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“Whoever battles monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you”.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What Nietzsche does not say in this famous quotation from his book ‘Beyond Good and Evil’, is that the monster you perceive making faces at you, is you.

This slightly heretical philosophical view of mine, suggests that our internal world (mind) creates the people, places and things we experience. By extension, for those who believe, humans create God in their own image, because creativity is an attribute of Divinity which they share and reflect.

You are not a person living a life, you are life living a person.

When we look back at our forefathers and ask how they dealt with this conundrum, there are two paths. One is to be blind to the illusion that we must surrender to a higher will or ‘fate’. Alternatively, not surrendering to fate empowers each individual to become the power that is within us and resist all attempts to submit to ‘the Abyss’.

This second option is taken by very few souls, for the hero (which is you) has to venture far from the comforts of home to an unknown place. Consider the humble Bilbo Baggins in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings as he pulled the heavy Saturnine ring from his finger and threw it into the flaming Abyss. The Whispering One was destroyed and homely order restored.

The metaphor of looking into an abyss was used in a more gentle way for children by Lewis Carroll in his book, ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’. Alice’s hallucinogenic encounters in a reversed universe reads as a series of random thoughts and dreams, each jostling for centre stage in Alice’s mind; a type of madness but with it’s own rationale.

Most of the time Alice is vaguely in control of people, places and things. The reader expects a happy conclusion to the story, but as in life, there is always doubt and the fear of horror.

Jalal Udin Rumi refers to this shattered fractal world as what we might see in a “broken glass mirror”. The metaphor refers to the profound idea that ultimate Truth is one, but when it “fell and broke from the hands of God,” people grasped fragments, each glimpsing a fragment of the whole. There is a paradox here because whilst the part is not the whole, it can be mistaken as such. In reality it is the reflection, the message which is the whole, not the physical fragment.

Religious followers are an example of this literal ‘my partial truth’ mentality. They think they know it all but are deceived. Yet there is a commonality to all human experience. Every person sees through the thin skin of their eyes, the cornea. It is transparent and admits all it sees; good and bad. It is our mind that filters and checks what we see in the trillions of connections it makes continuously; a process that dictates and reinforces our personal and randomly biased out-look on life. This is the human frailty of perception which keeps out some or most of the Divine light.

Bashar is an entity channelled consistently for decades by Daryl Anka and for those who are curious his public Q and A sessions are available on You Tube.

To conceive, receive, and perceive in Bashar’s teachings refers to how we can actively create a personal ‘reality’. We conceive a whispered idea or feeling as like a soft touch from outside of our body. This may simply be what time to eat or an inspirational idea that is life changing. Whatever we conceive in our higher Self, from the alpha to the omega, we have the option to be as God the Creator. Making lunch or making the Universe comes from the same Source and is the same.

The second stage of this process is when we receive the idea into our brain and integrate it into our lives. Bashar advises that this is something that must give us our greatest excitement. No working in a factory, unless you love repetition!

Thirdly, our mind must be aware of perception which is like a faithful horse that we groom daily from childhood. Whilst it provides the feeling of freedom and long journeys into the wilderness, it also limits how we experience life. The world we encounter is a reflection of our consciousness. What we think, we see.

There is an saying by Thoth, Hermes or Hermes Trismegistus which has long been treasured by secret societies is;

‘As within, so without, as above, so below, as the Universe, so the Soul.’

Let me show you three qualities of a symbol.

The horizontal line is the line between Heaven and Earth. Just like the mirror between water and air.

The vertical line is the boundary between what we experience as ‘Self’ and what we perceive as ‘not-Self’. This is the illusion we experience as I-dentity.

Where these two lines intersect is the location of the ‘I‘ or ‘eye‘.

In astrology the 90 degree angle is called a ‘square’ or ‘quartile’. When planets share the same quadrant of the zodiac they conflict. One might say they do not see eye to eye. A right angle is discomfort and sure enough we find the cross historically as an instrument of crucifixion. This was not just a Roman engineering solution for crucifying thieves but also those who threatened their evil Empire with the power of the individual.

