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As Within So Without

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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
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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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Physical Enlightenment

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‘To be conscious in this world is a prerequisite to be conscious in others.’

In recent years many people have ‘awoken’ to spirituality. Perhaps this from a rejection of religious dogma and the availability of spiritual ideas via the internet.

But what it appears to me is often missing in this spiritual revival is an emphasis on materiality. This may sound contradictory but read on.

In many spiritual traditions, one of the first realisations for the aspirant is how important the physical world is. The physical does not cancel out the spiritual and visa versa. From a non-dualistic perspective, the two are complementary, not mutually exclusive.

So before heading down the yellow brick road on one spiritual path or another my personal advice would be to take time to embrace everything practical and become healthy, wealthy and wise in the process. Controversially, I will say that to aspire to physical poverty as do many monastic traditions, is to aspire to spiritual poverty, as in the Hermetic law of ‘as above, so below.’

For me, aestheticism is a poor role model for those seeking enlightenment. Nevertheless, monasteries and nunneries in many countries are occupied by people who avoid being ‘in the world’ presumably in the belief that this puts them ‘on a path to enlightenment’. In practical terms, it is substituting difficulty with institutional routines. The intention to ‘be spiritual’ is sometime the root cause of never finding spiritual meaning in life.

In the Zen Buddhist stories from the East, a young person enters a monastery with an expectation to become spiritually enlightened, perhaps in the first few months or a year or two! Spotting this, the Zen teacher sets them to work in the monastery kitchen. When the meals are over and before the preparation of the next, the novice is given a broom and told to start sweeping. This carries on for years. If the aspirant’s ego gives in after years of being excluded from the spiritual rituals and routines of the monastery, they are appointed Abbot. The teaching was and is, learnt in the kitchen and dusty hallways, not the temple.

The Zen Master Dogen, wrote a practical manual entitled ‘How to Cook Your Life’. It drew parallel lessons between cooking in the monastery and spiritual training. It is available from Shambhala Publications.

It is easy to take physicality for granted, but this three dimensional ‘reality’ is a place where spiritual beings are sent to learn faster and more profoundly than it is possible in other dimensions. This process is known by Christian gnostics as ‘the Creator self knowing’. Certainly, physicality is not a life of ease. Whilst there is beauty and happiness, there is also ugliness and despair.

We would do well not envy the lifestyles of the wealthy and powerful in society who appear to have an easier life than those who have little money or power.

The love of money, as is said, does not bring happiness. Often we see that the poor have a much better chance of growing spiritually than the rich. Possessions are supposed to be bad for spirituality but the benefit is more in your attitude towards possessions and how this is reflected in yourself. Dressing up as a spiritual person, does not make you one. The best philosophy is to be in, but not of, this hologram of physical illusions.

For a person living in our time in a ‘developed’ country, what could be a rewarding spiritual path? As a perhaps unexpected metaphor, consider the ‘boot camp’ style of military training. This starts with the aim of breaking down the ego of the recruits with repeated humiliation. Only after weeks of physical and mental ‘beasting’ is the pressure reduced and replaced with constructive learning. This focuses on polishing boots, pressing uniforms, and keeping personal space clean and orderly, to a level of almost impossible perfection. The point is clearly not the physical tasks but mental resilience in order to excel in an endless cycle physical challenges. What is life if it is not a similar tumble drier of trials?

Members of Royal families face similar challenges, but in contrast to most of us, in an environment of opulence and wealth. Royal children are brought up to serve their nation within the parameters of strict protocols, not personal desire. In return, their every physical need is gratified by servants. Running the bath and cleaning up after the Corgis, royals do not learn. Here, ironically, having few or no physical challenges can be as spiritually disruptive as having too many.

A similar regime of service combined with wealth, governs the lives of high ranking officials in industry, government, and even religious orders. Wealth and power, can become an enormous distraction and many fall from office and spiritual grace through selfish greed.

So what of the ordinary human being who is not wealthy or powerful?

We might start with two aspects of our lives. Consider the physical body and the environment in which the body lives.

The human body is a miraculous and superb creation. You are only given one per lifetime so in my view it is important to treat it with the deepest respect. Jumping from aeroplanes and bridges for excitement is in my view disrespectful to your most sacred gift. Surely, we should be treating our body as if it were a prize race horse?

‘Horse Race’ picture credit: Museo Nacional

For the same reason, every aspect of the physical world is important to the spiritual aspirant. Simply put, every life lesson learnt in a human body, is a lesson that can be applied to the astral or spiritual body.

At the present time there are many ‘spiritual advisors’ advocating moving from this present three dimensional ‘reality’ into a fourth dimension or ‘new Earth’. Dolores Cannon had many insights on this process when she was alive. It is held that those not ready for this transition will not notice any change, and those who are prepared will move quietly ‘on’.

If this is possible and if this is what they want I wish them well. However, personally I regard the greatest challenges and rewards to be firmly here on Earth. Changing the scenery in a theatre does not change the characters or the plot.

In my view, having a deep respect for nature is probably the most important spiritual quality for individuals and human collectives at this time. To watch forests and animals and precious ecosystems be destroyed to support human ignorance and greed is heartbreaking. Similarly, war against one’s brothers and sisters on earth is anathema to spirituality.

We occupy the human learning fields in the present time. To leave this full-on learning environment at the time of it’s greatest need, is to leave an unpaid debt to future generations. I suggest that if we cannot master the fine balancing act between physicality and spirituality, we should at least give our children a chance to do so. Nature rebuilds eco-systems without help from humans, it is all a matter of how much damage has been caused and will an ethical case be made for protecting nature whilst it recovers?

To stroke an elephant or watch a lion sleeping in a tree are both physical and spiritual blessings; one gives life to the other.

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Getting into a Spin

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‘Everything in the Heavens is just through one unique Chi’    Zhuangzi

Please suspend judgement for a moment on what I am about to suggest; that it is my belief that much is missing from our scientific understanding of energy. Certainly the Unified Field Theory remains elusive to conventional science, but what of the energy that flows within living, conscious, nature? Is there a bond between electromagnetism and gravity, and whatever force powers life itself?

The ancient Chinese called the energy of living things, Chi. This is not the electricity that powers our muscles, organs, nerves and brain, although we are certainly electrical and magnetic. There is a more subtle energy within us but why do we understand it so little?

