Qi (chi): The Fundamental Particle

     Everything is made of chi and everything is chi. Chi is synonymous with energy, spirit, body, and matter. It is the fundamental building block of the universe and it is the universe. As you build with chi, as chi evolves, forms change, but the essence of the form remains the same. They are still composed of chi; they still are entirely chi. Chi is the mustard seed and the Cosmos. It is the multitude of form and the Oneness of form. It is the difference and uniqueness of forms and the commonality between forms. All form and all life is united and divided by chi.
     It is the force that animates life. It is consciousness and awareness. It is intelligent and it is intelligence. It can be contained and it cannot be contained. It can be known and it cannot be known. It is beyond us, yet it is us. It is the medium through which we sense and understand the workings of the universe. We sense the variations in chi through chi; and learn to understand these variations intellectually and communicate them effectively. We sense and learn about the chi that surrounds us and is us.
     Why is it important to understand chi? We have many notions of how to lead our lives well. Many of these ideas are ungrounded from direct perception and exact understanding. If we can perceive chi directly, we can begin to comprehend the universe exactly as it is, rather than rely on beliefs that are dim flashlights in the dark. The better we understand chi, the better we can manage our own lives and the more effectively we can organize and govern ourselves socially.
     In order to cultivate exact understanding, you must base your understanding off of direct perception of the senses. You must see chi as it is, flowing and changing, opening and closing: letting the unknown be the unknown. You must understand your assumptions as assumptions, beliefs as beliefs. They are not exact understanding or absolute truth. At best they are good approximations. At worst they are totally false. You believe in things you can't totally prove exist. You believe in them because believing them gives you something to stand on and hold onto in life. You have beliefs because your beliefs take you towards truth. They are not necessarily true. And if they are, beliefs still aren't perceiving truth directly. They are you deciding that something is true that you don't 100% know is true. We decide to believe because of what we sense. But, we don't need to have beliefs to sense the truth.
     Reality is an infinitely complicated and frequently, if not always, an indescribable sea of what we call form. Our senses tap into the universe in its raw comings and goings. Our minds filter our senses into coherent and meaningful information. We perceive this information as judgement, thoughts, and subjective experience. Our beliefs often strangle our senses into deluded perception of reality. We attempt to force circles to be squares. We see circles as squares. We see every unique shape as a square. They turn raw sensory data into what we believe or assume the world is like. We perceive the world through the filters of our beliefs, and see a world and live in a world that is largely imaginative.
     To see reality as it is, to see qi as it is, we must refine our beliefs and thought. We must refine them to the point of pure awareness. We must cultivate pure awareness and apply it to all of our thought and mind. We must test ourselves in the field of awareness to measure the validity of our self and thought. Through the examination of our thought in pure awareness we distill direct perception of the senses and direct perception of reality. We must examine our self to distill truth. We must examine our beliefs through the light of reason and conscious reflection to know if what we believe is true. We must cultivate direct perception of the senses to accurately judge the nature of the universe, the nature of qi. Our thoughts become living awareness of form rather than beliefs that distort our perceptions of form.
     Beliefs are not bad or always wholly untrue. They are attempts to understand the world we live in. They are based in sense and tradition that can be very helpful and meaningful. They may be the best tools we have to make sense of the world and keep our lives in order. They have a place in the evolution of our consciousness and should not be rejected wholly because of the intuition that there is a better way to perceive reality. They should be carefully examined and discarded only when a deeper truth is clearly realized.
     When you cultivate exact understanding you begin to see how everything is composed of radiating energy fields and currents. This energy is qi. The world is an incredibly complex matrix of interconnected and layered qi fields. Layers withing layers within layers of interconnected and interacting qi. Every particle of qi radiates itself (energy) in all directions at all times.  Every particle of qi vibrates and emits light. This subtle light is the energy that is radiated. So energy, subtle light, and qi are all the same thing. Qi is also sound. Sound is emitted by the vibrating qi as well. Qi is the subtle energy that permeates through all the phenomena we sense. Its the component that unifies what we sense through our various senses into coherent perception.
     Qi is much like water and air as well. It is fluid. It coalesces into streams and pools, yet because it is light it can travel in all directions. Although it is light, it is often dependent on form and fixed to specific locations. Even when it is fixed it radiates itself. When people see auras, they are seeing the radiating fields of qi emitted from the body. Every particle emits light or qi. The different combinations of particles creates unique atoms and thus unique energy signatures from the emitted light. Atoms compose molecules and molecules compose cells and cells compose tissues, so every layer of our physiological composition radiates unique frequencies of light. This light is not merely a spectacle. It is also intelligent and affecting. The intelligent light and energy (qi) emitted by different layers of our physiological composition informs the system of its degree of health. The system (body and organs and tissues and cells) can read (sense) its components and status because it too is intelligent and governed by intelligent energetic qi fields. Qi fields both emit intelligent light and receive intelligent light.
