3.5 - Parallels and Mirror Mechanics

Let's examine these mirror mechanics as perceived by the ego and human truth matrix. One excellent example of the mirror mechanics, or parallels, is comparing Newton's laws of motion and how they are parallel to Karma.

There are three principles in Newton's Laws of Motion.²¹ In the first law of motion, which we call inertia, nothing happens to a body unless it is influenced from the outside. Take a wood block, set it on a table, and it will not move unless something moves it. Once you choose to move it, it keeps going until something slows it down (usually friction).

The second law of motion is the relationship of force to mass and the rate of acceleration of the mass. You put so much force on a little body, it moves farther and faster than a big body does (with the same amount of force). This law shows there is a relationship. Whatever energy you put in is stored in the moving mass (block), and that will tell you how much energy is released when the mass (block) hits something.

In the third law of motion, whatever force you apply will be reflected back on you. How hard you push that block will be reflected back on you. If you push with ten pounds on that block, there will be ten pounds exerted on your finger. Here is an example of the mirror. This is the force that makes rockets work. We use this relationship between force and reaction everyday and we do not know it.

When we lose our balance, we use the third law of motion to regain it. We put our arm into the direction we are losing our balance and the opposite reaction pushes our body in the other direction. It's almost as if we are leaning into the fall, but we are not. We are pushing the mass of our arm one way, which pushes our body the other direction, so we are back on balance. This is one aspect of the mirror on a purely physical level.

The parallel to this, on a metaphysical level, is Karma. Karma is the eastern religions' law of metaphysical cause and effect. Essentially, Karma states that whatever you chose to do, the universe will reflect that choice on you.²² In the bible, it is expressed in sayings like, "As you sow, so shall you reap."²³

As with the block example, no obvious action produces no obvious effect. However, if you make a choice, that choice is reflected back on you. The effect is dependent on how forceful the choice.

There are many different physical laws that are direct parallels to metaphysical laws. We will get more into this later. The correction idea manifests in Karma with this mirror aspect since it reflects the choices you make back on yourself. This is done in order for the individual to choose Truth and reunion with God. When you have done something nasty, that nasty comes back to you. "Hmm. That didn't work. I don't know if I want to do that one again."

Here is something Bhagavad-Gita also talks about -- the only choice that does not evoke Karma -- the one thing you can do that will have no effect back on you -- is to choose to unite yourself with the Source. In addition, this choice must be made with no attachment to the outcome.

This bypasses the Karmic mechanism, because the Karmic mechanism is meant to reflect your choices back on you to choose God. When you begin by choosing God, your actions do not reflect back because you are already doing what the mirror intends. You must, however, do this with non-attachment, because from a human perception and a human matrix reference, you do not know what the Source is. Because you do not know what the Source is, you must not have any attachment to the outcome or you will cloud the process. Does that make sense?

It's like the mirror is set up to reflect what you do back on you to choose God. When you choose God immediately, you short-circuit the whole mirror.

That's it!!!

This is something that Bhagavad-Gita talks about a lot, and it must be done with non-attachment to the outcome. Just because -- you do not know what God is, nor all the ramifications coming from the choice. You may also recognize this: that no preconceived ideas of God should be in the way to interfere with the mechanism. The preconceived ideas come from attachments to the outcome.²⁴

What do you mean when you say, "choose God" and yet you do not know what God is?

You can choose God and not know what God is. Ask a monk. To choose to be in union with the whole is essentially the same thing. You must recognize there is a whole, and, or a Source; it is something much greater than its apparent parts like yourself. One example is recognizing in the beginning: a wise man is someone who knows he knows nothing.

That was Socrates whole thing: I am the wisest man, because I know I know nothing.²⁵ Everybody around him thought they knew something. He could lead anybody into a contradiction to prove they did not know anything. If you think you know all about something, it hampers your ability to learn anything new in relationship to it.

There are many other examples of how physical laws are in direct parallel to metaphysical laws. Karma and the laws of motion are one. Another example is the right angle rule. A right angle rule is when the effects of a choice are translated into a different direction (vector) other than the original direction or its opposite (as in laws of motion or Karma).