The Christ was preaching to people that they contained a ‘light within’, when Rome wanted only Rome to be the light, just as the Empire endeavours to keep things today.

The Roman Empire Continues to Strike Back
picture credit; Architectural Digest

The light – a solar light as within the god Apollo – long before Jesus the Christ – is symbolised by a circle encompassing the four equal lines of the cross within. In my view this symbol is one way of ‘squaring the circle’. This ancient logic puzzle that transfixed the Ancient Greeks has not been solved using geometry, but by moving towards a less logical conclusion. Poetically, the four straight lines can become the parts of a square within the circle. The four / four beat is a masculine marching rhythm that needs to be smoothed and soothed by the feminine, represented by the all embracing circle.

Even the Ancient Egyptian Ankh is a version of this archetypal geometric paradox. It represents the unification of the masculine and feminine coming together as one, in order to align with and receive the Solar spirit of the Divine.

An Ankh in the Petrie Museum University College London

As within, so without, is less quoted than as above, so below. But it expresses the ability of humans to manifest, make real, a reflection of our highest aspirations. This might manifest through a series of unexplainable co-incidental events and chance encounters. If we powerful humans did not believe we can direct chance, we would not play the national lotteries.

The words, ‘serendipity’ and ‘coincidentally’ and ‘synchronistically’ describe this human experience of good or bad fortune. But who is making these choices, Divine Will or us, or both?

We have all been in a situation where we cannot decide what to do. We want a good outcome but do not know how or the best way to achieve it. If you believe in your own creative power as ‘a reflection of God’ then making the best decision is alignment with one’s higher Self.

Tossing a coin may appear random but if you toss three coins several times, you are allowing serendipity to speak to4 you. Oracle cards work in this way and are increasingly popular in Western society today. Personally, I believe they are an aid to personal choice, not makers of choice.

In some cultures the power of the unknown to influence events is described as ‘fate’ but again, I disagree with this concept. To accept fate is to give away one’s own power. Usually, this personal abandonment of responsibility attributes failure or success, solely to the Divine; Mashallah (ما شاء الله).

This ‘victim’ mindset is not endorsed by professional gamblers in Los Vegas. They will have amassed a strong self belief to the extent that they feel they can do nothing wrong. When a such ‘card shark’ or player ‘on a roll’ appears at the tables and starts winning, the management do not stand a chance.

**Gambling on a Dream**
picture credit Nevada Public Radio

We give away our power constantly. Even prayer can be, in my view, an act of giving away personal power to a ‘higher power’. When things don’t go as requested people lose ‘trust’ or ‘faith’ in Divinity, as if prayer is like a menu for you to order food.

If we accept that we are a tiny fragment of the mirror which is God, then man is indeed made in the image of God. We are His reflection and have god-like attributes and abilities that are obscured until we become a polished mirror.

The Taoist and Zen Buddhist concept of polishing a mirror symbolizes the spiritual practice of purifying the mind and heart to achieve clear, undistorted awareness of reality and connection with God or Mind.

As the Universe, so the Soul

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The *Eye of God* Nebula picture credit: BBC Sky at Night Magazine

“You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around your neck! Rumi

It is generally accepted that Homo sapiens sapiens have been around for about three hundred thousand years. But our conventional view of history only goes back twelve thousand years or when there was a global deglaciation event that caused a global flood, known as the Yunger Dryas Event.

The continents of Lemuria and Atlantis are generally only accepted by academics as ‘myth’. Yet there is tell today of an extra-terrestrial race known as the ‘Mu’ who created much of the Atlantean civilisation.