My suggestion is that Chi is always in constant motion and for that reason, hard to observe and measure. A propeller on an aeroplane becomes just a blur when it spins; it almost becomes invisible. Suppose then as a theory, that our chakras are always spinning. Perhaps the Hindus called them ‘wheels’ for this reason. To spin brings seperate elements together into one unity.

The analogy would be a child’s spinning top that when at rest has the full rainbow of colours visible. When it spins a rainblow of colours blurs into white.

If chakras spin, then it must be possible to increase their speed and balance. Imagine looking down through all the chakras in the body, perhaps in the body of a ballet dancer spinning on one foot. They would become a blur of white light.

Imagine also the feeling of being that ballet dancer. Because of the spinning motion, gravity has a reduced effect on a body. You have become a gyroscope. When spinning on an axis, a human body is generating and experiencing Chi, as well as centripedal force, and weighs less. Light has become a white blur to the human eye. The weight of the body is so reduced that the dancer can stand on just one toe, but only whilst spinning.

Consider a more extreme example. When a high level of Chi is achieved by mystics and adepts of various disciplines such as Yoga, the less effect gravity has on the body. Mystics such as Padre Pio and adepts from the East such as yogis, demonstrated levitation through their high level of Chi. Some even had to be held down to prevent them from floating.

Saint Alfonso Liguori

Undertakers will tell you that a deceased body is heavier than a living body. Four men are needed to carry a corpse, while one person may lift and carry a living body. After death, Chi leaves.

‘Life is the gathering of Chi. When it disperses, we die.’          Zhuangzi

The most well known example of spinning for spiritual experiences, are the Whirling Dervishes. The dance represents the planets spinning and moving around the sun, the Sheikh. It raises the personal Chi of the dancers and induces ecstatic states of unity with the Divine.

Consider the same principles of nature at a different scale.

The weather patterns across the globe are vortexes of high and low air pressure. These spin constantly and the churning of the moisture and particles in the air creates static electricity.

Tall buildings on Earth, attract lightning and modern buildings are earthed for this reason but the ancients wished to direct high charges of electricity into and from their sacred buildings with associated Chi.

At the Great Pyramid of Cheops for instance, there are pavements of fulgurite, a rock created when sand is melted into glass by lightning.

The Ancient Egyptians were masters of Chi energy for it’s various benefits in sustaining mind and body, ritual and intitiation, communication, construction and fertility in fauna and flora. The scarab beetle is an intriguing choice of archetypal symbol until it is considered that it rolls spheres of dung, similar in essence to the movement of the sun and the solar system.

Many of the ancient buildings and cities were constructed so as to produce the best benefit from natural and artificial lines and confluences of Chi. The Chinese were adept at this and perhaps the name of their country contains a reference to this! Certainly their science of Feng Shui meaning Wind Water, was carried out with particular attention to the local environment, the earths magnetism and the planets and stars. Even in modern times, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank was placed and aligned according to the principles of Feng Shui, for prosperity in the exchange of money.

In all other parts of the world Chi is associated with the patterns of flow of underground water and aquifers. This affects every building however humble and is particularly relevant to sacred buildings. The effect of Chi a the high levels that these buildings generate, is to induce a feeling of Divine love and spiritual initiation in congregations. The coloured light and rituals were only ever distractions. More cosmic energies were at work. The clever use of natural light through alignment of windows and doors with solar solstices and equinoxes into sacred spaces is found even in the most ancient of constructions such as New Grange in Ireland and the Temples of Abu Simmel in Egypt.

Of course the energy of the Sun and the stars are vital to the welfare of life on Earth, and much has been written on their influence in the field of Astrology and Astronomy. The former includes the energetic effects of cyclic stellar gyrations, whilst the latter observes matter through the electromagnetic spectrum.

Nicola Tesla, the great prophet of electrical phenomena such as radio, maintained that electricity is a degraded form of Chi. As we understand there is an electro motive force associated with a wire carrying electrical current, it is possible that the currents of rivers and oceans attract Chi in a similar way? Is Chi transfered to humans from the landscape by induction? It is interesting that humans are attracted to such places for leisure and restoration. In the context of this essay, the generator uses this principle to convert a rotational force into electricity. Could not all spinning motion be generators of Chi in a similar way, even as we observe in the nucleus and spinning electrons of sub-atomic matter?

Could the ancients raise Chi in a huge stone block so as to make it levitate? If so, this would certainly explain how pyramids and megalithic sites like Stone Henge were constructed. There is a record of Tibetan Buddhists using sound from horns and chanting choirs to lift large stone blocks.

The fissures in the rocks beneath our feet naturally fill with flowing water. Where two such water courses cross, they create a vortex sometimes apparent as a spring. Wells are dug in such places. What is interesting is that such underground water creates Chi in a particular place. This was controlled in ancient times by the placing of massive stone – preferably containing high levels of mineral crystals. Different crystals give off electromagnetic waves at differing frequencies as in radio technology today. The pyramids of Giza were capped by a crystal above a gold pyramidion, according to John Michell in ‘The View Over Atlantis.

It is speculated that the anti-gravity effects of Chi could have been used to lift the massive stone blocks to build such structures as the pyramids.

If one examines the simplest principals in ‘anti gravity’ flying machines such as Schaubergers shown below, the vortex is fundamental to the effect that Earth’s gravity has on matter; gravity can be reduced to zero.

Victor Schauberger’s Vortex Engine picture credit: Xaluannews.com

The scientist Wilhelm Reich designed a box to store Chi or, as he called the elusive energy, Orgone. The box was made of layers of organic and inorganic material. A person sitting in the box received a slow charge of orgone. Unlike heat, which goes from a high source to a lower place, orgone moves from a low source to a higher place in a manner that constantly builds up a charge and requiring a discharge.

Ancient structures such as cathedrals appear to have a knowledge of this. The spire in a cathedral concentrates orgone as it ascends up to the point of the spire where Chi is discharged into the atmosphere. The effect can be neutralised by earthing the energy with a copper strip connecting the top of the spire to the earth below.

The pyramids of Egypt and around the world functioned similarly using the principle of the ascending whilst narrowing geometry of a pyramid. The Chi was concentrated at one-third intervals of it’s height where in Giza the Cheops pyramid was constructed without a peak and pyramidion. This was to cap and retain Chi within the sacred chambers of the pyramid.

