I know, I know, I can hear the groan. After trying to figure out the Bull/Beast symbolism last year you're probably sitting there going, "More?" Well, this is a research topic that just keeps giving. The main reason this is timely is because we just studied the Hebrew letter Aleph and the Fool Card of Tarot. As you probably saw in the post on Aleph- the symbol for Aleph...the first letter of the alphabet started off as the image of a bull/cow head. I am attaching that depiction of the evolution of that Hebrew letter at the heading of this post. Second, there was a huge hubbub over Uranus traveling into Taurus on May 15th. Uranus will stay in the sign of the Bull until November 6th. The key terms I've come across when reading about that is, "Results" and Money. Some have pointed out that every time this planet enters this constellation it appears to effect the Market..and usually not in a good way. The constellation of Taurus is a fascinating subject in and of itself when looking at it from the esoteric point of view. Also, I must note, I am not the first one to be obsessed with this symbol. Carl Jung, who became interested in Alchemy and the esoteric because *SO* many of his paitients had alchemical symbols in their dreams (in fact he wrote books on the subject that are super expensive- one is still $20 and another is over $100!!) became so obsessed with the cow symbol that there is a room in his home near the lake that is covered with drawings of the Cow. He went a little nutty, in other words, studying this symbol. Aleph The subject of the Beast/Bull/Serpent is deeply intertwined with some of the deepest and murkiest symbols. The fact that the Subconscious is deeply connected to the symbol of the Female is one of the best keep secrets of Kabbalah. In fact, the entire idea that the female aspect of a person must be worked with in order to reach enlightenment. That's at the heart of Kabbalah. In the Tarot explorations of Kabbalah it becomes the most apparent but I've found that in more of the traditional Kabbalah books as well. We know that Aleph is a fairly naieve energy that runs through and supports everything. This is also an 'outward thrusting energy' which makes you think it might be more male. Yet, it is depicted as female as you can see in my video on the Hebrew letter. The energy of this card is said to run through and support all of material creation. This, in Alchemy, would be called the quintessence. Alchemists sought to reduce all types of different types of matter into that Quintessence in their experiments. These experiments were like meditations and by performing them as well as understanding the psychological and physical application to the body as well Alchemists were seeking to understand the mechanics of the universe. Taurus When we look at these teachings it's important to look at the subject from many perspectives. Taurus is one of the Fixed Earth signs. That means these are considered to be signs that stabilize creation. We also know that the symbol for this sign is what Ezekial saw in his "wheel within wheels' vision. The Bull/Beast Symbol 2017 I wrote *many* blogs on this subject last year because I was shocked by how many films or events had the bull and beast symbolism in it last year: Logan, Split, Beauty and the Beast, Transformers: The Last knight, Ferdinand and Wonder Woman are the ones that come to mind at the moment. The above image of the bronze statue of a girl squaring off with the Bull of the stock market was very potent. The fact that the bull is associated with the stock market at all is fascinating. A bull market is a rising stock market where stock prices are high. In almost all of these there was a young girl squaring off with the 'beast.' In Logan it was Laura who was Wolverine's daughter. In Split it was the girl Casey who, it turned out, also had deep Subconscious issues like the main character who was abused. Izabella in Transformers: The Last Knight. Beauty, obviously in Beauty and the Beast. In Ferdinand it's Nina. In Wonder Woman it was when she faced off against Aries...who represents all of those base carnal desires that can rise up and destroy those unprepared to deal with them. As I said, when I see such a potent symbol pop up a lot I can't help but take notice. Clearly, something is occurring in the Collective Consciousness. Last year it was pretty mysterious to me even though I had read a lot of the books that I am revisiting this year as I make YouTube videos. As with most of this information I find that I have to re-read the information more then once to absorb all of it and process it correctly. This information tends to be buried pretty deeply and when reading about the 22 major cards of the Tarot, in particular, each card needs to be digested on it's own and meditated upon to really reap the full benefits of the symbolism and deeper meaning. The toughest thing is that since Christianity was so patriarchal and tried to kill out any association with a feminine essence....references to the matriarchal were utterly destroyed. What we have today that survived from those time periods survived mostly due to oral traditions- whether the Jewish or the Dogon of Africa (which have since been converted to Islam and lost much of their history). The Bull is a huge archetype in humanity- from the constellation of Taurus which is clearly defined (although, I haven't delved into esoteric astrology too much) to various other traditions. In Edgar Cacye on the Revelation we find that the Beast is associated with the Root Chakra which we will delve into in just a moment. The Bull In The Bible In the bible we find that when Moses was leading the people out of Egypt they were worshiping a Calf. Now, we know that in Egypt they worshiped Bulls but not so much Calves. Why would the people gather together and agree to worship a Calf? Second, we also know that in Ezekial's vision of the four living creatures that have bronze legs of calves and one of the faces was like an Ox. An Ox, as I pointed out, is a very common symbol in the bible. Jesus urges us to take up his yoke and be like him...which is what an Ox carries. So, the Ox represents 'nature' domesticated. All of this seems very mysterious...until we realize that the face of the man from Ezekial's vision is the fixed sign of Aquarius, the Lion's face is the fixed sign of Leo, and the Eagle is actually the fixed sign of Scorpio (which was a constellation described as an eagle before a scorpion). Each is associated with the four elements, earth, air, fire, and water. There is more that could be said here, I am sure, but I haven't delved into it very deeply. Instead, we are going to turn to Egypt. A Dream Symbol Mystery The main reason that I have been absolutely fascinated with the Bull symbolism is due to a dream. I have covered this dream before but my mind kept going to it and it has been solved. In that dream, there was a structure representing the Mystery. I noted that there were two screws lose. One of those screws troubled me, because I was misled by the work of Zehciraih Stichin (although, he did do me a great service because he helped me to see religion and spirituality differently. I do have great respect for the man because he was