The Chinese call The Great Field the Tao and the force chi (pronounced chee). To manage this field of force they created a moving meditation, or an "internal" martial art known as T'ai Chi to mirror life's ups and downs, manage the ebb and flow of Tao. Most styles of this exercise trace their development to one of the five traditional schools: Chen, Yang, Wu/Hao, Wu, and Sun. The deeper meanings of T'ai Chi are a subject of much argument and speculation. However, the oldest documented tradition is that of the Chen family circa 1820s.

Here is the point, by whatever name or form, neutralizing the fundamental power that we give our thoughts and feelings is what we seek to achieve now. Everything is connected within The Field. Even the idea of a particle separate from a wave is the illusion that quantum physics has exposed for what it is-a lie. "Consequently, wave formation is composed of two perpendicular energetic swirls or loops: one is a largely invisible electric loop that seems to have connections with dark matter, and the other is a magnetic loop that is visible and palpable," adds James.

Albert Einstein struggled to understand electricity his entire adult life-and failed, he often proclaimed. What he meant was he, and every scientist before him, such as Michael Faraday (1791-1867), an early contributor to the principles of magnetism, could observe the effect but not the cause and effect relationship between these two forces; dark and light energy. They could not grasp why, for example, an electric charge is put into motion in the presence of a magnetic field.

Why?

Because The Field is a static magnetic field of cosmic consciousness containing infinite electrical charge potential. The miniscule portion of The Field that we polarize with our thoughts and feelings and thereby manifest as our world is what we call our consciousness! So in truth The Field does not move in time and space in a linear fashion, it merely vibrates, breathes in and out endlessly multi-dimensionally through beings like us. I think of this concept as balloons within balloons expanding and contracting, collapsing and then inflating each other ad infinitum. With each breath of The Field, a bit of new knowledge is collected akin to my metaphor of a worker bee returning nectar to the hive.

Further, chi, life force energy, is magnetic and so to conserve its life-promoting essence we must find the center, the neutral or null zone, in us between our own negative thoughts and feelings. That is, excessive thinking and feeling versus being one with The Field bleeds-off, drains our cellular batteries! German biophysicist Fritz Albert Popp says it best, "We know today that man is essentially a being of light."

If so, why are we so dimly lit?

It is because we gave our energy away! Remember that was the job of the forked-tongue serpent in the Garden of Eden: to deceive, to trick, to prevent us from gaining the knowledge of our light body. Not surprisingly, therefore, in the apocryphal Books of Adam and Eve, it says our first parents positively "glowed with visible light."

That is, our minds became engaged in a tug-of-war between "polar opposite opinions" by splitting us apart psychophysically into two beings of equal albeit lower power-male, female.

Everywhere we look we see the parables in myth speak to separation from The Field as the problem as conveyed by, again, psychotherapist John James: "When a person has an emotional block the client will feel trapped between two opposing yet unequal forces that are acting simultaneously inside him. Exactly as Tejman describes for energetic matter, these forces are like 'two loops that are in perpetual competition.'"

Once more we see our world family is torn asunder by our unbridled anger, fear, guilt, greed, and lust; emotional "ego" drama that turns into trauma-and interpersonal conflicts leading to international warfare among competing ideas: communism and capitalism, for example.

How tragic!

For as James points out "By implication there is a state of rest, a still point between the loops. This crucial 'neutral' state is often left out in discussion as it is often such a still point that it seems to be no more than an infinitely small moment on the cusp of movement and the next."

This, however, is the truth, the pearl of great price: We are androgynous beings, both male and female simultaneously, and whatever sexual differences we have are illusions as well. Albeit presently we do act as if two-faced, heterosexual and homosexual, because of the bifurcation of the two-stranded helix coil of DNA.

Yet once again at the End-Time when all cycles of nature converge into The Field, we're tasked to "make the two one again" at every level of creation.

Here is the solution straight from the Gospel of Thomas (a word in Greek that means "twin"): "Jesus said to them, 'When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom].'"

That is pure Taoism!

