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    Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided madness is given us by way of divine gift. --Socrates, Phaedrus

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    Mushrooms, Myth & Mithras
    The Drug Cult that Civilized Europe

    http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100568560

    Or Entheogens and the Origin of Religion
    by Ruck Hoffman González Celdrán
    https://realitysandwich.com/113388/f...igin_religion/



    Combining the ancient Greek adjective entheos ("inspired, animated with deity") and the verbal root in genesis ("becoming"), it signifies "something that causes the divine to reside within one". When used in rituals, entheogens can be seen as sacramental substances whose ingestion provides a communion and shared existence between the human and the divine. In the context of ceremony and ritual, the individual becomes "at one with God."

    Prior to the recent revival of interest in psychoactive plants and compounds, the need for a new word for these botanical mediators led psychiatrist Humphry Osmond to coin the term psychedelic, "to fathom Hell or soar angelic," as he described it in a letter to Aldous Huxley. Within just a few years, however, conservative backlash against the 1960s counterculture had contaminated the word with the perception of criminality, recklessness, and abuse. The term was derived from the Greek words psyche, for the "human mind, soul or spirit," and delos, "clear, manifest." In fact, early experimentation with such substances in the modern West suggested similarity with psychotic states, as implied in the coinage of psychomimetic and psychotropic.

    An entheogen is any substance that, when ingested, catalyzes or generates an altered state of consciousness that is deemed to have spiritual significance. Symbolic surrogates, lacking the appropriate chemistry of psychoactive plants and compounds, may induce a similar experience through cultural indoctrination and suggestion or personal subjectivity, and could also be termed entheogens. Like shamanism itself, entheogenic spirituality is dependent upon and defined by the states of consciousness experienced. In many cultures, accessing such states is considered culturally essential to the perpetuation of a society's underlying natural and spiritual interconnection with the cosmos. Altered states of consciousness are very often considered indispensable to such core shamanic practices as diagnosis of ailments, curing, soul retrieval, and communication with deceased ancestors.

    In myth, transformations of consciousness are an integral element in the basic story of the hero or heroine who encounters pathways of communication between the human and an otherwise invisible realm, and such experiences are viewed as part of the ongoing renewal of the community's spiritual well-being. These transformations even underlie the semi-shamanic philosophies of Gnosis in the ancient Classical world. Among other peoples, they ensure perpetual contact with the wisdom and benevolence of the spiritual worlds.
    Generally speaking, however, the study of entheogens is a comparatively recent phenomenon, as is their recognition as a formative influence on the shaping of both shamanic and so-called developed cultures. It is now widely accepted among specialists that entheogens and the ethnopharmacology of their plant sources represent one of the most direct, powerful, reliable, and indeed ancient means of inducing "authentic" shamanic states of consciousness. Entheogens may, in fact, be the most reliable way of inducing a profound and sustained alteration of consciousness commonly associated with ecstatic, shamanic states. Hence they are at the heart of such dependable and repeatable ceremonies as initiation rituals and other religious Mysteries.

    Entheogenic epiphany is commonly described as a state in which people experience their individual distinctions dissolve in a mystical, consubstantial communion with a force of profound sacred meaning. This ecstatic experience is interpreted as a pure and primal consciousness and sometimes described as the direct contact with the unobscured root of being. Since shamanic spirituality is inherently practical, it ascribes the highest importance to the regular access to such transcendental states; this point of contact ensures the undisturbed continuation of natural cycles and helps perpetually maintain a society's underlying sense of centeredness, equilibrium, and balance. From a shamanic perspective, ecstatic contact also protects against the potential dangers of unappeased or neglected gods or spirits. The entheogenic experience, though entirely strange, dissimilar, and inexplicable in mundane language, is often described as feeling more real and vibrant than ordinary consciousness.

    Some of the plants used for shamanic rituals have yielded important medicines, for shamans are traditional healers, often called "wise ones." Other substances open up pathways to otherwise unseen worlds, with the spirit of the plant as guide to repair the invisible imbalance that is the cause of disease and plague. The word medicine has cognates in all the Indo-European languages and is related to meditate and middle, implying the doctor's original role as an entranced mediator.

    Most probably derived from the Middle Dutch term droge vate ("dry vat"), the plants and substances employed were eventually called "drogues" in Middle English because they were usually dry when found in the apothecaries, which were also shops for poisons. The word was applied to narcotics and opiates toward the end of the nineteenth century. This has given "drug" an unfortunate pejorative connotation that dominant religious groups often use to describe substances used by other spiritual communities. Similarly pejorative is the reference to entheogenic experience as "hallucinatory," which once meant "dreamlike wandering," but it has come to imply delusion and disconnection from reality rather than a heightened access to it.

    Fossils show that approximately 1.5 million years ago, a sudden and scientifically baffling development in the proto-human neocortex emerged. It has been speculated that the explosion in brain size, the prerequisite for the evolution of modern humans, occurred when our hominid ancestors began to intentionally and regularly consume consciousness-altering foods. Such an important adaptive aid would have been well suited to our "trickster" disposition for creative thinking. Thus, in keeping with the myths of old, we suggest that perhaps our species did indeed first become truly human when we first ate of those sacred Eucharistic foods-initially by individuals, and then ritualistically in groups, in what can be seen as First Suppers.

    Early humanity has left compelling testimonies of its entheogenic traditions in the archaeological record. In the Shanidar cave in Iraq, there is evidence that approximately 60,000 years ago Neanderthal culture had specialized knowledge of medicinal plants and incorporated them in the burial of an apparent shaman leader.

    Today shamanism is recognized as the primal and universal belief system reaching back to deepest antiquity, a practice that survives intact in many cultures around the world. Its influence on the historical emergence of Western civilization, however, has been all but ignored. Historians of Europe's debt to the Greco-Roman tradition have been largely blind to it in their own backyard, apart from admitting, for instance, that the Druids may have been shamans and that shamanism was the likely archaic, animistic religion of Paleolithic "Old Europe." Even less of a shamanic provenance is ascribed to the Classical tradition, that great fountainhead of Western civilization.

    Nevertheless, there were shamans in ancient Greece and Rome, and ongoing research continues to ascribe central entheogenic elements to the most historically important and influential ancient religious rites. At first it was assumed that shamanic techniques were a foreign importation imitated by those peoples along the shores of the Black Sea in the regions of Scythia and Thrace who, in turn, would have adopted the practices from their neighbors, the Tungus people of Siberia. It was there among the Siberian tribes that shamanism was first recognized and described by Western scholarship as a priestly practice.

    As early as the sixth century BCE, various Greeks are described as having magically traveled to the mythological lands of the Hyperboreans, who dwelled beyond the North Wind. Using innovative means such as the toxins of their arrows or by metamorphosis into birds, they made the journey in order to visit the god Apollo while their bodies appeared lifeless. Upon returning, these Greek priestesses and priests were believed to have the ability to banish plagues and predict earthquakes. One of these travelers is credited as the founder of Apollo's great sanctuary at Delphi. Here the god's entranced prophet was consulted even by the leaders of nations, her unquestionable validity being such that Socrates devoted his life to fathoming the meaning of her famous ironic declaration that he who knew only that he knew nothing was the wisest man in Athens. What else could one call this world-renowned priestess but a shaman? Nor was she alone; the experiences and beliefs of many important philosophers (as well as other very influential Greeks and Romans) qualify them as shamans. For example, the great mathematician Pythagoras, who lived in southern Italy, established a religious community devoted to dietary and spiritual practices, including the descent into caves that would induce the vision of the underlying mathematical relationships upon which this world of appearances is based.

    We have an eyewitness to the shamanism of Pythagoras's contemporary Empedocles, as well as his entheogenic claims. Empedocles declared that he knew of all the drugs and could teach them to his initiates, for he had drunk fire from an "immortal potion" and could now calm or summon storms at his will and lead the souls of the deceased back up from Hades, the realm of the afterlife.

