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Part 2 – Feathered Serpent Initiation aka Shaktipāt Initiation

I stood barefoot on the warm grass under the midday sun, facing east in the Sun Angel Temple.   Relaxed, open, and trusting, I remained receptive, not anticipating anything.  My spiritual teacher, aka the Wizard, stood before me with a bottle of spirits in his hand, and I knew enough to close my eyes before he purified me.  Then he “worked” on my third eye with his hands. (Honestly, I have no idea what he did!)  At first I just felt pressure on my forehead and then I experienced an explosion in my mind.

I saw the sun and the cosmos –literally within my brain–radiating in my mind and blowing it wide open. The pain increased…one minute I was standing there on the earth in my normal daily consciousness and the next moment, I had no thoughts and was filled with the vision of the fiery brilliant sun and cosmos, obliterating all normal sense of reality and yet, this felt more real than anything else, and I was one with it all–the brilliant sun and ever-expanding galaxy.  The force was so powerful and the light so vibrant that my consciousness, mind and body became illuminated and ignited by this vast spiritual experience.  And the pain was extreme in my third eye, to the limit of my threshold, where the Wizard was pressing his hand. I could no longer contain the energy; bending over and erupting with sound, I emoted and vocalized like when giving birth to my son.  What was I giving birth to now?  I felt immensely powerful.

Then after what felt like an eternity of being suspended in that space of timelessness and immortal blending, the Wizard went to my side and placed his hand on my lower spine/pelvic region to awaken the coiled serpent-kundalini energy.  I roared like a lion as the power surged through me and I saw a volcano of fire-lava erupting as the energy flooded up my spine like wildfire.  At this point I was doubled over with an intensely electrifying energetic force that was purifying my body with spirit-fire.  I felt bathed in the spiritual realm (and oddly, a type of death of personality, ego, identity –?– of sorts and then a rebirth…there was purely spirit in my body from the pelvis up through my spine and out through my brain).  The power was immense.  I felt plugged into the heavens and earth, raw and immortal; had I known what was coming, I would not have been so relaxed and open.  I had no idea this was possible.  I felt an intense magnetic pull to the earth, especially in my brain and was leaning forwards, tugged and pulled as if by the earth’s magnetic force.  Once I had my belly to the ground, I became a conduit of heaven and earth like old mythological Egyptian tales of Geb and Nut and the erotic love between them, like the sky goddess and earth god or the sky god and earth goddess uniting.  I was merged. And I was flying.

With the sun in my head and the volcano in my pelvis, visions of a howling silver fox, a roaring Mesoamerican lion and a fierce owl flashed through my mind.  I felt like a serpent, earthy and one with the land.  My mind felt blended as if it was screwed down to the earth.  Then the Wizard placed his hands on my pelvis and top of my spine between my shoulder blades and gave a gentle pressure which felt healing, wholesome, and aligning, like a master chiropractor.  Then he worked on the base of my skull (cave of spirit), which simply felt calming, balancing, and comforting.  But my third eye and pelvis were completely opened up to the spiritual universal energies and the power that coursed through me has only been felt akin to while giving birth, which was physical and led me to a spiritual realm.  This was spiritual which led me to a physical realm, where the two blended as one and I felt awakened, transformed, and uncensored: raw, wild, devouring, fierce, purified, open, washed, bathed by spirit and fire and yet not consumed, but purified and awakened. Having a mind-bending glimpse of this otherworldly divine consciousness, where the oneness of reality was accessed in my body in broad daylight, I perceived truth in both a physical form and a spiritual way.

I could not lift my head up off the earth.  As mad as that sounds, as hard as I tried, I could not raise my head up.  It was as if it weighed as much as the sun. I could not stir. Eventually I began to shift my legs and hands, but could not push my head up.  My teachers asked if I wanted or needed help and I tried to get up on my own, but couldn’t. Sherry, aka the Faerie Queen, came and moved my neck ever so slightly and touched my head; with gentle energy work she released the drill that had screwed down my brain to the earth, like a cosmic merging.  I gradually lifted my head and torso, swaying side to side like a serpent.  I saw like a primal creature and my gaze was detached and yet one, whole, no filters. No thoughts. I couldn’t even think how bizarre, unexpected, strange this was.  I was in total awe.

I had entered another reality, or it had entered me, and we had merged; it was so phenomenal that every cell in my body was wide open, electrified to the spirit world.  My teachers gave me a cup of water to drink.  I could have drunk an ocean.  I needed assistance to stand.  I sang my spirit song to help me ground. I was orbiting. I had a shot of mezcal and wanted five more. I needed to feel my feet in the waters and went to the ocean and put my feet and legs in without even feeling the 50 degree temperature. A month later, I still have heat coming off my third eye and no chatter; my mind is quiet and still and my pelvis is on fire with heat and waves of burning energy ascending up my spine.  This initiation has awakened a knowing of oneness, immortal/divine consciousness, and spiritual power that is truly hard to express in words.

A Month later:

The initiation was so profound, transformative, powerful, and deep for me.  It’s as if the sun literally burned the synapses of unhealthy thoughts in my brain and I see, perceive, and experience the world in a totally new way.  I feel so privileged, blessed, and grateful to have received this from you. The vibration and energy was utterly intense, otherworldly, visceral, and I was completely open/ed to it.  I understand and feel in my heart that I walked (or was actually blasted) through a portal and that the journey is just beginning anew…. Your spiritual power is awesome, like turning lead into gold….So hard to put into words.

As for your name, the Wizard, I believe that it encompasses so many prominent aspects of you: the storm, the staff, the owl, the warrior spirit, the martial artist, the shaman, the healer, the metaphysical philosopher, the far traveler, the strong mind/hands, the energy alchemist, the teacher/prophet/visionary who is connected to the heavens, angels, planets, and stars…and of course, the wizard would be married to a Faerie Queen! Plus, a wizard is a “stranger in a strange land” and is “slightly terrifying” but also fun and real.  And a wizard’s timing is impeccable (just like your surname, Husfelt!!)

I’m still integrating and orbiting, walking the edge of where the ocean meets the land, gazing at the horizon and sky…like a poet, pondering, pondering, pondering.

 

Part 1 Feathered Serpent Initiation aka Shaktipāt Initiation

One thing we help our apprentices with is becoming an authentic human being with the knowledge of divine spark/dark energy internally, which we help them awaken. This dark energy may be referred to as Kundalini. Within every human lies a divine/cosmic dark energy (dark, meaning unseen) called Kundalini. Kundalini is Shakti, whom the sages of India worship as mother of the universe. She is the active aspect of the Absolute. Keep in mind, I awakened my feminine energy in 1988 during midnight ceremony in Machu Picchu at the Pachamama (World Mother) stone (story in our memoirs).

Over the years I’ve came across people who call themselves awakened… From my experience and knowledge authentic awakening is difficult and takes years, decades, maybe lifetimes to achieve. A fact many do not want to hear or acknowledge… in view of the preceding, for ones interested in authentic awakening, we will be offering a mentorship program for two individuals beginning in February 2024. For information on our mentorship program, please e-mail: spirit@snowyowlspeaks.info

Let me present an explanation of the first two paragraphs. During our September Apprentice training, we wanted to awaken their feathered serpent dark energy via a Feathered Serpent Initiation. At this point let me be clear, I am not Hindu, a yogi, and do not practice yoga, the closest I come is as a student of Vedic Astrology. In all my far-travels, I have never been to India even though in one of my past lives, I supposedly spent time in India.

