Cosmolving
Turn Cosmic Evolving into Personal Practice
Harmonize with Creating’s Musical Choreography
You YOU-ing, Divine-Cosmic-Unique, Ever Newly
Artie Vipperla, PhD
With
Chanie Twersky
Dear Reader,
This is a free e-book, about 50 pages:
Part I has three bite-sized chapters for sharing the basic practice.
Part II has another set of 3 chapters to share how this practice can ground a thorough revision and enlivening of mainstream reality
Part III has 4 chapters to guide you through a fusion journey of subtle, experiential healing of your “inner family”
Parts IV V and VI draws out correspondences with how creating unfolds in a long-secret energy meditation embedded in Genesis, the stages of scientific cosmogenesis, Jesus’s Lord’s Prayer, and Bucky Fuller’s Synergetics. Then how this work can aid you in addressing a not yet-widely noted “trauma of traumas” afflicting our civilization. And, finally, how Cosmolving can be a powerful energetic boost for dealing with any situation in everyday life.
Sample as you like, and please enjoy.
Brief note on cover painting by Biljana Milkov:
The quantum is Cupid* Naked-Blind-Infant-Archer
System of Systems** Modeled as Tetrahedron***
Alive In, As, and Through Us as 4-fold — Think-Feel-Act-Desire****
6 Edges Inside-Out = 12 Vectors — Every Energy Field Toroidal*****
12 Vectors of Equilibrium******
* Arthur Young: “The Missing Parameter”
** Bucky Fuller, “Synergetics” — *** also Synergetics
**** Rudolf Steiner, “Anthroposophy”
- **** Arthur Young, “The Geometry of Meaning” and Cosmometry.net
Part I:
Discovery of a Lifetime: Who, What, Why, and How
Who?
This for you who know, or are ready to realize, that our ultimate home is the cosmos, and that evolving is our destiny, and are open to this sharing of a 50-year lifework, to advance all good work you do in living, loving, and leaving your legacy
And this is especially for you who are into the global movement aptly named “blessed unrest,” the millions of groups dedicated to creating a new culture for life to thrive on earth.
“Blessed Unrest’ is the title of a 2007 book by Paul Hawken, tireless activist, who traveled the world in the early 2000’s to document this greatest social movement in history. This title has since inspired music, and further global organizing to “restore grace, justice, and beauty to the world.”
What?
Cosmolving brings this seemingly removed, “big picture,” into moment-to-moment expression, by filling out your subtle, energetic “voice” to embody, experience, exude subtle energies as never before.
You may then hear and respond more than ever to how the call to create sings out from all we do. For lived moments only become truly valuable as we self-create newly, moment to moment.
The new discovery here is grounded as a practice whose first benefit is that you can in minutes, anywhere, anytime, ever more fully calm, clear, and enhance subtle energies head-to-toe and way beyond.
Doable even unobtrusively in public, most easily while sitting, you . . .
— practice by moving the middle of your chest in a
— pattern of horizontal figure-8’s, at a
— pace of patiently, gently, sensitively, and pleasurably, and transmute on a
— path of doing the moves, allowing, eventually welcoming all through you.
Background
This discovery came to me, Artie, during my 5th decade of a post-Vietnam War search to serve peace. As a dutiful Harvard grad inspired by JFK’s 1960 Inaugural speech, “ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. . .”I responded to the draft in 1967 by enlisting in US Army “area studies,” in hopes of doing something constructive.
Radicalized by reality, I found out “area studies” was a cover name. I had been scammed into espionage, and was sent to war as a spy.
Then, horrified by learning first-hand of the unjustifiable evils of that war I joined with John Kerry and hundreds of others to form Vietnam Veterans Against the War on coming home, finding my role as coordinator of the first veteran self-help groups in New York City.
I needed that support, weeping daily for years over being complicit in state-sanctioned mass-murder, struggling to find some constructive way to help make war outmoded, and having to deal with an inner critic, “You? Who are you? Accomplish what prophets have failed to do for thousands of years? A joke!”
Somehow, I also managed to pursue a PhD in clinical psych, studying philosophy, East and West, and doing Yoga, and Meditation, and working toward certification in energy healing and subtle-body movement.
Also, by recruiting support from the National Council of Churches, I intuited that better programs for fellow vets would depend on persuasive data. So, I led an effort to lobby the US Congress to fund out a national study on the war’s impact on the men of my generation.
When a mandate was passed by Congress, the team of social scientists I had organized to do a pilot study was chosen to expand our survey nationally. The result became the first national data on PTSD, (“Legacies of Vietnam,” 1981).
Writing about all of this appeared as, “Healing from the War: Trauma and Transformation After Vietnam,” (1985). The concluding lines call for “healing from war for the veterans of life,” which would take people everywhere learning to live in joy.
A Spanish psychologist, Gabriella Lardies, came across those lines, quoted by Wayne Dyer, and made a 2-minute YouTube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RomKgEi-rZw
Discovering how best to further that prophecy had to wait until after decades more of study, practice, and teaching. Then, on the morning of my 67th birthday, I got up from devotions to find that moving was moving me, an exquisite delight.
Able since my mid-60’s to “read” energy quantitatively (clair-sentience, learned when certified in Pranic Healing), I could tell my aura was cleansing, balancing, and doubling in minutes, a never-before occurrence in a half-century of experience.
First named “Energy’s Way” (energysway.com), hundreds of sharings over 5 years led to distilling the principles set out above: pattern, pace, and path. Then Chanie was drawn to this work.
Chanie went quickly from student and mentee to more active partner in dialogue. Her probing questions brought me to reveal the influences I had drawn on but had assumed were too esoteric to talk or write about in “don’t make them think” and TLDR culture.
Chanie, the legatee of 100 generations of Kabbalists and mother of 8 and grandmother of 8 at 46, contributed her personal momentum from 15 years of secular, transformation studies, defying her strictly religious community’s strictures on women.
So, the presentation here now includes references to:
— the quantum having a 4-fold nature like Cupid, Greek god of gods — naked, bind, infant, archer — according to, Arthur Young, “Foundations of Science: The Missing Parameter,” 1984
— the long-secret, Kabbalistic energy meditation encoded in the first chapter of the Bible’s Genesis
— teachings passed on by of Rudolf Steiner known as Anthroposophy
— the striking correspondences between creative experience and the 7-fold account of creation in scientific cosmogenesis (light-particles-atoms-molecules-plants-animals-humans)
— key principles discovered by Buckminster Fuller, “Synergetics: The Geometry of Thinking,” 1976
Why?
Cosmolving is a uniquely effective, convenient, and pleasurable way to draw on anytime, anywhere, to enter anew into coherent, resonant, presencing you at your best, as never before.
Whether in love, work, play, in listening to ourselves or to each other, or facing local and global predicaments together, going from “out of the box” to “out of boxing” takes such “new-ING.”
Just as crucially, any transformation or alchemy, as a passage from some less to more desirable state, stage, level or whatever, only happens by way of creating, “newing you.”
Still further, becoming, ever newly, is essential not only for creating, but also for being both inwardly and outwardly, at least intermittently:
— free to explore, discover, and choose, as well as
— responsible for emerging at will from “an effect of causes” to author how you experience and lead your life
— harmonious, as most natural entrée into action that rings true, moves as beautiful, and inspires as good
So, too, emerging ever newly free, responsible, and harmonious also synchs us with the most timeless, universal of all virtues — balance, neither too much nor too little of whatever — which calls for continual renewing.
Balancing is exquisitely dynamic, no steady state, or mere adhering to some single one or set of principles, thoughts, or beliefs.
How?
Most immediately, concretely, and directly you balance by harmonizing ever newly with the ultimate, most natural source of all in your life:
– Divine-cosmic-uniquely invaluable being you are, as you are now called, in THIS moment, THIS situation, THIS time, in THIS life with us and all of life.
Such harmonizing in THIS way ultimately benefits from realizing, both recognizing and making real as experience, how timeless “music of the spheres” streams into and through us.
We will share in Parts IV, V, and VI some ways in which any moment of creating can be enhanced by chiming in with “harmonics” encoded in the sources referred to above — living idea of the quantum, the 7 Days of Creating in Genesis, intuitable in the cosmic unfolding of light-particles-atoms-molecules-plants-animals-humans, and experienced by updating energy anatomy of chakras (Yoga, East) and sefirot (Kabbala, West).
Chapter 1.
Growing Subtle Energies like Rare Adepts
Realizing who you are in this sense is so relevant as we are being challenged to create singly and together ways of living within ourselves, with each other and with all life — all so as to evolve harmoniously with the creative music and dance of living Herself.
Benefits?
Cosmolving offers a way through regular practice to grow subtle energies like compound interest. In months you reach levels that traditionally have taken years or decades.
This finding has to be considered “anecdotal,” based on “subtle energy literacy,” or clair-sentience, a skill available to learn “open source’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeIHn-w8XVQ). No measuring devices have been found as of this writing that are capable of detecting such dramatic changes in subtle energy.
Nevertheless, born out in hundreds of trials over the past decade, you can enter into subtle energetic growth through regular, sustained practice, to a degree that you can learn to assess yourself through Subtle Energy Literacy (SELit) here. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeIHn-w8XVQ&list=PLOvN8DqSvHnjKRgMiZ5O0FcKCj5fFNnzX&index=16)
Being able to verify your own exponential energy growth will help realize the truth of you, endowed as has seemed to apply in the past only to the rare adepts of any generation, and bears repeating:
. . . Divine-cosmic uniquely invaluable for bringing Heaven to earth
The basic practice involves a slo-mo, dancelike, bodily gesture that massages openings that you can then refine further into soul and spirit realizations that ring out like harmonics in higher energy registers.
