Rainbow Remedy - The Book

FIRST CHAPTER OF BOOK OF 'THE RAINBOW REMEDY'

INTRODUCTION.

The reasons for writing this book began with a small handful of highly thought provoking similarities between the life of a rainbow, and that of a human being. Many further curious connections between the behaviour patterns of rainbows projected from a crystal, and the imagery projected by our mind also caught my attention. The more I researched these numerous parallels between mind and light refraction, the more I came to realise I was certainly not the first person to have had my attention drawn to these fascinating links. To the contrary it has become increasingly clear during recent decades that the subject of light energy was thoroughly studied, researched and marvelled over by many of the world’s earliest civilizations, for many millenniums.

Our dreams that we project at night and the endless images our mind interprets during the daytime bear many of the same basic hallmarks shown by light refracted through a crystal. Furthermore a remarkably large and growing collection of sound archaeological, historic and scientific evidence to support this theory that 'mind is a prism' has floated to the surface during the last few decades. Especially in context with modern scientific research into the nature of light, matter and the atom, as well as ancient Eastern mysticism (covering the entire Asian continent and beyond) that predates all the modern established religions and their respective beliefs. The earliest evidence of the evolution of Eastern spirituality dates back to approximately 5,000 years ago, in the form of countless temples, shrines, statues, pyramids, artefacts, hieroglyphs etched on walls, and ancient scriptures.

The most obvious examples of such studies into light behaviour are to be found in the extraordinarily prolific written records known as the Upanishad and Vedic texts (from India). Other examples such as the Chinese Tao, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and the Egyptian Book of the Dead also show all the same tell-tale signs and hallmarks of ‘rainbow influenced’ studies. Further examples, such as exciting new evidence from the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt (as documented and researched by Peter Lemesurier in his extraordinary book ‘The Great Pyramid Decoded) also reveals not just an interest in the subject of light energy and mind by its designers, but a deep passion that is now clearly emerging as the sole inspiration for the pyramids entire design. The reasons for this burning curiosity with the nature of light and mind become much clearer when we take a closer look at what first caught the attention of such early societies.

As we gradually piece all the evidence together we find that Eastern mysticism yielded arguably the most consistently inspiring and influential source of wisdom across practically the entire Asian continent for many thousands of years. For many perfectly logical, simple and understandable reasons. The humble origins of light studies appear to be extremely basic and easily comprehendible, emerging from the first observations of rainbow characteristics. For instance the most classic example of 'rainbow behaviour' noted by early humans was likely to have been that each rainbow is always unique, and never are there two identical rainbows. How could light create so such infinite diversity? Similar questions quickly resulted in many valiant attempts to effectively decode the true significance of 'a rainbow'. Now further evidence points to the fact all these investigtions may well have began far earlier than previous evidence suggested. The effects of serious natural disaster, such as sudden rises in river levels and extensive flooding, are now understood to have been a far more regular and devastating occurrence than was first presumed in early times. Not just in Asia, but the world over. Such catastrophic incidences clearly had the capacity to wash away virtually all the remains of early habitats and their inhabitants as well as any evidence or records made of their spiritual beliefs. For this reason many people are suggesting that much earlier civilisations very feasibly did exist, possessing far more sophisticated technology and psychological wisdom than we have previously presumed possible. In spite of the lack of evidence to confirm the existence of such early societies, many estimates are now reaching back to as many as to 20,000 or 30,000 years ago or more. In the same vein, the world is now finally beginning to realise the full extent of the impact made by the world's first purveyors of ancient light knowledge in shaping philosophical and esoteric thought the world over to this day and beyond.

How is better comprehension of light energy or a rainbow going to give an unparalleled insight into our minds where so many other attempts appear to have failed? The first and most obvious answer, as I pointed out a moment ago, lies in the fact we dream. Dreaming is resounding and undisputable evidence our brains enjoy projecting light energy to create exceptionally high quality ‘holographic’ images that are so crystal clear and convincing we always seem to wake up totally surprised they appeared so real. Even after decades of being tricked by the process of dreaming, we are still fooled remarkably easily. We often awake completely perplexed and surprised to find the images seen in our dreams were only a simple illusion. While the quality of the light projector we call the human mind is clearly vastly superior to any equivalents so far produced by modern technology if judged by its capacity to fool the observer.

