SIGNIFICANCE-AWARENESS

ABOUT THE MULTIVERSE'S FUNDAMENTAL CHORD

JÖRG FITZ

2004

SOME INTRODUCTORY

PARADIGMATIC GLIMPSES OF THE MULTIVERSE

The recorded reflections in this book are rainbow glimpses from the holodynamic paradigm's mandala. It contains the multiverse's fundamental chord (see APPENDIX 1) whose realization can be summarized under the heading of Significance-Awareness. Significance-Awareness in its most qualified sense consists of the Buddha-Consciousness's awareness. When the realization of the multiverse's fundamental chord is in the process of becoming, we can also speak of 'significance-awareness', provided that we include a Bodhisattva's wisdom consciousness, which should at least contain a principal understanding of all Buddha families' types of wisdom.

Significance-Awareness par excellence, that is, the Buddha-Consciousnesses' awareness, constitutes the ultimate destination for the multiverse's being and for all meaningful evolution.

What the holodynamic paradigm to some extent is about can be metaphorically presented in graphically symbolic formations. Such a graphic mirroring of the holodynamic paradigm's multiverse can be simplistically likened to a spherical Whole, a multidimensional mandala, consisting of many cosmological partial wholes, which like living galaxy clusters, among other things, compose the more condensed worlds in our multiverse. Our symmetrized mandala consists of 7 fundamental multiversal and diamond-energy-like spheres that are glossily transparent and brilliance-living. The entire mandala has a blue-toned clarity-reflecting fundamental chord that permeates everywhere the all-enabling and completely naked Reality-Consciousness and everything else too. We have enriched our mandala with an additional 8 (secondary) fundamental spheres that are also composed of the multiverse's fundamental chord and of reflecting interplay between the surrounding spheres' chords. The dynamic basic structure in our mandala is composed of a central sphere surrounded by six fundamental spheres: one in each direction plus two corresponding 'above' and 'below' (if we use anthropically conventional organizational categorizations here). Between these main spheres, we have the additional secondary 8 fundamental chord spheres: 4 in the upper and 4 in the lower hemisphere. These 8 spheres are composed partly of the chords of the fundamental surrounding placed spheres' variants of Significance-Awareness. In total, our mandala is thus composed of 15 spheres, or fundamental chords. However, we are dealing with 16 spheres, as the entire multiversal mandala is also to be considered as a sphere.

Each of the 15 spheres that compose the entire Whole is in turn composed of 228 brilliance spheres (126 'inner' and 102 'outer' in relation to the sphere's transparent and permeable surface). In total, we now have ((15 x 228) + 1 =) 3,421 spheres. Each brilliance sphere has 57 facets, or "polished membrane surfaces," which means that the entire mandala contains in principle (3,420 x 57 = 194,940) almost 200,000 facets, which together with, among other things, perspective shifts and the multiverse's breathing compose countless dynamically ontological and phenomenological combination variants. APPENDIX 2 depicts the structure of one of the 15 brilliance-composed spheres along an expanded great circle cross-section. This is of course a simplified, static, and schematized image of our living multiverse. But, when we have better understood what the spheres represent and why we have chosen such symbols and related them to each other like this, it will help us on the path with both cultivation and integration of the multiverse's fundamental chord.

A somewhat distinguishing species examination of the spheres yields the following five main groups:

1. 3,420 partial spheres

2. 8 fundamental mixed spheres

3. 6 fundamental spheres

4. The central sphere

5. The total sphere, the entire Multiverse.

The fundamental spheres are meta-dimensions in relation to the partial spheres. The central sphere is a meta-multiverse in relation to the fundamental spheres, and the entire multiverse is a meta-sphere in relation to the condensed central reflection of the multiverse. In relation to the partial sphere consciousness, the total multiversal Whole thus contains meta-meta-meta-Significance-Awareness. The 'meta' designation is of course relative, as many meta-relations also exist within each main group. Our three-level meta-grouping is superordinate. Since these are not separate but simultaneously present in qualified Significance-Awareness, and since our paradigmatic composition is primarily directed at humans, it may not be such a great idea to begin by integrating more meta-levels. The human capacity usually does not allow hindrance-free functioning with the simultaneous presence of more than two meta-levels. With the help of our common cosmological categorizations, we could analogize in the following way:

the partial spheres with galaxy cluster clusters (of say, around 8-900,000 galaxy clusters),

the fundamental spheres with two species of clusters of galaxy cluster clusters,

the central sphere with a cluster of the clusters of galaxy cluster clusters and

the entire multiverse with a cluster of partly the central sphere, partly the fundamental spheres and partly all partial spheres.

The multiverse's fundamental chord is presented here mainly verbally with the help of analogies from mostly the auditory world. Instead of 'chord', we could also have used such components as 'scents', 'tastes', 'strings', 'formations' (e.g., visual, energetic, abstract), 'dynamics', 'conditions', 'condition patterning' (an excellent term, but not as pleasant as 'chord'), etc. The multiverse's fundamental chord is a paradigmatic formula, not a summary of a theoretical or spiritual system, not an objective or subjective characterization, not an empirical generalization, not a metaphorical composition, not an ethical wisdom view. A paradigm contains all of this, but also much more besides. Our paradigmatic fundamental chord has been formulated with the help of Bodhisattva and Buddha consciousness. It is not possible in such a context - that is, in an all-inclusive paradigmatic context - to exclude this. A theory that claims to explain everything and does not include Buddha consciousness is like a theory that not only excludes most things, but also everything significant. A theory is now, however, a theory and nothing else. A theory can never explain everything. A theory is not a paradigm. A paradigm can also include explanatory and guiding principles for our development towards Significance-Awareness, that is, fully awakened Buddhahood. A paradigm that does not include Buddha enlightenment's Significance-Awareness (such as the holographic paradigm) is not an all-encompassing system. What has been said is far from a spiritually oriented question of faith. Realizing Significance-Awareness is not a religious journey. Nor is it a super-academic way of travel. It is a question of qualified, i.e., enlightenment-oriented, i.e., among other things, both academically and beyond-academically wisdom-oriented as well as both meditative and humanly empathetic cultivation and training.

There have long been instructions in Mahayana Buddhist literature on how to cultivate one's beyond-academic, interpersonal, and meditative instruments to be able to examine whether it is as indicated here, that is, that an all-explaining paradigm can impossibly avoid including Buddhas' Significance-Awareness. That we today do not include these cultivation subjects in our academic education is due to, among other things, insufficiently developed theory of science, uncritical adherence to traditions, pride, fear, prejudices, attachment to prestige, and ignorance. Humanity at large has not matured enough yet. What we are thus talking about is something that is at the frontier of human knowledge. Yes, not for those who have already integrated significance-awareness (i.e., advanced bodhisattvas and Buddhas), but for the rest of us, not least academics, spiritually oriented practitioners, and others who are not sufficiently significance-aware in our enlightenment-oriented living (which also includes Buddhists).

The central sphere, A, is the hub of our mandala. It constitutes the quintessence of Significance-Awareness. It is the beacon of beacons, the condensed symbolization of all Buddhas' Buddha-consciousness. A reflects in a concentrated way the entire multiverse, the totality of our entire mandala, Ö. Ö symbolizes the most inclusive Significance-Awareness par excellence with regard to the multiverse's destination-perfection. A is the quintessence of and Ö is the entireSignificance-Awareness par excellence. Ö contains all spheres, all universes, all dimensions, all galaxy clusters, all chords in the widest sense, all ontological levels (from the most compact implosion density to the most subtle Buddha-consciousness), everything. A reflects Ö most concentratedly and completely, most centrally and heartfully. Ö is more inclusive and more significantly meta-aware than A. A is thus also meta-aware like Ö - but not, in relation to Ö, equally meta-meta-aware. A is a sphere that is more in the middle: the quintessence of the entire multiverse in the world of the heart. Ö is the entire multiverse in the world of the Whole. Ö's Significance-Awareness also contains some more subtle and inclusive dimensions related to superordinate balancing and destination navigation. It has some additional super-subtly conscious spheres, consisting of extremely finely nuanced multiverse chords which are bounded by permeable, transparent, and movable membranes. The heart of the multiverse, A, is - by comparison - less flexible. A is the beacon keeper of beacon keepers, the chief physician of physicians, the CEO of all corporations, the mentor of statesmen, the refuge sphere of all refuge spheres, the wisdom master of all wisdom masters, the Buddha of all Buddhas. Ö contains more than A and is not continuously as heartfully beacon-keeping reflective. Ö is more like a team of hospital directors who - with significant overview reflections - progressively have to cultivate the dynamic conditions for optimization of healthcare. A is more like a mentor for all employees at the hospital, reminding them to cultivate the multiverse's fundamental chord in some special form. Ö is maha-parinirvanic flexible. A reflects this in a condensed parinirvanic and blue-toned rainbow spectral way. A and Ö consult each other continuously.

