What is Reality? What is the Nature of Reality?

Every ingredient in the human body is made from elements forged by stars. So are all of the building blocks of your food, your bike and your electronics. Similarly, every rock, plant, animal, scoop of seawater and breath of air owes its existence to distant suns.

In 1933 a scientist noted a discrepancy between the mass of visible matter and the calculated mass of a galaxy cluster.  The motion of the galaxies in the clusters was much too fast to be held together from the gravitational attraction created by visible matter alone. Society has been calling this invisible matter and energy dark.  Because humanity depends upon our sun for life, we have associated light with good and dark with not good. These word associations have triggered racial problems.  After introducing Level One information, we can look for better words than dark matter and dark energy.  

The concepts, or existence, of Dark matter and energy is a clear part of the Age of Aquarius. 

                            Beliefs shape Reality, Reality Shapes Beliefs.

Scientist and cosmologist Jude Currivan reports with confidence that science can at last conclusively prove and reconcile scientific evidence with ancient wisdom and universal spiritual experience.  He presents the holographic principle. This principle is often misrepresented as the idea that the universe is actually a hologram, but it is more accurate to say there is a duality between a volume of space and the surface enclosing that volume. The holographic principle states that all the information contained within a region of space can be determined by the information on the surface containing it. The holographic principle extends that idea to volumes and surfaces in general, and it applies to everything from black holes to cosmology.  The entire awareness of the physical world arises from a deeper level of reality.

As a child I walked through walls, and as an adult I watched adults walk through the walls of my home. They were not even aware that I, or my home, was there.  Due to the lack of acceptance from those around me I no longer experience this. If reality is like holograms, then walking through is both easy and acceptable.  A “The Doctor” television show has shown current practices of doctors practicing/preparing for surgery using holograms of individuals.   

I recommend Jude Currivan’s book The Cosmic Hologram.  She wrote “There’s no separate “objective” reality, and the entirety of our Universe is an integrated, coherent, and informational entity. There is literally no “environment” apart from the consciousness of the “observer”.

Does the nature of reality, or at least our perception of the nature of reality, change with the changing Astrological Ages? 

Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli is another book worth reading. 

He says it is no exaggeration to say that the entire scientific and philosophical tradition, Mediterranean and then modern, has a crucial root in the speculations of the Greek thinkers of Miletus, in the sixth century BCE. The idea of Democritus’s system is extremely simple: the entire universe is made up of a boundless space in which innumerable atoms run. Space is without limits; has neither an above nor a below; is without a center or a boundary. Atoms have no qualities at all, apart from their shape. They have no weight, no color, no taste … in 1897 the first of many articles contained the definitive proof that atoms exist and calculated their dimensions, solving the problem posed by Leucippus and Democritus twenty- three centuries earlier. … Einstein resuscitated the “living proof” presented by Lucretius, and probably first conceived of by Democritus, and made it solid by translating it into mathematical terms.

Twenty-three centuries is close to an average 2,160 years for Astrological Ages. Carlo Rovelli’s book deserves so much more coverage and covers so much more information. 

The Nature of Consciousness: Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter by Rupert Spira 

The materialist paradigm, which has served humanity in ways that do not need to be enumerated, can no longer accommodate its evolving intelligence.  It is the revolution to which Max Plank, developer of quantum theory, referred when he said, “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard material as derivative from conscious.” 

The Archetypal Cosmos by Kerion Le Grice 

Sciences are revealing a relationship between the inner real of psyche and the outer real of the cosmos. Astrology can help illuminate this. Myth and science may equally legitimate modes of apprehending truth. Spirituality appears to be an innate instinct, a fundamental need. Meaninglessness inhibits the fullness of life and therefore equivalent to illness.  Over the past 400 years the development and differentiation of the individual self has entered an accelerated phase.  Some astrology approaches can help. Imagine the archetypes as the basic powers of nature as they are experienced. Astrology principles of number and geometry are recognized as fundamental to the deep structure and organization of the cosmos.  These numeric principles are reflected in the geometric relationship between the planets. 

Mystic Law 

Sixth century Chinese teacher, T’ien-t’ai, taught that the Law of all living beings is mystic. Perhaps all phenomena is mystic. (See Glossary for mystic.)  Chanting "Nam Myoho Renge Kyo" is a practice that Nichiren Daishonin, a 13th century Japanese Buddha (awakened one), initiated. 

Nam: Sanskrit an honorific meaning to salute with reverence or respect.

Myo can be translated as mystic or wonderful. Ho is the law. The Mystic Law indicates that all living beings are mystic. Perhaps that all life is mystic. Perhaps that all is mystical including the law. 

Renge means lotus blossom. Unlike other plants, the lotus puts forth flowers and fruit at the same time. It is the principle of cause and effect.

Kyo means vibration, or thread. 

Honoring the Mystic Law while working with cause, effect, and vibration is helpful in aligning ourselves with reality.  While a magnet has a north and south pole, nature has not created a north or south pole alone. I believe we are one. There is no other or they.