Toltec Wisdom : The Voice of Knowledge - Common Sense And Blind Faith

 

An abstract from "A Toltec Wisdom Book - The Voice of Knowledge" by Don Miguel Ruiz. Here's a chapter on "Common Sense and Blind Faith" which seems even more relevant in these interesting times we are in.

 

" Before we learn to speak, our true nature is to love and be happy, to explore and enjoy life. As little children, we are completely authentic. Our actions aare guided by instinct and emotions; we listen to the silent voice of our integrity. Once we learn language, the people around us hook our attention and programme us with knowledge. But that knowledge is contaiminated with lies.

With our attention focused on all the knowledge in our head, we no longer perceive the world through the eyes of love; we only perceive what we have learned to believe. The voice of knowledge comes alive inside our head, and what is that voice telling is? Mostly lies. That voice never stops talking, judging, gossiping, and abusing us. It constantly sabotages our happiness and keeps us from enjoying a reality of truth and love." ~ don Miguel Ruiz

                                     Common Sense And Blind Faith 

                                                Recovering our faith and free will 

 

When I started teaching this Philosophy, one of my challenges was to share the wisdom of my tradition without the superstition. I wanted to take away all of the superstition, all of the things about evil and witchcraft from the Toltec tradition. Who cares about all the lies? I wanted to take away the nonsense, and only keep the common sense.

If we take away the superstition and mythology from the traditions around the world, the result is pure common sense. When it comes to common sense, there is no difference between the Toltec tradition, the Egyptian tradition, the Christian tradition, the Buddhist tradition, the Islamic tradition,or any other tradition, because all of these philosophies come from the same place. They come directly from human integrity.

The difference is in the story. Each philosophy has tried to explain with symbols something that is so difficult to say with words. The masters witnessed the truth and created a story, depending on what they believed. The story became mythology, and the people who were not masters created all of the superstition and lies. That is why I don't believe in following gurus or idolizing heroes. We are our own gurus, our own heroes. What I am sharing with you is the way I live my life, but I'm not telling you how to life your life. It's not my business;  it's your business. But seeing the way that I dream can give you an idea of what you can do with your dream.

As you read this book, perhaps you will feel as if you are reading something you already know: your own common sense. In one moment, you can return to your common sense, to your own integrity, You can have clarity again, and see what others cannot see. You can live with awareness and recover a wonderful power that humans gave up long ago : faith.

Faith is a force that comes from our integrity. It is the expression of what we really are. Faith is the power of our creation because we use faith to create our life story and to transform our life story. Different traditions have called this power by different names. The Toltec call it intent, but I prefer to call it faith.

Let's see if we can understand why our faith is so important. When we talk about faith or intent, we are also talking about the power of the word. The word is pure magic. It is a power that comes directly from God, and faith is the force that directs this power. We can say that everything in our virtual reality is created with the word because we use the word for the creation of our story. Humans have the most wonderful imagination. Beginning with the word, we form a language. With a language, we try to make sense out of everything we experience.

First we agree about the sound and meaning of each word. Then just by remembering the sound of the words, we can communicate with other dreamers about our virtual reality. We give names to everything we perceive; we choose words as symbols, and these symbols have the power to reproduce a dream in our head. For example, just hearing the word horse can reproduce an entire image in our mind. That's how a symbol works. But it can even be more powerful than that. Just by saying two words, "The Godfather", a whole movie can appear in our mind. The word, as a symbol, has the magic and power of creation because it can reproduce an image, a concept, or an entire situation in our imagination.

It is amazing what the word can do. The word creates images of objects  in our mind. The word creates complex concepts. The word evokes feelings. The word creates every belief that we store in our mind. The structure of our language shapes how we perceive our entire virtual reality.

Faith is so important because it is the force that gives life to every word, to every concept that we store in our mind. We can say that life manifests through faith, and that faith is a messenger of life. Life goes through our faith, and then our faith gives life to everything we agree to believe in. Remember, we invest our faith by making an agreement. When we agree with a concept, we accept that concept without any doubt, and the concept becomes a part of us. If we don't agree with a concept, our faith is not there, and we don't keep it in our memory. Every concept is alive just because our faith is there, just because we believe in the concept. Faith is the force that holds all of these symbols together amd gives sense and direction to the entire dream.

If you can imagine that every belief, every concept, every opinion is like a brick, then our faith is the mortar that holds the bricks together. The way we start getting these bricks and putting them together is by using our attention. Humans can perceive millions of things simultaneously, but with our attention we have the power to discriminate and focus only on what we want to perceive. The attention is also the part of our mind that we use to transfer information from person to person. By hooking someone's attention, we create a channel of communication, and through that channel we can send and receive information. This is how we teach, and this is how we learn.

As I have said, our parents hook our attention and teach us the meaning of words; we agree, and we learn a language. Through language, the word, we start to build the edifice of knowledge. Together, all of our beliefs form a structure that tells us what we believe we are. The Toltec call this shape that our mind takes the human form. The human form is not the form of our physical body. The human form is the structure of our personal Tree of Knowledge. It is everything we believe about being a human; it is the structure of our whole story. This structure is alsmost as solid as our physical body because our faith makes it rigid.

You call yourself a human, and that is what makes you a human. Your faith is invested in your story --- mostly in the main character of your story --- and that is the main problem! The most powerful part of you, your faith, is invested in the liar who lives in your head. Through your faith, you give life to all of those lies. The result is the way you live your life in the present moment because you have faith in the main character of your story. This means that you believe in what you believe you are without any doubt. The rest is just action-reaction. Every habit is a setup for you to perform the role of your main character.

The storyteller has power over you because you have faith in the story that it tells you. Once you support the story with your faith, it doesn't matter whether the story is the truth or not the truth. You believe it; you are done. Thy will be done. That is why Jesus said that if you have just a little faith you can move mountains. Humans are powerful because we have strong faith; we have the capacity to believe strongly, but where is our faith invested? Why do we feel that we have hardly any faith? I can tell you that it's not true that we have so little faith. Our faith is strong and powerful, but our faith is not free. Our faith is invested in all of the knowledge in our head. It is trapped in the structure of our Tree of Knowledge.

