As a young man I was very proud of my Anglo-Saxon heritage and believed strongly in the supremacy of the rational mind and the containment of feeling. As an older man what I see in this heritage is a basis for dishonesty; disease; and the supremacy of the social group as opposed to truthful individual expression. I see in this heritage repression at every level and an inhibition of useful action.
Every culture is a particular expression of a compendium of beliefs that society not just accepts as correct but in light of which it cannot believe the world can possibly be different. Cultural beliefs are as solid as the physical world the culture inhabits. Cultural beliefs don't of course remain static, they change over time. But so does the physical world that contains the culture. We only have to look at pictures or paintings over a period of time to see how different the landscape and the people as mirrored in their dress and activities are, to see these personal and external changes.
But here, right now, at any specific point in time, belief is paramount. We are incapable of perceiving an idea or situation outside of the paradigm of our own knowing. And why would we expect anything different. And yet we all carry a belief that we are capable of observing a situation or event cleanly, free of bias. We each of us think that what we observe is true, even though we know others observe differently. We either think that the other is mistaken, or misinformed, or not as smart as we are; and we congratulate ourselves on our perspicuity.
How can I say that my Anglo-Saxon heritage results in dishonesty? We are emotional beings. An analytically inclined person is like that by reason of their emotional stance. Although we apparently act and expect others to act in a rational fashion, this is very far from the truth. Our analytic construct of the world we live in is imbued in its every part by our emotional perspective. The English belief of not expressing what is really felt, of separating and constructing a world ruled by the mind, means that much of what is expressed by us individually and in groups is a fabrication. It is not true. To distinguish between what is said safely in the sanctity of our home and not expressed in public means that nobody except those close to us ever know what we really think and even in personal relations the English in the home in the nineteenth century were quite formal, even to the point of using formal language in personal communication between members of the family. In modern parlance this translates to never expressing what we mean.
What of disease? There is a great deal of evidence these days that the repression of true feeling or the expression of modified more acceptable views is a major component of disease. That which we really feel when it is not expressed; is trapped or deposited in various parts of the body; and is the seed of illness. Unexpressed emotion is painful and isolating. The lies that we fill our communications with, and let’s be clear - to say something that you don't believe because you consider it will be more acceptable - is a lie. And all these lies add up to living a lie, living a life which is not the life that beats within.
If we are emotional beings and if our world is as much if more intangible, than tangible; why, would proof of the truth of anything, be more true because it is borne out by an examination of the physical than any other world? Why do we think that the physical is the repository of truth? Signals from the heart to the brain show that it is not the brain that drives our conduct but the heart which influences our thoughts. We are emotional beings before we are analytic beings. One thing science is quite agreed on. When a memory is laid down in the brain with a larger quotient of emotion the stronger the memory.
The other component of my Anglo-Saxon heritage that I mentioned was the primacy of the group over the individual. The Dalai Lama is purported to have said in response to a suggestion that pressure be brought to bear on China to change its stance to Tibet, by a boycott of Chinese goods, that to do so would possibly bring suffering to Chinese labourers. And that to consider an action in relation to one unique event that might hurt - one being - is not to be countenanced. I am using this story a little out of context to express an idea. Each one of us is unique and special. Each of us deserve to be allowed the uttermost opportunity to realize our potential. We have reached a point in our thinking where we neglect or interfere with the freedom of the individual for the greater good. Smoking for instance is not condoned because we use the argument that it potentially harms and is a cost to the larger group. Drinking could be similarly considered and yet most western societies laud the drinking culture. I'm not sure why I pick on these two. They both have slightly negative connotations and are not that important in the scheme of things. I suspect that the most difficult area of individual freedom is that arrangement of society which allows a few individuals to control the basic components of life as we know it to the detriment of most. Wealth and land has moved into a few hands and these hands have a ball, while most people find it hard to make any sort of living. Slavery per se has been abolished and yet most people today are economic slaves to a few. The irony is that the mass of people allow this by accepting the rules which govern these economic phenomena. If might is right then the few only hold their position of superiority by selling to the mass of people the belief that what they do is not only okay, it might be said to be the natural order.
Today in many countries in the Arab world, and throughout Africa a change is taking place. The young are saying, it is not right that the mass of us starve whilst you - the few - hold all the wealth and power. And so in Libya, Egypt and Syria amongst others the young people are throwing off the shackles of power. And the truth is that unless there are changes in the west the same will happen here. Just because our world has the trappings of what we westerners see as civilized! cultured! -doesn't make repression any the less real.
