by J.Preston Eby in Heaven Declare series (part15 - Scorpio, The Scorpion)

[...] The spirit needs to be revived or resurrected This, of course, presupposes that the spirit within man is dead, which it certainly is--but not dead in that it is non-existent. Dead, rather, in that it is UNRESPONSIVE to that sphere from which it fell, which is the sphere of Godhood and the realm of LOVE. Its deadness (unresponsiveness) is the result of INDIVIDUALITY in the form of EGOTISM it having the sense of its own god likeness apart from the recognition of the CORPORATE GOD. EGO is not in the soul, it is a matter of the spirit, and is nothing in the world but a remembrance somewhere in the depths of man of his former nature of godhood and of that lofty state from whence he fell. Ego states, 'I am God'--if not in words, at least in attitude---and in action, for it always seeks to bring the spirits of other men into subjection to itself. That is why demons are called in the Greek DEIFIED SPIRITS-- it is that godlike thing in man that wants to be god all by itself, saying, 'I am God and will therefore exalt my throne above the stars (spirits) of God and will be a god apart from fitting into my place in a corporate life.' The truth that Ego fails to see is that there is One that is greater--greater because it is plural and corporate and unified--the GREAT ELOHIM. Thus, the very state of individuality, which is divisive, has robbed us all of the nature of God and plunged us into that duplicity which separates man from himself, man from man, and man from God. So the human spirit is dead--unresponsive to that cohesiveness which is in the Godhead, unresponsive to the love principle that binds God together, unresponsive to that law which is written eternally in the heavens in the VERY BEING OF GOD HIMSELF.[...]

"Now, since the flesh lusts against the Spirit and is at endless conflict with it, then anything that seeks to make you earthly and fleshly-minded is a great evil. The things that belong to the realm of the flesh are passing away. Even the flesh itself is passing away. Anything that is passing away is not real. It is like a bubble that floats prettily in the air only to burst never to exist again. It is like the darkness that disappears with the dawn and has no certain dwelling place. It is like a flower in the field that blooms for a moment and disappears, a vision of the night, a fleeting shadow, a moment of joy, a passing sorrow, or a sudden pain. When such things have passed by, no one knows where they came from or whither they have gone. Those, however, who indulge themselves in the things that belong to the body grow to think that nothing is true or real but what is bodily and can be touched or seen or eaten or drunk or enjoyed by the passions of men. Unwittingly they change true riches for false; things that are unseen by mortal eyes for things that are seen. They exchange things that are spirit for things that can be touched, tasted, and felt by the body. The soul now begins to think that these things which belong to the body are real and therefore becomes fleshly minded The carnal or earthly mind is an enemy of God and an enemy of all things spiritual.

 "It is small wonder then that the natural man cannot receive the things of the Spirit of God; for all things connected with the natural belong to time and change, while all things belonging to the spiritual are eternal and changeless. So then all who would come to know the WISDOM OF GOD, and the REVELATION of the Lord, must turn their spirit from the realm of the physical and changing, the corrupt and mortal, and fly away into the realm of the pure, eternal, unchanging, and immortal. It is only there that rest and truth are found, and, abiding there in the Spirit, even the body itself begins to be lifted from corruption to incorruption and from mortality to immortality. We said a moment ago that when the soul comes into the realm of the flesh, it becomes carnal and fleshly minded because it is dragged into the realm of the body. Inversely then, when the soul and spirit dwell in the secret place with God, they lift the body till it also becomes incorruptible, immortal, and eternal. While the spirit and the body are united and dwell together, one must always be in subjection to the other. Either the body will be servant to the spirit or the spirit will be servant to the body. One will be the servant and be ruled. The other will be the master and rule. We cannot avoid this conclusion. Either the flesh will rule the spirit, or the spirit will rule the flesh. Since, however, the flesh is like the mortal and changing, and the spirit is like the immortal and unchanging, then the spirit is the one who should be the master. If the spirit is the master, it will save the flesh by lifting it to the realm of God and immortality, but if the body is master, it will ruin the soul by dragging it to the realm of the carnal, the mortal, the changing"

George Hawtin

"For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: but God hath chosen the FOOLISH THINGS of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the WEAK things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and BASE things of the world, and things which are DESPISED, hath God chosen, yea, and things which ARE NOT, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in His presence." I Cor. 1:26-29

[...]Therefore, in the midst of the apostasy of modern day Christianity, and the hypocrisy and artificiality of modern day religion, we who know somewhat of God's ways can rejoice in the fact that it is just like God, in times like these, to rend the heavens and come down in power and great glory...and yet in ways that will seem strange and foolish in the eyes of the world. We are confident that the darkness and gloom about us will once again become the fitting background for the display of the gems of His glory. Some good Christian people are trying to set the stage for God to work, but God always has to by-pass these efforts, for He has prepared the stage upon which He will reveal His sons who are moving in harmony with His will. For it is consistent with God's character and way, and with the jealousy of His Glory, that the greater the work He will perform in the earth--the greater will be the measure of weakness and foolishness that He will cause an unbelieving world to behold.

 George Warnock

"The whole creation also groans to be delivered of its bondage to corruption. The creation has no language or voice, yet their message reaches from the ends of the earth to the throne of God's heavens (Ps. 19:1-6). The whole creation is expressing the desire for the kingdom, just as we are, without speaking it audibly. Every created thing groans for release from this bondage. The whole creation travails to be delivered from the curse, and to be restored and raised to enjoy the blessings of the liberty of the sons of God. Like the rest of God's creation, we may not speak forth this kingdom prayer. But it is the universal groan that emanates from every one of us. We groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, which is the glorious manifestation of the Life of Christ and the kingdom of God (Rom. 8:18-23). And God hears the groans of His suffering, burdened creation, from the smallest form of life to every person on earth. In due time, death shall be conquered in us first, for God has made us a firstfruits (Ja. 1:18).

"The whole creation is attuned and synchronized in spirit with our spiritual growth. Every blade of grass, tree, shrub, bug, bird, animal, creeping thing and fish, including every microscopic form of life, has an inbred intelligence, instinct or faculty that will trigger its release from the present bondage when the manifestation of the sons of God takes place" ...

Paul Mueller

excerpts of "From Candelstick to the Throne pt7" by J.Preston Eby

" The book of Revelation is not a book of fantasy or science fiction, but of spiritual realities in the kingdom of God. The symbols are but the outer covering under which exalted mysteries are concealed. These symbols were familiar to the people to whom John was writing, for they are all rooted in the history, language, and prophecies of the Old Testament! The truth is that the book of Revelation is a gathering up, or summarizing, of the whole core message of the Bible in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. Sometimes a very crude illustration helps. This book of Revelation is like nothing so much as a big knot tied in the end of a long skein of yarn, or bundle of threads; every thread in the long skein of yarn is in the knot. And every thread in the knot is in the bundle of threads! Every principle thread in the whole Bible fabric comes into this Revelation knot, and every thread in this Revelation knot can be traced back into the rest of the Bible.

This serves as a key to the symbolism of the book. Its symbolic language has seemed like a foreign language to which we had no dictionary or grammar book, and so we have spent our time guessing and speculating about what it means. But this symbolic language, instead of being a hindrance and a puzzle, is really meant to make it an open book, able to be understood! It is a revelation, an unveiling — not a concealing, an obscuring or a confounding! For every bit of symbolism, and every strange allusion or phrase, can be found somewhere back in the pages of the Old Testament or in the New, in such a way as to indicate just what it means! The language of symbolism is meant to make the book more easily understood, but — there’s a "but" here — but understood by one who is familiar with the images of the scriptures and anointed by the spirit of wisdom and revelation from God!

...

We must pass beyond the signs in order to get to the message of the Spirit! The Lamb has seven horns — not literal horns, of course — for the horns are mere figures representing the seven-fold spirit of power and life which emanates from the mind and nature of the Lamb. May I reverently inject another thought? The "dead" who "stand" before God and are "judged" out of the "books" are not the physically dead in the outward cemeteries, nor are the books such as you have in your library. If the "Lamb" who opens the "book" in chapter five is not a four-legged lamb, it should not be difficult for anyone to understand that the "book" is not a two-covered book! People do such sloppy thinking about such divine and exalted things! If that "book" is one of the Revelation’s wonderful symbols, does it not follow that the "books" in chapter twenty are likewise word-pictures in the form of symbols? The religious commentaries that have been written on this book will avail you nothing, for they have been written as an attempt of the natural mind to decipher the meanings of the symbols rather than discovering the language of the Spirit and understanding out of the realm of the Spirit.

...

