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eye of spirit
February 2009 
humming....
Venita
Following is an entry I wrote for on on-line book discussion on Wilber’s The Eye of Spirit before most integral communities came into being. This was with a group from the Haven Institute in Canada. I mention Jock below. Jock McKeen and Ben Wong are two of my favorite teachers. I was blessed to learn so much from them about the body, energy, emotion and boundaries. Date: Saturday, January 26, 2002 8:50 AM Subject: [haven-discuss] Wilber- Chapter 9
Dear friends,
On page 206 in The Eye of Spirit, Wilber states:
"..we are constantly contracting away from infinity into forms of grasping and experiencing and knowing and willing. ....At the beginning of this and every moment, each individual is God as the Clear Light; but by the end of this same moment--in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye--he winds up as an isolated ego. And what happens In Beween the beginning and ending of this moment is identical to what happened In Between death and rebirth as described by the Tibetan Book of the Dead."
I have not read the Tibetan Book of the Dead, but I have meant to and I need to attempt it, I think. Earlier in the paragraph, Wilber refers back to the idea of involution and evolution, stating that the process doesn't just happen during each lifetime, but it also happens in each moment. I find this very exciting. Within each moment, each twinkling of an eye, I contract into venita and then dissolve into god or Emptiness, over and over and over again?!
I am not a scientist, but this idea makes me think of Jock talking about atoms...how each atom is mostly empty space and therefore we are comprised of mostly empty space. I also think about Sephen Hawkings Brief History of Time in which he talks about black holes(?) and howthey are really full of particles of Light! These ideas for me validate my ability to experience myself as now emptiness and now form...the beginning of a vague sense of non-dual experience. And I imagine that as awareness is more refined, the experience of contracting and expanding will speed up. Until an occasional glimpse of the contracting and expanding becomes a pulsation experience. Until the pulsation experience becomes a Vibrational experience. Until the Vibration experience is just Hum.
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Venita, my princess, thank you for sharing this with us!
I instinctively trust all pointing out that shows us fractal patterns. Involution and evolution as a cosmic pattern. Breathing in and breathing out - being born, gradually growing into consciousness throughout a lifetime of play in samsara - and dying back into a flash of god. The Tibetan Book of the Dead (did you ever read it, then?) states that if you recognise yourself in the luminous clear light at the moment of death, then you remain there and the cycle of life, death and rebirth is broken… unless, of course, you have taken the bodhisattva vows and achieved the level of awareness needed to intentionally govern the rebirth process. If you aren't there yet, then mother universe will send you back to school for your next lessons!
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is heavy going, because it is totally steeped in Tibetan imagery. Robert Thurman has done a good job of making it more accessible.