Chapter 7

Zero Point Dynamics & Metaphysics

(from God, Science & The Secret Doctrine)

 

7a. Laya Centres:

Zero Point Origins and Ends

 

… the Universe is contained in ovo in the first natural point ….  (Blavatsky, S.D.I, p. 118)

 

            The view of a universe emerging from a white hole singularity out of nothingness at the beginning of time and withdrawing into a black hole singularity at the end of time is perhaps the most beautiful and symmetrical model of creation that one might imagine.  A cosmos emerges and dissolves back through point sources into nothingness.  Number issues from no-number and eventually returns to it.  The Secret Doctrine offered this perspective over a century before scientists considered such bizarre views and possibilities concerning the origin and ends of the universe.  However, there are very significant differences between the perspectives of Blavatsky’s occult science and the theories of modern times.

Firstly, modern scientists situate singularities only at the beginning of time and possibly at the end, but do not consider the possibility that they are constant
throughout time.   In contrast, The Secret Doctrine maintains that the singularity or zero point state and condition is present throughout the whole period of manifestation.  Living cosmoses are founded upon such zero point laya centres—represented by the singularity.  Higher dimensional intelligences inform material nature within/without through such laya centres.

In creation, differentiation occurs within/without from such inner LIFE centres and at the dissolution of a Kosmos, the LIFE principle withdraws from without/within to
the neutral Laya centre.  The Laya condition represents the ‘eternal’ or constant principle within the Living Cosmos, the essential LIFE. [1]  This mysterious zero point centre persists throughout the life of any living cosmos and is not simply the Alpha and Omega
points—although it may disappear from view somewhat in between as it is veiled by nature.  Further, The Secret Doctrine suggests that all different living Cosmoses or Sons, on different orders of scale, have such zero point laya centres.  These centres are the means by which lower dimensional physics, material and energetic systems and processes, are produced and informed by a higher dimensional metaphysics.

            Blavatsky describes the dissolution of the Cosmos “at the hour of the Pralaya,” as the informing principles withdraw into the neutral laya centre.  She refers to a “path onward” from matter into Spirit and further,

 

… the necessary gradual and final reabsorption into the laya state, that which Science calls in her own way “the point neutral as to electricity” etc., or the zero point. Such are the Occult facts and statement. (p. 551)

 

Blavatsky provides this overview of the evolution of the Cosmos and its eventual dissolution:

 

… evolution … may be thus formulated as an invariable law; a descent of Spirit into Matter, equivalent to an ascent in physical evolution; a re-ascent from the depths of materiality
towards its status quo ante, with a corresponding dissipation of
concrete form and substance up to the LAYA state, or what Science calls “the
zero point,” and beyond. (S.D., I, p. 620)

The Secret Doctrine thus postulates the dissolution of the universe into a Laya Centre at the end of time.  The term Pralaya might be applied in reference to the Kosmos as a whole, to the existence of a Sun (a Solar Pralaya) or to a human being.

Life enters and exits a human being through the higher dimensional physics of the heart and at death, the consciousness and life principle withdraw into the subtle dimensions of the heart as the soul leaves the body (or rather the body is shed, like a piece of clothing.)  Similarly, other cosmoses such as Galaxies, Suns and Planets, have such LIFE CENTRES—zero point foundations as judged from a material perspective, at the heart of their being.  Further, just as when a human being dies, the body is left behind, so also, when a sun or planet or galaxy dies, the informing principles withdraw into the laya centre and the physical body is left behind.  Thus, the “refuse and sweat of the Mother” scattered through the Kosmos, referred to in the Stanzas of Dzyan, are those substances which are the material by-products of previous generations or cycles of the Mother’s labors. 

Blavatsky describes the life principle as withdrawing from one body, tunneling through real Space or the Aether and re-emerging in another spacetime for another Round of life and existence. This is analogous to the modern descriptions in physics of movement through black holes or wormholes.  Such processes occur on the level of a Solar Manvantara as the informing principles of the Sun and planets evolve through different bodies within different rounds of life within our solar system!   Thus, zero point dynamics and processes allow the LIFE centre within to be constant through different ‘rounds’ and ‘races,’ cycles and webs, or the matrices of life.  Blavatsky characterizes Suns and planets as being governed by these dynamics. Upon death, the life principle can ‘tunnel’ through the ethers and re-emerge in another cycle and spacetime in a progressive series of unfoldment.  Just as a human being might live varied lives, so also does the LIFE element within a Kosmos, a Sun or a planet, or an Atom.  It is the existence of such a higher dimensional holographic metaphysics at the heart of being that  allows for such possibilities.  As the Stanzas of Dzyan explain: “THE SONS EXPAND AND CONTRACT THROUGH THEIR OWN SELVES AND HEARTS….” 

The claims of The Secret Doctrine are certainly worthy of scientific consideration, placing mystical axioms side by side with modern theories in order to re-interpret the
theories and data of science.  Although modern scientists conceive of zero point origins and ends for the Universe, they do not consider the continued existence of this singularity condition throughout a period of creation, nor do they regard other living beings as having such ‘zero point foundations.’  For Blavatsky, the universe has a zero point laya centre, as does a galaxy, a Sun, and a human being.  As it happens, astronomers do now conceive that galaxies can have such black holes and singularities at their centres but have yet to consider the Solar system in this light. [2]  Scientists do not imagine that the Sun might have such a LIFE centre— the Invisible Sun described by H. P. B..

The zero point condition is the centre out of which a higher dimensional holographic physics produces the manifestations of life.  Modern scientists regard all of the causes of life phenomena as resulting from random and fortuitous concurrence of matter and energy.  They never entertain the possibility that life is the product of higher intelligences informing material creation within-without through zero point dynamics. 

            It is easy to misunderstand the nature of zero points—as they are likely to be viewed as existing within the four dimensional spacetime, like a spiritual spark ‘in’ the heart.  In reality, the case is quite different.  Dea, a physicist who is well versed in The
Secret Doctrine, explains the remarkable view of ‘space’ implicit to Blavatsky’s teachings:

 

... space-time is created by being squeezed out of a point.  ...  a space-time structure (is created) out of a single point!  With this interpretation
of space-time, certain paradoxes of nonlocality which require super-luminal
speeds are no longer paradoxes.  The reason is that everything is always connected because everything is really part of the same point. ... 

 

It is very difficult to truly grasp these seemingly bizarre ideas as our ordinary understanding of everything is so upside down, mistaken and deluded.  The zero point centre does not exist within the universe but rather everything exists surrounding the zero point laya centre! 

It is the centre which is everywhere and yet nowhere.  All external reality is an illusory
projection from such higher dimensional realities.