Response to spiritual meaning of numbers
February 6, 2008
Here is some feedback I got from Stephen on my post “spiritual meaning of numbers“:
Stephen on February 6th, 2008 11:01 am - Sorry but this numerology stuff ranks with a great deal else as metaphysical discussion. It is IMO a diversion from what is real and a retreat into ways by which thought constructs are made that may appease but do not really satisfy a quest for what is real. In these matters I am guided to some extent by Krishnamurti who walked away from his guru status when he found … reality.
me on February 6th, 2008 11:09 am - Stephen,
The truth, source, reality (whatever title we give it) is untouchable by any explaination. No words, or math or syntax no matter how complete and beautiful can express it properly. All we can do is point. This is just a method of pointing and expressing. I agree, thought constructs have there place but I think a lot of times we get ourselve in trouble when we worship them as idols. Dogma has become the new golden calf.
spiritual meaning of numbers
February 5, 2008
Those who subscribe to religion, occultism and metaphysics have assigned spiritual values to numbers. For example:
1 = strong will; unity, purity
2 = duality, harmony (Yin/Yang)
3 = magic, intuition (Holy Trinity)
4 = stability, grounded (nature)
5 = travel, adventure, journey
6 = Sincerity, love, truth
7 = magic, mystery, enlightenment
I have always believed that meaning is defined within the context of a person experience. So although 7 might mean good luck to you, it may mean hate and lust to me because of my experiences with that number.
Each culture attributes meaning to numbers: Chinese numerology
More examples of spiritual meaning of numbers
THE NUMBER 7 IS EVERYWHERE
NUMEROLOGY:
Life path number - signifies intellect and an introspective, analytical mind. Considered to be a spiritual, sacred, and this is evidenced by the fact that there are seven days in the week, and ancient texts propose that the earth was formed in seven phases.
BIBLE:
In the Hebrew, seven ([b’v, - Sheh’-bah) is from a root word meaning to be complete or full.
It is known as the number of God’s seal.
Example: in Revelation 1:16 — “and He had in His right hand seven stars, ” alluding to the seven churches of Asia.
It is used throughout the Old and New Testament repeatedly with deliberate pattern.
The metaphysical use and meaning of numbers are completely at the mercy of interpretation. As such, it is all over the place with little practical application. That is a shame (as with all metaphysics) its talks around some of the most critical aspects of reality but fails to nail anything down. It is easy to see the influence of culture on the meaning attributed to numbers. The tragedy is that the imposed meaning ends up telling us more about the people and/or culture than the subject they are talking about. Here is a new system that relies less on prescribed meaning, focuses exclusively on the actual perspective of the person which in turn give meaning an absolute path.
Here is an Entirely Different Take on the Spiritual Meaning of Numbers.
We are the numbers. Our point of view, our perspective is the equation, the function through which constant values are passed to produce various results, or meaning.
Essentially, meaning is relative to perspective.
Out of western psychology, eastern spirituality and postmodern philosophy there is a new way to use numbers as a way to navigate awareness itself, the cradle of meaning. How much more enhanced is our meaning if we know its source? Its called Integral Mathematics of Primordial Perspectives. To be fair, it less about numbers than it is about perspectives, so numerology is forever safe.
Integral Mathematics of Primordial Perspectives
Oversimplified description:
Created by philosophical genius Ken Wilber, Integral Mathematics of Primordial Perspectives, we’ll call it integral mathematics, is a comprehensive method of referring to natural points of view that we all have. For example, my first-person perspective would be written as 1p (1-p). 1p = my, 1-p = first-person perspective, but there are other perspectives that I can have from my point of view: 2p = your perspective, 3p = his/her/it perspective.
So, from my perspective, I see that you have a first-person perspective:
1p(1p) x 2p(1-p)
I can also be aware of you from a third person perspective:
1p(1-p) x 1p(3-p) x 2p(1-p)
This means I’m observing your from an objective perspective, this could mean I’m using some theory or some measure or book like the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) to evaluated you.
Pathology: Perspective Mathematics
Consider multiple personality disorder (aka Dissociative Identity Disorder). This would be me objectively looking at your multiple personalities:
1p(1p) x 1p(3-p) x (2p(1-p)/n)
n = number of personalities
This may be written wrong, but what I’m trying to express is my first-person perspective (1p(1-p)) view of an objective perspective (1p(3-p)) of your first person view that is (2p(1-p) that is divided by “n” personalities. The slash maybe wrong because Wilber uses “/p” to define something else. By interacting with each of the fractional parts of your first perpective, I can better understand why it has been partitioned. What are you protecting yourself against? What is the common ground of the personailities? One can also explore each personalities perspectives on itself and relationships to the world around it. The end equation could end up looking like the most beautiful monster you have ever seen.
Lucid Dream & Altered States: Integral Math
I had a lucid dream in which I was trying to fly years ago. Once I was aware of my being in a dream, I became peripherally aware of my body. I was able to hold the heavy feeling of my body at bay while I continued my lucid dream. In integral mathematics I would describe it like this:
1p(1p) x 1p(1-p) x 3p(3/p)
I (1p(1p)) had a first person perspective (1p(1-p)) of my body (3p(3/p)). The equation strip away my personal meaning and allows you to put it in your own contexts although you can still understand the mechanics of the perspective. I’m seeing the body as a separate object the same way I might see a tree or my coffee cup, but perhaps (since the body actually holds the perspective) it should be written like this:
1p(1p) x 1p(1-p) x 3p{(1p(1p) x 1p(1-p) x 3p {…}}
Which is to say, I had a first person perspective of my body which contains a my first person perspective of my body which has a first person perspective of my body…. And so on. So it becomes like two mirrors facing one another. The only way to maintain the stability of my lucid dream perspective was to minimize my awareness of my body.
Out of Body Experience
In his book, Astral Dynamics, Robert Bruce talks about similar experiences. But he takes it a step further because his theory is that the body itself continues to dream and have its very own perspectives while the subtle body has its very own experiences. He attributes the relatively low number of the phenomenon to loss of memory caused by the body “overwriting” the “shadow memory” of the subtle body.
