The Old Knowledge

 I think buried in us is this sense that there is much more that we have lost in our ancient past....something that manifests as an interest in things like the lost civilizations of Atlantis, Mu, or that the pyramids are older than they are.  Its as though we want so badly to reach back into our collective memory for something....as though some great answer lies there.

Currently there is a big fascination with the Mayan calendar, and its hit such a nerve in us that its even tied up in our sense that the world is reaching some important "end" point and that something new is coming.  The Hopi happen to say much the same thing.  I had a memory from a past life at age 18 that was of a vision foretelling of a day in the future when I would be reborn as a new person, a time of great change, a time when the earth would be sick and be in need of cleansing. I was told that this would all happen as the being in the storm said, "When the Great Wheel comes full turn."  It was explained that I would know this life because I would remember the vision that was happening to me atop that mountain bluff back, I'd guess in the mid to late 1880's.  I have since been able to figure out that what I was experiencing  was a thunder being vision, that it involved issues related to clearing cleansing, and healing.  It also turns out that there are all sots of prophecies in Native lore about something called "The Cleansing Time."  So much of it I have been able to come to some understanding of because it seemed to me that this was an important message from the past to a future self. I always felt that the Great Wheel had something to do with a cycle of time, but I just didn't quite understand how it was connected. Until now.  I have felt that perhaps there is indeed something to the Mayan calendar, that all time has a cyclical nature to it, for certainly the Mayan calendar is itself an endless count of small and large cycles all repeating.  This, the ancient Maya, must have had some piece of knowledge about the very workings of time as part of some phenomenon about our  world that was entirely different from anything the Western mind had up until that point been able to conceive of. Its interesting, too, for the fact that most aboriginal cultures see time in a cyclical way.  On its self arrogating perch, the western mind has considered all of this nonsense, and brushed it all off with the notion that all of these cultures are primitive and thus their ideas are somehow intellectually stunted and not worth paying attention to.

There is a problem here, though, and it gets back to our fascination with the past.  My sense has been that there have been developments and rises of knowledge that have taken place that go way back into time, but that through the rise and fall of civilizations and political and theological shifts and conquests, that the great knowledge from our collective past has been obliterated except for a few straggling remnants.  The picture these remnants provide is very much at odds with what we in the western world have sanctioned and called consensus reality. I say that because our books and beliefs and everything else that we produce are based on models of the world that are linear, unconnected through the most basic of phenomenon here on earth. If the world shows us that things happen in cycles, like the turning of the galaxies, of solar systems, of planets around the sun, or electrons around an atom, then why does it seem so incredibly strange that our time here would be pegged or rise out of this phenomenon in an elegant fashion?  I think its because we as humans chose to pit ourselves against nature rather than trusting it.  The aboriginal people had a much more intimate relationship with nature and the tides and cycles of time as measured in natural phenomenon.

I just sat through a very long talk that Terence McKenna had made that was recorded back in 1990.  In it, he described how, on a mushroom trip, he was instructed by the mushroom being how he should look deeper at the I-Ching.  Terence was fascinated by this ancient divination method enough to analyze it.  This took place in the early 70's. He had this long interaction with this intelligence that kept prompting him and directing him towards something more, that the I-Ching was itself something different from what it appeared as merely a divination method.  Now the structure of the I-Ching as McKenna describes it during his discovery is quite complicated, but its also very simple, and elegant. He was told by this mushroom being that the I-Ching was a "map of time" and that this map was recursive, which means its more like a fractal than anything else.  This makes it cyclical rather than moving in a straight line.When I had my epiphany that the intelligence within the energy that is kundalini I saw how everything was interconnected through a very simple oscilation of two elements which we can call in and yang, but that I felt as the energies we know to be masculine and feminine.  Through them, I saw, all phenomenon emerged.  This made the nature of cells and tree leaves and solar systems all connected together in an unfolding design that was complex yet also simple.  So here was McKenna explaining how he saw that the I-Ching was part of an old system for understanding the universe.  For McKenna, he was able to develop a map of time that he was able to sync up to our own flow of time, using the end of the Mayan calendar as the reference point for the end of one major cycle as the way to go back some 6 billion years in time and watch as the system accurately showed all major geological changes and shifts on the planet. Based on what he found he discovered that his system fit perfectly with all major events through our known history with humans as well as the geological record that had an oscilation between what he described as essentially a movement towards a zero point and away from it.  This he describes as the wave-form nature of time.  This, he explains, we have been doing since forever, and that while his system does not predict actual events in specific, it does predict the waveform nature of time.  In his model, all of life in human terms is a movement away from and then back to what I call in my book Waveform Awareness.  This Waveform Awareness is our higher selves, that part of us that is not enmeshed in time as we think of it as physical beings, but is nonetheless a part of the phenomenon. In our history, then, we move from this state of profound knowing and increased creative output as we move closer to this field of the Wave but we become increasingly rational, more Particalized as we move away from it. I describe Particalized Awareness as our individual awareness, the pat of us that acts like a discreet soap bubble that tells us that we are separate and all that we know and see and feel is the result of what we experience through that soap bubble.  For that type of awareness, there is nothing else but a very materialistic view of the universe.  When I say materialistic, I am talking about this in the way that science is materialistic. A good example of this is that the world is merely here, that it is not the result of any higher form of consciousness directing it, and that life is the result of random interactions with compounds that clustered and managed to create life. My experience has been that there is indeed an intelligence within everything.  The world is not some empty parking lot full of chance happenings, but is instead so amazingly complex for how consciousness interpenetrates through everything that its more like living as a cell within a giant body than anything else.  This body is unimaginably huge, so huge in fact that what we see as distant stars is just the tip of the iceberg.  We are only seeing beyond the cell wall of our awareness the dendrites and capillaries that are the galaxies of this giant body that we live within. Just as an animal is a world unto itself with countless cells all living and dying and coming back again, so too are we specks in a much grander body.  I have to say that this makes much more sense to me than the materialistic view.