The idea behind each and every word of holy writ is to convey a higher meaning than the literal words contain, the truth of which must be seen and experienced by man spiritually, internally. This higher, concealed, inner, spiritual meaning, cast in the words and sense-images of ordinary events, can only be grasped by the quickened spirit and the renewed mind, and it is exactly here that the difficulty lies in conveying the deep spiritual things of God to the natural man. A person’s human level of understanding, regardless how educated or intellectual he may be, is clearly not equal to grasping spiritual truth. This is why Jesus, after speaking a parable, so often said, "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." (Mat. 11:15) Let us be absolutely certain of this one momentous principle of the kingdom of God: It is not the surface meaning that has any importance, but the golden nugget of spiritual truth which lies in the mine beneath the surface is that alone which is able to enrich the inner man of the spirit."

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Book excerpt: The Philosophy of Monistic Idealism - Mysticism & Religion

Mysticism

Realism grew out of everyday perceptions. In our everyday experiences of the world, evidence abounds that things are material and separate from each other and from us.

Of course, mental experiences do not fit neatly into such a formulation. Mental experiences, such as thought, do not seem to be material, so we have developed a dualistic philosophy that relegates mind and body to separate domains. The shortcomings ofdualism are well known. Notably, ikt cannot explain how a separate, non-material mind interacts with a material body. If there are such mind-body interactions, then there have to be exchanges of energy between the two domains. In myriad experiments, we find that the energy of the material universe by itself remains a constant (this is the law of conservation of energy). Neither has any evidence shown that energy is lost or gained from the mental domain. How can that be if there are interactions going on between the two domains?

Idealists, although they hold consciousness to be the primary reality and thus give value to our subjective, mental experiences, do not propose that consciousness is mind (beware of possible semantic confusion: consciousness is a relatively modern word in the English language. The word Mind is often used to denote consciousness, especially in the older literature. In this book, the distinction between the concepts of Mind and Consciousness is necessary and important.). Instead, they propose that material objects (such as a ball) and mental objects (such as the thought of a ball) are both objects in consciousness. In an experience there is also the subject, the experiencer. What is the nature of this experiencer? This is a question of utmost importance in Monistic Idealism.

According to Monistic Idealism, the consciousness of the subject in a subject-object experience is the same consciousness that is the ground of all being. Therefore, consciousness is unitive. There is only one subject - consciousness, and we are that consciousness. "Thou art that" say Hindu holy books known collectively as the Upanishads.

Why then in our ordinary experience do we feel so separate? This separateness, insists the mystic, is an illusion. If we mediate on the true nature of our self, we shall find, as mystics from many ages and times have found, that there is only one consciousness behind all the diversity. This one consciousness/subject/self goes by many names. Hindus refer to it as the atman. Christians call it the Holy Spirit, or in Quaker Christianity, the Inner-Light. By whatever name it is called, all agree that the experience of this one consciousness is of inestimable value.

[...]

Mystics, then, are hose people who offer testimony to this fundamental reality of unity in diversity. A sampling of mystical writings from different cultures and spiritual traditions bears witness to the universality of the mystical experience of unity:

"My being is God, not by simple participation, but by a true transformation of my being" Christian mystic Catherine Adorna of Genoa (XV^th).

"Our very self-nature is Buddha, and apart from this nature there is no other Buddha" Zen Buddhist Hui-Neng (VI^th)

"Thou art neither ceasing to be nor still existing. Thou art He, without one of these limitations. Then if thou know thine own existence thus, then thou knowest God; and if not, then not" Sufi mystic Ibn al-Arabi (XII^th).

"God...when he has just decided to launch upon his work of creation is called He. God in the complete unfolding of his Being, Bliss and Love, in which he becomes capable of being perceived by the reason of the heart...is called You. But God, in his supreme manifestation, where the fullness of His Being finds its final expression in the last and all-embracing of his attributes, is called I. Kabbalist Moses de Leon (XIV^th).

"But when you finally discover me, the inner naked Truth arisen from within, Absolute Awareness permeates the Universe" Buddhist Yeshe Tsogyel & Padmasambhava (VIII^th).

"In this breaking-through I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things" Dominican monk Meister Ekhart (XIII^th).

"I am the Truth!" Sufi mystic Monsoor al Halaj (X^th).

"I am reality without beginning, without equal. I have no part in the illusion of I and You,  this and that. I am Brahman, one without a second, bliss without end, the eternal, unchanging truth...I dwell within all beings as the soul, the pure consciousness, the ground of all phenomena, internal and external. I am both the enjoyer and that which is enjoyed. In the days of my ignorance, I used to think of these as being separate from myself. Now I know that I am All" Hindu mystic Shankara (VII^th)

"My father and I are one" Jesus of Nazareth

What is the value of the experience of unity, For the mystic, it opens the door to a transformation of being that liberates love, universal compassion, and freedom from the bondage of living in acquired separateness and from the compensating attachments to which we cling. (This liberated being is called moksha in Sanskrit).

The idealist philosophy grew out of the experiences and creative intuitions of mystics, who constantly stress the direct experiential aspect of the underlying reality. "The Tao that can be spoken is not the absolute Tao, "said Lao Tzu. The Mystics caution that all teachings and metaphysical writings must be regarded as fingers pointing to the moon rather than as the moon itself.

As the Lankavatara Sutra reminds us: "These teachings are only finger pointing to the Noble Wisdom...They are intended for the consideration and guidance of the discriminating minds of all people, but they are not the Truth itself, which can only be self-realized within one's own deepest consciousness"

Alternatively, some mystics resort to paradoxical descriptions. Writes Ibn al-Arabi: "It (consciousness) is neither attributed with being nor with nonbeing...It is neither existent nor non-existent. It is not said to be either the First or the Last."

Indeed, the idealist metaphysics itself can be seen to be paradoxical, involving as it does, the paradoxical concept of transcendence. What is transcendence? The philosophy can only say, neti, neti - not this, not that. But what it is? The philosophy remains silent. Or, alternatively, says one of the Upanishads: "It is within all this / It is outside all this"

Is the transcendent realm within the immanent world? Yes. Is it outside the immanent world ? Yes. It gets very confusing.

The idealist philosophy also remains largely silent in answering such question as, How does the undivided consciousness divide into subject-object reality? How does the one consciousness become many? Saying that the observed multiplicity of the world is an illusion hardly satisfy us.

[...] monistic idealism is the correct philosophy for science in view of quantum physics. The integration of science and mysticism also helps resolve one of the difficult question raised by mysticism.

The integration of science and mlysticism should not be too disconcerting. After all, they share an important similarity: Both grew out of empirical data interpreted in the light of theoretical explanatory principles. In science, theory serves both as explanation of data and as the instrument of prediction and guidance for future experiments. The idealist philosophy, too, can be viewed as a creative theory that acts as an explanation of empirical observations of the mystics as well as guidance for other researcher of Truth. Finally, like science, mysticism seems to be a universal enterprise. There is no parochialism in mysticism. Parochialism enters when religions simplify mystical teachings to make them more communicable to the masses of humankind.

Book by Ervin Laszlo

Ervin Laszlo, holder of the highest degree of the Sorbonne (the State Doctorate), is recipient of four Honorary Ph.D.s and numerous awards and distinctions, including the 2001 Goi Award (the Japan Peace Prize) and a nomination for the 2004 and 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. He is a former professor of philosophy, systems theory, and futures studies in the U.S., Europe, and the Far East and founder and president of the international think-tank The Club of Budapest as well as of the General Evolution Research Group. The author of 75 books, translated into 20 languages, he lives in Italy.

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from Chapter 4

The Crucial Science Fable--In-formation in Nature

Our review of the puzzles encountered at the frontiers of science has set the stage for the quest to which Part One of this book is dedicated: to discover the basis for a scientifically founded Integral Theory of Everything (I-TOE). We have gained an important insight. We have found that in order to account for a growing number of things and processes that are undoubtedly real and are likely to be fundamental, a new factor needs to be added to the repertory of laws and concepts of contemporary science. What is this new factor? Let us look at the principal findings:

• Astonishingly close connections exist on the level of the quantum: every particle that has ever occupied the same quantum state as another particle remains correlated with it in a mysterious, non-energetic way.
• The universe as a whole manifests fine-tuned connections that defy commonsense explanation.
• Post-Darwinian evolutionary theory and quantum biology discover similarly puzzling connections within the organism, as well as between the organism and its milieu.
• The connections that come to light in the farther reaches of consciousness research are just as strange: they are connections between the consciousness of one person and the mind and body of another.

These connections indicate links between the particles that make up the material substance of the universe, as well as between the parts or elements of the integrated systems constituted of the particles. The links fine-tune the particles and the elements of the systems, creating space- and time-transcending coherence among them.

