Month: January 2013

Biostrata …. continues 5

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We now find ourselves evolved to the stage of the Sensory Stratum and here, development of the intelligence displayed is generally known as ‘Human’ intelligence.  Within the ‘grey’ areas of there being no difference between mind and matter it is sometimes challenging to understand the credibility of this. But think on, your body is made up of cells which ‘display’ intelligence, for their behaviour is that of organised pranic (life source) movement, and as we have seen so far, all the way up through the layers of Biostrata there is intelligence. Thus, this belongs to both mind and matter.

For human intelligence to exist, there is dependence upon sensory images. This is so because when we think, or apply intelligence to problem solving, we are readily using ‘sensory’ images. We have not the capability to think of pure quality or pure quality for we must at all times have available to us, sensory images, better known as ‘symbols’ which represent the quantities and qualities which constitute the subject of our thinking.  For example, if we were to try to think of the pure quantity of SEVEN, we would find that impossible, yet if we produce in the mind, a symbol and/or sensory images that represent SEVEN, we can then immediately begin to envisage that quantity.  We could visualise SEVEN apples or audibly imagine SEVEN chimes of a bell.  The ‘types’ of symbols used are not important but their presence in the imagination is fundamental to being able to ‘think’ about quantities.

Of course we know we have progressed further than this method of ‘quantity’ thinking (albeit the exception in young children in their learning informative years) for we have moved forward to utilise specific written symbols for each number and so to do we have symbolism when ‘thinking’ about quality. LOVE for instance, unless we can produce a sensory image in respect of this, something or someone who portrays the quality of Love, we would find it impossible to think (feel) it.

Qualities are abstract. Like a hole; that is abstract. A hole cannot be perceived purely as a hole, there must be a concrete counterpart. If you have a hole in a piece of wood and then the piece of wood were to be destroyed, there would be no hole. We are only able to think/perceive that hole in relation to the piece of wood it is found within.

So to think of an object of beauty, it has to come with a counterpart, a determination of an occasion, we have to see (perhaps a beautiful face), or hear (a beautiful voice) or smell (a beautiful scent) to have something which directly represents that which is beautiful.

Thus, here we are, in the knowing that the human body belongs to the Sensory Stratum of the Biostrata. Every single human body is the outcome of the upward movement/progression/development of Prana, forever ascending the evolutionary scale of Existence.

With this notion, how then do WE determine the extent of OUR potential progress?

The answer is found within consciousness. If consciousness is dependent upon the senses for information then this clearly indicates that the Sensory Stratum has been reached. If consciousness is mainly relying on impulses, feelings and urges then it is on one of instinctive nature (the Cellular Stratum) … but if thinking about quality and quantity through symbolism is reached, then we are at the Sensory Stratum. By no means however, does this mean we are on a ‘precision instrument’ level, one that is indicative of our development for more often than not, although we ‘occupy’ our main ‘stratum of residence’ we are also reluctant to leave behind the old ‘familiarity’ of acquaintance and experience and thus we continue to cling to the stratum immediately below. So too, do the lower stratum, before completely vacating their residence in their eagerness to ascend the biostrata, reach up immediately above and thus you can find intelligence occupying three strata at the same time.

One may think that ascension through the biostrata is now complete, seeing as we have come to our Senses, but we are still yet to reach the apex of the symbolic triangle.  Next we venture further upward to enter the Spiritual Stratum.

 

Biostrata …. continues 4

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In simple terms, Life is an upward motion/process and movement in any other direction is that of deterioration or failure of development.

Here is a diagram to help with a visual understanding of the Biostrata.  The simple, yet empowering shape of the Triangle is utilised.

The Biostrata

The bottom line represents the Pranic Stratum – that of inert energy, the ‘potential life force’ … that from which all recogniseable existence emerges.

You can see that as we move up to the next level of the triangle we enter the Atomic Stratum – that which relies heavily on the Pranic level for its existence, but which is of lowest order of intelligence with its uncomplicated patterns of behaviour … it provides the basis for all matter.