So it would look like this…
Sleep & Dreaming mind/body seeing objects in the dream: 1p(1p) x 1p(1-p) x 3p(3-p)
Subtle body experience/altered state of consciousness seeing the sleeping body: 1p(1p) x 1p(1-p) x 3p{1p(1p) x 1p(1-p) x 3p(…)}
Traditional science tends to attribute OBE to some sort of brain anomoly hallucination (despite actual evidence of nonlocal consciousness), but for the purposes of this post we are only concerned with perspective. And the perspective is my first person perspective of the body with a first person perspective of the body… Whatever meaning that Robert Bruce, you or I attribute to this phenomenon should be put in its “own box” so to speak. And with Intergral math, that is easy to do.
Occult vs. Wilber (part 1)
April 26, 2007
There seems to be not only disagreement, but some strong dislike between occult, magick followers and Ken Wilber’s tight knit group. Wilber is constantly using the strongest words possible to distance himself from the “What the Bleep” “theSecret.tv” “create your own reality” crowd, but he also sends some strong oppinions in the direction of the occult/magick groups.
The “create your own reality” groups are not bothered by Ken Wilber because most of them have no idea who he is, because many of them are new to subtle energies, spirituality and the like. But this is not so for the occult/magick folks. They seem very well informed and some even very well read. They know exactly who Ken Wilber is and they shoot back.
I’ve decided not to participate in the “hurt ego” crying game between Wilber and the Visser/Occult folks but if your interested, you’ll find them somewhere in here and here.
I don’t share the hate and disdain of either group (Intergral Spiritual or Occult groups) because it does not serve me. Instead, I am a fan and reader of both. I believe that there is some truth in the most sincere parts of religions and esoteric groups. I sift through all the cruft, dirt and silt like a 49er panning for gold. If there is a nugget to be found in a river, I don’t care how filthy the water is from egos making waves.
I believe that occultist/esoteric teachings have an very important bit of truth and I would not call it entirely pre-rational as Ken does putting them on par with a belief in Santa Claus or the tooth fair. And Ken is of course on to something that could change the world in a good way.
Mind-Split and the Mystic Light Body
April 5, 2007
In his book Astral Dynamics, Robert Bruce talks extensively about the “Mind-Split” which is his theory of where the consciousness goes during and out of body experience. Some earlier OBE researchers such as Muldoon, suggest that the body is empty upon OBE. Bruce’s theory is that a copy of of consciousness is “downloaded” into the projected double. If you have never had on OBE then this is will all sound completely insane. All I can say about the typical skeptic is that this is all anecdotal evidence (meaningless for you), if your truly curious go have an OBE.
I have been studying my dreams and altered states of consciousness since ‘87 and I have to say that mind-split may explain some things that have happend to me. The mind-split theory might explain some strange dreams in which I seem to have dreamt of several things at the same time. I will wake up and write down what I think is one very strange dream but then realize that it is three completely different dreams I had at the same time. These dreams remind me of a stegograph in which data can be hidden with a picture or even and what is called an Alternate Data Stream in computer security, in which data (usually malware) can be hidden in other applications.
Also, his mind-split theory goes into detail about the physical bodies memories being “copied” over the memories gathered in the subtle body (astral body for example). This might also explain why many saints and mystics (Padre Pio for example) are seen by people (in some cases by people who’d never even heard of them until much later.. this is world wide phenomenon called bilocation) but when the mystic/saint/sage is approached they can not remember seeing these people. Skeptically, this is an easy one “hallucination, fantasy, a dream…” but to those it actually happens to, it can not be explained away so easily.
Saint Faqir Chand was called the “Unknowing Sage” because he admitted to not knowing the subtle body visits of his followers while others claimed that they did.
Etheric to Real-time: Wilber vs. Robert Bruce
April 3, 2007
In Ken Wilber’s view of subtle energies seem to parallel Robert Bruce’s model of subtle world.
Ken Wilber’s Model (according to Excerpt G):
| Level of Mass-Energy |
| 1. Gross Physical (gravitational, electromagnetic, strong and weak nuclear) |
| 2. Etheric, L-field 1 (L-1), or Biofield 1 |
| 3. Astral, L-field 2 (L-2), or Biofield 2 |
Robert Bruce’s model (Astral Dynamics):
| Level of Mass-Energy |
| 1. Physical |
| 2. Etheric |
| 2a. Real-Time Body |
| 3. Astral |
Unfortunately, Robert Bruce does not talk about stages of consciousness and only vaguely covers altered state of consciousness in Astral Dynamics. But his level of focus on feelings, senses, emotions and sights that are witnessed from his perspective provide a lay persons map of what they might see on the way to Astral projection true to the name ‘Astral Dynamics’.
Interestingly enough, Bruce talks about what he calls a “Real-Time body” that projects from the Etheric body into the “real-time zone”.
His description of the real-time zone is how others (Theosopy, Wilber, Rudolph Steiner, et al) call the etheric plane:
The real-time zone can best be thought of as a buffer zone or intermediary area dividing the physical universe from the astral dimension proper. It shares some properties of the physical universe (a direct and objective real-time reflection of reality) and some properties of the astral dimension (a fluid, nonphysical environment).
Bruce goes on to say:
The astral dimension does not overlay the physical universe as precisely as the real-time zone does, especially at higher levels…
Wilber’s hypothesis of subtle energies parallels what Bruce has deduced from his Astral projection. According to Wilber’s third hypothesis on subtle energies, increasing complexity of gross form is correlated with increasingly subtlety of energies. So it would make since that most objects on the physical only appear as far as the etheric or “real-time zone”.
