Book #9:  An Electrician’s Guide to Our Galaxy – Living Life On The Widest Frequency (revised)

Book #9:  An Electrician’s Guide to Our Galaxy – Living Life On The Widest Frequency

The number 42 is significant in the book 

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams.  

The number 42 answers the ultimate question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, calculated by an enormous supercomputer named Deep Thought over a 7.5 million-year period.   

Can we, the human race, be saved by the number 42?

Though I often ponder what lies within the far reaches of our Milky Way galaxy, I am not a galactic hitchhiker, so my journey must be philosophical and spiritual.  However, I once was an electrician, and my personal supercomputer found another answer—-

And it is

0

HOW CAN WE BE POSSIBLY BE SAVED BY ZERO?

Let me explain by starting with a few definitions of the word zero.

What is the simple definition of zero in American English?

• The symbol or numeral 0 represents the complete absence of any quantity or magnitude. 
• The point, marked 0, from which positive or negative quantities are reckoned on a graduated scale, as on a thermometer.

Who is the father of zero?

• Aryabhatta—Zero’s origin in India came from a well-known astronomer and mathematician of his time, Aryabhatta. The well-known scientist used zero as a placeholder number. In the 5th century, Aryabhatta introduced zero in the decimal number system and, hence, introduced it in mathematics.

What does zero symbolize? 

• Before any number, there is zero. As a result, in numerology, zero is often associated with potential and possibilities and all that comes before the changes. If zeros keep popping up in your life, anywhere from receipts to invoices, these appearances may be signaling new opportunities and possibilities.

What was the original term for zero?

• Sifr evolved to mean zero when it was used to translate śūnya (Sanskrit: शून्य) from India. The first known English use of zero was in 1598. The Italian mathematician Fibonacci ( c. 1170 – c. 1250), who grew up in North Africa and is credited with introducing the decimal system to Europe, used the term zephyrum.

What does 0 signify, symbolize, or mean spiritually?

• The number 0 is seen in many number sequences but has incredible power when seen in numbers 00, 000, and 0000.
• Before any number, there is zero. As a result, in numerology, zero is often associated with potential and possibilities and all that comes before the changes.
• If zeros keep popping up in our lives, anywhere from receipts to invoices, these appearances may signal new opportunities and possibilities.
• Number zero relates to eternity, oneness, potential, infinity, wholeness, cycles, and flow, listening to your intuition, and beginning a spiritual journey.
• The number zero represents the absolute reference voltage for ground for all circuits on planet Earth.

Navigating the Infinity Within Zero: A Reflection on Ego, Universe, and Existence

The simple symbol for zero, 0, often taken for granted, holds within it a rich tapestry of meaning that stretches across mathematics, philosophy, spirituality, and culture. Its circular form, a line that meets without beginning or end, encloses a space that both is and isn’t, simultaneously representing the bounded individual and the boundless universe. This duality, the finite and the infinite, the ego and the cosmos, invites a profound contemplation on our place within the vastness of existence.

At first glance, the symbol for zero appears as merely an empty circle. Yet, this emptiness encapsulates a fundamental human dilemma: the sense of being an isolated ego cut off from the rest of the universe. However, the “stuff” inside zero is the same material as everything outside, symbolizing our intrinsic connection to the cosmos despite our perceived separateness. This duality of being at once separate and unified with the infinite challenges our understanding of self and other, inviting us to reconsider what it means to be an individual within the grand tapestry of the universe.

Philosophically, zero embodies the challenging concept of nothingness or emptiness. It tempts us to ponder the nature of existence and non-existence, framed by the boundaries of human cognition. The transition from nothing to something – from zero to one – mirrors the mystifying leap from non-being to being, a central inquiry of ancient and modern thought. In this light, Zero is not merely the absence of quantity but a placeholder for the profound mystery of creation and the void that precedes it.

Mathematically, the invention of zero revolutionized arithmetic, introducing the concept of a placeholder that enabled the decimal positional notation system and the arithmetic operations as we know them today. The complex calculations underpinning modern science, economics, and technology are possible with zero. Zero’s introduction to mathematics was as much a leap in human understanding as a practical tool, enabling us to quantify the world increasingly sophisticatedly.

Culturally, the acceptance of zero has traveled a remarkable path. Initially met with suspicion and rejected by some societies for its representation of the void, zero gradually became recognized as a symbol of potential, innovation, and the beginning of the new. Its acceptance marked a shift in civilization’s viewpoint, from seeing emptiness as lacking to appreciating the space of possibility it represented. Today, zero is celebrated for its utility in computation and its philosophical and cultural significance, embodying the paradoxical nature of human progress.

The symbol for zero invites us on a reflective journey. It challenges us to confront our ego’s limitations and acknowledge our inseparable connection to the infinite universe. By meditating on the meaning encapsulated within this simple symbol, we can appreciate the profound truth it signifies: in the heart of nothingness lies the potential for everything. Zero, therefore, is not just a number but a symbol of human exploration, creativity, and our unending quest to understand the universe and our place within it.

How I Become An Electrician, and Where Does An Electrician Belong In This Discussion?

In December 1964, I was nine years old. We lived near the Willamette River, which had a great flood near Christmas. Our family lived along the river, just at the highest reaches of the flood, and the raging, destructive flood waters came within one inch of flooding our living room floor. The furnace and water heater, located in the garage at two feet below the living room floor level, were not so fortunate.

My father became concerned about the potential for future flooding and decided it was time to move the family to higher ground.  He located some property on a high bluff across the river from our home and got Jim Stobaugh, the builder of his existing home in West Linn, under contract to build the next house.

We inspected the new home several times while it was under construction.  One time we visited, the roof and exterior walls were present, but the interior sheet rock had not been started.  The builder was there and told Dad that the sheetrock would be installed after the electrician had completed most of his tasks.  It just so happened that the electrician was working in the basement, and Jim asked me if I would like to go downstairs and watch him work.

I remember walking down the stairs and seeing him pull Romex cable through the wooden studs to the junction boxes he had already roughed in. I was fascinated by the work. It almost seemed like magic that a house could be wired so that we could control lights and power from just toggle switches and outlets. I asked the electrician several questions, and he was very pleasant and answered me in a friendly manner.

I was very impressed with the electrician and immediately respected him and his work. The thought of bringing power and light to families appealed to me. I began to wonder if becoming an electrician might be a good thing to do when I became an adult, but there were a lot of other things I was interested in, too, like becoming a jet pilot and an astronaut.

We moved into our new neighborhood, and I met and befriended many boys my age over a short period.  One of the boys was my neighbor Craig Salter, a brilliant young man who, by age eleven years, seemed to possess a creative and mechanical skills package far above my own.  He struggled a bit in school because it was dull, his IQ was far higher than the average student.  We spent a lot of time together climbing trees and building tree forts, and then we progressed to digging a secret underground bunker on an outlier section of his family’s large piece of property.  We needed lights in our bunker, so we secured a coil of electrical cable called Romex and dug a trench from our fort to an outside receptacle of his house.  Craig wired a plug on the line side, and I connected a small light on the load side, and, voila, we had lights when Craig took the plug from its hidden, buried place and plugged it in.

One summer evening, very late, when we were supposedly sleeping outside in an outbuilding his father had constructed, we entered our secret bunker to continue digging further back into the hillside to make more room.  There was only enough room for us to lie down, as the ceiling was only about three feet tall, yet the chamber progressed to be about eight feet across after about a month of excavation.  We only excavated at night, knowing his father would immediately shut us down for safety reasons if he became aware of our bunker-building operation.  We had just one light, which functioned well for our purposes, but the electrician on the job, me, failed to adequately insulate the hot lead on the fixture.  I discovered my mistake when my bare elbow made contact with that energized connection, and my body became the new ground or replacement light fixture, if you will. My eyes lit up in shock and terror, and I shook uncontrollably for an unknown period until I shook free of the connection.  Had the electricity passed through my heart, it would have probably killed me.  In this case, I was not “saved by ZERO” or ground potential, but only by good fortune.  However, I learned a powerful lesson about safe wiring practices and respecting Earth or ground potential.

