I didn't want to dwell too long on The Shift as I said, originally, I meant to tell in a very short condensed version of one blog but realized I needed to do a little history. From all that I can tell The Shift primarily started in the early 1990's and it reached a maximum recently. All of it was simply affecting human consciousnesses.
There is one aspect I did not get into in my last post, which was my initial purpose of writing it, but the religious point of view came to be the focus of that post. I have a strong feeling that, as I have said, all that occurred in the way of religion was orchestrated for a reason. Although, I do not think that it was for the purest intentions and that history has proven that great atrocities have been performed in the name of a few religions I cannot judge the people involved. I simply note these items in order to give a context and a reasoning for the way that we form our paradigms, that is our view of the world, today. Naturally, what we view as normal was handed down over the years from our ancestors. Has Thinking Evolved? There is a theory that I read but I cannot remember the source. Rudolf Steiner hints at it in his work but he doesn't say it the way that I originally read the idea. He's a bit grandiose in his explanations and it's clear he enjoyed talking to a crowd as though he were an elite. So, I will write this as I remember reading it. We can see a parallel with artwork during these times indicating the ability of humans to comprehend certain ways of thinking. Originally, when humans began living on Earth their thinking was different from ours. They were more inclined to the way that they thought in Spirit, which was more abstract, because they had more memory of the time when they were fully Spirit. They may have even retained the ability to remember what life was like when they traveled in Spirit form. Yet, that way of thinking did not allow them to focus on the experience of being human. This abstract way of thinking is the reason why so many ancient societies used Symbolism as their form of language. Symbols were easily understood by the general population as each was familiar with the different symbolic representations of life whether in their anthropomorphic forms or natural forms. That is why humans, in a way, lost some of the greater ability to think in an abstract form which came to a peak during the Middle Ages and people became so literal. This was mostly done so people could focus on the fearsome and daunting task of living on this Earth. This allowed for the illusion of being Finite and becoming lost in the material world to such a degree that the world of Spirit could not be recalled. This was needed because humans needed to know how the animals of the Earth felt and how their fight for survival was their key experience on this Earth. This sort of experience, this 'suffering,' resulted in some very deep lessons and a great deal of spiritual growth. This limited way of thinking in an literal, earthly only, sense was very limiting, however, and in many ways killed creativity and imagination. The results were societies that were not inventive and did not progress rapidly but remained the same with very little innovation for hundreds of years. Art was very literal, even when depicting abstract concepts such as God's or Angels they were personified and evoked only with imagery and forms that are familiar to us in our Earthly experience. If we were to go back in time and talk to someone from the Dark Ages about much of our world they would think that we were talking nonsense! Most of our technology would be viewed as magical in nature and if we talked about other "planes" or "dimensions" they would really think we were talking nonsense. That is how much thinking has changed since that time. In recent times, people have been able to grasp the concept of Metaphor. Metaphor is defined as: A figure of speech where a word or phrase is applied to an object which is not literally applicable. Or: A thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially abstract. I suppose, to make the difference between thinking literally and thinking in metaphor it is best that we define Literal: Literal: 1. Taking words in their usual or basic sense without metaphor or allegor. 2. Representing the exact words of the original text. In recent years we have been more aware of symbolism. We have been able to return to the ability to look at an image that contains no words and grasp that there is a greater meaning. This ability has been used to give us an interesting glimpse into the way Ancient Civilizations thought (such is in the case of Laird Scranton) and in the unfortunate case of the Dark Ages Christians who seem symbols for Satan everywhere they go. People, such as Einstein, were able to use the symbolism from their dreams to create fantastic breakthroughs in scientific thinking. Others, such as Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell were able to identify Universal Archetypes, that is symbols, that have deep meaning to humanities unconscious. I would propose that the ability to think symbolically and in metaphor was never completely removed from the human psyche. The ability, however, was simply pushed back into the unconscious which is where many people argue the wisdom of the Soul is stored. A Shift In Consciousness So, as we can see, at the very least there has been a significant shift in humanities ability to understand. There is a large percentage of the population, still in