(Sri Aurobindo called it the subtle physical):
By the gross physical is meant the earthly and bodily physical - as experienced by the outward sense-mind and senses. But that is not the whole of Matter. There is a subtle physical also with a subtler consciousness in it which can, for instance, go to a distance from the body and yet feel and be aware of things in a not merely mental or vital way….the subtle physical has a freedom, plasticity, intensity, power, colour, wide and manifold play (there are thousands of things there that are not here) of which, as yet, we have no possibility on earth.
– Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, part 1, section v
Subtle Energies Accessible to Complex Physical Structures
April 2, 2007
Yet another amazing insight brought together by Ken Wilber.
He suggest that higher levels of subtle energies are accessible by the complexification of matter. In other words, atoms and molecules have access the “gross” physical energies such as gravity, electromagnetism, strong and weak nuclear force. More complex physical structures such as neurons and other cells have access to subtle “etheric” energies. Together, cells create organs and organisms that are exponentially more complex (e.g. limbic system, reptilian brain) which have access to “astral energies”.
Ken goes even further with complexification of the human brain being refined into stages of human development (based on the comprehensive studies by Graves/Beck, Giligan, Kohlberg and many other developmentalist). Here is an oversimplified look at the developmental stages of the human psyche: they go from preconventional to conventional to postconventional to post-postconventional. These can also be called egocentric, ethnocentric, world-centric, and theocentric (respectively). Don Beck (spiral dynamics) and Ken Wilber (AQAL) have worked out color coded schemes to indicate each level of human psychological development.
Once a person develops to a preconventional/egocentric (aka called a “red”) level of development they have access to the family of subtle-energies, genus “psychic-1.”
A Refined Taxonomy of Subtle Energies
Let us use the common “family, genus, species” scheme, combined with the terminology in Table 1, to summarize our (suggested) conclusions.
The three great families of energy are gross, subtle, and causal. (As necessary, we can add family turiya, and family turiyatita.)
- The family gross-energy contains genus gravitational, electromagnetic, strong nuclear, weak nuclear.
- The genus electromagnetic contains:
species (1) cosmic rays, (2) gamma rays, (3) x-rays, (4) visible light, (5)infrared, (6) microwaves, etc. - The genus strong nuclear contains:
species energies of (1) baryons, (2) hadrons, (3) mesons (etc.) - & D. (Likewise for any possible species in the genus gravitational and genus weak nuclear)
- The genus electromagnetic contains:
- The family subtle-energy contains genus etheric (L-1, biofield-1), astral (L-2, biofield-2), psychic-1 (T-1), and psychic-2 (T-2)
- The genus etheric ( L-1 or biofield-1) contains:
species energies of (1) viral, (2) prokaryotic, (3) neuronal, (4) neuronal cord (etc.) - The genus astral (L-2 or biofield-2) contains:
species energies of (1) reptilian brain stem, (2) limbic system (etc.) - The genus psychic-1 (or T-1) contains:
species energies of (1) red, (2) blue, (3) orange, (4) green (etc.)2 - The genus psychic-2 (or T-2) contains:
species energies of (1) yellow, (2) turquoise, (3) coral (etc.)
- The genus etheric ( L-1 or biofield-1) contains:
- The family causal-energy contains genus C-field (etc.)
Table 2. Taxonomy of Subtle Energies
Shedding subtle energy light on “myth of the given”
Ken nukes metaphysics in his book Integral Spirituality. This was initially a great concern to me. Since I have had a long love affair with metaphysics over the years, I was screaming “blasphemy” when I first read his categorical dismantle of the subject. His main argument is the “myth of the given”. Metaphysics makes a lot of statements about supernatural objects, forces and structures. Ken is saying that without showing exactly how to access the subjects and objects of metaphysical discussion, they are meaningless. It seems to me that Ken’s argument against traditional metaphysics is not that subtle energies don’t exist, but the way metaphysical writers express their views leave out important new discoveries such as structural development and the importance of culture on everyone interpretation (including the writer). it is o.k. to speak poetically in of metaphysical ideas, but if your going to make assertions you need to back it up with evidence or a method to repeat your assertions under similar circumstances.
Works Cited:
Wilber, Ken. Integral Spirituality, a startling new role for religion in the modern and postmodern world. Shambhala, 2006.
Wilber, Ken. Excert G: Toward a Comprehensive Theory on Subtle Energies. Shambhala - http://wilber.shambhala.com
| State of Consciousness | Level/Stage/Sheath of Consciousness | Body-Energy |
| Deep Sleep (Formless) (sushupti) |
5. Anandamayakosha (spirit-bliss) |
Causal Body (karana-sarira) |
| Dreaming (svapna-sthana) | 4. Vijnanamayakosha (buddhi; higher mind) 3. Manomayakosha (manas; mind) 2. Pranamayakosha (emotional-sexual) |
Subtle Body (suksma-sarira) |
| Waking (jagarita-sthana) | 1. Annamayakosha (sensorimotor) |
Gross Body (sthula-sarira) |
Toward a Quantum-Etheric Theory
March 30, 2007
I am beginning to feel like a Ken Wilber fan boy here. I am reading Excerpt G: Toward a Comprehensive Theory on Subtle Energies and I am nearly brought to tears by Ken’s gorgeous thoughts on subtle energies (etheric, astral, psychic etc).
What are Subtle Energies:
Theories on subtle energies go back thousands of years. There are versions of this model in Egyptian, Chinese, European, Jewish, Islamic, Indian (and many other) traditions. Ken’s version:
| Level of Mass-Energy | Corresponding Level of Consciousness |
| 1. Gross Physical (gravitational, electromagnetic, strong and weak nuclear) | 1. Sensorimotor |
| 2. Etheric, L-field 1 (L-1), or Biofield 1 | 2. Vital |
| 3. Astral, L-field 2 (L-2), or Biofield 2 | 3. Emotional-sexual |
| 4. Psychic-1 or T-field 1 (T-1) | 4. Mental |
| 5. Psychic-2 or T-field 2 (T-2) | 5. Higher mental |
| 6. Causal or C-field | 6. Overmental |
| 7. Nondual | 7. Supermental |
Table 1. Levels of Energy and Consciousness (from Excert G)
Is Quantum Potentiality a Subtle Energy?