The eastern main sphere in our mandala - let's call it B - is the clear blue reflecting Significance-Awareness. This awareness is consistently present in the entire mandala's fundamental tone. It constitutes the entire multiverse's nature and is present everywhere, even though naturally the reflection content and the significant considerations vary with different conditions. That the reflecting Significance-Awareness is the multiverse's nature and our mandala's omnipresent translucently shining clarity-fundamental tone is not merely a matter of taste. B has a more integrating potential than the other spheres, because this reflection-consciousness is not identified with anything. In the other spheres, one tends to identify oneself with a certain chord, even if the special wisdom is perfected. Clear reflection-consciousness can move hindrance-free from world to world, from dimension to dimension. The other consciousness chords cannot do this as easily. As is well known, anyone and anything can be reflected without obstruction in a reflecting dimension without this dimension itself being changed hereby. In other words, the reflection itself remains continuously unchanged, no matter how much the reflected content may change. All spheres, however, are reflecting in their characteristic way: B reflects like a clear blue reflection diamond and is also the common denominator for and reflecting essence of all versions of reflection-consciousness - B is the Significant Reflection-Consciousness's Reflection-Consciousness,

A is the most central reflection - diamond-blue naked and heartfully rainbow-reflecting Significance-Awareness,

Ö significance-reflects meta-rainbow-spectrally with all spheres in interplay,

G (in the mandala's lower hemisphere) reflects like a deep blue unshakable and compact-radiating diamond,

C (in our mandala's southern sector) reflects like a golden yellow and generously radiating diamond,

D (in the west) reflects like a ruby-red blossoming and endlessly enlightening diamond,

E (in the north) reflects like an emerald-green meaning-perfecting diamond and

F (in the upper hemisphere) reflects like a colorless purity-white and Reality-naked diamond.

That the diamond has been used everywhere as a simile is explained by the fact that we hereby want to point toward the multiverse's real nature being indestructible, i.e., uncomposed clarity-consciousness. That even the clarity-blue fundamental tone is found, more or less prominently, in all spheres, derives from the fact that energy-consciousness-wise it is best suited for reflection. It is the most significant reflection fundamental tone, we could say. This does not imply, however, that it is the most significant tone in all conditions. It is only the most significant reflection fundamental tone.

One of the most axiomatic paradigm formulas in our multiverse derives from this eastern main sphere. It reads as follows

With reflecting Significance-Awareness, it is clarified

THAT most of the unknowing are identified with what is reflected

THAT a few know this

THAT even fewer dwell in reflecting Significance-Awareness

without being identified with anything at all

and THAT the proportions should be reversed.

With reflecting Significance-Awareness, we can remedy some of our most fundamental ailments, such as unfruitful and meaningless conceptualization, grasping, dualization, hatred, anger, confusion, lack of recognition, absence of togetherness-awareness, unconscious projections and - not least - fixations. With reflecting Significance-Awareness, even the most subtle variants of conceptual fixations are dispersed. This reflecting consciousness is hindrance-free clear-naked, and happenings that are thoroughly united with it leave as little karmic or obscuring traces behind as the reflecting phenomena in a mirror. This is the essential nature of Significant Liberation from not-knowing, sufferings, and their causes. If no karmic seeds or patterns come into being and take hold, then no conditions for samsaric cyclical happenings are formed either.

Now, certainly those who dwell in Significant Reality-Consciousness - the colorless purity-white main sphere F in our multiversal mandala's upper hemisphere - are also, like B, not identified with anything. But, F is not involved at all anywhere. Instead, it constitutes the enabling prerequisite for everything. It is thus also omnipresent. However, it has nothing at all going on, whether actively, passively, or reflectively. Reality-Consciousness creates nothing and is not the foundation or base of everything, which is often - even among some Buddhists - claimed. There is no 'foundation,' 'base,' or 'original source' anywhere that does not possess some form of limitation or illusoriness. Reality-Consciousness is rather unfathomably non-original and groundless. It lacks beginning and end. It has not had any original becoming and will not experience any cessation. Yes, even more pointedly, we can say that Reality-Consciousness is neither original nor non-original, although the latter indication is somewhat more significant, if we disregard that it can also have certain misleading conventional connotations. Reality-Consciousness is nowhere separate from originality, but is not in itself original in the sense that it is the origin of origins. All origin-originality can be something like 'presence,' 'hereness,' 'presence-awareness,' 'being,' 'conditions,' 'manifestations of inhalation conditions,' etc. All of this, however, has variants of elements that are not found in pure Reality-Consciousness itself. To conceptualizingly attribute Reality-Consciousness is rather futile. If we, somewhat Reality-Consciously indicatingly, seek to verbalize an ontological glimpse of it, perhaps one could say something like Reality-Consciousness is non-illusory, clear-naked, and completely pure consciousness. With reflection-consciousness, one can say something like: Reality-Consciousness is the prerequisite for the clarity of reflection. With awakened existential consciousness, we can say: Reality-Consciousness is purely conscious Reality. And we can continue like this indefinitely. No matter how we behave, we can never ever conceptually capture Reality-Consciousness. When we have fully realized this, we have to realize this consciousness primarily with the help of vipassyana meditation, whereby we peel off all subtle ignorance that causes the conceptualization tendencies. Only when all scent molecules of such tendencies are dispersed for good have we realized - what we could call - the wisdom essence of an awakened state.

Reality awareness thus enables the development of Significance awareness and the realization of the multiverse's varying chords. It forms the prerequisite for liberation from ignorance, unawareness, spiritual blindness, attachment to illusoriness, and (both actual and latent) suffering. However, it is no more involved in the liberation itself than how the clarity-empty, gravity-free, and completely naked-pure spatial openness's essence is involved, for example, when we move. Reality awareness does not reflect, inspire us, guide us, enlighten us, enrich us, or protect us. Reality-aware Significance awareness can, however, do all this. But, not Reality awareness alone. It enables everything but is not active in itself. It never has been and never will be. Reality awareness is thus by no means synonymous with, for example, super-sabbatical states, such as some deus otiosus-being or a static nirvana state. In no Significance-unaware divine states, however sublime they may be, is this realized. Reality awareness enables significant understanding of the nature of illusoriness. From this upper vitreous sector F in our multiversal mandala - however, not to be forgotten, in cooperation with other basic chords - derives an important formula in the holodynamic paradigm, namely:

With Significance awareness it is realized

that divine states have not

actualized Reality awareness.

Without significant Reality awareness, it is not realized - due to ignorance and attachment - that (even) the most sublime divine states have an illusory nature. At certain divine levels, one can, for example in meditation, experience oceanic worlds of light and that these are the ultimate nature of the universe. Without significant Reality awareness, one cannot see these divine states for what they are - namely collectively spiritually composed meditative states where one dwells in pleasure-attached worlds that constitute karmic consequences of (non-wisdom-oriented) virtuous living. Instead, one often, in a religious spirit, generalizes and fundamentalizes them to, for example, the 'source', 'foundation', 'divine fundament', 'creative origin' of everything, etc. That a cosmic deity has started everything in the multiverse with, for example, the imperative intention 'let there be light!' is a typical such pop-mystical notion that lacks Reality awareness. Such states are already found towards the end of the first of the four main levels within samadhi meditation, which usually precedes vipassyana meditation, which usually precedes the combined practice of samadhi and vipassyana, which can precede the tantric dynamic practice, which in turn has many levels of consciousness. With this, we also want to remind that what religions usually base their missionary work on and what one thereby most often (without holodynamic reflection awareness) seeks to fundamentalize, constitutes levels of consciousness that relate to awakened states as a leaf on a tree that believes itself to be all the forests of the entire multiverse, without knowing anything about these forests. All would be well if one saw the various meditative states in a significant way for what they are. But, for this, Reality awareness and significant meditative experience are needed. And that has not been actualized significantly within religions yet. An awakened one can also clearly see gods as so-called 'maras', i.e., spiritual manifestations where one (e.g., due to unrecognized latent envy, pride, and/or ignorance) generates the belief that one's being constitutes ultimate and fully enlightened states. Most religious practitioners cannot see it this stripped down and significance-consciously. Therefore, among god-centered spiritual practitioners, there is only talk of faith, not of knowledge.

Wealth-radiating Significance awareness, C, is the fundamental sphere in the southern area of our multiversal mandala that helps us in the transformation of primarily pride, but also greed. Pride is, after ignorance, the hardest for us humans to distance ourselves from and view with significant awareness. There are many, not least divine, variants of pride that prevent us from realizing the basic chords of the multiverse. With C, we see that all energy in its pure originality is jewel-like in essence (and thus liberated from pride) and inexhaustibly radiating (and thus liberated from greed). When this awareness is brought home, effort-free generosity develops and the multiverse is filled with expansively protective and loving dharma chords.