More widely accepted in the study of Mesopotamian, Ancient Egyptian, Indus Valley, Mayan, Aztec, Olmec and many other civilisation’s records is that ‘gods came down from the sky’. These various and remarkably similar gods introduced new ideas and technology to humans. For example Thoth in Ancient Egypt, taught writing, sciences, agriculture, engineering and other valuable skills. The Romans knew him as Hermes from which came the Hermetic gnostic tradition.

When the visits of the gods became less frequent and finally stopped, someone had to maintain control of the population on behalf of the absent gods. Pharaohs took on this roll and declared themselves a ‘living god’. Later, priests ran the everyday duties of promoting and conducting religious duties.

Not only the ancient Egyptians, but even early religions focused worship on the sun, as a ‘living and dying’ god. Horus rose on the hor-izon each day and was killed by the evil god Set at sun-set. The solar religions featured similar narratives, such as their gods being born on 25^th December, rays coming from their crowns, born of a virgin, being light and life, dying and resurrecting. Apollo fulfilled this role in Ancient Greece and Jesus the Christ later in the Levant, a self-declared ‘sun / son of God’. The early Christian Bishops at the Council of Nicaea, performed a skilful ‘hatchet job’ on the ancient Biblical texts to produce the New Testament; skilful because it told people what they wanted to hear and believe rather than the obscure truths contained in the holy texts that were removed, such as the Book of Thomas.

The Old Testament had introduced several ‘gods’ such as Lucifer, Jehovah and Yahweh. These gods were all male, creating the gender bias towards masculinity. The Divine Feminine was cancelled from the New Testament and perverted into the ‘Holy Trinity’. Mary Magdalene, wife / lover of Jesus and his highest gnostic initiate, was degraded to be a ‘common prostitute’, whilst the gnostic Father, Mother, Son trinity became the single gendered Father, Holy Spirit, Son.

Islam emerged from the debris of these many false narratives in the seventh century as a lunar religion. Worshippers had no priests and prayed before sunrise and after sunset, possibly to avoid praying to the ancient solar gods, such as Horus and Set. Mosques were not East – West orientated as are most Christian churches and cathedrals for the same reason. A non-anthropomorphised religion was a vital move away from the myths that ‘gods’ lived on mountain tops and the sky.

The Lunar Calendar picture credit: Yantar.ae

A discovery in Nag Hammadi in 1945 posed a problem for the modern Catholic Church. Early Christian and gnostic texts compiled by the ‘heretic sect’ known as the Essenes known as the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed what the church fathers had tried to bury.

They contain the revelation or heretical view that there was no God in Heaven or anywhere else, except within us. Such a concept, if widely realised, would have brought down the Catholic cathedral of cards. The Vatican Library remains a locked to this day which only adds to the speculation, why? Perhaps, the Romans destroying global ancient libraries such as the ancient library in Alexandria, had not managed to permanently hide the secrets that were intended to Unite ordinary people with their Creator, without intermediaries.

Sufi gnostics in Islam such as Masur al-Hallaj who dared to pronounce this truth with the words ‘Ana-l Haqq’, was executed for ‘blasphemy’ in 922. Even in this radical religion Allah had to be ‘out there’ as is the perception generated by the ego, not ‘in here’.

If we go back to Ancient Greece for a moment, most large Greek conurbations had an amphitheatre where plays were enacted. They had a psychological message that the masked players represented the illusions of the ego, in a world of its own ‘make believe’. There was introduced a realisation that everything we experience is in some way a ‘shadow’ of the real world, as encapsulated in the Plato’s story of the men in the cave watching shadows of forms that they cannot see.

The ‘skull shaped’ amphitheatre at Ephesus looks out and listens.
Picture credit: Wikipedia

The tradition of the ‘shadow play’ is just as popular today. The most famous of all theatres of the imagination is of course Hollywood…the Druids magical staff made from the wood of the Holly Tree or Holy Tree. Here, various fantastical ‘Dream Works’ are conceived and enacted, but the story telling has a darker side. Human beings ‘make believe’ these projected dreams and are highly suggestible to believing their content.