The structure is what really controls the dream of our life because our faith lives in that structure. Our faith is not in the voice of our story, and it's not in our reasoning mind. Just because we say, " I will succeed", doesn't mean that our faith follows those words. No, there may be another belief that is stronger and deeper, and that belief is telling us, "You will not succeed". And that is what happens. It doesn'y matter what we do; we fail.

That is why you cannot change yourself just by wishing to change. No, you need to really challenge what you believe you are, especially the beliefs that limit the expression of your life. You need to challenge every belief that you use to judge yourself to reject yourself, to make yourself little.

I remember one of my apprentices asking me "Miguel, why is it so difficult to change my beliefs?" And I told him, "Well, you understand the concept that what you believe you are is not the truth; it's a story. You understand that very well, but you don't believe it. And that is what makes the difference. If you really believe it, if your faith is there, then you change."

So yes, it is possible to change what we believe, to recreate the dream of our life, but first we need to free our faith. And there is only one way to free our faith, and that way is through the truth. The truth is our sword, and it's the only weapon we have against the lies. Nothing but the truth can free the faith that is trapped in the structure of our lies. But with our faith invested in the lies, we no longer see the truth. The lies blind our faith, the power of our creation.

Blind faith is a powerful concept. When our faith is blind, we no longer follow the truth. That is what happened when we ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. We believe the lies, our faith was blinded, and we followed an illusion that was not true. God told us, "You may die". And our faith in lies is death because we lose our power of creation, which is our connection with life or God. We fall into the illusion that we are separate from life, and this leads to self-destruction and death.

If your faith is blind, it is leading you to nowhere. That is why Jesus said if the blind lead the blind, both fall. Now you know why other people's stories do not really help you; it is just like the blind leading the blind. If you have blind faith and you teach blind faith, both fall. If you believe that life is against you, and you teach that life is against you, both are blind because you don't see the truth. Now both believe the lie!

Real faith, or free faith, is what you are feeling in this moment. This moment is real; you have faith in life, faith in yourself, faith for no reason. This is the power of your creation in the moment. From that point of power, you can create whatever you want to create in any direction.

Blind faith is faith without awareness, but when your faith has awareness, that's a different story. When your faith has awareness, you never use the power of your faith against yourself, which means you are impeccable with your word. When you are impeccable with your word, your entire life improves in every direction.Why?

Because the impeccability of your word goes directly to the main character of your story, where most of your faith is invested. To be impeccable with your word means that you never use the word against yourself in the creation of your story. I will talk more about this in the next chapter.

The way to change what you believe about yourself is to take your faith out of the lies.This is the key to changing your story, this is your dream quest, and nobody can do it but you. It's just you and your story.  You have to face your own story, and what you will face, of course, is the main character of your story.

Begin by looking at the main character as if it is somebody else, not you. Your whole life story is like a book about you. Detach from the story and become aware of your own creation. Review the story of your life without any judgement so you won't have any emotional reaction. See you own story since you were a child --- all of the growth you have experienced, all of your relationships. Simply take an inventory and perceive the images if you can do that. Imagine that all you have are your lungs to breathe, your eyes to see the beauty, your ears to hear the sounds of nature. It's all about love. Face your life story with your love, and you will experience the most incredible dream quest.

The dream quest is what Buddha did under the bodhi tree, what Jesus did in the desert, and what Moses did on the mountain. All world religions say the same thing because they come from humans who have opened their spiritual eyes and whose faith is no longer blind. But how can they explain the truth to anyone else? Can you imagine Jesus trying to explain the truth two thousand years ago? He talked about truth, forgiveness, and love. He told everybody, "You have to forgive one another. Love is the only way." He gave us the solution for healing the mind, but who was ready back then? Well, the question is : Are we ready now? Do we still want to believe our own lies, for our fanaticism, for our dogmas?

Blind faith, as I said before, is leading us to be fanatics, to impose what we believe onto other people without respecting what they believe. We don't need to impose what we believe. We can respect what each of us believe and know that each of us is dreaming our own dream that has nothing to do with anyone else. Just by having this awareness, we are taking a big step towards healing the mind.

The challenge is to recover the power of your faith and no longer be blinded by lies. But if you want to face the tyrant that you have created, you need to have faith. And the problem is that the faith you have invested in your creation is a thousand times stronger than the faith you have left. So where are you going to find the faith to face your own creation if your creation is eating every ounce of your faith?

Well, if you cannot find faith within you, from what you believe you are, there is a lot of faith outside of you, everywhere. The point is to learn how to gather all of the faith that you need to free yourself from the structure of your lies. That is why humans perform rituals: to gather more faith. When you go to any church and you pray or chant or sing or play the drums or dance, you are gathering power and faith from these rituals. This is really powerful. When you focus your attention on your ritual, this opens a channel to your faith. Your faith follows the ritual, and with your attention hooked into the channel, it is possible to recover your faith.

Ritual can help us to gather faith from nature, and to build faith with one another as a human community. When people gather together, when they love, they experience tremendous faith. This is what you are doing every time you go to church, and time you pray. When you pray and perform rituals, you gather faith that is not really your own faith, but it is faith that you can use to recover your own faith. And if you believe 100 percent in what you want to accomplish with a prayer or ritual, you multiply your intent.

When you pray, you commune with the divine spirit. Prayer creates a bridge that goes from the real you into the divine spirit, pushing aside the main character of your story. This is the key, because the main character of your story is the only thing between you and the divine spirit. Prayer and ritual help to stop the judgements and all the voices talking in your head that tell you why something isn't possible. Both prayer and ritual offer an intense action to stop the voice of knowledge from abusing the emotional body.

All the religions with all their different rituals are wonderful because they provide a way for you to gather the power to break at least some of the self-limiting agreements you have made. Every time you break an agreement, the faith invested in that agreement comes back to you, and you recover a little more of your faith. That is what this book is about. My intent is for you to recover at least part of the faith that you invested in the main character of your story. But if you gather all the faith and you don't use it to change the main character of your story, soon all of the faith you have gathered is consumed by the main character. 