     The nervous system is the main way in which the body understands its composition. The qi(intelligent energy/light) of cells, tissues, and organs is sensed through the nervous system. The cells, tissues, and organs possess quasi-autonomy and awareness. This autonomy and awareness is essential for the functioning of the living structure. Each layer of physiological composition includes the awareness and intelligence of the structures within it and the structures within those structures. Each structure is semi-independent and self-possessing and relied on by the super-structure it lies within. The awareness/intelligence of each structure is included in the structure subsuming it which is why the body can sense the functioning within its cells and we can sense the condition of our organs. Each structure has a different way of being aware of its composition and condition, but each way is dependent on the awareness of qi. Each way transmits information through subtle energies.
     These subtle energies radiate infinitely outwards and can be perceived from anywhere in the universe. Their influence also reaches the furthest extent of the universe. This is why there is karma.
Because what you do literally affects the whole universe, and the whole universe responds. The qi that radiates from your being uniquely pushes and shapes the universe in a way that in tandem uniquely pushes and shapes you. Your thoughts and feelings(your overall energy signature, psychic sum of your radiation) contain emotional and structural imprints and commands. Your body and being, regardless of your awareness of it,  send out intelligent energy to get what they want and need from the world and universe. The universe is composed of intelligent structures which sense this outreach and respond given their disposition to your energy signature. Deeper cosmic forces sense your output and instantly respond through the web of form.
     Our heavenly form lies within what we call our physical bodies. Really our astral (heavenly) form  is simply a finer energy construct that operates within and surrounding our physical energy systems(cells, nerves, tissues, organs, bones muscles). I call them physical energy systems because the physical body is really not solid. We experience it as solid because of our relative, subjective, dualistic and personal-sensory experience. Our physical body is more like an intricate living system of condensed light. What we see as the material components of our bodies are really just condensed qi. The essence of this organic, material qi is the same essence as the essence of the qi that composes our astral bodies. Our physical bodies depend on our astral forms to exist. We need heavenly qi(energy) and heavenly connection to sustain them.
     Our astral body is Light channeled through an incredible complex system of chakras. Chakras are like consciousness machines that create unique structures of life such as the material universe, the sexual creative universe, the universe of form, the universe of individuality, the universe of communication, the astral universe, and the universe of spirit. All of these universes/structures/dimensions are connected to each other in complex ways through the chakra system and are ultimately one with each other existing in one seamless universe.  When we are sick, our physical body is affected, our subtle energy body is also effected. Our chakras are connected to our organs and body components. They work in synergy with the organs and the body to sustain the life of the body and its components/systems. If the chakras aren't flowing in healthy ways the body suffers and can even die.
     When we are cultivating exact understanding of the world, we are not simply learning accurate knowledge of the world's processes. We are cultivating direct awareness of our senses and the world. We are cultivating the ability to see the qi that composes and travels through our bodies and the bodies of the world. With this awareness, which itself is a field of qi, we can perceive the layers of intelligent energy and learn how they interact by direct observation. We learn to see the qi of the chakras and the subtle ways they interact with the body. With this awareness we can actually manipulate our energy and chakra fields. We can ramp them up or slow them down; channel them through different parts of our body; and integrate them in any kind of expression or art. We do this subconsciously or unconsciously already. The more we become conscious of chi and our subtle energy systems the more we can manipulate them: freeing ourselves from sickness and ignorance; and expanding our abilities and personal expression.
     It feels good to uncover new parts of yourself. It feels good to overcome challenges and have a firm grasp of what you need to do to go where you want to go. It feels good to see the world unmasked from ignorance and delusion. When I see the same energy flowing through and composing all things in such a broad and intricate way I feel great joy and wonder. I am less afraid of sickness and death; and I feel much more confident in becoming who I want to be by mastering myself. I am more confident because I can see directly how my actions generate harmony or illness in my body and being. I can see the small flows of qi within myself and know how to direct them to be in harmony with Life. And its not only harmony with my life, but with all Life. Qi is the micro and the macro. It is the mustard seed that mystics seek, the indivisible particle and essence of all form. It cannot be divided because even in its smallest form it is one with the Universe. To understand qi, you must realize that all forms are indivisible from each other. That all qi lives in a seamless vibrant sea of energy, being, and consciousness. That as each form is itself, it is also the universe. The form cannot be without the universal background. And the universe would not be without form. When you can see the big picture you can begin to put all of the smaller pieces together in a way that really works. You can begin to rearrange qi in ways that are truly good because you see exactly how things fit together. You realize that this good is Good because all is One and One is All. You begin to understand exactly how things work because you can only see the smallest particle when you can see the whole universe at once. The big picture is not only a space, it is a way of being. It is a way of being that is the essence of form. And the essence of form is the fundamental particle that composes all forms: Qi

   
   

Letting Go into a Psychic Universe

     Letting go of life in a deep sense means letting go of the fearful compulsion to control life. It means letting go of compulsiveness resulting from our conditioned ways of being. It means opening up to something greater and deeper. Something less divided from the world. It means letting life flow through you and flowing with it. It means allowing feelings to guide you through life. Feelings that don't have to make sense. Feelings that you can trust. Feelings that you learn do make sense. It's about awakening to your being and opening up to the heart of life.
