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The Silence of Words

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Words have both sound and meaning and it is these aspects of words that I shall explore in this essay. My case shall be that there is a subtle and hidden level of meaning contained in the abscence of words as well within words; a fact we tend to ignore in our conventional Western tradition.

A child, when it is born, has no words in it’s head. It has not heard human language and it’s world is without word. It is an obvious yet obscure fact that every human infant is capable of learning any spoken language. It listens, and then one miraculous day – ‘da da’ – it speaks.

From that moment on this organic computer learns what we call an ‘operating system’ based on a language; amazingly, any language. This is all very marvellous and yet in the future our language inhibits meaning, rather than expands it.

At a certain stage in life, we might reflect and realise how words dominate our perception. We have become slaves to both the external and internal chatter of ‘things’. Words run away with themselves in our heads and much of the time we might wonder who we are and who is in charge.

Slavery of the body by another is a very old problem but slavery of the mind is even older. Early philosophers like Socrates, were sent to prison and even forced to commit suicide on account of their desire to cut through the prison bars of language and thought.

Religious and philosophical minds have, at various moments in history, produced a key to unlock the chains that hold us enslaved. In the West, this was done by encoding ritual using a language people did not understand.

In Catholicism this was the Latin language spoken by bilingual priests. Sadly, in recent times church elders have allowed religious incantations to be delivered in the vernacular. The congregation, who previously had been held rather in awe and suspense by the mystery of Mass, suddenly had this balloon popped and replaced by the humdrumness of ‘understanding’. Mystery was unwrapped like presents on Christmas day.

The ghost of Christmas Present

Only those with a deeper calling, such as Christian monks and nuns, are told to move their consciousness away from the meaning of the incantations and ‘just say the words with your mouth’ and ‘keep your consciousness on the presence of God.’ The mystical revelation was that words deceive by reducing mystery to common ‘understanding’. No one explained this to the uninitiated.

In contrast, Islam has not fallen into this trap and in most countries the original words of Divine Revelation are spoken in the original Arabic. Vast swathes of the Qur’an are learnt and recited, without necessarily knowing their meaning, by non-Arabic speakers. When spoken aloud the sound is as important as the meaning as the sounds of the holy words and phrases, even single letters, transmit a power from the Divine.

Exceptionally Mustafa Kemal Ata turk, President of Turkey in the 1920’s and 1930’s, ordered the Quran to be translated into Turkish as part of his ‘modernisation’ political philosophy. Nothing, as they say, is sacred.

Let us pause for a moment and consider the leap of faith that is being suggested here. Behind stories, myths and legends there was always a sacred understanding transmitted from generation to generation. For instance, the mystery of the ‘white stag’ that skips over the horizon or pales into the mist, so evading the hunter, is a mystery that captures and teases with a sense of rapture and bafflement.

This is ‘not knowing’ and has a value that has been largely ignored by ‘rational’ thinkers in the West.

The modern film ‘The Deer Hunter’ 1978 picks up on this theme of and man’s insignificance when compared to the mysteries of Nature. Amidst the heavy hammers of industrialisation, depicted poetically in the opening sequences of a steel works in Western Pennsylvania the central character ‘Mike’ proposes a hunting trip to his friends.

“You know what those are? Those are sun dogs… It means a blessing on the hunter sent by the Great Wolf to his children… It’s an old Indian thing.”

It is hard normally, to sustain this sense of mystery in life, as we reduce it to ‘catch phrases’ and cliché in conversation. We talk to much and our words rattle around other people’s heads like toy trains on a table top track.

Personally, I have always enjoyed travelling in non-English speaking countries and not understanding a word anyone is saying. Instead of grabbing a phrase book to attempt to understand the hubble and bubble of random conversations, I smell the unusual air and absorb the colour of exotic flowers. In essence, the mind can and should be permitted to stand still and pause. There is benefit, if not buying vegetables in a market, from concentrating on the profound reality of consciousness without words; what we might call ‘being aliveness’.

Lewis Carroll, is one of the great nonsense poets in the English language and has guided children and adults into the land of ‘not thinking’ for over a hundred years. ‘Beware the Jabberwocky’ is neither useful nor profound information, without mask or disguise. This sense of the absurd is like a door into the ‘not normal’, a place children love and adults avoid.

It would be wrong to be completely dismissive about words. In poetry and other sublimely expressive forms of language, they can explore and reveal areas of ourselves that are beyond thought, emotions and intuition. Initiation ceremonies into mystery schools are designed to bring about a consciousness that is completely without explanation by language; otherwise books would have replaced all knowledge and experience.

Unfortunately, in the roundabout of real and virtual worlds that we experience today, words come to us in a repetitive form. Anyone who has started to learn a language other than their mother tongue, will understand what it feels like to talk like a child to another adult. We converse like fools and (not wanting to insult the intelligence of animals), like ‘talking animals’.

If we are to search beyond the meaning of words, as far as our human soul will allow, then words perform a function most purely as sound; with or without a perceived meaning. This sound is the most fundamental form of creativity and inevitably appears in multiple opening verses of Genesis in the Bible that begin with, ‘And God said…’. In English these words have meaning but in the original Aramaic their would also be a magical power to the expression, just as magicians incant ‘spells’…Abracadabra! Words have the quality of spells and are learnt by a process dependent on ‘spelling’.

Pure sounds have an effect upon the human energetic system, in a most fundamental way, which is why the music we listen to is so important; as creative energy devoid of meaning. Destructive music such as Heavy Metal, attacks our ethereal essence and can lead to mental and physical illness, should we allow it. The Ancient Chinese respected ‘harmonious’ music for this very reason and viewed the opposite as a signature of decadence in decline in the State.

At the other extreme, music of a spiritual nature elevates our mood and perception in an experiential way. Various mystical traditions around the world, such as Sufism within Islam, embrace these ethereal qualities of music with ecstatic chanting.

There is a tradition in Yoga called Mantra Yoga which uses the repetition of sounds either silently or aloud to stimulate the human subtle energy system known as the ‘chakra’ and at the same time, stop the internal babble of the ordinary mind.

The Universe (of which we are a microcosm) is a cloud of sound as well as electromagnetic energy. Even the planets of our solar system vibrate at a different frequencies to one another and this mysterious concert has been recorded by modern astrophysicists. It is akin to the ‘music’ heard by mystics in trance as a constant hum or combination of harmonious overtones. Pythagoras proposed that the Sun, Moon and planets all emit their own unique hum based on their orbital revolution, and that the quality of life on Earth reflects the tenor of celestial sounds which are imperceptible to the human ear. This truth has often been represented allegorically in Western art as ‘choirs of angels’ playing musical instruments such as the harp and trumpet.