thinking outside of the box). That golden screw said, "Accept the bull." (The other golden screw said "In no cent," which I understood as anyone that wanted to use this information for profit or to reinforce their ego would not be successful. I was aware both were puns- one saying Innocent and the other Acceptable...but they had layered meanings as dreams often do). The only symbolisim I had studied at that point was what Zachirah Stitchin said and the Bull represented Enki. I was not willing to give up worshiping the One Creator as opposed to a minor deity. This frightened me because the Annunaki scared me at the time thanks to how they are portrayed by the online community and mostly fear based individuals interacting with the material...and projecting fearful Apocalyptic Christian ideas on to the old Sumerian tales. The Bull Symbolizing Hathor I will go further into depth on the "Goddess" connection to this subject in another meditative blog on that subject. As I studied the Tarot, in particular the Star key pictured in the last section, I discovered that the Bull was actually representing Mother Nature. Sometimes, this is also referred to as Isis. Remember how that beautiful Goddess's name has been tarnished thanks to a male group of terrorists? When I realized that Hathor, often depicted with Bulls Horns, was the original Bull God I was Shocked. The horns she wears on the her head also symbolize the three phases of the moon. However, often times she wears the Solar Disk upon her head that symbolizes the One Creator in Egyptian Art. Egypt was monotheistic, it would seem, at it's core, at one time but the priests twisted the teachings to their own ends so that they could profit off of them. Originally, in Egypt there was one God, Ra, that was the primal source. You might be confused that the original Bull was a woman. Bulls are associated with men. Originally, most breeds of cattle had females and males with horns. The horns were eventually bred out of the female cows. Go ahead and do your own research on this topic. Paul Foster Case says very plainly the goddess Hathor is Mother Nature. I guess you could also refer her to the Earth Itself. She is the undomesticated wild energy of the beasts of the field that underlies most of mother nature. She can be deadly but she can also be very gentle. I think that all of us are familiar with this Archetype. The God Enki In Babylon the truth was even more confused then in Egypt by the priests. They turned all of the symbols that had preceded them before into the images of men. So, the images associated with Hathor became Enki. Doesn't this picture remind you a little bit of the image on the Star Tarot key? Enki has two streams of water pouring off of him. Water, as we have discovered elsewhere, is a fantastic symbol of the Subconscious which is associated with the Quintessence. The Subconscious is our connection with the divine. In Alchemy, the Subconscious has to be filtered. In fact, in modern channels such as the Pledians they tell us that we are fish. We are fish swimming in a sea, they say....we are the product of the subconscious and most of us are subconscious. In the Tarot Moon key it shows a crawfish crawling out of the ocean...that's what we do with Mediation. We crawl out of the ocean of our subconscious...we stop being zombies...but we will study that in depth soon. Notice the calf at his feet again...similar to the calf fee of Ezekial's vision. Again, this is a major archetypal symbol that repeats. We also have the Eagle at the top representing the fixed sign of water, or Scorpio. Now, since I have studied the feminine principal enough in other writings I can comprehend what this image represents. This image absolutely represents the Subconscious. Enki is said to be the God of the Ocean. He was filtering gold from the Ocean...but there was very little of it. Here is the deal, in Alchemy, Gold is spiritual development. Well, when you study the story of Spirit (which is more or less what the Subconscious is) you find our souls progress very slowly because we are so unrestricted. Souls are so content in Spirit they change very slowly and it's hard to reverse bad habits. Yet, the rulership of Earth was given to the god of the Land, Enlil, because even though there was more gold in the ocean...it was far easier to obtain on land. Land is Material Reality. This simply symbolizes that even though the Subconscious came first...it was the Waking Consciousness that governs a person. The rulership was given to the Land because by coming into a physical body, forgetting our history and the old bad habits from before, allowed for far more Spiritual progress at a far more rapid rate. We learn and accomplish a lot more when going into physical bodies then when we stayed in Spirit. That's what the Sumerian tale of Enki and Enlil really represent. The only battle between them is the battle that goes in within the self between reconciling the Subconscious and Conscious mind. Conclusion
Humanity doesn't seem to want simple. We want an opposing force outside of ourselves to fight. Yet, that's not what the myths and spiritual stories passed down for generations really mean. All traditions have the same kernal of Truth at the center because they are all based on Universal Archetypes that come from Subconscious which is our telephone line to Spirit. Artists and writers are the ones who develop this line of contact to the fullest but the scientist is the one who can really make magic happen in the outer world. These symbols are then interpreted by the culture that receives them. Then usually misinterpreted by those who follow those who had the original vision because they have nothing they can relate them to except literal physical matter reality. Humanity, even now, for the most part cannot conceive of abstract ideas because it requires imagination. If I were to go to most Christians and say, "Armageddon is a war in your mind between your Conscious Waking Mind's carnal physical desires and the Spiritual desires that lie in your Subconscious. Your subconscious is like a garden that you must tame and maintain in order to have a better life but first you must become centered in your heart," they would flip out on me or completely fail to understand what that means. Yet, that sentence sums up the majority of what I have learned on my Spiritual Path and what has brought me great joy most recently. While everyone is searching for Truth to come to them in the external world it lies inside them as seeds patiently waiting to grow...but they must turn inward. Finally, on a Collective Conscious level, the fact that the Bull has popped up simultaneously with the return of the Goddess is TREMENDOUS! If you have followed that the Subconcious is synchronized with both the symbol of the Goddess and of the Bull....it really means the same story is being told. Hence, the little girls with the Beasts. I have realized what this means on a deeper level, yet, this blog has gone on far too long. Suffice to say, more people are paying attention to and honoring their Subconscious more then ever before!
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First, I must say that I do recommend buying the entire trilogy.
