VORTICES OF THE SELF: Exploring the Physics of Wholeness

What others are saying about Vortices of the Self

“Cyclopic eyes into the power of our true nature.” “Gateways to the unknown”

“Eyes into the essential nature of the Self.”

“Umbilical cords to our human totality as both finite form and cosmically networked Energy and Intelligence.”

“Bindu points in the cosmic yantra of Source Energy and Intelligence”

 “Openings in Nature and the self that bring us to the door of our cosmically networked reality and potential.”

Artist’s Note

Thank you all for visiting Light Mind Images and exploring the transformational ideas that emerge through my meditative image making process, as well as the visual impressions which are their equivalents. They are just a collection of energies until they are viewed by others and given a place in the mind to radiate and expand our individual and collective experience of Nature and the nature of the self. A sculptor from Europe who grew up in galleries and museums, fluent in the influences of modern art, recently viewed my work and asked about its “uniquely mysterious dimension”.  It is a question often asked by curious experiencers and I share my answer here as an introduction to insights on my newest impressions: Vortices of the Self. 

“Everything I perceive and project in images is direct and real, even though it may seem in comparison to our conditioned view of life to be mysterious, unfamiliar, and somehow cosmically aligned. (Vortices of the Self being the exception which spins straight impressions of nature out of form into their dematerialized elemental states.)  I see the vastness of universal space and all its entwined dimensions everywhere in nature and even in the self.  What I call Light Mind Images do not arise from imagination, contrived editorial staging, or intellect, rather spontaneously from cultivating an inner awareness and perception of space that is freer from the limits of conditioned mind, emotions, and physical senses.  Allowing the mystery of our human existence and a connection to a greater network of Energy and Intelligence to unfold beyond our conditioned knowledge and physical sensory experience is a mental and creative practice I have spent a lifetime refining, and it continues to refine me in the process. I’m constantly challenging the limits of my perception and awareness which is probably why my images can have that effect on others. All the treasures of a more advanced human totality, like the gold and diamonds of Earth, are buried and hidden. Where there is mystery, there is the hope and possibility of new, more unlimited experience, knowledge, and mastery.  Where you feel mystery in my images of Nature, there is within that a concentrated impetus to penetrate more deeply and gain new insight into something yet unknown or unfathomable. If the mind lets go of its duality for a moment to receive it, each image translates a frequency of energy and understanding which draws us from mystery to curiosity, to question, to deeper study and to eventual expansion and mastery of a more wholly integrated and potentiated self. In what may seem mysterious forms and relationships, Light Mind Images reflect the Light and resonance of one with the courage and confidence to continue to dig, who carries the Light of a few raw, not yet fully polished jewels, and some indication of where and how to look. If you feel mystery in my images, it is not because I need to claim and hold secret some special access to a clearer perception of Nature and our own human nature.  It is a call to each of us to demystify and open up the flow of more universally networked experience within ourselves.

Abstraction in art remains relevant and essential as it continues to break our minds of preconceived patterns but can also leave viewers ungrounded in the vastness of the primordial without a realizable connection to known matter.  I consider my work as a bridge between the two; following a tangible pathway through known forms in Nature to the network operating between matter and the primordial forces of manifestation. It is a bridge that once introduced, viewers may then seek to discover within their own selves and become active parts of unveiling the potentialities of Light and Intelligence universally networked within our human totality. My images and writings serve to prepare our minds for a future where unfathomed mysteries will be revealed in rapidly evolving new forms, new terrains and new relationships to time, space, and each other.  They are made to inspire us all to evolve greater understanding of our universal connectedness and to strengthen our capacity to integrate new experiences fearlessly, creatively and productively into a more harmonized multidimensional reality. They may not satisfy those seeking art as cultural entertainment, to reinforce what we already know, shock and stimulate the emotions, or carry the sword of some socio-political agenda, but there is plenty of that out there to consume.  My work is a constant endeavor to carry the Light with honesty and integrity, connect people with their own uncultivated seeds of awareness, and nurture in them an experience of a greater totality which will ultimately help elevate and transform our minds and human potential.”  May you find Light, inspiration, curiosity, and courage in your experience of my work, and ever unfolding radiance in your own self. -Deborah Goudreault

Inside the Collection

Goudreault’s Vortices of the Self invite us to consider, what if within the totality of the Self lies a system of vortices; openings through which we may realize our multidimensional human potential as the luminous flow of universally networked cosmic Energy and Intelligence? What if, in the unknown subtle depths within each of us, we have the interface to a network of infinite power and possibility? What if while we continue to search for energy, answers and resources outside us, we are already innately equipped with a system for evolving the self and elevating our experience of reality? What if we are more than the conditioned limits of our physical bodies, outer senses, and even our finite mind, but are only now on the verge of refining the tools and practices to synthesize a more coherent wholeness of being?

