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The Experiment
The EDGE Interview with Corvus Night on the exploration of Perception and Focus
Last of a two-part series by Tim Miejan
"My reality will never be the same."
-- Robert F. Butts of the Seth books
Ketherin Michaels and Corvus Night, partners for nearly 30 years, spent their life
together with tarot, I ching, metaphysics and Western mystery studies. They went
deeper and deeper into the mystery and into the truth that lies beyond the visible
world.
Michaels, a natural intuitive who became a highly skilled medium, worked with discipline
and diligence to attune her perception to what she described as "the voice of
the inner teacher." In her weekly sessions, she journaled what she was told.
The Experiment: An Exploration of Perception and Focus -- A Primer (Greybear Publishing
Co., 2002) is the record of her philosophical journey.
The book is filled with more than 200 full-color illustrations by Night, a writer,
illustrater, healer and philosopher. His colored drawings, charts and diagrams complement
the text perfectly, making it possible for readers to apply the experiments on their
own perception and begin to discern for themselves whether anything exists beyond
what the eye can see.
Michaels made her transition from this lifetime in 1998. Night spoke with The EDGE
by phone from his office in Santa, Fe, N.M.
What value is there to our lives in seeing more than meets the eye?
Corvus Night: The value is that in expanding your awareness into these other
levels, you come in contact with more information. As you begin to allow that these
other realities exist, and that there is knowledge in these other realities that
may be hidden from someone who doesn't explore them, the value is in opening up these
channels so direction and guidance and support begins to come to you from these inner
levels.
One way of looking at it would be that at the appearance level, a person seems to
be at the mercy of events and circumstance. But if you begin to work on both sides
of the mirror, as the book describes it -- they say this appearance level is like
a reflection in a mirror -- you become integrated into yourself. You become more
whole and more in control of the circumstances and the events you encounter in your
day-to-day life, so it's very empowering.
You become aware of your role in creating the circumstances.
Night: Absolutely. And the color charts play a role in that. The teachers gave
us a gift with these charts. They're pretty amazing.
You call them color charts of the keys of music, and there are also the SevenStar
designs.
Night: Yes, they all generally work on the same principle, which is to take color
and, in the case of the music charts, harmonize it to the sounds of the keys of music.
For example, the chart for the key of E major corresponds to the sounds of the notes
of the key of E and the colors of the spectrum. And when you place those colors in
that kind of an aligned pattern, it has a strong influence on you.
Think about the power of vision. Let's say you just saw an accident take place. That
affects you. If you see a field of flowers and it's really beautiful, it lifts your
spirit. What you see is so important to the way you feel and the way you go through
reality. We know instinctively or intuitively that we're uplifted by a scene of beauty
or compassion, but it's not really taught about the incredible influence it has on
who we are and how we feel.
Harmony in music is something that's built into this reality we inhabit. Once you
have a picture in front of you that uses that harmony and uses those colors as they
respond to the notes, that picture has a profound influence on your life. You may
be skeptical and say, "Well, it's just a picture," we have found through
using the charts and talking to others who have used them over the years that they
have a subtle, powerful influence of bringing a person into alignment.
The concept of alignment is very important. As consciousness in a body, our function
is to transmit the power of the universal will or the Source or God or whatever name
you have for it. That power flows through us. In an instrument that's not very well
aligned, there is going to be a lot of disruptions and turbulence as that force flows
through the instrument. So if we think of ourselves as instruments, the more aligned
we can be, the more clearly we can let that energy of the One, or the All, flow through
us, the happier we're going to be, the better things are going to work out for us
and the more easily our desires are going to be fulfilled. All those things depend,
to a certain extent, upon alignment.
The primary function of the charts is to align you. We feel they're incredibly important.
Just putting them up in your house has this amazing effect on your life. It's not
like there is a dramatic change where you put them up and you get rich the next day,
but over a period of time these energies pump energy and alignment into the space
that you are in. Once again, you're going back to the idea of the ancient Greeks
as being aware that the space in which we move and live is a reflection of a spiritual
movement, or the movement of the creator. So the ways that you can influence that
space that you're in have a strong effect on you.
What is the inner space travel you refer to in the book, and how do you build
an inner space ship?
Night: Inner space travel is something we're involved in all the time, whether
we have a conscious awareness of it or call it that. As we go through life, growing
from children to adults, we move through the layers of reality. That, really, is
inner space. I don't think there's really much of a distinction between inner space
and outer space. Our journey through life is a journey through inner space.
The idea of the inner space ship is to bring that journey to more of a conscious
level so we can have an influence on where we go and how we go. Often in the unexamined
life, a person is just on automatic pilot. Whatever input they've received as children
through education, environment and all the influences that mold the outer character
in the unexamined life, lead you into this automatic pilot mode.
The idea of inner space travel at a conscious level and building the inner space
ship is to begin to take control of where we're going. In one sense, yes, you do
take control, but in another sense, as the teachers and philosophers and spiritual
leaders say, you're really giving up control to the larger forces that move us. And
yet there is a certain conscious control that we can take -- at least something that
appears like control.
