March 23, 2005

• Books of the Realizations 3: Another Plane of Existence

  THE BOOKS OF THE REALIZATIONS: A series of philosophical/spiritual essays

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  Today’s blog entry comprises the THIRD BOOK of THE REALIZATIONS.  I have been presenting my first entries, or the “introduction” to my philosophical meanderings on this blog in a continuing manner. The first scection, posted on March 8th  can be read HERE and the second entry, from March 16th is in this post.   For those of you who might stumble across this entry and are interested in perusing the complete text  right now, which comprises Five Books or Chapters, the complete Books of the Realizations are on the web HERE.  I am interspersing these five chapters among my entries on WhenWordsCollide over the next few weeks. Chapter Three, or The Third Book follows. MFN 3/23/05

  The Realizations
  the true story of faith and how it can be obtained.
  by Michael F. Nyiri

  
  THE BOOK OF THE FIRST REALIZATON

  THE BOOK OF THE SECOND REALIZATON

  THE BOOK OF THE THIRD REALIZATION

  
  Another Plane of Existence

  Dissatisfied with the search for meaning and purpose in life, by the dawn of the eighties, I had pretty well given up on gaining any insights at all, and dove headfirst into a life of rampant hedonism, fueled by the good money I made as a truck driver, and then warehouse manager for the retail chain. Spirituality really had nothing to do with my life at this point, but I gained the third realization as a result of experimentation with drugs. The spiritual meaning imparted to me came after reading Carlos Casteneda and injesting vast amounts of LSD.

  Every disjointed connection in my tortured psyche was shown to me under the influence of LSD. Although I was using the drug recreationally, the truths it gave to me far outshone it’s entertainment qualities. First and formost, it was the first drug I ever took which “altered” the concept of reality. People have long discussed the hallucinogenic qualities of acid. Even before I used the substance, there were quite a few treatises written on the subject. I knew that with a drug that powerful, people could tend to believe the misconstrued reality, and in effect, go crazy. That is what Albert Hoffman had in mind when he invented the properties of the drug to study the schizophrenic mind.. The main thing LSD taught me was that even though the hallucinogenic feelings and images seemed to be real, I knew they were not. But little things the drug did to the mind, like bending the perception of one’s field of peripheral vision, for instance, told me that the human mind is not being fully tapped, and there are perceptions and properties of the mind, that through experimentation with drugs like LSD, that have not fully been realized by mankind.

  In no way do I condone drug use. As I have related,, the genesis of my introduction to the drug culture came about merely as a result of the times and my youth.The drug itself was not beneficial. The opening of Aldous Huxley’s “doors of perception” was somewhat beneficial by default. Since I now saw that the mind does not use all of it’s power, I wanted to see how many doors I could open. In the end, what I realized was quite simple. There is another plane of existence which coincides with the corporeal plane in which we all live. It is not visible, but it exists, Just like the perceived realities which I experienced while on acid,, my mind perceived that the current reality , i.e., our existence on Earth in the “here and now” was not the only existence. I did not receive this realization from Religion, but from “expanding the mind” through mind altering substances. There of course is a precedent for this. The indigenous peoples of this continent used peyote and psilocybin as a means of “connecting” to the spiritual godhead.. Some tribes believed that the substances opened a “spiritual window” through which they could gain insight into the spiritual world. Although Western Civilization discounts such beliefs, they are somewhat true.

  The process of my “realizations” was not quick nor prescient. Throughout time, with the life lessons I learned gradually simply by the process of living and noticing the clues life had to offer, I came to know the truth. Eventually, the drug use abated.. As I grew older, I did not need this means of entertainment, and in fact was nearly fired from another management position attained at the retail establishment because of drug use off work. That point proved moot however, as the retail chain could not find a foothold in the Los Angeles marketplace, and went out of business, so I found myself out of work again in 1982.

  Since my position as a “Merchandise Manager” for this chain was pretty far up the store management ladder, I found myself without a job but with a sizable severence income. I used the three months taking vacation trips and spending money. I had three months rent paid, on the apartment in which I lived, so sought to take pleasure in the time off. By Christmas, I had a new job at a new retail establishment,, but farther down the chain of command. When one retail chain goes out of business, the pond is then full of managers who need jobs with the established chains. I had experienced this firsthand. My “Godfather” had been downsized. Now so was I. Before I gained employment during Christmas season of 1982, I was hit hard by the fourth realization. Up till then, I had really been abusing alcohol. Although the drug use tapered off, I had a penchant for drinking large quantities of beer. One evening, while at a bar with a friend, I had “a bit too much” to drink, and found myself literally “in the gutter” after being beat up in the bar parking lot by a couple of bikers who stole my money, broke my glasses, and knocked me out.