Perhaps the greatest example of the decadence that words can bring is contained in the Biblical story of the building of the Tower of Babel in Genesis. Here the Divine restraint from advancement of civilisation was used to confuse mankind with multiple languages instead of just one. The English language translates the word ‘babble’ as to ‘talk rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way’. Turn on your television sets today and discover that nothing has changed since this Biblical event! The world spins and makes us giddy, words fail us, we argue and fight, and all fall down.

In the Eastern philosophies, you will find a great emphasis on non-verbal communication. Much of the Japanese tea ceremonies are conducted in silence and participants are taught to ‘know’ how to conduct the ceremony without the interruption of words. A Japanese friend of mine was late for her tea ceremony class and found herself standing outside the room in which the class was taking place. She knew she would be judged on knowing exactly when to open the door and enter the room.

‘Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.’ Lao Tsu

Life and Death

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The Garden of Now

There is a tradition at this time of the solar year, of celebrating death. In South America there is the ‘Day of the Death’ and in Europe, ‘Halloween’ and ‘All Saints Day’. We see this archetype most vividly in nature as the cycle of death and rebirth. Many prophets and ancient gods lived out this archetype in their life story; one of the most famous being Jesus of Nazareth who was ‘resurrected from the dead’. The same archetype is celebrated in China at a different season, in the spring equinox as ‘Qingming’ when families celebrate their ancestors. To a dualistic mind; either end of the stick of ‘change’ will do.

The Day of the Dead in Mexico picture credit: NBC News

Archetypes such as ‘life and death’ exist in all space and all time. They do not go away. Proof of this is that they exist in every moment of our daily lives.

I signed up for an on-line course last week which was a series of lectures given by Dr. Caroline Myss in Vancouver, Canada. Now since I am in Spain the ‘live’ presentation saved me and the environment, cost.

I have always been rather blasé about the benefit of ‘live’ broadcasts on the internet. I could not feel or understand the difference between a live broadcast and a recording. But as soon as I sat in the virtual ‘lobby’ waiting for the first lecture to start, listening to the virtual ‘hubbub’ of the live audience from around the world, I felt and realised the difference. It was exciting to be part of something happening in the present moment, in a way that recorded media is not.

Curious is it not? Recorded media is dead; out of time, out of the present.

Thoughts about the nature of time arose in my mind when the audience I have joined are sat down for a morning lecture and I am in the last rays of the setting sun. The ‘present’ is not a function of time or space. What we experience is our perception changing; what we observe in the present moment, does not.

Only now, as Earthling astronauts, can we acknowledge that there is only one globe. The idea that there are hundreds of sovereign states and ‘I am a citizen’ is outdated. Ancient Greeks had ‘city states’, Empires had ‘countries’ and now, in modern times, we just have ‘planet Earth’.

Thinking of the reason for this evolutionary process, it has always been science and technology that has brought societal change throughout history. For centuries people crossed rivers in boots and then boats. The ‘boatman’, whom you paid to take you across a river or estuary, appears in many ancient myths and legends. The most famous of which is probably ‘Charon’, the ferryman of Hades in Greek myth. He took souls who had left their bodies, across the rivers Acheron and Styx between the lands of the living and the dead.

Sometime in history, physical river crossings by boat were made obsolete by bridges which are probably one of the most revolutionising engineering achievements ever. The bridge builders of the 19th Century like Isambard Kingdom Brunel became the ‘celebrities’ of their time.

The concept of the suspension bridge, was to erect two towers (11) on each side of the river and string sagging wires between them in an inverted catenary arch. From these wires was hung the flat road and / or rail line.

I am writing this on the 11th November 2023, shortly after the celebration of the passage of the ‘Day of the Dead’ and the ‘dying sun’. The numbers 11 and 11 are not lost on those who understand numerology and there are many commentators who will explain better than I. The armistice after the 1st World War was declared on this day on the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

The future of the United States of America pivoted on an axis when the sky line of the city of New York changed forever, as souls were lost in the Twin Towers.

The least I need to suggest here however is that these numbers represent the archetype of change and form a sort of ‘portal’ or ‘gateway’ for human souls. A modern suspension bridge is a representation of this metaphor of transition; from here to there. A bridge enables a two-way flow of people’s souls; from life to death and death to life.

Another phenomena of the suspension bridge which was not anticipated by the engineers was that in an unusually strong wind the roadway will begin to resonate and flex, which in the extreme has torn a bridge down. Winds are associated with ‘change’ and decades as well as seasons are subject to archetypal change. The aircraft encountering ‘turbulence’ is a cause to tighten you seat belt.

The conflict in the Holy Land at present, is a manifestation, in my view, of decades of turbulence that are finally manifesting as an uncontrollable and destructive resonance. Decisions made historically by the wrong people for the wrong reasons, are finally showing their tragic poor design and fragility.

The Middle East conflicts highlight the question of where mankind is going in the future; when the pendulum of ‘war and peace’ finally stops.

British Army
‘Figure 11 Target’

A catalyst for such a transition awaits us in the coming years or decades. This may be controversial but, whether you believe it will happen or not, the appearance of a non-human race on planet earth would be just such a catalyst. Whilst Hollywood and other government controlled media outlets with a covert ‘social engineering’ agenda, have done their best to portray ‘aliens’ as ‘alien’ (the clue is in the word) we should expect life, not death, from their integration with humanity.

Scientists who have devoted themselves to investigating governments and the ‘deep state’, such as Dr. Stephen Greer in the USA, describe a race of benign spiritual beings waiting in the wings. Their presence has long been known but the time for humanity to ‘upgrade’ by accepting that ‘we are not alone’, is for the Watchers to decide.

This would be the introduction of a third leg to the two legged stool (‘us and them’ dualistic mentality) on which humanity now sits and would be a great stabiliser for the Earth and its living things; from microbes to whales.

Suddenly the priorities that governments might face would not be how to overcome ‘enemies’ but how to balance the eco systems of the earth and regulate the use of earth’s bounty.

The ravaging forest fires as well as natural destruction by rising seas, volcanoes and earthquakes are portents of the world to come. Efforts to re-balance the living planet are vital now, in my view, in the way any ‘life and death’ situation is given priority.

The garden is a metaphor for benign harmonious change through design. Adam, in a state of unique bliss, was it’s first inhabitant but everything changed when ‘dualistic’ thinking, represented by Eve, changed everything. But it doesn’t have to be that way and all that is needed is or humans to non-dualise their thoughts and feelings, live in the present, to be in harmony with what is out there.