For people who don't want to go digging for gold in more esoteric books this is a great summation of everything you will find in those books but in a very practical down-to-earth description. This leaves out the idea of God, per se, that so many atheists are against and yet in alignment with the different religions in some ways so both groups should be capable of taking information from this book that will apply in their paradigm. This is the best book for the introductory Seeker that does not have the perseverance to search for the answers elsewhere. You could, probably sneak by with just the Second book (Discovery) if you have identified some of this information for yourself. However, the definitions and terms that he uses on the fly will be hard to understand and you might find yourself flipping back to the glossary. If you skip three you won't miss a lot of content but you will miss some of the material that widened my paradigm a bit further. I have nothing but respect for Thomas Campbell and his bold Big Toe. Book 3 was a change in pace. I did push through it but it did slow down, in my opinion, compared to book two where there is a cacophony of information. Book three is the shortest of the three at just 191 pages. (Book Two was 330 and Book One 288). However, it contained some of the most potent ideas in the trilogy so it really shouldn't be missed. The last three chapters cracked me up. They were really repetitive. In one chapter he quoted scientists, mostly Einstein. In the next chapter he stated that he was going to quote non-scientific people but he ended up just quoting more Einstein. All of that was fine and entertaining but not much substance. The postlude with final comments that includes the last three chapters add up to about 65 pages of fluff. That leaves about 130 pages of content...although, the first few are a review of the previous two books. I only have nine paragraphs marked. There is a lot of concepts that I didn't mark because they were multiple paragraphs long. Even now, I feel these quotes don't quite do the book justice but hopefully they peak your interest. Book 3 opening states, "Inner Space, the Final Frontier: The Mechanics of Nonphysical Reality- A Model." "My Big Toe describes a model- a relational logical structure- that defines the forms, functions, and processes that constitute your larger reality. The approach is scientific (I use the word "science" in its original and most general sense: The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.) The observations have been accumulated and the investigations undertaken by the author during past thirty years. It is experience, not faith, which is required to transform the information found here into knowledge, and to evaluate its significance to you. You must find your own meaning in it." pg 1. "Given that you do not believe yourself to be omniscient (a typically ego or fear driven know-it-all), you can only attempt to sort out the resultant confusion (separating the wise from the foolish) by gaining direct, carefully sorted, test and validated firsthand experience. Experience is the key because of the personal nature of the subject- you must personally experience the larger reality- there is no other way to interact or absorb it. Nevertheless if you are not careful how you evaluate and interpret your subjective experience, you could still end up in the self-delusional fool category. If instead, you separate the wise from the foolish by applying your beliefs, you logically risk being merely a self-consistent fool- or one fool among many (an invisible fool) if your beliefs are shared by others." pg 7 "Back to work. A projection of a fragment of your sentient consciousness into a space-time reality could get spiritually dead-ended in a situation where you believe that you do not have significant choices left - you feel that you cannot produce uniquely useful or significant choices during future increments of DELAT-t. Under those circumstances, your inability to find out of the perceived dead end will typically cause you to find a way (perhaps through a fatal disease or accident) to check out of, or shed, that particular reality. Though most humans do not check out because of being dead-ended, a significant minority do. There are usually many ways out of an imagined dead end, many good choices (other than termination of the experience packet) are typically available, but they remain invisible to a self-referential consciousness limited by belief, fear and ego." pg 74 "One can modify the probable future surface with focused intent, thereby raising or lowering the expectation value of a future possibility. With a properly focused mind, new peaks (of potential futures) can sometimes appear and others of long standing may slowly disappear from the probable reality surface representing a given entity. This is generally how the mind utilizes nonphysical mental energy to manipulate future events within PMR without violating the psi uncertainty principle. The psi uncertainty principal tells us that short fuzzy peaks are easier to modify than tall sharp ones and that events become increasingly more and more difficult to manipulate the closer they get to the present." pg. 81 "Hopefully, My Big TOE has occasionally prodded you out of your habitual no-brainer comfort zone, or at least challenged your mind with a few new concepts.Perhaps you have taught yourself a thing or two in the process of struggling with the unusual ideas found here. That you end up agreeing, disagreeing, or better yet undecided, is not important. That there was some mental motion, some stirring about within an open mental space- that is important - and if the motion, the seeking, continues for a long time, that is even more important." pg 122 "In terms of learning about being, we in the West have a learning disability built into our cultural values. Our model of education employs an intellectual process designed for stuffing facts into the student's head. Learning to be is necessarily an experiential process, not an intellectual process. Much of our frustration derives from wanting to achieve the latter (learning to be, growing-up, evolving our consciousness) by employing the former (intellectual process). We push and push on that intellectual string until we give up in exasperation and conclude that the large reality is either inaccessible to us or simply does not exist." pg 126 "There is no such thing as heresy if there is no such thing as belief. Likewise, you cannot be sucked into someone else's belief trap if you do not need a soothing belief. Replacing one belief system with another is of relatively little value. Perhaps there is some value if the new belief system is less limiting that hte old one, but the apparent lack of limitations won't do you any good if you do not stretch out and take advantage of the newfound freedom. A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked." pg 133 "Because we live in an environment that is constantly trying to sell, manipulate and control, we are conditioned to defend our ego's constructs and to argue with and resist what others are constantly throwing at us. Eventually, by force of habit, this conditioned response hears me say- "I know more about these things than you ever will, simply believe what I tell you until you can figure it out yourself" - despite what I have said to the contrary. Do you ever feel as though you are living in a grade- B reality where the zombies have taken over the world?" pg 136 "Following the herd, no matter which way it is going, inevitably leads to stasis and dysfunction. Following the herd or conceptual center, allows you to trade the opportunity for personal progress and growth for an easy and safe no-brainier glide through existence. Unfortunately, procrastination and immediate gratification team up to produce the worst possible long-term strategy for consciousness evolution." pg 151 Conclusion Well, that's the end of the quotes. Go out and challenge yourself by buying The My Big TOE trilogy by Thomas Campbell. At the very least it should tickle your brain. On A Personal Note For me, my dreams always confirm for me whether or not a particular teacher is good or if they are bogus. In this case, the dreams I had during the time I was reading Thomas Campbell's My Big Toe were very much confirming his authenticity. Although, it did lack some depth because of the approach he had coming from a very atheist background (which is always beneficial in my mind because he didn't start off believing...but as he said, always had a healthy dose of skepticism). One particular dream, however, stands out. I was in a tutoring session in this dream at a school in a bungalow. I was there with a teacher and his two kids, a boy and a girl. I was telling the kids, "This is why you don't blow off a test. Now look, I have to go over and review all of the information I already know to prove that I know it." So, to me that's proof enough in the pudding. Most of what's in Thomas Campbell's book I already knew. Of course, it wasn't said so plainly but reading this trilogy was more of a frank review of information I had already learned on an inner level as well as research. The proof is in the pudding. He never contradicted any of the information from my research or any of my internal revelations...which says a lot because a lot of the material I come across usually does. I know this might not be pertinent information to other people but I find these 'gut checks ' important.
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I had a lot of fun creating this video, although, for some reason it proved a bit difficult. Minor technical difficulties and set backs were the rule with this video. First, Windows did an update and I couldn't open my audio software program. Then the audio I originally recorded for this video literally disappeared...audio for all of the others I had recorded were intact. When I opened the file for this video...however...the audio was missing. Then all of the words for the end credits disappeared after I had saved the file and I was watching the video for the final time before uploading.
For me personally, I have had some fascinating dreams since I started work on this video this week. There have been a lot of very odd abstract dreams regarding Aleph. As I mentioned in the video on the Fool card this symbol evolved out of the symbol for the Bull or Ox. If you haven't noticed that was sort of one of my obsessions last year because there were a lot of movies that involved the "beast" also known as the "Bull" or "Ox" (at least five).... a lot of those images were everywhere! This year, it's not so prevalent, and I still stick by the idea that people were choosing to either give into their lower natures and act like beasts of the field...or heed the call of Awakening. This year, when it comes to this subject I had a bit of a break through. You can look forward to a couple of blogs on that subject (the working titles right now are The Bull/Beast Revisited 2018 and another is called The Return of the Goddess). Like most esoteric ideas...the bull is one that has been very much maligned...and it does have a dual meaning...you can be like the Bull or you can become like the Ox. Jesus even refers to a yoke in my favorite quote from the New Testament, and no, I don't think that's a coincidence. I think he was very much a student of the Kabbalah which either existed as an oral tradition during his time or like so many other things those books were destroyed when the Catholic Church took over humanity leaving no trace prior to the Middle Ages when they could be written down again. This letter is a powerful one and I really hope you do the meditation because it is a lot of fun.
