My previous post, Truth, was theoretical philosophy. This is the study of the principles of human knowledge. The reason for part 2 is to reveal truth as a result of knowledge, or a knowing, from real-life full sensory experience. One such truth revealed was the truth of reincarnation.
There are universal truths such as reincarnation and then there are personal truths. Our personal truths may be based on mystical experiences. Such experiences may reveal personal truths, but not universal ones. An example of this would be the story of my encounter with the Spirit Man of Teotihuacán. The personal truth revealed was that I had the mind and soul of Quetzalcóatl – the Morning Star! This truth also reinforced my vision and voice from heaven experience in 1993 as the Morning Star. These stories are recorded in our memoirs.
Truth revealing universal metaphysical/philosophical/religious beliefs only result from a knowing based on actual sensory physical experience witnessed by more than one person. I am not referring to the standard meaning of Empiricism, which is the theory that the origin of all knowledge is sense experience. Empiricism is based on the sense experience of the natural world. It does not address knowledge based on the sense experience of the natural world when it is blended with the spirit or Otherworld.
As I stated in Truth part 1: Only knowledge that proceeds by observation and experience, and then, only when properly informed and guided, will knowledge reflect Truth. Based on this definition, let’s explore truth as it relates to one of my extraordinary events, a direct angelic experience—the Visitation.
I don’t believe or have faith in angels—I know angels: “If you are blind and have never seen the sunrise it doesn’t matter how many hypotheses you can array; you still don’t know. Belief or faith is simply the adoption of someone else’s idea. Once you have seen the sun you don’t believe in it, you know it.”[i]
I have not seen angels in my mind, in a cloud formation, in my dreams, or as some type of human figure. I’ve been in the physical presence of and witness to an archangel and the two assisting angels. To verify this, my wife, Sherry, and twelve of our apprentices were witnesses to the same sacred visitation.
I know the truth of a sunrise having observed and experienced it. I know the truth of angels/otherworldly beings from observation and experience. Interesting enough, this one truth revealed other truths such as reincarnation, the knowledge of the interconnection and interpenetration of consciousness throughout the seen and unseen universe, and the sacred power of stones.
The actual experience occurred on Sunday, the night of a new moon—August 3rd, 1997. The Visitation is told in its totality in our memoirs—Tequila and Chocolate, The Adventures of the Morning Star and Soulmate. We would encourage you to purchase our memoirs. The Visitation is only one of many stories that reveal truth of metaphysical principles. One person said of our memoirs: “Think Indiana Jones meets Gandalf the Grey.”
The Visitation also gave truth to many of physicist David Bohm’s (1917–1992) theories. A colleague of Albert Einstein, Bohm’s most significant contribution to science is his interpretation of the nature of physical reality, which is rooted in his theoretical investigations, especially quantum theory and relativity theory. Bohm postulates that the ultimate nature of physical reality is not a collection of separate objects (as it appears to us), but rather it is an undivided whole that is in perpetual dynamic flux. For Bohm, the insights of quantum mechanics and relativity theory point to a universe that is undivided and in which all parts “merge and unite in one totality.” This undivided whole is not static but rather in a constant state of flow and change.
Bohm calls this flow the holomovement – holo, meaning holographic-like, and movement suggesting dynamism and process. In other words, the nature of reality is a single unbroken wholeness in flowing movement. In analogy to holography but on a much grander scale, Bohm believes that each part of physical reality contains information about the whole.
Bohm proposes that the holomovement consists of two fundamental aspects: the explicate order and the implicate order. What we call matter is merely an apparent manifestation of the explicate order of the holomovement. In other words, the explicate order is the manifest realm; it is the physical space-time universe in which we live. This explicate order is the surface appearance of a much greater enfolded or implicate order, most of which is hidden. Thus, the implicate order is the unseen, or the unmanifest realm.
It’s tempting, perhaps, to think of the explicate order as the primary reality, and the implicate order as a subtle secondary reality. For Bohm, precisely the opposite is the case. The fundamental primary reality is the implicate order, and the explicate order is but a set of ripples on the surface of the implicate order. So that which we can see, feel, and touch is merely the waves on the surface of reality, which is a vast ocean of implicate order.
Contemporary physics and, indeed, most of science deals with explicate orders and structures only, which is why physics has encountered such great difficulty in explaining a variety of phenomena that Bohm would say arise from the implicate order.
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Moving on, let’s explore truths as revealed by the Visitation. Excerpts are from Tequila and Chocolate – the Visitation:
Observation and experience: During the summer we always conduct longer-term trainings out in nature. This summer we’d scheduled a four-day training, beginning on Friday, August 1, and ending on Monday, August 4. The theme of the training was initiation, fear, and death and rebirth, including the experiences of a twenty-four-hour solitary quest, a stone-built ceremonial death spiral,[ii] and bathing.
