Setting The Tone
The opening words to Galadriel's prologue in the Lord of the Rings has always given me goosebumps: "The world has changed, I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, I smell it in the air, Much that once was is lost, For now none live that remember it." I have stated my belief that authors, artists and musicians are Shaman's. That to write they are channeling the divine (in Greece they would say a Muse was helping them) but in the case of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings I believe that he was trying to recapture old myths and in so doing touched on the story of mankind. As always, the perspective of soul of the channel affects the writing so it gets filtered through certain beliefs. However, these words uttered before the story of the One Ring rings true for the story I'm going to tell today. Introduction My apologies for not getting back to this earlier. I'm attempting to post at least once a week as writing is very therapeutic for me. However, I had a very busy two weeks filled with doctor appointments and even a jury summons that, thankfully, I was dismissed from serving. So, today I want to look at another aspect of this "Induction" of souls that started the entire grand experiment of incarnating souls on Earth. In previous blogs that were lost I covered the idea that he world is an experiment. I rejected the idea that we are an Alien experiment of some sort where we were seeded on the Earth to see what would happen. I have heard this suggested in a few places but if there was a seeding it was a spiritually motivated one and yes, I believe that it was a spiritual experiment. This next part is still somewhat of a gray area for me and I can't say exactly where I heard it at first. I'm not sure of the initial source however in the Books I have recently read Edgar Cacye's Atlantis by Gregory Little, Dora Little and John Van Auken and even Rudolf Steiner's work seem to indicate this idea. I also think that there is some information from Bashar that coincides. The Great Forgetting When beings first came to Earth and began "pushing themselves" into matter it seems that they retained a lot more knowledge of their Spiritual ancestry and they still had contact with the Source. They knew that they were naturally spiritual beings. They knew that they were a soul and belonged in the dimension from which that soul had come from where the Source exists- and that this material world/dimension is an illusion. Edgar Cacye and Rudolf Steiner describe the very first people as living in complicated nest within Trees and sometimes in caves. To me this brings to mind the idea of the Elves. However, it appears that at some point- perhaps in Atlantis- a travesty happened. According to the the Edgar Cacye material this occurred when there was the mishandling of a crystal by Atlantis. This occurred when a new set of Souls began incarnating on the Earth that would become what Edgar Cacye called the Followers of Belial. This might be what Rudolf Steiner considers the "Luciferic" influence. Interestingly, in one of the sessions named Interstellar Enneagram, Bashar explained that originally Earth was of a positive high vibration. Because of this when beings from Orion, who's prior world were devastated and destroyed by war, began incarnating here it brought down the vibration of the Earth. (Vibration is an idea that we see in a lot of metaphysical topics and in psychology. I will cover it more in a future post). I find it very possible that in some way these beings might have been the ones that Edgar Cacye called the Sons of Belial. After the Crystal, now called the Firestone, was mercilessly turned on animals it was decided in the Spiritual Realm that there would have to be a full "descent" into matter from which we would then "ascend" out of at a future date. The beings who had turned the crystal on the animals had no empathy for the animals or for the planet. This required the great Forgetting. This Forgetting can also be considered a great "Separateness" as Jamie Sams refers to in her book Dancing the Dream. In this she uses the Mayan term the "Fourth World of Separation" which, according to her, we have been going through for the past 60,000 to 70,000 years! Amazingly, Jamie Sams date does match up with the first destruction of Atlantis that Edgar Cacye gives of 50,722 BC when the "descent" of consciousness is said to have begun. Entering Spiritual Darkness The situation that seemed to tip humanity into the deepest darkest days was actually the arrival of Christ. Interestingly, while the life and death of Yeshua is hailed by many sources as being an incredibly crucial point in our history. I admit, it is hard for me to talk about these times and not appear to be biased against them. As a spiritually minded person that feels the Oneness with all things in life (to the point where I can pick up on the pain that animals feel) the dogma of the Catholic Church seems to be cruel. Yet, in many ways, it retained some of the old beliefs. The Saints, in a way, are a form of multiple deities especially given that some of them (St. Bridget for example) were originally Gods or Goddesses. So, in some ways it is easier for a Catholic to conceive some Spiritual ideas than it is for a Born Again Christian of other sects. First, it appears, from all of the research that I have done that Yeshua (the Christ) and possibly even the Jewish people were familiar with and may have beleived in reincarnation. There is a sect of Jewish people called the Druze who appear to believe that they are the reincarnated priests of Atlantis. The idea that Elijah and Moses would both be involved in the events of the Revelation certainly makes it possible that they were to be