The surprising “nonlocal” forms of coherence crop up in fields as diverse as quantum physics, cosmology, evolutionary biology, and consciousness research. Some physicists--John Bell and Chris Clarke among them--suggest that nonlocality may be in fact the deeper reality; ordinary, so-called “classical” or “decoherent” states (states where things have a unique location and a unique set of physical characteristics) may appear merely as a consequence of the way we interact with medium-sized things--things that are neither as small as quanta nor as large as the cosmos.

Independent of the truth of such speculations, it is clear that nonlocal coherence has important implications. It signals that there is not only matter and energy in the universe, but also a more subtle yet real element: an element that connects and produces the observed quasi-instant forms of coherence.

ENTER THE AKASHIC FIELD

The idea that information is present throughout nature is a recurrent theme in cultural history, but it is new to Western science. It calls for the recognition that information is not an abstract concept: as “in-formation” it has a reality of its own. It is a part of the physical universe. And since it is present throughout nature, it is best conceptualized as an extended field.

Rationale for an In-formation Field

The evidence for a field that would conserve and convey information is not direct; it must be reconstructed in reference to more immediately available evidence. Like other fields known to modern physics, such as the gravitational field, the electromagnetic field, the quantum fields, and the Higgs field, the in-formation field cannot be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled. However, this field produces effects, and these can be perceived. This is the same in regard to all the fields known to science. For example, the gravitational or G-field cannot be perceived: when we drop an object to the ground, we see the object falling but not the field that makes it fall--we see the effect of the G-field but not the G-field itself.

In the case of the field that could account for the presence of in-formation in nature, the evidence is the puzzling, quasi-instant form of coherence that comes to light in the physical, cosmological, and biological sciences, as well as in consciousness research. These phenomena call for an explanation, and the simplest and most logical explanation is a field that links the entities that prove to be nonlocally coherent.

Although fields, like other entities, are not to be multiplied beyond the scope of necessity, it seems evident that a further field is required to account for the special kind of coherence revealed at all scales and domains of nature, from the microdomain of quanta, through the meso-domain of life, to the macrodomain of the cosmos. We need to recognize that just as electric and magnetic effects are conveyed by the EM-field, attraction among massive objects by the G-field, and attraction and repulsion among the particles of the nucleus by quantum fields, so nonlocal coherence is conveyed by a field: the universal in-formation field.

The Akashic Field

In my previous books I named the universal in-formation field the Akashic Field, or A-field for short. What is the reason for this name?

In the Sanskrit and Indian cultures, Akasha is an all-encompassing medium that underlies all things and becomes all things. It is real, but so subtle that it cannot be perceived until it becomes the many things that populate the manifest world. Our bodily senses do not register Akasha, but we can reach it through spiritual practice. The ancient Rishis reached it through a disciplined, spiritual way of life, and through yoga. They described their experience, and made Akasha an essential element of the philosophy and mythology of India.

The Akashic vision of a cyclic universe--of a Metaverse that creates universe after universe--is essentially the vision we now get from cosmology. In the new physics the unified, physically real vacuum is the equivalent of Akasha. It is the original field out of which emerged particles and atoms, stars and planets, human and animal bodies, and all the things that can be seen and touched. It is a dynamic, energy-filled medium in ceaseless fluctuation. The vacuum is Akasha and Prana rolled into one--the womb of all the “matter” and all the “force” in the universe.

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Introduction: A Meaningful Scientific Worldview for Our Time

PART ONE

THE FOUNDATIONS OF AN INTEGRAL THEORY OF EVERYTHING
How Information Connects Everything to Everything Else

1   The Challenge of an Integral Theory of Everything
     
2   On Puzzles and Fables: Drivers of the Next Paradigm Shift in Science

3   A Concise Catalog of the Puzzles of Coherence
       
4   The Crucial Science Fable--In-formation in Nature
       

PART TWO

THE IN-FORMED UNIVERSE
Perennial Questions and Fresh Answers from the Integral Theory of Everything

5   The Origins and Destiny of Life and the Universe
        Where Everything Came From--and Where It Is Going
        Origins and Evolution of Our Universe
        Life on Earth and in the Universe
        The Future of Life in the Cosmos
        Glimpses of Ultimate Reality

6   Consciousness--Human and Cosmic
        The Roots of Consciousness
        Evolutionary Panpsychism
        The Wider In-formation of Consciousness
        The Next Evolution of Human Consciousness
        Cosmic Consciousness
        The Farthermost Reaches of Consciousness

7   The Poetry of Akashic Vision

The Phenomenon of Coherence:
   A Deeper Look at the Scientific Evidence

Over Four Decades in Quest of an Integral Theory of Everything:
   An Autobiographical Retrospective

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by Ann K Elliott  

Land of the Shadow

Just as (in Part I) the mandalic Garden was divided into four by its four rivers, so now in the dynamics of the drama that takes place in Eden there are the four players who represent the four primary archetypes of the psyche (The players are the four primary archetypes. As Adam and Eve and Yahweh and the Serpent, they represent the masculine and the feminine and the divine and the instinctual. They are the four corners upon which consciousness is founded. As they become reconciled in us we become whole.). And corresponding to the central fountain is the Self--the wholeness-ordering wisdom of the psyche. The Self is the hidden treasure, the pearl of great price buried in the field of the human psyche.

Back in Genesis, after Adam's and Eve's expulsion from the Garden, the Tree of Life was placed under guard on all sides by a flaming sword. In similar mythic truth, the Self is guarded all around by a fire-breathing dragon. This means that in the search for wholeness the realm of the dragon--the unconscious--will have to be entered and our own inner dragons encountered.

Encountering dragons involves facing up to having those inner selves we try so hard to conceal, both from ourselves and others: our angry, prideful, deceitful selves, as well as the envy, greed, lust or laziness we disown but project onto others. It means removing the "log" from our own eye rather than the "specks" we think we detect in the eyes of others. Put together, those selves we disown form the archetypal shadow about whom Jung warns:

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.

Condemned to the unconscious, the shadow is capable of wrecking havoc in lives, particularly in relationships where we condemn in others what we have yet to accept as part of our own human nature. But in recognizing and accepting the shadow we are put in touch with our own vulnerable human sameness. As a result we become less judgmental and more kindly inclined towards ourselves and others.

The dragon (as shadow) is caught off guard, and therefore disarmed, when accepted. Similarly the ego, when taking a stance in opposition to the Self, is disarmed by our acceptance of human nature as a co-mingling of light and dark. Moreover, this is the way we assume responsibility for the darkness apportioned each of us, and until we do we will continue to project our own capacity for evil onto others, thus increasing rather than decreasing humanity's collective shadow.

Doorways into Archetypal Reality

Owning one's shadow takes considerable moral effort because the only way to become conscious of the shadow, as well as other archetypal aspects of the psyche, is through self-knowledge. And there is only one way to gain self-knowledge, and that is through self-observation. For this a shift of perception is needed so as to discern our own unconscious processes at work. Following Jung, we will here approach archetypal reality indirectly, as through a backdoor into the psyche.

Metaphor, myth and symbolic image are all doorways into archetypal reality. For just as the shaman uses the drum as "canoe" or "horse," so the repetitive rhythms of metaphor, myth and image are primary modes for being transported into the land of the archetypes. Try entering by so-called rational means and you will not get there. Knock, however, on the doors of symbolic perception and the way will be opened.

Non-ordinary reality can be recognized in several ways. There will be about the landscape a subtle sense of other-worldliness, something qualitatively different--a numinosity. And about its lighting there will be a peculiar luminosity. The atmosphere also will feel "charged," "heightened," "enlivened." Finally there may be a feeling or a sense of familiarity--of having been there before.

Self-Knowledge As a Pressing Necessity

In assessing the collective psychic condition of the mid Twentieth Century, Dr Jung wrote that "self-knowledge in particular has become one of the most pressing contemporary problems."He goes on to explain that this is what affords the individual protection from the "isms" of mass-mindedness and its "irresistible urge to catastrophe."

Self-knowledge is what inoculates the individual from the contagion of fear constantly loosed in the collective. Jung cites two areas in particular where self-knowledge is needed. The first is for recognition of the shadow component of human nature which unrecognized is projected onto other people, races, religions, organizations, institutions and governments. The blind-to-self shadow tries to make itself right by making what is wrong "out there," thus avoiding personal responsibility for the resolution of collective problems. Concerning the shadow and self-knowledge, John Sanford advises:

The kingdom requires a morality which is not founded on rules and regulations imposed from outside, but on self-knowledge. This self-knowledge can be achieved through inner confrontation. The inner confrontation occurs when we confront the person within us for whom the Law is necessary. It would not be necessary to have a Law forbidding murder, adultery, stealing, coveting, and slander if there was not a part of our personality which might do exactly these things. The scribes and Pharisees seek to avert the danger of this inner "shadow" by following rules which prohibit these things. But the higher morality requires confronting the shadowy one within us who has made the rules necessary in the first place. In this way we achieve a truly differentiated moral attitude toward ourselves and life and are fit for the creative life of the kingdom.

