Breaking the Spell

Recently I wrote a post titled 'The Story So Far' which gave a brief outline to my current thinking and, basically, why I had thrown in my job and house and made a complete 'shift' in my life affairs. It was all about trying to position myself in a place/space more suited to the direction I wanted my life to go in. Over the many years of my own research - my traveling and working abroad included - as well as the nearly 6 years of this blog I have generated a shift in my own perceptions. I see the world very differently from how I did those years ago. Yet I came to a point where 'something' in me needed change to such a degree that a cable snapped. I knew that I could not continue as I was doing: if I did, I would just be treading water and doing a great dis-service to my Self.

I had read so many books over the years that I finally ran dry in my inspiration for what to read next: an old Eastern proverb says that a donkey may be carrying many books yet it is still a donkey. I have been carrying these books for a long time now. I understand that the world - our reality - is not what it appears to be: that the reality-consensus everyone 'agrees' to is an energetic matrix of lies and falsehoods. I grew more 'aware', yet I was still firmly strapped in my canoe without a paddle. So I decided to make a change in my position; to 'shift my assemblage' as Castaneda/don Juan would say. Instead of pacing up and down the wall, carrying a lantern often, I took a step sideways.

The 8th Century Persian Sufi Rabia, from Basra, was asked one lovely spring morning by a friend to come outside to see the works of God. She replied, "Come you inside that you may behold their Maker. Contemplation of the Maker has turned me aside from what He has made"

The external world is an extension of the internal: the source of our connection then is through our internal relations. Real change comes through spring-cleaning our own house. This includes cleaning our energies and being mindful of our 'produce': ie. thoughts and emotions.

Rabia also famously commented:O Lord! If I worship you from fear of hell, cast me into hell. If I worship you from desire for paradise, deny me paradise.

This is indicative of how we often position ourselves based on conditioning: our desires for heaven or fear of hell. Yet all these desires are themselves programmed positions and implanted veils.

In order for myself to be 'allowed' to think anew, I had to change my physical life positions. I had to act so that my mental, emotional, and physical energies were taken out of their habits and made fluid once again. This was to be a stimulus to change rather than the change itself. Too much talking had already been engaged with:


The learned man who only talks will never penetrate to the inner heart of man - Saadi of Shiraz


To break the spell requires that one penetrates to the heart of themselves. From here, there can be more profound action upon the world - as the world is energy and the human heart is energy. To live a life without profundity is to miss the point, I feel. Yet one's life cannot be measured by external social status, or 'coffee spoons' as in TS Elliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock':

For I have known them all already, known them all-

Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

We must find our own positioning of meaning in order to organise our own inner worlds. From this we are better equiped to deal with the consensus reality.

In the next post I will lay out a few points that have helped me to re-organise my positioning and break the spell.

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Late Third Density - the best party in town?

Have you ever had a similar question to this:

Q - 'We’re wondering just exactly what are we doing here? It seems to many people who have awakened that we’re just trying to get out of a bad situation; get out of a prison; go someplace else. Isn’t there something more that we’re doing here in this third density than just trying to escape?'

An answer given to this question was:

A - It is very humorous to us that you would describe the planet of your choice as a prison, because each and every one of you in this room, and each and every person upon your planet that is alive at this time, fought tooth and nail, as it were, to get into line to have a body and come here at this time.

When one is not within the incredibly intense atmosphere of Planet Earth in extremely late third density, it looks like the best party in town. There is a unique opportunity that you have here in third density to make rapid changes in your balance between love, wisdom and power. And so many, many wanderers have come here with the desire to serve the planet secondary to their desire to alter the balance within their own deeper natures. Now, this begs the question of why the planet is indeed such an intensely vivid density, or why third density on this planet is so vivid...

...There are many hints that are built into third-density life. Your physical form is created in such a way that you need other people, and you must interact with other people. In order for the species to perpetuate, you must form relationships with other entities. And so the hints concerning service to self versus service to others are built into the human being’s very nature, both physical, mental and emotional.

And so as entities begin to lift themselves up from total immersion in the business of survival, they can begin to see that there is a way to live which they prefer. And so they begin to choose to live in love and in harmony with nature and with the Creator. Again, it is part of the human instinct to seek for the Creator. Part of what makes a third-density entity who he is is that instinct to seek for the Creator of his being and to give Him thanks and praise. And so you will not find populations or races or tribes of humankind, no matter how remote or undeveloped according to the earmarks of civilization, that do not have what you would call spirituality or religion as part and parcel of their society.

