Zen and the Art of Subration

Historically, there have been many paths leading toward many different endpoints as identified by whichever Saint, Guru, Mullah, Rabbi, Sensei, Baba, Priest or Priestess, whatever leader had gained popularity at that stage of development in our cultural history. Whichever tradition one observes, whatever the identified ancient endpoint one is seeking, it matters not. In this post-modern age the goal of consciousness is to mature the physiology to generate the mature brain chemistry. The theory of treating a mood disorder by administering chemical straight-jackets is incomplete and inhumane. The more advanced knowledge and methodology is to support the development of the maturing brain chemistry with the appropriate vitamins and minerals. This mature brain chemistry overflows to drip down the throat, feeding the system. This mature brain effluent activates the transformation of the digestive and pulmonary systems to foster physiological transformation ultimately, achieving breatharian status. This process of maturation begins by mastering Subration. For Subration is the process an individual undergoes to achieve growth of consciousness. Subration as defined by Eliot Deutsch (1969) in his treatise, Advaita Vedanta: A Philosophical Reconstruction is “the Mental Process whereby one re-evaluates some previously appraised level of consciousness because of its being canceled, or at least set in a different context, by the experience of a new level of consciousness (p, 15). Simply restated, Subration is the ability to sense a more subtle object of consciousness outside of self, another it. Advaita Vedanta speaks of awareness of the ONE, that which was never born, torn, broken or put asunder, the one without a second. Exploration of The Great WABA, the within, among, between and around begins, skills are tried and tested; progress takes place by steps and stages, expansion occurs, sometimes interrupted by a time of dissonance or gap consciousness followed by rebalancing, healing or stasis and then expansion occurs anew. Mastery of Subration allows for consciousness to expand integrating this new object, this new territory becoming the ‘new ground’ of objective experience. Once this object of consciousness, this new territory is explored and understood it is no longer objective of self, but internal to one’s awareness expanding your personal, subjective experience many times offering one the opportunity to gain new skills: balancing on two legs, grasping a chair leg to aid walking, running to name a few developmental learning skills The new it, the new territory, the new skill set becomes familiar to self creating a new we; expanding the old territory, functionality into a greater I, therefore expanding the old self, into a new self, becoming renewed. Seeing anew, continually expanding consciousness to expand to explore and integrate new territory, new paths of exploration and new objects external to self is the goal of consciousness. The principles of The Art of Subration are simple at first; mastery earns the fruits of longevity and the bubbles of immortality? This past summer after doing various cultivation and pranayama practices (2014) while swimming, my body began liberating thousands of tiny bubbles. The water around my body looked like someone had dropped alka-seltzer tablets into the water.