Healing Tones

“Jesus said: The images are revealed to people. The light within them is hidden in the image of the Father’s light. You are pleased when you see your own likeness. When you see your images that came into being before you did, immortal and invisible images, how much can you bear?” —The Gospel of Thomas

IN THE LAST PART OF THE EXCANGE between Prince Arjuna and Lord Krishna as related in THE BHAGAVAD~GITA or THE SONG CELESTIAL — a revision of the original ancient text made by Lloyd A. Meeker (Uranda) — Arjuna looks up in praise and worship of Krishna uncloaked, then petitions Krishna to shield once again His unfathomable brilliance within His more familiar and bearable earthly forms. I’ll continue from where I left off:

Arjuna: Ah, if in anger now Thou shouldst remember I did think Thee Friend, Speaking with easy speech, as men use each to each; Did call Thee “Krishna,” “Prince,” nor comprehend

Thy hidden majesty, the might, the awe of Thee; Did, in my heedlessness, or in my love, On journey, or in jest, Or when we lay at rest, Sitting in council, staying in the grove,

Alone, or in the throng, Do Thee, most Holy! wrong, Be Thy grace granted for that witless sin. For Thou art, now I know, Father of all below, Of all above of all the worlds within

Teacher of teachers; more To reverence and adore Than all which is adorable and high! How in the wide worlds three Should any equal be? Should any other share Thy Majesty?

Therefore, with body bent And reverent intent, I praise, and serve, and seek Thee, asking grace. As father to son, As friend to friend, as one Who loveth to his lover, turn Thy face

In gentleness on me! Good it is I did see This unknown marvel of Thy Form! But fear Mingles with joy! Retake, Dear Lord! for pity’s sake Thine earthly shape, which earthly eyes may bear!

Be merciful, and show The visage that I know; Let me regard Thee, as of yore, arrayed With disc and forehead-gem With mace and anadem, Thou that sustaineth all things! Undismayed

Let me once more behold The form I loved of old, Thou of a thousand arms and countless eyes! This frightened heart is fain To see restored again My Charioteer, in Krishna’s kind disguise.

Krishna: Yea! thou hast seen, Arjuna, because I loved thee well, The secret countenance of Me, revealed by mystic spell, Shining, and wonderful, and vast, majestic, manifold, Which none save thou in all the years had favour to behold; For not by Vedas cometh this, nor sacrifice, nor alms, Nor works well-done, nor penance long, nor prayers, nor chanted psalms, That mortal eyes should bear to view the Immortal Soul unclad, Prince of the Kurus! This was kept for thee alone! Be glad! Let no more trouble shake thy heart, because thine eyes have seen My terror with My glory. As I before have been So will I be again for thee; with lightened heart behold! Once more I am thy Krishna, the form thou knew’st of old!

Servant: These words to Arjuna spake Vasudev, and straight did take Back again the semblance dear Of the well-loved charioteer; Peace and joy it did restore When the Prince beheld once more Mighty Braham’s form and face Clothed in Krishna’s gentle grace.

Arjuna: Now that I see come back, Janardana! This friendly human form, my mind can think Calm thoughts once more; my heart beats still again!

Krishna: Yea! it was wonderful and terrible To view me as thou didst, dear Prince! The gods dread and desire continually to view! Yet not by Vedas, nor from sacrifice, nor penance, nor gift-giving, nor with prayer Shall any so behold, as thou hast seen!