So, you have a school of souls. It is not a school that pushes entities to make decisions or that makes them at all obvious. Rather, it is a rich environment in terms of potential for choices.

(Extract taken from L/L Research)

It is worth remembering that 'Oftentimes, entities who are waking up feel terribly isolated and alone. This is not in fact the case, because of the enormous amount of unseen help that each entity has.'

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2012 - It Will Come and Go (but what are you going to do about it, that's what I'd like to know)

I personally don't feel there will be a dedicated 'switch-on' point for the new energies, like switching on the light in a room. The energies are already coming in, seeping through the veil, and causing physical disturbances and mental resonances. Yet in the upcoming years the 2012 'moment' will most likely be a signifier, or marker, for the 'visibility' of the new energies to be more manifest. 2012 will come and go, yet we can invest in what shall remain.

In this light I suggest these words:

We realize that it is difficult to imagine what shall happen after the year 2012, since that is when third density ends and fourth density begins. And we can only describe to you that which is to occur by asking you to realize that all of the densities of Planet Earth within this octave, one through seven, are nested together and interpenetrate each other, much as the various channels on your television set are nested together, being picked up by the same transmitters and receivers and being available by the turn of the knob from one to another to another.

Indeed, there are those among your peoples who are able to switch from the channel of third density to the channel of fourth density now, and who can somewhat reliably report on the development of fourth density. Fourth density, indeed, is fully formed at this time. Because it would violate the free will of third-density entities, fourth density chooses not to be seen, not to be visible to the five senses of your human bodies. Yet it is impossible to eliminate or hide the vibrations of fourth density, which are interpenetrating third density at this time.

Indeed, it is not even desirable to attempt to hide or remove these waves upon waves of fourth-density energy. For they are another part of that which is enabling the last of those who would be harvested at the end of third density on Planet Earth to do their work, to proceed, and to polarize to the extent that they shall, with no trouble whatsoever, walk the steps of light that lead into fourth density...

...There has been an ever-increasing energy among those who are incarnate upon Planet Earth at this time towards desiring to retake the reins of stewardship of Gaia, of Mother Earth, and to administer healing and restoration to the planet which has been so loving and so good to them, and has been their home. And this shall continue for some hundreds of your years to be that great work which many who graduate from third density wish to accomplish before they move on into other lessons...

... It is likely that those who are polarizing towards negative graduation shall continue to hog the news, the headlines, and the avenues of power on this planet. And yet the vast majority of the population of Planet Earth lives without regard to the avenues of power, looking for truth, justice, liberty, beauty and all the fourth-density values within the humble pages of a humbly-lived life. And it is precisely within those humble pages, within those humble lives that your service lies at this time.

(Extracts taken from L/L Research)

Contribution does not need to be magnificent - just be magnanimous in self.

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The Changes that Come from Within

Today I spent the afternoon walking through the fields, river, and lanes near where I live. As I walked my mind was full of thoughts that occupied each step; thoughts ran into new thoughts and threads strung themselves out like they were creating a mental path to mimic my physical one. And as I walked I continuously thought about the future. Not so much about the physical changes - the earth changes - but rather about how I would change. What would I be doing in these years ahead. Or rather - what should I be doing in these years ahead. The place to be is where I need to be - the question is: how do I put myself in that place.

Such a place is not only physical - it is, importantly, a state of being. One that comprises balance, harmony, and function. What life choices do I need to be making in order to start manoeuvring myself into adoptive and adaptive positions? And this necessarily equates to making some sacrifices, mainly around career and life projects. Yet my career has always been secondary to my 'life function'; or I should say that my 'career sense' has been bent around the trajectory of my 'self'. Yet can I give up my present life structures? My answer is yes; I don't have a problem with that. Can I feed myself? Ahh... I hope so! So the answer has to be one of faith - to go in the direction I feel instinctively I should be moving in, and 'trust' that the cosmos will support me.

Yet wasn't there a hadith from the Islamic faith that goes: 'Trust in Allah yet tie your camel first'... I've always liked that one... so one needs to be pragmatic too. Question is - how much of a luxury is pragmatism in these changing times when one really needs to be putting their life into 'change of gear'? That question is one I have no answer for. There is a lot I don't know. Truly! There is too much I don't know and not enough time to fill in the gaps. Yet something has to be done.