Rather than tell you that “you are creative” or “you are God,” we are sharing guidelines for you to test, explore and discover, ever anew, who and how you are — and let us repeat for emphasis this crucial focus — now being called to emerge in THIS phase of your life, THIS situation, THIS moment.
Use this writing like a musical score: So, we offer this writing like sheet music, for you to go back over as you’re called, practicing, until you can play “by heart,” and then even improv, endlessly. Video here. (https://youtu.be/JILdZnbHtfs )
Chapter 2.
Fleshing Out Mindful, with Heartful, Powerful, Joyful Energies
Having a practice you can draw on immediately to flesh out “mindful” with heartful, powerful, and joyful energies allows not only to enlighten but also more readily endear, empower, and enjoy people and situations throughout your life.
Doable even unobtrusively in public, most easily while sitting, you enter the practice, pattern, pace, and path as we will now describe briefly leaving specifics for chapters to follow and video demo here: (link to be added)
Practice here focuses first on the middle of your chest and then spreads as you invite sensations to radiate all through you.
In this way you can melt through your version of what is virtually epidemic stiff, embodied rigidity especially in the middle of the chest, even with people who are talented, flexible in main joints, and experienced in dance, body work, or “dropping into the heart” with awareness.
Pattern of figure-8-ing reawakens the original way we move as infants when first managing to crawl, coordinating all four limbs but moving contra-laterally left arm and right leg then the reverse.
This is a way to enact the ancient prescription (Lao-Tse and Jesus) “Become Again as an Infant.”
In your first few months after birth you practiced moving every bit of you. Then, finally you could coordinate all together to crawl — trillions of cells, hundreds of muscles, and 12 major joints — hips, shoulders, knees, elbows, ankles, wrists — plus neck:
Notice: this dear soul is in the midst of a spiraling cycle, at this point left arm and right leg raised together, and she will reverse that next, coordinating all 4 limbs and 12 major joints through the middle of her chest figure-8-ing.
So? Every energy field, quantum to cosmos, is now known in physics to instance when depicted visually the geometry of Einstein’s universal space-time, what we, your authors, like to call “a fat bagel,’ a cylinder end-to-end with infinitesimal hole, formally known as the torus.
Cut down from the top in the middle and you’ll see two circles side-by-side, which comprise the path of energy through every field She creates, a figure-8, the “toroidal dynamics of every energy field, quantum to cosmos and in between, including particles, atoms, molecules, plants, animals, earth and us.
Re-enacting this pattern deliberately can soothe a similarly epidemic tendency of mostly rigid, mechanized postures, gaits, and habits dating from early childhood.
Pace of patient, gentle, sensitive, pleasurable moving melts through imposed and automatic exertion of rushed, harsh, forceful, and numb underlying self-constriction that is the mostly ignored, unwitting, embodied structure of what is normal, but nonetheless a “rigid self.”
Path of refining action unfolds so that your doing the moves with control, at first, can give way to allowing more ease and flow. You then can refine moving into welcoming such grace as to even welcome being welcomed to register reverberations of moving into your usually sleepwalking embodiment. . .
– “sleepwalking” meaning no clue as to how you coordinate the immense intricacy of physical, energetic, soulful, and spiritual being in every moment.
Eventually, practicing opening with this pattern, pace, and path can bring soul and spirit awakenings into your tissues, and into a such radiance that you discover your intimacy with our boundless, living cosmos — a topic we will explore more below.
All of this without extreme exertions, being nourished as you unleash naturally the “plant medicine” in your cells. 😊
Many hundreds of trials reveal that you can thereby blend benefits of meditation, yoga, qigong, energy healing with any other transformation, alchemy, or higher disciplines.
And in this way you can come directly into some at least brief relief that resonates with well-known ways of being coherent, resonant, presencing, and in flow.
Best of all you also experience energetic balance: you embody, experience, exude, and enjoy ALL of you coming more to life through our variously 4-fold:
— bodily based head-chest-belly-genitals, through which we draw on . . .
— soulfully to think-feel-act-desire, morphing as we are able
— spiritually as qualities of ease-grace-flow-joy, which can eventually ripen
— into wise, loving, potent, ecstasy
Now, for how to enter this practice and its pattern, pace, and path most simply, directly, and conveniently, in a way that is possible, anywhere, anytime, even quite unobtrusively.
Chapter 3.
Invite Breathing to Breathe You AND Move You
Let’s start with what almost surely will feel good and you can tell IS good, truly, beautifully.
This can lead, as we will guide further below to clarify, to experiencing a long-suppressed, numbed out truth:
“We Are the Cosmos- She is Alive.”
And let us emphasize that by “experiencing,” we mean the full range of . . .
-knowing immediately, like you know you’re you
-feeling concretely, like you can tell you’re hot or cold
— entering directly, like you can enter an arm or leg to move at will
Here is some guidance for inviting an inner meeting between you who can notice, feel, experience, and appreciate breathing, and you who are actually engaged in doing the breathing.
You, meeting with you in this way, can bring an initial experience of Cosmolving’s pace, path, and pattern immediately, and directly.
Naturally, you open to . . .
— ease into a pace that is more patient, gentle, sensitive, and pleasurable
— refine on a path so that how you “do” breathing, and how you “do” your ways of attending, can more readily unfold so that you more fully “allow” then “welcome” both
— discover a pattern of mutual inter-affecting between your inviting, on the one hand, and your breathing, on the other, as they more or less continually both initiate and respond to subtle changes in each other
Now for some step-by-step guidelines:
Begin and Return Here When Distracted: Basic Instructions
— Sit comfortably, and notice, feel, experience, and appreciate breathing, with the intent to let go of any impulses to fix, control, or make breathing happen in some particular way.
— Linger with this, which means: keep coming back, moment to moment, to noticing, feeling, experiencing, appreciatively, to invite breathing to come just as “it” wants to, here, now, in a way and time that feels easy, comfy.
— Then, to whatever degree you can, allow breathing to breathe you, by inviting breathing to move your chest a bit more out and up with the next in-breath, and down and in with the next out-breath.
— Next, invite horizontal figure-8-ing, as breathing opens your chest, still in time with breathing in, so that your chest goes up, out, around to your right clockwise, then with breathing out, down, in, back to the middle . . . demo here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JILdZnbHtfs)
— Continue spiraling figure-8-ingly, ever more fully allowing and even welcoming to breathe AND move you.
Now for a More Enriching, Full Experience: Intermediate Instructions
Once you have practiced the steps above and found that much becoming easier, invite further filling out of the experience and benefits, as follows.
This will likely be easier for most people by drawing on video real-time guidance, as offered here: (https://youtu.be/5aPzhPvGcNw)
— Allow sensations of this breathing-moving to reverberate all through you, registering to whatever degree you are able to welcome in . . .
— hips, right, then left, then both
— shoulders, right, left, both
— knees, right, left, both
— elbows, right, left, both
— ankles, right, left, both
— wrists, right, left, both
— neck
— Next, sense, linger with, and welcome this breathing-moving-you-figure-8-ingly to register in all 12 paired major joints plus neck, together, as one, single, all embracing experience.
— And now notice: the more fully you welcome breathing moving all through you, the more you can observe that what we commonly assume to be “body parts,” the various joints, cease to resemble their depiction in a physiology text.
— All you notice, feel, and experience in welcoming involves contacting living vibrance, not tendons, bone, muscle insertions, but rather each and every aspect as well as all of you as LIVING.
— Then, welcoming further, each and all of you, like breathing, responds as if able to notice, feel, and experience as well and thereby welcome your welcoming of the reverberating of breathing’s moving you.
— This meeting involves you, who initiate purposeful, aware, and discerning exploring, as you make contact with you who have been living in and through you since conception, as we will now delve into.
— And meeting this way is likely to feel especially full and good.
Then, Welcome-Welcoming Can Become Sublime” Advanced Instructions
More challenging still, try full meditative opening while moving, which the rest of this writing will help make more accessible, as will personal coaching, with additional guidance here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGciYstMnj4&list=PLeFV49E9_r0ZHuVObgf6lQ39BlWbcySIX&index=3)
— Begin as at first above, breathing while inviting breathing to both breathe and move you.
— Then invite breathing further to move you into chest figure-8-ing, and as you allow this, also allow the moves to radiate as you welcome in all major joints, as in fuller experiencing above.
— Once you notice, feel, experience contact, you with you who live into and through your life, invite any habitual inner posture toward “body as object” to dissolve into living vibrance.
— Keep appreciating how your welcome of moving is being welcomed all through you, by YOU.
— How so, YOU? Lingering with this experiencing, you can eventually deepen how “living vibrance” is no mere body function or sensate artifact.
— This vibrance knows exactly how to be and do living, feeling all through, powerful as life force, and ever desiring to continue, carry on, ever more fulfilled.
— You then can appreciate relating, you with you even more distinctly, as you do when going beyond connecting and experiencing someone to becoming intimate, harmonious, resonant.
— And, as in any fully requited, intimate connecting, you as “two” ring like a living tuning-fork, with supremely sourced relating.
