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THE NATURAL ORDER PROCESS

IN TERMS OF MODERN FIELD THEORY

CARL E. PETERSON

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FOREWORD

Acknowledgement and deep felt gratitude are herewith expressed to my ever-present Teacher and Friend, Vitvan. The background laid by Vitvan in his over 50

years of teaching, writing and counseling, form the basis for the followingpresentation. Without that foundation this present work could not have beenaccomplished. His assistance during the writing of this sketch was felt as a constantaid, support and guidance, which resulted in the conceptual framework erected. I donot wish to imply that I was acting merely as a witness to this current portrayal ofprocess, but rather that the depicting is the resultant of a cooperative or joint effort,with Vitvan as the prime directing or influencing agent. I have been extremelyconscious of this in the past few weeks.

“Years ago we tried to interpret a man to himself by beginning with thatwhich he was most familiar, his ‘physical body’; explaining the way it

functions, then describing his psychic-nature, his mental organization, etc.,and gradually leading him into the instruction concerning ‘spiritual forces.’

“Now, in the foundation part of our course we have a differentapproach. We use various diagrams and analogies to enable the beginningstudent, with the aid of his imagination, to gain some grasp of the overall‘picture’ of the Cosmic Process. For—and let us emphasize this point—it isfundamental in our Teaching that each individual is integral with that Process.Each individual represents an epitomization of that Process. There is noindividual apart from that process. Individual is merely a label representing aphase of the Entire Process.”

In order to properly comprehend any phase of the Cosmic Process, we musthave an adequate understanding of the way it operates. The better our understandingof this organizing activity, the greater will be our comprehension of any given phaseand the more closely we may cooperate with the Natural Order direction.

It is hoped that the presentation to follow will assist the students of our Schoolin their endeavors to “Tread the Path” and that this sketch will lend itself towardsbecoming a minor addition to the literature of the School of the Natural Order.

Faithfully in the Great Work,


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CONTENTS

GLOSSARY OF TERMS:Page No.

Configuration - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3

Field - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3Force - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3Function - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4Functional Operator or Operational Procedure - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4Motion - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3Order - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4Organizational Level - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3Process - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3Self-awareness (Consciousness) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3Space - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4State; state - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3

Structure - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3Time - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3Veridical - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4

Lesson No. Title Page No.ONE: AIM AND DIRECTION 5TWO: INTRODUCTION TO FIELD PROCESS CONCEPTS 9THREE: FIELD PROCESS AND MATTER 13FOUR: ON FORCE, MOTION AND DIRECTION 18FIVE: THE GALACTIC FIELD ORGANIZING PROCESS 22SIX: ‘ENVIRONMENT’, SELF AND FIELD 27

SEVEN: PSYCHIC-FUNCTIONING AND FIELD INTERACTION 34EIGHT: MEDITATION, BREATH WORK AND COOOPERATION WITH THENATURAL ORDER PROCESS

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DiagramsNegative Substance, Positive Power, Primary Gunas, Seven

Rays, The Multiplicity10

Symmetrizing and Dispersal Tendencies 12Some Phases of the Natural Order Process 17Main Chart of the School of the Natural Order 33Quantum Field Interactions in Sense Perception 36


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GLOSSARY OF TERMS

I – Self-awareness (Consciousness):Vitvan: “Indubitable factness as referent for the word Consciousness is

axiomatic.” “Self -awareness is Self-evident.” Consciousness is structurally

described as activity in and of field through its union with the Power-to-be-conscious.

II – (a) state: Degree of Self-awareness, characterized by or represented as thelevel of organized field synthesis.

(b) State: Degree of development of the Individualizing or Autonomous Field onthe Mind-Level.

III – Field: A synthetic, structural, pattern or network in Negative Substance inprocess, representative of a state of Self-awareness. The activity in thisnetwork of field equates with state of Self-awareness.

The word field may also be described as representing a regional stresswhose tendency towards balancing eventuates in an organization process.

IV - Organizational Level: A given structural stratum upon which synthesis, orderingand complexity are in process.

V - Motion: A – An alteration or change in the structural pattern of a givenfield.

B – When this change in a field pattern takes place in cooperationwith the ordering process that we label Natural, we say that the direction ofthe motion is towards increasing states of Self-awareness.

VI - Time: The measurement of change in synthetic, structural, field pattern in thedirection of increasing states of Self-awareness. Time equates withmeasurement of change in structure. Time also equates with measurement inchange in a state of Self-knowing in the direction of increasing Self-awareness.

VII - Force: That which is causative with respect to motion or activity on anyorganizational level; namely, the urge of the Power-to-be-conscious tobecome conscious of Itself. This urge is responsible for the direction spokenof in #V.

VIII - Configuration: A synthetic field aggregate, usually pertaining to a structurewhich is perceivable through sense modality registry.

IX - Process: An ongoing motion of ordering with respect to any organizationallevel.

X - Structure: Synthetic field-pattern in process or in constant flux.


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XI - Function: A developed and ordered, operational modality, pertaining to and

inherent in the pattern of a given field on any organizational level.

XII - Order: The unidirectional, sequential and cyclic process of structured field

synthesis.

XIII - Functional Operator or Operational Procedure: A particular process oforganization in structure (field) which will facilitate a more parallel oraligned cooperation with the Natural Order Process. Examples: Meditation;Breath Work.

XIV - Veridical: Truly based with respect to empirical referent.

XV - Space: See the word “Field” in #III.


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LESSON ONE

AIM AND DIRECTION

We, in the School of the Natural Order, do not ascribe to the notion that the

accumulation of some vast amount of information, mental concepts, etc., constitutesa knowledge of Reality. Mental concepts, though they may be descriptive of thatviewed in clear perception, in and of themselves are more or less static structures,while Reality is a process. However, the reality of such mental concepts constitutes aprocess or function; on the mental level of course. Therefore, if we could formulate asystem of mental structuring that is conceptually descriptive of Reality; and, if wecould set up a method of relating these concepts in a manner that parallels the way inwhich Natural Order process operates; then we would have, through the integration ofthis methodology into our respective consciousnesses, the means whereby we couldorder our functions more in accord with the natural course of growth anddevelopment. This is the direction of the Natural Order Process.

Through the years, Vitvan has been a foremost exponent in utilizing,incorporating and synthesizing the empirically established referents of modernscience, as well as the views of contemporary theoretical physics into the teachings ofthe School of the Natural Order. The reasons for the utilization of scientificterminology and concepts into the teachings of our School are several; we will discusstwo of them below.

1. In the educational system of our country today, there is considerable stresslaid upon the application of the scientific method to almost every field of study. Inthis present context we feel that we must incorporate enough of the scientificapproach so as not to outrage the sensibilities of those trained in our educational

institutions. Since the achieving of new frontiers takes place in modern sciencecontinually, we realize that a presentation, which incorporates these newadvancements, represents a process, rather than a static or crystallized conceptualframework.

A quotation from the “Correspondence Course” by Vitvan will point this up:

“The scientists of today have opened wide a door whereby we can enterwith sure and confident tread into the frequency world. We must, therefore,have enough of the scientific approach not only for our own individualdevelopment, but also in order to properly present the Wisdom Teaching forthis New Age. Those who fail to measure up to the requirements of the New

Age will quickly be outmoded and their thought structures relegated to thescrap heap upon which is rapidly being piled the other representations of theage which has past.”