Since we mostly take novices into the outdoors, I always perform prayers for safety, love, and power before the trainings. This time I did a different prayer. 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.[iii] I then let go of any expectations about the prayer. Little did I expect the sign—in reality, signs—that would be given.
The signs: This was the night of the new moon, and the only light in the clearing was cast by a small fire. The night before, while the apprentices were sitting alone in the dark woods, I was listening and making sure that everyone was all right. When I had turned off my flashlight, I couldn’t see more than a few feet in front of me. Therefore, I was stunned to see searing translucent lights illumine the forest.
“What? No.” These two short thoughts coursed through my mind as I turned around to see if there was some light source coming from in front of me other than the small fire. I observed nothing that could explain what I had just seen. I turned around again in disbelief, to make sure I saw what I saw. This all took less than a minute.
“Please stand, and be quiet. We have visitors,” I said as calmly as possible, all the while not knowing what I saw.
As Sherry stood next to me, looking at the lights, I leaned over and whispered into her ear, “What are they?”
Without hesitation she said, “Why, they’re angels!”
And then I remembered my prayer for a sign of who I had been. It all made sense, but I never expected a sign like this. I hadn’t told anyone about the content of my prayer, not even Sherry.
“A shooting star,” someone said as we all looked up as it blazed across the night sky.
“A white dove,” an apprentice exclaimed as it flew over our heads.
“Look at the stones of the death spiral,” another said.
The stones had increased at least five-fold in size; some were now the size of boulders. But the most unusual thing was their greenish, otherworldly glow. Each was an emerald stone of celestial pulsing energy.
Time seemed to be suspended as Sherry and I and our twelve apprentices witnessed in awe 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. This light was in the north by the entrance to the death spiral, whitish and not of this world.
Suspended higher up were two other pillars of light, not quite as bright or as large. The legends tell that an archangel is always assisted by two helping angels. Many traditions believe that the north direction is symbolically the direction of the ancestors and heavenly, otherworldly beings, such as angels…
Knowledge Properly informed and Guided: My prayer points to a few aspects of Bohm’s theories. Bohm theorized a kind of tripartite ontology. What he said was that reality consists of matter, energy, and meaning. The usual physical understanding in science is that the universe consists of matter and energy, and Einstein did the glorious equation of the two with E = mc2. What Bohm says, however, is that meaning has the same ontological primacy as matter and energy. Bohm states, “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.”
In other words, according to Bohm, the nature of reality is this interpenetration of matter, energy, and meaning (consciousness). The matter-energy realm is the explicate order, or manifest realm. The meaning (consciousness) realm is the implicate order, and there’s an interpenetration between the two.
Putting this in context with Divine Humanity’s Six Elements (earth, water, air/wind, fire, space, and divine consciousness) the explicate order of matter and energy (earth, water, air/wind, fire, space) and the implicate order of meaning or consciousness (spirit) interpenetrate each other. Spirit interpenetrates matter. In other words, all things are aware and conscious and since creation is reflective (magic) all things of seen world will respond to our meaning-consciousness (thoughts/spoken words) and our intent. However, manifestation of our prayers (thoughts and/or words) with the unseen or implicate order will only occur when our intent is in line with the divine will/intent. This also reveals why a prayer not in line with the divine will/intent will not manifest.
Concerning my prayer, the consciousness of the Otherworld responded to it with the appearance of the angels as immense pillars of light. My intent was to show a sign of my past incarnation. Since the signs were given, it would mean that my prayer was heard, responded to, and my intent was in line with the divine will/intent. This also points to the truth that there is an interconnection and interpenetration of consciousness throughout the seen and unseen universe.
The greatest truth revealed was not who Sher and I were in our past life, but that if we have had past lives, then all humans have had past lives. In other words, reincarnation is TRUTH. Our life is an ongoing death-and-rebirth evolution of our souls – our golden DNA, our divine spark, our starlight. More about this later and the ramifications of this truth.
Observation and experience: The Sunday of the four-day training dawned bright and very dry. Little rain had fallen that spring and summer… during the evening, I wanted to work on the issue of phobos, the Greek word for fear and the origin for the word phobia. The exercise I had chosen was one I had conducted many times before. In my mind, it was an excellent way to help a person release a fear that had haunted him or her.
It was a very simple exercise. Our apprentices had to identify a fear and then fashion an image of their fear out of natural materials. At night they would fight their fear with a wooden sword and burn the remains in a ceremonial fire…
However, we were concerned that we might not be able to conduct this exercise. Sherry and I faced a major hurdle in the dry condition of the land. With little and infrequent rain, we basically had drought conditions that summer, which prohibit an open fire. Without the fire, the experience would not work. But the heavens provided a solution to our dilemma.
