What Is Consciousness?

        The word consciousness is equivalent to the Sanskrit word buddhi. And namely in this sense, it is used in spiritual literature.
        Also there is the word soul (in Sanskrit — jiva). Souls are incarnated by God into material bodies — relatively small bundles of living energy, which should develop themselves while living in these bodies.
        At the human stage of development, a soul (jiva) — when it is already ripe for this by developing its mental function (intellect) — may begin to become consciousness (buddhi).

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Evolution of Consciousness

        The boundless universal space in reality is not empty. In it there abides an infinite in size and eternal Being Which is called the Absolute.

        How can one become acquainted with Him? How can one see Him?

        It is impossible to see Him in full — with the eyes of the material body.

        Yet one can see, hear, and even embrace Him with the emotions of higher love, can infuse into Him and merge with Him! One can really do this with oneself as a consciousness (soul) developed to the necessary degree!

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Multidimensionality of Space

        In reality, the universal space is multidimensional. Just like sunlight and water co-exist within the same volume, sunlight moving freely through the water with little or no interaction with it, just like radio waves of different frequencies are present deep in the space in and out of our bodies — even so multiple worlds exist everywhere deep inside multidimensional space, in and out of all material objects, be they in solid, liquid or gaseous states. Those worlds are abodes of spirits and God.

        The scale of multidimensionality is a special scale of energy states, which represent fundamentally different ranges. When studying this scale, the vector of one’s attention should be directed not upward or downward, or in any conventional direction, but inward. Layers of the multidimensional space (eons in Greek or lokas in Sanskrit) are ranged by their coarseness-subtlety.

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Scheme for Studying the Structure of the Absolute

        The main thing to be taken into account when viewing this scheme (it is shown at the end of the book) is that it reflects the multidimensional nature of space. Therefore, that which is shown at the bottom of the scheme corresponds to that which is located in the deep, in the subtlest lokas. And that which is shown higher on the scheme corresponds to lokas of increasing density (or coarseness). In other words, the downward direction on the scheme corresponds to the depthward direction in the multidimensional Body of the Absolute, and the upward direction on the scheme corresponds to the direction toward the outer layers of the Absolute.
        One must not view the sectors shown on the scheme as really existing in the universe. In reality, these are not sectors but infinite layers of multidimensionality. And the scheme shows not layers themselves but entrances to them.

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The Creator and His Creation

        Everything that exists in the multidimensional universe is energy that differs according to its quality. All this energy as a whole is called the Absolute, that is, the Creator consubstantial with His Creation. (The Absolute is Absolutely Everything).
        Solid matter is also just energy that has assumed this form and that can become non-material again under certain circumstances (namely, by the Will of the Creator).
        A special kind of energy is the energy of the consciousness, that is, the units or the accumulation of the units of the consciousness that are capable of being aware of themselves and thinking. The most important one of them is the Creator, Who calls Himself the Heart of the Absolute, which means Its fundamental, main Part.
        The Creator dwells in His Abode — the subtlest spatial dimension. That is why the Path towards the cognition of the Him lies through the refinement of the consciousness by means of regulation of one’s own emotional sphere (psychical self-regulation) and the attunement with that which is subtle and beautiful.
           God — if we examine Him as the Absolute and as the Creator — is one. He exists as One Integral Organism, even though He is composed of numerous components.
        We can see the analogy between the structure of the Absolute and the body of every one of us. Namely, our bodies are also composed of numerous quite different biological tissues, organs, and cells.

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Biology Studies God

        Biology is a science about life, about living beings.

        In materialistic biology, it was customary to consider and study only the embodied forms of life. But in fact, living beings exist in the unembodied state too! They are spirits of various evolutionary ages and of various qualities, and also the Creator and His Representatives — the Holy Spirits, Which are called collectively the Holy Spirit.

        So, it was the duty of biologists to expand the sphere of their research on non-material forms of life!

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God

        So, we have discussed where one should seek God: not somewhere up in the sky but in the depth of the multidimensional universe. And one has to begin searching for Him not far in the cosmos but in one’s own chest — in one’s own spiritual heart, which begins its growth in the anahata chakra, which is called also the middle dantian.

        We have also agreed that the word God (with capital G) in the first place must be interpreted as Primordial Consciousness that dwells in the deepest and subtlest primary plane of the multidimensional universe. This Primordial Consciousness is One for the whole universe and therefore for all living beings, including people who live on our planet.

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How Is It — to Merge with God?

        When ordinary people think about mergence with someone — they are usually referring to sex. Yes, due to harmonious sexual relations between regular partners, among them are very close emotional connections of love.
        Emotions — they are the states of consciousness. Accustoming ourselves to the states of love, deepening and strengthening of these states — this is a great opportunity, given to people by God, — to learn great and pure love, which can then be turned to Him.
        The break of well-established relations of love may be very painful: it is the disconnecting of once united souls
        Emotions of love (as well as any other emotions) may spread out of the material bodies of any person..
        I also mention that the emotions of love — are uniting. Emotions of hate, censure, hostility, also strongly expressed egocentrism — are disuniting. God wishes to see us in uniting, integrating emotions of love.

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Ecology and Ecopsychology

        Ecology is a science that studies relationships between living organisms and the environment they live in.

        Human being can also be an object of such research.

        Man is not only a body, but also, and primarily, a consciousness or soul. And man lives not only in close contact with air, water, soil, animals, plants, viruses, and bacteria… We also interact with non-embodied individual consciousnesses (spirits of people and animals) and — which is the most important of all — with God.

        This is the subject of the science ecopsychology — as the most important branch of ecology.

        In reality we live in a multidimensional environment. And the material world that we can perceive with our senses is just a small portion of it. Other layers (eons or lokas) of the multidimensional universe usually remain completely out of our perception, although they are filled with life that can see us and which influences us.

