The Principle that ‘everything is
awareness’ stands in direct contrast to the dogma - shared by modern science
and ‘New Age’ pseudo-science alike - that everything is ‘energy’. As a ‘Theory
of Everything’ this ‘Energy Principle’ is dogmatic because it rests on a notion
of ‘energy’ that is wholly unquestioned and a gross distortion of its root
meaning. Even in modern translations of Tantric metaphysics this Greek derived
word is distortedly used to translate the Sanskrit term for the feminine aspect
of divinity - ‘Shakti’. A far better translation of this word is not ‘energy’
in its current sense - but ‘power’, power in the sense of ‘power of action’ or
‘power of actualisation’. This translation of ‘Shakti’ fully accords with the
root meaning of the term ‘energy’ itself – not as some ‘thing’ but as the very
action or activity (the Greek verb energein) that gives form to all
things from within that infinite space or ‘aether’ of awareness known in
Sanskrit as ‘Akasha’. Today many scientists advance
the highly plausible but still unorthodox hypothesis that space is no mere void
or vacuum, but an infinite source of ‘potential energy’ or ‘power of action’.
This hypothesis is in perfect correspondence with the Tantric understanding of
the universe as an expression of countless Shaktis or ‘powers of action’
emerging within an infinite space or ‘aether’ of awareness (Akasha) and
manifesting as countless patterns or matrices of action (‘matter’). From the
point of view of The Awareness Principle, awareness is not awareness of actual
realities alone, but also of potential realities. Potential realities however,
have reality only ‘subjectively’ - in awareness itself rather than in
actuality. These subjective potentialities do not merely exist as imaginary
possibilities however, but as infinite potential shapes, patterns and qualities
of awareness or subjectivity - infinite potential beings, ‘consciousnesses’ or
‘subjectivities’. ‘Energy’ in its true and root meaning is the autonomous power
of actualisation of these potentialities – something possible only through the
awareness of them. Together with the scientific notion of ‘space’ as a
potential source of limitless ‘free’ energy goes the project, pursued by many
great scientific minds, of creating machines to ‘tap’ this energy as a source
of power. The Awareness Principle (TAP) on the other hand, explains how
everything that exists in the universe constantly ‘TAPS’ from a hidden power
source behind it - a power of action that is not some mysterious new form of
energy or matter but is nothing other than Awareness as such in the form of its
aetheric spatiality – Akasha. Each of us experiences this aspect of The
Awareness Principle - and realises the idea of free ‘space energy’ - each time
we feel revitalised by taking a walk outdoors, however short. For no matter how
little bodily breathing or ‘exercise’ is involved we are breathing awareness of
a wider space - and tapping fresh vitality or ‘power of action’ from the very
air of awareness itself.
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