The King’s chamber is positioned and constructed geometrically as a double cube, so that the effect of a high exposure to Chi induced change in the brain of initiates. Kings, queens, priests and gnostic aspirants would have undergone this as a powerful spiritual initiation. Chi was clearly linked with the ultimate goal for ancient Egyptians, a prolonged and prosperous life outside of the deceased body.

Ultimately, everything is energy – even matter – and the understanding of the effects of all types of energy on human beings is as important as it is for a surfer to understand ocean waves.

Although it is easier to observe the inanimate, material, and stationary, the next step for science, in my view, is to observe the energetic effects of movement in the vast and tiny gyrations of life.

I nature the vast and flowing Chi…it is immense and powerful. When cultivated with integrity and without harm, it fills all space between Heaven and Earth’          

Mengzi     

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The Study of Nothing

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I am who I am and that is enough              Bashar   ‘You are God in human form’ You Tube

In many parts of the world there exists a tradition of ‘non-sense poetry’. In Victorian 19th-century England, one of the greatest exponents of this was Lewis Carroll.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

The joke was to move away from the expected in a manner that jolts the reader or listener into a ‘new perspective on the world’ – a journey through the looking glass.

Educators of the mind are appalled if any of this poetry is taken seriously. Scholarly academic method has, for many centuries, led the world of education. Any statements which are clearly not factual are denounced, and their originators flung from the metaphoric castle walls of academia. Nonsense is clearly only for kids.

In an ‘information age’ when artificial intelligence tries to explain all and everything, it struggles with spirituality. Ironically, spirituality requires a reversal of learning, of  habitual, judgmental, invented, edited and prejudiced content from the past.

For the spiritual aspirant, this method of ‘removal’ or ‘overriding’ of established thought patterns is not new. In Sufism, there is a concept of ‘Ma’rifa’ which is an ‘attunement’ or intuitive understanding which manifests as the voice within.  This is the product of the seclusion of the mind from attachments in general and a mastery of being a true observer of oneself and everything.

In Zen Buddhism the teacher aims to stop the student’s self-conscious attempts to learn ‘the Zen Way’ because Zen is no more than a drop of rain perched on the end of a leaf or the catching of an umbrella casually dropped.

Such ‘no thought’ is difficult to understand, which is reasonable from the point of view of a Westerner who relies on thinking to exist.

I think, therefore I am                                                                                        Rene  Descartes

There is a third option available, which is somewhere between these two extremes of thinking and not thinking. That is, ‘resonating with thoughts which originate outside of oneself’. In a metaphor of the human mind as a computer, these are ‘downloads’. These not only affect the individual, but also the planet and ultimately, the entire Universe.

Humankind, we are told, is entering a new dimension of reality sometimes referred to as the ‘New Earth’. In July 23rd 2025 the Schumann Resonances from the planet underwent an extreme event. All the vibrational frequencies between 4 and 40 Hz lit up on the geophysicist’s measuring instruments.

This level of disruption is a product of a bombardment of charged ions (the solar wind) from coronal mass ejections and the interaction with the Earth’s magnetosphere.

Such ‘energetic activity’ prompts the inquiry as to what type of energy? How is this ‘energy’ perceived by human beings if not through the five senses and seven main chakras?

Humans have always been responsive to the environment but we are limited in our minds by learnt behaviour. Prejudice, unconscious thought patterns and the desire to please others, a lack of mental adventure and repetition on past experiences known as ‘habit’, are strong inhibitors to experience the ‘paranormal’.

If the average person in the street was challenged regarding the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence and the imminent arrival of inter-dimensional beings, they would probably respond with derision.

In a growing minority of more open thinkers, however, there is a referral to ‘moving into a higher frequency’ and ‘learning how to resonate with vibrations’. Such ideas are, in my view, not a true description. Pseudo-scientific metaphors using references to ‘energy’ without first defining what sort of energy, is prone to criticism..

Nevertheless, I personally have observed signs of energies that are not electromagnetic, or magnetic or static electricity or gravity. Ancient buildings and megaliths across the planet and time, display a conscious manipulation of an unknown organic force known as Chi, Prana, Vril, Orgone and different names in many cultures.

Electromagnetic Energy Focused in the Great Pyramid of Cheops, Giza picture: phys.org

So it is not absurd to suggest that the human body collects, stores and emits a type of  energy in a similar way to the planet. The vital life force of Chi is fundamental to the practice of Chinese acupuncture and is prescribed by many medically trained doctors.

The chakras are nodes positioned below, within and above the human body ‘. I am personally, not convinced that high frequencies have more value than low frequencies. In our perception of light and sound, we benefit from all frequencies, whether high or low. Likewise, our physical senses work simultaneously to provide a working representation of ‘reality’ to our brains. An analogy would be an orchestra producing an experience from a range of instruments tuned to low and high frequencies, from tubas to piccolos.

Perhaps the best advice is to surrender to the way things are. Surrender requires ‘unlearning’ and also attunement to everything outside of our small mental sphere, the brain. It is perhaps one of the greatest realisations encountered on the spiritual path and requires no preparation or knowledge, but rather a revealing of what was always there.

Whatever the future holds, the old world and our individual egos will resist change. When Jesus the Christ said that ‘the meek shall inherit the earth’, he was not suggesting Marxism or the World Economic Forum’s ‘you will own nothing and be happy’.

Rather, this is a spiritual maxim, advocating surrender, from which the benefits are the greatest gift of all.

‘….see what synchronicity brings you with the willingness to let go of all restrictions, all limitations, all assumptions and all insistences that in your unconscious, subconscious and conscious mind don’t actually serve you or align with the true vibration of your true ethereal, spiritual core…’                             

Bashar

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Magick, Majesty and Matrix

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‘The world is an illusion, a dream. It only appears to be real

to the person who is unaware that it is a dream.’ Alan Watts

There is a famous story about a trickster named Rumpelstiltskin. The daughter of a Miller must spin straw into gold. Her father has promised the King she has this skill, but she does not. A strange impish man appears and spins straw into gold on behalf of the Miller’s daughter for three nights. In return, she has to promise him her firstborn child. When she marries the king, she forgets her promise. So, the strange man appears again and demands her child, but she refuses. He says she has three days to guess, otherwise he will take the child. A servant happens to find the little man who is singing a rhyme, which includes his name. The Queen reveals she now knows his name, and Rumpelstiltskin sinks into the ground.

