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.