I have spent years working with the nervous system, and what I have found is that the laws that govern the universe are not separate from the laws that govern the body. They are the same architecture, expressed at different scales.
The 7 laws you describe are not just abstract principles. They are operational, they can be felt in the body when the field is coherent enough to perceive them.
The law of polarity is felt in the tension between contraction and expansion. The law of rhythm is felt in the pulse of the breath. The law of correspondence is felt in the way the inner state mirrors the outer field.
These are not just concepts. They are embodied truths.
That is the distinction. The brain is not a hard drive. It is an antenna. It does not store information. It receives it. The body is the receiver. The field is the transmission. The laws are not separate from the body. They are the body operating at a higher resolution.
The antenne is the key. The clearer the signal, the more you feel the laws as living truths.
That is exactly what recognition feels like. The framework does not give you anything new. It gives you language for what you already know. The liberation comes from the nervous system releasing the tension of trying to be something it is not. You have been living this truth all along. You just did not have the words for it.
Very clearly and succinctly stated. These laws have been indeed recorded and they are becoming more and more discussed. At heart with the people with whom i hang out. You do indeed have a gift of expressing these things. Thank you very much
Well done, once again! This old wine has been placed in new bottles, repeatedly, as in the late Bob proctor's Eleven Forgotten Laws, the resurgence of T'ai-Chi and countless "New Age" interpretations of ancient Egyptian and Indian scriptures. You have stated the basic seven laws succinctly and clearly.
I found a great deal here worth taking seriously, especially rhythm, polarity, and the idea that greater awareness gives us more freedom in how we participate in cause and effect.
Where I would be more careful is with the claim that modern science is confirming these principles. Resonance is not the same thing as evidence.
Quantum mechanics can challenge our ordinary intuitions about matter, observation, and causality without thereby proving that consciousness creates physical reality, that thoughts possess frequencies in the physical sense, or that the universe is fundamentally Mind.
I also don’t think the Hermetic ideas need that validation. Their enduring power may lie somewhere more interesting: human beings discovered remarkably durable ways of describing patterns of experience long before we had contemporary scientific language.
“As above, so below,” for example, can remain extraordinarily useful as a way of examining recurring patterns across psyche, relationship, organization, and culture without requiring atoms and solar systems to be literally governed by the same structure.
The section on rhythm particularly resonated with me. We live inside a culture that treats perpetual ascent as normal and contraction as pathology.
Yet much of life is cyclical: effort and recovery, expansion and withdrawal, certainty and doubt, creation and gestation. Learning not to mistake every descent for failure is genuine wisdom.
I would make a similar case for polarity. We often create unnecessary suffering by trying to amputate unwanted parts of ourselves rather than understanding what they contain and how that energy might be transformed.
That idea has deep parallels in depth psychology. But again, I’m inclined to preserve the metaphor rather than turn it into physics.
Maybe that is where ancient wisdom and modern science are most interesting together…. when they approach the same mystery from different epistemologies and occasionally illuminate the same terrain, for instance.
Ancient people did not need particle physics to know something profound about being human. Modern science does not diminish that wisdom by refusing to certify its metaphysics.
For me, the more compelling question is not whether these are literally seven laws governing the universe, but whether living as though rhythm, correspondence, polarity, causality, receptivity, and intentionality deserve our attention makes us more perceptive participants in our own lives.
On that question, I think this essay has a great deal to offer.
I concur, and in fact, the interesting thing about this article, is that it corresponds to one I recently wrote…
I see the order by zooming in, and it seems reasonable to wonder whether that same order might persist as we zoom out. Yet there may be a point, a scale, or perhaps a domain, where the correspondence no longer holds, or where our ability to observe it breaks down.
That boundary fascinates me because the observer is not necessarily independent of what is being observed. Our position, scale, domain, and even the act of observation itself may influence what becomes visible to us.
Therefore, to assume Correspondence behaves as a continuous function across every level of reality may itself require a leap of faith. It is a fascinating possibility, and perhaps even a reasonable extrapolation, but possibility should not be confused with certainty.