A formula, not least for our multiversal mandala, has been composed in this jewel-golden southern sector. It reads thus:

Brilliant pride-equilibrism

must be cultivatingly transformed

into jewel-excellent dignity-equilibrity

Yes, we need here - and elsewhere - to neologize somewhat to help even our language use to develop to significance-toned freer levels. Now, equilibristic pride is just one of many pride variants, which there may be reason to analytically comment on in this context. We will return to other variants. Let us, however, here somewhat in passing just understand that

brilliant and jewel-excellent

equilibrism and equilibrity

and pride and dignity

are not synonymous. The first-mentioned chords in the three pairs lack, the latter do not lack, significance awareness. Equilibrity is related to awareness of omnipresent naturally essence-like and inexhaustible energy radiation. Equilibrism is related to displaying extraordinarily skillful balancing abilities. Equilibrity is, equilibrism is not, an aspect of wisdom, thus a manifestation that disperses unconscious ego-centering tendencies. Equilibrity can include equilibrism as a spice. Equilibrism is supported by other conditions and motives than equilibrity. Jewel-excellent dignity-equilibrity can significance-consciously present brilliant equilibrism with light-hearted chords in order to enrich and delight. Brilliant pride-equilibrism, however, is carried forward by ego-promoting achievements for the purpose of receiving applause.

Our next - western - main sphere is the ruby-red illuminating Significance awareness, D. It helps us travel along light waves and rays so that our desires do not get stuck and darkening desires are transformed into endless light presence. When we in this presentation distinguish and seek to make visible different wisdom spheres and significance chords and get glimpses of the intangible brilliance faceting in rainbow-dancing infinity-flowering breathing, it is above all D that helps us here. And likewise, D is active in countless related contexts: when we discern, nuance, identify, gain insights, make quintinctions, see when someone is in pain, distinguish different variants of pride or karmic conditions, perceive the different ways of flowering in the meadows, see varying levels of subtlety in meditative states or notice the diverse density of existence conditions, distinguish between the multiversal chords, etc., etc. The pure potential in this distinguishing and illuminating Significance awareness is like incessantly splitting light rays until they can no longer be divided, after which the multiverse's essential and lucid emptiness-clarity is revealed in all its unshadowed naturalness.

Our western light chords are the supporters of life, its endless developers. Incessantly flowering light sources or constantly creating composers can symbolize the quintessence of this multiversal basic chord. It cultivatingly transforms everything into unshadowed light. A significant formula from our western multiversal sphere is:

Desirable life thirst

has to be transformed

into subtle light energy flowerings

and into naturally lucid awareness

which has to be harmonized with

the basic chords of the multiverse

and serve

the perfection of Significance awareness

All-accomplishing Significance awareness is the multiverse's emerald green main sphere in the north, E. This awareness is like effort-free maintenance of intentional movement that is constantly directed meaningfully, i.e., towards the multiverse's destination, i.e., towards the realization of Significance awareness. This dynamically continuous meaning perfection is kept alive by the multiverse's breathing and by significant remembrance. With significant perfection awareness, transformation and redirection of our meaningless expressions of will are facilitated. With this perfection awareness, we no longer need to enviously or compulsively achieve, surpass, win, undermine, defeat, acquire more power, play competitive sports, compete, wage war, carry out pointless projects, imperialize, slave work, etc. Instead, we can quickly move in a significant direction, which helps the careerist and the capable worst-case worker to realize unsurpassable positions, from which, for example, party politicians can appear as meddlesome troublemakers, who now instead with the help of pertinent Significance awareness can cultivate themselves into full-fledged and relevance-consciously balanced statesmen. This would harmonize the entire multiverse - something that leaders, military personnel, and other directors who lack significance awareness rarely have in mind. They rather resemble ego-throated competitors who do not notice that they are in a large self-constructed sandbox where they throw sand at others, which all too often blows back into their own eyes, whereby liberating recognition and understanding of these dynamically mirroring phenomena fail to materialize.

Our seventh fundamental basic chord, which has its main seat in the lower hemisphere of the mandala, is the deep blue radiating and unshakably diamond-mirroring Significance awareness, G. It is called so here to indicate that its central chord is composed of steadfastness, incorruptibility, indestructible reflection ability, and the like. In this lower multiversal world, one is unhindered clearly radiating and Significance-aware recognizing. Anger and hatred are transformed into such significantly strong and healing states that no form of destructive dualization can overcome these chords so that the fundamental tone changes. Neither ice-cold, boiling, nor paranoid hell manifestations can disturb these chords, whose essential nature is mirroring clarity and which have been Significance-qualified with thoroughly purified and transformed anger. Or, somewhat differently angled and more psychodynamically formulated: mainly phallic energy has been alchemically transformed and cultivated into beyond-conventionally stable indestructibility. These chords are helpful for schizoid-like dualizing and projecting individuals, such as paranoid agents, terrorists, suicidal sect members, murderers, fanatical politicians, perverse sex addicts, child abusers, depraved prison guards, numbed warriors, pyromaniacs, and the like. What they all have in common is that they do not significance-consciously recognize their enemies and victims as aspects in their own psyches. G leads them there. As long as conditions for significant recognitions are not invited in, for example, acting-out criminal perpetrators, rehabilitation, prison care, psychotherapy, or psychiatric medication often remains fruitless.

The remaining 8 main spheres in our multiversal mandala are composed of the multiverse's other basic chords (see APPENDIX 1) and of the surrounding spheres. The same applies to the 3,420 brilliance spheres that constitute the different partial chords in the main spheres. Now, however, we should also initially understand the following:

(i)            Regarding holodynamic breathing

All 3,421 spheres breathe more or less harmoniously together. Occasionally, some universal sub-sphere may implode, another may explode forth, a third may merge peacefully with or creatively collide with a fourth, etc. It is, among other things, Ö's most inclusive multiversal meta-awareness that superordinately harmonizes the worlds' co-existence toward Significance-conscious co-breathing. Thus, we simultaneously deal with breathing awareness at different levels - and this in all spheres: in the fundamental spheres, in all sub-spheres in these, and in the whole Wholeness sphere.

(ii) Regarding Significance awareness

a) All the 3,420 brilliance spheres are variedly meta-significance-aware,

b) all 14 fundamental spheres are variedly meta-meta-significance-aware,

c) the central sphere is meta-meta-meta-significance-aware

d) the multiversal Wholeness is variedly meta-meta-meta-meta-significance-aware. Note that the 'meta' determination does not refer to any inherent ontological properties or conditions whatsoever, but rather a combination of significance and inclusivity awareness regarding the relationship between the different types of spheres.

(iii) Regarding mirroring

Each sphere mirrors with its unique partial chord coloration both dynamically and undynamically both other spheres and the entire multiverse's basic chord. The fundamental spheres have a multi-dimensionally more inclusive level of consciousness than the individual brilliance spheres and are thus more so-called meta-significance-consciously mirroring. Analogously can be said about our central sphere in relation to the fundamental spheres and about the whole Wholeness in relation to the central sphere. Simplified, this reflection regarding mirroring can in principle be likened to, for example, how an analytically more experienced psychotherapist in general can comment on a person's dreams or symptoms more relevantly and richly than a psychologically less experienced person.

The above-mentioned should now at least give us the principal understanding that all different combinations of colors, nuances, perspectives, light refractions, consciousness variants, breathing processes, outward and inward directions, types of perception, levels of understanding, and combinations of all this, etc., etc., are infinite in number. Only contemplatively clear-mirroring Significance awareness that - not least together with the multi-spectrally distinguishing vision - also has a Reality-penetrating, observing, and seeing-through meta-awareness, is developmentally helpful here. The combinations of holodynamically mirroring chords and multidimensional wholes, which co-breathe in changing aspectual dynamics, compose here a paradigm that can organize, explain, and evolutionarily guide us in our multiversal destination navigation. A non-Significance-conscious researching and composing will be reductive and restrict the development of our knowledge, repress our potentials, and blind us to the motives to open ourselves to this. Our multiverse mandala has also methodologically and symbolically been composed in such a way that it can help us in maturing development and integration of such a complex view as an all-inclusive paradigm. To, for example, develop our cognitions to the extent that they contain living brilliance worlds, should help us inspiringly in the realization of the multiverse's basic chord. The more favorable conditions our consciousness has, the better our multiversal understanding development becomes; yes, the better thus also our actual evolution towards the multiverse's living destination becomes. This is actually quite obvious, but still needs repeating explicitization.

There is no world without consciousness. It's not even conceivable. Characterize a single world where consciousness is not involved in some way! Even if we were to describe a completely desolate, solitary, and ice-cold planet, this planet could not exist without many different conditions and at least be related to the consciousness that accompanies this very description.