Only by fullest service, perfect faith, And uttermost surrender am I known And seen, and entered into, Indian Prince! Who doeth all for Me; who findeth Me in all; adoreth always, loveth all Which I have made, and Me for Love’s sole end, That man, Arjuna! unto Me doth wend.

~~~O~~~

A poignant line from an aria sung by Jean Valjean in the concert presentation of Les Miserables comes to mind: “To love another person is to see the face of God.” As he sings these words with tender tones, one can feel hearts melting in the thousands gathered to share in the moment of heart-splitting elation, especially when he sings “Bring him home.”

I am profoundly thankful and richly blessed to share the last years of my earthly journey with another human being, my sweet companion Bonnie. She brings into our shared world someone fully awake and easy to love and cherish, someone to care for and to be cared by, someone to argue with at times, and with whom to share meals and work in the yard and gardens; to take road trips with and visit the marshlands below here. I’m most thankful to God for the gifts she brings into our shared lives.

Revealing our angelic Self to one another and to our worlds is something we can do in our current tamped-down mode of presence in this world. I do believe, however, that a grand Apocalypse of Light is at hand and already beginning to burst forth through the thousands of awakened and transformed human beings, angels all, who are attuned to the multiple frequencies of the Light of Love — compassion, joy, thankfulness, appreciation, kindness and generosity, just to name a few.

Look around you and see: The Kingdom of Heaven is truly at hand and heavenly beings are unveiling themselves, arriving together at the common destination of their transformative paths. The old man is falling away and the New Man — male and female, the image and likeness of Divine Being — is coming forth and shining the light of love into this darkened world — a veritable and most welcomed Apocalypse of Light!

There are those who have a peculiar attachment to their addiction to dark issue and newspaper headlines that tell and sell, but they, too, will finally be attracted to the warmth and sheer sanity of the soul-nourishing River of Love flowing down from on High and finding increasing outflow through human hearts and minds every which way they turn. None need perish with the collapse of the old world. All are sorely needed in bringing into form the New Earth now descending from God out of Heaven and seeding human consciousness as ordinances for our setting in the earth. Just imagine all the people living on the planet as one, as John Lennon inspired his generation to do. As we think about it every day it will continue to come about. Behold, we create a new world together!

I leave you to enjoy an inspiring and motivating poem by my favorite poet, Don Hynes ~ most relevant to the times we are traversing in this Egyptian world we’ve created:

Abandon Egypt

Outside city limits, ~ roaming the borderlands ~ that blend into dark forests, ~ rangers traverse the veils of illusion.

City folk know to conform, ~ their farmer cousins watch the same channels, ~ children lined up in rigid rows ~ to repeat the age-worn texts. ~ The hypnotic effect gravitational, ~ generation by generation shackled ~ by the mind wires of belief and fear, ~ shadows on the wall accepted as reality.

Rangers pay the price with isolation, ~ visiting a hearth fire occasionally ~ though not letting down their guard ~ or buying into the trance. ` Many think they stand apart ~ but unwilling to pay the price; ~ most don’t even care, ~ the hypnosis so deeply entrained.

Consider this a message ~ from beyond the fences, ~ words of consolation perhaps ~ but more of sobriety and awakening. ~ Abandon Egypt and its delights, ~ shrug off pharaoh’s rule. ~ What appears to be desert on the far horizon ~ a hidden fertility of water and sentience.

This slavery is voluntary as is freedom. ~ If you choose to break with conformity ~ let desire for life replace the illusion, ~ and surrender all hope at the threshold of escape. ~Don

I welcome any thoughts or inspirations you may have and wish to share. Until my next post,

Be love. Be loved

Anthony ~ (tpal70@gmail.com)

“Who doeth all for Me, who findeth Me In all; adoreth always; loveth all Which I have made, and Me, for Love’s sole end, That man, Arjuna! unto Me doth wend.” —Krishna, The Bhagavad~gita

THERE ARE TIMES while reading Hugh Malafry’s compelling novel BLUE SHAMAN ~ Stone of Sovereignty that my outer shell of humanity nearly cracks open and explodes in release of the Light of the Wonderful One who dwells within these temple walls of flesh and bone. This is one of those times, a golden moment when Caron, the Grail King incognito, poses a soul searching question to Marut, an old friend and jewelry merchant caught up in a world of sensational wonders:

What do you know of the one who sees, who contemplates, who dwells serenely above his emanations, supreme in the midst of the flame of creation? You know the smoke and the burning and the combustion of the world. But what do you know of him, who dances within the ring of fire, poised, balanced in the making and unmaking of all things?

Marut wilted upon hearing Caron’s provocative rhetorical question. Do you wilt reading those words, sorely aware of your resistance to fully surrender to the One you are and therein lose your isolated independent existence; or do you long to fully surrender to and know that One intimately? Harkening back to lyrics penned by my friend Hugh I shared in my previous post: “To know Thee as Thou art Almighty God and Living Word made flesh.” Do you long to know your Divine Self, the Wonderful One within — even as Prince Arjuna in the Bhagavad~gita asked Lord Krishna to let him see him, the God of gods, as he is, uncloaked by outer forms?

It may serve in these end days of awakening to visit, or revisit, this ancient story about the art of war and battle, revised and reframed by Uranda, who also added a subtitle to the booklet, The Song Celestial.

The story as Uranda retells it shows the way by which the expression of Spirit, true Self-expression, may become dominant in the individual, so that he/she is no longer governed by that which is unworthy of the true nobility of the Creator Being we each are, incarnate in these human capacities with their ingrained habits of judgment, criticism and complaint that betray and slay the expression of ones beautiful spirit of love, of kindness and generosity.

I will take the next two post to visit the last chapter of the story, so sit back and contemplate your own life in the battlefield of this earthly journey. (Copies of the booklet can be obtained from: The Emissaries, 100 Sunrise Ranch Rd., Loveland, CO 80538).

CHAPTER XI

Arjuna: Thus for my soul’s peace have I heard from Thee, The unfolding of the Mystery Supreme; Comprehending which, By darkness is dispelled; for now I know—O Lotus -eyed!—whence is the birth of men, And whence their death, and what the majesties Of Thine immortal rule. Fain would I see, As thou Thyself declar’st it, Sovereign Lord! The likeness of that glory of Thy Form Wholly revealed. O Thou Divinest One! If this can be, If I may bear the sight, Make Thyself visible, Lord of all prayer! Show me Thy very Self, the Eternal God!

Krishna: Gaze, then, thou Son of Pritha! I manifest for thee Those hundred thousand thousand shapes that clothe my Mystery. I show thee all my semblances, infinite, rich, divine, My changeful hues, my countless forms. See! in this face of mine, Wonders unnumbered, Indian Prince! revealed to none save thee. Behold, this is the Universe!—Look! what is live and dead I gather all in one—in Me! Gaze, as thy lips have said, ON GOD ETERNAL, VERY GOD! See Me! See what thou prayest! Thou canst not!—nor, with human eyes, Arjuna! ever mayest! Therefore I give thee sense divine. Have other eyes, new light! And, look! This is my glory, unveiled to mortal sight!

Servant: Then, O King! the God, so saying, Stood, to Pritha’s Son displaying All the splendour, wonder, dread Of His vast Almighty-head. Out of countless eyes beholding, Out of countless mouths commanding, Countless mystic forms enfolding In one Form: supremely standing Countless radiant glories wearing, Countless heavenly weapons bearing, Crowned with garlands of star-clusters, Robed in garb of woven lustres, Breathing from His perfect Presence Breaths of every subtle essence Of all heavenly odours; shedding Blinding brilliance; overspreading—Boundless, beautiful—all spaces With His all-regarding faces; So He showed! If there should rise Suddenly with the skies Sunburst of a thousand suns Flooding earth with beams undeemed of, Then might be that Holy One’s Majesty and radiance dreamed of!

So did Pandu’s Son behold All this universe unfold All its huge diversity Into one vast shape, and be Visible, and viewed, and blended In one Body—subtle, splendid, Nameless—the All-comprehending God of Gods, the Never-ending Deity!

But, sore amazed, Thrilled, o’erfilled, dazzled, and dazed, Arjuna knelt; and bowed his head, And clasped his palms; and cried and said:

Arjuna: Yea! I have seen! I see! Lord! All is wrapped in Thee! The gods are in Thy glorious frame! the creatures Of earth, and heaven, and hell In Thy Divine form dwell, And in Thy countenance shine all the features

Of Brahma, sitting lone upon His lotus-throne; Of saints and sages, and the serpent races Yea! mightiest Lord! I see Thy thousand thousand arms, and breasts, and faces, and eyes—on every side Perfect, diversified; And nowhere end of Thee, nowhere beginning, nowhere a centre! Shifts—Wherever soul’s graze lifts—Thy central Self, all wielding, and all-winning!

Infinite King! I see The anadem on Thee, The club, the shell, the discus; see Thee burning in beams insufferable, Lighting earth, heaven, and hell With brilliant blazing, glowing, flashing; turning

Dark to dazzling day, Look I whichever way; Ah, Lord! I worship Thee, the Undivided, the Uttermost thought, The Treasure Palace wrought To hold the wealth of the worlds; the Shield provided

To shield virtue’s law; The fount whence Life’s stream draws All waters of all rivers of all being: The One Unborn, Unending: Unchanging and Unblending! With might and majesty, past thought, past seeing!

Silver of moon and gold Of sun are glories rolled From Thy great eyes; Thy visage, beaming tender Throughout the stars and skies, Doth to warm life surprise Thy Universe. The worlds are filled with wonder

Of Thy perfections! Space Star-spangled, and void place From pole to pole of the Blue, from bound to bound, Hath Thee in every spot, Thee, Thee!—Where Thou art not, O Holy, Marvelous Form! is nowhere found!

O Mystic, Awful One! At sight of Thee, made known, The Three Worlds quake, the lower gods draw nigh Thee; They fold their palms and bow Body, and breast, and brow, And whispering worship, laud and magnify Thee!

The Prophets and Faithful cry “Hail! Highest Majesty!” From sage and singer breaks the hymn of glory In dulcet harmony, Sounding the praise of Thee; While countless companies take up the story.

These see Thee, and revere, In holy awe draw near; Yea! the Worlds—seeing Thee with form stupendous, With faces manifold, With eyes which all behold, Unnumbered eyes, vast arms, members tremendous,

Flanks, lit with sun and star, Feet planted near and far, Wonder-working Hands, mouths wrathful and tender—The Three wide Worlds before Thee Adore, as I adore Thee, Quake, as I quake, to witness so much splendour!

I mark Thee strike the skies With front, in wondrous wise Huge, rainbow-painted, glittering; and thy mouth Opened, and orbs which see All things, whatever be In all Thy worlds, east, west, north and south.

O Eyes of God! O Head! My strength of soul is fled, Gone is heart’s force, rebuke is mind’s desire! When I behold Thee so, With awful brows a-glow, With burning glance, and lips lighted by fire

Fierce as those flams which shall Consume, at close of all, Earth, Heaven! Ah me! I see no Earth and Heaven! Thee, LORD of Lords! I see, Thee only—only Thee! Now let Thy mercy unto me be given, Thou Refuge of the World!

Krishna: Thou seest Me as Time who kills, Time who brings all self-active ones to doom, The Slayer Time, ancient of Days, come hither to consume; Excepting thee of all these hosts of hostile chiefs arrayed, There stands not one shall leave alive the battlefield! Dismayed No longer be! Arise! obtain renown! destroy thy foes! Fight for the kingdom awaiting thee when thou hast vanquished those.

By me they fall—not thee! the stroke of death is dealt them now, Even as they show thus gallantly; My instrument art thou! ‘Tis I who bid them perish! Thou wilt but slay the slain; Fight! they must fall, and thou must live, victor upon this plain!

Servant: Hearing mighty Keshav’s word, Tremblingly that helmed Lord Clasped his lifted palms, and—praying Grace of Krishna—stood there, saying, With bowed brow and accents broken, These words, timorously spoken:

Arjuna: Worthily, Lord of Might! The whole world hath delight In Thy surpassing power, obeying Thee; The evil ones, in dread At sight of Thee, are sped To all four quarter; and the company Of Siddhas sound Thy name. How should they not proclaim Thy Majesties, Divinest, Mightiest? Thou Braham, than Brahma greater! Thou Infinite Creator! Thou God of gods, Life’s Dwelling-place and Rest.

Thou, of all souls the Soul! The Comprehending Whole! Of being formed, and formless being the Framer; O Ultimate One! O Lord! Older than eld, Who stored The worlds with wealth of Life! O Treasure-Claimer, Who wottest all, and art Wisdom Thyself! O Part In all, and All; for all from Thee have risen—Numberless now I see The aspects art of Thee! Spirit of All, Thou art, releasing man from prison.

The first of mortal men—Again, Thou God! again A thousand thousand times be magnified! Honour and worship be—Glory and praise—to Thee Cried on every side; Cried here, above, below, Uttered when Thou dost go, Uttered where Thou dost come! we call; God adored! Nameless Lord! Hail to Thee! Praise to Thee! Thou One in all; For Thou art All! Yea, Thou!

ALL IS IN THE ONE

Prince Arjuna is not without words in describing the ineffable Lord Krishna as He is.

What I take away from this story is that all things, both the good and the evil, are included in and embraced by the Almighty. The evil must be dealt with forthrightly and fall away. This line grabbed my attention: “By me they fall—not thee! the stroke of death is dealt them now, Even as they show thus gallantly; My instrument art thou! ‘Tis I who bid them perish!” The implication here is the “instrument” provides the means by which the evil meets its undoing and perishes.

There’s clearly work to do purifying the heart of the Body of Mankind — which is the Body of God on Earth. Think not that what you are feeling on any particular day and in any particular moment belongs solely to you, because it doesn’t. It belongs to the One who, when asked, will provide the wisdom and courage to deal with it forthrightly: “Get thee hence!” Cast it into the fire of love that burns in your heart — and keep that fire burning hot.

We angels incarnate are made of fire, and a good part of out work here is to allow the Spirit of God to “reprove the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment” (John 16:8) — not out there, but in here when the spirit of this world rears its ugly head in our feeling realms and thoughts. That’s the convenient and only place one can let the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, deal with it — a reason to be thankful. The word “comfort” means “with power and strength.” Who is willing to do this work of purification in the Body of our Lord and King, in which we each one have a vital role? It’s through a pure heart that one sees and knows God as He is. What do you know?

I welcome your thoughts. Until my next post.

Be love. Be loved.

Anthony (tpal70@gmail.com)

“Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?” (Job 38:4)

SHAPERS OF LIGHT

WE ARE THE SHAPERS OF LIGHT by which the world of form is created and shaped by the spirit our words convey. To discern the spirit, one need only behold the shape of things in this mind-made world. All of it is shaped to render comfort and pleasure to the human creators. Only the natural world shaped by Mother Earth raises praise and pleasure to the Creator clothed by Father Sun. Lyrics of Hugh Malafry’s hymn and baritone solo, written for sacred music composed and sung by my friend PenDell Pittman, rise up to be shared once again:

“How shall we give Thee glory who art the Living God? Power, who art the very flame of love? Kingdom, when the universe of stars is but a cloak to Thee? Thou art all things. All things come from Thee; return again unto Thee; and abide always in Thee. We are Thy kingdom, power, Thy glory shining! We are Thy bone, Thy blood, Thy flesh singing praises unto Thee. To know Thee as Thou art, Almighty God and Living Word made flesh.”

THE PURPOSE FOR CROSSING OVER

In my previous post, “IT’S TIME TO CROSS OVER,” the purpose for crossing is not to escape this troubled world but to rise into position as divine Creator Beings to speak the creative Word that brings order and harmony out of chaos and confusion. In other words, we cross over to the place of creation above the crossover point that joins the heaven above with the earth below. Our crossing is not for self-enlightenment nor self-realization — that happens during the process of transformation below the crossover point — but for a specific and worthy purpose. There’s work to do here, individually and collectively: the work of setting the dominion of Heavenly Ordinances in the Body of Mankind and in the Earth by way of human consciousness seeded from above.

There’s a poignant line penned by mystic Jacob Boehme that’s relevant to this work: “For you must remember that earth unfolds its properties and powers in union with Heaven aloft above us, and there is one Being, one Will one God, all in all.”

GIVING VOICE TO HEAVEN’S ORDINANCES

 The Ordinances of Heaven are Divine decrees that, when given free reign and dominion in human affairs, bring about order and beauty out of chaos and ugliness. “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” we pray.  Paraphrasing, “Let the dominion of Thy ordinances be set in the earth as they appear in the heaven.”  In order to know the ordinances of Heaven, I must be in Heaven above the crossover point offering attunement with Love’s ordinances — with the true patterns of life for forms in the earth below the crossover point. 

These ordinances are specific to people and to situations whose dominion is our role as stewards to set in the earth of our human capacities and in the world we create. They are the true design and control patterns and factors, specific to the situation at hand with whom or with which I offer attunement through my thoughts, words and living . . . attunement with Love’s ordinances in the Heaven.  Most are simple, as the Prayer of St. Francis expresses:

PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

In dying to the old self-centered self we are born to our true and eternal divine Self. What a simple and beautiful prayer. Sowing the seeds of Love’s ordinances is my purpose as a creator being incarnate in this human capacity. It is our shared purpose as collective Body of incarnate Creator Beings: “one Being, one Will one God, all in all.”

ONE CONSCIOUSNESS, ONE MIND

We are living in the Day when the “sea” of human consciousness is being resurrected back into Divine Consciousness and disappearing:  “…and there was no more sea.” (Rev. 21)  This is the restoration, the correction of what is called “the Fall.”  Soon human consciousness will be no more and only Divine Consciousness will remain. 

Now, just as the sea of human consciousness is being absorbed into Divine Consciousness, so is the collective human Mind being restored to heaven, to oneness with Divine Mind.  The fracture created during the Fall is in process of being healed.  Complete oneness with God and Man restored is in process in our day!  This is great cause for rejoicing.  “But be ye glad and rejoice forever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.” (Isaiah 65:18)

GIVING VOICE TO SHAPE THE LIGHT OF LOVE

We co-create our world together making all things new, letting the light of Love shine and radiate without concern for results – but not without intention.  Jesus commanded to the ears of the deaf man “Ephphatha! Be opened!” And to the lame “Rise, take up thy bed, and walk!” To the infirm “Be thou made whole!” To the storm “Be calm!” And to Lazarus “Come forth!” We participate in creation and renewal with no concern for result and with assurance that our words will go forth to accomplish that to which they are sent.  We give voice to Love’s command: Let wonders form! Let heaven’s beauty shine!  Behold we create!  We are the appointed and designated shapers of Love’s Light.

VOICING OUR THOUGHTS AS AN ACT OF CREATION

The following article appeared in my mailbox today from DailyOm Inspiration. It is so relevant to this post that I just have to share it here. I can only imagine the nature and content of the conversation these two birds in the picture below are having!

WHEN WE COMMUNICATE PRECISELY, WE ARE VOICING OUR THOUGHTS AS AN ACT OF CREATION

Using Our Outside Voice Each of us has developed an internal filtering process that helps us choose which parts of our constant inner monologues get voiced outside of our heads. Sometimes the choice is based on what we consider to be polite or appropriate, using subtlety instead of directness to try to get our point across. Other times, the choice is made based on our expectations of the other person and what we feel they should know about us, our feelings, and our needs. But our best chance of getting what we need is to communicate specifically by converting our inner voice to our outside voice. This may seem unnecessary sometimes, especially when we think the other person has the same information that we ourselves are working with, but we have to remember they also have their own inner voice, evaluating what they hear in light of their own issues and needs. With so much to consider and sift through, we are truly better off if we communicate precisely. Not only does doing this minimize the chance for misinterpretation, but voicing our thoughts is an act of creation. We convert thought and imagination to sound, releasing it from the chamber of our minds into the outside world. This carries energy and intention with it, allowing our thoughts, wishes, and even dreams to come true. When we have the courage to speak our minds and use our voice to send the desires of our hearts from our inner world to the world outside, we take a bold step in making them happen. By removing fear of what others may think and expectation of what others should understand, we free ourselves and let loose our desires onto the canvas of the world. Next time we become aware that we have a choice about how to communicate, we can choose to use our outside voice and watch its creative power at work.

DOMINION OF THE SEVEN ORDINANCES OF LOVE

There are seven ordinances of Love whose dominion are to be set in the earth of our body temples and in our world. They are the Seven Spirits before the throne of God spoken of by John the Divine in his Book of Revelation (4:5), where they are described as “lamps of fire.” Lloyd A. Meeker (Uranda), Beloved Founder of the Attunement healing service I offer along with many other practitioners worldwide, assigned these seven spirits and their vibrational qualities to the sacred energy centers focused by the seven endocrine glands in the body temple. These qualities or gifts, counting from the gonads below on up to the pineal gland in the cranium, are: Patience, Tranquility, Realization, Assurance, Radiance, Wisdom and Love. I composed a poem entitled “The Seven Spirits of God” many years ago, which I included in my book SACRED ANATOMY ~ Temple of the Living God.*

The Seven Spirits of God

I am the Spirit of Love
I draw my world together as a playing field for my creativity
I and my world are one
I seed and father the life of my world.
I am the Spirit of the Womb
I provide containment and wisdom for the Spirit of Love
I am open to the Father to receive,
conceive, nurture and give birth to the seeds of Love
I mother the life of my world.
I am the Spirit of Life
I bring radiance to my world
I am born anew in each moment
For I am birthless, deathless and eternally the same
I am the life of my world.
I am the Spirit of Purification
I protect the life and this temple from harm
I bring heaven and earth together as one
I give assurance to my world that all is well.
I am the Spirit of Blessing
I uplift the elements of my world through my Creative Process
so they might become part of my body
I provide realization for my world.
I am the Spirit of the Single Eye
I bring power to my body, focus to my mind,
precision to my movement, tranquility to my world.
I am the Spirit of the New Earth
I welcome the substance by which I create all things new
in patience and right expectancy
I am the spirit of love.