Every one of these is taught in Vajrayana Buddhism. I would suspect they are also found in the other great traditions’ more ”esoteric” teachings. Natural to life, we all have these innately. So why do we forget? Buddhism teaches that grasping is the problem, translated as desire, but in fact meaning wanting anything other than what is here and now. This, I would guess, is the fear end of that particular spectrum, that fear is the opposite of love (agape) rather than hope, which is a kind of fear itself. Wanting is different from creativity or seeing possibilities. It implies lack. Somewhere in here, belief arises to seal shut the nagging sense of dissatisfaction (Buddhists call it dukkha, suffering), but it never really holds. Thus holy wars and other more mundane fighting. I have long felt that belief is a fundamental problem. You speak of knowing which is truth to be found in the vastness of silence, so different from belief which arises in fear of the vastness . We refer to emptiness, which here you describe in s number of ways—consciousness creates matter, for example. I’f be interested in your thinking about belief and the ways we cling to fear, to obscuration. Thanks for this article today. Very clarifying.
I wrote a poem about this that I actually turned into a song.
All is mind, and mind is all; the universe is a mental creation, our thoughts shape reality’s textured walls
It all begins in our head, which is where perception organizes. The experience of reality has not been met directly, but through our nervous system’s correspondence.
We are invited to nurture our mind, soul, and body. In this way, we are our own mothers in this incarnate reality
As above, so below patterns repeat at scale and flow, regardless of the path you choose to take, this pattern is embedded in our fate
Humans are contextual beings. Honest living happens when we can implement what we’re seeing into being
Vibration and movement participate at all times; therefore, change is an aspect of the unseen divine
When we learn how to navigate change with grace, soulfully, we restore the condition to fully participate in a life that lives boldly.
Opposites are not opposites, but degrees of differences within a relationship. Think of a line with each word on either end of the strip
Separation and differences are what create new relationships. When we can learn to think in this way, we will move away from seeing things as opposites.
Everything cycles within seasons of capacity, expansion, and contradictions is equated with our vitality
Ebb and flow are not the same as failure and success. It’s a natural cycle we all move through; it’s an aspect of life’s quest.
Every effect has a cause, and outcomes are aligned with conditions. Therefore, our experiences emerge from what is in plain sight and what is hidden.
Living systems are accountable to the circumstances they create. The variety of our experiences is in relation to where we are born and with what fate.
Creation is the sum that 1+1 = 3 through complementary functions rather than isolated forces. These principles are how something new comes to be
Masculine and feminine are degrees of the same linear line. Combinations of all varieties interact with the variables within space and time
When we bring all these things together and weave them into literary form, these truths fashion keys that will open abundant doors
I see the order by zooming in, and it seems reasonable to wonder whether that same order might persist as we zoom out. Yet there may be a point, a scale, or perhaps a domain, where the correspondence no longer holds, or where our ability to observe it breaks down.
That boundary fascinates me because the observer is not necessarily independent of what is being observed. Our position, scale, domain, and even the act of observation itself may influence what becomes visible to us.
Therefore, to assume Correspondence behaves as a continuous function across every level of reality may itself require a leap of faith. It is a fascinating possibility, and perhaps even a reasonable extrapolation, but possibility should not be confused with certainty.
Hi Ernie. Thanks for your generous comment. In truth, I don’t always understand what I write. Especially at the time of writing it. I’ve just gotten to a stage where I don’t interrupt the process. You know, I’ll take it a step further… I’m sitting on a deep well of these types of writings and I’m just now sharing them for the first time. Please note, the song was created on collaboration with Suno. The words are what belong to me, not the musical arrangement.
Your song is an expression of something I recently explored in two of my own writings. One is What Keeps Me Up at Night, and the other is a series called A Space in Time, where I explore how Position, Scale, Domain, and Time shape our perception of reality. I think both, particularly the latter, align closely with the concepts you are expressing.
On a somewhat different, but more human connection, here is a link to one of my songs on Spotify, created using similar technology.
For me, that is one of the fascinating possibilities AI has opened. I have no musical training, yet it has given me a medium through which words and emotions that once lived only on a page can find another form of expression. Sometimes an idea becomes an article. Sometimes a poem. And sometimes, it simply seems to want to become a song.
