if you store yourself in ‘the Cloud’, you don’t have much to worry about if your content is properly protected. 

We possess capacity for a new neuro-atomic sense, where thoughts and ideas can rapidly change the face and borders of nations. Info-technology and media innovations have only begun to leave their mark on humanity’s evolution as the 21st Century re-wires our brains for changes in society and living conditions. During the last generations, children have grown up with different influences. Their heightened ability to communicate with the “Ghost in the Machine’ is obvious when compared to their grandparents.

We live in the Quantum age, where fractions (quantum) are understood as the basis for our physical reality. When earth, wind, fire, and water were believed to be the only four physical elements that existed, Deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA), space travel, and the internet would have been impossible to explain. Ancient fundamentalists formulated their correlations through traditions and perceptions instead of hard science, reason, or logic. During the journey to Free Thought and Quantum recognition, the human mind, through the collective unconscious, expanded and evolved to new levels along both material and immaterial pathways. Our mind currents became more accustomed to anomalous recognition, out of body experiences, lucid dreaming, remote viewing, astral projection, and uncharacteristic sensory perception. Beginning to understand particles and waves on a quantum level, we developed notions of atomic and subatomic levels involving biological-electromagnetic impulses. The similarity of these electromagnetic pulses to radio and television transmission suggests they likewise radiate outwards forever. This concept allows a rational basis for reasoning and understanding concerning how our thoughts are actual objects, with physical substance and a scientific nature.  What sets us apart from radio or television is our ability to think about what we are thinking, and have bidirectional interaction and interchange. Our consciousness possesses self-awareness because of our minds, a by product our Soul’s individuation from Spirit. Neuron columns and electrical impulses in our brains have no more self-consciousness than a radio; there is more to life than chemicals and electrical current. It’s interaction between Soul and Spirit that imparts life to the physical form manifested through our ethereal bodies, and gives our minds the ability to receive as well as send via wave forms and frequency threads. The more that hardcore mathematicians and scientists explore the reaches of both human thought and physics, searching for the Higgs boson and reality threads, the more the hand of an ineffable Absolute is revealed.

Some find solace in the belief reincarnation does not exist; when you’re dead the game is over. Either life is so bad they don’t want to repeat it, or they are convinced they don’t deserve another chance. Those who have passed through near death experiences, or returned to finish their work after entering ‘Clear Light’ can’t prove anything through the exact sciences, but seem to agree on many things. Once again, neuro chemical phenomenon might be involved, but what if in fact, just as they say happens in other planes, conceptions and beliefs at the time of our passing have much to do with our communion and assimilation, the illusion of separateness ends, but we remain as channels for some sort of divine self-awareness?

Taken metaphysically for its mythical and metaphoric value, the ‘original sin’ fable of Adam and Eve, becoming conscious and then needing to deal with a new reality, can be compared to assuming a savings or debit account belonging to the collective consciousness deposited in the Akasha, the collective history and knowledge of humankind. It’s another way of looking at Karma from a collective viewpoint.  Shamanistic beliefs originating in Siberia, where the word Shaman came from, suggest an account that receives, stores, and distributes resources, receiving energy  and life force essence as deposits to be shared and ‘downloaded’. Others who are synchronized with the account also have access and can distribute available resources.

Sexual energy, the strongest force in universe, the energy of creation, is the most powerful force of spiritual transformation. Love, the basic energy wave from which everything is created, is sexual energy transformed. Sexual communion involving a loving couple carries them back and forth to their divine origin: Tantric lovers use exchange and integration of loving energies during sexual union to become one with the higher self, Oneness, Consciousness, Awareness, or Absolute in cosmic communion. Focusing on where and to who this sacred energy is directly could be the greatest contribution human beings could hope to make. 

Not everybody was born to live with another person, be a parent, touch or be touched. Some prefer to ignore the existence of God or the Devil until one of them bites their ass. Love is impossible to describe to a person who has never experienced it, and easy to deny for that reason. For those who claim love is a biochemical phenomenon, as rock poet-songwriter Lou Reed said in ‘Street Hassle’, “It’s either the best or it’s the worst, and since I don’t have to choose, I guess I won’t”. When Morgan Freeman asked Jack Nicholson at the end of the movie ‘The Bucket List’, what if he is mistaken in his belief God does not exist, Nicholson’s character replies, “Then I win!” meaning he will get a nice surprise.  Only near the end of life’s game does he realize what he missed. The last item on his ‘kick the bucket’ wish list was to kiss the most beautiful girl in the world before dying. He finally has a chance to meet his little granddaughter in his final days, kiss her and feel the love he had shut himself off to.  Belief in love, and the existance a divine fabric isn’t an obligation, it’s an opportunity.