~~~

SHAPING THE LIGHT OF LOVE

Where there is impatience let me shape the light of love as patience. Where there is war let me shape love’s light as peace and tranquility. Where there is cursing and condemnation let me shape the light of love as blessing. Where there is defilement let me shape the light of love as a purifying fire that brings assurance of Love’s Presence. Where there are shadows and darkness let me shape my light as abundant radiant life. Where there is deceit and lying, let me shape my light as wisdom and truth. And where there is hate and war let me shape my light as love and peace. The word “let” is the shaping verb when offering Love’s command: “Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.” So let it be.

Until my next post . . .

Be love. Be loved

Anthony

tpal70@gmail.com

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“It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness”

IT’S TIME TO CROSS OVER. The veil of the impure heart, now being purified in the fire of love, has been rent in twain, allowing us to cross over to the other side and stand in our ordained place, the Holy Place of Heaven, as the Teacher instructed us to do when things begin to fall apart, as they are doing today: “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place….” I recommend that one read and think deeply upon the words of Jesus as Matthew recorded and wrote them down in the twenty-fourth chapter of his gospel. It’s very current and quite sobering.

What I really want to share with you in this post is a story I just recently enjoyed — and which gave rise to the theme and message of this post. The story itself is skillfully if intentionally injected into its author’s most engaging novel, BLUE SHAMAN ~ The Stone of Sovereignty, written and published back in 2008 by friend and rogue scholar Hugh Malafry. It’s the first book of a trilogy and series on the theme of the search for the alchemist’s “Stone of Sovereignty,” a means by which base metal may be turned into gold — a metaphor the author masterfully employs to deliver his subtle if subliminal message: restoring fallen humanity to the golden state of divine identity and oneness with a God of Love — which he more than implies is none other than the very “Holy Grail” sought by the fabled Knights of the Round Table, as well as men and women to this day. This is my third reading.

