Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness

by Itzhak Bentov

Our physical bodies are formed by organizing fields. These fields are four-dimensional electromagnetic holograms, which change in time. Our physical bodies are the end products and the result of the inter...

Creation and destruction are simultaneous. Degeneration carries renewal in its core. We know that the end of time is its beginning. In short, we find that there is a level in Nature at which all extremes become reconciled and merged. It is on this level that black and white, good and evil merge into one “Is”-ness. This is also where the ultimate truth lies. The truth is not black or white; it is both. The pairs of opposites of the lower levels merge on the highest level.

We now know that the purpose of evolution is to produce consciousnesses of higher and higher order. The universe is a teaching and learning machine. Its purpose is to know itself. Knowledge is freely available in the universe like every other natural resource. It is there for everyone who is willing to make the effort to take it. We can poke around in our sequential “objective” time-space, or we can take the intuitive, subjective “time-space” route. Both are needed to get us there.

“knowledge is structured in consciousness.”

“Study the micro and you’ll find the macro reflected in it.”

an egg and all seeds reflect this basic design of the universe. Energy flows through the center of the egg along its long axis, turns around, and flows back over itself, forming an outside field of energy.

The Creator draws up the plans for His universe. These are the laws of Nature, the rules of the game. His goal is the evolution of consciousness. He uses opposing forces of good and evil to stimulate evolution.

When a unit of consciousness has developed to a point at which it understands that it is part of the Creator, the Creator will set him aside and assign to him some jobs to do. Eventually, such a consciousness will develop into a co-creator.

It is possible that this universe is just a tiny cell in a much larger structure.

It is interesting to note that in some types of epilepsy there is also a sequence of symptoms, sometimes called the “march of epilepsy.” Here the sequence runs in the opposite direction from that of kundalini. In an epeleptic, the lip area may be affected first, then the face; eventually, the symptoms spread down the neck, through the shoulders, into the arms, and eventually to the legs. The kundalini would seem, therefore, to be a natural antidote to certain types of epilepsy. Meditation would thus be a reasonable treatment for this disease.