Yet, in an experiment conducted by Dr. Jonathan Shear of Maharishi Univerity in the late 1970's, we find that this tree embodies a strange kind of truth. Samyama is a deep state of rapport which allows for an actual transfer of energy or information with whatever one is focusing on, be it an image of deity or the Pole Star. However, this didn't happen. Instead of the usual sky-wheel night sky familar to us from Life Magazine photospreads, the meditators reported something very different. The Pole Star is seen at the end of a long rotating shaft of light.
Rays of light come out from the the shaft like the ribs of an umbrella.
The umbrella-like structure on which the stars are embedded is seen as rotating. . . The whole experience is described as quite spectacular, blissful, colorful and melodious. The meditators themselves were taken by surprise. They had no idea that this image of the World Tree was an actual Archetype until they stumbled across it. Here is our archetypal Djed.