There are some exercises in the book on creating the inner space ship that people
are taught to visualize as a cube. This cubical shape is an imaginary figure that
we inhabit and use for travel in the inner levels of reality.
If you think of perception that is in a physical body, you have these directions
of movement that are available to us: forward and backward, left and right, up and
down. These are the directions that define outer space, or the space that we live
in, or the three-dimensional world. What we do is translate that cubical shape into
a figure that exists in inner space, and we use it to become aware of our relationship
to the cosmos -- in terms of the six directions of space and a seventh direction,
the center, the point from which you can travel either out there or in here. In that
way, this cube becomes a very powerful idea for moving anywhere that you want to.
Let's say that you have a goal in mind, something that you'd like to accomplish in
your life. If you work with the inner space ship, creating the cube, particularly
creating a strong center point from which you can operate, you will find in meditation
that you can travel at an inner level to those places where you would like to be.
You can use the space ship to travel there and to be there.
What we found is that it collapses the layers of reality, so it shortens the time
period that it takes to get from one place to another. It's a way of focusing the
mind and the perception to bring the energy of the larger self to bear on whatever
the particular problem or desire happens to be.
What do that call that on Star Trek, the transporter?
Night: Yes, the transporter. That's the idea eventually. That's the line of progress
that we're traveling on so that we would eventually reach the point of development
as human beings and human consciousness that we could instantly materialize any thought
that we might put our energy into. We're obviously a ways away from that, but it's
the direction we're headed.
Do you see signs that a bridge is developing between science and the concepts
you're talking about?
Night: Absolutely. Without question. It's becoming more and more difficult as
science progresses for scientists to maintain this enclave separate from what some
people may call "a metaphysical reality." The concepts that scientists
have discovered, which in a lot of cases they don't understand or have a context
for, fit in perfectly with the ideas that the outer reality is just a reflection
of an inner state, particularly with the developments in quantum theory and relativity.
Before the 20th century and what they call the revolution in modern science, the
outer world was pretty much the focus. Things in the outer world were measured and
studied and found to be so incredibly precise that a worldview developed that saw
the outer world as this objective field that was going to keep on going whether there
was anybody there to live in it or not. They really ascribed this power to the outer
world, because they were blown away by how incredibly precise and consistent the
laws of nature are.
But then when quantum theory and relativity developed simultaneously at the turn
of the century and began to grow into the field that it is now, a reversal began
to take place. Instead of the emphasis being on the outer world, it shifted in a
way so the emphasis was placed on the individual who is observing the world, as opposed
to the effects of the outer world. So it's really a turnaround that has happened.
And that leads us back to the Pythagorean principle that the most important thing
is the individual as a center point of energy in relation to the cosmos. If you look
at relativity and quantum theory, that idea is essential to the understanding of
quantum effects. They even go so far as to say that it's the consciousness observing
the effect that brings the effect into the world. That until that consciousness makes
an observation, all you can say about it mathematically or descriptively or whatever
is that a huge field of probability exists. Only when the conscious observer makes
the observation do the probabilities collapse into an actual, physical event.
You know, that's cosmic. That's an incredible statement.
It sounds like a description of manifestation.
Night: Yes. It's really an amazing concept. Relativity has a similar concept,
that the observer is the all-important point in the equation. If reality can manifest
in different ways for different observers who are in different frames of reference,
then the emphasis automatically shifts to the observer.
These are really metaphysical concepts. Truth is truth. No matter what lens you look
at it through, the wider view you get the more you delve into it, the more similar
it's going to become to other fields of Truth. In the end, they all coalesce. And
I think that's what we're moving toward now: the acceptance that science and religion
and metaphysics are not separate disciplines. They are all pointing the same direction.
What are we going to see next in terms of The Experiment?
Night: Right now, we're working to develop the power of computers and electronics
to develop these ideas into an interactive format, such as in our web presence. One
of the things the teachers talk about is that the written word has been very important
in our development. Books are the depositories of all of the concepts that have been
discussed over thousands of years.
The teachers say that we're now moving into a video age, where this direct perception
of an image, with all the information that is available, are becoming more important
to learning. And we know this to be true, as we see with TV, with movies and the
incredible explosion of imagery that's around us. We can experience images that bypass
the logical centers of the brain that deal with reading and assimilating concepts
like that.
What we would like to do is combine the two in an electronic experience. We're working
on getting materials on CD and beefing up our web presence so you'll be able to go
online and look at one of the charts and it would play a sound passage related to
that particular chart, for example, in the key of C major. It becomes a meditation,
whether it's online or on CD.
We have this incredible power that's available to us now through electronic manipulation
of images and bringing sound and color and movement, as well as words, into the equation.
That's one of the directions we're working in, as well getting the next volume in
the series out, because there's maybe 15 or 20 volumes in The Experiment. It's really
quite an extensive work.
For more on The Experiment, go to www.theakademe.com, e-mail greybear@theakademe.com,
call (505) 424-0190,
fax (505) 424-0168, or write to P.O. Box 5158, Santa Fe, NM 87502.
Tim Miejan is editor of The EDGE. Contact him at (651) 578-8969 or e-mail editor@edgenews.com
Copyright (c) 2002 Tim Miejan
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