Additionally - and this is important to constantly remind oneself - Reality awareness does not exclude anything whatsoever in the entire multiverse. That most of us are not clearly aware of this is primarily because our consciousness is not liberated from ignorance, darkness, wisdom-spiritual blindness, dualization, and fixing conceptualizations.

In the next chapter, we will with our essential paradigmatic multiverse understanding more closely analyze, among other things, contemporary attempts within natural science to compose a unified theory with which one desires to be able to explain everything, namely the so-called string theory.

SOME GLIMPSES

COSMOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE AWARENESS

Within natural science, one is now again seeking to compose a unified theory with which one wants to be able to explain everything. This can never be done. Even this theory will become too reductive. In such attempts, new perspectives continuously emerge that give rise to inquiries about a new more inclusive theory. If one desires a system that essentially explains everything, it cannot be done with less than composing a paradigm. It cannot be done with just a theory (like string theory). What is needed is a Significance-aware paradigm where all involved dimensions and wholes embrace each other clarity-mirroring. Such a paradigm must also accommodate both significant ontological level awareness and paradigmatic meta-awareness. It is by no means just a question of hierarchically coordinating so-called 'higher' and 'lower' levels, which is one of the most common organizing principles in most scientific disciplines. This deductive organizing method is too few-variable and fits well within logic, mathematics, and positivistically oriented philosophy of science and research, where explanatory models are often structured so that one seeks to explain specific empirical phenomena by subsuming them under more general laws. This explanatory logic, however, is not sufficient here, even if it has extraordinary relevance in several contexts. This hierarchical organization is also found in religions, in the military, in politics, and in the business world. Here, in general, 'deductive subsumption' can be translated to 'power-oriented relating'. This organizational principle suits traditionalists - who, incidentally, through forced retention of living structures, latently prepare for the well-known song of revolutionary power shifts, which occurs thanks to the fact that one is not sufficiently significantly aware of the balancing breathing of the Whole. Instead, one is identified with some conventionally patterned cultural affiliation beyond which one mostly sees threats or ignorable phenomena.

With, for example, the holographic paradigm, one has sought to accommodate the need to compose a unified universal system. This inspirational paradigm is not sufficient, precisely among other things because one here does not distinguish between different explanatory organizing principles, such as hierarchical and holarchical (network-related). One also generalizes significance-unawarely from knowledge within quantum physics to mysticism. Among other things, holarchical organizing principles are missing (whereby hierarchical relating is combined with holarchical). In our multiverse, we have, for example, nearly 30 increasingly subtle divine levels of consciousness, 10 bodhisattva levels within Mahayana Buddhism, related bodhisattva levels within Tantric Buddhism, and half a dozen Buddha levels, just to mention a little. Most of this is also described in published literature. Proponents of the holographic paradigm do not have a clue about all this. 'Mysticism' - at least in a New Age spirit - is, however, something that according to visionaries who belong to this paradigm, one supposedly can understand with the principles of holography. With Significance awareness, we can relatively easily remedy the ailments in this otherwise insightful and to some extent reflection-aware paradigm. (Read more about this in Fitz, 2003, in the glossary).

String theory is the latest in a series of attempts to compose a unified theory. Even though one has in principle included 11 dimensions here and can explain the dynamic relationships between the principles of general relativity theory, the energy dynamics of electromagnetism, as well as both the weak and strong nuclear forces, one cannot, among other things, really get at how the most fundamental components that compose the universe - the so-called "strings" - look, what actual nature they have, how they interact, and what function in the Whole they have. One will first get a scent of this when one has polished precisely those instruments that can register such things, namely significant Reality, mirroring, and light awareness (thus, above all, the chords that compose the multiverse's enabling prerequisite, its nature, and essence). If this kind of awareness were present in all its non-illusory clarity, we would, among other things, see the following: as it is in the large, so it is also (holodynamically mirrored) in the small - and vice versa. By holodynamic mirroring, it is meant that parts and wholes in their unique way mirror both each other and the entire multiversal Whole.

The so-called strings have not yet been able to be registered. The instrument we have to develop to be able to observe these entities is, however, of a different kind than how one academically usually thinks of this. What can register the multiverse's multidimensional, innermost, and ultimate being (which now by no means needs to be termed 'strings') is namely our awareness. We need, one could say, when we enter such a paradigm shift, to shift into a beyond-academic overdrive. Actually, this - with our consciousness - is rather self-evident. We can never get away from our consciousness, even if we unreflectively sometimes try to do so here on our objectifying and materialistically-technically oriented planet. For example, one builds increasingly more massive accelerators to be able to register ever smaller and more invisible movements and entities. One still does not understand that the "accelerator" in certain respects should be replaced with well-polished significance awareness and that the "strings" being examined partly reflect the character of the consciousness polishing. When this is realized, one will contemplate a few extra rounds before possibly yet another cost-demanding accelerator construction, which from the perspectives touched upon here appears as if one digs a very deep well right next to the shore of a stream, after which one transports the water that has been dug out of the well across the stream to the other shore. There, one then calls the deep-sounding water "strings". A better method would be to directly and significance-awarely experience what flows in the stream and then call it - why not - 'water'. This can be done when lucid-clear and significant mirroring combined with Reality awareness has been cultivated sufficiently and is at hand unhindered and naturally in the observer's reflections.

But natural scientists, even if they are at home with residing in super-intellectual, enigmatically empirical, and extremely abstract fields, not least with their mathematical formulations, have still never taken the step fully in a significant way. Academic philosophy of science is not yet, in relevant respects, sufficiently inclusive and developed to be of guiding help when it comes to composing a unified multiversal paradigm. Among other things, one has not made conscious the world where one sees the significant mechanisms that cause dualization. "Reality has a double nature," natural scientists usually say. At a more significant level of consciousness, for example, object and subject, phenomenon and perception, or 'waves' and 'particles' are not separated as they are in our conventional experiences. At more significant levels - in the states that manifest when one has integrated the consequences of combining the practice of so-called samatha and vipassyanameditation - one can very well see the status of these aspects for what they are in their contexts. To, however, at such a level of understanding, try to observe, for example, strings as phenomena that have objective status, is a futile activity. 'Strings' are not entities that have any inherent, i.e., independent, existence. Strings are mirroring components in string consciousness. This is analogous to how 'atoms' are components in 'atom consciousness', or 'photons' are components in consciousness that conceptualizes photons. There are no significant 'strings' anywhere at whose coming into being consciousness has not been involved. And if 'strings' are included among the components in Significance awareness, then they are shaped by this awareness. And in that case, what corresponds to the 'strings' will quite naturally appear as holodynamic reflections of galaxies and galaxy clusters, albeit in other formats. Moreover, the 'strings' need not then be only the smallest 'components'. "They" can just as well form membrane-embracing dimensions that shape other and more inclusive world systems/universes than ours. Thus, when one realizes that there are no 'strings' and no medium in which they reside, which are not also (more or less) conscious, it should (or ought to at least) be a celebration in the academies. Then one can in extension - perhaps dizzyingly - realize that we with our consciousness not only observe and discover the multiverse, but that we also all the time contribute to its formation and development, all the way from significance-awarely conscious over more or less conscious to more or less unconscious. It is thus not just a question of changes that, for example, the measurement itself of events brings about (which in quantum physics one has after all realized for half a century), but the content and character of every cognition or feeling always has consequences for our multiversal Whole. We humans are, however, still too much in lack of mirroring Significance awareness, which prevents us from understanding this fully. If we were not so unconsciously fixated on certain cognitions, we would become responsible in a completely different way than we are today and likewise get more significant insight into, among other things, the deeper meaning in expressions like "as you make your bed, so must you lie in it". When a Palestinian - for real, in solidarity-consciously significant respects - could just as well be a member of an Israeli family, and vice versa, then they will no longer fight each other as they do nowadays. Instead, they will help each other to significant well-living. Similar examples can easily be multiplied. Analogous opposition projections are also found among quantum physicists. But, one still seeks to "bend back" these projections, through ideas about 'supersymmetry' and that 'nature does not like paradoxes'. One is certainly approaching the matter here and should get a glimpse of the mirroring aspect of Significance awareness, but one does not quite yet dare to open oneself to the entire multiverse's basic chord.

Developing these instruments - that is, our consciousness - occurs with the help of various forms of meditation and significance-analytical reflections. Now, this matter of significance awareness is a complex thing. So we must approach the subject without becoming too reductive or scout-like pedagogical. It's not about building garden furniture, but about composing a creative, guiding, and explanatory paradigm about virtually everything in the entire multiverse. It would be impossible for us humans to develop and acquire new knowledge without using similes, metaphors, and symbols (such as the metaphor 'glimpse' in the chapter heading). However, it's important to understand that a large number of alternative metaphors are equally suitable as indicating designations of the components of Significance Awareness: chords, tones, strings, drops, epiphanies, holodynamic reflections, emanations, tears, parts, wholes, consciousness expressions, consciousness chords, manifestations, formations, mandalas, phenomena, entities, energy components, consciousness strings, etc. The choice of components is explained by which variant of wisdom the categorizer is mainly positioned in. With paradigmatic significance awareness, the composer can choose basic components according to what is considered most favorable for the multiverse's destination fulfillment. The components mentioned in the multiverse's basic chord always need to be kept in mind when using such metaphors or categorizations. If these chords are not included, significance awareness does not develop. And if significance awareness is not included, we cannot compose a paradigm that can essentially explain everything and indicate the multiversal dynamics' destination direction.