As you gaze at the Hebrew letter Aleph listen to the sound meditation. Paul Foster Case associated the Note E with this Hebrew letter. Enjoy your meditation!
Image of Aleph is from: Hoffman, Edward (1998). The Hebrew Alphabet : A Mystical Journey Prayer.
We've all seen those posts asking for people to pray for them...we've all seen the derogatory backlash to people sending their prayers and wishes to people that have been victims of brutal crimes. I didn't use to believe in it but then I learned more on my Spiritual Path. Prayer, based on my impressions from Hollywood and religious people...was an appeal to the Divine for a physical outcome. There was never much suggestion as to what it was or how it worked besides that in most depictions or descriptions I heard about until I started digging deep into spiritual and esoteric research. When you Pray for Things out of a selfish desire...it never seems to work. That's a fantastic thing because there are a lot of people who pray for things that would not serve them and certainly wouldn't help them develop their Spirituality. So I'm glad they don't get what they want. That might sound selfish and cruel to be people who are devoted to a self-serving path but the opportunity for Spiritual Growth only seems to occur when people are pushed with a Dark Night of the Soul. When you Pray for People, to heal them or to send them emotional comfort, however, it does seem to work...but the key is that they must be receptive. If they have completely closed themselves off from the rest of society and isolated themselves on a mental/spiritual level you are very unlikely to reach them. Why is that? The Collective Conscious I'm back to this subject, again, I know. What is the Collective Conscious? Well, it's the spiritual level on which every human being on this planet is linked. That level is usually inaccessible to the conscious active mind that participates in physical reality. (To develop that link and make the connection to see how the Collective Conscious is moving we have to be in touch with our Subconscious mind. I have covered this before in other posts). However, at this time, for most of Humanity the Collective Consciousness is veiled...by the Shadow of the Subconscious. That's why Carl Jung called it the Collective Subconscious. People's dreams reflect universal symbolism but most don't pay attention to their dreams. They downgrade the Subconscious to something that they cannot be aware of or understand...Science insists the Subconscious is the crunching down of the days activities and nothing more. Never mind that we ALL dream in the same symbols and all dream symbols tend to represent the same information. When any one of us makes a huge leap forward spiritually it sends out a ripple effect to everyone else on the Collective Consciousness level. When we transform our Subconscious by working with it consciously forming a new paradigm or consciousness- which is the aim of studying the Tarot, of Alchemy, of Buddhism, and many other Spiritual systems...We can bring through information and understanding that has been buried in murk and misinterpretation for centuries. When any of us reach out to Higher Spiritual Powers such as the Archangels for help...it also sends out a ripple effect. These forces that exist within the astral plane upon which the Collective Consciousness exists wish to help us but as long as we deny or do not ask for their assistance they can only stand aside as we struggle within the Physical nightmare we have created. Think of the Collective Consciousness as being a Spiritual Internet. We can only send and receive information to other people if we do so on purpose. That person can only receive that information if they choose to open the application or email that they have received. That's how the power of prayer effects the individual in Physical Matter Reality. If a person has cut themselves on the conscious level, they might still be aware of the affect of prayer on the collective level but it will have a very small impact. The Group Effect Since ware all interlinked with the collective consciousness when we all pray with the same intent our minds link together as one will...for example by praying for a specific person...it has a powerful effect. A part of the Collective Consciousness that was erratic and chaotic becomes united into One Force. When a group acts in concert together for a specific positive result it will be supported on a cosmic level. The Collective Consciousness can then have a very direct affect on Physical Matter Reality. The Higher Powers of the cosmos want the positive result and support self-less acts. (Thankfully, if a group seeks power for selfish reasons or a particular negative result they will meet a lot of resistance and it will take a lot more effort on behalf of the group to achieve those results). So, those powers that exist in the astral realm of the Collective Subconscious will add their energy to the result that is desired by the group. This is why when groups, even if they are on different parts of the planet, sit and meditate on something positive they can affect the whole. Their concerted effort is a chunk of that Collective consciousness working together in a way that is supported by Higher Powers and it has an effect on the entire group. Those who are in denial of the Subconscious, who are not connected, will also feel the affect of that prayer or meditation even if they don't understand what it means and are apt to misinterpret it (usually fear based people will interpret this change in a negative way). This is also why when so many people tune into the news and focus on fear the fear is amplified and creates a wave of violence. There is a type of feedback loop response. If people are excited about a certain fearful event and react strongly to it and they have not worked with transforming their Subconscious from the Shadow into something they consciously work with...the miscommunication will cause the subconscious to create more of that experience. Hence why it appears we are having more Shootings in Schools. That's one of the reasons why the news use to have such a strong Group Think effect on our country. That's why having a great deal of diversity in our news is actually beneficial and is working with the Plan of Divinity (Edgar Cacye sums it up well, "To know one self as yourself, and yet One With the Creator". Paul Foster Case, Alice A Bailey, the Ra Material, and so much more are in agreement with this Divine Plan). Our government mourns the idea of different ways of interpreting reality and events in the world because when there was only One Voice they could manipulate us into stupidity such as the Gulf and Iraq wars. That is why the arrival of these dissenting and disagreeing voices allows for more individuality which is needed before we can really grasp that we are part of the Collective. We have to be aware and be able to retain our individuality before we can work with beings who are on that Collective Consciousness level. That, however, is an entirely different blog. Luckily, there is a law in place that it takes fewer positive people to have an effect on the Collective Consciousness then the majority of negative fear based Group Thinkers. We hit that turning point a long time ago and that is why we have not experienced an Earth Shaking when it seemed very likely (2012ish), although, at this time we are seeing more natural disasters as a Wake Up call. We are at that edge again but blogs like this and the people like you who read them are making the difference. As long as a group of people openly working with the Collective Consciousness, bring through the information from that level of ourselves, and inform the rest of humanity that is receptive to it but might not have access to it or the desire to become a member of a group like the Masons or Builders of the Adytum (which still do not speak plainly of these things) the slightest improvement with that goal will keep the earth shaking predicted by the Hopi at bay. Receptivity Why doesn't praying for people always heal them? Remember how Jesus told one of the blind men it was his faith, not Jesus, that healed him? (John 9) Now if we are praying for a particular person it does require that the person is open to the energy in Spirit. They have to think that it is possible because they are the co-creator of their subjective reality. They have to hold the belief that they can be healed. If someone has really become shut down to Spirit and accepted that they are unwell and will die soon...they won't feel the energetic effect of those who pray for them. They have cut off their divine connection to the Collective Consciousness and Spirit. They are allowed