2. In using the concepts and terminology of the Science of Semantics and ofmodern physics, etc., we have access to a vehicle of expression in which reification ofterms is difficult in the extreme; this situation contains value of high order, in thatconfusion—through misinterpretation of statements made—is at a minimum. In other


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words, we have, so to speak, a way of bypassing the race-psyche’s value and cognitivesystems and therefore the individual’s as well. We, at this point, again wish to quotefrom Vitvan’s works. You will note that there is indicated a definitive and explicitdirection as to the terminology, thought structure, conceptual framework, etc., whichis seen to be fitting as descriptive of Reality for this New Age:

“I am not at peace with the continuance of this symbolical form ofcommunication; I am getting impatient to abolish it entirely, on the groundsthat it is no longer necessary. In the cycle that is now dawning (andparticularly for those who have appreciable understanding of field-physics),wherein we will function in non-personal identifications with syntheticalizedfaculties of awareness, extension of uranographical and zodiacal symbolismwill not be necessary for or requisite to understanding the Cosmic Process.For some thinkers the question may immediately occur: will it not beadvisable to retain the symbolism for those who will not develop syntheticalawareness, non-personal identification, etc.? The answer is no, on the

grounds that the age or cycle for it (affinity in the race-psyche for it) haspassed, that other symbolical forms (the mental concept) have intruded anddisplaced it; and most particularly, we now have a methodology designed toquicken or develop the synthetical and non-personal faculties of awareness.Anyone can develop full understanding of the Cosmic Process withoutknowing ancient scriptures. Modern scriptures should be written in modernterms, words and other symbols which correspond to our up-to-dateperceptive awareness. This may shock identifiers with ancientrepresentations; but I am of the opinion that we should leave aside ourbabyhood remnants of our infantile state and dispense with those qualitiesthat hang on, even though they evoke sentimental feelings and emotions. We

can still cherish a memory of being taught at our mother’s knee withoutnostalgia overtaking us; and those early impressions on the psychic-naturecan be rolled up, pigeonholed, tagged and tucked away in memory files (thusdestroying their baleful influence) as lessons learned in Nature’s school.

“Therefore, to summarize these ideas, I believe that a formulation ofthe verbalistic phase of our instruction in accordance with clarity ofperception of today and of tomorrow, will be more advantageous tounderstanding than trying to go back, revive the long forgotten symbolicalrepresentations, struggle against ignorant prejudice to re-establish the key tothe Christian Scripture, etc..”

(From “The Christos Series,” pages 9 and 10, Book IV.)

The above described direction is that which we will tend towards by reason ofthe considerations mentioned in the foregoing quote and in the sentences precedingit.

The development of a Unitary Field Theory (sometimes called Unified FieldTheory) has been attempted by many theoretical physicists and mathematicians forthe last half century; among these was Albert Einstein who, using a mathematical


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operators which are described in the Glossary of Terms, #XIII. Please refer frequentlyto this list of described terms for clarification, as well as to the accompanyingdiagrams, etc., that we will call attention to.

The present presentation represents a correlation of Unitary Field Theory withthe Wisdom Teaching as given by Vitvan. Vitvan stated not too long ago that to

incorporate Modern Science into the teaching of the School we need not change ourteaching at all. His statement still remains true, as the fitting of field processconcepts to the literature does not alter the literature one whit. Neither is itnecessary to change the views expressed in Unitary Field Theory, except to amplify orstress certain aspects thereof, wherein it would better suit our purposes. This last isprimarily in the area where we will place more emphasis upon increasing (or greater)states of Self-awareness as the prime mover or tendency in the Cosmic Process.

It is assumed that the reader has a reasonable working knowledge of that whichis set forth in our “Correspondence Course”; as the greater part of the terminologyused will be derived therefrom. It may seem, as we proceed, that many of theconcepts introduced differ considerably from what has been given prior. However, if a

careful study is made, it may be found that very little newness has been provided. Onthe other hand it may be observed that the interrelating of certain concepts, presentin the School’s literature, is handled in a manner somewhat different than heretofore,but yet in a way which may throw a bit more understanding upon these points throughthe change in view.

In the past, two widely differing descriptions of Reality are, at present,approaching each other in rapid convergence. The bases of these two descriptions areprimarily resultant from two forms of discipline: self-discipline and the scientificmethod. The first discipline leads more directly to perception of Reality through unitywith It. The second discipline—relative to the first method—is a sort of roundaboutway of approach. However, because of the nature of this latter discipline, a veridical

description of process-reality is gained and may be relied upon. Thus our almostunreserved adoption of that conceptual framework into our description of CosmicProcess.

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LESSON TWO

INTRODUCTION TO FIELD PROCESS CONCEPTS

Let us begin our study of process in terms of field with a brief review of what,

in this School, we label the Descending and the Ascending Arcs. As we go through this,however, it would be well to keep in mind the following two statements: A – “Creation is in continuum.” B – “Every individual motion is a Universal movement.”

Concerning statement A: when, and as we talk about certain phases of theCosmic Process, we may speak of these phases as having taken place or as going totake place, but only for purposes of clarity or as an aid to understanding. There willbe no confusion respecting this point, if, as background for mental structuring, it isunderstood that all phases of the Cosmic Process are eventuating in a simultaneouscircularity—Here-Now! When it is stated otherwise, it is merely for purposes ofdescription. “There is no ‘beginning’ and no ‘end.’”

With respect to statement B: we should keep in consciousness that each local

field system represents the Cosmic Self in process of successive states of Its own Self-knowing; also that the direction of the individual motion, when aligned with theNatural Order, is towards these successive states of increasing Self-awareness.

Now keeping the above in mind, let us go ahead with our description of the‘Ascending’ and ‘Descending’ Arcs. Note: the single quotes are relative to the CosmicProcess. We will therefore eliminate these single quotes by treating a local phase ofthe Cosmic Process which does have a beginning and an ending.

Referring to the chart on the next page we have, at a beginning, a unity, whichwe express symbolically by the Word AUM within the triangle at the top. From thisunity a polarization occurs resulting in what we label the Negative Pole (Mother—Undifferentiated Light) and the Positive Pole (Father—Activating Principle). The union

of these two we call the Son (Power-to-be-conscious). In this union the Mother-substance is acted upon by the Positive Power and becomes tremendously stimulated.Resulting from this there ensues a differentiating process, from one (UndifferentiatedLight) into three (the three primary gunas), from three into seven (the seven rays),and from seven into a vast, vast multiplicity.1

1 Though this chart and others we may use are shown as stratified or layered we are not inferring that process is

such. It is suggested that the truer way of picturing the phases represented would be the mental superimposing of

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The Positive Power which is causative with respect to the Mother’sdifferentiating does not itself differentiate or change in any way. It does, however,

continue to activate the Negative; first in the ‘lowest’ phase and then in eachsuccessive stage as the organizing or Natural Order Process begins.

Our primary consideration here will be this synthesizing or organizing processwhich we call the Natural Order Process. It has been stated that the only permanenceis change. Our concern is an understanding of the way that this change takes place.We need not go into any detail as regards each step of each phase of organization inprocess, rather, by grasping a few universally applicable and somewhat circularlyrelated process concepts, we will have comprehended the basis for understandingprocess in all of its stages. Also, in achieving this grasp, we will have patterned themental substance in such a way that a parallelism or correspondence will existbetween it and the Natural Order Process, thus enabling a given one to cooperate

more closely with this process. The apprehending of these field process concepts may,perhaps, throw a greater light and emphasis upon the need for an increased programof meditation, breath work, etc., which we will discuss later on in terms of fieldprocess concepts.

We will now launch into a description of field process concepts, which will bediscussed from the standpoint of tendencies. In the School’s literature the words“synthetical field” have been used to some extent. A synthetical field is described asa synthesis or organization of lesser or smaller structures or fields into a largerstructural whole. Our use of the word “structure” is with the keeping in mind thecharacteristic constant change or never-the-sameness as applies to that which theword represents.

The Unitary Principle is labelled the symmetrizing tendency. It is one principle,but stated in terms of two aspects: one as regards local process and the other asregards the Cosmic Process. We will state briefly these two aspects and then dealwith them in greater detail.

The symmetrizing tendency, as applies to local process, is the tendencytowards the utilization, aggregation or synthesizing of lesser fields (structures) intolarger structural aggregates. This tendency alone, influencing the ‘lowest’ level of


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differentiation as per our chart above, would soon result in the utilization of all thefield structures available on that ‘lowest’ or quantum level in building the next‘higher’ level of structure, the sub-atomic, and we would soon have no processwithout some counteracting tendency.

It is not to be supposed, when we speak of a grouping together of fields into a

larger aggregate, that it is a simple addition of parts towards just a larger mass,rather, this synthesizing of smaller, synthetic fields into a larger synthesis, whenparalleling the Natural Order Process, results in achieving a structure whosefunctions, modalities and general structural arrangement differ radically from whatwe would expect from a simple additive process. This synthesizing operation wouldexemplify what is meant when it is stated that the whole is greater than the sum ofits parts.