I’ll just cut to the excerpt and the story — not the whole story of course, which you’ll thoroughly enjoy yourself when you read his first book of the series, a final volume of which I am assured is being written even as I blog. The story is set in the 13th century AD when the Cathars — men, women and children — were being rounded up and burned alive as heretics by the Catholic Church in what historically came to be known as “The Inquisition” in Southern France, along with the Waldensian persecution in Northern Italy.

The setting is a castle fortress under siege atop a steep hill in the “once bright land of Languidoc, a wasteland in the shadow of death” in Occitania where the priestess and “mountain mother . . . Esclarmonde, who was the light of the world,” and “Anwyn of the In-World” were taking final refuge awaiting their own execution in the fires of the bishop of Carcassonne, Dominican prelate “Albertus Magnus.” His armies “held those of the Comte de Toulouse at bay in a final siege of the mountain sanctuary of Montsegur.” The sovereign character and champion in the story is Hugues Comte de Caron, whose inner and real identity is revealed as you read the story. With that context setup, on to the story!

LOST HALLOWS

Caron crossed the siege lines unchallenged. Rings of fires flared, and soldiers huddled together in their encampments, from the raw March wind gusting across the wastelands. The castle was secured, and terms of capitulation were given. The mountain fell off into an abyss, and there was no escape. What remained were the cold, the shame, and mortal fear of God’s retribution for the slaughter of innocence.

Caron was expected. The great gate opened with a squeal of frozen iron, and he stood for a moment looking into the dark passage before him. It seemed a different castle, made for a different time, than the one he had come to before. Then it was full of life; this was desolate. A torch was lit in the courtyard, and illumined a gnarled oak door. He could go no further, so he knocked and stood patiently waiting for it to open. It did not, and he had not come to stand out in the cold: Someone must open the door, but no one came, and it troubled him.

“Be still.”

It was a woman’s voice. He looked about himself. Nothing. Then he looked back to the great gate, and again there was nothing but a ring of glowing campfires, their sparks whirling up in the heavy gusting wind.

“He shall not enter with you.” “Who shall not enter?” he asked. “The one who hides in your shadow.”

Caron looked back at his shadow in the torchlight. It seemed unlikely he would go anywhere without it, for it was firmly attached to his feet.

“Who are you?” he asked. “Anwyn of the In-World.”

Her voice was like bright water. He looked about the silent court, shadowed in the moonlight. It was difficult to believe he stood on the threshold of another world. The past was a mystery to him, and he had always wondered how he came to be who he was. Slowly the thoughts formed, gathering to an intuition, and she seemed to feel it in him. “Do you now remember us” she asked.

“Where are you?”

“Hidden within.”

Sounds of the battlefield receded. Voices of the soldiers in the distance faded, driven off by the gusting wind sweeping the high plateau. His cares went with them; he found himself drawn into a silence, filled with peace within the eye of the storm.

A little door, about half the height of a man, set seamlessly within the greater, opened for him. He stooped, eased through on his knees, and found himself knelt in a small, unlit courtyard, facing a stone wall. The court was empty, but for the youth who immediately secured and bolted the door behind him. The boy pointed silently. Caron looked to his right where a spiral of seven stairs rose from the courtyard and disappeared in a tower. The youth was gone before Caron could question or rise from his knees, and he was alone within the silence of the keep.

There was nowhere else to go, so Caron cautiously climbed the spiral stairs, counting twenty-four steps in all, before it ended at another closed door with no latch or bar upon it. Instead, carved in hard oak and inlaid with silver, there was the curious design of an endless knot, a weave of intersecting paths, having no beginning or ending, but a pattern that traced and repeated itself. He pressed on the door but it would not open, so he waited as he had done before, but this time no boy came to his aid.

“Anwyn, guide me to the In-world.” He waited for her reply, but none came. He began to feel foolish standing before another closed door. To go forward he must find the way in himself. His attention returned to the silver knot. He studied then touched and traced his finger along it. Dread fear like dark waters rose upon him. He struggled, as if he breathed water, and would drown. He drew back in panic, but settled his breathing, and gathered his senses.

When he came to himself he heard a murmur of voices beyond the door, like the sound of a distant fall of water, and it filled him with longing. He pressed the door with both hands, and still it would not yield. He stood at the top of the stair feeling frustrated, resisting the urge to bang upon it.

He had not come here by chance; he had right and a purpose: it was his time, his place, and his ignorance surely could be forgiven him. Mastering his fear, Caron again touched the endless knot. This time his fingers tingled, and as he did not resist there was no shock; rather his body filled with pleasant warmth at the contact. And Anwyn was back.

“You must let go your shadow.” Her words fell like rain on dry dust. “To cross over, you must see yourself on the other side.”

Again he traced the pattern with his finger tips, and felt the weave of the knot melt to his touch. He let go and found the door not so solid as he had supposed. A light shone from beyond it, filtering through the edges. The seams of the oak frame rent with fissures through which the light shone. Caron began to see something beyond. He tried to focus his eyes on it, but the harder he tried the more solid the door became, and the shining beyond faded. What was within would not be taken. It was not by will that he saw beyond the door, but by inner light that brightened the eye, and made transparent what appeared opaque.

Caron let go his grip on what seemed so real and impassable, the stone wall and the oaken door that stood in his way, and began at once to see differently. The heavy oak door was less substantial; first a thing of rough-hewn timbers and iron plates, then cracks and fissures through which the light streamed, then little more than tatters and a threadbare shroud through which the light shone. Beyond was a man who shone like the sun, enveloped in glory like clouds streaming with sunlight.

Caron could not face the one in the light. He looked away, as one catches a glimpse of but cannot look into the sun. He could not enter in; he could not turn back. Of himself he could do nothing: he was dust and ashes. The other dwelled in light; he dwelled in the shadow of death. The other stood in fiery beauty, he upon a cold wind-swept waste of mountains, looking from without in. He was hung between two worlds. All that he sought was in here in this moment, but for a divide he could not cross. “Who am I,” he asked. “The one who hides in the shadow or the one who dwells in the light?” His voice faltered as he asked it for his state was wretched.

A great wind swept the plateau. The bishop’s fire blew up in a shower of sparks setting the tents aflame, singing the shaman’s hands. He dropped his staff and recoiled from the conflagration, his connection with Caron broken. The shaman picked up his scorched staff, stood a careful distance off, and whispered into the fire. “He is the one,” the shaman said. “They are much mistaken in him. He is the one.”

Within Montsegur, Caron heard a keen of wind across the high plateau of dark mountains, and in it the voice of the emptiness of the world. “If world and will is all there is then I am dust and ashes,” he said.

He had come to the door at the end of time, and he had seen himself on the other side. He was not all dust and ashes. “I am that one,” he said. “I am the light of the world.” He let go into the light and the light took him. The illusion of separation passed. He crossed over, and there was one man. All the worlds were in him, and he in all the worlds.

I hope you enjoyed the story and could see your own transformation journey culminating at the threshold between the outer and inner worlds, which in reality are one: a true duality of Heaven and Earth — One Whole Holy World, which is in you and you in it. I am, you are, the light of the world. I do not hide my light under a cloud of safety and isolation. Rather I shine my light where all can see it and be enlightened. What about you? Are you afraid to shine your light? Afraid of judgment and criticism . . . from your own human ego? “Who do you think your are? You’re a nobody!” What a lie! On the other side of the veil You are the Light of the world. See your Self on the other side. Cross over the threshold and be Who you really are: the Light of the World — where there are no shadows but only light, the Light of your own Creator Being, who you ARE: the Light of Love.

HEALING YOUR HEARTBREAK

I’ll leave you with a brief inspiration from my friend and fellow blogger, Will Wilkinson.

“It’s a choice to be vulnerable, just as it’s a choice to . . . find our heartbreak…then figure out what to do about it.” (Click on Will’s name above to share his timely message.)

Until my next post,

Be Love. Be loved

Anthony ~ tpal70@gmail.com

THE WORLD IS IN A STATE OF CACOPHONY, plagued by the clamor of a “noisome pestilence,” as the psalmist sings, then invites you into the secret place in the pure heart: “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in Him shall I trust. Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. (Psalm 91:3)

The snare of the fowler refers to the coarse net of the human mind that snares and holds onto wayward and negative “birdbrain” thoughts and theories. The noisome pestilence refers to the ongoing pandemic crises that fill the media airways with life threatening fear mongering narratives designed to promote vaccines and sustain the flow of revenues into Big Pharma’s coffers and the pockets of the investors in human misery—and destabilize the social and economic climates of the masses. Nothing motivates people quite like fear.

Robert Reich pretty well sums up the moral crisis of our times:

“The moral crisis of our age has nothing to do with gay marriage or abortion: it’s insider trading, obscene CEO pay, wage theft from ordinary workers, Wall Street’s continued gambling addiction, corporate payoffs to friendly politicians, and the billionaire takeover of our democracy.”

