the Big Bang, the primordial Om.

Big Bang theory says that the physical universe

spiraled out of an unimaginably hot and dense

single point called a singularity - billions

of times smaller than the head of a pin.

It does not say why or how. The more mysterious

something is, the more we take for granted that

we understand it.

It was thought that eventually gravity would either

slow the expansion or contract the universe in a big

crunch. However, images from the Hubble space telescope

show that the universe's expansion seems to be actually

accelerating. Expanding faster and faster as it grows

out of the Big Bang. Somehow, there is more mass in the

universe than physics predicted. To account for the missing mass,

physicists now say that the universe consists of only 4% atomic matter

or what we consider normal matter. 23% of the universe is dark matter

and 73% is dark energy -what we previously thought of as empty space.

It is like an invisible nervous system that runs throughout the universe

connecting all things.

The ancient Vedic teachers taught Nada Brahma -

the universe is vibration.

The vibratory field is at the root of all true spiritual experience

and scientific investigation.

It is the same field of energy that saints,

Buddhas, yogis, mystics, priests, shamans and seers have observed

by looking within themselves. It has been called Akasha, the Primordial Om,

Indra's net of jewels, the music of the spheres,

and a thousand other names throughout history.

It is the common root of all religions,

and the link between our inner worlds and our outer worlds.

In Mahayana Buddhism in the third century

they described a cosmology not unlike the most advanced

physics of modern day.

Indra's net of jewels is a metaphor used to describe

a much older Vedic teaching which illustrates the way the fabric of the

universe is woven together.

Indra, the king of the gods, gave birth to

the sun and moves the winds and the waters.

Imagine a spider web that extends into all dimensions.

The web is made up of dew drops

and every drop contains the reflection of all the other

water drops, and in each reflected dew drop you will find

the reflections of all the other droplets.

The entire web, in that reflection and so on,

to infinity.

Indra's web could be described as a holographic universe,

where even the smallest stream of light

contains the complete pattern of the whole.

The Serbian-American scientist, Nikola Tesla,

is sometimes referred to as the man who invented the

20th century.

Tesla was responsible for discovering alternating current

electricity and many other creations

that are now part of every-day life.

Because of his interest in the ancient Vedic traditions,

Tesla was in a unique position to understand science

through both an eastern and western model.

Like all great scientists, Tesla looked deeply

into the mysteries of the outer world,

but he also looked deeply within himself.

Like the ancient yogis, Tesla used the term Akasha

to describe the etheric feel that extends throughout all things.

Tesla studied with Swami Vivekananda, a yogi who brought the ancient

teachings of India to the West.

In the Vedic teachings, Akasha is space itself;

the space that the other elements fill,

which exists simultaneously with vibration.

The two are inseparable. Akasha is yin to prana's yang.

A modern concept that can help us to conceptualize Akasha,

or the primary substance, is the idea of fractals.

It wasn't until the 1980s that advances in computers

allowed us to actually visualize and reproduce mathematically

the patterns in nature.

The term fractal was coined in 1980

by mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot

who studied certain simple mathematic equations that,

when they are repeated, produce an unending

array of changing mathematical or geometrical forms

within a limited framework.

They are limited, but at the same time, infinite.

A fractal is a rough geometric shape

that can be split into parts, each of which is approximately

a reduced sized copy of the whole pattern -

a property called self similarity.

Mandelbrot's fractals have been called

the thumbprint of God.

You are seeing artwork generated by nature itself.

If you turn the Mandelbrot figure a certain way,

it looks sort of like a Hindu deity or a Buddha.

This figure has been termed the "Buddhabrot" figure.

If you look at some forms of ancient art and architecture,

you will see that humans have long associated beauty

and the sacred with fractal patterns.

Infinitely complex, yet every part contains the seed

to recreate the whole.

Fractals have changed mathematicians' views of the universe

and how it operates.

With each new level of magnification,

there are differences from the original.

Constant change and transformation occurs as we traverse

from one level of fractal detail to another.

This transformation is the cosmic spiral.

The embedded intelligence of the matrix of time space.

Fractals are inherently chaotic-full of noise and order.

When our minds recognize or define a pattern,

we focus on it as if it is a thing.

We try to find the patterns we see as beautiful,

but in order to hold the patterns in our minds,

we must push away the rest of the fractal.

To comprehend a fractal with the senses

is to limit its movement.

All energy in the universe is neutral,

timeless, dimensionless.