Lifting up to the next part of the triangle we gain admission to the Molecular Stratum and up again into the Cellular Stratum, a continuum in motion, a trend toward unity, a state of being one.

Always, a number of atoms must unite to form a molecule, a number of molecules must come together to form a cell (thus there are fewer cells than molecules) and this continues with existing numbers of units becoming fewer as the number of elements within each unit increases.

Keep returning to this Illustration to assist in understanding.

From the Cellular Stratum we move cohesively into the Sensory Stratum and this is where the collective activities of the cells move forever upward towards unity, being a whole, and thus commit to their specialised groups to form the Body. Again, it is a large leap, like that of the molecular to the cellular.  What is significant about the progression upward from Cellular to Sensory is the contributory elements taking place in the formation of tissue and cells like that of the storing of hereditory data, the relative positionings of tissue formations and much much more which cannot be shown in the illustration but which exist in other ‘strata’ which rest in between the significant stratum as shown in the diagram.

So now we are in the Sensory Stratum and this is known as such quite simply because we have arrived at our Senses.

Biostrata continues ….. 3

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From the beginnings of the Biostrata we are aware that Prana is the vital force, the ‘potential’ life force in everything and seeing as it is indeed  the first stratum it deems logical that the atomic, molecular and cellular strata all have prana manifesting in them.  Prana is capable of manifesting at various levels of mind and matter (all relativity dependant of the observer).  Thus, there is a predetermination of the development of pranic manifestation and progress within the natural laws imposed by ‘original design’ (the groupings, the selective process of atoms and molecules and cells) and is something that is predictable at every stage of development.  So when, at the cellular level of life, cells, eventually ‘die’, is this due to the cell running out of Prana? Atoms form molecules, molecules form cells and so forth in an ever upward development of pranic manifestation. There is the common logic of upward direction toward a higher stratum. However, as soon as no further progress is being made within development, or if atoms, molecules and cells fail to conform to their original design, then they are deemed to be ‘dead’ or inanimate and they will begin to break up and fall back downward through the lower strata. This activity denotes gradual deterioration. A cell will break up into molecules and then the molecules will separate into atoms and so it continues.  This could be nothing more than a re-cycling process whereby during ‘deterioration’ there is assessment of how much decline has taken place and if indeed some atoms and molecules can re-enter the upward development and further contribute to fresh material and life-form then so they shall.  When a cell ‘dies’ it does not mean all Prana has disappeared. The dying cell is merely reversing its direction of movement within the Biostrata. It has the capacity to regenerate.

Therefore it is interesting to observe here, how despite the ‘dying off’ of various components within the ‘life form’, whether they be cells, molecules or atoms, there is an ‘essential design’ maintained by the ‘ever upward’ progression of new components (prana, atoms, molecules, cells) coming up through the Biostrata (resulting from reproduction or selective attraction).  These are once again of original design, and are simply replacing those constituent parts whose term has expired and are in descent, possibly to be drawn again into circulation and ascend the Biostrata as new life-forms if their manifestation can regenerate, re-cycle itself.

Life, as we understand it, is an upward progress through the Biostrata and we should see that all development, progress and retrogression, manifestation, behaviour patterns and all intelligence are under direction of a Supreme Controlling Force. It is notwithstanding that everything in existence, whether it be an atom, a molecule, a cell, a human being or inanimate object, it has to make an upward progression through the Biostrata and has to conform to laws which emanate from the Supreme Controlling Force. Non-compliance of this will produce premature stagnation and deterioration because unless there is compliance with the laws of the supreme controlling force, whether by design or by accident, there can be no progress. Progress is Life in the generally accepted context. There is much opportunity for free expression at every level of the Biostrata, however this can only occur within the ‘essential design’ on the law of life.

