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The following is excerpted from: Return of a Green Philosophy: The Wisdom of Óðinn, the Power of Þórr, and Freyja’s Power of Nature

First off, the Norse-Germanic people had no concept similar to Christianity’s original sin. Additionally, their concept of good and bad was philosophically different from today’s religiously influenced dualistic mind-set of good and bad. Instead, they considered movement or action essential to the well-being of all things. This concept was rooted and related to the movement of the sacred waters boiling up from Urðarbrunnr throughout the total essence of Yggdrasill. Movement or action was reflected in all aspects of life within Midgard from the cycles of nature to the tides of the sea and cycles of the moon.

Movement was the key to life throughout the width and breath of Yggdrasill and would symbolize our concept of good or positive. Of course then, nonmovement or inaction would be looked upon as bad or, if you will, sinful or evil. According to Eric Wódening referring to Paul Bauschatz’s book The Well and the Tree states, “the Germanic people viewed stasis or inaction as negative and movement or action as positive. Bauschatz insisted this concept was typified by the interaction between the Well and the Tree.”[i]

We may see the impact of a shift in mind-set from an individual’s concept of good and bad to movement and nonmovement in countless ways. As an example, good and bad is rooted more in personal judgment, based possibly on prejudice, dogma, or doctrine. On the other hand, action or inaction is pretty straight forward, as there is no room for judgment; there is either movement or no movement. As an example, in a community setting, “inaction on the parts of individuals could affect the survival of a community. The man who out of sloth failed to do his share of the harvest or the man who out of cowardice did not join in battle beside his tribesman could cost lives through his inaction. These are crimes in which the individual has not so much committed a wrong as he has failed to do what is right. In other words, he has failed to act. An inaction is usually not beneficial to the community and does nothing to maintain the community.”[ii]

A present day example would be a dysfunctional marriage where both partners ignore the dysfunction and keep the relationship static with no action toward resolving the roots of the dysfunction. This inaction would affect any children within the family and the extended family. Movement would involve a change of behaviors of both, possibly counseling, and, if need be, separation or divorce.

Reflect on your life and see if there is any area where there is inaction. Then, in the spirit of “deeds not words,” institute movement and change/transformation.

[i] Eric Wódening, We Are Our Deeds, 67–68.

[ii] Ibid., 69–70.

The following is excerpted from: Do You Like Jesus—Not the Church? Jesus: His True Message Not the Lie of Christianity.

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein

“I searched for God among the Christians and on the Cross and therein I found Him not. I went into the ancient temples of idolatry; no trace of Him was there. I entered the mountain cave of Hira and then went as far as Qandhar but God I found not. With set purpose I fared to the summit of Mount Caucasus and found there only ‘anqa’s habitation.

Then I directed my search to the Kaaba, the resort of old and young; God was not there even. Turning to philosophy I inquired about him from ibn Sina but found Him not within his range. I fared then to the scene of the Prophet’s experience of a great divine manifestation only a ‘two bow-lengths’ distance from him’ but God was not there even in that exalted court. Finally, I looked into my own heart and there I saw Him; He was nowhere else.” – Rumi

The Creed and Worldview of Christianity and Islam—Dualism

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.— Desmond Tutu

Religion in its purest form (lacking a sacred text/dogma and doctrine) unites people. At the other extreme is institutionalized sacred text religions, which through their dogmatic textual beliefs separate people into the believers (I’m right) and the nonbelievers (you’re wrong). Christians believe in a divine Jesus. Muslims believe in a human Jesus who was a prophet. Unity would come from acknowledging that conceivably he was divine as well as human and was a prophet who brought a radical message that was contrary to the message of the established Jewish religious authorities.

The I’m-right-you’re-wrong mentality is not quite the worst case of dualism. With little effort it can morph into a dualism of “us” versus “them.” Wherever there is a consciousness of dualism, there is a mind-set of separation. Where there is separation, there is always the potentiality for fear and conflict.

When we individually separate our hearts from our minds, there is conflict within our souls. When we feel separate from nature, our minds want to either conquer or control. The worst case of “us” versus “them,” is the type that can erupt into forms of conflict ranging from murder and lynching’s rooted in racial issues to the violence of secular and religious wars and atrocities as exhibited by ISIS downing the Russian commercial aircraft killing 224 innocents and the slaughters in Lebanon and the carnage in Paris. Undoubtedly, over the past thousands of years, religion has been an underlying factor in many conflicts that have erupted on this earth. In fact, the dogmatic issue of “my god versus your god” has caused an unknown amount of suffering and bloodshed over the millennia.

Divine Humanity and Radical Nondualism

The oneness of interpenetrative radical nonduality sees a reality where there is no separation between mind and body, dark and light, or spirit and matter. There is no “us” versus “them” or “my god versus your god.”

Continuing on, the most profound and essential nature of things is not distinct from the things recognizable by our senses. In other words, our sacred self and our profane self are nondual and interpenetrate; likewise, all other sentient beings’ (things’) sacred identities and profane identities are nondual and interpenetrate. This is true oneness.

Additionally, interpenetrative radical nonduality as a principle means that the kingdom of God is here and now. It is outside us and within us in our body and mind; even as imperfect and impure as they are, they are still perfect and pure. It makes sense then that we may be deluded and awakened at the same time. Furthermore, the seen and unseen universe, the absolute and the relative, interpenetrate and are nondual. In other words, the world of spirit and the physical world are in instantaneous union. This is the reason that Jesus said the kingdom was spread throughout the earth, but no one knows it or sees it. The reason: they were attempting to view the kingdom through minds that saw reality only as dualistic or nondualistic. The same is true today of the religious scholars, writers, seminary teachers, and preachers who have never experienced firsthand the realities that Jesus and I know.