The James Webb telescope recently spotted a ‘new star’; just fifty thousand earth years old! This protostar is one thousand three hundred light years from Earth, but it’s images are real enough to make us pause and think. How small we are in the design on the Garden but strangely we have within ourselves a part of it’s salvation by becoming masters of our own lives and deaths.

A New Flower in the Garden

Finding Oneself

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Spiritual Love

How ironic that this present and looming war, is centred on the so called ‘Holy Land’. This small corner of the world has been the centre of spiritual love for millenniums.

What we should remember however is that those who wear religion as a mask, commit crimes against both humanity and themselves.

‘To thine own self be true.’

When the media use the names of the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, we should be fully aware that anyone can pick up this badge and wear it. It does not mean that a person represents that religion. Only by their actions will their true character and beliefs be revealed. Then we can make up your minds whether we are watching the work the Divine or the Devil.

I have written before about how weak the English language defines and describes ‘love’ (see my blog above called ‘Fifty Shades of Love’). A primary colour in the many shades of ‘love’, is ‘spiritual love’.

It is easier to define spiritual love by what it is not rather than what it is. Certainly it is not romantic love between humans. This is held in high regard by many societies and often rightly so, but when it fails it does so cataclysmically. The union of two ‘selves’ is tainted by projection of one’s anima or animus onto another, hidden bias, false expectation, unfounded optimism, lust and many other aspects of ‘being human’. These have played out in our theatres and cinema screens since the beginning of time.

To understand spiritual love it is essential to be able to see oneself as four components. The acronym BAHAMAS formed in my mind in a dream the other night and this is what it means;

Body:- most people confuse themselves with their body. The Buddhists cleverly ask that if you lose a leg are you not still yourself? Clearly, we are contained in a body, but are not one.

Heart:- this implies the emotional centre of ourselves which scientists observe is far more important in decision making than we give credit for. It achieves a high level of understanding through empathy and non verbal intelligence.

Mind:- again another place that people believe is where their ‘self’ resides. Certainly the brain is a sophisticated organic centre of consciousness but ‘Self’ can exist outside of the body as proved by many who are conscious post mortem, and return to tell the tale.

Soul or Spirit:- however you define these terms ( and many philosophers and religions differ) there is an overwhelming conscious feeling in most people of a power and intelligence within that is not us, but at the same time is us.

With these four categories it becomes slightly easier to understand what ‘be true to oneself’ means. For the ‘Self’ with a capital S (and the ego ‘self’ with a lower case s), is where spiritual love enters and emerges from within the experience we call ‘ourself’.

It is that part which the ‘crown chakra’ (in the Hindu description of the energetic human ‘body’) plays an important part. Along with the Pituitary and Pineal brain centred glands, it is the anatomical equivalent of the modem and microwave dish!

Energy (of the non-electromagnetic debased kind) containing information is universally present for all humans. The benign aspect of this is known as ‘Divine Love’ and my previous blog ‘The Poetic Universe’ attempts to describe this process. The destructive aspect of this is simply an ineffectively weak aspect of Divine Love which is known as ‘The Devil’. Remember that Hell is full of angels. This characteristic of ‘ineffective weakness’ is being played out in the Middle East at the present time and historically is how all quarrels begin; by weak or absent energetic characteristics such as compassion and respect for self and others. Such weakness can also be viewed as the absence of Divine Love or more precisely, a disasterous weakening of that Love which in good times brings happiness and fulfilment to all creatures on Earth and the planet itself.

Seen through the reverse end of this telescope, humans appear very small. But in reality we contain the Universe and this contradiction is evident in the truth already mentioned; ‘that we are not our bodies’. The only part of ourselves for which there is evidence (near death experiences and past life regression) of being eternal, is our Soul or Spirit. This is despite not being able to see it, in the same way we cannot see our head. Logically one should deny the invisible, or change perspective, or imagine what it is and this is what people do – but it does not help.

The human experience, physically and metaphorically, grinds down most of us and some end up as dust sooner than they may have liked. It is all part of being this illusionary entity which changes depending on from which angle it is viewed or imagined. Like Alice in Wonderland, we also can become hopelessly inflated (consider ‘celebrity culture’ and how these souls deal with fame or not) or hopelessly deflated; known presently as mental illness and depression.

Only by overcoming this Tsunamic wave of illusionary experience can humans identify with the ‘still small point’ of spiritual love which they contain. This is the Divinity within them and ironically, is not the ‘small self’ they once believed themselves to be.

What is left after the destruction of the ego by this wave is nothing and something. That something is a small light that somehow avoided being smothered. It has the quality of eternity because it reveals itself as indestructible. It is the ‘love of God’. English expresses this very well because ‘love of God’ implies a two way love between the lover and the beloved. In human love (which is a faint copy of spiritual love) this is known as ‘requited love’.

When human love goes wrong is when the love is not reciprocated. Many stories and enactments on stage and screen, feature this most heart breaking of human conditions.

The golden lining to this cloud however, is that it casts light on how spiritual love is free of the entitlement, judgment and placing of conditions (the marriage contract for instance) that stifles many romances.

Again, the only hope that can arise from this very low point in human history and consciousness, is that from this pit may crawl some who will see the folly of it all. In those few may rise a new society founded on the oldest principles in the Holy Books of ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you’. This instruction was given to humanity knowing full well, how weak and pathetic we can become when we are blinded by ego and fail to realise who We truly are.

The Poetic Universe

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“No matter what plans you make,

No matter what you acquire,

The thief will enter from the unguarded side.

Be occupied then with what you really value,

and let the thief take something else.“

Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273)

“The thief left it behind,

The moon at the window.”

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

You may wonder why many great mystics have used poetry to express themselves. The masters who have written volumes of scholarly books might look across the writing table at the snoring companion who finished writing after just a few lines.

Brevity in speech and writing is not accomplished easily. Winston Churchill remarked how much easier it is to write a half hour speech than a five minute one. This paradox is perhaps why men of few words are misunderstood, when they should be revered. In a world where technology encourages everyone to ‘have their say’, words are flying around the globe with a speed and volume never known before.

Yet ‘saying more with less’ is surely an art well worth remembering and putting to good use?

If poetry were an equation then let us suppose, it would look like this;

1 + 1 = 3

To explain:

There is a principle of the sum of the parts being greater than the whole.

The first ‘1’ is a simple fact or what we call ‘information’. It is like a railway timetable or menu. It is not generally revealing of anything except as an aid to the general running of things.

The second ‘1’ is knowledge. It is again fairly basic but more subtle to acquire as it comes with experience, understanding and manipulation of all that ‘information’.

Strangely their sum is not ‘2’. When a person acquires a significant amount of information and knowledge during their life, a moment is reached, or at least grasped out for, which conflates facts and knowledge into wisdom which is represented as ‘3’. Wisdom has the quality of the unexpected and often comes as a jolt or joke…as in the Japanese Koan or the royal court Jester’s flippant remark.