On the level of the Cosmic Field the symmetrizing tendency takes on acharacteristic motion towards equipartition or equal distribution of “free energy”field structures throughout the Universal Field as-a-whole. Here we have a statementof the counteracting tendency to the Unitary Principle as applies to local process. To

alleviate the confusion of using one word to describe two seemingly contradictorytendencies we will use the term “dispersal tendency” when speaking of the UnitaryPrinciple as concerns the Cosmic Field.

To the above two tendencies we wish to add a third on our own. This wedescribe as the urge or tendency of the Self to Know Itself. The Universal Field asseen with clear perception may be described as one Act of Consciousness. From thisState of Consciousness or Self-awareness one only perceives the varying states ofone’s own Self -knowing, and these states tending in the direction of greater states ofSelf-awareness. This totality or synthesis of states of consciousness and theirrepresentations we label the Self or the Cosmic Self and the tendency to becomemore Self-aware as the primary or basic tendency in the overall process. This third

factor in process is causative with respect to the balance of the symmetrizingtendency and the dispersal tendency, which equalization results in the Natural OrderProcess or the organizing process. This balance is not the perfect balance which mightbe supposed, but only a degree thereof. The ‘lower’ the phase of process the greaterthe degree of imbalance. Balance here refers not only to symmetrizing and dispersaltendencies but also to a balance in polarity. So, we have it, that degree of balance,stage of field synthesis, and state of consciousness are synonymic terms.

Let us clarify, before we continue, two of the terms we have been using:symmetry and synthetic. We are not using the word “symmetry” as descriptive ofform characterizing right-handedness, left-handedness relative to a median line, butrather as regards the tendency on the part of a given unit of local order to utilize

lesser structures in the immediate surround both for maintaining that local unit aswell as for increasing the complexity of the stage or phase under consideration. This,too, applies to units of local order being grouped together into larger structuralaggregates. In this way, a field aggregate which is synthetically larger or morecomplex, relatively speaking, is also said to be more highly symmetrical. In addition,an aggregate which is crystallized or closed to the Natural Order Process isstructurally designated by the term “finally symmetrized.”


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To some of us, the word “synthetic,” as applied to such words as vitamins,rubber, etc., has the connotation of artificiality or unnaturalness. This term, as usedin this paper and as used in chemistry and physics, denotes a grouping together ofsimpler components into a more complex matrix, pattern or arrangement.

Let us now continue with our discussion of process concepts utilizing a simple

process diagram in so doing:

Note the use of the arrowed lines denotable as representing tendency. Themotion of the symmetrizing tendency is towards a closed end or the cessation of anorganizing process and could be called a downswing. The dispersal tendency, on theother hand, represents an upswinging direction in that through it those componentsinherent in a unit of completed symmetry are dispersed or released and again madeavailable for the continuation of the Natural Order Process. Through the generallyordered cooperation of these two tendencies we have the resultant as shown, and addthat the direction of this resultant is towards greater states of Self-awareness.

Though the word “cooperation” has been used here, as if there may be some

implicit inference that this “cooperation” may or may not eventuate, we wish tocategorically state that the cooperation between that which we label the dispersaland symmetrizing tendencies is not only predetermined but also representative of theprimary tendency in the Cosmic Process—the urge of the Self to Know Itself.

The study of the above diagrammatical direction which we call the NaturalOrder Process is the fundamental consideration here as this will be most advantageousin assisting us in cooperating with it.

Our health, happiness and very existence depend upon divesting our natures ofthat which does not pertain to the Natural Order Process. The readjustment necessaryfor achieving that which is called “the Middle Path” may not have, as its constituents,phases which are entirely pleasant. But if the direction of process is primarily toward

the Septenary goal, then the sooner we, respectively, begin to coordinate ourfunctions in accordance with that stream, the less will be the upheaved burden thatwe will have to loose from ourselves.

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LESSON THREE

FIELD PROCESS AND ‘MATTER’

Before we proceed to a greater depth with the development of processconcepts, we find it necessary to delineate the representations of some of the wordswe have used and will be using. The understanding of the relationships between thesewords, or symbol-concepts, is also quite important and will greatly facilitate themental grasp of the Natural Order Process as well as assisting in the clarification ofthe meanings of these symbols. The terms to be described, for the major part, arethose which most of us utilize to a considerable extent in discussing points in theSchool’s literature. It is felt that, at least to some degree, one who uses a given wordtakes on the responsibility of being able to set up a verbal referent for that wordbased upon an experiential referent. If one is unable to do this—that is, describe histerms—we are of the opinion that he is just making noises.

In our setting up of referents for terms used, the attempt will be made to givean adequate description; though not necessarily scientifically or mathematicallyrigorous this will be sufficient for our purposes.

Let us start off by delivering ourselves from the dualistic outlook of speaking interms of field and matter. There are many types of fields, each exhibiting particularor distinguishing characteristics. A few of these are: gravitational, electric,electrostatic, magnetic, electromagnetic. Each of these fields is described in terms ofits structure and pattern, the different types of fields varying in structure, as well asthe manner in which they interact with other fields. A method of portraying fieldstructure is that of using a bar magnet with a piece of paper placed on top and someiron filings then sprinkled on the paper. The magnetic field of the bar magnet orders

the iron filings into the familiar and characteristic pattern of a cross-section of thatfield. We could call this volume surrounding the magnet, which exhibits this orderingcharacteristic, a region of patterned stress. This little experiment exemplifies astructure other than that of which we are aware through the senses, and that whichwe call field exhibits polarity. In general all fields are similar to that described above.

We intend to utilize “field” as the basic unit/structural component of theuniverse. All structure regardless of fineness, type, mass, minuteness, vastness, etc.,etc., we will show, is comprised of fields—a synthesis of fields. The word “field” wewill use in place of “substance” or “matter” because of the greater veridicality of itsconnotation, as well because it may be less easily reified. We do, however, equatethe word “field” with the word “Mother,” and this on every level of structural reality:

the Light Mother (The Realms of Supernal Light and Diamond Light) and the WorldMother (Reflected Light). (See page 6 of the “Cosmology Course” of the School of theNatural Order for a chart portraying these differentiations.) We will speak of field asthat acted upon by the Positive Power in every phase of process reality.

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A number of years ago, magnetic fields and others were thought of asemanating from a given configuration and that the configuration was causative withrespect to the type of field under observation. Subsequently it was found that thereexist fields which have no configurational basis. In other words, sometimes a fieldcould be detected when or where there was no so-called ‘matter’ in the environs.

In the subatomic phase of the organizing process (refer to chart—“Some Phasesof the Natural Order Process”—at the end of this lesson) it has been found that thereare 40 some ‘particles’ necessary to account for the different types of activities,actions, reactions, etc., on that level. Basically, however, this number can becategorized into three divisions of positive, negative and neutral (or binding force);this grouping is with respect to charge. For our purposes this is sufficient and we willspeak of electronic fields (negative charges), proton fields (positive charges), andmeson fields (neutral charges) as the constituents of the organizational stage calledthe atomic synthetic field level.

Nuclear physicists, in observing the motion of an ‘electron’ have tried to set upequations descriptive thereof; they have succeeded in doing so but the extremely

complex Schrödinger equation, which represents this achievement, contains animaginary element describing the ‘electron’ as a discontinuous entity. The electronfield is continuous but exhibits a periodic rearrangement of its constituting quantumfields such that radiation is emitted cyclically. The physicist, as of yet, is averse togiving credence to that which he cannot measure. Thus he hesitates when askedabout the ‘electron’ between radiation cycles. Perhaps, at some ‘future’ dateinstruments, of the degree of sensitivity necessary, will be developed for thedetection of these individual quantum fields.

Vitvan has called this discontinuity, “blinking points of light,” on and off, onand off, etc. There is a change in arrangement of electron field pattern and radiationis given off, another cyclic change in field pattern and no radiation given off. The

point we wish to present here is partly the cyclic nature of field arrangements, butmore essentially that at the most basic state of structure there is no ‘thing,’ no solid,no ‘matter,’ etc., only field.