Jesus taught his disciples the concept of interpenetrative radical nonduality as the foundation of the kingdom. Since this and other philosophical, spiritual concepts are difficult to understand and comprehend, Jesus utilized paradox and language with symbolic meaning. Furthermore, in this way he knew that his pearls of wisdom would be lost to the swine.[i] A person with one eye does not see or understand.

Symbolism is the preferred vehicle for esoteric knowledge. The lotus flower is a prime example. If I say that the kingdom of God is within us and outside us, which means that matter and spirit interpenetrate, and, furthermore, we are able to achieve enlightenment in this very same body, corruptible and deluded as it is, these are just written words. However, if we use the lotus to symbolize this concept, we will bypass the filters of our linear minds to understand and intuitively know, within our hearts, this knowledge. The lotus grows in the mud but opens its petals to the light of the sun. It remains undefiled even in the mud. This symbolizes the radical nonduality of delusion and awakening. It is still pure (awakened) while in defilement (deluded).

In chapter 22 of the Gospel of Thomas, we discover the following:

Jesus saw some infants[ii] who were being suckled. He said to his disciples: These infants being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom. They said to him: If we then become children, shall we enter the kingdom? Jesus said to them: When you make the two one, and when you make the inside as the outside, and the outside as the inside, and the upper as the lower, and when you make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male is not male and the female not female, and when you make eyes in place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then shall you enter [the kingdom].[iii]

This passage utilizes paradox and symbolic language in teaching about interpenetrative radical nonduality and oneness. Why would babies trigger this teaching? At birth we experience the oneness of self, not the exclusiveness of self (unhealthy ego) or the duality of self being separate from others. Our mother is not an object separate from us but a part of us, baby and mother. Breastfeeding is a vital part of this unity. An interesting question—how long does this last? I do not know and would not even attempt to conjecture the time period. However, at birth and for a time, short as it may be, each of us has experienced oneness with our mother and ourselves. Being one and not separate does open a window into our initial life experiences—the beginning of our earth walk and a knowing of oneness. It also reveals our innate but hidden connection to nature—the Great Mother.

Continuing on in the Gospel of Thomas, “when you make the two one, and when you make the inside as the outside, and the outside as the inside, and the upper as the lower, and when you make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male is not male and the female not female.” This obviously alludes to interpenetrative radical nonduality—oneness. The next part, “when you make eyes in place of an eye,” refers back to the suckling infants. When we have baby eyes (no separation) in the place of the one ego eye (total separation), we enter the kingdom. In our awakening we need to have baby eyes, which are nonjudgmental and tolerant, view the world with awe and excitement, and recognize the oneness of the light and the dark of existence. Baby Eyes is one pillar of the Three Pillars of Light of Divine Humanity.

Divine Humanity (“Humanity” represents not only the human race but all things of creation, all things of Mother Nature—terrestrial and celestial) is a living, spiritual philosophy and new consciousness. It is also a pure religion of the people, by the people, and for all the people. Divine Humanity is a religion of philosophy and a living, personal (not institutionalized) religion that “has less to do with religion and more to do with direct, open, ecstatic free experience of wonderment of creator through creation.”[iv]

As a world philosophy of awe and a religion of equality and simplicity, it conveys a love for all forms of life and acknowledges everything in creation as divine as well as honoring its own unique intrinsic expression. Therefore, not only is every human being a divine human with an intrinsic human expression and the light, holy spark, of God (the Great Mystery) within, but all trees are divine as well as being trees that in their intrinsic expression may provide food and shelter for us and for other creatures of the earth.

Divine Humanity is a personal religion and spiritual philosophy that is based on one’s truth found within one’s heart and mind. It is not based on faith, dogma, or doctrine. It is a green, ecological, and egalitarian philosophy and religion. Divine Humanity recognizes the divine in nature and the sacredness of all living things. Nature in partnership is one of the hallmarks of Divine Humanity. It acknowledges the equality and divinity of nature and the realization that humanity is not above nature, as a steward, or below nature, at the mercy of it, but is one with nature and in partnership with the earth in cocreating a paradisiacal state of life for all life—the kingdom of God.

Original Divinity or Original Sin

Jesus never spoke of original sin, only the evil of the world, which is completely different.[v]

Jesus did not believe in original sin. He believed in original divinity, in purity, as each of us has the spark, the starlight of God, within us. We are born pure and “born in love and not in sin. There is no love greater or holier than that of mother and child. There is nothing more sinless—baptized or not—than the child in the mother’s arms. Woe unto him who dare offend one of these little ones, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”[vi]

Judaism does not believe in original sin. Thus there is no need for a savior in Judaism as there is in Christianity. God’s natural, altruistic law, stated in Jeremiah 31:33 that “it will be written on their hearts,” means that as soon as the soul, the breath and light of God, enters the body at birth, God’s divine mandate of love and compassion is written on the heart. The logical conclusion would be that the little one is thus born in divinity and not in sin.

At this point let me interject my response to a typical question of disbelief concerning original divinity:

The immediate response that may pass through a person’s mind to the religious philosophical principle of original divinity that we are born with a divine, indestructible seed of light instead of original sin takes the form of a question: “Why then do humans make war, kill, rape, and fly planes into buildings?”

