A Matter of Fact or a State of Mind?

In school, I was taught that there are three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas.  

Apparently, there are at least 14 states of matter:

1.                  Solid

2.                  Amorphous solid

3.                  Liquid

4.                  Gas

5.                  Plasma

6.                  Super-fluid

7.                  Supersolid

8.                  Degenerate matter

9.                  Neutronium

10.              Strongly symmetric matter

11.              Weakly symmetric matter

12.              Quark-gluon plasma fermionic condensate

13.              Bose-Einstein condensate

14.              Strange matter

List source: 10 Things You Ought To Know

My favorite is the Bose-Einstein condensate, which is essentially coherent atoms vibrating in unison.  In this state, the condensate follows quantum rules and individual atoms no longer exist - they all exist as one.

Bose-Einstein condensate as it relates to Buddhism:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdzHnApHM9A

Dr. Michio Kaku talks about Bose-Einstein Condensates:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=9RDocoSWqPY

Transit of Venus

From:
http://www.lynneallbutt.com/2012/01/jonathan-cainer-predicts-a-cosmic-2012.html

“I’m excited about 2012; the unusual thing on the cosmic clock this year is that on June 6th at sunrise, we will be able to see Venus in front of the sun as a black dot.  Known as Transit of Venus, it only happens twice in a century.  It happened in 2004 when a lot of people noticed a shift in consciousness and a sort of awakening but the second one has far more impact. Venus is the traditional planet of love, prosperity, creativity and popularity and the implication of Venus revealing itself indicates that we are all about to make great discoveries about ourselves this year. Individually we’ll discover hidden talents and secret gifts and how to best use them and collectively we’ll discover new gifts and ways of being. The current gloom and economic concern will give way to excitement and we will discover new forms of wealth and spiritual awareness.

“There have been great events, like Gold Rushes, and discoveries associated with the Transit of Venus.  Captain Cook was looking for a good spot to see Venus in front of the sun and he ended up discovering Australia!"

"Under the influence of a ‘Transit of Venus’, entire continents have been found, long wars have ended and vast reserves of gold have been unearthed. A ‘Transit of Venus’ can coincide with the start of a wonderful love affair, the creation of a great work of art or the birth of a life changing idea. 2012 brings the world one of these rare, auspicious events."  

Not My Path

There are times I have passed a situation like a car accident or someone who looks lost and I have wondered if I should stop to help.

If I am not supposed to stop, I hear "not my path".

If it is not my path, it is usually because there are either enough people already helping or because others have lessons they need to learn on their own.

The Five Tibetan Rites: Exercises for Healing, Rejuvenation, and Longevity

"The Tibetans believe that these exercises activate and stimulate the seven key chakras that in turn stimulate all the glands of the endocrine system. The endocrine system is responsible for the body's overall functioning and aging process. This means that the Five Rites will affect the functioning of all your organs and systems, including the physical and energetic systems and that includes the aging process. The man who brought these Five Rights out of Tibet stated that "performing the Five Rites stimulates the circulation of essential life energy throughout the body"."

For descriptions of these exercises, and for more information, please see the following link:
http://www.mkprojects.com/pf_TibetanRites.htm

Energy Body Cleansing and Protection

Do you ever feel drained after talking with someone or even being in the same room as a certain person?  Some people are like energy vampires and, often unknowingly, drain energy from others because they do not know how to recharge themselves.  Some people do this by criticizing, controlling, being aloof, or being a victim.

There are other reasons to protect your energy body.  Especially in areas of negativity, there can be psychic debris, thought forms, and/or lower frequency entities.

For the above reasons, it is important to routinely cleanse your aura, house, pets and even car.  There are many techniques for cleansing and protecting your body.  Some are more powerful than others.  Examples include increasing your vibrational frequency (being positive), cutting cords, physically removing yourself from a person or place which is draining you, pray, smudging, and even sounds and music can be used to cleanse an area.  I find the following links to be very helpful if you are looking for more information on cleansing and protecting yourself.

http://www.mkprojects.com/fa_CleansingAndEnergizing.htm

http://www.mkprojects.com/fa_PsychicAttacks.htm

If you are working with energy, please also make sure you take to time to learn how to discern the source of information you receive from spirit and ask to be protected from all energy that is not for your highest good.