Propaganda films in the second world war, promoted accounts of real events which were at best biased and at worst misleading. Governments and interested parties remain keen to promote or un-promote social ideals in strategies; in plain sight, ‘social engineering’. A present-day example in my view, is the statistical over representation of certain ethnic groups on U.K. television, in advertisements depicting ‘typical’ families. In 1960’s U.S.A. this was what I call the perfect ‘Cornflake Family’ with a white husband, white wife, white son and white daughter downing their early morning dose of starch and glucose.

Random players in mainstream cinematic heavenly realms are adored and even worshipped by the masses. They are called ‘stars’ as if they had fallen from the sky as gods and goddess and awarded golden figures known as Oscars that stand somewhat stiffly in the manner of Osiris.

‘The love that moves the sun and the other stars‘.

Marilyn Monroe was all too eager to exploit the ‘Folly Wood’ games that were expected of her without abandoning her ‘

homespun alter ego of Norma Jean. To her credit she did this with ‘eyes wide open’, but like Icarus she flew too close the sun. Some say her lover, John F. Kennedy shared ‘pillow talk’ secrets about the presence of extra-terrestrials on earth, something allegedly explained to all American Presidents on their appointment.

The Nordic or Pleiadian male and female extra-terrestrials, are known for their highly attractive humanoid appearance. Perhaps Holy-Wood has a hidden agenda that is preparing humanity for a peaceful and gracious introduction to our extra-terrestrial cousins?

Even the most agnostic amongst us, still like to deceive children into believing a story about a benevolent, Jovial ‘god’ with a long white beard, who comes down the chimney at midnight on the winter solstice (solar dying), with a sack full of material goodies. These play things keep children amused until they break or the childs interest is diverted. This Capricorn character is the planet Saturn (or Satan) dressed as Old Father Time who sweeps away materiality and our bodies with his scythe, a truth we hide from the innocents.

Life seen in this way is mysterious, and many materialists and agnostics alike, are frustrated by not knowing the ‘meaning of life’. Things that we are encouraged to work for in life are sooner or later realised to be ephemeral delights, leaving just a few bones on our plates.

This life less reality that is sustained by scientific materialism is proving so lite, that many today are returning to the concept of a non-material spirituality; to the light.

‘We live in two universes – one held together by gravity and the other, the one Dante described, (in the Inferno) by ‘the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars’.

Extract from ‘The Sacred History’ by Jonathan Black page 272.

In summary let us return to the ‘solar God’ whom we may experience as the rising and falling tides of feelings and life in general. At the highest we experience ‘love’ and the lowest ‘the absence of love’. The Sufi’s such as Rumi quoted above, taught that ultimately all is Divine love. That love is the core of every human being because it is our own Divinity that resonates with and is ‘entangled’ with the Universal love existing in all time and space.

We are no more or less, creatures containing that Divinity that is described by so many cultures.

If we can choose to slow down and literally and ‘shut up’, we need not care about all these delusions, other than to know one simple ‘meaning of life’ which is;

‘I am’.

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Truth Against the World

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or “Duw y Digon” ; an ancient Welsh Druid Motto

Swinside Stone Circle picture credit: Wikipedia

The first authority over our personal truth that we encounter is within the family. Losing power to others is an experience that we mainly survive, but should this loss influence us beyond childhood?

Most social organisation, whether it be for religion, employment, education, health, defence or politics, consists of submitting to the will of others; what is termed ‘the greater good’.

It’s a system that Western societies inherited from their forefathers. Consequently, most forms of government rely on the obsequence of the masses; the most extreme example being communism where the interest of the State trumps individual rights.

Even in democracies, the majority is granted authority over the minority; however small the difference. The assumed ‘unchallengeable constant’ is, that all people have the same intelligence, education achievement and wisdom. Socrates was at odds with such a premise two millennia ago!

The question is not whether to submit to authority or not. Someone, somewhere will have a hold over you. The question is not then, how clever are they? The challenge for all of us is not to give away all of our freedom but just to ‘render to Caesar what is Caesar’s’ (Matthew 22:21).