Today we have a new noisome pestilence in the conviction of a former US President on thirty-four counts of criminal activity. The National News media are having a hay day with this one as advertising agencies flock to primetime to sell their wares. It is a noisome world we’ve created.

PLACE OF DISCONNECT

But enough of my ranting on the human world condition. There is a place of disconnect from the madding crowd and of blissful peace in your Heart of hearts. The heart entertains the finer essences of spirit. Take comfort in your Soul. Nothing dismisses fear in a troubled heart quite like love and a appreciation.

THE HEART AND DOMINION

As I initiated my previous post, the creation and publishing of a Fourth Edition of SACRED ANATOMY has left me in a pensive space with renewed curiosity in the magic of the body’s internal communication system and alchemical processes. I am finding much food for thought and meditation in Joseph Chilton Pearce’s enlightening book THE BIOLOGY OF TRANSCENDENCE ~ A Blueprint of the Human Spirit. I will bring this series to a place of rest with these words of summation of his insight into “The Brain in the Heart,” excerpted from his closing commentary in “The Heart and Dominion.”

YOUR HEART’S HOLOGRAPHIC EM FIELD

1. The heart’s electromagnetic field is holographic and draws selectively on the frequencies of the world, our solar system, and whatever is beyond.
2. Through glial action, our neural system selectively draws the materials needed for world-structuring from the electromagnetic fields as coordinated by and through the heart.
3. Our emotional-cognitive brain makes moment-by-moment qualitative evaluations of our experience of the resulting world structure, some of which we initiate in our high cortical areas and others of which form automatically and instinctually in the old mammalian brain.
4. Our emotional-cognitive brain has direct unmediated neural connections with the heart. Through these neural connections the positive and negative signals of our response to our present moment are sent to the heart moment by moment.
5. The heart’s neural system has no structures for perceiving or analyzing the context, nature, details, or logic of our emotional reports. Thus the heart can’t judge the validity of or the reason for these reports and responds to them as basic facts. The heart responds on all levels: electromagnetically, through the unmediated neural connections to the limbic brain, and through neural connections to a myriad of body functions. Additional responses include hormonal shifts between the heart and the body and the heart and the brain, and perhaps shifts on sound and thermal levels as suggested by Schwartz and Russek.
6. When the heart makes such an adaptive shift, suspending its stable norm, our perception changes accordingly. The world we experience in a state of fear, rage, dire emergency, competition, or struggle is quite different from that which we experience in a state of harmony and love.
7. During an initial negative response, our brain shifts from the slower reflective intellect of the frontal lobes and neocortex to the quickly reflexive reptilian brain and its links with the emotional-cognitive brain’s survival memories and maneuvers. This shift from forebrain to hindbrain is not voluntary or within our awareness — it just happens and always appears logical, practical, common sense.
8. The dialogue between our heart and brain is an interactive dynamic where each pole of our experience, heart and brain, gives rise to and shapes the other to an indeterminable extent. No cause-effect relationship can be implied in such an organic, stochastic, and infinitely contingent process. This mirroring is another vital example of the creator-created dynamic.
9. In response to a negative signal, the frequency realm of the heart drops from coherent to incoherent. This is a survival maneuver that opens the heart spectrum to an indefinite or variable state. In this fluid situation our body, brain, and heart can respond in new ways to an emergency, if the old survival responses initiated by our lower brain systems are insufficient. (See figure 8 below)

(Figure 8. In periods of frustration, fear, or ager, the em spectrum is incoherent. In times when love or appreciation is experienced, it is coherent. Courtesy of HeartMath Institute.)

EVOLUTION AND DEVOLUTION AGAIN

In most instances of survival issues the Interpreter Mode in our forebrain aligns with and locks in on these concerns to form a nearly unbreakable tape loop between the forebrain and hindbrain. This shifts all attention and energy to the hindbrain and its survival mode. The forebrain’s creative intellect then serves these survival needs while the heart continues to receive variations of the same negative report repeated ad nauseam by the forebrain-hindbrain loop. This response can continue long after the original negative event, so that we live in a closed circuit of resentment and offenses against our neighbor or world, a self-fulfilling and self-perpetuating negative loop.

Again, the heart has no neural structures by which to judge the illusory or delusory nature of the reports the brain sends it. Whether the report comes from the hindbrain and its ancient sensory-motor and survival systems or from the forebrain’s creative imagination, all the heart can do is respond accordingly.

As mentioned in the summary above, in a negative state our energy shifts from the forebrain to the hindbrain and, reinforced by the heart’s automatic response to negativity, our thinking, judgments, and perceptions are altered in the interest of defense. In our archaic, defensive mode of mind we have limited our access to our intellectual capacities except as selectively used on behalf of our defenses or revenge strategies. We then use the same selective process to intellectually justify our reflective action: Defensiveness is always rationally cloaked as common sense, while revenge is always cloaked as justice. [Netinyaho’s “Holy War.” of revenge against Hamas?]

The ancient defenses are comfortably familiar; they are locked into our very body and memory, patterns of reaction that are make up the commonly shared cultural world in which we participate. Defensiveness is supported by powerful and ancient field energies that are part of our consensus reality itself. In a negative belligerent state of mind I have crowd comfort, herd support. This is why it is so hard to recognize and alter our defensiveness in those instances where it hurts instead of helps.

Nature’s economical habit of building new evolutionary structures on the foundations of older ones has led to our current magnificent potential and terrifying dilemma. Our potential can’t be utilized and our dilemma can’t be resolved by either intellect or moral and ethical effort alone (if at all). But we have within us this other link, the three-way connection among our emotional-cognitive brain, our prefrontal lobes, and our heart. Here in this connection lies our hope and transcendence — if we can break away from the madding crowd. Through understanding and using our heart’s intelligence along with our brain’s intellect we can resolve our dilemma. Whatever language or rationale it might take, our task is to discover — or rediscover — these two potentials, align them, and come into transcendent dominion over our life [and our worlds].

ATTUNEMENT WITH LOVE

Another word for align is attune. Attunement with the tonal frequency of Love in the heart and attunement with the tonal frequency of Truth in the mind aligns these two capacities for the generation and birth of life. Love and Truth are the Godparents of Life. The Father of Love needs the Mother of Truth in order to give birth to Life. The power of love alone is not sufficient. There’s plenty of love in the world. What the world needs now is the integrity and freedom clear and unadulterated Truth affords.

I would like to close with some poignant yet simple words spoken by my spiritual mentor, the late Lord Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter (1909-1988). This is the last service he gave one month before his passing in January of 1988. This service was given on December 13, 1987, and is entitled “Radiant Light The Transforming Power.”

There is just one way, and that is the way of light. And when light is allowed to shine in the realm where the prince of darkness has held sway heretofore, there is what might be described as war. I am sure all of you have had some experience in this regard. I am not talking about this superficial war that constantly goes on in the advertising world, or in the world of politics, or in the world of religion, or in any of the human worlds—I am not talking about that. But when the light begins to shine because you let it shine, all sorts of dark things erupt—there is war in this way. But darkness has no power over light. Why is it that so easily there is a fearful attitude toward the darkness? “It’s going to prevail. Oh dear me! It’s going to overwhelm me. This darkness is building up all around!” What about letting the light shine, then where did the darkness go? It is the constant radiation of the light that dispels the darkness. It’s rather magical, isn’t it? Even in a room like this, if you put out all the lights it’s dark. Darkness appears to have triumphed. But put on the lights, where did it go? It wasn’t anything in the first place.

Let your light so shine. We are reaching a point where we begin to understand what that means: no more fear of the darkness. Many children are afraid of the dark. We have all been children. The easiest way to dispel that fear is to turn on the light. Let your light so shine. I am the light of the world, of my world in particular. If my light shines in my world it’s not dark anymore to me. It may be dark to the creatures of darkness round about, but to me, no. This shining of the light comes, as we know, individually speaking. One must let it happen, for oneself. But there begins to be a collective shining of the light in consequence. And the darkness is in the process of being dispelled. Keep the light coming.

“Keep the light coming.” Simple words expressing the simple truth. Until my next post,

keep your light shining.

Anthony

tpal70@gmail.com

DOMINION AND OUR TRIUNE HEART

SINCE ENGAGING WITH FRIENDS in the publication of the Fourth Edition of SACRED ANATOMY ~ Temple of the Living God, my thoughts have gathered around the biology that facilitates heart-brain intelligence — inspired and guided by Joseph Chilton Pearce’s scholarly book THE BIOLOGY OF TRANSCEDENCE ~ A Blueprint of the Human Spirit.

This centering in heart-brain dynamic arises out of a keen interest in the mechanism by which David Bohm’s implicate and explicate orders interface and interact with one another, the one giving form, birth and function to the other — in biblical terms, how the ordinances of Heaven are set in the Earth. The sayings “the heart knows best” and “go with your heart” are not only true but have a biological basis in our physiology. There’s a hormonal aspect to it as well. This excerpt from Pearce’s book speaks to this vibrational mechanism in some detail.