— This relating, you with you who live in and through, can now serve as immediate, concrete, and direct experience of ultimately boundless, divine-cosmic energies coming into and through you to this plane.
— Eventually, full realizing that All instances of space-time are THIS: Intimacy IS-es.
This is such a challenging step that some readers may appreciate some guiding words from yet another “way in” to this radical opening.
Once we enter and linger with how we experience our growing, we can enrich our understanding of development beyond the traditional observer’s more limited view of shifts from one step, state, stage, or level, to the next, always “upping,” like a set of constituent parts on an assembly line, passing through Newtonian space and time.
From within immediate experience Cosmolving is self-co-creating, arising out of, by means of, and unfolding into more of who we are.
This experience can bring us to appreciate resonances with both the subtlest spiritual disciplines and the quantum-based scientific reflexivity of our cosmos.
The following are suggestions for understanding that foreshadow explorations we will delve into in more details in the Parts and chapters below.
Originating as light, universal creating congeals Herself into photons (quanta), clustered into particles, then atoms, molecules, plants, and animals and finally manifests as beings who can come to know themselves as made of and here to radiate Light.
Self-co-creating originates reflexively from all that is given in, as, and through THIS, just what’s emerging, here, now, rather than by pursuing some “next” or “higher” or “other” step, state, stage, level.
Once figure-8 moving dawned as so immensely beneficial energetically, and then I found out further that figure-8-ing instances toroidal dynamics, the geometry of Einstein’s universal curved-space-time, still more correspondences became self-evident:
Psychological insight peels experience reflexively to reveal how we’ve already shaped and formed it.
Highest truths are commonly phrased reflexively: “As above so below,” and “Whatever goes around comes around” and “Giving is Receiving.”
Now, for the reflexive way in which who and how you emerge if you practice Cosmolving 1 and 2 to the point of meeting YOU who have been streaming life into your every cell since conception:
Invite, allow, and welcome this meeting to be so welcoming that you merge, you with you, hug of hugs, boundless and timeless reunion of long-estranged soul and spirit.
Then, inviting, allowing, and welcoming still further so that THIS, you meeting you, streaming Divine-cosmic-uniquely invaluable living into and through you, and . . .
You may increasingly notice, feel, enter into experiencing, and taking delight in ever more full-to-overflowing vibrance.
Eventually, with practice, THIS becomes SO truly beautiful and good as to be . . .
Ah . . . developmental opening of openings, “Satchitananda” in Yoga (“truth, consciousness, bliss — ultimate reality), “Eyn Sof” in Kabbala (“without End” meeting with God), Great Spirit in various terms in all wisdom streams . . .
. . . or translated to voice how self-co-creating resounds through all 4 major cosmic energies:
THIS, you meeting you, localizing boundlessness, temporalizing eternity, AND . . .
-Shining luminously as boundless, self-illuming Light
-Ringing with all pervasive self-embracing Love
-Opening thoroughly Outside-In and Inside-Out as effortlessly self-gifting Power
-Thrilling ecstatically as self-surpassing coming, coming, coming ever newly Joy
In THIS way, to whatever degree you are able to explore and get whiffs and tastes, you can develop by turning to whatever challenges face you, better able than ever to “compost,” turning shit to fertilizer.
Part II:
Fulfill the Most Subtle, Potent, Ancient Prophesies, East and West
Imagine, even if it is not easy yet, that with practice, you will be able to experience the successive steps of subtle experiencing.
Then, to whatever degree you can, ponder, explore, and savor the guidance that follows for bringing this experience into a fuller realization of who we are, where, and when and how:
“We Are the Cosmos — She is Alive”
Consider:
Breathing, when allowed and welcomed fully enough, can carry us home.
This is not a surprise when we recall that breath is Spiritus in Latin, Pneuma in Greek, Ruach in Hebrew, Atman in Sanskrit, all words also for “soul” or “spirit” from a time when words were more richly evocative than precisely defined.
And yet, just knowing these etymologies does not unpack the mystery. And increasing numbers of people teach and practice “breathwork” with only the vaguest appreciation for how taking in and releasing air relates directly with our growing in soul and spirit.
So, let us consider further that breathing thinks, feels, acts, and desires, as in:
— knows exactly what to do when and how
— feels by being in touch with all of you and all going on around as well as in you
— acts with supreme ability both to breathe life into you and also to guide you to enhance life
— desires with likes and dislikes, coughing and choking, speeding up and easing, and clearly responds more happily to being welcomed than being fucked with and subjected to some fashionable rigors
Does all of this remind you of someone you know?
Yes, breathing is intelligent, feeling, able to act, and expresses desire just like you!
In fact, your breathing IS you, You who . . .
— entered the joining of your parents’ egg and sperm, creating a new life, unique for all time
— have been creating and coordinating tens of trillions of cells ever since
— by streaming the forces of intelligence, feeling, power, and self-surpassing desire that our living Mama Cosmos draws on to create and coordinate tens of trillions of galaxies.
The Need for Living Science:
To say so can be surprising because you are missing from the official doctrine of materialist reality. Even if you are a “new consciousness” person, you may not yet have melted the view that physics and chemistry ARE reality, lego-like, bottom-up assemblages of dumb, numb. dead parts that coagulate into a biology of random mutations that survive by natural selection.
So, you could not help sleepwalking through all of what you accomplish, living as you do in a world where almost everyone else sleepwalks similarly, a world ruled by shadowy powers intent on dominating nature and masses of people by imposing a top-down, controlled, mega-machine of hierarchically ordered, social structures.
And so, let us invite you to join personally in the spirit of what we will call Living Science.
This is science that invites genuinely open inquiry. and non-dogmatically enough to include as data our immediate, concrete, direct experience of “We are the Cosmos — She is Alive.”
Let us also note in passing that we are freeing “breathwork” from the “dominance” paradigm. It is certainly true that extreme exertions can breed prowess, control, and strengths that can serve a will-to-power over “another,” including “power over” a thing-like “body.”
But “power over” is not the ultimate power of self-gifting empowerment. So, we are harmonizing here with the message of one of the world’s great classics, Lao Tse’s “Way of Life,” a manual on the cultivation of the most subtle, potent, life-enhancing energies.
Not just a compendium of wise aphorisms, Lao Tse’s gem records precise observations in the spirit of empirical inquiry, or science in its original sense.
His main topic is “Non doing” or “Wu Wei,” which we approach here as refining action on a path of do-allow-welcome to welcome-being-welcomed.
In Part IV below we will take up the Western version that has long lingered as the sacred codes of evolving energetically embedded in the “7 Days of Creation” in Genesis.
On the way, let us first offer further suggestion for enhancing experientially the energy benefits of Cosmolving.
Chapter 4.
Unfolding as Living Enlivens: In-Down-Through to Go Out-Up-Beyond
As for what, exactly, we can discover as we notice, feel, and experience making our way “home” with breathing, and welcoming-being-welcomed guiding us?
Observe closely and you will likely find a contrast with the phrasing of most promises to further personal growth or higher development.
The fashion is to use the word “up” as in Ken Wilber’s pithy prescription to “grow up, wake up, clean up, show up,” and many others quip about how to “up level” or “raise” as in “raise your vibration.”
These usages imply some linear, bottom-up direction, which fits well for machines, most human inventions, and the physicalist abstraction, “frequency,” now widely applied as some all-important measure for “upping.”
Living, however, does not “up” in any exclusive way. She unfolds, to careful, sensitive, observing, by opening.
Most striking for our eyes, we behold opening in how plants grow — down to go up, in to go out, through to go beyond.
So, we will proceed here, tracing first how can more readily “fuse” your way to renewing you. . .
. . . IN, past what is usually perceivable or thinkable, to go OUT into wider realms,
. . . DOWN, past what you can usually feel or reach by emotional processing, to rise in subtlety,
. . . THROUGH into tissue that usually occurs for most of us as a semi-foreign object,”the body,” to go BEYOND previous limits in realizing who you are energetically.
Chapter 5.
Challenge “Reality As Dumb-Numb-Dead Parts & Forces”
You will advance in this practice, gathering by accumulating energetic benefits, as you also deepen understanding of how the experience of moving in this pattern, pace, and path challenges our civilization’s most thoroughly embedded life-denying theory.
At the core of our global crises — food, health, medicine, finance, oppressive politics and economics, and ecology — is the view that soul and spirt are mere beliefs, only matter and lifeless energy are real. Most basically, the universe is made from dumb, numb, dead “stuff.”
Our emphasis here is on guiding experientially so you can discover ways to deepen “in-down-through-to-go-out-up-beyond” in responding to the call from great visionaries and indigenous elders to free ourselves from long-ruling, materialist dogma.
Crucial to admit, too, that we, your authors, are appreciatively talking to you through our electronic keyboards, always potentially wired globally, googling in world-wide search the minute details of our lives, we take breaks to catch up on social media like the next guy/gal.
So, we are not “anti-tech,” or “anti-materialist science,” only wanting to highlight the profound limitations that are often overlooked, even censored and suppressed, to the detriment of our individual and collective lives and life writ large.
Most immediately relevant, “body” is a word that has yet to be widely unmasked as deeply chained to colonizing, patriarchy, domination, hierarchy, and the physicalist-materialist project of the last few hundred years to reduce reality to lifeless stuff, rationalizing the collective assault on nature.
The physicalist reduction “hides” in “plain sight” as what is widely taken to be “true.”
