THE NATURAL ORDER PROCESS

IN TERMS OF MODERN FIELD THEORY

CARL E. PETERSON

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FOREWORD
Acknowledgement and deep felt gratitude are herewith expressed to my everpresent Teacher and Friend, Vitvan. The background laid by Vitvan in his over 50
years of teaching, writing and counseling, form the basis for the following
presentation. Without that foundation this present work could not have been
accomplished. His assistance during the writing of this sketch was felt as a constant
aid, support and guidance, which resulted in the conceptual framework erected. I do
not wish to imply that I was acting merely as a witness to this current portrayal of
process, but rather that the depicting is the resultant of a cooperative or joint effort,
with Vitvan as the prime directing or influencing agent. I have been extremely
conscious of this in the past few weeks.
Years ago we tried to interpret a man to himself by beginning with that
which he was most familiar, his physical body; explaining the way it
functions, then describing his psychic-nature, his mental organization, etc.,
and gradually leading him into the instruction concerning spiritual forces.
Now, in the foundation part of our course we have a different
approach. We use various diagrams and analogies to enable the beginning
student, with the aid of his imagination, to gain some grasp of the overall
picture of the Cosmic Process. Forand let us emphasize this pointit is
fundamental in our Teaching that each individual is integral with that Process.
Each individual represents an epitomization of that Process. There is no
individual apart from that process. Individual is merely a label representing a
phase of the Entire Process.
In order to properly comprehend any phase of the Cosmic Process, we must
have an adequate understanding of the way it operates. The better our understanding
of this organizing activity, the greater will be our comprehension of any given phase
and the more closely we may cooperate with the Natural Order direction.
It is hoped that the presentation to follow will assist the students of our School
in their endeavors to Tread the Path and that this sketch will lend itself towards
becoming a minor addition to the literature of the School of the Natural Order.
Faithfully in the Great Work,

CONTENTS
GLOSSARY OF TERMS:
Configuration - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Field - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Force - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Function - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Functional Operator or Operational Procedure - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Motion - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Order - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Organizational Level - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Process - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Self-awareness (Consciousness) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Space - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - State; state - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Structure - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Time - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Veridical - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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AIM AND DIRECTION
INTRODUCTION TO FIELD PROCESS CONCEPTS
FIELD PROCESS AND MATTER
ON FORCE, MOTION AND DIRECTION
THE GALACTIC FIELD ORGANIZING PROCESS
ENVIRONMENT, SELF AND FIELD
PSYCHIC-FUNCTIONING AND FIELD INTERACTION
MEDITATION, BREATH WORK AND COOOPERATION WITH THE
NATURAL ORDER PROCESS
Diagrams
Negative Substance, Positive Power, Primary Gunas, Seven
Rays, The Multiplicity
Symmetrizing and Dispersal Tendencies
Some Phases of the Natural Order Process
Main Chart of the School of the Natural Order
Quantum Field Interactions in Sense Perception

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GLOSSARY OF TERMS
I

Self-awareness (Consciousness):
Vitvan: Indubitable factness as referent for the word Consciousness is
axiomatic. Self-awareness is Self-evident. Consciousness is structurally
described as activity in and of field through its union with the Power-to-beconscious.

II

(a) state: Degree of Self-awareness, characterized by or represented as the

level of organized field synthesis.
(b) State: Degree of development of the Individualizing or Autonomous Field on
the Mind-Level.

III

Field: A synthetic, structural, pattern or network in Negative Substance in

process, representative of a state of Self-awareness. The activity in this
network of field equates with state of Self-awareness.
The word field may also be described as representing a regional stress
whose tendency towards balancing eventuates in an organization process.

IV -

Organizational Level: A given structural stratum upon which synthesis, ordering

and complexity are in process.

V-

Motion: A An alteration or change in the structural pattern of a given

field.
B When this change in a field pattern takes place in cooperation
with the ordering process that we label Natural, we say that the direction of
the motion is towards increasing states of Self-awareness.

VI -

Time: The measurement of change in synthetic, structural, field pattern in the

direction of increasing states of Self-awareness. Time equates with
measurement of change in structure. Time also equates with measurement in
change in a state of Self-knowing in the direction of increasing Selfawareness.

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Force: That which is causative with respect to motion or activity on any

organizational level; namely, the urge of the Power-to-be-conscious to
become conscious of Itself. This urge is responsible for the direction spoken
of in #V.

VIII - Configuration: A synthetic field aggregate, usually pertaining to a structure

which is perceivable through sense modality registry.
IX -

Process: An ongoing motion of ordering with respect to any organizational

level.

X-

Structure: Synthetic field-pattern in process or in constant flux.

XI -

Function: A developed and ordered, operational modality, pertaining to and

inherent in the pattern of a given field on any organizational level.

XII -

Order: The unidirectional, sequential and cyclic process of structured field

synthesis.

XIII - Functional Operator or Operational Procedure: A particular process of

organization in structure (field) which will facilitate a more parallel or
aligned cooperation with the Natural Order Process. Examples: Meditation;
Breath Work.
XIV - Veridical: Truly based with respect to empirical referent.
XV -

Space: See the word Field in #III.

LESSON ONE
AIM AND DIRECTION
We, in the School of the Natural Order, do not ascribe to the notion that the
accumulation of some vast amount of information, mental concepts, etc., constitutes
a knowledge of Reality. Mental concepts, though they may be descriptive of that
viewed in clear perception, in and of themselves are more or less static structures,
while Reality is a process. However, the reality of such mental concepts constitutes a
process or function; on the mental level of course. Therefore, if we could formulate a
system of mental structuring that is conceptually descriptive of Reality; and, if we
could set up a method of relating these concepts in a manner that parallels the way in
which Natural Order process operates; then we would have, through the integration of
this methodology into our respective consciousnesses, the means whereby we could
order our functions more in accord with the natural course of growth and
development. This is the direction of the Natural Order Process.
Through the years, Vitvan has been a foremost exponent in utilizing,
incorporating and synthesizing the empirically established referents of modern
science, as well as the views of contemporary theoretical physics into the teachings of
the School of the Natural Order. The reasons for the utilization of scientific
terminology and concepts into the teachings of our School are several; we will discuss
two of them below.
1. In the educational system of our country today, there is considerable stress
laid upon the application of the scientific method to almost every field of study. In
this present context we feel that we must incorporate enough of the scientific
approach so as not to outrage the sensibilities of those trained in our educational
institutions. Since the achieving of new frontiers takes place in modern science
continually, we realize that a presentation, which incorporates these new
advancements, represents a process, rather than a static or crystallized conceptual
framework.
A quotation from the Correspondence Course by Vitvan will point this up:
The scientists of today have opened wide a door whereby we can enter
with sure and confident tread into the frequency world. We must, therefore,
have enough of the scientific approach not only for our own individual
development, but also in order to properly present the Wisdom Teaching for
this New Age. Those who fail to measure up to the requirements of the New
Age will quickly be outmoded and their thought structures relegated to the
scrap heap upon which is rapidly being piled the other representations of the
age which has past.
2. In using the concepts and terminology of the Science of Semantics and of
modern physics, etc., we have access to a vehicle of expression in which reification of
terms is difficult in the extreme; this situation contains value of high order, in that
confusionthrough misinterpretation of statements madeis at a minimum. In other

words, we have, so to speak, a way of bypassing the race-psyches value and cognitive
systems and therefore the individuals as well. We, at this point, again wish to quote
from Vitvans works. You will note that there is indicated a definitive and explicit
direction as to the terminology, thought structure, conceptual framework, etc., which
is seen to be fitting as descriptive of Reality for this New Age:
I am not at peace with the continuance of this symbolical form of
communication; I am getting impatient to abolish it entirely, on the grounds
that it is no longer necessary. In the cycle that is now dawning (and
particularly for those who have appreciable understanding of field-physics),
wherein we will function in non-personal identifications with syntheticalized
faculties of awareness, extension of uranographical and zodiacal symbolism
will not be necessary for or requisite to understanding the Cosmic Process.
For some thinkers the question may immediately occur: will it not be
advisable to retain the symbolism for those who will not develop synthetical
awareness, non-personal identification, etc.? The answer is no, on the
grounds that the age or cycle for it (affinity in the race-psyche for it) has
passed, that other symbolical forms (the mental concept) have intruded and
displaced it; and most particularly, we now have a methodology designed to
quicken or develop the synthetical and non-personal faculties of awareness.
Anyone can develop full understanding of the Cosmic Process without
knowing ancient scriptures. Modern scriptures should be written in modern
terms, words and other symbols which correspond to our up-to-date
perceptive awareness. This may shock identifiers with ancient
representations; but I am of the opinion that we should leave aside our
babyhood remnants of our infantile state and dispense with those qualities
that hang on, even though they evoke sentimental feelings and emotions. We
can still cherish a memory of being taught at our mothers knee without
nostalgia overtaking us; and those early impressions on the psychic-nature
can be rolled up, pigeonholed, tagged and tucked away in memory files (thus
destroying their baleful influence) as lessons learned in Natures school.
Therefore, to summarize these ideas, I believe that a formulation of
the verbalistic phase of our instruction in accordance with clarity of
perception of today and of tomorrow, will be more advantageous to
understanding than trying to go back, revive the long forgotten symbolical
representations, struggle against ignorant prejudice to re-establish the key to
the Christian Scripture, etc..
(From The Christos Series, pages 9 and 10, Book IV.)
The above described direction is that which we will tend towards by reason of
the considerations mentioned in the foregoing quote and in the sentences preceding
it.
The development of a Unitary Field Theory (sometimes called Unified Field
Theory) has been attempted by many theoretical physicists and mathematicians for
the last half century; among these was Albert Einstein who, using a mathematical

approach, along with a matter, field duality, was self-admittedly unsuccessful. In

