The Theory of Everything and the Secret of the Universe

©Copyright 2005 by John L. Waters. All Rights Reserved

In an episode of elation and mystical intuition Barry Stevens found what she called "The secret of the universe." (1) She was gazing at sunlight reflected off a safety pin. Jacob Boehme gazed at sunlight reflected off a pewter vessel and found what he later called "the signature of all things."

Abraham von Franckenberg gave an account that has become legendary. "Surprised by a gleam, presumably of sunlight, in a tin or pewter vessel, the shoemaker began to imagine that he was seeing into the secret heart of nature, into a concealed divine world. Intent upon clearing his mind of this "phantasy," perhaps so that he could resume his shoemaking labors, the young man went out-of-doors. Since the city was small, he could easily pass through a nearby gate and into the green countryside. There, according to Franckenberg, the rapt cobbler continued to see all the more powerfully into the secret "center of nature." Forms, lines, and colors now bore some new meaning for him. In his own account, the strongest emotional effect associated with the experience was his sense of having been embraced by divine love: as if life had been resurrected from death, he recalled twelve years afterward."(2)

Both Stevens and Boehme were profoundly affected. Now physical scientists are still looking for "The Secret of the Universe."

If someone ever really found IT, how would this person recognize IT? How would this person ever communicate the universal truth of IT? Cognition or knowing is one thing. Communicating what one knows is quite another!

When Molly Jones found IT with the help of Adi Da, she had this to say:

"It was as though someone had turned on 10,000 lights. The actual physical light in the tent had not changed, but the vibratory level of energy went way, way up, and it was visible as a form of light emanating from Avatara Adi Da's body..... Everyone was singing and gazing at Avatara Adi Da. He looked fiercely around the room, resting his Gaze on different people as He slowly moved His head. I felt His Love absolutely, without qualification."(3)

Now hear this! I became inspired rather the same way Barry Stevens and Jacob Boehme did, and over the years I found that a certain mathematical identity expresses unity in terms of time and any vibrational frequency or number. The whole, that is to say everything, is thus expressed in terms of two values: the frequency of vibration and the time during which that frequency of vibration is continued. According to my theory, all one need do to experience what Barry Stevens and Jacob Boehme experienced is vibrate over a time interval and sense the whole during that time. But if your attention is distracted by a radio or a conversation or by some other thing, idea, or person (a part of the whole) you miss this mystical sense of the whole. I argue that the mystics Boehme and Stevens independently discovered this autistic way of sensing the natural unity of everything.

The cosmologists who are interested in everything and the theory of everything need to consider this formula for unity that is the whole of creation and the first counting number as well! Notice, however, that you don't sense the whole as long as you are paying attention to someone or to something. As you sense the whole, what in front of you doesn't register in your autistic consciousness. You could be looking at a raging tiger or a spitting cobra and you wouldn't be flustered. The rest of your senses don't register either. To communicate this unitive sense to others you vibrate like the Gyuto Monk, an autistic arm flapping or rocking child, or a whirling Dervish.

Now think about this. When you look at autistic me and you try to get me to pay attention to your face and hearing the words you utter, you are trying to get me to give up my autistic sense of unity. In my lack of attention to you as a human being, and as I hum a note or vibrate my body rocking on all fours I am sensing the whole without thinking of anything or sensing anything more. You may become upset and say that I am willful and that I am socially isolated, and that I am living in my own "psychotic" world. Intellectual luminaries will say that and then they will go back and philosophize ad nauseum on "the secret of the universe." They wouldn't imagine that many autistic children discover this same "secret key" by themselves the way Barry Stevens and Jacob Boehme did! But you see the autistic person can't justify or explain to people what is his or her secret "Reservoir of Pleasure." He has found "The Divine" but he can't explain this. Neither can the prominent philosophers or the medical doctors.

If I look at you and keep the sense of oneness and if I can get you to stop thinking about what to say or think, and if I can get you to pay attention to nothing in particular and relax, then the sense of oneness in you will increase and we will both sense this unity and we will both share this "secret of the universe." But note that as soon as something else in you or in your environment grabs your attention, however, the unitive sense will be blocked off, and you will focus on some specific object, idea, person, or word or sense besides everything (the whole). You and I will no longer be sharing the secret of IT.

Scientists use mathematics to relate different objects and energies to each other. Mathematics defines these relations. The whole itself is defined mathematically. In sensing the whole a person doesn't fix his/her attention on any object or idea. People aren't used to this state of being unattached. Children are taught to "pay attention." The mathematical formula for unity helps us because we can pay attention to that and understand the sense of unity as felt in a state of no attention (no conscious attention) the "unconscious" body-mind is being felt and expressed.

There is intelligence in us that is unconscious and it works in us even if we aren't conscious of it. If we don't recognize this intelligence and use it consciously, we waste it. If we never learn about it we remain ignorant of it. To understand this body intelligence we need to develop it and use it and integrate it with our conscious mental awareness.

by studying this subject of integrating the unitive body sense of yogis and other mystics with the rational mental intelligence, the scientist has access to more intelligence to investigate any subject. This is the starting point of a culture of more intelligent humans. In developing and demonstrating this more integrated intelligence, mathematics is used more than ever before.

References:

1. Rogers, Carl and Stevens, Barry "Person to Person" (Lafayette, California: Real People Press,1968), p.115

2. Weeks, Andrew, "Boehme" (Albany:State University of New York Press,1991),pp 1,2

3. Taken from Beyond Comprehension, a story of one devotee's first encounter with Avatara Adi Da. P.27 from the booklet "An Introduction To Adi Da."

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