One dimension in our multiversal basic chord is breathing or breathing patterns. This breathing takes place in many worlds. One of the breathing patterns belongs to our universe, which began its inhalation 13.7 billion years ago. An inhalation period always transitions into an exhalation period. Perhaps the exhalation in our world has already begun. We are now talking about superior becoming/expansion and cessation/implosion in our universe. This contains and is influenced by countless variants of breathing patterns. Our universe's breathing pattern is in turn contained by other dimensions' breathing dynamics in the multiverse.

The exhalation in our universe will lead to an increasingly dense implosion. Our universe faints/collapses and dies. But, new inhalations and exhalations occur, as mentioned, here and there in the multiverse, in an analogous way to how certain living beings die here and there while others are born and begin to breathe in. In the large as in the small. There is a simple explanation for why many academic natural scientists still do not understand how the inhalation of our universe could begin 13.7 billion years ago. They simply have not sufficiently opened their eyes yet to the fact that all kinds of inhalations and exhalations are ongoing in different universes and that this is happening constantly. Other worlds - both more inclusive and included - enable and co-condition in various ways the becoming of a world. Today's various paradigms in the academic world are currently not sufficiently inclusive and lack significance awareness in a qualified sense. When this understanding has been integrated, we will not only be able to answer these - simpler - questions in principle, but also others.

With qualified Significance Awareness, we could answer such questions as, say, how many galaxy clusters exist, how many planets in our galaxy and in the entire multiverse are inhabited, what kinds of beings exist there, what other kinds of worlds exist in different dimensions, where and when e.g., Atlantis and Lemuria have existed on our earth, what so-called "rainbow beings" are, what the difference consists of between all different ontological levels, etc. We would see that the so-called 'big bang' is as little the beginning of the multiverse's creation as, for example, the time of a sperm's fertilization of an egg constitutes the beginning of individuals' creation. A conscious inhalation breeze is probably rather the creative onset to some universe or other. With such a reflection, we are at a much more significant level of explanation than when we talk about the 'big bang'. But even this multi-dimensionally more inclusive and significance-aware explanation has in turn its explanatory conditions, which then in turn have their explanatory conditions, etc. When, for example, a couple cultivates the intention on a full moon night to create a child together, this can lead to:

(i)             a 'big bang' when the couple explodes in screams at the height of ecstasy that wake the neighbors,

(ii)           a 'big bang' when the sperm and egg unite,

(iii)         a 'big bang' when the fetus is born nine months thereafter,

(iv)         a 'big bang' if they get a pat on the bottom from the midwife,

(v)           a 'big bang' when the newborn takes its first breath,

(vi)         a 'big bang' when breast milk is sucked in for the first time, etc.

With the mentioned simile, we can see that the common full moon intention of the potential parents of our newborn child is found at a deeper and more original level of explanation than any of all the 'big bangs' that follow afterward; even if of course it is not the most original either. The couple's common intention does not arise haphazardly but has in turn explanatory/causal conditions. An analogous consideration we can have regarding our universe - not to mention the multiverse.

And now a joyful message for some: there are already beings who have perfected Significance Awareness. Namely Buddhas. And not only that: it is possible to communicate with them. However, we ourselves need to develop sufficient significance awareness and open ourselves to such states that enlightenment-oriented systems or the multiverse's basic chord point towards. Advanced academic research alone or some religion, nor just any systems or paradigms whatsoever that do not include the Buddha consciousness's awareness, that is, Significance Awareness, are not enough. Academics and others will in the future also need to consult other kinds of research supervisors than what is customary. And when this begins to happen for real, substantial paradigm shifts will begin to burst forth like fireworks. Many, however, need to free themselves from, among other things, variants of irrelevant explorations/activities, pride, envy, prestige attachments, limiting conceptualizations, fears, and more or less subtle (or crude) ignorance.

With these introductory words, a cosmological significance drop glimmered by for a moment. This epiphany now fades away.... well, why not into enigmatically reflecting string worlds embraced by the multiverse's basic chord, where micro and macro worlds holodynamically mirror each other, so that, for example, the full moon in the still ocean water and the full moon in the still ocean space can appear as inseparable spouses. In the present book, we will, from different perspectives, present many variants of such epiphany reflections. ..... So, let us have a continued interesting journey in all our common multiversal vessel.

A DROP

                    SIGNIFICANCE AWARENESS     

Significance Awareness is the destination of the multiverse. It contains everything precious, enlightened, excellent, and relevant. When Significance Awareness is realized everywhere, the evolution of the multiverse is perfected. The matter is settled. All universes and different dimensions, both the small invisible ones and the very large energy chords have been perfected. Only the consciousness of Buddhas remains. The sufferings and non-knowing, as well as their causes, are dispersed. Everyone has in some variant realized the basic chord of the multiverse, is all-knowing and dwells forever clear-awakened and naturally in Significance Awareness. It cannot, in other words, get better. The multiverse's basic chord can be summarized as follows:

Reality Awareness 

is the multiverse's enabling prerequisite 

clarity-reflecting awareness 

it´s nature 

lucid emptiness awareness 

it´s essence 

purity awareness 

it´s original qualification 

infinite light awareness 

it´s enlightening darkness dispersion 

thoroughly essential energy awareness 

it´s inexhaustible wealth radiation 

constant perfection awareness

its meaning dynamics 

naturally conscious breathing 

it´s life movement 

intimate heartfulness 

it´s central tone

embracing togetherness awareness 

it´s healing medicine 

empathic wisdom 

it´s navigation instrument 

and 

significance awareness 

it´s destination.

The consciousness of Buddhas is the most significant state of being. It is consciousness par excellence. There is nothing of interest beyond this consciousness. (There are certainly several developmental levels among Buddhas as well; but this is not very relevant here). We are thus dealing with - at least in its full-moon state - a being where all meaningfully valuable dimensions have been perfected and integrated in unsurpassable ways. This applies not only to us earth dwellers, but also to all other countless beings in each and every one of the 100,000s of galaxy clusters in our universe. Yes, and not just in our space-time world, but also in other dimensions here and there right among us and in dynamic frequency spheres/universes that can be demarcated by movable and to the ordinary eye invisible membranes and which, by the way, can also embrace each other in a harmonious dance. In the interference fields between Significance-Aware universes, "collisions" between world systems thus need not at all initiate big bang explosions. This is analogous to, for example, a meditatively advanced yogi, when sitting in intimate union with his secret spouse, not needing to let his intense interference being result in explosive ecstasy, as is the case among ordinary intimacy dancers. The yogi instead transforms with his spouse the involved energies into variants of creative significance awareness.

A Buddha's Significance Awareness is ceaselessly and inseparably united with Reality Awareness. To be Reality Aware means that consciousness dwells in an uncategorizable being that is completely naked, pure, and imperishable. Cyclicity in this Reality Aware being is an illusory phenomenon. So too are time, duality, and independent existence. Here there is thus no loneliness, no tedium, no days and nights. The unborn Reality Awareness creates nothing. It is not the source of everything, but the enabling prerequisite of everything. Without the non-dimensional Reality Awareness, a multidimensional multiverse with, say, 11 dimensions, could not exist - analogous to how our 4-dimensional space-time enables ordinary cyclical events. Some might now, despite everything, want to suggest that by Reality Awareness we allude to some divine being. This is by no means the case. In all divine states, however sublime they may be, Reality Awareness is precisely what is lacking. And Significance Awareness is never mentioned.

With Significance Awareness

it is realized that divine states

lack Reality Awareness

This is an important formula in our holodynamic paradigm. This Reality Awareness is the enabling prerequisite even for all divine states, including the most sublime formless 80,000-eon divine beings. Even though some of these conditions of existence can be 80,000 cosmic ages, this still does not mean that it is something that is 'eternal', timeless, ceaseless, or imperishable. Only Reality Awareness is - strictly ontologically considered - without beginning and end. Divine worlds have beginning and end, even if of course the duration in these states can seem unfathomable and be experienced as infinite. This is easily understandable, considering that it can involve myriads of years. Such a divine "vision of eternity" (where one lacks Reality Awareness's insight that this extremely long-lasting condition of existence is also cyclical and not ultimately real) can now easily fall in love with subtle ignorance, after which they marry and create esoteric religious systems, which can seem highly interesting for spiritual seekers of mysticism. With Significance Awareness, however, one can see that this involves activity of very subtle heavenly so-called 'maras', which (without knowing it) lead beings onto paths that eventually result in sufferings, limiting teachings, and away from awakened Significance Awareness.

