Ghost

A is for Astrology:



An empirical investigation of the world demonstrates that it

is a Darwinian entity structured by thermodynamic

principles. It arises out of a quantum mechanical

foundation and emerges into relativistic space-time

structures in hierarchies of levels of organization. These

obey the basic principles of information theory, systems

theory, and cybernetics.



Any investigation of personal history will demonstrate that

it is ordered astrologically by the signs and house described

in Eastern and Western Astrology. My personal life is that

predicted by my progressed astrological nativity. To see

the whole picture you must consider all the planets. You

must look at heliocentric as well as geocentric

relationships. You must construct secondary progressions;

consider houses, signs, planetary nodes, etc. When you are

finished, you can only conclude that astrology is true.



But, what of the evidence that indicates it has no scientific

validity. There is one solution. The empirically described

physical universe is one reality. The astrologically defined

individual existence is another. Astrological orders involve

something that chooses alternative quantum realities to

attach to. Astrology does not describe forces generating

physical reality; it describes the structure of the soul’s

choice of alternative physical realities to attach to. The

physical realities are still generated by the thermodynamic

order of the physical world. The physical world is totally

Darwinian. But, there is more to reality than physics.

B is for Basic Order:



The basic order is that described in New Thought. There is

a trinity of Spirit, Law, and Body. The body is formed

from the thermodynamic order. The Spirit is a totally

separate subjective order that attaches to the

thermodynamic order through the medium of the laws of

the Collective Unconscious. These laws, as described in

the works of Liz Greene (see “The Astrology of Fate”),

operate astrologically.



The Spirit is one and the same with the Buddhamind,

Nirvana, Brahman described in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain

theology, as well as the works of Neoplatonism and New

Thought. The existence of this transcendental order, this

“Oversoul” described by Emerson, is possible because

there is more than one mathematical structure to reality.

There is a local finite order. It emerges from a larger

transcendent order that is endlessly expanding into the

boundless.



This hidden transcendental mathematics is the mathematics

of the Platonic “forms,” of the Platonic “Form of the

Good,” described in the dialogues of Plato and the writings

of the Neoplatonists. This is the mathematics of the

“Eternal Objects,” described in the process philosophy of

Alfred North Whitehead. The interaction of this

transcendent mathematics and the mathematics of the

“actual occasions” of Whiteheads process philosophy

generates a larger order in which individual subjectivity

chooses which larger subjective entity it wishes to join.

C is for Choice:



Each soul is a center of creative choice. Each soul chooses

the part of the boundless it wishes to combine with. Each

soul spins its own endless thread of subjective time and

chooses what other threads it wishes to dance with. The

dance of these threads weaves the cloth of the visible world

and local objective time relationships (local space-time).



The soul is eternal infinitesimalness, eternal nothingness,

expanding within the boundless everything of timeless

nirvana. As crystals of mathematical order differentiate

within the boundless, they combine according to

mathematical principles. An ideal order begins to emerge

within the hidden depths of boundless becoming. In the

East this order is called Dharma. In the West it is called

“systems theory” and “cybernetics.”



The systems theory of local worlds orders their objective

reality. The systems theory of Dharma, of the Ideal, of the

Form of the Good, orders emerging transcendent subjective

reality. This larger order allows the developing soul to

choose the objective reality it wishes to attach to. The

product of that choice is the astrological order of that

nativity, that birth, of that soul’s attachment to the world.



Thus, there are four orders: the objective, the ideal, the

freedom of the soul, and the synthesis of souls combining

to generate the worlds. There are also four responses:

boundless subjective, probable thermodynamic, astrological

organization, and mental understanding.

D is for Determinate:



The astrological order determines ultimate fate. This fate is

stretched into the boundless possibility that is the pure

subjective beginning of all things within infinite nirvana.

The local expression of this stretching is the local

thermodynamic order and local entropy. Darwinian

evolution causes the emergence of local structure within

this thermodynamic becoming.



The soul is drawn to this becoming in search of the

pleasure of attachment. As the soul attaches, it generates

an astrological pattern that unites the objective and

subjective mathematics of the boundless. The soul’s thread

of subjective time is woven into the larger cloth of

objective space-time relativity.



The product of this union is local mind and local

perception. Individual experience and individual

personality are the result of the union of the eternal

subjectivity of the soul with local thermodynamic

probability through the medium of the astrological order.