It turns out that what McKenna hit upon had a connection to the Mayan system, and this may be so because of the very likely fact that the Maya are in fact Asian or Chinese in descent.  When I took a course in Precolumbian art in college I can remember looking at the art forms and remarked at how amazingly they looked Chinese.  On top of this were all these sculptures of the people and there was a core of people at certain places that were totally Asian in appearance.  I could see how some of the cultures merged, and blended later, even.  It was so obvious even to me, who knew very little about Chinese culture but had seen enough to know that these pots and sculptures were a dead ringer for their Asian counterparts.  A learned PhD., our teacher, remarked that there was absolutely NO evidence for this culture having anything at all to do with the Chinese.  I can remember at the time just how silly this denial was.  Here this guy was leaning on those in academia who had themselves not been intellectually curious enough to consider the most obvious possibility.  And why not?  The Maya had an incredible developed system for counting time, of astronomy and math.  What if their knowledge was the result of a still older tradition that just happened to have come from another culture?  I am not suggesting that the Maya owed their greatness to another culture at all, but simply that the Chinese may have been seafaring at some point in their development, perhaps thousands of years ago, and in the cycling of time and through conquests, had fallen from a still greater height.  Why not?  Some would say there is no evidence for this, no records, no stored boats to attest tot he greatness of this period in their history.  It turns out that there is one such example, a commander for the Chinese emperor did in fact exist and I include it here mostly to make an important point, less about that the Chinese may have been here and that the Maya were influenced by them, but as an example of just how short sighted we can be in imagining it possible that such a thing could take place in the first place.

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              Depicted to the right is a comparison of one Admiral Zheng's massive treasure junks to the Santa Maria that carried Columbus. He used these ships under the service of the Chinese emperor in an effort to explore the vast chinese empire of the middle ages and to bring wealth back to the emperor. Zheng He was a muslim eunuch who eventually became commander of the Chinese Navy as his master, the emperor Yongle, ascended through the ranks of the chinese nobility. The first of his six voyages was in 1402 and by the end of his sixth he had sailed west around the Indian ocean all the way to the coast of Africa and brought vast amounts of gold for the emperor. (1 pg 1-2)

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               Chinese naval technology was well advanced over that of the Europeans. By the 11th century they had a fleet of ocean going junks which were extremely sea worthy. They were also immense as the picture above shows. They could reach well over 400 feet and be over 150 feet wide. There were several decks below the main deck and several decks above at the stern of the ship. They were typically complemented with a crew of any where between 450-700 members and they remain some of the largest wooden vessels ever built. They were able to handle deep ocean weather due to their very deep, sharp keel which gave them more stability, that fact combined with water tight compartments made for a very sturdy ship. However, even with all their technological adaptations during their first expeditions they never sailed very far from land though there is solid evidence that they sailed all the way to the eastern coast of Africa and possibly even Australia. (1) Thus it seems the only limitation to Chinese exploration was the tenacity and daring of their leaders , however, recent evidence seems to suggest that they may have been much more daring than anyone dare believe.