The projection and processing of light energy plays an important part in our brains’ activity, not only at night in the form of dreams, but also during the day. The most obvious evidence of this lies in the fact we all appear to ‘colour’ to some degree what we see, hear and feel. In much the same way a child will colour the outlines in a colouring book, our waking hours are spent colouring in the outlines that enter our eyes. For example: a person jumps back in alarm at seeing a snake, only to find it was a piece of rope on a second inspection. Showing that much of what we perceive is created in our head, and simply does not exist in the outside world. Similarly ten people can enter a room and look at you, yet they all see a slightly different thing. Everyone will 'colour you' in slightly different ways and arrive at their own personal and final version of ‘what is you’. As the outlines of our surrounding environment that enter our senses clearly leave gaps for us to fill in.

However, our mind seems to hate a gap and prefer a whole picture, and there are many examples of this. If our memory of a particular event is a little hazy and has some missing pieces, our mind rushes to fill the gap often resulting in an increasingly distorted version of events to what actually happened. Similarly what we see may be a snake, but what there actually is in front of us, is a piece of rope. The curious colouring process that creates our final reality clearly occurs inside our brain after the outlines have entered our eyes. So it is not that we actually project directly onto the outside world, only onto the outlines of our environment after they have entered our senses. Thus we may colour our surrounding outlines incorrectly and easily mistake creations of our mind for objects that simply don’t exist in the outside world.

Observant individuals that spotted these connections between the projection of imagery and our mind in ancient times are very likely to have been motivated to investigate this subject further. How we colour in the outlines that enter our senses appears heavily dependant of course on previous experiences we have had with similar sets of outlines in the past. If I had a good experience with a person who looks like you then this will significantly affect my colouring of your outlines somewhat unavoidably if we should meet. By the same token, no two people placed in front of the same object will see it the same way; each person appears to colour their world slightly differently from their neighbour. Certainly if two people witness the same event it is remarkable how wildly their accounts may differ when related at a later date to a third party.

We all constantly draw upon our experiences, in every moment of the day, as the best guidance in colouring the outlines that enter our eyes; partly as a survival technique to keep us alive, and partly to lead us to objects of pleasure and reward. If experiences with specific sets of outlines have lead to bad results in the past, then our experience strongly suggests how we should employ negative approaches to colouring similar sets of outlines in the future, to protect us better from similar threats. To help us avoid things that may do us harm (or worse still kill us), as well as lead us to objects of pleasure so we can satisfy our senses.

This colouring process occurs of course with all our
other senses as well, not just our eyes. If we feel a tickle on the back of our neck we may rush to swat the fly that we imagine created it, only to find it was caused by the label inside our clothing. In this way our mind fills in all the gaps left by our senses as it seeks to compile all the outlines relayed by our five senses before colouring them in to form the ‘final picture’ of the world outside.

The ways we chose to colour our world are also prone to the censorship of governments and everyday people alike, who all play a key role in suggesting the correct method to employ when interpreting differing situations. The hope is that we will all feel far more relaxed and comfortable if our neighbour is in perpetual agreement with us about how the world appears to them. The feeling of reassurance that comes with knowing ‘everyone colours the world in the same way I do’ leads us to assuming we must therefore be right; and after all how can millions of people be wrong? Such is the nature of the crowd mentality.

Nevertheless, looking back over humanities history we can easily see how our beliefs, colouring techniques and thought patterns have naturally evolved and often changed wildly with the passage of time (and new discoveries) across a wide spectrum of different subjects. And these changes don’t appear to have come lightly; after all one of the easiest ways to truly upset a person is by exposing a possible error in their colouring techniques, even if it be only a very small one. For example when people first assumed the earth was flat, and that the sun revolved around the earth, many of our other consequent thoughts and actions were based upon this original principle being true. Hence it is always a little disturbing to realise things were not quite what they seemed and that we have to begin rethinking many of our most trusted and deepest beliefs.