One point that I have been confused on is Quantum Mechanics. Where does Quantum Mechanics fits in the Great Chain of subtle energies? Quantum Mechanics (and lately string theory/M-theory/k-theory or whatever the hell Ed Witten is calling it these days) is extremely popular among the New Age, metaphysics, Law of Attraction rock stars (Deepak, the Secret, What the Bleep.. no hate here, I love them). Philosophers, new agers, shaman, mystical fanboys/girls throw around the words “quantum mechanics” all the time (usually without knowing what the hell they are talking about, or at least I don’t know what the hell they are talking about).
Is Law of Attraction a Modern Mesmerism
I can’t help but be reminded of mesmerism and 1920s spiritualism of when I read some new age material. Animal magnetism (aka Mesmerism) was the metaphysical theory of Franz Mesmer in the 18th century. Mesmer’s theory was based on what he called “magnetic fluid” that he claimed was in every one and could be used to cure the sick (sound familiar… Reiki and qi gong have similar theories but different practice, east Indians have myriad practice and theories on something similar… maybe he was on to something). Like our modern day metaphysical theories on Law of Attraction and other new age theories, Mesmer’s animal magnetism had a following in France, but the scientific community didn’t accept it. Some of his clients claimed to be cured by his techniques. Although animal magnetism never took hold in modern science, a 19th century physician named James Braid took his techniques and developed a little something called “hypnosis”.
Like Mesmer’s animal magnetism, I believe some new age theories (Law of attraction, mystical connections to quantum mechanics) are on to something but as of right now the theories are to vague, simplistic and perhaps (as Ken says) naive to take hold in the community (namely science and academia) that can develop it. There is clearly a hunger for answers as people (laypersons, even some scientists and religions) all over the world flock to the latest new age, material-spiritual, quantum mechanics theories such as the material we see in things like “What the Bleep do We know?!” and the Secret.
The Philosopher with the Einstein’s Brain
Ken Wilber has blasted the new age movement, the Secret, What the Bleep and anything even remotely similar. He’s got a lot of arguments about the material, but his main problem (beside what he calls “Boomeritis“) seems to be their theory of reducing nondual spirit to (physical) Quantum phenomenon. Having read HIS version of how Quantum Reality relates to spirit, I must say that he has made me a believer.
His theory makes perfect sense. From what I understand, he is saying that spirit by itself is nondual, meaning it has no opposite so it is truly beyond infinite/finite (for even ‘infinite’ has and opposite, ‘finite’). Spirit has NO reference and no qualities that we can somehow measure and quantify, whereas quantum material do have qualities and opposites. Essentially, even though Quantum potentiality is incredible magical (spookiness at a distance, as Einstein called it) it is NOT equal to spirit as spirit.
Although spirit is manifest as soul (spirit-as-soul), as mind/causal (spirit-as-mind), as prana/etheric/astral (spirit-as-prana), as physical/gross/atoms/matter (spirit-as-matter), and each of the those have opposites, spirit-as-spirit has none so there is nothing we can say about it. It is beyond what we can symbolize with words and thought. Many mistake quantum potentiality for spirit-as-spirit but it is actually spirit-as-prana.
Ken Wilber’s Summary of Quantum Realities
Following the great philosopher-sages (such as Nagarjuna, Plotinus, and Shankara), we can summarize the reasons that any sort of quantum or subquantum events are not Spirit:
- Any quantum reality has some sort of characteristics, qualities, or dimensions that set it apart from manifest matter; but Spirit is radically shunya of drsti (empty of any and all qualities, including that characterization itself)—e.g., quantum vacuum has vast energy, spirit is unqualifiable.
- Any quantum reality is different in some important ways from gross matter; but Spirit is not different from any manifestation, but is rather the Suchness or Isness of whatever arises.
- Quantum reality has an opposite (e.g., non-quantum reality), but Spirit is radically nondual.
- Spirit is dimensionless; quantum reality is merely in a different dimension.
- And, most important, quantum material energy comes directly out of prana, not out of spirit (i.e., matter crystallizes out of spirit-as-prana, not spirit-as-spirit).
spiritual mystical quantum physics
March 14, 2007
To be honest, I don’t fully understand the details of quantum physics (particularly how we can have an affect on physical reality). But I do know that in my life I have tapped into a deeper/greater part of myself that has access to a very real control over my destiny. I have been there via prayer, meditation and sometimes just the sheer heart to be persistent.
I feel that everything happens for a reason even if we sometimes don’t immediately accept or know what that reason is.
I feel that underneath the shifting dogma of the worlds “great” religions there is an immutable truth that is so profound that it would shake the very foundation of our existence (and it has via Christ figures such as Jesus, Buddha et al) And that truth is none other than the unborn, un-manifested “I Am” that is always in the unblinking presence of yourself.
This is an obscure paradox to our rational objective minds; for we can not define infinity with finite words.. we can only point. Its not something that can be taught. Only realized in this moment.
p.s. I have seen What the Bleep!? I like like it. Another good one is theSecret.tv
Metaphysical Experience
December 5, 2006
Thanks: Mindful~Heartful
This is the story of what happened to me this last summer and how it changed my life and contributed greatly to why my profile says what it says and looks the way it does. Bear with me, as this is a long one…
I had always considered myself to be a spiritual seeker, but also deeply driven to want to help humanity. I decided the best way to get my message across to the masses was to make films and that is why I got a degree in Cinema. I still aspire to create vignettes of how I envision things, but am lacking in the collaboration department as I really would need some talented animators to truly pull it off how I envision them. While getting my degree in film making at San Francisco State University, I spent the last year of school in a inter-disiplinary program called, “Visual Anthropology” where I collaborated with an Anthropology major to produce a documentary entitled, “Migrant Motherhood” (which is a whole other blog in and of itself, If others are interested in that, maybe I might post more info about it). At any rate, I almost minored in Global Peace Studies, but I had a son and couldn’t keep going for another year to get that added to my degree. After having learned the philosophy of Liberty and the law regarding the US Constitution and the UN Charter, I (as well as many others on this planet for that matter) have been quite disturbed at the course of events that have transpired under the leadership of those working for the “Project for the New American Century.”