We will quote a paragraph from a work by Albert Einstein which will perhapsclarify this:

“What is regarded as matter is situated in regions in which the field isespecially strong. Motion of matter means that the regions in which the fieldis especially strong change with time. Hence, a resting electron has to berepresented in a unitary electromagnetic theory by a small region, inside ofwhich the field is very strong, and outside of which it dies out quickly. Such a

region, with a strong, but finite field, represents concentrated energy—thatis, matter.”

The changing of field arrangement such that detectable radiation eventuates,is, according to Vitvan, through “the intersection of lines of force.” What do we haveas the result of intersection of lines? We have only a number of points! Dimensionlesspoints! Nothing solid, no-thing at the most basic level of structure from which all therest is synthesized. Therefore, if we have no-thing, no solid particles, etc., at the


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most basic level, it will be the same in successively ‘higher’ organizational phases aswell. Also, if we have field (regional stress) at the most basic level, then we havefield at all successive stages of process.

Now, having set up a reasonable description for the symbol “field,” let usutilize this in delineating some of the factors concerned with the Natural Order

Process. These factors will appear as structural operators in the ordering of local unitsin a given phase where there is alignment with that ordering process called natural.We will choose a given phase and discuss it relative to the next phase ‘above’ it andto the phase adjacently ‘below’ it.

We are going to use the term “free energy” or “free energy structures”considerably from here on. By this term, or terms, we imply structured syntheticfields usually being concerned with the ‘lowest’ four phases of process. (See “SomePhases of the Natural Order Process,” at the end of this lesson.) These ‘free energystructures’ are utilized for increasing the complexity, developing the organization,furthering the order, etc., etc., relative to phases of process as we will deal withthem below.

A given local process in cooperation with that which we label the Natural Orderis structurally organized in such a way, that a degree of balance between thedispersal and symmetrizing tendencies obtains with the ensuing resultant of a highlevel of free energy maintained, which is a necessary factor for continuation ofprocess. A local process is also ordered such that, if this high level of free energy fallsoff, a restorative tendency returns the energy level to its high norm. The arrangementof its comprising synthetic fields is such that it is able to utilize the free energystructures in its surround for the above purposes as well as the pertinent ones below.

A given local process tends in the direction of greater organization, morecomplexity and higher ordering of its componential fields and of the functionalcapabilities and modalities obtaining in that phase, all of which become the ordering

of the local unit towards its assimilability, its utilizability as a synthesizable orpolarizable field component for the next structural phase in the Natural OrderProcess.

Balance with respect to both polarity and the dispersal and symmetrizingtendencies must be maintained to a degree or resulting completion ofsymmetrization, and subsequent dispersal would follow. A degree of imbalance,however, is also necessary, as otherwise, there would ‘soon’ be reached ‘final’symmetrization and cessation of process. A finer and finer balance becomes the caseas the organizational phase called Mind is approached. In other words, a certainleniency is allowed while “on the Path,” but this leeway grows less and less as thePath is pursued, and is likened to a ‘razor’s edge’ when approaching the transitional

stage of the purified psyche.The foregoing delineations pertain to the Natural Order Process and are

applicable to every organizational phase in or of that process. Though this is true, ourapplication will primarily consist in dealing with the man-state (psyche andconfiguration) and the synthetic process on the Autonomous Field level towards thedevelopment thereof. We have considerable groundwork yet to lay before we mayattempt to apply field concepts to those phases. As has been mentioned previously,when and if this groundwork is grasped, we will have the means whereby we may


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discuss any event, any action or reaction, any stage of a growth and developmentprocess, etc., etc., and this, without using words which are circularly defined;symbols which eventuate in undefined terms or words that are easily reified.

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SOME PHASES OF THE NATURAL ORDER PROCESS

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LESSON FOUR

ON FORCE, MOTION AND DIRECTION

In breaking away from the matter-field duality, we automatically achieve a

non-aristotelian approach to mental structuring. The value systems built up fromidentity of sense faculty registry with process reality will rapidly disintegrate whenthe full integration into one’s consciousness of field-in-process concepts is gained. Letus not be misquoted, through misunderstanding, that we are stating that the reportsof the senses are false. Rather, we say, that the sense modalities, through only apartial of limited sensitivity to the entire electromagnetic spectrum, give us anextremely incomplete view of Reality. Then, when and if we identify with this limitedview, and act accordingly, we have opened wide the door of confusion, grief,contradiction, and all manner of activities which are not necessarily aligned with theNatural Order Process. From veridically based grounds of orientation to the NaturalOrder Process, respecting the level of the phase one now operates in, one may gain

alignment with the next and ‘higher’ phase of process—the development of theAutonomous or Individualizing Field on the Mind-level, which phase we will discuss ina subsequent lesson.

As we continue our description of process and delineate some of the termsused, let us sharply differentiate between verbal referents and experiential referents.The verbal referent pertains strictly to the mental phase of process and may or maynot have the veridical component; namely, the experience as that upon which thedescription is based. The experiential referent is the experience itself on a non-verbal, non-mental level. There is, of course, mental function and the experience ofcognitive processes on that level, but the function or experience of intellect is neverthat on any other level. The tendencies to identify the verbal or mental with

experiential referents, to identify sense-modality registry with process reality, andthat tendency towards reification or identification of word with that spoken of, havebeen called “the cognitive invariants of the human.” One called it, “the lie and theFather of it.”

This that is labeled “cognitive invariant,” however, need not be such, throughthe development of the ability to abstract consciously, as well as through theintegration and application of that gained through the understanding of field-processconcepts. It should be pointed out here, that the steady application of the functionaloperators: meditation, breath work, AUM chanting, etc., is essential in destroying theinfluence of the now outgrown “cognitive invariant.” Let us then, through sharpdiscrimination, rid ourselves of those false-to-life-process-fact concepts and begin to

tread the Path in the direction of the Natural Order, at the particular synthetic stagein the development of the psyche where we should be organizing and ordering thatphase of process.

We shall now return to descriptions of terms and set up referents andinterrelationships among the word-concepts: motion, force and time.

Vitvan and Einstein (as covered in Lesson Three) have described motion as achange in field pattern or structure, or we could say, as a change in the arrangementof comprising field aggregates relative to the synthetic field of which it is composed.


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This altering in arrangement is brought about by that third and most basic tendency inthe Cosmic Process, the urge of the Self towards more or greater Self-awareness.When observable motion eventuates, relative to a given local process, it is the changein field structure or the pattern which is this motion.

Let us turn to the second organizational phase of process (called the subatomic

field phase) for elucidation of this point. We will suppose that we are observing anelectron field whose pattern is thus:

e

The point e is representative of the intersection of ‘lines of force’ resulting in a pointof radiation, by means of which we can detect that there is ‘something’ there. Achange now takes place in the field pattern eventuating in a structural alterationportrayed as:

e'

The solid lines in this figure represent the former pattern, while the dottedintersecting lines determine the altered pattern. The ‘new’ point of intersectiondesignates a ‘spatial removal’ from point e to point e' (read e-prime). But, that whichis causative with respect to the ‘movements’ (positional variant) of the ‘electron’from e to e' is a change in field structure. Another way of stating this is to say thatthere was an apparent motion of the ‘electron’ from point e to e' as indicated by thearrow. What actually took place, however, was an alteration or change in the

arrangement of ‘lines of force’ in the configurating field.

We will consider for a moment the direction of this motion which we have nowequated with a change in field pattern. A radically new and different conceptualreferent is to be developed here, which, though not too difficult to comprehend, mayprove to be not too easily accommodated to function.

In our School of the Natural Order, a high value is placed upon what we call anaccurate “roadmap.” The truer to territory the roadmap, the less difficulty we havewhen “taking the journey” (developing functional abilities). A much higher value,however, we place upon the developing of these functional abilities, as it is throughthis method that actual growth and development take place, rather than in achieving

the mental grasp of some conceptual framework, regardless of its nature. Our stress isplaced on function. First, understand the conceptual framework descriptive of field-process-reality, and then apply this comprehension—change it over to function; that isthe immediate goal.