Furthermore our societies have also shown a strong link between our tendency to deviate from set standards of colouring techniques and the subject of criminality. Very consistently throughout human history any thinking deemed politically deviant or contrary to conventionally accepted thought processes has always caused a great deal of controversy. Challenging state designed colouring techniques on issues such as self-government, our basic liberties, freedom of thought, freedom to travel and freedoms of expression has landed many a man and woman in jail, or the hands of executioners, pretty consistently. The Greek philosopher Socrates (born 469 B.C) is but one of numerable examples of this clampdown on ‘free thinking’ by state authorities. The Greek court accused him bluntly of ‘…deviating the minds of young people away from state accepted Gods’ and forced him to drink poison hemlock.

It clearly appears that if one person is colouring the world differently from the crowd this may deeply upset other people around them. And worse still may even encourage others in the community to think again about any flawed reasoning behind their own colouring techniques and interpretations. Such outbreaks in the past have spread remarkably quickly, often turning into full-blown bloody revolutions.

Governments and everyday people alike can clearly get very distressed to discover other people are interpreting the world differently from themselves. For this reason our societies have worked tirelessly to alleviate this annoying problem by encouraging all of us to see and interpret our surroundings in as similar way as possible. Needless to say, thankfully, this is a hard goal to achieve, and in reality, ultimately, an impossible one. After all, is it not our birthright to colour and interpret our surroundings as we chose, if only to encourage a more diverse and interesting world to live in? However the pressure is always on for the few brave hearts who step out of line and try to break the mould by being ‘different’. An old Japanese proverb reminds us: ‘the nail that stands out, shall be hammered down’. Displaying how the tug-of-war between the duality of ‘diversity generation’ and ‘conformity’ keeps a tense and fragile balance not only within our human society, but all through the natural world.

In conclusion our daytime colouring techniques, alongside our night time dreaming provide the first powerful reminders that we can be easily fooled right around the clock on the subject of light energy, its patterns of projection, and our own minds. Ancient pioneers that courageously set out to learn more about this subject were clearly motivated by the exciting possibility that the mind can be turned from an annoying stranger that keeps fooling us, into a very useful friend, simply by learning more about its nature.

Our brain is 77-78% water and our eye ball is filled with 99% water. As most of us are aware light is refracted through a lens in the eyeball to focus rays of light from the outside world on to an area of light sensitive nerve cells called the retina at the back of the eye. This information is then carried by minute electrical impulses around the brain through millions of interconnected (water filled) nerve fibres.

Science is now helping mankind to not only successfully discover the very significant role of light energy in the human brain, but also the relationship of light to what we call 'solid matter'. The smallest unit of matter as defined by modern science is an ‘atom’. Scientists first discovered the atom around 1897. Experiments investigating the relationship between the nature of light energy and matter began shortly after in the 1920’s with Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and the discovery that: Energy=Matter x (the speed of light squared) otherwise expressed as E=MC squared.

To give you a rough idea how incredibly small an atom is, the thickness of a normal piece of paper is approximately a million atoms thick. As another rough guide, inside each of the 53 trillion cells that make up our body there are approximately 100 trillion atoms. Naturally scientists expected to find something ‘solid’ inside an atom when they first began tentatively probing its confines. However what they found was the opposite scenario. What they discovered was an atom is made of 99.99999% empty space and the remaining 0.000001% of energy waves. Meaning our bodies and all the apparently solid objects that make our universe, are all made of mostly empty space and energy. In its most raw form, scientists often refer to energy as ‘light’ (or the electromagnetic spectrum to include all the different frequencies light energy vibrates at). Therefore what we perceive to be solid matter, in simple terms is merely light energy condensed to a slower vibration. At this fragile state of slower vibration energy temporarily appears ‘solid’ to our senses, while the truth is it is everything but solid, given a closer inspection. Scientists have now noticed how the slower vibration of light energy is what provides the necessary force to hold the minute solar system that forms the atom, together. Very significantly the basis of this union is upon a simple platform of duality, of the positive and negative charge. As we shall see this dualistic phenomenon provides the entire foundation for universal life, expressing itself in a practically infinite variety of forms.

Each atom resembles a remarkable mini-solar system, a positively charged core circulated by numerous electrons travelling at about 6 million billion revolutions a second around the nucleus. Showing how the whole universe in which we live is also miraculously contained inside each atom and how each tiny piece of our universe contains the whole. Consequently scientists have now converged on a new theory that unveils how light energy is the simple (yet very subtle) hidden source of the entire universe. Many others have asserted that this source energy is pure consciousness. Pure awareness projecting, manifesting and expressing itself in waves of colour, heat, sound, solid objects, animals, plants, growth, movement, and galaxies.