No mystery so far concerning the Initiation except, we kept making sure our apprentices were OK after experiencing the energy. It was a few days after the initiation and our training had completed, my wife Sher had a dream. The next morning as she came down the stairs, she asked me to research what the word Shaktipāt meant. It was the only word spoken at the end of her dream. I had never heard of it and was shocked to say the least of what I discovered.

My Feathered Serpent Initiation was in fact a Shaktipāt Initiation – Transfer of cosmic energy – Lighting of a candle! If Sher had not had the dream, I would have never known I had initiated/awakened our apprentices using an ancient yoga technique.

A unique spiritual practice, Shaktipāt involves transferring divine energy from a realized spiritual master to an individual seeking this spiritual growth. Shaktipāt is not an independent yoga system. It is simply an ancient yoga technique. However, it is the highest yoga technique or the mother of all yoga techniques known to humankind.

Receiving Shaktipat is not a cakewalk, but if you find the right master, they can bless you with this energy thoroughly. This transmission of energy is also said to be healing for the mind and body.

The right master is someone who has reached enlightenment. As a disciple, you’ve got to be completely receptive to the energy that your master would transmit to you. Shaktipat is not a one-way process. It depends on the synergy between giver and receiver. Once the seed of Shakti is planted, it needs to be nurtured through dedicated practice and commitment, with a devotional heart for perpetual growth and spiritual unfoldment.

For those who seek enlightenment and true union with the divine powers, the kundalini awakens. It can awaken by itself, but that’s quite rare. In most people, it has to be awakened by certain means.

And one of those means is through a guru or a spiritual master—a Siddha Guru.

Siddha Gurus are extremely rare to find, at the same time they are not impossible to find. Siddha Yoga is one of the oldest yoga path. Siddha yoga is few thousand years old yoga path. The perfect yoga, Siddha Yoga, is also called Maha Yoga (great yoga) because it encompasses all other yoga’s.

The science of Shaktipāt is a secret of all secrets and its use for worldly purposes is strictly prohibited in scriptures.

Like a spark that ignites whatever latent fuel is in its path, the ancient technique Shaktipat is believed to be a catalyst that can ignite the dormant spirituality within us, unleashing a powerful and fervent fire of transformation.

However, in today’s world, people calling themselves shamans without training from authentic indigenous shamans is rampant. Classroom sessions and beating a drum with a cloth over your eyes is not authentic shamanic training.

But what I discovered about the “selling” of Shaktipāt is worst and outdoes the “plastic” shamans.

The guru or spiritual guide acts as a channel or conduit for transmitting the spiritual energy, and for this reason, their own realization and spiritual attainment are considered essential for an effective transmission.

In modern times, it may appear that the accessibility of shaktipāt has increased, with numerous spiritual masters offering this initiation to seekers.

However, this expansion has gone hand in hand with the commercialization of the practice which can make it even more difficult to find the real deal.

I can’t overstress the importance of this step, for another key reason:

Being such an intimate technique predicated on trust, shaktipāt sadly leaves lots of space for abuse of power, so be very careful about the spiritual teacher you get instruction from for a shaktipāt initiation.

Part 2: words of one apprentice who went through the Initiation.

 

 

Sacred Path Of Quetzalcóatl – Toltec Journey of Initiation: Teotihuacán and Malinalco, Mexico

What is Ones Mortal Life without Legacy

Teotihuacán was the sacred site where order was shaped out of darkness and chaos. The place where the Fifth Sun called the world into being. Join us as we assist in the birthing of the Sixth Sun. And what about Quetzalcóatl ‘s Return to Teotihuacán – Where One becomes a God

“It’s What I Do … I Far Travel the World … And I know Things.”

The wise man, tlamatini, is “he who knows things.” (Codice Matritense de la Real Academia, VIII, fol.118, r. – 118)

October 28th – November 5th, 2023

Far Travel to Mystical Mexico: Arrive Saturday, October 28 and Depart Sunday, November 5, 2023. Fly into Mexico City.

Honor and celebrate The Day of the Dead in Downtown San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico. Walk around the main square, with its porticos and gazebo. We were here during the Day of the Dead in 2007. It is an experience not to be missed.

Ancient texts describe temples as places where a person may be “transformed into a god/goddess, into a bright star.” No more was this so true than at the primary sacred site of Teotihuacán and its sister site Malinalco.  All are ancient academies dedicated to the spiritual elevation of those on the quest for personal transformation. They embody a cult of knowledge maintained by the Toltecs, Maya, and the Olmec who inherited it from an even older, Golden Age.

Our path is such as the one pursued by countless people seeking the knowledge of the gods and through this practice initiates came to achieve the ultimate aim: heart making, face making, and becoming an Hombre-Dios/Mujera-Dios (god-man/goddess-woman – a divine human).

These ancient teachings are eternal, and more importantly, they are more relevant today than ever to assist us in navigating our discombobulated culture.

Each site we visit on the journey is special and each one will amaze you. We are living in extraordinary times, and we are like pioneers entering  a new world. As we search for the best expression of our authentic selves, it is only natural to look for guidance.

As we connect with the Heart of Mother Earth and the Wisdom of the Stars, the possibilities become unlimited! Not only will you experience Toltec sacred sites but some of Nature’s most magnificent gifts. There are many levels to this journey and the connection with  Mother Earth is an important one.

This is journey brings the Toltec past and present together and the Husfelt’s, through their teachings, ceremonies, practices, meditations, explanations, and initiations at the ancient sites, bring the Toltec sacred wisdom alive and you become one with the past/present.

The temples and pyramids were built to connect with the Wisdom of the Universe and the Husfelt’s will help open the doors to the ancient energies of the Toltec Masters, who are waiting for you in the magical sites we will be visiting.

The most important gift you will receive from this is the inner journey, the shift in consciousness that happens when you open your heart and accept all that comes to you. This journey will be unique for each one of you and exactly what each one of you needs.

Join Rev. Dr. JC Husfelt and Rev. Sherry Husfelt on a journey of power, love, and awakening. In 1995 during a midnight run at Teotihuacán, Dr. Husfelt had an encounter with a Spirit Man who identified him as Quetzalcóatl,  the nahual or co-essence of the great deity Quetzalcóatl, with a destiny… to birth the Sixth Sun. According to Historian Ernesto Novato: Elusive and intangible, but at the same time permanent, the Olmec believed Quetzalcóatl would be physically incarnated at times throughout history. The Olmec were the first great Mesoamerican civilization, 1200 to 400 BCE. The full story of the Spirit Man is told in their memoir Tequila and Chocolate, The Adventures of the Morning Star and Soulmate.

Malinalco – October 28 – 31.

Departing Mexico City’s International Airport, we journey to Malinalco. Quinta Ascensión Hotel Boutique  & Spa Only Adults is our lodging for three nights. Paco, owner and a friend of ours, provides a welcoming, beautiful lodging, focusing on any of our needs.

In legendary accounts, Malinalco was a very important place. Since Pre-Hispanic times, Malinalco has been associated with magic and sorcery: Malinalxochitl, goddess of snakes was worshipped on the Cerro de los Idolos , the sacred mountaintop initiatory site of the Eagle and Jaguar Knights.

Malinalxochitl literally means “grass flower” or “wildflower,” but it derives from two words, Malinal and Xochitl, describing two types of spiritual forces: Malinal is short for Malinalli, a force of untamed nature: it is what stands outside civilization. Xochitl, on the other hand, is a force of beauty and purity, a dynamic, sexual, creative force. Malinalxochitl is the crossroads where these forces meet. Her son, Copil, was a powerful shaman.

