Day and night, night and day, I ask myself: can infinity theory be true? How can it possibly be true? Night and day I dwell upon this single unfathomable mystery, this seeming impossibility of total potentiality. Infinity Theory is awesome even as a possibility, much less as the one and only reality. Always new, incredibly and astonishingly refreshing, unbelievably shocking. Infinity theory just keeps turning, twisting and dancing, like a million diamonds in the sun. It shakes me to my foundations. There is no way that I can do justice to writing about Infinity theory.

I give up and yet I cannot. I am totally addicted to this Awesomeness. How could Infinity appear in and as me? I am burst asunder, split in two like a boulder hit by a bolt of lightning.

It seems to me that if a million Einsteins thought, and a million Picassos painted, and a million Carusos sang, and a million Astaires danced, and a million Shakespeares acted, and a million Freuds analyzed – for a million years – we would not have even gotten past the opening scene of exploring and expressing the mystery of this eternal opera. Until this very moment in my life I never knew what it might possibly mean to love God with all my heart, all my soul, all my mind and all of my strength. Infinity stretches me "beyond imagination" to the point where I can hear the galaxies singing praises and the porpoises squeaking their joyous good mornings to one another.

This body/mind is the conscious or unconscious vehicle of Infinite Imagination. When this body/mind is the unconscious vehicle of Infinite Imagination, the vehicle is abused and shows forth signs of that abuse which we call symptoms or stress. When this bodymind awakens to the meaning of its symptomatic or stressful existence, the Infinity of Imagination begins to come alive, and the generations of abuse are restored

And so, is the divinity of man just a ridiculous metaphysical idea which has somehow in this last minute of human evolution been pasted onto the intellectual odyssey of mankind? And how could such a seeming latecomer cut to the very core of the entire spectrum of ethical, social, political, psychological, medical and theological dilemmas of 21^st century mankind? How could something so apparently superfluous be so intimately relevant, even to your breathing? Yes, it is nearer than your breath and its consciousness or unconsciousness is as vital as oxygen itself.

If Infinity is your nature, then the exclusive belief in finitude is what becomes ridiculous, superfluous, illusory and anti-survival. I have argued here that the Secret Knowledge constitutes the essence of the perennial philosophy which has been known by the ancients since time began. And I argue that this Secret Knowledge is the inherent spiritual core of all of the sciences, philosophies and religions, and that we are ready for its realization. This Secret Knowledge is the IT, the cornerstone, which the builders (that’s us) rejected. And, if you want to characterize Infinite Imagination in a personal way, you can say that it is the Christ Consciousness, and that everyone is this Christ Consciousness unawares. It took a remarkable artist/philosopher/mystic named William Blake in the 19^th century to so name it:

William Blake

William Blake

But whether we name it by this label or not, I am proposing that Infinite Imagination is the essence of the Christ, the Atman, the Buddha, the I AM, Hercules, and the hero archetypes of the ages. Infinite Imagination is the essence of what Jung called the Self. This Secret Knowledge belongs to every human being and is our inheritance from the Father. In fact, it is who we are.

When I said No One Knows I did not mean that I know and you don’t. I meant that No One Knows.

Today I received two industrial catalogs in the mail. On the cover of one it said "Create: release your imagination." And on the other it said : "Finish: release your imagination." Isn’t that amazing? The advertisers are saying that we have to learn to create, to release our imagination and to finish. Of course, they are selling their products, but how much synchronicity can a guy take?

In the same mail, I received an ad selling a book on hypnosis

techniques by a French professor Tepperwein, in which ad I found the following claims:

Hypnotize disease out of your body

Command your face to firm up, your hair to grow fuller again, even your breasts to increase their size

Transport yourself back to the deep sleep you had as a child

Convince your body to burn fat

Compel your colon to clean itself out at will

Numb completely the taste buds that drive you to smoke

Set up steel blocks around your pain centers that even a dentist’s drill can’t get through

Command any person’s body to pull the addiction out of alcohol and drugs

Quiet a child’s bladder so that no bed-wetting occurs

Eradicate fears, anxieties, paranoias, worries

Triple the power of your mind

Make your mind like a video-camera through self-hypnosis

Liberate your buried genius

Become a winner in any sport

Go back into your childhood and relive its joys and banish its ability to bind you to errors of the past

Explore the infinite possibilities of your hidden mind

The author quotes cases and studies as evidence of his promised results. The point that I am making here is found in the last benefit promised: "the infinite possibilities of your hidden mind."

William James, father of American psychology, was also the head of a committee on hypnotism research. In 1886 he put Leonora Piper into a light hypnotic trance. As she went deeper into the trance, he was hardly able to get her to open her eyes, and when she did she could hardly move or speak. He tested her by pricking her arm with a needle, but she appeared to feel nothing. She could not seem to clench her fist on demand. He even made a small incision on her wrist that remained open but did not bleed. He took a deck of cards and asked her to identify each card as he showed it only to himself and she was able to identify a majority of the cards. When he awakened her, the wrist began to bleed immediately.

When the everyday mindset and its belief systems are set aside, as in hypnosis or self-hypnosis, the subject enters a different state, and is able to accomplish unusual or extra-ordinary things. What is this "hidden mind’ which has such "infinite possibilities?"

Eugene Taylor in Shadow Culture: Psychology and Spirituality in America" traces the impact of visionary psychology on the dominant culture of normative science and mainstream religion. Our dominant American culture is outward, rational, reductionistic, sensory, driven by the letter of the law; whereas, the alternative shadow subculture is inner, contemplative, ascetic and mystical, driven by a belief that it is the true aristocracy of the spirit. Taylor points out that the major difference in these two cultures is the awareness of the power of the unconscious in human affairs. Whereas the reality of the unconscious is recognized in art, religion, advertising and propaganda, it remains largely a mystery in education, medicine, physical illness, criminal rehabilitation, and the understanding of prejudice and violence, even among the college educated. Visionary psychology gives a major place to the recognition of transcendence, symbols, mental imagery, inner technologies and maps of consciousness. The denominational churches, science as usual, and psychology as data research are not leading the way in this alternative reality research and visionary psychology.

"God asleep is man; man awake is God"

Freedom Barry

God and man then are not differences in substance but differences in intensity of Being. We are to learn to regard our being, our I AM, as the infinite I AM, fallen asleep to its infinitude. William Blake conceived of the Ultimate Being as imagination, with divine and human as merely terms descriptive of the opposite functioning poles, or intensity levels, of this one Being, of Imagination.