Why have I headed this blog 9/11. Because from September 11 2001, with the bombing of the twin towers, a huge movement has taken place in the human spirit. Within each one of us there has been a turning, a recognition that some things are not to be countenanced. This movement within has resulted in the so called - war on terror - but that is just one side, one part of a more fundamental shift. Countries that were just names on maps have invaded our living rooms. There is a sharp awareness of the difference between 'Good' and 'Evil'. There has begun an examination of institution, of ways of doing things that embody unfairness, of unnecessary privilege. There has been an acknowledgement that just because something is, doesn't make it right. From the bombing of the twin towers all the world action that followed is imbued with our spiritual response to it. And the world will never be the same.
There is a sense that the inclement weather, the bowing of cities and nations to hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes is all part and parcel of the changes that are coming upon us. Global warming is a buzz word but my sense is that what is taking place in the world is much bigger than this. I would like to share part of my book that inspired this blog to give a sense of what I mean. It is as follows:
WINDOWS IN THE SKY
“There is an answer to every question you have within you. The question is the beginning of the answer. Knowingness and action is the result.”Conversation with Raman Pascha 2001
We have a discombobulated way of looking at the world. It arises from our belief of separation and isolation. And it creates a planetary consciousness that mirrors this belief. We experience this in many different ways. We feel separate from each other. In cities of millions we feel isolated from each other. We also feel isolated from ourselves. A happy person, someone completely accepting of themselves with no lack of self esteem, doesn’t require others to bolster their sense of self. A happy person doesn’t feel alone when they are by themselves, because their sense of self is fulfilling. An unhappy person is alone in a crowded room.
Apart from personal isolation, we are isolated as a planetary consciousness. C S Lewis depicted this in his first book in a scientific trilogy he wrote, called, ‘Out of the Silent Planet’. The reason it was silent, was that it was artificially closed to all the other inhabitants of the galaxy by the presence of the ‘earthlings’ low level of consciousness. The rest of the galaxy cared for them but were unable to be seen until a sufficient level of consciousness was achieved. This is the promise of 2012.
In the introduction to her channelling of a Pleiadian called P’taah, ‘An Act of Faith’ Jani King quotes him, speaking of the time following the first decade of this millennium: “The words you have will not describe the ecstatic explosion of consciousness, nor can you imagine how you will be in that time, when every atom and molecule upon this planet, and the whole planet herself, will radiate with divine light. Such exquisite beauty is beyond imaginings. And when the transition has taken place there will be beings flocking to your planet to sing the wildest hosannas, in joy, in jubilation, in thanks, in blessings. And those beings will be the unseen ones, they will be the beings from other worlds who do not appear as you do, and yet you will be able to perceive the divinity in all things. It will not matter the shape and the size, you will perceive the Godhood in all. It will be the most magical”.
‘Windows in the Sky, Buddha is that you’, is my personal tsunami. It is a voice calling me through one of those windows; awakening me to vigilance; and a reminder that we are not alone. I know also, the sound and feel of the voice of my ‘Authentic Self’ and that is another ‘window’. My ‘father’ occupies a window as does my ‘mother’, my ‘sister’ and of course so many, many others including Mona Lisa. The poem, ‘Windows in the Sky’; is not written tongue in cheek. I know that this is the reality. Mind is not limited to this earthly frame. To bring to mind, one of those many not physically present on earth right now, or even those present, and a point of attention flies to wherever it needs to make that connection. We all know when we stop and reflect that even when talking to someone in the same room as us; it is not just our voices that bridge the gap. Our attention directly connects us one to another, the seen and the unseen. ‘Call my name. I will come and be with you, and allow you to know I am present, and, where I can, inspire you to the answers and understanding that you need’. Those were Raman’s words to me when I spoke to him back in 2001.
In that same year we saw the planetary event now known as 9/11. It became a defining event - a line in the sand. At that point the western world stood up individually and in concert and metaphorically said – Enough! We are not prepared to be bullied out of our convictions any further. And a new consciousness grew from that point. One that recognizes injustice in whatever forms it appears; whether it is external to us or internal. Enough is enough!