reincarnated. The one part in the bible that always represented reincarnation to me is Matthew 17 when Yeshua says that John the Baptist is Elias. What else could John the Baptist be but the reincarnation of Elias? John the Baptist's birth is even detailed in the book of Matthew so clearly the body of Elias was not found and then resurrected back to life. I have argued before that cultures did not just sit in little test tubes and grow on their own as our telling of history seems to indicate. Instead, there was always trade among nations encouraging the mingling of people and ideas. There is even the possibility that Yeshua traveled with one of his uncles (a story often told in Europe) who was a merchant and went to distant lands. At the time of Yeshua the Indian culture was already developed and Buddhism already existed. I have absolutely no doubt that Yeshua's sojourns into the desert were based on the practice of isolated meditation that Yogis perform. Yet, with the adoption of Christianity by the Roman Empire much of the religion was changed and set into dogma. The religion was taught as very literal. The majority of the dogma was held to be true even by subsequent churches that separated from the Catholic Church. The dogma is rarely based on anything that is actually written in the bible or Jewish traditions. The most damaging ideas to the soul that are believed to be true by the Church are: 1.) That only the Pope and Priests have access to God. All others cannot even dare to approach God (let alone be connected with God/The Source). 2.) That we only have one life in which we may earn either eternal damnation or eternal bliss upon Christ's return. Upon Christ's return corpses would rise up from their graves like Lazarus. Hence, why people began to be buried in cemeteries instead of cremated. 3.) That any sort of claim to be connected to God or 'powers of healing' that are not of the Clergy is demonic. These people were usually burned at the stake even if they were merely offering herbal remedies for illnesses. 4.) That anyone who believes in anything that is not Christian is a Savage or Pagan that must be converted to Christianity by force. Just as the people above they represented a threat of temptation to the God fearing Christian. Perhaps, Yeshua came to bring into existence this dark period because it was necessary for the development of human souls. He served as a light in the darkness of those days even as the people who brought the darkness did so in his name. The Renaissance Strangely, after the Dark Ages where superstitions and religion was so strict there came the Renaissance. This was a period where there was a little bit more freedom for belief and some of the older stories and myths were 'rediscovered.' This is also the period of the Reformation. The brutal control that the Roman Empire had over thought and belief was finally broken. As a result humanity entered a period of great achievements and advancements. The Spiritualist Movement We're going to skip ahead to a period of time even closer to our own. This, however, occurred at the end of the 1800's and went into the 1950's. This period marked when Western ideas once again met with Eastern ideas. Probably the most widely known information about the Spiritualist movement was that mediums and psychics were no longer chased out of towns. Instead, people began turning to them to get advice and information about dead loved ones. Abraham Lincoln's wife and even the president himself attended seances. This was also the time when Edgar Cacye was giving his information, Rudolf Steiner was doing tours of Europe giving his speeches and the Theosophy movement began. In many ways this could be seen as the seed of the current New Age Movement. For the first time, religions were being blended together in an attempt to understand Spirit. Materialism By far one of the most interesting situations to come about after our long descent and "Separation" from the Source (which is kind of impossible as God is All-That-Is) is how involved people have become with material reality. Just watching one episode of Hoarders is truly mind blowing (and can spur anyone into a cleaning spree or a trip to Goodwill). The only reason people would latch on so much to material things is because they believe that is all that they have. With Science telling us that we are just animals that have gained a rare intellect and are effectively a scourge or virus on this planet there is a great deal of alienation within our own species. There are people who really believe that population control is necessary. Further, the insistence that with medical and other interventions that people have been able to procreate on an unnatural scale that is going to destroy our planet is a prevalent idea. These are ideas that only people without faith in nature or a higher power can believe. This has also lead to the absurd "YOLO" people in my current generation. These people justify abhorrent acts based the idea that "You only live once," and they don't appear to believe in the afterlife at all. Conclusion The idea of Separation, that we are so far from the Creator that we no longer know that we are Spiritual beings having a physical experience, has been so slow and complete that people really believe that Earth is all that exists. The connection with an alien race might change that idea. Indeed, it would certainly fly in the face of Religion. After all, it was religious authorities that believed that we were the center of the universe (and killed people who dared to prove otherwise). They also insisted that the Earth is flat (and there is some crazy guy on Youtube still supporting this belief) until Columbus (re)discovered the Americas. Now, we have moved on