Beginner Meditation Tips

 

     I seem to get lots of questions on Twitter about the basics of meditation so I thought I’d make an entry covering a lot of common questions and concerns about meditation. Meditation at its core, is about simplicity so try not to overcomplicate it even though I may give many different perspectives and meditations in the passage to follow. Try things out and see what works for you.

The Basics

    At its most basic form, meditation is simply closing your eyes, sitting with a straight back, and focusing on your breath. That’s it. Let your mind and body relax and simply focus on your breath. If your thoughts wander, simply bring your attention back to your breath.

Posture

     The most imperative part of posture is a straight back. Any slouching causes stagnance of energy flow. Traditionally, the posture is Full Lotus, which is having the legs crossed over each opposing thigh. If this is uncomfortable for you, then don’t do it. Comfort is also important to the process of meditation. Half Lotus is resting only one foot on top of the opposing thigh and is much less strenuous. You can also just sit classical “Indian style” as well. If you have a weak back, then you may lean against something to keep it straight. Sitting up straight ensures you don’t fall asleep during a meditation. You may also lay down to meditate, but be aware you will sleep into deeper wavelengths of the mind and you’re very likely to fall asleep if you haven’t trained the will to focus on staying awake. One work around for this is laying in a position where you know it is nearly impossible for you to fall asleep in. Keep in mind though, the straight back is paramount, no matter which posture you choose. Don’t strain to keep an overtly rigid posture, just a relaxed, upright posture with no slouching.

     In terms of fidgeting, if you’re uncomfortable and its beginning to fill your mind, just go ahead and shift into a more comfortable position. Generally, as a meditation progresses, you’ll not need to shift as much and will settle into a comfortable posture. The tongue is best touching the roof of the mouth so that saliva doesn’t gather excessively becoming a distraction as well.

Observe everything

     When you first begin meditation, it is best to simply OBSERVE everything. Don’t alter your breath, but observe your natural breath. Don’t alter your thoughts, but simply observe your thoughts. The trick is to not let your mind get too swept away by a string of thoughts. Let the thoughts arise, then let them go. The breath will always be the anchor of your focus and a point to return to. It is ok if you get caught in a long string of thoughts because it shows that you found those thoughts interesting. Observe that and return to focusing on breath. By observing ourselves in a detached manner, we take ourselves out of the driver’s seat of our thoughts and into the passenger seat so we can analyze them from a 3^rd person point of view.

Breath

     The purpose of focusing on breath, according to yoga, is to raise prana levels. Breath is our primary source of gathering prana and it is available at all times. By being more mindful of breath we revitalize our mind and our body. Also, the other purpose of focusing on breath is because breath is the bridge between mind and body. The reason we focus on breath is because if the mind shifts or the body shifts, the breath will shift as well. By maintaining focus on our breath, we will immediately notice if we have lost our balance and focus by noticing shifts in breath or losing focus of breath.

     Optimally, when you want to start doing work on breath technique, diaphragmatic breathing is best. If you don’t know what that is, it’s “belly breathing.” You want to breath from the stomach region expanding outward on the inbreath, and pulling the stomach back in on the outbreath. This breath stores prana better as it sends it to a region known as the Dan Tien, a storehouse of chi in the abdomen.

     Entire books can be written on breath technique alone. There are many variations that activate certain energy channels and invoke certain bodily sensations or mindstates. For the sake of keeping this simple, focus on your natural breath and deepen it into a rhythmic belly breath.

Training the will

     Another requirement to go deeper into meditation is being able to keep the will focused entirely on one activity, concept, or state of being. If one practices the breath mindfulness exercise, this will develop naturally over time. There are other ways of training the will though. The eyes seem very central to focus, so many focus exercises involve meditating with the eyes open.

     One technique is to have an object that will become the center of your focus. Some refer to these as “totems.” It can be anything from a candle to a religious symbol. It can even just be a coin. It can honestly be anything you desire. The goal is to make this object your complete focus. I prefer the candle personally for this. Light a candle in a dark room so that it is the only source of light and thus much easier to maintain focus on. Meditate on the flame and keep your focus on the simple image of the flame gently swaying as it burns.

Objective Oriented Mediations

     When one learns to enter a basic trance by relaxing and breathing with mindful focus, objective meditations may be established. These are meditations with a particular goal or objective to accomplish such as healing, balancing chakras, astral projecting, etc.