The short answer is that the divine spark or seed has not been awakened. Therefore, natural law has not been awakened within the person. Natural law is based on a belief in the inherent, natural, altruistic law of God that is found within the heart of each person. This natural law flows from the divinity within each individual but lies dormant until awakened by each person.

Furthermore, even though we are divine and human, our divine “spark” or “starlight” within us is not automatically awakened when we are born or, furthermore, awakened solely through outside influences.

Become a flower and you shall enter the kingdom...[vii]

Our divine spark is like a seed. A seed in nature does not automatically vibrate into a flower—it struggles to reach the light. It needs water, nurturance, and “feeding” to break through the earth and to develop into a beautiful flower, blooming perhaps for only a short period of time. Just like nature, awakening is not automatic. Awakening is not a quick fix; awakening is a way of being—a life journey of healing, love, and oneness. Awakening is a new consciousness, a new way of thinking, living, and being that requires self-responsibility and walking our talk. To awaken is to seek through direct personal experience the mysteries of heaven and earth—the mysteries of the kingdom of God.

The Law of the Kingdom

I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts.[viii]

This is God’s natural, altruistic law—the law of the kingdom.[ix] This natural law is based on a belief in the inherent, natural, altruistic law of God that is found within each person. This natural law flows from the divinity within each individual but lies dormant until awakened by each person. This is the true holy law of Moses, the basis for the teachings and the message of Jesus and a foundational belief of Divine Humanity.

This natural law discovered within each of us may be awakened by what I call participation mystique. This is a knowing of life and its inherent mysteries through the experience of the mundane as well as the spiritual.

Does natural law make null and void human-made laws? Not at all; human-made laws are as necessary as natural law. Just as the divine interpenetrates the human or the absolute interpenetrates the relative, natural law interpenetrates human law.

Natural law is an essential segment of an enlightened society and is based on doing what is best for the well-being of others and all things of the earth. It is not generated by a society but is derived and flows from each person’s natural, if awakened, altruistic spirit.

Human-made laws, on the other hand, are society based and are focused on the probations of societal life in an attempt to control behavior. Many times they are a necessary part of life. But they are not necessarily based on what is most beneficial for the well-being of life—the environment, the whole of humanity, and the earth and its creatures.

While human laws are drawn up to protect the environment, they are not necessarily what are best for the environment. They do, however, tend to serve capitalist thugs, whether they are corporate elites or their paid-off political flunkies. Capitalist law is the law of the bottom line—profit by any means possible. In the capitalist world of market-based medicine, cures for diseases go unresearched and unrealized if there is no profit or not enough profit to be made. Natural law is the antithesis of this entire paradigm.

Natural laws have their foundation in compassionate action (love your neighbor as yourself). Thus, natural law is the law of our hearts—divine, universal love.

Both human secular law and natural law are inadequate as stand-alone systems. For an enlightened society and a Golden Age to flourish, we need the integration of both.

[i] Swine is a person concerned only with materialism and wealth; today the swine would include the capitalist elite.

[ii] Jesus recognized the divine purity in children and their beauty and limitless potential, whereas “in the biblical view, a child is not a being that is born with amazing capabilities that will emerge with the right conditions like a beautiful flower in a well-attended garden. Rather, a child is born in sin, weak, ignorant, and rebellious, needing discipline to learn obedience. Independent thinking is dangerous pride” (Marlene Winell and Valerie Tarico, AlterNet http://www.salon.com/2014/11/01/the_sad_twisted_truth_about_conservative_christianitys_effect_on_the_mind_partner/).

[iii] Peter Kirby, http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/thomas/.

[iv] This is from a foreword by Gabriel Cousens from Rabbi Gershon Winkler, Magic of the Ordinary, xv.

[v] Jacques Duquesne, Jesus, An Unconventional Biography, 86.

[vi] Ignatius Singer, The Rival Philosophies of Jesus and of Paul, 313–314.

[vii] Flower Heart—always expressing love from the heart and letting others, as well as ourselves, view the beauty and the divine perfection that is the true essence of our hearts. Smell is a powerful sense. With a Flower Heart, our fragrance is pure, sweet, and soothing to ourselves and others. The Flower Heart is also the Lily or Lotus Heart. Flower Heart is one of the Three Pillars of Divine Humanity.

[viii] Jeremiah 31:33.

[ix] Sharia law is Not God’s natural, altruistic law—the law of the kingdom.

 

The following is my assertion and theory that Moses brought a message of the oneness of one God. The concept of oneness, radical nonduality, is foreign to many of the scholars, archeologists, philosophers, religious authorities, and historians who have put forth their own theories on Moses and monotheism.

As a result, the meaning of the burning bush is lost to them. Their beliefs and assumptions surrounding monotheism are totally based on dualistic consciousness and on intellectual knowledge, as their hypotheses are not derived from experience or a knowing.

Moses knew oneness as he had experienced it, Jesus knew oneness as he had experienced it, and I know oneness as I have experienced it. My following theory is based on my intellectual knowledge as well as my experience and common sense of life and nature…

The three major Western religions are monotheistic due to the revolutionary efforts, trials, and tribulations of Moses, who led his people out of exile and supposedly established the first religion based on one God. His divine revelation to begin this quest was the burning bush.[i] This was a visionary and actual physical experience of interpenetrative radical nonduality, divine and matter as one—oneness.[ii]

During Moses’s time the majority of religious beliefs and practices in the lands of the ancient Near East were pagan, basically polytheistic. Some were tribal, but none were monotheistic, except for one.[iii]

At this point, I continue to explain my theory in my book until….