Suffice it to say, I have been quite troubled as of late based on my own studies of what I feel are entirely evil, wicked ,and retarded deeds done by human beings here who’ve lost all semblence of propriety, decency, logic/reason, or compassion. Being aware myself of the oneness of all things and how those who do not share the same worldview as I do are impacting Gaia to such a degree that I was compelled in the core of my being that something has to be done to address it. I always loved the quote, “continue making small waves and you’ll erode the complacency of the unjust.” And I’ve held onto that one steadfastly, although I feel like I want to be more like a steady series of tidal waves.
So here is where my spirituality comes along… I have been wanting to know god and ever since I was a very little girl, so I guess you can say I have been a “seeker” (as they say, seek and ye shall find). I went to various churches growing up with my friends as my own parents didn’t attend. By the time I was in Junior high, I was very much involved with mysticism and began studying the kabbalah and practicing magick, reading Tarot (I have the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn), and studying astrology. I didn’t study that so much as I got more into Philosophy in Junior College and that is where I found Baruch de Espinoza and Pantheism. I resonated with pantheism very much and thought I had found at last the faith I had been longing for. The basic tenent of Pantheism is God is all and all is God. I found out I was an Idealist type monist talking in the Pantheist community, but I certainly felt like a black sheep becasue many there were mostly materialist/scientific pantheists and were hostile to “supernaturalism.” After my experience this summer, I can honestly say that there is indeed something beyond just matter and that there indeed are other intelligences we have yet to understand. When I was writing my thesis paper in Junior college about how if everyone knew that everything was one, that humanity would no longer experience all the hardships of war. I was 19 when I wrote that and when pondering deeply upon the oneness, I had a small taste of something rather deep and zen like, but it was so short lived I could hardly put it into words. Not to mention, I didn’t get the grade I was hoping for on that paper. Jump eleven years to the present- I was active writing in the Pantheist community and pondering more about the oneness of all that is and I had a much bigger flash of Satori/Zen/Enlightenment/Gnosis where I grasped the timeline and saw it all converge into one, and the interconnectedness of all things and it was very powerful and longer lasting than the experience 11 years prior. This new one happened on the very day that His Holiness the Dalai Lama and George W. Bush was born (Thursday, July 6th).
I wasn’t aware so much of chakras before this experience, and I can tell you a VERY discernable difference came over me in regards to my heart and mind chakras. Not only were they opened greatly, but my body temperature rose, I couldn’t sleep for a week, I was inclined to fast and immediately was compelled to never touch meat again, nor smoke marijuana, (which I had done since the 5th grade) nor drink alcohol. After this experience I had a tremendous compulsion come over me. I was entirely motivated to be ACTIVE in unifying people. I had a prophetic vision of the potential disaster that could befall humankind if the course remained unchecked as I’m sure many others were experiencing. Perhaps I was tapped into the collective subconscious of fear in our culture about nuclear “arm”ageddon, but then again perhaps I was feeding into it. I was gripped with an incredible amount of fear, but I think I was also purging this as well as everything else. I felt so compelled to do something, I began calling all my senators, representatives, leaders in the DNC, Peace and Environmental movements, you name it. I was calling for a MORATORIUM on electronic voting apparatuses, not just the machines but the modems that transmit the data and the tabulators. I was calling on groups to unify, to find that one umbrella organization that was working all these fragmented groups into one common goal. I envisioned how religious leaders, politicians, artists, actors, musicians, you name it whomever from wherever and many notables to all get together and plead for an end to the insanity of this growing militarization and threat of conflagration. To get a better idea of what we in the United States already have in our arsenal, please visit, Ben’s BB’s
ESPECIALLY after having read the Project for the New American Centuries aims to put more payloads of nuclear weaponry in sattelites to “control space”. (This is also at about the same time North Korea began testing their missiles and Lebanon was invaded btw). Along with this tremedous desire to unite everyone, I was also tremendously ravenous for information and my appetite was insatiable. This led me eventually to I find the United Communities of Spirit (UCS), and finally I felt like I had found what I was looking for. This great place seemed to unify all the religions and connect them and show how they were all the same. I always felt that way that at the core the central tenants of all faiths had the same message and since I had a strong desire to find a way to reach out to others to unify everyone to one common purpose, the UCS really seemed to fit the bill for me. I believed when I wrote my paper when I was 19, as I still do now, that the more everyone realized that all is one, and everything is interconnected, all of societal ills would fall away. Once I found the UCS, I learned about Ascended Masters and read that I needed to transmute my fear into love. In other areas of research, I also stumbled upon Theosophy and the Emerald Tablets of Thoth. I resonated with the writings in the Emerald Tablets instantly, the writings were beautiful and I really wanted to do what the tablets said. Interestingly enough, I read that THOTH stands for The Holiest of the Holies, but after learning the name was spelled THTH in hebrew, perhaps there is a whole other meaning…
So after the initial awakening I had and the intensive studying I did- following that, on the last week in July, I read a page about how there are basically two camps of people on this earth; those in service to self and those in service to others. The page stated if you put a call out in service to others with all sincerity and asked to have some sort of signal to confirm being received within 24 hours, I would get a signal. I can honestly say that given my experience that day on July 6th along with my vision and all that had led up to that moment I read that, I realized I was entirely in the service to others camp. I saw how all was one and there was a tremendous need in me to help bring about a mass awakening in humanity to stave the conflagration. So that night (Thursday July 28th) I put out a sincere call or prayer that I was in service to others and wanted to receive a sign that I was acknowledged withing 24 hours, and within 24 hours, I got a sign that I had been received. The sign was perfect for me, for anyone else, they might not have noticed… I got a call on my cell phone with a message of white noise which I instantly recognized as the sound that comes off of stars… I recognized it as such because I had seen the film “Solar Max” and absolutely loved the oscillation coming from our sun and wished I could just watch a 45 minute film of the sun with the oscillations. I know it was the sign because the call was placed at about exactly 24 hours (Friday July 29th) since I had put out the call with my thoughts/prayer. At this time I was hearing screeching and feeling tingling on the top of my head and I was still trying to learn how to transmute fear. I wrote in the forum on the United Communites of Spirit page asking for guidance based on my experience, and how I was feelinging fearful and a gentleman named Michael told me that I needed to ground and to let him know what happened within 24 hours. (interesting coincidence don’t you think?) This was exactly what I needed to hear, because I felt like a live wire flailing about. Mind you, I had no idea really about Ascended Masters or any of that what so ever, but after I got that message, I was led then by my guides or intuition to a page that was channeled in May by a woman in South Africa entitled, “New Ascended Masters and Their Roles of Service”. (click the link to read it)