Authority manifests itself in social systems most commonly as a pyramid shaped hierarchy. In politics there will be an ‘overlord’ such as a President or Prime Minister, Chancellor or Chairman or Monarch.

Below the ‘head of government’ there are layers of middle ranking politicians. Unelected bureaucrats disseminate and legislate the strategies of the politicians. The general population occupy the lower part of the pyramid believing they are represented by those above and give away their power.

The military use an undemocratic system of organisation. There is a self organising ‘pyramid of power’. The organisation discourages individuals from thinking for themselves, requiring unquestioning obedience to orders from those higher in rank.

Take this ‘pyramid organisation’ model and transfer it to other social organisations and we see control by a minority of leaders;

Religions – Popes, Priests, Rabbis, Imams, Shaman

Companies – Managing Directors, CEO’s, Owners and Oligarchs

Education – Ministers of State, Head Teachers, Professors, Chancellors

Health – Ministers of State, Hospital managers, General and Specialist practitioners.

There have been exceptions to this ‘hierarchy of merit’. Google, for instance, practised an egalitarian approach to management for a while. At meetings, no individual oversaw proceedings. Each had a theoretical ‘equal say’. What happened in reality was that the person with the strongest personality and loudest voice controlled the meeting, rather than the person or persons with the best ideas.

So far we have considered how hierarchical organisations function. Now let us view the issue from another angle. Is it not the case that there have been in history, two types of leaders; good ones and bad ones?

This may sound trite, but it is an important distinction!

High ranking politicians for example, make promises about what they will do in government if elected. Few discuss the means by which they will achieve this objective. In this way, ‘making America great again’ fails to include a description of what greatness is, how it is going to be achieved and who is going to benefit. It even fails to describe what is meant by ‘America’. Does that include Canada, Greenland, Mexico and South America? Or does it just mean U.S. (us)? Such vague leadership is historically the breeding ground of disappointment at best and catastrophe at worst.

We know in Europe there have been good monarchs and bad monarchs. The last good monarch in England is said to have been King John of England (1166 – 1216). He was persuaded to give his royal power to his Barons. ‘Good King Wenceslas’ was good but European Kings and Queens were too often flawed by greed, anger, adultery, criminality such as murder, drug dependency, jealousy, war warmongering, excess tax demands, madness, religious dogma and bigotry, black magic and worse.

Good and bad are of course not always simple to define. In modern times political ideologies have split voters between the right and left. This is true in both the United States of America and an increasing number of European countries.

To summarise; in democracies people they to vote for who they regard as good leaders. The definition of ‘good leaders’ is unlikely to be agreed upon!

A creative thinker might desire moving power away from this divided collective schizophrenia.

A stabilising element of this unstable social organisation, is truth. For millennia, humans have obeyed whatever ‘truth’ those to whom they have given their personal power. They have been obliged to trust those who claim to be their superiors but in fact they are just acting out their weaknesses and lies! Hans Christian Anderson’s literary folk tale entitled ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ mocks the absurdity of delusional leaders and describes the masses failing to speak the truth to power.

Eventually, authority without truth, declines and falls. The Roman Empire is one of the best examples of this. So is there benign alternative to the many shades of autocracy?

In the North American indigenous tribes there was an interesting alternative form of leadership and wise counsel. People of the tribe would sit in a circle to debate important decisions on equal terms. To prevent them all speaking at once, a single feather was handed around in turn and whoever held the feather was permitted to say their truth without interruption. This was called ‘goose leadership’ after the manner of geese in flight that take turns to hold the point position at the front of the flocks V formation.

The legendary King of Britain, King Arthur, declined autocratic rule. He changed his throne into a round table for himself and his knights. In doing so he showed he was prepared to listen to others. Debate was valued for the truth of others, independent of their rank. Perhaps this was Arthur’s metaphorical sword of truth, ‘Excalibur’; released from stone hard systems of government.