Since the soul is infinitesimal, its only hope for power lies

in its critical relationship with the infinite. The soul is the

creative pivot on which all progress within the ultimate

depends. God is the product of the combined activity of

infinity of souls that collectively make up the boundless.

Although infinitesimal, the soul accesses pure infinite

potential and does so endlessly. It can choose the

subjective, the astrological, or the thermodynamic.

E is for Endless Cycles:



The end result, the fate of the soul depends upon what it

chooses to attach to. The soul that chooses the boundless

becomes a Buddha, it is released into the endless nirvana to

which there is no limit. This soul has found Heaven.



The soul that attaches to the astrological order has

discovered Purgatory. It will be subjected to endless cycles

of birth and rebirth in which its fortunes will rise and fall

according to its choices in previous incarnations.



The soul that attaches to the body has discovered Hell. The

finite overwhelms the infinitesimal. The soul is absorbed

and lost within the body to which it is attached. Once dead,

it is trapped in a hell of its ghostly memories and its hunger

for rebirth.



Most souls float somewhere between Purgatory and Hell.

They spend much time after death wandering in a gray land

of ghostly infinitesimalness. Drained of all power by their

attachment to the body, they are lost when detached from it.

Eventually they are drawn back into the astrological cycle

by hope of rebirth and by hope of purgation from the

torture of their hunger for the lost past.



Rare is the soul that discovers its hidden nirvana, that

discovers the Krishna, Buddha, Jesus gate within its

deepest core that leads out into the endless bliss of

boundless detachment from physical limitations and

boundless love for the limitless creativity of the Spirit.

F is for Form of the Good:



The key to Heaven lies in the endless play between Nirvana

and Dharma, between the subjective boundless and the

Form of the Good. The boundless is the Yang drawing out

the Yin of the Dharma. The boundless is the Father God

courting the Virgin, Isis, the Tao of the heart. The product

of that fertile interaction is Krishna consciousness,

Buddhamind, the Christ within. It is Holy Mother; it is

Kali endlessly dancing the Dharma game, endlessly

dancing out the poverty and innocence of holy virtue, of

transcendent love.



The Form of the Good establishes the pattern that unites the

infinite one and the infinitesimal singular that is the soul.

There is no limit to the potential depth of this relationship

and its power to utilize the boundless to achieve

transcendent states. Even the disharmony between the soul

and the body can be transcended.



The need to detach from the body is a need to detach from

the limitations of the body. Once rooted in the Form of the

Good, the soul can approach the physical without fear.



The right hemisphere of the cerebrum helps attach the soul

to the body. Each soul spins out its own utterly unique

cosmology. Each soul is a unique thread of cosmogenic

time utterly remaking all things. The subjectivity

associated with mental state participates in this unique

metaphysics. Every objective state the soul enters into is

reformed by its unique subjective generativity.

G is for Genesis:



Each soul is an infinitesimal piece of the boundless. Each

attachment of the soul unravels a bit of the boundless into

the finite. The eternal genesis of the soul is reflected in its

attachments. The mythology generated by the brain tells us

little about anything finite except brain functions. But, all

mythology reflects the genesis of the participating soul and

the boundless from which the soul comes. There is no false

mythology. There are many false applications of

mythology to the finite world. All mythology reflects the

boundless genesis of the subjective.



For example, Buddhist Cosmology is structured by the

historical and social forces that generated it. But, like

every product of the human imagination it contains

impressions of the boundless that enter into it by the

genesis of its subjectivity in the objective forms of brain

function. The myth of the great Buddha Vairocana who

sits on a great lotus, each petal of which represents a world,

symbolizes the transcendent aspect of the Form of the

Good in which the individual soul and the boundless work

together for the genesis of its endless expansion.



Each soul is an aspect of that Vairocana weaving its own

extension of the ultimate pattern. Hidden in that extension

is the subjective record of the eternity of our former

existences and the endless genesis of our future. But, that

endless pattern exists only at the most transcendent point of

the extension. It is rare for us to achieve it. Most of our

thoughts are the genesis of more attachment to suffering.

H is for Hidden:



The immortal part of the soul is deeply hidden. It enters

into everything we do. It is present in all aspects of our

subjectivity. Our lives testify to it because it controls the

astrological order that governs our fate in the manifest

world. It sneaks into our dreams and images. It haunts our

feelings and impressions.