The most remarkable building on the side of the mountain is the Cuauhcalli that means “House of the Sun” or “House of the Eagles”. It is one of the few monolithic buildings of the world and the only one in America. The building was carved out from a single stone.

The particular topography of the Malinalco Valley, formed by peaks and canyons rising capriciously out of the mountain, makes for scenery that evokes cosmic planes: Tlalocan, the paradise of the rain god Tláloc; Tamoanchan, the birth place of Quetzalcóatl, god of the wind. The thick, low brush, typical of warm, humid climates, completes the scenery.

I’m standing in front of the alter of Temple IV, which is partially carved into the living rock, faces east, and is considered to be a Tonatiuhcalli; Temple of the Sun. Half of the edifice is carved out of rock, while the other half, the front façade, is made of ashlars of stone. The building is raised from a platform and has a central staircase. There is an altar carved out of the rock that lies along the main wall. Some scholars believe that an image of the sun was embedded in the main wall due to the fact that the Temple wall was designed to receive the light rays of the rising Sun illuminating every morning the face of the god. Possibly, its function was for mass ceremonies dedicated to the “star king.”

Malinalco is off the destinations of tourist allowing us space and time for empowerment and anyone suited for a jaguar – eagle initiation.

Mezcal

If you love Mezcal as I do, you will be in a mezcal paradise in Malinalco—known for its “Mezcal Tradicional.” Paco will provide a private tour for us to observe the traditional method in producing Mezcal. This essence of Mother Earth is not sold commercially outside of this valley. You’’ have a chance to purchase a bottle or two.

It is unique. Loving Mezcal I can attest to its exceptional palate—a fiery earthiness. The agave grows for ten years and then the female part, called a pineapple, is used to make this awesome spirit—a spirit of the feminine earth and the masculine sun, blended as One in each sip of the Mezcal.

Tula-Teotihuacán -Where One becomes a God (where humanity becomes one with the cosmos) October 31 – November 4.

For the next four nights and five days, our lodging is La Finca del Abuelo Teotihuacan as our quest completes in Teotihuacán, City of Water – City of Fire known as the birthplace of the Fifth Sun.

There is no written history of this ancient metropolis except that it was called Tollan (Tula). In Nahuatl, Tollan simply means Great City. Its inhabitants were known as Toltecs, the Nahuatl name for Master Craftsmen. There seems little reasonable doubt that this first great Tollan was indeed Teotihuacán. This City of the Gods was the birthplace of the myth and religion of Quetzalcóatl, the birthplace of the Nahuatl culture; and to call its people by their time-honored and indisputable name of Toltecs. For the Toltecs, Quetzalcóatl was the spiritual originator of the tlamatinime, the wise men who were the priests and preservers of divine knowledge. He was the personification of wisdom and their ancient symbol of wisdom, a wise man who has firsthand knowledge of the nature of things.

The key to the knowledge, power, and wisdom of Teotihuacán is focused on the Pyramid of the New (Dead) Moon and  Quetzalcóatl’s Ciudadela.

Quetzalcóatl’s Temple-Pyramid is enclosed in the Ciudadela, which consists of fifteen stepped platforms surrounding an enormous sunken plaza. It sits in the east and faces the Great Compound in the west both known as the Southern Complex. Quetzalcóatl’s Temple-Pyramid and its surrounding walled precinct was the ceremonial heart of Teotihuacán.

The Avenue of the Dead (Moon) is also known as the Belly of the Serpent. The snake and the moon both share common symbolism: transformation and renewal. There is an important fact. From the Pyramid of the New Moon, the avenue gradually descends or slopes down until it terminates in front of Quetzalcóatl’s Ciudadela (Citadel)—mirroring Quetzalcóatl’s journey to the underworld, an essential journey to “birth” the new sun—the Fifth Sun.

Walking this throughway, as was done before by the Initiates of Teotihuacán, you carry out a symbolic and mythological journey of death and re-birth. For the thousands of casual tourists that tread this path, they know little of these very ancient and ageless ceremonial acts of death and re-birth.

The Path of an Initiate

Keep in mind, Teotihuacán was laid out to replicate on the earthly plane their vision of the cosmos symbolized by the quincunx—a five-fold figure. The center of the quincunx is the point where heaven and earth meet. It is also the precious jewel symbolizing the heart, the meeting-place of opposed principles where they become one.

Since the initiation needs to be done in person and at Teotihuacán, I’ll only reveal the beginning stage of initiation of an initiate as they strive to become a Quetzalcóatl—a Hombre-Dios or Mujera-Dios, a True Man or Woman, a Divine Human. It begins in the shadow of the Pyramid of the New Moon. Specifically, within the main plaza and its quincunx altar dedicated to Cihuacóatl – Divine Woman Serpent who is the goddess of the new moon (moon within the earth). Most importantly, she was the female aspect of the universal duality: Quetzalcóatl/Cihuacóatl.

The Pyramid of the New Moon and Plaza were a primary religious center. Initiate sits in the west of the Moon plaza altar and contemplates his/her death. And then….

Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez – Saturday, November 4

We sadly depart Teotihuacán for Mexico City International Airport; officially Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez. Our hotel is by the airport to make it easier for you to catch your flight the next day. This takes away the stress of getting to the airport on time for your flight.

Fee: $2995 includes transportation within Mexico, daily breakfast, and t-shirt. It does not include airfare to and from Mexico City.

The Fifth Sun – A Storm’s Coming…

“Received the book and could not put it down. The style of writing so personal as if I was sitting right across from the author. From cover-to-cover twists and turn keeping the excitement flowing . Impatiently awaiting the next book in the series.” Kristi R.

THE FIFTH SUN – A COMBINATION OF METAPHYSICAL FICTION AND NARRATIVE NONFICTION BASED ON THE TRUE-LIFE  ADVENTURES OF REV. DR. HUSFELT AND REV. SHERRY HUSFELT.

Our book, besides an exciting read and spiritually revealing, also makes a great Christmas gift – 12% off coupon: Sun12 

 

Standard Time

Sunday, we hop back to standard time—a time sequence most essential for our health, wellbeing, and sleep. Enjoy these benefits for a short time as Congress in their stupidity and their greedy nature have a bill before them to make daylight saving time permanent.

Standard time, for so many scientific and circadian rationales and public health safety reasons, should really be what the permanent time is set to. It is more closely associated with humans’ intrinsic circadian rhythm, and that disrupting that rhythm, as happens with daylight saving time, has been associated with increased risks of obesity, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease and depression.

With daylight saving time, we are perpetually out of synchronization with our internal clocks, and we often achieve less nighttime sleep, both circumstances having negative health impacts. Extra evening light suppresses the melatonin that should be preparing us for falling asleep. The later dawn during daylight saving time deprives our biological clocks of the critical light signal.

Experts say circadian misalignment has been associated with adverse effects on cognition and mood as well as cardiovascular and metabolic function.

The circadian clock, it’s not just something that involves the cells of your brain. The circadian clock also regulates rhythms in other areas of the body — like cells of the heart, like cells of the liver — and by altering our natural circadian rhythm with daylight saving time, we’re throwing off our biological rhythm resulting in long-term effects to our health and wellbeing.

Time… Clocks… Watches (haven’t worn one since the 80’s) a greed and materialistic reflective status symbol… Speaking of liars above, the greatest liars are found with Christianity, in fact, Christianity is based on the Greatest Lie Ever Told… sorry Trump their lie is even bigger than yours.