Science is quickly becoming fluent in its exploration and mathematical proof of the existence and function of inter-dimensional black hole and worm hole phenomena in space and on earth itself, and if we consider that we are created as microverses with the same universal infrastructure, Goudreault’s idea of vortices as a universal feature throughout the fabric of all Nature, including the self, is not a far-fetched one. Vortices of the Self opens viewers to her experience of a more expanded human totality. Images of seemingly magnetic spinning pools become iconic projections of sensitively perceived entry points to a subtle energetic dimension of the self, where we are each networked to evolve a more whole and unlimited awareness of our human operating system, identity and purpose. Created as an expression of her own grateful recognition and acknowledgement of our unlimited human potential,  Goudreault says, “the idea and energy they embody will also take root in and inspire others to seek a more unbound experience of their own human totality, to safely integrate the subtle interfacing system of the self, and advance from a life where we draw our energy and intelligence solely from experiences and resources in the world outside us to one potentiated by a more infinite Source Energy and Intelligence networked within.” Each image in Vortices of the Self incorporates some physical form in nature but in digitally dematerializing it, it becomes an opening to what is a representation of the vast multidimensional continuum of our existence beyond the stimulating yet limited reach of the physical senses and the subtle inner vortex system which gives us access to it.  They are the equivalents of an empowering course through the known finite aspects of who we are into an experience which realizes the self as a more potentiated, infinitely networked human totality.  

Where some of you may be asking, what does that have to do with me?, Goudreault  acknowledges, “It’s not easy for the conditioned mind, that has never thought about or looked deeply into its own configuration and substructure, and difficult even for minds that have questioned what we know of the self to imagine how there can be anything else that is truer or more empowered than our apparently finite separate self, intellect, and physical sensory perceived reality. However, the very first and most critical step toward a more potentiated self and deeper understanding of all phenomena in Nature is to get over the hurdle of a solely outer directed life and go within. Our efforts to advance technologically have progressed rapidly, but our human efforts to consistently act as expressions of nobler motives and a more expanded self-knowledge, or to harmonize and heal the stressed and depleted parts of ourselves and our environment have remained dimly lit and continue to progress very incompletely. Our limited human identity and experience is held bound by conditioned minds, outer directed senses and an often misled and wandering will, dominated by an ego which was never meant to enslave us in a world where we believe and act as if we are separate from other humans and forms in nature. It was never meant to harness us to a world categorized and judged by our own likes and dislikes, making enemies of all else. The ego as an integral part of the mind was never meant to be employed in the role of Master, rather to be understood as an instrument in evolving the self; to gradually be refined and in so doing refine our desires toward those actions thoughts and feelings which bring us steadily closer to realization of our innate capacity to access and project a more luminous and unlimited, cosmically sourced Energy and Intelligence. The period of emergence from conditioned preconceptions and long rooted mental patterns, associations and forms into a more complex but optimally harmonized, multidimensional reality and self-identity has been for most a slow and unconscious one. For all its ultimate benefits, the early stages of expanding awareness of our totality has often been experienced as a passage through trials, suffering, and the harsh dissonance of inner discord. Without understanding or the proper support, this has too often led to cycles of doubt and despondency that thwart one’s efforts to break the chains of conditioned perception and drown out the call to live a sovereign life in which the whole self is known and free to evolve its unlimited capacity. Now, however, the inner technology of integrating our human totality and tools and practices for supporting this as a conscious process of unfolding the subtle dimensions of the self are being established as a significant area of research and education. Old yogic and meditative systems are being evolved and repositioned to serve our present culture and conditions and are expanding the boundaries of material science as they begin to more effectively expand the boundaries of our human identity and potential. The early stages of becoming more wholly empowered forces of healing and harmonizing Energy and Intelligence may yet taste of the bitterness of change and the conflict of transforming stereotypical beliefs, reasoning, and old patterns into purer energy, awareness and purpose, but the means for a more infinite Energy and Intelligence to break through the lid of our limited physical energy, incomplete past knowledge and misperceptions are becoming increasingly accessible.”

Vortices of the Self continues Goudreault’s work of sharing impressions of what waits a few steps ahead and project an awareness whose resonance helps carry hearts and minds past any doubt and despondency that may arise in letting go of our past preconceptions and expanding our experience of the self.  They strengthen our aspiration and alleviate our trials and stumbling, penetrating them not with false feel good illusions but a Light of integrative understanding so that we may increasingly surrender the finite aspects of mind to a more unbound Energy and Intelligence waiting within. They magnify the inner call within each of us that is so often drowned out by the outer world; the Voice that is more than mental ego, intellect or emotion and connects us with our universally networked human totality.  Once again Goudreault delivers an experience where the duality of being either exclusively finite or infinite, flesh and blood or cosmic Consciousness ends and a new wholeness of being and unfathomed potential begins.