Early in the afternoon, an intense thunderstorm developed. And “intense” does not do it justice. 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 all around us. Everyone ran to huddle underneath the cooking tarp, shaking and scared by the otherworldly intensity. People were terrified at the suddenness and force of the wind and the rain, the thunder and the lightning.
As the storm abated, the Earth felt different – as if it had been purified…
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Three months later, on an October afternoon, one of our apprentices contacted me. “JC, you’ll never guess what I have,” he said in an excited tone. “While you were finishing the late-afternoon building of the spiral, I took a picture of you in the center of it. When I got home, I just threw the camera into my truck. Last week, I finally got around to getting the pictures developed. I knew something was up when the photo shop lady said, ‘One of your pictures has caused quite a stir.’…
“Guess what?” he continued. “I have a daylight photograph of the archangel and the two assisting angels. They were observing us building the spiral, and no one ever suspected!” This is the picture at the beginning of this post.
Knowledge Properly informed and Guided: After the intense, unusual storm, the angels 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.
The picture was taken of me during the day while we finished building the stone death spiral. No one saw what the camera picked up. The picture is not pillars of light. It is an intense and immense light off to my left in the woods with two globes of light suspended above. The light has a shape almost like a sword in its center with golden rays coming off of it. It’s been verified that it was not a reflection of the lens of the instant camera that took the picture.
Another interesting fact: we were able to hear each other but no other sounds such as the normal evening forest sounds. There was total silence, what one apprentice called the “cone of silence.” This seems to suggest that the intense out-of-the-ordinary storm purified only a small section of the earth which allowed the angels to unfold within that cleansed portion of the earth.
Knowledge of Reincarnation: Its Impact on Prejudice, the Earth, and Climate Change:
When reincarnation is not one of the beliefs of a religion then the metaphoric “gates of hell” are flung wide-open. The present day most vivid result of this is exemplified by Islamic jihad and is equated to a one way ticket to paradise even though you may have blown up innocents while achieving jihad. JC
- Since most people have had numerous past lives, it is common sense that we may have all been different races from different cultures. In other words, a present-day Neo-Nazi, KKK member, or even Donald Trump likely were not white in some of their other lifetimes. I am not talking about our human DNA but our soul’s heavenly golden DNA of the total accumulation of past lives.[iv] Even with this knowledge people will still be prejudiced, but possibly a seed will be planted that will bear fruit in the future.
- Considering our children’s future and understanding that we will all reincarnate, we need to support and work towards a reversal of climate change, we need to embrace a green philosophy and we need to adopt and implement an ancient Iroquois philosophy, The Seventh Generation Principle: “In every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.” The core of this philosophy holds that the decisions we make today should result in a sustainable, green world seven generations (a generation equals one hundred years) into the future. We ask each of you: begin now to make this a reality.
Coming next… Truth Part 3 – The Truth of Radical Nonduality. (It is different from nonduality.)
[i] Malcolm Godwin, Angels: An Endangered Species, 237.
[ii] The spiral is one of the oldest spiritual symbols and reflects the inward and outward consciousness of the kingdom of God and the universal pattern of growth and evolution. Spirals are common in nature and the product of phi (φ), which is also called the golden section or the golden mean. You will find more knowledge on this in my latest book: Morning Star’s Seven Steps to Spiritual Awakening.
[iii] It is not necessary to state the name of my past life and my wife’s as revealed by the visitation. The visitation along with our memoirs provides enough knowledge through our works and experiences for you to determine who we were.
So that there is no confusion, considering my experience with Spirit Man of Teotihuacán, the name I stated in my prayer was not Quetzalcóatl, but it seems most assured that one of my past incarnations was as the human named, Topiltzin Quetzalcóatl – the Morning Star.
[iv] “Two lineages: There are two bloodlines. Every human being has not only an ancestral line of the Earth but also an angelic lineage of the heavens. Our earthly bloodline flows from our parents’ ancestral lines, while our heavenly evolution stems from our previous incarnations.
“Each of us has two lineages. This is one of the reasons why there is emotional confusion surrounding the fetus and life. I have had people in their attempt to prove that the fetus is a living person state that their baby in the womb responded to various styles of music. Of course, there is an emotional attachment to the feelings of having life growing within you. Yes, it is alive, just as the heart of the mother is alive. Yet, it is not a soulful human being at this point in time. It is developing its earthly DNA lineage. It is a potential human being, as it has not as yet interpenetrated with its soulful heavenly lineage. This occurs at birth with the first breath of life, God’s breath, and the descent of the heavenly DNA, the golden dew.” (Husfelt, Do You Like Jesus – Not the Church?, 152.)