    Such shamanic prowess is also described among the Gnostic Orphic religious communities, who claimed that their founder had a unique dietary regime and a special ecstatic "smoke" (probably referring to the inhalation of sacred incense). Orpheus, a priest of the Hyperborean Apollo, could summon beasts and was apparently considered an incarnation of his god since, upon death, he was compounded into an inebriating potion by his ecstatic female devotees while his disembodied head continued to prophesy. His devotees believed that the body (soma) was a tomb (sema), that this life was a deathlike incarnation of the soul that would be liberated upon death (as it is temporarily during ecstatic trances), judged and recycled through an astrological-planetary curriculum before reincarnating for a series of further trials on Earth. This process continues until the soul finally achieves "perfection," a condition described as a kind of a celestial actualization.

    This basic shamanic idea of a detachable soul limited to Orphic doctrine underlies the literature of the Classical Age, where the soul is considered most alert and free in sleep, dreams, and trances, where it can acquire some of the knowledge it will attain upon the final liberation of death. This redemptive theology is consistent with the metaphysics of Empedocles and many other ancient models, including that of Roman Mithraism considered in the present work.

    Parmenides gave an account of his soul's journey to the gateway between night and day, where he met a goddess who imparted her teaching of the Gnostic Vision. He was said to have produced the laws of his city after a vision quest in a cave. He and Pythagoras were not alone in achieving visionary knowledge.

    Plato explicitly claims that his dialogues are just the preparation for a vision of the Ideal or archetype of reality that only comes after an extended regime of spiritual practices, for which he employed the famous metaphor of the Cave and a Mystery initiation. Plato, like Aristotle after him, was initiated into the venerable entheogenic Mysteries of Eleusis, the experience of which certainly colored his model of a visionary community, and the resulting revelation is thought to have deeply influenced his Doctrine of Forms.

    Thus entheogenic shamanism is also at the heart of what we have come to call Greek philosophy. Sophists and philosophers were probably all shaman priests, at least in the common mind; a sophist, after all, is nothing other than a sabio or sabia. It was from such a "wise-woman," the famous Diotima, who was also adept at banishing plagues, that Socrates learned the metaphysical nature of love that he expounds in the Symposium. Aristophanes parodied Socrates as a sophist-shaman, first in Clouds, where his community of disciples was shown digging up special roots in a profanation of a Mystery initiation and hallucinating on clouds of cannabis smoke. And later, after the actual scandal of the Profanations, when certain prominent Athenians were discovered to have used the Eleusinian potion for recreational purposes at their drinking parties, he was shown in Birds again profaning the Mystery in a shamanic rite of necromancy as he summoned up spirits of the dead through the medium of an entranced companion.

    As is clear from the monastic communities of "wise-men" like Pythagoras, Plato, and the Orphics, shamanism came to be practiced as a group experience. The great Eleusinian Mystery was of this type, a shamanic initiation in which participants journeyed the other world in order to experience personally the opened pathway between the realms. The psychoactive agent for the mixed potion or kykeon was derived from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains. The Mystery was enacted for nearly two millennia and most of the greatest personages of the Greco-Roman world were initiated. Cicero testified that it was the paramount contribution of Athens to the civilized world. The Eleusinian ceremony was only the best known of similar Mysteries, like that of the Kabeiroi, enacted at various other sites.

    Such communal shamanism was also the basis of the maenadism of the female devotees of Dionysus. Periodically the women of the city deserted their homes for a mountain revel where they enacted herbalist rituals and induced a rapture that has become the touchstone example of ecstasy. The men induced something similar in the drinking parties or symposia, where the wine was fortified with consciousness-altering additives.

    Dionysus's most enduring gift was his patronage of the theater. Drama began as a shamanic experience, with an entranced narrator evoking the spirit of a deceased ancestor from his tomb to impersonate his story. As it developed in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE in Athens, it became a communal experience of shamanic possession spreading from the actors outward to the surrounding audience. To place them in the properly receptive mind, a special vinous potion was offered throughout the several days of performances. The great playwrights themselves appear to have composed their dramas in a state of shamanic trance and possession.

    The Indian and Persian Soma rites, moreover, persisted among the early Indo-European immigrants to Mesopotamia and were assimilated by Semitic and other peoples, elements being incorporated into ancient Judaism and the Egyptian Mysteries.

    By the Hellenistic period, similar and derivative entheogenic rituals were well established among spiritual communities like the Therapeutai, a mystical Jewish group with such pronounced similarities to Christianity that they were once thought to be the earliest documented monastic community of the sect. From the shores of the Dead Sea, the Essene brotherhood is another group that influenced early Christian practice, being exposed to the trade routes with the Orient that facilitated the mingling of ideas between the great civilizations of Eurasia. The Persian Magi were visitors to many ancient cities, performing their shamanic rites from the Athenian marketplace to ancient Judea and beyond. Moreover, port cities like the Peiraieus of Athens and Roman Ostia had multiethnic populaces with sanctuaries of their foreign rites.

    Journeying in the opposite direction, the shaman Apollonius of Tyana, a contemporary of Jesus and also declared a god, was actually initiated into a Soma rite by Brahmans in India. The Christian version of the rite was suppressed by the dominant Church or reserved for its elite, but it persisted at least as late as the seventeenth century in various Gnostic sects, notably among the followers of Mani in the East, condemned as heretical although even in Europe Manichaeism and occult Mysteries like alchemy persisted or were repeatedly reintroduced by travelers from the Holy Lands of the Middle East.

    Thus, as we can see even from this cursory treatment, many of the most significant developments of Western culture were inspired by a central spiritual, ecstatic impetus that most often, if not always, included access to altered states through the use of entheogens. As Plato eloquently documented, "Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided madness is given us by way of divine gift."

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    An additional read:
    Shamanism, Mysticism, and Quantum Borders of Reality: Part 1
    Part 2
    Part 3

    Michael Tsarion - Irish Origins of Civilization - Druidic Traditions and Influence Explored

    Shamanic Healing: Why it Works

    The Shamanic Path to Quantum Consciousness: The Eight Circuits of Creative Power

    Steve Richards - DREAMTIME HEALING using HOLOGRAPHIC KINETICS

    "I see science and mysticism as two complementary manifestations of the human mind; of its rational and intuitive faculties."
    Fritjof Capra - Tao of Physics.

    "Magic is any sufficiently advanced technology."
    Arthur C. Clarke

    "Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca 5 BC-65 AD
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    PHYSICS AND CONSCIOUSNESS
    http://www.starstuffs.com/physcon/shamanism.html

    Shamanism is basically the practice of contacting the "spirit world" and doing work on the dimensional and/or on a soul level. This could encompass many methods and modes of doing such. Shamans/Healers have been the corner stone of many spiritual traditions throughout the world. The roots of these ancient Healers and Priests regarded the soul and consciousness as a part of the whole cosmos. The shamanistic concept of "journeying" could be explained by as traveling through space and time dimensions to heal the soul and the person or many various other reasons depending on the culture of that healer. For many healer/shamans multidimensional traveling is a way of life. There is no distinct separation.

    Science has also come to explain how "magic" of the shamans operates to some degree. A scandalous trial in London in 1877, grabbed the attention of many notable physicists. Henry Slade, a psychic from the United States, was charged with fraudulent activity. What marked this normally mundane trial of trickery is that physicists and astronomers around the world, some who won the Nobel Prize in physics, came to Slade's defense. These scientists claimed "miraculous feats" could be done by manipulating objects in the 4th dimension.

    This is something shamans have been to known to do, either alter something in the physical or manifest something from "thin air". Physicists are coming close to explaining the science of the shaman.

    Eventually, Henry Slade was convicted despite the help he received.

    There is a well-known tenet in shamanism called the "axis mundi", the transcendental center of the worlds, designates "parallel world realities within a single universe", coexisting on each side of the "axis mundi" the axis by which our world is brought into communication with the upper and lower worlds.