In the game of chess this is represented as the ‘knights move’. The knight decides to take what Robert Frost describes in his famouse poem as ‘The Road Not Taken’.

Wisdom has the same quality as; ‘that’s it!’

So why does poetry use brevity to such effect?

We might define a poem as;

…the realisation of ideas using few words…

This runs counter to most modern philosophy and thought where books are written on obscure subjects using specific terms. In other words, if you used these ideas in conversation with those not conversant with them; no one would understand you.

By drawing back from the minutely specific, a poet has the advantage of not only using fewer words, but unexpected ones that suddenly make sense. There becomes an understanding already in place between the writer and the reader through shared experience of life and perhaps, intution. This might be described as a resonance between a subtle sequence of words and the experience to which they refer. If the reader has not had that life experience, as in a child for instance, then the poem cannot be understood.

Tuning forks work as a metaphor for resonance in the physical world. Usually in the physics lab, they are of similar size but if we use ‘philosophical’ tuning forks, then an infinitely large tuning fork will animate a very small one and visa versa.

Resonance picture credit: Quanta Magazine

In this way, as we experience life, we become literally ‘attuned’ to the Universe. There is a Universal tuning fork and a human one. The human feels the energy of the Universe and the information/knowledge/wisdom that travels with the resonant waves. (Remarkable recordings of sounds have now been made from the planets in the solar system which should be heard to believe!) Beyond this level of vibration is the Perfect Word which we might call Mind or God.

The Ancient Egyptians may have understood this or something similar, as they built temples at several times a larger scale than the proportions of the human body. We know that much of the beauty of the body is a product of precise use of sacred proportions.

In his book ‘The Temple in Man’; Schwaller de Lubitz laid images of an upscaled human body over plans of Temples in Luxor. The proportions known as the Golden Mean and Fibonacci series (as evident in the natural processes of growth and fractal patterns in nature) were used to amplify the resonant frequencies focused in and emanating from the Holy of Holies. By this way whatever was contained and protected within the Holy of Holies – such as a statue of a god in Ancient Egypt or the Ark of the Covenant when in possession of the Hebrews – became energised by universal wisdom or one might say; alive.

Scaled down to the human body is our own ‘Holy of Holies’; the human heart. It is placed in the body at a point of focus, so that when metaphorically cleansed and open, the Universal resonances can tune into the own body’s resonance. What you become is whatever energy you focus on in this lifetime whether demonic or angelic, factual or wise, destructive or creative.

The choice as always, is ours. It will there reflect, your truths and generate into the world the messages which you will relay to other people; just as a mobile or cell phone relay station, receives and transmits microwaves.

As an aside, the manifestation of crop circles in certain parts of the world is, in my view, this same effect. Wisdom from inter-dimensional intelligences is being expressed as diagrams and projected onto the surface of the globe. These diagrams are in a way visual poems; very precise and full of meaning. By merely looking at the patterns, it is said, their message can be absorbed and understood; even unconsciously as in the mandala paintings of the East.

We Are Forever

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From Nowhere to Infinity

Dualistic thinking has a lot to answer for in Western societies. It works in part, but like all approximations, it reaches a point where it is no longer true. What I mean by this I shall illustrated with the following Mullah Nasrudin story.

There was once a King who called all his wise men together. He challenged them to come forward with the largest number that they could imagine. They stroked their beards and looked up to the sky but none could come up with an answer. Hearing of this intellectual challenged in the market place the Mullah Nasrudin begged for an audience with the King as he believed he knew the answer. The King granted his wish and the Wise men and courtiers gathered around to hear his answer.

‘The answer is 348’ announced Mullah.

‘Ptah!’ scorned the head of the Wise men, ‘what about 349?’

‘Oh yes,’ replied the Mullah looking rather downcast but then smiling said, ‘at least I was close.’

Counting is useful but when infinity is placed into the calculation, all hell lets loose. To illustrate this point let us consider the ‘Big Bang’ theory of the creation of the universe. Because in dualistic thinking, everything has a beginning and end it is assumed that so must the Universe. Therefore everything we see today was once not existing before the Big Bang, and one day in the future, will no longer exist. But is this idea a product of truthful observation or thoughts restricted by their own boundaries or a ‘thought cage’? Even the concept of ‘time’ is a ‘thought cage’ where an hour has a beginning and an end. This is true for an observer with a clock, but for a person living in a rain forest, is a meaningless idea.

Certainly if we observe how nature works, everything is cyclic including our own bodies. Within the turning of this circle there is a constant rebirth present, which is by any definition ‘infinite’.

Computer science settled on the idea of ‘on’ and ‘off’ ones and zeros. This carried things along for a few decades but then it reached the cage bars. It could no longer expand. So along came quantum computers which used a new premise of ‘on and off’ being present concurrently. To comprehend the extraordinary effect of this, is not within the scope of this essay but be amazed.

Quantum Computer picture credit: Science Magazine

Perhaps the ‘hippie scientists’ in Silicon Valley had meditated on the Ying Yang symbol for so long that they finally realised, that opposites contain each other. Opposites are not opposite. Beginnings contain ends and ends contain beginnings. This is not a western way of thinking so it took a while for the penny to drop. Off contains on and the other way around, and All is contained in a circular (infinite) whole.

The ‘wheel’ symbol came to the West possibly through the Tarot card named ‘The World’ and itself from the Alchemists depiction of the snake eating it’s tail. Like the spherical rolling ball and the Toroid, these representations of the infinite…a number that has no beginning and no end and no instrument to measure it.

No clock = No start = No time = No end

The James Webb Space Telescope has been staring into space for a few years now. Whilst there will always be various interpretations of what is being observed by the telescope, a well known physicist named Roger Penrose has come to some cage breaking ideas around the Big Bang. Apparently the JWST records galaxies as shrinking rather than expanding as predicted by the Big Bang theory. This means that light from these galaxies is not being stretched and, whilst the non-scientiest will not fully understanding this or other evidence of ‘red shifts being overlarge’, Roger Penrose concludes that ‘there was no Big Bang‘ and ‘time does not exist’. There is a video on You Tube featuring an interview with Roger Penrose for those intrigued.

Suffice to say for the purposes of this essay, that this conclusion can potentially change everything we think and feel in Western societies.

Personally, I have always been a ‘Big Bang’ sceptic and at the risk of sounding smug, I wrote to Sir Fred Hoyle in the late 1970’s suggesting just this. I cited the Hindu story of the ‘Churning of the Ocean of Milk’ imagining space as the ocean of milk. The Churning is brought about in an endless Cosmic tug-of-war between Angels and Demons and a rather discontented snake acting as a the rope. He replied that he had heard of the infinite Universe concept but that he was not convinced.