            There have tails among the aborigines of Australia for centuries about a group of people who came before either the Indonesians or the Europeans called the Baijini. The legend tells of a people of light golden-colored skin which seems to be a fairly accurate description of an asian complexion. They came and stayed for period of about six months hunting and fishing as well as planting fields of rice. Also their homes were made from stone and bark which is uncharacteristic of the Indonesians.  In addition anchors have been discovered off the coast of Australia that fit the design of those known to have been used by the Chinese. There are also Chinese tails that involve creatures whose descriptions seem to point to wildlife characteristic of Australia.  These items are just a small part of a great deal of evidence that seems to prove that China had discovered Australia long before any other group which means that the Chinese may have not been as
limited to sailing along coasts as first thought. (2)
The link to this article can be found here

The article goes on to explain that there is an account made by this Commander that fits very well with a description of the coast of California.  Given the sheer size of these craft, it was possible to have vast amounts of food stores aboard that could take them just about anywhere in the world.  But why haven't we seen any of these ships?  Why is this such a great mystery to the contemporary world?  When the emperor Yongle died, his predecessor ordered the fleet burned and all evidence of its existence wiped from the record.  What we have is a copy of a document that describes what happened back in the 1400's. But if it happened in the 1400's then why not earlier?  Australian Aborigines  have stories of golden skinned people who lived among them long enough to hunt and fish and to grow rice. These same people lived in stone houses, which were different from the ones the Aborigines knew about.  There have been anchors discovered off the coast of Australia that fit the design of the Chinese anchors, for example. 

The Olmec were the earliest group of people that had the greatest Asian or Chinese features.  In the sculpture I include, carved from green jade (which coincidentally the Chinese have esteemed for centuries just as the Olmec, Aztec, and Maya did), you can perhaps see why I felt that this had, at the very least, a few influences of the Asian variety.  




All of this also points to a corollary between the I-Ching, the Maya, and how similar McKenna's discovery was in relationship to the concept of cyclical time as evidenced in both Mayan and Chinese systems. I mention this is a vivid example of how people within academia as well as in the scientific research often get settled in their notions of what is based on what they have been told for years, essentially the same kind of indoctrination that happens in religion, and then by way of that become brittle and inflexible in their imaginations so that they are unable to consider new opinions, ideas, or possibilities.  IN a post further down I include artifacts that scientists call problematica, so called because what they do is shelve these things and ignore them because they offer a total contradiction to the popularly held views which I contend is treated no differently than a dogma is. It enshrined and if anyone comes along to question it, its as though the hive mentality sparks and there are bees buzzing around that hive ready to protect something that ought not even be protected.  Its a very curious trait that we have in this way.  But I mention it to highlight how things can and very likely are very different from how we have imagined them in all of our theories and presumptions based on what we have thus far found in fossil records, archaeological digs, and historical accounting of our past.  What I am also pointing to in providing this article is the possibility that the Chinese and other people (there is the idea that there is also an African influence as evidence in the Olmec ball player heads cared out of massive pieces of basalt which have features that are specific to African Peoples).  The idea is that it entirely reasonable t consider, I think, that the Mayan calendar, the I-Ching as McKenna discovered it, these all  could have been part of a still older system of knowledge, available to us now only as remnants, not completely understood for what they are or what they are pointing at. This was all gathered, most likely through careful observation and record keeping over long periods of time in order to develop systems that corresponded so closely to real world events.  Somewhere someone had a giant a-ha moment when they began to see odd correlations between the movement of the planets, the solar phenomenon, as well as planetary processional effects which take some time to happen and would need to be recorded over long time frames. Its also likely that one would not have had to take records over hundreds of thousands of years in McKenna's system, but only a cycle or two of time.  Its also possible that the system was discovered in ways more akin to how McKenna discovered it, which was while munching mushrooms and tripping in the forests of South America. 


 I suspect that we do indeed know that there was more in our history, but that we have somehow managed to lose all memory of it as the veil of this oscillation of time has had its effect on us.  


The concept that McKenna puts forward about this being a cycle repeating fits perfectly for how many others are coming to the same conclusion on their own, that there is a spiraling happening through history where events do repeat, where Great Wheels come full turn, but that at each point of the turning of the wheel, we are at a different place.  Instead of a cycle merely repeating, its more like a vine that is growing and spiraling upwards toward the light of day with certain recurring things happening such as a stem during each turn of the vine, and from that stem there are a certain numerical range of leaves that tend to sprout and while none of this is rigid in its expression, it serves as a kind of template for life, for time, and perhaps the whole of phenomenon here on the planet. A spiral is in fact an elegant solution for how to think of this, that at each recursion, or repetition, while certain factors remain the same, there is also evolutionary change in some fashion or another. All of this seems built upon an ordered hologram where the information is coded into everything else as this whole body of life springs forth.  Yes, there is this sense of destiny that is perhaps expressed as a result of this recursive phenomenon, but destiny is also capable of growing beyond what it was yesterday instead of remaining static.  Its a growing living thing, and time is an expression of this as we move from the zero point of the Waveform Awareness towards a Particalized Awareness, all of which fits how we move from imaginative and hip and creative to stodgy and linear and limited and even warlike. Its as though we are moving away from our eternal natures and away from the realm of spirit into a place where we feel as though we are somehow alienated from all of life.  According to McKenna, these cycles are waves within waves, interference patterns from the larger realm of time that effects other cycles as they hit upon countless coincidences (to coincide) of other times that were along the same arc.  So in this method or model, it turned out that the end of the great Roman emperors corresponded with the end of Ronald Reagan's presidency, with a subsequent fall of Rome later, which as it turns out corresponds to what we are headed towards now. it isn't that someone like Reagan will BE an emperor, but that there will be tides and similarities that will tend to influence events and people along certain lines. Events will themselves be recursive because of the energy involved in how time is being formed and rolled out.  I suspect that instead of seeing all of this as linear, we would instead see a very visual image of something that would look more like a map of waves, a kind of psychedelic pattern much more like an eastern mandala than anything a scientific mind could think up.  And this would make sense since those who saw into the mystery of the world were those people who were grooving with the wave awareness themselves for the simple fact that the Wave has the ability to move you out of your individual awareness and into a sense of the All. 