It would be a lazy choice to simply do nothing. Why? Because the Times are too important for that, and the consequences too significant. These are unprecedented times, of this there is no doubt. So I ask myself - regularly - why am I here at this time? Isn't this proof enough that I have to be doing more than no-thing? I agree.

These are times of the awakening. Times of change - yes. Times of upheaval - yes. Times of loss - yes. Times of gain - yes. And yet so much more. Times of Transition - definitely... We can point out the clues until we are breathless: have you seen the latest military build-ups? The latest EM weapons; weather warfare methods; synchronistic media?, etc - all laudable to point out the signs. Yet beyond the pointing must come the change - and there is only one place from where that can come: from Within.

Yet I too spend too much of my time doing the pointing - and as long as I have the Internet I will continue to point - and to join the Club of Pointers. However, I now need more than this. I need to make some choices in order to facilitate change. I am unable to continue along present lines - I am not nourished enough. Along with listening more to the inner voice, I now need to consider preparation. It is time to consider that there are things much more important than the 'material threads' that bind us to the socialisation of our lives - and I say this as a so-called sociologist! It's no good having a PhD if all you do is write papers that nobody really reads whilst all the time the world is morphing around you. What about family, relatives, and loved ones - how much have they been told? Would they laugh and ridicule? Mmmm...

Well, perhaps it is time to be a bit more vocal within the local world we inhabit. Time to drop a few hints to family members: to ask - 'what if?'

I remember the lines from TS Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Afred Prufrock':

And indeed there will be time
To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?"

... Do I dare
Disturb the universe?

... And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while,
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the
floor--
And this, and so much more?--
It is impossible to say just what I mean!

...I grow old . . .I grow old . . .
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.


Well, maybe it is time 'to dare'... To 'disturb the universe'...To make some changes. To step out - to step forward. And when I do; and when people ask me what I am doing - I will simply tell them the truth of what I know. I have nothing to lose but my 'self', and that's something I'm willing to wager...

Awareness

John Baines is a Teacher. Well, this is the name he publishes under in the english-speaking world - his real name is Dario Salas Sommer. Dario is a teacher of Hermetic Philosophy and often takes a critical look at the current state of mankind. Dario likes to expose the “collective animal soul” which guides and directs humanity and to re-direct awareness onto Hermetic Philosophy that can aid the individual in freeing oneself from the collective influence.

in Hypsoconsciousness Dario states that:

Our modern world of rapid social, political, and technological change leaves much to be desired when trying to extract meaning from the kaleidoscope of our day-to-day lives. Behind all the difficulties that we encounter as we move through life driven to find "the answer", one single fundamental fact obliges us to suffer a host of needless ills, sufferings, misunderstandings and disappointments. This is the fact of man's low level of awareness.

He also states that 'humanity today in no way represents the peak of the species' evolution, which hasn't even met the half-way mark towards its evolutionary goal. The human being reveals himself as an incomplete structure, one that is only half-realised'.

In our present state we are under 'mass hypnosis' - falling in with the consensus of the mass mind without awakening or energising a sense of inner 'being'. Our situation is that 'the sleeper must awaken'.

Why shouldn't we be conscious of every present moment?

Also see - Dario Salas Institute and his official home web-site

To not Fear

There is alot of what appears to be deliberate stimulation - perhaps 'over-stimulation'? - going on in the world today. Alot of this is noise; distractions from ourselves; disturbances to our inner peace. Making us fear.

They want us to fear. To be fearful. To be fearful of others. To produce fear.

What better way to keep us bound up in our self-perpetual prisms of insecurity. Fear attracts fear. Like attracts like. That which we project determines what we encounter.

If we resonate in these lower frequencies we give away our capacity, and our power to act for ourselves. Passivity and apathy is not about failing to take to the strees to protest or to fight against the system like a 'great rebel' - this is exactly what is expected of us for it gives the appearance of democracy. Genuine apathy is to give over our self-determination, faith, and confidence to those external to ourselves. To always resonate with balance, goodness, strength and energy is to defy the grand delusion being fostered upon us in these days...


'The times propel you to create new neurological patterns in your being, and what seems at first to be too much stimulation, eventually becomes manageable. Every species goes through a similar process of an expansion of consciousness when it is their time.' - Family of Light