I took several classes at our local Owen Sabin Occupational Skills Center during my junior year in high school.  I was already committed to going to college and getting a degree in electrical engineering because I had excelled scholastically, had high proficiency in math and science, and hoped to parlay that education into an opportunity to join the Air Force and qualify to become a pilot.  I was then going to parlay the fighter jet pilot status into a chance to train to become an astronaut.

Albert Critzer was a union local 48 electrician turned instructor at the Skills Center. He was an intelligent man who also had a great love and enthusiasm for the industry. His energy was absolutely infectious, and it rubbed off on me. I knew that, somehow, someday, I must also become an electrician.

I took a long and circuitous route through college and university electrical, electronic, and computer engineering levels.  I also briefly was in the Air Force ROTC, where I could not find what I was looking for.  The Air Force no longer needed pilots, as they had an excess already trained from the Vietnam War; thus, they wanted me to be a ground-based electrical engineer for them.  I said 

NO THANK YOU,

eschewing a full-ride scholarship with them to find my own unique path to reach heavenly realms.  After a few years of bouncing around doing less than happy, fulfilling things, I applied to and was accepted into a local electrical union’s apprenticeship program.  I have never regretted the decision.

I was an electrician for a career choice.

I became a spiritual seeker as a life choice.

I found a Truth, a Truth that changed my life.

We find what we look for.

By insight into that which is looking,

We find something much more interesting and unlimited.

Since 1987, my life has been devoted to understanding reality, as promoted and supported by our history and present-day political, social, and religious institutions, and finding sane pathways away from their collective insanity and malfeasance towards a higher ground of understanding, experience, and expression. I am intensely interested in all connections, yet I now focus on those that are primarily human in nature. I am also fascinated with our true ground of being, Mother Earth, and her timeless teachings.

I am an expert in electrical connections, having been an electrical, electronic, and computer engineering student for six years in the 1970s and 1980s, and both an electronic technician and an electrician from 1980, and a computer engineer from 2006 until I retired from all fields in 2016.  I have found much in my field of expertise in electrical theory that is both a metaphor for our human experience in consciousness and for many aspects of spirituality and its potential for human expression and empowerment.

VERY, VERY FEW people look to electricians for the Truth, though the public sure loves us to remodel, repair, and upgrade the old, or install new electrical systems.  Yet this background has sufficiently provided me a foundational consciousness for understanding the art of measurement of reality and consciousness itself.  I have been given access to the doors to mankind’s hidden knowledge, which is far too rarely accessed and applied to, and by, the rest of humanity.

In a process control theory class in 1992, I observed and was impressed by how these feedback and feedforward dependent control systems resembled the functions and internal workings of our human minds, especially with activities like maintaining order and balance or goal setting and achieving. I spoke to the teacher about my observation.  He was impressed with my insight and stated that though we all work with practical electrical theory, only some gain a nodding familiarity with its esoteric principles and teachings.  NO SECRET HANDSHAKE IS REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION INTO THE HIGHER TEACHINGS, but in Oregon, ensure you are licensed!

Electricity, like language or even our connection with Mother Earth, is a foundational phenomenon and requires no belief, only an understanding of its potential for either empowering us or bringing harm to us if we remain ignorant of all of its supporting laws.  The fundamental unit of electricity is the electron, a negatively charged particle, which, when moving in a coordinated movement, will do many forms of work for us.  An electron being negatively charged does not imply a value assessment; it is only a convention adopted to describe its voltage or difference in potential relative to a neutral or positively charged source.

Through a difference in potential energy, with the presence of a source for voltage, electricity becomes those electrons in a concentrated movement generated by the energy source, directed through the “line side” of the load, through the load, and into the load side into the ground and back into the source through a common connection.  This is the action of a completed circuit when the energy released from the voltage source passes through a circuit and returns to its source.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, so in this simplest of electrical circuits, whatever energy is delivered by the source has to be utilized by both the load and the conductors that carry that energy throughout the closed loop.  Ohm’s Law states that the sum of all voltages in any closed circuit must be zero, so By Law, it is verified that, in this simple circuit, the energy given by the source is utilized by the load.  To complete this simple circuit understanding, it is by convention that the ground is always connected to the negative terminal on a voltage source and to the load side of the resistor.  If there is a difference in potential between the two “grounds,” there will be circuit unpredictability and unexpected performance degradations.

Similarly, our symbols and letters are analogous to electrons in an electric circuit.  They are fundamental units of consciousness and require an intelligent application of our perceptual capacity working in concert with our senses, previous knowledge, emotions, insight, or even intuition upon any object of our awareness.  And, guess who or what becomes the source for voltage in this analogy?  There is a conceptual voltage, or difference in potential, created by the action of the knower (you, or I, or both) attempting to understand the known (that which we are witnessing, knowing, or perceiving) by assigning a symbol, a string of characters, or even a word to the phenomenon observed. This character stream is impressed upon our new known, equivalent to a load in our simplified circuit of human consciousness.  This perceptual creation makes us, the knower, the electrical equivalent of the previously mentioned voltage source in all active circuits.  Like in a standard electrical circuit, there is also a reference ground that must fundamentally be connected to the voltage source, which is us.

The new object of perception becomes part of a perceptual circuit and reflects the difference in potential energy between the knower and the known.  In this analogy, the circuit is balanced when the energy of the understanding of the knower becomes equivalent to the energy of the known. The higher the potential energy of the knower, the higher the energy that will be imparted upon the newly known.  In other words, the knower and the known become one, though mirror images of each other in potential difference.   Remember Ohm’s Law?  The sum of voltages in any closed circuit must be zero, as energy cannot be created or destroyed, so even in our human circuit of naming and understanding, a form of Ohm’s Law is working. Yet, the question remains about the equivalent of the ground potential to consciousness with this analogy.

Words are how we categorize or name each new connecting link between our sense of self and our environment in the movement of our consciousness.  The word we create out of our letters and symbols and use to represent the new known becomes the equivalent in consciousness of electricity, becoming a completed circuit to connect our knowing self to the latest known created, and this is an actual exchange of energy.   Each verbal creation is a new iteration of our conscious self and adds to our sense of self, our potential energy as a source, and the vast accumulation of knowledge we already have.  Our accumulation of knowledge, literally and figuratively, increases the actual energy potential of us as human energy sources.

This is all good, but how can we understand this better at a human, spiritual level?  Take, for instance, the practice of meditation.  In some varieties of the meditative experience, the practitioner is given a mantra or word to focus upon during a meditative session.  The word could be any word or expression, with the intention of the practitioner to concentrate on the word, eventually at the exclusion of most or all other thoughts, if possible.  Suppose the practitioner can develop and maintain a clear enough focus. In that case, all that remains during this meditative session is the knower, the practitioner’s awareness, and the known, which is the mantra word.  This is a completed circuit of consciousness, and the knower, in a realized state of being, becomes ONE with the energy behind the word represented by the mantra itself.  The practitioner sees the reflection of him/herself in the mirror of the realization of the word itself.

In July of 1987, while performing this exact style of meditation, I had a unique, transformative experience.  My mantra was “Master Teacher of the Light,” which I recited repeatedly.  I had used this mantra for several days, with little “success,” yet I was persistent and kept after it.  After about five minutes of reciting the mantra, without warning, I was lifted out of my everyday bodily awareness and started having an “out-of-body experience.”   I perceived that my life was like driving an automobile, with my mind as the operator of the car’s steering wheel.  I had a choice to make, to continue letting my conditioned mind, which is the sum total of my past experience of my body and my previous 32 years of life, dictate the direction of my life in the present and the future or let go of the controls, and experience a new realm of understanding and being.  Well, the choice had been made long ago, and almost magically and mysteriously, I did let go of the controls and was lifted out of my bodily awareness.  I no longer had any awareness of my body or my past, just of my present state of being, which was a total mystery, yet had an irresistible, magnetic attraction to my awareness.