the minority, but they are there...that comprehends symbolism and metaphor. These are people who are, generally speaking, thinking in a way that their grandparents and the generations before them could not comprehend. I have heard the argument that the reason that we are able to shift from thinking in a literal sense of daily survival to the abstract symbolic way of thinking is because we have reached a degree of comfort. When people were focused on meeting their daily needs of survival there was no time, some would claim, for people to spend pondering the mysteries of the cosmos, let alone, to have a vocation where someone can stare into a microscope or a telescope for hours on end. I admit that this is true to a certain degree but there was always a small portion of the population that did dedicate themselves to contemplation and that would be the priestly class. While they were limited to thinking about their religious point of view many did branch out and study other ideas. Certainly, even from 1564-1642 Galiileo found time to study the heavens. While life has become a little bit easier than that time it is not as dramatic as some people want to believe. In fact, the time when Agriculture actually came into existence- around 9600 BC (that's when Gobekli Tepe was built). With the advent of Agriculture people were able to go into specialized areas of work. Prior to that, the Hunters and Gatherers were truly focused on survival. With Agriculture, some people were farmers, some were able to be leaders of the community, some were smiths, etc. So, arguably, we can say that the ability to contemplate the cosmos was less prevalent than today but there have certainly been people with the time and the ability to do so (because they relied on farmers and carpenters to attend to the basic needs of food and shelter) for thousands of years! Knowing that progress from 9600 B.C. until the late 18th century was at a snails pace gives us even more cause to wonder what happened in the last hundred years. Clearly, the way that humanity thinks has changed. The process in the way we think has not been as swift as some might try to claim. Instead, it has been a slow process and we are living in the peak of the experience where a large percentage of people are capable of thinking symbolically and in metaphor. There are some who will not and will choose to not progress. That's fine. The wonderful thing is that we have a choice. Conclusion I think that I have exhausted every recourse in explaining how I see The Shift that so many people are talking about. The process has been slow, although, when looking at the width and breadth of human experience it does appear to be quite abrupt. We will be looking more in depth at the reason why and how this 'descent into matter' or 'Involution of Souls' was necessary when I write about Atlantis. I am in the process of reading several books on the topic and I'm looking forward to presenting the information. I will also be looking more in depth at how many cultures have a idea of a time period that will come to an end and occasionally ends/begins new ages with "trials by fire or water." We have the Kali Yuga (which we are said to be at the end of) in the Hindu version of things where Kali eventually destroys the world and Ragnarock where the 9 worlds are destroyed in a great battle only to be 'reset' with the Gods not remembering that they repeatedly die and are reborn in the same manner. There is the Maya epochs, or ages which so many have talked about. In the Hopi we are leaving behind the Fourth World of the Animal and entering the World of the Human. Then, of course,we have the Age of Aquarius idea. I will note that there are people such as Dolores Cannon who literally thought we would die in this world and then "come to life" on another world. I don't believe that "The Shift" is so dramatic. Instead, it is merely a shift in thinking as we learn that we are multidimensional beings. The outpouring of knowledge from so many realms, the ability to think in more abstract terms instead of black and white exclusive terms will change humanity. That is how we will find peace, that is when we will beat our swords into plows and set about feeding the hungry as opposed to waging war. The ability to expand our consciousness out from the limited scope of one individual competing to survive day to day... to one that encompasses all of humanity- with plenty of room for individuality- is the Path to Peace. The Mandela Effect may be one of those affects of this shift in consciousness. People knowing that things were different once...books that we read that never were in print (as in my case) or Berenstain bears instead of Bernstein (which I remember from just a few years ago, 2007, which makes this switch relatively recent). There is an entire list of things on Youtube from movie quotes to ads. That is what we are heading towards and it might be a relatively small percentage of humanity that is doing the work but it will be enough because we are buoyed by the generations able to do so that came before us. The Choice There is evidence that there are two paths we can take. The Great Pyramid and the Hopi Prophecy rock contain images that suggest one set of people will go to their destruction and one set will go to a Golden Age of Harmony with the Earth. In the Great Pyramid, some, but not all ascend up to the Kings Chamber but the rest go down into the subterranean pit. At the Hopi Prophecy rock, there is one line that continues on with