  This was enough of a realization that I had to quit drinking.

  To Be Continued, or click here for the rest of the story.

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  Because this entry is rather short, I am supplying one of the entries from the Universal Blog below. I occasionally write entries which elaborate on my theories of the Universal Mind. Here is the latest entry from the Universal Blog. (Which is on the Blogger Service)

  What is this concept I’ve been hearing called “Living in the “Now”.

  Frequently, new age philosophies speak of a concept called “living in the “Now”. This concept preaches that each soul on the corporeal plane should look around, enjoy, and soak in the experiences that they are going through, and to elevate, as much as they can, thier current state of being into a super sensory state, so that they can assimilate all of these experiences, and not “worry” about events and occurrences that happened in the past that might have caused them pain or suffering, or to “worry” about the future, which might seem to them uncertain.

  The “now” is usually thought of as “current time”. “Stopping to admire a flower”, or to “soak in God’s beauty” is “living in the “Now”. Forgetting one’s frights, fears, sadnesses,  and disappointments for a moment, and stopping to “absorb” the world in all it’s wonder is to suspend these worries and sadnesses. The concept is a “power of positive thinking” rule which tells that if one can relate less to misfortune, then one can relate more to good feelings and satisfaction.

  In the Universal, there is no concept of time, and “now” is “forever”. I believe that the idea for corporeal souls to “experience” their total existance is a marvelous one. So seldom do we actually “stop for a moment” to realize how special and wonderful our existence really is. When we finally pass from this existence, the existence itself becomes a “postcard” or “placeholder” for our experiences, and it is absorbed with the billions of existences which have passed before or are still to come, either here on Earth or anywhere else in the Universe that life exists. Each “moment”, each “now” is “frozen” in an otherworldly notion of “time” so that the Universal Mind can infiltrate, absorb, and experience again these “moments” as if they are happening, “now”. To the Universal Mind, “now” is all that “exists”. The past, future, and present is all mixed up in the “now”.

  If one lives in a ‘rerun’ where each day is so similar to the one before, that one forgets the “now” for the “remembered reality” then one is missing some very interesting and life affirming “moments” because he is too wrapped up in his perceptions rather than his experiences. One very important thing the self help groups of the seventies instilled in their acolytes was this “living in the now” concept. Most people develop “routines” in their lives, and the routines become ruts which are invariably always difficult to emerge from.

  Most people go to work at the same time every day. They usually drive the same route. Sometimes by changing some aspect of their existence slightly, like varying the drive to work, the “routine” existence can be shattered, and “admiration” of the “now” can be achieved. Nobody can change everything overnight, but by inching forward by degrees, or taking “baby steps” of understanding, one can achieve an enlightened state in what might seem the most mundane of circumstances.

  A lot of new age philosophy teaches people to “live in the “Now”. Now is certainly the time to start. When the corporeal existence ends for us, and it doesn’t really “end” because it just becomes more of the mix of experience which permeates the Universal Mind, each placeholder in time that existed for us will be available for review. In the Universal, we don’t “think” about it, it “is”. The “experience”, this “life we lead”, the questions we have and the observations we engage ourselves in, are all “here” in the “now” for us to experience again, at the same time. The Universal Mind also plays host to all other “lives” and in the Universal, all “lives” are one “life”, which translates as the “godhead” or the “creator” of this life.

  When we come to the Final Realization, we attain enlightenment with the Universal, and “now” exists forever.

  We might very well attempt, in our daily existence, while here on Earth, to experience the “now” as much as possible, and this will bring us closer to attaining the enlightenment which we will one day take for granted.

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  From the Philosophy Section in 1999:  For years I have held to a belief system which incorporates lessons from life which I have learned. I call these lessons realizations. They lead to the final realization, from which humankind will embrace the Universal Mind. These beliefs are not new, and are not mine. They are realizations which affect everybody. With the Millennium upon us, I feel compelled to write down the history and origins of these realizations. This is a work in progress.

  The Personal Journey to the Realizations is over for the writer in the book of the Fifth Realization.
  From the beginning part of the foundation for AllThingsMike consisted of a philosophical discussion of existence and the existence of the Universal MInd, which supplants and replaces all religion and philosophical thought which has gone before. MFN 1999

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