Can we reach deep within our Souls towards the place where we are more empty than when we were not in order to change? This article explores this option by enticing the reader into going deep within her / his self.

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"You say you want a revolution,

Well, you know, we all want to change your head."

Lennon and McCartney, "Revolution"

So often we want change.   To entice what we want to unfold, we engage in protests, political overthrows, revolutions and picketing of governments and the places we work.   Yet, the actions we have been taking for the past 6,000 or so years have kept us stuck in a pattern of being dependent on government and corporate systems.   Indeed, as the French and American revolutions revealed, in our revolutions we wound up with the same bosses dressed in new attire.  

Meanwhile, several religious groups such as the Christian Right romp about screaming and yelling self-righteously about the end of time. They furthermore damn those not agreeing with their way of seeing things into an eternal hell.

Whether we speak of religion or politics or even science and philosophy, our world is divisive. We don't see our unity.  

Yet, the great Christian icon, Christ Himself, states the Kingdom is within as well as without.   Likewise the Old Testament states one should love one's enemy as thyself.   This means that the left and right wings of government and philosophy are mirrors of one another.   This also means the Kingdom is in the right wing as well as the left.   It is also outside of you, in the "other" and inside of you.

Furthermore, if God is the Self (Yahweh or I AM in Jewish or Brahmin in Hindu), God goes to Hell with us.   The reason is that there is no separation of the Infinite from the Finite.   It is as the Hindu Upanishads say, "it is above, it is below, it is, in fact, this entire world.   When one knows this, one knows bliss in the world and in all worlds is free."

In other words, we are one with Him, Her, and It.     

If one practices deep meditation, one can find that the inner world of the Mind and the outer world of Nature are not separate.   The Kingdom is within.   It is within that you reach a place where all things exist in potential.   It is a place that neurologist Karl Pribram and physicist David Bohm refer to as the Unmanifest Implicate Order.   The Unmanifest could be referred to as Marie, the infinite Ocean giving birth to the Light of the world (John 1:14 of the Bible).   It is also the Keres Pueblo Aluna, who as the Beginning, described as such:

In the beginning, there was blackness.
Only the sea.
In the beginning there was no sun, no moon, no people.
In the beginning there were no animals, no plants.
Only the sea.
The sea was the Mother.
The Mother was not people, she was not anything.
Nothing at all.
She was when she was, darkly.
She was memory and potential.
She was aluna.

Likewise, the Bibles "Book of Genesis reads:

"In the beginning the world was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep (female Tehom).   And the Spirit (female, Ruach) moved out over the face of the Waters.   And God said, "Let there be Light'"

Recall that the Spirit also moved across Marie, meaning Ocean, which then gave Light to the world (John 1:14)

Or consider the Hindu Rig Veda:

"Darkness enfolded darkness in the beginning with no distinguishing sign, all this was Water."

Light seen in this fashion is simply the light of manifestation which is born of the dark depths of the unmanifest.  

It is important to not read these as belief systems, but as messages regarding one's goal in meditation.   As Lao Tzu states in the Tao Te Ching, "be newborn, be free of yourself."   It is this place of nothingness that one who meditates often aspires to reach.   It is this place that exists as pure Creativity.   As the Hindu Ramakrishna states,

"The Unmanifest is like an infinite serpent and Shakti (Energy) is simply the movement of the great serpent.   The Unmanifest shines forth as Shakti and Shakti is simply the luminous darkness of the Unmanifest.   Mother Essence (Nature) and Mother Energy are not two." (Transcribed in Hixon's The Great Swan: Meetings With Ramakrishna, Quest Books, p. 174).

The Unmanifest is simply the place of infinite potential.   It is the place of change.   It is the place we must go to bring forth real change.   As Ramakrishna describes Mother as pure Creativity, it is there, in the Unmanifest, that all things exist in potential.

To get there, our meditations must take us to a place where we "exist not," according to the words of the Christian Meister Eckhart.   It is this same place that the Kundalini Yoga practice of Yoga Nidra takes you.   Nidra simply means deep sleep, thus the meditation is into the state of deep sleep, where you are and are not, while fully awake.

It is there that you reach the place where Lao Tzu, the author of the Tao Te Ching, wants you to go when he says, "be newborn; be free of yourself."   It is this place that lies beyond the stars yet is closer to you than your nose is to your face.   The following short film may be able to give you some conceptualization of this incomprehensible place.   Why is it ultimately incomprehensible?   It is because like the pupil of the eye, it cannot see itself without a mirror.

You are the mirror and that which gazes into the mirror.  This is beautifully reflected in the following movie:     

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRsUKEvscHI&feature=g-vrec

Poem of Aluna taken from:   http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/world/america/my-rayr.htm

Authors Bio:
Burl Hall is a retired counselor who is living in a Senior Citizen Housing apartment. Burl has one book to his credit, titled "Sophia's Web: A Passionate Call to Heal our Wounded Nature." For more information, search the book on Amazon.

Burl's philosophy entails the idea that "everything effects and causes everything thing else." His spirituality of Sophia i.e., Wisdom is universal as well as within each of us. He also sees the idea of Chaos as not being "all over the place" but as infinite relationships.

The question I present in my articles speak not so much towards the politicians, but how WE the people can empower ourselves within a planet that is healthy, wealthy and wise.