In the article I copied you on, you’ll find, almost verbatim, my own wonder at times about where the words come from. Yet lately, this idea of “correspondence” seems to keep revealing itself through these remarkable coincidences of thought and topic.
By the way, I’ve also been writing poetry since I was a child, and now, through AI, I’ve created close to eleven albums, mostly in Spanish. That, to me, is one of the beautiful gifts of technology. It allows someone like me, with no musical training or talent, to give musical expression to what is in my heart.
Often, the music becomes another language for emotions that were already there, waiting to be expressed. The words simply flow from them. I will listen to your song.
Brilliant. Thank you. Exactly what I needed. I've been going through those exact laws this past 2 yrs emotionally, physically, with only some mental understanding. I can see clearly now as a result of your beautiful article. Cheers! 🎉
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, it explains how, One and They, Trinity, move and have their Being. And, I thought it was impossible to prove the existence of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. They are not far from here. They are here!
Yes, I enjoyed reading it. We live in our "world" by definition and what we call "a priori..." Everything is defined by "the" mind. What if we changed a couple of definitions? What if we polarized a couple of "definitions" on a sliding scale? How would, and do, we know reality?
Your work is excellent. There is another Substack author I subscribe to named Unbecoming that is working with Lulu.com to print his books on demand so we can purchase them in paperback. I already bought your pdf of your book on the sayings of Jesus and love it. I just wish I could get it in paperback. I would definitely buy more of your books if I could get them in paperback.
Thank you! This was the most concise writing on this subject that I've ever read.
I truly appreciate your understanding and knowledge. This is your gift to the world❤️
I have spent years working with the nervous system, and what I have found is that the laws that govern the universe are not separate from the laws that govern the body. They are the same architecture, expressed at different scales.
The 7 laws you describe are not just abstract principles. They are operational, they can be felt in the body when the field is coherent enough to perceive them.
The law of polarity is felt in the tension between contraction and expansion. The law of rhythm is felt in the pulse of the breath. The law of correspondence is felt in the way the inner state mirrors the outer field.
These are not just concepts. They are embodied truths.
Yes, as well I feel my brain are the antenne for all, not a harddisk
That is the distinction. The brain is not a hard drive. It is an antenna. It does not store information. It receives it. The body is the receiver. The field is the transmission. The laws are not separate from the body. They are the body operating at a higher resolution.
The antenne is the key. The clearer the signal, the more you feel the laws as living truths.
To me, these laws feel very liberating and a great confirmation 🌈
That is exactly what recognition feels like. The framework does not give you anything new. It gives you language for what you already know. The liberation comes from the nervous system releasing the tension of trying to be something it is not. You have been living this truth all along. You just did not have the words for it.
Is so true, I loved that Vlad, thank you!
You are welcome! I'm glad it resonated with you.
To be awake is the most incredible thing. It only makes sense that I/we are projecting if anything, much more so than just receiving.
Very clearly and succinctly stated. These laws have been indeed recorded and they are becoming more and more discussed. At heart with the people with whom i hang out. You do indeed have a gift of expressing these things. Thank you very much
Well done, once again! This old wine has been placed in new bottles, repeatedly, as in the late Bob proctor's Eleven Forgotten Laws, the resurgence of T'ai-Chi and countless "New Age" interpretations of ancient Egyptian and Indian scriptures. You have stated the basic seven laws succinctly and clearly.
I found a great deal here worth taking seriously, especially rhythm, polarity, and the idea that greater awareness gives us more freedom in how we participate in cause and effect.
Where I would be more careful is with the claim that modern science is confirming these principles. Resonance is not the same thing as evidence.
Quantum mechanics can challenge our ordinary intuitions about matter, observation, and causality without thereby proving that consciousness creates physical reality, that thoughts possess frequencies in the physical sense, or that the universe is fundamentally Mind.
I also don’t think the Hermetic ideas need that validation. Their enduring power may lie somewhere more interesting: human beings discovered remarkably durable ways of describing patterns of experience long before we had contemporary scientific language.
“As above, so below,” for example, can remain extraordinarily useful as a way of examining recurring patterns across psyche, relationship, organization, and culture without requiring atoms and solar systems to be literally governed by the same structure.