That is why you need to reclaim your life from the superstition of what you believe you are. There is only one way to do this, and that is to stop believing the storyteller, the voice of knowledge in your head. When you restore your faith in the truth, and you take it out of the lies, the result is that you become authentic. Your emotional body becomes the way it was when you were a child, and you return to your own common sense. I cannot say that I invented this or that I've discovered something new. As an artist, I only rearrange what already exists. Everything I'm sharing with you has been in this world for thousands of years, not only in Mexico, but in Egypt, India, Greece, Rome. Common sense exists in all of us, but we cannot see it with our attention focused on the lies we believe.

Lies make everything complicated, when the truth is very simple. I think now is the time to return to the truth, to common sense, to simplicity of life itself. Now we know that the lies are so powerful that they blind us. Well, the truth is so powerful that when we finally return to the truth, our entire reality changes. Truth brings us back to paradise, where we experience a strong communion of love with God, with life, with all of creation.

When you release your faith from all the lies, the result is that you free your will. And when your will is free, you can finally make a choice. The voice in your head gives you the illusion that you can make a choice, that you have free will. Well do you really believe that it's your conscious choice to hurt yourself, to make yourself suffer, to reject and abuse yourself? How can you say that you have free will when you choose to hurt the people you love, when you judge your partner and your children, and make them miserable with your judgement?

Just imagine if you really have free will, which is the power to make your own choices. Do you really choose to sabotage your own happiness or your own love? Do you choose to judge yourself, to blame yourself, to live your life in shame and in guilt? Do you choose to believe that you are bad, that you are not beautiful, that you don't deserve to be happy or healthy or prosperous because you are not worth it? Do you choose to constantly fight with the people you love most? If you have free will, you choose the opposite. I think it is obvious that our will is not free.

When you put your faith in truth instead of in lies, your choices change. When your will is free, your choices come from your integrity, not from the programme, that liar in your head. Now you believe whatever you want to believe, and when you have the power to believe whatever you want something very interesting happens. What you want is to love. You don't want anything else but love because you know that what is not love is not the truth!

When your will is free, you choose happiness and love, peace and harmony. You choose to play; you choose to enjoy life. You no longer choose drama. If in the present moment you are choosing drama, it's because you have no choice; it's a habit. It's because you were programmed to be that way, and you don't even know that you have the power to make a different choice. Something else in your head is making that choice, and it's the voice of the liar. Just like that man in the movie A Beautiful Mind, whose visions made the choices for him, your voice is making the choices for you.

Why would we consciously decide to have a fight with our parents or our children or our beloved? It's not that we want to fight. You know, when we are children and we gather with other children, it's because we want to play; we want to have fun and enjoy life. When we grow up and decide to get into a relationship --- mainly a romantic relationship --- is it because we want to create emotional pain and drama? No, common sense tells us that we want to play together, we want to have fun exploring life together. But the Prince of Lies who controls the voice of knowledge represses our common sense.

Common sense is wisdom, and wisdom is different from knowledge. You are wise when you no longer act against yourself. You are wise when you live in harmony with yourself, with your own kind, with all of creation.

Right now you have a choice. What are you going to do with this information? What happens if you don't believe in lies? Take a moment to put your attention on your feelings, to feel all of the possibilities for your life if your faith is no longer blind. If  you recover your faith from lies, your suffering is over, your judgements are over. You no longer live with guilt, with shame, with anger, with jealousy. You no longer have the need to be good enough for anybody, including yourself. You accept what you are, whatever you are, even if you don't know what you are. And you don't care to know anymore. It's not important to know, and that is wisdom.

Just imagine that because you don't believe in lies, your whole life changes. You live your life without trying to control everybody around you, and your integrity doesn't allow anybody to control you. You no longer judge other people or need to complain about whatever they do because you know you can't control what people do. Just imagine you choose to forgive whoever hurt you in your life because you no longer want to carry all of that emotional poison in your heart. And just by forgiving everybody, even yourself, you heal your mind, you heal your heart, and you no longer have emotional pain.

Just imagine that you recover the power to make your own choices because you no longer believe the storyteller. You enjoy your life with plenitude, with inner peace, with love. Imagine how you treat your partner, how you treat your children, what you teach the new generation, if you no longer believe in lies. Just imagine the change in the whole of humanity out of something so simple : not believing in lies. 

Source : A Toltec Wisdom Book - The Voice of Knowledge by Don Miguel Ruiz.

Chapter 8, Common Sense and Blind Faith. Pg 119 -140.

  

Ophiuchus' Notes :

Recently, while I was reading this chapter, the message totally resonates and I thought, maybe I should share it here in my blog... Then, even before I could finished the book, a particularly major incident of criminal breach of trust, happened with leaders of a mega-church in my country. Much chaos and exhibition of judgement and outpouring emotions from all sectors of the society with views for and against the "event" were playing out. Interestingly, for me it seems an instant reflection of the difference between common sense and faith blind in action...as if, just to confirm, what it is....And So Be It....  

The Mysterious Black - Out Of Sirius

The Mysterious Black-Out of Sirius

Patricia Cori 

 

What is going on with the censorship of visual data from google map and sky map, referencing the stars Sirius A and Sirius B?

Sirius A and B. Photo credit : NASA/SAO/CXC

Despite the denial of the scientific community, which seeks to convince us that this obvious alteration of the two (actually three) stars in question is merely a glitch in the global telescope networks, commencing with the Palomar Observatory, the truth is there for us to see. They want us to believe it has to do with a ‘light leak’ on one of the plates on one of the original photographic plates. Right?
 Something about Sirius bothers the powers that be. But what is it? While all manner of conspiracy theories are surfacing about this strange phenomenon – what I hear from the source, The Sirian High Council, is this:
  

“Quite simply, the space-time continuum that you understand as the fabric of the physical universe is filled with many vexing anomalies – such as what you understand in the terms: wormholes, stargates and multi-dimensional portals.
 Sirius is all of these. With its triune system of stars (Sirius A, B and C) resonating in three different dimensions, this is a complexity that is altering time space itself. Anything and everything is possible at these immense vortices in the cosmic tapestry which includes, as well you imagine, the coming and going of ships (physical and etheric or holographic), layers upon layers of conscious forms and entities, all manner of invisible frequencies and waves, and most significant to all – there lies a lens on the enormous community of life and light beyond your current perceptions.