Thus, Reality Awareness is something other than esoterically eternalistic visions. It is also something completely different from a nihilistic ontology, whereby one views the essence of being as the absence of everything, as nothing at all - an empty nothingness darkness that does not exist. Nihilism, like eternalism, is an extreme view. They constitute variants of the four-dimensional or four-level formless divine states (the four many-thousand-eon arupa-dhatu states as they are called in Sanskrit: 'endless space', 'endless consciousness', 'endless nothingness' and 'endless neither this nor that'). Both lack in their visions the presence of the multiverse's basic chord, that is, Significance Awareness. It involves very long-lasting, temporarily suffering-free, super-sublime and formless divine beings. Even though we are thus now speaking of the most sublime levels of divinity, one would still not be able to understand the present text here. For a Buddha, on the other hand, it is a simple procedure. These meditative arupa-dhatu dimensions are not found at very "high" levels, as most tend to say, but they exist everywhere right among us. If, for example, one is in a state where one's consciousness is experienced as being the entire space, this does not mean that one is at a "high" level. A formless space consciousness is omnipresent; however unfortunately - as mentioned - without significant Reality Awareness.

When we have Significance Awareness glasses on, we see that so-called 'maras', i.e., certain gods, exploit beings' ignorance, confusion, anxiety, dualization, hatred, envy, pride, desire (for profit, honor, pleasurable experiences and to be praised), etc., but most often their ignorance, to (consciously or unconsciously) manipulate them onto various religious paths, without ever talking about enlightenment-oriented wisdom and Reality Awareness. No, here other things are spoken of: about faith and salvation (not about waking up to Significance Awareness), about fatherly gods (never about any, say, fully awakened 'Miss Buddha' in the form of a 26-year-old), about almighty presence (not about Reality Aware presence), about divine love (not about Reality Aware embracing heartfelt wisdom-empathy).

Of course, all maras/gods should also be helped to become Significance Aware. It would hardly indicate the presence of Significance Awareness if one, in a religiously egocentric spirit, viewed "other" ethnic groups' spiritual fathers as less love-powerful and if one, pride-minded and in a missionary knightly spirit, felt sanctioned from higher quarters to convince others of this, by - with so-called 'higher' powerful love - simply converting or killing them, which has indeed been the customary procedure in, for example, various sorts of shamanistic and theistic cultures. Yes, atheists behave similarly, whereby one, for example, uses one's already existing power to simply try to maintain it. More or less in the background, such a struggle is still being waged on our planet between, for example, fundamentally oriented Muslims and Christians. Jews and certain Hindus are also involved to some extent. These are of course barbaric methods with which one seeks to push aside insightful recognition of all karmic fruits that follow from killing living beings.

With Significance Awareness, it is realized that theocentric systems in general are not wisdom-spiritual - and even less enlightenment-oriented; i.e., religions have not included the multiverse's basic chord in their views. However, if this is realized - in a significant way - then this very understanding implies an excellent advancement in our common evolution. The insight also implies that shamanists, atheists, and theocentrists are included in the multiverse's basic chord. The reverse, however, does not apply - then we are dealing more with exclusion.

But, as we can see on our planet today, most people still do not even in principle want to understand that mirroring awareness is the fundamental nature in all reflection-capable being. At the age of two, we generally begin to discover it and can recognize ourselves in a mirror. Then we often push aside the significant implications of awakening to this consciousness and do not care to cultivate it. Yes, not a few of us even gradually return to the toddler mentality we had before this recognition: we regard the mirror images as if they were someone other than ourselves. When this childishness joins with ignorance and pride, we can more easily understand something of the background to both religious and secular wars. When regression tendencies revert to symbiosis-like visions, then various mirror-unconscious new age-ish systems can develop with such chords as 'everything-just-is-and-is-one-and-is-just-divinity'. Most cultures are too limiting and short-sighted, e.g., too motherly infantile or Protestant scout-like to cultivate significant mirroring awareness in their practice.

When adherents from different religions fight each other, they close their eyes to mirroring aware recognition of both their individual and collective shadow sides. These repressed, so-called "pagan" and darkened areas within oneself are unconsciously projected onto others, whom one then seeks to annihilate - not just as symbolic manifestations originating from one's psyche, but also literally in the outer world. In other words, one is not aware that our psyche and our reflection-capable world are like movie theaters, with projectionists, film reels, screens, actors, spectators, directors, producers, etc. If some now believe that there is a god who sanctions acts of terror in the literal sense and if some terrorist imagines that they are performing a blessed sacrificial deed by blowing themselves and others up, then these should be unequivocally enlightened that they lack the most elementary insights into what consequences such acts lead to - partly for our Whole in general and partly for themselves in particular. If one is not even in principle aware of the karma and rebirth processes and if one still markets one's system as something that living beings should believe in devotedly and self-sacrificingly, this will necessarily lead to sufferings and catastrophes. With Significance Awareness, it is not possible to take someone's life, since mirror-unconscious dualization then no longer exists in one's perceptions. When one is significance-aware, one affinity aware recognizes all living beings in different ways; for example, so that different individuals can appear as if they were one's only precious children or one's confidant friend. This makes harm impossible. With Significance Awareness, one can also discern and separate conventional, symbolic, outer, inner, intimate, secret, and ultimate worlds and the different conditions that apply to them. Regarding humanity as a connected extended family is an elementary component of Significance Awareness, as elementary as regarding the possession of a heart as a necessary prerequisite for human life.

Significance Awareness is not something one simply has to believe in without further ado. It is something one has to realize. One just has to get started and find out everything about it, cultivate the multiverse's basic chord, and gradually evaluate! The non-examining faith's era should be considered faded. Now instead we have to begin the 'investigate-with-one's-own-perceptions/reflections/hearts period'. As Einstein has said: "Few are the individuals who see with their own eyes and feel with their own heart." Certainly, our examination needs guiding help; but even such should be scrutinized well-honed. 'Significance Awareness' titles an empathically wisdom-understanding bodhisattva's mentality or Buddha consciousness's awareness. The former can be said to be the latter in becoming. Significance Awareness means that the multiverse's basic chord and our multi-spectral jewel mandala have been extensively integrated. An authentic master with such prerequisites has nothing against thorough examination. Rather the opposite. He/she welcomes it and is not particularly interested in believers and obedient scouts. If a thorough mutual analytical examination does not initiate a relationship between master and student, it will lead to undesirable consequences. There is no significant reason whatsoever to begin a binding relationship with blind faith. If someone desires followers, based solely on the motive that they should believe in him/her, then this person has either intentionally or unintentionally shady intentions, i.e., no Significance Awareness is involved here. A Significance Aware dharma guide could very well let a student merely examine him until Significance Awareness begins to emerge. If a "master" cannot appreciate even such a method, then we are not dealing with a Significance Aware master, but with, for example, a more conventional magistrate, a proud tradition bearer, a politician, or why not a free church preacher.

When Buddha Shakyamuni 2,500 years ago began to guide towards fully awakened Significance Awareness on our earth, he urged his students not to simply, out of respect and faith, accept as true what he says. He also encouraged them to reflect on the content of the teaching and to find out through their own experiences whether it is as he says. The listeners were also invited to present analytical and other questions. Herein lies the significant difference in method between enlightenment-oriented guidance and religious practice. In the former case, one is guided (at least) to self-experienced and lasting liberation from sufferings and ignorance; in the latter alternative, one is preached into proper and powerful praise as well as gloomy and submissive lamentation. This latter is indeed a fairly well-known mutually matching pair of activities, which - like morning and evening of the same day - is found in Christian contexts and also in Western party politics, which, by the way, often bounces along with Christian thoughts. This not so significant approach is also partly explained by the fact that people are viewed as dunces who are not capable of developing significance awareness. This attitude is reflected by the fact that in our world, we see mostly so-called 'dark energy', which moreover unfortunately now expands our universe. In other terms, one could call this that we now live in a 'dark age': the ignorant/unknowing energies predominate/dominate/expand and the enlightening components only glimpse significance here and there. The number of beings who genuinely desire the realization of Significance Awareness is about as many as the number of stars one can see during daytime. And this despite the fact that no more meaningful and precious desire can be found.

So let us finally below - partly metaphorically and a bit lightheartedly - amplify with examples an aspect of our reasoning, to enrich our understanding of how urgent it is with the cultivation of Significance Awareness. This is also to include the perspective that Significance Awareness not only has to exert influence in enlightenment-oriented esoteric or academic contexts.