corn plants at the end of which Masauwu awaits them while the ascending line goes into a zig zag path that ends abruptly and said to be the destruction of the Earth. I will leave you with these enigmatic words from Jamie Sams but keep in mind this was written in 1994 when far fewer people were seeing and feeling the effects: "These days, many people on all paths are experiencing these same unexplainable events, but they do not know how or why they are happening. This is because so many people have encountered the crack between worlds that the points of access to the parallel world of physicality are now more available. The parallel world of physicality is identical to the one we experience in daily life; however, the time is slightly altered. That duplicate world is less than one second of time different from what we consider to be the correct time.This duplicate world or parallel reality was called the Rainbow Dream by my teachers. This unified or collective prophecy from many tribes is a vision that fortells the coming together of all races and nations. The common symbol accompanying such visions and dreams for centuries was a Whirling Rainbow, and the recurring them was one of unity, harmony and peace. The Whirling Rainbow was originally encountered by secret societies of Native American Seers and Dreamers. Visions of the future worlds potential gathered energy over the years as more gifted and healed human beings discovered those ideas within the Dream Weave. The dream of world peace exists in energetic form and is a reality that has been nurtured by visionaries around the world for centuries. That energetic world has taken form and is physically merging with our own. Those who are feeling or sensing themselves being drawn into the duplicate world, where discord is only a forgotten memory, may experience a flutter or flip-flop in the stomach, goose bumps of energy, or the slight shaking of muscles when entering or leaving that layer of consciousness. As people merge with the Dream Weave of the Fifth Path, they are given the opportunity to explore this second physical world. Sometimes the experience can included the unexplainable aspects of altered time, place or space, or mixtures of sensations that confound or scare those who do not understand what is occurring." (pages 90-91) Then on page 231 of Jamie Sams Dancing the Dream: "The potential that exists for human beings to be come fully conscious and clear is represented by the original thirteen crystal skulls that were given to the people of the Earth by another culture that came from beyond the stars. The Mayans called these people the "Sky Gods." The thirteen crystal skulls contain a metaphoric message that reflects the thirteen hertz that will be experienced by everyone on Earth in the year 2012. Along with the lowering of the magnetic field of the planet, the higher electrical waves of the thirteen hertz will shift the collective consciousnesses of humankind to a new level of awareness,which will contain all the understandings acquired by experiencing every lesson on all seven paths of initiation. The assimilation of these understandings will create the actual manifestation of the Whirling Rainbow Dream of world peace." A Sidenote On a side note of interest. The 13 hertz claim seems to be referring to Schumann Resonances. This seems to be something that actually involves the atmosphere of the Earth and not necessarily the core so it might not be technically "coming" from the Earth per se but is a a reaction of cosmic influences such as the sun's energetic relationship with the Earth. I could not find the current Schumann Resonance. I have found references saying that there it is currently at 16hz but these were not from scientific sources (although, they cited sources that might have been scientific that I could not find). I have not done an exhaustive search on this subject. I find it interesting that she hones in on the 2012 date. Clearly, those who are of Maya ancestry knew that would be the end of the 13th Backtun. 13 being a sacred number for them. (To some it represented completion and creation). There were a few books in the 1970's that apparently tried to attach 'doomsday' to this notion but the one that really set it forth was written in 1995, after Jamie Sam's book came out. Also notice, she doesn't attach it to 'doomsday' but a prophecy of hope. Also, it is interesting that the Channeled Entity Kryon claims to have been involved in changing the magnetic structure of the Earth. In fact when introducing itself it says that it is the Kryon of the Magnetic Service. The "work" with Kryon started in 1989, just five years before Jamie Sams wrote her book and I cannot say if it influenced this bit of her work or not but it's doubtful as new information didn't travel as fast as it does on the internet today. Finally, the fact many people are contemplating economic ideas that are not based on Socialism or Captalisim is fascinating. I am, personally, most interested in Trek-Economics, a book that came out recently. Although, Micheal Tellinger has also proposed a different economic system based on one found in Africa. Finally, I'm including a fascinating video from the Venus Project by Jaque Fresco. It is a long video but it is an example that the idealism that we had in the 1980's for a future Earth not overrun by zombies or destroyed in an End Times scenario can still be found.
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Today I'm going to start off by telling a story.