The second necessity Jung called for was recognition of "the existence and the importance of the archetypes." Shadow and other archetypes inform us concerning our human commonality, knowledge of which perhaps really is, at this point in history, our most pressing need if we are to survive this present evolutionary passage.

by Ann K Elliott  

JOURNEY TOWARDS WHOLENESS as informed by ART & RELIGION, PSYCHOLOGY & SYMBOLOGYand envisioned as the Eternal Spiral Return--master motif of the soul's journey--the path of life--of heart, mind and soul.

From birth to mid-life the spiral moves out, expanding and extending until reaching the mid-point. There the direction reverses and the journey outward turns back inward--the soul back to its Source.Return to the Whole explores the landscape symbolism of the Bible, from the perspective of Christic spirituality and Jungian psychology, informed mainly by four disciplines:

The role of ART in expressing the emotional dimension of the spiritual journey;

The function of RELIGION in preserving the essence of the teachings of those who have known God intimately;

The provision, in the PSYCHOLOGY of C G Jung, of a map of the known and unknown territories of human consciousness;

And from the synchronization of the SYMBOLOGY of East and West, an indication of an archetypal level--a unifying field--where "the many are one."

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by Michael S.Schneider 

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Spiral Aloe - University of Berkeley,
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With its inherent harmony, the spiral is a metaphor for our inevitable transformation within. The inner spiral is not the physical spiral of our body, the embryo and ears, hair and heart, fists and fingerprints, but rather a psychic one, beckoning us as a symbol of consciousness and the way we live.

Our own inner spiral process whirls us into the mystery of the infinite within us. The spiral shows us that we are comprised of a continuum, not fragments, as we ordinarily appear to ourselves. A clue waits coiled in the spiral's principles of self-replication, self-accumulation, self-recurrence, and self-similarity. The recuring word is "self". The message of the spiral is growth and the tranformation of our Self.

At the center of our Self, deep within our consciousness, is a calm "I". Like the calm "eye" within a storm, our center is untouched by psychological turbulence. Peaceful, it observes all from the vantage of wisdom. Placid, it is unmoved by the turbulent weather of the surrounding psyche. When you are feeling connected with your center it semms very familiar. It feels like the Self you know best, like who and what you know your Self to be, calm in knowing without thinking. To be centered is not the same as being "self-centered" or selfish. Instead it is identity with the deep, divine power that motivates us.

Consider a spiraling top spinning "centered" on its calm eye. As soon as it tilts slightly, the top goes off center and its path widens, spiraling away from its center of stability, away from its center of gravity. The further from its center it moves, the more it wobbles. Leaving the center creates the trail of the spiral, an attept to regain balance.

The center within us is the truth of our higher Self, the reality deepest within which each of us call "I". Each time we lose sight of the "I" we spiral towards periphery. We appear to leave the center because we feel a sense of separation somewhere in our lives. We lose our vantage point of the center when we artificially divide our Self and try to look at it, think about it, want it, grasp at it. When we leave our center, we are simply identifying with other possibilities of our Self, distracted by the turbulent realm of the four elements. And when we do, we miss the peace of the calm "I" and yearn to return to it, to transform  our selves back to identity with it. Identity with our center is always possible, as a wobbling top can sometimes be helped to regain balance.

by Michael S.Schneider

The Golden Ratio (Φ) within a Golden Spiral

The calm « I » of the storm

Cirles and spheres, triangles, squares, pentagons, spirals and the five Platonic volumes represent principles that shape the world. When we see stars and spirals we know that there is life and excellence, motion, balance, and transformation. But the Universe is not like a room filled with geometric shapes. These forms are the shape of the universe, the shapes of space itself. What we see and touch are the visible expression of forces and principles we can rain ourselves to understand. For the sake of solving our environmental and social problems, we can, and must, learn to see with new eyes.

The lesson of the spiral is that every "thing" is not a noun but a process, a dynamic "energy event". The world resembles a whirpool of transformation with which we can cooperate for our benefit

We can also use our experience to lear to see ourselves differently. A glance at the human body shows that in structure and function we carry the pentagonal flag of life and excellence. Like other living forms, our body's ideal proportions grow in accordance with the golden mean, the f relationship weaving balance, harmony, and beauty among its parts. This same accumulative proportion is found in the physical structure of living sea, land, and sky creatures and in the paths of atoms and galactic clusters. It is stirring to realize that each of the physical strucrutes of the universe is a repackaging of the others. We hold the peoportions of the slar system in our hands, face, and whole body. One can fold an outline of the human body differently and create the proportions of a starfish and seashell, a rose, and the Milky Way galaxy. Perhaps the entire universeis a great, living, intelligent being we just don't recognize, in the same way  that one cell in your body doesn't suspect the existence of the eprson reading this or even have the ability to comprehend your possibility.

By turning from the world outside ourselves to the subtle world within, we move from the symbolic to the sacred. In symbolic geometry the essential principle of the Pentad if life and "regeneration", expressed by the property of self-similarity. Inwardly, this characteristic indicates the possibility of spiritual regeneration, rebirth from the human to the divine as sought by every one of history's religions. Methods for attaining it differ, but curiously they share the spiral as a universal symbol of spiritual transformation of forces in nature. In the Bible the Deity speaks to prophets from the same whirlwinds on which Native American initiates, like those in many other cultures, were carried to "heaven". The aproach to heaven, not a location in the clouds but a symbol of regeneration to conscious identity with the Higher Self within, is never depicted as a straight line. Neither is the descent to hell, as Dante tells us from his downward spiral tour.

Craftspeople from Ancient Egypt, Babylon, China, Africa, Europe, India, and Polynesia, and great artists from Brueghel to Blake have symbolized the spiritual path as a spiral. All people seem to understand this intuitively. Even the makers of popular movies feel it [...]

With its inherent harmony, the spiral is a metaphor for our inevitable transformation within. The inner spiral is not the physical spiral of our body, the embryo and ears, hair and heart, fists and fingerprints, but rather a psychic one, beckoning us as a symbol of consciousness and the way we live.

Our own inner spiral process whirls us into the mystery of the infinite within us. The spiral shows us that we are comprised of a continuum, not fragments, as we ordinarily appear to ourselves. A clue waits coiled in the spiral's principles of self-replication, self-accumulation, self-recurrence, and self-similarity. The recuring word is "self". The message of the spiral is growth and the tranformation of our Self.

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by Michael S.Schneider

To the geometer's eye, the vesica pisces inherently holds the proportions and patterns of the basic shapes even before they are constructed.

The goddess gives birth. The geometer makes visible the archetypal proportions inherent in the vesica pisces, helping them through the birth portal [...]

Nature's pattern are based on the mathematics of three-dimensional space. Inessence, nature's creating process yields its fruit by giving birth to volume. Constructing the universe therefore, involves the process of volumization.

The archetypal field where the patterns first appear is a sphere, a Monad. The geometry that arises within this sphere is obliged to manifest the Monad's principle of equality in all directions. Nature adheres to this principle by configuratting primary volumes that divide the sphere equally in all directions. An experiment with a rubber ball and a piece of chalk will how that there are very few ways to put points around a sphere so that when they are connected by lines they form identicaly shaped surfaces, edge lenghts, and angles. Nature's first expressions in three dimensions are such forms that fit perfectly within the sphere and present us with an identical view in all directions, no matter how you turn it. These forms, or "volumes", are based on surfaces with the same shape, either square, triangle, or pentagon . Ruled by the Monad, three-dimensional nature is structurally disposed to the geometry of equality in all directions.

There are only five volumes tha fulfill this requirement of equality by repeating the identical corner angles, edge angles, edge lenghts, and surface shapes around a sphere. Although scores of stone models of each of the five types dating from 1500 BC have been found in Scotland, no one has ascertained their puropose. The five volumes were discribed by Plato in Timaeus and are known to mathematicians as the "Platonic Solids" and more normally the "regular polyhedra" ("many base"). Four were identified by Plato with the four ancient elements, or states of matter, and the fifth, the quintessence ("fifth being"), represents their all-encompassing "cosmos". Their names derive from the number of faces they have.

Mathematicians have long known there can be only five possible "equal divisions" of three-dimensional space. Highly respected, discussed, and wondered at in ancient times, the construction and study of these five volumes were considered the ultimate goal toward which the elementary constructions built, the culmination and pinnacle of ancient geometric and esoteric knowledge.

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The following is an excerpt describing the birth/creation of  archetypal Nature !