1948 a British physicist-biologist of little renown, named Lancelot Law Whyte, wrote a
book entitled, Unitary Principle in Physics and Biology and achieved the long looked
for union.
By way of explanation, in order for a theory to be truly unitary, it must be
applicable to every and all aspects of the Cosmos; from the remotest to the nearest;
from the minutest to the most gigantic. In turn, a unitary theory must apply to all
interrelationships of these innumerable aspects. Briefly, a unitary theory is one which
unifies the SciencesPhysics, Biology, Psychology, etc.through an underlying
principle more basic than found in any one science or specialized field of science.
Between the years 1954 and 1956, Dr. Leo J. Baranski undertook the writing up
of material garnered through 25 years of intensive effort in pursuit of a Unitary Field
Theory. His book represents that arrived at in his search, as well as a utilization,
expansion and furtherance of Unitary Theory as developed by L. L. Whyte.
During a lecture on July 7, 1963, Vitvan introduced the book: Scientific Basis
for World Civilization: Unitary Field Theory, by Dr. Leo J. Baranski. At that time he
said:
I have looked over this book; read the Preface and browsed through it.
20 years ago I would have been so excited over this I would not know
what to do. Students in the School should learn the scientific approach to the
Unitary Field. This work in my opinion, is going to be a textbook; and
students of the School of the Natural Order should be way out in front in this
general worldwide study.
Approximately six months later is was decided to use the aforementioned book
as a basis for the weekly Sunday classes here at Headquarters. In working Unitary
Field process concepts into his consciousness, the present writer became strikingly
aware that it would be possible to completely include present day Field Theory in the
teaching of the School of the Natural Order. Heretofore, the inclusion of modern
science into our literature and presentation has been extremely limited or restricted
because of the seven to eight years of university mathematics as necessary
background for reasonably adequate treatment.
The empirical referents acceptable to science have not as yet been established
as regards Unitary Field Theory. However, if a given description of the Natural Order
Process parallels the clear perception of same by one on the Mind-level, we would
accept that the empirical referent has been established. This is the case as regards
field process concepts and their interrelationships.
Although a non-mathematical approach to field theory is now possible, one
should not suppose that the grasp of this material is necessarily simple. The degree of
difficulty, however, is more on the order of the alienness of the mental patterning
necessary for grasping field process concepts, relative to the more or less linear
procedure most of us follow when functioning cortically.
The procedure to be followed in this course of lessons will be the setting up of
descriptions respecting process concepts, symbols used, and the application of this
conceptual framework towards the determination of what we label functional

operators which are described in the Glossary of Terms, #XIII. Please refer frequently
to this list of described terms for clarification, as well as to the accompanying
diagrams, etc., that we will call attention to.
The present presentation represents a correlation of Unitary Field Theory with
the Wisdom Teaching as given by Vitvan. Vitvan stated not too long ago that to
incorporate Modern Science into the teaching of the School we need not change our
teaching at all. His statement still remains true, as the fitting of field process
concepts to the literature does not alter the literature one whit. Neither is it
necessary to change the views expressed in Unitary Field Theory, except to amplify or
stress certain aspects thereof, wherein it would better suit our purposes. This last is
primarily in the area where we will place more emphasis upon increasing (or greater)
states of Self-awareness as the prime mover or tendency in the Cosmic Process.
It is assumed that the reader has a reasonable working knowledge of that which
is set forth in our Correspondence Course; as the greater part of the terminology
used will be derived therefrom. It may seem, as we proceed, that many of the
concepts introduced differ considerably from what has been given prior. However, if a
careful study is made, it may be found that very little newness has been provided. On
the other hand it may be observed that the interrelating of certain concepts, present
in the Schools literature, is handled in a manner somewhat different than heretofore,
but yet in a way which may throw a bit more understanding upon these points through
the change in view.
In the past, two widely differing descriptions of Reality are, at present,
approaching each other in rapid convergence. The bases of these two descriptions are
primarily resultant from two forms of discipline: self-discipline and the scientific
method. The first discipline leads more directly to perception of Reality through unity
with It. The second disciplinerelative to the first methodis a sort of roundabout
way of approach. However, because of the nature of this latter discipline, a veridical
description of process-reality is gained and may be relied upon. Thus our almost
unreserved adoption of that conceptual framework into our description of Cosmic
Process.

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LESSON TWO
INTRODUCTION TO FIELD PROCESS CONCEPTS
Let us begin our study of process in terms of field with a brief review of what,
in this School, we label the Descending and the Ascending Arcs. As we go through this,
however, it would be well to keep in mind the following two statements: A
Creation is in continuum. B Every individual motion is a Universal movement.
Concerning statement A: when, and as we talk about certain phases of the
Cosmic Process, we may speak of these phases as having taken place or as going to
take place, but only for purposes of clarity or as an aid to understanding. There will
be no confusion respecting this point, if, as background for mental structuring, it is
understood that all phases of the Cosmic Process are eventuating in a simultaneous
circularityHere-Now! When it is stated otherwise, it is merely for purposes of
description. There is no beginning and no end.
With respect to statement B: we should keep in consciousness that each local
field system represents the Cosmic Self in process of successive states of Its own Selfknowing; also that the direction of the individual motion, when aligned with the
Natural Order, is towards these successive states of increasing Self-awareness.
Now keeping the above in mind, let us go ahead with our description of the
Ascending and Descending Arcs. Note: the single quotes are relative to the Cosmic
Process. We will therefore eliminate these single quotes by treating a local phase of
the Cosmic Process which does have a beginning and an ending.
Referring to the chart on the next page we have, at a beginning, a unity, which
we express symbolically by the Word AUM within the triangle at the top. From this
unity a polarization occurs resulting in what we label the Negative Pole (Mother
Undifferentiated Light) and the Positive Pole (FatherActivating Principle). The union
of these two we call the Son (Power-to-be-conscious). In this union the Mothersubstance is acted upon by the Positive Power and becomes tremendously stimulated.
Resulting from this there ensues a differentiating process, from one (Undifferentiated
Light) into three (the three primary gunas), from three into seven (the seven rays),
and from seven into a vast, vast multiplicity.1

Though this chart and others we may use are shown as stratified or layered we are not inferring that process is
such. It is suggested that the truer way of picturing the phases represented would be the mental superimposing of
all the components shown.

The Positive Power which is causative with respect to the Mothers

differentiating does not itself differentiate or change in any way. It does, however,
continue to activate the Negative; first in the lowest phase and then in each
successive stage as the organizing or Natural Order Process begins.
Our primary consideration here will be this synthesizing or organizing process
which we call the Natural Order Process. It has been stated that the only permanence
is change. Our concern is an understanding of the way that this change takes place.
We need not go into any detail as regards each step of each phase of organization in
process, rather, by grasping a few universally applicable and somewhat circularly
related process concepts, we will have comprehended the basis for understanding
process in all of its stages. Also, in achieving this grasp, we will have patterned the
mental substance in such a way that a parallelism or correspondence will exist
between it and the Natural Order Process, thus enabling a given one to cooperate
more closely with this process. The apprehending of these field process concepts may,
perhaps, throw a greater light and emphasis upon the need for an increased program
of meditation, breath work, etc., which we will discuss later on in terms of field
process concepts.
We will now launch into a description of field process concepts, which will be
discussed from the standpoint of tendencies. In the Schools literature the words
synthetical field have been used to some extent. A synthetical field is described as
a synthesis or organization of lesser or smaller structures or fields into a larger
structural whole. Our use of the word structure is with the keeping in mind the
characteristic constant change or never-the-sameness as applies to that which the
word represents.
The Unitary Principle is labelled the symmetrizing tendency. It is one principle,
but stated in terms of two aspects: one as regards local process and the other as
regards the Cosmic Process. We will state briefly these two aspects and then deal
with them in greater detail.
The symmetrizing tendency, as applies to local process, is the tendency
towards the utilization, aggregation or synthesizing of lesser fields (structures) into
larger structural aggregates. This tendency alone, influencing the lowest level of

differentiation as per our chart above, would soon result in the utilization of all the
field structures available on that lowest or quantum level in building the next
higher level of structure, the sub-atomic, and we would soon have no process
without some counteracting tendency.
It is not to be supposed, when we speak of a grouping together of fields into a
larger aggregate, that it is a simple addition of parts towards just a larger mass,
rather, this synthesizing of smaller, synthetic fields into a larger synthesis, when
paralleling the Natural Order Process, results in achieving a structure whose
functions, modalities and general structural arrangement differ radically from what
we would expect from a simple additive process. This synthesizing operation would
exemplify what is meant when it is stated that the whole is greater than the sum of
its parts.
On the level of the Cosmic Field the symmetrizing tendency takes on a
characteristic motion towards equipartition or equal distribution of free energy
field structures throughout the Universal Field as-a-whole. Here we have a statement
of the counteracting tendency to the Unitary Principle as applies to local process. To
alleviate the confusion of using one word to describe two seemingly contradictory
tendencies we will use the term dispersal tendency when speaking of the Unitary
Principle as concerns the Cosmic Field.
To the above two tendencies we wish to add a third on our own. This we
describe as the urge or tendency of the Self to Know Itself. The Universal Field as
seen with clear perception may be described as one Act of Consciousness. From this
State of Consciousness or Self-awareness one only perceives the varying states of
ones own Self-knowing, and these states tending in the direction of greater states of
Self-awareness. This totality or synthesis of states of consciousness and their
representations we label the Self or the Cosmic Self and the tendency to become
more Self-aware as the primary or basic tendency in the overall process. This third
factor in process is causative with respect to the balance of the symmetrizing
tendency and the dispersal tendency, which equalization results in the Natural Order
Process or the organizing process. This balance is not the perfect balance which might
be supposed, but only a degree thereof. The lower the phase of process the greater
the degree of imbalance. Balance here refers not only to symmetrizing and dispersal
tendencies but also to a balance in polarity. So, we have it, that degree of balance,
stage of field synthesis, and state of consciousness are synonymic terms.
Let us clarify, before we continue, two of the terms we have been using:
symmetry and synthetic. We are not using the word symmetry as descriptive of
form characterizing right-handedness, left-handedness relative to a median line, but
rather as regards the tendency on the part of a given unit of local order to utilize
lesser structures in the immediate surround both for maintaining that local unit as
well as for increasing the complexity of the stage or phase under consideration. This,
too, applies to units of local order being grouped together into larger structural
aggregates. In this way, a field aggregate which is synthetically larger or more
complex, relatively speaking, is also said to be more highly symmetrical. In addition,
an aggregate which is crystallized or closed to the Natural Order Process is
structurally designated by the term finally symmetrized.

To some of us, the word synthetic, as applied to such words as vitamins,

rubber, etc., has the connotation of artificiality or unnaturalness. This term, as used
in this paper and as used in chemistry and physics, denotes a grouping together of
simpler components into a more complex matrix, pattern or arrangement.
Let us now continue with our discussion of process concepts utilizing a simple
process diagram in so doing:

Note the use of the arrowed lines denotable as representing tendency. The
motion of the symmetrizing tendency is towards a closed end or the cessation of an
organizing process and could be called a downswing. The dispersal tendency, on the
other hand, represents an upswinging direction in that through it those components
inherent in a unit of completed symmetry are dispersed or released and again made
available for the continuation of the Natural Order Process. Through the generally
ordered cooperation of these two tendencies we have the resultant as shown, and add
that the direction of this resultant is towards greater states of Self-awareness.
Though the word cooperation has been used here, as if there may be some
implicit inference that this cooperation may or may not eventuate, we wish to
categorically state that the cooperation between that which we label the dispersal
and symmetrizing tendencies is not only predetermined but also representative of the
primary tendency in the Cosmic Processthe urge of the Self to Know Itself.
The study of the above diagrammatical direction which we call the Natural
Order Process is the fundamental consideration here as this will be most advantageous
in assisting us in cooperating with it.
Our health, happiness and very existence depend upon divesting our natures of
that which does not pertain to the Natural Order Process. The readjustment necessary
for achieving that which is called the Middle Path may not have, as its constituents,
phases which are entirely pleasant. But if the direction of process is primarily toward
the Septenary goal, then the sooner we, respectively, begin to coordinate our
functions in accordance with that stream, the less will be the upheaved burden that
we will have to loose from ourselves.