The other day I had a deep moment of, ‘aha’. It pierced right through to my core, and for a long time afterward, I just sat, mesmerised by that ‘knowing’. I was reading the beginning of Lee Carroll’s co-created Kryon book; and he wrote; speaking about a twenty-six thousand year cycle of the earth within the Milky Way, said to be depicted on the infamous Mayan calendar that ends on 2012:
He was putting together two sets of thoughts. One was, that the Mayans, who put the calendar together; along with many other of the indigenous people, the Aztecs, Chinese, Egyptians, Druids,, Aborigines, Maori to name a few, knew enough about the earth that we live on and the galaxy in which it exists; to know that the earth moves around the sun, that it is a sphere, they knew the movement of planetary bodies in relation to us… They had to know to be able to create artefacts of the nature of the Mayan calendar. And yet our ‘vastly superior civilization’ historically imprisoned a reputable scientist for suggesting that the earth was round and moved around the sun, and at the same time sailors were taking their courage in their hands to discover new lands all the time believing that the earth was flat.
The 26,000 year earth cycle hidden in the Mayan calendar is said to bring earth changes; that result in stresses on the earth; that bring about a regular occurrence of major disturbances at the end of each cycle. I read the description and was bemused. It puts our history into a very parochial perspective. It makes sense of Gregg Braden, speaking at the ‘Celebration of Life’ event in Phoenix last year (2010) where he recounted speaking to a woman in Tibet; who told him that her grandmother had told her; that when she stood at a particular spot and reaching out could no longer touch the face of a particular glacier, that it was time to move for the earth changes that were to come. She told him this at the face of the glacier. It gives a new perspective.
Our consciousness is insular but it is what we know. There is much talk nowadays of changing belief systems; that we don’t have to live with the beliefs we have; and that our experience of life at any point in time is completely coloured by our beliefs. Shaking with flu symptoms, now hot, now cold; sniffly; sore throat; headachy; ask; – what belief created these feelings? How do I change it? It is not easy. So how do we expect each other to change the viewpoints of a lifetime? It is not easy. Logic may help. Reading the thoughts précised above from ‘Kryon’s - The Twelve Layers of the DNA’ innate logic rushed in, in as I said, with a huge ‘aha’.
Quite a lot is being said. I will encapsulate it by spelling out clearly, my understanding. We are more than we appear to be. Because of the particular beliefs we as a western world have chosen to believe, we are an isolated group consciousness on earth, an isolated group consciousness in the galaxy, and we have a very narrow vision of what life on earth is all about. We as a western group consciousness; are separated from what was well known by our forebears but is not known to us. It is known also by many indigenous peoples, and because we consider ourselves as the civilized, knowledgeable ones, we discount any information that comes our way from the indigenous, because ‘they’, don’t know what we know. They are less civilized and misinformed. Even, we used to think like that, but now we know better. And what is this particular knowing?
It is, that human life on earth, is much older than ‘our’, science, tells us. It goes back a very long way and much of the knowledge that the indigenous have retained is forgotten by us. Life on earth appears to have been broken at many points by cyclic events that are well known by the ancients but not by us. The breaks are sometimes of such a nature as to completely interrupt history and give those who survive the cyclic catastrophes a false sense of history. We are entering into the latest of many such interruptions in life on earth and this one promises to herald a revolution in consciousness that has never been experienced before or at least not for a very long time. There have been civilizations that are the subject of myth, such as Lemuria in the Pacific area and Atlantis in the
Right now there are two energies present on Planet Earth. There is an old energy that requires much thinking and planning and red tape, and measuring and proofs; that is like walking through quicksand. It adds up the cost of disaster while compassion deals with it. Then there is a new energy which makes use of the light and magic of the quantum nature of things. It is the energy of the young that right now is standing in front of the established world throughout the Arab countries and saying – we will not lie down anymore. Your tyrannical rule is greedy and self-serving and we want you to stop even at the cost of our lives.
There will be no peace on earth until the old guard step aside and stop thinking success in life is adding up the real estate they own. Whilst there are those who think to profit from others there will be no peace, until there is justice and compassion for all. Whilst the peoples of South America, and Africa, and Asia, of Polynesia, Melanesia – anywhere that doesn’t share the prosperity of the west remains in need there will be no peace. Recovery requires everybody to share because there is no reason why many lack while others hold the purse strings.
And all this happens under the compassionate gaze of those who have gone before; all those great souls that come so easily to all of our lips, as well as others; each one of us; soul guiding ourselves; many – ‘Windows in the Sky’. And we scurry about down here thinking ourselves invisible. We carry so much guilt about stuff the wise don’t even blink at. And we have the ability – here now – through our intuitive faculties to ask and answer the right questions – leading us to the right answers. My mind is not separate from your mind. My heart is in constant interface with and communion with your heart. Thought, feeling, sensation is not primarily physical. They are inter-dimensional. That is all.
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