Consider, then, these three established ways by which the heart regulates and influences brain-body systems. (Sound waves may prove a fourth influence, as Schwartz and Russek suggest.) First and most spectacular of these three — and most unrecognized yet — is the electromagnetic activity we’ve already discussed. Heart radiation [love] saturates every cell, DNA molecule, glia, and so on, and helps determine their function and destiny. From this viewpoint the heart seems a frequency generator, creating the fields of information our of which we build our experience of ourselves and the world.

Of course, as we know, our hearts do not regulate or generate anything on their own. As sovereign beings we use our hearts to regulate the activities of our mind-body continuum and our entire temple and creative fields. As radiant beings, we send currents of love energy into our hearts which then resonate and amplify those energetic frequencies and broadcast them. Our human capacities do not rightly act on their own but rather serve as resonating chambers through which we regulate the intensity and volume of our creative expression.

It is the self-generated human activity that shuts out spirit and excludes the contribution of the heart’s intelligence, and consequently that of divine being, which empowers our very humanity.

Having said that, I find it fascinating and enlightening to read this author’s presentation of the intricate details of biological activity that helps facilitate the generative activities involved in creating our world and our experience in it.

Second, our neural-laden heart has a myriad of neural connections with the body and direct, unmediated neural connection with the emotional structure of the brain (from which comes the new and popular subject of “emotional intelligence,” our brain’s translation of that nonverbal, gestalt type of knowing: heart intelligence). These neural connections allow an ongoing dynamic interchange to take place between the brain and the heart quite beneath our awareness. Heart intelligence is not anything of which we are aware, though we surely are aware of the results of these neural interactions. I am reminded of James Carse’s wonderful essay “The Silence of God” and Gurumayi’s comment that “the language of the heart is silence.”

The third level of influence of the heart on the brain is hormonal, which led to the observation of “The Heart as an Endocrine Gland.” This was the title from the cover story of Scientific America concerning the French Physicians Roget et al., who discovered that the atrial area of the heart produces a hormone, labeled ANF, which can modulate and influence the functions of the emotional-cognitive system.

We do well to remember that in utero the heart, as vehicle for the frequencies of our potential world experience, forms first; the brain, as a vehicle of our awareness of those frequency translations, forms second. The heart is intimately connected to every facet of the body and the brain through its own neural extensions. As a result, the intelligence of the heart, not the intellect of the brain, has to contend with those signals from the pancreas, liver, spleen, and so on, to maintain order in the ranks. This leaves me, up here in my head, free to dream of dancing nymphs; or to growl about the foolish ideas of preachers, lawyers, politicians, or books by any authors.

A large segment of the earth’s electromagnetic spectrum is its radio band, and this may be true of the heart as well. The heart, earth and sun furnish us the fundamental materials of our reality-making. The heart’s em field, like that of the earth, shields us against inappropriate frequencies as best it can, and selects from the larger hologram in which are nested those frequency groupings appropriate to our growth, development, and ongoing life. In this way what is broad, generic, and universal is expressed on an intimate, personal level, making each of us, even “the least of these our brothers,” equal expressions of the totality. Thus, if we have the vision, we will see all things as “holy” or whole, as William Blake did, or “see God in each other” as Muktananda did, or find God in the “least of our brothers,” as Jesus did. Anything that is holographic is just that, a graph of the whole — and each of us is that.

Because of, or through, this holographic hierarchy of em fields, our heart and brain frequencies can entrain [synchronize] to modulate earth’s frequencies to an unknown extent because what we perceive as earth frequencies are translated through our reptilian hindbrain and its sensory-motor system, and the higher can transform the nature of the lower. This accounts for the concrete operational thinking that opens for development around our seventh year. According to Piaget, in concrete operational thinking thought can “operate” on matter, or sensory signals, and change it according to the intent of the thought. This offers us a dominion over our world that we have not yet accepted or exercised, but which our great model demonstrated for us. (emphasis added)

Power is relative to the creative process. A minute shift in frequency in our brain can result in a serious shift in our experience of the world out there. At some point on this spectrum, our experience and the world we experience are reciprocal. The dynamic of creator and created is a play of power and strength we participate in by default and a play we might try to become more aware of so that we can be more conscious of what we are doing.

As I have elucidated in previous posts, the true and literal meaning of “dominion” is lordship, its Latin root “dominus” meaning lord, which indicates the presence of a sovereign offering the governance of Love. This is the opposite of “domination” which exercises power and control based not in lordship and sovereignty but in egoistic imposition of human will over others in one’s world — the current male-dominated governing practice of self-centered human beings — and humanity as a collective body. The excerpt above touches into the very core of our relationship with our environment, and especially with the Natural world — which is not there for our pleasure and sustenance alone but is very much our ordained responsibility to care for and multiply with fruitful abundance. “Be fruitful and multiply” were our Creator’s words of blessing as He/She sent Man, male and female, forth into the Garden of Eden, according to the Book of Genesis.

AI AND TRANSHUMANISM

The interview with Gregg Braden was very thought provoking. Just thirty minutes into it I had to pause and take in the implications of what he was laying out as the choices we are facing today in the rapid movement toward “Artificial Intelligence” and what is being called “Transhumanism.” It all sounds wonderful and productive — or scary when you consider the tradeoffs implied but not talked about among technocrats nor mentioned in some kind of caveat.

Braden speaks of the tradeoffs: “Are we willing to give over our humanity to technology before we have realized what it is to be fully human?” . . . in exchange for fast-speed computer chip processing of information to give us instant answers and gratification? That’s what it would amount to, and in my book it’s not worth it.

Humanity is being given an existential choice between transcendence and transhumanism — remembering that everything that we program computers to do, or that they can do on their own, we have the power to do, and do it even better — and with pleasure and a sense of satisfaction, something AI doesn’t afford us, nor transhumans can experience.

MAN CONTINUES TO FALL

So why on God’s green earth would we give up our capacity for emotional enjoyment of life’s many pleasures, our feelings of empathy and compassion for one another, our intuition, our spiritual quest for transcendence? Artificial Intelligence, leading to transhumanism, would do exactly that. Bringing forward a statement I made two posts ago reflecting on a sentence from Pearce’s book:

“Intellect, however, can function independently and can take over the circuitry and block our heart’s more subtle signals” — not a very intelligent thing to allow one’s cerebral intellect [or the technocrats] to do. Therein lies the cause, I do believe, of man’s problems — as well as the likely cause of man’s “Fall” from grace and loss of Paradise.

Some years ago — when the computer was making its debut into the world of information processing — exercising my divining vision, or foresight, to peer into the future, I predicted that the legendary “Fall” of man would continue beyond his tumble down into the animal kingdom and proceed downward into the mineral kingdom where he would meet a brick wall made of silica, having fallen a far down into the earth as was possible. Not insignificant, his ongoing fall beyond death into sheer oblivion is being escorted by his intellect. By relegating our intelligence to a silicon chip, we may be relinquishing our capacity to think critically for ourselves and question everything coming down the pipeline of the news media, for one thing — and where we begin to rationalize such things as war, for example.

I don’t know how many noticed a comment made a few days ago on PBS World News about arms dealers supplying ammo to both sides of the war over Ukraine. Who are these arms dealers if not merchants of the Military Industrial Complex President Eisenhower warned the world against eighty years ago at the end of the Second World War. Wake up Americans! Listen critically to what you’re being told by corporate-owned news media.

Gregg Braden couches the theme of his interview in the context of a war waging between good and evil, between light and dark forces, over our humanity. Why our humanity? Because, as he points out, our humanity, equipped with a heart, is the only means by which we have access to the powerful forces of our divinity within us and return to God, to the Light of Love, the mortal enemy of the fear-mongering warlords.

OUR DIVINITY

There’s a passage in The First Book of Adam and Eve (from The Forgotten Books of Eden, edited by Rutherford H. Platt, Jr.) which I would like to bring into this consideration. It has to do with our divinity, our “bright nature.”  

      Then God the Lord said unto Adam, “When thou wast under subjection to Me, thou hadst a bright nature within thee, and for that reason couldst thou see things afar off.  But after thy transgressions, thy bright nature was withdrawn from thee; and it was not left to thee to see things afar off, but only near at hand; after the ability of the flesh; for it is brutish. . . .”

Our “human divinity,” as Braden calls it in the interview — more accurately our ability to “see” afar into the future — is an attribute of our “bright nature” — that aspect of Divine Being, or God, which we are as angels incarnate. In peering up the road ahead, we can see with our spiritual eye the wonderful possibilities prepared for us and poised to descend from God out of Heaven into the Earth. With our “brutish” human eyes, we can only imagine and predict the future based on our past track record and present experience — from which we don’t seem to learn anything, but continue in our insane ways.

While I see where we’re headed as a human species based on our past record and current behavior, the bazar creatures these technocrats are busy concocting with their AI and transhumanism — robotic humans to replace self-willed and spirit-empowered Human Beings — will never come to pass. There are too many awake and aware human beings, conscious angels present and shining light into the darkness exposing the dark forces that would destroy God’s creation and enslave human beings to do their bidding. It simply will never happen on a global scale.

There are a billion more angels incarnate on this small planet than were originally designated. They’ve come here from other star systems to lend a vibrational hand in the transformation of Humanity. There’s a lot of light shining in the world today. The darkness cannot comprehend the light, but the light-workers and the whole world can see the dark forces. They are being exposed and will try to hide. But they cannot hide from the light of love and truth.