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 Mater makes Matter

Everything created shares the urge to create.Through the miracle of birth the great cosmic creating process expresses its archetype and becomes more conscious of itself. By bringing into expression the vision locked in our hearts we resemble that process and grow in self-awareness. Through geometric replication of nature's formation we can learn about the archetypal principles inherent in universal design and in ourselves.

In ancient mathematical philososphy, the first stirring of the Monad results in the polar Dyad. Its geometric metaphor is the construction of the vesica piscis. In myth, it is represented as the meeting of primeval parents.

All creation is due to polarity. Every birth occurs through this interpenetration of positive and negative, light and dark, male and female, god and goddess, electricity and magnetism, and the two circles of the vesica piscis where geometric forms configure.

While modern science understands the universe as the synchronisation of electronic power with magnetic fields, vibratory patterns of electromagnetc frequencies, and energy bonds, the ancient bards sang of the union of the Great Father and Great Mother. [...]

Where modern science observes the triad of light, energy, and mass as E=mc², the ancients mythologized a mystic marriage and birth in three stages: a field or womb of light arises, it swirls as an energy pattern, and physical forms precipitate upon the pattern. The geometer replicates this cosmic configurating process with three tools. When the precise union of circle occurs, the three-stages process of birth begins, culminating in forms clothed by the four states of matter. [...]

Archetypal patterns arise. The electromagnetic field spins like a sun on its axis. Massless light whirls in mathematically precise rythms and patterns. [...] 

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excerpt from Crossing The Rubicon: Breaking The Fake News Trance  by the Cleaver 

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Imagination is our holographic engine. It makes the world. Literally. If our imagination is running someone else’s program, we are living in someone else’s dream. It is time to take control and observe how manipulated scientific and religious dogma has misled us about how our world actually functions. Time is not linear. We are not hopeless wanderers in a cold lifeless universe. We do not cease to exist when the body (the bio-suit) is finished. Life is a progression of many lives, many consciousnesses and many worlds. This is one of them. You are one story; one piece of cosmic consciousness. Indestructible. We are designed to interact with the universe by articulating and encoding it with our wisdom, love, intent and creativity. These are things of galactic significance. Not nice-to-haves.

Do not let someone else’s belief system restrict your imagination. No religion, no government, no teacher can guide you better than you can guide yourself. The very act of comprehending the nature of our creative consciousness undermines the Control System by raising the frequency of consciousness out of the manipulation field and into inspired independence. I believe, as others have for millennia, that the outer world is a direct reflection of our own private inner consciousness. When a critical mass of people understand that the game is not a good game anymore, that there is a better way of living and evolving, then the awesome synchronous power of the universe begins to paint a new world into being.

by by Jonathan McGregor Bethel

How many of you got online today and interacted in a cybernetic way in some form or another, either by browsing the world-wide-web, checking email, chatting live with others on a chat program, or corresponding with others on an internet social network, like Myspace? If you did, then you were partaking of the awakening noosphere, the thought envelope surrounding the planet that is now coming to fruition.  Transpersonal psychologists have known since CG Jung that individual man partakes of and gives back to a collective unconscious, a global, shared field of mind full of archetypes that impel us into certain behaviors and involve particular thought forms.  An interface is now forming between this morphogenetic thought field, this collective unconscious, and the now burgeoning cyber-technological, globe-girding internet.

Many philosophers, including myself, promulgate the notion that the internet is the hardwiring for the now forming noosphere. The concept of the noosphere was an idea put forth by the French, Jesuit Priest and Paleontologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.  The supposition that Teilhard put forth was the novel insight that the biosphere of our planet, the complete kingdom of nature in the air, in the oceans, and on the land surrounding our Earth, will soon extrude a global layer of synced and connected thought, the Noosphere.  Upon crystallization of the noosphere, a field of global telepathic connectivity will have formed, and the Omega Point will dawn, ushering in a new paradigm and lifting man to a new level of transcendence.  Teilhard had his sentiment of networked thought in the noosphere nearly fifty years before the internet came into being, and he came to his assumptions after studying Darwinian evolution and the course of biology.

If one thinks of each human as comprising one cell within the planetary brain, then the realization soon follows that we have now reached a new level in the transfer of information between those cells.  It is now common for a person during one day to be interacting online with several people throughout the world.  I may be a bit of a technophile, but in one day I can converse with five or six people at various parts of the globe: my business contacts in China, my friend in Australia, her friend in London, my Sister in Texas, and my various friends from the east coast to the west coast, not to mention interacting on various topical forums with many people in my various areas of research.  It is obvious that the interrelation of the cells of this global brain has intensified its interconnectivity and ramifications, and the flow of information now reaches passed nations and time zones; information is becoming holographic. It use to be that the other side of the earth always felt asleep to our daytime, but now the entire globe is present in the moment through the interaction taking place on the internet.

The global morphogenetic thought fields of humanity have been called many names: the collective unconscious, the genetic archives, the akashic records, and the phylogenetic unconscious.  Now these fields and their interaction with the human mind have reached a new level of operability with the advent of the internet. Another way of saying that the internet is the hardwiring of the noosphere is that between the biosphere, nature, and the crystallizing noosphere, global telepathic thought, is a layer of machination formed by elements of the biosphere, us;  this intermediary phase is called the Technosphere with its complex machines coming together and interjecting themselves within our lives, catalyzing a new way of functioning for humans in relation with each other and in relation to the collective unconscious.

From this global noosphere, the Omega Point will dawn, a singular moment where we will transform into the next stage and become unrecognizable to ourselves, a transcendence beyond anything ever imagined.  Many claim that a rapture is coming.  Indeed, a rapture is coming, but I feel it is beyond anything they have ever imagined… a rapture of your mind and being into the totality of the transcendental, a merging of the microcosmic man with the macrocosmic immensity…a union of man with God!  There is no fear and punishment in this eventuality, as they claim; it is the long sought after harmony that our soul thirsts for.

The fact that we are fast approaching a Technological Singularity is evidence we are moving into the Omega Point and the noosphere is forming.  Now our creations will take on a mind of their own, solving age old dilemmas and problems in an instant. It is the pinnacle of our evolution coming into awareness, where we leap from the animal body and enter the higher dimensional manifold that is awaiting us, a place of benevolent consciousness and beings of light that have been beckoning to us for millennia!  It is now time to lift up our heads and prepare ourselves to meet our maker and walk through the gates of a paradisiacal Utopia.  No, this is not naiveté that stipulates such preposterous concepts; these are sound proclamations based upon my and other's gnosis. 

by Peter Russell

The Primacy of Consciousness essay

This video is a presentation given at Physics of Consciousness Conference on Nov.2004

Peter Russell explores the reasons why consciousness may be the fundamental essence of the Universe.

Many have made such claims from metaphysical perspectives, but the possibility has always been ignored by the scientific community. In this talk, he discusses the problems the materialist scientific worldview has with consciousness and proposes an alternative worldview which, rather than contradicting science, makes new sense of much of modern physics. He presents a reasoned argument that shows how they are pointing towards the one thing science has always avoided considering—the primary nature of consciousness.

Outline

• What is consciousness?
• How could consciousness arise from matter?
• Paradigm shifts in science.
• The materialist metaparadigm.
• A new metaparadigm
• Consciousness is in everything.
• Everything is in consciousness.
• Matter is a mental construct.
• Relativity and light's point of view.
• Light lies beyond space, time and matter.
• Photons and the quantum of action.
• Parallels between light and consciousness.
• Consciousness as the fundamental reality.
• The mystical experience of consciousness.
• Who am I? What is the self?
• The meeting of science and spirit.

by Peter Russell

Based on the themes in the book The Global Brain,  this moving audio-visual presentation explores the idea that the Earth is an integrated, self-regulating living organism and asks what function humanity might have for this planetary being. It suggests that we stand on the threshold of a major leap in evolution, as significant as the emergence of life itself, and the essence of this leap is inner spiritual evolution. Moreover, Peter Russell maintains that it is only through such a shift in consciousness that we will be able to manage successfully the global crisis now facing us.

Using a rich variety of visual images and specially generated graphics, this award-winning video presents an inspiring and optimistic vision of humanity's future in a dynamic and captivating form. Praised by educators and politicians, and used by many international corporations, "The Global Brain video is compelling, challenging and above all timely."

Mat25: The Parable of the Ten Virgins

 1"At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

2 Five of them were foolish and five were wise.

3 The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them.

4 The wise, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps.

5 The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

 6 "At midnight the cry rang out: 'Here's the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!'

 7 "Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. 8The foolish ones said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.'

 9 " 'No,' they replied, 'there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.'

 10 "But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.

 11 "Later the others also came. 'Sir! Sir!' they said. 'Open the door for us!'

 12 "But he replied, 'I tell you the truth, I don't know you.'

 13"Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour in wich the Son of the Man is coming.