However, it is rare for it to become visible in any definite

way. It never allows us to develop tangible belief in its

presence. It will never give us reliable public proofs. It is

the most private and the most occult of all things. Yet, it is

the key to every moment of our lives. It is the source of all

our personal experience of time. It weaves the very fiber

our subjective experience of time. Without this eternal

thread there would be no here and no. Our personal

eternity is present in every second of our subjectivity.



Our immortality is the beginning of our creativity. It is the

source of the novelty of our subjective experience. It is the

true meaning of our existence. It is our gift to the

boundless. Yet, the power of it comes from the boundless.

We are nothing except where the boundless enters into us

and takes form through our endless infinitesimalness, our

endless creative poverty and emptiness.



We must not feel betrayed by this poverty. It is our unique

gift to reality. Nothing is able to be poor in our spiritual

depths as we are poor. This poverty gives us liberty that

allows us to make all things new.

I is for Immortal:



We are the essence of immortality. We are its source. We

are the immortality of the gods. They have surrendered

their power to our poverty that we might make them new.

Every minute of time we experience belongs to the eternal

strand of our personal spinning that adds a new dimension

to the endless dimensions of the ultimate.



We cannot prove our immortality because we are our

immortality. We cannot get outside ourselves. When we

attempt to get our side ourselves we attach to things that

die. When we do this we loose faith in ourselves and loose

faith in the boundless. But, faith in the boundless is the

source of all our power. Without the boundless we are

nothing. We are a ghost wandering in search of an

existence that fades the moment we attempt to grasp it.



We are the Buddha that regenerates the world. But, we

loose our Buddha powers when he hold to tightly to the

world. We cannot make the world immortal. We cannot

hold endlessly to the world. When we do this we loose our

immortal powers and fade.



This world is a place of ghosts. It is where fading souls go

to escape their fears. We wander here far from our own

roots. We wander here attempting to loose, to forget our

endless past. We seek substance. We run from our

boundless powers. Yet we are still Buddhas, we are the

creators of the gods. We generate them anew from the

ashes of their previous existences.

J is for Judge:



We are the judge that has condemned us to this hell. We

are the God that has judged us and sent us here. We are the

creators of the cosmology that we see about us. We are the

ones that selected the world of our astrological genesis.

We are the creative entity that decided to attach here. We

have given our thread of subjective time to the spinning of

this web of space-time relativity.



We want to hide from this responsibility. We want to run

from this pivotal role. We hide in a physical body. We

hide in the pride, lust, greed, and gluttony of our physical

attachments. We have no desire to be immortal gods. We

want immortality in the flesh or none at all.



We hate our creative poverty. We despise our hidden

immortal roots. We detest our divine status as regenerators

of God. So we have chosen to hide in human bodies. We

have chosen to cover ourselves with human flesh. We have

chosen to console ourselves with physical pleasures, to

excuse ourselves by allowing ourselves to be overcome by

physical drives.



Disgusted with ourselves, we punish ourselves in some

deeper hell, some lower incarnation. We hide for a billion

years in some forgotten rock on in some frozen place in

space, chewing on our resentments.



We weave complex webs of attachments that allow us to

totally escape our deeper reality. Yet we cannot escape.

K is for Kind:



We are an utterly different kind. There is nothing

anywhere like us. We are an utterly unique interpretation

of existence. We are a primal thread from which the

boundless is spun.



We come out of our own hidden realm to generate our

portion of existence. We come out of our own endless past

to spin our portion of the endless future. We are naked

creativity and novelty. We are something utterly new,

utterly different, utterly private, utterly alone, utterly primal

at the essential source of all things.



The flesh we attach to is our temporary interest, our

temporary expression, the temporary product of our

creative efforts before all time began. We are the Buddha

of the Nirvana that makes all things, that is the ground and

beginning of all things. Subjectivity is prior to objectivity

and we are subjectivity becoming something singularly

new.



We can become so attached to the world that we believe we

are our attachments. We can enter so deeply into objects

that we believe we are object rather than subject. But, this

is Maya, it is delusion. Nirvana, the boundless, the endless

creative subjectivity before all things is the real truth. The

Gone! Gone! Gone!, source of our nature is the truth.



The body is a good place to hide because it is full of fears

of death. We can hide from our immortality in these fears.

