imagination is free

 
imagining the spiritual world




  imagining the spitirual  world

Marta Sananes







Nada te turbe   
Santa Teresa de Jesús

Nada te turbe,
Nada te espante,

Todo se pasa,
Dios no se muda,

La paciencia
Todo lo alcanza;
Quien a Dios tiene
Nada le falta:
Sólo Dios basta.

Eleva el pensamiento,
al cielo sube,
por nada te acongojes,
Nada te turbe.

A Jesucristo sigue
con pecho grande,
y, venga lo que venga,
Nada te espante.

¿Ves la gloria del mundo?
Es gloria vana;
nada tiene de estable,
Todo se pasa.

Aspira a lo celeste,
que siempre dura;
fiel y rico en promesas,
Dios no se muda.

Ámala cual merece
Bondad inmensa;
pero no hay amor fino
Sin la paciencia.

Confianza y fe viva
mantenga el alma,
que quien cree y espera
Todo lo alcanza.

Del infierno acosado
aunque se viere,
burlará sus furores
Quien a Dios tiene.

Vénganle desamparos,
cruces, desgracias;
siendo Dios su tesoro,
Nada le falta.

Id, pues, bienes del mundo;
id, dichas vanas,

aunque todo lo pierda,
Sólo Dios basta.









The imagination is the crazy one, the crazy one of the house
Santa Teresa de Jesús
Imagination is more important than knowledge
Albert Einstein


Abstract

First it came the idea of The World of Light -a parallel world lower limited by the speed of light [Conference "Towards a Science of Consciousness", Tucson, 1996 ], later to think that   we are because we cannt stop being , now to imagine the spiritual world.

Some current physical theories postulate the existence of tachyons -superluminal, faster than light particles- before and at the Big-Bang that generated the Universe. These theories will be put to test with the functioning of the LHC/CERN in Genève, Switzerland. [Michio Kaku, Physics of the Impossible, 2008, 2009].

Let us imagine -using free imagination under influences of well known religious, philosophycal and scientific  ideas- that before the Big-Bang what existed was an entity complex and superluminal, comprising infinity superluminal conscious elements and that this superluminal entity induced the Big-Bang when a portion of its elements reduced their velocity in order to generate the two classes of substances of the Universe: the class of subluminal elements of matter and the class of luminal elements, like photons. Let us imagine that there remained superluminal elements just above  the speed of light limit keeping some of their conscious quality.

Let God be the realm of superluminal substance and let Spirit be each indestrutible conscious element -that cannot stop being- of superluminal substance. Let the Universe be the realm of luminal and subluminal substances. Let Soul be each conscious element almost superluminal substance and Matter each element of the class of subluminal substance.

The substances of the Universe would have evolved in parallel, with the life arising and evolving from the subluminal substance due to the action and evolution of companion souls.

Every soul would have as characteristics a spiritual heaviness, being so much heavy the more loaded with destructive experiences and associated feelings of hate, being lighter when full of constructive experiences and associated feelings of love.

Let us imagine that the soul in freed state -when isolated from matter- dreams, that its natural way of being is to dream. The very light soul would enjoy delightful dream, the very heavy soul would suffer nightmares.

The soul might achieve to recover sufficient lightness as for awakening to the state of spiritual consciousness and to recapture its original spiritual nature -its superluminality- integrating itself again into God's being.

In this imagination, we all would have been a part of God and we all might be again. We all would have been makers of the Universe. We all might get connected with the spirits in God to beg for and to receive inspiration.

In Tucson II Conference [1996] I presented the poster "The World of Light" with the first idea that a parallel world made of tachyons could be the "Other World".


We cannot stop being 

Living the process of an ailment I was wondering for the sense of the life and of the maternity, until suddenly this phrase came: we are because we cannot stop being, which I assumed as an answer of the spiritual unconscious -the other unconscious, after Viktor Frankl [1]. A plausible response to understand how we can keep on living unconcernedly knowing that we have to die somehow and how, in spite of everything, cheerfully we want to have children.

What cannot stop being?

In spiritualist thinking what cannot stop being is the spirit, the immaterial being of eternal existence. For the materialistic thinking the energy is what cannot stop being, the physical magnitude that is conserved in all processes. In a sort of unitary thinking they might be of the same nature, imagining the spirit as absolute form of energy.

What cannot stop being

The soul would be the being of spiritual origin that makes us conscious, our more intimate self, that can in free state recover full spiritual nature. The spirit is what cannot stop being.

The idea of existence of the spirit is in the root of the religious thinking [2]; also it it can be jn the root of the attachment to life and of the acceptance of the death.