To return to our subject regarding the direction of motion in general, we wishto categorically state that the only Force, Power or Energy of which we are awareequates with the urge of the Self to know Itself. We regard this as causative withrespect to every activity, every motion, every change in any and every phase of the


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Cosmic Process. It is stated, therefore, that in every organizing, ordering, complexingor structuring process, the prime mover or motivator is this urge towards increasingSelf-knowing. It is not to be construed that the use of the words causative, primemover, etc., imply that the Force or Power referred to is extraneous to process, thereverse is the case—the Power is one with process.

You will recall the discussion anent the Descending Arc and the differentiatingprocess concerned therewith in Lesson Two. Just as the tendency is for thedifferentiating process to occur, so also is there not only the tendency but also theteleological assuredness for an integrating or de-differentiating process to eventuate,which we label the Natural Order Process. This is what is called the evolutionaryprocess by most biologists. The words ‘evolutionary process’ however, do not,because of their current usage and described meaning, have what we classify as theproper or ontological connotation, which we consider a necessary prerequisite whendealing with process. So, we will avoid these terms and continue using “Natural OrderProcess.”

In discussing the Descending Arc, there was described a differentiation from

one to three to seven and then into a vast multiplicity. On the Ascending Arc there isthe re-synthesizing of this multiplicity into the seven, etc. This grouping, aggregating,combining, etc., occurs in the direction of the Septenary synthetic which we call theMind-level, or the phase in process when Self is All. Now, since the only Power we areaware of is the urge of the Self to know Itself and, since the ‘higher’ the phase offield-process, the greater the degree of Self-knowing, and, since synthetic field-process tends towards ‘higher’ and ‘higher’ stages of field synthesis, then it follows,that motion, which we have described as a change in arrangement of fieldcomponents in any and every instance, becomes the direction of greater or increasingstates of Self-awareness. The above statement is also a description of the direction ofthe Natural Order Process.

The foregoing may seem to be the question: If all motion is towards increasingSelf-awareness, and if this is described as the direction of the Natural Order Process,then since motion also obtains as regards the dispersal and symmetrizing tendencies,does this then signify that these two tendencies are included in the Natural OrderProcess? No, not necessarily. But, as was mentioned earlier, the primary tendency inthe Cosmic Process is towards the above increasing states of Self-awareness. Theother two tendencies (dispersal and symmetrizing) are utilized as necessarycomponents with this major one. These three tendencies together represent theCosmic Process.

The further delineation of the above point seems advisable. In process realitythere is no waste, only utilization. What may appear to be destruction, forces of

darkness, dissipation, decay and death or that which is to be avoided, are, as viewedfrom an ontological or Cosmic vantage point, very necessary to the continuation ofthe Natural Order Process. Without the continuous re-supplying of free-energystructures resulting from destruction, decay, etc., we would shortly have no process.And likewise, without the tendency towards aggregating these structures we wouldhave no process. But, while these two principles are absolutely necessary to theNatural Order Process they are not necessarily included in it. Since the primeorganizing factor in the Cosmic Process, the urge towards greater Self-knowing,


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overrides the other two tendencies, their motion is also in the stated direction(towards greater Self-knowing), but one step removed as regards an exact identitywith that direction.

To clarify the “one step removed” we will use an analogy. Let us suppose thata farmer, whose income results from growing crops, finds that he must let a large

portion of his land lie fallow for a year or two so that it will become arable oncemore. Now, while the ground is lying fallow, it is not directly helping to maintain hisincome at the level required, but indirectly, or “one step removed,” the lying fallowis very much related to that which is necessary for his livelihood.

A statement was quoted in Lesson Two. That was: “Every individual motionrepresents a Universal movement.” In place of the word “represents” we could, withvalidity, put “equates with,” as, since there is but one motivator in all process, andas this Power pertains to the Universal Field-as-a-whole, any and every motion can benone other or less than Cosmic in scope or proportion.

A single electron field, leaving as its indicated path, a track in the physicist’scloud chamber; a snowy cumulus drifting across the afternoon sky; the orbital

spiraling of the planet Jupiter’s 11 moons; a family en route to a vacation in Canada;energy exchanges taking place in an atomic reactor chamber; a baby taking its firststeps; a morsel of food on its way to ingestion; and a non-finite number of etc.’s; allof these motions may be veridically described as directional with respect to theeventual goal of the Septenary, re-synthetical phase of process, which may beequated with increasing states of Self-knowing towards what we call the Mind-level.

We have spoken of motion as a change in field pattern in the direction ofgreater synthesis or greater Self-awareness. Vitvan describes consciousness as theactivity taking place respecting all phases of process, and the state of consciousness,as the degree of field synthesis, towards the recombining of the plurality into theseven rays, upon or in which this activity occurs. A certain completion of organization

must obtain, however, with reference to a given ordering field, before consciousnessmay be evidenced in that field. In other words, though with each of us, respectively,there is activity going on, on the level of the Individualizing Field, functionalawareness does not as yet pertain to that phase, at least for most of us. We state,that a degree of completion of organization has to eventuate, before consciousnesscan transfer identity to the higher level, for when the transition is first made, onediscovers that he is only an infant. He then understands that he must begin thegrowth, development and organizing of his vehicle on the Mind-level—the lowest levelof Light’s Regions.

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LESSON FIVE

THE GALACTIC FIELD ORGANIZING PROCESS

At the beginning of the last lesson we said we would give descriptions for the

terms motion, force and time. The first two of these, we covered in Lesson Four, butwe have yet to describe that which the term “time” represents. We will also portraygalactic “outpourings” and how they apply to planetary field-process organizationalphases.

Motion, we have discussed, as an alteration in ordering of comprisingsynthesized fields relative to the larger polarizing field which is composed of them.This larger and configurating field is causative with respect to the arrangement andrearrangement of those constituting, smaller, polarized structures. It has been notedthat a direction is attributed to our delineation of the word “motion” and that thisdirection is spoken of as though it were dual in nature. This, however, is mostly forpurposes of clarity in description. These two directions are towards increased states

of Self-awareness and larger and more complex field syntheses which arerepresentative of these states.It would be well to point out that the greater or higher the degree of Self-

awareness, the ‘lower’ the level of field in which that state functions. Please refer toour diagram at the end of Lesson Three where elucidation of this point is made. It isstated in our literature that psychic functioning is on the molecular level of processand that Mind-level function has to do with the atomic and subatomic levels, and thaton the last named level the configuration is built of a vast synthesis of atomic andsubatomic fields—the Autonomous Field or the Individualized Field.

In explaining the relationship of the concepts time and motion, we will haveset up sufficiently our referent for the word “time.” When we observe certain local

processes, it is noted that structural alterations or changes in field arrangementoccur. When this eventuates in the direction of the Natural Order we denote thedegree or amount of change in pattern in this direction as time. Or, it could bestated, that that which the word “time” represents equates with measurement ofmotion in the direction of the Natural Order Process. This measurement of motionmay or may not be relative to some arbitrary standard. The arbitrarily chosenstandard that is used generally today is the result of field interactions between thegravitational fields of the earth and the rest of the solar system, and the resultant ofthis, interacting with the galactic gravitational field, which culminates in thespiraling, cyclic, orbital pattern of the synthetic field, labeled the planet Earth. It isthe counting of the cycles of this spiraling pathway and those mostly arbitrary

divisions of these cycles which we usually use as our standard and compare with otherchanges. A clock is spoken of as a counter of sequential rhythmic field interactions. Itis in this context that the Earth’s planetary pathway represents our clock. The Earth’sspiraling pathway is, of course, in the direction of increasing Self-awareness. We alsoequate time with the measurement of change in degree of Self-awarenessunidirectionally towards increasing states of Self-knowing.

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will be accomplished in terms of field syntheses and through the use of thatdeveloped, concerning factors in field-processes as pertain to local process in LessonThree of this series.

Let us begin this very interesting and illuminative characterization with thesignification of what the term galaxy2 represents, in terms of componential

arrangement. Simply speaking, our solar system is comprised of a self-illuminatingstar at its approximate center, and nine planets in different orbits revolving aroundit. A solar or star system is, essentially, the structural unit of a galaxy. The particulargalaxy in which our sun (a star) is located is a synthesis of around one-hundred billionstars. This galaxy is located in what is called a galactic group subsystem whichcontains 16 other galaxies similar to ours. These galactic group subsystems, each asynthesis of billions upon billions of solar units, are the structural units of what wecall the Universe, and number in the thousand-billions.