As the internet today spreads it’s influence around the globe (another Round Table), disparate individuals try to speak their truth, honestly without fear or favour; so called ‘free speech’.

Humans of all races, have more in common than differences and thrive when not divided by powerful ruling minorities. Even the languages that once divided, are now being instantly translated by artificial intelligence. The ‘wisdom of the crowd’ is the ability of large groups of people to come to a benign consensus of how life is best lived.

A recent survey was made in the United Kingdom asking young people for their favourite word in 2024. It was not ‘artificial intelligence’, but ‘kindness’. The fact that the coming generation have this truth already in their hearts is good news for the population of the world in 2025…and world leaders would be wise to graffiti this word across their round tables.

Authority over Truth or Truth over Authority?

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Part Two

‘There is little that cannot be explained in a few sentences;

sentences that may take a life time to understand.’

What is consciousness? Where is consiousness? Who is conscious of what?

The conscious ‘me’ is clearly gifted a material body but is my body me? Clearly not, but there is evidence that the opposite is true. People have clinically died and remained fully conscious outside of the body. To explain this phenomena, consciousness must exist in another medium and that we call ‘spirit’ or loosely in scientific terms, ‘energy’. What type of energy we will come to.

The concept of spirit outside of matter, is central to many world religions. The Christian priest will attend a person dying or conduct an exorcism and a Tibetan Buddhist will say prayers over a cadaver for several days. Curiously, religious representatives do not attend births. Perhaps this is because there is no agreed moment in gestation when spirit enters the foetus but certainly it does.

In this Ven diagram, is a simple representation of how matter and spirit lock together and what they share in common. Where matter and spirit overlap is a particular energy which modern science has not yet been able to detect and measure, but which has been described extensively across time and cultures as, ether Chi, Qi, Prana, Orgone, Vril, or when in the earth, the tellurgic current.

This invisible energy creates a portal, a zone where there is connection between both matter and spirit, which I shall term ‘ether’. The stronger the ether, the easier it is for consciousness to move between matter and spirit. There is no scientific proof for this other than that humanity throughout history has devoted vast amounts of time and resources to achieve just this effect in it’s magnificent structures and modes of worship.

Depiction of Spirit Entity at Altimira, Spain

Forty thousand years ago homo sapiens sapiens conducted Shamanic rituals in cave dwellings. They created their connection with the spirit world by painting on rock walls. Through these superbly representative paintings, spirit was able to enter the cave and infuse each sentient being with it’s presence. There is also a theory that important star constellations were also represented in these paintings. Cave dwellers would have developed a close relationship with star patterns and apparent movement of the night sky when viewing from the mouth of the cave; itself a domed observatory.

Chi is present in all nature and certain places and times amplify it’s power. This can stimulate ‘extra sensory perception’ in humans and a gateway into our material realm for non-corporeal beings. To this end, throughout history, most civilisations have used and enhanced Chi by building sacred buildings and using their unique qualities as ‘places of power’, to use a phrase from the Toltec Shaman, Don Juan in Carlos Castenada‘s books.

In Ancient Greece, elegant statues of gods were placed in Temples to invite the god to be present in the statue. When the monotheistic religions arrived such ‘idol worship’ was forbidden. This fear is a sure sign of how powerful early churches realised living gods occupying statues to be.

Ancient people’s, who today we would call a, seer, prophet, priest, magician, mason, water-diviner or Oracle, helped in the construction of sacred edifices of all kinds. Temples, obelisks, pyramids, causeways, megaliths, dolmens, wells or hill figures and many others can be found today all over the globe, often unseen or unrealised. Many modern authors have studied global alignments of such sacred monuments based on sacred geometry, alignments, distance and time.