What does Christianity have to do with time besides their patriarchal calendar? One of their lies: Their primary image of the Archangel Michael portrays the Archangel standing on the body of Satan… that’s the lie… the body is not Satan but Saturn, the timekeeper of our solar system. Holding down Saturn means the pressing down of linear time, so no one is trapped or limited by its hold on our spirit. That’s a brief teaching as it is more complicated than to be explained within this post.

Who or what is to blame for our time problem?

Earth and her inhabitants have traveled through the 13th baktun cycle – the final period of 1618-2012 CE. This cycle is known both as “the triumph of materialism” and “the transformation of matter.” The Maya predicted this final baktun would be a time of great forgetting in which we drift very far from our sense of Oneness with Nature and experience a kind of collective amnesia. Like a memory virus in which we begin to believe the limited reality of appearances and grow dense to the spiritual essence which fuels this world, so humanity’s sense of an unhealthy ego and domination has grown.

We entered this baktun cycle right after establishing the worldwide coordination of Pope Gregory XIII’s 12-month calendar system (1582) as well as the perfection of 12 hour 60-minute mechanical clock (1600), which had been evolving for centuries. These are no small matters. These 2 instruments are what manifested humanity’s “error in time” which is the following of artificial instruments of time that served to separate humans apart from the rest of nature, operating by our own false timing frequency, to the detriment of the natural world.

The Gregorian calendar is not based on logic, science, or nature. It denies and covers up the true annual human biological cycle conserved in the body of women. It is the current world standard because of the forceful issuance of this system upon conquered (indigenous) peoples who lost their land as well as their religious freedoms.

The clock was the first existing machine – going on to become the heart of all machine technology to come.

The presence of the clock gave birth to the notion that time lies outside our bodies – that it can be tracked by a machine, and that we can sit and watch it “fly” by tick-tock as though it is something linear, containable, and separate from the organic, flowing process of life. The adherence to the clock for our sense of time and timing is noted as the greatest obstacle to allowing the full divine abilities of our heart to flower.

Next came the Cartesian Coordinate Rectilinear Grid System (1637) which went on to establish the foundational platform of all modern math and science. Thanks to Rene Descartes (the man infamous for his quote “I think therefore I am,”) the ceiling of perception validated only the reality of the 3 dimensions of physical space.

At that moment, time became reduced from its qualitative essence to that of a quantity. The mind who adopted the lens of the linear grid also adopted the limited perception of time as a 3rd dimensional linear progression of pure duration.

Our societal paradigms have continued to operate with these limitations in place. Thus, if something cannot be seen, touched, or proven with measurements, it does not, in effect, exist.

Through the Cartesian lens, Nature has become reduced to pure quantifiable resources – no longer a living qualitative aspect of ourselves, but now something outside of ourselves which we observe, analyze and ultimately come to replicate, manipulate, dominate, toxify, and even destroy or extinguish. As Rene Descartes stated plainly, “I perceived it to be possible to arrive at knowledge highly useful in life…and thus render ourselves the lords and possessors of nature.”

It seems the modern world wants nothing more than to improve upon Nature, or at least extract her wisdoms and magical properties in order to make a buck by fulfilling increasing consumer demand.

And so, here we are –  in a transition from the Fifth Sun to the Sixth Sun… we are ending a 26,000-year Grand Cycle, the Precession of the Equinoxes… can we finally throw out the clock? And will humanity see another 26,000 years? Maybe and maybe not….

 

 

 

Wealth

If you have not, I would suggest you investigate the ancient knowledge of Vedic astrology. In your horoscope  you will discover the planet that identifies the type of human being you really are, the quality & mettle of your character (one of the meanings of karma) and even the spiritual development for you in this lifetime. It’s the planet ruling over your Soul. It is your “Atmakaraka” planet. It completely defines your worldly pursuits that you are engaged into this lifetime. Most interestingly, your Atmakaraka also holds the answers to why you came back on this earth and what your greater role in the cosmic scheme of things is.

My soul planet is Venus and my soul goddess is Shri Lakshmi. Shri is the name I chose for my wife in our exciting spiritual novel – “The Fifth Sun – A Storm’s Coming…” available on Amazon and BookBaby.

In the Vedic culture, the Goddess Lakshmi symbolizes prosperity, wealth, and good fortune. For our apprentices and others that know me, wealth doesn’t seem to be part of my character.

And they are right. Physical wealth is not the reason, I incarnated. The ancient Vedas describe wealth as more than just physical wealth. There are many different aspects of wealth including health, courage, knowledge, success, and physical wealth is just one of them. Here are others: wisdom, knowledge, courage and strength, intelligence, happiness and bliss (read Joseph Campbell’s works), high-thinking and broad-mindedness, meditative mind, understanding of morality and ethics, good health and longevity.

But the most important wealth for me and my reason to incarnate is the wealth represented by the Eldest and most primeval form of the Goddess, Adi Lakshmi, also known as Maha Lakshmi. She is portrayed as having four arms, one holding a lotus, a white flag, while the other two maintain the posture of Abhaya Mudra and Varada mudra.

She represents purity of heart.

“Adi” means source. Adi Lakshmi represents the divine principle that supports the seeker in uniting with the source — divine consciousness. To awaken the divine spark/light within our hearts. She helps the seeker quiet the restless, chattering mind which is a necessary stage to realize the Divine and awaken. She connects one to the highest wealth possible — which is in achieving union with the Divine.

Since everything that exists is supported by the Divine Consciousness, to achieve union with that Truth represents the highest form of wealth. Since the highest Truth transcends space and time — this wealth is beyond measure and beyond the boundaries of finite existence. Yet, on a material plane, this promotes wealth through hard-work, dedication, patience, sincerity, and effort.

Adi Lakshmi represents the state beyond time — beyond the concept of a beginning and an end. Hence her wealth flows perennially for one who knows and has achieved union with the Highest Truth.

Adi Lakshmi is the force that rekindles the knowledge of our true identity — which is that we are one with the highest source (not separate). So, it helps us transcend the forces of duality. When we take ourselves to be a small part of creation, we feel small, insecure and worthless, but when we realize that we are integral and connected to the whole and that part is an expression of the whole, we then outgrow the false ideas of self (limited self-identity) that we have clung to. It is metaphorically explained by the idea of the river uniting with the ocean and losing its false sense of separateness. The power of Adi Lakshmi helps us realize our true roots and true identity where we are no longer plagued by the idea of separation.

And this my friends is the message we bring of Divine Humanity.

And for the ones who have short attention spans and stopped reading, the reason for this posting now… Monday, October 24th, new moon 25th, begins the five-day festival of lights Diwali, symbolizing the spiritual victory of “inner light over inner dysfunctional darkness and knowledge over ignorance.” Knowledge as wealth is an invaluable resource and is treasured by those who understand its true worth. Knowledge that helps in the purification of the mind is real knowledge, all else is trivial.

You guessed it… Diwali is a celebration of the Goddess Lakshmi, and her promise of prosperity and good fortune.

Simplest way to celebrate is a lighted candle outside your home in the dark of night. And don’t forget to honor and bliss Maha Lakshmi.

 

Authentic Shaman – A Wise Person

Don Agustin Rivas Vásquez, an ayahuasca (“vine with a soul”) shaman and myself … Inka Trail 1988.