    In "The Nature of Shamanism" it states, "Uniformities of forms do appear to exist in our empirical universe which transgress the quanta of the human mind... falling into the domain of the Jungian 'collective unconsciousness'".

    "By invoking modern physics, we can say, together with many a shaman, that all reality is only a continuum of the same spectrum. Put otherwise, reality is always in a state of Being or Existing."

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    The generally accepted theory of light up until the mid-1800's, was Newton's assertion of light to be a stream of tiny particles. However, in the late 1800's, the particle picture was replaced by the wave theory of light due to the phenomena associated with light: refraction, diffraction and interference, which could only be explained using the wave picture.

    This electromagnetic radiation, or light, may be viewed in one of two complementary ways: as a wave in an abstract electromagnetic field or as a stream of massless particles called photons. This is known as the wave - particle duality and is true for all particles. This duality is the basis of a indisputable quantum law in which it is a thread that runs throughout the micro and macrocosm.

    Light as a wave, has a wavelength associated with it, much like an ocean wave with crests and troughs. The frequency of light is measured by counting the number of waves passing one point at a given time. The energy is merely the strength or force the wave carries.

    Since all things have an energetic duality we can convert and apply this to the DNA and RNA molecules which they in fact emit their own light/energy. Science shows this and mystics spanning many beliefs and philosophies throughout history speak of this wisdom in terms of The Language of Light.

    Enoch the patriarch of the Bible speaks of this language of light as waveform geometries of harmonic resonance that mimic the properties of light. The Enochian knowledge describes sonic equations, encoded within the ancient mantras and god names, capable of directly affecting the nervous system and producing profound effects of healing and higher consciousness states.

    The Divine Light and Kingdom of Light references can be found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi, Pistis Sophia and among the various other Egyptian, Persian and Syrian writings. The returning to the light from which we came, this merging of the light within ourselves with the Divine, is what the great Eastern Orthodox mystics called, Theosis, others call it Christ Consciousness, Nirvana, Bliss, Oneness, and Enlightenment.

    The renowned yogi, Yogananda describes the universe beyond matter as being composed of indescribably subtle Light and that the material universe is composed of all the same essence. In describing a state of ecstatic joy he says, "A swelling glory within me began to envelop towns, continents, the earth, solar and stellar systems, tenuous nebulae, and floating universes...The entire cosmos...glittered within the infinitude of my being." According to yoga principles this is called Oneness with Supreme Consciousness, Ultimate Being, or God. In modern physics, this could be described as Non-Locality in the atomic sea.

    The yogic science, practiced within the laboratory of human consciousness, is, in fact, the science of consciousness, which physicists such as Bohm theorize as being inseparable from, and responsible for, all reality.

    Kabir Das, one of the medieval Indian saints whose compositions figure in Sikh Scripture said: "The Light of one soul is equal to that of sixteen suns." Many of his writings speak of the brilliance of Light and touches on the simplistic fundamental roots of Oneness.

    The more we raise our vibrational levels, the more of this language we 'speak'. This language also carries over into stones/minerals/herbs for they have their own inherent vibrational rate. The same applies to the sacred symbols and sounds found throughout the world. Since everything in the universe emits energy we are harmonizing ourselves into resonating with the universe around us.

    In some circles, multidimensional beings are called Light Beings. Also, sometimes people call themselves Light Workers, for their work with and operation out of / from the Light which is synonymous with "All That Is In The Universe". As we progress spiritually we become vibrationally altered or become "light bodied". Thus we have the aptly named physical ascension. "Light Knowledge" is also deemed the knowledge of God that seems to be a universal truth throughout the belief systems of the world. In several ancient writings Light is synonymous and equal to the dimensions and levels of Love. The differences in electromagnetic light can also be paralleled to the differences and levels of Love. Ultimately, Light is Love and all operates as One.

    It is beautifully ironic that the duality of light properties seems to unlock a vast door to scientific universal principles in which the mystics and shamans have always understood.

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    Carl Jung made significant progress in his theories of the soul and shamanism, on many levels. This psychologist's work on the deep aspects of the soul dawned a new age for scientific and religious thinkers. Carl Jung's depth in understanding the self and realms therein parallels the knowledge and characteristics of shamanism.

    With this understanding, Carl Jung felt that no causal connection can be demonstrated between two events, but a meaningful relationship nevertheless exists between them. This direct encounter with the patterning of events in nature as a whole reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world. Jung called this principle of meaningful coincidences: "synchronicity".

    Jung describes in his research into the collective unconscious that coincidences were connected in meaningful ways. Their occurrence seemed to defy the calculations of probability. Because Jung believed the phenomenon of synchronicity was connected to psychic conditions, he felt the inner and outer realities (subjective and objective) evolved through the archetypes. Jung formulated that these archetypal images belonged to a part of the unconscious not derived from personal experience. The archetypal images form the "collective unconscious". This collective is all things working in tandem indicating 'singleness of purpose', in this case, our very totality of consciousness vibrating and working as one coherent mass of energy.

    We can also see archetypal images or symbols as energetic structures that create a bridge between us and the higher realities. In some unintelligible way, they connect us with the spiritual realms and the divine order that unites us all. Archetypes thus become a doorway that provides access to the experience of meaningful coincidence.

    Jung's concept of synchronicity speaks of the "oneness" and interdependence of the universe. Jung states, "Peculiar interdependence of objective elements among themselves as well as with the subjective (psychic) states of the observer or observers". Jung was also heavily influenced by the "new" physics dawning which he wrote, "Physics has demonstrated...that in the realm of atomic magnitudes objective reality presupposes an observer, and that only on this condition is a satisfactory scheme of explanation possible...This means that a subjective element attaches to the physicist's world picture, and secondly that a connection necessarily exists between the psyche to be explained and the objective space-time continuum."

    These discoveries confirmed what Jung recognized intuitively: that matter and consciousness are, in fact, interconnected in an essential way. Quantum theory and synchronous events along with matter and consciousness function as complementary aspects of a unified total reality.

    In an essay by Gerhard Adler titled "Reflections on "Chance" and "Fate" - "This interconnectedness manifests itself in so many ways that one has to accept it as undisputable reality."

    Arthur Koestler, a twentieth century philosopher, refers to the capacity of the human psyche to "act as a cosmic resonator" and in his book, "The Roots of Coincidence", presumes the "fundamental unity of all things," which transcends mechanical causality, and which relates coincidence to the "universal scheme of things."

    Koestler also refers to "the universal hanging-together of things, their embeddedness in a universal matrix." Many ecologists and scientists know without a doubt, this sense of interrelation in and of the world.

    The mystical concept of one universal scheme parallels the scientific theme of oneness. The relevancy of science and consciousness is immense.

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    Gnosis: The Science of Mysticism
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    Throughout the history of humanity, there have been individuals whose mission it was to act as guiding lights within the darkness of the ignorance and hatreds of humanity. These individuals have been called saviors, prophets, masters, magicians, bodhisattvas, Buddhas, arhats, and sons of man… With wise words, miracles, and esoteric written texts, these men and women have brought about changes to advance human spirituality.

    I. Mysticism

    We read in books that these holy individuals undertake various missions and have belonged to different eras, regions, religions, sects, secret societies, and esoteric orders; yet, there is a common and exact doctrine that is inherent within all of their works. As if there were a cosmic plan, in all races and eras, to send these enlightened messengers to work for specific missions in regards to the evolution of humanity. In his book, “Orders of the Quest,” Manly P. Hall states:

    "There is an incontrovertible mass of evidence indicating the existence of initiated philosophers possessing a superior knowledge of divine and natural laws. There is also sufficient proof that these initiates were the agents of a World Fraternity or Brotherhood of Adepts that has existed from the most remote time. This overfraternity has been called the Philosophic Empire, the Great School, the College of the Holy Spirit, and the Invisible Government of the World. References to this sovereign body of “the ancient ones of the earth” occur in the sacred writings, the philosophical literature, and the mystical traditions of all races and nations of mankind.
    … [we] have referred to the stream of the secret doctrine as Humanism. The term is not used in its popular sense, but to describe the grand program of the Mystery Schools for the emancipation of man from bondage to ignorance, superstition, and fear."