I like imagining that we are because we cannot stop being and of that, being so amazing the reality of the world in which we live, well other even more amazing forms of reality could exist.

We all would be in essence eternal beings, so much those that we love as that we detest, acquaintances or strangers, friends or enemies, victims or killers …

We all would be souls alternating our existence between two worlds while we manage to recover the spiritual nature: this real world and another alternate world that only we can imagine.

Dream of the soul

Let's us Imagine that the soul while in the alternate world dreams, that its natural way of being is dreaming  [3], the sleep of the soul.

The soul would be the state of the spiritual being while it has to live in the real world or to dream in the alternate world. In the life and in the sleep showing the memory of his experiences.

In the real world the existence of the soul would pass in a changeable body that in addition to food and hearth needs to know the world, to adapt itself, to understand it and to modify it, to be related to the others, to love and to be loved, to produce, to discover, to create, to invent, to reproduce. Also, every day, the body needs to sleep.

The sleeping body needs also to dream, thought it is not being well known why. To dream is a so common experience and nevertheless so strange to the sense of space and time of the ordinary life, that it suggest to imagine that in the alternate world the existence could pass in a similar state, a continued state of dreaming [5] that, since we know for our ordinary sleep, they could be either unimportant dream or wonderful daydreams or also they could be nightmares.

The dreams of the sleeping one in the real world would be passengers visits of the soul to the alternate world.

The soul might dream –as it often happens in the ordinary sleep- without being fully conscious and without it could control the script of the development of the dream.

Also like in the ordinary dreams, the contents of the dreams of the free soul would be related to the experiences of the life and the final state, may it had been in peace or tormented.

To imagine the nature of the spiritual world

Once I imagined a nature of the spiritual world [6]:

There is supposed the existence of the World of Light: a parallel world constituted at elementary level by tachyons, superluminal particles whose speed is lower limited by the speed of light. It is supposed also that the World of Light is the world to which there appear the mystics and the prophets, the world of the religious visions, the Kingdom of Heaven.

Following this imagination, the World of Light would be the other extraordinary reality, the realm of Spirits that, as the supposed tachyons [7], would be of superluminal nature, capable of acting and interacting voluntarily without limitations of space or time, shaping the God's being: simultaneous Unit and Infinity. God of infinite spiritual energy, of superluminal nature –more rapid than light– containing any possible capacity of conscience: thought, memory, dream, imagination.

God of infinite spiritual energy, of nature superluminal – more rapid than the light – containing any possible capacity of conscience: thought, memory, sleep, imagination.

God would have induced the Big-Bang that created the Universe, without being exhausted but remaining in its spiritual infinite nature.

With the Big-Bang some part of God would have generated two classes of substances in two interwoven sub-worlds: The luminal substance that forms the luminal sub-world, including the souls as conscious substance of luminal nature and The subluminal substance that forms the material sub-world.

For the superluminal realm it holds the law that nothing spiritual can move less rapid than light.

For the subluminal substance it holds the opposite: nothing material can move more rapid than light. [8].

The souls would remain in a frontier state between the spiritual world and the material world -at the limit of the speed of light- unconscious of their spiritual original nature but still conscious enough to manage themselves in the material world.

Deepak Chopra in his book How to know God [9] presents a similar vision. The sub-worlds that here I imagine would correspond with the vision of Chopra like that:

Superluminal Substance =
God= Virtual Reality
Luminal Substance
=
Quantic Reality
Infraluminal Substance
=
Material World

The substances would have evolved in parallel, with life arising and evolving in the material sub-world animated by the action of the souls of the conscious luminal sub-world.

The soul might recover sufficient lightness as to recapture its original spiritual nature – its superluminality - integrating again into the God's being.

Le Paradis, Tintoret
This way, God would be a community of conscious, holy, wise spirits, in another extraordinary reality. It would be simultaneously one and infinite, generating multiple currents of thoughts, of dreams, of imagination, keeping infinite memoirs, without limitations of time or space.


Jacopo ROBUSTI, dit TINTORET - Venise, 1518 - Venise, 1594
Le Couronnement de la Vierge, dit Le Paradis  Vers 1580 © Musée du Louvre/A. Dequier - M. Bard


In this imagination, we all would have been part of God and we all might be again. We all might get connected with the spirits in God to ask for and to receive inspiration.

Return of the soul

Let’s imagine that every soul would exhibit a spiritual heaviness, the more weighed the more loaded with destructive experiences. The lighter the nearer to constructive experiences. The very light soul would enjoy delightful daydreams, the very heavy soul would suffer nightmares.