to continue to make that choice and stay in their hole of isolation if that is what they choose (thanks to Free Will). However, if that person is receptive to the energy they will use it to help themselves heal. I've seen people survive when they physically shouldn't have because of this. Prayer won't work on those who do not hold the believe that it can work and they are willing to release the idea that being sick will benefit them. The younger a person is the more likely they will be open to that possibility and respond to prayer. Conclusion Prayer is a very powerful tool. Prayer isn't a mode for manifestation because in order to manifest things effortlessly they don't need to be prayed for. They come about naturally as a way to support us in serving the whole of Humanity. If we pray for stuff or knowledge out of selfish reasons there will be great resistance. That is simply a lesson and part of the school of Earth Life. We are here to develop an individuality and then choose to work together. The energetic level that prayer works off of is the Collective Conscious. However, a person must be receptive to the power of prayer in order to be healed or receive the help they need. Also, for some people the reason they have reached their lives end is because their Higher Self has determined that their physical existence has reached the limit of it's usefulness. This might be because they have gone as far as they are likely to develop spiritually or mentally in that life and the potential for positive growth is minimal. Once you arrest your progress in developing yourself Spiritually your Soul (Higher Self) sees no point in continuing your current incarnation and it will be cut off. I hit that point in my last life in the 1930's...it was more beneficial on a Soul level that I was murdered (since I was living a life of crime) and that I come to understand the other individuals motives for murdering so that I could understand the suffering of those who have truly cut themselves off from the Tree of Life. More then likely these types are not open to being healed through prayer. A decision was reached by the Higher Self that cannot be changed. The only way that can be reversed is if the person, by some small miracle, experiences a radical change in behavior and develops an interest in the Spiritual as a result of the experience (such as what happened to the neurosurgeon Eben Alexander). So, there are always factors involved that we cannot immediately see. However, knowing how and why prayer can have such a powerful effect can be illuminating and I encourage you to use this powerful tool in your life. As promised here is a bit of a Personal Update.
I know it's a big long but there is a lot to share! Week 26 Of My Pregnancy I am far more relaxed because I'm at 26 weeks with Baby Michelle! Oh, and yes we know it's a girl and her name will be Michelle Annmarie Korns. I could go into premature labor at any time. If I do go into premature labor, however, she would have to stay at the ICU at the hospital for a while but she won't require life support. Her lungs will be developed, unlike her sister. So, we're out of that point of time where we are in danger of her not surviving. I am over the moon excited and relieved. Michelle's a mover and a shaker. I had a dream that she had really long legs. My grandmother Alta McMasters, who passed away back in the late 90's had long legs. So, that does run in the family and based on her movements of where she's kicking and punching....she seems really long compared to her late sister. Hopefully, we have ten weeks or longer for her to continue to grow and gain all of the strength that she needs. I had a dream that her bedroom theme was Gray and Elephants. Then when we went to register for gifts people can buy her (we went to the store and signed up then I added things online. The girls at BuyBuyBaby and at Target looked so sad when I told them I was high risk and couldn't take the scanner out on the floor to scan items I wanted because I can't walk much. I discovered gray and elephants is "huge" this year. Thank you Collective Consciousness. I am not guilty of reading baby magazines or having any clue that was the case. I'm pretty sure the inspiration came from a huge elephant I bought my mom for Valentines day that she didn't want and told me to keep for Baby Michelle. Also, a friend at work Ruby, who's from Guam, recommended I buy a lucky elephant for getting pregnant...which I did and soon thereafter I was pregnant. So, elephants have been associated with my little one from the get go. However, I will probably call her my Deer One. I was attracted to Deers for Christmas when I became pregnant with her. I got a glitter red deer to adorn the front door of my house, a deer underskirt for my tree and a deer mug from the Starbucks where I work (in that collection each licensed store had their own design- Target had a Fox, Albertsons had a Deer and Starbucks had a Bear! I was really luck I was at a store that carried the Deer). I also had a dream that an elephant dissolved and became a deer so that's really the symbol that I think of for Michelle. Also,in a meditation before I knew I was pregnant I was sitting in my favorite place to envision...under a tree in a green field with wildflowers, butterflies and dragonflies chasing one another...when a fawn spontaneously appeared, came up to me, we touched foreheads and just communed silently with love. I had never encountered anything in my sacred mental space before (besides bugs) but it felt right and soon after I found out I was pregnant. I still love to summon that scene when I'm stressed out because it was so peaceful, loving and magical. I have never had a personal connection with the Deer Totem before. I may or may not have a baby shower. My mom wants to throw it but she is still recovering from nearly dying in that car accident. She is doing much better but recovery has been slow. She's not sure she's going to have the energy to throw a party and I surely don't. We may have a get together after the baby is born but that's entirely dependent on whether I'm up to it or not since I will be recovering from a c-section and would have to help do the work (the house work chores have been sorely neglected while I'm on Disability). I'm appreciative people want to be involved with my daughter. We Hit Over 1000 YouTube Views I probably should have mentioned this in the updated introduction to my YouTube channel. I really don't pay attention to the statistics on YouTube but I didn't know it when I recorded that video. I make the videos because I enjoy it and for no other reason. Plus, I wasn't really sure how all of that was tracked. I had goofed with the updated introduction video, however, and twice uploaded one that had the word Introduction misspelled (gotta love having dyslexia). Even when I corrected the mistake and tried to save it the program switched it back to the misspelled slide. So, I wound up just deleting the word completely and saving the video a third time. In that process I had to figure out how to delete the original video I had uploaded, which I had never done before, and stumbled across the statistic that we had hit over 1000 YouTube views. That gave me a pause. I had to see what was the most popular video and was surprised to discover it was the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy video. That blew me away because I had no idea that would be so popular when I made it...but that was a unique epiphany that was huge in my own world when I discovered it so it doesn't surprise me that it's an exciting concept for other people. That psychology, in different wording, spoke about Manifestation is fascinating and gives it more validity. So, thank you for supporting my YouTube effort. I'm always amazed when I log in here and see that I have over 100+ views a week. When I first started there were maybe 14 a week or so...but in the last few years the average tends to be around 100 a week with it peaking at 500 at times. I don't make money through Weebly...it's a free service and they would love if I'd upgrade and pay them money but I love the features so I stick with it. Again, I'm glad people have found this to be a useful resource on their Journey through life. I share this information in the hopes that it will help others. By far the most popular blog I've written was the Illusion of Separation which was one of my greatest epiphanies. If you can grasp that you can gain a great deal of peace and that's what I hope most people find when reading my blog. To me that's such a part of who I am now I forget that other people don't exist like that...that they believe that they are a wind tossed boat on the sea of fortune weak