     A technique which you may find useful is the Written Intention Technique. Whatever you want to focus on, learn more on, explore within your mind, attract or even to channel…. Write it down on a piece of paper and place it in front of you. Meditate with your eyes gently gazed downwards at what you have written. This serves as an anchor to bring your mind back to the intent of the meditation.

     When the will has become sufficiently trained to focus, you will no longer need to write down intentions. The best mental process in training the will is repetition. Repeat your intention as often as possible in the mind and it will anchor it in. After it is set, you may let go and dissolve into that intention in a more free-flowing manner.

Imagination

    Once an intention is set, it is good to actually flow with your imagination. There is actually a lot of power within our imagination. I hold the belief that our imagination is the context on how our higher self communicates with our physical mind. Use imagery which is powerful to you personally for healing, focus, or energizing. If the imagery is strong enough to evoke an emotional reaction, you will actually notice physical shifts because of it. Remember, all is illusion, and your imagination is a useful tool for redirecting the mind into a state which can heal. Use it in a positive manner.

Detachment

     One of the factors in transcending into higher planes is detachment. The more you can detach from the dense physical forms of reality, the more the subtle and super-subtle levels of reality will be perceived.

    

     Think of it this way, Do you think it would be easy to do Calculus on a treadmill? No, because the body needs to be still for the mind to begin critical thinking efficiently. The mind works in a similar fashion. There are dense physical thoughts of the conscious mind, and then there are the subtle thoughts of the dreaming mind or the unconscious mind. The more that the loud thoughts are quieted, the easier one can hear the subtle thoughts. This is one of the truths of meditation. It is actually quite hard to ever reach a completely quiet mind because there will always be subtle thoughts which can be heard once the conscious mind is quieted.

     Even once one manages to silence the dreaming mind, the thoughts of the collective can be heard. Psychologist Carl Jung postulated this, and mystics like Edgar Cayce actually demonstrated this phenomenon. If one can enter deep enough into the mind, there is a point where all is connected and information flows freely between all minds. Detachment is key to getting there because what we cling to, we identify with. If one is to roam the realm of complete interconnected thought, you must refrain from thinking what you experience there came from you. It comes through you, and there is a big difference.

Infinite Possibilities

    There is literally no end to what you can do within meditation. There is an entire micro-cosmos within you to explore. The more you become comfortable navigating, the more pathways and styles will open up to you. Daily practice is the best way to make progress. Even just 10 minutes a day makes huge progress. Best of luck in your journeys. Namaste~

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Hypothesized functions of the pineal gland: A biological investigation into how the pineal body could be an organ for detecting higher frequency electromagnetic waves.

One thing that always made me wonder about the pineal gland, is the fact that it is literally an eye. The structures of the pineal body bear remarkable resemblance to the structures used for vision. This is particularly true for birds and reptiles. Their pineal gland literally contains a cornea and retina. It would seem as if they literally are seeing something with this eye. The parietal eye uses a different biochemical method of detecting light ( http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v1/n5/full/nn0998_359.html) . It isn’t traditional rod and cone cells which makes sense because the pineal gland isn’t trying to see the physical wavelength of visible light. It is trying to see a frequency that is past the ultraviolet range.

            Below is an excerpt from ( http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/everydaylife/22oct_cataracts.html ) about how astronauts have commonly experienced radiation passing through their eyelids and seen visibly as light.

“Since then, astronauts aboard Skylab, the Shuttle, Mir, and the International Space Station have all reported seeing these flashes… What  the astronauts are experiencing is space radiation zipping through their eyes like subatomic bullets. When a "bullet" strikes the retina, it triggers a false signal that the brain interprets as a flash of light.”

Its known that radiation travels through many things because of its high vibration. So technically, if an eye evolved specialized for witnessing radiation particles, it would actually prefer to be burrowed deep, so that it is the only vibration of light that reaches it. The pineal gland actually exists at the exact geometric center of the brain, the singularity. The trace radiation gathered from the sun, moon, the stars, and all cosmic energies from space would be perceived here as extremely subtle lights to this gland.

            But we do not “see” with this mind’s eye, do we? Some may, but the masses of people don’t. It has diminished in evolutionary capacity since it hasn’t been in use in the majority of population for thousands of years. Let us observe the path of other organisms in the journey of evolution to see more clues.