    The true Theurgist, the mystic or prophet, is the aspect of divinity within the individual human, it is the Inner Being, the Innermost. It is the particular Inner Being of an initiate which expresses itself through the words and actions of the initiate by means of the essence or causal principle. We do not say that any individual personality is divine, no, as Samael states, “The Theurgist is more within, deeper, more profound.” (Logos Mantra Theurgy) It is not, as many fanatics believe, the personality of a saint that is divine, it is the divine within that saint that is holy. And it is here that the initiates of the Universal Lodge find real magic. Devoid of the guidance of the divine within, one can only find egotism, and thus all magic will turn black as it degenerates into darkness. Sadly this is happening to many of the psuedo-esoteric orders and religions of modern humanity. Therefore, for one to delve into the esoteric or occult mysteries, one must seek union and guidance solely from the “Lord God of Truth Within.” And this is the true meaning of Religion, as the word itself comes from the Latin Religare, which means "to unite (with the divine)." We see the same meaning in the Sanskrit word Yoga (see the book entitled “The Mysteries of the Fire - Kundalini Yoga” by Samael Aun Weor), which is the same process under the light of eastern mysticism.

    Therefore, the students of Gnosticism do not follow any Gurus or teachers, save for the inner Guru, by cultivating the relationship between themselves with the divine. The true teachings of the Masters, which have come to serve humanity, are meant only to give us the means to nurture this relationship. Eliphas Levi wrote in “The Paradoxes of the Highest Science”:

    "Religion is Magic sanctioned by authority".

    The Wise understand what true religion is - the eternal necessity that is. For debased souls, religion is a yoke imposed by the vagaries of fear and the follies of hope. For exalted souls, religion is a force, springing from an intensified love of God and humanity.

    II. Science

    For thousands of years, Gnosticism has offered keys to unlock the mysteries that lay deeply hidden within the soul and it has promised one thing: objective knowledge. We do not ask the students to believe in a particular dogma. Why believe when you could know? That is why it is said that the Innermost Self-realization of the Being is our goal, but science is our method. We must be critical, attentive and determined if we are to reach such a lofty goal. Therefore, there are three esoteric sciences which have been studied since the dawn of humanity which offer the means to our goal.

    Psychology

    “That children do not know the reason of their desires, all the learned teachers and instructors agree. But that grownups too stumble like children on this earth, not knowing whence they come or whither they go, acting as little according to true purposes, being ruled by cakes and birch rods, no one likes to believe; yet to me it seems quite obvious.
    Let us watch man in his limited sphere and see how impressions affect him, how he is obsessed by ideas, until finally growing passion robs him of any possible calmness of mind and becomes his ruin.” – Goethe! (excerpts from “The Sorrows of Young Werther”)


    The term psychology is a compound word coming from the Greek words Psyche (soul) and Logos (verb). Modern psychology only goes so far as to study the mind and the egotistical self. Gnosticism delves deeply into the esoteric aspect of psychology, seeking to incorporate the understanding of the spirit and the soul in relation to the mind and the various egos.

    esoteric: (Gr.) Hidden, secret. From the Greek esotericos, “inner,” concealed. (From H.P. Blavatsky’s “The Theosophical Glossary.”)

    Esoteric psychology seeks to understand and eliminate the cause of suffering just as the Buddha Shakyamuni taught over 2500 years ago. In relation to this aspect of psychology, the Buddha gave to his disciples the four noble truths. In brief, the first noble truth is that all ego-centric life is suffering. The second noble truth is that desire is the cause of all suffering. The third noble truth is that to eliminate suffering, one must eliminate all desire in oneself. The fourth noble truth says to follow what is called in Buddhism “the Eightfold Path”; these are the ways in which one goes about to eliminate desire and suffering.

    "Through many births I sought in vain
    The builder of this House of Pain.
    Now, Builder, thee I plainly see!
    This is the last abode for me.
    Thy gable’s yoke and rafters broke,
    My heart has peace. All lust will cease."
    - Buddha Shakyamuni

    [...]

    Alchemy as the Science of Transformation





    Alchemy was included in the curriculum of the College of Angels, which Adam attended in Paradise before the Fall. Moses and Aaron were instructed in the mystery of transmutation by God himself, and became great adepts in the secrets of the Stone. When the angels descended to take wives from among the daughters of men, as recorded in the Book of Enoch, they revealed to mortals the precious chemistry for the regeneration of elements. - Manly P. Hall (Orders of the Great Work).

    This ancient metallurgical science implies to us the notions of those who attempted to transmute base metals into gold. The word Alchemy is said to come from ancient Egypt (the land of Kem or Chem) and is a compound word containing Al, from the Arabic Allah, and kimia, a Greek term meaning "to fuse or cast a metal. Thus the true intention of Alchemy is "to fuse with God." Here we should also understand that EL (Hebrew for God) and El[o]ah (Hebrew for Goddess) is analogous to the Arabic word Allah.

    This science is not one that can be taken purely at face value. The flamboyant alchemical instruments in the laboratories of the middle ages were merely used as symbolic tools to teach a secret doctrine to the initiated, so that it would not be destroyed- by the inquisition. The Keepers of the Great Arcanum have jealously guarded this science. This is the science of creation and perfection. Remember when Jesus said, “With patience ye shall possess thy soul.” And truly it is patience that one needs to perform the Magnum Opus, the Great Work. Symbolically speaking, this science is the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

    "Will you with me tomorrow be content,
    Faithfully to receive the Blessed Sacrament,
    Upon the Oath that I shall here give,
    For neither gold, nor silver, so long as you live;
    Neither for love you bear toward your kin,
    Nor yet to no great man, preferment to win,
    That you disclose the secret I shall you teach,
    Neither by writing, nor by swift speech,
    But only to him, which you can be sure,
    Has always searched after the secrets of Nature,
    To him you may reveal the secrets of this art,
    Under the cover of philosophy, before the world, you depart."
    - From the manuscript “Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum”


    Kabbalah

    Kabbalah: The Universal Tree of Life

    Alchemy and Kabbalah in the Tarot

    Twenty-two Arcana of Tarot

    [...]

    III. Initiation

    “Initiation is life itself, lived intensely, with rectitude and with love.” - Samael Aun Weor
    Initiation is a very important aspect of Gnosticism. The Initiation process reflects the cosmos, its order, and the laws of the universe within the “lodge.” We do not give grades and degrees to the students of our institutions, like many initiatory schools; that is not necessary. The initiations are received by the soul of the student in the temples that exist in the higher dimensions of nature. The true lodge, orders, and temples exist within the astral plane, and it is in the astral plane that the inner orders meet. The Gnostic student must become proficient in the arts of meditation and astral travel to be able to attend such meetings.

    Initiations are gained by the merits of the heart. The initiation expresses the evolution and development of the consciousness and the soul. To achieve these initiations, one must learn to conquer oneself and to purify the soul. It is the Innermost who gives the initiations. This purification is achieved through the comprehension and elimination of the undesirable elements within the psyche, those psychic aggregates that were referred to in the section of this leaflet entitled Psychology.