Something else to consider during cleansing or protection is your intent.  Ensure that you are not coming from a place of negativity or fear.   It is better to visualize yourself at a higher frequency where lower density beings can just pass through you rather than create an impenetrable shield to keep other energies out.  In the end, it is the positive intent that matters - be love and light.

Finally, when people take your energy, it can be considered bullying.  Try to use protection symbolism that is unique to you so that people who are experienced working with energy cannot find a way to take your energy, even subconsciously.  

Dolphin Convocation

I first swam with wild dolphins in 2004 on a live-aboard in the Bahamas.  The trip happened to be during the Transit of Venus on June 8th.  This did not mean anything to me at the time, but now I believe it was significant.

On June 7th on the boat, I was wearing a necklace with a clear quartz crystal in the shape of a heart.  On one of our encounters with dolphins, I was taking pictures of them surfing the bow waves at the bow of the boat when the crystal, against the rail, broke out from its holder and fell into the ocean.  I was actually quite devastated and cried because I really liked the crystal.  That night, when I went to bed, every time I closed my eyes, I saw dolphins - playing, swimming, transforming.  The images then turned into millions of dolphins forming a clockwise spiral of different colours like a hologram before I fell asleep.

The next day, without knowing about what I saw, someone on the trip who has traveled and studied dolphin myths and legends talked about a story in his book.  He talked about a convocation of dolphins which occurs every year in Bali around May 3-6th where millions of dolphins come together in a spiral formation.

In a future meditation, I got that crystal helped the dolphins to better communicate with me because the crystal has my energy.  At the same time, I found it comforting that part of me will always be with them in the ocean - Titanic (the movie) style.

I hope to swim with dolphins during this years Transit of Venus on June 5th.

Since I wrote this post, I have learned that there have not been any substantiated sightings of a dolphin convocation in Bali; however, I believe this is a spiritual event for dolphins as opposed to a physical event.

How to Open Your Third Eye

Generally, one way to open your third eye is as follows:

1. Sit or lie down, close your eyes and relax - but remain alert
2. Look at/focus on the back of your eyelids until you notice colours starting to form
3. Most people eventually notice a dark purple colour start to form
4. Over time, the spot starts to expand and another spot forms so that it looks like you are going through a tunnel
5. Occasionally, shapes start to form and you may see other colours.  This is your third eye opening.

If this does not work for you, there may be reasons why your third eye is blocked or you may be better at sensing with your third eye in other ways - such as through your minds eye.  An example of seeing images through your mind's eye is to picture details of your house in your mind with your eye's closed.

The time to get images will decrease the more you practice one or both of the above techniques during meditation.  

Why Sunyata?

When I first created this blog, I used an alias, "Sunyata", because, as an Engineer, I was uncomfortable letting my friends and family know my true thoughts related to spiritual and paranormal topics.  Someone then said to me, "If they are true friends, they will accept you for who you are."  They are right of course.

Why Sunyata?

When I was seven years old, my Father decided that he did not want me in Catholic school anymore because he was not Catholic.  His family was Lutheran although he did not go to church or appear to practice religion.  As a child, I did not understand why it mattered.  I did not want to leave my friends in school.  Changing schools greatly affected me and started me on my search of why there are religions and how, and why, they are different.  This is how I began to discover my own truth.

In high school, I read a book on Buddhism where I came across the term Sunyata.  I felt it represented my beliefs.  In its most simple interpretation, it represents universal oneness.   For more information, please read: http://www.buddhanet.net/budsas/ebud/sunnata/06.htm

Ways to Increase your Vibrational Frequency

You attract to you in your life, situations, circumstances, and people of the same vibrational frequency.

