Alpha is an omnipresent aspect of my individual reality. Alpha cannot be described or understood using conventional language or meaning. After several decades living and developing alongside Alpha, I can at best, summarise observed characteristics - genderless, ageless, formless, unemotional, silent, supportive, positive, inspiring and above all, completely non-judgemental. In an extract from a favourite poem - Tintern Abbey - William Wordsworth comes close to illuminating the intrinsic essence of what I must presume, is his own inner Alpha.
' And I have felt a presence, that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts.
A sense sublime, of something far more deeply interfused
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns
And the round ocean and the living air
And the blue sky and in the mind of man
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought
And rolls through all things
'
Does everyone have an Alpha ? Does my Alpha parallel the documented experience of Mystics over the ages, which Krishnamurti2 describes as the importance of understanding and coming to terms with [ through the technique of Meditation ] The Knower, The Process of Knowing and The Known ?
Later in life, I had the good fortune to attend a series of 7 Vedic Science courses in which, an aspect of the state of Enlightenment is explored as Samhita [ pronounced Sangita ] where Krishnamurti's threefold aspect of individual experience evolves and synthesises to become a blissful, unified experience, referred to as Unity Consciousness. The chapter on Meditation develops this theme further.