            Since reptiles have a cornea and retina on their pineal gland, it brings much curiosity on the potential of the pineal. First we must examine the energy/chi dynamics between reptiles and mammals (particularly humans). Reptiles have stronger kundalini than humans do because they have tails. Humans primary draw kundalini from their emotional states, rather than physical body. The reptiles seek stronger external, physical sources of energy such as food, sunlight, etc. This process creates stronger physical body structure, but a diminished emotional range compared to humans. Where this is important is the fact that reptiles sunbathe. They need sunlight to survive much more than warm-blooded mammals. Due to many thousands of years being exposed to sunlight, the pineal gland was exposed to much more radiation from the sun. As it continued to receive stimuli, it evolved to have a retina and cornea to better observe the radiation signals it was receiving.

            It comes down to a big question, what is it looking at?! There are no certain answers, only speculations. Going along with the hypothesis that consciousness energy was a wavelength of the higher spectrum, it could mean that it is “receiving intelligence” as our biological antenna for high frequency radiation and trace amounts of cosmic rays. Every star emits its own frequency, so it would almost be as if each star had its own “personality” of energy for the life evolving around the star system. This is why every single ancient civilization worshiped the sun. The sun is literally a portal of higher dimensions due to its enormous gravitational field and its high frequency radiation. The pineal gland could be the transducer of the bizarre language of these quantum particles excited by trace amounts of radiation from our Sun.

            The official observed and only proven purpose of the pineal gland has to do with circadian rhythms. The irony is that this function is in perfect congruence with this hypothesis. The pineal body helps regulate a rhythm with the Sun to engage separate psychological processes; the awake, conscious listening process by day and the dreaming, compilation process at night. The pineal gland makes a bio-rhythmic clock synchronizing equal time to “listen” to the Sun, and compile at night.

            One more bizarre sign from nature is from birds. Some species of birds also have a retina and cornea on their pineal gland. (http://youtu.be/fhE1BaoTpFI ) This video explains some of the findings of the probe we sent into the Van Allen’s radiation belt. “We simply are witnessing a temporal and spatial structure we never knew existed” said one of the scientists. Basically, there are quantum wormholes of microscopic portions opening and closing randomly up there. Listen to the frequency converted back into sound waves. It sounds a lot like birdsong, right? What if their pineal glands were literally seeing these frequencies and birds translate the frequencies to make “Earth song” into bird song. Before you underestimate birds, consider the fact that this precious life-form has a natural understanding of the laws of harmony and music itself. This structure of the universe must have been observed or taught to the organism somehow through its means of perception. Given how sensitive birds are to the electromagnetic field of the planet for navigation, it wouldn’t surprise me if they actually perceive more than what we think. Their perception of electromagnetic fields may be so precisely harmonized, that they can sense very subtle fields.

            Nature observes nature. By observing the evolution of other species, we can see the dynamics of how certain biological functions work comparatively. Although the majority of this is a hypothesis, it is certainly something worth further investigation and experimentation.

            What makes humans special compared to the reptiles and birds? Self-awareness and will power. By tunneling our focus and calming our mind, we can access the singularity of our mind and the pineal gland. In some cases, burst of emotion can create activity in the pineal. Psycho-actives make an easy, immediate, but sometimes dangerous shortcut too. Meditation is the safest key to awakening the pineal. Yoga speaks extensively on the marriage of Ida and Pingala creates strong activity in the pineal gland. Balancing the Day and Night of the mind opens the central channel of direct experience with the higher essence. This literally could be the point from which we receive higher intelligence in meditation, channeling, prayer, introspection etc. It really could be the source of our thoughts and consciousness just as Descartes thought.

Namaste and safe journeys to you all opening the beautiful third eye lotus~

Kundalini and the Brain

We know already the importance of the pineal gland and it’s role in higher consciousness. I want to address important dynamics of the surrounding areas of the brain and how they are important in meditation.

     The pineal gland (unlabelled in this picture) is the pea sized organ in the direct center of the brain. I want you to notice what’s directly above the pineal gland; the motor cortex. This area is primarily concerned with movement. The area just below it, the amygdala, has to do a lot with basic emotions and especially a lot on our fear response. The hippocampus has a lot to do with appetite regulation and our physical and emotional cravings. The brain stem even further below that has to do a lot with our core survival needs.