The very light could soul wake up from its sleep transformed in the original spirit to return to the extraordinary reality, as if the spiritual agility werw impelling it to hasten and elevate.

Redemption and resurrection

If following the Christian inspiration, [10] –that supposes only one opportunity of real life for the souls with the final award of the resurrection- let’s imagine that the heavy soul could dream indefinitely being its dreaming a process of healing to allow it to lighten its heaviness in order to be able to wake up in plenitude as spirit. It might have dream experiences that would correspond with the Christian credence of stays in hell or purgatory.

This way, the soul would experience a process of redemption that would culminate with the achievement of the state of lightness that would allow it to wake up or to resuscitate to the extraordinary reality of God.

The idea “a soul – a life” satisfies the desire of conservation of the identity and of the reunion in the spiritual reality with the spirits that as souls animated the loved beings in the real world.

Dreams and life experiences
 
If following the Hinduism inspiration [11] –que Iet’s imagine that the very heavy soul could wake up again in the real life as if the spiritual heaviness lead it to slow down and fall .

Both the "sleep of the soul" and the experiences of life would be episodes of a process of mitigation until finally the soul, light of spiritual weight, could wake up [12] to the another extraordinary reality as spirit.

This way the spiritual evolution would pass alternating between dreams and experiences of life. The past lives would not be remembered because as it happens generally with dreams, everything would be forgotten when awakening to the new real life.

The enlightment would be the awakening to the spirit in real life of exceptional souls. Also, according to hinduistas and Buddhists traditions, exceptional souls may return to life not for mitigation but for the will to help or to serve others.

The idea "a soul – several lives" seems more compatible with a logic of justice and evolution.

Spiritual and material evolution

The material and the luminal sub-worlds would evolve in parallel [13], being the souls the agents of the evolution, evolving themselves while they make to evolve the material sub-world. The souls that dream would hope to realize their dreams but also they might see their nightmares realized.

In the extraordinary reality of God the spirits would live daydreaming, conscious, harmonious. They would be like supercomputers interlaced in a super-network in which they create and share in unison thoughts, memoirs, ideas, dreams, imaginations...

The spiritual creations would inspire the dreams of the souls and they would be received with diverse ways of fidelity according to the disposition of the souls to be in tune with the inspiration. This way the God's realm could guide the evolution. The souls in situation of heaviness they could have small or no tuning and they could prevaricate the handlebars of inspiration.

Finally the experienced, wise and holy soul, would end its trip of return to the spirit, be after only one real life according to the Christian inspiration or after several real lives according to Hinduism inspiration.

When a new life is conceived the opportunity would be happening to a free soul to live to advance in his trip of spiritual comeback.

Another imagination

Imagination flows in many ways: in all expressions of art, in technological inventive, in entrepreneurship, in scientific research, in extreme sports …

Spiritualists
philosophies and derivative religions offer to the persons imaginary attainable worlds for all after the death, someone of them explicitly offer the "eternal life". The believers fulfill naturally the order of "grow and multiply you" with the certainty of which the offer spreads to the descent. With spiritual imagination we can suppose that every being, beyond his appearance present and conduct, is a soul in his trip of comeback to the spirituality.

For materialistic philosophies nothing waits for the individual person after death. Nevertheless, the materialistic science impliedly is offering another imagination: a world also imaginary of eternal life, but for a future humanity, with disappearance of all the illnesses, eternal youth, change to another planet if the life becomes untenable in this one. With scientific imagination it's possible to appreciate the life with confidence that the evolution will continue, that science will be deciphering all the puzzlers, that it's possible that human beings go so far as to "to be like gods"[14] -immortal, wise, without illnesses and forever young people.

The materialistic persons at present can assume altruistic conducts: to take part to their capacity in the big project of the future and to "donate" their genes through their children so that the
genetic algorithmic does not stop and possibly the offer materializes. These altruistic targets are not clear. For the first one, if there is little or no connection with the scientific development. About the second one, if it is thought that the world is already very inhabited but especially if it brings in the doubt that it is really an altruist decision and not rather an egoist one of satisfying the maternal or paternal desire, knowing that the children will be able to ask  themselves the same questions that we all one day have done: what is that thing about to live? or: what will be with to me when I die? or: how will it be when I am dying? …

L. Marinoff says in its book "Plato, not Prozac"  [15]:

“We find that nor science nor religion can answer all our questions. The psychotherapist philosopher Viktor Frankl warned that this fact was leading one <<existential gap>> and that the current people needed a new route of exit ”  [translated from spanish edition]

To calm the existential gap [16]  it is common to resort to all kinds of distractions, of addictions or of fanaticisms, some form of alienation that serves to contain the thoughts and the fears for our sure death and that of the dear beings.