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LESSON THREE
FIELD PROCESS AND MATTER
Before we proceed to a greater depth with the development of process
concepts, we find it necessary to delineate the representations of some of the words
we have used and will be using. The understanding of the relationships between these
words, or symbol-concepts, is also quite important and will greatly facilitate the
mental grasp of the Natural Order Process as well as assisting in the clarification of
the meanings of these symbols. The terms to be described, for the major part, are
those which most of us utilize to a considerable extent in discussing points in the
Schools literature. It is felt that, at least to some degree, one who uses a given word
takes on the responsibility of being able to set up a verbal referent for that word
based upon an experiential referent. If one is unable to do thisthat is, describe his
termswe are of the opinion that he is just making noises.
In our setting up of referents for terms used, the attempt will be made to give
an adequate description; though not necessarily scientifically or mathematically
rigorous this will be sufficient for our purposes.
Let us start off by delivering ourselves from the dualistic outlook of speaking in
terms of field and matter. There are many types of fields, each exhibiting particular
or distinguishing characteristics. A few of these are: gravitational, electric,
electrostatic, magnetic, electromagnetic. Each of these fields is described in terms of
its structure and pattern, the different types of fields varying in structure, as well as
the manner in which they interact with other fields. A method of portraying field
structure is that of using a bar magnet with a piece of paper placed on top and some
iron filings then sprinkled on the paper. The magnetic field of the bar magnet orders
the iron filings into the familiar and characteristic pattern of a cross-section of that
field. We could call this volume surrounding the magnet, which exhibits this ordering
characteristic, a region of patterned stress. This little experiment exemplifies a
structure other than that of which we are aware through the senses, and that which
we call field exhibits polarity. In general all fields are similar to that described above.
We intend to utilize field as the basic unit/structural component of the
universe. All structure regardless of fineness, type, mass, minuteness, vastness, etc.,
etc., we will show, is comprised of fieldsa synthesis of fields. The word field we
will use in place of substance or matter because of the greater veridicality of its
connotation, as well because it may be less easily reified. We do, however, equate
the word field with the word Mother, and this on every level of structural reality:
the Light Mother (The Realms of Supernal Light and Diamond Light) and the World
Mother (Reflected Light). (See page 6 of the Cosmology Course of the School of the
Natural Order for a chart portraying these differentiations.) We will speak of field as
that acted upon by the Positive Power in every phase of process reality.
The kind of field which will concern us here, we will designate as formative or
configurating. If the word field is used without either of the above two descriptive
terms, it will be understood.

A number of years ago, magnetic fields and others were thought of as

emanating from a given configuration and that the configuration was causative with
respect to the type of field under observation. Subsequently it was found that there
exist fields which have no configurational basis. In other words, sometimes a field
could be detected when or where there was no so-called matter in the environs.
In the subatomic phase of the organizing process (refer to chartSome Phases
of the Natural Order Processat the end of this lesson) it has been found that there
are 40 some particles necessary to account for the different types of activities,
actions, reactions, etc., on that level. Basically, however, this number can be
categorized into three divisions of positive, negative and neutral (or binding force);
this grouping is with respect to charge. For our purposes this is sufficient and we will
speak of electronic fields (negative charges), proton fields (positive charges), and
meson fields (neutral charges) as the constituents of the organizational stage called
the atomic synthetic field level.
Nuclear physicists, in observing the motion of an electron have tried to set up
equations descriptive thereof; they have succeeded in doing so but the extremely
complex Schrdinger equation, which represents this achievement, contains an
imaginary element describing the electron as a discontinuous entity. The electron
field is continuous but exhibits a periodic rearrangement of its constituting quantum
fields such that radiation is emitted cyclically. The physicist, as of yet, is averse to
giving credence to that which he cannot measure. Thus he hesitates when asked
about the electron between radiation cycles. Perhaps, at some future date
instruments, of the degree of sensitivity necessary, will be developed for the
detection of these individual quantum fields.
Vitvan has called this discontinuity, blinking points of light, on and off, on
and off, etc. There is a change in arrangement of electron field pattern and radiation
is given off, another cyclic change in field pattern and no radiation given off. The
point we wish to present here is partly the cyclic nature of field arrangements, but
more essentially that at the most basic state of structure there is no thing, no solid,
no matter, etc., only field.
We will quote a paragraph from a work by Albert Einstein which will perhaps
clarify this:
What is regarded as matter is situated in regions in which the field is
especially strong. Motion of matter means that the regions in which the field
is especially strong change with time. Hence, a resting electron has to be
represented in a unitary electromagnetic theory by a small region, inside of
which the field is very strong, and outside of which it dies out quickly. Such a
region, with a strong, but finite field, represents concentrated energythat
is, matter.
The changing of field arrangement such that detectable radiation eventuates,
is, according to Vitvan, through the intersection of lines of force. What do we have
as the result of intersection of lines? We have only a number of points! Dimensionless
points! Nothing solid, no-thing at the most basic level of structure from which all the
rest is synthesized. Therefore, if we have no-thing, no solid particles, etc., at the

most basic level, it will be the same in successively higher organizational phases as
well. Also, if we have field (regional stress) at the most basic level, then we have
field at all successive stages of process.
Now, having set up a reasonable description for the symbol field, let us
utilize this in delineating some of the factors concerned with the Natural Order
Process. These factors will appear as structural operators in the ordering of local units
in a given phase where there is alignment with that ordering process called natural.
We will choose a given phase and discuss it relative to the next phase above it and
to the phase adjacently below it.
We are going to use the term free energy or free energy structures
considerably from here on. By this term, or terms, we imply structured synthetic
fields usually being concerned with the lowest four phases of process. (See Some
Phases of the Natural Order Process, at the end of this lesson.) These free energy
structures are utilized for increasing the complexity, developing the organization,
furthering the order, etc., etc., relative to phases of process as we will deal with
them below.
A given local process in cooperation with that which we label the Natural Order
is structurally organized in such a way, that a degree of balance between the
dispersal and symmetrizing tendencies obtains with the ensuing resultant of a high
level of free energy maintained, which is a necessary factor for continuation of
process. A local process is also ordered such that, if this high level of free energy falls
off, a restorative tendency returns the energy level to its high norm. The arrangement
of its comprising synthetic fields is such that it is able to utilize the free energy
structures in its surround for the above purposes as well as the pertinent ones below.
A given local process tends in the direction of greater organization, more
complexity and higher ordering of its componential fields and of the functional
capabilities and modalities obtaining in that phase, all of which become the ordering
of the local unit towards its assimilability, its utilizability as a synthesizable or
polarizable field component for the next structural phase in the Natural Order
Process.
Balance with respect to both polarity and the dispersal and symmetrizing
tendencies must be maintained to a degree or resulting completion of
symmetrization, and subsequent dispersal would follow. A degree of imbalance,
however, is also necessary, as otherwise, there would soon be reached final
symmetrization and cessation of process. A finer and finer balance becomes the case
as the organizational phase called Mind is approached. In other words, a certain
leniency is allowed while on the Path, but this leeway grows less and less as the
Path is pursued, and is likened to a razors edge when approaching the transitional
stage of the purified psyche.
The foregoing delineations pertain to the Natural Order Process and are
applicable to every organizational phase in or of that process. Though this is true, our
application will primarily consist in dealing with the man-state (psyche and
configuration) and the synthetic process on the Autonomous Field level towards the
development thereof. We have considerable groundwork yet to lay before we may
attempt to apply field concepts to those phases. As has been mentioned previously,
when and if this groundwork is grasped, we will have the means whereby we may

discuss any event, any action or reaction, any stage of a growth and development
process, etc., etc., and this, without using words which are circularly defined;
symbols which eventuate in undefined terms or words that are easily reified.

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SOME PHASES OF THE NATURAL ORDER PROCESS

Each successively higher level represents a synthesis of all the levels below
it.

LESSON FOUR
ON FORCE, MOTION AND DIRECTION
In breaking away from the matter-field duality, we automatically achieve a
non-aristotelian approach to mental structuring. The value systems built up from
identity of sense faculty registry with process reality will rapidly disintegrate when
the full integration into ones consciousness of field-in-process concepts is gained. Let
us not be misquoted, through misunderstanding, that we are stating that the reports
of the senses are false. Rather, we say, that the sense modalities, through only a
partial of limited sensitivity to the entire electromagnetic spectrum, give us an
extremely incomplete view of Reality. Then, when and if we identify with this limited
view, and act accordingly, we have opened wide the door of confusion, grief,
contradiction, and all manner of activities which are not necessarily aligned with the
Natural Order Process. From veridically based grounds of orientation to the Natural
Order Process, respecting the level of the phase one now operates in, one may gain
alignment with the next and higher phase of processthe development of the
Autonomous or Individualizing Field on the Mind-level, which phase we will discuss in
a subsequent lesson.
As we continue our description of process and delineate some of the terms
used, let us sharply differentiate between verbal referents and experiential referents.
The verbal referent pertains strictly to the mental phase of process and may or may
not have the veridical component; namely, the experience as that upon which the
description is based. The experiential referent is the experience itself on a nonverbal, non-mental level. There is, of course, mental function and the experience of
cognitive processes on that level, but the function or experience of intellect is never
that on any other level. The tendencies to identify the verbal or mental with
experiential referents, to identify sense-modality registry with process reality, and
that tendency towards reification or identification of word with that spoken of, have
been called the cognitive invariants of the human. One called it, the lie and the
Father of it.
This that is labeled cognitive invariant, however, need not be such, through
the development of the ability to abstract consciously, as well as through the
integration and application of that gained through the understanding of field-process
concepts. It should be pointed out here, that the steady application of the functional
operators: meditation, breath work, AUM chanting, etc., is essential in destroying the
influence of the now outgrown cognitive invariant. Let us then, through sharp
discrimination, rid ourselves of those false-to-life-process-fact concepts and begin to
tread the Path in the direction of the Natural Order, at the particular synthetic stage
in the development of the psyche where we should be organizing and ordering that
phase of process.
We shall now return to descriptions of terms and set up referents and
interrelationships among the word-concepts: motion, force and time.
Vitvan and Einstein (as covered in Lesson Three) have described motion as a
change in field pattern or structure, or we could say, as a change in the arrangement
of comprising field aggregates relative to the synthetic field of which it is composed.