    Verily, there are three factors that lead to the true initiation, which we may call here, the Revolution of the Consciousness or the Awakening of the Consciousness. These three factors are as follows:

    Mystical (Alchemical) Birth

    This type of birth is in relation to the forging of one’s own soul, see the section in this leaflet entitled Alchemy. Let us reflect upon the words of Jesus when he spoke to the famous Pharisee Nicodemus:
    "Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I say unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." - John 3:5-8

    Thus, Jesus spoke this symbolism for those who have the ear to hear. This is not, as many people think, to be taken literally, but to be understood on a deeper esoteric level. And He explains that in the words he speaks there is deep symbolism, not to be taken at face value:
    "We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness." - John 3:11

    Mystical (Psychological) Death

    This refers to the dying of one’s egos or psychological I’s. This is the path that the serious Gnostic student takes to pay the Karma that one owes and to crucify one’s own desires, defects, and vices. By defects and vices, we are emphatically referring to those defects that can be called Anger, Pride, Envy, Greed, Gluttony, Lust and Laziness. We seek purification through comprehending our defects through the application of self-observation and meditation as our tools. It is only after comprehending a certain defect that it can be eliminated. All of the suffering of the world is caused by these defects and each of these defects has its corresponding selfish desires. The world and all of its problems is just a sum total of all the individuals who carry the defects within. Therefore, we must seek to change ourselves and thereby make a true revolution.

    Sacrifice for Humanity

    This factor is seen in the works of the great avatars and what they have done for humanity. Those who have given their life for suffering humanity, to give the teachings in different epochs, races and religions have shown us how to sacrifice for humanity. We read about many great Masters who gave their life for suffering humanity and received martyrdom in return. Sacrifice is to give without the desire to receive, and it is to give consciously.

    ~~~~~~

    And for those of you curious beings -- Let Us Make Adam.

    I can also recommend two books which I have bought and have read:
    (in case someone decides to view my attempts here as pure copy-cat wisdom)
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    The whole website http://gnosticteachings.org/
    has a tremendous amount of free lectures, most of them in audio format, that can be downloaded of streamed online,
    for anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of religion and spirituality.

    For, some copy-cats know that the hot water has been already discovered long time ago.

    Cheers,
    the copycat
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    And since I am an artist myself, here is something beautiful we all can appreciate
    (not my artwork):



    "This artwork is from a series I call ‘Celtic Illuminations’. It is a religious and contemplative work designed to hold the eye and soothe the soul.
    According to the Irish Annals, Coptic and Gnostic Christianity was well established in Ireland long before the coming of the great Patricius, or Saint Patrick, as he is known today. The Shining Path refers to teachings of the Coptic and Gnostic Gospels, and their emphasis on enlightenment as a key to the understanding of the words of the mystic later known as Jesus Christ, as recorded in the various approved and non-approved gospels. The links between the world of early Irish Monasticism and early Middle Eastern and North African Christianity are celebrated in this piece."
    http://www.jimfitzpatrick.com/the-shining-path/
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    I wanted to add a new find to my humble corner:

    Earth Explained - Alchemy Simplified - Sevan Bomar


    Bartlett-Real-Alchemy-Free Full Book

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    And just one link to Astral Quest - Sevan Bomar:
    Season 1 Episode 5 - The Spirit Worlds

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    Quote Based on his experiments with turbid media, Goethe characterized color as arising from the dynamic interplay of darkness and light.

    The action of turbid media was to Goethe the ultimate fact of the world of colors.
    "We see on the one side Light, and on the other side Darkness. We bring between both Turbidity, and from these opposites develop all colors."
    - Goethe, Farbenlehre

    Modern natural science sees darkness as a complete nothingness. According to this view, the light which streams into a dark space has no resistance from the darkness to overcome. Goethe pictures to himself that light and darkness relate to each other like the north and south pole of a magnet. The darkness can weaken the light in its working power. Conversely, the light can limit the energy of the darkness. In both cases color arises.
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    And just for my own personal enjoyment:

    SRI YANTRA:

    Yantras are generally geological designs imprinted on a copper or silver plate. These days we also see them in multi-colored inks on paper. Among the sacred symbols manifested by the Vedic Rishis, yantras are predominantly regarded as devices for devotional sadhanas or practices, and as objects to direct our mind and worship. These are used as tools for mental concentration and meditation. Keeping a specific yantra in a particular direction in the home, and worshiping it and concentrating upon it is said to have distinct auspicious effects. A mantra is the generator of specific currents of sublime sound and its perceivable manifestation; a yantra is a monogram - a spectrograph of this sonic energy.
    Likewise the images of gods in the temples, yantras are revered and worshiped as symbols of divine powers. The Devi Bhagavat (3|26|21) states - Archabhave Tatha Yantram; meaning - a yantra symbolizes a divine power. Similar meanings are indicated in Naradiya Purana, Gautamiya Tantra, Yogini Tantra, and several other Vedic scriptures.
    Yantras are also referred as the abodes of the divine powers of God, or of the deity that it represents. This is why most of the Vedic yantras are named after different divinities, such as, Ganesa-yantra, Sri-yantra, Gopala-yantra, etc. Each yantra needs to be installed with the use of particular mantras, similar to the temple installation of a deity. Which yantra is placed in which direction and how its worship and devotional sadhana is to be performed - the knowledge of these constitutes a science in itself that has linkage with the Vedic cosmology and sciences of mantra, Tantra, and Vastu.
    A dot (.) in the cryptography of yantra symbolizes absoluteness, completeness. In terms of the manifestation of Nature in the universe, it is a symbol of the nucleus of cosmic energy and hence represents the power-source of all activities and motion. Its spiritual implication is pure knowledge, enlightenment, and ultimate realization. The expansions of a dot in circular forms, in a yantra, symbolize related expressions in varied forms. Combining the dots results in a triangle. Different lengths of the straight lines joining the dots, different angles between them, and the different triangular and other shapes generated thereby together with free dots, circles, straight, curvilinear, convergent, and divergent lines are the basic features/components of the structure of a yantra.
    Everything that exists in the cosmos has some size and structure - perceivable or conceptualized - in subliminal, astronomical or intermediate dimensions. Even the invisible subtle entities have 'shapes' which could be 'seen' through mental eyes. The sagacious minds of the Vedic Age had deeper insight to 'see' the invisible or sublime elements of nature and express them in a universal language of symbols. They had thus invented a coding system of symbols, signs and alphabets (including digits) to represent the syllables of the seed mantras associated with the sublime fields of divine powers (devatas), natural tendencies of consciousness, emotional impulses in a being, etc; and the five basic elements (pancha-tatvas), their etheric vibrations and energy fields, and the states and motions of the enormous varieties of sub-atomic, atomic, and molecular structures generated thereby. Specific configurations of these codes were then incorporated in different yantras. Thus, by meditating on the yantras, and using particular mantras to invoke their potencies, would also awake higher powers within the mind and consciousness of the sadhaka, or practitioner, if done properly.

    Source -- http://stephenknapp.info/yantras.htm

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    META-PHYSICAL BODY ENERGY
    Meta-physics means changed physics (meta = changed). As you will see, the meta-physics of the body really means meta-nomenclature (changed names). So, lets take the mystery out of meta-physical body energy.

    One of the first meta-physical words most people run into is "aura". Someone invariably will ask you what color your aura is. Well, since it is an electrical field-generated aura, blue is a good answer. Depending on what neurotransmitters are in use, the aura may be yellow, purple, pink, red, or multi- colored. Blue is the most common.

    Auras can be seen best in low-light, humid conditions just like the transmission lines we talked about. Arizona is not a great place to see auras. It's there, of course, since you have an active electrical system but with low humidity, you must rely on the humidity provided by your body to see the electromagnetic field glow.

    The color of an aura is important because it signifies the type of neurotransmitter in use. During illness or injury, the body produces and uses different chemicals than a healthy body uses. The size and shape of your aura is important because this indicates the relative strength of the electrical field. The aura will be small or even absent where little or no electricity is flowing along the nervous system. The aura will be strongest where a lot of neurotransmitters are stored or in use.

    The aura can be made larger by increasing the number of electrons moving in the nerves. Conversely, the number of electrons can be increased by causing the aura to get bigger. Simple electromagnetic field physics.

    The aura does not store energy. Increasing the size of the aura may appear to be storing energy but is simply a reflection of the electrical storage and activity of the body.