We are going to start off from a very broad point of view of the story of humanity and I'm going to include the creation myths of many places to illustrate this point of view. Each of the next posts we will start to look a little bit closer with our binoculars at the story. I do ask that people suspend belief's that might interfere with this idea and just ponder this as a possibility. The idea that our ancestors knew more than we do now and that knowledge was lost is one that I have always felt in my heart to be truth. I don't, however, insist that you believe in anything. This is just some of the fun stuff. I will go through at the end of this and list sources and references. I will refer to some ancient beliefs held by some of the greatest civilizations in our world and include a talk by John Van Auken on this subject. Primarily, the following story comes from John Van Auken and the research he has done. However, as we shall see there is a great deal of this that has been told in different ways in many tribes and cultures. The Story Of Souls Coming To Earth All souls come a spiritual source that is like a sun. Each of the souls on earth are a ray of that sun. These Souls, sparks of the Creator, came to Earth and they saw the beauty of the planet. At that time they were spirit, they were not solid, but they could see the potential in the Earth. Earth was a more dense, heavy, level of awareness than the ones that the souls naturally came from. Slowly, these souls began to push their way into matter, to experience life as the material of Earth. They became more and more enthralled with the physical experience. A second set of souls were watching these experimenters. They were worried about the experimenter souls, that they would lose touch with the Creator. They worried that a body had not been prepared for these souls to enter. This second set of souls began to incarnate in Atlantis in physical bodies. However, there were traces of animals that could be seen...scales here, a fin there, claws in another. These were the ones who made up Atlantis. Something happened in Atlantis, there was some great error made that lead to the rest of Creation being dumbstruck. (I'm currently investigating Atlantis). Multiple sources I have already heard is that the Souls in Atlantis lost their reverence for life and began killing other beings and animals for sport. A decision was made in the spiritual realm and the Flood began. There was also the decision that there must be a time of separation, where those who made this error would learn why these grievous act was not acceptable. The people of Atlantis began to migrate to the different parts of the world- The Andes, Egypt, The veils between the two worlds, the Spirit, and of mankind were lowered so humanity would forget their spiritual origin. The forgetting happened slowly with the first few generations chronicling the story in their art and sacred oral traditions. We are coming to the end of this time of separation and forgetting. The 4th root race, a new improved body, is developed to help souls better evolve through this entrapment in matter. The Story Depicted In Egypt In Ancient Egyptian Mystcisim and It's relevance today, John Van Auken explains that an image of the story of mans spiritual descent into the material Earth expereince based on a picture from the tomb walls of Ramses. "The two large lions represent Yesterday (on the right) and tomorrow (on the left). The story begins with the descent of the heavenly barque (boat) from out of the heavens. Two souls symbolized b two birds with human heads are giving homage to a symbol which has the body of the beetle and the head of a ram, representing the beginning period (Aries) of entry into matter and materialism (the dung beetle). On the bow of the barque sits a monkey, indicating the souls incarnated in physical forms used by the monkey. Looking across to the lion of Tomorrow, you will see that the barque of heaven is rising out of the Earth realms back to the heavens with a bird on its bow, indicating that we will fly above this plane in forms as light as a small bird. In the lower central portion of this image we see two hands holding up or honoring the sun disk of Ra. The two hands are the image of the Ka, the spirit and in this case they are the Great Spirit. The Solar Disk is the Great Consciousness. The three beings to the right and left of the hands and disk are the personalities of the past and the future that each soul will experience. In our souls early experiences in this dimension, we will be looking back toward creation and the fall, but as we focus on what has to be done in this realm we begin to look forward toward the resurrection and ascension." The Dogon Creation Story The story in the Dogon is told in the Book The Pale Fox by Griaule and Dieterlin. This is a tribe from Africa. Their story too involves a boat but it's a little different. I'm going to paraphrase and simplify the story here based on the material in The Pale Fox (which I have read) and this page (http://www.gateway-africa.com/stories/Dogon_Creation_Myth.html) I do also want to mention that there is more than one version of the story told. There is one for those who are outsiders and those who are intitiates. Griaule and Dieterlin were initiates and so they were told a more expanded story than what most visitors or even children in the tribe are told. Here, I'm going to go with the children's story. There is far more to the story of the initiate but I want to keep this story simple. Amma is the creator. Amma split in two and created Ogo, the Fox. Ogo descended in an ark via the river of the Milky Way and tried to mate with the Earth. He created many mounds in this