     Now let’s observe the torodial magnetic field of the brain. (excuse the sloppy photoshop as I couldn’t find any good images on the internet displaying this.)

     Notice for there to be a clear channel from the bottom of the brain, past the pineal, and through the crown, energy must pass through these points. The odd coincidence is that meditation demonstrates the importance of stillness of the body. Spiritual practice also teaches removing fear from your consciousness. Steady and calm emotions are also integral to meditation, as is removal of primal urges. Do you see what is being drawn here? Mastery over these things literally creates a cleared electromagnetic channel going straight up and out of the brain. This is the Shushuma channel in kundalini.

     Ida and Pingala are also important aspects of kundalini. Pingala being the active,  physical, masculine sun channel and Ida being the passive, emotional, feminine moon channel. Pingala is associated with physical activity, the muscular system of the body, and the sympathetic nervous system. Ida is associated with rest, digestion, the internal organs, and the parasympathetic nervous system. It appears that Pingala activates the area above the pineal and Ida activates the area below the pineal. One of the core preliminary practices to doing kundalini involves balancing Ida and Pingala so that energy may rise in Sushuma.

     Another correlation here is that the “marriage of Ida and Pingala” takes place in the third eye. The pituitary is known to be a gland that control’s the balancing of the rest of the endocrine system. It’s no coincidence that Ajna literally translates to “Overseer.” Once Ida and Pingala come into balance, the toroid field awakens and circulates through the pineal gland. The pineal, which is associated with the crown chakra, bears an uncanny resemblance to the view of a torus from the top.

     It's interesting because you can literally see the life fractal of phi ratio in action here. The heart is the singularity of our aura which surrounds our whole body. The pineal is the singularity of the mind-field which surrounds the brain. Electromagnetically it is much more subtle than the field emitted from the heart and thus requires finer tuning and is more subjective to quantum shifts than the heart's torus.

     I'm still endlessly amazed how well our ancient ancestors knew our biology and how well it is displayed in yoga. There are many truths in yoga that have solid grounds for experimentation in science. Science will find some interesting discoveries by investigating this further. I'm sure our MRI equipment could handle experiments in this area correlating to people doing meditation and yoga versus those who don't as a control group. Until then, continue walking on your spiritual path. ~Namaste ~

All is One, All is Now

     The longer I live, and the more strange experiences I have in life, the more I'm convinced that neither "time" nor "space" as we like to perceive them even exist.. It almost seems that the entire universe is actually an elaborate matrix of minds and movement of intelligent energy which manifests physical changes.

      All is One and All is Now. Thought is our tool of co-creation. Each an opening of a door to a potential universe should you choose to continue to entertain that thought. Take a look at the objects around you and realize every last object was invented starting with a thought.

      Do these thoughts come from us or to us? Bouts of telepathy seem to throw this in the air. Everyone experiences moments thinking of an old friend, family or loved one then finding them contacting them shortly after. Has it been happening more to you lately? It has been to me and many friends as well. This too is part of the wave of Unity Consciousness that is dawning. The illusion of separation is dissipating. The veil of ego is thinning. Such a bold thought to reflect on, that we are all actually One Mind.

       With these things in mind, realize life is short. Say hello to a stranger. Let someone out in traffic. Reconnect with an old friend. Or even just sit in your room with pure silence and experience to what your soul and your dreaming mind offer you to experience.

      Free yourself from the cycles of pain by realizing when you hurt another, you hurt yourself. Free yourself from the shackles of ignorance and materialism by just spending some time each day meditating to listen to the infinite intelligence of the cosmos. All beings; every last one, they are all shining with a brilliant light inside that’s so beautiful, whether they can see it or not.

      As denoted by nature, world events, and the cosmos; The world is preparing for some sort of change, but do not let your spirit waver. The coming months and years will be something that humanity has never before experienced, but with an open mind and an open heart, love will be your shield and faith will be your sword to carve a path of peace for all.

      Believe there is good out there. There is always help to those who ask, and it’s never too late to forgive yourself, forgive others, and to begin a new future.