This altering in arrangement is brought about by that third and most basic tendency in
the Cosmic Process, the urge of the Self towards more or greater Self-awareness.
When observable motion eventuates, relative to a given local process, it is the change
in field structure or the pattern which is this motion.
Let us turn to the second organizational phase of process (called the subatomic
field phase) for elucidation of this point. We will suppose that we are observing an
electron field whose pattern is thus:

e
The point e is representative of the intersection of lines of force resulting in a point
of radiation, by means of which we can detect that there is something there. A
change now takes place in the field pattern eventuating in a structural alteration
portrayed as:

e'
The solid lines in this figure represent the former pattern, while the dotted
intersecting lines determine the altered pattern. The new point of intersection
designates a spatial removal from point e to point e' (read e-prime). But, that which
is causative with respect to the movements (positional variant) of the electron
from e to e' is a change in field structure. Another way of stating this is to say that
there was an apparent motion of the electron from point e to e' as indicated by the
arrow. What actually took place, however, was an alteration or change in the
arrangement of lines of force in the configurating field.
We will consider for a moment the direction of this motion which we have now
equated with a change in field pattern. A radically new and different conceptual
referent is to be developed here, which, though not too difficult to comprehend, may
prove to be not too easily accommodated to function.
In our School of the Natural Order, a high value is placed upon what we call an
accurate roadmap. The truer to territory the roadmap, the less difficulty we have
when taking the journey (developing functional abilities). A much higher value,
however, we place upon the developing of these functional abilities, as it is through
this method that actual growth and development take place, rather than in achieving
the mental grasp of some conceptual framework, regardless of its nature. Our stress is
placed on function. First, understand the conceptual framework descriptive of fieldprocess-reality, and then apply this comprehensionchange it over to function; that is
the immediate goal.
To return to our subject regarding the direction of motion in general, we wish
to categorically state that the only Force, Power or Energy of which we are aware
equates with the urge of the Self to know Itself. We regard this as causative with
respect to every activity, every motion, every change in any and every phase of the

Cosmic Process. It is stated, therefore, that in every organizing, ordering, complexing

or structuring process, the prime mover or motivator is this urge towards increasing
Self-knowing. It is not to be construed that the use of the words causative, prime
mover, etc., imply that the Force or Power referred to is extraneous to process, the
reverse is the casethe Power is one with process.
You will recall the discussion anent the Descending Arc and the differentiating
process concerned therewith in Lesson Two. Just as the tendency is for the
differentiating process to occur, so also is there not only the tendency but also the
teleological assuredness for an integrating or de-differentiating process to eventuate,
which we label the Natural Order Process. This is what is called the evolutionary
process by most biologists. The words evolutionary process however, do not,
because of their current usage and described meaning, have what we classify as the
proper or ontological connotation, which we consider a necessary prerequisite when
dealing with process. So, we will avoid these terms and continue using Natural Order
Process.
In discussing the Descending Arc, there was described a differentiation from
one to three to seven and then into a vast multiplicity. On the Ascending Arc there is
the re-synthesizing of this multiplicity into the seven, etc. This grouping, aggregating,
combining, etc., occurs in the direction of the Septenary synthetic which we call the
Mind-level, or the phase in process when Self is All. Now, since the only Power we are
aware of is the urge of the Self to know Itself and, since the higher the phase of
field-process, the greater the degree of Self-knowing, and, since synthetic fieldprocess tends towards higher and higher stages of field synthesis, then it follows,
that motion, which we have described as a change in arrangement of field
components in any and every instance, becomes the direction of greater or increasing
states of Self-awareness. The above statement is also a description of the direction of
the Natural Order Process.
The foregoing may seem to be the question: If all motion is towards increasing
Self-awareness, and if this is described as the direction of the Natural Order Process,
then since motion also obtains as regards the dispersal and symmetrizing tendencies,
does this then signify that these two tendencies are included in the Natural Order
Process? No, not necessarily. But, as was mentioned earlier, the primary tendency in
the Cosmic Process is towards the above increasing states of Self-awareness. The
other two tendencies (dispersal and symmetrizing) are utilized as necessary
components with this major one. These three tendencies together represent the
Cosmic Process.
The further delineation of the above point seems advisable. In process reality
there is no waste, only utilization. What may appear to be destruction, forces of
darkness, dissipation, decay and death or that which is to be avoided, are, as viewed
from an ontological or Cosmic vantage point, very necessary to the continuation of
the Natural Order Process. Without the continuous re-supplying of free-energy
structures resulting from destruction, decay, etc., we would shortly have no process.
And likewise, without the tendency towards aggregating these structures we would
have no process. But, while these two principles are absolutely necessary to the
Natural Order Process they are not necessarily included in it. Since the prime
organizing factor in the Cosmic Process, the urge towards greater Self-knowing,

overrides the other two tendencies, their motion is also in the stated direction
(towards greater Self-knowing), but one step removed as regards an exact identity
with that direction.
To clarify the one step removed we will use an analogy. Let us suppose that
a farmer, whose income results from growing crops, finds that he must let a large
portion of his land lie fallow for a year or two so that it will become arable once
more. Now, while the ground is lying fallow, it is not directly helping to maintain his
income at the level required, but indirectly, or one step removed, the lying fallow
is very much related to that which is necessary for his livelihood.
A statement was quoted in Lesson Two. That was: Every individual motion
represents a Universal movement. In place of the word represents we could, with
validity, put equates with, as, since there is but one motivator in all process, and
as this Power pertains to the Universal Field-as-a-whole, any and every motion can be
none other or less than Cosmic in scope or proportion.
A single electron field, leaving as its indicated path, a track in the physicists
cloud chamber; a snowy cumulus drifting across the afternoon sky; the orbital
spiraling of the planet Jupiters 11 moons; a family en route to a vacation in Canada;
energy exchanges taking place in an atomic reactor chamber; a baby taking its first
steps; a morsel of food on its way to ingestion; and a non-finite number of etc.s; all
of these motions may be veridically described as directional with respect to the
eventual goal of the Septenary, re-synthetical phase of process, which may be
equated with increasing states of Self-knowing towards what we call the Mind-level.
We have spoken of motion as a change in field pattern in the direction of
greater synthesis or greater Self-awareness. Vitvan describes consciousness as the
activity taking place respecting all phases of process, and the state of consciousness,
as the degree of field synthesis, towards the recombining of the plurality into the
seven rays, upon or in which this activity occurs. A certain completion of organization
must obtain, however, with reference to a given ordering field, before consciousness
may be evidenced in that field. In other words, though with each of us, respectively,
there is activity going on, on the level of the Individualizing Field, functional
awareness does not as yet pertain to that phase, at least for most of us. We state,
that a degree of completion of organization has to eventuate, before consciousness
can transfer identity to the higher level, for when the transition is first made, one
discovers that he is only an infant. He then understands that he must begin the
growth, development and organizing of his vehicle on the Mind-levelthe lowest level
of Lights Regions.

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LESSON FIVE
THE GALACTIC FIELD ORGANIZING PROCESS
At the beginning of the last lesson we said we would give descriptions for the
terms motion, force and time. The first two of these, we covered in Lesson Four, but
we have yet to describe that which the term time represents. We will also portray
galactic outpourings and how they apply to planetary field-process organizational
phases.
Motion, we have discussed, as an alteration in ordering of comprising
synthesized fields relative to the larger polarizing field which is composed of them.
This larger and configurating field is causative with respect to the arrangement and
rearrangement of those constituting, smaller, polarized structures. It has been noted
that a direction is attributed to our delineation of the word motion and that this
direction is spoken of as though it were dual in nature. This, however, is mostly for
purposes of clarity in description. These two directions are towards increased states
of Self-awareness and larger and more complex field syntheses which are
representative of these states.
It would be well to point out that the greater or higher the degree of Selfawareness, the lower the level of field in which that state functions. Please refer to
our diagram at the end of Lesson Three where elucidation of this point is made. It is
stated in our literature that psychic functioning is on the molecular level of process
and that Mind-level function has to do with the atomic and subatomic levels, and that
on the last named level the configuration is built of a vast synthesis of atomic and
subatomic fieldsthe Autonomous Field or the Individualized Field.
In explaining the relationship of the concepts time and motion, we will have
set up sufficiently our referent for the word time. When we observe certain local
processes, it is noted that structural alterations or changes in field arrangement
occur. When this eventuates in the direction of the Natural Order we denote the
degree or amount of change in pattern in this direction as time. Or, it could be
stated, that that which the word time represents equates with measurement of
motion in the direction of the Natural Order Process. This measurement of motion
may or may not be relative to some arbitrary standard. The arbitrarily chosen
standard that is used generally today is the result of field interactions between the
gravitational fields of the earth and the rest of the solar system, and the resultant of
this, interacting with the galactic gravitational field, which culminates in the
spiraling, cyclic, orbital pattern of the synthetic field, labeled the planet Earth. It is
the counting of the cycles of this spiraling pathway and those mostly arbitrary
divisions of these cycles which we usually use as our standard and compare with other
changes. A clock is spoken of as a counter of sequential rhythmic field interactions. It
is in this context that the Earths planetary pathway represents our clock. The Earths
spiraling pathway is, of course, in the direction of increasing Self-awareness. We also
equate time with the measurement of change in degree of Self-awareness
unidirectionally towards increasing states of Self-knowing.
A background has now been presented, adequate enough for utilization in
depicting the planetary field organizing process respecting the phases thereof. This

will be accomplished in terms of field syntheses and through the use of that
developed, concerning factors in field-processes as pertain to local process in Lesson
Three of this series.
Let us begin this very interesting and illuminative characterization with the
signification of what the term galaxy2 represents, in terms of componential
arrangement. Simply speaking, our solar system is comprised of a self-illuminating
star at its approximate center, and nine planets in different orbits revolving around
it. A solar or star system is, essentially, the structural unit of a galaxy. The particular
galaxy in which our sun (a star) is located is a synthesis of around one-hundred billion
stars. This galaxy is located in what is called a galactic group subsystem which
contains 16 other galaxies similar to ours. These galactic group subsystems, each a
synthesis of billions upon billions of solar units, are the structural units of what we
call the Universe, and number in the thousand-billions.
In times not so modern, it was theorized that, at some date, several billion
years ago, a small and extremely densely packed mass underwent an explosive
expansion and this was the birth of the Universe. This theoretical depicture is
affectionately known today as the big bang hypothesis and is, at present, still
accepted by some scientists, though empirical evidence is, we believe, to the
contrary.
Briefly delineated, this empirical evidence is as follows: It is noted through
observation that stellar fields may be categorized into just two broad groupings called
Population I and Population II stars. Population I stars are thought to have been
formed relatively recently and in their different types display an evolutionary
sequence. It is in the Population II grouping only that we find the stars that go into
nova (explosion or dispersion).
From the observation and classification of individual galaxies it is found that
three general divisions are necessary and sufficient. Vast, nebulous, self-luminous,
dust-clouds comprise the first. The second is composed of what are labelled, spiral
arm galaxies. The third are called elliptical galaxies and, for the most part, do have
that characteristic somewhat circular form. Percentage-wise the distribution of the
millions of galaxies observed is thus: Nebulous: 3%, Spiral Arm: 80%, Elliptical: 17%.
Let us apply our understanding of Population I and II stars to the three types of
galaxies, and then view this in conjunction with our grasp of field-process operation.
It is noted that the spiral arm galaxies have, as their inhabitants, primarily Population
I stars, while the elliptical galaxies are inhabited almost exclusively by white dwarfs
and red giants (Population II). Also it is noted that in the spiral arm galaxies there are
immense clouds of interstellar dust which are not found in the elliptical galaxies, as
though, in this latter case, the components for continuing process, galactically
speaking, have been used up. From our understanding of process concepts, we would
suppose that final symmetrization has been reached and, if this is the case, that the
dispersal tendency would start the redistribution of the bound up field structures.
2

At times we will find it advantageous to delete the word field as applies to various processes described or
discussed, not only for purposes of brevity, but also particularly to avoid considerable redundancy. It is left
therefore as an exercise for the student to supply mentally the deletions. (Examples: Galaxy galactic field; planet
planetary field: atom atomic field; etc., etc.)