Art and the Art of Concentration

Art and the art of concentration also meet as prints of Goudreault’s Vortices of the Self take their place in our personal and public environments; for some serving as sources of unconscious upliftment, and for others as focal points in beginning a conscious practice of withdrawing the outer senses from our hyper-stimulating conditioned reality to a more concentrated state. In either case says Goudreault, “they will help prepare the mind for meditation and practices which further refine and align us with the inner vortices and supra-physical dimensions of the self, where untapped levels of integrative understanding, harmonizing capacities, and advanced human potential await. Concentrating on timeless objects or impressions with some unconditioned reference to known forms in nature rather than pure geometric or artistic abstractions establishes a more tangible relationship and mental bridge between the known and the unknown, the physical and the subtle, the material and the immaterial, the abstract and the concrete.  It is a bridge over which we may learn to transcend the normal frame of reference and calmly resolve our seemingly exclusive separateness in a more wholly integrated and potentiated experience of nature and the self. The impressions in Vortices of the Self build such bridges in the mind by projecting a particular point of awareness without finite magnitude or the familiar outer sensory stimuli which channel the mind into conditioned patterns and conceptions.  Circumventing our ingrained pathways, they support more expansive and potentiating efforts to bring the subtle unknown more clearly into our field of perception.”

As symbolic compositions of universal vision rather than art as excitatory escape and entertainment for the senses, they evoke a quiet, neutral centered mind which frees us from our conditioned perceptions and limited potential. Beyond their inherent value as an art which revolutionizes how we view the medium of digital photography, Vortices of the Self are a link and uniting force where through a nucleus in the phenomenal world we may pass into the realm of primordial nature which binds every individual form in one single stream, one network of existence, cosmic Energy and Intelligence. As the viewer moves in and out of the vortices, simultaneously finite and infinitely engaged, it is an experience which may then become more conceivable and realizable within the self. What feels in gazing at the vortices like a moment’s transit through impossible expanses of space, we may eventually recognize as a reflection of our own innate power to fuse and transit multiple time-space dimensions.

Goudreault writes, “Every effort to bring the mind toward concentration beyond our finite physical sensory conditioned reality contributes to greater awareness of our human totality, and a union between our finite and infinite human dimensions which makes our experience of the immaterial more tangible. The composition of Vortices of the Self is very specific. Concentration on the black fields of the Vortices help empty the mind of its attachments so we may more easily concentrate on the space of the vortices. Similar to their precursory geometric yantras, the central point in each Vortice of the Self represents a ring of singularity, stillness and the most condensed form of Source Energy and Cosmic potentiality.  The vortex is the uncoiling of the sequence of manifestation and its expression as a dynamic cyclic force of life where primordial energies are constantly being transformed and take on the geometry and substructure of the infinitely evolving phenomenal world.  As representations of an archetypal vortex through which all manifest phenomena are created and evolve, they facilitate our movement from the dense material to more subtle dimensions of being.  Where one has had difficulty settling the mind to meditate, a few minutes of gazing on one of these vortex images will help release viewers from a limited conception and experience of the self and allow one to more easily redirect the outward moving energy of the eyes internally. Even where holding an intentional focal point between the eyebrows and slightly below the surface as classic preparation for meditation has been difficult and frustrating, one may feel they can now more gently and fluidly hold this point.  This is not random and insignificant because drawing mental focus and energy to this point stimulates the pituitary gland and can facilitate a more unbound perception of time-space and the infinite dimensions interfaced through our human vortex system.”

When Goudreault is asked, so are the images in Vortices of the Self art or instrument? she smiles and replies, “There is no duality to it. True art is an instrument for creating a reaction which elevates our conception of nature and the nature of the self, isn’t it? We can find entertainment with the press of a button anywhere at any moment, but art must refine and expand our mentality. Vortices of the Self’s visual equivalents of an innate energetic anatomy for evolving a more empowered human totality may in some environments be revolutionary and provocative enough as photographic art. For those with a desire to engage them as such, they are also instruments of active transformation which support the individual practice of meaningful concentration and eventually meditation, whereby the source Energy and Intelligence emanating through our human vortices becomes an increasingly tangible, wholly integrated and infinitely potentiating part of our human totality.”  