    Another early meta-physical set of words people run into are "Yin" and "Yang". These two represent respectively "female" and "male" energy. What they really represent are the quantum mechanic left and right spin electrons slightly differing electric auras. As it turns out, females show a general selection for use of left spin or Yin and males use right spin or Yang.

    These opposite spin electrons, when polarized, as the body can do, create a kind of battery which can be used to influence body chemistry. With practice, this very slight polarity can become a potent tool for many uses including healing.

    Acupressure/puncture uses many mysterious points on the body to create wondrous effects. These systems really work (much to the amazement and chagrin of medical doctors). As it turns out, the critical points are called Tsubos. You remember these, they're nodes, in fact, they're called Nodes of Ranvier.

    Each Tsubo or Node of Ranvier represents a point where neuro-transmitters are stored, used, and manufactured. When the body is hurt, it makes and uses a certain mix of neuro-transmitters. When the body and mind are healthy and happy, a different mix of neuro-transmitters are used. This is the way it goes for every mood, emotion, illness, or injury.

    While most acupressure points are on Nodes of Ranvier, some are on areas that cause the Nodes to produce a desired mix of neuro-transmitters. The mix of neuro-transmitters used to send a signal to or from the brain is important and tells the brain and body what to feel, what's wrong, what action to take, etc. If you want to fake the brain out, you need only to mix up a bogus soup of neuro-transmitters, send out the signals and the brain will believe them. If you want to heal someone, set their aura to a healthy aura and the neuro-transmitters must change to match the aura (at least for awhile).

    That is how come a hypnotist can raise a blister on a subject just by touching them with a finger. The brain believes the finger is red hot, sends the appropriate signals via the right soup of neuro-transmitters, and a blister raises. That is how come acupressure works. Send the right signal to the brain and reality is altered (or restored!).

    Acupressure uses meridians to assist in healing people. These meridians are lines envisioned on and in the body that connect specific Tsubos. Skillful use of the activation, alteration, deactivation, or energizing of these meridians of Tsubos and Tsubo-affecting points can do wonderful things. Headaches can be cured, pain made to go away, the body operated on without injecting pain killers, or the mind made to stop being afraid, etc.

    Just as the mind can raise a blister, telling the body what to feel, the body can tell the mind what to feel. Fear for example, usually happens when the body is afraid of being harmed. If the body tells the mind all is OK the mind will believe, sending back good signals and reinforcing the body in its belief of well-being. This resonates back and forth, gaining strength (and health) until the body and mind are, indeed, just fine.

    A well-trained practitioner can create these effects by activating the correct sequence of Tsubos. Potentially, any healing, any emotion, any feeling can be effected through skilled use of meridians of Tsubos and the production of the proper soup of neuro-transmitters. It doesn't matter how the neuro-transmitters are produced, the body and brain acts only according to their chemistry. A person can't be in terror and happy at the same instant, the chemistry of the electrical transmission lines can't send more than one "flavor" at a time.

    Conversely, convincing yourself that you are healthy and happy will do the same by sending signals to your body which say "healthy and happy". When signals of health are sent out, the body will act accordingly and be healthy. A combination of mental attitude and body energy changes should be a powerful tool for healing. Such a tool exists in the Tree of Life combined with Tantra and body energy alignment.

    Diet is also important to create the above benefits. The body will produce the called-for neuro-transmitters to the best of its ability. It will even break down other tissue to make up needed soup mixes. That is what happens to the terminally depressed or angry person. Their body is consumed by the need to produce special neuro-transmitters until it actually harms or even kills them. Your body can't make what ain't there. Feed your body well!

    Electron-spin effects or Yin/Yang effects are very important in manufacture of the appropriate neurotransmitters. Neuro-transmitters signal the body and brain to create a wide range of hormones, endorphins, pheromones, etc. The same neurotransmitter with Yin-spin electrons will cause a different set of hormones, endorphins, etc., to be made than the same neurotransmitter with Yang-spin electrons.

    A very complicated system! You can see that skilled is certainly the operative word. Fortunately, there is more than 5000 years of experience to draw on to help us accomplish our goals.

    And, that is an interesting point. This stuff was known at least 5000 years ago. It hardly seems possible that with just a pair of hands all that accurate knowledge of the body could have been discovered. But it was!

    Your hands are highly sensitive instruments. With training they can accomplish all of these things and much more.
    Source: http://www.kundalini-tantra.com/meta1.html


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    I Ching -- 6. Sung / Conflict


    above CH'IEN
    THE CREATIVE, HEAVEN

    below K'AN
    THE ABYSMAL, WATER



    THE IMAGE

    Heaven and water go their opposite ways:
    The image of CONFLICT.
    Thus in all his transactions the superior man
    Carefully considers the beginning.
    The image indicates that the causes of conflict are latent in the opposing
    tendencies of the two trig rams. Once these opposing tendencies appear,
    conflict is inevitable. To avoid it, therefore, everything must be taken
    carefully into consideration in the very beginning. If rights and duties are
    exactly defined, or if, in a group, the spiritual trends of the individuals
    harmonize, the cause of conflict is removed in advance.
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    I just saw several -- amazing -- videos, and decided to share them here with everyone who so happens to be visiting this ( a bit unfortunate ) thread.
    I hope you'll enjoy!

    ~~~

    ZODIAC EVOLUTION by Murat Sayginer





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    VOLANS by Murat Sayginer


    ~~~

    RATIO by Murat Sayginer




    ~~~

    A Moment of Beauty


    All of the above videos can be watched and downloaded on Vimeo.
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    And since I love math --
    Monster Primer Number!


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    Thinking in retrospect, there were a few things I managed to figure out ( or to get them right to a certain degree ) myself before stumbling upon Sevan.

    ~~~

    The Supreme Human Being - Sevan Bomar

    Part 1


    Part 2


    ~~~

    Cheers, and stay enlightened while I am not around.

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    Rupert Spira - 'The Art Of Peace And Happiness'


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    Mind and Matter are Co-Created

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    GENESIS


    Source: Watch on Vimeo





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    A N A M N E S I A
    ( a loss of forgetfulness )

    http://vimeo.com/strangeloop/anamnesia

    ~~~

    AUTOMATON [ short ]
    Awareness is passed on from one awakened being to another


    Source: Watch on Vimeo

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    Quote Posted by chocolate (here)
    ~~~

    Rupert Spira - 'The Art Of Peace And Happiness'


    ~~~

    Mind and Matter are Co-Created
    Truly wonderful videos! The first one is delightful and outstanding for several reasons. One is that we see the great intensity and totalness with which Rupert underwent his own inner journey. Yes, nothing less than extraordinary intensity like that will get a person to freedom from unhappiness. In this video we can see it in his face and his heart and in the huge clarity and simplicity of how he speaks.

    It's also fascinating because of its detailed description of how he went through the process of deeply asking questions. Particularly the question: "Who/what am I really?" And of how he was completely unwilling to settle for anything but the full truth, as best as he could get to it, throughout the stages of that process. It looks to me that, as with everyone, that process is an intuitive one. Not a logically rational one, as might sound from his explanation. It comes from burning to find the real truth.

    Having said that, it may sound churlish or presumptuous of me to add a criticism, but here goes. Yes, he's certainly correct in saying that unhappiness is ultimately the same thing as a sense of being separate from or alone in the rest of the universe. And in the second video, even more accurately, that unhappiness is, precisely, absolutely, identical with the sense that one is an object, and not infinite. I happen to know myself that this is quite precisely the truth, though I've been unwilling to state it so baldly. In the "OBEs... " thread I started, some seem to have supposed I have been arguing for the complete unreality of objects, and for the immanence of the infinite, as some kind of pet philosophical position of my own (or of Taoism and Ch'an Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta and many of the greatest mystics from many traditions, like Meister Eckhart and Milaropa and so on). No. This is all about saving people from suffering, from the very root of all suffering and unhappiness. It's about continually using words to point towards the real truth, that's all.