So what can we learn if there was no Big Bang, provided we are able to agree that this is the more likely theory? Personally I find it rather reassuring that science is able to catch up with what the hitch hikers in the galaxy would simply call ‘common sense’. Obviously you cannot have nothing one day and a whole load of super expanding something in the next nano second. But you can have a whole load of super contracting something becoming a whole load a expanding something.

Put simply this is just like breathing. We breath in and this creates our breath out. Each Universe (and Metaverse and beyond) is an exhalation of dust from dust of the previous cosmic intake of breath. For ‘dust’ also read ‘energy’ as both are interchangeable and that fact is how one can pass through the cosmic nostrils at the moment breathing changes direction.

Add some vibration to the dust and you get waves which in the Old Testament, Genesis calls ‘the Word’. Just as waves on the beach create wave patterns on a sandy beach at low tide, so matter begins to take form.

At a personal level, we are born as spirit (or wave energy if you prefer) into a physical body. Marlo Morgan is an American medical doctor who lived amongst the Real People in Australia. She was initiated into their way of life and ideas in stages;

Female Healer: Do you understand how long forever is?

Marlo Morgan: Yes I understand.

Female Healer: Then we can tell you something else. All humans are spirits only visiting this world. All spirits are forever beings.

Extract from Marlo Morgan’s book ‘Mutant Message Down Under, page 93.

At a few dimensional levels above is the same concept that the Divine Consciousness is within us as infinite consciousness outside of time and space.

With no time and space there is no fixed point for the Divine Consciousness. Logically, with no fixed point (what psychicist invent as ‘singularity’ to explain the Big Bang) there is only forever and ubiquity.

And the ‘Divine Consciousness’ that humans contain in microcosm means that like the Universe we also come and go as spirit moving through matter having a ‘human experience’.

Now that is something to think about and if you are totally blown away by the reassurance the idea brings, it is something to be grateful for.

Australian Aboriginal Painting picture credit: Blanton Museum of Art

Repeat Repeat

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A Bomber crew are flying across a desert. Suddenly, all four engines cut out. They have miscalculated their fuel. The pilot sees a small dot of green below and glides the plane down to crash close by. The navigator lays the pilot down in the shade of a palm tree for the pilot has broken his leg. They discuss what to do and the navigator says he will explore at dusk on a bearing of 90 degrees. He does so and comes back in the morning reporting not having found anything. The next night he does the same with the same result. The pilot asks him why he set off in the same direction as the night before. The navigator replies that he wanted to be sure where he was going, by following his footprints.

That’s how many people get around, even those who can loose of their habits but do not. We learn a route and just keep going the same way. Probably the majority of the human population know how to get to only a limited number places, lierally and metaphorically, limiting their life experience.

In defence of this ‘keeping to a well known track’, humans live complex lives and repetition is a coping mechanism. We know that animals act in exactly the same way, scurrying through undergrowth on well worn paths and so doing become meat for hunters.

As humans should we not be more adventurous than animals? Even in our ‘modern’ city lives our culture encourages ‘everyday’ repitition. Many people listen to their favourite music tracks using the ‘repeat’ button the listen over and over again. Some book their holidays the day they return to go back to the same hotel a year later.

Like everything, exploring the unusual starts in our imagination. As creators we can imagine a thing and make it happen. That is very powerful but when a person lacks the ability to ‘think big’ or ‘out of the box’, then how can they progress through life? When you listen to conversation it is common to hear figures of speech such as ‘so’ (to start a sentence with a conjunction!), ‘to be honest’ or ‘in terms of’ repeated endlessly. They lack the ability to string together a line of words imaginatively without using meaningless words and phrases endlessly. Perhaps they are thinking faster than they speak and have never applied themselves to slow down. Perhaps their habitual words have become unconscious and if you challenged them you would only convince them they say ‘you know’ constantly by recording and playing back their conversations.

There is a verbal game show on BBC Radio 4 in which contestants have to speak for a minute without repetition, deviation or hesitation. It is not as easy as it sounds.

Sadly, much conversation involves listening to others giving accounts of situations in which they found themselves in the past. A simple trigger word such as ‘electricity’ will start them off on a story of how their house had no electricity for three days and they ran out of candles and matches they read books by more candles they found under the kitchen sink. If they have a partner, that person will be rolling their eyes because they have heard this story ad infinitum.

Repetition is boring. I said, repetition is boring.

Subtlety though, even something new, can quickly become a mere copy / repeat. The world of fashion for instance, challenges designers to think of some new design that has never been done before even if it is something as mundane as a new fabric design or hue.

‘Everybody, this year, is wearing blue!’

The designs hit the factories which start to make thousands of identical garments. At the office party the bosses wife discovers she is wearing exactly the same dress as his secretary. The secretary should have gone for the pink dress but had been made to feel it was ‘unfashionable’ by those who are paid to ‘set the trends’.

Japanese Soccer Fans pitcture credit: BBC

Happy souls who support a football team will do so with a level of loyalty that has them acting in greater unison than a school of fish; wearing the same football shirt, sitting in the same seat, eating the same hamburgers, singing the same songs.

Originality knows how to run for the hills, if we let it.

Religions are perhaps the strictest social organiser. They demand complete obedience to certain set norms in dress, behaviour and ritual; down to the greatest detail. Repetition of phrases, verses and even complete Holy books illustrates how humans can reduce their super computer brains to being mere SD cards, when prompted.

So what can be done to release humanity from reptition? How do we make the navigator in our heads walk on a bearing of 91 degrees and then 92 degrees each night; until a village is found at 112 degrees?

Sometimes it takes no more than just a mere tweek, to add variety to life. Those who commute to work probably follow the same route each day for years. Yet, there will always be other routes available even if they may take a minute or so longer. There may be alternative means of travel such as walking or riding a bicycle, performing cart wheels or sliding on ice. ‘Walking buses’ for groups of children is an excellent example of how simple changes can invigorate human activity.

Artists have always been beacons of innovative method and expression. Every author sits down and writes a book that no one has read before. It may follow perennial themes of love and war, but the story and characters will be entirely original. The more boundaries of literary norms that are broken the greater the appreciation of the book. James Joyce’s Ulysses is an example of stunningly novel literary…novel.

In every human activity success comes when imagination and the ability to explore the imagination, fuse into the entirely original. This is true for science as well as art, politics, engineering, design, exploration and all things humans reach out to in order to excel.