What can we take away from this?  Each image in Goudreault’s Vortices of the Self is a unique approach to more expanded knowledge of the universal network of Nature and the multidimensional totality of the Self.  Some may respond to one vortex image more than another but, gazing into the space of these vortices, we will all find ourselves on a journey beyond the ordinary parameters of life and mind; on a calm and quiet transit into the deeper universe of the self.

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Physics and Vortices of the Self

                          (Science Geeks, Yogis, and those who just want to dive deeper, READ ON!)

In Goudreault’s notes on Vortices of the Self she writes, “One-way black and white holes in space which some scientists have theorized may actually form two-way worm holes with varying degrees of delay in transit time, I perceive as an essential part of the universal field connecting all forms in existence; portals of concentrated cosmic Energy and Intelligence, and centers of energy collection, regeneration, communication and exchange configured throughout the universe, Earth and the self.  Where physicists see separate, mathematically provable, scientifically perplexing cosmic phenomena and electrons being drawn out of material form back to a more primordial state to be evolved, re-engineered and later expressed as new manifestation in a big bang of life force energy, I perceive crucibles of Consciousness; spaces in which the Vision and Force of an infinitely unfolding universe is upheld and resonates as the seed foundation of life. I see vehicles of an infinitely diverse process of creation, involution and evolution whereby all forms advance continually as a projection of their infinitely potentiated and perfected flow of Source Energy and Intelligence. I see the potential of cosmic frequencies and elemental forces unbound from our known laws of matter, and that understanding how we are individually networked to this universal vortex system, its resources and potentialities is the means by which we will become co-navigators in a vast new reality.”

The Vortices of the Self collection also raises questions about the most effective way to expand our experience and understanding of these subtle phenomena, and why we only consider their existence in external nature.  Are they only knowable through experiments in ever larger and more powerful particle accelerators? Her answer to these questions, “Experiments in creating microscopic black holes in accelerators and other collider applications are quickly advancing science and how we conceive of matter, time and space. Seeking to prove alternate dimensions exist is a natural progression but exploring these solely as a part of external nature and not advancing a corollary science of the self which explores subtle dimensions and phenomena within the universe of our own human totality remains a limited and flawed approach. As we progress beyond the bias of an exclusive, externally driven material science, we will find it is far more reasonable and informative than expected to study our conception of inter-dimensional vortex phenomena directly as a feature of the space of our own being.”  Goudreault continues, “We have long been conditioned to be wary of the dark unknown and seek the Light; to sleep by night and live by the sun.  This early instinctual sequencing, reinforced by our limited physical sensory perception of light optimizes our biological survival and human advancement in the physical Earth dimension, but  has also contributed to our misunderstanding of what is dark and what is light and the limiting idea that we exist in a universe in which we are alone and separate.  It is a misperception which nurtures fear and blinds us to the advancements possible through individual exploration of the inner aspects of the self and the transformational awareness and experience waiting dormant within each of us. It is a misperception which has kept us focused outwardly; on what seems a more vastly empowered, physically knowable and therefore more sustainable reality. But that is shifting with knowledge that darkness is not the absence of light, rather its own spectrum of more subtle, non-physically sensible frequencies, and that the life forms and operating systems in the dimensions it sustains are more complex and refined still.  Neither is dark matter which comprises the majority of space a void, rather operating through a network of vortices we are beginning to understand with the aid of technology and quantum mathematical analyses, even though they remain largely intangible to the physical senses. So too there are those practicing inner yogic and meditative technologies for integrating the self whose experience is that what may seem a vast dark space within the self is not pure and foreboding darkness at all, rather carrying in it a more refined and subtle quality of Light and network of being which is not visible to the outer physical senses, but gradually perceivable through cultivating one’s inner sensory system.”

Goudreault continues, “We will soon discover that everything comes into and out of manifestation through a vortex; a concentrated, continuously rotating mass of energy expressed through a universally networked field ranging in size but with similar properties from those infinitely large, which serve to transform and evolve planets, solar systems and universes, to those of a small more relatable size which serve to evolve and potentiate our own human form.  Much like we are discovering in the universe outside us, within the seemingly dark, invisible and unknowable dimensions of the self wait vibrantly spinning worm hole-like portals of energy that connect our finite individual form with a universal field of infinite Energy and Intelligence and operate as centers of potentiating energy transmission and exchange, transformation and illumination. It is here at a critical point of intersection that the cosmic inter-dimensional bodies of physics and the nature of the self meet. We will soon understand more clearly that these are as essential to our existence as our physical organs, and perhaps even more so because they are not replaceable or interchangeable like the human heart, liver or kidneys. Without waiting for them to be acknowledged by physical science, more and more individuals will experience them as an integral part of our own evolving human totality, and as centers with unlimited energetic properties for refining our capacities and perception. As individual and collective experience of our human vortex system and magnetic field grows, it will be taken up as a focus of subtle scientific study and together we will advance our innate capacity to evolve what we know as our human totality from a limited, separate physically embodied self, driven solely by finite ego and intellect, to a more potentiated multidimensional, universally integrated being, fueled and informed by inner access to a greater cosmic Energy and Intelligence.” 