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The molecular stratum comes after the Pranic and Atomic stratum … basically, molecules are specialised groups of atoms.  Atoms arrange themselves into categories with each category applying specific characteristics having come together as an ‘expression’ of atomic intelligence (atomic characteristics are mainly determined by the number of electrons orbiting each nucleus), so there is always a selective process responsible in forming groups of atoms. This, in turn, relates to selective processes for grouping atoms into molecules. Molecular intelligence is therefore one level higher in intelligence than atoms but only due to the fact that molecular patterns of behaviour are far more complex than that of atoms and therefore selection processing is more intricate. Atoms will come together to form a molecule by use of interaction, producing a pattern of behaviour within a single molecule.  The molecule’s behaviour is mostly due to the atoms influencing each other by way of attraction or repulsion, so as to maintain equilibrium within a molecule’s precise structural arrangement. When molecules start their process of selection they are mainly extending the faculty of ‘atomic selectivity patterns’ within their formation.  The formation of molecules are but an extension of the same procedure as that of atoms, only more intricate, molecules are moving closer to the development of the human body.

Molecules unite to form living human cells.  The jump from molecules to living human cells is far greater than the jump from atoms to molecules but there are always firmly fixed ‘roots’ of the selectivity processes coming from the Atomic stratum. There are specialised groups of molecules to give us complete cells of every design – muscle, blood, bone, nerves. This development now shows us the growing complexity of each successive stratum and how it utilises the qualities and faculties of its preceding strata. This also allows us to witness the different behaviour patterns increasing during growth and displays the increasing level of intelligence, always gaining in superiority as the strata continue upward. The level of intelligence at the Cellular Strata is outstandingly high, so high that cells seem almost able to think.

The Biostrata ….. 1

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The Biostrata deals with life force and the deterioration thereof.

There are 7 Levels of the Biostrata

The Pranic Stratum, The Molecular Stratum, The Cellular Stratum, The Sensory Stratum, The Spiritual Stratum and The Godhead.

Prana (Life Force) can be seen to be both a ‘potential force’ and an ‘active force’ … it is the foundation to all other stratum. Without Prana there would be no fundamental structure to Total Existence.  It is deemed that all ‘matter’ is made up of atoms and that atoms constitute Total Existence, but there are vaccums and voids that exist too and it is these which have to be taken into consideration when relating to the Biostrata.

Thus, the baseline of you, and everything around you is made up of Pranic energy, life force, potential or active. This is the commencement of all matter. However, Prana is latent and its existence only becomes evident when ‘other forces’ cause it to manifest as life and activity.

The Biostrata can only become what it is by an ‘increasing of intelligence’, and therefore as we step up each stratum, we step up in intelligence.

After the ‘Pranic Strata’ there is the stratum known as ‘Atomic’. Everyone knows that an atom is a ball of space in which there are organised groups of ‘particles’, electrons, protons and neutrons. These organised groups act much in the same way as the solar system, so just as the planets orbit the sun, the ‘negative’ electrons and ‘positive’ protons orbit the nucleus of the atom. There is ‘electrical charge’ taking place too with the setting-up of force-fields and attractions and repulsions within the ‘space’ inside the atom. This could all be seen as a ‘nothingness’ inside of the atom but how does this ‘nothingness’ manifest? Prana is the answer. Prana can only make its presence manifest when combined with or influenced by ‘other forces’. Therefore, at this basic level of the Biostrata the ‘atom’ is ‘Prana in motion’. An intelligence operating at the lowest level to bring about the formation of precise patterns, generating a variety of frequencies that will work together to create, in every atom, a highy concentrated mass of physical energy.  Once Prana becomes active, it will display activity in more than one aspect and thus will ‘register’ as intelligence, behaviour, or ‘active’ force in infinite capability of expression and assertion at every level of existence. In the Atomic Stratum, Prana endows every atom with the faculty of being able to attract or repel other atoms, thus constituting self-preservation etc. Most interestingly of all atomic qualities is that of ‘selection’ which enables atoms to congregate in specialised groups to form molecules, in turn displaying a higher level of intelligence and pranic behaviour (the next Stratum of the Biostrata being that of the Molecule). Each progressive strata of existence increases in intelligence over that of the preceding stratum.