The difference here, though, is that this All-ness is available to us NOW.  With so many waking up, with people feeling as though the veil is thinning, its no wonder that this wave of awareness is building.  What I am suggesting is that we can use these cycles to bring ourselves to a new place, to learn the secrets of this wave as part of our own physiology as a cell caught up within its vastness.  When we do, we "awaken."  All of this experience has a corollary with what I would call a class of experiences in human experience, and all have a transcendant quality to them.  For McKenna, he experienced it through the liberating effect of the mushroom and dmt experiences.  In tantra, we connect into the All through the energetics of this divine pulse that is in everything.  The force of kundalini is itself naturally tantric because it leads us into that place of bliss, of union with a "body" of awareness that cycles like the moon has cycles, how heavenly bodies come close and then move far from each other.  Its part of a larger oscillation of a reality that isn't material but alive, an incredibly complex yet also simple life form that lives in everything from rocks to cells. The idea here is that as we move away from this bliss field we wind up in all our institutions, falling prey to the idea that the rational mind has it all figured out.  This though only one part of the bigger picture, and if  we fall prey to its force in life, we allow it to bring about some pretty horrible changes as a result of our feeling separate and apart from not just each other, but from our waveform awareness which is the bliss and joy and sense of connection that everything has. I am not content to merely study this but to suggest that we can use our understanding of how this works to vault ourselves out of the hole we seem to keep falling into.


I suspect that the being in the vision I had at age 18 was simply pointing to a knowledge or understanding that all time turned in cycles.  Perhaps in the culture of that time they too knew about the "great wheel" as it was called. Sadly, that culture has been completely wiped out and subsumed within another tribe over a hundred and 20 years ago, so I am not sure there is anything remaining that would tell me one way or the other whether they had this term in their culture. For me, though, I think the guessing is over.  Clearly, we ARE nearing the end of a giant cycle, a very important one.  If I follow what the vision was telling me, I take away from it some important elements about what it is that we need to do as a species. At the very least, I know what I have to do microcosmically, and its all very interesting in terms of just how much we have been provided in the way of tools to prepare for this event that us upcoming. As a result, I see there are no accidents, but a willful desire to prepare, to grow, to become.  This is the impulse in everyone as we learn to drop the self made conceptual shackles that we have chosen to imprison ourselves with.  In this new world, the water is great; come on and jump in!  Its really not that hard once you give it a try.  


So much of what I have been saying is that what we need very much to do is not to go for one end of the spectrum or the other, but to learn how to integrate both ends of the spectrum into our experience so that when one wave rises over another, we do not feel as though we are being swept along a path that leads us to annihilation, or to madness. We need both.  For the same reason I find that a reliance upon the scientific materialistic model is just as wrong-headed as the monks who say we have to toss out all ego and pretend like its dead and gone. These are merely, to my mind, just opposite ends of the same wave and instead of letting them be separate, we need to recognize them for what each imparts and find a balance between them. Otherwise, we will get so caught up in the rational that we will go mad for looking at the tiny cells in a tree leaf and never see the larger forest standing in front of us.  Its this same narrowness that leads to nature suffering.  We look so close at one phenomenon that we are unable to see how our actions in the moment could have a negative effect on the whole.  We can likewise get so blissed out that we effectively leave this world for that place of pure bliss and never really participate in this experiment that is life on the planet. Surely the confluence of events today where we multitask and do not have time to sit in silent meditation in an ashram has its positive effect on us in this regard.  By balancing both ends of the spectrum, we reach upwards into that evolutionary spiral that is our own future.  


