THOGAL

All manifestation is like a brilliance of white light surrounding a blue-black star of undefined potential. Out of this brilliance comes the circle or sphere, the basis of all phenomena, the intent of the essence speaking to us in all form. The sphere or circle represents the completion inherent at the beginning, the intent of the essence within all beings and all forms encompassing the resolution. This simple shape, this organic fluid wholeness, is the most sacred pure form. 
The whole experience we find ourselves within is made of radiant circles and spheres of light, from atoms and molecules to bubbles, dewdrops, eyes, the Earth, the sun, the moon, the planets, stars, and galaxies. The circle is also an expression of the cycles of change seen clearly in our lives from birth through growth, maturity, and decline into death, and moment by moment throughout all aspects of this ephemeral vision we call life. The very Earth we live upon is a sphere made up of cycles that move us just as a circle is drawn. The circle or cycle divides equally as in early cell division of an embryo into two and then four equal segments, reflected in the four directions, the four seasons, the four stages of life, all the natural expressions of the sacred compass within which we live. 
The circle is the ground, the nurturing soil, the egg, the basis of all being. In the  Thogal visions and the vision we call life there is an activating, initiating force that engages with this ground, as sperm or pollen or as strands of tiny spheres that are the rosaries of light within the visions. This activating energy initiates a new cycle when it blends with the circle or ovum, then together expanding, multiplying, and developing as a new cycle of life arising from this union of response and initiation. 
This initiated, differentiating life is made of light, and that light expresses itself in rainbow colors, glorious in their luminosity, depth, and radiance. Color brings out, shines forth, and embodies qualities. Colors are another aspect of the intent of the essence: the blues of the sky, the greens of plants, the ochres of the soil, the whole spectrum of colors found in flowers or a rainbow. This brilliance of celestial light brings to life the visions of  Thogal and the vision that is this life, inner radiance seen everywhere you look and found within your heart. 
In the initial fields of the visions, there is a grey or whitish light with grey or white circles or spheres moving through space. As the visions mature, the circles become concentric rainbow spheres, and colors grow more and more evident until they stabilize and the whole experience is that of brilliant, incredible, celestial colors the depth of which is impossible to draw. 
Some of the circles come together, join, and become another important aspect of existence. This is union, two spheres blending to form a singularity of two, an embrace that is total. Union, joining, combining, blending, is the continuum, the connective tissue, the luminous net of all experience like a pond’s surface peppered in a light rain creating concentric circles blending in a dance of countless union. 
These radiant spheres, unions, and colors expand to encompass further expressions of call and response, nurturing and initiating. In the very basis of all phenomena, the energies that are sometimes called peaceful and wrathful dance and blend in a union of primordial dynamic forces, and they begin to manifest in the visions in specific shapes. 
As the visions progress, simple peaceful forms appear, four circles around a central circle. They become one of most prevalent expressions throughout the rest of the visionary experience, taking on more defined qualities as the visions grow and mature. Initiating, dynamic wrathful forms also begin as simple patterns with four quadrants and radiating energies on the diagonals, and then they too expand and develop with individual qualities. Both peaceful and wrathful forms are organic in shape; they are expressions of energy within the intent of essence and are found everywhere around us throughout this vision we call life, from the peaceful forms of a dogwood flower to the wrathful patterns of a tiger’s face. 
All these energies or aspects of intent come together within the visions of  Thogal in spatial nets of light similar to the arrangement of seeds forming on the head of a ripening sunflower. Just as the sunflower seeds develop within patterns of overlapping circles, each seed providing a sphere of influence, the peacefuls and wrathfuls connect through living strands of light, the whole producing a luminous net, a continuum of space and intent. 
A vivid expression of this intent, sometimes called Indra’s net, arises within the  Thogal visions of inner radiance, but you can also experience the energy of this intent within the vision that is this life through opening your heart to another in genuine compassion and love. The jewels at the crossroads of the net can be holy beings, friends, mountains, plants, waters, rivers, oceans, a dewdrop, the light on a windowsill. The essential aspect of Indra’s net is the luminous heart to heart connection with all life, the recognition of the primordial essence in all. Every aspect of our daily life is already an integral part of this sacred net of great compassion. Our choice is to open to it and bond with this great union. It is the same energy that permeates the shimmering colors, fields, and forms of the  Thogal visions. 
Circles, unions, peacefuls, wrathfuls, and luminous nets continue to grow and then mature into total effulgence in complex patterns with jewel like ornaments, pendants, and mandalas, oceanic in scale beyond space and time, and yet as in all cycles of life there comes the dissolution. The effulgent expression of essence crests and begins to decline. As we grow to maturity and express ourselves in life, we reach a time when our energy moves naturally toward dissolution or decline and into death. In the visions, this decline, this inward turning toward essence, returns to a single sphere then it too pops like a bubble on water and there is only essence. 
The four great visions of  Thogal are part of an organic living process, a natural cycle, and within that cycle there are whole arenas of experience, each with their own texture of transformation. There are landmarks on the path but they are gateways through which you enter another stage of the visionary process. The most accurate way to describe the developing spheres of the four visions is that they mature in the same way as the growth cycle of a plant. The seedling of light that emerges from the luminous seed in your heart puts out seed leaves as the onset of the first vision. The seedling grows, puts out more leaves and the first buds of flowers as the second vision, and then matures and blossoms as the total effulgence of the third vision. The energy then turns inward, concentrating the dynamic force of the essence to set seed in the fourth vision, which brings you to the ultimate resolution of all phenomena as a seamless whole.