The page said and I quote, “Please note that reading this information will have an effect on you. You will energetically be linked with the Channeling being and a similar process faciltated with you. It is not exactly the same as being in the presence of the channeling Master, however the effects are just as powerful. Do not concern yourself too much regarding time lines given to the participants in the channeling. You will be taken through a similar one in accordance with your Divine Plan,Timing & Purpose” It was like a conversation going on with the Ascended Masters. I was just reading these words just as I had so many times before, just soaking up information, but I didn’t anticipate the brevity of the line of the information having an effect on me or being energetically linked. However, when I read a particular line, “Beloved ones, welcome the greatest goddess of your planet who now anchors her energy as the Ascended Master of the Ascension Pathway, is Mary Magdalene.” It was the very moment I read the name “Mary Magdalene” that I took in an incredible amount of energy, an amount I didn’t know could be possible. This was not just tingling or being high on caffiene or cocaine or anything at all like that. This was like the circumsicion of my heart, I was struck right at my heart the moment I read that name, and the moment my heart was sturck it opened up in a way beyond words, The energy flooded my whole being and it fused the bones in my hands and I felt this energy go through every part of me- I felt my uterus and my cervix open up. Truly, a very profound supernatural experience indeed occured at this moment and I cannot stress enough how this was no run of the mill energy here, I mean the ground shook beneath my feet and I heard my house shift like there was a small earthquake at that moment and my younger son woke up at that time crying upstairs. This energy in my body lasted throughout reading the rest of the page when I started wanting to write down the names mentioned, since my hands bones were so fused I asked for them to be releived enough so that I could write because my hands were like locked and the finger bones were like fused and I could barely hold the pencil. You know that feeling when your arm is asleep? it was sort of like that only magnify it 100 percent.
I was so shocked “pun intended” (it was like being electricuted only not painfully) by that experience, that I wondered if there were any crop circles that had formed when that happened to me and indeed there was one. At the same time I happened to experience this surge of energy, this crop circle appeared
Click here to read the description of the glyph
Interestingly enough, that a unique reverse solar sun spot happened after my experience
I feel like what happened with me is connected to both phenomenon.
Remember how Jesus was synonymous with the fish? Well the Vesica “Pisces” is the seed of life and is also the symbol for lord Metatron. Metatron is the angles of male and the spheres of female and it is the symbol you see as my blog backdrop. I didn’t even know anything about the symbol until this year as well. But I’ve learned it is a multidimesional symbol that shows the platonic solids as well as all forms of life in the structures of matter in all of the universe.
The life of our sun is tied into the source as is everything else, but there are a great many in denial of their origins and harming this planet, that is why I am here. After that experience, I naturally wanted to know anything and everything about Mary Magdalene. I went to the local book store and bought every Gnostic text I could get my hands on. And was also compelled to study etymology. I found out Mary Magdalene means quite literally, “Lady Tower”. She is also the same as ISIS, Ishtar, Astharthe, Esther, Aphrodite, etc.. (Any and all godesses are one). The goddess is considered a triple power (Maiden Mother and Crone or Mary Magdalene, Mother Mary, and Sophia) and Hermes Trismestigus who was THOTH was the Thrice great male, combine both thrice greats (Hermes and Aphrodite) and you get Hermaphrodite. Ok, so then I noticed the date in August about the Assumption of Mary and so I was naturally curious as to what that all meant too and suddenly, many things began to fall into place about “immaculate conception” and the archetypes and nested meanings. To me, conception is beyond the sperm and ovum of the human species, this form of conception has more to do with mind.
The patriarchial imbalance here, where the subjugation of the feminine has occured for so long has created much of the hell humanity is currently preoccupied with. When getting my BA at SFSU, in my international law class, I wrote my thesis on the balance of women in the world in regards to government and how there needed to be a more equitable representation of the human family in the social system especially if we are to curb the destructive nature of the imbalanced social order. At the time of the study, not ONE country in the whole world had a 50/50 balance. Not ONE! If anyone is curious to see the data and read my paper let me know and I’ll send it your way. I just wanted to say though that in the channeled message that brought on my experience this summer, Khuthumi was speaking of balance and that the goddess is what holds balance and god is what initiates it. He added that bringing back the sacred feminine is what will save this planet. I feel so very much this very sentiment and am acutely aware of the imbalance and wanting there to be more balance. After ruminating on the words in that channeled message, it seemed so fitting that I was serving in that vein. So I feel like that moment perhaps was working on many levels. Perhaps an initiation for me, but also performing a task in service to anchor balancing energy as well as other things, but I’m not entirely sure what it all means just yet. I’m still sorting it out. I’d have to say though, after that experience with my cervix opening up, it was as if I was the one giving birth to the new age. Most people I’ve talked to about my experience think I’ve gone off my rocker… I’ve even had one friend tell me I should get my thyroid checked! I know to most it could sound pretty crazy, but It is the ABSOLUTE TRUTH! I experienced this and I have no doubts whatsoever now the power of prayer, the fact that there are indeed other intelligences and that all of our thoughts are heard, all of our emotions are felt, and all of our intentions are noted. With this new perspective, there is much much MORE to being alive here and now than many realize, much more than I had even surmised on the day I expereinced that gnostic event.