The section on rhythm particularly resonated with me. We live inside a culture that treats perpetual ascent as normal and contraction as pathology.
Yet much of life is cyclical: effort and recovery, expansion and withdrawal, certainty and doubt, creation and gestation. Learning not to mistake every descent for failure is genuine wisdom.
I would make a similar case for polarity. We often create unnecessary suffering by trying to amputate unwanted parts of ourselves rather than understanding what they contain and how that energy might be transformed.
That idea has deep parallels in depth psychology. But again, I’m inclined to preserve the metaphor rather than turn it into physics.
Maybe that is where ancient wisdom and modern science are most interesting together…. when they approach the same mystery from different epistemologies and occasionally illuminate the same terrain, for instance.
Ancient people did not need particle physics to know something profound about being human. Modern science does not diminish that wisdom by refusing to certify its metaphysics.
For me, the more compelling question is not whether these are literally seven laws governing the universe, but whether living as though rhythm, correspondence, polarity, causality, receptivity, and intentionality deserve our attention makes us more perceptive participants in our own lives.
On that question, I think this essay has a great deal to offer.
I concur, and in fact, the interesting thing about this article, is that it corresponds to one I recently wrote…
I see the order by zooming in, and it seems reasonable to wonder whether that same order might persist as we zoom out. Yet there may be a point, a scale, or perhaps a domain, where the correspondence no longer holds, or where our ability to observe it breaks down.
That boundary fascinates me because the observer is not necessarily independent of what is being observed. Our position, scale, domain, and even the act of observation itself may influence what becomes visible to us.
Therefore, to assume Correspondence behaves as a continuous function across every level of reality may itself require a leap of faith. It is a fascinating possibility, and perhaps even a reasonable extrapolation, but possibility should not be confused with certainty.
https://substack.com/@ernieloynaz/note/p-211972242?r=lctfx&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Every one of these is taught in Vajrayana Buddhism. I would suspect they are also found in the other great traditions’ more ”esoteric” teachings. Natural to life, we all have these innately. So why do we forget? Buddhism teaches that grasping is the problem, translated as desire, but in fact meaning wanting anything other than what is here and now. This, I would guess, is the fear end of that particular spectrum, that fear is the opposite of love (agape) rather than hope, which is a kind of fear itself. Wanting is different from creativity or seeing possibilities. It implies lack. Somewhere in here, belief arises to seal shut the nagging sense of dissatisfaction (Buddhists call it dukkha, suffering), but it never really holds. Thus holy wars and other more mundane fighting. I have long felt that belief is a fundamental problem. You speak of knowing which is truth to be found in the vastness of silence, so different from belief which arises in fear of the vastness . We refer to emptiness, which here you describe in s number of ways—consciousness creates matter, for example. I’f be interested in your thinking about belief and the ways we cling to fear, to obscuration. Thanks for this article today. Very clarifying.
I wrote a poem about this that I actually turned into a song.
All is mind, and mind is all; the universe is a mental creation, our thoughts shape reality’s textured walls
It all begins in our head, which is where perception organizes. The experience of reality has not been met directly, but through our nervous system’s correspondence.
We are invited to nurture our mind, soul, and body. In this way, we are our own mothers in this incarnate reality
As above, so below patterns repeat at scale and flow, regardless of the path you choose to take, this pattern is embedded in our fate
Humans are contextual beings. Honest living happens when we can implement what we’re seeing into being
Vibration and movement participate at all times; therefore, change is an aspect of the unseen divine
When we learn how to navigate change with grace, soulfully, we restore the condition to fully participate in a life that lives boldly.
Opposites are not opposites, but degrees of differences within a relationship. Think of a line with each word on either end of the strip
Separation and differences are what create new relationships. When we can learn to think in this way, we will move away from seeing things as opposites.
Everything cycles within seasons of capacity, expansion, and contradictions is equated with our vitality
Ebb and flow are not the same as failure and success. It’s a natural cycle we all move through; it’s an aspect of life’s quest.
Every effect has a cause, and outcomes are aligned with conditions. Therefore, our experiences emerge from what is in plain sight and what is hidden.