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The story has appeared in different guises but has the same structure worldwide. Academics have categorised the form as ‘The Name of the Supernatural Helper’ in the genre of ‘fairy tales’.

Like most such tales, it hides meanings beyond the level of a nursery audience. The Miller is clearly also a trickster archetype, as he tells a complete lie to the King, putting his daughter in peril of being called a fraudster. She, in turn, must make a Faustian bargain with the Devil to hide the truth from the King.

It is worth noting that politics today contains similar patterns of lies and pacts with hopelessly untrustworthy tricksters, for personal power and gain. Both President Putin in Russia and the Zionist Israeli government have invaded and made war with their neighbours, disproportionate to the threat posed to their own countries. They expect the world to be fooled by their deceit. A trickster ‘Trump’ ineffectively poses as a ‘peace maker’ to gain a gold medal.

Historically, Jeffrey Epstein is alleged to have made pacts on behalf of shadowy organisations with a view to shaming and blackmailing public figures. He could not spin golden threads from straw, but he convinced many that he could.

Such alluring but shady dealing describes the energy of the trickster archetype well.

To the princess, the character of Rumpelstiltskin is both a blessing and a curse. Psychologically, the creature represents the trickster archetype within her own shadow animus. ‘Stiltskin visits her at night and produces the desired golden threads each morning for three days, to get her out of trouble. It is worth noting that three is a magical number, as in the expression ‘third time lucky’. Names, numbers and spells sustain the suspense of this story.

The transmutation of base matter into gold is a representation of an alchemical and psychological mutation of lead into the noble metal gold, and a feminine persona and a male animus into a noble human, respectively. Perhaps the Miller’s daughter learnt risky deceit for personal gain from her father – her animus model?

We must question why the gold is spun into gold ‘threads’ instead of, say, gold coins? The spinning wheel is again a very ancient symbol. Mahatma Gandhi used it to represent ‘honest work’ to make a political point, but the wheel also represents ‘wholeness’ and the turning of the Universe we call ‘time’.  

picture credit:
Ancient Egypt Online

A sphere is the shape on the crown of the great creator and sun god Ra.

A thread is another old symbol going back to Ariadne and the Minotaur in ancient Greece. It represents the ability of the rational mind to follow a line of reasoning, the product of which today is the basis of science. A thread also suggests woven cloth or carpets, as in the magic carpets of the One Thousand and One Nights tales. Today, the World Wide Web is capable of transporting anybody anywhere in the world instantly.

The whole of the ‘reality’ in which we live has been described as an illusory matrix. In The Matrix cinematic trilogy, the character Neo can move from one reality into another. The Matrix is depicted on a computer screen as lines of descending pictograms. This is certainly an oversimplification and a product of the limits of computers when the film was made.

picture credit: Hindu American Foundation

Two eminent scientists, University of London physicist David Bohm, a protégé of Einstein and one of the world’s most respected quantum physicists, and Stanford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram have put forward a theory that the whole Universe is a hologram. In his book ‘The Holographic Universe’ Michael Talbot describes a ‘revolutionary theory of reality’. We may be familiar with lasers producing talking images of people located elsewhere in real time. There is now a holographic performance by the Swedish pop group ABBA in a London theatre, which many find remarkably real.

Abba Voyage in London: picture credit The Standard Newspaper

A holographic Universe involves ‘warping and wafting’ lines of information-rich energy to create what humans experience as matter. The ancients demonstrated the pivotal moment of their supreme control of matter by building the pyramids on the Giza plateau. Their dynastic evolution moved from an energetic world focused on minor gods and the afterlife, into solid matter.

In a way, this is what Rumpelstiltskin is doing. He uses golden straw to create the eternal element, Au or Gold. Intriguingly, the symbol Au derives from the Latin aurum, for Aurora, the goddess of dawn. Each day, poetically, the beginning of a new world; a new beginning for mankind, and the Miller’s daughter. So perfect are her tricks that she transforms herself from a humble citizen into a Queen. This is the alchemical marriage, as depicted in many of the Alchemist’s works and represents spiritual perfection.

In the story, Rumpelstiltskin says that he wants nothing except a living child. He has mastered the material world and now craves what he can not create, a living child, or you might say, consciousness. This also happens to be the limit of modern science, but perhaps Artificial Intelligence will take up the role of the ancient demigods?

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The Agent Smith character/s in the film The Matrix are demonic autonomous programmes which have penetrated the firewalls of The Oracle and threaten humankind.

Key to unravelling the complex layers of our story is the riddle of the trickster’s name. Today, passwords allow us to enter a programme and keep others out.

Words represent ideas, and ideas are the initial stage of the Creation process. ‘In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God.’ (John1.1)

In magical spells, words and their ‘spelling’ are important. The most well-known might be ‘Abracadabra’, which it has been suggested to mean ‘may it be so’. It is a spell of manifestation and, more darkly, deconstruction. Abracadabra can be spoken, losing one letter at a time to ‘deconstruct’ something.

Rumpelstiltskin, somewhat vainly, believes the princess will never discover his name. Commonly, tricksters can become victims of their vanity and underestimate those whom they are trying to deceive. The politics of the USA today is poisonous with self-important deceivers.

So fundamental to his very existence is the name Rumpelstiltskin that when revealed, he physically deconstructs as a programme uninstalls.

He never achieves his goal of possessing and perhaps creating life. He is beaten at his own game of deceit by one who is more deceitful. The Miller’s daughter has done this by confronting the mischievous spirit within herself. When humans confront their shadow side in this manner, they become whole or ‘holy’. The trickster disappears.

A child will readily listen to this tale, not knowing and not needing to know its levels of meaning. It is a healing story; one that may be carried through life as a mental ‘anti-virus’ programme, always scanning for what will spin the creation process through the realm of dreams.

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The Problem Problem

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The problem with problems is that their solution requires skilful analysis and creativity.

This is obvious except – who teaches problem solving? Overcoming difficulties is something we expect children to ‘pick up’, as learnt behaviour. By the time we reach adulthood, overcoming complex challenges is assumed to have been mastered. Yet, the problems that we encounter through life, if not solved properly, can have just a devastating effect on our lives as a metaphorical bomb. It is the same for those in charge of large corporations and governments who are known to rely on learning from failure as a somehow justifiable, problem solving technique. The joker advises, ‘try everything until something works’.