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What Is Man

        In order to be really comprehensive the whole system of knowledge about human being should be based on the premise that man is not a body, but a consciousness, i.e. living energy, capable of self-awareness and possessing mind and memory. The body is merely a transient habitat for the consciousness. And throughout the personal evolution, every individual moves in and out of those habitats, dropping off old bodies and entering new ones.

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The Science of the Development of Souls

        … Have you, reader, asked yourself the question: Why do people so differ in their characteristics, mental properties? And due to what it depends on, why this or that person may have an evil, vile, violent, lying, or stupid, lazy, hyper- or hypo- or homosexual character, why someone can be intellectually primitive and satisfys only with primitive amusements — but also why there are people, on the contrary, who are highly reasonable, altruistic, sincere, honest, kind, forgiving, unselfish in striving towards helping others, in search for the highest knowledge and spiritual development?
        What determines such drastic differences?

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Jiva and Buddhi

        Jiva is a Sanskrit equivalent of the word soul.

        In its incarnate state, the jiva is attached to its material body. It lives in the body and perceives the world with the help of the body’s organs of sense; it thinks with the help of the body’s brain. This is why it is so difficult for embodied people to disidentify themselves — even mentally — with the body and the mind (manas in Sanskrit).

        … And what is buddhi?

        Contrary to the jiva, the buddhi is the part of the consciousness that is formed and further developed — with the help of the methods of buddhi yoga — in the subtle and subtlest spatial dimensions outside one’s material body.

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Raja Yoga and Buddhi Yoga: Their Place in the Evolution

        The word Yoga (starting with a capital letter) means Unity, Mergence with God in the aspect of the Creator, Ishvara. If this word starts with a small letter, it means Path to this ultimate Goal of the evolution of individual souls (consciousnesses). These meanings fully correspond to the meaning of the Latin word religion.
        … Now let us come to the topic of Evolution.
        One may view the evolution of humankind, the evolution of some particular person, and the evolution of God. All these are very closely related, as you will see from further information.
        God’s evolution proceeds in cycles; in the modern astronomy they are called cosmic pulsations. In Sanskrit these cycles are called Manvantaras.       
        At the beginning of each Manvantara, God in the aspect of the Absolute is manifested in His three main components:
        a) Supreme Purusha — that is the Creator, who remains the Witness and Master of the purusha’s evolution in prakriti; He is also the Goal of the personal evolution of each unit of life.
        b) Higher Purusha — Units of Divine Consciousnesses coming out from the Supreme Purusha; They are Divine Teachers representing the Creator. In the aggregate sense, They are called Brahman or Holy Spirit.
        c) protoprakriti — that is protomatter (energy which forms matter);
        d) protopurusha — that is the energy which is used for creation of souls who will develop in the conditions created for this purpose in prakriti.
        As a result of each Manvantara, the Creator adds to Himself those units of purusha evolving in physical bodies which have managed to go through the whole cycle of their personal evolution and have attained Divine Perfection.
        Everything in the Creation is meant for that purpose. This is the meaning of everything taking place in the universe. The Evolution of God Himself goes by this and consists in this.

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About Meditation

        Meditation is the highest method of religious practice in various directions of religion.

        It is meditation as a method that allows one to cognize Living God and — at the very end — to come to Mergence with Him.

        Meditation is work of the consciousness. The mind occupied with earthly concerns has to be silent in meditation, and there are special techniques which help one to learn to stop the work of the mind for the time needed for meditation.

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Places of Power

        Now we are going to discuss a very interesting ecological phenomenon, which has a great significance for spiritual work. This is so called places of power.

        Places of power are geographic zones, sometimes large, sometimes small, which possess energy fields that are of significance for people.

        Places of power may be found on the surface of the Earth, underground (for example, in the subway), above the surface, as well as in water reservoirs.

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Spiritual Heart

        The point is that the human organism is multidimensional as well as the Absolute. And every one of us has one’s own “potential representation” in the Abode of the Creator. In the New Testament, this is called “God’s Spirit, which dwells in us”. The same representation is called Atman or Higher "I" of everyone, which we have to cognize.

        At that, this Higher Self is coessential to the Creator.

        But how to get there?

        Firstly, one has to understand that successful advancement toward the Creator is possible only for those possessing the ethical purity which God suggests for us (more detail about this can be found in our books).

        Secondly, for advancing successfully toward the Abode of the Creator, one has to keep to two main principles of Hesychasm: achieving the inner peace and making efforts on developing oneself as a spiritual heart.

        So, let’s consider in more detail how the spiritual heart can be developed. How to know it, to open it? Where is it located, and what to do with it then?

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Psychic Self-Regulation and Spiritual Growth

        The only way of mastering the art of psychic self-regulation is to gain control over the functions of the chakras.
        Detailed knowledge about the chakras, their functions, and possibilities of work with them is presented in our book Ecopsychology. Now let me tell briefly only about those points which are important for our present conversation.
        … In total there are seven chakras. Every one of us has them — in the head, in the neck, in the trunk.
        Every chakra is responsible, among other things, for supplying with bioenergies those organs of the body which belong to the sphere of influence of that chakra.
        But the more important point is that every chakra participates in producing certain psychic states.
 
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Oneness

        There is such a philosophical term as — Oneness, which can be most successfully interpreted as the “Wholeness of Everything”. What does this mean?
        There is One Primordial Universal Consciousness That resides in the depths of the multidimensional space. It is the Creator of everything “manifested”, which is called the Creation.
        Both the Creator and His Creation are eternal and infinite, although sometimes individual “islands” of the Creation in the universe space are annihilated by Him, whereas others are created…
        The process of His Evolution takes place in the whole infinite Absolute and consists in the further development of the Primordial Consciousness.
 
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