So after this profound metaphysical experience of channeling energy, I wanted also to include information I thought worth mentioning…
There is a great meaning I feel to my birthday and why I was born when I was. I know I’m no more important than any one else, but it is good to feel like I matter, or at least have something special to offer. Not only was I born on the Shabbat (remember the shabbat and to keep it holy), I was also born at the time of Samhain or the Celtic New year/All Saints Day/All Hallows Day (11/01/75). As you saw on my profile page, I have the Antares region in my background. I was drawn to that image in an astronomy book before I even know where it was, and once I learned Antares was in the heart of Scorpius, I knew that I should have that on my page (for that matter please see my slide show under music for the music of the spheres to gage the size of the red giant antares in comparison to the other stars (its truly mind boggling). Being a scorpio, the heart of scorpius, or the Antares region as it is called is directly behind the sun or aligned with the sun at the time of birth. At the very time of my birth, the moon was in Libra (balance) and Venus was in Virgo (virgin). I’m not entirely savvy in the realm of astrology, so I invite others to tell me more based on my chart which I posted on my profile. I had a friend who is an Evolutionary Astrologer to go over my chart before I turned 30 and he told me it was no wonder I was coming to him at that time because I was going to experience my Saturn return and it is usually a biggie for most people and that is why I was compelled to ask for a reading. (interestingly enough, Jesus was said to have begun his Ministry at 30 years of age). He told me that I had a direct connection with the source with Neptune and that I should focus on writing and had the potential of doing something genius and that the Venus in Virgo in detriment means I tend to be more self sacrificing. It was interesting feedback, but I didn’t take it to heart until after my experience this summer which put all of what he said in an entirely different perspective. It almost seems to me that my role was preordained prior to my birth and that I must have chosen that date so that I would lead myself back to do the work I agreed to do prior to inhabiting this body.
To make matters even more interesting, I was compelled to see what other crop circles were forming over the course of the summer and was very curious indeed about the crop circle on the day of the Assumption of Mary (August 15th 2006). On this particular day, the star of Mary or LAMAT was formed (click the link to see it).
I wouldn’t have been so interested in it had it not been for the crop circle deciphering description to mention that the star of LAMAT eluded to an Antares-Venus conjunction. That was a big Whoah!
Venus is the morning and evening star which forms the pentagram in its course around the sun in conjunction with the earth.
Venus is a major biggie in the whole mystery schools and there is a lot to it, which I have yet to figure out, but It is no small coincidence that Antares was connected to Venus. I thought this had everything to do with me because of my heart being pierced that day with profound love as Venus is also a symbol of love and of the goddess and the fact that Antares is considered the “heart” of scorpius, but I also read that just a little over six degrees below and rising with Venus ON DECEMBER 21, 2012 is Antares, a red super giant just 604 light years away. So there is much more to it, much more….
So on with what I found out… The very opposite on the pole from Antares. of the Celestial house is Taurus. Within Taurus are two significant areas the Pleiades and Aldeberan. Michael is connected with Aldeberan (which is another red giant like Antares). I see all kinds of connections with Taurus and the Krishna symbology. Krishna being blue like the Pleiades and the white bull and all. Being a Scorpio, I also have 3 archetypes -scorpion/eagle/phoenix, (and that to me is another trinity that deserves another blog posting alltogether).
at any rate, I envisioned the poles all resonating in all the houses of the holy, you know like there was no opposition, that all was moving into alignments and harmony, for that is so very what I have desired; perfect harmony, unity, and balance. I find it very significant that this is exactly what the Ascended Master Lord Khuthumi said that the goddess represents. To leave no stone left unturned, I also wanted to add that this “surge” of exquisite energy in my being was on the eve of August, (when Sirius rises.). Sirius/ Osirus. Isis is supposed to resurrect her brother Osirus, but after doing further studies, I found through etymology that Osirus IS Lazarus! YHSHVH was said to have risen Lazarus from the dead, but I see that they are one and the same being. Not only that Mary and Joshua are one and the same being (archetypal divinity of masculine feminine) for YHVH or the Tetragrammaton of god is a semblence of both genders. In that Ascended Masters channeling, it said that Mary Magdalene was the official Chohan of the 6th ray of divine love, the same position that Jesus held. Everyone talks about how Mary Magdalene was Jesus’ wife, so this leads me to think that my experience was that of the Bride Groom.
Even though I feel like I’ve made many connections and am finding many things out, I have many doors left to open or layers to uncover. One interesting thing I uncovered in a book about Mary Magdalene was how Joseph (which is YHSHVH) of Arimathea means something a little different than a guy from a place. Arim= Mary and Thea= Theos. So in finding this, all the divisions start to blur. so to does the idea for me of Lady Lourdes for to me Arimathea and Lady Lourdes means the same thing. This all goes far beyond just people, or places of the past. To me, these things represent the manifestation of the whole planet and all inhabitants, and even beyond this.
Initially I had envisioned this inititation that I routed energies between the poles of the houses of the holy as a more astrological significance between Aldebaran and Antares in harmony, a meeting of the bull and the pheonix- however, I have begun to realize a great many other connections…
“Regulus… HEART OF THE LION Regulus, Alpha Leo, is “Chief or King of the Four Royal Stars,” governing Fomalhaut, Aldebaran, and Antares. Throughout antiquity, Regulus was associated with royalty and kings. Its name is given as “the Regulus” or “the Rex,” meaning “Law Giver.” Regulus (at 5° sidereal Leo) is the only one of the four stars aspecting the Holy Cross. Regulus is the administrative seat insuring that “local councils of light” maintain integrity to “Universal Directives of Source”–to the precessional forces directing the “Evolutionary Cycle of the Soul.” As an example, Regulus oversees younger stellar administrative seats, such as the Pleiades’ Alcyone, ensuring local efforts do not wander to far along their typical evolutionary tangents. Regulus demands integrity to Source. On the personal level, Regulus is of integrity to, and completeness with self aligned with source / soul directives–thus ensuring we do not wander away from our Truth upheld by and found only in the Heart. Regulus demands a vertical attunement in Source..Soul..spiritual..mental..emotional..physical..Earth allegiance. This vertical attunement, or personal integrity must precede any horizontal, humanitarian participation in the world–embodied by Leo’s opposite, Aquarian pole).” (a lot can be said of the lion too as the symbol in Rastafarian as well, but I’ll leave it at that).