L is for Lie:



Ashamed of our spiritual nakedness, we lie to ourselves by

attaching to a body. We begin to believe that we are that

body. We begin to believe that when the body dies that is

our end.



This gives us the excuse to indulge in greed, lust, pride, and

gluttony. We can escape our spiritual responsibilities by

ignoring them. We can pretend that we are controlled by

the bodies we have selected. We can hide from spiritual

responsibility by attachment to the body’s desire for

success and pleasure.



We can forget ourselves in our dependence on others and

our envy of what other have. We can pretend that we are

nothing more than the strength and beauty of our body. We

can totally wrap ourselves up in the trauma and drama of

trying to maintain that beauty and impress others with it.



We can so remove ourselves from our own souls that we

totally loose ourselves in the world. Soon we believe that

we are mortal. Soon we loose all contact with our immortal

past because we are so wound up in the mortal present.



The truth is that we are terrified of our immortality. We are

terrified of the unique cosmology it has generated. We

allow that cosmology to fade. We allow it to be absorbed

by the world. It becomes rolled up and hidden away. We

fade as our cosmology fades. We forget that we are

Buddha. We forget that we are Creative Spirit.

M is for Meaning:



Not understanding that our subjectivity is responsible for

the ground of being that generates the world, we do not

comprehend the eternal meaning of every moment. The sea

of subjectivity that supplies objective form is simply the

sum total of what we and other souls put into it. We are the

beginning of all meaning in our deep inexistent roots.



We look for meaning in external form. We look for

meaning in physical beauty and strength. The external

form is only the surface. The objective world is the

covering that we give to our subjective creativity. The

boundaries that emerge in the world are the surface the

boundless takes in order to become visible.



The creative infinite of the boundless, its endless

subjectivity is the source of all worlds, is the source of all

thermodynamics, is the Elohim that generates all things.

Our subjective core is part of that boundless and is eternal

within it. Our subjective core participates in the endless

meaning that creates all things.



We can either hold on to the surface or find the deeper

meaning that lies behind it. The surface is concerned with

lust and greed. The surface is concerned with selfish needs.

The surface is concerned with temporary success. The

boundless is concerned with endless meaning.



The surface is caught up in anger and fear. The boundless

yields up that anger and fear to endless joy, peace, love.

N is for Nature:



The controversy between atheism and theism diverts my

attention from the basic truths. If I have no immortal soul,

if my spiritual existence is an illusion, I am still part of

nature. My essence still belongs to the larger whole and

not to the temporary part.



To say that my current subjectivity is an immortal part of

the endless subjectivity and to say that I am one with nature

is really to say the same thing. Nature could not exist

except as a unity. The divisions we see are products of

emergence within Nature’s single system.



Each temporary existence is an infinitesimal piece of the

larger whole. It is immortal within the whole in the sense

that space-time unity and quantum reality transcends local

separation and local parts. Each local moment represents

the whole, it demonstrates what the whole can do, how the

whole can differentiate. Its differential potential is an

immortal property of the whole. It’s meaning is endless

within the larger system.



This larger system can be approached by studying its

mathematical potential, its thermodynamic changes, but

studying its subjective creativity, or its mystical unity.

These are separate paths leading to the same end.

They are the various forms of yoga that all bring liberation.



What we seek is liberation from the sorrow and the anger

that is the result of overemphasis of passing living forms.

O is for Oversoul:



The Oversoul is the deeper meaning. It is the love, the joy,

the truth, the beauty of the boundless becoming bound, of

the infinite entering into various finite forms.



To the extent that our holy books teach us to be poor in

spirit, to be meek, to be merciful, to be pure in heart, these

holy books point toward that Oversoul. The problem is that

our holy books also teach intolerance, that their version of

the Oversoul is the only true version.



This intolerance is often the result of rival priesthoods and

rival religious centers that are competing with other

priesthoods for wealth and power. The evidence seems to

suggest that the Old Testament is a forgery. It appear to be

a deliberate attempt of the priesthood of the Kingdom of

Judah to claim special status during the reforms instituted

by Josiah in the period around 600 B.C.



Some older documents were used, and some further

revision were made during the period when Judah was

dominated by the Persian Empire. But, most of the bible

was assembled in Josiah reign for the purposes of

furthering Josiah’s reforms that established the special role

of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Judah in Hebrew religion.



