Just had a most intense exchange with someone the other day/night,
whatever it is... Hmmmm, I wonder if anyone knows what happens when matter
meets up with anti-matter, what is the predicted outcome? Will there be a
big bang immediately after, or will there be a slow and painful evolution?
:-).
I am grateful that I still have a seat in this net to air my
feelings. Kind of being reminded of the riddle, which comes first, chicken
or the egg, the feeling or the thinking etc.
This is in the dead of the night, I must be moon-mad or something.
I am speaking incoherently... I remember reading somewhere, there is a
standard question in psychology classes, which has become a favourite of mine
too: "When the tree falls in the forest and there is no one around, does it
make a noise?" Unfortunately, I've lost the "model answer", does anyone have
the correct answer, and explanation? plse enlighten me again, it's kind of
dark here....:) (Why am I torturing myself with this?)
Let's do what's got to be done. As a compromise, I would like to
post here a short selection from one of Tuesday Lobsang Rampa's more
memorable books. The title is "Wisdom of the Ancients", published by
Corgi books in 1965.
If this book or others interest the reader, then perhaps it is
suggested people can write in to Ballantine Books, who seemed to have
obtain the copyrights to TLR's books, to have the book revived and keep it
in circulation.... Hmmm.. this is such an attractive buisness venture,
maybe I should take it up, if anyone knows, have contact with publishers,
agents, could you drop me an email?
"Wisdom of the Ancients" is a glossary of occult terms actually,
so I will just quote a few short para of interest to people here...
Without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, introducing the words of
His Holiness, Doctor Tuesday Lobsang Rampa ...
(clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, cl ... ) --> that's the sound of
one hand clapping :-).
"AKASHIC: This is usually used when refering to the Akashic Record.
"It is difficult to explain to a three-dimensional world that which
is an occurrence in a more multi-dimensional world, but it may be regarded
like this:
"Imagine that you are a cine photographer who has always existed and
will always exist, and you have an unlimited supply of film (and someone
to process it for you!). From the beginning of time you have photographed
everything that ever happened anywhere to anyone and everyone. You are still
photographing events of the present day. That represents the Akashic Record;
everything that has ever happened is impressed upon the ether as are light
impulses recorded on cine film, or a voice record can be impressed upon
recording tape.
"In addition to this, because of the multi-dimensional world in which
it is recorded, there also can be recorded the very strong probabilities
which affect everyone on Earth and off the Earth. You can imagine that you
are in a city; you are on a street, a car is coming along, it passes you,
and it disappears from your sight, you have no knowledge of what is happening
to it. But supposing, instead, that you were up in a balloon and you could
look down and you could see the road for miles ahead. You could
see the car rushing along, and you could see perhaps an obstacle in the
road which the car would not be able to avoid. Thus you could see misfortune
coming to that driver before he was aware of it. Or you can regard the case
of the timetable: Timetables are issued indicating the probability that a
train or a bus, a ship or a plane, will leave at a certain time from a
certain place, and according to the timetable, which is merely a record of
probabilities, will arrive at a certain place, at a certain time. In nearly
every instance the vehicle does arrive.
"When considering the Akashic Record, it is worth remembering that if
you could travel instantly to a far distant planet and you had a very special
instrument, the light which was arriving from the Earth (light has a speed,
remember) might show what was happening on Earth a hundred, a thousand, or ten
thousand years ago. With your special instrument you would be able to see the
Earth as it was a thousand years ago.
"The Akashic Record goes beyond that because it shows the strong
probability of what is going to happen. The probabilities confronting a nation
are very much stronger, are much more certain, than in the case of
individuals, and those people who are specially trained can enter the astral
state and they can consult the Akashic Record to see what has happened, what
is happening in any part of the world, and what are the terrifically strong
probabilities for the future. It is a very much in fact, like going to some
news theatre and seeing a film. If you know from the programme what film is on
at a certain time you can go and see just that.
.....
"ASTRAL: This is a term which is generally used to indicate the place
or condition that one reaches when one is out of the body. It is a place where
one can meet one's friends who have passed over after leaving the body in so-
called death, and who are waiting to make plans so that they may reincarnate.
"The astral world could be considered as corresponding roughly to the
Christian Paradise, a place which is an in-between place, a meeting-place,
but not the ultimate Heaven.
"ASTRAL TRAVELING: When a person lays down to rest the physical
mechanism of the body becomes quiescent. The physical functions slow down, but
the astral form, or Soul, or Ego, or Atman, does not rest in the body but goes
out of the body into the astral plane.
"One can liken it to this; when one goes to bed, one takes off one's
day clothes and lays aside the flesh body as we lay aside the clothing of the
day.
"It is worth noting that there are various planes, or stages, of the
astral world. One can do astral traveling and travel from one's country of
origin or country of residence to various parts of the physical world; one can
go from England to Australia, or Australia to China, or anywhere like that. It
depends on what one has to do how one uses one's astral time.
"A person who is very evolved and perhaps is living his last life on
Earth is very busy always in the astral, and the more evolved a person, the
farther he travels in the astral.
"Astral traveling is very easy provided one practises. It neeeds
practise only, or perhaps, one should say, practise and patience. All animals
can do it, as all animals can do clairvoyance and telepathy.
"It should also be mentioned here that the Paradise of the astral
world can, in some instances, be purgatory for those who have misbehaved on
Earth! People meet in the astral and plan what they are going to do in the
physical. Unfortunately, so many people forget their wondrous intentions and
do only that which suits them.
"It is recommended that one practises astral travelling because it is
the most stupendously wonderful feeling that one can imagine to rise up at the
end of one's Silver Cord, and watch the cities of the Earth beneath one's gaze, and then perhaps soar into space and look at other worlds. Or if one deserts
the physical world completely one can go into the metaphysical worlds, and see
and talk with friends who have gone on before.
...
"AVASTHAS: A word descriptive of the three states of consciousness
which are:
"1. The waking state during which one is in the body more or less
conscious of things going on about one.
"2. The dream world, in which fantasies of the mind become intermingled
with the realities experienced during even partial astral travel.
"3. The deep sleep of the body when one does not dream, but one is
able to do astral travelling.
...
"SILVER CORD: Just as the new-born child is connected to its mother by
the umbilical cord, so are we connected to our Overself by the Silver Cord.
Just as the puppet is connected to the puppet master by a bit of string, so
are we connected to our puppet master by the Silver Cord.
"The Silver Cord has its name because, being composed of rapidly
rotating particles of all the colours in existence, it appears to be silver.
The myraid colours appear to the clairvoyant as a pure bluish-white silver.
"This cord is infinitely extensible, and it has no limitations. When
a person is doing astral travel, the inner body separates from the outer
sheath of flesh and floats away at the end of the Silver Cord in much the same
way that you can let a kite up at the end of a cord. When the body demands the
astral body, the latter is reeled in just the same way as a kite is reeled in.
"Everything that we do on Earth is transmitted to the Overself by way
of the Silver Cord. Anything the Overself wants to tell us is transmitted
downwards to the sub-conscious, where the information is stored until we want
it, transmitted downwards by way of the Silver Cord.
"When we come to Death, then the Silver Cord thins and parts; just as
a baby 'dies' to its mother when the umbilical cord is severed, so does the
flesh body die to the Overself when the Silver Cord be severed 'and the Golden
Bowl be shattered.' The Golden Bowl, of course, is the nimbus or higher
etheric force which surrounds the head during life and departs at the moment
of death."
(clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap ...)
Dr. Lobsang Rampa bows out.
Curtain closes.
Audience take leave.
Leaving behind the spectre of the star gazer wondering, "what next?"...
