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CENTRE
The Truth about Everything

BRIAN TAYLOR

UNIVERSAL OCTOPUS
Published by Universal Octopus 2016
www.universaloctopus.com

COPYRIGHT © 2009-2011 BRIAN F TAYLOR

A catalogue record of this book is available from the British


Library.

ISBN 978-0-9571901-6-0

All rights reserved.


CONTENTS
PROLOGUE .................................................................................... 5

NOTES ON TERMINOLOGY ........................................................ 9

PART ONE
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE
1. IN THE BEGINNING .................................................................... 15
2. A LITTLE LATER........................................................................... 16
3. I AM !…… ......................................................................................... 17
4. AWAKENING ................................................................................ 18
5. ANOTHER ? ................................................................................... 19
6. FRIENDLINESS ............................................................................. 20
7. SUSPICION & HOSTILITY ......................................................... 21
8. THE UNIVERSAL OCTOPUS ..................................................... 22
9. INCARNATION............................................................................. 26
10. DEVELOPMENT IN THE WOMB .............................................. 29
11. BIRTH ............................................................................................. 32
12. THE STAIRCASE TO OTHER WORLDS .................................... 34

PART TWO
THE CENTRE
13. THE CREATION AND COLONISATION OF MATTER ........ 43
14. GETTING STARTED .................................................................... 49
15. LOCATING THE CENTRE .......................................................... 51
16. EXPLORATION ............................................................................. 56
17. THE CENTRE AS SOURCE ............................................................ 66
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18. HEALING........................................................................................ 77
19. HEALING OTHERS ...................................................................... 82
20. HOSTILITY AND FEAR ................................................................ 84
21. HOSTILITY FROM OTHERS ....................................................... 86
22. UPSTREAMING ............................................................................. 87

PART THREE
HOW EVERYTHING WORKS AND WHAT IT
CAN ACHIEVE
23. CHAKRAS....................................................................................... 97
24. EXPLORING OTHER CENTRES .............................................. 110
25. CHART A ...................................................................................... 133
26. CHART B ...................................................................................... 134
27. THE THREE CHANNELS .......................................................... 135
28. ASTRALS AND ASTRAL TRAVEL ............................................ 137
29. ASTRALS, DEVAS AND BRAHMĀS ........................................ 143
30. MORE BODIES ............................................................................ 153
31. KUNDALINI ................................................................................. 161
32. LONGEVITY ................................................................................ 171
33. THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE ................................................. 173
34. CREATIVITY AND THE CENTRE ........................................... 176
35. OTHER METHODS .................................................................... 182
36. REMEMBERING PAST LIVES ................................................... 183
37. BLOWING THE FUSE ................................................................ 190

EPILOGUE ...……………………………………………………………………. 193

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PROLOGUE

I discovered the Centre one night on a bridge over


the River Chao Phya. I was thirty.

I was thinking about Prince Siddhartha. At twenty-


nine, the Prince, going out from his palace, had seen
an old man, a sick man, a dead man and a wandering
ascetic.

He realised that sickness, old age and death


happened to men whether they had palaces or not. He
came to the conclusion that,

“This world has fallen on hard times.”

He left his family and home to seek the Truth.

Six years later, he had become the Buddha and


proclaimed that the solution to the problem of suffering
lay in giving up this world ∗ and all attachment to it.

During the Buddha’s lifetime, some monks, on attaining


the stage of Arahant (the final stage of perfection), did
not wait for their lives to come to a natural end, but
“took the knife”. That is, they killed themselves. This
really did seem an uncompromising way of “giving up
the world”.


and any other world.
The Buddha did not condemn them for this. He said it
was a decision they were entitled to take and did not
in any way affect their level of attainment. He did,
however, discourage other monks from doing it, as it
was getting the Order of Monks undesirable publicity
among those who did not understand.

I walked across the river on one side of the bridge and


back again on the other side. Several times. I stopped
in the middle and looked down at the muddy water. It
seemed that if life was in fact undesirable and the
very source of suffering, and that death at some time
was in any case inevitable, then it was perfectly
reasonable to put an end to it sooner rather than
later. I could find no attraction or attachment in
myself at that moment for anything in the world. My
hand rested on the handrail.

I realised that, for all its reasonableness, it was


nevertheless a jump in the dark. Unlike the Buddha
and his Arahants, I had not already discovered where
I would be heading.

Furthermore, if they had discovered something


“beyond the world”, how had they discovered it while
still “in the world”?

I continued to walk to and fro across the bridge. I noted


the odd fact that, although it was not particularly late
and it carried a main road out of Bangkok, no traffic or
pedestrians had appeared on it since I arrived.
I resumed my train of thought. How do you find out
what lies beyond the world before actually leaving
it? This did not seem to be something that thinking
could resolve.

At this point, various names given to the Buddha


began to arise spontaneously in my mind as a kind of
list. The Perfect One, the Fully Enlightened One, the
All Knowing One, the Blissful One, the Blessed One…
What caught my attention was the repetition of the
word “One”.

Of course these titles are English translations. The


original Pali does not have (nor need) an equivalent of
our “one”. Nevertheless, the titles continued to present
themselves in this way and I found myself quietly
murmuring: -
One and not two,
That’s all you have to do.
One and not two,
That’s all you have to do.

My thinking petered out and came to an end. But I did


not jump.

To my surprise, a feeling of good humour arose. Where


from? It came from deep in the centre of my stomach
where something, unexpectedly, became bright and
smiled.
I didn’t quite feel as though I had found something. I
didn’t quite feel that something had found me. I felt a
sense of boundless integration.

I saw that the whole world, together with the senses


that contacted the world, were, and had always been,
outside and were and had always been the source of
every conceivable form of suffering and inconvenience.

Later I came to see that all beings had this luminous


Centre at the centre of their being and were, for the most
part, unaware of its significance or even its existence.

This book contains the results of some of my researches


into the Centre. Some may find it interesting.

However, in these matters as in others, the only


experience that is of any use to you is your own.
People can eulogise a particular brand of tea, but
until you have tasted it yourself, it is second-hand
experience. It may even be coffee.

When the buffalo comes to the edge of the enclosure,


horns, head and body pass through the bars quite easily.
But not the tail!
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The Truth about
Everything
by
Brian Taylor

ISBN 978-0-9571901-6-0

If interested in learning about the Centre


read the book.

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ETERNITY is in LOVE with
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