Tran­script of Radio Show: The Field of Ener­gy-Forms, the Cos­mic Builders, and the One­ness of Cre­ation, Part 2 Pat­terns of Meaning 

(If you wish to lis­ten to the show instead, here is the link on BlogTalk or Apple Pod­casts)

I thought it would be help­ful to con­tin­ue our dis­cus­sion from Octo­ber 3, 2021, where we exam­ined the con­sti­tu­tion of the Cos­mos. I think it is very impor­tant that we go fur­ther into this today, so that we might find a deep­er appre­ci­a­tion of the gift of under­stand­ing that this approach to the nature of real­i­ty provides.

Cos­mos – A Hier­ar­chy of Energy-Fields
What we have found is that when we see the Cos­mos as formed by a hier­ar­chy of Ener­gy-Fields, we can bet­ter under­stand that what we know as our bod­ies (phys­i­cal, emo­tion­al, men­tal, and spir­i­tu­al), should real­ly be seen for what they tru­ly are, as Ener­gy-Fields that by sig­nif­i­cant res­o­nances and align­ments man­i­fest as Forms; and, how in turn these fields, by their intra and inter­re­la­tion­ships, cre­ate a hier­ar­chy of Mean­ing-Filled Pat­terns that indeed con­sti­tute what we expe­ri­ence as Real­i­ty or Life. Because of this essen­tial nature of the Cos­mos, we can expe­ri­ence the Uni­verse as Mean­ing­ful, because it is made by and is full of pat­terns, mean­ings, and truths, from the dens­est of mate­r­i­al to the most ethe­re­al of ener­gy-forms, in what I like to call the “Song of Spir­it”. That Song of Spir­it, the Mas­ter Chords of Pat­terns and Mean­ings are held by the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac.

As I not­ed then, the mod­ern-era mod­els and the data we col­lect based upon our mod­ern tools of per­cep­tion, as well as the Wis­dom passed down to us in the Ancient Teach­ings, both of these approach­es, whether by Sci­ence or by Spir­it hold that the ulti­mate nature of Real­i­ty, the Noume­na behind the Phe­nom­e­na we per­ceive can best be under­stood as Fields of Ener­gy, and these Fields cre­ate the Ener­gy-Forms or Bod­ies that we per­ceive as the phys­i­cal real­i­ty that is made by a Hier­ar­chy of Atom­ic Par­ti­cles, Atoms, Mol­e­cules, Mat­ter, Life-Forms, Plan­ets and Stars.

Pat­terns of Mean­ing – The Design Bod­ies of Creation
But what we also need to under­stand is that these Fields of Ener­gy-Forms are shaped and guid­ed by Pat­terns that are inter­re­lat­ed with­in each type of Ener­gy-Form, and between them and oth­er Ener­gy-Forms too. These inter­nal and exter­nal pat­terns are the Web of Designs and Mean­ings, what the Ancient Wis­dom calls “the Design Bod­ies” that form, shape and hold Cre­ation togeth­er as it is, and cre­ate the Sto­ry of Spir­it, The Life of the One.

These pat­terns range from the phys­i­cal “Laws of Ener­gy-Forms” which guides their com­bi­na­tions-trans­for­ma­tions (what we call Chem­istry in the phys­i­cal sci­ences, or Alche­my in the spir­i­tu­al sci­ences), and which we humans have arranged and labeled in a Hier­ar­chy from the micro or sub-atom­ic up to the galac­tic struc­tures of the Uni­verse. We have dis­cerned and described this mate­ri­al­ized world as being formed and arranged by these pat­terns of the phys­i­cal laws that hold and guide their man­i­fes­ta­tion and meaning.

And equal­ly, what we con­sid­er as the realm of Liv­ing Ener­gy-Forms, (though in the Ancient Wis­dom we hold that every­thing in the Uni­verse is Alive and Con­scious in some form), we have arranged our under­stand­ing of these Life-Forms into a hier­ar­chy guid­ed by the Pat­terns or Laws of the Bio­log­i­cal, from the most archa­ic of life-forms, to the most com­plex of Liv­ing-Beings. And we see and under­stand that those life-forms are shaped and guid­ed by their chem­i­cal-bio­log­i­cal Pat­terns of Inter­re­la­tion­ships with­in each form, and between those forms of life and oth­er forms of life, and which we under­stand as being shaped and guid­ed by the pat­tern of mean­ings held by DNA.