Shaman – a word that births a prism of images and connotations. Of course, a shaman would be a practitioner of shamanism, which Mircea Eliade defined as a “technique of religious ecstasy.” This is a definition that is problematic just as the terms shaman and shamanism are wrought with a magnitude of problems when applied cross-culturally. Let’s for the time-being refer to a shaman as a “wise person.” This reference cuts across all cultures. All cultures have been known to have and still have wise individuals within communities. As with the term shaman, we are once again faced with settling on a definition for wisdom. Let me explain my pondering thoughts on wisdom.

Wisdom derives from the following formulas: information without experience remains just information: I = I; information combined with experience results in knowledge: IE = K; wisdom flows from the combination of knowledge and its experience: KE = W. Experience is the source. As we may see, we are in the information age but not close to an age of knowledge. Furthermore, we are light years away from an age of wisdom. You can’t achieve individual wisdom if the majority of your time is spent staring into a box (smartphone) of information. A focus on information separates a person from nature—the source of knowledge and experience. But why is experience so necessary to the practice of shamanism?

Neuroscientists provide a glimpse into its importance. They have been exploring the varying anatomies of individual brains and have discovered that “genes, environmental exposures, experience, and disease help wire our neurons differently.”[i] Let’s explore each of these subjects individually:

  • Genetic: there is a theory called “gene-culture co-evolution.” Basically, it is research into how culture shapes our genetic makeup. According to Herbert Gintis: “Human characteristics are the product of gene–culture coevolution, which is an evolutionary dynamic involving the interaction of genes and culture over long time periods.”[ii] If this is true then it would make sense that the neurons of a Lapland wise person would be wired differently than a Peruvian wise person.
  • Environmental exposures:  mythology, folklore, ceremonies, and ritual are highly environmentally driven and influenced. It stands to reason that a wise person living in Iceland would perform rituals and ceremonies based on their cosmology, mythology, and folklore different than an Amazonian wise person.
  • Experience: This is a key to our intrinsic self and experience is our personal gateway to wisdom. A wise person in the Pacific Northwest would have different environmental experiences than a wise person in the Amazon. Unless, and this is important, they had journeyed extensively to other cultures and spent time absorbing and participating in spiritual/shamanic activities—direct experience.
  • Disease: In the past centuries certain diseases have been attributed to supernatural causes such as the tuberculosis outbreak in late 19th Century New England was blamed on Vampirism.

As witnessed above, a wise person is molded by their genes, environment, experience and possibly disease as are all of us (one of the traditional means of a “calling” to shamanism is a medical crisis). Within a community we would be subjected to the same environmental influence. Each of us would have a different genetic makeup, and each of us would have similar but different individual experiences. However, what has not been considered is each individual’s soul and its level of evolution. Of course, for this to be a consideration as a viable addition, reincarnation would have to be ones belief.

It stands to reason that a wise person for his/her community could be considered one or more of the following:  philosopher, mystic, visionary, healer. Any of these abilities witnessed by deeds would identify a person as a wise one. At this point we could identify the wise one as a shaman whereas a shaman, in a general sense, would be at the very least a healer. A wise one or shaman would have a culturally influenced genetic and environmental makeup with unique and intrinsic personal experiences. These aspects cannot be replicated by participating in a workshop/seminar on neo-shamanism.

This leads us to the fact that the term shaman and shamanism cannot be broadly painted in the same tones across different cultures—as the neo-shamans would want you to believe. Shamanism is not and has never been an organized religion with dogma and doctrine. But this is exactly what the neo-shamanism movement has attempted to do by establishing a cross-cultural doctrine of cosmology consisting of an upper, middle, and lower world and assessing these worlds through the sole method of drumming. This cosmology and the process to reach this trinity of worlds would seem strange and foreign to Vince Stogan and other elder shamans such as Zinacantec shaman Anselmo Perez. He journeys in his dreams to the meeting place of the Ancestors to learn the powers of the shaman such as the prayers that are needed to be recited when curing his patients. “The Ancestors represent the first people who learned how to plant corn, praise their creator, and live as proper human beings… they are not anyone’s direct ancestors but supernatural beings who guard the entire community.”[iii] Are these supernatural unseen beings in an upper or lower world? No, they reside in the nearby mountains. In other words, the unseen otherworld blends with our world; and in their specific case—in the mountains.

I’ve participated in ceremony with Anselmo. There was no drum beating or lying down with a cloth over our eyes—just prayers, incense, candles and sharing many liters of posh (alcohol). To a certain extent, posh represents our struggles of life. It “is considered a powerful healing substance and also a cause of sickness for the hangovers are unbearable. Everyone who drinks offers the spirit of all that is joyous and terrible in life.”[iv] In my case, I was not inebriated and without any hangover the next day; in fact during the ceremony, there was no real effect on my usual state of nondualistic consciousness.

One of the key factors of a shaman’s proficiency is his or her level of sensitivity, to be open and aware of the intertwining forces of the otherworld and the earth, and the ability to access both knowledge and wisdom. At any time, a person with this level of ability may access the otherworld without outside stimulus. The reason why this is possible? Radical nondualism is their reality. Shamans experience life as being simultaneously ordinary (rational) and non-ordinary (non-rational). This is a consciousness of radical nonduality that is the fundamental principle and foundation of perennial philosophy.[v]

Altered State Consciousness Is One of Radical Nonduality

The true and narrow path to becoming a “wise person” – a person of power—whether that person is called shaman, druid, wizard, goði or mystic—is difficult and takes years to achieve. But do not equate the tools with the state of being.

It is also important to know that there are no bad or evil spirits that we need to protect ourselves from their potential harm. Protection is physical and/or mental separation, which only influences and promotes the continuance of a dualistic consciousness. Energy is energy; however, there are unseen energetic forms that may attach themselves to our bodies, which may cause physical symptoms and problems that traditional medicine is not able to diagnose or heal. These vibrational energies are, in most cases, not compatible or in harmony with our vibrational bodies and minds.

As a final note, our shamanic heritages are important, and their knowledge and purity need to be respected and maintained. Each heritage is unique and intrinsic to its own culture and cosmology. There cannot be “a one size fits all” mentality.


[i] Melissa Healy, The Seattle Times, Sunday, June 23, 2013, A7.

[ii] Herbert Gintis, “Gene–culture coevolution and the nature of human sociality,” February 14, 2011, (http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/366/1566/878)

[iii] Walter F. Morris, Jr., Living Maya, 153.

[iv] Ibid, 160.

[v] My wife and I have traveled for forty years to different parts of the world, seeking wisdom and the myth, magic, and lore of elders and indigenous people. I have sacrificed self to self. My experience of listening, looking, and learning flowed from indigenous elders, healers, and shamans from all over the world. It also comes from my interactions with the young and old of other races and cultures and emanates deeply from my own soul wisdom. This knowledge is what I refer to as “first knowledge.” It is knowledge that is woven throughout and found in all the first people’s spiritual/religious traditions on this earth. This first knowledge has been referred to as primordial knowledge or the Primordial Tradition (perennial philosophy). As such, it portrays universal themes, principles, and truths. In other words, “the term Primordial Tradition is utilized to describe a system of spiritual thought and metaphysical truths that overarches all the other religions and esoteric traditions of humanity.” (http://www.primordialtraditions.net/.) Furthermore, “the perennial philosophy proposes that reality, in the ultimate sense, is One, Whole, and undivided—the omnipresent source of all knowledge and power. We do not perceive this reality because the field of human cognition is restricted by the senses. But the perennial philosophy claims that these limitations can be transcended.” (G. Philippe Menos and Karen A. Jones Menos, 14th Annual Conference of the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research: “Revelation and Inspiration: Paranormal Phenomena in Light of the Kundalini Paradigm,” May 21–23, 1989, 3.)

