[R]esearchers are rediscovering what Einstein realized and ancient cultures have always known: that we are linked by more subtle and encompassing connections ... [T]here is not only matter and energy in the universe, but also a more subtle yet real element ... In-formation of this kind connects all things in space and time—indeed it connects all things through space and time.
But how is it all connected? My dream showed everything floating in black space and connected by golden threads. Physicists call that black space the Akashic Field. Akasha is an ancient Sanskrit word for the invisible ether in which everything is connected. In 1907, Nikola Tesla, the father of modern communication technology, first postulated that this invisible element exists. In an unpublished paper, he described an "original medium," a force field that becomes matter when energy acts on it.
With modern equipment, scientists can now observe the effects of this original medium—a quantum field of energy that remains after all other forms of energy are removed at absolute zero. They call this primal energy the Quantum Vacuum, Akashic Field, or A-field.
It may be a vacuum, but it sure isn't empty. Laszlo explains that the Akashic Field is superfluid, superdense, frictionless, and positively alive with information. Everything in the universe is not only immersed in the Akashic Field, but everything also sends energy and information back and forth to everything else. This exchange of energy is called quantum entanglement, and it means nothing is separate. Laszlo's startling conclusion is that "all matter is conscious . . . there is no categorical divide between matter and mind" (Science and the Akashic Field).
Well, if science can point to the presence of the Akashic Field, then perhaps my best sources of information on the power of the mandala and my vision of the floating sphere were the masters and teachers of the Akashic Record. The Akashic Record is a name for the countless traces of information that have passed through that quantum medium throughout time. Many cultures sensed the presence of this unseen library and gave it a special name; the Hebrew Bible, for example, calls it the Book of Life. This information is so precious that it is protected by highly evolved beings called masters and teachers. With training, you can learn to open your own records. Through the brilliant Akashic Record trainer and reader, Lauralyn Bunn, I asked the masters and teachers to please explain what I was shown. They said:
First and foremost, it has geometric information. It is a mathematical representation through symbology of that which is law. The image contains sacred symbols. The gold lines are the grid of information transfer and communication. The black sphere is not a void; it is black as in the law of photography. Black contains all that is yet to be manifest.
Wouldn't Jung have been thrilled to hear this? As much time as he spent studying the effects of mandalas, he did not know that the mandala is a three-dimensional sphere or that it sends and receives information. This 3-D aspect matters because, Laszlo explains, it means that our intentions, our thoughts, our desires—our mandalas—are not only sparks of information that go out into an information-dense universe, but they also go out as three-dimensional holograms. And those holograms have seemingly magical powers. Laszlo admits this image of information as hologram "boggles the mind," but, he says, it makes perfect sense in a quantum, everything-is connected-to-everything universe. "Through the holograms created in and conveyed by the A-field, things are directly 'in-formed' by the things that are most like them," he says in Science and the Akashic Field.
This means that my mandala—my 3-D sphere hologram—resonates only with other holograms holding similar information, like a tuning fork that vibrates only with tuning forks calibrated to the same pitch. And because this resonation happens in a fluid universe, it can happen very, very fast. "[T]hrough torsion waves in the vacuum the A-field links things and events in the universe at staggering speeds—a billion times the velocity of light," said Laszlo (Science and the Akashic Field). As I read this, I realized my mandala was not only a hologram, but like a hologram, it also moved. It released energy and received energy. It released information and received information. My mandala was alive. It was a wheel. It spun. It moved.
With that level of information, energy, and speed at play, I guess going from bankrupt to bankful in thirty days wasn't such a miracle after all. Nor are all the other stories I've heard from people in my Lotus and the Lily telecourses, who tell me about the intentions on their Intention Mandalas coming to pass practically before the ink is dry.