before the whims of merciless Demons, Angels and God. They hold onto the rudder trying to direct themselves where they think they ought to go without ever contemplating using the sail or paying attention to the tides or the stars for guidance. Instead, they fell utterly and completely alone in a hostile world constantly being attacked by hostile forces- including The One Creator- and unworthy. What The Videos Are Going To Cover Next First, as I said, I was a bit stuck on the Tarot card series of videos. I had recorded some, wrote most of them and researched all 7 cards. However, I realize that these little pictorial meditation aides are packed with so much information and refer to so many other deep systems- primarily the Kabballah tree of life, Hebrew Letters, and Alchemy...that I didn't feel comfortable sharing the information I had... Just like the Chakra material...there are some who look at the system of Tarot with a shallow point of view but I choose to share a more in depth point of view and integrate my own experiences. I want to be able to do the same with the 7 Cards of the Tarot that depict the Spiritual Path. Although Paul Foster Cases book The Tarot A Key To The Wisdom Of The Ages and Thursday Night Tarot with Jason Lotterhead both go into some detail there was a lot more that could be fleshed out...preferably in preceding videos so that I could just link to the information on the Kabbalah, Alchemy and the 7 Hebrew words attached to the cards. I really want to narrow in on the symbols and what they mean exactly in the Tarot videos. Otherwise it will end up being a 20 minute video that some people just don't have the time to watch. I don't regret reading those 7 cards in that order and meditating on them. I was shocked by what I learned. There are personal insights that I have not included in the video's because I really want people to make their own connection. One such example is that the Iced Capped mountains in the Fool Card are significant and that I noticed that the cliff face seems to have an eagle head made of stone...it's all very fascinating. I had read both books before but when you take time to study and meditate on each card weighing the symbolism...not to mention focusing specifically on that 7...well, it was an amazingly fun and Revelation. Those who have been taught this form of spirituality through the mystery schools like to teach in small doses. That's because the student can be overwhelmed very easily. I want to take that approach and yet be flexible enough that a devout student that's a little further on the path has the option to go investigate further in depth. Plus it dispels all forms of mystery making the people who use the 'secret' aspect of it seem like bad guys or something with evil intent (I believe such interpretations are left over from the Dark Ages where anyone who didn't believe exactly as the church was exterminated. The fact that they can still hold some traction today tells you that we still have people who are thousands of years behind spiritually). I realized I am not fully prepared to write about the Kabbalah either. I have four books (technically five but one was an awful inauthentic teaching) and a decent knowledge but I felt the information was a bit off. There was something missing. I needed the right approach to really get to the crux of it all...to sum up each level of the Tree of Life in a way that's easily understood, in depth, and not obtuse. Just like with Alchemy and the Tarot the people who taught the Kabbalah had to resort to symbolic obscure language to protect themselves so that the Catholic Church wouldn't kill them. I ordered two books. A book on Alchemy by Paul Foster Case and a book on the Kabbalah by Dion Fortune that was not only highly recommended but while reading a sample I was amazed it said something I had never seen in print before- that the reference to the Dweller on the Threshold is the Shadow. I realized, like Paul Foster Case Dion Fortune was a straight talker and probably wrote down more in the book then the mystery schools approved. Unable to decide if I should do the videos on the Kabbalah tree of life first or Alchemy of Hebrew Letters I decided I would let the universe decide. One of the books on the Hebrew letters was online so that got the green light from the start... If the book on Kabbalah came in first I was going to work on the Kabbalah. However, it didn't come in so...the first book to come in is on Alchemy. I worked on the 7 steps of Alchemy (Paul Foster Case puts them into a system of Twelve to match the Zodiac but that's a bit messy....Dennis William Hauck's work is more precise and to the point so I'm going to use the 7 stages). Alchemy absolutely ties in with the Tarot. The Tarot cards have a lot of elements that come from Alchemy. The western mystery schools mix all three together seamlessly. I decided to rotate between the Taort Card Keys depicting the Path of the Seeker, the 7 Stages of Alchemy and The 7 Hebrew letter's associated with the 7 Tarot Card Keys depicting the Path of the Seeker. I have already recorded all of the Introduction Videos (totaling 3), all of the Tarot videos (7), two of of the Alchemy and two of the Hebrew Letters. I've ready both Alchemy books from cover to cover but I didn't take notes so now I'm doing the detailed research and notes to sort of sum up with the two Masters- Dennis William Hauck and Paul Foster Case- had to say on the subject. As for the Hebrew letters, I am doing the same research between the books The Hebrew Alphabet: A Mystical Journey by Edward Hoffman (which I highly recommend) and Secrets of the Hebrew Alphabet by Daniela Abravanel. I haven't read either of them completely but I'm just working through them to provide the information that I need for the 7 letters (I will probably read them cover to cover once I'm done with the YouTube series). Eventually, we will cover all 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet and all 22 Tarot Card Keys but for now we are focusing just on the what is pertinent to the Path of the Seeker because that is not a topic I have seen covered in depth anywhere else and it is absolutely fascinating to look at them simply in that context. Conclusion Thank you again for taking the time to read my blogs and watch my videos. I'm thrilled that the information I have studied, given my own personal interpretation to based on my own experiences, and shared have found an audience. To hit 1000 views on YouTube and to have so many people reading this blog is absolutely amazing and am so grateful...for every person that I reach I know that there is a potential that 100 more may be reached through them or from them working with the material I've presented and then sharing their own unique perception of it. I know some might walk onto this path and go, "Ugh, psychology really? That's what the mystery schools taught as magic but in really freaking obscure language?" Yup, pretty much. When you Know Yourself you are are working through your own stuff...to become a purer vessel and communicate with your Higher Self that knows far more then you and tune into others. You learn you have a divine connection to the One Creator through your Subconscious...that you don't need to go to church or to some 'clergy member' that seems to have a direct line for you. You start to work and dialogue with that Higher Power on your own. Then miracles ensue in your life (just as long as the miracles you want doesn't involve material objects....Spirit is not concerned with how much crap you can amass in this life...all of the riches that you mine in this process come in the form of Psychological states of being- that's your 'riches in heaven'....it's not like you go to heaven and it's another physical material reality where you have gobs of stuff waiting for you because you were such a humble person int his life and then you can lord it over your peers in that realm. That's a really misguided interpretation of the church.) Yes, you seem to have almost a magical quality to you because a person who is really psychologically healthy and in tune with Spirit is super rare. You can see where events are going and see a broader perspective then people only out for the personal agenda. You see the Universal One Creator in everyone. Maybe it's disappointing or maybe, like me, you're grateful. This is the psychology that needs to be taught to everyone. Tried, tested and proven by millennia and backed up with modern Psychological studies in a lot of ways. This is the psychology that can heal the masses. Not the stuff that puts forth the idea that consciousness is only a result of chemicals produced and mechanically mixing in our brain that can be treated with a pill.