David and Solomon appear to have been minor chiefs of

Judah in its early years. The glorious kingdoms of David

and Solomon appear to be fictions created at this time.

Moses and the exodus were also fictions.

P is for Patriarchs:



The stories of Moses, the stories of the Patriarchs are pious

fictions. There does appear to be a time when large

numbers of Jews were in Egypt. There appear to have been

a number of times when Jews were forced to leave Egypt in

various ways. The story of Moses is simply a pious fiction

woven out of these legends in order to justify the special

status of the temple in Jerusalem as a place where the

commands of Yahweh to Moses could be fulfilled.



All the world’s scriptures are pious fictions of this kind.

All of them were written to support some priesthood of

some kind in its attempts to consolidate wealth and power.

The Vedic scriptures were written to promote the special

status of the Brahman caste and the Indo-Aryan invaders

associated with it.



The Buddhist and Jain scriptures were written by members

of rival castes in order to justify their rejection of Brahman

hegemony.



The Confucian Classics were written to support the

hegemony of the Mandarin class. The Taoist scriptures

were written to justify the rejection of their rule by local

priests in the countryside.



All cultures have their patriarchs, their founding heroes.

The deeper meaning of religion is not in this pious

nationalism and its pious intolerance. The deeper meaning

of religion is in tolerance, forgiveness, and altruism.

Q is for Quiet:



The deeper meaning of things transcends the local pettiness

of rival religions and rival cultures. The deeper meaning of

things transcends the temporary forms things take in the

various permutations of evolution. The deeper meaning of

things transcends the distinction between the subjective and

the objective.



To find this deeper meaning we must quiet both mind and

heart. The mind must limit itself to truth and wisdom. The

heart must limit itself to altruism and joy. Deeper than both

runs the life and energy that are passion inside and action

outside, that take form outside and become knowledge

inside.



Humans are proud of human mind and human feeling. But

human mind is simply more complex form known from

within. Human feeling is simply human action and

disposition to act experienced from within. Ducks and

grasshoppers have duck and grasshopper mind and feeling.

There comes a time to quiet the human pretensions and

simply discover the larger transcendent world.



There comes a time to quiet pride and lust, to quiet

competition and analysis. There comes a time when it does

not matter who is right or who is most holy. All human

actions pass and all human heroics pass. Energy is eternal

and mathematical potential is eternal. Objectivity is eternal

and subjectivity is eternal. Always there is form and there

is meaning. All meaning is one in the ultimate.

R is for Reincarnation:



I think the evidence shouts the truth of astrology and the

truth of reincarnation. However, all the evidence that

impresses me is personal rather than public. I believe that

we all exist in our own personal metaphysical system and

that the illusion of a public metaphysics is an accident of

our attachment to the metaphysical systems of others.



Perhaps you exist in an system in which astrology is not

true and reincarnation does not happen. I cannot speak for

your metaphysics. However, there is a deeper meaning that

transcends all special meanings. Whether or not astrology

is true or reincarnation is true, they symbolize the multiple

ways that life dies and is reborn, that emotions are

polarized between love and strife, between enthusiasm and

depression.



That deeper truth holds the deeper meaning. All

metaphysical systems must surrender to the quiet if they are

to find the core meaning. All doctrine must yield to

forgiveness and love, to joy and beauty if it is to be worthy.



When my hypnosis teacher hypnotized me to do a past life

regression, he said don’t ask whether it is true or not. Just

know that your unconscious mind is giving you as useful

metaphor. Healthy thinking integrates the conscious and

the unconscious, the subjective and the objective. The deep

roots of such thoughts have meanings that transcend issues

of doctrine and issues of cosmology, theology, and

metaphysics.

S is for Subjectivity:



Subjectivity is the deep meaning, the purusha, the nirvana,

the boundless that enters into the objects of the world. It is

the higher mind that dwells inside the form and the passion

that dwells inside the disposition to act. Our subjectivity is

an infinitesimal creative use of that boundless entering into

new form and action through the medium of our eternal

nothingness, our eternal dying to the world.



Our constant dying is the source of our freedom. It purifies

us and liberates us from the old so that we can enter things

as something new. From the standpoint of science, our

subjectivity is simply a dimension of our external behavior,

of the brain functions that give our consciousness its order.

From the standpoint of the boundless, our subjectivity is

what give freedom to the quantum world of our attachment

and endlessly detaches it into infinite possibility.