Learning how to think is a subject which is not taught in schools. This must surely be a folly partly produced by those who think repetitively. It is assumed that children already know how to think in the same way they acquire language; by repetition. This is true, of but of course the thinking skills involved in early learning are at risk of being mere copies of adults mechanical patterns of thinking. Psychologists like Edward de Bono created thinking tools that enabled the ability to think into infinity, or at least where no metaphorical human had thought before. Managers in commerce and industry sent their staff to learn his techniques and used them to gain commercial advantage.

If you asked the man or woman in the street to make up a new word in ten seconds, they would probably stumble. If you taught them the technique of substituting one vowel for another the task is simple. For example, ‘cat’ become cet, or cit or cot or cut. There we have two new words with no meaning yet ascribed.

Ask a friend to do something in the next minute that they have never done before and they might well just stare at the ceiling for a minute because that is what they always do when they cannot think. A person for whom imagination has no boundaries will roll up their shirt sleeve, dip their elbow in a tin of custard and write their name on the ceiling.

There we have two ends of the same problem. Thinking and acting via mere repetition and doing the same but in innovative ways. Somewhere in between these two extremes is a happy medium.

The human brain that can engage in acting whilst ‘not thinking’ such as a Zen Buddhist monk, can change their world. The pattern of logical thought becomes short circuited and the meditators brain changes frequency quite literally, to a completely new level.

Even though a Zen Buddhist monastery teaches using repetition, there is a level of awareness that eventually arises of it’s own accord; above the casual and ordinary whilst in the casual and ordinary.

In this way the world which humans perceive becomes unlimited and infinite in it’s possibilities. It is neither repetition nor innovation, but it is something. This insight is captured in the line which the singer Donovan wrote based on Buddhist philosophy;

‘First there is a mountain then there is no mountain then there is.’

How we live ultimately comes down to the energy patterns in our neural pathways; in the brain and spine and various nerve plexuses. How we think is directly related to how our synapses are used to work and from children and according even to gender, we run our own brains in increasingly mechanical ways.

At a more subtle level, our energy centres, or chakras, are also subject to becoming inbalanced due to overuse in one area or another. This is a whole new subject which I explore in another website chakracard.wordpress.com. But suffice to say that we live enclosed in what Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda’s book ‘The Fire From Within’ describes as a ‘luminous egg’. This is our energetic connection with the subtle worlds beyond physicality. This ‘egg’ can also be another boundary which Don Juan calls a ‘cocoon’. He explains , and I will give him the last word;

‘A mere glimpse of the eternity outside of the cocoon is enough to disrupt the coziness of our inventory.’ page 115

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Me First

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Humans are social animals and their historic ascent to the top of the food chain, came largely from this instinct to act as a group.

We should not be too conceited about this however as many creatures live as a ‘colony’. When a wolf pack moves across ground in line, the strongest animals lead and follow and the weakest take a place in the middle for safety. Penguins form a dynamic huddle to survive the sub-zero winds. Those on the perimeter continually shuffle towards the centre before going back the edge.

Even insects such as drone bees, protect future of the colony in the shape of the Queen, above their own lives.

Humans, however, have a freedom to ignore the ‘greater good’ and act purely in their individual interests. The result is clearly apparent in ‘western’ societies, where the wealthy thrive and the poor strive to survive. Heroic characters such as Robin Hood of Nottingham, epitomised this ‘greater good’ principle and heroically stole from the rich to give to the poor.

As the R.M.S. Titanic cut through the icy waves, part of the wealthy owner’s focus was to beat the record time for a crossing of the Atlantic by an ocean liner. The White Star Line needed to beat the competition. This desire and it’s consequences, as we know, seeded catastrophe.

Ironically, when it came to individuals on the sinking ship, there was an honourable decorum, and the men generally helped the women and children onto the lifeboats. ‘Me first’ as an instinct for survival was selflessly over ridden by the ‘common good of the species’ and the orchestra played on.

These philosophical reflections on social morality shine a revealing light on what is happening today in western societies.

A certain candidate for the forthcoming elections for the president of the USA, has the campaign slogan, ‘America First’. This highlights the paradox between the rights of the State and the individual. There is an implied promise that by making America ‘great again’, each and every citizen will get a fair share of the apple pie.

But there is no promise and if the homeless of ‘down town America’ stopped to think about this vague contract, they might not vote for the orange Orang U’tang again.

Governance along lines of the good of all and sharing, or socialism if you want, was part of the American Declaration of Independence. The King of Great Britain was characterised as the Sheriff of Nottingham in the Robin Hood story. He was a tyrant, as had most British Kings been since Alfred the Great.

The governance of a nation by one person ironically contained a great advantage for the common people. If you remove the tyrant Monarch, you end his reign in one swing of the sword. But today, ‘treason for the common good’ is not so simple. With the many levels of power in modern democracies, the monster has many self regenerating heads.

You might find yourself slashing and lunging at the Military Industrial Complex, the Deep State, the Secret Societies, the Elected Government, the Illuminati, the Billionaire families and the Tech Billionaires, the Banks including the Central Reserve, the numerous Institutions of State (some declared and some not), the Dark Web, major organised crime…the list goes on. If it is hard to fight a royal monster with one head, it’s near impossible to fight one with many.

But revolution rarely results in lasting peace. It generally creates a lull whilst the monster just grows another head.

In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in 2016 there was a referendum for change. The question was whether the State should remain part of the European Union. As the fifth richest nation in the world at that time, the citizens of that country saw the EU as a kind of Robin Hood, that took from the rich countries and gave to the poor ones. When they asked the question, ‘what is in it for me?’ their was silence. So just over half of those who were motivated by this ‘injustice’ to vote, voted for ‘independence’ or ‘us first’. They were persuaded that a country that turns it’s back on it’s 27 neighbours is going to be much better off and if not better off, British. Again, there was an expectation that what benefits the Nation will ‘trickle down’ to the individual.

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Seven years on, poverty is such a problem in the UK that the poor, go to food banks in order to survive. If they become ill, their beloved NHS will send to the end of a very long line of the sick and dying. If they can no longer afford to pay the monthly mortgage payments or rent, they will have to sofa surf whilst waiting in an even longer line for ‘social housing’. Either that or a cardboard box under a bridge. These and many other social failures herald an era where the State is run by the prosperous with little deference to the deprived.

Russia and China look on with interest. A divided community of European Nations and a division between the USA and Europe pulls, the trigger of the starting pistol for their plans. The communist system embraces the principle of reducing individual wealth so that everyone is equally poor, or at best, equally good party members.

If they ever existed in Communist regimes, the rights of the individual were banished during the SARS -2 , Covid 19 pandemic. Those who view social ‘lock downs’ as a rehearsal, will be wondering what is coming next. If the richest want to abandon ship, at this moment in time they cannot move their money out of China. Control of money by the State, is a very modern way to control the individual.