There is a story which you are likely to know, about a group of people in a dark room describing an elephant. Each holds and touches a different part of the elephant, which stands patiently; wondering where the light switch is. At the end of their examination each describes the unique part of the elephant that they have examined. None of the participants has an overview of what the whole elephant looks like, so they are all wrong.

It’s a wise story. What it tells us is that everything is not as it appears. Many things are extremely complex and far larger than our expectations and experience and greater than our abilities to interact with them constructively.

As we go through a physical life on planet Earth, we are constantly challenged. The material world is in a constant state of entropy, causing repeated and unexpected disruption, such as your car breaking down or your body ageing.

Because we are human, our ego’s present us with a story about ourselves which says optimistically, ‘I can cope’ or pessimistically ‘I have to die sometime’. If we took a step back and looked at the problems humans suffer, our sense of ‘everything’s alright’ would be replaced humility without pessimism.

Religions have picked up on this and many require the congregation to fall to their knees in the face of that elephant that sits in our minds; vanity.

Yet, is it not courageous to look adversity in the face and smile? There is an archetype of this model which is ‘the hero’. He or She is a humble human who manages to overcome all sorts of impossible problems and captures the prize! Whether this is Odysseus on his epic voyage or Superman defending New Yorkers; heroes have super natural knowledge and powers.

Or do they?

In native communities, education of children consists of physically showing them the problems of bush-life and how to overcome them. An Australian First Nation child will be shown how to collect honey from trees without being attacked by bees and leaving enough for the colony to survive.

But in modern fast changing societies, complex problems are expected to be solved by those who have no prior instruction or experience. Government ministers frequently display an extraordinary naivety when it comes to their principal role, which is to allocate resources and make laws that solve society’s problems.

The examples are numerous. In the UK and many other nations, people are landing on beaches and demanding asylum; as is their right in most countries. The ‘sticks and carrots’ that have led them there are numerous and complex.

Attempts by nation states such as Spain, Greece, Italy and the United Kingdom to ‘stop the boats’, take hold of merely the elephants tail whilst imagining the little tassel on the end is the elephant. One government suggested that a threat of deportation to a third country will stop people reaching their shores in unsafe boats. Another political party takes hold of the metaphorical elephant’s leg and suggests that putting the organisers in jail will stop the problem; which again will not be ineffective because the elephant is not a leg.

In the Middle East, you have to ask what problem Israel’s government is currently trying to solve with open hostility against it’s neighbours. Problems of the people of the tribe Judea go back millennia, yet the Zionist government repeatedly tries to argue that the present problems started on 7 October 2024. Were it so simple to be true. Were the whole truth be known.

When the Sars-2 Covid virus was ‘mysteriously’ released in 2021/22, the problem was not examined in full, and when a solution was required, the pharmaceutical companies were able to react almost immediately. Inquiries into the response to the pandemic uncover ineffective, wildly expensive responses. Countries that did almost nothing like Sweden, and much of Africa came out the best.

The ‘Do Do’ was a bird that flourished on the island of Mauritius until humans appeared in wooden sailing ships. The hapless birds wandered around in a dream, not expecting to be eaten by hungry sailors. The flightless birds had failed to solve their problem. The Portuguese word ‘do do’ means ‘stupid’ which the birds were not, but victims of those who should have understood sustainability.

Today, humans are facing similar population collapse or even extinction from multiple directions.

In my view, oligarchs and corporations, secret societies, media moguls, ‘big pharma’, the military industrial complex, and international criminal organisations exploit human weakness of poor problem solving by deliberately making problems. Interference in elections, rumour and propaganda, distortion of truth, psychological warfare, hacking, negative suggestion, assassination by ‘dirty tricks’, creating riot and unrest, reducing and disrupting food supplies, and many other techniques, are deployed against unwary populations. All whilst any government that genuinely cares for it’s citizens, is running to catch up.

Understanding the causes of problems is the first step to find a solution. The problem must be understood in every aspect of it’s nature and origin, in a unbiased and factual manner. Then a tested solution that is ‘cost benefit’ proven, has to be found and implemented in a timely manner.

When examining the many problems today, all over the world, you might expect a supposedly neutral and unbiased organisation such as the United Nations to have a department that is expert in defining and solving problems. The Secretariat, the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly are ideally placed to work in this way, and yet world problems continue to cascade out of control. The United Nations has bravely spoken out early about the genocide in Palestine, but has not stopped it.

Stopping a descending spiral of harm, characteristic of weak problem solving, becomes a battle with a Giant, that even global organisations with their huge resources can not win.

Have we put the Do Do’s in charge?

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The Ki Key

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The Hidden Energy of Life

Western science has many new discoveries to make. The key to unlock the unknown is the simple question; ‘what do we not understand?’

For example; ‘we do not understand energy that is not electromagnetic.’

Such energies must exist as biological energetic processes called ‘life’, have no explanation. We do not have to look far into history and the present day to find indicators of knowledge of another type of energy. In ancient India it was called Prana, in Ancient China – Chi and in Ancient Japan -Ki. In the West it was named ‘Orgone’ by Wilhelm Reich.

This biological energy is commonly linked to healing such as Acupuncture and Reiki but it’s uses are more varied than that.

If we start with the human body, we have evidence that the Ancient Egyptians regarded the body as a receiver of energy from the sun as shown in this image.

The Ankh is a symbol of life and is being held up to absorb the solar rays. Today we are familiar with aerials receiving radio and television in a similar manner.

This biological energy is mapped as pervading the entire human body by Acupuncture practionitioners. The cause of the healing was not understood beyond the concept of ‘Chi’ energy, but the effects were, and it is so effective, it is still in use today.

If we follow the idea of the solar energy as associated with a biological energy from the Cosmos, then the seven planets of ancient times, also affect life on earth through their energetic characteristics. In ancient Greece they were deified as minor gods or archetypes, whose influence as precise ‘qualities’, pervaded every aspect of individual and collective behaviour on Earth. Today we call this astrology.

The energy from the planets affects each of the seven life energy nexuses in the human body known in ancient India as Chakras. Our consciousness as human beings is firmly linked with the ‘heavens’ in this way; obeying the Hermetic principle of ‘as above so below, as below so above.’

