Socrates writes in Phaedo “In this other earth the colours are much purer and much more brilliant than they are down here....The very mountains, the very stones have a richer gloss, a lovelier transparency and intensity of hue. The precious stones of this lower world, our highly prized cornelians, jaspers, emeralds and all the rest, are but tiny fragments of these stones above. In the other earth there is no stone but is precious and exceeds in beauty every gem of ours.”{52} {49}
Magnified examples of microscopic life forms, in fact close ups of any of natures building blocks, the systems, shapes and dimensions she finds success in, are in fact exactly the same species of systems, shapes and dimensions that comprise the flora and fauna of the ‘Other World’. These moments, described by countless visionaries enable a short cut direct to the heart of nature’s essence, flickering through infinite ghosts of bio-genetic diversity, appearing objectively and fused with subjective phantoms.
For millennia these were described in many ways without the necessary technical nomenclature to serve and denote more similar comparisons with micro organisms, star clusters, and nebulae. They used instead the only similes they knew, the only objects whose properties mimicked hallucinogenic perfection, those endless births and proliferations of geometric forms, that turn into ever more beautiful visions. “The topaz and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald and the carbuncle and gold”{50} is the Old Testament prophet Ezekiel’s description of his vision of that which he calls the “Garden of Eden”. The Hindu ‘Other World’ is Utterakuru and is “watered by lakes of golden lotuses. There are rivers by thousands full of leaves…of sapphire and lapis lazuli… the lakes resplendent like the morning sun are adorned by golden beds of red lotus”.{51} The ancient Pagan Welsh ‘paradise’ was Ynisvitrin, the Celtic ‘Isle of Glass’. The Buddhists paradises comprise of ‘Stones of Fire’.
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These methods of description are the best that people at this point in history could find in an attempt to relate the unrelatable, that which populates the visionary ‘Other World’, and leads all the way through the bio-genetic archive of all memory, to that ‘Unity Consciousness’. Now, that the Hubble Telescope and electron microscopes, and fractal mathematics are showing us the likes of which visionaries have been experiencing first hand for thousands of years, it seems astonishing, at first, that so little in the way of definite
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