Now as an aside, Mckenna, in the recording from 1990 stated that since the calendar ends in 2012, he posits that perhaps what has happened is that we discover time travel and that this would explain why his model also comes to an end.  We, he suggests, have exited the cycle of time so that we are now no longer prisoners of this oscillation but become part of something more.  This would be an entering of the 5th dimension in all truth I suppose, and whether his notion is correct or not, I think that it hits it into the right ballpark.  If all of this phenomenon is correct as he has seen it to be, then it makes sense that the end of the same system would suggest that something happened of a pretty significant nature that somehow also involves time itself.  I suspect that its because we finally catch the wave of this hyper spatial reality that has always lived inside of us and that we have managed to hitch a permanent ride on it. The Hopi describe two paths that will happen, what some suggest are two different time lines.  One leads upwards while another leads on a jagged lower course. I suspect that we are coming into contact with a choice and some will make one choice while another will make a different one.  I wont say one is better or more desirable, but will simply match where you are  at the time.  The absolutist notions that Christianity has helped to promulgate in the past of there being a hell that you are forever imprisoned within doesn't seem to help some people's notions of how things work. It isn't like this is some race that we must win in a certain way.  We are here to learn, and as McKenna suggests, there are endless cycles of time and if not now, another will come along eventually if the last phase inward didn't help us realize what it was we needed to in order to reach the highest within ourselves. And just as each transit from one cycle tends to create a sense like the world is coming to an end, Terence suggested back in the 90's to simply sit back, relax, and let the wave hit you and do its work. In effect, this is what those who awaken learn to do in their daily living with this; they surrender.  Its just possible that if you just let go and trust what the wave is doing, you will give it more room to work.  Don't fight it. Give in to all of that bliss, the joy and wonder that is inside of you, for it is here that the universe opens up like a wonderful flower.  In you. Outside you. Its all around, waiting.....


Note:  I will add that one of the effects of Awakening is a very different perception of time.  I say this because I experienced very strange time phenomenon the year before all of this began for me.  Later, once I had worked through a large part of material so that I was less focused on immediate things, I discovered a different view of how time is.  This will have to be the subject of another post, but its worth mentioning as McKenna intuited that the 2012 event may have something to do with time....

  

Voice of the White Lodge

A long time ago all races were known to form a cross where all people were one.  All differences were respected, revered. We are all one family here.  Attempts to divide out one group from another happen all the time, but we are all of one blood with many currents with that blood. Let us revere those currents but also not get hung up on the differences.  For surely, those differences we have at some time worn.

Amongst the People of this land, it has been long known that the earth moves through cycles.  This is why the circle has been so important a symbol.  Instead of seeing a beginning and end, sort of like how a pencil has a beginning and an end, if we see life as a circle, then endings become beginnings, and beginnings share something with endings.  These points on a circle become these transitional points were we move upward through the circle of life which is itself like a spiral....round and round we go and upwards we travel as we grow and learn and become.  We all have these cycles in our bodies, our spirits and minds.  The earth has her cycles too.  I was told that there was going to be an event here on this earth a very long time ago.  It was funny how it was given to me, but it was a message from a past life to a future one.  I literally peered down through time in a kind of portal that took me to a past life event where I was sitting atop a mountain doing something called "crying for a vision."  This was what many different native groups did to seek guidance in their lives. They sought the guidance within that place where the creator, the Great Mystery, emerges in the self.  Often, this means a kind of disassociated state, like a trance.  Some would fast and drum and pray.  Some would dig pits to sit in to act like a cradle but also a way to deprive the senses of feedback.  This often would result in visions and guidance from the spirit world. 

I was shown by beings in a large storm that the world would be going through a cleansing, a shift in its energy.  It has taken me a long time to reach a place where I have been able to better understand this experience, this vision which was also a memory from the past.  The Thunder Beings revealled something not just about the world, but also about myself.  It has been a very long-lived puzzle, but has pointed to what is there for me to realize within myself.  It was itself a hidden gift that I could not see until now...and like buds on a tree that have been long silent and seemingly dead, the leaves begin to grow and branch out....

Our world is going through a change.  The Native people have spoken of this as a time of cleansing.  Others, like the Hopi, speak of a shift from one world to another.  There are stories of the earth actually moving in its orbit to be closer to the sun.  Further, the Hopi have explained that this is what has been happening for a very long time....There are numerous stories that seek to conceptualize this change which will happen with Mother Earth.  What needs I think to be understood is that as the earth goes through changes, so do you.  And in the same way, your own change further pushes her change.  We are a part of this.  By choosing joy instead of fear, we can be a part of a more vibrant energy that we are being steered towards by forces much stronger than we.

It is time to forgive yourself for seeking something that you were never able to find.  Its time to let that past go and seek a new future.  This new future will have you finding the love that is in the universe inside of you.  When you let go all the things that tie you to a love THROUGH another, you will best be able to become invested in this inner love.  This love will help heal you of the parts that tell you that you need a love from another.  By doing this, you can shed generations of pain and hurt that have become a part of you.  You will be shedding something that the earth is shedding.  This is perfect, for as the teaching comes to me to pass on to you the result is something truly remarkable.