You can find the link to the Sound Meditation for this card here: https://bridgetkorns.weebly.com/blog/meditation-on-tarot-key-the-fool
As I mentioned in a previous blog I wasn't certain how to approach this next series. There is so much information involved in these Tarot Card Keys that I really wanted to go into more depth. I was going to let fate decide which series I did first...I was going to base it on which of the books I arrived. The book was Paul Foster Case's book on Alchemy and I realized...the Tarot, Alchemy, the Hebrew Word Assocaited with the 7 cards and Kabbalah are all very much intertwined. So, this is the first series introduciton you''ll see, but next will be the video an Introduction to the 7 Hebrew Letters of the Spiritual Path of the Seeker, and the the third will be on Alchemy. I decided that I would write the series on the Kabbalah last. I was shocked by my enthusiasm for working on the next 23 videos. Every day since I figured out how to approach this I have awoken with a new passion and zeal. I'm genuinely excited what I will discover the next day. I have stumbled some fascinating insights into myself on this journey purely by accident. When I was studying the Hebrew letter Aleph for the next video I discovered something I didn't realize. I knew that I was both an ascending Capricorn and that my Moon sign is Capricorn (which some say indicates what you were in your past life and I can see that given the last full life I lived)...but my son Sign is Cancer which is exactly the elements that Capricorn has to draw on in order to 'open their third eye.' Who knew any of that was a part of Jewish lore? I sure as heck didn't. I also had some amazing dreams that puzzle me. I haven't really decoded their meaning yet but they have several key aspects to them that I know makes them important. I also know that I have reached a new psychological level and an even more profound experience of peace. I am no longer reacting to emotional triggers that have laid me low for a long time. I've also come to the realization of why so many people are so extremely scared of the Tarot, Kabbalah, and Alchemy. That is no doubt rooted in the fact that the Catholic Church persecuted the crap out of anyone who practiced these. They killed them and burned every bit of information pertaining to these teachings. They wanted to eradicate this information from the world at all costs. When a grew is willing to go to any length to kill and eradicate all trace of any practice I pay attention. The only reason an organization would go to such lengths to do that is because it hurts them or perhaps tears down the aspects of their teaching they value most: Money and Power. The Inner Pathway is to one of peace by which we learn to create a dialogue with the Divine. There is no need for a book, a teacher, a church leader or a president. There are no outer forces of the Devil or even God directly influencing you to act one way or another...rewarding your behavior for this or that...just you. There is much more to that topic but I need time to let that perolate so that I can write it down. You alone can determine your Path and Walk It...no one can do it for you alone. The last thing the church wanted was another Master to come along. So, they killed every single person that had that potential...and that fear is so deeply burned into the Collective Consciousness that the majority of people have been frightened by it. They also distorted the teachings of Jesus to such a degree and drilled it into the memory of the people to such an extent it is mindbogglingly horrendous to behold. I have no idea what will convince people that they have distorted the information. Except...some very vicious Dark Night's of the Soul for some people. I was frightened until I hit that last Dark Night of the Soul. Since I lost that fear my life has become pretty freaking awesome. The only thing that continues to keep people in a spiritual, emotional and psychological bondage in this time that we are living in is Fear. All of the information you need to really free yourself from the fear and take the reins of your life is out there already. The spiritual, emotional, and psychological bondage isn't something that's just affecting one race...it's all affecting races, creeds and religions. True light workers are rare...most people are only out to get a leg up in Physical Matter Reality by gaining possessions or finding a soul mate (sorry but that won't complete you)... because they are on focusing on all of those goals that we are taught are important in 'real life.' We w ill see how all of that works out in the coming months. Thank you for joining me, brave soul, on this journey. I will catch you on Monday. I have a lot of pre-written content so keep checking into this blog. I hope that it doesn't disappoint.
As you listen to the embedded sound meditation video from Temple Sounds concentrate on this Tarot card. What do you notice about the Tarot card that I didn't talk about in my video? Are there additional symbols on this card that were not talked about (there almost always are)...Don't let this be the only time you meditate on this card. As we progress through the 7 Tarot Card Keys come back to The Fool and meditate again. I guarantee there will be additional insights.