I was carried by the river of the unknown through a fantastic, infinite, vibrating array of interconnected living structures, which I came to understand was the actual matrix of consciousness itself.  As if in a half spiral downward, my awareness was carried through this matrix, and I then “materialized” within a chamber without boundaries, where there was no light or darkness, just Peace and Joy.  An inexplicable SILENCE and a VIBRANCY felt so familiar, yet I had never been here before in my regular or meditative life.  My time here might have been a fraction of a second or ten minutes in length, yet I will never know, for here there was no sense of space or time, only SILENCE and an inexplicable sense of the presence of an ENERGY.

Here is where things go from interesting and unusual to transformative and transcendent.  As I “sat” in this “womb,” I could clearly see the entirety of consciousness itself,  its truth and magic, its nonsense, and all variations of it between these two apparent poles.  I saw how each word that I created and incorporated into my personal knowledge was ONE with me; there is no such thing as YOU in this exalted state of being.  Are you ready for this next truth?  I saw that every concept of YOU that I have ever created is only an extension of me, YOU cannot ever be real in any lasting, spiritual sense.   There is only ONE, no matter how tightly I cling to the MANY.   Each so-called “known” in this new understanding is another iteration of my sense of self, so me as a “knower” and me as the “knowns” are forever ONE.

Concepts are words married together in a creative and/or evolutionary movement in an increasingly sophisticated fashion.  Communication is words and concepts in an interpersonal movement, transferring actual intelligence and understanding.  And spirituality is words, concepts, communication, and action in a creative, loving movement. By definition, any energy that moves over time is doing work, and all of these energies can be harnessed to do the work necessary for the betterment of mankind.  The intention will become prime movers of consciousness and its action in the world and become the directors of this great energy in this world that we share.

Like all electrical and human systems that I have studied and attempted repair upon, I always seek to understand each installation or human being entirely and then improve all faulty or underperforming supporting systems as necessary.  Suppose the system was created from a defective foundational understanding. In that case, I will even be part of the creation of a new system that will more effectively carry our intentions, and do more meaningful and efficient work for us.

If establishing or maintaining order and balance is our concern, we can channel all relevant knowledge into intelligent systems of control that will maintain maximum stability wherever necessary, but only under those conditions where we understand most or all of the variables. The basic process control theory underlying all modern industrial and manufacturing systems has an equivalent in the human mind, where feedback and feedforward information loops are used for defining, refining, and maintaining order. The human and spiritual equivalence is called mindfulness practices, purpose-driven goal setting and achieving, personal inventory, course correction and the making of amends, and meditation.

There are fundamental limitations of the body and the mind that must be taken into account to have any hope of understanding all supporting and non-supporting abilities to implement stability and control and even to enhance our evolutionary potential.  For humans, the primary systems of control are through the implementation of the laws of family, society, and religions, as well as their enforcement and/or obeyance.  However, we have not accurately developed an understanding of all of the boundary conditions for our human experience until we cultivate a more Mother Earth-centered approach to living supported by the practices of mindfulness and enhanced self-awareness.

Humanity’s egregious blunder has been attempting to bring stability to itself while disregarding the laws of our spiritual heritage and Mother Nature, which mankind continues to ignore, at its peril. The instability introduced into our collective Earth life system by humanity’s ignorance of these laws will not be correctable until we humble ourselves enough to learn from our mistakes, be they theological, philosophical, religious, economic, ecological, or social in nature.

We are all alive today due to the self-organizing principles of life itself. In manufacturing and industrial processes, our planet Earth and its journey through the solar system, and even in the human mind, we witness the wonders and mysteries of self-organizing systems in action. The human brain has evolved into a capable predictive mechanism and is the source of conscious action since the introduction of language as a tool for communication. Words are used to measure our experience and are our primary avenue for communication with each other. And, our words, and knowledge subsequently built upon the foundation of our words, are our mediums for establishing a ground of shared knowledge, and a medium for communication of that knowledge.

Words are containers for potential energy, becoming a material manifestation and representation of kinetic energy, or the energy of movement. The knower (you and I), when in movement towards a goal, is kinetic energy itself. However, the knower (you and I) can become quite static when our words do not motivate us to become active in this world. We may even become burdened by this unrealized potential energy.

Remember, our words are our attempts to bridge the gap between the knower and the known, and they become part of the basic, though potentially infinite, substance that defines us as verbally conscious beings. The introduction of words into the conscious void of the ancient human being must have been the most transformational, apocalyptic event in human history, probably being more important than the harnessing of the power of fire and water for the creation of the conditions for safety, security, and even society itself.  Yet, we still need those who are knowledgeable about these connections, how to safely utilize them,  and understand the energy behind them to assist all of us in reaching our collective potential.

Does anyone know of any enlightened masters or even master electricians whose knowledge and understanding we may access to achieve our individual and collective goals? Just as social engineers and spiritual masters have insight into how to bring greater balance and order into a person or the society that they live within, so do electricians also have their teachings around such issues.

Electricians must learn the philosophy of grounding and bonding to prevent safety issues or accidents from happening for any existing facility or any new installations.  Grounding and bonding techniques are utilized to design and properly function any electrical system.  “Ground” in the power distribution grid is the ground around you when you are walking outside. It is the dirt, rocks, groundwater, and so on . Mother Earth is the direct source of all successful grounding.  Grounding is connecting electrical systems, appliances, and metal enclosures to a common reference point, typically, the potential of the ground that Mother Earth provides.  Grounding provides a low resistance path for electricity to flow and is part of the return path for any complete circuit.

Bonding is a process for connecting all conductive materials together that do not have a direct connection to Mother Earth or Ground and then connecting that connecting link to Ground. Thus, bonding between discrete components and building structures supplies the necessary conductor paths to ensure that those circuits have a consistent reference potential grid tied to Mother Earth’s ground potential.

By internationally accepted electrical standards, ground potential is set to ZERO volts, and all derived or existing voltages are referenced to that ground or zeroed voltage.  The safety and operational integrity of any system is preserved, protected, and

SAVED BY ZERO,

or a common ground reference potential. What is the relationship between Mother Earth as an electrical ground and Mother Earth as a spiritual ground?

Our modern world has encouraged us to become increasingly disconnected from nature. Civilization, with its need for farming and cities, has overrun vast tracks of the natural world, eliminating much of our spiritual and physical support.  We eat, sleep, and live indoors, drive automobiles that are supported by insulating rubber tires, wear shoes that create a barrier to the Earth, work in offices with no plants or outdoor views, are subject to constant distraction and philosophical oppression and corruption from religious and political authorities, hyper-stimulated through smartphones and media obsession. This 21st-century lifestyle contributes to a  lack of connection with nature, which is the manifestation of our True Ground.

Without being connected to the Earth, we become ungrounded.  In at least a figurative sense, if not literally, we are constantly taking on frequencies that aren’t very supportive of our human minds and bodies, frequencies that conflict with our natural resonance.  Without grounding, it becomes difficult to discharge the frequencies we’ve taken on board. We can even become controlled and oppressed by those chaotic energies.

Without a common reference point, our words and concepts will be out of phase with other reference points, minimizing harmonization with others.  Communication failures resulting from conflicting frames of reference create stress and anxiety. Over time, it takes its toll on our mental and physical health, too. Without a connection with the Earth, we don’t share in a healing common knowledge, negating or preventing any sense of supportive calm and well-being that happens naturally when we are earthed.