The words recorded in the Torah were written by the Jewish scribes of approximately 600 BCE based on the handed-down oral knowledge of Moses’s teachings and words from approximately 1200 BCE. After approximately six hundred years, common sense dictates that the words and teachings transcribed in the Torah may not have been the verbatim ones of Moses. Emphasis could have been put on certain things, while other aspects of the oral knowledge, and even written knowledge, could have been changed, minimized, or suppressed.

It is very evident that there were two primary areas of focus and emphasis for the scribes in their writing of the Torah—the traditionally known Laws of Moses, Israelites being the chosen people of God, and the establishment of a patriarchal religion. To the scribes Moses’s divine experience of the burning bush was a divine statement of God speaking to the select one, Moses, which further established their mission of promoting their agenda of being special—the chosen people of God.

Was Moses’s encounter with the burning bush true experience or metaphor? I would have to believe that the experience of the burning bush was real, as I have experienced oneness—interpenetrative radical nonduality. And it is recorded that Jesus experienced the interpenetration of spirit and matter when the dove descended upon him during bathing. But I question the exact religious teachings, practices, and words. This leads me to my assertion that Moses brought the concept of oneness, the One and many, and not solely a religion of one God.[iv] I believe that his message was of oneness, which also indicates one God—the Absolute, the All. It seems that either by chance or on purpose, Moses’s knowing and teachings of oneness got lost in the concept of one God.

If we delve further, we realize that a theology of one God based on knowledge of universal oneness is not dualistic in concept and cannot be classified as such or as solely patriarchal or matriarchal. Contrary to this theology of the oneness of one God, today’s monotheism of the three main Western religions is masculine based and dualistic in dogma and doctrine.[v]

The Jewish scribes in their versions of the oral histories twisted Moses’s oneness into a religion of a patriarchal God with the Jewish people as his chosen people. Fast forward to the originator of Christianity, Saul (Paul of Tarsus), and we have not the one god of a chosen people but the actual flesh-and-blood Son of God. They one-upped Judaism. They actually had the physical presence of God on earth. Each of the three Western religions ended up patriarchal and dualistic in context, far from the oneness of Moses or Jesus.

[i] By all accounts Moses would have been awestruck with this “proof” of the oneness of creation—the divine and intrinsic nature of all things and their interpenetration. Of course, I can’t prove that this was his thinking or revelation from this divine visionary experience. Neither can it be disproved, as we are discussing orally transmitted stories, teachings, and legends that were written down hundreds of years after the actual events had taken place.

But our reason and common sense, without the influence of the dogma and the doctrine of organized religion, would have to acknowledge that Moses would have been greatly impressed with this proof of divine oneness and intrinsic identity. Moses was spiritually evolved, intelligent, and wise. In addition, he had been schooled in the Egyptian mystery religion of his time and married to a daughter of a priest (shaman) of Midian. Would not this indicate that he understood this vision as one of divine oneness—the interpenetration of spirit and matter?

[ii] Moses’s concept of oneness did filter down to the Jewish belief in the divine spark. According to internationally renowned professor, theologian, and spiritual leader Rabbi Jack Bemporad, “Judaism teaches us that all human beings are created in the divine image and therefore are linked to God by the Divine Spark within them” (http://theollendorffcenter.org/principles.html). Please see my paper on Image or Reflection?

[iii] According to Michael Baigent, the belief in one god “has been seen by some scholars as deriving from ancient Mesopotamia: the name of the god of the Assyrians, Ashur (Assur), means the ‘One,’ the ‘Only,’ the ‘Universal God’” (Michael Baigent, The Jesus Papers, 217).

[iv] There is further consideration to the fact that the Israelites were recognizing and honoring the goddess Asherah (Venus) until King Hezekiah “removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it” (2 Kings 18:4 [New International Version]).

This indicates that the Israelites were following in the footsteps of Moses by recognizing the one and the many by their worship of the goddess Asherah. Additionally, they recognized the sanctity of nature (many), as indicated by their practice of worshipping in sacred groves and high places, but not in temples. Why would they not do this, since one of their prophets received his vision while out in nature sleeping on the ground and using a stone for his pillow?

[v] Earth, nature, and the feminine are subordinate, second-rate, and second-class citizens to these patriarchal monotheistic religions, which first and foremost highlight and stress the preeminence of heaven and the masculine. We are witness to the legacy of thousands of years of the rule of these patriarchal monotheistic religions through ever-present war, destruction of indigenous peoples, the ever-widening destruction of the biosphere, and the ongoing suppression and repression of women.

Of the three patriarchal monotheistic religions, Judaism, by far, is less patriarchal and is friendlier to the earth and nature, with more equality between men and women than the other two Western religions.

One definition of suspicious behavior is “causing one to have the idea or impression that something or someone is of questionable, dishonest, or dangerous character or condition.”

Fear is pure separation while love is pure unity. One of the consequences of a dualistic consciousness and thought process is pure and simple, fear. But our fear is not just in our mind. It’s in our body and affects our immune system as does our other thought processes. The mind and body are not separate but blended.

It is important to understand that fear is normal. It may increase our “juices flowing” from the adrenals; but on the other hand, it may freeze us in non-action or to embrace a state of compliance. This fear-based behavior of “falling in line” may be used to control an individual or a group or even a population of people.

An important aspect of life and love is to never let fear inhibit your actions going forward.

Furthermore, another insidious effect of needing to feel safe and secure within a fear-based consciousness is a lack of happiness.