The Corpus Hermeticum

by John Michael Greer

The fifteen tractates of the Corpus Hermeticum, along with the Perfect Sermon or Asclepius, are the foundation documents of the Hermetic tradition. Written by unknown authors in Egypt sometime before the end of the third century C.E., they were part of a once substantial literature attributed to the mythic figure of Hermes Trismegistus, a Hellenistic fusion of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth.

This literature came out of the same religious and philosophical ferment that produced Neoplatonism, Christianity, and the diverse collection of teachings usually lumped together under the label "Gnosticism": a ferment which had its roots in the impact of Platonic thought on the older traditions of the Hellenized East. There are obvious connections and common themes linking each of these traditions, although each had its own answer to the major questions of the time.

The treatises we now call the Corpus Hermeticum were collected into a single volume in Byzantine times, and a copy of this volume survived to come into the hands of Lorenzo de Medici's agents in the fifteenth century. Marsilio Ficino, the head of the Florentine Academy, was pulled off the task of translating the dialogues of Plato in order to put the Corpus Hermeticum into Latin first. His translation saw print in 1463, and was reprinted at least twenty-two times over the next century and a half.

The treatises divide up into several groups. The first (CH I), the "Poemandres", is the account of a revelation given to Hermes Trismegistus by the being Poemandres or "Man-Shepherd", an expression of the universal Mind. The next eight (CH II-IX), the "General Sermons", are short dialogues or lectures discussing various basic points of Hermetic philosophy. There follows the "Key" (CH X), a summary of the General Sermons, and after this a set of four tractates - "Mind unto Hermes", "About the Common Mind", "The Secret Sermon on the Mountain", and the "Letter of Hermes to Asclepius" (CH XI-XIV) - touching on the more mystical aspects of Hermeticism. The collection is rounded off by the "Definitions of Asclepius unto King Ammon" (CH XV), which may be composed of three fragments of longer works.

The Significance of the Hermetic Writings

The Corpus Hermeticum landed like a well-aimed bomb amid the philosophical systems of late medieval Europe. Quotations from the Hermetic literature in the Church Fathers (who were never shy of leaning on pagan sources to prove a point) accepted a traditional chronology which dated "Hermes Trismegistus," as a historical figure, to the time of Moses. As a result, the Hermetic tractates' borrowings from Jewish scripture and Platonic philosophy were seen, in the Renaissance, as evidence that the Corpus Hermeticum had anticipated and influenced both. The Hermetic philosophy was seen as a primordial wisdom tradition, identified with the "Wisdom of the Egyptians" mentioned in Exodus and lauded in Platonic dialogues such as the Timaeus. It thus served as a useful club in the hands of intellectual rebels who sought to break the stranglehold of Aristotelian scholasticism on the universities at this time.

It also provided one of the most important weapons to another major rebellion of the age - the attempt to reestablish magic as a socially acceptable spiritual path in the Christian West. Another body of literature attributed to Hermes Trismegistus was made up of astrological, alchemical and magical texts. If, as the scholars of the Renaissance believed, Hermes was a historical person who had written all these things, and if Church Fathers had quoted his philosophical works with approval, and if those same works could be shown to be wholly in keeping with some definitions of Christianity, then the whole structure of magical Hermeticism could be given a second-hand legitimacy in a Christian context.

This didn't work, of course; the radical redefinition of Western Christianity that took place in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation hardened doctrinal barriers to the point that people were being burned in the sixteenth century for practices that were considered evidences of devoutness in the fourteenth. The attempt, though, made the language and concepts of the Hermetic tractates central to much of post-medieval magic in the West.

by The Cleaver

keywords: transcendence, spiritual insight, consciousness, physical reality, morphic field, Aether, body-brain-mind, spirit, life, alchemy of mind, wisdom, knowledge, mastery of self

The path of transcendence and spiritual insight frequently compels the student to absorb large quantities of data in order to unearth and unite the golden strands of real wisdom. There’s a lot to assimilate and a limited amount of time to do it in. Ancient history, cosmology, the occult, shamanism, quantum physics, botany, divination, astronomy, religion, psychology and philosophy all vie for attention, each offering the potential for profound connection.

Can the brain reliably store and index such a magnitude of data? Is there an upper limit? Should the prudent researcher become expert in one field or have a broad awareness of many diverse subjects? The answer is suggested in an old Japanese story about a distinguished university professor who visits a Zen master. While the master quietly serves tea, the professor expounds his views on Zen, demonstrating his voluminous academic knowledge. The master continues to pour the tea as the professor talks and talks. The cup fills to the brim but the master keeps pouring. Eventually the cup overflows and spills onto the table, causing the professor to exclaim: "It's spilling over! Stop! No more will go in!" The master replies: "You are like the cup. Before I can show you Zen, you must first empty your cup.”

Fundamental concepts, erroneously implanted in us from infancy, must be unlearnt and disengaged before we can introduce powerful new insights to the psyche. The cup need not be filled with new data – I believe the cup need not be refilled at all. The modus operandi of spiritual wisdom does not require significant local cerebral data storage. Instead, it seeks to develop a certain frequency of awareness in the student. A tuning that can be held with strong coherence, a carrier wave. Information alone is of neutral value. It is an extract of the galactic data flow: detached pixels of consciousness, fleetingly suspended in time, like dust in sunlight.

Information, with critical judgement and intuitive correlation, becomes knowledge. Knowledge, with deep absorption and spiritual insight, becomes wisdom. Information > Knowledge > Wisdom.

When wisdom has been attained, it becomes a permanent artefact in the noetic vault. It shifts densities, moving outside of the individual into a non-local quantum field. From here it is instantly accessible for future reference and teaching to anyone who possesses the codex of personal spiritual accomplishment.

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By  alchemylab.com

The Emerald Tablet is an ancient artifact that reveals a profound spiritual technology, which has survived to this day despite centuries of effort to suppress it. Encoded within the tablet's mysterious wording is a powerful formula that works in very specific and comprehensible steps on all levels of reality at once -- the physical, the mental, and the spiritual -- and shows us how to achieve personal transformation and even accelerate the evolution of our species. The source of alchemy and the Hermetic sciences, the tablet's universal approach made it forbidden knowledge, condemned by patriarchal powers for thousands of years, from the Egyptian priesthood, to the medieval Church, to our modern politicians and religious leaders. To ensure the survival of such "dangerous" principles, which guide people to higher states of consciousness, the ancients concealed their knowledge in a succinct declaration that has become a time capsule of wisdom for future generations.

Molded out of a single piece of green crystal, the Emerald Tablet carries a prophetic message full of hidden meaning. Although its true origin is lost in legends that go back over 10,000 years, the wondrous artifact was translated into Greek by Alexandrian scholars and actually put on display in Egypt in 330 BC. Around the year 400 AD, it was reportedly buried somewhere on the Giza plateau to protect it from religious zealots who were burning libraries around the world at that time. Many believe the tablet still lies hidden there.

Working only with these early translations, many seekers of truth recognized in subsequent centuries that the Emerald Tablet contained a secret formula for transforming reality. Many alchemical drawings (such as the one called the Azoth of the Philosophers), are really schematic diagrams of the steps and operations of this Emerald Formula. The alchemists used these diagrams like Eastern mandalas and meditated on them in their laboratories to achieve altered states of consciousness.   

The tablet also inspired over 3,500 years of alchemy, a period in which some of the most creative minds in the world delved into the intertwined mysteries of matter, energy, soul, and spirit. The Tablet can be seen as one of the most uncredited source of mystical and religious traditions works. Most medieval alchemists had copies of the tablet hanging on their laboratory wall. It was the only guidance they needed in both their meditation and practical work; it served as their Rosetta Stone for deciphering the deliberately obscured terminology of their art.

    As we enter the third millennium, the ancient formula is resurfacing in what people perceive as mystical or paranormal events. Such experiences are in fact simply the continuing expressions of the underlying alchemy of our lives. For many decades, knowledge of this hidden pattern has been discussed only among an elite group of esoteric scholars, but now, this amazing science of soul is available to everyone. For those with the courage to see beyond the illusions handed down to us by blind tradition, the Emerald Tablet's formula offers a way to reinstate our rightful relationship with the universe.