The citizens of Western democracies are discovering that cash machines are disappearing from the high streets…as are the high streets. States are setting up digital currencies giving them complete control over the individual. Freedom to travel is being restricted to 15 minute zones and autonomous cars will not be driven by citizens but the Ministry for Citizen Movement. Even the right to decide what goes into their own bodies, once held as sacrosanct, was rescinded during the Covid pandemic.

At a time when individuals find themselves in a world that presently stumbles from one crisis to another, they must ask themselves if these world problems are real and if so, do they want the solution being offered by the State?

There is no system of governance that is perfect be it right or left wing. This is because organisation has to incorporate change of social and individual values, swinging sometimes to the left and at other times to the right. Like the shuffling penguins in an Arctic huddle, an penguin may experience extreme cold for a period of time before it’s turn to shuffle to the warm centre again.

picture credit: Birdwatching Magazine

Democracies are the nearest system of governance to this ideal, as they generally swing from left to right every set number of years. But it’s not a smooth series of transitions and often change is poorly managed. Social housing was sold off in the 1980’s in the UK and no government of any description has sought to bring it back. The result is a housing shortage crisis.

At a global level, there is a ‘climate crisis’. Nations of the world are being asked to join together in overcoming an imminent threat to each and every citizen of the world. Right wing politicians in individual rich countries like the UK, argue that they only caused 1% of the emergency so they do not have to help the rest of the world. Again we hear the ‘me first’ argument but upscaled to global proportions.

The West does not have control of the Equatorial Rain Forests and the benefits they bring to climate change. Neither does it have control of the American Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and rising sea temperatures and melting polar ice, nor the new hole in the Ozone Layer over northern Arctic regions.

This blue and green spinning space ship is racing towards a metaphorical iceberg. In the rush for the life boat known as Space X and other wildly hopeful Mars missions, you might discover that there is a new component in human evolution. It is called ‘the survival of the richest’, otherwise known as ‘me first’.

Where is God?

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It is easy to understand atheists. For a start, God presents invisibly. That’s not a good way of convincing people that you exist. Rather like the whole idea of Father Christmas, you can only get away with lying to the naïve for so long. Wise, older children don’t believe.

Similarly, in the two holy books the Christians have, the God of the first book operates as a sort of terror organisation ranting against those in need of a good smote, and the God of the second book introduces a family member who operates as a punch bag rather than a puncher.

If you were born in the East instead of the West, you might have aligned your thoughts and feelings with Buddhists. They skip over the whole idea of a Creator with more practical definitions of good behaviour (noble paths) and just getting along with each other. This philosophy works, as the world turns whether humans believe in God or not…making Him or Her, philosophically surplus to requirements.

Reading his books or listening to the late, great Alan Watts on You Tube, you might become convinced that this is the case. He describes the famous stone being thrown into the middle of the equally universal pond and the circle of ripples spreading outward. These ripples are like the illusion of life we are invited to understand. In reality, the water is not moving at all! The water remains motionless on the x axis, and bobs up and down on the y.

The waves of the sea are similarly completely static and what you are watching is merely kinetic energy disappearing on a beach, making sand.

It’s a clever argument. Because of this illusory nature of life, a good Zen Buddhist should discount illusion and just sit.

But what if illusion is real? Who says that? Well the Idealists say that. Just because you cannot see energy does not mean it does not exist. Radio, gamma rays, X-rays and a whole rainbow of information rich, electro magnetic energy is passing by and through you as you read this. Not seeing does not prove non-existence.

If you wish to live in a material universe then you will always disagree with believing in the invisible. There must be proof, you say. But of course, Sir Isaac Newton produced the Newton’s cradle to show energy moving invisibly through matter centuries ago. Albert Einstein famously equated matter and energy as being the same over a hundred years ago. Energy is a fine form of matter and matter is a dense form of energy. And now, Quantum Physicists working at the sub-atomic scale, prove matter is far more strange than it appears to be to the human eye. The greatest trick of all is that two molecules, a billion light years apart, will act in unison.

This is describing a universe that is beyond miraculous. In my view, materialism should have died long ago, when the saints and prophets consistently demonstrate that the Universe is both matter and information rich energy. If matter was dead, prophets like Jesus the Christ, could breath energy into it and bring it back to life. ‘Take thy bed and walk.’

The energy part is what we call God, since it not only activates matter but also imbues matter with information. So to believe in the real Santa Claus, what you need is a belief in the chimney, a crashing descent of a body down the chimney and an unexpected present in the fireplace.

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This is a far more inclusive philosophy than the atheists describe in my view. You can try to insist that everything except matter is an illusion but really, the world has spun too many times, to believe it is a simple as that. Small minds like to reduce things to the minimum because it creates a mental clarity, but really, there is no clarity. For the believer, there is only mystery. There is only the infinite (all our prayers, incantations, thoughts, wishes, beliefs, fantasies, commands, intentions, regrets, affirmations and the rest) extending outwards from a spinning ball of hot matter.

And if we doubt, then imagine the human body as the microcosm of the universe and we can experience ourselves as an organic blob of stuff, powered by information rich energy.

Every DNA coded cell in the human body is powered by 70, information rich, millivolts. If you ever need proof that an invisible God exists, there it is.

The Society for Cake

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There exists in a certain country a “Society for Cake” and this is how it came about.

A man who was generally regarded as ‘wise’ or ‘holy’, was reputed to ‘know everything about cake’. His authority was questioned however when certain ‘specialists’ challenged him and spoke in minute detail about cake. Their methodology was to ‘drill down’ into a certain aspect of cake to which they felt drawn.

There were those who believed cake was ‘all about decoration’. They described the many characteristics of icing and how objects such as figures could add meaning to the cake or delight; such as a single cherry.

There were others who preferred to regard cake as simply the representation of an anniversary or special event. They were deeply absorbed in birthday, Christmas and wedding cakes and studied their cultural and social significance, including the rituals surrounding their making and consumption.

Others were more practical and engaged in the acquisition of cake recipes from all around the world. They went to great lengths to source very specific ingredients measuring each in exact proportion before placing the mixture in the oven until perfectly cooked.

Those who were particularly fond solely of eating cake, set about merely to consume various cakes in a variety of settings. Some were picnic enthusiasts, some were ‘high tea’ aficionados. They were particularly known for making judgments in cake competitions.

In the most extreme form of specialisation, there were those who studied the upper half of a two layer cake, some solely the lower half and a ‘fringe’ minority who were satisfied merely in researching the cream, jam or other edible binding agent that kept the two parts together. These ‘specialists’ were few in number yet grew in importance merely because they were skilled in self publicity.