In a way that we cannot quite understand right now through our lenses of hurt and pain, and fear, we are getting ready to slough off an old cocoon.  See, the thing is, the reason why so many are waking up is because the earth herself is waking up.  She is shedding all of this old stuff.  She is having to shed this stuff that we have ALL helped to create, and now she is going through a very real physical change.  The effect is also energetic.  Its at all levels that she is doing this. The way through this healing is with the alchemical action that is within each person for healing.  By bringing the masculine and feminine within to a unity, there is healing.  The masculine within can bear something that the feminine needs....in order to "conceive" of and understand.

In the old vision atop that hill, the Thunder Bird cleansed the earth of a dark cloud that hung around it, a kind of stain that was cleared.  The masculine brings a pure vibration of electrical energy that strikes to the very center of the earth and renews it, creating the means for it to slough off the old veils of conception.  When we can reach that place where we can feel the love within us that is the universe, we do not need to create such powerfully negative karmas in our lives that can be so hard to deal with.  Life will not be perfect because we are all learning.  Being compassionate and careful for all life here is a grace.  We are all learning to throw off this veil.  Some know this, while others are dreaming it.  It comes closer and closer to us each day.  There is a lot of talk about 2012, but this is merely the end of a long-cycle event.  We are all here for a reason, and we need not fret over what that all means.  The more you can find the peace within, the more you will understand what this time is all about.

By allowing old karmas to fall like old blankets, we will be more vulnerable, more naked than ever, but also no longer shackled by shame.  This is important.  We will find in our awakening that the earth will appear different.  And there is a reason for this.....

Earth is waking up.  She is pregnant.  She is going to give birth to a new consciousness.  It is what you are becoming inside.  We are all now swept by the current of this to greater and lesser degrees.  Some are here to witness.  Some are here to participate.  We all play parts.  We are all related.  We are all one big family.  This wont be merely a time of rainbows and light.  People will need to stand up for what they know is right, and to hold those powers that be responsible for coming along with them in this new journey.  The more we can help our brothers and sisters in government to understand that we are no longer fearful but ready for this leap, the less they will feel the need to hold onto the old ways as much. There is a great deal of fear being sown still, and we each should seek to heal that hurt and fear when we can. 

Every voice is important.  Each race is important.  Each tree and squirrel and bug and plant is important.  We will be able to see things in a very different way, and it is happening NOW.  There is a new earth waiting to be birthed.  The voices of each race, crossed, together, are more important now than ever.  The voices of the Yellow Lodge in the East, the Red Lodge in the South, the Black Lodge in the West, and the White Lode in the North.  We are all one family.  We are all one earth. 

The yellow lodge are those people who are the Asian races, the black lodge are those dark races from Africa, the red races are those who were native to North America, and the white were those races who were white. It has long been known that there were four of these lodges just as there are four directions.  It makes up the totality of our experience as a species. For a long time, the White Lodge has sat empty. It was said that the White Lodge would draw back its children into a cooperative hoop of being as all peoples would begin to learn to live at peace with the earth. 

The Emergence of the Goddess

We are more than we realize.  If we can't touch taste or feel it with our senses, it means it does not exist.  This legacy has been brought to us by an aspect of humanity that became disentangled from its feeling centers, and from its intuitive grounding.  In essence, this was something that was oriented towards a more masculine and mental/egoic way of relating to the world and is for the most part, how much of us have been oriented.  What kundalini has been doing all this while has been to orient me towards something I could not see or touch or smell but which was very much alive and real within.  The problem for us is that we have grown not to trust that part of us.  What is happening right now en masse, however, is a spreading awareness of the other side of this cognitive coin which is that the more feeling and inner sensing side of our beings are getting ready to come forward in a more collective fashion.  It heralds the emergence of the divine feminine, that part of us which is of a higher order awareness, a collective self or being that resides in this sparkling world of possibility that we can very easily set aside as not real.  We have been lulled into this sense that what is inside of us is not real.  What we need most in this time is what is not real, then.  What we need is to make this unreal thing real in our world, to stop refusing its entry and begin to celebrate its presence amongst us both within and without us.

It is a recognition, celebration, and honoring, of the goddess within and without all of us;  in our bodies as an energy which connects us to the whole at the deepest core levels, as a psychic archetype that exists in our myths, legends and dreams, and as a guiding force beyond us and within us, whether we are aware or not.  By simply choosing to let Her in, we signal a change.  This change need only happen in a handful of people, numbered in only thousands, not millions, for the rules have changed in this age as it concerns this kind of change. The race has chosen a path of resonant influence as a way to effect massive planetary change.  If you read through this blog you will find other references to this principle that is alive in us in a way that is has not shown itself before.  We can quite literally bring change from the inside out.  So by choosing to honor that vibration which you know to be the goddess, you bring the collective voice to a greater volume, pitch and intensity.  This is not magic, but its not always understood, least of all by the mainstream biological sciences, but the tide is changing.