If Zorro sings courtship songs under the admired Juanita's balcony, she should not sneak out from the balcony on the first or second evening and, without examination, follow Zorro to the ends of the earth. But, after several months - if the courtship is still ongoing - she could take a little walk with him in broad daylight and ask him about Significance Awareness. If he has nothing to say about this in general and its involvement in his courtship and songs in particular, then Juanita - if she is still interested - could tip him off about some related areas of study and ask him to contemplate the matter for a year and then return. Zorro is hereby offered, one might say, a preparation period for a possible engagement in a year. If he then - when he returns and sings under Juanita's balcony again - has not devoted himself to the task day and night during the past year and if he still cannot discern what is significant and what is not, then our Senorita should inform Zorro of the reason why she cannot become his fiancée and spouse. She wants, namely, a marital relationship to be sustained by shared Significance Awareness - or at least by sufficient principled knowledge thereof. So even if Zorro received a no this time, let's hope he was interested enough in Juanita that a seed of significance awareness was sown in his psyche, and that he may better prepare himself for a possible desire in the future to marry a somewhat more reflective lady.

In our archetypal story above, it is of course not about perfected Significance Awareness, but about Significance Awareness in the making (so perhaps we should not use a capital 'S' here, but be content with a lowercase 's'). Only fully awakened Buddhas possess Significance Awareness par excellence. And Buddhas need not live a married life. In our archetypal example here, it's about having enough matching significance awareness; about having at least integrated somewhat principled knowledge and experience thereof, so that both individuals' lives and their cohabitation are guided by an enlightenment-orienting lighthouse, or a 'Lighthouse Keeper' (i.e., a maintainer of Significance Awareness). If Zorro's destination lighthouse consists of something like heavenly pleasure and Juanita's of Significance Awareness, then they are not a potential dance couple in the same division. There is an asymmetric inclusivity here: Juanita's destination lighthouse contains / includes / illuminates Zorro's, but the reverse is not true. If they had married, both would have become frustrated during the course of their cohabitation. If Zorro wants to live a farmer's life with horses and children, go to church with his family every Sunday, and be a virtuous Catholic, then not many would have objections to this neat way of life. But, if Juanita wants to realize some holodynamically reflecting version of the multiverse's fundamental chord with her family life, wants to devote herself to inner cosmic journeys in her meditations instead of going to church, and desires to realize awakened Significance Awareness, then one could easily calculate - at least if one is reasonably significance-aware - that Juanita and Zorro do not fit well together. That Zorro, in the eyes of conventional spirituality, is the catch of the village and the ladies' favorite, does not change this significant assessment.

In the wake of these events, most people in the village will certainly view Juanita with unfavorable and Zorro with favorable eyes. He is now instead offered the priest's virtuously thin-lipped daughter. Juanita, on the other hand, will for a while need to acquaint herself with the agonies of human loneliness and experience the reflecting movie theater world's screen, as she lets her self-produced film Significance-Aware honesty play. In her reflecting field, during the film screening, a container function is also activated that clarifies projections in both symbolic and literal embodiments, which derive from the village's repressed, shadowed, and unrecognized backyard conditions, which in a tidied-up packaging may even be called divinely sanctioned expressions. Yes, without this manipulative and irresponsible camouflage technique, the village congregation would probably not manage when fears, anger, lies, envy, pride, revenge, paranoia, and other projections are manifested - in a Latin American Knutby spirit.

So. Zorro will, for the time being, remain in the prejudiced embrace of the village, and Juanita will probably move to an enigmatic location............

...........and with that, our significance-reflecting rainbow drop dissolves and leaves behind a lukewarm late summer breeze and deeply clear nothing-in-particular-presence, with the sun in the background and the illuminated trees in the foreground, whereby the glittering leaves and light dharma clouds play together in heartfelt fields of perception in a bluish golden-clear southeastern area in our multiversal mandala's mostly white upper hemisphere.

A DROP

SIGNIFICANT MIRRORING AWARENESS

Let us first amplify and summarize some essentials from what was mentioned in the previous chapter.

Reality Consciousness is the enabling prerequisite for everything. If Reality Consciousness does not exist, nothing else exists either. The more of us who realize this, the better. Better for the entire multiverse's development and for the realization of Significance Awareness. This understanding regarding Reality Consciousness must not be confused with, for example, ideas about an almighty cosmic creator deity or 'the source of everything.' Such cognition can occur relatively early in one's meditation practice (towards the end of the first of the four so-called samatha levels). When one generalizes and fundamentalizes such an experience, most of what composes Significance Awareness is missing. We have also seen tragic consequences on our earth from such unconsciousness, not least in the form of missionary imperialism.

When it comes to the various - forming and formless - divine levels, we must see them for what they are. We must view them with significant awareness. And if we do, we realize that they all lack Reality Consciousness. Yes, at least that they are not wisdom-spiritually enlightenment-oriented in a qualified sense, meaning they do not desire the realization of a Buddha's Significance Awareness. The divine states consist of about 30 increasingly subtle, brighter, more inclusive, purer, and longer-lasting spiritual worlds. Here one dwells absorbed until these divine seasons fade. They can be simply likened to increasingly long-lasting and more subtly pleasure-filled vacation stays, which continue until the karmic conditions that maintain them cease to operate. By, for example, successively enlightening one's spiritual spheres or by freeing oneself from lingerings and attachments to certain levels, one can develop into purer and hierarchically higher states. Through this, the duration of stay can also be significantly extended, with for example thousands of years. In general, the gods or beings on divine levels are too absorbed in their states and thus too ignorant of the bodhisattva's visions of meaning and destination, which is why they cannot benefit other living beings in a way that meditating beings who have Buddha enlightenment - and not just increasingly prolonged heavenly pleasures - as their target vision can.

Now, Buddhas can indeed emanate divine forms to enable communication with beings on divine levels, whose reference spheres do not include fully awakened beings' multiversal consciousness. Such emanations, or reflection manifestations, naturally do not lack Significance Awareness. A common divine being, who does not increasingly seek to reflect a Buddha's multiverse with significance calibration, cannot recognize the differences between, among others: (i) all different divine levels of existence, (ii) all bodhisattva levels, and (iii) all Buddha levels. Divine states are sustained by the consequences of, among other things, generosity, patience, and virtuous living.

When these favorable karmic fruits have fully ripened, the divine beings will be reborn in other states. In general, these are lower states. This is analogous to, say, the ripening of apples during an autumn month cannot continue into winter or longer. They often fall to the ground and begin to rot. If, however, some gods have been able to open themselves to significance-oriented changes and perspective shifts whereby they questioningly distance themselves from their views so far, and if they can sufficiently free themselves from, among other things, prestige, pride, and subtle spiritual states, then their rebirths may rather lead to more wisdom-inclusive states. If, for example, a deity on a fairly sublime level can be brought relevant insight that their oceanically light-filled and cosmically extensive being contains much less significance awareness than an existentially reflecting bodhisattva's life in human form, then this deity will in their continued existence experience a completely different destination direction than their colleagues who have not integrated the implications of such a comparison.

That we are generally not so aware of all this is explained by the fact that we are not yet sufficiently bodhisattva- or Buddha-aware. We therefore also have little understanding of what the multiverse's development is really about; or better: should be about. We can liken this to us being like children who do not cultivate significant responsibility. The universe has to manage this on its own, most people probably think. Yes, in some cultures it would even be considered presumptuous to believe that one would be a responsible part of cosmic development. Such a valuation may belong in circles where one lacks significant awareness of the different variants of pride - for example, self-promotion, feelings of superiority, pride-surpassing, ego-feeling, conceit, and incorrectness-praising pride - and where one considers the cultivation of self-deprecating pride to be a particularly virtuous way of life. Actually, this expression is an irresponsible and post-rationalizing compensation for not having matured into a sound humble attitude yet, which by no means can be defined with ego-praising pride chords, which additionally have a self-devaluing low-status-praising accent. Sound humility is composed with the help of fellowship-feeling, civilized, 'softly' finely tuned and respectful chords that relate carefully and harmonically healing to people's heartfelt intimate existential awareness. Humility hereby gets a scent of 'holiness,' so we should probably not expect to meet it to any significant extent in conventional contexts. But, we must not here commit another pride-caused mistake and believe that such humble holiness configurations are only found in popes, Dalai Lamas, and glorified saints. They can be found in inconspicuous street musicians, beggars, simple nuns, and cleaners. Unusually aware bodhisattvas, who have the variants of pride scattered in their psyche, can unexpectedly be found in disguised form anywhere. Yes, the more advanced a bodhisattva is, the more hidden from conventional people he is. The empathy, heartfelt intimacy, interpersonal equality feeling, and significant reflection awareness that a 'pure' bodhisattva (from the 8th so-called 'bhumi') has, is difficult to understand for most earth dwellers (including many a pride-toned Buddhist). The difference between such a being's consciousness and one who with self-deprecating pride praises precisely this spiritual practice as the source of virtue, can to some extent be characterized as follows. The bodhisattva can empathetically, with fellowship awareness and reflection-embracing, recognize, for example, free church virtuous and pride-egocentric activity as childishly shadowed areas in his collective psyche which he regards as his domain of responsibility. A pride-freed bodhisattva does not act sectarianly. He can instead relate to demon-influenced sect members in various congregations as if they were his own beloved children. Why? Partly because this is precisely what they secretly wish for; that is, to feel chosen and special and unconditionally loved, preferably by father God who is expected to take them up in his heavenly embrace. When this heartfelt desire is very strong and blinds all perception and understanding of the nature of Reality, such sect members can even commit (more or less hidden suicidal) actions that hasten the end of the current life - in order to hopefully more quickly be taken up into celestial vacation paradises as martyrs who sacrificed their earthly lives prematurely. That these sacrifices of life do not bring positive consequences and that the motives for the actions - the suicidal impulses - will not trampoline them upward, as they wishfully fantasize about, does not make the whole thing better.