Thou Shalt Not Judge
That's what the Ten Commandments say. I never understood how you could not judge other people. Certainly it is your job, and not others, to determine if other people are a negative or positive influence in your life. The passive aggressive turn the other cheek doormat philosophy with dogmatic mainstream Christianity is psychologically unhealthy. How, then, since it's a commandment in the bible, did any human being achieve this state of being? I've been puzzled by this and felt torn by it for years. Was I a bad person for judging others? The short answer, is no. That's a common human behavior. That is a tendency that is inherit in us to evaluate if someone is a threat to us...which is a way of passing judgement. Seeing God In Others I shared a few months ago that I was practicing seeing God in Others. Understanding that everything in the cosmos is the One...and that every human being is the One Creator experiecing life through them... I practiced remembering that even as I spok to people. The hardest, by far, is not to attack back when someone else attacks you. Or to attack someone on someone else's behalf. I have a hard time, even now, dealing with people who are randomly rude. I have to take a moment and realize that this isn't really them. This is them having a bad day. Taking a moment to send them love and trying to extend them every kindness and example of love that I wish someone had demonstrated to me when I was in those dark places. I have seen miracles take place. I have seen people absolutely transformed by that little bit of love and attention that I gave to them. The have seen the effect of the acceptance I gave to them which allows them to accept themselves. Each person, I realized, is a mirror to others. You have to reflect back an accurate reflection...and most often we do so subconsciously. When you start to be able to choose what reflection you portray...that changes everything. Suddenly, you're unpredictable. People are thrown off when you don't behave the way they expect you to behave. When they are mean and rude...but you show them love they're not sure what to do. It can be an awkward practice at first. Seeing Myself I practiced seeing God in them. Then one day it clicked. I suddenly saw myself. I realized I could not judge or condemn them because I would act the same way. Especially when I was younger and full of pride and wanted people to like me at all costs. At the same time, if I do not demonstrate displeasure in their behavior...they'll think they agree with them. Instead, I name it. "Are you having a bad day?" Sometimes they say no. But I've planted the seed that everyone can tell they are in a bad mood and they are having a bad day. Why are they choosing to be inauthentic? I can't judge them because, at this point, I've experienced so much I can see myself in them. How can I hate another version of me? How can I judge myself back then? Because they are believing in something that is wrong, as I once believed, I cannot judge them. I see too much of me in everyone else. Condemning them would be like condemning myself..which is an act of futility. Everywhere I go, I see people and I think, "I understand. I was like that once. I could have taken that path." Conclusion My recent spiritual journey has hit a point I could never conceive. I can't condemn anyone for their failures in life. 1. I know this is not the only life they lead. I can see that they are making mistakes but I know the One Creator has eternity for them to get it right. I know that they may suffer in this life or the next for the choices they make...but that's the path they choose with their Free Will and not my business. 2. I know that either in the past or had circumstances been differently I could have been, in this life, just like them. I can't condemn them for their mistakes without condemning myself. The only thing I can do for such people is pray for them to wake up. As I said, if people are where I am at in understanding spiritually in ten years this world will be a very different place. Right now, I mostly see people trying to force their point of view on others. Force will never change a person's mind- whether it's through politics, name calling, a non-profit organization, or bullets. You can force people to lie or to become silent and cause them to resent the crap out of you but that will not change their mind. I also see a lot of suffering in other people who are looking only for validation outside of themselves. That can be part of the path. Groups can be helpful but only when we are open and receptive to the teachings but if you enter a group only to accentuate your ego it will achieve nothing. Finally, there are a lot of people who get wrapped up in the drama of outside forces. They let those outside forces control their behavior. They live vicariously through the news, their favorite sports teams, their favorite television stars, their favorite leaders or their favorite political party. This is an act of futility and it brings a lot of pain and torment to people's lives. The outer conditions of the world do not rule us. No one outside of ourselves can 'save us'. We choose what we bring home energetically and it's no one's responsibility to save us. We must save ourselves. The answer is not recreating the universe in the image of our personal earthly desires or thinking. Nor does it lie in any form of group activity. The Path is something you must travel alone. The answer is to turn within to transform yourself. The work is rough and it takes total honesty and clarity. Yet, it is a noble path that can transform life as we know it and bring us great peace. We can choose to promote unity by creating it within or continue on the erroneous Path of self gratification and replication by force. This book is less focused on scientific based information and definition. Book Two goes into the metaphysical side of Thomas Campbell's Big Theory of Everything. I highly recommend this book!
Here is where things got really good. In fact, I didn't stop to write a review for Big Two but pushed on through to Book Three to see where it was going. I must admit his chapters were misleading at points and I was waiting for him to go into his big personal epiphanies and how he came to those conclusions. However, he didn't do that at all. Instead, he kept working at the mechanics and then brought in a little bit of physics to back up his point. He covers each of the metaphysical bases that most of the mystery teachings present. However, he doesn't really say where he came up with them...except on his own through his experiences in other planes of consciousness. He offers the explanation that each of the religions and spiritual schools come from the same fundamental truth so they are going to be the same. That does prove to be true when you have your own adventures with Spirit. He starts off right to the point at the start of book two, "A.U.M. evolved the space-time consciousness construct to provide us with the experience we need to help lower its overall entropy. Is that not as crystal clear as the morning dew? If you do not understand this now, you will understand it clearly before you have completed book 2." pg 1 Book Two. Alright, so translation since he's using his own terms here. A.U.M. is the Absolute Unbounded Manifold. Entropy is basically chaos so you can swap that into there. So it would be, "A specific part of God evolved the space-time consciousness construct to provide us with the experience we need to help reduce its overall level of chaos." Yup, I've heard that other places so that makes absolute sense. Not in that exact terms. These terms are just far more plain and yet more confusing since they are using his particular phrases. Cutting out the word God that has so much superstitious baggage attached to it is brilliant. Substituting that word for the A.U.O. (Absolute Unbounded Oneness) and A.U.M. to talk about two parts of the divinity is even better because that's hinted at with various systems. So, kudos to him. Yet, most people are only used to thinking of the One Creator as a personified "God" so that can be confusing for them. That said I have 44 pages marked because I found some deep insightful wisdom within them. That's a lot more marked then the first book. Trying to pick out a few quotes to share was tough. "I know that this is confusing, but by the end of Section 4, you will have no trouble understanding that the physical reality you physically experience is merely the experience our consciousness interprets as physical reality. If your sensed physical reality and what your consciousness interprets as physical reality seem the same to you it is because your culture has convinced you that consciousness is a derivative of the physical body." pg 296 "A.U.O. was described earlier as everything (the one source) and nothing (no actual individuated thing) simultaneously. A.U.O. began its existence as an unstructured potential energy system analogous to a single biological cell cell floating in a primordial ooze. A.U.M. is aware, active, and purposeful- an advanced aware consciousness.What an amazing Transformation!" pg 5 Book Two "Nevertheless, we physical beings are, from the viewpoint of a less limited consciousness, exceedingly simple and straightforward; our motivations, intentions, and interactions accurately and clearly demonstrate the quality of our consciousness in everything we do, say, think, and feel. A less limited consciousness finds our machinations within the physical to be transparent. Our quality, or lack therof, is obvious; we cannot hid what we are. I have to ask: What do your motivations and actions say about the quality of your consciousness?" pg 11 "We are like rats in a maze where wrong turns meet with an immediate electrical shock. We are in a wonderfully complex pudding-maze; to succeed we must taste our way through it. Would could be more easier or more efficient? We make the wrong choice and we are motivated by the wrong reasons and...Zap! We get the electric shock and make ourselves miserable. We make the right choices for the right reasons and we create happy, productive, rewarding lives (we get the cheese.)" pg 19 "The situation is nether hopeless, nor random, nor beyond your control- it is not even that difficult. Let's talk a moment about free will and making choices. What we do is not of primaryimportance; why we do it is what counts. The intent or the motivation is the choice. Thus our free will choices are primarily choices of motivation and intent- why we do what we do. Only secondarily are they choices of doing. What we actually do (the action we take) is the first result of our choice of intent, and drives a feedback mechanism, which is very good but not perfect, particularly in the short term. Book 2 pg 18 There was a lot more amazing information in Book Two. This is definitely one that I will read again because he throws so much deep information at you so quickly that not all of it penetrates. I highly recommend that you go out and get My Big Toe : Book 2 Discovery. I think it's a must read for anyone on the Path of the Seeker. |
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