The existential gap can be a result of some form of repression of the spirituality in the deep of the
spiritual  unconscious. From that unconscious wherefrom it sprouts sometimes, in moments of maximum bleakness or anxiety, a sensation of plenitude with a message that rests, which whispers: that's all right, everything is well in the universe or as Saint Teresa of Jesus expressed so well: nothing turbe you, nothing frightens you; everything passes …

Thanks

To Carlos and MR
To my doctors, especially
to Haydée [Prisma/IPP], Víctor [CECLINES] and Gabriela
To relatives and friends that accompanied and took care of me,
especially Annie and Marcel
To IPP/ULA, especially to Ruth and Carmen
To Laura for  the poem of Saint Teresa

Notes and references

  1. Spiritual Unconscious
    Viktor Frankl, father of the third school of psychotherapy of Vienna postulated that, in addition to the unconscious impulsive one of Freud, the unconscious spiritual one exists in every person wherefrom there comes the search of the sense of the life, still in the worst circumstances. In his book " The ignored presence of God " [Publishing house Helder S.L., Barcelona] says:
    “This species of <<faith>> unconscious in the man, who here reveals us – and that comes included and included in the concept of his <<unconsciously momentous>> - it would mean that there is always in us an unconscious tendency towards God, that is to say, an unconscious but intentional relation to God. And precisely for it we speak about the ignored presence of God.” [Translated from spanish edition]

  2. Feuerbach, Ludwig
    "The man does not believe in the immortality because he believes in God, but he believes in God because he believes in the immortality ". Ludwig Feuerbach quoted by Savater, Fernando: The eternal life. Publishing Ariel S.A. Barcelona 2007, pag. 69.


  3. Redfield, James
    He imagines that souls dream in the "afterlife":
    http://www.celestinevision.com/


  4. Dream of the soul”                                http://buenasiembra.com.ar/salud/meditacion/la-vida-despues-de-la-muerte-744.html

  5. Savater, Fernando
    "I believe firmly that if we should not dream on having slept ever we should imagine the possibility of a lasting life later to the deepest sleep of the death ". Savater, Fernando: The eternal life. Publishing Ariel S.A., Barcelona, 2007, pag 56.


  6. El Mundo de la Luz” Marta Sananes.
    Unpublished Article, 1993


  7. Superluminality
    Olexa-Myron Bilaniuk and E. C. George Sudarshan  in article published in Physics Today, May 1969 [“Particles beyond the light barrier”, Phys. Today 22, 43 (May 1969), DOI:10.1063/1.3035574 http://scitation.aip.org/], they introduced the term "tachyon" [taquión] referred to the possible existence of particles superluminales whose speed was limited inferiormente by the speed of the light. The Abstract says in:

    FOR MANY DECADES now the view has prevailed that no particle could possibly travel with a velocity greater than the velocity of light in vacuum, c = 3×108 m/sec. It is generally held that this limitation is a direct consequence of the special theory of relativity. Albert Einstein himself has said so in his original paper on relativity. ©1969 American Institute of Physics

    In this article the authors classify elementary particles in three classes. To the Class I belong the ordinary subluminal particles or tardyons; luminal particles or luxons belong to Class II and the superluminal particles  or tachyons, whose existence they postulate, belong to Class III. The tachyons would have the property of hastening when they lose energy and on the contrary, would gain energy after comes closer at their speed low limit, the speed of the light.

  8. The World of Light”
    Marta Sananes. “The World of Light”, poster in conference Tucson II: Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, Arizona, 1996. “More on the World of Light”, poster in conference Towards a Science of Consciousness, Elsinor, Dinamarca, 1997.


  9. How to know God
    In his book “Conocer a Dios” [Deepak Chopra: “Conocer a Dios”. Plaza-Janés, 2000. Pag. 24.  [How to know God]], Chopra presents his cosmological vision integrating the ancient tradition hinduista with concepts of the quantum Physics.

