Posted September 1, 2013

Elsewhere on my website I explain the symbolism of the Shree Yantra (also spelled Sri Yantra). Here I cast off more imaginatively.

In this picture it’s all getting ready, the material and spiritual realms are preparing to inter-penetrate. Spiritual is symbolized by the downward-pointing triangles, and material, the upward pointing triangles. This is also mentioned in Tantric yoga as a sort of Yab-Yum, male-female union. In China they use the Yang/Yin to express the primal duality. From this metaphor that seems sexual comes a dynamism that generates the whole 3D+T cosmos (i.e., matter, energy, time, and three dimensions of space—height, breadth, and depth, or length, width, and height. Whatever.

In the Yogic tradition, they use all sorts of ways to connect, from hand gestures (mudra) to repeated words and chants (mantra) to bodily positions (hatha yoga—now quite widely known), etc. One way to get consciousness raised up a notch or two is to contemplate special designs, and one of these is the “mandala,” a circular, usually somewhat balanced drawing that is, in my interpretation, a crude map of sorts of higher-dimensional realities. 

Matter become fused with mind, the kind of synthesis that explains the socoms as we all know it. It can’t be one without the other—the technical term for this is “syzygy” (siz-a-gee). It’s not as if they were “ever” not this way, but this interaction explains “tantric” yoga.

Some mystics perceive this or something like it, and it generates a kind of ecstasy. There's a release of cosmic energy that seems to happen, a catharsis of bliss, because at another level, your-god-part has always known this. Upside down, Om is “Wo(w)-woh-woo.”

But we thought we’d just clue you in because that feeling of “ananda-bliss” is not what it’s about—that’s just a side effect—rather, it’s just “gettng” it all.

We’re short-circuiting the whole process and giving it away because humanity over its history has just gotten ahead of itself, more material power, unbalanced by deep wisdom. As a result there is an ecological crisis approaching! So humanity is teetering on the edge of either extinction or graduating to a better world—it’s up to you collectively—and it’s not just about getting “high” for individuals. So we are telling you as well we can, short-circuiting the gradual finding out that characterizes less violent beings.

Pow! Biff! Bang! Onomatopoeic jerking you “awake” a few levels more—that’s what’s needed.