‘It’s not the stars that make the light, but rather the light that makes the stars.’

Don Miquel Ruiz (from the book ‘The Four Agreements’)

Ancient Eastern mystics also appeared to be very consistently united by this exact same conclusion: that energy is the origin of all things. Recent advances have therefore given these age-old testimonies a very firm (even if rather belated) stamp of approval and important new badge of authenticity from contemporary science. Short and concise videos such as ‘Everything is energy’ (posted by the AwakeningAlchemist), longer ones such as ‘The Awakening’ (by Max Igan) and other related videos available on youtube come as highly recommended viewing material and in most cases successfully simplify the recent discoveries of quantum physics to the layman and ‘non-scientific person’ highly effectively.
Nevertheless modern science has not put forward a ‘new unified energy source theory’ but only helped to confirm an unusually ancient one. And in so doing is already challenging many of our conventional assumptions. Early investigations of course never had access to modern technology and therefore undoubtedly employed more simple devices to learn about the nature of light and our universe. Candidly observing a rainbow in the sky from rain and sunlight then noticing how a quartz crystal can also separate light to produce rainbows was, quite naturally, the most likely first step. A well polished quartz crystal was also a highly credible tool of the trade that could be easily carried around in ones pocket to demonstrate this remarkable multiple rainbow effect to others whenever it was felt necessary. To watch rainbows emanating from a crystal held between a person’s fingers must have been a very curious and impressive spectacle to early humans, assuming of course that people had never seen a crystal before or a rainbow other than in the sky!

If we hang a crystal in a south facing window, the rainbows that emerge and grow on the inside walls immediately show many striking similarities to our own human existence. The first most glaring and obvious example of these similarities, as I mentioned earlier, is that each rainbow is unique and that there are never two that are precisely identical, although they all bear a broad similarity to each other. Also, very clearly, each rainbow gradually reaches ‘the prime’ of its life, before slowly shrinking and fading away with the passage of time. Similarly each human being is always unique, while always bearing a general similarity to the rest of humanity, and also has a prime point in its life, before we one day also begin to shrink...

Likewise each animal, insect, plant, cloud, wave or tree is also entirely unique while bearing a close similarity to the rest of its kind. As an axe chips away at a tree trunk creating differently shaped wooden pieces, human beings, just like rainbows, also appear to be ‘chips off the old block’. Meaning there is every possibility that all of earth’s flora and fauna share the same source, regardless of how or with what words we choose to define it. Modern science has also helped to further explain this mystery of constant uniqueness and originality displayed by nature by looking more closely at the fascinating and miraculous properties of the genetic material contained within our body cells called DNA (deoxyribose nucleic acid). Notably all life on earth that grows and evolves uses the same basic backbone of DNA. All DNA is constructed from the same double helix arrangement of atoms, a male strand and a female strand entwined around one another to create two complementary versions of the same text wrapped around one another. The unique sequence of information needed to create an original specimen lies therefore in the coding of these two coiled threads.

The fact we share the same DNA with a tree reveals the earth as a fundamentally singular organism, where the tree breathes out what we breathe in (oxygen), and we breathe out what a tree breathes in (carbon dioxide). The huge influence of DNA behaving as the common denominator that binds all life together shows that DNA holds the key to most of, if not all, of life’s deepest secrets. The most striking and unusual quality of DNA lies in the fact it exhibits all the characteristics of a crystal. Indeed it is the only organic compound found in nature that displays these extraordinary crystalline features.

In fact what allows a solid material to display the quality of transparency is precisely the coiled helix arrangement of the atoms inside. Meaning a transparent solid is not possible without the atoms first assuming a twisted helix structure. Meanwhile, the chances of DNA being the only organic compound to exhibit these crystal-like qualities are certainly more than just a coincidence. Just as a rainbow is first conceived inside a crystal, and its identity is established inside the crystal before projecting itself onto an external screen, so the identity of all life on earth is first conceived inside the crystal we call DNA. As we shall see, this is the first scientific evidence that mind is a universal phenomenon shared by all life, and not merely just a purely personal and private experience. Or in other words, science has provided us with a timely and very powerful reminder that there is a lot more to the topic of mind, than just the brain inside our heads.

