Metaphysical Technologies
Written by Joseph Shermis
One’s state of mind is in direct relation to the stimulation that the brain is experiencing in any given moment. There are many technologies specifically designed to affect that brain activity. The brain responds to visual and auditory stimulus in a variety of ways. Experimentation with light and sound have given rise to a plethora of devices that provide the consumer of metaphysical technologies with a multiplicity of pathways to altered states, self-healing, and even access to other dimensions of consciousness.
Evidence from the ancient Mayan civilization indicates an understanding of the universal principles that create and sustain the world. These “first principles” appear to underlie the physical laws that modern science has used to create technological miracles. However, the first principles of Mayan sacred science embraced a much larger universe. In the Mayan culture, human beings were seen to be multi-dimensional and capable of traveling beyond time and space. Modern science, with its “laws” that are valid only in the physical three-dimensional plane, fails to take into account the metaphysical realities that make up the true human experience. Cultures from the ancient Vedic to the Native American, Mayan to African tribal groups, all take into account the spiritual nature of the human being. Even modern spiritual research, with its emphasis on our capacity for supra-sensory spiritual vision, credits humans with so much more than a three-dimensional existence. The thrust of modern research has been to examine the relationship between the brain and all its complex workings. This has led to some very important and vital exploration into the spirit’s capacity to function both within and independently of the body.
Modern historical investigation continues to push back the dating of material technologies origins. Technology inside the Great Pyramid of Egypt, at Stonehenge, in Peru, and at other perplexing ancient sites might become recognizable to the culture at large in a way that doesn’t deny the deeper metaphysical significance of, for example, the Great Pyramid, as intended by its builders. The arguments of modern independent researchers for advanced technology in ancient times are highly significant for our modern culture in that they increase respect for these ancient cultures among those who value these kinds of achievements. However, it misses the point of an individual’s spiritual search in and of itself.
The problem of perceiving ancient cultures and their capabilities in the context of modern times is similar to the quest for the lost cities of Atlantis or the Himalayan Shambhalla that disappeared into the shadows as humanity descended into an increasingly materialistic age. The fact that Atlantis or Shambhalla may lie hidden in some remote valley or underwater grave is not the salient point. The important thing is that humanity, in this day and age, has forgotten how to be in the heart space, where Atlantis and Shambhalla once existed and are again possible.