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The Neurology of Mudras

 

 

Mudras are an interesting tool in yoga meditation. In yoga, they are believed to balance the flow of energy in specific ways when we meditate on these hand gestures.They serve many separate purposes including focus, relaxation, confidence, protection, wisdom, love and many more. I want to make a quick proposal why this could actually be a lot more powerful than we believe.

In Neurology, there is a model called "The homonculus." This little man is representative of the proportion of neurons we have allocated to each part of the body. The large hands and lips represent how we have an enormous amount of sensitivity in these parts. A light graze of a feather would be felt instantly upon the hands, but on the back or chest, it might not be felt with the same pressure.

The key part I want to theorize here is as follows. These specific hand gestures may be used to trigger neural pathways to other parts of the brain. When the hands are held in these specific configurations, they could be activating other nearby areas of the brain. Or an even more plausible approach, is when you are told to meditate on a specific thought, feeling, or energy while holding your hands in a specific way, it conditions your neural pathways to link the two together. Once the linking becomes strongly conditioned, once the hands are placed into that same mudra, the same thoughts, feelings, and energies naturally arise without the need for a focused concentration. This is why they are so useful to meditation because individually, they become programs for the brain. A simple gesture activates all the deep insights of previous meditations by the links in the neural pathways. Research should be aimed in this direction to test the flexibility of this concept.

Consciousness as energy

            I have always accepted consciousness as an energy, but passed it off as an intangible energy separate from what we can call “measurable energy”. I still believe this is true, but I have a theory and clues to where it could be hiding.

            If you imagine the entire electromagnetic spectrum, you have radio waves on the far low end of the spectrum and you have gamma rays and cosmic rays on the highest end of the spectrum. Visible light would fall right clean in the middle of the chart. So infra-red, microwaves, and radio waves exist under the red range, and ultraviolet, x-ray, gamma, and cosmic rays exist past the violet range. With reference to the chakras, the violet ray is the energy of the thousand pedaled crown chakra representing consciousness in its own pure formlessness and desirelessness.

            So it is known that cosmic rays contain a massive amount of energy. So much energy, we don’t have a way of reproducing it yet on earth. We can only observe cosmic ray energies that come from supernovas, supermassive black holes, etc.

            What if consciousness is an energy frequency so high that the massive amount of energy breaks the event horizon of light itself? In other words, thought would be the only thing capable of escaping a black hole. Because of this, consciousness exists outside the rules of space-time. This would fit in with the chakra model because the third eye is represented by light, but consciousness itself in its raw form is represented of the seventh chakra, the crown.

            The interesting area is the boundary; the quantum world. The x-ray, gamma, and cosmic ray range all interact with particles and subatomic particles. This is also where we see the interactions of observation affecting matter (the double slit experiment). It seems to hint that thoughts could be carrying energy at a high wavelength similar to subatomic particles which is why it interacts with them. Making that inference you could throw the theory out there that thoughts are actually objects in a higher dimension but we just cannot see them. It would give a lot of meaning to how karma really works. Your thoughts are literally creating equal and opposite reactions of cause and effect through the functioning of higher dimensional constructs.

            Linking the quantum world with being the boundary of matter and mind proves a lot of areas of interest. Phenomenon like quantum entanglement and superposition begin to show the boundlessness of consciousness. Perhaps when the event horizon of light is breached, consciousness reaches a state of ultimate superposition with all particles of the universe. Maybe that’s why the crown chakra is associated with unity, completion, and the worship of the “is-ness”. It is a state of connection with all of the universe and the Creator himself. Everything is perfect just as it is because it is all a reflection of this grand state of cosmic consciousness.

            In the end, we don’t know what consciousness is, but I think this is an intriguing theory to explore further. Perhaps when we have control over cosmic rays, we will unveil things even more boggling than the double slit experiment did. Until then, the only tool to reach the state of pure consciousness is consciousness itself. This is why no one can ever “show you the truth”. This is why all scriptures stress direct experience and the importance of meditation. It is only through deep meditation that you can have a direct experience of consciousness itself, for even words cannot describe what that is.

Alchemy and Organic Chemistry

            It is known that there are five essential elements required for life, organic chemistry, and to form DNA: Hydrogen, Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus (H,C,N,O,P). These five elements are essential to the construction of the double helix DNA molecule. There is a strong correlation to Alchemy among this simple organic chemistry though. This concept was originally proposed by Hippocrates in ancient Greece as the theory of four bodily humors affecting personality (melancholic, sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic) but I thought I would break it down with a little more detail.