I believe what I see with my Single Eye: a New Earth being born out of the New Heaven already prepared for us on the banquet table of Divine Consciousness. Look up and go up. Look down, but only with your eyes, not with your heart. Keep your heart looking upward. With your spiritual Eye keep looking up to see and receive what is coming from out of the East into this Garden planted Eastward in Eden, and looking down only to see where it wants to land and to help co-steward its manifestation with others. I believe this is why we incarnated at this historic time. Until my next post,

Be love. Be loved.

Anthony

tpal70@gmail.com

CREDITS: Graphic art up top is by Rose Meeker.

“Whenever the higher incorporates the lower into its service, the nature of the lower is transformed into that of the higher.” —Meister Eckhart.

THE MORE I DELVE INTO HEART-BRAIN BIOLOGY, the more I just have to stand back and revel in amazement at the miracle of life happening in our physical bodies. My heart overflows with appreciation and love for such writers as Joseph Chilton Pearce who have the insight into the minute details of our biology and physiology and the desire and willingness to take the time to write a book and share their explorations and insights. They must be as awestruck as I am in the presence of such awesome precision, beauty and harmony.

In this excerpt from Pearce’s book, THE BIOLOGY OF TRANSCENDENCE ~ A Blueprint of the Human Spirit, we touch into the interface and intercommunication between the lower and higher electromagnetic fields — what Cynthia Bourgeault calls the “Exchange between the Realms” in her beautiful book EYE OF THE HEART” (Parenthetically, it’s appropriate that I’m writing about the heart while having a cardio event called “atrial fibrillation.”) Without further words from me, here’s the excerpt. Enjoy the thinking with your heart.

THE GLIAL CELLS:  SMART GLUE  

Although glial cells make up 80 percent of the mass of our brain, very little is yet known about them. (Most brain research thus far has centered on the more accessible neural system.) The word glia comes from the Latin word meaning “glue,” which is what these tiny cells were long considered to be, the glue that held the neurons in place. Eighty percent, however, seems an expensive outlay for a glue that plays no other role. We have since discovered that the glia provide many important services.

Glia are electromagnetically sensitive and form an interactive em [electromagnetic] field in the brain over and above the electrochemical fields of neurons, with some ten or more glia clustered around each neuron. There is a strong probability that these em-sensitive glia selectively draw from the hierarchy of em fields surrounding us and translate these em frequencies into electrochemical signals available to those neurons, thereby furnishing the information from which our neural system builds our world experience.

Gap junctions between glia and neurons provide for a flow of signal producing calcium ions, and such calcium exchange takes place among the glial cells as well. Glia, then, may both draw selectively on the hierarchy of torus fields and feed back into those fields our neural response — yet another reciprocal dynamic.

Now, extensive selectivity must be made from em fields for any particular life to form and develop. In human embryonic and fetal development, formation of a rudimentary heart comes first, followed next by formation of the brain and, finally, of the body.

I must pause here to reflect for a moment on the triune Spirit of God that moves through the Creative Process to bring forth a human being: Love~Truth~Life creates the Heart~Mind~Body continuum of a Human Being in that order. How wonderful is that! The heart is created first, the Spirit of Love’s dwelling place in the Body Temple. Next the mind emerges from the embryonic form to give the Spirit of Truth the means for providing its wisdom of design and control for the developing fetus. This opens a clear and orderly path for the Spirit of Life to inspire the fetus with its Breath, having everything above in place for coherent and meaningful function of the angel about to incarnate from out of the Realms of Light into the dark, wet mass of protoplasm. I write poetically about our incarnation and commission in SACRED ANATOMY~ Temple of the Loving God. *

“We each also have commissions written in our little books of life, a mission and purpose for incarnating on this planet, which we also accepted gladly, though perhaps not without some trepidation. It is no small undertaking coming from the Realms of Light, down into a world of artificial lights, filled with loud noises, hard edges and strange bodily functions, with one foot in Heaven and the other stepping onto Earth. We created our human capacities, however, to handle it all victoriously and with grace and stature. We need only learn how to use them wisely and creatively.”

Of course, that is what SACRED ANATOMY is all about: learning to use our human capacities with an understanding of their design as a temple of the Living God.

Continuing with Joseph Chilton Pearce’s excerpt:

Long before it becomes our four-chambered heart, our rudimentary heart furnishes the electromagnetic field that surrounds the embryo from its beginning. This em field is, in turn, surrounded by the mother’s more powerful heart field, which in infant’s first months of life, stabilizes the infant’s heart field as his [/her] heart imprints the mother’s. This in another example of nature’s model imperative.

Collectively, the glial cells are another player in our translation of information from a frequency realm into our concrete experience, a process that takes place through every cell in the body — including the hundred billion neurons in our brain, their counterparts in our heart, and the glial cells themselves that accompany these neurons. From all these dynamic interactions feeding into one another in resonant patterning, somehow the final perceptual action takes place that gives us our world.

I am drawn back to another insightful book, “BIOCENTRISM” by Dr. Robert Lanza, who explores the quantum world where creation is suspended in a preform wave matrix awaiting observation by a living being in order to drop down into the concrete world of particle formations. I share his research and develop it in the added section of my book. Here’s just a preview of what I consider pivotal and germane to an understanding of our role in the Creative Process:

“The word biocentric simply means life-centered, which characterizes the creative design and purpose of the Universe in all its vast and multifaceted structure and content, both animate and inanimate.  In simple terms, the Universe is created by invisible Life to express itself through visible, material form.  In quantum terms, the Universe is created by Light as a dynamic mechanism for moving creating energy out of invisible, intangible wave-form and into visible, tangible particle-form. Where we come into this dynamic equation is as a means in the lower mansions of the Father’s House for bearing the Light of Truth and bringing it to bear at the threshold of creativity where the invisible, intangible and inaudible become visible, tangible and audible.  In a word, we ground Consciousness for the Creator in the Heaven to create on earth, thereby setting the ordinances of Heaven in the earth — which was created as a womb for beauty to be born.  I can’t think of a more wonderful purpose for incarnating!“

I see an overlapping here of the insight of the two authors, the one who sees a probability of em-sensitive glia cells selectively drawing “from the hierarchy of em fields surrounding us and translate these em frequencies into electrochemical signals available to those neurons, thereby furnishing the information from which our neural system builds our world experience” and the other seeing wave in the higher quantum field of Boehm’s “implicate order” become particle in the lower “explicate order” simply by being observed. There is transcendent magic taking place at the very edge of the frontier of creation moment by moment in the eternal now — and that’s where we belong and have our being as co-creators of our world.

Before signing off on this post, I would like to give you some “homework” (no exam will follow) for your spare listening and learning times. The video linked below will take you to an interview of New Your Times best seller and geologist Dr. Gregg Braden by Andre Duqum, during which Gregg will speak to the issue of Artificial Intelligence in a most insightful manner and optimistic tone. I will preface the link with this brief excerpt which I transcribed from the interview.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Vs INNATE INTELLIGENCE

THE SPIRITUAL BATTLE FOR OUR HUMANITY: Transhumanism, DNA, AI & Our Forgotten Past

The computer chip will always be limited in its function by the physics of the stuff it’s made of.  The atoms, for example, of the silica it is made of –the space between these atoms – only allows information to travel just so fast between them, and once that limit is reached it can’t be scaled. That is the limit of the computer chip.

When we look at the human neuron and ask what its upper limit is, the answer if “We don’t know,”—and here is the beautiful reason – because every time we think we’ve reached its capacity to hold and transmit information, it adapts, it morphs, it shifts and changes to accommodate the greater capacity we are asking of it to perform. We can’t know what the top end is because every time we reach it we exceed it. That’s part of our humanness.

The human body has about 50T cells.  Every cell has an electrical capacity of .07V.  You say that’s not very much.  But when you multiply .07V by 50T cells, that about 3B volts of electrical potential.

Every cell functions as a transmitter, a resistor, and a capacitor.  It stores and releases information and is a photon generator. We’re sending out light and light with information into the fields around us, and we are receiving light from the sun and from other individuals; we are photon receivers.

There’s a technology out there called “Blockchain” technology that is the foundation of Bitcoin and digital finance.  The idea came from the way our DNA stores information in the cells.  The information in Block-chain technology is immutable. It can’t be changed or deleted. It’s there forever. It’s transparent. Anybody can read it. It can’t be hacked into either. And that’s why Block-chain is so powerful in digital currency. It’s the way our DNA stores information. All the technology we have around us mimics what we already have going on in our bodies – except we do it better.  —Gregg Braden

A New Age has come and we are on a path forward to the creation of the New Earth. I will comment on this interview in my next post and I am keenly interested in your comments — which you can send to me by email. I’ll leave you to ponder these things and to return next week to explore how the heart exercises dominion over brain-body systems in a Unified Field of “fields within fields.” Until then,

Let love radiate through your heart without concern for results.