As a young lad, I had a next-door neighbor friend with whom I helped build an underground fort.  We would tell our parents that we were “camping out” in the yard, and then after they went to bed, we would hot wire a cord from the garage to a portable light with exposed connections, which we would use to illuminate the inside of our expanding cave.  Once, I became the ground path when I brushed up against the 115-volt hot lead to the lamp.  I screamed, shook, and struggled to free myself from the ground circuit I had become part of, and, by good fortune, I shook free, and my life was saved.  Another time, as an apprentice electrician, I opened up a junction box. I saw some sparking under a big blue wire nut (used to hold multiple conductors together under one connection point).  Without thinking, I reached out for the wire nut to tighten it.  The insulation had broken down from the arcing, and I became the ground for a 277-volt lighting circuit.   I could jerk my hand free, but other electricians and homeowners have been much less fortunate. You have never known a more helpless feeling than being an unintentional ground, and the two near-electrocution stories have stayed with me my entire life.

Yet, what about those other broken connections that are human in nature and have greatly harmed us and others?  What about that boss who has built up a huge anger charge and is just waiting to discharge it through some unwitting recipient?  Or how about that religious fundamentalist who bullies or cajoles everyone who does not believe in the same biblical story that he was inculcated?  Who hasn’t ever wanted to ground out that obnoxious narrative?  We never know who is just waiting to use our life to discharge their negative energy through, do we?

A primary law of consciousness is that all we see while living in the universe of symbols and words are extensions of our concept and image-filled minds unless, through extensive meditation or grace, we have developed a sacred capacity to observe with an unconditioned mind.  Our minds are just another form of energy that utilizes our brains and bodies’ potential and kinetic energy.  Because we are both an individual and a collectively conscious person, virtually all of the images and concepts that we have, all others have, whether they are consciously entertaining them with us at the same time or not.  So, the energy that our mind sees through the action of its perception may or may not have any ultimate standing in reality, even though all may share in a common understanding of both the symbology and its application to a consensus worldview that we now call reality.

Remember, everything we see or experience is ENERGY, either in its potential (resting) or kinetic (action) form.  In its potential form, energy is the scenery we witness before naming or categorizing.  In its kinetic form, it is the words and concepts we have created to represent what we are now seeing and then attempt to share with others through communication.   Either way, we are ENERGY, with an infinite capacity to do work or be at rest.  The words, concepts, and languages we utilize help us build energy, store it, and then use it through communication in ways that resonate with the concept of our greater good.  Yet, will these ideas be appropriate for enhancing the greater good of ourselves, humanity, and Mother Earth?

Electricity does not exist without a difference in potential energy, or voltage, between components and a completed or closed loop circuit to carry its energy, with a common reference potential.  Spirituality and truth are manifestations of the difference in potential energy between a person’s collective self-concept and any ground of being or ultimate truth.  Words are continuously being formed in our minds to bridge that gap in our sometimes vain attempt to measure and understand our elusive ground energy of consciousness, which may be immeasurable. Yet, it must become our common reference point, lest we continue to build into our human systems, increasing divisive thinking, volatility, and incoherence.

Like in electrical connections, reference potentials in the real-life human experience of consciousness help stabilize connections and provide stability and extra predictability to relationships.  If all people share common knowledge and understanding, there will be no catastrophic failures in the communications aspects of social networks.

The best spiritual reference point is also Mother Earth.  If the materials of Mother Earth are remembered to be the source for all life, then whatever true potential we have is sourced through that sacred connection.  A great way to stay spiritually grounded and bonded is to remember our true source and that we are of Mother Earth and may consciously carry that spiritual energy into our relationships.  As the Mother loves us, we must bring that motherly love to ALL of our relationships; this dynamic energy exchange is a form of entrainment or resonance.  We will discuss this unique and potentially transformative quality of energy exchange in greater detail later.

Ultimately, healing, transformation, and enlightenment might be accessible if we dare to consciously consider and directly address all cultural forces and their often oppressive toxicities. We need to also ask new questions and seek new answers to old ones.

• Is that old 1962 transistor radio where you first heard a Beatles song still working?
• Would you visit a thrift store to look for materials for your solar array?
• Would you buy a new stereo amplifier made of old vacuum tubes?
• Would you try to fly a biplane to the stars?
• Can we troubleshoot and repair a complex system, be it mechanical, electrical, or human?
• Is there any relationship between technological advances and the improvement, or lack thereof, of the human condition?
• Can we continue in our old ways of thinking and behaving and expect any new or more intellectually, socially, and spiritually evolved outcomes?
• Would you pour new wine into old wineskins?

Technology is constantly improving, yet the forces of resistance and impedance, reluctance, capacitance, and friction-generated heat remain present in any system, be it electrical, mechanical, or human, in nature.  Everything has a life cycle, starting with its birth and/or introduction into the world and its exit through deterioration and death. As we remember from our high school physics class and the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, every closed energy system will experience entropy, unpredictability, chaos, and eventual destruction through friction and heating.  It is a law, so there is no rationality to argue with it.  Rationality is understanding the rules and directing or redirecting our processes, including our own lives, to gain maximum benefit.

There is a human equivalent to this 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, and we see it arise in people and societies that fiercely cling to the past with all of its outdated structures of understanding.  The more that dissonance arises between our intuition, understanding, and personal knowledge and the socially accepted norms and dogmas of the day, the more conflict, friction, and inflammatory responses will be experienced by everyone.  Human energy systems, like parachutes, work the best when they open up.  Suppose a philosophy of continuous process improvement (evolution) has been adopted. In that case, functioning may be stabilized or improved to the end of the engineered system’s, or human being’s, life cycle.

As the Greek philosopher Protagoras stated over 2000 years ago, man is the measure of all things, the reality of those who are and the unreality of those who are not.  Malala Yousafzai, the great young Pakistani education and human rights activist, has stated that she once asked God for one or two more inches in height, but God laughed and made her as tall as the sky so that she could no longer measure herself.  Yet, continue to measure ourselves and each other; we must do so at our benefit and risk until we find true freedom and our spirits have finally joined with the energy behind Malala’s poetic and profound statement of being.

We often live a second-hand life, using the measurements or words and concepts provided to us by our family, culture, and history. These factors provide a vast base of knowledge that acts as a bridge or bonding jumper to possibilities that we have not yet creatively accessed on our own. Yet are they formed of the substance of reality, of unreality, or an unsustainable synthesis of both?

We must ask some difficult questions, such as:

• How do we weigh and measure our existence, and against which standard?
• How do we compare and contrast to discover for ourselves what a concept or an object of reality’s true value might be?
• What, within ourselves, do we have that enables us to establish a valid reference point for our measurements so that there is consistency within ourselves and across the human population we attempt to communicate with, as well?
• How did you see yourself yesterday, how do you see yourself today, and how will you see yourself tomorrow if you find that infinity is the accurate measure of your being?

The human race has become the measure of all things through its use of the energy of words and language and the tools of creative thought, intelligence, and technology.  Words, and all subsequent concepts derived from stringing words together into rational orders, are our measuring devices or containers for this energy.  Naming is the way that our consciousness weighs and measures new forms of life, ideas, and experiences in the attempt to insert the unknown and the mysterious into a present context for understanding.  Naming tends to attach a dynamic process to a fixed point in time and space, with a past frame of reference, and we all share in the confidence that the words we use have successfully created and adequately represent that which we are trying to define and communicate with others.

Many of us love to be educated and enlightened by the words and inspired messages from poets, philosophers, scientists, spirituality gurus, shamans or priests, well-meaning physicians, and therapists.  If these messengers are connected with truth, their messages, or “bonding jumpers,” may become temporary verbal bridges back to our internal source for peace and healing.  Some people travel far and wide to sit in the presence of those who claim they are “ONE” with or grounded with the Truth.  Truth comes from only One Source, and it requires an intense desire to find it, unless, like the great herd of humanity, we wish to continue just a second-hand life experience, where we drink liberally from both the troughs of reality and unreality.

