Understand Mappings & Transform Your World
The principle of mapping permeates everything. Reflexology is a simple example of mapping: each point of your foot corresponds to a different area of your body. Some say that the cleanliness and neatness of your home maps onto the state of your mind. On a graph, a value of x maps onto a value of y. Mappings are everywhere and become profoundly complex. As you become more aware of mappings in your life, your world is transformed.
Everything maps onto everything else. This is a fundamental principle of nature. You are the unified field. The shoes you wear are also the unified field. That is just physics. If you are the unified field and your shoes are the unified field, it follows that you are your shoes. Anything and everything you can think of is the unified field. So, it follows that a pencil is a bottle of water, is a shoe, is a grain of sand, is a galaxy, is a nation. This is just physics. It is called mapping.
The human psyche innately knows such principles exist, even though modern scientific thought has only comprehended the most superficial and simplistic of mappings. Superstitions emerge when people reach for such mappings but do not have the clarity of mind and soul necessary to fathom them. Imagine a life when these mappings are spontaneously understood and honored!
It is widely accepted, even among scientists, that there is a unified field underlying all of nature. This unified field births the quantum mechanical realm, referred to in ancient India as “the Veda.” It provides a structure that bubbles up through all levels of existence, permeating, upholding and ruling even the most superficial level of existence, the physical level. Likewise, principles contained within the structure of the Veda emerge on the surface of life. Much like there are operators in mathematics (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), there are operators on that quantum mechanical, or Vedic, level. Because they exist on that profound Vedic level, you could call the personified aspect of those operators “gods.” Incredibly, even the structure of those fundamental operators (gods) within the Veda emerge on the surface of life. In other words, their forms are not arbitrary. They are woven into the very fabric underlying all of existence and show themselves on all levels of existence, even on the very surface.
Going back to our example of reflexology as a form of mapping, any part of the body can be healed by treating its corresponding location on the foot. Relating this to the topic of Vedic ceremony, the physical murthis (images of the gods) correlate with, map onto, the operators (gods) contained within the unified field. The materials (flowers, camphor, etc.) used in the ceremonies map onto different principles or values contained within the Veda. A flower isn’t just a flower. Nothing is arbitrary. It is all quite scientific. Every gesture and movement in these ceremonies is a technology that maps onto and correlates onto a technology in the depth of existence. The technologies of the unified field are highly sophisticated and profoundly delicate. The deeper you go into existence, the more subtle and sublime the knowledge becomes. It is a technology based upon mapping, every bit as precise and well-defined as the technologies of modern science.
We must be careful not to compromise the mapping that takes place in these ceremonies. I invite you to apply your powers of discernment to the subtle matter of mapping and Vedic ceremony with at least the same level of humility with which you would study math or science. When fully understood with all superstition cast aside, spirituality and science seamlessly merge.
Dr. Michael Mamas is the founder of The Center of Rational Spirituality, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the betterment of humanity through the integration of ancient spiritual wisdom with modern rational thought. From personal issues to global trends, Dr. Michael Mamas helps individuals and organizations develop a deeper understanding and more comprehensive outlook by providing a ‘bridge’ between the abstract and concrete, the Eastern and Western, and the ancient and modern. Dr. Michael Mamas has been teaching for 35 years (including the U.S., India, Europe, and Canada) and writes on a variety of subjects on his blogs,MichaelMamas.net and DrMichaelMamas.com.