Enter Mr. Happy Man, 90+ year-old Bermudian, Johnny Barnes who close to thirty years has devoted many hours a day to greeting commuters at Crow Lane Circle in the capital city of Hamilton. “He starts cheering and wishing the commuters – “Good Morning!”, “I love you!”, “God bless you” … This is the way he continues to spread joy and goodwill to all till 10 in the morning every day. To the commuters, a day’s hard work begins with an exchange of love and blessings – the day may not turn out to be as stressful after all.”[i]

Johnny’s spirit and love leads us back to my title: Suspicious Behavior on the Streets of New York.

Early in October after 9/11 Sherry and I were presenting at a conference in Lower Manhattan. I enjoy the blissful feeling of early morning, especially with a perfect, for my tastes, cup of coffee. Even though I could feel the heaviness within the air and people’s fear and anxiety “waiting for the other shoe to drop,” I decided to spread some joy and love to people. My method with coffee in hand was to stand on the nearest street corner to our hotel, and like Johnny, look people in the eyes, smile and say, “good morning.”

Well, it was like I had the plague. No eye contact; but how could they with their down-casted eyes. No response from anyone. I did notice people crossing against traffic to get to the other side of the street to get away from the “crazy man” who was definitely demonstrating suspicious behavior. But isn’t that “jaywalking?” I guess it is better to get a ticket for an illegal act than encounter the “crazy, uncivilized” man.

A few more minutes passed and then… I felt him before I saw him. As I turned to face the other street corner, there he was walking in my direction. Johnny Law, with his hand near his gun, he hesitated then cautiously approached me. With a non-smiling stern face, he said, “We have had reports of a person acting suspiciously—you! People are scared.” “Yes,” I replied. “I was just smiling and saying ‘good morning to people as they passed me.” Still no smile, he replied, “under normal circumstances that’s suspicious behavior here in New York. More so now with 9/11.” He continued, “I can’t legally tell you to move and stop saying…” Before he could continue, I said, “Not a problem, I’ll leave. I was only attempting to help people not scare them…”

As has been said, “The best-laid plans of mice and men / Go oft awry.”

[i] http://www.bermuda-attractions.com/bermuda2_0000bf.htm

Within the first few minutes of this video, we see and hear the arrogance and disconnection from nature. If fact, in such a powerful place the common method of meditating is counter-intuitive and counter-productive. Meditating usually involves going within one’s mind at the determent of one’s senses. To embrace the power and energetic force of nature, we need to quiet our minds and fully use all of our senses to become one with the seen and unseen world. This means having our eyes open and observant without our mind attaching to our observations while hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling the love and beauty of our earthly paradise.

One further point, if this “rainbow person”[i] has been praying for world peace for thirty years, maybe it’s time for him to attempt something else as we have less peace on earth than we had thirty years ago.

In our travels with two of our teachers, the late Mom and Vince Stogan, who passed on their spiritual lineage of healing, bathing and burnings to us, Sherry and I have been witness to the arrogance of New Agers, Rainbow People, or whatever you want to call them. To be humble is important. A lesson I learned, over twenty-five years ago, when Sherry and I were with Mom and Vince in one of the smokehouses (longhouse) during the winter dance season. An experience we can’t share but I’ll let your mind conjurer up why it was a lesson in humbleness.

The bottom-line is to respect, be aware, and be in partnership with the earth, walk humbly and lovely on the earth, and recognize the interconnectedness and divineness of everything on and within this beautiful paradise—earth.

 

 

 

[i] What a “F___ing Ass____”

 

Sherry and I first set foot on the volcanic paradise of Iceland in 2010. Since then I have taken spiritual groups to experience the power and beauty of one of nature’s gift to humanity. Each year I observed an increase in tourism—many not respecting the land and doing stupid things; some that caused their deaths.

Freyja’s paradise has little regard for stupidity and disrespect. During our first journeys, the West of Iceland, the mystical peninsula of Snæfellsnes, was void of tourist; but not last year. The peninsula is home to Snæfellsjökull – the Mythical Glacier. The Glacier and I have a special soul relationship. It is a powerful chakra and energy vortex—the Heart Chakra of the Earth and one of the great energy centers of the Earth. Supposedly, the Glacier is connected with Mt Shasta and the Keops Pyramid in Egypt—a ley line from the pyramid goes directly through Reykjavik and the Glacier. This ley line is connected with the Orion star system.

In past years we’ve been alone on Snæfellsjökull; but not last year. It saddens me that Iceland seems to be going the way of Machu Picchu. I walked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in 1988 and we were the only ones on the trail. And then we were able to conduct ceremony within Machu Picchu all night long. When I guided two of our Apprentices there in 2007—all had changed. It was now the “Wally World” of the Incas—so sad. And Machu Picchu is not alone. I won’t name all of the sacred places that have been over-run with New Agers and tourists. Two examples are the Tor , Glastonbury, England in 1981, it was only the sheep and us on the Tor; and Tulum, Mexico where in 1987, the beach below, supposedly now rated number one in the world, was inaccessible, except if you knew the Caribbean way into Tulum at night.

Sherry and I are taking a group once again this September—this might be the last time we guide a group to Iceland. I’ll return to Snæfellsjökull. For me it’s like a 16 year-old single malt—one sip and you have to have more.

 

An Indigenous Consciousness is a consciousness of interpenetrative radical nonduality—a oneness of being.

If you have read my posts or profile, you would have come across the term radical nonduality. And you may not be familiar with its meaning as it is radically different from nonduality—thus the name radical nonduality.