            We have mapped out many elements across the periodic table and we understand most of their properties very thoroughly. We do not know WHY the elements have their specific properties though. It has always been a mystery of chemistry. I want to propose an interesting spiritual observation about five of these elements, and perhaps why they are so important to our biochemistry. This is all just theory and I could actually have some of these elements mixed up, but I’m convinced in some order or another they represent the five elements of all creation.

            The five main organic elements are actually direct correlates of the five elements. Carbon is earth, hydrogen is air, oxygen is water, nitrogen is fire, and phosphorus is ether.

Carbon is easiest to see as earth. Carbon is what most of the planet is made of. It is the foundation of all life. In actuality, the carbon atom itself is really black. This shows the density of carbon and that the color black is just the beginning of the movement of consciousness. This seems to link with the denseness and solidity of the first charka, the root.

            Hydrogen can then be seen as air. Hydrogen is a seemingly simple and free element. It needs only two electrons to be stable. Hydrogen pairs and breaks away like the coming and going of wind. It is the least dense of the elements, and it is actually white or colorless in appearance.

            The hydrogen and carbon pairs combine to make Hydrocarbons, a large area of our organic chemistry. This is the battle of earth and air; yin and yang elements interacting as opposites which complete each other.

            Oxygen is representative of water. We are made of over 60% oxygen atoms by mass (because of all the water in our bodies. H20 = 16 out of 18 g/mol oxygen.) Oxygen is a fuel to the body and to the emotions. It’s light blue color also seems representative of its water nature.

            Nitrogen is the fire element. Most explosives are actually made with nitrogen. Nitrogen has a role with the solar plexus charka and its mental function because nitrogen is very important to the making of amino acids and proteins. These are the mental constructions on the cellular level of how the body will build itself.

            Nitrogen and oxygen interact a lot as well. There are many different oxides of nitrogen. They too, are engaged in a battle of bonding and breaking. Oxides of nitrogen are frequently used as explosives. The rapidly escaping oxygen molecules usually cause explosive reactions. This is the yin and yang of water and fire interacting. The water element is the storage of energy while the fire is the catalyst of burning off the stored energy. Just like nitrogen holding oxygen in place until it is agitated to set itself ablaze as the rapidly escaping oxygen is burned off.

Phosphorous now is left, and it serves an interesting purpose. All of the above molecules are also needed for the DNA molecule but phosphorous is equally important too. Phosphorous actually holds the DNA molecule together as it composes the strands which hold the base pairs. In addition to holding DNA molecule together, 80% of the body’s phosphorous is found in the bones to help hold bone structure together atomically. One of the signature traits of the element ether (not to be confused with the compound ether), is to hold the other elements together while also keeping them apart at the same time. If ether didn’t exist, everything would be stuck together, or everything would fly apart. Some other hints about phosphorous representing the element of ether is its conductivity and it’s gentle, pure, white luminescence. It also burns at an extremely high temperature of 5000 degrees, much like the element of plasma. This seems to reflect the 5^th chakra Visshuda in Sanskrit and how it translates to “perfectly pure”, and also how the element of plasma/lightning is associated with it.

So what does this all mean? The five elements are the primordial source of creation everywhere in the universe. You are made in the image of the cosmos. Also, the balance of these five elements in your body may also affect your entire energy flow. Your entire personality could be based off the amounts of these elements in your body. All matter is vibration, and vibration creates frequencies of consciousness.

On that note, why are the five elements so important? It is because they exist everywhere in the entire visible universe. Millions of planets out there all have solid rock, atmospheres, water, and fire. They may not have the same balance of the elements as here on Earth, but the mental archetype of earth, water, fire, wind, and space (ether) are known to all souls that have ever lived anywhere in space and time. They are a part of the collective universal unconscious. Because of this, they carry a dull energy of consciousness. It isn’t self-aware consciousness like us, or animalistic consciousness. It is an existential consciousness because those archetypes help build life, and are thus exposed to the consciousness they created through the long process of evolution. There is a vibration of “is-ness” with the elements because are all vibrating in unison across everywhere in the cosmos. They are the elements that make the body of the universe. Do you see the fractal image of creation?