The following are some ways to increase your vibrational frequency:

• Constantly remind yourself to be aware of the present (to balance your ego)
• Meditate regularly to increase your awareness and still your mind
• Conscious breathing (e.g. breathe in for 5 and out for 5 seconds) increases your energetic coherence with Source
• Live by the virtues - be respectful, grateful, compassionate etc.
• Align, balance, repair, and clear your energy body to better align with Source - Energy Healing, Yoga, Tai Chi, QiGong, and through visualization and intent, ask Spirit helpers to repair your Energy Body 
• Maintain a healthy body - exercise, eat organic food, food with no preservatives, eat grass fed beef, cleanliness, personal hygiene, less sugar, enough sleep...
• Learn your life lessons (recognize patterns/repetitions of emotional turmoil to discover your life lessons)
• Discover and clear limiting beliefs
• Be positive and feel good as much as you can - this is especially important first thing in the morning when you wake up - think, act, and speak positively; love yourself - attract the things/situations/people that make you feel good by feeling good
• Take responsibility
• Media (books, music, movies, sacred geometry, etc) can inspire you 
• De-clutter your space = de-clutter your mind and energy field
• You are a creator - Create! 
• Healing others - Through energy healing, you are a conduit for energy which helps to clear your energy 
• Being around others who have a higher vibrational frequency (including some animals, plants and crystals)  
• Just ask! Ask your Angels and Guides to help you to increase your vibrational frequency
• Know that you are enough.  Know all is well, and everything will be fine. 
• Do not judge; there is no "good", "bad", or "should"
• Stop trying to control and manipulate your life consciously.  Your soul has a plan - connect to your higher self and Source, and trust that your inspired actions are for your highest and best.  If you are suffering, you are resisting - surrender.  Say to yourself every morning, "I don't know, and I don't need to know".  Once you are inspired, your ego can plan the details.
  
  
  

Remember to stay balanced and grounded as well.  

By increasing your vibrational frequency, you can deal better emotionally, others will have less of an affect on you energetically, you are more aware of any psychic debris and entities (so you can avoid them or clear them), and you have better energy flow.  Improved energy flow can calm your mind and help your body to relax and heal itself if needed.  

Increasing your vibrational frequency will allow you to better connect with your Higher Self and Source, which will help you to achieve your highest and best potential.

More Information:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB3ScXPVi0M

Exercises:

Start with the Healing Breathing Exercise.
Cleanse your energy field with a Fire Cleansing Visualization Exercise.

Other Life?

The first question is - what is life?  Does it include self replicating entities like crystals? Some people believe that planet Earth has a soul.  What about all of those beings which we cannot see like Angels?  Are they "alive"?

When scientists state that we have not yet proven that there is life on other planets - does that include other dimensions?  I have personally witnessed enough to know that there are beings on other planes of existence which we are just beginning to understand.

Further, based on the size of the universe as we know it, pure statistics tells me that there must be other beings out there in our own dimension let alone in other forms we cannot detect with our current instruments.

Signs from the "Other Side"

I'm still not sure if these signs are from my higher self, my unconscious as part of the collective, other beings, or what people call guardian angels, but quite often, I get indications from someone or something, which is more than my intuition.  They are also too much of a coincidence to be random occurrences.  I suspect that they come from all of these sources at different times which means to me that we should be very careful and discerning about what signs we follow and any other worldly information we receive.

As an example of a sign, certain number sequences have special meaning to me and when something really amazing is going to happen, I see a certain three digit number three times in a row in a very short period of time in different spots (e.g., licence plates, price tags, house numbers, serial numbers...).  I also get a different three digit sequence of numbers three times in a row as a warning if something that I would consider bad were about to happen.

Then there are the times I turn on the TV or radio at the exact time I need to hear or learn about something, or I am led to the perfect book for me at the time.  There are too many examples to list.  I believe they happen more often when you are aware of the signs and believe they are messages.

Over the years, I have started to learn how I get information from different sources and, through trial and error, I am now more confident in discerning which information to listen to.

I find the best approach in general is to increase your vibrational frequency so you are simply out of tune from lower density beings - sort of like a radio tuning into your favorite radio station.

"I see" said the blind man

I was watching a TV show with a Neuroscientist who spoke about how advanced humans were because we have language.  She said that language allows us to think and communicate in the abstract and talk about the past and future - unlike animals.

I disagree.  I am not sure about all animals, but I do know many who can communicate telepathically using words, feelings, and images.  Images, often as symbols, can contain a lot more information and have many more layers of meaning than words alone.

Human arrogance can be blinding - please try to keep an open mind.