Following Goudreault’s thoughts we must then ask, could the entry code and knowledge of how to engage the cosmic potentiality of inter-dimensional worm holes in space actually be waiting in the vortex system and magnetic field of the self? Is it possible that as we expand our experience of the vortex system operating in the subtle dimensions of our human totality, we will discover how to access and navigate the full patency and power of inter-dimensional vortices throughout the universal field network?  Goudreault says, “Yes, there are no boundaries in the universe, only in our conception of the self and the false sense of separateness and exclusively physical and mental nature which imprison us in a limited finite reality. If we consider worm hole  phenomena not just as inanimate subtle forms, qualities, and forces in external nature but as centers for the concentrated expression of universally networked Energy and Intelligence, and consistently apply emerging inner technologies for refining and integrating our own human vortex system as multidimensional universally networked beings ourselves, we will increasingly access more unlimited experience and knowledge not only about these vortex phenomena but about the evolutionary potential of the self. As this knowledge through inner experience radiates out into our fields of endeavor, our growing understanding of what makes a normally dimensionally constrained reality unrestrained will establish a platform for both a more harmonized and sustainable Earth and universally beneficial interplanetary expansion. It will also refine the context of and further fast track all our scientific and technological efforts to make unfathomed inter-dimensional communication and altered time-space transits possible.” A proponent of quantum mechanics and expanding the fields of astrophysics, high energy particle physics, and inter-dimensional body research, Goudreault adds , “If we integrate our efforts in a dual approach to researching what forces exist in both cosmic and human vortices and how we are networked similarly, we will more rapidly expand our experience and knowledge of how anomalous forces operate in these vortices and how variables such as increasing the vibratory frequency of the more dense point’s electromagnetic field whether in space or ourselves, and luminous, super radiant sound frequencies can create stable doorway states in an interfacing plane within these gateways to more unlimited Energy and Intelligence and flexible time-space opportunities.”

Reflecting on her decades of yoga and meditation and what she has experienced within the self through her practices, Goudreault writes, “Even though I consider my inner research and experience trans-subjective; neither physically objective or originating within what is the capacity of finite conditioned mind, what I have perceived as a working understanding of the human vortex system located within the subtle dimension of our human totality may yet be viewed as subjective and read as theoretical.” Nevertheless, she continues with a description of one outcome of her experience in detail. “Although the inflow of every individual’s vortex system is equal and connected to one Source, Energy and Intelligence, the measured sequence of outflow into the physical body and how those energies manifest in the individual is uniquely configured to guide and support the mind in its individual evolution as well as the fulfillment of our signature purpose and creative contribution to collective advancement. While what goes into the vortices is universally designated, what comes out into our human system can be refined through its interfacing mechanism.  The interface between the vortices and the physical body is a unique combination of accumulated experiences and frequencies that form patterned thoughts, feelings and actions which either open or block the flow of cosmic Energy and Intelligence through our vortex system.

The interface’s unique code has two aspects.  The first is an initiating or birth sequence transmitted through the vortex system. For those who understand our existence as a continuous cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth; that we are each a unique seed of Consciousness evolving through infinite forms until we are fully realized expressions of our Source Energy, Intelligence and potential, it is  a copy of what some call our akaashic record. It may be thought of as an energetic imprint of the vibrational frequency of every thought, feeling and action expressed throughout our history, captured and stored in the subtle universal field like a memory. For those who prefer a one shot view of life, it is like a download of all data relating to our existence stored in the cosmic “cloud”; a vibrational DNA from which the primordial elements of matter are coordinated and the physical DNA and human form as we know it is constructed. Because of this aspect the vortex system, which in our formation serves as the pipeline for the sequencing of our genetic code, can also work subsequently through the mutable interface to unblock and optimize encoded potential for evolving our human totality. It is this deeper implication that the first of a series of yogic sutras for the Aquarian Age draws us toward. (Sutra is a complex spiritual concept compressed into one line). The power of the sutra, which reads, “There is a way through every block”, is only revealed when we understand it not given as idealistic optimism or abstract spiritual guidance, but to affirm that we have an innate system we must learn to access, designed with the unlimited capacity to illuminate and transform even the most deeply imbedded destructive patterns. A diet composed of less dense, balanced protein sources has long been preferred by yogis not only for their health benefits, or decreasing the amount of energy used digestion, but because it begins a subtle histone modification in the individual creating different protein coding sequences and binding patterns in the physical cells.  This allows for an altered signaling and transduction potential that increases genetic receptivity and prepares us on a physical level together with yogic and more subtle meditative work to optimize the epigenetic influence of the vortex system. It may then, operating multidimensionally through both mind and physical body, stimulate and optimize a genetic expression and universally networked energetic field and frequency which is far more transformational than the physical and mental super-traits we idealize in movies. While certain yogic practices will stimulate the flow of energy from the vortex system through whatever openings are coded into the unique initiating sequence of our interface and elevate our frequency and magnetic field to some degree, permanent advancement and wholly integrated function requires us to refine the second aspect of the interface as well.