In times not so modern, it was theorized that, at some date, several billionyears ago, a small and extremely densely packed mass underwent an explosiveexpansion and this was the birth of the Universe. This theoretical depicture is

affectionately known today as the “big bang” hypothesis and is, at present, stillaccepted by some scientists, though empirical evidence is, we believe, to thecontrary.

Briefly delineated, this empirical evidence is as follows: It is noted throughobservation that stellar fields may be categorized into just two broad groupings calledPopulation I and Population II stars. Population I stars are thought to have beenformed relatively recently and in their different types display an evolutionarysequence. It is in the Population II grouping only that we find the stars that go intonova (explosion or dispersion).

From the observation and classification of individual galaxies it is found thatthree general divisions are necessary and sufficient. Vast, nebulous, self-luminous,

dust-clouds comprise the first. The second is composed of what are labelled, spiralarm galaxies. The third are called elliptical galaxies and, for the most part, do havethat characteristic somewhat circular form. Percentage-wise the distribution of themillions of galaxies observed is thus: Nebulous: 3%, Spiral Arm: 80%, Elliptical: 17%.

Let us apply our understanding of Population I and II stars to the three types ofgalaxies, and then view this in conjunction with our grasp of field-process operation.It is noted that the spiral arm galaxies have, as their inhabitants, primarily PopulationI stars, while the elliptical galaxies are inhabited almost exclusively by white dwarfsand red giants (Population II). Also it is noted that in the spiral arm galaxies there areimmense clouds of interstellar dust which are not found in the elliptical galaxies, asthough, in this latter case, the components for continuing process, galactically

speaking, have been used up. From our understanding of process concepts, we wouldsuppose that final symmetrization has been reached and, if this is the case, that thedispersal tendency would start the redistribution of the bound up field structures.

2 At times we will find it advantageous to delete the word “field” as applies to various processes described or

discussed, not only for purposes of brevity, but also particularly to avoid considerable redundancy. It is left

therefore as an exercise for the student to supply mentally the deletions. (Examples: Galaxy – galactic field; planet

– planetary field: atom – atomic field; etc., etc.)


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It was stated earlier that a sequential chain of one way process is evidencedpertaining to the galactic phase of organization. The spatial disproportion of eachgalaxy from any other, instead of being reckoned in terms of hundreds and thousandsof light years distant, is reduced to zero from our vantage point of perceptivity. It isfrom this view that the subsequent portrayal of the galactic field organizing process is

elicited. We do not choose this standpoint just for the reason that we find itadvantageous, but solely because this is the way we perceive it.Let us consider two successive phases in an organizing process and, for

convenience, we will deal with them as layered or as one above the other. It will beassumed that the second phase has not as yet ‘taken place’ or been synthesized bythe grouping of the synthetic fields of the next lower level or first phase intoarrangements which characterize that second phase. Our first phase, it is assumed, isordered in the manner described in Lesson Three. (It might be well to review thatsection.) A part of this organization of a given phase has to do with that orderingprocess moving in the direction of utilizability and polarizability towards facilitatingthe development of the prototypal arrangements characterizing the successive phases

in the Natural Order Process.We will treat all organizational phases of process, represented by thesuperimpositional array of galactic, solar system, and planetary fields, as thesequential, influensive, causative, and directive factors in ordering planetary phasesof organization and in synthesizing ordered componential fields into more highlycomplex syntheses whose arrangements denote increasing states of Self-awareness.With respect to a given planetary field organizing process, these influencing andalready existent galactic organizing fields could be called Archetypal. That is, all ofthe organizational phases which are to take place within a given planetary fieldprocess, obtain, a priori, in the Archetype (Cosmic Field).

Thus, when the first phase, discussed two paragraphs back, is becoming

organized in preparation for and to the degree necessary that the next phase inprocess may proceed, it is the precursive affectiveness of two analogical phases inthat superimposed synthetic field, which encompasses all phases of all organization inthe Universe that generally directs that organizing. Likewise, it is this same influencethat brings about the synthesis of the first phase field aggregates into thearrangements which distinguish the second phase. The pattern of the grouping of thesecond phase structures is also such that they may be utilizable for the third phase toproceed.

All of this grouping, aggregating, synthesizing, etc., into larger or greater andmore highly ordered arrangements of fields is in the general direction of theSeptenary synthetic which is representative of that state of consciousness called the

Mind-level. The word “general” is used here to avoid the implicit assumption that weinfer teleological grounds for all process. We do, however, wish to state that ateleological basis is accepted and applicable to Natural Order Process in at least twogeneral ways: One, that in Natural Order Process, the direction of field arrangementis towards greater complexity, higher organizational phases and towards thataforementioned Septenary re-synthesis. Two, that, since the urge of the Self to KnowItself is the prime mover in Natural Order Process, a one-way direction is given to


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increasing states of Self-knowing. It may be added that the pathway of statement oneis representational in that of statement two.

There is, as concerns the Natural Order Process, a non-teleological aspect. Thisaspect of randomness or chance, entering into our portrayal of field process, doesnot, however, assume the dominating proportions attributed to it by the evolutionary

biologists, the ecologists, and most of the other life scientists. For them, there is noformative tendency in ‘life,’ or any other process working unidirectionally towards asynthetic culmination. Rather, extreme emphasis is placed upon probability laws asthe governing factor in the growth and development process from phase to succeedingphase.

We will take a moment here to point up how unrealistic this chance notionseems to us. The constituents of a hemoglobin molecule (a very complex moleculefound in the human bloodstream) can be spatially ordered in a great number of ways.This number is so large that, for all practical purposes, it is infinite. The number ofarrangements is written 10623 in a shorthand way of notation. It signifies the number10 followed by 622 zeros, and is read: ten to the six-hundred and twenty-third power.

Assuming that process is statistical in nature, this means that there is one chance in10623 that the correct combination might eventuate. To our way of evaluating, thisrepresents zero probability.

Let us suppose that every man, woman and child on this planet, whoseimaginative population we will place at 10 billion (5 times the present), startedcounting at the rate of 100 numbers per second and that this counting went on forone thousand, thousand billion years. The number arrived at by all this counting, wewill assume, is the same as the number of fields necessary to comprise one grain ofsand and then let’s suppose that this planet is composed of these grains of sandthrough and through. So, to obtain the number of minute fields composing the Earthwe will have to multiply the number of fields per grain by the number of grains it

would take to build a sphere the size of our planet. We will imagine that each grainmeasures one millionth of an inch in diameter and that the Earth’s diameter is 4,000miles. Now, let us suppose that we have a billion, billion, billion, billion Earths soconstituted, and multiply all these billions together, times the vast number of minutefields we had for just the one planet. Our resultant figure is about 1066, which,compared with 10623, is far far smaller than a mustard seed compared with the size ofour galaxy.

Our views with respect to the nature of process differ radically from those ofthe scientific classicist. As concerns randomness, when applied to the Natural OrderProcess, a differentiating out of particularizations or an ordering of specific fieldarrangements designates the pertinence thereto. The inclusion into field process, of

the dispersal and symmetrizing tendencies precludes an entirely pre-ordereddirectness to the Septenary synthetic.

We will discuss this aspect in detail in the Lesson on ‘environment’ (note thequotes) which is to follow.

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LESSON SIX

‘ENVIRONMENT’, SELF AND FIELD

A quotation from the “Correspondence Course” will set the basic note for thesubject of this lesson, which is ‘environment.’