A kundalini awakening can fuel a powerful drive towards integration of a whole slew of things within, but what I have found over and over is that you have to be ready for this change.  For my own, this process has put me in very different waters.  I had built my professional career a certain way and found myself at a loss when I was faced with such a change.  I went from being someone who drove the wagon, held the reins, to stepping aside and letting that something else do the driving.  This has meant understanding all of my foiables as just that, forgiving myself as well as others, and moving on. By doing this those things which we hold onto which have a magnetic reality and which stay in our energy fields and spirits, we actually change our energy so that it sends out a different pulse, a different vibration.  For a long time I was left at total odds as to what to do in this new way of doing things.  It was quite literally like staring up at a blank screen.  I would look at it and think "Now what?..."  When we let go, we let in our higher purpose, our higher energetics, which is what I call Divine Energetics, and its a combination or matrix of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual elements which go together to make up the world we know.  One very big thing for me is learning to build a bridge to that aspect of me which I know to be feminine.  Without the feminine in me, the masculine part of me would not have the tempering effect that it does.  By learning how to honor that part in me I am able to honor that part in a more refined way in the world, but I will say that it is not me that seems to be doing the refining but rather this refinement seems to me to be coming from those higher-source archetypes which are me but are also plugged into the larger scales of consciousness, which includes a collective awareness and a vast sea of feeling, knowing, and being (I know this sounds rather grandiose, but we need I think to become aware of where these things go and emerge from in order to not mythologize them too much or to add dogma or other distorting ideas into the mix which has been our tendency for countless centuries).  In an awakening this becomes increasingly important for not developing blind spots and for integrating those elements which come from the higher into the "lower" or more "local" parts of me which is my earthbound self.

Many years ago I had a vision that involved what I later knew to be the White Buffalo Calf Woman.  I saw her in the form of a friend, and wondered if she WAS the White Buffalo Calf Woman.  For those who do not know, White Buffalo Calf Woman is a goddess being amongst the Plains tribes that brought the sacred rites of the Lakota, and served as a humanizing force in the history of the culture.  She was also supposed to return, and we would know this time when there would be the birthing of white buffalo calves.  Well, over the last 20 years there have been a rise in the births of these white bison calves. This is seen by the Lakota as a powerful sign that we are entering an important part of the Cleansing Time upon the earth.  This Cleansing was seen as a natural response to the state of health of the earth not just as a biological organism but as a spiritual one and the Hopi have a lot to say about this.  This is a subject close to me because as a young man of 18 I found myself in the middle of an intense memory from my past life as a Native American man who was being told about a day in the future when the earth would be going through a cleansing time, a time when I would be present as a new person.  That I would witness the White Buffalo Calf Woman showing herself was not a huge surprise after I began to learn what all of this Cleansing business was about.   And while some may wait for an individual to step forward who might be the White Buffalo Calf Woman, my feeling is that She will move through the culture of earth as a whole, a giant rippling in the Collective, of our higher aspects seeking to know its divinity (which the White Buffalo Calf Woman certain is) less individually (but certainly individually) but more as a whole. This is where Her true power will radiate, this is where Goddess, in ALL of her forms will begin to be known within and without. Here her great potential will be known as we begin to learn the deepest secret of our being, of those forms that exist in seemingly small scales within us, but that spiral outward seemingly beyond us into forms that are extensions of our own consciousness and that weave us into the All (as those higher selves are themselves part of stil larger constructs of consciousness in the same way that cells in our bodies are part of a massive interconnected and cooperative whole).

These forms exist within us  and when we begin to integrate greater and greater amounts of conscious energy, we also can tip the scale towards an understanding of this identity as a collective as well as on the individual level.  I suspect that this is what we are doing.  In much the same way that Jesus spoke in many gospels (many which were not allowed into the King James' version however) that spoke of how others could embody the same spirit as he did (with the implication that we could all become Christs, joined through the father......except in his day he either could not or would not speak much of the mother, the feminine compliment in the psyche of the higher self).  In this way we can become channels for those higher aspects of consciousness which are us but which seem so expansive we have a hard time believing its even us.  But it is. My feeling is that we ought not be merely curious, but engaged in this time in who and what we are, to give all of what we are in this because each person makes a difference in the game now, and the game can be changed.  This is why we are here.  Not so long ago this was spoken by a Hopi elder: 

 

These are the End times and the people must know the truth, share what we have taught you. There can be no more secrets now if we are to survive as a thinking species through these times." "This," they say, "must be done because the dream of humanity can only be preserved through the combined efforts of all peoples, and the joining and merging of all cultures into a oneness."  (Statement of the traditional Hopi Elders as told to Cho Qosh Auh Ho Oh, a Chumash/Yaqui/Maya Native)

