February 1, 2014
So I read some of E. Tolle’s, The Power of Now, and was immediately reminded of my audience with the Dalai Lama a-number-of-years-back (See elsewhere in The DI). In that particular essay, I recounted how I told the Lama that I thought and believed as he did – but I couldn’t enact my life as he did because divorce and children continued to prevent me from entering a state of bliss: the Lama replied that I had created a problem for myself that only I could solve (and I swear he was chuckling)…I’ll always remember Al Bundy dropping that raw egg on-the-floor stating that this is your brain on marriage…
Like the Dalai Lama (but unlike me) Tolle was not married, nor did he report having any children when he had his epiphany. As-a-matter-of-fact, Tolle’s “epiphany” sounded an awful lot like a nervous breakdown to this psychologist (particularly when I have had two [and only enjoyed one-of-them]). And, yes – the aftermath of a nervous breakdown is deliciously spiritual and cleansing – but if you have to deal with a woman and children not long afterwards, why, you step right back into the matrix! It sounds like Echkhart Tolle only had to come to grips with his relationship with his father. In fact, it could also be that Tolle had a St. Paul-styled seizure (I was never a St. Paul fan)!
So…I wasn’t blown away by any of Tolle’s ruminations – though the fellow captures complex and abstract thoughts in the most beautiful and simplistically elegant language I have ever read. Wow! I was in awe of his prose!! I only hope that some of his streamlining elegance will rub-off-on-me…
On-the-other-hand, (and for-quite-some-time-now), I have been pondering many of Manly P. Hall’s chapters in The Secret Teachings of All Ages, but have found myself repeatedly returning to Hall’s renderings of Pythagoras on “colors and music.”
It is very difficult for me to summarize this information in coherent fashion (because I am a neophyte to this incredible stuff) but, as we know, light AND sound CAN BE differentiated by vibrational frequency, and, OMG — this is where my mind gets blown: the notes of the diatonic scale (Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti) — correspond to the colors of the rainbow and resonate with the colors! So the color “red” corresponds with “Do” and so on up-the-scale!
And now I get shivers up-and-down my spine; because, both the rainbow colors AND the musical scale notes CONNECT to our seven bodily chakras (the high ‘C’ to the 8th chakra)! Thus, the “red” frequency vibrates/resonates with “Do”/the sacchral chakra and-so-on! This is the most powerful information I have attempted to take in in a long, long time.
Now, as my readers know, I have been doing a morning kata for-many-years-now: a routine that mixes yoga with swimming and martial arts stretching. Recently I started incorporating the diatonic scale into my breathing regimen that incorporates the seven chakras (much to the chagrin of my neighbors I’m sure – as I still vocalize like a cross between a frog and a cat-in-heat)…and…and…and I might be vibrating differently: I certainly feel more relaxed and less stressed…but that might be just be from surfing Hawaii. I have to take the Lama and Eckhart out for a surf some time…