From observation we find that this conclusion seems to be the correct one, as it is in
these elliptical (finally symmetrized) galaxies that the novae appear.
So, there are: nebulous galaxies, those just in the process of formation; spiral
arm galaxies, in varying stages of Natural Order Process; and elliptical galaxies, those
which have reached the last stage in synthesis. We have talked about three types of
galaxies, but only for convenience. There are stages of each type, one flowing into
the next in an unbroken chain of sequential process. The vast majority, however, do
resemble in appearance and structure the spiral arm, or irregular galaxy, as it is
sometimes called. This galactic chain in process, from the nebulous to those including
the exploding novae, represent what we in our School sometimes call the
mahamanvantaric cycle.
The elliptic or exploding galaxies are representative of the Descending Arc. The
other 97% are representative of the Ascending Arc, and display individual
characteristics exhibiting process in an almost infinite number of stages. These
stages, we are going to posit, grouped into one synthetic field, comprise the Universe,
which is Self-influencing through these galactic fields, but only in one direction. This
direction is the one spoken of before, and points from the nebulous galaxies towards
the finally symmetrized or elliptic galaxies which are denotable as increasing states of
Self-awareness.
Most of us in this School of the Natural Order have gained the experiential
referent for the affective nature of contact with One who functions on the MindlevelVitvan. Those who visit here at Headquarters mention their consciousness of
this characteristic influencing almost without exception. They also mention that when
they depart, and as their distance from here increases, that a lessening of the feeling
of this influence is experienced. Some, however, report that their awareness of this
Field remains for several days after a visit here. This fading of influence need not be
the case however, as the Field which is representative of the state called Mind-level
does not attenuate with any change in tri-coordinate location. In order for this to be
operative one must have thoroughly developed the ability to tune in to that state,
to a great degree. But regardless of ones capacities along these lines, the influence,
assistance and guidance are ever present to one who has made and maintains the
contact. The achieving of intelligent cooperation with this influencing aid to Selfdevelopment entails our breaking through what we sometimes call the Veil of Maya
(read The Veil of Maya as given by Vitvan for an elucidation of this point, as well as
a description of the way of rending the Veil).
From the foregoing discussion it may be readily discerned that spatial proximity
is not prerequisite to the affectiveness of a field in a higher phase of process on a
field the next step lower in process. The tendency, briefly stated, is for the more
highly synthesized field to influence the lesser towards increasing organization on its
present level, as well as tending to bring the lesser to the higher state or next phase
of process. From the Mind-level of clear perception (Knowing), all is Here-Now. From
this viewpoint there is no vast, seemingly interminable spaciousness to the Universe.
It seems to fold in on itself in complete superimposition. The gigantic proportionality
collapses, so to speak, and becomes One, One Self in an intimate immediacy of
Knowing.

It was stated earlier that a sequential chain of one way process is evidenced
pertaining to the galactic phase of organization. The spatial disproportion of each
galaxy from any other, instead of being reckoned in terms of hundreds and thousands
of light years distant, is reduced to zero from our vantage point of perceptivity. It is
from this view that the subsequent portrayal of the galactic field organizing process is
elicited. We do not choose this standpoint just for the reason that we find it
advantageous, but solely because this is the way we perceive it.
Let us consider two successive phases in an organizing process and, for
convenience, we will deal with them as layered or as one above the other. It will be
assumed that the second phase has not as yet taken place or been synthesized by
the grouping of the synthetic fields of the next lower level or first phase into
arrangements which characterize that second phase. Our first phase, it is assumed, is
ordered in the manner described in Lesson Three. (It might be well to review that
section.) A part of this organization of a given phase has to do with that ordering
process moving in the direction of utilizability and polarizability towards facilitating
the development of the prototypal arrangements characterizing the successive phases
in the Natural Order Process.
We will treat all organizational phases of process, represented by the
superimpositional array of galactic, solar system, and planetary fields, as the
sequential, influensive, causative, and directive factors in ordering planetary phases
of organization and in synthesizing ordered componential fields into more highly
complex syntheses whose arrangements denote increasing states of Self-awareness.
With respect to a given planetary field organizing process, these influencing and
already existent galactic organizing fields could be called Archetypal. That is, all of
the organizational phases which are to take place within a given planetary field
process, obtain, a priori, in the Archetype (Cosmic Field).
Thus, when the first phase, discussed two paragraphs back, is becoming
organized in preparation for and to the degree necessary that the next phase in
process may proceed, it is the precursive affectiveness of two analogical phases in
that superimposed synthetic field, which encompasses all phases of all organization in
the Universe that generally directs that organizing. Likewise, it is this same influence
that brings about the synthesis of the first phase field aggregates into the
arrangements which distinguish the second phase. The pattern of the grouping of the
second phase structures is also such that they may be utilizable for the third phase to
proceed.
All of this grouping, aggregating, synthesizing, etc., into larger or greater and
more highly ordered arrangements of fields is in the general direction of the
Septenary synthetic which is representative of that state of consciousness called the
Mind-level. The word general is used here to avoid the implicit assumption that we
infer teleological grounds for all process. We do, however, wish to state that a
teleological basis is accepted and applicable to Natural Order Process in at least two
general ways: One, that in Natural Order Process, the direction of field arrangement
is towards greater complexity, higher organizational phases and towards that
aforementioned Septenary re-synthesis. Two, that, since the urge of the Self to Know
Itself is the prime mover in Natural Order Process, a one-way direction is given to

increasing states of Self-knowing. It may be added that the pathway of statement one
is representational in that of statement two.
There is, as concerns the Natural Order Process, a non-teleological aspect. This
aspect of randomness or chance, entering into our portrayal of field process, does
not, however, assume the dominating proportions attributed to it by the evolutionary
biologists, the ecologists, and most of the other life scientists. For them, there is no
formative tendency in life, or any other process working unidirectionally towards a
synthetic culmination. Rather, extreme emphasis is placed upon probability laws as
the governing factor in the growth and development process from phase to succeeding
phase.
We will take a moment here to point up how unrealistic this chance notion
seems to us. The constituents of a hemoglobin molecule (a very complex molecule
found in the human bloodstream) can be spatially ordered in a great number of ways.
This number is so large that, for all practical purposes, it is infinite. The number of
arrangements is written 10623 in a shorthand way of notation. It signifies the number
10 followed by 622 zeros, and is read: ten to the six-hundred and twenty-third power.
Assuming that process is statistical in nature, this means that there is one chance in
10623 that the correct combination might eventuate. To our way of evaluating, this
represents zero probability.
Let us suppose that every man, woman and child on this planet, whose
imaginative population we will place at 10 billion (5 times the present), started
counting at the rate of 100 numbers per second and that this counting went on for
one thousand, thousand billion years. The number arrived at by all this counting, we
will assume, is the same as the number of fields necessary to comprise one grain of
sand and then lets suppose that this planet is composed of these grains of sand
through and through. So, to obtain the number of minute fields composing the Earth
we will have to multiply the number of fields per grain by the number of grains it
would take to build a sphere the size of our planet. We will imagine that each grain
measures one millionth of an inch in diameter and that the Earths diameter is 4,000
miles. Now, let us suppose that we have a billion, billion, billion, billion Earths so
constituted, and multiply all these billions together, times the vast number of minute
fields we had for just the one planet. Our resultant figure is about 1066, which,
compared with 10623, is far far smaller than a mustard seed compared with the size of
our galaxy.
Our views with respect to the nature of process differ radically from those of
the scientific classicist. As concerns randomness, when applied to the Natural Order
Process, a differentiating out of particularizations or an ordering of specific field
arrangements designates the pertinence thereto. The inclusion into field process, of
the dispersal and symmetrizing tendencies precludes an entirely pre-ordered
directness to the Septenary synthetic.
We will discuss this aspect in detail in the Lesson on environment (note the
quotes) which is to follow.

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LESSON SIX
ENVIRONMENT, SELF AND FIELD
A quotation from the Correspondence Course will set the basic note for the
subject of this lesson, which is environment.
The registry of energy wave-lengths and frequencies apparently creates
modifications respecting the state of the Perceiver and to such an extent that it has
been said: The changes in that perceived, follow, as representation, the
modifications of the state of the Perceiver. In the final analysis, however, this
apparent change in the state is caused by an inverse reflection of the process of
Self-awareness; i.e., the Self on Its own level, by the activity inherent in awareness of
Itself becomes the causative factor (creator) of the wave-lengths and frequencies.
So, it is really frequency modifying the state. The state (as activity of Self-awareness)
creates the energy-wave and frequency. It is in the sense of separation from the
Real-Self (on its own level) that we, respectively, experience, observe, register, etc.,
the activity of Self-awareness as energy wave-lengths and frequencies. The length of
the waves and rate of frequency registered only seem to change and modify the state
of the Perceiver. As contradictory as it seems, the self-same Self resides at the basis
of both levels; the Self aware of Itself in sense of separation from the fullness of Its
own Self-perceiving, perceives its own activity, energy wave-lengths and frequencies
(or environment).
The parenthetical addition at the end of the quotation is ours.
The non-intuitive explicitness above is that the environment (wave-frequency)
does not alter the state or that which is representational respecting the state. A given
state may be described in terms of its representation. The representation equates
with the degree of field synthesis towards the aforementioned immediate goal. State
may be described as intensity of Self-knowing, and this as the activity occurring in the
representational field. This synthetic field, in addition to being representative of the
state of Self-awareness, is that, in, by and through which the Power-to-be-conscious
becomes conscious; namely, the Mother (a synonym for Mother is Field).
Cosmic Process has been designated as one act of consciousness. In this one
act of consciousness, there is only one Self, one Power-to-be-conscious in varying
states of Its own Self-knowing. Respecting a particular state of Self-awareness or Iness, however, there obtains identification of this one Self with its parts resultant in
a sense of separateness. This phase of process we, in our School, label the manstate or, sometimes, the Individualizing phase of the Comic Process.
As we, respectively, and individually, identify with the multiplicity of
activities concerning or pertaining to the man-state (the development of the psychicnature) it seems that we function in an energy world from which we register
frequencies of varying wave-length and quality. The words, wave-frequency, freeenergy structures and environment may be reduced to synonymic equality, so we
will use them in this manner henceforth.