An observer would have found that all of these specialists had the following characteristics in common. They all believed that their particular view took precedent over any other which they liberally denounced as ‘misguided’ or ‘missing the point’ or ‘old fashioned’ and so on. They all had ideas based on some particular honed view point on how such and such a cake could be improved. These details were not understood by others; a fact which the specialists used to their advantage to gain merit.

One day a young boy was with his grandfather who was a friend of the sage who ‘knew everything about cake’. The boy asked where this man could be found and his grandfather told him. The boy visited the sage and handed him a gift wrapped in a handkerchief. The wise man unwrapped it and was delighted by the boy’s mother’s simple round cake. He took a bite and smiled broadly with pleasure.

After they had both reduced the cake to crumbs, the boy walked away having learnt a lesson that would stay with him throughout his life.

When old enough, he started the “Society for Cake”, stipulating one rule only to qualify for membership. The rule was that personal opinions about cake, based on entrenched specialisations, were never to be considered or spoken.

Matter into Energy

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Many present day thinkers, expound the present times as being highly consequential to the evolution of the earth and it’s inhabitants.

Whilst there are various extraordinary events playing out on the material plain, we should also consider what is going on in the plains parallel to us; as described in the Hermetic principle; ‘as above so below, as below, so above’.

A recent event caught the attention of the whole world as an intensely tragic and complex human story. I am referring to the Titan submarine disaster in which five brave explorers lost their lives.

Let us take a sideways view of the roots of that story as it is symptomatic, in my view, of far more consequential radical changes in human experience.

The Tower of Babel is featured in the old Testament as a pinnacle of human achievement, both literally and metaphorically. The building was intended to reach into the domain of the gods, in an act of vanity and false bravery that was punished by God using elemental destruction.

This tower, as were the pyramids of ancient Egypt, was intended to ‘fix’ a moment in time when the great cosmic cloud which was the original Universe, changed state and became matter. Imagine water vapour turning into liquid, then ice and that is the process which the Universe went through until the present day.

There are many indications that the great wheel which started this process is beginning to change direction. Matter is returning to energy and synchronically, humans in their physical and energetic bodies, will follow the same pattern; matter will return to Mind for they are both just energy (E=Mc2).

In gathering together the strongest possible materials to build a ship capable of withstanding enormous pressure, were it’s creators not guilty of a vain project against nature? And the greatest error of all, to take this ship to a place where thousands of people had died in horrific circumstances; the waters memory of a titanic tragedy?

On a parallel plane, there exist in this same place ‘thought beings’ of enormous energetic strength who were known in ancient times as Titans.

The Titan ‘Oceanus’ who rules the North Atlantic Ocean

Just because we no longer encounter spirit beings and choose to regard memory of them as ‘fantasy’, does not mean they no longer exist.

The popular trilogy of Matrix films describe the dual realities, where the hero Neo has to move into another dimension and fight the ‘programme’ or ‘thought being’ known as Smith, an almost impossible opponent, stronger even than the once dependable ‘Oracle’; a possible reference to the Oracle of Delphi in ancient Greece.

Let us take a downward journey into the metaphysical plane where Titans not only lurk today, but have been awakened by the cataclysmic events – many still to come – of the present era.

We should understand that the Titans fundamentally resist any change of consciousness in human beings and many people are experiencing such a change in the present time. They were known as Saturn’s ‘enforcers’ as they resist change by force.

‘Dionysus, like Zeus, represents the evolution of a new form of consciousness, and again the Titans were determined to nip it in the bud. Again we see that Titans are the consciousness eaters.’

The Secret History of the World’ by Jonathan Black; page 93.

Their mother is Gaia, the Earth goddess who has been subject to enormous stress and degradation by the vain and self centred activities of humans. She has started and will continue to engage the elementals (earth, air, fire, water, spirit) in destabilising human activities using earth movements, storms, forest fires, Tsunami’s and rising sea levels. These cataclysms, while daunting, are in fact the birth pains of the creation of a New Earth, as described in the accounts of Dolores Cannon (a modern day Oracle ), for those who wish to know more and have access to You Tube.

There is already a gate between the melting material plane and the next evolutionary experience of human beings; an ‘Oceangate’ into the so called ‘Fifth Dimension’.

The effect of this opportunity is a mental transition from regarding the Universe through an illusory dualistic pair of spectacles, into a single monocular Unity. Human history and art describes this struggle between opposites a rather ‘inevitable’ human condition. In reality, love and hate are purely concepts that bear no relation to the single emotion they represent, just as laughter and tears are dual aspects of just one feeling. Think of all ‘opposites’ and join them together on a flat continuum and you will understand.

In the same way that the animal kingdom evolved from one to two eyes, so humans will take one further evolutionary leap into intuitive perception and communication using the single pineal gland. This organ is a remnant of the vegetable ‘Lantern of Osiris’ depicted in ancient Egyptian paintings as sprouting from the centre of the forehead, also known as the ‘third eye’ in Eastern Yogic practice and is painted on the forehead as a Bindi, in Hinduism. New perception needs new organs and the opening of the ‘fire cone’ is just this.

Fontana de la Pigan, The Vatican, Rome

In Islamic tradition, we shall know of the metaphorical ‘end times’ (meaning transition not ending) when ‘end time’ events happen; such as the worship of the Antichrist or ‘One eyed one’.

Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) said:

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “Let me tell you something about Dajjal (the Antichrist) which no Prophet had told his people. He is blind (in one eye) and will bring with him something like Jannah and Hell; but what he calls Jannah will be in fact Hell.”

source: https://sunnah.com/riyadussalihin:1818

Could it be that the screens of our computers and cell phones represent just such a transition of consciousness from our physical reality into a virtual reality. This change is a technological mirror of change in parallel planes; from the 3/4D plane into the 5D. How many mobile phones are circulating the Kaaba in the pockets of the faithful at this very time?

AI is an abbreviation that hints at ‘An I’. In human consciousness we are moving towards ‘An I’; meaning union with the One, rather than the chaotic multiplicity of life today. This is the deeper level of understanding of the Universe; from the multiplicity of religions and all the converging areas of human experience into the One Mind, or as simply stated in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible;

And He said, ‘Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I AM has sent me to you’” (Exodus 3:14). 

In conclusion, just as the process of ‘solidification’ into matter is the end result of the liquid and gaseous origins of the Universe, so our present ‘solid’ physicality is starting to melt. Between water and air are the waves that carry the energy which is the One Mind and the invitation is for us to ride with the waves.

Think of that, next time you sit on the beach watching the waves, and if you see the sea receed followed by a huge wave coming towards you, know that the only escape is to jump.