Pat­terns of Consciousness
More­over, as we look at ever more com­plex forms of life, we see how these Pat­terns of Life move beyond the mere­ly phys­i­cal, chem­i­cal, and cel­lu­lar com­bi­na­tions and inter­re­la­tion­ships, into an ever-widen­ing web of the Phe­nom­e­na of Mind, of Pat­terns of Con­scious­ness, of Feel­ings and Thought-Forms and Aware­ness deep­en­ing and expand­ing with­in and between the Hier­ar­chies of Life. Though these exist accord­ing to the Ancient Wis­dom in all the realms of being, they become ever more pro­nounced and lumi­nous as we move into more com­plex orders of Creation.

When we come to the rel­a­tive­ly advanced forms of life, like our Human King­dom, the mul­ti­ple Pat­terns of Mean­ing that shape and guide our jour­ney range from the phys­i­cal, to the emo­tion­al, to the men­tal and to the spir­i­tu­al Ener­gy-Forms and their Pat­terns. As I not­ed last time, we humans are part of a Hier­ar­chy of Life-Forms in this Uni­verse, and we are not so very dif­fer­ent from many life-forms with whom we share this pre­cious plan­et, because we are all held and shaped by these Fields of Rela­tion­ships that we cre­ate with­in and between one anoth­er and all oth­er lives on this plan­et. Indeed, we see how very much the Pat­terns of these oth­er King­doms of Life, and our Pat­terns of Human Life, are deeply inter­wo­ven and inter­de­pen­dent with one anoth­er. And we can cer­tain­ly acknowl­edge giv­en the Covid-19 expe­ri­ence and the exis­ten­tial cri­sis posed by Cli­mate Change, that we are much more inter­de­pen­dent than we might have thought.

Yes, we can now see how we bear a sin­gu­lar respon­si­bil­i­ty for both the Cri­sis of Cli­mate Change and the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic (which is just anoth­er man­i­fes­ta­tion of Cli­mate Change). Why or how could a sin­gle species on a plan­et, that is team­ing with a host of life-forms, be so pow­er­ful as to effect such a change for the entire planet?

The rea­son is that we humans, giv­en our spe­cial abil­i­ties for self-aware, self-devel­op­ment, have devel­oped these Influ­en­tial Fields of Pat­terns in our Emo­tion­al-Men­tal-Spir­i­tu­al Ener­gy-Bod­ies to such a degree, to such a con­se­quen­tial pow­er, that we have been able to reshape our­selves and in con­se­quence our world in vaster, deep­er, and infi­nite­ly more com­plex ways than any oth­er life-form.

Par­a­digms of Belief
The com­bi­na­tion of these three Pat­tern Shapers, the Emo­tion­al, Men­tal, and Spir­i­tu­al Fields that we make with and through one anoth­er in our Human Inter­re­la­tion­ships, these three form our Con­scious­ness, our Par­a­digms of Belief and Real­i­ty-Forms that shape and guide our Actions and Behav­iors, and forge our Wants, Desires and Fears; and it is by these Pat­terns of Feel­ing, Think­ing and Believ­ing that we have made our Human Real­i­ty for thou­sands of years. Steadi­ly, and now increas­ing­ly, we have been chang­ing our­selves and our world. But it does appear to many of us, that we have forged these devel­op­ments with­out wis­dom or humil­i­ty, and we have failed to under­stand the costs and con­se­quences for our­selves and this plan­et until it was too late.

First Humans – Hunters/Gatherers for almost 200,000 years
For tens of thou­sands of years, we humans lived in a cer­tain Pat­tern of Mean­ing; we were what we call “Hunter-Gath­er­ers”, and our Design Body Pat­terns, our pat­terns of Emo­tion, Mind and Spir­it, were close­ly aligned with the nat­ur­al world around us. Accord­ing to our lat­est Genet­ic dis­cov­er­ies and Archae­o­log­i­cal find­ings, mod­ern Humans evolved into our present form around 200,000 years ago. And for all but the last 12,000 years we lived by align­ing our Pat­terns with the Nat­ur­al World around us, cre­at­ing what many have come to see as a most­ly sym­bi­ot­ic and bal­anced rela­tion­ship with the oth­er realms of life.

The Great Turn­ing – Set­tle­ments 12, 000 years ago
Whether by hap­pen­stance, or some cli­mate shift, or some oth­er yet as undis­cov­ered rea­son, we were able to set­tle down and begin to grow grains, and then domes­ti­cate ani­mals around 12,000 years ago…and every­thing began to change, for us and for the Nat­ur­al world around us. We began to change our own Pat­terns of Mean­ing and Inter­re­la­tion­ships with one anoth­er, and we can see this by com­par­ing our way of life to the few remain­ing groups of Hunter-Gath­er­ers that live at the mar­gins of our Human-Remade World. We moved away from an Egal­i­tar­i­an soci­ety ground­ed in shar­ing equi­tably, and into a Hier­ar­chi­cal order defined by pos­ses­sions and pow­er. And we began to sig­nif­i­cant­ly alter the del­i­cate bal­ance in the ecosys­tems for the land and wildlife to meet our ever-chang­ing and grow­ing needs for the next many thou­sands of years. But a most impor­tant change was still ahead, and it was because of this shift in our Con­scious­ness that we find our­selves with our exis­ten­tial cri­sis today.