The Ancient Chinese combined heaven and humans with the planet earth, represented by the pictogram similar to the capital letter E. The evidence for ‘Ki’ is greatest in the form of the ancient structures built all around the globe.

There is increasing interest in the ‘energetic’ characteristics of megastructures such as pyramids, temples, churches and cathedrals, earthworks, roads, earthworks, hill figures, artificial cave networks and megaliths. All across the ancient world these structures were intricately aligned with and connected to this subtle energy associated with the movements of the sun, moon and the planets, earth and water. Modern water diviners are sensitive to the energy associated with underground water and can tell the water’s volume, depth and speed accurately.

Pyramids are found on every continent of the world (including Antarctica) and it is likely they were connected as a global network to balance and share this subtle energy globally; including sharing information. The present ‘world wide web’ is an analogous modern version of the same form and function.

Examination of the physiology and anatomy of the earth shows that this subtle ‘earth energy’ is associated locally with faults and fissures, springs and wells, water falls which were recognised by local indigenous tribes and cultures as ‘sacred’ with supernatural powers.

They were places where the physical third dimension met other dimensions and acted as ‘portals’ for other entities to interact with humans. In ancient times this was more common as humans were conscious of these subtleties and gods such as Athena would appear in human form to give advice, as recorded in ancient Greek legends. These entities overlap with the experience of so called ‘extra terrestrials’ today; more likely inter-dimensional intelligences who have never left planet Earth.

There was and is a mechanical reality to the generation, manipulation and storage of this subtle energetic system. Pyramids, barrows, dolmens and stone circles are a few of the centres of power used to interconnect and store energy for many purposes such as healing and initiation. The burials that took place at the end of civilisations have been incorrectly focused upon by modern archaeologists. If evidence is needed consider relatively modern Gothic cathedrals which were built for the living, not the dead.

This subtle energy was recorded by the psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich and he named it ‘orgone’. He saw that it accumulated in the human body and was discharged in the orgasm. Orgone is attracted to orgone and does not dissipate like heat energy. Nature can be seen to operate in the same cycle of build-up and discharge. The most familiar would be the accumulation of negative and positive ions in the earth and atmosphere, and the electrostatic discharge of lightning.

The ancient megastructures worked in harmony with nature in this way to regulate the natural flow of energy through the landscape in the same way as a capacitor and resistor in an electric circuit.

Weight and the pressure it creates was known by ancient builders to amplify this subtle energy. In a similar manner, quartz and other crystals build up and discharge piezo-electricity when compressed. The lintels over the uprights at Stone Henge and the T-shape upright stones at Gobleki Tepe in Turkey, performed this function as do the pyramids. It is clear that temples in Ancient Egypt, Greece and Italy have too many columns just to support the roof. Their precise orientation to the magnetic flux of the planet, matching proportions with the golden mean and phi geometry of human body, indicate a primary function of sacred edifices as centres for healing, heightened awareness and initiation.

Finally, to experience this energy within one’s own body, there is a Yogic principle known as ‘kundalini’. This is depicted as a snake (or modern static wave form energy ) and is associated with the spinal column; also in wave form. In my view, the subtle energy which the Yogis call ‘prana’ is in a constant state of build up and discharge, before, throughout and after one’s life. There is no single ‘awakening’ moment when the Kundalini rises up the spine as is sometimes described. Rather the motion of the snake is as seen in nature as a perpetual ascension through the energetic nexuses (chakras). The accumulation purges and cleanses each chakra in turn until discharged naturally in sexual union or used for the process of ‘enlightenment’. For this reason and purpose, many mystics were and are, celibate.

The importance of subtlety of this primal ‘life energy’ awaits formal ‘discovery’ and scientific experimentation and explanation. We can be sure at this moment in history that human beings have forgotten what was once known and drove much of human spiritual evolution for thousands of years.

In my view, now is a good time to re-discover what we have lost, particularly as modern archaeology unearths new evidence almost daily. All that is necessary for archaeologists to advance their theories to another level, and replace ‘grave robbery’ with an understanding of esoteric energy; known once as key to the general advancement of human spirituality, but long ago forgotten.

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Stones and Plants

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Having reached what is known in common parlance as ‘a ripe old age’, there occurs to me certain insights about the nature of human beings.

Principally, one is given to conclude that human souls, during their own short but sweet personal evolution, consist of two types;

The first might considered to be ‘stones’; that is having as much knowledge and personal charm as a stone. This is not to ‘put down’ the mineral kingdom through comparison with those who are more obviously ‘alive’ and ‘should know better’. Indeed I have personally a great regard for stones of all kinds, as a result of my scientific theoretical understanding of ‘geology’ and ‘geomorphology’ and an artistic appreciation of the significant contribution of stones to the beauty of landscapes. Indeed I have in my possession companion stones, exhibiting curious colours, shapes, sizes, weights etc., as well as natural crystals of miraculous hues and geometries, precious minerals derived from 0res, and indeed a house made entirely of stones giving me shelter from whatever the weather and life is inclined to throw at me. Stones, in short, rock.

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More metaphysically, I am one of those stark-raving-mad-nics who regard the mineral kingdom as having a complete social structure. This comprises of a noble King and Queen, courtiers and other ‘hangers on’ who are likewise, to be found in the human realm, where matters of high office and rank are ‘out for grabs’. It is true for me, and no doubt certain other ‘cranks’ party to ‘outlandish persuasions’, that the entire earth’s crust and what is below, goes about it’s business in a most conscious, caring and controlled manner. What I am trying to say is that the whole mineral kingdom is as much alive as you or I, but slower…look at a geological time chart to see how aeons pass by as stones do, in short, very little. As one who is a mere butterfly in comparison to the length of life of minerals, I believe that conscious evolutionary changes are almost impossible to observe in stones due to their considerable slow rate of change in all aspects of their lives. From another perspective, we to stones are no more than a spark lifted out of a metaphorical camp fire, which exhausts itself on oxygen in less than a second.