In Greek times, sin was an archery term, which only meant that the archer missed the bullseye while competing, and the “sin” was the distance between the bullseye and where the arrow landed.  Naming is like an archer aiming his arrow at a moving target.  Though the archer may have perfect aim, the target, like time itself, is constantly moving, and he always just misses the mark, with his sin being the distance from the truth that his arrow has pierced.  An aspect of “sin”  in this explanation is our awareness becoming entrained with the movement of our thought to time itself.  We will always “sin” while our thoughts remain hypnotized by the spell of time.

Yet we human archers never give up, and in our vanity, we adjust the target in our minds to indicate that we have succeeded in hitting it. If we can find consensus or agreement with others and share in a collective understanding or misunderstanding, we have created more collective consciousness or “common knowledge.”  Just because it is common knowledge does not make it accurate knowledge, however.

We must keep this in mind and keep our minds open to new understandings, lest we institutionalize our assessments into permanent memories that are resistant to change.  Remember, our memories are often like Gods to us, always trying to convince us of their righteousness, while incessantly pulling us back into a conceptual, and often times illusory, past frame of reference.

Names are essential for communication, yet need to be more comprehensive and inclusive to completely reveal the true nature of what they were created for in our minds to represent in the first place. When names gather together to illustrate concepts, know that the real miracle of consciousness is about to be experienced, as we become invited into the worlds of abstraction and, potentially, conscious evolution.

Names, and our interpretations of them, change over the years as we strive for more accurate understandings of ourselves and of our worlds.

We all attempt to establish internal modeling for an external reality that we witness from our own unique perspective while remaining “bonded” to a shared knowledge reference point.  As long as we have a common reference point, the errors in our “archery” can be measured against the mistakes of others. After dialogue, and perhaps more research, a synthesis may be developed that brings our communication into greater alignment with each other.

We are all alive today due to the self-organizing principles of life itself. In manufacturing and industrial processes, our planet Earth and its journey through the solar system, and even in the human mind, we witness the wonders and mysteries of self-organizing systems. The human brain has evolved into a capable predictive mechanism since the introduction of language as a tool for communication. Words are used to measure our experience and are now our primary avenue for communication. Words are forever containers for energy and serve us as representatives in our minds for so-called objective phenomena. Yet the introduction of words into the conscious void of the ancient human being must have been the most transformational, apocalyptic event in human history, probably being more important than the harnessing of the power of fire and water for the creation of the conditions for safety, security, and even society itself.

The development and evolution of human language have brought hope for new or enhanced order to the chaos inherent within the unconscious human experience, at least through the structure of words used to represent the world that one is experiencing. We only need to witness the “committee” or the “monkey mind” operating over time within our minds while it unsuccessfully tries to make sense or bring order out of the background chaos forever present in our lives. Those who are neophytes in meditation, and even some of us when troubled by current events, experience this hyperactivity and perceive it as a block to peace of mind. In truth, this internal mental chaos, when reinterpreted, becomes a gateway or portal to be passed through to access more profound, more peaceful, and benign regions of our spiritual identity.

There is an exciting interpretation of the Pauli Exclusion Principle that is very relevant to our understanding of the word. The Principle simply states that in our effort to describe or define any particle or object, or to establish its exact location in the universe, we can never know all of the characteristics of the object of observation at one time, such as its angular momentum, direction, speed, and mass, being limited to three out of the four descriptors. Like our imperfect attempts at locating a particle in space, our words are our sincere, though incomplete, collective measurements or representations of reality or our theories for how things now are or could become in the future. We attempt to measure and locate eternally elusive phenomena, and our words are perpetually “catching up” with an ever-unfolding new reality.

The nature of self-organizing systems is that once the quiescent point (the Q point, set point, functional operation level, balance, or homeostasis point) has been altered, the system naturally seeks a return to its native state, or “normalcy.” For our human experience, this may be both a blessing and a curse, depending on the “state” to which we are being returned. Typically, if we stretch a rubber band and release it, it returns to its original state. But, if we stretch the rubber band too hard and too often, it loses its elasticity and will never return to its original state again. A human being who has been stretched beyond their capacity through excessive stress, anxiety, and/or addictive behavior cycles will NOT be returning to their “normal” state once it is recognized that the “normal” state was, in fact, an unhealthy, abnormal state of being in the first place, which in turn led to the creation of their present chaotic mindset.

For our planet Earth, this may mean ridding itself of any or all offensive life forms that threaten its very existence and continue to drive it out of balance with itself. The time intervals for finding a new, or returning to an old, “set point” that indicates a healthy life is far different between an individual human life and the life of planet Earth. The Earth may take thousands or millions of years to return to or reach its optimal state. In contrast, the evanescent ones must act immediately and decisively, lest we need to live longer to witness any real healing progress.

A life out of balance means more knowledge must be uncovered or applied to guarantee harmonious system operation. And it is of utmost importance to realize that, in the end, the human race is not the determiner of what homeostasis is for the world, as that has been established through many billions of years of its evolution and, thus, its changing relationship with itself and the rest of the Universe. It is also important to realize that no man or woman is an island in this vast universe. Our perception of harmony and balance is inextricably intertwined with the rest of humanity. No matter how healed, balanced, or empowered we believe we are becoming, we are eternally linked with the rest of humanity and the universe in our attempts to create order or balance out of our own unique versions of the collective chaos known as human knowledge. The temptation to follow the herd or swim with the lemming is built into the foundational nature of our socialized existence.

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I dare leave this subject with the presentation of an amazing, though disquieting, theory of human population control. Our immune system is automatically activated to fight and neutralize any invader in our body. Our minds work similarly as it attempts to fight and neutralize any offender who threatens our safety, security, or peace of mind. Our planet Earth, or Gaia, is also a vibrant, living being with almost infinite potential to bring new life forms into the universe. And Gaia has its innate power to bring balance back to itself, with unexpected consequences in store for our unwary, overpopulating human race. It is not a stretch of reason to assume that whatever consciousness Gaia may be infused with may interpret our reproductive over-exuberance as indicative of an imbalance within its energy field and make attempts to correct it.

Our planet Earth is now balancing itself and its energies, just as it has for billions of years. Though it may not have consciousness of the exact nature as humans (the mind of the immortal and the mind of the mortal do not have a lot in common), the self-organizing principle of this vast system includes the elimination and/or balancing of all forces that do not positively contribute to its life and further its evolution. Due to overpopulation, the human race has brought significant imbalances to planet Earth. Some experts believe that we may have ten times the amount of humans on our planet than our planet can sustain in harmony. The stress being generated in man’s mind by this overabundance of human life forms may well be part of the self-protective mechanism of planet Earth itself.

Humanity has captured a piece of Universal consciousness, which includes planet Earth and its collective awareness.  The respected mystic Teilhard de Chardin offered the world his Noosphere concept in the 20th century, which parallels this understanding.  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French philosopher and paleontologist known for his theory that man is mentally and socially evolving toward a final spiritual unity.  He is not alone in this belief and understanding, and a modern, recently deceased Buddhist master, Thich Nhat Hanh, offered many heartfelt dialogues on the unity of Mother Earth and mankind in consciousness itself.  Yet, how might this truth reflect through the collective ignorance and chaos created by the human experience with Mother Earth?