Another explanatory aspect of why such a bodhisattva can be helpful when most reactive people in these contexts tend rather to be dismissive, has to do with significant mirroring awareness. If it did not exist, neither relevant recognition nor excellent helpfulness would be manifested. Such inclusive awareness is naturally distant in sectarian persons who have identified with considerably fewer variables and more enclosed chords. They have as much difficulty (with significant reflection consciousness) seeing the involved projections and identifications as a fearful child who has been locked in a dark and forgotten cellar cubbyhole has difficulty seeing the entire background of why it has been imprisoned. In such a situation, one can naturally resort to faith and prayers. And that is naturally completely adequate and nothing wrong with this; that is, to pray for one's life. However, at that moment one lacks clear and differentiated cognitions about how one might possibly be helped for real. One needs first, among other things with the help of appropriate forms of meditation and guidance, to get out of the samsaric cellar pit, so that enough undisturbed and relevant understanding can be invited. Yes, that one can get a significant understanding that one is actually in a samsaric prison. Thereby, one can further also see how oneself together with one's closely related sect colleagues behaves like a lost child who may carry suicidal-impulsive defenses against rejection. One sees hereby that the children are actually in great need of unconditional love. And there is nothing strange about that. A bodhisattva sees this reflectively and embraces the children. A god is often busy with other things.

The chord that most fundamentally helps us in the cultivation of urgent responsibility is significant reflection. It is principally composed of the multiverse's nature: the reflecting clarity consciousness and its dancing union with significance awareness. The reflecting clarity consciousness has no significance awareness in itself. Its essential nature is naked, lucid, pure, clarity-empty, echoing, conceptualization-freed conscious and unhindered reflecting. It does not reify and dualize. The multiverse's essential nature also does not evaluate and does not prioritize reflection of certain phenomena over others. It is left undisturbed by everything. Its indestructible and diamond-like clarity is not changed by either paranoid fear, hellish sufferings, human chords, or divine light bliss. The essential nature of a Buddha's reflection consciousness is freed from all hints of conceptualization - and thereby from all unclarities, graspings, and non-reflection-conscious dualizations and autonomizations. A non-material mirror's essential nature always remains the same unchangeable reflection. It thus doesn't matter whether one expresses disrespectful taunts or elegant praise to such a pure reflection consciousness. The quintessence in its nature remains invariable, whether a perverse murderer's or a Buddha's activity is reflected in it.

With thoroughly clear and illuminated reflection consciousness, we can thus clarify everything. It excludes nothing and also does not include anything. Herein lies its unique chord: reflection consciousness is not identified with anything at all. It reflects everything, without exception everything. Most beings are rarely clarity-reflecting conscious; they identify with the mirror images without generally even being aware of the reflection's presence and function. And to the extent that reflections are presented, these are not so finely tuned or authentically impartial.

Now it is important for us, however, to unite this in itself unchangeable reflection consciousness with Significance Awareness. Or more clearly specified: reflection and Reality consciousness have to become inseparable spouses who move into a mandala that is composed of thoroughly reflection-conscious and rainbow-spectral Significance Awareness. Thus we enter concert halls that let us listen to compositions, whose both non-dimensional and excellently relevance-dynamic multidimensionality can give us glimpses of precious healing love-empathy and meaningful destination. From these meditative positions, it becomes easier to, with more or less significance awareness, diagnose, relate to, and remedy the sectarianism ailments. Without significant reflection consciousness, many of us tend to unconsciously shape similar defenses as the sect members themselves have.

The fundamental tone in our mandala, which here symbolizes the multiverse, is trans-major-minor diamond blue. The oceanically shifting and clear-blankly watery, together with the unshakably diamond-like, color tone indicates here the Reflection Consciousness. When this dwells enigmatically in the enabling Reality Consciousness and when everything is embraced by the multiverse's significance-conscious rainbow chords, then in principle it cannot get better. Words then become unwieldy as reflection instruments. Clear dream images, ultimate Reality, and conventional conditions appear simultaneously as mutually inseparable reflections or emanations, which seek to be organized by significance awareness's conductors and composers, who seek to design the multiverse's chords in harmony with the destination vision.

META-CHARACTERIZATIONS

OF SIGNIFICANCE AWARENESS

THE FORMULA

Significance Awareness (Sa) is a summarizing designation of the multiverse's fundamental chord. We could say that it is an Sa-formula. With a formula, the quintessence of a composition's most important components is summarized so that it reflects precisely what it intends to reflect and nothing else. From the formula, one should be able to derive everything essential and relevant regarding the composition's domain of applicability. From our Sa-formula - that is, the multiverse's fundamental chord (Mf) - we can derive everything essential concerning the answers to our questions about whence and whither with all of our lives in all universes. The principal navigation instructions and tuning fork functions apply to most urgent questions within our main disciplines:

(i)             survival questions (ranging from e.g. Darwinian systems and ego-oriented psychology to UN activities and medical science, etc.)

(ii)           academic questions, both natural, cultural, and interdisciplinary (within e.g. theoretical physics, cosmology, psychology, social anthropology, religious studies, etc.),

(iii)         spiritual questions (within e.g. theology, meditation activities, existentially oriented psychotherapy, etc.),

(iv)         wisdom-oriented questions in the broadest sense, (within e.g. disciplines that dwell on why- and insight-questions, such as analytical psychotherapy, philosophical ontology, theory of science and insight-oriented meditation),

(v)           enlightenment-oriented questions, where Mf seeks to reflect the answers paradigmatically. We can here distinguish between the following six main types of perspectives:

(1) Conventional

(2) academic

(3) spiritual

(4) wisdom-oriented

(5) bodhisattva-aware and

(6) Buddha-aware

These perspectives can be divided into two main groups: the first three (A) and the latter three (B). With the help of our multiverse formula, we can understand, explain, and evolution-guide within all levels of perspective in both groups, which are separated by wisdom orientation. In A, one is generally not interested in wisdom in a qualified sense. In B, one is. A can contain prudence, experience, and maturity but excludes wisdom in a qualified sense, i.e., consciousness that with significance awareness - to some extent - has dispersed, among other things, unreflected

ego-orientation,

dualization,

conceptualization and

perception of inherent/independent objective existence.

In the actualization of wisdom, it is about seeing:

Reality beyond illusions,

the nature of the multiverse beyond dualizations,

light beyond darkness,

energy beyond limitations and

perfection beyond imperfections.

In bodhisattva awareness, wisdom orientation is united with loving empathy and the generation of the enlightenment thought, i.e., the intention to realize Buddhahood for everyone's benefit. Consciousness here is usually divided into 10 developmental levels. When the bodhisattva has reached about halfway, a certain understanding of significance awareness has developed, and when these have been rounded off and Reality Consciousness is naturally present, unhindered and constantly together with the other fruits of a bodhisattva's cultivations, Buddha consciousness dawns.

In Buddha awareness, Significance Awareness has been perfected. Exoteric Mahayana Buddhism describes 10 bodhisattva cultivation levels to get there. Not too esoteric Tantric Buddhism usually adds three developmental levels of a Buddha, and more esoteric tantric vehicles an additional 3-4 levels beyond these. Mf extends all the way into the esoteric tantric perspective. But, more precise derivations regarding subtler Buddha levels' Significance Awareness cannot be made from our formula. It only indicates, pointing like a finger, that Significance Awareness par excellence constitutes the multiverse's destination. That this Significance Awareness then has further evolution levels is not included in our formula, mainly because this has too little relevance. Our formula is already so inclusive that it suffices for most urgent purposes. For those who desire insight into different Significance Awareness levels of Buddhas (regarding e.g. parinirvana and mahaparinirvana beings), there are simpler approaches than the present textual method. The meta-levels we talk about in this book do not apply to these super-meta-significance levels.

THE MANDALA

With a mandala, we can characterize Significance Awareness and certain method dimensions that can be used to realize it.