The Color Key of Creation
"If we disire to escape from the three-dimensional world and go farther,
we must first of all work out the fundamental logical principle which would
permit us to observe the relation of things in a world of many dimensions
--seeing them in a certain reasonableness and not complete absurdity. If
we enter there armed only with the principles of the logic of the
three-dimensional world, these principles will drag us back, will not give
us the chance to rise from the earth.
-- Peter Ouspensky
How the Color Key Came to Be
Have you ever wondered why there is a rainbow....?
...why the colored rays of the spectrum of light are as they are... .?
...the experience of the beauty alone usually precludes the question....
...from an early age it became obvious to me , however, that the universe
and its workings was not the result of some imagined "God"....rather, that
it was a matter of universal, timeless and imutable principles working throughout
creation...
...i could sense a fundamental, universal, and essentially simple principle
being expressed by the unfoldment of the ray of colors in
a rainbow...
...and as these colors were actually light; and as this light was a direct
emanation of the Sun.... and as the Sun together with all the other luminous
Sun-Stars formed the most obvious fundamental Beingness of the Universe,
it occured to me that to gain insight into the principle of light would
be to gain insight into the fundamental Beingness of the Universe.... (...i
use the term, "Beingness", so as to avoid a possible anthropomorphic implication
associated with the term "Being".... -- as in: "Supreme Being"...)
What really sparked an ardent search for a fundamental principle of light
for me was when i entered college with a major in Physics and studied about
the wave-particle duality of light. Light measured in one way reveals
finite, descrete "photons" shooting through space at 186.000 miles per second;
measured in another way, light is a wave phenomenon, pervading space and
pulsating at billions of times a second.... these two phenomena are essentially
opposite in nature..... and yet they coexist as a paradoxical pair within
the Unity of Light...
This paradox for me became a Koan (even though i hadn't heard of the
term at that time...), which i tenaciously sought to solve.... for
i intuitively knew that by gaining insight into the nature of Light, i would
simultaneously be gaining insight into the Mystery of the Universe.... the
Nature underlying Everything.... So... solving this paradox became my life's
quest...
It wasn't long before i realized that taking the logical approach of
Physics would be inadequate for penetrateing this paradox.... so, i
decided to switch to a Philosophy major....(...i figured: "what else was
there!"...)....and was informed that the best place to study Philosophy was
in Heidelberg, Germany. I got a job, saved up some money and flew to
Germany. I ended up going to Marburg....cause it was also good for
Philosphy...but a smaller town and i was looking for a quiet, quaint,
contemplative atmosphere. However, even in this small town the pace
of mind was hectic...and not the atmosphere i was looking for. I think
the 'clincher' for me was seeing how the students in the cafeteria would
gorge their food down in five minutes....and i'd be there for a good half
hour longer slowly chewing my food... I made up my mind at this
point that it really wasn't a university degree that was important to me....
or the study of various philosophies..... i just wanted to follow my quest
to 'unravel' the Paradox of Light.... So i traveled to Munich....
bought a Vespa scooter and set out in the middle of winter through the Austrian
and Swiss Alps determined to find a quiet place in the sun ...somewhere in
Spain ...where i could stay and take up my search.
As fate would have it, i did find the place....it was a 'laid back' traveler's
retreat called "Casa Campello" ...located in a small village just north of
Alicante. Unlike the youth hostels with their regimented rules, this
place was an idyllic backpack-traveler's retreat.... Travelers could
stay a few days or months in a quiet, unfettered atmosophere sharing stories
and good communication from fellow travelers from all the world. (It
was so special that travelers from far away New Zealand and Australia would
hear about it even before setting out...) Anyway, it was here that
i found the peace and the inspiration to focus on my quest....
The 'critical mass' of inspiration came after a month's stay
at this place.... after engaging in a focused discussion of the paradox of
light with a fellow traveler (whom i had become friends with) named Tom.
He was above your average intelligence and very much reminded me of
Mark Twain... so, anyway... i say that my inspiration reahed a "critical
mass" because early the next morning when i looked at the sandy open area
just outside the main entrance to the retreat, i decided to pace around slowly
in a circle, focusing only on the paradox of Light.... and not to allow my
mind to wander off on any distractions.... and to continue pacing and focusing
no matter how long it would take to arrive at an illuminating insight. I
didn't think that it would take more than several days. What was amazing
is that it didn't even take hours.... but in less than an hour something
happened that i had never experienced before.... My consciousness broke through
into another dimension.... not unlike a lucid dreamstate... where i was no
longer aware of pacing around in a circle in the sand... in a small village
in the Sun... but all of a sudden i was experiencing ...in a kind of
4-dimensional visionary state... the 'inner workings' of Light. It
was a full and lucid visual experience of the Mystery of Light.... which
seemed to last only briefly.... and upon returning to ordinary consciousness,
it was like coming out of a dream. I realized that i needed to come
up with some sort of symbolic 'structure' to 'contain' the essentials of
what i had experienced.
So, i searched for symbolic word terms to 'encapsulate' what i perceived...
as a three-fold principle... with a characteristic of Energy as a 'common
denominator' for the three aspects of the three-fold principle. The
'common denominator' term that i came up with was "position". For,
on the one hand, even though one might think that within the unending expance
of cosmic space ...with stellar bodies moving every which way, that the
absolutely precise Positions of these stellar bodies would be of little
importance... What i realized, though, was that light was a direct result
of the perfect and dynamic positions of the stellar bodies in relation
to each other. Morever, the term positon can refer to the 'magical',
paradoxical, simultaneous co-existence of infinite space and infinite energy
in the 'form' of a dimensionless point... ...which is 'described'
by the term "position" to exist within relative space.... but is essentially
'outside' of space.... because it is dimensionless... ...does the centermost
point of a turning wheel have any movement?....yet, without the motionless
Center a wheel cannot turn... ...but i'm getting a little ahead of the matter
here....
So, my first term was "Position"....
The second term that i
decided upon was "Change of Position"... to symbolize the dynamic
'time-based'
aspect of light. The third aspect of Light, though, is something
that
the Physicists have not been able to fathom... This is the aspect that
is
outside of the realm of Time and Space.... beyond the reach of logic
and
the study of Causality.... ....it is the Transcendental
Infinite Being... the dimensionless, all-pervading aspect of
Energy... the Ultimate Void.... ...tha aspect of "No Position".
Actually, the infinite, dimensionless 'Field' of Energy is
the complimentary aspect of the dimensionless point centers of everything
in the 'physical Universe'... ...the absolute point center of a star partakes
of this identity by virtue of its position... ...the point center being
dimensionless partakes in Identiy with the Infinite, dimensionless, Field
of Energy --or Pure Being.... (...no matter what the terms here, they refer
to the same 'no-thing-ness' 'void-nature' of 'Ultimate Reality'...)
Moreover, the relative 'amount' of energy ...of say a stellar body
is a result of its relative, absolute position in relation to all other stellar
bodies... ...thus, it can be said that stars emit light because they are
in the position to do so!
The Universe is like a Liquid Crystal... and like the atoms
of a crystal, all of its stars are held in absolutely perfect positions within
a dynamic and 'fluid' crystal lattice. Ever wonder what's at the heart
of a black hole? ...It's a dimensionless-point-center... and it's actually
an orfice to somewhere else in the universe... a transcendental gateway where
the energy 'gathered' can be transferred outside the time-space continuum...
yet re-appearing within it instantaneously... It could reappear a million
light years away... it wouldn't matter... it would still be instantaneous...
So... there is something that's faster than the speed of Light... and the
Nature of Light partakes of this Something....