The Fall Equinox, Balance of Light and Dark

Skalalitude: being in harmony with nature – a harmonious state of heart and mind where all things are in balance. Concept of the Salish First People of Northwest Coast Canada.

At the fall equinox, balance of light and dark, the sun rises due east and sets due west, after which the location of sunrise moves towards the south. At the winter solstice the sun rises at its extreme south position for that latitude.

Balance – The following excerpted from Morning Star’s Seven Steps to Spiritual Awakening:

Ancient knowledge and wisdom never die. The echo of ancient knowledge needs to be heard once again. One small segment of ancient Greek knowledge is connected to ancient Delphi. It is the Delphic maxim “keep the measure.” There are a multitude of meanings and teachings connected with this maxim. One meaning is “measure everything before you act,” another one: ‘” everything measure excellent”— “right measure.” Most importantly, this maxim right measure – right proportion goes with self-knowledge. Once again, Know Thyself, our first step.

Keep the Measure may be traced to Apollo himself as he was the god of measure, science, philosophy, and the higher intellectual activities. It refers to the interpenetrative unity of the diversity of creation.

To awaken we need to live this Ancient Philosophy of Keep the Measure or accept due measure (relationship: relation of one thing to another).

Keep the Measure relates to the relationship of self (subject) to other (object)… it is knowing the measure of our feelings and the knowledge of people. Once we awaken our spark within, we live the measure of all things by keeping the proper measure and relationship between us and all other things. In other words, “keep the balance.”

Our concept of self and other is best represented by the measure of love in human relations: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.  When we have a knowing within our hearts that we have starlight, a “spark of creation—a sun of God,” within us and a knowing that others do also, we are then able to truly “love our neighbor,” to forgive, and to have compassion for others. This is the heart knowledge of the oneness of life and the heart knowledge of the humanness, the joy, the struggles and the suffering of life. We understand our own selves, and we understand others. This is true empathy and compassion.

Our balanced state of being is not static and is based on our self-measure, which needs to be open to growth and self-mastery.  If we look again at “sôphrosunê with temperantia: temperance is far from being a reducing kind of moderation but is rather the quality that enables one to get the right mixture or the right balance.”[i] We must discover the mean or balance between too little and too much. For instance, “rainfall may vary in space-time, as regards to intensity and duration, but is neither too much (to the extent that all life on earth is flooded off to total extinction) nor too little (to the extent that no life on earth can be sustained).”[ii]

To summarize: Apollo (Divine) and Dionysus (Human—all things). Apollo (radical non-duality) and Dionysus (duality). Before we awaken, we must discover the right proportion between our spiritual focus and our material focus. And once awakened, we must discover the right proportion between Apollo and Dionysus not as a static proportion but one that we strengthen. Accordingly, the value of our measure in awakening and once awakened is the extent to which we manage to grow in our balance of our divineness and humanness. Once our divine fire/spark is awakened, with the right measure, we strengthen it, strengthen our luminosity—our luminous body.

According to Pre-Columbian Nahuatl Philosophy: The wise man is a light, a torch, a stout torch that does not smoke. Once awakened. We achieve the resurrection body or a light luminous body—the miracle of turning death into resurrection.

According to the Pythagoreans, the virtue Justice was considered the supreme principle of balance. They identified justice with proportion where “each part receives what it is due.”

This concept of ‘keeping the balance’ is not limited to the Greeks. There is a Hawaiian concept called pono. It refers to a balanced state of mind and heart—harmony. Pono also means being in balance with others, nature and the spirit world. Illness comes from losing our natural state of pono. Restoring balance and harmony restores health. Speaking, thinking and acting properly are the keys to wellness and maintaining pono. Keeping ourselves and our relations (all other things) balanced and in harmony is essential for us in our journey of awakening.

And then we have the Mesoamericans as we travel to Chichén Itzá, “at the edge of the well of the Itzáes” as it was built close to two cenotes – natural wells which allow access to underground water. Specifically, the Pyramid of Kukulkán, or El Castillo, can be seen set in a wide expanse of flattened ground. The four-sided steep step pyramid has a central staircase on each face and is stopped by the temple of the Jaguars. On the northern side the staircase is flanked by plumed serpent heads at ground level.

At Chichén Itzá during the spring and fall equinoxes, the Pyramid of Kukulkán (Maya Quetzalcóatl) serves as a visual symbol of the day and night. As the equinox sun sets, a play of light and shadow creates the appearance of a serpent that gradually undulates down the stairway of the pyramid. This diamond-backed snake is composed of seven or so triangular shadows, cast by the stepped terraces of the pyramid. The sinking sun gives life to the sinuous shadows, which make a pattern on their way down the stairs. Symbolically, the feathered serpent joins the heavens, earth and the underworld, day and night.

And then we have The Platform of Venus, my favorite. It lies just to the north of the Pyramid of Kukulkán.

The platform has a staircase on each side. At the top of each of these are sculptures of plumed serpents’ heads. The panels around the platform are decorated with carvings of the morning star, sinuous Kukulkán shapes, fishes, matting (a symbol of power), twisted rope and human heads emerging from between the jaws of the feathered serpent Quetzalcóatl or Kukulkán.

Below is a picture of me on the steps of the Venus Platform and the Pyramid of Kukulkán taken during one of our group journeys to the Yucatan in 1990.

 

[i] Paul van Tongeren, “Nietzsche’s Greek Measure,” Article in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies · January 2002, 14.

[ii] John D. Pappas, “The Concept of Measure and the Criterion of Sustainability,” 81. (http://www.academia.edu/29332856/The_Concept_of_Measure_and_the_Criterion_of_Sustainability_The_St._Johns_Review_)

 

Meaning

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The following is radical creative thinking in the mold of Einstein’s belief that “we have to learn to think in a new way.” My conclusion that consciousness permeates all matter comes from my firsthand experiences[i] and logical thought. This philosophy is shared by another, the late physicist David Bohm, a colleague of Einstein’s.

As most know, the usual physical understanding in science is that the universe consists of matter and energy, with Einstein’s equation of the two with E = mc2. If consciousness interpenetrates all matter, could there be a third factor?  There is: meaning. The nature of reality is the interpenetration of matter, energy, and meaning. And you cannot come to this conclusion with fragmented thinking. We must view the whole not pieces of reality as science does today. This is the paradigm of separation thinking that underlies all the sciences and religious institutions that are bastions of fear (separation), not of love (oneness/unity).

Moreover, fragmented thinking is one of the root causes of stupidity. Stupidity breeds ignorance, arrogance, false views, anger, and fear.

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According to Bohm, meaning has the same ontological primacy as matter and energy. Bohm says, “Energy enfolds matter and meaning, while matter enfolds energy and meaning. But also, meaning enfolds both matter and energy. So, each of these three basic notions enfolds the other two.”

This points us to the knowledge of the interpenetration of matter, energy, and meaning. Bohn further states: “This implies, in contrast to the usual view, that meaning is an inherent and essential part of our overall reality, and it is not merely a purely abstract ethereal quality having its existence only in the mind, or to put it differently, in human life. Quite generally, meaning is being. In a way, we could say that we are the totality of our meanings.”