Chi is accumulated and or channelled through these structures. Whilst later burials often occurred in or near them, their main function was generally ceremonial and as places of initiation. To amplify the Chi very similar techniques were used based on geometry, astral alignments and tellurgic currents; all of which have the combined effect of accumulating and focusing Chi on the human heart, right brain and pineal and pituitary glands.

Many historical and current researchers have documented and explain aspects of this sacred knowledge. Unfortunately, left brain biased archaeologists usually support only those theories based on matter, historical records and anthropology, without reference to the living spirit that was once sacred to ancient cultures.

My point in this essay is that by introducing the concept of an invisible but omni-present spirit into our understanding of the past, the relationship between our sensory experiences and our right brained, feeling based consciousness, becomes clear.

The more Chi is present both within and without of a human being, the more easily such a person can slip through the mirror into a world beyond. Consider Alice’s famous journey into the mirror and the inverted playing card world of dreams; where right is wrong and wrong is right. Never trust a flamingo.

Less flippantly we might examine how personal direction of thought is directed outward using personal power or Chi. It is the means through which prayer is sent; through the ethereal veil to ‘God’ or Universal ‘Mind’. Alice created her Wonderland by going within or ‘down the rabbit hole’.

Finally, we should appreciate spirit is able to pass through the veil towards humanity, boosted by Chi. A highly experienced ‘Dowser’ or ‘Water Diviner’ in Scotland for instance, describes grave yards as being places of concentrations of earth energy or Chi. This connects the earthly grave with the spirit world to which our consciousness is always connected. The common story of ‘ghosts’ inhabiting graveyards is a good example of the ‘twilight zone’ occupied by all sorts including the disembodied. The particularly time of year for this veil to thin is of course, ‘The Day of the Dead’ in Mexico and ‘All Hallows Eve’ in Christianity. The displays in shop windows of evil ecrutements for children is not something properly understood in my view.

Examples of portals for the spirit, exist in very old houses, natural features such as caverns, springs, geological features such as magmatic intrusions and dikes, towns and cities like Jerusalem.

What happens in such sacred sites and countries connects through grids and alignments to other countries and even around the world. For much of recorded history, the Holy Land played out a spiritual discourse, such as those narrated in the Old Testament and New. This global effect was so strong that the Crusades set out to ‘take’ Jerusalem for Christianity and suppress to the ‘infidel’. The history of these brutal Medieval wars is well known and yet continues to play out, often with the same disregard for the sanctity of life.

One might wonder what it is about this particular part of the globe that makes it a spiritually significant region for the monotheistic religions.

When the prophet Jesus the Christ is described in the Bible as ‘walking on water’, like many biblical narratives it has multiple meanings; some for the initiated and some not. Between the earthly and spiritual planes is what I have described as an ‘etheric’ plane. Ether similar or identical to Chi; it’s exact nature still defined by effect rather than cause.

It is said that Jesus ‘walked on water’ is a metaphor for the transition from the material into the etheric plane. The water represents ether and the body of Christ is his astral, not his physical body. Like much of spirituality, such things can be experienced and mastered during life; so as to ‘store treasure in Heaven’.

One of the functions of this ability to transcend our material bodies is to enable communication of the highest kind between spirit and mortals. Earth has been visited and given benign advice by angels and prophets many times in it’s history and these form the basis of mystery schools and mysticism but unfortunately much of the glory of such knowledge has historically and to this day, fallen victim of the self interest of religious leaders.

A left brain thought bias in the West leads many to consider only logically constructed thoughts, and yet some of the most important decisions we make in our lives originate in the right side of our brains. How we think is as important as what we think.

Finally, one must acknowledge that in the material world and it’s spiritual equivalent, there are tendencies to descend into chaos as well as to rise to perfection. The spirits that facilitate this amongst mankind are the angels and demons respectively. Through their benign and harmful machinations, human life has evolved into it’s present state of scientific materialism and atheism.

What is happening in this present time of uncertainty and human suffering is in my view, a product of ignoring the possibility and presence of non-material realms and those places and times that invite personal and collective ascension.