Beyond that revelation, the bigger idea is that if a critical mass of peacemakers can come together-all puns intended-in the world population in era-2012 then this will trigger a wordless, telepathic, global "wholebrain" society. This will allow open, honest as well as instantaneous communication with each other and with other beings within the cosmos-at-large.

In fact, the language of science and religion in the future will imitate art as we witness the symbolism on the murals in Egyptian and Mayan pyramids for it is simply true that "a picture is worth a thousand words"-if you are hard-wired to The Field.

John Van Eenwyk, Ph.D., clinical supervisor at the Medical School of the University of Washington, wrote an extremely insightful book, Archetypes & Strange Attractors: The Chaotic World of Symbols. The theme is that archetypes, as Carl Jung envisioned them a hundred years ago, were akin to instincts. They were alive, formed and informed the building blocks of consciousness but remained unconscious until a person was self-realized or as Jung called it-individuated: They had restored their memory of God incarnating within them,

More so, archetypes of the collective unconscious are maps with signposts that correspond between the interior of our psyche and our exterior experiences in the world. The connecting link of coincidences, called synchronicities, communicated to us consciously through meaningful incidents in our day-to-day routines that seem mystical, even magical. It was as if our life plan is being read aloud by God to us as an open book, at least for a split-second in space-time!

Again, a breakthrough in creativity, or novelty, can also initiate a breakdown in one's ego orientation to reality that is akin to splitting-the-atom apart although, thankfully, on an extremely microscopic scale, perhaps at the so-called Planck constant (h= 6.626068 × 10-34 m2 kg/s). This may be the ultimate realization of the ancient axiom "as above, so below, as within so without."

Whatever the case, Dr. Edinger said that synchronicities served a higher-purpose than ego gratification for "It is my hypothesis that, if one reaches a sufficient consciousness of wholeness during the ego's lifetime, then a permanent deposit of that consciousness will be left in the archetypal psyche-a result symbolized by the notion of being 'named in the Book of Life.'"

In summary, it is my thesis that archetypes of apocalypse, if understood and obeyed, lead to archetypes of abundance-not self-destruction. We must become cosmically conscious of the collective unconscious psychic powers manifesting through us and rewrite our WW III script to include a happy ending. The world is a stage and we are its actors. But we have to defuse these "signs of the times" that we have created unconsciously and that is no easy task, my friend. Hence, the New York City author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl and Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism, Daniel Pinchbeck, has stated our situation very well in my opinion:

You are, right now, living at the time of revelation, Apocalypse, and the fulfillment of prophecy. Let there be no doubt. You stand at the edge of the Abyss. What are those shadows that crowd around you? They are the aspects of your own psyche, projected into material form. The word "Apocalypse" means "uncovering"-and in these last clock ticks of this world age, all must be revealed, uncovered, so that all can be known.

You have just a few years yet remaining to prepare the vehicle for your higher self. Use them preciously. For those who have gained knowledge of the nature of time, a few years-even a few days, a minute-can be an eternity. For those sleepwalking through reality, time exists only to be wasted-as they too will be wasted, in their turn.

"Reality," as you currently experience it, is something like a waking dream. It is a projection, or let us say an interface, disguising deeper and more intensified levels of being and knowing. For those who are ready and willing, the doors to those other levels now stand open.

Dr. John Jay Harper is a clinical hypnotherapist, futurist, medical research scientist, public-speaker, and writer. He is a retired Employee Assistance Program (EAP) specialist with the U.S. Navy. He also served as an electronics and software engineer in avionics, missilery, and nuclear submarines for twenty years with the Department of Defense. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army and married to Connie since 1969; they have 3 adult children, 8 grandchildren, and live in Spokane, Washington. Today he is Executive Director of the non-profit corporation, American Delphi Academy, dedicated to collecting and sharing ideas that promote body-mind-spirit wellness worldwide. He is the author of Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century, Reality Press, California.

"Am I a man dreaming I'm a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I'm a man?" Chuang Tzu, a disciple of Lao Tzu