Our collective desire to go to war, to kill each other, to commit suicide, and/or to not generally thrive as a collective may well be the Earth, acting through human consciousness to bring healing to itself through the removal of damaged parts of itself, at least enough to bring balance back to the Earth. The Earth is eternal, as far as we are concerned, and is PRIMARY here, while the human race presently has little conscious presence in eternity. Our own Armageddon may well be written into the operating system of Earth consciousness as it brings stability back to itself through all of its agents, be it Earth, air, sunlight, fire, or water, and its almost infinite expression of flora and fauna.

No homeostasis around a healthy operating point is possible without harmony and peace.

The miracle is not to walk on water, or in the air, or on burning charcoals.  The miracle is to walk on this Earth.  You breathe in, you become aware of the fact that you are alive.  You are alive and are walking upon this beautiful planet.  The greatest of all miracles is to be alive—-Thich Nhat Hanh.

 

Insight, intelligence, and discernment to sort through the vast ocean of knowledge and ignorance created by historians, scientists, teachers, philosophers, the media, theologians, propagandists, pseudo-intellectuals, and religious fundamentalists are required tools to find the precious oysters bearing the real Pearls of wisdom.  The hubris and clay feet of many of our spiritual experts show either their lack of success in making a consistent connection with our ground of being or Truth and/or our lack of understanding of what that connection and subsequent behavior might actually look like.

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(Mother) Earth is the ground around the world. It is a universal teaching for electricians worldwide.

Mother Earth, amongst its almost infinite potential for creating and supporting life, has an electromagnetic nature, with its magnetic north and south poles.  Humans are electro-biological beings, and they are also made of Earth stuff. Thus, we are not only electromagnetically inspired but also influenced by all of Mother Earth’s other characteristics.  Through a process of shared consciousness not yet fully understood by scientists and biologists, the life force field that constitutes our being exchanges information continuously with the environment, which shows that there may be unexpected outcomes for the human race with the loss of biodiversity through our heartless, reckless expansion through the .natural world.

Our bodies have over 50 trillion biologically and electrically interconnected cells derived from our ground of being, Mother Earth.  We are not only created from materials endemic to this planet but also a minute version of Her.  We are also influenced by all of the forms of life that have derived their existence from this almost infinite ground of being.   Humanity has an extraordinary possibility of resonance with all of our natural world if it only rejoins it.  When we return to our source and connect with nature, our energetic frequency begins to change and may appear to oscillate with the same frequency of life force as the Earth and the rest of its life forms.

We need a real awakening, enlightenment, to change our way of thinking and seeing things. To breathe in and be aware of your body and look deeply into it, realize you are the Earth and your consciousness is also the consciousness of the Earth.”  ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Imagine, if you will, that there are 7.5 billion mountain peaks on our planet, each representing one human life.  Imagine that each peak looks at the other peaks and does not see that each peak is connected to the same Earth, and each peak would not exist without its support.  Now, imagine that each peak wants to try to establish a connection with the other peaks.  The biggest bridge-building project in history must be undertaken to connect all the peaks.  Now imagine these bridges are the energy of words, sentences, and concepts.  These bridges are our “bonding jumpers” to each other, so hopefully, we bond through mutual love and compassion and not hatred and fear, though both are possible.  These bridges are equivalent to our collective consciousness, the matrix that verbally connects the entirety of humanity together.  Yet what about the connection to the Earth?  If the peak feels separate from its ground of support, what might bring the connection back to the peak?  Can each peak find its unique ground of support?  Can one postulate that the ground of our being calls out to the peaks to remember their true ground?  And will the Earth send messages to the peaks to remind them of their origin?  Would one call those words that bring awareness back to our true connection with the Earth “the word of God”?  These “inspired words” would be called our “grounding connections.”

Lookinglass Lake–The Intimate Whispers of the Cosmos: A Journey Towards Universal Consciousness

We need a real awakening, enlightenment, to change our way of thinking and seeing things. To breathe in and be aware of your body and look deeply into it, realize you are the Earth and your consciousness is also the consciousness of the Earth.”  ~Thich Nhat Hanh

So, what might a personal experience of a Universal Ground look and feel like?  Keep in mind that mystics saints, and electricians, each have their own unique experience and representation of their personal experience of our ground of being. My experience in 1992 at Lookinglass Lake, in the Mt Adams wilderness area, is one possibility for the direct experience of “Ground“.

Lookinglass Lake, Mt. Adams, Aug 1992

I awoke one morning during the summer of 1992 and finished preparing to leave on a weekend hiking and camping trip with Sharon up to the Mt. Adams Wilderness Area.  We planned to backpack into Lookinglass Lake, which was about a ten-mile hike one way.

My senses were heightened, and I could see and hear better than I was accustomed to.  Food tasted better, the air carried many more scents, and my entire body felt alive with vitality and sensation, well beyond what I was accustomed to experiencing in my day to day life.  I had to work that day, so I ignored my “extra sensory perception” for most of the workday, though I remained excited about joining my beloved partner Sharon on the hike.

Our drive took longer than expected, and we arrived in the Mt Adams Wilderness area too late to reach the developed campground we wanted to use as a base camp, so we parked for the night in a snow park area and set up our tent to shelter for the evening.  We sat outside of the tent, and I began to experience, in its fullness, that “extrasensory perception” yet again, but much more profoundly this time. It was like I had sensory receptors in the dirt, the sky, and the trees.  It was as if I had grown roots, so to speak. I could not only see the ground around us, the beautiful trees, and the sky, but I could FEEL the ground, and it was as if I extended all the way through everywhere I could see.  It was the experience, in a new form, of “all that I can see is myself.”  It was like I was “hearing” and “seeing” and “feeling” all of nature that surrounded us, and it was a profound, mystical, transcendental event.

We finally lay down for the evening in our tent, and though I was still quite profoundly experiencing this event, I was able to fall asleep beside my beloved.  Shortly afterward, I awoke to a great light enveloping our tent, and I arose to go outside to see what was happening.  In the sky appeared a Great Light, and the entire surrounding area was bathed in a light that totally eliminated all shadows, even though it was nearly midnight!  I awoke Sharon, who rose to witness the light.  To this day, I have no clue if the light is associated with my “heightened mystic awareness” or if it was just a coincidence that a UFO would awaken us to bathe us in its radiance.

After we returned home, I told my Mother about the light, and she reported that the week before, a mysterious light in the Mt Adams wilderness area was also reported in the Oregonian newspaper, so who knows what was happening there?

There is only One Creator.  There is no reason that we cannot be attuned with ALL OF ITS CREATIONS, including all willing members of the human, animal, plant, geological, and, uh, “alien” races.

When we touch ourselves with deep awareness, we touch everything

Mother Earth is fully conscious, in a way we do not yet fully understand, yet we can all eventually resonate with Her. . . .

I have touched Mother Earth with the deepest of awareness.

I love and treasure our Mother Earth.

How about you?

Looking back at my life’s history, I remain immersed in the light of its Mystery.

In the hushed solace of meditation, amid the harmonized chants of prayer, and within the cathartic silence of contemplation, lies a mystical door ajar—beckoning us to experiences that transcend our empirical grasp. I propose a stance that may be considered radical by some and revelatory by others; it is the belief that through dedicated practices such as meditation, prayer, and contemplation, one can indeed tune into the consciousness of Mother Earth and the broader tapestry of the Universe.

Our mundane interactions with the world are frequently limited by sensory perceptions bound to the tangible, leaving us desensitized to the profound interconnectedness of existence. We’ve become estranged from the language of the cosmos, a dialect that doesn’t rely on words but on the ineffable communion of energy and spirit. But what if we could recover this lost dialect? What if, through introspective precision and disciplined spiritual exercises, we could peel the veil and gaze into the unifying essence that clandestinely orchestrates life’s symphony?

Those skeptical of extra-sensory perception argue from a purely materialistic viewpoint, where seeing is equated with believing. However, many anecdotal and recorded experiences exist throughout human history, hinting at the possibility that our individual consciousness is a single note in a grand cosmic score. Mystics, shamans, sages, and ordinary individuals have all, at times, reported a profound sensation of unity—a blissful merger with the environment, with other beings, and with the universe at large.