It is this particular quality of stones that brings them to mind as an apt metaphor for the subject of this essay; which I promise I shall come to when the twinkle of the moment is ‘right’. You see, in my unique and therefore unusual opinion, there are certain human beings who are born, live and die with much the same enthusiasm, as a stone. Their brief nascence appears to be a complete quandary to them; to and about which they show little curiosity or even care. They probably are not conscious that ‘existence’ is, in contrast, an issue of considerable fascination for others in their society. As a result, their life consists of certain fixed stations and ideas, about all and nothing, with which they bore those who are unfortunate enough to be within earshot of them. The aspirations of these ‘stone people’, one might conclude, are summarised in the word, horizontal.

Such stones are not the type with whom you wish to spend time in awkward situations, such as ‘stuck-in-a-lift’ or ‘drifting-in-a lifeboat’, following the occurrence of a power cut or submersion of a poorly navigated ocean liner.

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Least of all to be desired, is the idea of forming a relationship with them if you any have a regard for wonder in life; with all it’s twists and turns and curiousnesses. Should you mention in polite conversation or correspondence to one of these mineralised munchins, a matter of considerable interest to yourself, you can certainly expect a glazed expression in place of an informed response, followed by a ‘passing on or over’ your interests in order to talk about something more agreeable to themselves, such as the price of cheese or cucumbers.

On the other hand, patient reader, as you probably are, up until now, eagerly anticipating information about the alternative human type; ‘champ at the bit’ no more. For there is a type of homo sapien sapien who exhibits a completely opposite metaphorical disposition to life than stones; these are ‘plants’. In a sustainably organic way, these merry souls plough through life, planting seeds, irrigating fields, de-pesting, fertilising and generally invigorating life’s very soil, in extremis. Naturally they pass on this envigoration to all fellow humans with whom they come into contact.

Theirs is a life exhibiting a general compulsion to explore ever aspect of their inner self as well as the eminently curious and absorbing exterior world. If change of direction is needed, they will mentally and emotionally transform themselves upwards, in order to enjoy new vistas and ways of seeing, much as in the manner of a broad bean plant escaping the humdrumness of ‘root consciousness’. One is reminded of the wisdom of Jack and his fabled ‘Stalk of a Bean’ through the ascent of which, he returned with a notable harp and a hen that laid solid 24 carat gold eggs.

picture credit: Jack and the Beanstalk – a silent film – (1902)

Being ‘rooted’ is no more an insurmountable challenge for humans of the plant-like nature, than it is for a physically disabled person to overcome their ‘limitations’ and discover wonderful gifts, that otherwise would have been unknown or unavailable to them.

In summary, plant people are eminently the best to grow with, and if you let them, they will lift you out of any circumstance in which you might find yourself ‘rooted’. They will always find out about some thing or matter if they do not know the answer, because they are aware of the fluid nature of knowledge and the fact that ‘not knowing’ carries no shame or closure of opportunities, but is eminently instructive and a ‘good moist and shady spot to start’. In an entirely organic manner, a plant person will carry you along with a skip in their step and a smile on the tips of their leaves, waiting to respond to a challenge, good or bad, and in so doing, gaining the attitude and skill of being able to overcome anything.

With a small amount of reflection and observation of future meetings and relationships with those whose nature is enclosed in a homo sapien sapien animal body, you should, I advise you; be acutely in remembrance of these two human types.

The magic of Mother Earth and Plants meeting;
Spherical Plasma Information Vortexs’s at work in Wiltshire, England this month.

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Perhaps this knowledge begins some self reflection as to in which corner you reside? If it does, then it is my personal understanding and belief that we are all to different extents and purposes, sometimes a rock and sometimes a plant and sometimes neither; the latter, from which, nothing good will happen.

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Whirled Without End

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The beginning of now…

When we look at the art of ancient times it is striking how the world is represented in two dimensions. From the beautiful court scenes from Mogul India, Japanese and Chinese evocations of nature, the wall paintings of Egypt and Mayan and Aztec relief sculptures of Central America.

At the same time and for too long, the world was conceived as a flat plain. If you travelled too far you would fall off. It’s an understandable world view, yet the believers in this theory never questioned how deeply a well could be dug before a hole appeared.

This perceptual paradigm was founded in a vague adherence to the dominion of the Divine Male. The Old Testament God was a man – naturally. Animals marched into Noah’s perfectly measured Ark, 2×2 and cells have been splitting that way ever since.

Roman armies marched in two step time and in battles formed orderly squares allowing all round defence.

Sacred buildings were rigidly formal and measured, such as the Parthenon in Ancient Athens. The Ancient Egyptians were equally inspired by formal and exact right angled geometry.

This male principal permeated the theory of design and practice and in doing so formed a reliable and solid ground work for our modern era.

When I became a student of architecture the tutors ask us on our first day what we would bring to architecture. Somewhat naively and immodestly I said I would bring the curve back to architecture. Even headlights on cars in the 1970’s, headlamps on cars were changing from being round to square.

I had a feeling of a ‘brave new world’ which indeed has happened even if I had to let the brilliant Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, steal my thunderbolts.

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As a boy I used to cycle down to the south coast of England where the land meets the sea in tall chalk cliffs. Creeping along the grass to perch on the precipice to look down at the black pebble beaches far below, I was like a seer peeping over the edge of a flat world, into a third dimension.

Whether we see it or not, we are also now creeping warily into a fourth dimension represented by the principal of the ‘sacred feminine’.

This has nothing to with ‘Votes for Women’, a movement that swelled at the beginning of the nineteenth century perhaps as a natural protest against the male principled dominance of society since for ever. The First world war was perhaps, the last breath of that male principal. It briefly stopped the feminine protests and sent women to factories to build the instruments of war, but the corner had been turned. Women drove buses and ambulances and had tasted freedom from domesticity.

Mothers watched their sons march into the sunset, over the horizon and would never forgive the folly of the male Generals and politicians.

If you hold a ball in front of a child and ask, ‘where does this ball begin?’ the child will look at you as if you only have half a brain and explain that a ball has no beginning.

The question is a Koan and like all koans, challenges the rational, logical and formal pathways of thought.

Many dogmatic religious thinkers hold to the notion that the world could possibly end and proponents of this will present you with a date. Presently it is 13th August 2025 ‘according to Nostradamus’ and this date will, no doubt, pass without incident just as did the Christian Calendar’s year 2000 BCE.

Learning about the sacred feminine is a ‘learning curve’ upon which we still struggle, like young penguins sliding ungracefully up the steep slopes of an iceberg.