Radical Nonduality states that Principle (Heart) and Knowledge (Mind) are nondual. Macrocosmically, Principle is the entire cosmos – Knowledge is the Divine Consciousness that permeates and interpenetrates the entire cosmos. The unseen world and the seen world are not opposed or separated but are two aspects of a single reality.

In contrast to radical nonduality, duality states that reality is composed of two diametrically opposite forces, such as night and day. Then we have nonduality, which believes that dualism is an illusory phenomenon. There is no self and other in this concept of nonduality. It prescribes to an ultimate reality that is neither of the body or mind and may be termed the one. This state of being may not be achieved while on earth, only after death. Branches of this philosophy deem the earth and our physical body as corrupt and evil. People will refer to this as oneness—a state of being, possibly achievable only after physical death.

On the contrary, our Indigenous Consciousness of radical nonduality sees a reality where there is no separation between mind and body, dark and light, or spirit and matter. The most profound and essential nature of things is not distinct from the things recognizable by our senses. In other words, our sacred self and our profane self are nondual and interpenetrate; likewise, all other sentient beings’ (things’) sacred identities and profane identities are nondual and interpenetrate. This is true oneness. And we may awaken to this Indigenous Consciousness while still alive in this imperfect and corruptible body and mind.

Our Indigenous Consciousness is “first knowledge.”[i] It is knowledge that is woven throughout and found in all the “first people” (i.e., indigenous) spiritual and 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.”[ii] 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.”[iii] And yes they can.

At birth our consciousness was one of radical nonduality. Within an unknown period of time our indigenous consciousness was over-shadowed by our dualistic consciousness. Our journey in life is to awaken back to our birth Indigenous Consciousness of radical nonduality.

 

 

[i] In October of 1993, my wife, Sherry, and I conducted a spiritual journey to the Big Island of Hawaii. To begin the journey, we conducted a spiritual, or religious, ceremony called a burning or feeding the spirits of the ancestors. We performed the ceremony the day before my vision at dusk. In the predawn hours, less than twelve hours later, I experienced the divine call both as something heard and something seen—in the form of a vision and a voice. “This star is you; you are this star. The purification is of the people; all are one.” This star was Venus, the morning star.

The next morning at the Big Island’s White Sand Beach, my native Hawaiian healer friend gave me a message from one of his ancestors who came to him during the burning. “My ancestor brought me a message…but it’s for you. My ancestor said that you are a kahuna po’o (high priest)…you are a prophet bringing back ‘first knowledge’—the lost knowledge and sacred teachings that have been misunderstood, forgotten, and corrupted.

You have a message, path, and way to share with this world, but do not identify it as being from these islands or other lands. This only separates people and does not unite them. Name it whatever you like. Don’t get discouraged with the resistance you will face; it’s your destiny.”

The name I chose was Divine Humanity. Briefly, all things are divine with the spark—the starlight of God, the Great Mystery, the All—within them. In other words, the divine is within all things (seen and unseen), and all things are within the divine. This is radical nonduality or oneness, where spirit and matter, the absolute and relative, interpenetrate. One important aspect—there is no original sin, only original divinity.

Divine Humanity believes that each and every person has an immortal spark within him or her—an indestructible seed of divine light—the divine immanence. This indestructible seed of divine light may be likened to a mustard seed within our hearts. Our indestructible seed of divine light is our Indigenous Consciousness and may be awakened bringing the light and love of our heart out to others and to the world.

[ii] http://www.primordialtraditions.net/.

[iii] G. Philippe Menos and Karen A. Jones Menos, Revelation and Inspiration: Paranormal Phenomena in Light of the Kundalini Paradigm (May 21–23, 1989): 3.

In the beginning of this video on the Fibonacci series, there is one glaring mistake; an example of a lack of ancient knowledge. The video begins with zero and not with one. This mistake turns a radical non-dualistic reality into one of dualism. However, outside of this mistake, the video is visually stunning and informative.

Moreover, this mistake is found in other articles explaining the Fibonacci number series. This problem of beginning with zero is also to be found within the modern tarot. As it evolved, the twenty-two cards of the Tarot’s Major Arcana incorporated the magical numbering process of the Hebrew alphabet. Beginning with Aleph (1) the Magician and completing with Tav (400) the twenty-second card—the World. Contrary to this numbering system, most present day tarot systems utilize zero as their beginning card and call the zero card—the Fool. In these systems the last card the World is number twenty-one, not twenty-two.[i] This is one of the indications that this numbering placement is incorrect.[ii]

Sacred Science

There is a little known fact that, at one time, the mystical science of numbers began with one, not with zero. This was an acknowledgement of the scientific theology that all came and comes from One. Sacred geometry has always believed in the metaphysical philosophy of the unity and the inexplicable oneness of existence. While the ancients began with one, present day mathematics and geometry begin with zero.

Using zero, not one, as a foundational point is a flaw of earthquake proportions. The reason being, that the utilization of zero results in a dualistic reality of life. Used as a mathematical truth, it perpetrates a cultural and societal reality of dualism, which only further separates humanity from humanity and from humanity’s terrestrial and celestial nature.

“Unity is a philosophic concept and a mystic experience expressible mathematically. The Western mentality, however, withdrew its discipline of acknowledging a supra-rational, unknowable mystery as its first principle. Our present thought is based on the following numerical and logical sequence: -5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5….