Our own creativity and capacity for pattern recognition

is the link between the microcosm and macrocosm.

The timeless world of waves and the solid world of things.

Observation is an act of creation through limitations

inherent in thinking.

We are creating the illusion of solidity,

of things by labeling, by naming.

The philosopher Kierkegaard said,

"If you name me, you negate me."

By giving me a name, a label, you negate all

the other things I could possibly be.

You lock the particle into being a thing

by pinning it down, naming it,

but at the same time you are creating it,

defining it to exist.

Creativity is our highest nature.

With the creation of things comes time,

which is what creates the illusion of solidity.

Einstein was the first scientist to realize

that what we think of as empty space is not nothing,

it has properties,

and intrinsic to the nature of space

is nearly unfathomable amounts of energy.

The renowned physicist Richard Feynman once said,

"there is enough energy in a single cubic meter

of space to boil all the oceans in the world."

Advanced meditators know that in the stillness lies

the greatest power.

The Buddha had yet another term for the primary substance;

what he termed kalapas, which are like tiny particles

or wavelets that are arising and passing away trillions

of times per second. Reality is, in this sense,

like a series of frames in a holographic film camera

moving quickly as to create the illusion of continuity.

When consciousness becomes perfectly still,

the illusion is understood

because it is consciousness itself that drives the illusion.

In the ancient traditions of the East,

it has been understood for thousands of years

that all is vibration.

"Nada Brahma" - the universe is sound.

The word "nada" means sound or vibration

and "Brahma" is the name for God.

Brahma, simultaneously IS the universe and IS the creator.

The artist and the art are inseparable.

In the Upanishads,

one of the oldest humans records in ancient India,

it is said "Brahma the creator, sitting on a lotus,

opens his eyes and a world comes into being.

Brahma closes his eyes,

and a world goes out of being."

Ancient mystics, yogis and seers

have maintained that there is a field

at the root level of consciousness.

The Akashic field or the Akashic records

where all information, all experience past,

present and future, exists now and always.

It is this field or matrix

from which all things arise.

From sub-atomic particles, to galaxies,

stars, planets and all life.

You never see anything in its totality

because it is made up of layer upon layer

of vibration and it is constantly

changing, exchanging information with Akasha.

A tree is drinking in the sun, the air,

the rain, the Earth.

A world of energy moves in and out

of this thing we call a tree.

When the thinking mind is still,

then you see reality as it is.

All aspects together.

The tree and the sky and the Earth,

the rain and the stars are not separate.

Life and death, self and other are not separate.

Just as the mountain and the valley are inseparable.

In the native American

and other indigenous traditions

it is said that every thing has spirit

which is simply another way of saying

everything is connected to the one vibratory source.

There is one consciousness, one field,

one force that moves through all.

This field is not happening around you,

it is happening THROUGH you

and happening AS you.

You are the "U" (you) in universe.

You are the eyes through which creation sees itself.

When you wake from a dream you realize that

everything in the dream was you.

You were creating it.

So called real life is no different.

Every one and every thing is you.

The one consciousness looking out of every eye,

under every rock, within every particle.

International researchers at CERN,

the European laboratory for particle physics,

are searching for this field

that extends throughout all things.

But instead of looking within,

they look to the outer physical world.

Researchers at the CERN laboratory in Geneva,

Switzerland announced that they had found

the Higgs Boson, or the God Particle.

The Higgs Boson experiments prove scientifically

that an invisible energy field fills the vacuum of space.

CERN's large hadron collider consists of a ring

17 miles in circumference, in which two beams

of particles race in opposite directions,

converging and smashing together at nearly the

speed of light.

Scientists observe what comes out of the

violent collisions.

The standard model can not account for

how particles get their mass.

Everything appears to be made of vibration

but there is no 'thing' being vibrated.

It is as if there has been an invisible dancer,

a shadow dancing hidden in the ballet of the universe.

All the other dancers have always danced

around this hidden dancer.

We have observed the choreography of

the dance, but until now we could not see that dancer.

The so-called "God Particle",

the properties of the base material of the universe,

the heart of all matter which would account for the

unexplained mass and energy that drives the universe's expansion.

But far from explaining the nature of the universe,

the discovery of the Higgs Boson simply presents an

even greater mystery, revealing a universe that is

even more mysterious than we ever imagined.

Science is approaching the threshold between consciousness

and matter.

The eye with which we look at the primordial field