“The registry of energy wave-lengths and frequencies apparently createsmodifications respecting the state of the Perceiver and to such an extent that it hasbeen said: ‘The changes in that perceived, follow, as representation, themodifications of the state of the Perceiver.’ In the final analysis, however, thisapparent change in the state is caused by an ‘inverse reflection’ of the process ofSelf-awareness; i.e., the Self on Its own level, by the activity inherent in awareness ofItself becomes the causative factor (‘creator’) of the wave-lengths and frequencies.So, it is really frequency modifying the state. The state (as activity of Self-awareness)

‘creates’ the energy-wave and frequency. It is in the sense of separation from theReal-Self (on its own level) that we, respectively, experience, observe, register, etc.,the activity of Self-awareness as energy wave-lengths and frequencies. The length ofthe waves and rate of frequency registered only seem to change and modify the stateof the Perceiver. As contradictory as it seems, the self-same Self resides at the basisof both levels; the Self aware of Itself in sense of separation from the fullness of Itsown Self-perceiving, perceives its own activity, energy wave-lengths and frequencies”(or ‘environment’).

The parenthetical addition at the end of the quotation is ours.The non-intuitive explicitness above is that the ‘environment (wave-frequency)

does not alter the state or that which is representational respecting the state. A given

state may be described in terms of its representation. The representation equateswith the degree of field synthesis towards the aforementioned immediate goal. Statemay be described as intensity of Self-knowing, and this as the activity occurring in therepresentational field. This synthetic field, in addition to being representative of thestate of Self-awareness, is that, in, by and through which the Power-to-be-consciousbecomes conscious; namely, the Mother (a synonym for Mother is Field).

Cosmic Process has been designated as “one act of consciousness.” In this oneact of consciousness, there is only one Self, one Power-to-be-conscious in varyingstates of Its own Self-knowing. Respecting a particular state of Self-awareness or I-ness, however, there obtains identification of this one Self with its ‘parts’ resultant ina ‘sense’ of separateness. This phase of process we, in our School, label the man-

state or, sometimes, the Individualizing phase of the Comic Process.As we, respectively, and ‘individually,’ identify with the multiplicity ofactivities concerning or pertaining to the man-state (the development of the psychic-nature) it seems that we function in an ‘energy world’ from which we registerfrequencies of varying wave-length and quality. The words, wave-frequency, free-energy structures and ‘environment’ may be reduced to synonymic equality, so wewill use them in this manner henceforth.


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Ostensibly, we utilize from this ‘energy-world’ the free energy structurescompatible with and necessary for the metabolic, catabolic, etc., processes ofgrowth, development, maintenance, function, etc. The terms growth, development,maintenance, etc., contain inferentially the connotation of alteration or change instructural process and therefore modification in representation of state. Since the

state or manner of Self-knowing, is the activity eventuating in and through therepresentation (synthetic field, Mother-substance, etc.), then we have, therefore, analteration in state by reason of the ‘environmental’ influence.

The above sketch relates the one-way energy exchange between local processand that which acts upon it and is other than it, from the viewpoint of ‘sense -of-separateness.’ This view could also be termed the “common-sense’ attitude. If weplant a seed (potential process on the plant level) in the ground, having sufficientsunlight, water, etc., a field synthesizing, polarizing process eventuates. But when wedescribe that which the expressions—sunlight, water, etc., represent, our delineationdeals with states of awareness from a representational aspect. As was stated prior,the only Force, Power or Energy of which we are aware is the urge of the Self to Know

Itself and this, as the prime mover of all activities in all phases of field-process. So,we have now, Self acting ‘upon’ Itself or more simply and more correctly put, justSelf-acting.

The foregoing monistic description of synthetic field interaction is acceptableto us by reason of perceptive cognition. However, as far as the utilizability of arigorous monistic approach in description of phases of process, we feel that theunwieldy sentence structure necessary would soon result in a syntactical aphasia forboth the writer and the reader. But, it would be in order to keep in mind the abovepoints descriptive of the actuality of the exchange between a given ‘local’ processand that ‘other than’ the ‘local’ process.

For purposes of clarity, simplicity and understandability we will sometimes

speak as though a given synthesized field is acted upon by the environment, butkeeping as background for mental perception the essential or intrinsic Oneness of theCosmic Process. In local phases of process, field interaction, as the differentiating andintegrating aspect thereof, assumes a role of extreme importance in the sequentialorganizing procedure which we in the School designate as Natural. All activities maybe depicted in terms of field-in-process interactions and/or field-in-process re-arrangements or syntheses.

Akin to the above, though not precisely in alignment with this presentation, wewish to give an excerpt from an article entitled, “The Reality of the Non-Material” byF. L. Kunz, in “Main Currents,” November-December, 1963, which we find mostinteresting.

“The old situation is as follows: in that part of biology called ecology, creaturesand their material surroundings have long been studied as one whole. Theinterdependence of soil, water and air and of all the plant and animal life in a regionis intricate, but well ordered. Each species has its niche. The creatures seem todepend upon the physical environment, having only limited adaptability to a radicallynew one. Therefore, in the causal relation, the non-living material environmentseems to be the dominant component, although it is obvious that the living orders aresuperior in many ways.


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“The basic truth is today seen quite differently. The seas and lakes, themountains and snows and streams, the atmosphere and its clouds, are themselvesdocile creatures of the true environment, the force field continua; and it is knownthat living creatures also trade skillfully and directly with this true environment.

“For example, plants live in and exchange with the electromagnetic field. The

plant has measurable polarities and gradients that vary with the season, the month,the week. H. S. Burr, of Yale, has read the phases of the moon from his electricalrecordings of the live activities of maple trees. The photoelectric effect described inEinstein’s equation is at work as photons strike the chloroplasts of green leaves.”

Our emphasis is to be upon tendency concerning these interactions, re-arrangements, etc.,, rather than the mechanistic, materialistic or vitalistic doctrinesof the majority of present-day biologists. Science today, in general, treats the ‘living’organism as some sort of mechanical ensemble which adapts or is altered by thatwhich is called environment. This, plus chance mutation and “survival of the fittest,”form the basis of the dualists’ outlook on the origin, development and progression of species, with consciousness of Self-awareness denoted as a mere by-product, hardly

worthy of consideration. While our viewpoint is not strictly teleological, we do lay thestress upon the tendency in process towards one-way development: greater synthesis,higher organization, greater complexity, etc., representative of increasing states ofSelf-awareness. In this light, environment—i.e., frequency registry, field interaction—becomes the primary differentiating factor from homogeneity to heterogeneity, fromthe Many to the One, but through or by way of an infinitude of variations.

Without a random factor, as pertains to process, units of local order wouldpresent uniformity or sameness in appearance, function, organization and so on. Thiswould be the case if the Natural Order operated on a precisely teleological basis. Thatthis basis is not the correct one, can be shown even from making a few comparisonsof images in the psyche appearing substantive. This Universe is not one of endless

duplication and re-duplication, but one of unlimited or non-finite diversity. Thissignifies an orderedness but yet a randomness to the phases of the organizing process.The pathway of the ordering activity is, in general, an ordered randomness.

It is quite simple to state or list on the grounds of predeterminism (teleology),the various and succeeding general phases or steps of process, as has been done onour chart at the end of Lesson Three. But, to attempt, on this basis, to delineateprocess as concerns particularities or specifics is, in our opinion, an impossibility.Randomness as applies to the generally ordered direction of process has the samebearing as the relationship between the symmetrizing and dispersal tendencies, andthe Natural Order Process, which was discussed on page 28, Lesson Four. There is aclose relationship, but not one of identity.

It has been stated that the Natural Order Process, in the direction of increasingorganization of field syntheses and greater states of Self-awareness, will take place,regardless of field aggregate combinations differing from those of this particularplanet, Earth. In other words, that which is called ‘life’ by our biologists need not berestricted to the carbon, hydrogen, oxygen basis which we have here. Through theintervention of an arrangement brought about by intragalactic and intergalacticregional stresses, plus the formative tendency in process, a specifically non-finite


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number of differing foundations for ‘life’ process would not only be conjectured butfirmly expected. It is our opinion that the Cosmos is literally teeming with ‘life.’

You have perhaps noted the use of the single quotes regarding the word life.We, in the School of the Natural Order do not differentiate between what mostscientists would call ‘living’ and ‘non-living’ field syntheses. Any line drawn, with

respect to organizational phases, which sets apart one group from another, we feel ispurely arbitrary. Activity pertains to all levels of field process; there being no ‘inert,’‘lifeless’ or ‘dead’ as pertains to process.