This is also the most central theme recurring through all ancient esoteric thought: that mind is a shared universal phenomenon that creates all life, just as a huge crystal can create so many different rainbows. Hand-in-hand with this concept quite naturally is the hypothesis of an independent and unified source. Inferring that all human beings, and all life on earth exists as integral parts of the great cosmic living conscious singular organism we call our universe. Just as trillions of cells go to make up our entire body, all life on this planet also forms the singular organism we call planet earth. Indeed our entire universe, in its most raw form, is but one vast ocean of interconnected energy that projects and expresses itself in an infinite variety of different ways. Clearly indicating that behind a distinctly separated life of billions of fragments, forms and energy expressions in the universe, we always find same common unified energy source.
Ancient mystics often used the simplest of similes to try and convey this theme of singularity to others and remind us of the ‘bigger picture’. For example ‘the blind men and the elephant’ story crosses many of the different earliest religions, appearing in Hindi, Sufi, and Bhuddist, as well as being well-known in the West. Six people are blind-folded next to an elephant and then asked to identify the object in front of them. All the participants of course arrive at different conclusions and descriptions of what they are touching, and quickly begin to argue. One holding the tail says it could be a brush, another touching the leg thinks it could be a pillar, and so on, until the King finally steps in and resolves the conflict by exclaiming ‘All of you are right! The reason for the confusion stems from the fact you are describing different parts of the same animal!’

Pointing to a higher path and clearer vision of how mankind can work in greater harmony given a clearer perspective of the ‘whole truth’. The many different methods employed to try and highlight the subtle qualities of our common origin and interconnected nature where attempted in a large variety of ingenious and unbiased fashions by early human civilisations. These techniques varied considerably in their complexity, extending from simple analogies such as the above, to extraordinarily rigorous and thorough examinations of the nature of light refraction and energy that I will outline in much more detail later.

Other natural phenomena such as clouds and waves also provide useful tools to both explain and highlight the nature of our singular source and the illusion of separation. For example a wave has a similar life to that of a rainbow. A wave appears to break apart from the whole, albeit temporarily. Slowly growing in size to reach its prime in the middle of its life, where it is most accented, to later shrink and merge once again with the whole, and crash back into the sea. So ancient mystics suggested human beings are not ‘separate’ from the universe, as a wave is never truly ‘separate’ from the ocean. Similarly clouds endlessly form and disperse from the same common source. Every wave, every cloud, every rainbow, and every person is unique, and each has a birth and a death.

One further such simple and ancient analogy used by early mystics was of an animal that leaves footprints. In this case each person can be seen as a footprint of the unified singular source. A footprint should not be confused for the animal itself, it is simply proof that the animal exists. We can also tell many things about an animal simply from its footprint, in the same way a rainbow can tell us many things about sunlight and our physical forms can tell us many things about our own source.

‘Limbs are cherished because they are parts of the body; why then are other people not cherished because they are parts of humanity?’

Shantideva

To begin understanding the general significance of these early holistic conclusions more clearly it’s first worth taking a closer look at the most important discoveries physicists have recently made on the topic of light energy in the last five decades or so. In the end there’s sadly no escape from the fact that a little basic scientific knowledge appears essential to a much better appreciation of our universe. However I have absolutely no wish to become bogged down with too much science and have therefore made every effort to distil and simplify any valuable conclusions into as smaller and understandable form as possible.

Having taken a brief look at the basic science of light energy we can then look again at the rudimentary beginnings of ancient rainbow wisdom from a clearer and more educated perspective. If we then apply a generous sprinkle of good old fashioned common sense there are many further fascinating results that also emerge. Light energy is precisely what we are all made from; it pervades and influences every corner, thought, experience and moment of our mortal existence. However most of this we often fail to notice. The education systems provided by modern societies also give little acknowledgement of the huge influence of light in our lives either. This sums up very succinctly how modern science is coming to humanities rescue in a truly spectacular fashion, by finally bringing precisely the full significance and true meaning of light energy in our lives, to our attention.