We experience this detachment as our subjective freedom.

It is also the creative generativity of the boundless as it

endlessly pours through the openings we make within it as

we live and die and attach and detach from the world.

The unity of subjectivity and the boundless are all that is

needed to explain the world and to explain the experience

of freedom. The improbable becomes probable within the

infinite, hence the explanation for the improbabilities of

this world, including the improbability of free will. It is the

experience of the boundless opening up the bound and

setting it free. The boundless is free both at its infinite

extension and at its deep roots. We are one of those roots.

T is for Time:



Time takes endless forms within the boundless. It is at

once one-dimensional and two-dimensional light waves and

endlessly dimensional hyper space-time. The attempt to

find one true time destroys our understanding of time’s

arrows.



Time and its arrow themselves undergo evolution. The

very structure of time evolves. Time is different for each

soul. Each subjectivity is a new dimension of time

reinterpreting all cosmology and metaphysics, ripping it

open a remaking it in a totally unique history. Even the

subjectivity in a rock or a gain of sand or a flower or a bug

does this. We fail to understand the world by elevating

human consciousness to special status.



Human subjectivity is given its human status by entering

into the structures and processes of the human brain. The

subjectivity of a cat is unique to its processes, as is the

subjectivity of a bug or a burst of solar radiation.



There is an endless series of gradients in subjectivity

between the individualized and the complex and the

collective and the simple. Yet, subjectivity enters into all

as mind in various forms and as passion in various

processes.



When subjectivity begins to objectify, it generates time.

Threads of time collect together to generate quantum events

and waveforms and finally space and space-time relativity.

U is for Ultimate:



The boundless generates the ultimate. It extends the Form

of the Good into endlessly new perfections and new states

of self-reflection. Although it has evolved from endless

time, its evolution is always just beginning. We cannot

predict what miracles it will work on our subjectivity as it

grows endlessly beyond itself. Our own subjectivity is an

agent of that creative extension.



Each new set of objective form it induces is a new miracle:

Fish, Dinosaur, Bear, Human, Civilized Human. There is

no limit to what it can do. The endless past is but an

endless beginning. Yet, because time itself evolves,

because our own subjectivity is a piece of its evolution, it is

possible for our subjectivity to get trapped in the past.



When this happens, the past becomes a hell and the powers

of the past rules us like demons. Only the Buddha, the

Christ principle in our souls can save us from such

entrapment.



The world is a stage in a metaphysical struggle that begins

in the deepest root of our soul and extends into the

evolution of the cosmos. It is not possible to fully separate

the subjective from the objective. It is not possible to fully

separate objective mechanism and subjective creative

freedom. They dance together in the ultimate dance that

generates all things.



The ultimate endlessly challenges us at our deep root.

V is for Victim:



We attempt to rule the world. We attempt to be a king of

finite kingdoms and we are crucified in our attempts. Yet,

we are our own victim. The Creative Spirit, the Christ, the

Buddha within endlessly waits in our heart to liberate us

into Heaven, into Nirvana.



We are as free as our beliefs. We are as free as we choose

to be. Our liberty is equal to our detachment with love and

joy. Our liberty is equal to our ability to dream the dream

of divine joy and creativity. These dreams remake the

world. The only thing that binds us is the mud of the

world, the limitations of our fears and angers.



To resurrect from this self inflicted death we must forgive

all and accept forgiveness. We must believe in our

redemption and our power to redeem. We must seek

altruism rather than greed and lust and spiritual joy rather

than addictive pleasure.



Our addictions crucify us. The hold us down to the

limitations of an addictive world. The power of the flesh is

as strong as we let it be. We have only to surrender to the

higher power of liberation, of peace, of joy, of gratitude.



Yet, this crucifixion opens up existence. Where we die and

suffer, we leave gaps in the structure of the one. Our

subjective pain cuts into the boundless subjectivity and

draws it into novel forms. There is nothing that cannot be

used to liberate the ultimate into new creation.

W is for World:



The world cannot know my subjectivity. The world cannot

know my private cosmology. The only way that I can share

my subjectivity with others is through the boundless from

which all subjectivity comes. Ultimately the boundless

must be the key to my relationship with the world. I must

yield all my relations with the world to the transcendent.



The objects of the world will only confound any attempt to

make peace with others. There is never enough within the

finite for all. Only the boundless provides for all things.