The second aspect which determines the integrity and function of our vortex interface is the vibrational quality of impressions left on an individual in conception, pregnancy, the first 3 years of parenting, and to a lesser extent in our subsequent years of life. A theory and detailed study of specific signs and causes of openings and blocks in this aspect of our vortex interface is discussed in the text Microchakras: Inner Tuning for Psychological Well Being by Shri Shyamji Bhatnagar, as well as emerging practices for neutralizing and transforming the blocking influences and patterns of this more mutable aspect of the interface. Purification is integral to this process and mentioned in some form in nearly every spiritual path because purifying and refining what we take into the body, the influences we surround ourselves with, our feelings and our thoughts, all have a cumulative effect on the frequency of our individual field and its ability to harmonize with the much more empowered and subtle universal Source field to which we are innately networked through our vortex system. This is a lifelong consideration and should be as basic as daily physical hygiene. We understand what is required to keep our cars running, changing the oil and filters regularly and using a quality fuel.  Similarly, if we want to live as a greater human totality, with the ability to integrate the forces and potentialities of both our physical and subtle dimensions, we must take care of and refine the inner as well as the outer…and make some effort to master what is required to optimize the function of each.”

Physics’ Einstein-Rosen Bridge and the Bridge to Wholeness

“Initially, when we withdraw the outer senses and begin a practice of inner focused concentration or meditation, we may feel that the space of the inner self is like what science describes as a vast black hole drawing us to some infinite unknown, but with practice we learn otherwise.  In our first attempts at simply sitting in stillness with closed eyes, the mind may seem to open like a burst dam with a flood of thoughts. It is the exact opposite of what we expect to happen, but we should not be discouraged or deterred by this.  It is a common response.  The mind has been left to operate with free reign as the ultimate driver of our being, and mostly unconsciously, for so long in most of us that to challenge that pattern in any focused way creates something akin to a defensive reaction. Accurate Mantra recitation is an effective tool for cutting through these patterned thought forms and our attachments to them and accelerates the process of evolving our human totality through meditative practice, especially for those who have had difficulty seeing themselves as anything but their conditioned preconceptions, judgements, and material desires.

With devoted practice we gradually begin to expand our experience of the space between thoughts, often helped by pranayam or breath meditations where we rhythmically lengthen the breath and the space between each part of the breath.  As our awareness is loosened from the hold of our mind’s past patterns, we become an untethered observer rather than the servant of our conditioned thoughts. We grow in an experience of being more than a separate physical body and mind, and into an awareness that the subtle dimension of our being is not the one-way black hole we initially perceived. We experience that practiced properly, we are not at risk of going in and never coming out, or of coming out of a more subtle dimension unable to re-enter and excel in the physical world.  We realize the more infinite Energy and Intelligence we seek to advance the self; that inner Voice of subtle frequency that sometimes manages to pierce through the drama of our ego and emotions is not a remote divinity only accessible when we leave the physical body, but a glimpse of an ever present, not yet fully interfaced dimension of our human totality. As the rivers of thought calm, we experience a clearer mind; one that is now an instrument rather than an overlord. One whose clarity and stillness, like a cosmic mirror, can now with new capacity reflect more Light and receive the refined frequencies of Energy and Intelligence networked through the vortices of the self. We are able to access and integrate new inner sourced energies and awareness in a way that expands our human identity and elevates our perception and experience of life.”