Meditation serves as a vessel in this explorative voyage into consciousness. It unlocks us from the noisy harbor of daily distractions and sails us into the deeper waters of heightened perception. Through breath and focused intention, the meditator can gradually disengage from personal ego and merge with a greater, boundless awareness—one that resonates with the pulse of the planet and the stars.

Regardless of religious philosophy, prayer creates a sacred interface—a hotline to the divine. Those who have engaged in deep, fervent prayer talk of moments when they become more than just a solitary voice; they become part of a chorus—a universal supplication that undulates with a pure love for all existence.

Contemplation is the mirror reflecting the self back upon itself until all separateness dissolves. It dares us to gaze long enough to realize that our reflection is not confined to the mirror’s edge but extends into the expanses of all creation.

Mainstream science begins to parallel these mystical assertions with concepts like quantum entanglement and the theory of a participatory universe, although cautiously. While direct empirical evidence of shared consciousness remains elusive, these scientific parallels give credence to the idea that there may be realms of knowledge we are just brushing with the fingertips of our current understanding.

The perspective I advocate is an invitation—an invitation to open our internal eyes to the possibility of a connection far more intimate and far-reaching than our conscious minds can typically comprehend. It suggests that the universe, in its immeasurable wisdom and radiant splendor, is conscious in ways we can sense if we allow ourselves the vulnerability of profound spiritual encounters.

The call of the mystical isn’t just the domain of the ancients or the fodder for new-age optimism. It’s the persistent whisper in every heart that seeks unity in the majesty that is the universe. It is beckoning to join in the dance—that grand, enigmatic ballet of existence in which we are not merely spectators but participants—flesh and spirit woven into the fabric of an aware and living cosmos.

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Consciousness can be modeled through many theories and represented by many metaphors.  This chapter points to my use of electrical theory as one modeling technique because that is my background, while also providing good referential understanding.  One of the more valuable categories of circuitry that can act as a metaphor for human experience. The RLC circuit has its human equivalent in consciousness, in which resonance may appear.   Resonance has fascinating capacities for both electrical and human circuits.  Resonance extends its influence beyond its own physical boundaries to influence surrounding circuits or other humans.  For electrical circuits, the capacity and quality of the resonance are dependent upon three factors.  For human circuits, the capacity and quality of the resonance can figuratively be based upon those three primary factors to the extent that we can model our consciousness through the RLC metaphor.

In electrical theory and practice, three qualities characterize each resonating circuit.  They are named

• Capacitance
• Inductance
• Resistance/Impedance

Capacitance, as far as human consciousness is concerned, denotes our ability to store energy and then release it, as the situation may dictate.  We really need to build up a charge before we are inspired to communicate or to take action in the world, don’t we?  Hopefully, we will not constantly charge our hate, lust, or greed capacitors; instead, we will charge more healthy collaborative ideals.  Trauma gets electrically attached to our body, becoming unconscious charge centers that influence every other charge center in our consciousness.  I have come to name these unconscious charge centers “black holes.”  The reader has seen and/or will see extensive investigations into this understanding. Capacitance is the ratio of the amount of electric charge stored on a conductor to a difference in electric potential. There are two closely related notions of capacitance: self-capacitance and mutual capacitance.[  Any object that can be electrically charged exhibits self-capacitance. In this case, the electric potential difference is measured between the object and the ground. A material with a large self-capacitance holds more frequencies. Charge at a given potential difference than one with low capacitance.  We can easily see the human parallel.  So, those with a lot of knowledge about and personal experience with a subject will have, potentially, a greater capacitance than one who does not.  Suppose I am storing a big charge on one side of an emotional issue, and you are storing a charge that appears as an opposite polarity. In that case, there definitely will be significant mutual capacitance.

Watch out for the aftereffects of its DISCHARGE!

Both parties will need to find true common ground after that exchange, or the imbalance continues, no common reference potential exists,

Does our planet Earth have a capacitance?

The electrical capacitance of Earth C is 710 μF.  Its spiritual capacitance may be infinite.

Do humans have a capacitance?

Every person has an electrical capacitance of around 100pF.  Our spiritual capacitance may be infinite.

Inductance is a conductor’s capacity to store energy in a magnetic field. There is also a parallel in human consciousness. Remember, we are electromagnetic beings created out of Mother Earth’s substance. We store energy in biologically derived fields that originate from within our bodies. By our very nature, we are imbued with inductive capacities, perhaps far more than anything that we presently understand.

Inductance is the ability to store energy in a magnetic field.  Like capacitance, there is also self-inductance and mutual inductance.  We all have a resistance to change, yet we all carry a vast field of energy within us, just waiting to move in harmony within us and the world under the right conditions.   The most significant potential differences happen with the highest rate of change of charge flow or current.  If you want to develop your highest potential, find your proper reference ground and allow your static stored charges to become dynamic and discharge them as needed, rather than repressing them and remaining a “static” being.  A mindful discharge will help create an oscillating field, which will allow for sharing that energy with others operating at the same frequency.

Inductance is also the tendency of an electrical conductor to oppose a change in the electric current flowing through it. The flow of electric current creates a magnetic field around the conductor. The field strength depends on the magnitude of the current and follows any changes in the current. From Faraday’s law of induction, any change in magnetic field through a circuit induces an electromotive force (EMF) (voltage) in the conductors, a process known as electromagnetic induction. This induced voltage created by the changing current opposes the change in current; though it never opposes it enough to stop the process, it only dampens it.

Those who develop the most inductive capacity will become great collaborators, orators, and inspirational speakers, the special ones who can build and maintain resonance with their audience. Repressed and oppressed people must overcome their unwillingness to change and adapt to positive energy exchanges to experience the healing energy exchanges available through resonance with these exalted energies.

Resistance, as far as human consciousness is concerned, may point to any number of attitudes we may adopt and actions we may take.  If we were perfect conductors for Life, there would be no resistance, yet there would be no capacity for human energy storage or exchange.  In an RLC circuit, resistance keeps a circuit from oscillating until eternity, instead dampening its action until it eventually dies out. Yet, suppose another person who is still charged with the possibilities of any particular concept or ideology engages with us. In that case, our ideas can be re-energized through the previously discussed resonance principle.

There are no perfect conductors in our world, save those cooled to, wait for this, Absolute Zero temperature.  Some might theorize that enlightened people have zero resistance to Life; thus, they have no need to store energy.  This might explain why they need to do so little actual work in the world while being a more transparent channel for the intentions of our reference potential or ground.

The electrical resistance of an object measures its opposition to the flow of electric current. Electrical resistance shares some conceptual parallels with mechanical friction and an important role within human consciousness itself. Have you ever felt a little “resistance” to new people, ideas, or experiences, especially when they appear to challenge treasured values and/or opinions?

The resistance of an object depends in large part on the material it is made of. Objects made of electrical insulators like rubber tend to have very high resistance and low conductivity. In contrast, objects made of electrical conductors like metals tend to have very low resistance and high conductivity. This relationship is quantified by resistivity or conductivity. The nature of a material is not the only factor in resistance and conductance. However, it also depends on the size and shape of an object because these properties are extensive rather than intensive. For example, a wire’s resistance is higher if it is long and thin and lower if it is short and thick. All objects resist electrical current except for superconductors, which have zero resistance.

The human equivalents are apparent here.  Some people are more resistant to other people’s ideas or to change than others.  Biologically, we have an immune system that we count on being resistant to any change that brings biological harm to ourselves. Thus, antibodies are created.  At the level of human consciousness, our resistance to false narratives, racist or misogynist ideologies, or ignorant attacks against innocent life inspires our macro version of “anti-bodies,” where we directly address and confront offending parties and their abhorrent philosophies and keep them from spreading to us and those we love like the virus that they are.

Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning.  They begin sensing that something is amiss and start looking for answers.  Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins the journey of awakening.  Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of the crowd, and by choosing knowledge over veils of ignorance—-Henri Bergson.

Resonant or RLC circuitry

A form of human resonance occurs when large numbers of humans physically congregate together to protest against injustices, share an idea, a musical group and their music, a pep-talk to affirm personal value for students at the local high school, join in a destructive mob mind of a group of insurrectionists and racists. Or any of at least a million other reasons to humanly bond.  Humans truly can resonate with each other, for better or for worse. Without a common ground or reference point, resonance will not lead to further stability of the whole human network, as it introduces yet more instability into the system.

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The essential components within an electrical or human system that characterize energy exchanges are resistance, inductance, and capacitance, and the shorthand for these three critical aspects of circuitry is the RLC circuit. The circuit forms a harmonic oscillator for current and resonates similarly to an LC circuit. The main difference stemming from the presence of the resistor is that any oscillation induced in the circuit decays over time if it is not kept going by a source. This effect of the resistor is called damping. Some resistance is unavoidable in real circuits, even if a resistor is not specifically included as a separate component.

This circuit has many applications. It is used in many different types of oscillator circuits. An important application is tuning, such as in radio receivers or television sets, where it is used to select a narrow range of frequencies from the ambient radio waves. In this role, the circuit is often referred to as a tuned circuit.

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What about the human capacity to create a “tuned circuit”.?  Our knowledge, concepts, and language are the very carriers of energy in the circuitry of our human consciousness, and they all need an extreme tune-up if we are to survive as a species.  Our knowledge needs to be reformatted in such a way that it has a common ultimate reference point, a changeless point that is common to all of creation, past, present, and future.  This has been called many names over the many millennia of human experience, and it is a real place in consciousness; in fact, it is the very ground of creation itself and accessible through the suspension, or the silencing, of all time-based thought.

If we can find the silence at the end of our self-centered narrative, we can hear the pleas for help from Mother Earth and all of her sacred inhabitants.  We then find that our natural human potential is actualized only through a conscious relationship with the very ground of being from which we all have arisen—Elisha Scott.

Nothing is better than connecting with the sacred silence within oneself and profoundly and honestly communicating with other human beings.  And suppose we accept our roles as stewards over the animal and plant kingdoms and Mother Earth Herself. In that case, we may also be afforded a personalized view of the True Miracle Of Life, our unity with all creation. This requires no belief or dogma, only a direct experience of its love,  power, and potential…Through this collective connection of consciousnesses to an Earth ground or reference point, we will travel new consciousness paths leading to better communication and improved stewardship over Mother Earth’s creations.

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We will remember that Life is a Miracle if we can start from

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If we devote ourselves to Life’s highest values of truth. Love for all life, intelligence, compassion, empathy, beauty, bliss, and wisdom, our grounded reference starting point, at Zero, will assist us in creating new paths of consciousness, and we can be

SAVED BY ZERO.

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We don’t need to hitchhike on alien spaceships to faraway worlds to find our fundamental Truth, for if we do not find it on Mother Earth, we will not find it elsewhere.

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And we don’t need an alien supercomputer to figure this one out.

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Every single human being on this planet has a different potential energy, created and sustained through the countless concepts that have been integrated throughout life to establish and maintain the sense of self.  Our differences need not destabilize our world if we use our words to bond with each other and all seek to share the same/similar ultimate reference point. Then, our shared Life Affirming concepts will bring RESONANCE between all who are grounded well enough to share in them. These energy exchange dynamics have been extensively explored in a previous chapter where the miracle of empathy was explored.

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I celebrate the ability of our hearts and minds to bond our own lives in healthier and mutually affirming ways to the larger community that constitutes human civilization and the animal and plant world.  I lament the primary issues preventing such spirituality and enhanced loving, healing, compassionate, and empathetic interconnection, though I am hopeful for the human race. We all must realize that we are negatively impacted by trauma, toxic capitalism, toxic religion, and toxic masculinity, with its many toxic styles of gun ownership.   These forces have a cumulative impact on our sense of self and connection with the Earth, and these are causative forces preventing healing connections.

All that we now see, and will ever see, unto whatever concept of eternity that we intend to live into, will be ourselves.  How we measure ourselves against our understanding of God, our Universe, our Mother Earth, and each human, animal, aquatic creature, and plant upon the face and under the waters of this sacred planet determines the quality of our lives.  Are we bonded to these concepts in a wholesome, healing fashion, and are we grounded in a common reference point with all others?

The ungrounded members of humanity predominantly cause the problems that are now dominating our world.

In electrical circuits, by definition, Mother Earth is set to zero volts and is the ground for the world around. All other voltages are derived from that value, which assures proper circuit operation. In human circuits, relative to what standard do we measure our source of true potential against? We all can get grounded to our Mother Earth and be saved by ZERO!

Please, get yourself grounded!

And get those bonding jumpers installed for each other!

As we delve into the mysteries of the universe, we often come across unexpected connections between seemingly unrelated fields. One such fascinating intersection can be found in the realms of spirituality and electrical theories. While they may appear distant on the surface, a closer examination reveals striking parallels that offer us new insights into our material and metaphysical worlds. We have embarked on this illuminating journey as we explored the intriguing connections between spirituality and electrical theories.

We looked at Ohm’s Law, a fundamental principle in electrical engineering that relates to current, voltage, and resistance, and our creation and use of words. Newton’s law of motion also states that every action has a corresponding reaction, while Karma teaches us that our actions, intentions, and choices create a ripple effect in our lives and beyond. Both concepts remind us of the interconnectedness and consequences of our thoughts and deeds.

In electrical engineering, circuit theory helps us understand the flow of electrical energy through interconnected components. Interestingly, we can draw a parallel between our own bodies and the system of chakras, the energy centers believed to exist within us. Just as circuits allow for the smooth flow of electrons, balanced and harmonious chakras facilitate the free flow of vital energy throughout our bodies.

Electromagnetic fields are an essential aspect of electrical systems, but did you know that our own bodies generate electromagnetic fields as well? These fields extend beyond our physical selves and form what is known as the aura—a subtle energy field that reflects our emotional, mental, and spiritual state. The connection between electromagnetic fields and auras suggests a profound link between our energetic essence and the principles governing electrical systems.

Quantum mechanics, the branch of physics that explores the behavior of particles at the atomic and subatomic levels, has revolutionized our understanding of reality. In a similar vein, consciousness—the essence of our being—remains one of the most profound mysteries of human existence. The principles of quantum mechanics offer intriguing insights into the interplay between consciousness and the fabric of reality, hinting at the profound connection between electrical phenomena and the nature of our consciousness.

In the realm of electrical systems, resonance occurs when vibrations align and amplify each other. Similarly, in spiritual practices, resonance refers to the harmonization and alignment of our energies with the higher vibrations of the universe. Grounding and bonding, crucial concepts in electrical engineering, find their counterparts in spiritual practices that aim to anchor us to the present moment and establish a deep connection with the Earth and the Divine.

As we navigate this intriguing exploration of spirituality and electrical theories, it’s worth reflecting on your own personal experiences that highlight the interconnectedness of these realms. Whether it’s a moment of profound synchronicity or an awe-inspiring encounter with the power of energy, our unique narratives remind us of the intricate dance between the seen and the unseen.

In conclusion, the parallels between spirituality and electrical theories offer us a unique perspective on our world, reminding us that everything is interconnected. By exploring these connections, we gain a deeper appreciation for the underlying unity of all things. So, let us embrace the enigmatic dance of energy and consciousness as we continue to explore the profound mysteries of both the material and metaphysical realms