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Overwhelming feelings of love, gratitude and oneness funnel into the moment of sound, into each note of the
biological concerto.
But, as always, the voyager may intrude his personality with its wants and opinions. He may not "like" the noise.
His judgmental ego may be aesthetically offended by the sounds of life. The heart thud is, after all, monotonous;
the natural music of the inner ear, with its clicks and hums and whistles, lacks the romantic symmetries of
Beethoven. The terrible separation of "me" from my body occurs. Horrible. Out of my control. Turn it off.
The trained guide can usually sense when ego-attachment threatens to pull the person out of the unitive flow. At
this time he can guide the voyager by reading the Instructions for Vision 3.
Vision 4: The Wave-Vibration Structure of External Forms
(Eyes open or rapt involvement with external stimuli; intellectual aspects)
The pure, content-free light of the First Bardo probably involves basic electrical wave energy. This is nameless,
indescribable, because it is far beyond any concepts which we now possess. Some future atomic physicist may
be able to classify this energy. Perhaps it will always be ineffable for a nervous system such as that of homo
sapiens. Can an organic system "comprehend" the vastly more efficient inorganic? At any event, most persons,
even the most illuminated, find it impossible to maintain experiential contact with this void-light and slip back
to imposing mental structures, hallucinatory and revelatory, upon the flow.
Thus we are brought to another frequent vision which involves intense, rapt, unitive awareness of external
stimuli. If the eyes are open, this super- reality effect can be visual. The penetrating impact of other stimuli can
also set off revelatory imagery.
It comes about this way. The subject's awareness is suddenly invaded by an outside stimulus. His attention is
captured, but his old conceptual mind is not functioning. But other sensitivities are engaged. He experiences
direct sensation. The raw "is-ness." He sees, not objects, but patterns of light waves. He hears, not "music" or
"meaningful" sound, but acoustic waves. He is struck with the sudden revelation that all sensation and
perception are based on wave vibrations. That the world around him which heretofore had an illusory solidity, is
nothing more than a play of physical waves. That he is involved in a cosmic television show which has no more
substantiality than the images on his TV picture tube. [The Peaceful Deity of the Thodol personifying this vision
is Akshobhya. According to Lama Govinda, "In the light of the Mirror-like Wisdom . . . things are freed from
their "thingness," their isolation, without being deprived of their form; they are divested of their materiality,
without being dissolved, because the creative principle of the mind, which is at the bottom of all form and
materiality, is recognized as the active side of the universal Store Consciousness (alaya-vijnana), on the surface
of which forms arise and pass away, like the waves on the surface of the ocean. . . ." (Govinda, op. cit., p. 119.)
The atomic structure of matter is, of course, known to us intellectually, but never experienced by the adult
except in states of intense altered consciousness. Learning from a physics textbook about the wave structure of
matter is one thing. Experiencing it - being in it - with the old, familiar, gross, hallucinatory comfort of "solid"
things gone and unavailable, is quite another matter.
If these super-real visions involve wave phenomena, then the external world takes on a radiance and a
revelation that is staggeringly clear. The experienced insight that the world of phenomena exists in the form of
waves, electronic images, can produce a sense of illuminated power. Everything is experienced as
consciousness.
These exultant radiations should be recognized as productions of your own internal processes. You should not
attempt to control or conceptualize. This can come later. There is the danger of hallucinatory freezing. The
subject rushes back (sometimes literally) to the three-dimensional reality, convinced of the fixed "truth" of one
experienced revelation. Many misguided mystics and many persons called insane have fallen into this
ambuscade. This is like making a still photograph of a television pattern and shouting that one has finally seized
the truth. All is ecstatic electric Maya, the two- billion-year dance of waves. No one part of it is more real than
another. Everything at all moments is shimmering with all the meaning.
So far we have considered the positive radiance of clarity; but there are fearful negative aspects of the fourth
vision. When the subject senses that his "world" is fragmenting into waves, he may become terrified. "He,"
"me," "I" are dissolving! The world around me is supposed to sit, static and dead, quietly awaiting my
manipulation. But these passive things have changed into a shimmering dance of living energy! The Maya
nature of phenomena creates panic. Where is the solid base? Every thing, every concept, every form upon which
one rests one's mind collapses into electrical vibrations lacking solidity.
The face of the guide or of one's beloved friend becomes a dancing mosaic of impulses on one's cortex. "My
consciousness" has created everything of which I am conscious. I have kinescoped my world, my loved ones,
myself. All are just shimmering energy patterns. Instead of clarity and exultant power, there is confusion. The
subject staggers around, grasping at electron-patterns, striving to freeze them back into the familiar robot forms.
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