Photonic emissions from this parallel reality are flooding through this field, altering the essence of the time space continuum, the perception of physical space, too, and serving as a filter for the consciousness of all beings in this region of the galactic family to which you belong.

This is beginning to be evidenced in your own solar field. Craft are mysteriously appearing to pass right through or over the sun and yet your scientists insist that it is a physical impossibility – and that anything attempting to even remotely approach the sun would be pulverized instantly. This is an illusion. You now have the digital images to prove it. The whole physical universe is an illusion. Nothing at all is what appears to be and everything is possible in the Cosmos of Soul. You merely need to contemplate the concept of the delay of light reaching your vision in light years to realize that what you see as stars in the system may not even still be there, so long it is that their light must traverse space before it reaches you.

Those who believe they own this ‘futuristic’ knowledge do not want you to understand what lies beyond these lights. They are there to invite you to reach beyond the finite world and guide you home, as they have done from before you even recorded your own historical legend. The “structure” of the physical universe is completely unstructured, perennially mutating, shifting, moving – spinning. Those who manipulate you have conquered those limitations. They are deep into space now, despite their theatrics of antiquated space travel, still shown to you at ‘lift off’ events to confuse and deny you the truth of their penetration of other realms. They have been walking through the time construct for decades, backwards and forwards; they have been on other worlds – interacting, even COMMANDING-for the same. They have remote-viewed other universes, traveling to the future time and committing the grievous error of pulling that ‘future’ into the unprepared reality of your present existence. It is a wonder to the community of conscious beings that this has been managed for so long on your planet and still you have been mesmerized by the lies.

At the great multi-dimensional gateway of Sirius, the greatest ‘highway’ of your galaxy, there is an unfathomable amount of exchange and transit. Behind that ‘star’, positioned as the keyhole through which one can observe and travel into other realities, the commerce of countless civilizations, some peaceful and co-operative, others not so intended, are visible and undeniable. Your own future selves, as you perceive them, may very well be looking in from the other side of that “door!” Every imaginable and unimaginable astral being can pass through and manifest form – from the light beings of many higher dimensions, to the collective dark ooze that seeps through the gears of mechanical “un-consciousness.” From this, much of your tormenting hyper-technology is leached into Earth reality.

Keep your eyes on the sky. You will see the shifting of the stars, your sun, the planetary beings that share your space and know that the symphony of your sun’s transmutation into higher vibratory essence is harmonious and fully orchestrated – playing in the tempo of Divine Creation. Nothing can blind you to that but your own doubt, your fear for the future and your conviction that the dark forces might actually manage to obliterate the light. That is not the outcome... In the story of Gaia unfolding, the light prevails. So it seen from the world we know...so shall it be.

—We are the Sirian High Council."

  Copyright © Patricia Cori 2012

Ophiuchus' Note : 

The above message was recently received by Patricia Cori and has been reproduced here with the permission of the author. If you would like to know more about the Sirian High Council or Patricia Cori, you may visit them at : www.sirianrevelations.net

Objetos extraños cerca del Sol - 2012

Coincidently, I happened to watch these videos just a few days before I got to read the message above ~ therefore it drawn upon me the importance of this synchonicity...for those of you who may be interested, you may like to take a closer look at what's happening in the sky and around us lately...

Time Out Live: Time Travel Researcher Dr. David Lewis Anderson 28 July 2010

Meanwhile, as always, may we ask that you, the reader, use discernment over what feels right for YOU, yet allow others their own opinions and truths. Thank you. <3 :)
                 

MAYAN ELDERS SHARE THEIR WISDOM ABOUT 2012

Mayan Elders Share Their Wisdom About 2012

By : Carlos Barrios, Mayan Elder, Ceremonial Priest and Spiritual Guide

"Find Your Heart, And You Will Find Your Way." ~ Elders

For me, this clears much of what is going around and I wanted to share it with you. This is indeed a special time in which we are here on Mother Earth. Love and Light...

Carlos Barrios, Mayan Elder and Ajq'ij (is a ceremonial priest and spiritual guide) of the Eagle Clan.
Carlos initiated an investigation into the different Mayan calendars circulating. He along with his brother Gerardo studied with many teachers and interviewed nearly 600 traditional Mayan elders to widen their scope of knowledge.

Carlos found out quickly there were several conflicting interpretations of Mayan hieroglyphs, petro glyphs, Sacred Books of "Chilam Balam" and various ancient text. Carlos found some strong words for those who may have contributed to the confusion :

Carlos Barrios : "Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. It's just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed."

"We are no longer in the World of the Fourth Sun, but we are not yet in the World of the Fifth Sun. This is the time in-between, the time of transition. As we pass through transition there is a colossal, global convergence of environmental destruction, social chaos, war, and ongoing Earth Changes."

He continues : "Humanity will continue, but in a different way. Material structures will change. From this we will have the opportunity to be more human. We are living in the most important era of the Mayan calendars and prophecies. All the prophecies of the world, all the traditions are converging now. There is no time for games. The spiritual ideals of this era is action."

Carlos tells us : "The indigenous have the calendars and know how to accurately interpret it --- not others. The Mayan Calendars comprehension of time, seasons, and cycles has proven itself to be vast and sophisticated. The Maya understand 17 different calendars such as the Tzolk'in  or Cholq'ij, some of them charting time accurately over a span of more than ten million years.

"All was predicted by the mathematical cycles of the Mayan calendars.---It will change --- everything will change. Mayan Day-keepers view the Dec 21, 2012 date as a rebirth, the start of the World of the Fifth Sun. It will be the start of a new era resulting from and signified by the solar meridian crossing the galactic equator and the Earth aligning itself with the centre of the galaxy." 

At sunrise on December 21, 2012 for the first time in 26,000 years the Sun rises to conjunct the intersection of the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic. This cosmic cross is considered to be an embodiment of the Sacred Tree, The Tree of Life, a tree remembered in all the world's spiritual traditions.

Some observers say this alignment with the heart of the galaxy in 2012 will open a channel for cosmic energy  to flow through the Earth, cleansing it and all that dwells upon it, raising all to a higher level of vibration. Carlos reminds us : "This process has already begun. Change is accelerating now and it will continue to accelerate. If the people of the Earth can get to this 2012 date in good shape without having destroyed too much of the Earth, we will rise to a new, higher level. But to get there we must transform enormously powerful forces that seek to block the way."