Ostensibly, we utilize from this energy-world the free energy structures

compatible with and necessary for the metabolic, catabolic, etc., processes of
growth, development, maintenance, function, etc. The terms growth, development,
maintenance, etc., contain inferentially the connotation of alteration or change in
structural process and therefore modification in representation of state. Since the
state or manner of Self-knowing, is the activity eventuating in and through the
representation (synthetic field, Mother-substance, etc.), then we have, therefore, an
alteration in state by reason of the environmental influence.
The above sketch relates the one-way energy exchange between local process
and that which acts upon it and is other than it, from the viewpoint of sense-ofseparateness. This view could also be termed the common-sense attitude. If we
plant a seed (potential process on the plant level) in the ground, having sufficient
sunlight, water, etc., a field synthesizing, polarizing process eventuates. But when we
describe that which the expressionssunlight, water, etc., represent, our delineation
deals with states of awareness from a representational aspect. As was stated prior,
the only Force, Power or Energy of which we are aware is the urge of the Self to Know
Itself and this, as the prime mover of all activities in all phases of field-process. So,
we have now, Self acting upon Itself or more simply and more correctly put, just
Self-acting.
The foregoing monistic description of synthetic field interaction is acceptable
to us by reason of perceptive cognition. However, as far as the utilizability of a
rigorous monistic approach in description of phases of process, we feel that the
unwieldy sentence structure necessary would soon result in a syntactical aphasia for
both the writer and the reader. But, it would be in order to keep in mind the above
points descriptive of the actuality of the exchange between a given local process
and that other than the local process.
For purposes of clarity, simplicity and understandability we will sometimes
speak as though a given synthesized field is acted upon by the environment, but
keeping as background for mental perception the essential or intrinsic Oneness of the
Cosmic Process. In local phases of process, field interaction, as the differentiating and
integrating aspect thereof, assumes a role of extreme importance in the sequential
organizing procedure which we in the School designate as Natural. All activities may
be depicted in terms of field-in-process interactions and/or field-in-process rearrangements or syntheses.
Akin to the above, though not precisely in alignment with this presentation, we
wish to give an excerpt from an article entitled, The Reality of the Non-Material by
F. L. Kunz, in Main Currents, November-December, 1963, which we find most
interesting.
The old situation is as follows: in that part of biology called ecology, creatures
and their material surroundings have long been studied as one whole. The
interdependence of soil, water and air and of all the plant and animal life in a region
is intricate, but well ordered. Each species has its niche. The creatures seem to
depend upon the physical environment, having only limited adaptability to a radically
new one. Therefore, in the causal relation, the non-living material environment
seems to be the dominant component, although it is obvious that the living orders are
superior in many ways.

The basic truth is today seen quite differently. The seas and lakes, the
mountains and snows and streams, the atmosphere and its clouds, are themselves
docile creatures of the true environment, the force field continua; and it is known
that living creatures also trade skillfully and directly with this true environment.
For example, plants live in and exchange with the electromagnetic field. The
plant has measurable polarities and gradients that vary with the season, the month,
the week. H. S. Burr, of Yale, has read the phases of the moon from his electrical
recordings of the live activities of maple trees. The photoelectric effect described in
Einsteins equation is at work as photons strike the chloroplasts of green leaves.
Our emphasis is to be upon tendency concerning these interactions, rearrangements, etc.,, rather than the mechanistic, materialistic or vitalistic doctrines
of the majority of present-day biologists. Science today, in general, treats the living
organism as some sort of mechanical ensemble which adapts or is altered by that
which is called environment. This, plus chance mutation and survival of the fittest,
form the basis of the dualists outlook on the origin, development and progression of
species, with consciousness of Self-awareness denoted as a mere by-product, hardly
worthy of consideration. While our viewpoint is not strictly teleological, we do lay the
stress upon the tendency in process towards one-way development: greater synthesis,
higher organization, greater complexity, etc., representative of increasing states of
Self-awareness. In this light, environmenti.e., frequency registry, field interaction
becomes the primary differentiating factor from homogeneity to heterogeneity, from
the Many to the One, but through or by way of an infinitude of variations.
Without a random factor, as pertains to process, units of local order would
present uniformity or sameness in appearance, function, organization and so on. This
would be the case if the Natural Order operated on a precisely teleological basis. That
this basis is not the correct one, can be shown even from making a few comparisons
of images in the psyche appearing substantive. This Universe is not one of endless
duplication and re-duplication, but one of unlimited or non-finite diversity. This
signifies an orderedness but yet a randomness to the phases of the organizing process.
The pathway of the ordering activity is, in general, an ordered randomness.
It is quite simple to state or list on the grounds of predeterminism (teleology),
the various and succeeding general phases or steps of process, as has been done on
our chart at the end of Lesson Three. But, to attempt, on this basis, to delineate
process as concerns particularities or specifics is, in our opinion, an impossibility.
Randomness as applies to the generally ordered direction of process has the same
bearing as the relationship between the symmetrizing and dispersal tendencies, and
the Natural Order Process, which was discussed on page 28, Lesson Four. There is a
close relationship, but not one of identity.
It has been stated that the Natural Order Process, in the direction of increasing
organization of field syntheses and greater states of Self-awareness, will take place,
regardless of field aggregate combinations differing from those of this particular
planet, Earth. In other words, that which is called life by our biologists need not be
restricted to the carbon, hydrogen, oxygen basis which we have here. Through the
intervention of an arrangement brought about by intragalactic and intergalactic
regional stresses, plus the formative tendency in process, a specifically non-finite

number of differing foundations for life process would not only be conjectured but
firmly expected. It is our opinion that the Cosmos is literally teeming with life.
You have perhaps noted the use of the single quotes regarding the word life.
We, in the School of the Natural Order do not differentiate between what most
scientists would call living and non-living field syntheses. Any line drawn, with
respect to organizational phases, which sets apart one group from another, we feel is
purely arbitrary. Activity pertains to all levels of field process; there being no inert,
lifeless or dead as pertains to process.
Vitvan states the above thus:
Embryologists, cytologists, morphologists, and I guess we could add
histologists, use the term living-matter so that they can differentiate what they call
living-matter from what they label dead matter. The phenomenal aspect of
representations in substance is of course that with which these scientists are
concerned, and only that. But from our teleological position, in the School of the
Natural Order, to differentiate living-substance or living-matter from that matter
which does not exhibit intrinsic or self-motivating qualities is purely arbitrary.
However, the line of demarcation (which I must say is also arbitrary) between livingmatter and non-living matter is somewhere in the dynamic configurating process
between the molecule and the colloid. Molecular structures below the colloidal level
(the atom and its structural components, the vortices of energy) are considered nonliving-matter, because these energy-structures do not exhibit observable inherent
self-motivating attributes under microscopic examination. Therefore, the line of
demarcation between non-living-matter and living-matter is between the molecular
and colloidal structures.
While we retain and use these terms living-matter and non-living matter, we
do so as a concession to current usage of to the Aristotelian cytologists viewpoint.
From the non-aristotelian attitude, orientation, etc., the word living could only be
used to represent the Field, irrespective of whether the phenomenal aspect in
relation to the structure of the Field is below or above the colloidal state in the
configurating process. So, the term non-living-matter would be a label without a
referent or significs.
Though we full well realize that a division between living and non-living is
rather unwarranted, it is evident that there is some sort of alteration in activity when
that called death occurs.
It is quite evident that process is cyclic in nature. Two labels applied to the
originating of a unit of local order and its culminating final symmetrization are life
and death. To an Aristotelian, one who identifies with the reports of the senses as
reality, or to one who had the dualistic outlook of field and matter or spirit and
matter, death might be described as the withdrawal of the spiritthat which
activates something which is described as inert matter.
With the background we have built up in developing and describing fieldprocess concepts, a delineation of that which eventuates at the transition called
death may be ventured in terms of field synthesis and polarization. We will begin by
depicting briefly the transitional phases of field-process in the development of an
embryo from fertilization to its development as a functioning field synthesis.

You will recall in our discussion of motion that an electron particle was
described as the re-arrangement of the fields composing the electron field such that
radiation is given off which may be detected by the physicist. The radiation is given
off cyclically, so it was stated that the electronic particle is discontinuous. The
periodicity, evidenced in the subatomic phase of process, obtains throughout the
Universe up to and including the galactic phase. But the organizing field, per se,
whatever the phase or local process under discussion, is prior to and causative,
relative to the synthesis which is its representation.
A given formative field, prior to a synthesizing cycle, sometimes called a
putting forth, exists as a regional stress, the partial fulfillment of which, results in a
synthesizing, polarizing or configurating process. The word partial is used here to
indicate a never-to-be-completed-ness as concerns the Cosmic Process or process of
Self-knowing. This is also indicative of the imbalance spoken of in an earlier lesson.
In its cyclic nature, our given field begins a configurating cycle through
polarizing synthesizable, lesser, structured fields, into componental arrangements
representative of its stress pattern. If we were to consider the formation of a human
embryo, the process begins basically on the atomic level, the synthesis of which local
units go to make up the DNA molecular field: from the atomic to the molecular, then
from the molecular to the mega-molecular or colloidal and on to the cellular field
phase of structure, these DNA molecular fields are of ultimate importance in energy
exchanges and the releasing of other molecular field bonds for the continuation of
process.
When the multicellular phase (an aggregating of similar cells in cooperation) is
reached, organization takes the direction of differentiating out systemic cellular
groups which perform particular functions, related to each other in such a way that
the organism is viable in its surround. Finally, when systemic ordering has been
completed to a degree, that which is labeled the birth process occurs. From this point
the polarizing process continues systemically until through a tending too far towards
the dispersal tendency, or the symmetrizing tendency, or a combination of each, as
concerns the various systems, a formative process no longer obtains. The
configurating field changes its arrangement such that there is no longer the
coordinated super-positioning of the formative field with its polarized parts and the
dispersal tendency begins to dissipate the local system into utilizable synthetic fields
for the continuation of process.
That which we label the configuration, which is a synthesized field itself, does
not fall all to pieces immediately upon the change in arrangement of the organizing
field. Those polarizable parts, of which the configuration is comprised, retain what
we could label residual polarity or cohesiveness. Analogically, if we were to take an
unmagnetized bar or iron and place it in the spatial proximity of a highly magnetized
bar, the former would take on the characteristic alignment known as magnetism.
Upon removal from the local vicinity of the highly magnetized bar, the newly
magnetized one would not lose its polarity but would exhibit that which the physicists
call residual magnetism.
This formative process we are describing, you will note, is presented as a
synthesis of smaller fields into larger field syntheses. It is not to be supposed,
however, that those fields synthesized lose their identity on their own level through

this eventuation. Though, as was mentioned earlier, the whole is greater than the
sum of its parts, and this, through the arrangement and functional relationships of
those parts, each part in and of itself is representative of an aspect or state of Selfawareness. How many of these parts are there as pertains to one given human
configuration? Billions upon billions upon billions! Herein lies a delineation of the
phrase, those lesser lives which compose the elemental self.