Here is one depiction of that mainstream view:
With some practice, and depending on how sensitive you are already, you can move by Cosmolving, and explore with the instructions in Chapter 3 above to the point of welcoming being welcomed all through you.
Then you can notice, feel, experience, and enjoy such boundless vibrance that the picture above will appear as a visual reduction like an x-ray, accurate in detail but stripped of life:
And likely you will also be able to notice, feel, experience, and appreciate that a few minutes of enacting this practice gives you at least a hint that you habitually hold yourself, pose, posture, and move in ways that, compared with easy, flowing, graceful moving are more stiff, rigid, mechanical.
Here are a few phrases that suggest the mainstream view that all “educated” people in our time have been taught is truth, rather than the lopsided, caricature that it is, resulting from an ever more single-minded search to accumulate knowledge to fuel a tech strategy to subdue, control, and exploit nature:
— you have an electro-chemical-bio machine for a body
— basic reality — quantum, particle, atom, and molecule — are dumb, numb, and dead
— the universe is a vast, forbidding, clump of such dumb, numb, dead stuff and forces
— to think, believe, or act on any other basis is woo-woo pseudoscience
The alternative?
Chapter 6.
Catch Up with a Sage Who Was Ahead of His Time a Century Ago
We will acknowledge various influences here, East, West, ancient, modern, scientific, psychological, and spiritual. None encompasses that full range, and more. in greater depth and precision, than Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925).
Steiner bequeathed 400 volumes of collected works, as scientist-philosopher-spiritual teacher, and initiator of world-wide movements still flourishing: Waldorf Education, Biodynamic Farming, and Anthroposophy.
The discovery of Cosmolving and the possibility of exponential growth of subtle energy, of truly cosmic proportions, seemed unfathomable until seemingly random searches led me to this comment from a lecture of his in 1919, and that further study showed is a recurring theme in Steiner’s lifework:
“The human being is the world stage on which the great cosmic events play again and again — nature, which is also a cosmic process, enters the human being, who continuously creates matter and energy, a fact denied by the erroneous ‘law of conservation of matter and energy’ — the single greatest hurdle to understanding the human being.” 1919 “Foundations of Human Experience,” pdf online. (note: “conservation” only applies to closed systems.)
And regarding the discovery that figure-8 moving unfolds naturally in us, the more we become free, open, supple, and effortless, here is another finding that came from a seemingly random search:
Below is Steiner’s clairvoyant-based sketch of 1919, showing how the living universe, and all of its expressions, unfold through the interplay of 3 forces, the weaving of expansion, contraction, and a mediating 3rd force between.
His point is that the same interweaving forces pattern work in us — expansive intelligence embodied as the head, contracting will embodied as limbs, and rhythmic feeling that mediates between embodied in chest as pulse and breathing:
The view of a living cosmos, even to include the quantum, has gathered further support yet to spread widely from within the ranks of esteemed thinkers.
In this view, which we will call the “living quantum,” Steiner’s 3-fold set of forces become 4-fold by acknowledging that all that is actually “IS-es,” evolvingly, by virtue of a 4th feature of quantum action — ever-present tending toward self-surpassing, or “new-ings.”
Here’s the crux:
The quantum and its 4-fold nature is reminiscent of the ancient intuition that celebrated Cupid as god of gods, also 4-fold in nature: blind, naked, infant, blind, archer.
In terms suggested by cosmologist Arthur Young:
“The photon . . . is … primordial consciousness . . . the whole from which other more highly organized entities evolve . . . in continual vibration . . . conscious in that it acts and reacts . . not consciousness as we know it . . . a great mystery . . . we are not explaining it . . . but giving the importance it deserves . . . that ingredient needed . . . to account for life’s freedom and its urge to surpass itself.” (1984 p. 22–3)
Young has laid out in other work how particles, atoms, and molecules are successively elaborate gatherings of quanta, and pass through 4 levels from the complete 3 degrees of freedom of light to the zero degrees of freedom in structured molecules.
And then he traces how plants regain freedom through time to grow and reproduce, then animals add freedom in space to self-propel, giving humans the accumulated means to regain the 3-fold freedom in space-time and energy of light. See diagram below:
Arthur Young, “The Reflexive Universe: Evolution of Consciousness” and also his “The Geometry of Meaning.”
Important to note is that similar calls to come home to our original nature also come from indigenous prophesies of Quetzelcoatl and the White Buffalo, now being echoed by Chief Phil Lane, Jr. as he brokers new treaties between native peoples and host nations all over the world.
Still more ancient prophesies on related themes are recounted in, “Time of the Quickening: Prophesies for the Coming Utopian Age,” Martinez, 2011.
Now, to begin redressing the vast imbalances induced by the long suppression of such revelations:
Part III:
Cultivating Your Inner Dream Mom, Soothing Your Inner Babies
To invite “welcoming being welcomed” into the recesses of your life that have yet to be so graced, consider the following, dynamic image:
Whatever your age or gender, or whether you do or ever did or even plan to have a child, this scenario below is for you to explore imaginatively like a meeting with you in various moments of earliest life this tie around:
Your baby is lying on your bed, a more entrancing wonder than any you’ve known. Reaching out, you feel their rhythms enter you, your fingers answering how they call, moment to moment you take in how they wriggle one way, then another, and still more.
Both of you look and see, and you let out soft sounds in answer to theirs. Arms around them, rocking tenderly, you feel serene, no thoughts crowd in,
Inside and all through you’re uplifted to unsayable thanks for this precious one.
They mean more than your own life.
Staying with your baby no matter what, and all who are around “get” it.
Later, this tender one whimpers and then shrieks, and before you can figure out why, like whether they’re wet, or hungry, or just woke with a start, you’re with them.
Not missing a beat, you hold, sweetly touching, all the way in and through. You’ve taught them, since their first few minutes and hours after birth, to depend on you.
They trust. You can tell. No sooner do you touch and hug than they melt to their core.
Like a faintly ringing bell they reverberate to your soothing words as well.
And everyone who comes near has learned from you this way.
Each and all honor them as the greatest gift of any in this life.
You never had to say the words but they all get it. There is no higher call than to love and cherish them.
All around you, including partner, other children, relatives, friends and even in-laws
look, listen, respond, and make sure this cherished one knows that they’re staying tuned at each instant.
Everyone is poised to reply to however they call for comfort, support, or just play.
Now to Draw out your inner Dream Mom even Further
To whatever degree you’re moved by the image evoked above is your inner Dream Mom responding. . . your intrinsic knowing of what is ultimately true, beautiful, good and joyous as how to listen and respond to most precious and tender life.
So now, let me invite you to vow to yourself,
“I will call up my Dream Mom and seek out my inner babies”
Who are they, your inner babies?
Try these–the moments you were hungry, lonely, sad, wet, wished to be held but weren’t,
Or, you were told to be quiet, left to cry on and on, yelled at, smacked, handled roughly, made to feel that you were to blame for someone else’s discomfort, bad mood, fatigue, conflict with another person, whatever, and on and on.
All such moments, when you had to retreat, give up, go inside, withdraw inside your shell, you practiced, from your earliest days, weeks and months in this life.
Whatever wondrous learning you also accomplished you have since woven your
protective ways into all else you do.
Get it? “Inner child” is an abstraction. You, like all of us, always have your life with you, and however unwittingly all the moments you’ve lived, along with how you vowed to be during many sad, hurt, pissed, lonely, ashamed, guilty, resentful moments.
Now, your ways of closing are likely so automatic, unnoticed, unthought, unfelt, that as long as you are unwittingly adhering to an underlying “program” of “stay still, don’t move, control yourself” you remain closed like some unthought, unspoken conviction to stay removed, closed, protected, that dates from those earliest, distressed reactions.
So, no amount of mental reflection, emotional processing, body processing, healing, integration of modalities, or any other kind of technique using energy, or mind-set altering, is likely to reach for most of us so far in, down and through.
To make contact with your littlest ones, and assuage your long neglected, still painful longing, takes the most consoling gesture readily witnessed being extended to newborns when lovingly cared for:
. . . patient, gentle, sensitive, pleasurable hugging-rocking that new life can instantly experience as profoundly harmonious.
Getting the idea? Cosmolving came as a guided discovery of what has been missing on an epidemic scale.
Chapter 7.
Feeling Your Way to Caring for Your Inner Babies
Consider adding to your promises and commitments: “Yes, how a dream mom can be with her infant is also how I can be, with anyone, anywhere, anytime . . .
“. . . including, especially, within me, with all the moments I can contact when I was NOT so fully responded to, the times of my life that are now MY inner babies to love and to stay with them, as I take as long they need to let this love in.”
Where can you find your babies?
Practice Cosmolving, moving in the pattern. Then, the more patiently, gently, sensitively, pleasurably you move the more you will likely also notice instants of jerky, jagged, unsmooth, automatic lapses.
These are some of your babies, buried deep, so go extra patiently, gently, sensitively, enjoyably.
Consider that living signs-in distinctively by enlivening, easily, fluidly, gracefully. So stiffening is a sure sign of unwitting, but at some point deliberate, self-protective closing to life and energy.
Any degree of stiffness is how we’ve closed.
So be vigilant for when you bristle, get defensive, feel put upon, or resort to tactics you usually know in retrospect involve too much, or too little, of some quality that would be good.
Likely you will find if you reach IN, DOWN and THROUGH some of your “babies” are hiding inside subliminally “clenched teeth” or “clenched fists” or just plain “clenching” or “over-doing” and “trying extra hard.”
