I'm sorry, last week and this week have been rough. So, I fell behind on making YouTube videos and on blog posts. Next week, I'm hopeful to get the YouTube video out. This week will primarily just be blogs. I will probably do a personal update on Monday as I have my doctors appointment to check up on the baby (crosses fingers).
Originally, this post was about comprhending the abstract. However, I wanted to include the explaination about not taking things literally. Early on the path you'll probably start off taking everything literally. That's ok, that's how hour brains our wired to think but eventually you'll free yourself of that concept. Taking The Bible Literally As a Christian I was raised to believe that everything in the bible. Even the Noah's Ark saga which really stretchedt he imagination was said to have happened. Now, for those of you who choose to believe that everything in the bible literally happened I'm not saying I know anything 100% for certain. However, I do know that in Jewish Mysticisim, the Kabbalah, they have come to see the Torah in a very different way. They see the stories as an allegory. This is one of the reason that Jewish tradition has been able to put aside ritual animal sacrifices and evolve. Of course, it's unknown if such practices would begin again if the Temple were reubilt in Jerusalem but that's unlikely to happen. Visions and Revelations Of The Bible Especially when it comes to the visions in the Bible we run into problems when we take it all so literally. Especially symbols. Dreams and visions are all symbolic. Symbols, whether from a vision or dream are always very personal to the individual who experienced them. This is why there are 'mystery schools.' Not everyone wanted to study this stuff and once you reach a certain point what you describe to people who do not have peak experiences sounds like nonsnese to their literal minds. Visions and Revelations, just don't really translate into literal truths or predictions very often. Yes, there is a caveat there because I've had dreams that come true but they often do not take the exact form of the dream or what the dream symbols represented were only understood after the event. Take for example, the dream I took to mean that my Daughter Lilith-Ann would be born healthy. The dream involved Pirates of the Caribbean...it's only later that I realized that ride at Disneyland represetned death to me or a journey to the "underworld." I remember reading the Left Behind Christian books. I would read the part of Revelation that it was supposed to be describing or fulfilling in the books. Sure, it starts off strong but then the symbolisim really becomes muddy. Some of Revelation just does not translate literally and the authors struggled to come up with what a literal event would be like and it dissolved into an impossible soap opera. Now, I know, I know. We grew up in churches with people who preached fire and brimstone. To teach that they would quote the book of Revelation. You only have one life. If you don't live this life in fear of God and his commandments you will burn in hell eternally...which is based on the one small part of Revelation that mentions a lake of fire. At the end of the day, how many times does Jesus tell anyone in the New Testament that they bettter get right with him or they're going to Hell? Jesus never did. He taught something very different from those who read revelation and see the destruction of this planet prior to Jesus bringing a new Kingdom to them. I've watched the Doomsday Christian Theorists who believe in the Illumaniti (fearing them and giving them more power then they give God) and it's disheartening to see thousands of other people viewing them. When you watch those videos they misinterpert symbols everywhere. They assign their own personal meanings to them and they are all fear based. Everything is Satanic that's not Christian. Even the Triangle (which represents the trinity in church artwork?) is Satanic. You finish watching those videos and if your sensitive to the energy they put out you feel anxious at best, scared to say the least, and at the worst paranoid. I litearlly tried to watch one a few days ago and it was such a low vibration I wanted to puke aferward and I promised myself I will not contaminate this baby with that negativity. I felt much the same way after reading the Left Behind books. What good is it to imagine end of the world scenarios? Espeially if you think you're the special one who will be raptured (which is not a concept that's actually is used by the church to describe a phenomenon in Revelations but isn't called that in Revelations)? If you think your part of the elite who cares what happens to the rest unless you are holding a grudge against most of humanity and want to see them punished? Most people who seem focused on the Doomsday Apocaplypse seem to hold a grudge against the world. I'm thinking the person who said, "Love yoru neighbor as you love yourself," wouldn't recongnize that thinking. Living in fear wasn't something that Jesus seemed to do or teach his followers...let alone *ANY* of the prophets. They said get right with God or you'll be punished...and sometimes people paid attention and saved the kingdom or the they ignored it leading their society to ruin including the nation of Israel. Fear, as even Star Wars points out, turns into resentment, which turns into hate...and turns you to the Dark Side. That's actually basic psychology. You only have grudges against people you fear or those who've hurt you. The Law And Commandments. Yes, you can sit there and talk about the literal Law and Commandments in the bible...but what blew my mind is in the Kabbalah that's just guidance to the unitiated who don't know the deeper mysteries. Once you are initiated and study the deeper mysteries you won't see any reason to break those commandments...they are common sense. You would never want to hurt anyone because hurting them is like cutting off your big toe for fun. The law and commandments, then, were created for people who were not wise. This was the knowledge that would help them foster a communtiy that would thrive and survive the dark ages of humanity (hint, hint, we're not out of them yet but we're getting close) but that was never where society was meant to stop their instruction. I think of it like learning your ABC's but then never bothering to learn how to read. You know those are letters on sign, a paper, or a book. You can identify the letters...but you can't string them together to form a word let alone use them to convey a concept. That's how law and commandments are used in our society. Laws have gotten out of control to the point