A whole other connection could be made as well in regards to the sphinx at the pyramids which was supposedly the head of Isis on the Lion which represents Leo. The message of the sphinx reads: ..From the epoch of Leo to the future age of Aquarius… The emerald Tablets of Thoth mentions the sphinx quite specifically.
But then there are also two more sets of crosses in the Zodiac which make it a Trinary of crosses or a trinity if you will. So you know the picture by DaVinci about the last supper and the 12 apostles and Jesus? The 12 and ONE? This is all innerconnected!!!! (but isn’t everything really, I mean really LOL!)
After that profound experience, I cannot deny that which I witnessed and felt in my body. After I offered myself in service to others, for I know others in me too, I and my longing for the TRUE resurrection of Christ would mean ALL here would realize their oneness and that the salvation of mankind means that we are all with and portions of God and God is with and portioning for us, that god is with us. (Emmanuel) for the ressurection of Christos. I personally see how many signs are relating to each other…
I recommend that you visit Ishliel
To hear the message called “First”
I asked them what the image meant on their photo section and they said let their name be the new cipher, so then I figured out in Gematria that the name is equal to the word Shekinah. So then I looked into the story of Shekinah and leaned about the Tabernacle and the Menorah, and the temple of Solomon (Sol OM ON is the Greek Egyptian and Sumerian terms for Sun) Thusly, Solomon, means SUN SUN SUN. (trinity again) sometimes I wonder though if that has something to do with the three stars in Orions belt but that is just a hunch really and I have no way to prove it. But just as the sphinx holds the key so too are the pyramids alluding to something…
I just know that in terms of church, our bodies are the temples… I can honestly say that my experience was that of the Shekinah that energy surge was holy communion with divine presence. If it wasn’t than I’d like to know how else I could explain it. I’d like to think that I am aligned with the Light and serve for life and Utilitarianism and Liberty. It wasn’t until that experience that I considered myself a lightworker/lightweaver. I had no idea what any of that was until this summer! I’m not really into labels or titles especially if it ends up dividing people. I know I’m here to affect positive change, but I didn’t pass the online test as an indigo for “mission indigo” . To me what is most imortant is intention, focus, my will and the power I can harness and direct toward healing this sacred space. and indeed this space as well as all space is thus and I will do all I can whenever I can to put out as much as possible whilst I’m in this body. It is all about love now, and feeding love into gaia and to work with the energies to keep balance and to restore the harmonics of this sacred place. I am a part of the order. And a great many of us can get this done on a collective scale.
Now you know why I have those morphs of the images of Mary and myself, there are a few more images that have a resemblence to me, ( a few more mary’s, lady lourdes and guadalupe) I wonder who painted some of those because they really are uncanny. You can read into this what you will, and I am not saying that I am she, only that I experienced this and that perhaps it is all just an archetype to unlock the codes of our own dna. There is no doubt in my mind that we are all lady lourdes that we are all made up of divine feminine masculine, that we are all Mary/Jesus, or whatever other mythos of god and goddess you resonate with. We all have our own ways on our path to learning this and each experience is unique and with special meanings depending on our own personal experiences and choices in life. All I know is in choosing to serve, I had a profound metaphysical experience and the name Mary Magdalene was synonymous with the energy surge.
Big Heart speaks: Dharmic Body
November 15, 2006
The greatest way to pray, wish, dream and ask God/higer self/source/universe for anything is to ask by becoming that which you desire. Don’t just see it, be it!
Asking with words in a prayer or by writing down goals are powerful techniques, but sometimes the things we desire are just lower parts of our selve’s wants and needs activated by feelings of emptiness. This can be painful if we don’t know the true self. Settling for the lower impulses is shallow and many times disappointing (the resultant equivalent of habitually looking in the refrigerator for something when bored). By looking within and looking fearlessly into that which we really desire we can attain all of our dreams with effortless ease. For our deepest, peerless desire is no different from who/what we are: formless without begining and without end, “the dreamer” as Aboriginal shamans say. From that all accepting, painfully joyous emptiness arises all forms “dreams”. But we should not become attatched to those forms and lose our selves.
“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?“ KJV Mat 26
“..in the Aboriginal Dreamtime, there is a Dream in which everyone and everything is being Dreamed. Given the Dream, there is also a Dreamer, and the connection between the Dream and the Dreamer is the process of Dreaming. We all have the power of the Dream within us; it is our likeness to the Dreamer.” — Nigel Taylor, Dreaming our Way Back to the Dreamer
Never allow the dreamer to get lost in the objects of the dream.
We sometimes get fixated on the external objects and forms of life. We think material things will make us happy. We create for ourselves an ironic paradox as strange as the ego with which we interface with the outside world. The very “desire” of the object can many times become the biggest obstacle because we unknowingly become fixated on the gap (not having) between us and the object which makes an even bigger gap between us and our happiness.
We can have happiness instantly by simply living from our dharmic selves or dharmic body. This means living toward our ultimate dream without comprimise and with our every action.
Having objects is not an intrinsically bad thing. But don’t get fixated on the “wanting gap”. Instead feel the objects and situations you wish as if they are already in the NOW. Replace the gap of time/space with the wholness of feeling it NOW. Allow that feeling to consumne all your fears. That is the way of the dharmic self.
“We are the music makers, We are the dreamers of dreams” - Arthur O’Shaughnessy
