Posted by An increasing number of people are realising that there is something wrong with the world we exist in. All roads seem to lead to this world being an illusion, an artificial world which we are trapped in and need to extract ourselves from.
In recent years, a whole industry of books, podcasts, articles, classes, meditation techniques and much more have sprung up attempting to explain to us how that extraction should be done. Can it really be that complex? PD Ouspensky and many other mystics didn’t think so.
The answers often lie in books written long before modern concepts such as internet communication, quantum physics, and holograms were even contemplated. Such a book was PD Ouspensky’s 1910 classic, Tertium Organum.
If one has the staying power to wade through the dense, difficult writing style, tucked away in there is a simple answer (which can be called Ouspensky’s ‘cosmic consciousness’ and others have called Ouspensky’s ‘meta-mathematics’). It is this:
There is no need to look anywhere. We are already there. We are already part of the whole, the Absolute. The whole is infinite, so whatever we take from it, it still remains infinite.
In ordinary maths, the whole is the sum of its parts (take something away and it isn’t whole anymore).
But in higher or meta-maths, that isn’t so. You take a part away from the whole, for example a fragment like a soul/spirit, and the whole passes through to the part and the whole remains whole. This is exactly what a hologram does.
This leads to the conclusion that the world we live in is therefore a hologram. Quantum physicists are increasingly saying so. The Absolute creates fragments of itself, little beautiful spirit forms, but each spirit form is the whole too.
Ouspensky said we are part of the infinite and are separate essences that come from the infinite. Like a hologram (which Ouspensky wouldn’t have known about), you split it, and the parts are just smaller versions of the whole. They (the parts) are whole. We are whole.
Ouspensky said the real ‘us’ is not the outer part (our physical body) but the inner part, what he called the I and the not-I. The not-I being us.
This is exactly what Hesse revealed a short while later in Steppenwolf (1929) – the inner self is actually whole with the godhead, a fragment of the whole. These mystics knew the answer.
And let’s not forget the Bhagavad Gita. There we find the same assertion: The soul, which was called the Atman, is identical to the ultimate reality, God or Brahman.
All the more modern mystics are dead. Perhaps Richard Rose or Colin Wilson were the last. Seekers of truth and enlightenment today need to work alone or in small groups. Fame through social media exposure contaminates and is toxic to spiritual advancement.
Ouspensky said that being immersed in ‘matter’ is illusion, unreality, and we have to leave behind the reality of the unreal, as ‘duality’ (not being whole, one) isn’t real. Rising above the unreal was what he called ‘cosmic consciousness’. He said:
One must renounce all the beautiful, bright world in which we are living; one must admit that it is ghostly, unreal, deceitful, illusory. One must give up everything, become ‘poor in spirit’. This does not mean poor materially, or poverty of spirit, this is the poverty of the man who is entirely alone, because mother, father, sister, even the nearest here on earth he begins to regard differently, not as he regarded them before; he renounces them because he discerns the truly real.
It should be added that he also discussed the importance of the portals for transition, such as existed in India, Egypt, Greece and Tibet where special rituals were used to guide the spirit back to its home at the point of death, when the assemblage point moves below the navel (as revealed by Carlos Castaneda). Detachment from all the trappings of physicality, coupled with use of the death rituals, has for millennia been a tried-and-tested method of exit from the recycling trap, out through the crown aperture.
Moving forwards to our modern times, it is a reasonable assertion, based on the above, that ‘escaping the matrix’, the ‘trap’ (as it were) can be achieved by offloading the conditioning, the belief-systems we have taken on board as part of being trapped inside our physical bodies.
Removing the conditioning raises our frequency naturally and we cease to be captured within the low frequencies of the system. Why? Because we are already part of the infinite, part of the whole, the Absolute. Just remove the false shell surrounding us and we can return to the Absolute.
The old mystics like Boehme, Blake, Meister Eckhart and other from centuries ago knew this.
Boehme in his visions in the 15th century said:
The soul needs no going forth anywhere.
6 December 2024
Piers Morris Blogspot 