As stated earlier, the right angle rule is the major influence present in electro-magnetic propagation. A changing electric field produces a changing magnetic field at right angles to the electric field. Plus, there is a change of space that accompanies this and it's at right angles to the two fields.²⁶ It is through the right angle rule of electro-magnetic propagation that matter has three-dimensional space.

The right angle rule is the primary explanation of how a gyroscope works. The mystery of a gyroscope: when you push down on one side of the gyroscope, the force of that push is translated ninety degrees in the direction the gyroscope is spinning. This right angle translation is produced by the angular momentum of the moving mass.

This right angle rule parallel is a very important factor when dealing with spiritual growth, especially when we start getting into concepts of Zen, deep meditation; of going into non-action, stillness, and no perception. Entering the spiritual journey/mirror and coming out the back/God side into the Universe by doing nothing. Whew, what a conundrum!

The right angle rule gives everything a twist. In fact, Karma can be seen as a double application of the right angle rule. If we try to do something outside us towards being with God, it tends to go in a different direction. We tend to become caught up in our perceptions of external affairs. However, if we make no effort and are still in God, our spiritual progress starts to begin. It's a right angle twist to things.

Another parallel between physics and metaphysics is evident in harmonics and sympathetic resonance paralleled to human communication and to spiritual learning. Let's take the concept of sympathetic resonance. A simple physics experiment is to use two C tuning forks, both are made of the same material, and the mathematics that determine the frequency of the tuning forks are the same.²⁷ Separate these two tuning forks. Put one on a table in a room and excite it. Put the other on a table across the room. When one tuning fork is excited, the other untouched one will start to resonate. This is sympathetic resonance.

This sympathetic resonance of physics can be seen as a parallel to working with symbols in communication. If a person shares the same symbols and has made similar choices as another -- like the same mathematics of the two tuning forks being the same -- then you get a resonance of matrices between the two individuals; an idea is shared. "Oh, like wow man, I can really resonate with what you're saying."

If however, there is a difference between the symbols, as if one is an A tuning fork and the other is a C tuning fork, there would be no resonance and hence no communication.²⁸ Kind of like when you are talking apples and I am listening oranges. So, this is another example of physical and metaphysical parallels.

Fluid laws. This one I love. I observed once, sitting up on top a tall building and watching people, that when the streets are crowded, people will move like Bernoulli's principle: if a fluid is not moving, it pushes out equally on all directions of the container. Once the fluid starts moving, there is less pressure on the side and more of a flow. This can be seen with people in a plaza where there is a craft fair -- they are all milling and bouncing around. However, if you now look at a street in New York City where everybody's busy, you see these flows of people with very few people off to the side. You can see how fluid motion can be a parallel to the movement of people in crowded situations.

Thermodynamics. The laws of thermodynamics have parallels in the metaphysical and human condition. One immediately obvious is: heat flows to where heat is not. Cold does not flow -- the heat flows. Energy flows from where it has an excess to where there is none. Same as with knowledge: knowledge flows from where there is some to where there is none. It is a direct parallel to thermodynamics. It does not flow the other way. It goes the one way only.

Lack of knowledge doesn't create knowledge. Knowledge creates knowledge.

Yeah, lack of knowledge determines which direction knowledge will flow. Lack of knowledge does not flow to knowledge. Knowledge flows to lack of knowledge. It's a flow of energy. Look at knowledge as energy, or heat: you must bring the lack (the pot) to the source of heat. When you move a hot pan to a table, you better have a potholder. Otherwise, that heat transfers to your hand. You already know that is not very bright -- it tingles and it smarts. The heat or energy is flowing from the pan to your hand.

It can't make your hand hotter than the pan. Is that the physical law about light flows to darkness but darkness can't flow to light?

Essentially.

I can believe it, but I don't understand. Why doesn't darkness flow to light?

Darkness is the absence of light.

So, it can't do anything. It's inert.

Right... it's inert. It can do nothing. It's like saying the darkness can put out a candle. It cannot. In fact, one match -- the slightest amount of light anywhere -- illuminates it. Darkness cannot fight light, it must give way. This we will go into a little bit more when we get into magic and psychic laws.

That's the same thing you mean about knowledge flowing. Knowledge is like the light and lack of knowledge is inert mass, or something.

Right. It's like thermodynamics or, in many ways, quantum mechanics. I want to stress these parallels are very important. We are now going to do a lab and an exercise of jumping parallels.