| Vogel decided that if he were to continue working with quartz crystals, he would have to devise a means of amplifying and focusing their energy field in order to properly measure it. Though extensive research led to little available technical data, Vogel was not deterred. He had, after all, encountered difficulties in his early work with luminescence. This was not the first time he had to throw himself into a rigorous process of self-education. In order to find the information he needed, Vogel followed the same process which he had used successfully in his laboratory work: "I ask questions, I write the in a notebook. I meditate on them, and above all I go to Mass and I pray to have clear understanding and insight as to what I am to do." He emphasizes the importance of "letting go" of expectations, which he insists only limit progress. "The goal," he says, "is to be childlike. Christ said, 'Suffer the little children to come unto Me for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.' Well, what is the kingdom of heaven? It's that which is in you and me. It's a release of time and space. It is the atonement with the eternal now. "When I work in the childlike state," he says, " I detach from time. I just become absorbed in what is, and when that is done, I draw my breath in and reset and sit down and look at it with my faculties which means all the information storage I've got in my brain - the sensory faculties that I've developed and I ask myself, 'What have I learned? How can I apply it? What do I need to do to measure it?' Then I go to work. There's no conflict. It's just that we don't overlap the two faculties simultaneously, otherwise you've drawn a distorted viewpoint of what we call reality. You're fighting with two different factors. One has no time and space. In the other we create time by linking with our mind into an object and observe it in a systematic and progressive way. I do the same thing at the microscope, and I've really learned over the twenty-seven years of working with the microscope now to move into both dimensions. I first set up the camera and equipment so I have the light sources exactly the way I want. Once that is achieved, I look at the object I'm studying and I ask, 'What am I to see in this?' Then I let my imagination go. And I start to adjust the equipment as if I were in a "dream state." It was just such a "dream state" that produced the answer to Vogel's search for the best way to cut and facet quartz: "One morning I awoke, and in my waking state I saw this shape. It appeared as - you might call it a dream or a vision. It stood in front of my mind's eye and it remained that way for minutes, not just a fraction of a second. No words. Nothing. Just the image. And though I knew nothing about the Kabbalah, what I was seeing was the Tree Of Life." With his riddle solved, the hard work of technically bringing it into physical form began. It took him one year to cut and grind a crystal to the ratio and proportions of the Tree Of Life. By the end of that year, he had produced from natural quartz a precision instrument capable of converting a charge not found in the electromagnetic spectrum into a frequency, which could be observed and measured from an electrical standpoint - in other words a "step-down transformer" that transduces subtle psychic energies into a scientifically measurable field. | |
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