The date specified in the calendar Winter Solstice in the year 2012 does not mark the end of the world.

Many outside people writing about the Mayan calendar sensationalise this date, but they do not know. The ones who know are the indigenous elders who are entrusted with keeping the tradition.

Carlos tells us: "The economy now is a fiction. The first five-year stretch of transition from August 1987 to August 1992 was the beginning of the destruction of the material world. We have progressed ten years deeper into the transition phase by now, and many of the so called sources of financial stability are in fact hollow. The banks are weak. This is a delicate moment for them. They could crash globally, if we don't pay attention. Now, people are paying attention."

The North and South Poles are both breaking up. The level of the water in the oceans is going to rise. But at the same time land in the ocean, especially near Cuba, is also going to rise.

Carlos tells a story about the most recent Mayan New Year ceremonies in Guatemala. He said that one respected Mam elder, who lives all year in a solitary mountain cave, journeyed to Chichicastenango to speak with the people at the ceremony. The elder delivered a simple, direct message. He called for human beings to come together in support of life and light.

"Right now each person and group is going his or her own way. The elder of the mountains said there is hope if the people of the light can come together and unite in some way. We live in a world of polarity --- day and night, man and woman, positive and negative. Light and darkness need each other. They are a balance."

"Just now the dark side is very strong, and very clear about what they want. They have their vision and their priorities clearly held, and also their hierarchy. They are working in many ways so that we will be unable to connect with the spiral Fifth World in 2012."



Carlos believes the dark side works to block unity through denial and materialism. It also works to destroy those who are working with the light to get the Earth to a higher level. They like the energy of the old, declining Fourth World, the materialism. They do not want it to change. They do not want unity. They want to stay at this level, and are afraid of the next level.


The dark power of the declining Fourth World cannot be destroyed or overpowered. It's too strong and clear for that, and that is the wrong strategy. The dark can only be transformed when confronted with simplicity and open-heartedness. This is what leads to unity, a key concept for the World of the Fifth Sun.


Carlos said the emerging era of the Fifth Sun will call attention to a much-overlooked element. Whereas the four traditional element of Earth, Air, Fire and Water have dominated various epochs in the past, there will be a fifth element to reckon with in the time of the Fifth Sun --- that element is "ETHER".


The dictionary defines Ether as a "hypothetical substance supposed to occupy all space, postulated to account for the propagation of electromagnetic radiation through space." Perhaps it could be defined as the "space between space". I would suggest it could be manifest as the alignment of charged particles from our social system (Sun), and our galaxy (Milky Way) surge. The Ether element represents spiritual energy.


"The element of the Fifth Sun is celestial. Within the context of Ether there can be a joining of polarities. No more darkness or light in the people, but an uplifted unity. But right now the realm of darkness is not interested in this. They are organised to block it. They seek to unbalance the Earth and its environment so we will be unready for the alignment in 2012."


"We need to work together for peace, and balance with the other side. We need to take care of the Earth that feeds and shelters us. We need to put our entire mind and heart into pursuing unity and unity now, to confront the other side and preserve life."


"We are disturbed --- we cannot play any more. Our planet can be renewed or ravaged. Now is the time to awaken and take action. Everyone who is here now has an important purpose. This is a hard but special time. We have the opportunity for growth, but we must be ready for this moment in history."


Carlos says: "The prophesied changes are going to happen, but our attitude and actions determine how harsh or mild they are. We need to act, to make changes, and to elect people to represent us who understand and who will take political action to respect the Earth."


"Meditation and spiritual practice are good, but also action. It's very important to be clear about who you are, and also about your relation to the Earth. Develop yourself according to your own tradition and the call of your heart. But remember to respect differences, and strive for unity. Eat wisely --- a lot of food is corrupt in either subtle or gross ways. Pay attention to what you are taking into your body.


Learn to preserve food, and to conserve energy. Learn some good breathing techniques, so you have mastery of your breath. Be clear. Follow a tradition with great roots. It is not important what tradition, your heart will tell you, but it must have great roots."


"We live in a world of energy. An important task at this time is to learn to sense or see the energy of everyone and everything --- people, plants, animals. This becomes increasingly important as we draw close to the World of the Fifth Sun, for it is associated with the element "Ether" --- the realm where energy lives and weaves.


Go to the sacred places of the Earth to pray for peace,and have respect for the Earth which gives us our food, clothing, and shelter. We need to reactivate the energy of these sacred places. That is our work."


"One simple but effective prayer technique is to light white or baby-blue coloured candles. Think of a moment in peace. Speak your intention to the flame and send the light of it on to the leaders who have the power to make war or peace."


Carlos reminds us this is a crucially important moment for humanity and for Earth. Each person is important. He said the elders have opened the doors so that other races can come to the Mayan world to receive the tradition. "The Maya have long appreciated and respected that there are other colours, other races, and other spiritual systems. They know that the destiny of the Mayan world is related to the destiny of the whole world."


"The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning :


"Find Your Heart, And You Will Find Your Way."

Source : Universal Mind, Issue 152, October 2011

Meanwhile, would like to share this beautiful video by Patricia Cori, author of  books such as "The Cosmos of Soul : A Wake-Up Call for Humanity", "Atlantis Rising", "No More Secrets, No More Lies : A Handbook to Starseeds Awakening" and many more...

        
Ophiuchus' Note ( 21 Dec 2011 ) :  Since I started my first entry in January 2009, I am very happy to be receiving the 1,000th visitor today. With people coming from 70 different countries around the world, I thank you all very much for visiting my blog.

Wisdom From Atlantis : The Use of Symbolism

The Use of Symbolism :


We find mortals who have taken up the advanced form of thought, (wondering and inquiring of every one whom they feel might give any enlightenment on the subject,) the meaning of symbols and asking : "Why did I have a dream that seemed to be so symbolical? Why is it that so many things come to me in waking hours that seem to be symbols of something, and I cannot find it, cannot grasp it?" We hear this question all about, and many try to find out the meaning of symbols, or that which they take to be symbols.