So as we run up to the time when we will reach what the Hopi call the "Third Shaking" we know that this is related to big earth movements, most notably volcanic eruptions which come in waves.  This last one is getting close and by watching what the Yellowstone cauldera has in store as its dome builds, we all wonder where this will come from, this third shaking.  But this shaking is the goddess, the feminine principle that is earth that reacts, responds to what has been happening upon it.  That we are spoiling her in the way we have been doing is testament to how things must change if the planet is to sustain life.  Life itself will not allow too much of itself to be destructive, to bring the rest of the house down with it without in some way responding, reacting, balancing the scales.  This is not retribution, but preservation through a principle that is built into the very core of all matter.  It is alive in our world and as we dump tritium into the Mississipi, as the destroyed Fukashima nuclear power plant is allowed to dump Mox (weapons grade radioactive material) into the ocean, or make Iraq and Afghanistan a wasteland of radioactivity through the use of DU (depleted uranium--this metal is hard enough to penetrate armor and will vaporize upon contact, spraying the area with a mist of radioactive particles akin to a dirty bomb and lethal for anyone near it at the time.....a legacy we have sown for our military and those who remain in those countries we have polluted), the earth feels all of this and will respond.  

                                            White Buffalo Calf Woman by Brett Stokes

Everything that I was shown in that vision from my past life as a native American man dreaming the thunder beings tells me that this is true and that life here will change in a rather drastic way if we continue on the path that we are on.  The Goddess, dressed in her power, will emerge to effect those changes which will change the game, life here on the planet.  

So whether we see the white buffalo calf woman in others or simply forge a stronger understanding of ourselves as an interesting mix of character traits which themselves set up an energetic dynamic that both repels and attracts depending on how each person is composed, we in one way or another learn to integrate these parts of ourselves in a way that is more harmonious and inclusive.  In this way the goddess is reflected throughout all of creation, and this I think is as it needs to be, because we are all in dire need of her in our lives.  I know I do. I know that the goddess in all of her forms continues to rise to the surface of my collective awareness, in my experiences along the path of kundalini, and so I am moved to speak this truth, to speak her through me since I myself am integrating those lost aspects of myself which I know I must surely have if I am to survive this time in a way that is born of an emergent paradigm.

 

Isis and Osiris by Susan Seddon Boulet

The one thing that I have been taught in my ancient past is that balance will be maintained.  Since there is no death, our moving from the stage while seemingly disruptive to our day to day lives, would be just another shift in our path.  Life here is not some accident, but is itself the result of careful calculations, intentional choices that resulted in a cradle that was to bring forth a broad range of life.  Some of this life exists as a vestige of what it once was (dinosaurs) while other forms are being given a voice as something larger oversees and helps move larger blocks of energy as evolution winds its way very slowly most often, but sometimes occurring in bursts of brilliant change.  We have ourselves sought to have this earth be erased of most life in order to start all over again, one through a direct hit in the Carribean/South American region, and another from a large comet.  This is the dynamic nature of creation and the great womb that is the goddess Gaia that can remove life and start over almost from scratch.

This has its reflection in the world at large. The feminine principle is coming forward in a way that it has not in ages, and it is time. it is time that we begin to understand the great power of the feminine in our world at all scales of being; what it means to us individually as well as a planet.  With a world culture that is slowly loosening its grip of control and oppression to women, as doors begin to open and a new breeze blows through our worldly institutions we recognize its our minds and hearts which are being changed, too.  It feels synergistic to me, that its bound to happen but not fated. We decide. Some days we leap forward, some we fall back.  Together, as a species, we are working out so much.  I am convinced, though, that I am here to witness the emergence of the feminine principle in ourselves coming forward into the world in a way that it has not done before.  We do this in big and small ways and every effort to bring it forward is needed, important.  In the end it seems to mirror some inner resolution going on within us collectively and individually.  The divine feminine is the collective female in everyone, the goddess, that aspect of us which is intuitive, feeling, which does not seek control but brings a sense of compassion,  care and healing into the moment.  But as we all let Her into ourselves more, we also find ourselves loosening up more, feeling an innate sensuality and ease with ourselves.

Much of the things that seemed to loom large in our mythological world was really aspects of ourselves projected into forms that we could look at, understand, know objectively.  Now is the time to do what John Campbell certainly must have suggested, which is to do the work of integrating those aspects into our day to day lives.  And this is my prayer, my simple hope in my own journey.  As we move closer to a day when we honor the Mothers in our lives, let us not forget Her in her collective wonder and how she can find her way into each of us in a way that is clear and understood and worshipped with awe, wonder, and love for all that she gives us.

Nemasté

Most of the artwork contained in this blog is the work of one of my most favorite artists.  Her name is Susan Seddon Boulet. While she passed from this world in the late 90's, she left behind a wonderful world of art that expressed her interesting mix of concerns spiritually.  Her work can be found here.


P.S.  For those who would like to know more about some of the indigenous prophecies this site does a pretty good job of bringing forth some of the issues that are at hand:

Cleansing and Entry Into the Fifth World