Translated by Doreal @ http://www.crystalinks.com/emerald.html

Tablet I:  The History of Thoth, The Atlantean

Tablet II: The Halls of Amenti

Tablet III: The Key of Wisdom

Tablet IV: The Space Born

Tablet V: The Dweller of Unal

Tablet VI: The Key of Magic

Tablet VII: The Seven Lords

Tablet VIII: The Key of Mysteries

Tablet IX: The Key of Freedom of Space

Tablet X: The Key of Time

Tablet XI: The Key to Above and Below

Tablet XII: The Law of Cause and Effect and The Key of Prophecy

Tablet XIII: The Keys of Life and Death

Supplementary Tablet XIV: Atlantis

Supplementary Tablet XV: Secret of Secrets

by lightparty.com

Hermetic Philosophy
The Ancient and Eternal Wisdom

The Bible and the Qabalah is solidly rooted in Hermetic Science. Hermetic is derived from the name Hermes (Greek) Thoth (Egyptian) and Mercury (Roman). Hermes Trismegistus make his first appearance on Earth in Ancient Egypt. Previous to this cycle he was known as Thoth, the Atlantean. To students of the occult his most known work is the Emerald Tablets . Hermes was the teacher of Abraham and was and still is the God of Wisdom. Among the arts and sciences which it is affirmed Hermes revealed to mankind were medicine, chemistry, law, art, astrology, music (Hermes created the lyre), rhetoric, magic, philosophy, geography, mathematics (especially geometry), anatomy and oratory.

In his Biographia Antigua, Francis Barrett says of Hermes..."if God ever appeared in Man, he appeared in him, as is evident both from his books and his Divine Pymander , in which works he has communicated the sum of the Abyss, and the divine knowledge to all posterity, by which he has demonstrated to himself to have been not only an inspired divine, but also a deep philosopher, obtaining wisdom from God and heavenly things, and not from Man." All the fundamental and basic teachings of every race may be traced back to Hermes. Even the most ancient teachings of India have their roots in the original teachings. Interestingly enough, it was at the time of Hermes, in Ancient Egypt that the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. It was in Ancient Egypt that Jesus was initiated into the occult laws and principles. Jesus was a hermetic scientist initiated into Qabalah (Hermetic philosophy) in Jerusalem at he age of thirteen.

THE SEVEN HERMETIC PRINCIPLES

The principles of truth are seven; the seven hermetic principles, upon which the entire Hermetic philosophy is based, are as follows:

1. The Principle of mentalism: "The All is mind, the Universe is mental."
2. The Principle of correspondence: "As above, so below; as below, so above."
3. The principle of vibration: "Nothing rests, everything moves; everything vibrates."
4. The principal of polarity: "Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are all the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled."
5. The principle of rhythm: "Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates."
6. The principle of cause and effect: "Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause; everything happens according to law; chance is but a name for law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the law."
7. The principal of Gender: "Gender is in everything; everything has its masculine and feminine principle; Gender manifests on all planes."

In our present time and in our daily life, the Hermetic-Judeo-Christian teachings are firmly embedded on the back of the United States one dollar bill...(The Great Seal of the United States; "It's history, symbolism and message for the New Age." Paul Foster Case.) Today we see the wand of Hermes as the symbol for the medical profession. Hermes is the father of occultism as well as the father of Alchemy (chemistry) and astrology (astronomy). When we speak of Hermes we are speaking of pure intelligence itself.

Hermes Trismegistus may be viewed as the Divine Physician and as the messenger of the Gods, the gods being the Elohim. The creative powers of God which are Seven in number and are the seven colors of the rainbow. The Elohim are the thrones about the One God, the One Being, the Light Itself. The Elohim are the creative potencies of the God head itself and are represented on the tree of life as the seven sephoroth. These sephoroth have direct correspondences to the seven centers of the human bodies and communicate to the "physical" form through the vital centers known as chakras. In this way, life itself communicates and sustains its forms through a step-down of energy. These chakras flow into and communicate with the nerve plexuses as seen on page one. They sustain and maintain the physical vehicle and serve as a direct communication bridge to higher intelligence.

Healing is a positive change of vibration-Hermetic alchemy is the art and science of self- transformation through knowledge.

Alchemy also means Union with God (truth, beauty, principle) through science. Alchemy is the science of magic.

Man (Woman) is living mind, sustained by spirit. Man (Woman) is the microcosm, within the macrocosm and as such we truly are gods and goddesses possessing within ourselves all the powers of consciousness which are inherent within the mother-father mind. See "Man Know Thyself".

Mental transmutation- "Mind (body) may be transmuted, from state to state; degree to degree; condition to condition; pole to pole; vibration to vibration. True Hermetic transmutation is a mental art."

Healing is the art and or science of positively effecting a transformation of mind.

Real healing is the integration of mind and body with spirit (consciousness). See Healing Affirmation and Prayer. Once healed or integrated the alchemist takes an active part in his/her own personal growth.

The Real Healing is knowing that you are One with God (the primal will to God and the infinite creative intelligence of the universe) and that you are God manifesting yourself as you are. This constitutes real knowledge and leads to wisdom which is the direct experience of this sublime truth.

by SYS 

Metatron, an Angel you ought to know !

Known as a Chief Angel, Metatron mainly appears in Jewish Mysticism (Kabbalah) litterature such as the Zohar and in apocalyptic Enochian texts. The Name "Metatron" is probably derived from the greek language meta-thronos meaning "after/beyond/with the throne" but He has also many other names like Prince of the Countenance, Prince of the World or even the Youth. He has been so exalted by GoD that in some sources He is referred as the Lesser YHWH !

According to the Hebrew pseudegraphical apocryphal Book of Enoch, God took the antidiluvian patriarch Enoch and elevated him into angelic status (the angel Metatron), this event is related to Biblical accounts like Gen5:21-24.

Finally, in the Zohar, Metatron is a manifestation of Shekhina , the first "offspring" of the supernal union of God's feminine and masculine aspects, the aspect of God that dwelt among people and could be apprehended by the senses; in other words, the personnification of God's presence in the World.

Online ressources for beginning a study of your own:

• en.wikipedia.org/Metatron
• List of alternate names for Metatron
• creedopedia.com/topics/Metatron
• Third Enoch and the Mystery of “Metatron”
• The Secrets of Thoth and The Keys of Enoch
• Titles of Enoch-Metatron in 2Enoch
• Metatron: Angel Prince, Enoch Transformed
• crystalinks.com/Metatron
• Thelema encyclopedia/Metatron
• Encyclopedia Mythica™/Metatron
• Metatron: Angel of the Presence
• Metatron: Angel, State of Being and Quantum Reality
• The Greater and Lesser YHWH
• The Messiah, Prince of the Countenance
• Shekhina, the Female Soul of God
• Shekhina, the aspect of God that dwelt among people
• The Shekhina and the Menorah
• The Shekhina and New Jerusalem

Metatron's Cube

Sacred Geometry: Platonic Solids in Metatron's Cube

PREPARATION

PURIFICATION

PERFECTION

Quite old (1996) but a must see set of video (4 hours) for those interested in Spirituality and in the Shift of the Ages occuring right now. Gregg Braden easily blends the power of science and spirituality and explains the result in a pedagogical manner.

Official Site: http://www.greggbraden.com/

Awakening to Zero Point part 1

Awakening to Zero Point part 2

Awakening to Zero Point part 3

Awakening to Zero Point part 4

Keywords: Shift of the Ages, Science of compassion, Galactic Center, Schumann Resonances, Photon Belt, Hopi Prophecy, Crop Circles, Earth magnetic Field, Cymatics, Emerald Tablets of Thoth, Essenes, Christ, Secret Resonant Circuit, DNA, Cosmic Initiation, Flower of Life, Fractal Universe, Mandelbrot's set, Holographic Reality, etc.

Like always, this is not an Absolute Truth, you have to get interested in these topics and read, read read and yet read in order to forge your own conception !

by Grace F. Knoche

Theosophical University Press Online Edition

The School of Athens by Raphael

Foreword

A Mystery school is a university of the soul, a school for the study of the mysteries of the inner nature of man and of surrounding nature. By understanding these mysteries, the student perceives his intimate relationship with divinity, and strives through self-discipline and devotion to become at one with his inner god.

This book attempts to present certain fundamental lines of teaching which it is hoped will give a more or less clear picture of what a Mystery school really is. Full and specific knowledge of the Mystery schools -- where they have been, where now they function, what are their chief characteristics -- has not been given out. Modern historians of the Greek mystery centers, for example, marvel at how well the rule of secrecy imposed upon the candidates was kept. This does not pertain to the public aspect, such as the fourteen-mile procession along the Sacred Way from Athens to Eleusis in which men, women, and children participated. But ``the rites of the Greater Mysteries . . . the true secrets of the teletai [initiation proper] and the epopteia [the culminating vision] have never been divulged.''

The student can find, however, a generous amount of information scattered here and there in the literatures of the past and can build up for himself a coherent picture of the pageantry of the Mystery schools, a picture which will turn into the reality of experience only as he becomes inwardly prepared through lifetimes of dedication and the study and practice of the ancient wisdom.