“With zero in the center, there is a quantitative expansion 1, 2, 3 … and our sense of balance requires having -1, -2, -3 … on the other side, giving a series of non-existent abstractions (negative quantities) which demand an absurd logic. The system has a break-point, zero, disconnecting the continuum and dissociating the positive numbers from the negative balancing series. In the ancient Egyptian numerical progression, beginning with one rather than zero, all the elements are natural and real: 1/5, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. All the elements flow out from the central unity in accordance with the law of inversion or reciprocity.”[iii]

The Egyptians’ felt that “zero represents a nothingness, an absence, and implies that something does not exist and for the Egyptians everything is—even Chaos, the negation, is.”[iv] In other words, “the great Unity, the number One is the totality of all existence; all things are One in essence, and love is the cohesive force that makes possible the recognition of all the parts.”[v]

[i] I’ll explain in a future post.

[ii] The letters of the Hebrew alphabet, twenty-two in number, are cosmic hieroglyphs of great spiritual significance and power…. The Hebrew letters are used for numbers in this way: Aleph to Yod, the first ten letters, are written to signify the numbers 1 to 10. From Kaph, the eleventh letter, the numeration is by tens; instead of being written for the number 11, Kaph or K is written for 20. The letters follow in order from Kaph (K) to Koph or Quoph (Q), signifying the numbers from 20 to 100. The remaining three letters, like Quoph, are written for hundreds: R for 200, S for 300, and T for 400.

[iii] http://members.aol.com/areoasis/Reviews/sacred-geometry.html

[iv] Athon Veggi and Alison Davidson, The Book of Doors, 13.

[v] Ibid., 11.

The word “earth” is an anagram for the word “heart.” 

The magnificent beauty of the earth flows from its divine essence—the divine starlight within it. This divine starlight flows out from the earth’s heart, its core, and blends with all of its children from the tiniest speck of soil to the grandest mountain as it spreads across the totality of its body. And the starlight of all the creatures blends with this divine essence of the earth.

If you have ever sat in silence by a flowing mountain stream, you would have had a feeling of the earth’s divineness[i]—of its starlight coursing through you. At that moment you experienced an oneness with the earth even though your consciousness was dualistic. Once removed from this paradise of bliss, your mind once again sees and feels being separate from the earth and others.

To maintain bliss of our earthly paradise, we must awaken to a new consciousness of radical nonduality. Of course, we will still struggle in life, possible suffer, but when we have awakened to a consciousness of radical nonduality, we know and feel within our heart’s essence the earth’s power and light as well as the power and light of all. We are no longer separate but united as one.

And what is a primary hindrance to awakening—a consciousness of separation; a consciousness of fear. Fear, a sense of separation, not only keeps us from the bliss but affects our body’s immune system.

Fear

One of the consequences of a dualistic consciousness and thought process is pure and simple, fear.[ii] But our fear is not just in our mind. It’s in our body and affects our immune system as does our other thought processes. The mind and body are not separate but blended. Fear in the mind resisters in the base of the spine,[iii] in esoteric circles this area of the body is known as the first chakra[iv]—“cave of the beast.”

Our Brain is not “Immune Privileged”

This concept used to be dogma, but no longer as research has shown that the brain directly affects the immune system. Keep in mind that the brain is not our only thought process, “our heart also thinks! It is an intelligence system. In fact, the brain receives more orders from the heart than the heart receives from the brain. In Biblical usage, the word heart has meant mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, and memory.”[v]

According to Holly Brothers PhD, The Brain Loses Its Immune Privilege, “a new study suggests that brain immune surveillance communicates with the immune system and can generate adaptive immune responses. The authors infer that previously characterized glymphatic washing of the brain likely connects to the lymphatic system; a testable hypothesis. The authors further suggest that this system will change the way we think about neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s.

“So what does this mean? In the biggest sense, it means that something we have believed as dogma did not exist in the brain does, and has been in plain sight. This finding is radical in this historical context, but connects the brain immune system to the body in a way that feels intuitive. These data show that the brain is in no way immune privileged in the classic sense, although the brain immune response is in some ways different from peripheral immune responses.”[vi]

Additionally, according to Jon Lieff, M.D., Brain and Immunity Fight Internal and External Foes Together, “small Immune T cells have a very complex life, travelling to different regions of the body and maturing gradually through stages to be able to engage and fight a wide range of invaders. The T cell ( T for maturation in the thymus) is one of only two cells that edits and splices its own DNA to make a vast array of different receptors (the other cell is the immune B cell that makes antibodies). As remarkable as this process is, perhaps even more remarkable is the new data showing that immune T cells are critical for cognitive function. This function is through wireless communication with the brain.”[vii]

In other words, the immune system has a wireless communication system between itself and brain cells. Concerning T cells, stress and learning, Dr. Lieff states that “Normal learning involves some stress response. Stress related to the subject of learning helps, other types do not. Chronic stress is very detrimental, impairing learning and decreasing the amount of new neurons used for learning. Immune deficient mice with poor stress response don’t learn as well. T cells make this learning better. The immune response is critical for the human stress response, for spatial learning and memory and for making new brain cells.”[viii] Furthermore, “recent data have suggested key roles for immune cells in healthy brain functions, including psychological stress responses, spatial learning and memory, and adult neurogenesis.”[ix]

Our “Cave of Spirit” and our Spatial Decipherable/Memory[x]

Our “cave of spirit” is perched within the recesses of our posterior fontanelle, which is triangular in shape and lies at the apex of the occipital bone. With its location at the base of the skull, it directly leads into the reptilian and paleomammalian parts of our brain protecting the self, the survival of the unhealthy ego (the “I”) through any means possible. But within the paleomammalian section of the brain lays the key to enlightenment, health and happiness—the pineal and pituitary glands. The reptilian and paleomammalian are two parts of “triune brain” with the third part being our present human neomammalian brain.