Our self-fram­ing and self-shap­ing by our Pat­terns of Mean­ing and Con­scious­ness is the most sig­nif­i­cant fac­tor in cre­at­ing and deter­min­ing the path we have fol­lowed, and they will also deter­mine the path that we make that lies ahead. Through­out our jour­ney, that is since we “woke up”, we have been shar­ing our sto­ries with one anoth­er, for we are Sto­ry­tellers one and all, and our obser­va­tions, expe­ri­ences, knowl­edge, and wis­dom have formed the Web of Con­scious­ness that we weave around and between one anoth­er. These indi­vid­ual and col­lec­tive sto­ries form our Pat­terns of Belief and forge the Path that we are on. We are very much what we think and feel, and we make our real­i­ty accord­ing­ly, whether for good or for ill.

The Sci­en­tif­ic Rev­o­lu­tion – 500 years ago, the 1500’s
The last and most sig­nif­i­cant change in our Pat­terns of Mean­ing, in our Emo­tion­al, Men­tal and Spir­i­tu­al for­ma­tions of Real­i­ty, led us to a new Way of Belief and Life and it hap­pened just over 500 years ago. We once again expe­ri­enced a shift in our Con­scious­ness that fun­da­men­tal­ly altered how we under­stand our­selves and our rela­tion­ship to the rest of Cre­ation. Our Pat­terns of Mean­ing and Con­scious­ness shift­ed, our Pur­pose and Moti­va­tion went from pre­serv­ing the Wis­dom and Knowl­edge of the Ancients to acquir­ing prac­ti­cal Knowl­edge of the mate­r­i­al world. This Epis­te­mo­log­i­cal Shift has been named The Sci­en­tif­ic Revolution.

For most of our jour­ney, we have revered what was hand­ed down by our fore­bears, hold­ing that the first teach­ings and our ances­tral knowl­edge was the Truth, and in some fash­ion absolute and final. For gen­er­a­tions upon gen­er­a­tions, change was incre­men­tal and most­ly acci­den­tal, as all the solu­tions and answers to life were embod­ied in our cus­toms and crafts or found via the medi­a­tion of the reli­gious orders, so that a per­son whether from 2,000 years or 1,000 years or 500 years ago, would have found much that was famil­iar in one another’s lives and cus­toms. But this would cer­tain­ly not be true if they came into our world today, for we have made a very dif­fer­ent world now.

This shift began around 500 years ago, and it cre­at­ed an approach to the world that is crit­i­cal and ques­tion­ing. Rather than assum­ing what was hand­ed down was true, we began to exam­ine real­i­ty for our­selves. We mea­sured, and eval­u­at­ed and test­ed our find­ings, con­stant­ly refin­ing and improv­ing and retest­ing our find­ings so that we could con­tin­u­ous­ly increase our knowl­edge of how the Uni­verse works. This was not done to mere­ly sat­is­fy our curios­i­ty. Rather, we sought to know so that we could har­ness these dis­cov­er­ies and make use of them to meet our needs. And as we acquired more capa­bil­i­ties, we cre­at­ed ever more com­plex needs and wants that we sought to sat­is­fy, and then we did it again. We went from most­ly very sim­ple lives to cre­ate a world of astound­ing com­plex­i­ty. We went from over 400 mil­lion humans to a cur­rent pop­u­la­tion of just under 8 bil­lion now!

Our Cri­sis – The Next Turning
But now we find our­selves with a range of chal­lenges that we have brought upon our­selves. For in our rush for the Ener­gy and Mate­ri­als to cre­ate and sus­tain our mod­ern lives, the mod­ern world that our Sci­ence and Tech­nolo­gies have made pos­si­ble, we have changed the del­i­cate bal­ance of the var­i­ous ecosys­tems that make up the rich and beau­ti­ful hier­ar­chy of life-forms on this plan­et. As the increas­ing loss of diver­si­ty of species accel­er­ates, we can tru­ly see now that our world is becom­ing less beau­ti­ful, less vibrant, less mean­ing­ful because quite lit­er­al­ly, “life is leav­ing the planet”.

At this crit­i­cal moment, when the future of the plan­et and the prospects for human­i­ty are in great per­il, we must hope and expect that our Pat­terns of Mean­ing, our com­plex Web of Feel­ings, Thoughts and Spir­i­tu­al Inti­ma­tions, that our most spe­cial Gift of the Imag­i­na­tion will help us to find a way to solve our self-made crises and avoid the calami­ties that are hurtling towards us.

