“Within this hollow channel is the inherent unity of creation and inherent eternity – a space behind, within and outside of time.”

Without violating the highly precise world of mathematics and geometry, the visual image of the n-dimensional torus (or hypertorus) gives a close indication of how perception moves through our energy field in trilogy.

The torus is like a bagel, in constant revolution inside-out, through the empty canal in the centre. Through the central channel of the energy system, or physically, along the spine to the centre of the skull, all three aspects of perception are found in purity.

The hollow central channel is emptiness itself, allowing rapid movement of consciousness and awareness through the vertical column and out both ends. Within this hollow channel is inherent unity of creation and inherent eternity – a space behind, within and outside of time.

Yet this emptiness expands and retracts creating a movement we recognize as passion – a passion to allow life, rejecting nothing. The expansion or retraction of emptiness could be understood as changes within the frequencies of consciousness and awareness, but perhaps not. Without vulgarizing science, it is worthwhile to note that physicists are talking about the expansion of the universe at an exponential rate – an expansion they have associated with a mysterious force for now labelled ‘dark energy’.

The next experiential layer of the central channel is the layer of awareness. Abundantly happy to the point of ecstasy, this is like the diffusing line of clear grey where light particles penetrate darkness. Beyond dualism, it is nevertheless the synergetic space where polarity comes together.

The closest layer to the physical is that of consciousness – the experience of bliss occurring within the meeting point with physical matter and the independent awakening of existence in physical form.

In four dimensions, this ring torus revolves inside and outside of itself around a central axis. Moving outside time and space as we habitually know it, in terms of perception, this means that even the sensation of a butterfly at one moment resting on the outer perimeter of our consciousness or awareness will register also through the central column, inside out. It also suggests that the opening of the windows of perception at the depth and the accessing of the central column will have an impact on the whole energetic form, through every opening through the axis.

Most importantly, this model, which is a model, like a word, used to describe the ineffable, suggests that resources from the unified pool of emptiness – demons and angels both – can be allowed into the energetic form and processed, healed or manifested there.

This has implications for psychic development, the healing arts and the deeper realizations connected to our collective responsibility for the whole.

If fear arises, it is important to allow for the possibility that the finest, most enduring aspects of emptiness appear to manifest as in the first instance the Stillness of Silence, the Stillness of Being and the Stillness of Eternity, and behind that as seemingly objective layers of presence indivisibly identifiable as layers of Peace, Love and Unity.