For Bohm and the philosophical foundation of Divine Humanity, the nature of reality is the interpenetration of matter, energy, and meaning (consciousness). The matter-energy realm is Bohn’s “explicate order,” or manifest realm. The meaning realm is his “implicate order,” or Otherworld, and there’s an interpenetration between the two.

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In stark contrast to Western ways of thinking about the nature of reality being external and mechanistic, Divine Humanity considers our separateness an illusion, an illusion that is not an illusion, and signifies that there is a deeper level of reality, we, as well as all the particles that make up all matter, are one and indivisible.

The Otherworld, the transcendent unseen realm, is Bohm’s implicate order, the source of all the visible explicate matter of our time-space universe. Bohm calls this order implicate because it is “folded inward” or “enfolded,” and because it is not present to our senses or to measuring instruments, and hence can be known only indirectly This implicate order has infinite depth.

The world we live in is multidimensional. The most obvious and superficial level is the three-dimensional world of objects, space and time, which he calls the explicate order. The explicate order manifests itself on the level of the material world as we know it, in all the organic and inorganic aspects of existence. The rules which organize life, are, however, directed from the implicate realm, a reality which is not detectable to our five senses, just as it remains hidden from our measuring devices.

And the explicate order, Bohn says, is the level at which most of physics operates today, presenting its findings in equations whose meaning is unclear. A clearer understanding becomes possible only by moving to a deeper level, the implicate order. The implicate order is the enfolded order, which unfolds into reality as we perceive it and in which things are separate.

The implicate order is the realm of pure information, meaning, from which the physical, observable phenomena unfold. Unlike classical physics where reality is viewed as particles of separate, independent elements, Bohm proposed that the fundamental reality is the continuous enfoldment (into the implicate order) and unfoldment (of the explicate order) from the subtle realms. In this flow, matter and space are each part of the whole.

It’s important to point out that the way people interpret meaning makes a difference in the way they act and react.

As Bohm points out, both consciousness (“immaterial”) and body (“material”) react to meaning. Hence, meaning is both physical and mental in nature, and not something entirely abstract, affecting only our
psychological being.

Meaning therefore creates a link between the visible and the invisible aspects of reality. “This link is indivisible,” says Bohm, “in the sense that information contained in thought, which we feel to be on the ‘mental’ side, is at the same time a neurophysiological, chemical, and physical activity, which is clearly what is meant by this thought on the ‘material’ side.”

Symbolism and their meaning are essential and the key to spiritual/shamanic practice, ritual, and ceremony. Symbolism used in the ceremony are sacred and must be understood deeply. For the power of a thing or an act lies in the meaning and the understanding.

Experiencing Oneness: the Authentic Shaman or Wise Person

As privileged in terms of their relationship with the divine, shamans are often given a chance to glimpse reality in its true nature. The true nature of existence is the realm where the boundary between the apparently separate aspects of reality dissolves and reveals Oneness. But attempting to understand Oneness on a conceptual level, with the help of our rational faculties, differs from actually experiencing it.

The actual experience of Oneness has little to do with reason, logic, or analytical knowledge. Such experience happens most often in an altered state of consciousness and is a magnificent feeling that remains for the most part beyond verbal expression.

Direct First-Hand Experience of Oneness

During JC’s Descending Spirit Exorcism, his Vision, and his experience of the Spirit Man of Teotihuacán, his consciousness expanded and encompassed the two realms (Bohn’s explicate and implicate) simultaneously. For a short amount of time, he sensed the realm beyond the material world and experienced the magnificent feeling of Oneness.

For the duration of a few moments, JC’s consciousness transcended the apparent separateness of the world: it expanded and beheld things in their primal unity, experiencing the illusory nature of separateness. Upon returning to a dualistic consciousness, the whole world “assumed” its material form once again.

The power of a vision lies in its interpretation and in the implementation of its message. From JC’s Descending Spirit Exorcism and his Vision came the message of Divine Humanity.

Prayer and the Otherworld Responded—The Visitation

The actual feeling of oneness is, however, not the only way in which to experience Oneness. Communication or prayer with the Otherworld provides experiential support for the idea that the universe is undivided.

July 1997: Based on what I knew within my heart and my vision, I prayed for a sign to be given of who I was in my last incarnation: “Let them see a sign knowing that I was [name stated].” I mentioned the name as people would recognize it today. I then let go of any expectations about the prayer.

The Otherworld responded with the following signs witnessed by Rev. Dr. JC, Rev. Sherry, and twelve apprentices: A massive pillar of light, a living pillar of translucent-ethereal light a few feet off the ground, at least six feet wide and five or six times as tall. Suspended higher up were two other pillars of light, not quite as bright or as large. A shooting star/descending star meaning JC is an avatar,[ii] a white dove, and stones of a Death Spiral which increased to the size of boulders with a greenish glow.

An intense storm preceded the Visitation to purify and sanctify the land.  In a scant moment, the crystal-clear sky darkened into an ominous, swirling, mass of bluish black. For a beat, all sound and movement hushed, and then came the crashing storm. Torrents of rain fell as thunder boomed overhead and lightning struck the ground. The suddenness and force of the wind and the rain, the thunder and the lightning were intense, Otherworldly.

Knowledge acquired through this direct experience: The Interconnection and Interpenetration of Consciousness throughout the Seen and Unseen Universe.

The Visitation provides proof of Bohm’s theory, as the physical appearance of the angels as immense pillars of light was due to my prayer. For the angels to respond while in the implicate order, they would have to have received the information from me in the explicate order.

After the intense, unusual storm, they were present in the afternoon but hidden while they were still in a layer of the implicate order. It was only in the evening that they became visible to us in the explicate order. In Bohm’s terms, they unfolded.

We have a picture that shows the angels during daylight in the afternoon after the intense storm. A camera picked up their essence while our five senses did not. We were unaware.

Knowledge of Reincarnation: Based on what JC knew within his heart and his vision as the Morning Star, he prayed for a sign to indicate his identity in a past incarnation. The angels who visited, as well as other signs in response to his prayer, indicate that he and Rev. Sherry were alive before in different body, place, and time. They are no different from anyone else. If they have had a past life/lives, everyone else has had a past life/lives.

[i] Descending Spirit Exorcism, Vision and Voice, Spirit Man of Teotihuacán, and the Visitation. These experiences are to be found within their memoirs: Tequila and Chocolate, The Adventures of the Morning Star and Soulmate.

[ii] Every shooting/descending star does not indicate a person is an avatar. JC is identifiable as an avatar due to the falling/descending star happening at the same time and place as such an extraordinary presence of Otherworldly energetic forms (Angels) from the implicate realm unfolding into the manifest earthly realm or explicate realm.

Human language could have also identified these Otherworldly beings as Gods/Goddesses, Bodhisattvas, Deva, and so forth. However, due to the name JC invoked in his prayer, the logical term to use would be Angel.

 

Overturning of Roe – A Different View of Pro-Life and Pro-choice

I am always awestruck with the workings of Creation.

Drip, Drip, Drip … Is the overturning Of Roe the final drip that causes the collapse, or more appropriately the overturning of the bucket of the American experiment birthed in 1776.

The Meaning of Pro-Life in America

Abortion was legal when America was founded.

Pro-life as it is used today is, in reality, selective life. The male-dominated church and institutions are focused not on life—that is, all life—but on con[1]trolling women’s bodies through fear, dogma, rules, and regulations. The illusion presented is the concern about life, but not all life, just the life of the fetus. For pro-lifers there is no choice for a woman to abort after becoming pregnant through rape, as it is “something God intended.” An example of pro-life being selective life is that it is God sanctioned and OK to kill an abortion doctor or nurse, but aborting a fetus is murder.

