A SPIRITUAL-SCIENTIFIC JOURNEY
We are on a quest to rediscover the lost spiritual science of the ancient seers. In the process, we will go on a long, spiritual-scientific journey—a journey of pure knowledge—that will take us throughout the boundaries of the known universe and beyond.
Hold onto your hats, because this journey will likely challenge your most cherished preconceived notions of reality. During the course of our travels, we will discover that the ancient spiritual science was a genuine science from which accurate, empirical predictions can be made about the overall organization of the universe. Yet rather than being taken from the perspective of ordinary, empirical observation, our journey will be taken from the perspective of enlightened consciousness on its way to obtain full immortality in the bosom of the infinite.
This perspective results in a completely different view of the universe than that provided by mere empirical observation. More specifically, it results in a layered vision of the universe as a living reality in which each and every thing, over the full spectrum of space-time scales, must be viewed as alive and endowed with consciousness. The ancients therefore conceived the universe as living and rooted in a universal field of consciousness. The layers of the living universe represent layers of consciousness, which can be understood as various universal fields of consciousness. The ancients compared the process of traversing these layers to the process of ascending (and descending) a divine ladder or stairway to the sky. Moreover, they understood this divine ladder or stairway as the path of immortality.
That path is the principle subject of this book. Our job will be to understand the path in light of modern scientific concepts rooted in a field-theory framework. This will involve translating some of the most abstract and profound spiritual ideas ever conceived by the human mind into a concrete model involving a spectrum of self-conscious fields, each of which is characterized by a particular space-time scale.
Although this might sound like a hopeless task, the fact is that the ancients have paved the way. We will see that they possessed a secret system of measured arrangement by which they estimated the space-time scales associated with the various layers. In this sense, the ancient system is mathematical; it can be translated into the language of mathematics—the universal language of science.
Upon inspecting this system and evaluating it in light of modern empirical evidence, we will discover that it can be used to predict accurately the most fundamental scales of cosmological organization discovered so far on the basis of general relativity as well as the most fundamental scales of force-matter unification discovered so far on the basis of quantum theory.
More important, we will discover that the ancient system can be used to predict accurately a hidden vertical symmetry between the two sets of scales, in accordance with the ancient principle “as above, so below.” Given the fact that this symmetry remains unknown in modern theory, the only possible conclusion is that the ancients possessed a genuine spiritual science that rivals and in certain ways surpasses the most advanced physical theories of today.
The implications regarding the origins of human culture and the knowledge possessed by the earliest cultures are exceedingly profound. We are dealing here with a historical and scientific mystery of the highest order.