In reading this you may ask, what does all this practice really prepare us for? When you go to weekly yoga class they talk about greater physical and mental balance, opening and healing the heart, clearer perception and contentment, and while these are all welcome effects which begin to elevate our experience, is there a bigger goal? According to Goudreault, it is not so much a goal as a human right and responsibility. She writes, “For eons we have evolved unconsciously, pushing our physical framework and finite self to their limits, aspiring to be more, but relying only on the least empowered physical parts of our human totality. We have been like a cell phone trying to access the Internet with no working WIFI connection; built for more infinite capacity but whose operation is limited to its physical chip, inner storage and hard-wired functions. We wouldn’t tolerate this for very long with our phones, and yet we are quite accepting of this condition within the self. Someone has told us how unlimited our phone is in its operation and how to connect with its networked capacity, yet while we are taught many things to expand the intellect, we are not taught how to connect with the network of our human totality or that a greater potentiality even exists. Inner technologies relevant to our present culture based on carefully researched practices of yoga, mantra and meditation can help prepare us to refine and become masters of our finite mind so we can evolve the self as a multidimensional human totality networked within to a more unlimited Energy and Intelligence. As such practices are further refined and introduced more widely, they will increasingly enable us to access and translate a more unbound Energy and Intelligence through our system of human vortices; a counterpart to what science has classified and continues to research as rotating black holes and inter-dimensional bodies in space. What was long considered esoteric spiritual work may now be viewed from a scientific perspective as opening the path/tunnel which connects the individual to their worm hole-like vortices and the potentiating forces of a more concentrated flow of cosmic Energy and Intelligence; an equivalent to what physics describes as the Einstein-Rosen Bridge in space.  I will go even further and say physicists’ passionate attempts to realize anti-gravity or non-gravitational fields which overcome the force of gravity as more than a principle, are in essence an outer expression of our mind’s instinct and desire to journey deeper into the vast and unexplored reaches of the self; to identify and overcome the conditions which keep us from fully accessing the more unlimited potential of the universe within our own being.  Even efforts to discover breakthrough propulsion systems which overcome the limits of physical space are analogous to what is required to connect with a human vortex system that exists to propel us beyond the limits of the physical and finite outer sensory conditioned mental dimensions that make up only a small part of the self. Physicists have generally concluded that you would need to do a lot of work to make the cosmic ER Bridge stable and consistently traversable. So too is there a great depth of inner work required to refine the vehicle of the self for integrating the energy and potentialities of our own human vortex system.

While theories in physics have suggested what they term exotic matter might stabilize and keep open the interfacing bridge, my experience indicates it is probably more likely exotic resonance, or high ultrasonic frequencies that open and stabilize the interface for transmission through our human vortices. And if we go beyond its spiritual context, another yogic sutra given as a guide to facilitate our progress at this time in history clearly emphasizes the relevance of sound of an akaashic or ultrasonic nature; “Vibrate in harmony with the cosmos, and the cosmos shall clear the path”.  There are also other variables however, before an individual is even sensitive enough to respond to such frequencies or focus them through the instrument of the human voice. In some more than others, there is an initial effort required to cultivate our desire to break our exclusive identification with the physical field. One scientific theory proposes that to form this bridge in space would take sucking in all the energy from the worm hole and turning it into a negative energy chamber.  Not dissimilarly, what is required in the human system is to withdraw the outer senses and, rather than a negative energy chamber, create a magnetic shift in the direction of thought and subsequent energy flow on the physical side of the worm hole interface, so our attention is no longer solely fixed outwardly, but in regular increments inwardly, toward a more unlimited space, energy and potential. We live in a world of polarity and our understanding and practice of inner technologies for refining and harmonizing our dual aspects is another determinant of our capacity to optimally integrate the forces of our vortex system; a variable in how much cosmic energy and intelligence can be realized and projected through the self.  To realize our human totality, we must learn to operate optimally as the sum of all our parts, the positive and negative, solar and lunar, male and female. Polarity can either bind us to a reality we perceive as exclusively dual and separate or take us to a reality where inseparable union and universal connectivity exist even in what appear separate individual aspects or material forms.  To create a foundation of sustainable strength, balance, integrity and rightly directed force, we must first end the antagonism and conflict of patterns which indulge some parts and ignore other parts of our known self. We must cultivate an awareness which lifts the veils which allow our individual inherent strengths to blind us to the greater energy and potential blocked by our weaknesses. Understanding our innate polarity and how to charge and refine our opposing energies, we will no longer operate merely as batteries continually feeding conditioned patterns of thought, feelings and actions and replaying the loop of a finite self-identity. We will learn to use our polarity to concentrate a neutrality of mind which magnetizes us as spaces for a more universally networked energy and intelligence to flow and resonate. We will begin to function more like a transformer through which the cosmic forces streaming through our vortex system can be integrated to evolve a more advanced context and infinitely generative field for human experience and potential.