Be open to discover that any such habitual reacting expresses wordlessly something like, “What I most need and would be most good is not happening — so I have to squeeze myself inside some way not to feel, or expect anything different from this regrettable lack .”
All of us do some version of defensive posturing, at least as initial reactions. Then, being philosophical creatures, we “bind time.” We establish a script for living long before we’re capable of a conscious train of thought or verbal expressions.
We configure how we are energetically and physically as in wordless expression: “Since this bad stuff happens over and over, then I’m going to . . .” And we close, harden, go stiff, to some degree, in some ways.
The prevailing tendency is to explain such tendencies as habit, reflex, or as inactive parts of the brain, or the residue “caused” by injury, accident, or whatever.
But such explanations, which leave you out, have to then be amended to acknowledge that you are always the supreme “independent variable” in the “equation” of your life, the one leading your life, however much you may be unwitting or sleepwalking.
YOU can awaken, care, and revise what has been so long-standing.
Only by granting that you are and always have been the author of how you carry your life can you immediately grasp that you have the power to revise in this moment, how you are living.
Next, let us tease out in more detail the messages you communicate inwardly, you to earlier versions of you, in moving patiently, gently, sensitively, pleasurably.
Chapter 8.
How You Comment On Life, Unwittingly: Rushed, Harsh, Force
First, let’s acknowledge that you’ve had to learn very well how to pass for doing fine.
So, any ways you’ve long closed down have had to be camouflaged.
Helpful then may be a brief tour of likely ways you enact, “No!” to energy, and have done so since before you could have thoughts, use words, or recall actively.
Rushed
“Will you hurry up!” Ever heard that? Ever said it? Ever felt as if someone is silently saying it to you? Ever noticed that you do stuff as if that’s the message you have to jump to?
How do you get up in the morning? Go the bathroom? Wash, brush teeth, move your bowels, wipe? Put dishes away after washing? Check the face in the mirror?
Notice how you fix your hair, turn on or off whatever devices, drive, type or tap a keyboard or touch-surface, and on and on?
In fact, how do you go about virtually everything if not to show, or prove, or try to get to the point that you can do it better by doing it faster?
And isn’t all of this now exacerbated by our lives of multi-tasking, multiple-deviced, everything going on everywhere always ready to appear on a screen, anytime, anyplace.
Let’s repeat that all of this is “rushed.”
Harsh
How about, “Stop whining!” or “Who do you think you are, special?” or “What makes you think anyone cares about that (you)?” or “get off that victim number.”
“That’s just your STORY! Tell a new one and you’ll be all ok.”
Ever heard, said, felt, acted as if this is voice-over in your life?
Do I have to ask?
Got any kinks left in your personality?
Stuff that annoys others, or worse, annoys you?
That you think you should be over already?
That you’ve worked on in every serious relationship, yet still get triggered?
Or maybe you’ve “made peace with it” with some sophisticated sounding,
“I’m not beating myself up about that anymore.”
Yeah, you may have learned to interpret by saying, “I’m not good enough”
Or “loved enough” or something else enough. Or that “this isn’t safe”
Or “it’s all f-cked” or “I don’t fit in here.”
Or, “You hurt? Too bad. Fake it ’til you make it.”
But you don’t think those thoughts and then bother yourself or others.
You just keep doing your doings on automatic, NUMB, so you don’t think or feel
anything other than continue to whip yourself into shape, because otherwise you’ll fall short, no?
Wonder if you’ll ever get to the bottom of it all?
Let’s repeat this one too: all such “doings” are “harsh.”
Forceful
How about: “Get it done, whatever it takes!” Or, “Did you try hard enough?”
Or, “If you really mean to do it right that will happen. So DO IT RIGHT!”
Ever had to deal with any of this too?
Or ended up dishing it out as well, maybe most of all to yourself?
So maybe you’ve tracked this one down to someone at some time who talked this way, as if you were a failure waiting to happen. You didn’t measure up, you can’t, won’t.
Ok.
Such “doings” as we’re bringing to light here are almost certainly elaborations of defensive shriveling, hardening and/or closing that date from before you had thoughts or used words.
So, at bottom, none of this are you likely to melt thoroughly solely by means that require “sitting-still” reflection, emotional processing, or meditation.
Nor are familiar postures, routines, or even improvised dance routines likely to enact this pace and most crucially, the Dream-Mom inner hug that has long been missing among us.
For our suffering is rooted in the long, unacknowledged moments of earliest life. This is the time of first experiencing overwhelming intrusions, violations, hurts including someone most dear pulling away, failing to respond, inducing the feeling that they don’t care, all of which forcefully asserted themselves as “power over us.”
Those formative moments were marked by our instant and immediate reacting, equal and opposite to oppose intruding force. And also, because all action occasions reaction, all of this boomerangs, and we close inwardly as well as outwardly.
You will awaken to be more alive and free IN, DOWN and THROUGH only as you feel reassured and enabled in formerly sleep-walking depths, that you can be powerful on your own.
Until then, you will remain habitually “forceful.”
Now to bring even more wise, loving, potent, joy into your inner hugging as you draw down ultimate energies, by Cosmolving:
Chapter 9.
Soothing Ever More Fully — Patient- Gentle- Sensitive-Pleasurable Moving as Deep, Inner Communing
Most simply, you soothe and melt unwitting stiffness by saying “YES” with an inner, unspoken but no less powerfully communicative gesture, to the long habitual ways you’ve been saying “no!”
None of this prevents you from closing, protecting, deflecting physical, verbal, emotional, or energetic intrusions or attacks when it is right and good to do so. We are simply neutralizing the deeply habitual, automatic “clinging to closing” that impedes our evolving.
So, let’s tease out a bit what these terms mean concretely.
Here are some ways to “hear” how each of these qualities insinuates a message as you move, one that includes at once thinking (intelligence), feeling (emotion), willing (action), enjoying (pleasure):
– “Patient” comes easily as you “notice this, notice this, notice this” moment to moment
– “Gentle” flows as you, “feel this, feel this, feel this,” again, moment to moment
– “Sensitive” graces how you, “respond to this, respond to this, respond to this” moment to moment
– “Pleasurably” overflows as you bring joy into this, into this, into this over and over.
And THIS means, to repeat, all that is emerging, here, now, for you to notice, feel, enter into as experience, ever newly.
Now, to explore how all of this can work for you, sit so that your feet are under your knees, feeling your sitting bones making contact with whatever you’re sitting on, and prepare to move patiently, gently, sensitively, pleasurably.
Then shrivel like a turtle and linger there for a moment.
Next, rise like a peacock and spread up and out like you’ve got feathers.
Next, sit quietly for a moment.
And once breathing is easy begin to figure 8 with your heart, up and to the right clockwise, then around and back, And next up and to the left counter clockwise around and back.
Keep figure-8ing patiently, gently, sensitively, for a dozen laps.
Be very interested in the smallest vestige of jerky, uneasy, stiffness as you move.
Consider these as your “babies,” long suppressed, muted but embodied cries as in, “no!” or “it’s not safe” or “gotta stay hard, stiff, hidden here.”
And here are some further words to aid you in bringing your inner Dream Mom to your “babies,” so that patient, gentle and sensitive qualities enter your moving gestures:
– Patient becomes, “I have all the time in the world just for you”
– Gentle amounts to, “no greater gift than being with you until you feel safe” and
— Sensitive seeps in as, “we’ll do this exactly as is right for you, one bit at a time.”
– Pleasurably whispers in you with, “how delicious to be so in touch all through.”
Add the idea that you’re bringing this message into you and your life exactly where and
how nobody ever did before, and not even you.
Again, to melt through a widely embraced abstraction, you carry much more than a tag like “the inner child” can do justice to. Concretely, you can “find” by listening deeply any and all moments you’ve ever lived, as somehow “there” waiting for you to gather as your inner family.
So, let us emphasize again: the challenge to “deal and heal” is a life-long quest.
Part IV.
Subtle Energy Literacy — the Better to Deal and Heal in Life and with the Trauma of Traumas
Cosmolving becomes self-evidently invaluable when you find not only that it feels good and IS good, but also that it harmonizes with the fullest experiential grounds for taking action in our time:
— Your every act is energetic expression (“All is energy” — Einstein, 1905; “Energy is action” — Planck 1900).
— The context of contexts is vital, cosmic evolving (“We are the cosmos — She is alive” — paraphrase of Steiner, 1919) — as we explored in Part II above.
Now for what will also be a no-brainer in the near future:
To thrive in living vibrance as our medium of most immediate experience calls for learning to perceive, make crucial distinctions, eventually quantify at least analogically, and voice occurrings in this realm.
So, to introduce the basics of what we call “subtle energy literacy” — SELit (to distinguish from SEL, “social emotional learning” in education) — let us first suggest ways to think and speak to do justice to this reality of vital energizing. Free video series here. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeIHn-w8XVQ)
Chapter 10.
“Energy is Action” or “There No Things, Only Events”
In “Process and Reality,” (1929) Whitehead proposed the following ruling principle of the new physics of “all is energy/energy is action”:
“There are no things, only events” meaning, “all that is actually IS-es,” nothing is fixed.
What we write below will aid in taking in, experiencing, and benefitting energetically from the vast opening that this understanding can initiate and advance.