    “The theory on the creation that better works is the following one: before Big Ban, the space was infinite, it was expanding as an accordion in infinite creases or dimensions, whereas the time existed of embryonic form, in the shape of eternal presence without events and that, therefore, it did not need from past, present or future. This state was absolutely empty in a sense and absolutely fully in other, not containing anything that we could perceive and, nevertheless, there there was residing the potential of all the things. As the vedic clairvoyants declare, one could find neither the existence nor not existence, since these terms only serve to things that have had a beginning, a way and an end. The physicists refer often to this state as a singularity: space, time and the whole material universe they were contained once in a point; a singularity is concebida as the very small puntito that we could imagine and, therefore, it is already not a point.” [translated from the spanish edition]

  10. Christianity
    God sent his son Jesus to the life to give testimony of his kingdom and to promise the resurrection to the eternal life: "And any that one who lives and believes in me, will not die eternally ” [John 11:26]

    In the Christian imagination the spirit  has the only opportunity to make use of his life in the real world to deserve the eternal life with God. A variant of imagination of Christian inspiration believes that the spirit could remain indefinitely in state of sleep of the soul - between daydreams and nightmares. To suffer nightmares indefinitely would be the most similar thing to a hell. Daydreaming indefinitely would be like to remain in a limbo.

    The Adventists believe another variant: they suppose that the activity to dream can be decreasing up to stopping completely. It would be like the second death, the death also of the spirit. It is in contradiction with the concept of spirit as imperishable entity. On the credence of the Adventists in the " sleep of the soul ":  "Their doctrine of the "sleep of the soul" is novel. They deny the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and add that the man, on having died, his soul or spirit stays in a state of finished unconsciousness until the day of the resurrection." 
    http://www.salvacioneterna.com/aniquilacionismo.pdf


  11. Hinduism
    According to 
    hinduism tradition of credence in the reincarnation, the spirit can live through multiple lives, while it stayed karma for paying, until liberated, reaching a state of conscience as the state Moksha [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moksha] of Hinduism or the Nirvana of Buddhism.

    http://enciclopedia.us.es/index.php/Nirvana_(religi%C3%B3n);
    http://www.ministeriosprobe.org/docs/budismo.html;
    http://www.meta-religion.com/Religiones_del_mundo/Budismo/budismo.htmhttp://www.libros.com.sv/edicion52/budismo.html

    If the spirit lives several times, according to the ideas of reincarnation and karma, the process of cancellation of the karma up to reaching the state of the extraordinary reality would be carried out in the multiple lives in the real world. After every life in the real world and while the karma will not have been balanced, the spirit would return once again to the real world with a new life and a new opportunity to balance.


  12. Gurdjiev, G.I.
    Gurdjiev trained his disciples to be alert, conscious, inclusive in the sleep:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._I._Gurdjieff


  13. Spiritual Evolutionism

  14. http://www.unav.es/cryf/evolucionismoycristianismo.html

    Josefina Chacín Ducharne

    Josefina Chacín, the slave of the Lord. Her visions and her " God's message " inspired a group of persons to join  in an experience of community life " living through the Gospel " in the "Farm The Pilgrims", San Diego de los Altos, Venezuela.

    She imagined and expressed in drawings that the human beings come from an evolutionary lineage differentiated from the most primitive forms for being cheered up by "souls". [The Bible and the Message to the men of the "New Earth", Editions A/V (Non-profit association Action and Life), Venezuela, 1984]

    Martinus

    In the imagination of Christian inspiration of  Martinus 17:

    "The universe is an alive being that includes everything and in that we all live. Every alive being has an existence with an eternal duration. The experience of the life takes place by means of an infinite evolution in that the contrasts light and darkness, pleasure and pain, kindness and nastiness, etc. they are necessary for a continue renewal of the conscience. The whole humanity terrena will go so far as to live gradually, here in the Earth, through an existence completely happy and rich in events. This will happen progressively, as every man, because of the discomfort, the sufferings and other experiences, goes so far as to live completely in accordance with the laws that the life expires for the human existence.. The object of the life is the experience of the same life and, with regard to this, all the men and the rest of the alive beings have, actually, the same value." [Translated from spanish edition]

    In Martinus's cosmology the spirit evolves in progressive cycles so that every cycle stage of existence happens in one of the different kingdoms that he considers, from the vegetable kingdom, the animal, the human being, that of the knowledge, the divine one up to that of the good blessed. His imagination is expressed in his writings and in his drawings of the symbols.

    http://www.martinus.dk/layout_pages/index.php?lang=sp


  15. Seréis como dioses”
    The Bible says that the snake said to Eva and to Adán: "You will be like gods”. Genesis, 3, 5.


  16. Marinoff, Lou
    “Más Platón y menos Prozac”. Ediciones B, S.A, 2009. [original: “Plato, not Prozac!”]


  17. Man's search for meaning”
    In his main book, “Man´s search for meaning” [“El hombre en busca de sentido”. Editorial Helder S.L., Barcelona], Viktor Frankl says:

    "We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering."
     

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning