At the highest level (which is beyond all levels) there is that which is not manifest, but is infinite potential. There is no vibration.

Below the highest, there is infinite beingness which can be viewed as metaphysically total presence of being. But that presence creates within it its own antithesis of metaphysically total absence of being. ( 0 = +1 & -1) Furthermore there is the complication of matter. Matter is dead (abandoned) being. So the presence of matter is the absence of being. This creates a scale with total being present & no matter at the top, and no being & total matter present at the bottom. All vibrations in the universe are minor echoes of this primal set of two opposing pairs.

Matter is as much a person's mind as are thoughts and images. All of which (mind and matter) are created within the poles of top scale items and their opposites (know vs unknowable, be vs not-be, love vs hate, have vs can't have, etc, etc). The bottom scale items must be below matter in order for matter to exist within our awareness.

Between these poles exists a progressive scale of vibration. Vibration is caused by a simultaneous and conflicting statement that matter & energy is both there and not there. In response to this problem, matter and energy constantly vanish and reappear. This is a decent mechanical definition of vibration.

(Buddha wiped out this apparent problem of existence with his 4-way connundrum of:
                                       "is
                                       is not
                                       both is and is not
                                       neither is nor is not")

High on the scale a being is "there" very much, equivalent to being there rather often. This is analogous to "high frequency". Matter/energy high on the scale also has a high rate of frequency of appearance and disappearance. The great power of impact of high frequency energy is apparently derived from how often it appears and interacts with matter and other energy. But keep in mind that the reason it has such a high frequency is because it is backed by beingness, which is the empty space between "wave crests." This not only works with radiant electromagnetic energy, but also applies to "solid" objects. Everything which exists vibrates, and by vibrating it is appearing and disappearing at some particular frequency relative to the rate of vibration of everything else.

There are two ways to increase the power of energy. One is to increase the frequency, the other is to increase the volume. With moving energy this can be visualized as beads on a string. Either the beads are closer together (appear more often), or the beads are bigger. In general (exceptions caused by beings abound), the beads (packets, quanta, reappearances) are larger and farther apart as one goes downscale.

The bottom of the scale is an apparent 100% "not there" of beingness. That would make the matter at the bottom of the scale 100% there all the time, which would be timestop and a vanishing of the universe from the viewpoint of beings in that universe. (Beings outside the universe looking "in" would be under no such handicap.) Some researchers claim that "out the bottom" takes a person to the top again beyond existence, but personally I'd rather not attempt that particular route to nibbana. My guess is that both top and bottom need to be held simultaneously in order to achieve that purpose which should not be held as a goal.

Something I've noticed in reading Ken Ogger's account of the series of universes we have descended through, is that the "MEST" of each universe in the series is more solid than the previous, and the "body" used by thetans in each universe is more solid also as one passes down the series. The apparent observation is that we still use as bodies in present time the forms from Thought universe (deva glow), first MEST universe (astral body) and Magic Universe (etheric double). The spherical (deva) glow of the energy production unit would be a higher frequency than the astral body, which would be higher in frequency than the etheric double. This implies several things: that the theta bodies can be placed against the scale as composed of energy (it is obvious to me that the etheric body is effort level energy), and that the universes themselves can be shown to have a range down to a location on the scale where their matter exists.

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