Vitvan states the above thus:“Embryologists, cytologists, morphologists, and I guess we could add

histologists, use the term ‘living-matter’ so that they can differentiate what they callliving-matter from what they label dead matter. The phenomenal aspect ofrepresentations in substance is of course that with which these scientists areconcerned, and only that. But from our teleological position, in the School of theNatural Order, to differentiate living-substance or living-matter from that matterwhich does not exhibit intrinsic or self-motivating qualities is purely arbitrary.

However, the line of demarcation (which I must say is also arbitrary) between living-matter and non-living matter is somewhere in the dynamic configurating processbetween the molecule and the colloid. Molecular structures below the colloidal level(the atom and its structural components, the vortices of energy) are considered non-living-matter, because these energy-structures do not exhibit observable inherentself-motivating attributes under microscopic examination. Therefore, the line ofdemarcation between non-living-matter and living-matter is between the molecularand colloidal structures.

“While we retain and use these terms living-matter and non-living matter, wedo so as a concession to current usage of to the Aristotelian cytologists’ viewpoint. From the non-aristotelian attitude, orientation, etc., the word ‘living’ could only be

used to represent the Field, irrespective of whether the phenomenal aspect inrelation to the structure of the Field is ‘below’ or ‘above’ the colloidal state in theconfigurating process. So, the term non-living-matter would be a label without areferent or significs.”

Though we full well realize that a division between ‘living’ and ‘non-living’ israther unwarranted, it is evident that there is some sort of alteration in activity whenthat called ‘death’ occurs.

It is quite evident that process is cyclic in nature. Two labels applied to theoriginating of a unit of local order and its culminating final symmetrization are ‘life’and ‘death.’ To an Aristotelian, one who identifies with the reports of the senses asreality, or to one who had the dualistic outlook of field and ‘matter’ or ‘spirit’ and

‘matter,’ ‘death’ might be described as the ‘withdrawal of the spirit’—that whichactivates something which is described as inert ‘matter.’

With the background we have built up in developing and describing field-process concepts, a delineation of that which eventuates at the transition called‘death’ may be ventured in terms of field synthesis and polarization. We will begin bydepicting briefly the transitional phases of field-process in the development of anembryo from fertilization to its development as a functioning field synthesis.


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You will recall in our discussion of motion that an electron ‘particle’ wasdescribed as the re-arrangement of the fields composing the electron field such thatradiation is given off which may be detected by the physicist. The radiation is givenoff cyclically, so it was stated that the electronic ‘particle’ is discontinuous. Theperiodicity, evidenced in the subatomic phase of process, obtains throughout the

Universe up to and including the galactic phase. But the organizing field, per se,whatever the phase or local process under discussion, is prior to and causative,relative to the synthesis which is its representation.

A given formative field, prior to a synthesizing cycle, sometimes called a‘putting forth,’ exists as a regional stress, the partial fulfillment of which, results in asynthesizing, polarizing or configurating process. The word “partial” is used here toindicate a never-to-be-completed-ness as concerns the Cosmic Process or process ofSelf-knowing. This is also indicative of the imbalance spoken of in an earlier lesson.

In its cyclic nature, our given field begins a configurating cycle throughpolarizing synthesizable, lesser, structured fields, into componental arrangementsrepresentative of its stress pattern. If we were to consider the formation of a human

embryo, the process begins basically on the atomic level, the synthesis of which localunits go to make up the DNA molecular field: from the atomic to the molecular, thenfrom the molecular to the mega-molecular or colloidal and on to the cellular fieldphase of structure, these DNA molecular fields are of ultimate importance in energyexchanges and the releasing of other molecular field bonds for the continuation ofprocess.

When the multicellular phase (an aggregating of similar cells in cooperation) isreached, organization takes the direction of differentiating out systemic cellulargroups which perform particular functions, related to each other in such a way thatthe organism is viable in its surround. Finally, when systemic ordering has beencompleted to a degree, that which is labeled the birth process occurs. From this point

the polarizing process continues systemically until through a tending too far towardsthe dispersal tendency, or the symmetrizing tendency, or a combination of each, asconcerns the various systems, a formative process no longer obtains. Theconfigurating field changes its arrangement such that there is no longer thecoordinated super-positioning of the formative field with its polarized parts and thedispersal tendency begins to dissipate the local system into utilizable synthetic fieldsfor the continuation of process.

That which we label the configuration, which is a synthesized field itself, doesnot fall all to pieces immediately upon the change in arrangement of the organizingfield. Those polarizable parts, of which the configuration is comprised, retain whatwe could label residual polarity or cohesiveness. Analogically, if we were to take an

unmagnetized bar or iron and place it in the spatial proximity of a highly magnetizedbar, the former would take on the characteristic alignment known as magnetism.Upon removal from the local vicinity of the highly magnetized bar, the newlymagnetized one would not lose its polarity but would exhibit that which the physicistscall residual magnetism.

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this eventuation. Though, as was mentioned earlier, the whole is greater than thesum of its parts, and this, through the arrangement and functional relationships ofthose parts, each part in and of itself is representative of an aspect or state of Self-awareness. How many of these parts are there as pertains to one given ‘human’configuration? Billions upon billions upon billions! Herein lies a delineation of the

phrase, “those lesser lives which compose the “elemental self.”

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On the next page will be found the Main Chart as used in our School of theNatural Order. It was thought advisable that this chart be included in the presentcourse of lessons as a valuable reference for clarification and correlation of phases

and points discussed, as well as terminology used.It is full well realized that many of the phases of process shown on this chartare not taken up in the present brief sketch. However, the field-process conceptsdescribed are applicable, in general, to all phases of process portrayed.


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LESSON SEVEN

PSYCHIC FUNCTIONING AND FIELD INTERACTION

In the depicting of the ‘life’/‘death’ cycle in the last lesson there was no

mention made anent the psychic phase of process. This phase is one which concernsmost of us through the immediacy of our functioning.According to Vitvan, psychic-functioning takes place in the molecular phase of

field-process. It is the organizing, complexifying, arranging and re-arranging, ofmolecular field chains, as well as the lesser field structures composing them, that wein our School designate as psychic functioning, growth, and sequential development.The pattern of organization for the structuring of the psychic field resides in thearrangement of the configurating field which we term Autonomous or Individualizing.This psychic field pattern is therefore representative of the degree of organization onthe Mind-level relative to the completed Septenary Synthesis, and exhibits thosedeveloped qualities and faculties acquired or built into the Individualizing Field.

Quality or guna described structurally, equates with particular or specific syntheticfield arrangements, sometimes including a reversal of polarity in the arrangement.In a way of speaking, the development of the various aspects of the psychic

phase of process parallels and characterizes the organizing of structure on the Mind-level. When the psychic ordering process has been completed to a degree, atransitional stage occurs wherein consciousness begins to transfer identity from thepsyche (personality, in sense-of-separateness) to the Autonomous Field phase ofprocess (the first degree of Oneness). The completed transition we label the SecondCrossing.

Let us now turn to a description, in terms of field process, of psychic naturefunctioning through frequency registry as pertains to the sense modalities. In our

opinion sense functioning occurs in the psychic-field. This point has been delineatedby Vitvan in our literature to the extent that we do not deem it necessary to re-substantiate this here. In depicting this phase of psychic nature functioning, we willuse the diagram labeled “Quantum Field Interactions in Sense Functions” below.

It will be advantageous, before launching into our subject, to describe the termwave-frequency in some detail. The photon, or unit structure of that which we calllight may be described as a “bundled field”; the “bundle” composed of quantumstructural fields synthesized and in process of periodic re-arrangement. The classicdescription of this cyclic change would take on the characteristics of a sine wave:

. However, in terms of modern physics, we have seen that there is avariance in measurable radiation from zero up to an intensity which is readily

detectable. This measurement actually represents a change in arrangement of fieldpattern rather than being a description of the relative motion of some ‘particle’whose movement is described as a ‘wave.’ Pictorially, we could display thecharacteristic cyclic field alterations thus:


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The gap between the figures shows a discontinuity of radiation. This gap alsoportrays a perio

the natural order process in terms of modern field theory

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