That which can be discovered by the sincere student may be likened to our knowledge of the atom. Who, for example, has ever seen the real atom? What microscope has penetrated the secret of its existence? Yet today we know more about the atom with its electrons than has been revealed for centuries. Although invisible to both eye and lens, scientists have detected the flash of its track, its "way of light"; through diligent and painstaking labor they have studied this way of light until, through inference and evidence, the structure of the atom and its components, its almost spiritual origin, has been revealed.

Thus with the Mysteries: as we look at the pages of history, and further into the mist of unrecorded time, we do not see the schools themselves, but through study and devotion we may glimpse the flash of their track, their way of light. From inference and spiritual testimony we can trace the pageantry of the light- bearers as they have passed from age to age, inaugurating the grand religions and philosophies of the human race. Some of these lights shine with immense glory, others with less strength, while still others are but fitful gleams of half-understood truth.

The physicist cannot point to the physical atom, yet he knows it exists as the basis, the foundation, of all matter; the student of theosophy cannot show you a Mystery school, yet he knows it exists as the heart or atomic center of the spiritual and intellectual life of the planet. Who then would dare assert the non- existence of the Mysteries, of this potent atom of esotericism, when luminous traces of spiritual power are seen scattered all over the world? If our physical bodies are rooted in invisible fiery lives, why should not our human spiritual, intellectual, and moral bodies likewise have their origin in the spiritual and intellectual fire-mist of the planet?

An uninterrupted history of the occult network of the human race is not available to us today, for such records are the guerdon of the pledged disciple, but with the powerful lens of the ancient wisdom we can study the way of light flashed forth by each lightbearer over the centuries; can recapture the atmosphere of the ancient temples; can discern the purpose of the schools, their methods of teaching; and, last but not least, can learn of the strong discipline imposed upon the candidates seeking initiation into the knowledge of their secret origin and their still more secret destiny.

The author's debt to theosophy as presented by H. P. Blavatsky cannot be measured. One can only hope that the present study will encourage those new to her writings to drink deep of the springs at their source.-- G.F.K.

Pasadena, California
October 2, 1999

complete e-book @ theosociety.org

Article by SYS 

full article in pdf format :  Planet Earth - Global Awakening.pdf

The objective now is to elaborate on the Resonance phenomenon reaching now its natural frequency of oscillation on the physical and spiritual plane of the interlinked Humanity.

Schumann Resonances must be identified as the Earthbeats (as far as I understand), the response of the celestial body Earth to the low frequency cosmic energies. Via Schumann waves the interlinked Humanity is in resonance to the mother Earth, to the Sun and to the Cosmos. This makes possible for humans a direct contact to the Universe with their consciousness if they are rightly attuned.

Now that a growing self-aware global consciousness is arising, this attuning must be seen as a Polarization of the Global Brain by the Mind of God with the omnipresent frequency of God /L.O.V.E. (Limitless Oscillating Vibrational Energy).  From a Theosophical point of view I might say we re finally accessing on a global scale what is called the Akashic Records through the all-pervading Aether ,this sea of energy all around US connecting the tiniest molecule to the Universe.

The Shift is Now !

Earth as a living organism is witnessing ascension 2 a higher level of consciousness: the global consciousness, the consciousness of God. Since Humanity has evolved and is now an integrated part (as a whole) of the Celestial Earth, it is likely to shift to a higher state of consciousness like an electronic orbital around the nucleus submitted to proper frequency radiation. Such shifts may have happened in the past and have permitted the different stages of evolution of the living beings on Earth, especially the Human Family.

Thus I might say that it is because of Earth has been submitted to Cosmic radiation and has evolved throughout the ages as a living organism that the Human Evolution has been induced. We must even see larger than this “local” ascension: this resonance is recorded here on Earth but is even recorded in the entire solar system (**).

It’s just like the Earth has got through a Solar Initiation, the Sun itself getting through a Galactic Initiation and so on … The Living Universe is evolving microscopically as well as macroscopically speaking. It regenerates Itself just like a cosmic moulting serpent.

Living Earth – Living Galaxy and evolution on a mass-scale.

We have focused our attention on the Bio-physical-related attuning with cosmic local and non-local ELF energies by The Global Mind, this attuning allows mental states to improve/ manage bio-physical states (protein synthesis, biological cycles…); but let’s not forget there is another attuning going on, a Spiritual/Metaphysical merging between cosmic higher vibrational frequencies of LIGHT and The Soul of Humanity. The Soul is submitted to higher frequency energies en entering higher modes of vibrations.

There is a (re)connection of the Human Soul with Its Higher Self and thus a (re)connection of Humanity with God! We are leaving physical reality to inhabit a spiritually empowered higher vibrational dimension. For some esoterical groups we are accesing the 5^th Dimension, the 4^th being this transitional dimension of self-understanding,  self-realization and self-achievement.

We are currently attuning to the ONE song of the UNIVERSE.

It’s Time 2 Wake Up !

Welcome 2 SYNXronisation !

(**)

 “Transformation of the Solar System”, Divine Cosmos , Chap.8 by D.Wilcock Link to free eBook 

Article by SYS

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Objects in space, such as planets, stars and galaxies, emit light (electromagnetic energy) at many different wavelengths, visible but also invisible. Some of the light they emit has very large wavelengths (> 100000 km) and thus quite low frequency (< 30Hz). These long waves presenting wavelenghts as big as the celestial bodies dimensions (radius and circumference) are in the invisible radio region of the electromagnetic spectrum and are categorized as ELF (Extremely Low Frequency: [3..30]Hz), SLF (Super Low Frequency: [30..300]Hz), and ULF (Ultra Low Frequency: [300..3000]Hz). 

 credit: berkeley.edu

Celestial bodies are very sensitive to these low frequency energies and bodies like Earth, thanks to its magnetic field and atmosphere, acts as an antenna for the reception and as a transfer function for the re-emission of this cosmic energy to us – especially for the charged Solar Wind. Such radiation as the Solar Wind induces the occurrence of ELF resonant standing waves in the cavity between earth surface and ionosphere, they are known as Schumann Resonance.

Solar Wind - Parker Spiral

From wikipedia.org “In physics, resonance is the tendency of a system to oscillate at maximum amplitude at a certain frequency. This frequency is known as the system's resonance frequency (or resonant frequency). When damping is small, the resonance frequency is approximately equal to the natural frequency of the system, which is the frequency of free vibrations.”. Resonance phenomenon is obtained between an emission source and a rightly attuned exposed receiver. Moreover a resonance object, whether mechanical, acoustic, or electrical, will probably have more than one resonance frequency (especially harmonics of the strongest resonance). It will be easy to vibrate at those frequencies, and more difficult to vibrate at other frequencies.

On the other side, a number of studies (*) have shown that ELF radiation has a major influence on protein synthesis, biological cycles and human mental states. Humans respond to such radiation through their central nervous system and spinal cord. “The extremely low frequency, long wavelength near field signals associated with interstellar and intergalactic gravity coupling are detected by our brain/body sensing mechanism. These naturally-occurring information signals bring about changes within the human body energy pathways, restructure body water resonances, modulate the DNA processes and stimulate other circadian rhythm entrainments. Thus supplying an intimate instantaneous interconnection of our very own brain/body/mind to the immensity of the Universe.”Earths Rythm” E.E. Richards (http://home.gwi.net/~erichard/).

Furthermore, if we analyze the electromagnetic activity of the human brain (by EEG-ElectroEncephaloGraphy), we observe production in the ELF spectrum ! The most important brainwaves are known as Delta, Theta, Alpha & Beta and each one corresponds to a mental activity.

(*)

1. Schumann Resonance Electromagnetic Fields in the Evolution of Life by unilib.bg.ac.yu
2. Schumann resonance and Psychobiology by Richard Alan Miller and Iona Miller
3. Earth Resonance by E.E.Richards
4. The Brain as a Matter-Wave System by J.K.Harms

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Thank U The Bartonian Metaphysical Society !

"In its more esoteric or vibratory aspect, the COSMIC CUBE is like a web which resonates to a musical scale of notes, tones, and principles. This grid is strung out between 12 vertical pillars (or coils) which have earth-sky horizontal connections. The grid resonates with the harmony of the spheres, giving off a signal or returning echo. This is how the life energy dance of THE TRANSCENDENT UNIVERSE is gradually crystallized and made visible. While each cube position is firm, the persons occupying any given position in the Cube, may vary from time to time. Each is a window of opportunity for life in a New Earth Era.

1. To Establish God's Kingdom On Earth
2. To Establish The Cabin Climate Of planet Earth
3. To Magnify The Living God
4. To Bring The Cosmic Method To humanity
5. To Manifest Cosmic Design
6. To Synchronize Celestial And Global Intelligence
7. To Represent God The Businessman
8. To Vindicate Heaven On Earth
9. To Harvest God's Earth The Logos
10. To Establish Cosmic Literacy
11. To Welcome The King Of Kings