Living systems are accountable to the circumstances they create. The variety of our experiences is in relation to where we are born and with what fate.
Creation is the sum that 1+1 = 3 through complementary functions rather than isolated forces. These principles are how something new comes to be
Masculine and feminine are degrees of the same linear line. Combinations of all varieties interact with the variables within space and time
When we bring all these things together and weave them into literary form, these truths fashion keys that will open abundant doors
Point me to the song, would love to hear it.
I see the order by zooming in, and it seems reasonable to wonder whether that same order might persist as we zoom out. Yet there may be a point, a scale, or perhaps a domain, where the correspondence no longer holds, or where our ability to observe it breaks down.
That boundary fascinates me because the observer is not necessarily independent of what is being observed. Our position, scale, domain, and even the act of observation itself may influence what becomes visible to us.
Therefore, to assume Correspondence behaves as a continuous function across every level of reality may itself require a leap of faith. It is a fascinating possibility, and perhaps even a reasonable extrapolation, but possibility should not be confused with certainty.
Hi Ernie. Thanks for your generous comment. In truth, I don’t always understand what I write. Especially at the time of writing it. I’ve just gotten to a stage where I don’t interrupt the process. You know, I’ll take it a step further… I’m sitting on a deep well of these types of writings and I’m just now sharing them for the first time. Please note, the song was created on collaboration with Suno. The words are what belong to me, not the musical arrangement.
https://suno.com/s/G7p8fVyTbhQ3sgAQ
Your song is an expression of something I recently explored in two of my own writings. One is What Keeps Me Up at Night, and the other is a series called A Space in Time, where I explore how Position, Scale, Domain, and Time shape our perception of reality. I think both, particularly the latter, align closely with the concepts you are expressing.
On a somewhat different, but more human connection, here is a link to one of my songs on Spotify, created using similar technology.
For me, that is one of the fascinating possibilities AI has opened. I have no musical training, yet it has given me a medium through which words and emotions that once lived only on a page can find another form of expression. Sometimes an idea becomes an article. Sometimes a poem. And sometimes, it simply seems to want to become a song.
Here is the link… https://open.spotify.com/track/61iFt7mLDfkRmV2JcZQOMq?si=j5uHkNWqQ06XUbCyJ6p39w&utm_source=copy-link
In the article I copied you on, you’ll find, almost verbatim, my own wonder at times about where the words come from. Yet lately, this idea of “correspondence” seems to keep revealing itself through these remarkable coincidences of thought and topic.
By the way, I’ve also been writing poetry since I was a child, and now, through AI, I’ve created close to eleven albums, mostly in Spanish. That, to me, is one of the beautiful gifts of technology. It allows someone like me, with no musical training or talent, to give musical expression to what is in my heart.
Often, the music becomes another language for emotions that were already there, waiting to be expressed. The words simply flow from them. I will listen to your song.
https://substack.com/@ernieloynaz/note/p-211972242?r=lctfx&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Brilliant. Thank you. Exactly what I needed. I've been going through those exact laws this past 2 yrs emotionally, physically, with only some mental understanding. I can see clearly now as a result of your beautiful article. Cheers! 🎉
G. I. Gurdjieff taught these very same laws. Now, to figure out how to make this work for me in my life. Intention. Thank you for your clarity
You amaze me every time…Thank you!
Most excellent information. Thank you.
You can’t decode the 7 universal laws. They weren’t designed to be decoded.
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, it explains how, One and They, Trinity, move and have their Being. And, I thought it was impossible to prove the existence of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. They are not far from here. They are here!
Eight Laws. This the first.
Yes, I enjoyed reading it. We live in our "world" by definition and what we call "a priori..." Everything is defined by "the" mind. What if we changed a couple of definitions? What if we polarized a couple of "definitions" on a sliding scale? How would, and do, we know reality?
We know nothing except Jesus!
As always, so beautiful 💯
Your work is excellent. There is another Substack author I subscribe to named Unbecoming that is working with Lulu.com to print his books on demand so we can purchase them in paperback. I already bought your pdf of your book on the sayings of Jesus and love it. I just wish I could get it in paperback. I would definitely buy more of your books if I could get them in paperback.