Travelogue from Inner and Outer Spaces
S C I E N C E & S P I R I T
Influence
over Time and Space
It was at Dzibilchaltun ("To Write on Flat Stones"), one of the most important Mayan centers in pre-Columbian Yucatan, in March of 2003. I was sitting in front of the Temple of the Seven Dolls, so famous for the effect of the astronomic phenomenon during the equinox (photo). Immersed in meditation, I gazed down along the old ceremonial road that leads up to the temple.
A scene unfolded in front of my inner eye: it was the morning of the equinox; a procession of ceremonially dressed men, Elders or Wise Ones, approached the temple; they climbed up the steep steps and entered the temple through the western gate right at the moment when the rising sun penetrated it from the East. As the sun's enormous shaft of light passed through the temple like a thread through the eye of a needle, the temple's interior became permeated with an intense orange-red energy. The sunlight seemed to take on physical quality inside the sanctuary, and the whole temple began to glow. The Elders submerged in the light-energy as if becoming one with it. When they exited at the other side of the temple, they were radiating and in a state of rapture.
At this moment I understood that the phenomenon of the equinox was not just an admired astronomic happening. It was a sacred event, whose power was utilized for the initiation of priests into a higher spiritual order. The ceremony was reserved for the most advanced adepts among the Elders.
Some
time later I had the chance to convey my vision to Hunbatz Men, the leader
of our pilgrimage to various Mayan centers. Hunbatz Men is the current
Mayan Wisdom Keeper and their revered spiritual guide; he is also an
eminent researcher into Mayan history and culture. Hunbatz simply stated
that what I had seen in my vision was correct, that the phenomenon of
the equinox had indeed been utilized for the initiation of a select group
of priests, who became infused with the light of the sun and hence after
were known to be able to levitate.
The fact that I had the vision was hardly
a surprise to me as I frequently go out on journeys into other realms
of reality. Yet the intriguing question remained: where had my vision
come from, and what had prompted it?
The British biologist Rupert Sheldrake introduces in his book The Presence
of the Past the hypothesis of morphic resonance, which, unlike other
forms of resonance "does not involve a transfer of energy from
one system to another, but rather a non-energetic transfer of information
[stored in so-called morphogenetic fields]." However," Sheldrake
continues, "morphic resonance does resemble the known kinds of
resonance [acoustic, electro-magnetic, electron-spin, nuclear-magnetic]
in that it takes place on the basis of rhythmic patterns of activity." And
because all organisms are structures of activity, "they undergo
rhythmic oscillations, vibrations, periodic movements, or cycles at
every level of organization" (Sheldrake 1995:108). Sheldrake argues,
that, through resonance, past patterns of activity influence the fields
of subsequent similar systems over space and time (ibid 1995:109).
Could it be that during my meditation at Dzibilchaltun my body-mind, this "vessel of vibration," had reached a rhythmic pattern that resonated, over time and space, with a former similar system? And as the two systems oscillated at the same frequency, insight into a practice of the past was sympathetically activated, set free and dispatched into a Now, where past, present and future are a continuum of implicate thought forms and explicate manifestations of such?
Jeanne-Rachel Salomon
June 2003
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