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On the next page will be found the Main Chart as used in our School of the
Natural Order. It was thought advisable that this chart be included in the present
course of lessons as a valuable reference for clarification and correlation of phases
and points discussed, as well as terminology used.
It is full well realized that many of the phases of process shown on this chart
are not taken up in the present brief sketch. However, the field-process concepts
described are applicable, in general, to all phases of process portrayed.

LESSON SEVEN
PSYCHIC FUNCTIONING AND FIELD INTERACTION
In the depicting of the life/death cycle in the last lesson there was no
mention made anent the psychic phase of process. This phase is one which concerns
most of us through the immediacy of our functioning.
According to Vitvan, psychic-functioning takes place in the molecular phase of
field-process. It is the organizing, complexifying, arranging and re-arranging, of
molecular field chains, as well as the lesser field structures composing them, that we
in our School designate as psychic functioning, growth, and sequential development.
The pattern of organization for the structuring of the psychic field resides in the
arrangement of the configurating field which we term Autonomous or Individualizing.
This psychic field pattern is therefore representative of the degree of organization on
the Mind-level relative to the completed Septenary Synthesis, and exhibits those
developed qualities and faculties acquired or built into the Individualizing Field.
Quality or guna described structurally, equates with particular or specific synthetic
field arrangements, sometimes including a reversal of polarity in the arrangement.
In a way of speaking, the development of the various aspects of the psychic
phase of process parallels and characterizes the organizing of structure on the Mindlevel. When the psychic ordering process has been completed to a degree, a
transitional stage occurs wherein consciousness begins to transfer identity from the
psyche (personality, in sense-of-separateness) to the Autonomous Field phase of
process (the first degree of Oneness). The completed transition we label the Second
Crossing.
Let us now turn to a description, in terms of field process, of psychic nature
functioning through frequency registry as pertains to the sense modalities. In our
opinion sense functioning occurs in the psychic-field. This point has been delineated
by Vitvan in our literature to the extent that we do not deem it necessary to resubstantiate this here. In depicting this phase of psychic nature functioning, we will
use the diagram labeled Quantum Field Interactions in Sense Functions below.
It will be advantageous, before launching into our subject, to describe the term
wave-frequency in some detail. The photon, or unit structure of that which we call
light may be described as a bundled field; the bundle composed of quantum
structural fields synthesized and in process of periodic re-arrangement. The classic
description of this cyclic change would take on the characteristics of a sine wave:
. However, in terms of modern physics, we have seen that there is a
variance in measurable radiation from zero up to an intensity which is readily
detectable. This measurement actually represents a change in arrangement of field
pattern rather than being a description of the relative motion of some particle
whose movement is described as a wave. Pictorially, we could display the
characteristic cyclic field alterations thus:

The gap between the figures shows a discontinuity of radiation. This gap also
portrays a period when no radiation is given off; i.e., there is nothing there. The
thickest part of the figures describes intense radiation, while the tapering ends
portray an increasing or a lessening of emanation. It should be clearly understood that
the figures only depict degrees of the radiation of something and are not
representative of shape or pathway of motion as concerns a photon field. We could
also use the above delineation in discussing the cyclic palingenetic rhythm. In this
way, the nodes of the above diagram would portray cyclic organizing periods labeled
incarnations; while the gaps would characterize intervals between organizational
cycles.
The word wave then is described as representing an alteration in field pattern.
The word frequency denotes the number of these field alterations relative to some
standard of measurement of field change or some sub-division of this standard. The
standard generally used today, planetarily speaking, is the cyclic spiraling pathway of
the Earth and is labeled the year. At some fixed velocity, such as that of light,
182,280 miles per second, an increase in frequency brings about a smaller time lapse
or distance between #1, #2 and #3 in our diagram on the above page. We could say
that the higher the frequency of field alterations, the shorter the wave length. But,
keeping in mind that the word wave as applied to certain phases of field-process,
used in the way we ordinarily do in our School, represents a discontinuity of field
radiation. In the world of extended objects, the world of the senses, we do observe
continuous waves such as ocean waves, but in our study of the psyche it is the
discontinuous wave-field that concerns us.
Referring to the diagram on the next page, it will be noted that all five sense
modalities are portrayed, but it will serve our purpose to discuss primarily the visual
modality while the others will be touched upon but briefly. This discussion, as
concerns cortical functioning, will be in terms of the formation of quantum chains in
reticular space (field), as it is the quantum phase of organization which is the
empirically established field level through which the thought processes occur. That
which is to follow will not only supply a more highly veridical basis for the description
of sense and cortical functioning, but will also yield a structural foundation from
which to view the abstracting process and the others thereof.
The outmoded, outdated doctrine of nerve impulse, nerve cell as applies to the
operation of the human nervous system has been replaced by the field-in-process
mode of approach which was quite recently and experientially determined. The ten
billion or so nerve cells in the cortex are but the merest fraction of the number of
structures required for the multiplicity of combinations necessary for the thought
processes of the average individual.
Let us now take up the visual modality in terms of field-process interactions.
First we must have a source of wave-fields to which the visual modality will respond.
We have labeled the emanation from this source photon wave-fields. The synthetic
field arrangement here is such that the sensation of transparency or clearness is
perceived. This synthesis may be changed in arrangement through interaction with a
prismatic field (glass prism), the change resulting in what is called visible spectrum.
One should note the use of the word visible as denoting only a very small portion of
a vast and continuous range of frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum.

Let us suppose that the photon wave-fields from our light source impinge on a
synthetic field-process, the form of which we have conveniently chosen and labeled
APPLE. Upon the intersection of these synthetic fields a great number of
interactions eventuate. We will only concern ourselves here with those occurrences
having to do with vision. The field interaction between the synthetic field-process
labeled APPLE and the photon synthetic wave-field, a quantic aggregate, results in
the reflection of an altered wave-field pattern of the particular wave or frequency
that we label red. Altered here refers to a change in the periodic interval of the
cyclic photon field. This periodicity is characterized by how frequently the quantum
fields composing the photon field are rearranged. A change in the rapidity of cyclic
quantum field rearrangements would be determinative respecting the color viewed. A
description of that which the word arrangement represents would be the spatial
orientation of the composing fields singly, in groups, in sub-groups, with respect to
each other, etc., in an ordering process.
A part of the altered photon stream passes through the lens of the eye and is
slightly changed again. When the stream reaches the retinal field, still another
interaction occurs. Keep in mind that all of these changes in field arrangement are
taking place on the quantum level. As the result of this last interchange, a sequential
building-up of quantum chains is begun in the optic nerve, which is directional and
toward the cortex. Upon arrival at that structuring center called the cortexthe
reticular fielda quantum chain is built up on a molecular field. The pattern of this
quantum chain is representative of that field from which the reflection came. Also
there is a similarity in structural pattern between that which we call the
configuration and the quantum field aggregate formulated in the brain. This quantum
chain represents that which we call a first order abstraction.
Atmospheric wave patterns (sounds) within a certain range of frequency act as
auditory stimuli to set up quantum chains similarly to the way this was described
above. When and if we originate one of these particular wave patterns (the sound of
the word APPLE for instance) and then link up or couple the formulated chains from
both the sound and from the visual modality and do this in a certain manner, we have
then identified two dissimilar and spatially separated field structures with each other.
It is usually the case that this identity is not differentiated from that synthetic field
from which the photons were reflected. We in this School call this state of affairs
objective identity or identity of sense faculty registry with configurational Reality.
Earlier in this series the term cognitive invariant of the human was applied
to the above. Primitive man had to place greater value on this invariant for
purposes of survival. At present however, the hanging on to this old value system, or
not seeing it for what it represents, characterizes non-cooperation with the Natural
Order Process and a leaning too far toward the symmetrizing tendency resulting in the
canalization and/or crystallization of the psyche.
Now, a word about words, both spoken and written. Spoken language
developed long before a written language evolved. If you will note on our chart
above, the word APPLE, this symbol, namely the arrangement of the ink pattern on
the paper, the interaction with the photon wave-field has the effect of forming a
quantum chain in the visual area of the brain. A spoken word has the same resultant
effect, but the quantum chain, representative of that auditory stimulus, is spatially

separated from and differently arranged than the quantum chain representative of
the printed word. Yet, when the symbol APPLE is used the two structures are
usually linked in identity. There is no word APPLE as some thing in and of itself,
except as configurated fields in the cortex or their structural counterparts in the air
or on paper.
The olfactory and taste sensations occur primarily through molecular field
interactions resulting in quantum chains aggregating in the direction of the cortical
field (reticulum or patterned network). Variations in aroma and taste are based on
different orderings of the atomic constituent fields composing these molecular ones,
which characterize the guna variants.
The tactile modality eventuates from field interaction, but very large syntheses
of fields are involved here. This phase of process we usually label the configurational
level. The nature of this level of field synthetics is such that one of its characterizing
attributes prevails as non-penetrability. When the intersection of two or more of
these configurational fields occurs, the resulting interaction appears as tactile
sensations which eventuate in the forming of quantum chains in reticular space. Some
of these chains are labeled: hot, cold dry, wet rough, smooth hard, soft etc.
These labels are represented in the cortical field by two differing types of
characterizing quantum chains: one type is analogous to rapid alterations in
atmospheric pressure (sound), the other, to photon altered field patterns. Neither of
these two is the structural pattern of that which produced the tactile sensations, nor
are either of them the cortical structure which is representative of the structure of
that felt. Here we are structurally differentiating among what are called lower
orders of abstraction, as well as discriminating between these, and the field-inprocess systems which were the originators of the structural orders.
The coupling, de-coupling, orienting, ordering, complexing, etc., of the
multitudinous types of quantum chains in the reticular field denote that which we call
mental function. If one resonates to a given frequency pattern (characterization of
guna), and identifies the resultant quantum structure with the pattern, and further
identifies some other cortical field structure with both of these, we in this School
would apply the term hypostatization to this manner of reticular coupling. We would
say that that one identified certain orders of abstraction with that from which the
frequencies were registered. It should be noted here that we are implicitly stating
that the orders of abstractions are quantically structural.
Let us view the above from the standpoint of structural abstracting which
designates our present description of mental process. If quantum linkages (minute
field chains) couple a number of structures in the brain to form a freely joined
network, and if an Individualizing sense of I-ness acts as if this network is that which
originated the network, then we would have a structural example of what is called
reification.
The learning and integrating into ones functioning of the methodology of
conscious abstracting as given by Vitvan, as well as the utilization of certain of the
disciplines outlined in the next lesson, will yield a cortical network whose elements
are side-chained or interconnected with a conceptual framework which is
representative of the Natural Order. This new non-linear mental network may then
act as the major or prime directive for closer cooperation, and therefore alignment,

with the Natural Order Process. Also, a release from private world and race psyche
value and cognitive systems may be achieved through the conscious and effortful repatterning of ones cortical field in the above stated directions.
Let us discuss the semantic orders of abstraction from the vantage point of
field-process and cortical structure. The first order of abstraction we describe as a
quantum chain, organized in such a way that it is the structural analog of that
observed or sensed.
The second order of abstraction in terms of field synthesis we portrayed as
dual. One aspect of the second orders dual naturethat spokensets up quantum
chains in the auditory field phase of the brain. The otherthe written or printedsets
up structures in the visual area.
The third order of abstraction represents the quantum coupling of very similar
representative cortical structures. The fourth order would pertain to linking a
presently formed structure to a chained group in/or pertaining to the third order.
The higher orders of abstractions are designated as more and more complex
networks and as more highly complex couplings of these synthetic networks
synthetic, because each successive network formed includes many lesser patterns in
its structure.
When a structural network representative of the last order of abstraction
eventuates, that pattern would be analogous to field-process Reality. Though this
pattern may only be mental, it can act as an ordering factor toward greater SelfRealization.