to the Scientific idea that we are the only intelligent species in a universe filled with billions of planets because we have no irrefutable proof to prove otherwise. Even Science knows that it is impossible that we are the only 'intelligent' species in the universe but why is it that we have had no irrefutable proof that other species exist? Perhaps, it is because humanity had to make this descent. We had to explore and play out every possible drama that we could think of experiencing this Separation from Source and Forgetting Our Divine Nature to understand how the mineral, the plant and the animals experienced life. Maybe, through the process we learned how to be individuals that have consciousness of their own (as opposed to being a just a thought projection of the Source). Perhaps, through our many lessons in the flesh we learn compassion (which was apparently lacking in the Atlantis experience with the Firestone), understand the importance of balance (which I will cover in depth in a later blog), and we can empathize with any creature that is suffering because we too have suffered. If you are wondering, by the way, about how the Sumerian Annunaki (those from Heaven to Earth Came) fit into this...there is the mystery of the "perfected body" that showed up after the time of Atlantis. This "perfected body" is the one that we have now. As Edgar Cacye describes Atlantis the people there did not look like us and he talks about root races (as does Steiner and the Theosophy movement). However, he does go into the story of the first (lived in caves made nests in trees), second- androgynous lived in Atlantis, third (Amilius and Lilith) when the two sexes were separated....and, yet there appears to be very little on when and how the Fourth (which we are currently in) came about. I'm currently investigating this topic but it is very possible the "lulu" that the Annunaki interfered with genetically might have been the third root race and they created the fourth. I'm currently investigating this idea. The Buddhists have the idea of Samsara, which they say our souls are trying to escape. I have told this story before but I will do so again and it's from Pema Chodron. In it a woman is running through the forest when she discovers there is a tiger behind her. She runs to a cliff and she begins to climb down a vine. When she looks below her she sees a tiger below her as well. A tiger above her and a tiger below her. On the vine, she sees a ripe strawberry. She plucks the strawberry from the vine and it is the most brilliant wonderful taste. This story of the Tiger above and a Tiger below represents the Death before this life and the Death after it. Because of this balance the Strawberry, the experience, can be appreciated. Our souls, I have come to believe, are all about experience. That is how we learn. Whether the experience is good or bad is up to us and is largely due to perspective because life is inherently subjective (as I have stated before). Each persons perspective of life is absolutely unique and that is why we can say that each of us is a unique emanation of the Source. Interestingly, Bashar said that this period that we currently left is "The Span." The Span ended in 2015 as did the Quarantine on humans. We have entered a time known as the "Splitting of the Prisim." This Quarantine might have been put in place so we could act out all of these different scenarios...so that we could be the oppressor and the oppressed. The thief and the store owner. According to Bashar these scenarios, for the most part, have been played out and it's time for something new. Almost all literature from many sources- Native American and "Spiritual" points to a "New Age" where the Separation ends and we are again aware of our connection with and the presence of the Source. I, personally, have always felt the Oneness. I have always been able to send my consciousness out to surf the energy (which feels like an ocean) of that Oneness. That has been harder as I've become older, and it was very hard when I was stuck in the "rat race." Yet, the warmth of it, even the memory of doing that, brings me great peace and comfort. I cannot imagine not feeling in harmony with creation and the ebb and flow of life. One of the major realizations that I have had is that others do not feel this connection. I really hope and pray that everyone comes to feel it because once you do the idea of willfully hurting another just falls away. Accidents do still happen, and learning to defend myself from other peoples abuse (and being a doormat) has been one of my biggest lessons in this life but I could never willingly hurt another for no other purpose than some sort of feeling of self-entitlement because it is, in essence, hurting myself. What Is The Shift? Finally, both Edgar Cacye and Bashar are in agreement that we are going into a period where our world is in a more positive state. This state, however, might be a wee bit dangerous if we do not understand it. Because, we are coming to the time where we will have the powers that Atlantis had....and Atlantis destroyed itself. Strangely, Bashar and Edgar Cacye (based on the Pyramid Prophecy) are in agreement that 2038 is the time when we will see the most change and the transition from one Age to Another will be complete. In an interview, Peter Woodbury, he says that a Mayan teacher he spoke to talked about 2038. They were having the Mayan teacher at the A.R.E. and he explained he was more worried about the two thirteen year intervals after 2012 and not 2012. That's the pinnacle to which we have been climbing.
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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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