    But to get back to my perhaps minor criticism of part of what Rupert says in the first video, I feel in that video he makes it sound too much almost like we have to give up any sense of self and virtually blend into a great universal blancmange. Counter to that, I might point to the Zen saying that before enlightenment [for which read "true happiness and peace"] one chops wood (etc etc) and after enlightenment one still chops wood. In other words, one still has a physical body and one still uses a rather separative identity to live in the world as we know it. But now one is happy, because deep inside one knows that all sense of disconnection or alienation (or loneliness) has gone, forever -- in this lifetime at the very least.

    One still has to maintain and respect and at times even defend certain boundaries, including those of the "self" one presents to others. The difference is quite subtle. One of the famous Zen masters prefaced his most famous piece by saying that if you miss by the thinnest hair's breadth, that's enough to send you plummeting down into a very deep chasm instead of safely jumping over it to the other side. I think he was referring to this subtlety.
    Above all, always refuse to cut your life in two: nonduality/duality, matter/Spirit, etc
    A mind which is not crippled by memory has real freedom. ~ J. Krishnamurti
    (True, deep) stillness is the way.

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    TH, do you remember when you said that you don't believe we need 'bad' guys so that we discover ourselves truly? I think you used the comparison of the gym and that lifting weights is supposed to make you 'stronger'? ( I don't like gyms, much more prefer running in the park )

    You were wrong, if I may humbly add.
    Some are already applying that type of strategy. I hope the moldavite will help, but I doubt it. It is like placing a newspaper in front of a bullet.

    I am writing this here because I don't want to spoil your thread.
    Or perhaps it doesn't matter anymore where I write it.

    Whatever.
    People come and people go ( here, elsewhere, anywhere...), and what is left is the 'fragrance' after them.

    ~~~

    EXPANDING CONSCIOUSNESS
    from http://www.energeticsynthesis.com/
    ( I received this article in my mail, so you will not find it on the web site )

    Consciousness is Energy

    During the Ascension Cycle the planet and humanity is undergoing vibrational shifts which radically impact the individual mind, the collective race mind, the planetary mind; all which exist at uniquely different frequency rates of Consciousness. Each of the uniquely different frequency rates of Consciousness form a distinctive level of energetic intelligence or sentience. Sentience is the varied ability of any type of entity to have a subjective perceptual experience as a characteristic of intelligence or as a facet of developing higher sensory perception. The higher the overall frequency of the Consciousness that uniquely forms the energy of any entity is the relationship to more advanced levels of intelligence and sentience. It is a natural biological process for all human beings to have the ability to evolve and to Expand Consciousness which increases levels of sentience.

    [...]

    How Does Energy Contract and Expand?

    Energy is Consciousness and it either contracts or expands to maintain or increase its frequency rate. The process of how fast or slow energy contracts back towards its center point of source field is the Vibration rate. The process of how fast or slow that same energy expands away from the center point of the source field is the Oscillation rate. The combination of both the pattern of Vibration (contraction) and Oscillation (expansion) speed is what determines the frequency rate of all energy and things. As our personal, collective and planetary consciousness raises frequency, the matter world, including our physical bodies, also becomes less dense as our frequency increases.

    The meaning of higher frequency consciousness and sentience are intentionally confused through linear thinkers. Some of those linear thinkers are in panel debates arguing in circles as the supposed experts because they have many initials behind their name and credentials in their scientific field. Rather than have open dialogues of cross pollination in the progressive development of mainstream sciences, divide and conquer mentality is present within the circles of experts competing for some precedence in their field. The NAA does not want any of the scientific communities collaborating together in nonlinear thought in a unified stance for serving humanitarian based ethics. That would foster expanding consciousness, compassion and empathy for the human condition where nonlinear thinking could actually solve some major planetary problems. They would rather reward the standard procedures which generate conflicts of interest, backbiting, lack of empathy and one-upmanship for a competitive race to the finish line to see who gets the next awarded grant money from the Rockefellers.

    [...]

    The Nature of Consciousness

    The first thing that is important to understand is that all that exists, whether seen or unseen, when it is broken down into its simplest and most basic form of energy, consists of a rate of frequency.

    To begin to comprehend the nature of Consciousness, and to directly experience Expanding Consciousness through increasing personal frequency, one must go beyond flat linear thinking, thought addiction and stop accepting everything one has been told by other people as fact and truth. The public has been lied to repeatedly about the true motivation behind many world events that are used to continually steal energy resources. Stealing energy is also directly related to the theft of consciousness. Tyrants wreak havoc on the population through oppression, taking away fundamental human needs to enforce fears of survival while promoting genocide and war to feed the pillars of society that continually enforce anti human belief systems.

    Consciousness energy consists of and is interconnected providing a distinct frequency pattern and is immediately transmitted and received, with no concept of space or time when released into the planet. Consciousness is not limited to time and space. If the rate of that vibration falls below or rises above certain intensity, it becomes immeasurable or invisible to the basic human senses. This means it is beyond the capacity of the five basic senses, such as frequency rates outside of the visible light spectrum. That doesn't mean that frequency of consciousness does not exist because you cannot currently sense it. When higher consciousness is expanded, sensory ability, levels of sentience are greatly expanded. This means that one can develop consciousness to perceive and sense energies in higher frequency ranges, and then perceive sentient beings that one was not aware of previously.

    During the Ascension cycle this is a fact and it happens every day. However, since people are not given context for this happening (higher sensory perception, intuition, telepathy, etc.) they are potentially persecuted or medically diagnosed. The freedom which allows human consciousness expansion to happen naturally is not as it should be. This is one method to suppress consciousness on earth through persecution and by rejecting it as a natural biological process of human evolution. Becoming educated about Ascension, Consciousness functions and World Humanism, while committing to expand one's personal consciousness and sentience, is one of the most effective actions one may take for the self and for the planet.

    Practices to Expand Consciousness

    If we are a person that has primarily linear, mental and social orientation, it takes devotion and discipline to reach discernment of one's mental impulses and develop self-awareness. Our society has developed our negative ego as the primary identity of which is recognized as the self. The stronger and more dominating the ego mind, the higher the academic pursuit or repetitive conditioning, those groups of people have the hardest time naturally recognizing negative ego, false identity and releasing the mind control.

    When learning about the functions of the mind it may seem like a purely educational study. However, this is the key to transcending the negative ego, transcending mind control which oppress higher consciousness and suppress higher sensory and feeling functions. One cannot only think themselves to higher consciousness. One must allow the deeper feelings, emotions and sensory experience to override the strict intellectual control the ego has over the body and mind.

    [...]

    Expanding Consciousness is all about training the mind.

    Full article here:
    http://www.isabeaux.net/news/display...436&L=14&N=283

    PS. That article one may label as channeled message if one spends time investigating the website, so it may need to go elsewhere.
    If that were to be the case I wouldn't mind if it would be moved.