In our opinion, a symbol is a picture : You attempt to teach your small child a great lesson from its blocks, from pictures, from birds, trying to impress upon his mind the lesson that he can always seek, that he can always bring back to himself when he sees this particular picture; and so it is that some individuals do not seem to grasp the meaning of your own language, that which should be the medium of expression between you. Many individuals are unable, are incapable of reasoning, of concentrating, of knowing the meaning behind the words. Therefore, it is often necessary to give to them a picture that will impress upon their minds the lesson that lies behind it.


We find among you mortals a tendency to speak your English language, or whatever language comes easiest to you. You speak it fluently, you discuss your world topics, the topics of the day, you think you understand one another because you understand the words to a degree that another speaks. You say you can speak such and such a language or perhaps many, and yet we find so few of you who actually know the meaning of the words that you utter, the true meaning that lies behind the simple words, such as the word remembering. When we speak the word remembering to you, it has its full meaning. To many of you, it is going back over some particular incident in your lives, or trying to find out what you thought or did --- that to you would be remembering. But to us it is becoming a member again, re-membering. The word atonement, as you call it, or at-onement, becoming one again. You have always been one and yet in your minds you have separated yourselves until now you must come back and at-one yourselves with the great Universal Spirit, not in reality, but in your consciousness.


Many words that you speak you do not use in their true sense. You do not give them their full power. You use them lightly and that is why in the form of speaking slang as you term it, you use many utterances as the savage would use a grunt. It means something that everyone soon forms the idea of its general meaning, and perhaps the word itself does not mean that at all. You do not use your language to become understood among yourselves. Yet you do not speak a language that you understand between yourselves. We find therefore that it is necessary to give to some of you who have lived so lightly and tried to assimilate in a somewhat meager way with language, an understanding in pictures, in symbols, because we find that you will concentrate upon a picture and that you will do little about it if it is written in your own language.

We cannot hope to express the great understanding that would come to you if you could understand one another's thoughts.Your English Language is not adequate, it is not sufficient, it has not a range of words, and yet it is being used over your country as the preferred language. For that very reason it is almost like your shorthand, and yet very few of you understand, only those of you who have studied it can use it to advantage. So, your symbols.


Do not give so much importance to dream symbols because you receive them; try to receive a lesson from them but remember that they are as blocks to you, they are given to you to help you to understand, to help you to understand your consciousness, because you will work harder if you can hold in your mind a picture.Then as you see a certain number of words on paper, it means a soulless something to you, that unless you receive it with the spirit behind it is nothing and that is why many individuals will read again and again and receive a different meaning each time, because they did not concentrate in the first place, did not look behind it, search for its complete meaning. Therefore it took many readings, many months, perhaps years, to find the understanding, or even a partial understanding of that which has been written in plain English.


You should seek from within out, rather than from without in. Many feel that wisdom is like seeking a gold mine ; it is something to be sought in secret places, unusual places. It is difficult to find it is true, but it is not beyond, it is within the grasp of every individual who will open his own consciousness. It is around him, within him, about him. He need not go out to receive it, it is within. He need not seek in far away hidden places, it is close at hand. For that reason he does not seek, it is so close, and yet mortals will spend months, years, lifetimes, seeking that which is so unimportant, and not realising that they hold in the hollow of their hands the all-important truth. To learn to know yourself. If you know yourself, you will know all men, for while they are different outwardly, materially, individually, yet when you find in another something that rings true to you, you find it within yourself ; it is within you or you could not recognize it in another. Remember, you cannot transcend your ideals or your understanding, and it is only that which is familiar to you that you could hope to understand in another, that which is unfamiliar, you do not understand. It baffles you, you are lost, you cannot see why in another there is something that you have never experienced yourself, something that does not dwell within you, as outward attributes, but the great fundamental truth is One and you will find even your smaller attributes of expression are very like many individuals the world over, when you can know them well enough to know they exist. When you can know another individual a little you will see the traits like your own, you will find a boy in China or any place in your universe is one and the same generally, individually it is different. It is true the nationality brings them up under different rule, but fundamentally you can see the great similarity. Therefore think of it! How much alike all mortals are and how you cannot separate yourself form another in truth, for all are part of the great universal God-head, but like a drop of ocean water helps to make up the ocean, so do you help to form the great Universal Spirit.

You could not be separated from it, you could not be released from it, you could not live without it. It is life. It exists, it has ever been and will continue on into eternity. Because of the laws of the universe, it is, and because it is , you are, and because the same law makes every individual born into the world alike, under the same laws governing the same act of correlation. It is true all over the universe you cannot be separated, you all are governed alike, you all live and breathe and have your being fundamentally the same. Without air, without food, without water, without certain elements upon your universe, upon your earth, you could not exist in the form that you now take, which has been created in thought. Therefore, remember that while you are in this body, you are functioning in one way. When you leave it, you function in another, and yet your consciousness always remains yours until you reach the place that you merge and become one with the great All-cosmic consciousness. It is when you begin to understand the symbols of life, which are only pictures that you see that there is no difference in individuals, underneath it all, fundamentally, in truth there is no difference, there is no separation.


To teach mortals that they stand out as individuals and yet when they learn themselves, they know all men, seems to be a paradox. It is not, it is a truth. You are functioning in these bodies to give to you certain expression for your soul's on-going. When you have completed it, or when your body ceases to be of use, you leave it, you lay it down and it goes back into its own individual form, fundamental qualities which indeed are a part of the same great cosmic force that you are. It has a consciousness, it is made of millions of entities over which your great consciousness ruled during the time that you possessed it.Remember that your consciousnesses has been made of myriads of consciousnesses down through the ages and you have attained the position that you now hold and that the only difference between the least consciousness that you are capable of, and the great Arch-angel is the degree of consciousness. That is the only difference; it is in the degree that you possess, that you bring forth, that you manifest. Therefore, when you are conscious of all about you, you are conscious of yourself and you are unconscious so long as everything about you is a mystery, so long as others are a mystery, so long as you do not know yourself you do not know another. Therefore, you know by that very symbol just how much you know yourself for just so can you gauge it. If you do not know another, if you criticize another, if he does not meet that which you think to be righte of, and the great Arch-angel is the degree of consciousness. That is the only difference; it is in the degree that you possess, that you bring forth, that you manifest. Therefore, when you are conscious of all about you, you are conscious of yourself and you are unconscious so long as everything about you is a mystery, so long as others are a mystery, so long as you do not know yourself you do not know another. Therefore, you know by that very symbol just how much you know yourself for just so can you gauge it. If you do not know another, if you criticize another, if he does not meet that which you think to be right, then you do not know yourself, and why do you not know yourself? Because you never know when you will meet it yourself in your life, the same thing that another has done for which you have criticized him. That is why you do not know yourself. If you knew yourself you could not criticize another for you would be honest with yourself and say, "I too am that one, or have been or will be perhaps. No doubt of it." We say perhaps because many of you are not conscious of that which you have done in earlier years, in this life. How could you know then of that which has transpired in another body many long ages ago, and yet the consciousness, that part of you which goes into eternity, carries with it its remembering, carries with it all its experience, its wisdom --- there is none lost.