in California where in one year 900 laws can be passed. No one can possibly know all of those laws...the attorneys have to look them up but it's doubtful even the lawmakers know all of the laws in the state. At some point when your passing hundreds of laws every year and hardly ever eliminating them...they cease to have an affect on the general population. The laws are only followed when asking for permission to do something from the state to build or create a business. We should take spiritual Laws and the commandments in the bible seriously but even if we memorize every page of Leviticus...it's doubtful we'll be any wiser in our day to day activities with other people. All The Same Stories Negates Them When you take the Bible and the Sumerian tales...or any of the other tales you find something fascinating. In a a Comparitve Religion class you might walk away thinking that, "Hey, it's all the same thing. Everyone stole the same ideas from everyone else or they were all inspired by Mother Nature." So, taking the way the stories evolved literally can mean you loose faith. The issue with that is there is plenty of evidence that the reason why certain stories evolved in a particular way was because it was easier for the teacher to relay to the student. Only upon further questions (which is how it worked for all of the shamanic practices of ancient tribes and of mystery schools) would the stories be filled in and the person would undrstand how the metaphoric journey relates to them and their place in the cosmos. Take the sacred Dogon Granary that Laird Scranton is always talking about. Everyone knows about the granary in the community. But the granaries they use are not exactly what they are taught. What they are taught is not practical and applicable...this hints that it relates to a wider and deeper symbolic meaning that has to do with a big picture of the cosmos. A curious person would ask, "Why is what we build not what we are taught..." and thus their initiation into the mystery religion would begin. A good deal of the people aren't curious and only focus on the practical application. Yet, you could dismiss it as a tribe that doesn't understand architecture passing on flawed information. Never mind that they literally describe how stars form and how the cells of the human fetus multiply during conception. What if all of these stories have come from the same source that was tring to convey a message to us? What if at the start of the current human civilization we could only think literally because there was a fall of intellect due to a spiritual fall? Beings that came from outside our material reality (in spirit or other dimensions) could understand metaphor and these deeper processes of the universe would try to relate the concepts as best they could through symbol and metaphor...so they would try to descirbe literal symbols the people understood but could only unlock the deeper meaning when thinking deeply on it and with a little scientific knowledge. The Annunaki Then we have the phenomemon of the Aunnunaki. When you take someone who's literal but a believer...we end up with this theory. That the God's of old were actual beings but Aliens portraying themselves as Gods. That they came to Earth and we were (or still are) slaves. Since certain goddesses always represent the same concepts- they're all one Long Lived Alien playing the role of each in each culture. So, Isis, Ishtar, Inanna, Diana, Aphrodite...are the same alien being interfering with human life. Then certain people are reprsented by their personal symbols whenever that symbol pops up in a stroy it means that Alien Being passing themselves off as God was there in the flesh. I fell for it, I admit, for a bit. I love Zachiriah Stitchin's books but it never felt completely right to me...instead, it always felt like a good science fiction novel. Yet, he weaved religions together in such a blend that it was almost believeable that there was this great conspiracy hidden with the depths of ancient myth and religion. When I really started to undrstand how Myth/Symbols/Visions/Dreams work...I realized it was all complete bunk. Maybe, aliens were involved on some level of our creation but the deeper stories of those myths...the abstract allegories...are the same and speak to the same human inner conditions we all have. No alien or being has control over our spiritual development...not even a government has control over that because no one needs to know your studying it. There are so many tools and so much information out there to help people the only person hindering anyone...is ourselves. Yet, if it helps people to see that all myth and all religion are just the same reflection of the One Thing or the One Creator...it does help humanitie's spiritual evolution so I can't hate it totally. However, the Annunaki Theory is only plausible to someone who takes everyting literally and has never had Peak Experienecs of their own. Until you have your own Peak Experiences you will never understand them because it's like being introdued to an invisible world that was always there but you couldn't perceive. Conclusion Symbols are completely subjective. They can be interperted multiple ways. All religions and myths are based on symbols. They have an internal personal meaning to the individual who experiences them and they are not meant to be applied to the outer world. As you spiritually progress you will start out thinking literally. That's how the human brain is naturally evolved to find patterns and relate them to the physical world which think is All-That-Is. However, when you develop your imagination the world of Spirit becomes more accessable. The Chakra system is entirely imaginative/abstract. If you cut someone up you will not find different colored lotus's along their spine. Yet, it has been proven to work. Yes, perhaps it is the power of 'faith' at work because the person puts faith into the idea...but if that were true then imagination should work to heal most maladies. Visions are the same way. When we encounter a symbol, to understand it we have to think about how we personally relate to the symbol and how we would generally desribe it to others. Then we can conceive what Spirit meant to convey by showing us the symbol. Spirit is non-material but our conscious minds cannot and have never been...able to conceive of 'non-materiality.' So, spirit shows us symbols we can meditate on to communicate. All myths, visions, and religions are the communciation of Spirit speaking on the behalf of The One Creator. We will cover that more in depth in the Next Markers On The Path post on Friday.
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