process. When Amma discovered what the Fox had done he realized that he had to purify the Earth. Amma created a representative order, called the Nommo. They were four sets of twins and created 8 assistants. These eight were called the ancestors of human beings and also descended in an Ark. One of the Nummo was required to be sacrificed in order to purify the Earth and he was resurrected by Amma. The Hopi Creation Story I'm going to paraphrase this one because it is a little long but you can read the entire story here: (http://www.oocities.org/athens/delphi/2911/hopi5.html). In the first world the people lived simply with the animals. In the second world they developed handicrafts, homes and villages. In the third world they created cities and they forgot to sing the songs to the creator because they were so focused on their own plans. Some of them retained the knowledge from their Emergence but they were worried because others had wicked ways. This is why the Creator would destroy their world ever so often to wipe the slate clean and the world could begin anew. So, the people with wisdom sang louder and longer from the top of their hills. The other people hardly heard them. They began to use their power in evil and obstructive ways. Some of them made a shield, they used it to fly to a big city, attack it, and fly away from it so fast that no one knew where they came from. Soon these flying shields were made in many cities and they were attacking one another. So, corruption and war had come to the the third world as it had the others. The Spider Woman was told by SotuKnang to wrap the wise people in reeds to protect them as he destroyed the world. He loosed waters upon the world and waves higher than mountains broke the continents asunder and sank them beneath the seas. The Spider Woman unsealed their reeds when the flood was over. They were on a little piece of land that was all that was left of the third world. Sotuknang appeared to Spider Woman and told them that she must lead them on and so Spider Woman instructed the people to make boats and trust their intuition to lead them... Looking to the the west and south the people could see sticking out of the water islands upon which they had rested, "These are the footprints of your journey, Sotukanang told them, "the tops of the high mountains of the third world. Now watch..." As they watched the islands sank one by one, "I have even washed way the stepping stones of your Emergence that I provided you...but the time will come if you preserve the memory and meaning of your emergence when these stepping stones will emerge again to prove the words you speak." Inca Creation Myth The Sun existed first but no one could see anything because he was so bright. So he created the Moon and the Stars. The moon became his wife. The sun and the moon had one daughter and one sun. They sent them to the Earth to show the humans how to survive. The son of the Sun God was the very first Inca. Conclusion I have included the stories of several civilizations and while I could add more explaining how they fit together I don't think it would of service to anyone to drag on that long. So, instead I will leave off here. Most of you can see the connection the story of Noah and even Genesis. What I see though, in a lot of societies is that they start off saying that they came from the sun. However, unlike the sun of this material world they are talking about the sun of the spiritual world- the Creator. I really find it funny when I hear archaeologists talking about sun worship, they take so much literally when they are reading the work of ancient people and I think it's so funny. In Destiny of Souls Michael Newton has a case study where a woman recalls helping newly 'birthed' sparks of the divine consciousness emerge. That person explained how these new bits of light were swaddled in energy by the soul that helped them but originally came from a great source of light. The source of light, she explained was a mystery. Is their any doubt why some Native American's call God "The Great Mystery"? In the Book Dancing the Dream by Jamie Sam's (a Cherokee Seer and Dreamer) she explains, "If you choose to embrace these paths, you will remember that before your birth, your spirit, your spark of life, was exhaled from the great Creator, the Great Mystery, God. That spark of life came from the Creator's fire of creation and was attached to an invisible thread of energy that sent you forth into the universe and animated the physical body you inhabit with life force." The confusing part in these origin myths, is where are they starting from? Are they starting from the story of the fall of Atlantis (as the Hopi seems to have done?) Or are they starting off at the very beginning when God became aware of himself such as in the case of Genesis or the Dogon Myth? Overwhelmingly, and far more convincingly then what I have presented here you will understand by listening to John Van Aucken's presentation that we are to be companions to the creator. This is one of the main things that differentiate us from the Angels who's will is the same of the Creator with no ability to be an individual. Jamie Sam's would call this the Eagle View of humanity on Earth. I hope you enjoyed it and that it brought you some illumination. In the next blog, we will look at the different names for Cycles of time, how a good deal of them do not end so well (which is mentioned in the Hopi creation story) and what this means as we seem to be coming to an end of a cycle but that doesn't need to be a negative thing. Especially, if somehow we have changed things in this cycle so that the destruction doesn't have to occur. |
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