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.

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.