To further our research into hidden knowledge, we need to realize that there is interconnection and interplay between the instinctual responses of the reptilian, the autonomic emotional states of the paleomammalian and the cognitive processes of the neomammalian brain. And that the interaction between the three levels is not based primarily on verbal language but on other forms of information gathering and processing such as sounds, symbols, non-language chants and sensory and spatial input.

In fact, spatial decipherable/memory ability provides one of the clues to our personal interactive quality of our “triune brain.” Our spatial ability, functionally in the right brain, is one physically discernible window into our consciousness concerning self and others. It is not the only clue and good spatial ability does not in and of itself equate an elevated or enlightened consciousness. However, if we do have good spatial ability, which is the perception of self in time and space relative to other things, our body/mind consciousness senses unity more than separation from other things. And the reverse is true. The greater the chasm of consciousness reality between self and other (dualistic separation) reveals itself in poor spatial decipherable/memory ability and thus poor interaction between the three sections of our brain.[xi]

As a final point, by combining the knowledge above, what are your conclusions?

[i] A Divine earth is a principle in opposition to the Church’s dogma and doctrine even though Jesus’ primary teaching was the Kingdom of God within us and outside us.

[ii] Love is unity consciousness; fear is separation consciousness.

[iii] Testosterone hormone is our bodily source of physical strength, will power and sexual potency. It is the source of our beast within. This important hormone is made in large amounts by the testicles of men. But testosterone is not limited solely to men. Women produce testosterone in their ovaries even though it is only about one tenth of what a male produces just as a male produces a small amount of the female hormone estrogen. Additionally, both men and women produce a small amount of testosterone in their adrenal glands which are the source of our fight/flight mechanism—the power of our beast. But, “the modern, technological world gives us few positive outlets for this energy, and yet the pressures of our lives are constantly causing our bodies to send us hormonal messages to fight or flee.”

[iv] This is the realm of fear and our beast within. The 1st chakra is the named the Root Chakra. It is located at the base of the spine and deals with issues of security, basic needs, basic human survival, profane sex and inappropriate sexual activity (un-awakened beast) and one’s sense of ‘roots’ and family and connection to the earth (an unawakened first chakra views earth/nature as hostile). This is the chakra of dualism. Endocrine System: Reproductive Glands/Adrenals. The color symbolism is red.

[v] Rev. Dr. JC Husfelt, Do You Like Jesus—Not the Church?, 7

[vi] Holly Brothers PhD, The Brain Loses Its Immune Privilege Wed, 06/03/2015, http://www.sciguru.org/newsitem/19107/brain-loses-its-immune-privilege

[vii] Jon Lieff, M.D., Immune T Cells Are Critical for Cognitive Function October 20, 2013, http://jonlieffmd.com/blog/immune-t-cells-are-critical-for-cognitive-function

[viii] Ibid

[ix] Jonathan Kipnis, Sachin Gadani, and Noël C. Dereck, Pro-cognitive properties of T cells, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4032225/

[x] Term coined by Dr. Husfelt

[xi] An unpublished manuscript of Dr. Husfelt’s

Philosophically, life is magical. On the other hand, the reality is—life is magical. The universe, seen and unseen, is reflective in its primary essence, which makes magic a natural phenomenon. What is viewed as a coincidence or a synchronicity (meaningful coincidences) are the effects of this magical phenomenon. Even though Jung coined the term synchronicity as “a significant coincidence of physical and psychological phenomena that are acausal connected,”[i] his thinking was wrong on the reality of such happenings. This was especially true when he connected synchronicity with “grace.”  Grace is a Christian theological term denoting divine gifts without which human salvation would be impossible. This is Christian brainwashing with no truth in reality. In contrast to grace, we have compassion, which comes from within us, whereas grace comes from outside us as divine gifts from a judgmental Christian God.

Compassion is magical. Grace is fear mongering. With a reflective universe, our compassionate act will be reflected back to us in some way. Possibly in a manner that seemingly has no connection with our act in the first place. For a very simple example of the reflective phenomena, look in a mirror and smile; what do you see? A smiling face. Now look in the same mirror and frown; what do you see reflected back to you? Why of course, a frown.

Have you ever asked yourself why, many women who get divorced end up with another male or female who have the same traits as their first mate—different face, same essence? The answer, reflective magic is happening but probably many would call this magic, “black magic,” if you know what I mean.

Consciousness

It’s been more than one hundred years since Max Planck, the theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics, said that he regards “consciousness as fundamental,” that he regards “matter as a derivative from consciousness,” and that “everything we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”

In other words, consciousness intertwines or interpenetrates matter: Consciousness (Divine Mind) does not exist alone. It interpenetrates the other five elements of earth, water, fire, air, and space. In other words, divine consciousness is within all things of the seen (matter) and unseen (spirit) worlds.

It stands to reason that a portion of the reflective essence of reality (seen and unseen) is consciousness. Additionally, quantum physics has shown that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a “mental” construction. Pioneering physicist Sir James Jeans wrote: “The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter; we ought to rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.”[ii]

Since everything is interconnected in a web of consciousness, our thoughts and actions have effects that are more far-reaching and profound than we think. Magic is happening but is it really what you want?

Connected with this concept of the reflective nature of the universe are space, time, fate and destiny. Philosophically, there is no future. There is only past, non-past and present. These along with fate and destiny, I will discuss in a future post.

[i] http://www.carl-jung.net/synchronicity.html

[ii] http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html