Anthony

tpal70@gmail.com

*This is an exciting weekend for me as I welcome the arrival of the FOURTH EDITION of SACRED ANATOMY ~ Temple of the Living God, just hot off the press. It will make its official debut on Monday, May 6th. You can order your copy directly from the publisher at http://www.wisepublications.biz. It will also be with Amazon Books shortly.

HALF OR MORE OF THE CELLS OF THE HEART, it is estimated, are neural cells like those comprising our brain. According to some reports, the percentage may be as high as sixty to sixty-five percent. Just like in the brain, these neural cells cluster in ganglia — small neural groupings connected through axon-dendrites like those forming the neural fields of the brain, where neurotransmitters perform the same function as those in the brain.

I found this chapter in Joseph Chilton Pearce’s fascinating book “The Biology of Transcendence ~ A Blueprint of the Human Spirit” most interesting and enlightening, as the following excerpt from his book demonstrates. The heart-brain appears to penetrate the entire body through its network of neural ganglia.

Through long axons, the spinal cord, and the peripheral nervous system, one aggregate of the heart’s neural ganglia connects to the myriad smaller neural ganglia found scattered throughout the body’s tissue, muscle spindles, organs, and so on . . . .

. . . Other aggregates of the heart’s neural structures have unmediated neural connections with the emotional-cognitive, or limbic, brain, “unmediated” meaning here that no ganglia interrupt or interpret the communication between the heart and emotional-cognitive brain in the way that they do between the heart and the other bodily organs and muscles. An ongoing dialogue takes place between the heart and brain through these direct neural connections.

THE HEART IS BOTH UNIVERSAL AND INDIVIDUAL

Years ago my meditation teacher in India, Gurumayi, pointed out that there is essentially only one heart, a universal function expressing through each of us in infinitely varied yet similar ways. This one heart is the universal in our life, and our life is that heart’s diverse expression. Perhaps this is one reason that heart transplants are feasible to a certain degree. While critical neural connections are lost in the transplanting process and can’t be retrieved, other traits may be picked up that we haven’t bargained for, such as some personal idiosyncrasies of the donor. Any heart may take on the color or characteristics of the unique individual in which it functions. Thus, following a transplant, heart transplant recipients occasionally begin to express new characteristics similar to those of the deceased donor. (Lest we get too carried away by this observation, consider that the same phenomenon occurs occasionally in transplant of other organs, such as kidney. Our new biology points out the continuity and coherence throughout all the spectrums of energy in a being—each part contains, at some level, all the information of the whole.)

The heart takes on the subtle individual colors of a person without losing its essential universality, however. It seems to mediate between our individual self and a universal process while being representative of that universal process. The dynamic between the universal in the heart and the specific variant in the head is, of course, the recurring theme of this book. Meister Eckhart made the audacious claim that when “God becomes Eckhart, Eckhart becomes God.” The Sufi Ibn Arabi claimed that God takes on the coloration of each of the infinitely unfolding personalities and is simultaneously each, without any change to God-as-God. Thus, Ibn Arabi pointed out, each name is a name for God, each object is a “face” of God. My meditation teacher Muktananda’s favorite phrase was “God dwells within you as you.” His teacher, Nityananda, spoke of “God dwelling in the cave of the heart,” and urged us to “go there and roam with him.” These quaint sayings are taking on a new light of biological support and may have to be considered a bit more seriously.

This speaks to the Genesis account of the creation of man where God said “Let us make man in our image and after our likeness” (emphasis added). However, the creation of man was not a one-time event but continues in the creation of man in the womb to this day. As divine creator beings, we each form our bodies in our own image and after our own likeness to accomplish our individual mission and purpose for incarnating — an insightful view, which is for me an updating of my understanding of this aspect of our co-creative roles. I touch upon this in the new section of SACRED ANATOMY, now being published in its FOURTH EDITION and soon to be released.

I do enjoy how this author frames the capacity of heart where true understanding takes place. Also how the feelings and attitudes held in the heart affect our physiology and behavior. For example the negative impact that fear has on the human immune system — which is actually comprised of an alliance of organs, glands and tissues, the heart having connection with every part of our anatomy and physiology. By the same token, love and gratitude have a positive and empowering affect on the entire body. This emphasizes the simple way by which the Spirit of God is able to “roam” throughout the body temple via this heart substance.

Once again recall Eckhart’s observation that there is no being except through a mode of being. For the universal torus of potential energy-consciousness to be actualized or made real, there must be a mode of and means for such actualization. For us, the heart is the primary mode of being and all else in our life springs from it. The end result is a heart that generates species-specific characteristics that we all share, yet reflects the personal characteristics of each brain and its experiences to make for a unique expression of shared form. The interaction of these two aspects—the universal and the individual, unity and diversity, creator and created—results in a human being that is the same as all others but different too, and a world that may be as different as that of the Australian Aborigine and technological man.

The kind of world we experience is determined largely by the feedback we receive from energy fields and how that information is perceived and interpreted within our heart-brain network. Here’s how the author lays out the process.

A step-by-step explanation of the biology of this process of creation of individual-yet-universal man might look something like this:

1. Our brain, with its ganglia extensions throughout the body, is, figuratively speaking, an instrument of the heart.
2. Our brain, in turn, is an instrument or representative of the universal function of life itself.
3. Our brain and body are manifestations of that universal heart’s diversity, or individual expression. Brain and body are fashioned to translate from the heart’s frequency field the information for building our unique, individual world experience. The brain and body then respond to the resulting perceptual experience and determine or interpret its quality. This qualitative analysis, or emotion, is relayed back to the heart, moment by moment. This influences the heart’s own neural field, which responds to the emotional report and relays it to the field of its origin, subsequently changing those fields, if only on a minuscule level.
4. In response to the brain’s reports, the heart also changes its own neural and hormonal signals to the body and the brain, and to the production of that em field of information itself. The changed neural, hormonal and em action then influences the kind of world we experience.

We live in an environment of feedback or “mirroring” in which creator and created give rise to each other both within us and outside of us.

THE DIALOGUE  BETWEEN BRAIN AND HEART 

Over many years of research under grants from the National Institutes of Health, John Beatrice Lacey traced the neurological connections between the brain and the heart. Their discovery of these connections and the ongoing heart-brain dialogue was largely ignored by academic science. Today the new field of neurocardiology has verified and validated the Laceys’ work, which means that in time acceptance will follow.

The heart certainly has an intelligence, though this calls for a new def­inition of the word to differentiate it from cerebral intellect.  The heart’s intelligence is not verbal or linear or digital, as is the intellect in our head, but rather is a holistic capability that responds in the interest of well-being and continuity, sending to the brain’s emotional system an intuitive prompt for appropriate behavior. Intellect, however, can function independently and can take over the circuitry and block our heart’s more subtle signals.

To better understand the brain in our heart and the concept of an intelligence or wisdom of the heart, we need to understand a bit about the nature of glial cells, which accompany neurons and are as important to the brain as they are to the heart.  

LIFE OR DEATH? IT’S OUR CHOICE

This sentence opened a portal to a deeper understanding of human function: “Intellect, however, can function independently and can take over the circuitry and block our heart’s more subtle signals” — not a very intelligent thing for one to allow one’s cerebral intellect to do. Therein lies the cause, I do believe, of man’s problems — as well as the likely cause of man’s “Fall” from grace and loss of Paradise.

The Heart is the Garden of Eden where the seeds that bring forth Paradise are sown, nurtured, germinate and grow to manifest Life’s many colorful forms and fragrances. When the human ego steals and commandeers the intellect and takes over the circuitry of life, baring the heart from offering its more subtle and wise signals, it isolates itself, the individual and the collective Body, from Source by shutting down the current of the Spirit of God through the circuitry, the flow of the River of Life itself. The Spirit of God, Love, dwells in our hearts, in the One Heart of Mankind. Death, as promised by the LORD God, is the ultimate price men pay for functioning solely out of human intelligence with no regard for the wisdom and intelligence provided by the Heart. Man dies individually and will die collectively if he stays the course in his current isolated behavior.

The human intellect, by playing God, falls out of the current of Spirit that brings forth life, in the end evaporating into thin air, with all its “knowledge of good and evil,” when the body that gives it its very existence dies of starvation from the fruits of the Tree of Life. The fruits of the Tree of Life are: patience — tranquility and mental focus — the power to realize and manifest creation — the ability to see God through a purified heart — radiant expression and experience of the Spirit of Life — design and control inherent in the wisdom of the Spirit of Truth — and oneness with the All in the Spirit of Love. The Tree of Life that produces these gift of Spirit is available only through the heart. Shut off the “subtle signals” of the heart and you shut down the spiritual energy inherent in the circuitry of life.

The choice of life and death is ours and ours alone. God did not drive man out of Paradise. Man turned his heart and face away from the Creator and found himself out on his own in Eden-turned-wilderness from a lack of the care its appointed keeper has failed to provide. Man needs only to turn his collective face back to face the Creator — repent, make an about face, and see that truly Paradise is at hand and awaits our co-creation and loving care as One Heart, One Mind, One Way. The Way of Love.

I will continue in this series to consider the nature of glial cells. So, stay tuned. Until my next post,

Be love. Be loved.

Anthony (tpal70@gmail.com)

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