    So much of what we do is limited by our conditioning. We are taught from birth how to be and how to not be. So much of this isn't grounded in good sense and ends up constricting our energy flows; hearts and lives; and closing off our minds and senses to the truth. We act compulsively based off of our conditioning. Not because our action is good or right, but because we were taught to be this way. We cannot see truth directly from our conditioned mind. The conditioned mind turns our senses into distorted reflections: hallucinations. In order to awaken our senses and awaken our self, we must let go of this conditioned way of being.
     Most human beings do not go far down this path. We all do in small or bigger ways in parts of our lives, but to truly live from a place of deep letting go and surrender is rare. Not only is it rare, it is difficult.
     To let go deeply is to move opposite of the direction of most of society world wide. Most of society seeks more control and more power. Letting go is to seek less power and to let go of personal control of life. Its counter-intuitive for most people. For others, it is the most intelligent and noble action to take. It is difficult because it may mean temporarily ignoring much of the sense and tradition that you have followed your whole life. It may mean relinquishing this sense to acquire something deeper and truer. To become your true self. It may mean not listing to the best advice of those around you and stepping into the unknown.
     I believe the Gods, spirits, and enlightened beings of our world are asking us, asking humanity, to let go in a deep sense. I believe they are asking us more strongly now because of the great adversity and change we face. I know that many of us, more than at any other point in recorded history, are ready to wake up to our deeper natures. I know many of us are born in this life with the purpose of waking up spiritually and healing the world. We are called to listen to the heavens, our intuitions, and answer the call of our souls and our divine union with life. We are called to go against the grain, to see through the beliefs of our traditions, and to come together as one people in a way transcendent of dogma. We are called to be pioneers in the field of consciousness; subtle energy; intuition; and holistic integration of various sciences and arts. This deep letting go and deep waking up is an energy current or energetic field not new to our planet. It has been springing out of human minds for perhaps tens of thousands of years:perhaps longer. It has been growing on our planet for at least the last three thousand years and has intensified in the last two to three hundred years.
     This deep letting go is one of the ways to reach truth: to wake up. The end of letting go is the same end reached by meditation. In both meditation and letting go, the conditioned mind is relinquished to obtain insight and direct awareness of the senses. Other names for letting go may be renunciation or surrender. Letting go is the process of transitioning from conditioned being to unconditioned being. But it's not a regression into unconscious activity and narcissism: the selfish rejection and shedding of social conventions; its a transcendence of conditioning into the emergence of a deeper consciousness. Your letting go of your life to receive and be your deeper self or true nature. Your awakening or cleansing your senses; and awakening your mind and heart to your true nature and your true self. Unconditioned being is the beginning and end of life as you know it.
     Crucial to this process is awakening your feelings and intuitions. You find God through your feelings: your heart and your soul. People let go deeply because of how they feel and what they intuit. They feel like they cannot go on living they way they are because they intuit something much deeper. They know this intuition is truer and more fulfilling than the life they are living. People's dharma, their life-path or soul trajectory, is learned through their feelings and intuition. Your dharma is your way of life; your way of being; and your way to move to or reach God or truth. You find your path to God or you way in life through your feelings and intuition. It is this unique path that leads you out of conditioning into heaven towards God or truth.
     Your feelings reach a critical point when they break out of what we consider the normal, the realm of the 5-senses, to the psychic transpersonal dimensions. This is when you begin to sense that your feelings aren't just how you feel, they may in fact be how others feel, and how the world is. How the world may be beyond what you can experience with your bodily senses. You also begin to sense that these feelings, this sight, can guide you in life. It can guide you in ways that your thoughts or beliefs cannot. As you begin to trust these feelings, this sight and psychic-intuition, you let them lead you more. When they get strong enough and clear enough, you begin to discover your unique way of being, your dharma or your soul. You learn the unique truth of your life, know it is the path that you will follow, and watch it unfold in your life.