‘Moving into the Light’ and such phrases of spiritual attainment, while seemingly unscientific, may all be interpreted as esoteric references to our evolving a multidimensional, universally networked human totality and a wholly integrated human advancement that is far more harmonizing and potentiating than intellectual or outer technological advancement alone. And if we really look at Nature, or the ideologies, and religious, scientific and technological strivings that form our human culture, we will see everywhere, despite their individual limits, a force that resonates with our own inner self and draws us closer to a human existence whose purpose is not just to survive or thrive materially or even with integrity, but as a more empowered multidimensional, universally networked expression of cosmic Energy and Intelligence. What separates our present and future human experience from that of the past, is not just our outer technologies, but an awareness that to realize this, we must gradually decrease the variance between the frequency of Source Energy and Intelligence available through the human vortex system of our subtle body and what we project through our magnetic field, our thoughts, feelings and physical actions. To “Be the Light” we must establish an increasingly closer vibrational relationship between our individual  electromagnetic field and the Source field to which we are universally networked, because accessing  and directing more unlimited forces whether in our human vortices or energetic wormholes in space of similar structure, function and origin is a challenge of merging energies rather than the meeting of two separate sources where one attempts to penetrate, extract, or impose a condition on the other. While those working with particle accelerators are trying to figure out how to create and stabilize the vortex fields of microscopic black holes in order to understand the dynamics and potential of more subtle dimensions and how we may harness such phenomena for more unlimited energy exchange, communication and transit, crushing atoms may not be all that is necessary. My inner experience leads more toward a theory of human vortices that are perfectly designed, stable and accessible as an integral part of our human totality. What is unfixed and mutable is the more significant energy sequenced interface; the bridge of access between the unlimited vortex system and our finite physical body and past conditioned mind. It is this inter face and its relative mutability that gives each of us a mechanism for clearing the openings through which we access our human vortex system and the flow of more unlimited and potentiating cosmic Energy and Intelligence, and what deserves much more consideration and research in tandem with physicists’ continued pursuit of inter-dimensional phenomena externally.”

Summary

When asked if she could summarize what scientifically relevant insight lies hidden in the art of Vortices of the Self, Goudreault accepts the challenge and responds, “OK, I will try…The vortices of the self, which have inspired my collection of photographic works of the same name, are a system of rotating inter-dimensional wormhole like vortices and their interface that redefine our concept of our human totality to one where we are universally networked to unlimited cosmic Energy and Intelligence and capable of operating multidimensionally with consistency in distinct regions of spacetime, one that is physical and finite and one that is beyond outer sensory perception and more infinite. It is a human totality designed so downloads of cosmic Intelligence can be introduced, transmitted and received through these human vortices. It is a vortex system where energy as luminous sound is condensed into Light that is able to travel across sequenced openings in its interface to increase the frequency of our individual magnetic field and purify our physical and mental fields. The vortex interface is sound sensitive and mutable and can be refined to accommodate an increased flow of energy through the application of vocally produced seed sounds and what are referred to in yogic teachings as akashic frequencies (our closet equivalent is ultrasonic sound). With an increased flow of energy from the subtle energetic vortices into the physical dimension of our human totality, there is an increased sense of widening connectivity in space and an experience of becoming a present observer of vast dimensions without moving from one’s finite point on Earth.  I would say the human vortex system clearly shifts our perception of space-time and is not intended to facilitate physical transits like larger versions in space but can facilitate an experience of mentally projected union over distance we may equate with travel. In those who have evolved the capacity to consciously direct it, or have dedicated themselves to accessing and integrating the subtle dimensions of their human totality, there will undoubtedly arise more insight of parallel relevance which may help answer some of today’s and future physicists’ questions about the properties and potentialities of subtle dimensions and inter-dimensional communication and travel. At the very least, continued exploration of our human vortices will help fuel our belief in the quantum possibilities we can now calculate and conceive of just beyond our grasp.”

Conclusion

Goudreault’s newest collection, Vortices of the Self, illuminates a relatively unacknowledged part of our human totality and makes conceivable what has been concealed in myth and mystery for centuries. Relating them to the rotating black holes and worm holes which are the focus of physicists all over the world, she turns her impressions of human vortices into iconic images that foreshadow their increasingly significant future role as vectors of individual and collective human advancement. “As long as we remain servants of a finitely conditioned mind,” she writes, “we are like robots in auto pilot evolving based purely on genetic coding and physical sensory experience, relying on artificial, technologically enhanced hybridization as our only course of evolution. When we embark on a process of refining our energetic interface however, the universally networked Energy and Intelligence that has always been a part of our human totality will be more freely delivered through our human vortices. We will move from auto pilot and slowly progressing human potential to an evolutionary shift that is like suddenly traveling beyond the speed of light. We will radiate with new strength, harmonized wholeness, and capacities, technologies will emerge to serve unfathomed possibilities rather than just compensating for our own perceived limits, and all space will open to us. But first we must open the space of the self and integrate the subtle dimension of our human totality!” 

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