So when you see another one doing that which you disapprove of, which you would change, which you would teach him to be different in, you are seeing in that other one, yourself in a lesser degree or a greater degree, yet yourself. Remember, rather than criticize the other one, go back within yourself, say to yourself, "That is part of me, if I would change it in another one, I must begin now and change it within myself, for here is where the trouble lies. If I can see it in another one to criticize in another, here is where the seat of it is. If it is something that I dislike in another, here is my work --- not to change the other one, that work is his, inherited by him, and inherited by me is my own work to do. If we all would do our work to the best of our abilities, the world would grow better fast."

As it is, every one is reaching out of himself to criticize, to change, and very little is done at home, because of it, time apparently is wasted, and yet we see mortals feeling that you are justified, feeling that you are capable, feeling that you attained to the position in life where you are judges of humanity. It is not a position that anyone should assume because when you judge humanity, you admit literally that when you have done little in yourself, that all of this you would change in another, lies unchanged in yourself, lies there awaiting the time when you will return and change it, and when you reach the place that you are working on it, you are then too busy, too well occupied, to reach out into the world and train another. You are willing then to leave his duty to him, when the time comes that he will see it ; for others have left you to do yours, until the time came when you changed it, for after all, you are the one who breathes for this body, you are the one who lives in this body, and by the same token you are the one to change all, for it lies within your own soul and is yours for you to remodel.


If mortals could but know that much time is wasted and the greatest sin that one can perform is to bring judgement down on another when he has not worked it out within himself. Think of your own lives. Some of you say, "Where shall I begin?" We have just told you, begin on that which you see and dislike so much in another. It lies right at hand. When you reach the place where you feel there is no power, that it has no power over you, that it ceases to exist in your consciousness, that you cease to see it, you have no doubt overcome it, but when you yet can criticize it, you have not overcome because you can still see it and recognize it in another. It is still distasteful to you in another, therefore it is still within you and you are not conscious of the fact that it lies there within yourselves. Why? Because most of you have not lived lives to perfect it. If you know that you do not approve of it, then strengthen yourselves before the battle, not attempt to do it when the battle is on. Most of you mortals wait until the great test comes upon you before you seek to strengthen yourselves. But the time to do that is to prepare for it and to so train yourselves that it has no power over you. Then when it comes you are strong. It is not a test to you, you stand above it, you have overcome in  the fact that you have faced it and you have permitted it to loose its power before the test comes, but it will come to prove to you whether you have overcome it or whether you just think you have overcome.


Remember that as long as you can say you have overcome, you feel sure, you think about it, talk about it --- you have not overcome. When you reach the place that when you meet it, you could give it a glance of recognition but pass it on, place it out of your mind, know that it has no power by the very fact that it does not remain within, that it ceases to exist for you, then you have finished, but not until then because the denial of a thing is in fact the recognition of the existence of the thing. So when you deny it, you admit it, you hold it within yourself.


If all your lives could be utilized as a symbol you would waste no time by seeking to reach and to know the understanding that is yours, that you are seeking, that you came here to find. Hunt for it right within yourself and whenever others disqualify, do not reach your standard, so to speak, see to it that your own standard is a standard and not an assumed one, not a pretense, not an out-pouring of that which is for the world to see only, see that you live it, for when others seek to investigate they find as a rule a structure behind very much like your moving pictures --- a beautiful front yet no backing. It is deplorable indeed that mortals can waste so many moments in building structures in their lives that are only so much waste material, that have cost so much pain, in sorrow, in trouble, even as your beautiful pictures are so expensive to produce and after all, none of them can be utilized for anything but for the purpose it is built, and that is to be seen from the front only, and when that is torn down by storm, then do you stand naked in your lack of wisdom, your lack of understanding, in all that is worth while in life. Many of you have frittered away your time and begin to change only when the time comes that you feel that you are leaving your bodies, and see a panorama of your lives and recognise your lost moments and see that which you might have done but did not do, and all that you did do and how little it has availed.


It now is the time when you are in your zenith when you have all opportunity ahead of you, now is your opportunity to begin, now always will be the time when you do begin, so why not this moment as well as another moment? Why can you not see the interest on your investment now and this moment instead of a moment when it is too late to do that which you craved to do?


Symbols of  life! Most of them only symbols, only sign-posts and many of you wrap yourselves around them and can go no further. Tear yourselves loose and go out into the universe, living your lives and being that which is your ideal, that which is yours to attain that which you see within yourselves, not that which you see in another or that which another may see for you, but that which you see for yourself. --- The Great Cosmic Pictures can never be complete until each mortal goes back and lives his life, not as others picture it, but as he sees it, as he pictures it, as it is a truth to him from within himself, not from the brain, for it is, "as a man thinketh in his heart so is he," not as he thinketh in his brain, that is of little power and a know-ledge passes into nothingness because the brain is continually filled with something different out of which the soul can make all that it can sift through of the wheat from the chaff.


Source :  "Wisdom From Atlantis" by Ruth B. Drown. Pg 137-150.
Note from the Author :  "Wisdom From Atlantis" was received through the inspirational Pathway from the Etheric records. While the words are English, the style is Atlantian and the wisdom is eternal.