A further brief hint: anything that appears like a given to be defined as some “thing” is already put by you “in a mental box,” and you, in relation to any such “it” are too (“in a box”).
This phrasing echoes a work, “I and Thou” (1923), by Martin Buber (1878–1965), a title that has been widely referred to, but whose text has been too challenging to be widely read.
It is, in effect, a contemplative study of the interpersonal aspect of the timeless truth that “whatever goes around comes around.”
The idea is to bring the shadow of “I and it” into living light of relating of “You and I” to accomplish one aspect of “be the change you want to see in the world.”
Even less appreciated is that Buber’s intent as highly educated in both the Western and Kabbalistic traditions was to translate one of the messages of the Hebrew Bible, “no idols,” into “thing” culture, to challenge materialism, in the wake of the devastation of World War I.
He wanted to challenge not only the widespread worship of “stuff” in his time, but also the epidemic habit at the root of war, objectifying people by “talking about” them like objects in the third person, as “them” or “it.”
A deeply related inspiration moved Alfred Korzybski (1879–1950) to create a new discipline, General Semantics, to teach “consciousness of abstraction.” His quest was to identify what engineers and scientists know about reality that can build stable structures when the greater world can crumble in the unprecedented horror of World War I.
His magnum opus, “Science and Sanity,” (1933), now in a new 5th edition, he distilled into 3 principles:
1. “The map is not the territory” (“you can’t eat the menu”)
2. “No map is the whole territory” (“no sooner do you make a map than reality changes”)
3. “Every map maps itself” (“we are always confessing, even in making maps”)
All of this suggests that non-abstractive wording does best to acknowledge that any offerings are suggestions not THE reality or truth, as well as partial and provisional, and are expressions of “where we are coming from,” which we, here, will do our best to make clear.
In the many overlapping, interwoven fields of consciousness and energy studies, we see that “consciousness of abstraction” calls for taking up the following, overarching challenge:
Chapter 11.
How to Think and Speak When All that Is Actually IS-es:
In our time, people commonly invoke a related idea, Bucky Fuller’s fairly well-known quips, “God is a verb,” and “I seem to be a verb.”
But few observe in practice such active phrasing, and continue instead to “talk about” cherished realities using abstract nouns.
Think of all you have read of systems, and most desirable states, including “the higher self” and you will find endless examples.
So, first let us add here that Bucky himself was a bit self-contradictory: he would have been more consistent — avoiding the noun “verb” in favor of active verbalizing — with “God Gods” or “God is always Godding, and “I am aming,” or “I am that I am.”
Next, we, writing here, address you, who are at once authoring, carrying out, and emerging as bearing whatever results from all you enact: You YOU-ing you, in all you are and do.
In this way, you, continually enact Divinely-cosmic-unique instancing of quintessential, energetic acting: creating out of, by means of, into more Herself — self-co-creating.
This brings us to what is it at once how we start, will end up, and draw on as wellspring in all that follows — announced in the first three words of the founding text of Western spirituality (read Kabbalistically as present-tense meditation instruction to the reader):
“Begin creating spirit” . . . this is a Kabbalistic reading of the first 3 words of Genesis, founding scripture of Western spirituality, as calling us to our supreme destiny.
These words also encode how creating is always beginning, occurring anew, in one non-enduring instant after another.
As instantaneous flash, creating infuses all that is, but not as any bounded “thing,” locatable in ordinary space or truncated inside a span of time.
Such opening also pervades yet transcends any ongoing experiencing, so registers in and through how we feel and sense.
But this occurring is not itself a mere feeling, any more than it is an internal thought or outer thing.
And attributing to “the body” some superior ability to register such subtle occurrings perpetuates materialist censoring of YOU, you who YOU you in all that goes on in and through your living, including all that you feel happening as physical and energetic experiencing.
So, invoking abstract tags like “a positive force has to meet a negative force,” or “integration has to work on the body and the mind” let alone aspects of anatomy like heart, brain, DNA, endocrines, or referring to any order of “it,” can mislead by implying that bounded, identifiable entities are at work, not the unbounded and timeless source of creating, including you YOU-ing you.
Creating opens in moments that, in being new, are unique, unprecedented, and are therefore not clearly mappable with existing repertories of thoughts or experiences.
Loving-Wisdom Wording:
For the reasons above, we need to use words in unfamiliar NEW ways to voice this “new.” Here, our offering will nod to the tradition of “loving wisdom” (Greek word: philosophy) in which . . .
. . . words are used to call up the understanding needed to make sense of them.
You may want to read that last sentence again: these words “do” what they “say.” 😊
Our approach to phrasing echoes precedents like the following:
Robert Frost’s bit of poetic prose:
“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove, the poem must ride on its own melting.”
The Psalmist in the Bible writes a brief love note to God:
“In Your Light we see Light.”
Martin Heidegger, great, if controversial philosopher of the 20th century, referred to his term for the originating source of all, the “Being of beings,” which stirs within but far surpasses any “thing” we can define, touch or use:
“Poetry is the language of Being.”
Our intent here is to turn phrases that call for creating in the midst of thinking, feeling, and speaking them.
The value of such phrases is to exemplify how we can relate with and use things, thoughts, and experiences, including in personal, relational and social structures, so that we then emerge more creatively alive, moment to moment.
Open Opening:
Now, to illustrate “emerge more creatively alive” try tasting this phrase as you say it:
. . . creative opening opens opening
These words may call up more sense if you think into “the gap” in meditation, or into “the shift in therapy, or the “aha!” of “seeing-in” that later congeals as insight, idea, or revelation.
“Opening opens to the openness it opens to” was coined in 1980 by Artie after a decade of studying, practicing, and teaching focused on both meditation and therapy.
I intuited that these practices tend to be so mutually enhancing among those who practice both in part because they each, in their distinctive ways, draw on the source-of-sources of all creating; opening that opens to openness.
And the unusual phrasing is meant to emphasize that this source is not pin-downable in any definition, concept, or abstract term. (“Human Development and Ultimate Reality: Perceptual Grounds for Transformation,” in “Dimensions of Thought,” Dharma Press, 1980).
The words — “opening opens to the openness it opens to” — “turn back” reflexively, harmonizing with creating’s act of acts, emerging out of, by means of, and into more of Her Manifesting of Divine Insemination. (Cosmos is Schechina in the West, Indra and The Mother in the East, coming into Her own in emerging global culture as never before).
Such phrasing will aid in appreciating as a distinct, ever new departure for cultivating your ability to open all through you, like you could as an infant — when you were more receptive to new learning than ever in your life.
Chapter 12.
Revealing the First Scripted Codes for Bringing Heaven to Earth
Discovering Cosmolving came as a flowing together of various wisdom streams, among them the founding scripture of Western spiritually.
I, Artie, had been pouring over the first chapter of that book, Genesis, in the original Hebrew, for years before this discovery. But as I mentioned above, the subject seemed too esoteric to mention until Chanie was drawn to this work.
Sharing almost daily with Chanie during two years underscored how important to acknowledge this best-seller of all time — the work that begins by telling the story of stories most directly relevant to our lives — of cosmic evolving as creative unfolding on THIS plane.
Not yet widely known is the subtext, “read” intuitively by Kabbalists for thousands of years, and that guides us in realizing that just such Divine-cosmically originated creating is supreme gift given to us.
Inspired authors of the book we know as Genesis entitled the original as “Beginning,” announcing the only truly new idea ever, the idea of “newness.”
They then encoded a secret energy meditation in their 7 Day account of creation.
The details became public through the “Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation in Theory and Practice,” by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan (1934–1983), author of 50 books before he died at age 48.
This is a top-down subtle wisdom-dance to enhance the unfolding of energy centers known as Sefirot, whose Hebrew meaning resonates with the words for letter, number, and book. These energy centers also map precisely onto the 12 phrases of Jesus’s Lord’s Prayer and the bottom-up Chakra anatomy of Yoga, as we will see below.
Our offering here is a way to translate a blended fusion of this teaching into a practice that enhances all energies harmoniously.
Here are schematic views from Pranic Healing, taught globally as a blend of East, West, ancient, and modern approaches to energy:
In the spirit of “energy is action,” we offer the following ways to call upon the energetic skills involves with action words.
These words can apply to action that is similar in nature across body, soul, and spirit expression.
We, humans, draw on each energy in both particular ways that are common among us, as suggested in columns 1 & 2 in the table below. The names we offer are suggestive, like song-titles for creative work that could have endless possible verses.
Consider the following table as a reference, initially maybe interesting information, and only later on, possibly a guide for learning and becoming more fluent in the ways of energetic
action.
Crucial Reminder: To reassure and maybe support you, consider that learning “12 somethings” is a challenge that arises in any serious discipline:
– 12 joints to coordinate to learn to crawl, 12 hours to count to tell time, 12 months to read a calendar, 12 keys in music, 12 cranial nerves, 12 stellar constellations, along with these 12 energies of highest yoga and kabbala, as a small sample:
12 Skills:
Traditional Energies with Action Names
*Following Kabbala, “throat” is 11th, as energy comes down and then goes back up.
Chapter 13.
Spirit and Science Synch as 4–7–12 with Creating’s Musical Choreography:
Two of the many natural ways the energies in the table above gather, as the whole set of 12, and as 4 sets of 3 each, are schematized in the left and right columns above.
We will see below how a set of 7 is also highly significant throughout all creating.
All of this echoes what has been known since ancient times as “sacred number.”