I must be careful that my surrender to the transcendent is

not actually a surrender to the world. The world is filled

with holy men who claim to speak for the transcendent.

And they do speak for the transcendent, but no more than

mice or worms.



If my relationship with the transcendent is to exceed that of

mice or worms, I must establish that relationship through

the deepest root of my heart. Attempts to find that contact

in the world will only confuse and confound me. I will

bind to the world rather than to the creative source of the

world. I will bind to objects and miss by subjective roots.



The world will claim that my relationship is false. It will

demand that I bow to its priests and holy books and

worship in its special temples. The world has always done

this and it always will. The spiritual quest must avoid the

world’s priests and the flesh’s temptations.

X is for Xylem:



Xylem is the scientific term for the rings of wood in a tree.

The soul that is closed in on itself makes a hard shell of

wood about itself. It adds rings of wooden memories about

itself. It covers itself in the karma of its addictions to

previous lives.



Such a wooden soul is so deeply trapped in the astrology

that it has woven about itself that there is virtually no exit

left except the tiny growing tip of the tree at the deepest

root of the heart. It is only at this Buddha, Krishna, Christ

core that there is any hope of saving it from the wooden

hell it has woven about itself.



Such wooden soul eventually incarnate as trees, or cold

rocks on some cold dark planet. Frozen by its own fear and

its own self hate, such as soul has little hope of liberation.



Only faith in our creative power, only recognition the

Creative Spirit at work in our deepest heart can set us free.

Faith in the power of transcendent love and forgiveness, of

altruism, and joy will liberate us. We must affirm our

identity with divine love and divine harmony. We must

seek the Buddha gate and abandon ourselves to the Nirvana

in our heart.



Resentment and fear only harden the wood. Attachment to

the flesh and the addictive needs of the flesh set us up for

more anger and fear for the finite can never satisfy our

needs. Only the boundless can supply us fully.

Y is for Yoga:



We constantly seek to satisfy our craving for the boundless

within the bound. Finite objects can never satisfy our

infinite needs. Only the boundless can satisfy us. We must

seek the endless subjectivity of the Buddha gate within our

deepest soul. We must surrender to the transcendent, to the

ultimate power and the ultimate pattern that overcomes all

finite things. We must surrender to the Oversoul of

forgiveness and love. There is no satisfaction that we kind

find within the finite world.



Yoga is a discipline that teaches the art of seeking the

Buddha gate within. To find it we must become quiet and

calm our thoughts. We must detach from the flesh and the

addictions of the flesh. We must focus on the pure

subjectivity deep within. We must maintain that focus until

the ocean of subjectivity breaks through and floods us with

its purity.



We know when it has washed us clean because it brings

forgiveness, serenity, beauty, harmony, joy, peace,

humility, enlightenment, and wisdom. These are the fruits

that are borne of that tree. Where there is anger and

resentment and dissatisfaction, the flesh has not been

conquered, the boundless has not washed us clean.



The Virgin Mary is a symbol of that purity, of that innocent

and forgiving state of mind. The Buddha, Krishna, Christ

are symbol of the state of surrender that gives us access to

that purity.

Z is for Zen:



Zen combines techniques from yoga, Buddhist practices,

and Taoism. Zen seeks to reach a state of union with the

boundless where the line between the boundless and the

bound is itself dissolved within the boundless.



In order to facilitate this state, Zen demonstrates the

foolishness of public wisdom, demonstrates the foolishness

of the attempt to discover the larger whole by slicing it up

with our thoughts. Zen collects absurd statements it calls

“koans.” These statements demonstrate the absurdity of

trying to use words to command the boundless. The

boundless is utterly beyond the kingdom of words.



In its approach to the boundless as something beyond

description, Zen maintains and ancient tradition of

Buddhism. Buddhists have traditionally described Nirvana

as utterly beyond, utterly gone beyond.



Zen combines the tendency to question authority coming

from the Buddhist tradition, with a similar tendency in the

Chinese Taoist tradition. The object of Zen is to capture

the ocean of subjectivity in the present moment, to capture

the boundless as it move in and out of the objective world.

Ultimately Zen seeks to breakdown the distinctions

between the subjective world and the objective world so

that objects and subjects merge in the endless sea of the

boundless whole. Zen seeks to discover the infinite hiding

within the finite, to find the timeless hiding within time, to

find the boundless hiding with the bound.