A difficult subject for theology students that makes them stay up late at night and gives them a headache trying to understand is the concept of the Holy Trinity.
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, that’s one way of describing it. The great Yoga masters of antiquity described the same underlying principle differently, based on their experience in deepest meditation realizing the highest levels of consciousness.
The Trinity, they referred to as the observer, the process of observation, and the observed. These were descriptions of different levels of consciousness, experienced from different angles.
The observer, the process of observation, and what is observed are inextricably linked and can never exist, one without the other. Whatever is observed implies an observer. Mediating the observed and the observer must be the process of observation.
This is an elegant and intelligent understanding of reality and consciousness and also a beautiful description of who we are at the depths of our being. We are, at any given moment, the observer, the process of observation, and what is observed.
This beautiful continuum of creation is only disturbed when these three aspects are experientially disconnected. When too much attention is paid to the objects of observation, it’s altogether too easy to forget the one who is observing. When we are chronically focused on what is observed, we take that to be reality in and of itself. Then we assign far too much power and reality to what is being observed, often to our own detriment.
When we forget that we are observing our reality into existence, we forget our own creative power and capacity in shaping reality into what we see. Humans in general, and the world at large, are deeply habituated in worshiping what is observed and forgetting their own power in observing reality into view. We forget the Holy Trinity and we suffer for it.
Oddly, science itself, the process of quantifying and measuring the objects of observation has discovered, through quantum mechanics, the essential element of the observer and its effect on what is observed. It is known as the Observer Effect and much to the chagrin of materialistic scientists, it cannot be whitewashed away from any comprehensive understanding of reality
There simply cannot be the observed without an observer and the process of observation. When you remember that you are the observer and the process of observation, you remember your own true nature and the power you have to observe into reality what you choose, what you love, and what you desire, if you are able to pay attention to attention itself.
Meditation is the key to gaining this faculty, this capacity that is our birthright, that is God-given, so to speak. Attention must be withdrawn from what is observed in order to soften and relax our hold and our fixation on the product and process of habitual observation itself.
Every human has the potential to remember their own status as a creator when they assimilate and incorporate the principle of the Holy Trinity within themselves, not as some vague religious concept, but as a living principle that expresses every moment in our experience. As you regain your capacity to observe and your faculty of aiming your observation intelligently, you begin to see a new world into view.
When we are stuck in the observed, we are cut off from the observer, which can just as easily be called God. God is not something separate from ourselves, as every great spiritual master has always reminded us. From the perspective of disconnected consciousness, the state of awareness stranded in the products of observation, we either forget God entirely or say that he does not exist.
This is synonymous with claiming that the observed needs no observer to exist, which is patently ridiculous. This is the foolishness of human beings who are cut off from the understanding of the observer, the process of observation, and the observed.
Connect these dots, remember who you are, align with the power that creates worlds.