Appreciated as sacred, numbers not only quantify but also qualify.
They mean as well as count.
And their meanings can apply across all realms of creating.
Consider that all of what follows applies at once to you as you perform, by playing in and through you, ever more musical-dancelike and improvised furtherings of who you are.
And all as you chime in both to solo and join in unison with timeless “music of the spheres.”
4-ness
— appeared to ancient sages as 4 universal elements of fire-air-water-earth and as the quaternities catalogued by Carl Jung (1875–1961), Collected Works, Volume 125.
Now, we recognize our embodying 4-fold systems (nervous, cardiovascular, metabolic, reproductive). Even further we have 4-fold each of brain lobes, heart chambers, limbs, and genitals with 2 gonad/ovaries, a pipe/sheath, and sensitive tip.
We express ourselves self-similarly across 4-fold body-energy-soul-spirit, and on each level 4-fold energetic expressions:
— nervous, cardio, metabolic, reproductive systems become
— think, feel, act, desire, and eventually
— wise, loving, potent, joy, and ultimately
— self-illumining, self-embracing, self-gifting, self-surpassing.
The science of “Synergetics: The Geometry of Thinking,” (1975) by Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), identifies the 4-vertex tetrahedron as ideal formal model for ALL energy systems, from the quantum to the cosmos:
7-ness:
— ancient knowledge included 7 modes of music heard as harmonizing with 7 planetary influences (Moon-Mercury-Venus-Sun-Mars-Saturn-Jupiter) and many more 7-s as noted by Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891), “The Secret Doctrine,” (1988), bible of Theosophy.
Now we know 7-ness in natural growth cycles from light-particles-atoms-molecules-plants-animals-humans to 7 levels of the periodic table, 7 stages of plant, animal, and human development as illuminated by Arthur Young (1905–1995), inventor of the helicopter and polymath, in his “The Reflexive Universe: Theory of Consciousness,” (1976).
As a formal model of such pervasive self-similarity Synergetics identifies 7 spin axes of the tetrahedron — one through each of 4 vertices, and one through the centers of each of 3 pairs of edges:
ALL energy systems turn outside-in-and-inside-out 7-ways at once:
12-ness:
— was identified in ancient wisdom with 12 constellations of the zodiac and 12 energy centers of highest yoga (chakras) and Kabbala (sefirot).
Now, more widely, we include in contemporary knowledge our 12 cranial nerves, 12 ribs, 12 major joints below neck, and 12 meridians as a small sample.
Formally, Synergetics models this patterning with the 12 internal angles of the tetrahedron that open as 12 vectors of equilibrium of every toroidal energy field:
Now:
How do 4 & 7 & 12 blend in all self-similar expressions of music-like harmonies?
Behold! Play a 4-note major chord in the key of C on a piano and see, as the keyboard, invented in the Renaissance 15th century, concretizes ancient harmonic principles:
Fingers on C E G C among the 7 white keys or diatonic scale
With 7 + 5 black keys = 12 chromatic tones in every octave
Showing and guiding you in this practice, and its pattern, pace, and path is best done with videos, live coaching, courses, and workshops, a free playlist here. (link to be added)
Now, to apply Cosmolving to the greatest, most personal, creative challenge for all us:
Part V:
Trauma as Long-Postponed Soothing of Pained, but Mute Gut Talk
The most searing of all our personal, creative challenges lurk as trauma. Listen for the underbelly of every human conflict, glitch or distress and you’ll eventually hear your own or others’ usually mute gut talk.
Long-censored wails, screams, cries, shouts remain from unhealed moments of feeling hurt, scared, pissed, lonely, sad, resentful, numb, guilty, ashamed, and so on.
We referred to your inner babies in Part III, but here we want to emphasize that such wounded moments date from throughout this life, since birth and before, and also from legacies of generations, passed down by blood, karma, and culture.
We also want to emphasize we are inviting you to consider a way of inner relating, you as you are now able to be with vestiges of you still un-soothed from moments past.
Relating by turning toward, listening, eventually welcoming and even holding and hugging is, when you test and see, far more thoroughly healing than simply reframing, recontextualizing, or imposing the inner rule that your “parts” or lesser selves have to surrender to a better story.
Recommending compassion, or self-compassion, is a positive step. Then, recognizing that a wailing infant is rarely soothed unless held and gently rocked helps appreciate the greater healing power of enacting compassionate and boundlessly harmonious inner gesturing.
To put the suggestion otherwise, you bring ever more wise, loving, potent, soothing into moments of living carried along that have long been pained by the absence of such care.
Realizing the need for such relating came to Artie once he developed in his 60’s the ability to use Subtle Energy Literacy (SELit — clair-sentience), 40 years after his time in the Vietnam War.
To my humbling surprise I found that the many prevailing trauma treatments I had learned, used, and taught as a “trauma expert” can lessen symptoms but do not soothe all the way in down, and through.
Cosmolving came two years after that observation. I personally, and also in hundreds of trials with others since, that enacting this pattern, pace, and path reduces underlying traumatic energy, layer by layer of course, like nothing else known I had known or found since.
Insight revealed, and energy reading has supported, that the healing power of this practice consists of embodying self-caressing that draws boundless sources of care into deeply intimate, inner self-hugging.
Drawing in boundless harmonizing as soothing self-hugging turns out to be crucial for responding to riddle posed by the most discerning of clients, but not addressed as far as I’ve found in professional, or self-help circles:.
. . . “how can an unloved self love itself?
The answer: “it” can’t, but you, turning, tuning, reading, etc. anew, so as to open and draw on Divine-cosmic sources CAN.
So, with this practice, you are able to soothe in ways have yet to be included in familiar body work, efforts to release trauma, mental and emotional processes to recontextualize beliefs, triggers, and inner “parts”. . .
. . . you as you will now be able to emerge as wise, loving elder, caring for you as you’ve long waited to experience, the many moments of your life needing to be gathered into an inner family, with intimate, inner embracing.
Crucial to add is that this is never a done deal. Our personal and shared backlog of unhealed pain cries out to shift the prevailing emphasis from discrete instances of “trauma treatment” to an enduring practice of deal and heal for life by self-soothing with inner hugging.
The same “never a done deal” goes for the challenge of communicating across gaping cultural divides.
Creating more consensus ongoingly is crucial for dealing with viruses, toxic pollution, environmental degradation, and political-economic forces that block our evolving.
More stable, fulfilling relationships, families, work-places and communities will thrive only as more people learn and practice ways to deal creatively, moment to moment, with the strains, difficulties, and struggles involved, while also facing this enduring truth:
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart.” (Alexandr Solzhenitsyn)
Finally, onto the personal source-of-sources of our epidemic pain.
Chapter 14. Soothing the Trauma of Traumas: “You are not you!”
Now to console what has long been ignored as our original wound in what has long passed for “civilization”:
Few, if any of us, have been received since birth, and accompanied reliably as, “Welcome, Divine, cosmic, uniquely invaluable bringing of Heaven to earth!”
In various ways the message, at best, is more likely, “Oh precious one, we love you, and will do our best to raise you so you can find ways to fit in and play the game.”
Such profound, unrecognized, and thoroughly unacknowledged insult is the original wounding exacerbated by abusive events psychology has pinpointed as traumatic.
As a result, THE epidemic affliction of civilization is self-protective shriveling since infancy, retreating into a numbing, energetic shell.
Each of us knows implicitly from birth without realizing what is right, good, and loving. So as infants we respond to genuine care by melting into comforting arms, and also respond to off-putting lack of full acceptance of us by shrinking turtle-like self-protectively to ward off unwelcoming vibes.
For almost all of us, even caring, good parents had no clue of our or their Divine-cosmic nature and destiny.
So, learning how NOT to expect to be truly seen, heard, honored, and supported as who we truly are becomes “second nature.”
We take in and submit to the message, “you are NOT you.”
How to experience that the Divine-Cosmic-Uniquely invaluable means come into and through you by opening energetically . . .
. . . knowing immediately, like you know you’re you?
. . . being able to tell concretely, like you can tell you’re alive?
. . . entering in directly, like you enter breathing to alter or let it be?
Here, in summary form, is an outline of what is best imparted live in workshops and coaching.
Part VI: Subliming: From Ordinary and Extraordinary into Sublime Experience
Let us introduce you to the sublime promise lurking in the various energetic gifts given to all of us.
We will be opening the 4 mega-gestures — notice, feel, act, desire — in the right column of the “12 Skills” table in Chapter 12 above to identify how their respective energies in the left column “come through” when fully welcomed.
As guidelines we will recall as blazing marks the sequence of contact, full experiencing, exquisite meeting from our sharing of “you meeting you” in Chapter 3.
To make that sequence more vivid here, imagine we meet face to face, you and one of us. If we greet and look at each other and feel comfortable we will soften our gazes.
Looking at details (ordinary “doing”) will give way to seeing and feeling more satisfying fullness (extraordinary “allowing”).
Then, if we’re both really ok, we will soften further, trusting enough to open and see each other’s seeing (sublimely “welcome being welcomed”).
So, we go from contact, to fuller experiencing, to meeting that feels truly intimate (ah! Sublime!).
In sublime meeting, we welcome not only each other but also our mutual seeing. And in so relating and getting through with each other, whether we notice or not, we will have co-created what will pass in time, yet pervades our lives with a new hit of “forever.”
“All pervasive hit of forever” is nothing we invent in such a moment. Such a gift, many of us now know, always inheres as potential in every meeting, in fact, every moment, with living Herself.