    In my opinion, everything is a channeled message.
    But I just have too strong headache to be able to write more, or from the heart.
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    Chaos is formed by those energy currents that are not yet under the control of a center. These energies, being loose, without plan and purpose, often are used by dark forces to create chaotic conditions on the physical, emotional, and mental planes of humanity. These chaotic conditions are often disturbing and preventing the impressions sent from Higher Sources to our planet.
    Chaos increases when people act without a purpose or a plan and melt in the chaos, losing the purpose of their life. People often become a part of chaos when they lose their inner direction. Chaos increases also when planets, systems, or even galaxies are left without their souls, thus decaying in the currents of chaos.
    Does not chaos operate under the Law of God, as it is from chaos that Cosmos emerges? The scientists think that Cosmos emerges from chaos. However it is not from the chaos that Cosmos emerges, as the baby does not emerge from a chaos.
    If the scientists do more study on the formation of a body – atom, man, globe, solar system – they will see that first there is a perfect Archetype and the forces of the Archetype gradually condense it, plane after plane, phase after phase, until it is materialized. The curious thing is that every phase of descent of the Archetype into more condensation is a Cosmos more beautiful than the last condensation.
    So the gestation period cannot be called a chaotic period. Chaos is not a state of gestation, evolution, or even involution. Then what is chaos? Chaos is an abortive phenomenon, a process of degeneration, conflict, unpurposeful-ness, goalless-ness, and planless-ness, when forces are let loose to annihilate each other because of their choices.
    Every atom, man, globe, solar system, and so on has its own choice, its own form of choice tolerated by the Omnipotent Architect of the Universe. Some of the forces in chaos decide to enter into the labor of evolution of a Cosmos, some not. In timelessness this continues without beginning or end.
    (Consciousness vol.1, p.145-147)

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    God’s thinking and imagining creates a body to manifest His Soul. That body is the electric wave universe as a whole. It is God’s one idea divided by His thinking and imagining into countless million units of ideas, each having a differently formed body but all manifesting the one by being extensions of each other.
    There is naught else in all of this vast universe but moving bodies extending from the stillness of the cosmic Light of Soul which centers thinking Mind of God and man. All formed bodies are made in the image of God and man, and extended from Mind imaginings to manifest God and man.
    How simple it really is when you think of it that way – Creator and Creation being just Mind imagined forms electrically extended into electrically formed bodies fashioned in the images of their imaginers.
    How much more simple it is to think of all the universe as One Mind, One Soul and One body, seemingly divided into many Minds, many Souls and many bodies.
    You must really learn to think of God and God’s body that way before you can fully understand the ONENESS of all things. When you do learn to think of it that way, you will then know that there are not two separate or separable things in the universe. Likewise you will fully understand that all things are extensions of each other, and of the ONE.
    Source: Home Study Course, 1950, by Walter and Lao Russell

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    "We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.” Letting there be room is allowing for a space, a sacred space, where we can be fully present with our pain.
    Pema Chödrön
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    "There are those who have wondered about how sex could have a role in alchemy. Personally, I don't get the external lab work and why and how that might allow one to grow and evolve, be transformed to a higher state. In tantric alchemy our bodies are our laboratories. Biochemical transformations happen within our bodies. We build "energy structures" by ourselves and with others and are transformed as we do so. As we progress we can open more and more complicated gates and gain the experience and knowlege behind them.

    So in general terms how would I describe an alchemy? Using the macrodimensional labyrinth and chamber terminology of EJ Gold I would say that it has a number of characteristics. Consider the labyrinth to be a multidimensional axis system. Instead of having x,y pairs as in a 2 dimensional system, or x,y,z in a 3 dimensional system, picture perhaps a 16 dimensional system so that each chamber has 16 coordinates. Each person has their "body of habits", sort of a holographic fractal that defines the persons characteristics. This is what we are working on changing. We do that by adding more territory to our ranges, clear out the impurities that are thereby revealed, change our "programming", and do a "save" to our self definition. As we purify and expand our being we climb the ladder to larger, purer, more enlightened being states. One of the practical effects is to expand the range of our potential lives. One starts remembering and becomes aware of recurrance, of recurring in variations of the same life over and over again. The variation of life we enter each time is that which will rub off our rough spots, challange our limitations, offer us growth opportunities. It becomes a conscious GROUNDHOG DAY instead of the unconscious GROUNDHOG DAY. As EJ says, right now everybody has eternal life in the worst possible way, the eternal life of involuntary recurrance in a limited life, over and over without memory.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return
    Eternal return (also known as "eternal recurrence") is a concept which posits that the universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an infinite number of times. The concept initially inherent in Indian philosophy was later found in ancient Egypt, and was subsequently taken up by the Pythagoreans and Stoics. With the decline of antiquity and the spread of Christianity, the concept fell into disuse, though F. Nietzsche resurrected it.
    In addition, the philosophical concept of eternal recurrence was addressed by Arthur Schopenhauer. It is a purely physical concept, involving no supernatural reincarnation, but the return of beings in the same bodies. Time is viewed as being not linear, but cyclical.

    All of this is done over and over, refinement via successive approximations. I don't agree with exactly how wikepedia is describing aspects of recurrance but it will do as an approximation. It clearly isn't a new idea and goes back at least to Egyptian alchemy. It becomes much easier to see how all the mechanisms work if one posits a non-dualist "Matrix" type virtual environment rather than an actual physical world. Recurring a million times or a billion times or more in all the possible variations of a life is easier to see how it happens if it is all in a virtual software holodeck and doesn't have to account for how it could happen in a physical environment.

    Here is the problem, one can only go to (jaunt, borrowed from THE STARS MY DESTINATION - Alfred Bestor) the chambers one has been too already, reinforcing those but excluding all the others. Now it is possible for one person to take another to the chambers they know. It doesn't help that we each have blocked off most of our possible chambers by fears and avoidances so the initial work is to reattach to all of our blocked off aspects of self, to KNOW THY SELF, via refinement and purification as it might be called. This ability to take another to specific chambers (spaces) is one of the requirements for claiming something new, and 4 other "rules", as specified in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. So as one works closely with another person and becomes close coupled though sharing of all those energies and voyaging to all those other chambers your partner can enter but you can't, they become your own. After a while one has removed all the rough spots demonstrated by going into those chambers and in a very highly energetic "fusion" (I don't know what else to call it) an Alchemical union can occur. It is as if the amount of the labyrinth that one can access is raised to the power of the other person's range creating a much larger span of possible "worlds" for both persons. This is symbolized in the alchemical union of Shiva and Shakti.

    As the person makes more and more passes through their life certain things happen. As the person is changed by each pass, the output of one pass becomes input for the next, it takes on fractal characteristics which is also described as holographic. Each part contains the whole, and as this is not a physical system there is no loss of resolution as one goes up and down in scale. The difference that makes it fractal is that the way the life affects one changes slightly each time because the experience of it is modified by the previous pass. When one can see the nature of the change each time and become aware of the change of the change of the change ad infinitum, one has "solved" that specific axis and moves on to the next. Consciousness of the process changes the process and makes it easier to cooperate with it.

    I know I haven't done a very good job at describing this and others do so in much more detail in lots of books. However, pragmatically speaking it does work. I had many built in assumptions of duality that caused me all sorts of problems despite having accepted non-dual intellectually. This all seems quite built in to the COS (Cosmic Operating System as a convenient shorthand) and so is available as one of those "shared subconscious archetypes" Jung spoke of.

    The key to it all is learning to pay attention to things normally ignored so automatically and thoroughly it isn't even perceived.

    In recurrence then, precognition is merely remembering things from other passes through this life that are similar enough to ring the bell. Intuition becomes a less clear memory of the past. Consider Phil in Groundhog Day. He learns that day and himself in all the many variations very deeply. So dreaming of driving off a cliff because of going too fast and the next day finding ones self in a car approaching that cliff and recognizing it allows one to slow down and live this time. Maybe it takes going off the cliff 500 times until the memory clicks in time and the choice is immediately made to change how one is driving is needed. When one consciously remembers and realizes what these experiences are, the rate of change picks up.

    The only thing we can actually change is our self. Our whole experience follows from that. We change ourselves and our perceived world changes. When one makes a real change in this way the effects occur immediately. Aiming for specific outcomes distorts the results and results in ego disasters. Changing self towards the divine works out better.

    In this system it is easy to get started and get results. The main problem is that most folks just don't want to see themselves in divine clarity. It destroys their mythology, their dreams and their wants, their fears and their nightmares."
    III
    taken literary from a forum about alchemy. I am sure all curious beings will find the source of this excerpt, if they really want to



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    Apple demystified.

    End of thread.

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    P.S. This place is awfully lonely. And I just realized I may not come back.
    Will just silently observe your attempts to find your aliens and far away home galaxies.
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