I had little or no interest at the time about any of the particulars of these cultural paradigms. My interest was finding a connection between the two cultures that would serve as a macro demonstration of the quantum world.

The ninety degree opposition fit nicely into the mathematical model that comes from the examination of an exhibited phenomena in the quantum model, something called simultaneous occurrence. This is another of those hard to get your head around concepts. A particle can appear simultaneously in two places. Sounds straight forward enough but it doesn’t travel between locations, it is not two particles appearing at the same time, it is the same particle occurring at the same time in two different locations. You might want to contemplate this.

With this model in hand and my conjecture about the usage of symbols, I began to look at the Tibetan and Hopi cultures.
Now this was 1963, these cultures did not have the iconic mass appeal that they do now. It had only been four years since His Holiness the Dalai Lama was forced to flee Tibet. It would be another 15 years before His Holiness even visited the U.S. and not one Hollywood star wore robes or spoke of tantra.

The interesting thing was that the 13th Dalai Lama had written of and prophecized about the terrible fate that awaited the Tibetans. A fate resulting from their isolation and an insight to the “middle road”. The insight was that the teachings and knowledge of the Tibetans was needed by the world. This spreading of the Tibetan culture around the world by the Chinese oppression was simply a 2x4 to the forehead of the Tibetans (my metaphor).

The Hopi had a similar long history of self imposed isolation of their knowledge and teachings. This self preservation and isolation was a very understandable response to the screw job at the hands of the government of the U.S. One thing that struck me was the fact that the Hopi and Navajo of the four corners area were the only Native Americans that were not removed from their ancestral homes. That fact confused me, then I visited the area of the Hopi Mesas. (Another metaphor coming) have you ever visited a maternity ward and seen the child that “only a mother could love”?

Now, I have never been to Tibet. When it would have been possible for me, it was a decision of conscience not to go to Tibet as long as the Dalai Lama could not. The Hopi mesas, while being at first impression that ugly child, I visited twice at this time. It is with no reservation that I state that the Hopi mesas are the most magical place that I have ever visited. The light has a different quality and if you listen the wind speaks.

The fact that the wind spoke to me was good, because no one else would. Sure the gift shops attendants were eager, but any inquiries that went beyond the price, and I was told that only the Elders could speak of such things and they weren’t talking to me. I wasn’t Hopi and fourteen years old at the time. So my first ventures into the Tibetan and Hopi spiritual paradigms were through translated writings.

I found upon study that the ancient religion of the Tibetans was called Ba, and it was full of deities and demons that reflected their world back to them. (these are still an integral part of the Tibetan paradigm) The Hopi’s have as intricate a system of Kachinas. It amazed me that excluding names due to language that the two systems are basically mirror images of each other, down to the fact that the positive and negative aspects of each were represented by the same kachina or deity. Both systems recognized that both aspects were present and needed for their existence.

This was the macro demonstration of quantum. I wrote papers and sent my findings both to the Council of Elders of the Hopi and representatives of the Tibetan government in exile. They both said that my findings were “extremely interesting” and would take them under advisement and I didn’t hear from either again for fifteen years.

In 1979, I believe it was, I was living in Japan and received correspondence from both the Tibetans and the Hopi. They stated pretty much the same, that their scholars had looked at my findings and had found deeper connections that were beyond my knowledge. The connection was firmly established when His Holiness came to America for the first time and requested a visit with the Hopi. He showed up wearing the red hat of the kalachakra. It was the fulfillment of Hopi prophecy that a visitor of great importance would show up one day wearing a red hat, a marker in the countdown for the end of the fourth age of man.

This validation was a turning point for me. I was now considered eligible for oral transmission of knowledge in both paradigms. My physics professors thought this avenue of investigation was “clever”, but a career killer. So I killed it.

I decided that the clues to my understanding was not going to be found by more intellectual inquiry, but rather the expanding of my consciousness. I took my science training into an examination and hopefully an expansion of my personal consciousness. Hindu, Tibetan, Zen, Taoism, Kaballa, Sufi, Hopi, Cherokee, Chippewa, and Mayan/Toltec are all paradigms that I have had this oral transmission of teachings.

From this point forward in this discussion the facts become a bit more subjective, but are my personal truths found on this journey. I know that personal truth is just that, personal, but I feel compelled to go forward anyway.