Pro-life is totally focused on the fetus, not the welfare and life of the child after he or she is born—another form of hypocrisy. As I stated in the introduction, today, if you evoke the name of Jesus, then you better believe in and promote social justice and a culture and society of unity, freedom, equality, choice, and an egalitarian way of life. If you do not, then you are a hypocrite.

What was Jesus’s view on this issue? Even though he was a religious revolutionary whose radical ideas threatened the male-dominated society, religious and secular, Jesus was still Jewish, and Jewish law states that life begins at birth. Additionally, there are no specific prohibitions of abortion in the Bible. Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is within us. It is then up to us to perfect our kingdom. This perfection does not come from an institution’s rules and regulations, religious or secular, but from our own conscious choices in life. We can awaken to our kingdom or follow others as blind, fearful sheep. It is our choice to be compassionate and help others less fortunate or to be controlling and dominating, enforcing rules and regulations that many times only serve a select few, mainly the ruling elite—secular and religious. Jesus, on the other hand, followed the natural law of God, not laws or rules that dominated others and forced circumstances on them that they did not choose or would choose. Finally, pro-life versus pro-choice is dualistic thinking. Jesus brought a message of radical nondualism—in Jesus’s mind pro-life is pro-choice.

Pro-Life Is Pro-Choice

Being pro-life, and this means all life, even down to the smallest ant, does not mean that we are not pro-choice. In fact, the reality is that being pro-life makes us pro-choice. Believing that all things are alive, responsive, and intrinsically important and precious, we determine our actions and behaviors, words, and thoughts totally based on this most basic, but important, paradigm of life. This is a paradigm of life that encompasses choice and power. Yes, power—empowerment. Self-power based on our belief in the divineness that is within us as well as within all other things of creation. This is true faith, not the hollow faith of the church. If we have the power within, we do not need religious or secular institutions telling us what to think and what choices to make—especially if it concerns our bodies. For women, pro-life as pro-choice presents a different view of abortion, one based on common sense and love, not fear and guilt.

We know that the question of when soulful human life begins is the source of the conflict between pro-choice and pro-life. It is also one of the greatest human spiritual and religious mysteries. And because it is a mystery, it cannot be proven one way or the other. On the other hand, even a mystery such as this may still have some light shed on it. However, the church would rather keep you ignorant and in the dark. Christianity’s dogma states that the soul enters at conception, while Judaism believes that ensoulment occurs at birth.

Jewish law not only permits, but in some circumstances requires abortion. Where the mother’s life is in jeopardy because of the unborn child, abortion is mandatory.

An unborn child has the status of “potential human life” until the majority of the body has emerged from the mother. Potential human life is valuable, and may not be terminated casually, but it does not have as much value as a life in existence. The Talmud makes no bones about this: it says quite bluntly that if the fetus threatens the life of the mother, you cut it up within her body and remove it limb by limb if necessary, because its life is not as valuable as hers. But once the greater part of the body has emerged, you cannot take its life to save the mother’s, because you cannot choose between one human life and another.

Since ensoulment is a spiritual and religious mystery, where can we turn to discover some truth? It seems that common sense, as well as biblical teachings, may provide us with the key to the contentious issue of when soulful human life begins. The key is breath. Have you ever seen or felt a baby’s first breath of life? Have you ever heard a baby’s initial cry—the soul’s cry of life? Have you ever looked into the eyes of a newborn baby and seen that spark of life? And have you ever viewed a person that has died—passed over—and recognized the absence or lack of breath and that spark? At the moment of our first breath, the divine spark, pure and untainted (no sin, no metaphoric dirt), entered us from the heavens.

Have you ever experienced near drowning? Have you ever choked on a piece of roast beef or a pretzel? As a child have you ever competed with a friend to see who could hold his or her breath the longest? And when you could finally breathe again, no matter what the circumstances, that initial gasp of air, that precious handhold of life, was the sweetest moment you could experience. I know this to be true, as I have choked on a piece of roast beef and a pretzel and was unable to breathe until my dear wife dislodged both. During and after graduate school, I was also a lifeguard and saved three people from drowning. I knew and felt their terror when they could not breathe and that sweet moment when they took their first breath. I was at the birth of my daughter and held her as she took her first breath and screamed her announcement of arrival to the whole world.

I know by experience the fact and truth that breath is life. Inversely, the lack of breath is death. In all cultures breath was accorded a special place within their spiritual and philosophical traditions. In the Hebrew Tanaka, the word ruach is translated as “divine wind, breath, or spirit.” “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” In other words, it is a striking image of “an apparently lifeless body being slowly revived by artificial respiration. God himself breathes the breath of life into the first human being. For all his earthy substance, man has something divine about him.”

To native Hawaiians, “the living human being as a foetus is not considered a ‘live’ person until birth when the kino (corporeal body) breathes (hanu) the ‘air’ (ea) of the god(s), so that the material body quicken with the ‘spirit’ (ea) of the universe in the ‘breath’ (ha) of the human being as it ingests the atmosphere (ea) of ‘god.’ Abortion of the nonbreathing foetus is thus not considered deprivation of life inasmuch as ‘life’ (ea) is a condition of the ‘spirit’ (ea) and requires the ability to breathe (ha) in the god’s breath. To be a full, living personality there must be corporeal life (ola), spiritual life (‘uhane), the soul personality (kino wailua) and breath (ha).”

And finally, the first line of the Lord’s Prayer in Jesus’s original tongue of Aramaic is “Avvon d-bish-maiya”— “thou art, from whom the breath of life comes.

Ironically, but still a glimmer of light within some who consider themselves Christians, the following is excerpted from the website TheChristianLeft.org in support of ensoulment at birth, not at conception: According to the bible, a fetus is not a living person with a soul until after drawing its first breath.

After God formed man in Genesis 2:7, He “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and it was then that the man became a living being.” Although the man was fully formed by God in all respects, he was not a living being until after taking his first breath.

In Job 33:4, it states: “The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”

Again, to quote Ezekiel 37:5&6, “Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

According to the bible, destroying a living fetus does not equate to killing a living human being even though the fetus has the potential of becoming a human being. One cannot kill something that has not been born and taken a breath.

There is nothing in the bible to indicate that a fetus is considered to be anything other than living tissue and, according to scripture, it does not become a living being until after it has taken a breath.

One last point, the fetus is a potential human being, not a separate, soulful life. Of course, it is alive and receiving the essence of the mother as well as the genetic or the earthly lineages of both the mother and father—a potential human being. But it is still not a soulful human being. The mother and the fetus are alive but are not two separate, soulful lives. Thus, the loss of the potential baby, in my estimation, although I am not a woman, is one of the greatest losses outside of losing an actual child that a woman may experience during her lifetime, either through abortion miscarriage or stillbirth. I am not equating abortion with miscarriage and stillbirth. Abortion is a choice; miscarriage and stillbirth are the sufferings and struggles of life happening. And I believe that there is not enough help and support in our male-dominated society for women to heal from this loss (if they can actually ever totally heal).

In my mind, the conscious choice to abort a fetus is the hardest and greatest choice a woman must face in life. But again, it is a choice. The woman is not killing or taking a human soulful life. She is losing a part of herself and a potential child. This loss is great, and it needs to be mourned and then healed—not only the loss itself but also any guilt or sadness. If there is anything lacking in legalized abortions, it is the absence of comprehensive emotional and spiritual healing after the abortion.