At this point, I want to review the quantum burst of blankness with a waiting exercises.² At the core of many the exercises and chants, is a burst of emptiness conjoined with a waiting. In some of the exercises, the individual fills this burst with a specific word or image. Instead of a burst of an empty mind, prayers or heart-songs are bursts of heart or emotional energy united with a perception.

What do you mean by a burst of emptiness?

A burst of blankness...

Burst... Why is it a burst?

Remember that it's hard to keep an empty mind or a blank mind indefinitely.³ However, it's much easier to do the blankness in short bursts. Rather than to keep an empty mind and do it for 5 or 10 minutes, it's easier to do bursts of: blank, blank, empty, empty, empty.

Remember earlier, we talked about the eye exercises?⁴ That's what the eye exercises do in a way. As the eyes are moved to an object, there is a brief moment of blankness of mind. As the eye and the mind coordinate, the information of the event goes through the cognition mechanism and takes a specific moment of time to do so. The matrix is refocusing. Constantly moving the eyes before the cognition mechanism is completed creates a condition of bursts of blankness and non-choice in the matrix. The matrix is constantly refocusing before it starts its functioning.

I also mentioned, with chanting the individual uses the words as the vehicles for this emptiness or blankness. Well, with music the individual can use the notes and words. For the beginner though, it may be easier to learn to focus with only instrumentals. That way there are no words to distract.

This can work on an individual level or a group level. The idea of using music to produce group mind focus and emptiness is at the core of all religious use of music, from shamanic use of drums, to musical religious chants (e.g. Gregorian), to church choirs, or to a Grateful Dead concert ("There's nothing like a Dead Concert.")