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LESSON EIGHT
MEDITATION, BREATH WORK AND COOPERATION WITH
THE NATURAL ORDER PROCESS
In this lesson we will be primarily concerned with what we will call functional
operators. A verbal description of that which this term represents, we state thus:
alterations in patterning of causative or directive synthetic field structure (in this
case the psychic field) into arrangements whose intrinsic tendency becomes the
ordering factor in integrating that field structure toward the Natural Order Process. In
other words, a methodology is valid, if and only if its applied procedures promote or
result in greater functional awareness.
As was brought out in Lesson One, we in this School stress function in the many
phases of process, including the mental. This mental phase, however, does not, for
us, have the extremely high value which is placed on it by many. That which will
increase operational capabilities in the direction of the cooperation with the Natural
Order Process, we will call operators.
We will list a few of these operators here and then give a brief description of
those which we have not as yet touched on:
Meditation
Aum Chant

Breath Work
Conscious Abstracting

Study
Mental Patterning

Through study one develops mental structure, the relating of whose quantum
groups (concepts) forms the general basis for function. As has been stated prior, if we
integrate into our consciousness a conceptual framework based upon field-process
concepts, it will parallel the structure, function, order of the Cosmic Process, and we
will have established a veridical guidance system for our activities, actions, etc.,
When we use the word study, we are referring to the study of the Literature of
this School. When we, respectively, focus attention upon reading this material, we
can or do tend to align with or enter into the state of consciousness from which it was
written. This, of course, is dependent upon the degree of concentration achievable,
as well as the intensity of effort put forth. When reading, one should comprehend
that stated, but equally important, if not more so, he should make the conscious
effort at tuning in. The utilization of seven full breaths and a few minutes
meditation prior to a study period would greatly facilitate this tuning in.
Breathing, from the physiologists standpoint, represents the acquisition of
utilizable free energy fields (atomic oxygen) for the purpose of continuing metabolic
field-processes on the molecular level. The utilization spoken of here is for
configurational and psychic functioning, which are Natural Order phases in the growth
and development process.
Breath work, as given by Vitvan, represents an excellent practice as
preparation for, and as an aid to meditation. Also the rapid reestablishment of the
necessary high level free energy norm may be had through the moderate repetition of
the full breath.

Another aspect of breathing exercises we describe as the supplying of

polarizable parts for the re-synthesizing process which takes place in the
Individualizing Field on the Mind-level. For one who stands in objective identity, the
flow in that direction is quite limited. Through the building of certain field
arrangements into the physic field pattern, function pertaining to outer expression
seems to play the predominate role. Outer expression is an important aspect of
growth and development in every phase of the Natural Order Process, but the balance
between this outer expression (dispersal tendency) and the polarizing or
symmetrizing tendency must be maintained to a degree in order that the organizing
process may continue.
If ones does not allow himself the freedom of outer expression, he is then
swinging in the direction of the symmetrizing tendency, and resultant blockages and
repressions are likely to eventuate. On the other hand, if one swings too far in the
other direction and constantly tends toward dissipation, his functioning in
configurational and psychic phases of structure will be considerably hampered.
You will recall it was stated that a given phase of process becomes ordered
such that it prepares the way, so to speak, for the next organizational phase to take
place. Therefore, if one is to cooperate with this sequential process, it is essential
that a balancing between expression and utilization for structuring is held to. As one
holds more closely to this centering way of action, he is, in addition to facilitating the
organizing of the phase of process called psychic, also tremendously accelerating the
preparation for his next step in the processthe transference of identity from the
psyche to the Autonomous Field level of functioning.
Vitvan has stated that the Autonomous Field is comprised of and synthesized
from atomic and subatomic fields, arranged into a highly intricate matrix. These
structural units would represent the multiplicity. Their aggregation into arrangements
characterizing the Mind-level would represent the re-synthesis into the Seven Rays.
The use of breathing exercises can accomplish the acquiring of free energy
field structuresprana, atomic oxygen and other atomic fieldsto an extent far
surpassing the needs or requirements for configurational or psychic functioning. These
then can become the polarizable parts necessary for the structuring of the
Individualizing Field. If we can learn to consciously control and direct this stream to
the conarium or some other center that we wish to work with, then an extremely
valuable functional operator has been gained.
Some one might pose the question: Does not this development of the
Autonomous Fieldthe Solar Vesturetake place from within? To this, we would
counterpose the question: Is not sunlight necessitated that the formative, potential
tendencies of a seed may evidence themselves? It is our opinion that it would be
impossible to set up veridical, empirical referents for the words within and
without, or inner and outer. We represent the Universal Field as One; one
continuous interlinked network in process, whose synthetical parts are moving
toward greater and greater functional syntheses which are representational with
respect to increasing states of Self-knowing.
The operator, meditation, as given by Vitvan, basically consists of learning to
cooperate with Natures formative tendencies. In the man-statedevelopment of the
psychic-naturethe organizing tendency operates primarily through seven structuring

centers of foci. Briefly and very generally stated: as the formative tendency proceeds
from the first structuring center to the seventh, there eventuates the development of
the psychic phases of the Cosmic Process. But, coetaneous with this, as each of these
seven phases is passed through, a re-synthesizing of each of the Seven Rays is
occurring in the Individualizing phase of the Natural Order Process. When the last
phase or ray is completed, consciousness no longer identifies itself as separate, but
realizes itself as one with the Cosmic Process.
As has been discussed, process in general may be described as teleological or
predetermined. When viewing local processes, respecting a given phase, however, the
multiplicity of variants in one genotype is quite astounding. In the Individualizing
phase of field-process, we may expect and do find this same vast diversity, both with
respect to types of qualities synthesized and the degree of their synthesis. There are
as many different gradations and categories in that phase of the organizing process as
there are individuals. We, in this School, designate State of Consciousness as the
degree of development on the Mind-level; this is quite often labeled the basic point of
development.
We should operate from or at our basic points, respectively, in order that we
may coordinate our activities in alignment with the Natural Order Process. However,
with objective identity wide spread as it is, and through integration into race-psyche
value and cognitive systems, etc., we find the great majority functioning above or
below their basic states of development.
One may locate his basic point by discovering the mean of functional
capabilities as concerns the organizing phases of the psyche. It is suggested that one
read The Telestic Work in the Correspondence Course, pages 461-513, for a
description of that which characterizes the formative tendency in process with
respect to each of the seven structuring centers, as an aid to determination of his
basic point.
After locating the basic state, one should function there in cooperation with
the formative or ordering processes going on, through becoming conscious of them.
One then should begin to focus attention on the structuring center next higher than
that representative of his basic point so as to initiate the organization of the next
phase. Also, as a method of orientation, the focusing of consciousness upon the
conarium at the top of the head will greatly facilitate alignment with the Mind-level,
as it is this level which is the influensive factor in organizing the psychic phases of
process.
Vitvan has stated that, One must learn to separate the force from the activity
and then raise the force to the next higher level. As was given earlier, the only Force
we know of is the urge of the Self to become more aware of Itself. I-ness, or perhaps
better said, sense-of-I-ness in the Individualizing phase of process represents this
urge or force. Looked at from the standpoint of Self becoming Self-aware, the
Individualizing phase of process consists in I-ness differentiating Itself out from the
multiplicity of stages of process to a phase wherein It becomes conscious of Itself on
Its own level. By focusing attention we focus the I from one level of activity to
another.
When we attempt aligning our respective natures with our organizing
Individualizing Fields, a valuable operator is had in intoning a frequency whose

structural analog obtains on the Mind-level. Through chanting the word AUM,
according to the methodology outlined in Lessons 44 and 45 in the Correspondence
Course one may achieve a higher degree of synchronization with his own organizing
Autonomous Field for purposes of meditation, as well as a closer coordination with
the Natural Order Process in his daily activities or functionings. The importance of the
choice of note to be intoned cannot be overemphasized. The note sounded forth
should be in resonance with the frequency representative of the degree of resynthesis of a given Individualizing Field on the Mind-level. This note will, of course,
vary somewhat from one individual to another. One may determine the note best
suited for his purposes through utilization of the listings given in the Correspondence
Course, and making a determination as to which note most closely harmonizes with
his basic point.
Cooperation with the Natural Order Process entails the inculcation into a given
ones psychical functioning pattern a considerable number of what we have labeled,
functional operators. This is the case where that given one is more or less integrated
into the race-psyche system of values. Through the continued and intensive
application of the outlined methodology, however, that one will gradually but surely
develop his individuality to the point where he, or she we might add, has
differentiated himself (or herself) out from the race-psyche group field.
It has been stated that having reached this stage in the growth process one
takes the responsibility of assisting those who have not attained as yet, this being
true for higher stages of process as well. If one begins to direct his efforts consciously
toward greater or closer cooperation with the organizing process, and reaches the
state described above, then he must lend assistance in whatever way he can to those
who have not reached the same level as he, otherwise he is no longer cooperating
with the Natural Order Process.
You will recall in Lesson Five, it was brought out that it is the influence of an
already organized field in a higher phase of process that brings about, consciously or
unconsciously, arrangements in organization in the next lower phase that lead in the
direction of the lower phases becoming synthesized into the next organizational
level. This process tendency is valid respecting all phases of the Natural Order. It is
with this tendency in mind, that the word must was used concerning a more highly
developed one assisting another to fulfill his basic point.

We conclude this series of Lessons with the following statement: It is our

opinion that, that which was intended, has been accomplished, at least to a
reasonable degree. There may be some who feel that the language structure and
terminology utilized are unnecessarily complex; however, it appears to us, in dealing
with students receiving instruction respecting field-process concepts that the primary
difficulty lies in altering ones mental framework to fit the process rather than in
linguistics.
It is understood and anticipated that intensive effort in study, reading and rereading of this material will be required for the average student to achieve adequate
comprehension of its subject matter. That which is to be gained through this
accomplishment, however, is of a much higher value than might be expected.