     Part of the development of these feelings, this psychic-intuition, is letting go of what you may see as superficial ways of being. These conditioned ways of being that are not who you are anymore. Letting go gives these deeper feelings/intuitions room to blossom in your life.
     We wish to let go of our conditioning and develop and inhabit our psychic-intuition because we know it is the way we connect to ourselves and perceive truth. We intuit that these deeper feelings provide real security for without them we walk blind. We sense that the universe is much deeper and intricate than we perceive through our conditioned mind. We need a better set of tools to properly work with it. The development of the feelings leads to these tools, the senses of the psychic intuition. You use these tools, this psychic intuition, to judge the truth of what I write. I can't show you what they look like so you know that they are real. But, you can intuit and feel the truth in my words. Its indescribable, but its real. And its apart of every human's life to varying degree.
     We all have these deeper detectors built into to us. I don't know how or why we do, we just do.
It's apart of the mystery of being human. The psychic intuition is an energy center that lies on the forehead, slightly above the eyebrows. It's called the third-eye. This energy center can sense beyond the limits of the five flesh senses as well as into transpersonal dimensions. Transpersonal dimensions are heavenly dimensions that ascend in greater and greater degrees of Unity. They are called transpersonal because they transcend the identity boundaries of separate-feeling individual. The third-eye awakens the sense of oneness or singleness of reality, in contrast to the separateness-feeling experienced by the ego. We are blind or half-blind without the third-eye because the universe is truly one. We cannot operate in Oneness without our senses being attuned to Oneness: without our third-eye being highly developed. Not only is the world One, it is composed of infinite interconnected dimensions. The third-eye is the portal to the heavenly, metaphysical, astral, or transpersonal dimensions.
     These dimensions influence us even if we do not perceive them. We exist on them even if we are ignorant of them. We are psychic-spiritual-intuitive beings or souls. We cycle through Earth and Heaven. We are incarnated and reincarnated many, many, many times. Our soul-bodies are pure psychic substance born from the third-eye center living in the astral universe. Our souls perceive much deeper than our conditioned minds. They are the gateway to Truth, and to living a life in Joy.
We wish to let go to our deeper feelings and intuitions because we wish to awaken our souls and finder deeper meaning in life.
     Just because the psychic-intuition, the third-eye, is the means to finding deeper meaning, success, sense, and healing the world, it doesn't mean that it's necessarily safe to trust. The third-eye is a gateway to a very large universe. Very large, very complicated, and very powerful. Feelings are things to be honed. The intuition is something to be developed and carefully studied. Most of us are full of so much crap its quite easy for us to confuse our feelings or be deluded. The application of great power through a deluded mind can lead to disaster. Deeper energies can amplify delusion and confusion; as well as overwhelm the senses inhibiting bodily functioning. I talk about this more towards the end of my post, "Returning to Love and Joy". Be careful and be prepared as much as possible. This being said, you get what you got and you do the best with what you have. Life can be messy.
    When you let go to heaven and open up to your soul's guidance system, you more deeply join a chorus of heavenly beings and powers. You awaken to a deeper part of yourself. You can feel the deeper rhythm of your life and you can see into the sky and the stars. You let go of fear, of compulsion into what maybe without a limitation: you let yourself fly. You leave the ground and awaken to a glorious universe where what is possible is open to all possibilities. It can be terrifying and it can be wonderful. You wish to stand in line with your heart that lives for life. You wish to be awake and stand in your own light. To move into a space where you are not bound by fear and broken ideas. We are called upon to let go of the lives we know to go do deeper into the truth of ourselves and the world. We are asked to change because the world needs us to change.
     The world needs us to not just be psychically awake, but heart awake. Awake to our human condition, including our heavenly natures, and able to manifest great strength and intelligence to meet the troubles of our times. We are asked to let go into deep love, wisdom, and commitment to humankind. Heaven asks us as we ask it. We too wish to be more and heaven answers us as we answer it. Many of us are ready to go deeper than our parents and ancestors. It is a privilege to do so. It is the consequence of their hard work: of their dreams. They may not understand what we must do, who we are, and who we  become; but by letting go into our deeper natures, we are carrying the Light of humanity forward. We are carrying our people forward. We are stepping into the unknown because we feel that we can discover better ways to be. We can bring more goodness into a world that desperately needs it. We can make more sense out of life and create more intelligently. We can put the world together better than it is now. We can love more, be more. This is not a step in a new direction, its a step down the path human beings have walked through the ages. Into hopes, dreams, and wishes in our memories, instincts, and hearts. However new it may be, it is apart of the world of man and it belongs to the world of man. This is why it is our responsibility to share our knowledge and ability with the world: to bring our psychic-spiritual awakening to others in our lives. We let go not only to free ourselves, but to free each other.