Here is the ultimate solution to all humanity’s ills, profoundly simple yet infinitely vast.

It can be stated as a basic axiom from which logical corollaries follow.

AXIOM: What ultimately motivates each and every human (what we all share in common) is an innate thirst for Divine Connection. From this single aspiration flows a myriad of extensions/expressions/aspects/facets of this primary impulse. Variations include our intentions, longings, desires, appetites, attachments, impulses, cravings and addictions.

COROLLARY: In the context of the Quantum Life Wheel, the speediest, most effective and complete way to fulfill the purpose of life is to cut to the chase. Link and integrate, reconcile and harmonize all ephemeral, secondary desires in order to return to the Center. Intentionally, consciously reconnect with the eternal, creative Source of Life, from which all blessings flow.

The Quantum Life Wheel looks like this:

COROLLARY: Every human, also made in this image of God, is a microcosmic mirror of the quantum macrocosm.

In the context of the subtle energy centers, life force (chi, prana, energy) flows downwards along the spine from the crown center to root chakra. It then returns up the same pathway, linking human physiology with the Creative Source of life. This flow is pictured in images of Mercury’s staff — the Caduseus. It recurs in ancient healing traditions. It’s found both in Greek mythology and in modern medicine. It looks like this:

COROLLARY: In the Vedic tradition, the energy centers are associated with levels of consciousness, human development, emotional states, physical anatomy, colors, sounds, symbols and much more. This energy pathway looks like this:

A short list of the impulses, wants and needs associated with each of the major energy centers includes:

Crown: Divine Connection. Once unity with Source is established and sustained, satisfaction, contentment, joy and fulfillment that encompasses all else is experienced.

3rd eye: Seeking for intuitive guidance, telepathic communication.

Throat: Search for wisdom, information, understanding.

Heart: Desire to express and receive kindness, compassionate becaring, friendship.

Solar Plexus: Longing for community and acceptance, control, organizational power, wealth.

Sacral: Lust for physical, sensory stimulation, fun — touch.

Root: Craving for safety, security, stability.

COROLLARY: The resonance between the individual and the whole of creation looks like this:

COROLLARY: Breathing and meditative practices which guide and control the life force along the spinal pathway, fueling the subtle energy centers, are a primary means of linking the chakras to achieve self-mastery, inner peace and fulfillment. Primary amongst them is microcosmic breathing, which is imaged like this:

COROLLARY: The creative arts are an important adjunct of the healing arts. When intentionally employed to stimulate and harmonize the senses, linking them with the higher mind, music, dance, drama, painting, architecture, and sculpture serve to remind us of our origins and deeply held values.

Even the venerable Chinese I Ching, consulted by wisdom-seekers for over 8,000 years, acknowledges the positive power of the arts:

Sufi sages claim that the practice of inspired music is the quickest, most enjoyable path to enlightenment. The scales of ancient ragas and modern solfeggio music employ skillfully engineered sound frequencies to induce consciousness-raising meditative states, as well as to heal disease and dispel negative forces in the environment. All 7 Chakras Healing Meditation Music (a long-standing personal favorite) is but one example of the countless available sound videos suited to every season and purpose under heaven.

Conversely, harsh, strident sounds and sights wreak havoc on the nervous system.

COROLLARY: All efforts to establish peace, prosperity and well-being in the world begin with first attaining them within. As within, so without.

Searching on the surface, in the external world, or in relationships with others is futile. Don’t look for lasting, positive change and success (however personally defined) in places where none exist.

Efforts to establish peace at home, in the community and larger world depend upon inner balance and harmony first being achieved within a critical mass of individuals sufficient to tip the balance in favor of a transformational global paradigm shift.

COROLLARY: Eventual loss of transient manifestations, however sublime, is inevitable. By their very nature, they’re temporary. To the extent that painful loss pushes us back to the primary motivation — divine connection with the unfailing, eternal Source — this is a blessings in disguise

Complicated, ego-driven wordy metaphysics just muddy the waters. Don’t layer simple truths with hocus pocus, flowery words and intellectual theories, authoritarian religions and repetitious rituals. Better is just to do the work. Stick to the basics. Live life humbly, with integrity, in the spirit of service to the greatest good for the greatest number.

Receiving this knowing, putting it into words and pictures, is NOT enough. Blessings, attainment, results require implementation through consistent ACTION: Follow-through.