Con­fu­sion Reigns
But at this crit­i­cal moment, we are faced with anoth­er cri­sis of our own mak­ing, we face a Cri­sis of Con­scious­ness itself. Because of our tech­nolo­gies, because of our means to spread infor­ma­tion and mis­in­for­ma­tion with­out lim­its, we find our­selves today in a ver­i­ta­ble “Ocean of Cacoph­o­nies”, with clash­ing “storms of sto­ries” and mean­ings with­out con­text or foun­da­tion, where com­pet­ing opin­ions and duel­ing facts stream out of our many devices, and we can­not find our way to what is rea­son­able let alone what is true. We are lost because our sto­ry­telling and sto­ries are bro­ken, and we can nei­ther find our way home nor see a path to a bet­ter future. What are we to do?

Yes, if I were some sort of outside/alien observ­er of human­i­ty at this time, I would say the gen­er­al con­di­tion of our species right now is that we are con­fused and uncer­tain. It is rather telling, that at this time we are expe­ri­enc­ing the pas­sage of Nep­tune through the Sign of Pisces, which always rep­re­sents a time when the bound­aries between the var­i­ous realms of Spir­it and Mat­ter become more per­me­able and unfixed. When­ev­er I have a client expe­ri­enc­ing a major tran­sit of Nep­tune in their chart, I always point out that they are going through a time of mys­tery and con­fu­sion. They will often say yes, they are con­fused, and it is dis­tress­ing and scary. But I gen­tly remind them that the uni­verse is not out “to get them”, and that the rea­son we must go through peri­ods of con­fu­sion is to make it pos­si­ble for us to grow! They look at me as if I am some­what out of my mind, but I explain that we become attached to the way things are, to the way we are, and even though those ways may now be hurt­ing us (or oth­ers) we hold to them, not because of our faith but because we are fear­ful. So it is Spir­it, in this case Nep­tune, that comes along to make that old real­i­ty appear as it is, an illu­sion, a moment in time that is pass­ing, and that we are being giv­en this oppor­tu­ni­ty to let go and grow.

Our Time, Like the 1500’s
That is what is hap­pen­ing now, and it is on a glob­al scale because we are so inter­con­nect­ed by our new tech­nolo­gies, so the entire world can vir­tu­al­ly par­tic­i­pate in the most uplift­ing inspi­ra­tions of the human spir­it and our dark­est fears too. Nep­tune was in Pisces before, from 1848 to 1862, and 1685 to 1698, and 1521 to 1535. Our shift from 2011 to 2026 is most sim­i­lar to and per­haps as con­se­quen­tial as that dawn of the Sci­en­tif­ic Rev­o­lu­tion in the 1500’s. Not only was Nep­tune in Pisces dur­ing that peri­od, but the plan­et Plu­to was also pass­ing through Capri­corn as well. That is exact­ly what we are expe­ri­enc­ing now, Nep­tune in Pisces with Plu­to in Capri­corn. We are at the Dawn of a New Age, but we can­not yet see what that New World might be.

Remem­ber, when­ev­er Plu­to is in Capri­corn it indi­cates the End of an Insti­tu­tion­al Age, when the struc­tures we have cre­at­ed to meet our needs break down because they can no longer meet our needs, that is why the world as we knew it falls apart around us. And Nep­tune mean­while is dis­solv­ing those bound­aries between Pat­terns of Mean­ing, so that our Under­stand­ing of the World and of one anoth­er is cloud­ed and confused.

The Way Ahead
What we can know is that our ances­tors found a way through their time of break­down and con­fu­sion, and they built a New World. They did it not by deny­ing Sci­ence or their Faith, but by find­ing a way to hold them togeth­er. That is “The Way”.

We will find our way when we let go of what we must but hold onto that which is ever­last­ing. We must tell one anoth­er our sto­ries, share our hopes and our fears, find new mean­ings and ways to meet one another’s needs. We must turn to one anoth­er with love and lis­ten and try to find a way to meet one anoth­er in a new­ly cre­at­ed shared space of understanding.

We can do this if we remain on the Path of Love and Light, by hold­ing togeth­er our Hearts and our Minds.

At the Dawn of the Sci­en­tif­ic Age, Descartes famous­ly declared as part of the new Pat­terns of Mean­ing, this defin­ing phrase for being human: “I think, there­fore I am”.

But I would dif­fer with this claim of what it means to be human, and in accor­dance with the Ancient Teach­ings and all the great Reli­gions, I believe we would be truer to affirm, “I love, there­fore I am”!

We are here for one thing, To Love One Another.

And we do this when we lis­ten to one anoth­er, share with one anoth­er, and care for one another.

This is the Way.

And this is the way we will make a New World.