7.1.1 What are the roots of Implicate Technology?

The unified, coherent and structured system of meditation which forms the body of Implicate Technology meditative practice had its origin long before our earliest recorded history. In the West, a generally accessible description of these intuitively-based meditative disciplines has not been available. Conversely, in the East, the history of yoga has been traced back much farther than is possible when using the tools and methodologies of explicate, intellectually – based disciplines.

Up to the attainment of the first stage of enlightenment, the Implicate Technology meditative system is based on Chinese Taoist teachings [See chapter 1, Beyond the personality: the beginner’s guide to enlightenment]. The teaching on the second to the fourth stages of enlightenment is based on Tibetan Buddhist yoga [Evans-Wentz W. Y.; Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines; Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1967, pages 101-153]. The modes of expression used in Implicate Technology to describe the experience of enlightenment owe a strong debt to Indian Hinduism [Godman, David; Be As You Are: the Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi; London, Arkana, l985].

Implicate Technology clearly acknowledges its debt to the practices and experience of these earlier models of reality. Equally, it should be clearly understood that Implicate Technology is not simply an amalgam of pre-existing Eastern meditative techniques. Yoga transcends all cultural barriers and histories, being the exclusive preserve of none.

The experience and lessons of the highly developed Eastern implicate technology systems are utilised and expressed by Implicate Technology in a context adapted to the demands of late-twentieth century Western secular culture. These Implicate Technology teachings are the systematic and coherent record of contemporary experience on the path to the final stage of enlightenment. Their purpose is to guide and assist others on the far journey along the path to enlightenment.

The Eastern models of reality reflect an awareness that the journey to enlightenment can take many, many lifetimes. Implicate Technology acknowledges the truth of this, and recognises the novelty of such a perspective in our materialistic Western culture. Up to the late-twentieth century we in the West have lacked the generally accessible cultural perspective necessary to be at ease with the idea of an evolutionary journey across many lifetimes. However, we have been prepared by the evolutionary pattern of karma for a sudden, widespread quantum leap in spiritual development in this generation of incarnations.

Be assured: from the day you start meditating until the day you realise the final stage of enlightenment, the total time elapsed can be as little as eighteen months. To travel this path, from ordinary consciousness to realisation of the unity of reality, in such a short time requires wholehearted dedication and commitment to the practice of these teachings. By meditating as instructed, and so releasing the experience of previous incarnations, you will spontaneously find out how far along the path you have already travailed in previous incarnations.

As well as having roots in Eastern meditative systems, this Western model of reality is also rooted in the Jewish mystical tradition. Developing separately from the mainstream of Jewish culture, the Kabbalah has flowered over the centuries. Splendid in its vision, the Kabbalah has evolved into a fully developed model of reality.

The Kabbalah’s greatest achievement has been to identify, in Jewish mystical terminology, “the ten energy-essences that are …………..in constant interplay and underlie all of the universe” [Hoffman, Edward; The Way of Splendour: Jewish Mysticism and Modern Psychology, Boulder, Shambhala, 1981; page 234]. These energy essences, known as the ten sefirot, can be diagrammatically represented in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. By means of this diagrammatic technique, the Kabbalah is able to model, analyse and understand any situation in terms of the interactions of the ten sefirot.

The ten conditions of Implicate Technology, which are in constant interplay and underlie all of everyday experience, are, simply, the ten sefirot writ large. The ten conditions are an articulation of the same vision which developed the ten sefirot, expressed in terms more generally accessible. The ten conditions are the ten sefirot translated from the framework and language of Jewish mysticism into the language used by ordinary, intelligent people in the context of their everyday lives.

Rooted in direct experience of the true, final and absolute nature of reality, Implicate Technology clearly acknowledges the similarity of its structure to other models of reality. Apart from personal preference and cultural relevance, there is no inherent advantage of any one fully developed model of reality over another. The ultimate truth is inexpressible, and any model of its nature must necessarily be conditioned and relative.