Our great challenge as human beings now is to realize as much, regularly, reliably, ever more fully, whether individually, relationally, communally, or globally.
Chapter 15. Soul Song to Ultimate Mystery and Mama Cosmos
So, let us transpose such “welcoming of being welcomed” so as to reveal even simple mega-gestures of noticing, feeling, entering to experience, and appreciating as meetings that are always alive with such potential “new, all pervasive hits of forever.”
All that follows is similar to the table of 12 Skills — notes for extended study over months and likely years, best done with coaching, and in a mutually supportive community of practice.
To summarize in advance, this practice usually unfolds experientially on 3 levels of subtlety:
You Do, Allow and Welcome the Pattern and Pace as a 3-step sequence you ENACT.
Then you EXPERIENCE this 3-step sequence as Welcoming your Welcome.
Finally, you realize so as to EXUDE how this Welcome of your Welcoming overflows as alive, boundlessly, all the way out and all the way in, as we will now explore in more detail.
Eventually, with practice, in, as, and through THIS Self- Opening you can raise ordinarily soundless, intuitive-imaginings to “speak” as that you “hear” a message like Higher Sourcing “talking to you, approximating maybe THIS way:
“We, your Divine-Cosmic Parents, pour all of Us into you and every bit of Us.
“So, you can experience every point is the center of infinitely potential unfolding.
“Similarly, the Oneness of all can come for you to experience immediately, concretely, directly, ever newly how WE are with, in, and emerging as you, THIS way:
And to bring this “message” ever more fully alive, real, embodying, experiencing, exuding in and through you, here is a set of mantra-like invocations for practice and ever fuller realizing.
These phrases will become ever more meaningful if you read repeatedly, like a practice, each time as if YOU are authoring what you are saying, like a consummate actor stepping into the role of a lifetime:
Soul Song to Ultimate Mystery and Mama Cosmos
“Dear Divine-Cosmic Parents of All,
“When I welcome Your welcoming THIS dawns ever more fully, as . . .
“. . . all I notice brings to light what is illuminable.
Welcoming such a meeting can ultimately reveal Your Boundless, Self-Illumining Light
beaming through both all I illumine and all that gets lit up.
“. . . all I feel relates with what is embraceable.
Welcoming such connecting can ultimately reveal Your All- Pervasive, Self-Relating Love
opening for contact both all my feeling and all that then becomes felt.
“. . . all I enter to experience goes into and is entered by what receives being experienced.
Welcoming such interacting can ultimately reveal Your Effortless Self-Gifting Power
infusing this joining as you open both my entering and all I enter, as we both meet by opening beyond ourselves.
“. . . all I renew by engaging freshly renews what is renewable.
Welcoming this ever-new occurring can ultimately reveal Your Ecstatic, Self-Surpassing Joy
coming, coming, coming into and through both my renewing this, moment to moment, and all that arises as ever freshly renewed.”
Welcoming being welcomed still further can reveal how all 12 universal energies come as ultimate gifts, as we refine to draw out their sublime, energetic, soul-spirit essences.
The following words, too, are likely to be ever more rewarding as you turn them with practice to speak for and from you:
“I Notice, by …
…turning purposefully, as You move me, I become devoted to You
…tuning awaredly, as You call, I serve You
…reading discerningly, as You clue me in, I follow Your truth
“I Feel, by …
…caring compassionately, as You Love me into life, I revere You and all You create
…growing roots & branches, as You transform me, I take courage from You
…blooming intuitively, as You fill me with sense, I come home in Your beauty
“I Act, by …
…reaching with initiative, as You draw me onward, and I enact Your Will
…greeting acceptingly, as You walk at my side, I invite Your Family as mine
…joining intimately, as You bond with me, I consummate joy through Your Communing
“I Appreciate ever newly, by . . .
…sharing generously, as You gift me with all this to give, I bequeath Your legacy
…speaking expressively, as You talk through me, I sing Your Song of Songs
…glowing fulfillingly, as You realize Your Destiny as mine, I radiate Your eternal splendor
“So Your Ultimate Intimacy Infuses Who I am and ALL that Comes in Meeting You as THIS.”
Next for applying the potential for “subliming” in the face of the most everyday issues, problems, projects, and challenges:
Chapter 16. You’ll Never Create Alone: Draw Highest Help into THIS
Then, as a most immediately practical way to enhance how you create, deal, or heal with THIS, any situation, issue, or challenge, as just what’s emerging and all that’s implied, even before any solution comes:
Cosmolving moves can “massage” energetic openings when done with a mantra-like, contemplative sequence, which we will first summarize in advance.
Consider these 7 openings as echoing creating’s 7-fold cosmic chord (7 Days of Creation in Genesis; 7 levels of unfolding in physics, chemistry, biology, and human culture):
I — Lighten THIS, to be more luminous and less heavy
II — Discern value in THIS or at least its promise
III — Relate reverently, caring to grow into THIS
IV — Intuit how THIS here now includes everywhere & always
V — Come more alive by welcoming THIS to enliven you onward
VI — Thrive with THIS inviting you to mate and procreate with life
VII — Bless THIS by blessing the sources of blessing, practice your last moment on earth
These phrases are metaphoric distillings of the energetic action implied in a Kabbalistic reading of the 7 Days of /Creation in Genesis, which you can “see” for yourself by referring back to the table of 12 Skills in Chapter 12 above.
They will become ever more valuable as you contemplate these openings while moving Cosmolvingly, drawing on any ability you have developed so far to invite breathing to breathe and also move you.
As with meeting face to face to the point of welcoming being welcomed, you can transpose this new set of skills, like in music, playing a familiar tune in a different key.
Now, to flesh out fuller instructions:
Endow by welcoming THIS, whatever issue, project, or challenge is facing you, with its full range of co-creative resources for unleashing your full range of co-creative skills (chakras-sefirot named as gestures of opening):
Say like an invocation to your issue, project, or challenge:
“Ah, THIS, has come, birthed like I am, of our Divine-cosmic parents, and THIS now . . .
“I. — moves me to TURN purposefully and calls me to TUNE awaredly so that I can lighten, rendering THIS both more luminous and less heavy
“II. — clues me in to READ discerningly, that before any specifics are clear, THIS will bear some value, or at least the promise of such value, for me to notice, feel, enter, and appreciate
“III. — chooses me and empowers me to CARE and GROW by relating with and revering THIS as also how I am being loved and transformed into further living
“IV. — fills me with sense so that I BLOOM into intuiting how THIS here, now reverberates at least implicitly with everywhere and always, with fullest Divine-cosmic promise streaming in as in any moment or situation ever
“VI. — draws me to REACH onward, taking initiative to engage THIS as life’s leading edge, encouraging me to come still more alive
“VI. — accepts me so that I GREET, meets me so that I JOIN, and gifts me with all of THIS so that I SHARE by coming with all that is coming and thereby mate, and procreate with life
“VII. — blesses me as THIS serves as eternally blessed moment, to bless the sources of all blessing, for as fine an occasion as any to practice the ultimate blessing, as in my final moment on this plane before passing.”
Once you review enough to understand the crux of each of these 7 openings, you can distill into 7 words of your own choosing, and use the sequence, mantra-like with breathing-breathing-and-moving-you. Easiest is to share a demo here. (link to be added)
You will then have an even more potent way to enter coherent, resonant, presencing, anytime, anywhere, even very unobstrusively.
Most powerful of all, to create energetic momentum to face any challenge, situation, project is to engage in this sequence through 7 cycles.
And like any practice, most effective in the long-run is to create a ritual or include Cosmolving in a daily routine you already cultivate.
As a fun and suggestive prosy-poem to encourage practice, consider this:
Cosmolving:
Practice & Theory for the Living Quantum (R)Evolution
The Quantum is Cupid, and So Are You*
Naked-Bind- Infant- Archer, god of gods
Particles, Atoms, Molecules, Cells, and Body Are All Cupid Gatherings Too
Boundless Knowing, Cohering, Ever New, Source of Action at a Distance
Sing and Dance Out of the Materialist Spell to be Truly Free
Send the Idea of Coagulated Dumb, Numb, Dead stuff into History
Replace the Global Tech Dogma of Dominate-Nature into a Blessing All New
Awaken from Sleepwalking You Who Live Your Life In, As, and Through
Serve and Revere “We Are the Cosmos — She is Alive”** as Really True
Realize You as Divine-Cosmic-Unique in Bringing Heaven to Earth
Grow like Compound Interest THIS Cosmic-Evolving Reality of You
Practice the Skill of “Cosmolving” as Regularly as You Pee and Poo
Cosmolving.com
*Arthur M. Young, “Foundations of Science: The Missing Parameter,” 1984.
**Rudolf Steiner, “Foundations of Human Experience,” 1919, PDF online.
Conclusion. Ending with the Ever New Beginning: “THIS!”
How did THIS, your reading this writing, phase of your life, and endlessly more begin for you?
Now how is THIS, any, all?
What have you made of THIS?
What could you make further of THIS?
And if you truly dare to let THIS inspire you fully?
Who do you now appear to be for yourself in the light of THIS?
Notice whose THIS is?
Is THIS any less yours as you consider THIS is also for ALL of us?
Or THIS be any less GOD’s?
So, where to share THIS?
Supreme loving blessings for your gift of letting us share THIS with you. ❤
Artie and Chanie