Ask an Astrophysicist when the Universe began and they will generally reply based on the so called ‘Big Bang’ theory. Yet the question is as absurd as guessing when and how the Universe will end. Anticipating the common sense of children observing the universe, I would expect they will say it never began and will never end.

That is the beauty of the child’s mind. It still retains the influence of the Divine Mother, before it is sent to the (male) military styled regime of education.

Yet I feel the influence of the Divine Feminine is more influential in modern Western societies than ever before. Parliaments and Judge’s benches are becoming equally filled with women as men.

From Ancient India we are given the map of the idea of the cyclic Yugas; eras circling around 25,000 years in which the world is alternately destructive and creative.

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In the view of many, the Age if Aquarius is happening now and introducing the Feminine Principal into all areas of life and knowledge. Exceptions abound of course, as the process is gradual and takes two steps back for each three forward.

The benefit for humankind will be to realise when the pendulum is suspended equally between the two Divine Genders. Modern Feminism becomes flawed when and if it tips the balance too far and unnaturally dominates the male principal.

In Ancient times there are a limited number of symbols that appear in wall paintings and petroglyphs literally, around the world. One of them is the spiral. This remains one of the most easy to comprehend illustrations of an idea that defies logic; infinity. A spiral apparently starts from nowhere and disappears into nowhere.

If something were an mass moving through a void, it would need a circular motion combined with a constant, weak tangental vector, nudging it ever off a circular orbit out of sight.

For a time in history, philosophers were perplexed with the puzzle in geometry of ‘squaring the circle’; famously illustrated by Leonardo de Vinci in his depiction of the ‘Vitruvian Man‘.

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Yet in my view the spiral is a better symbolic representation of that state in matter and spirit, where the feminine is truly in harmony with the male.

In every aspect of nature, from the principals of the growth of the fractal tree and sea shores, to the spiralling movements of the moons, planets, stars, galaxies and universes, we can measure in observation the wonder of creation by two complementary Divine potter’s hands; one male, one female.

Humans were made from clay on the spinning potter’s wheel and the principal known as the anima mundi, is the final result of Divine genius – the Soul of the Whirled.

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Beyond Good and Evil

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Genesis gives us the key to opening the door to everything. All we have to accept is that stories in Holy books almost certainly operate at many different levels beyond what is taught to children in Sunday School.

In the story of the original humans in the Garden of Eden, God ‘opens the eyes’ of Adam and Eve as punishment for Eve eating the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. For in doing so their eyes are opened to the concept of ‘good and evil’, but we should not be side tracked by wondering what good and evil are. What is being revealed here, in my view, is that the Unity Consciousness of the blissful Garden, split into binary consciousness. If the reader overlooks the reference to newly realised binary opposites, then the message is repeated for reinforcement.

When Adam and Eve see each other naked, for the first time, their consciousness moves from being one, to two. This ‘same but different’ paradox between men and women is the same for all binary thoughts and words. Carl Jung suggested that the minds of men and women differ as metaphorically expressed by the nuanced differnces of their bodies.

The message in Genesis, is not about ‘good’ or ‘evil’ or ‘man’ or ‘woman’; it’s about binary thought; a fataly flawed characteristic.

But thinking in opposites creates an illusion of understanding. This is whispering serpent’…the one that slides down the ladders of thought.

In physics, nothing is black and white; there is just light and an absence of light and everything in between. But using opposites as a sort of ‘algebra’ for thought has enabled modern scientists to deconstruct nature and use it’s methods to make technology.

Batteries consist of negative and positive poles. The brain consists of left and right hemispheres. Breath goes in and out. Humans are born and die. Chromosomes are X and Y.

This is how have un-zipped the polarities that keeps atoms spinning, but there is a catch!

Our thoughts attach to the oversimplified opposites. Left and Right political views are a prime example of extremist views plunging the world into chaos. Edward de Bono introduced the non-binary word Po in his book Beyond Yes and No to express infinite possibility and a practical key to freedom of thought.

Opposite ideas should only ever be a mere framework for rational thought, otherwise the space in between disturbs ‘certainty’, leading to confusion and conflict. Consider a recent example;

In the United Kingdom, the Supreme Court has just ruled that a woman is a person who was born a ‘biological woman’. In other words, a ‘biological man’ cannot become a woman. This rule provides clarity for the lawyers; but is it true?

I would argue that the model does not fit neatly over reality. When it comes to the provision of public toilets, there will need to be a ‘third space’ for those with particular needs, for instance, those who feel different to their biological gender.

Is not an impossible problem for many ‘third spaces’ already exist as a ‘disabled toilet’. All that is needed now is a gender neutral sign on the door. Something that is not ‘men’ or ‘women’.

We see here that humans are not as simple as the rule of two ‘opposite’ biological genders. Consider the complexity of the body. We have a brain with left and right hemispheres. Each half has a nuanced contrast of functions; rational and creative respectively. Psychologically, each woman has an unconscious animus and each man has an unconscious anima. One in ten of us are left handed; the rest right. In some cultures, left is ‘evil’ and right ‘good’. There have been libraries written on the complexities of gender differences.

But we also experience a range of emotions, almost involuntarily, which can be categorised as ‘expansive’ or ‘passive’ in nature. Anger and valour are expansive and ‘male’, sadness and tenderness are ‘female’ emotions, for example. Of course, men and women have the whole range of emotions in varying degrees beneath the fig leaf.

Finally, the subtlest human characteristic that guides mind, heart and body is ‘intuition’. Albeit a peaceful, almost silent, internal voice, it has a function to guide us when we are lost. Another name for intuition is Soul, and yes, souls can be ‘good’ and ‘evil’ as illustrated in the Old Testament. There is a Bible story in which Joseph experienced wise, prophetic dreams. His soul’s ability to describe the future intuitively through the pathway of dreams is symbolised by his ‘coat of many colours’. Dream messages are not black and white, but as subtle as a colour from the subtle spectrum of light.

This level of subtlety is desperately needed today, in my view, if humankind is ever going to recreate the Garden of Eden on earth through deep compassion and understanding. If we do not, a Wasteland awaits.

Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count there are only you and I together, but when I look ahead up the white road, there is always another one walking beside you, Gliding wrapped in a brown mantle, hooded. I do not know whether a man or a woman – but who is that on the other side of you?

What the Thunder Said (from line 359) from The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot