Hi Platt, Mati and All Here is something from Reanney:
'What is real? We humans are so arrogantly confident about the 'reality' of what we see around us. We touch the smooth surface of a tabletop and say without question, 'This is solid, this is real'. But we forget the relativity of sight. To a flea the table top would not be smooth; it would be corrugated into a fantastic landscape of peaks and valleys. And think how a recent portrait photograpg of you would vanishas you went from the human scale of seeing to the flea's, how the familiar contours of your face would explode into a wilderness of black and white boulders. The flea would see this landscape of boulders as stable but to a small microbe the chemical fretwork of each knoll and shallow would shimmer in the random dance of a motion that never stopped. As the physicist Lecompte du Nuoy said, "It is the scale of observation that creates the phenomenon'. 'A central part of our problem is that because 'reality' is a single word, we think of it as if it were a single or uniform state. In our scientific culture we act as though the everyday reality we experience when we are awake is the only reality. But this is nonsense, there are other 'realities'- for example, the realm we glimpse in dreams. When we drean we enter a different quality of reality; in dreams we can fly on wings we do not have, see impossible visions, confront monsters, move from image to image without the 'waiting' that is a feature of the linear time of ordinary experience. 'In reality' there is an infinity of different 'realities'. Each species of creature on this planet has its own reality, which means that it samples quantum ripples in its own special way, painting its own particular picture of the world in its own individual 'mind'. '...different eyes see different frequencies (p 55-7). So metaphorically speaking 'reality' can be regarded as a spectrum of light...and depending on which frequency/wavelenght you 'tune into' or which is accessable to you, will determine how you see the world which, in turn, will provide you with a 'type' of consciousness. So different eyes see different wavebands see different worlds. Reanney uses the metaphor of the electromagnetic spectrum and suggests: low-frequency/ physical reality/ all sub-human staes of consciousness (red) mid-frequency/ mental/waking reality/ ordinary human consciousness (yellow) high-frequency/ imaginal/dreaming reality/ symbolic and non-ordinary states of consciousness (blue) all frequencies/ unitary reality/ no boundary consciousness. (white) The white light...all frequencies...no boundaries...usually associated with the light surrounding the saints. The dharmakaya light of which Pirsig says; 'The light would occur during the breakup of the static patterns of the person's intellectas it returned into the pure Dynamic Quality from which it had emerged in infancy'. (Lila, p 347). The metaphor as connection. For what it is worth. Andre Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
