holoarchy

"In my Father's house are many rooms" (John 14:2)

Though I was born a mystic (one who sees and knows other realms), I trained later as an experimental scientist interested only in disproving a null hypothesis and regarding Aristotelian logic and statistical significance as the only routes to clear understanding. Though I was a grant-getting and journal-published success, the training did not take. I muttered under my breath the entire time and never adopted the language of that culture as my own.

Our way of seeing is not confined to sensation, perception, and intellect. As Antoine Favre puts it, these are our "eyes of flesh," but we also have "eyes of fire." Many realms of being exist around us and interweave with this physical plane of dense spirit. Our physical bodies only pick up a teeny fraction of life in a teeming universe. We are selective in our attention and in our inattention.

The sense modality we call intuition allows us to see more deeply and widely, allows us to meet up with and converse with other realms, allows us to open to the other "rooms" in this vast "house."

The universe is alive and richly "peopled." A spiritual hierarchy (or holoarchy) exists. With the vision of intuition, we see it. With the wisdom of gnosis, we know it. With the opening of capacity, we are an integral part of it, and in our best, most open moments, not just a part, but a seamless interweaving.