http://www.scribd.com/doc/18685/Ultraculture-Journal-One

I hear it’s quite good. Not bad for a free book on the mysteries of the universe.

http://www.horusmaat.com/silverstar/SILVERSTAR8-PG35.htm

For anyone who’s interested, a lot more detail on this general map of reality can be found in B.K.S. Iyengar’s translation of the Yoga Sutra.

The critical bit is the idea that the universe is defined by our ability to detect it – sound, hearing, taste and so on – these are the gates through which things come to our awareness, the senses. The cataloging of everything which can be perceived, inner or outer, by the mode of awareness used to detect it is the core of that approach (from my perspective.)

I wish people realized just how directly this kind of stuff is about perception – things that anybody can see, scientific atheist or mad hindu.

“The crucial axiom from my perspective is that disciplined observation starts at the objects visible to the five senses for science, vs. in meditation and yoga where it starts at the horizon of consciousness, cataloging and observing inner experiences, thoughts and feelings as if they were birds or plants or physical phenomena.”

Actually you can take the 36 Tattva model and START from the five senses and then progress to higher cognizance. Pretty neat – and they map to the 36 letters of Sanskrit.

http://www.shivashakti.com/table.htm