There Are No Coincidences

"There Are No Coincidences : Synchronicity as the Modern-Day Mystical Experience"

Frank Joseph is one of my favourite authors, he writes extensively on ancient and lost civilizations such as Lemuria, Atlantis and Egypt just to name a few. Recently, I got to reading his other titles, on the subject of Synchronicity. In the book, "There Are No Coincidences: Synchronicity as The Modern-Day Mystical Experience", he described "Synchronicity" as the most mysterious thing in the world. It is the term parasychologists use for "meaningful coincidence". He stated that, "In earthly existence, we live in a field of time. Events have happened, we experience life now, and anticipate what is to come. We absolutely need this clear division of past, present and future to get through daily life in the work-a-day world of physical reality. But science has revealed that this concept of time is not the only one. An astronaut who travels almost at the speed of light will return to find that the planet he left behind five of his years ago has changed five thousand Earth years. Synchronicity is part of this so-called "Theory of Relativity". When we have meaningful coincidence, time seems to have stopped or been suspended, because we temporarily move out of our usual field of time, into the field of eternity; that is why synchronicities feel so strange. It is the so-called "wisdom body", our natural, supra-rational spiritual instinct, reacting to the presence of the Divine." 

The author, then went into detailed explanation about how there are seven major chakras, and Seven Human Types that can generally describe different people men and women as a "Root Chakra Persons", "Sacral Chakra Person",  "Navel Chakra Person",  "Heart Chakra Persons", "Throat Chakra Person","Brow (Third-Eye) Chakra Person", "Crown Chakra Person". Though each individual would have blends of all characteristics from all the seven categories, their leading character traits seem gathered into one that predominates. However, the person is not prisoners of the chakra that most defines their thoughts and actions. They may change from one to another, but how they think and behave at any given time indicates the chakra that most typifies them. No chakra is better or more necessary than any other.And all chakra personalities have their positive and negative qualities.

As highlighted by Joseph, "Recognising the dominant chakra, both in ourselves and others, must lead to a heightened sense of identity and even compassion. We begin to discern a fundmental inter-connectedness of all human beings ona common spiritual level. Such recognition could also help us avoid those persons, often so deceptively charming, with potential for harm. No less importantly, being able to distinguish the seven human types can lead us to individuals capable of doing the most good for us." 

Well, called it sychronicity, but the two persons whom I personally have great admiration for, were both highlighted in the book as  "Brow (Third-Eye) Chakra Persons", one personifying the positive and the other the negative aspects of the chakra's character when balance is not sought.

Here is an abstract from the book :-

Brow (Third-Eye) Chakra Celebrity-A: Leonardo Da Vinci

"Perhaps the greatest genius in history, the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci are famous around the world. No one before or since him excelled as the supreme master and most imaginative innovator of so many disciplines: painting, sculpure, architecture, literature, human anatomy, foreign languages, the staging of public festivals, weapons technology, civil and military engineering. He was a pioneer in modern scientific illustration, aviation, sunmarine development, and the construction of armored vehicles. His Mona Lisa and Last Supper are the best known paintings on Earth.

  For Leonardo, subconscious truth and conscious fact, representing the right and left brains, respectively, were not at odds with each other, but combined in his own "theory of knowledge". This was a synthesis of art and science, in which his art was scientifically executed, while his science was artistically developed. His genius, then, was a result of a perfectly balanced mind, wherein both hemispheres of his awareness worked together for unified purposes. His noted biographer, L.H.Heydenreich, commented that Leonardo's universality was "a spiritual force that generated in him an unlimited desire for knowledge, and guided his thinking and behaviour."

  To him, "sight was man's highest sense organ, because sight alone conveyed the facts of experience immediately, correctly and with certainty. Saper vedere ("knowing how to see") became the great theme in his studies of man's work and mature creations". Heydenreich insists that Leonardo's genius was based on tremendous powers of observations. In other words, he powered his Brow Chakra to a phenomenal degree. It almost literally vacuumed up illimitable details and subtleties his consciousness then ordered into mosaics of great art and scientific vision.

  Despite the unprecedented energy of his mind, he knew that there was more to living than painting the Leda,or building the working model of an airplane five hundred years before the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. Leonardo had many friends, relished their company, fell in and out of love, enjoyed travelling, and was an amianle gregarious man. He never exercised his henius at the expense of his humanity. Especially adored by his students, they knew he regarded the arts and sciences, not as intellectual pursuits in themselves, but means to the glorification of the holy spirit and service and enlightment for his fellow man. When he died at 67, he was as much beloved for his heart as his mighty brain. His life demostrated that the heights of intellectual accomplishment may only be achieved through perception through our Brow Chakra of the spiritual forces which underlie all visible phenomena."

Brow (Third-Eye) Chakra Celebrity-B : Nikola Tesla



"Of humble Serbian origins,Tesla migrated to the United States with four cents in his pocket, in 1884. The following year, George Westinghouse, head of the renowned electric company named after himself, bought the 28-year-old inventor's patent for alternative current. Tesla thus made the incredibly quick transition from pauper to multi-millionaire, because he was obsessed with discoveries in electricity. Nothing else in life interested him. He was himself a powerhouse of energy, his every waking hour consumed in invention for its own sake. Even the practical application of his finds was useful for him only in so far as they interested backers for new projects.

  An intensely driven man in every sense, he fused all his energy-centres into his sixth vortex, then focused the accumulated forces of these super-charged chakras into his conscious mind, which fairly explored with new concepts. He had harnessed his entire being to the genius of his "Thord-Eye", which glowed with a blinding intelligence. The vortex of his Brow Chakra spun ever faster and brighter, while the other etheric "wheels" of his personality dimmed and slowed.The results were spectacular but his life became a flame that burned with too brilliant an intensity. His biographer describes te inventor as "quite impractical in financial matters. An eccentric,driven by compulsions and a progressive germ phobia, Tesla had a way of intuitively sensing hidden scientific secrets and employing his inventive talent to prove his hypothese. Tesla demanded much of his employess,but inspired their loyalty." He had very few close friends, if any, and chose to distance himself from all personal relationships. Although physically attracted women, he had no time for them, and never married.

  Tesla's restless,fervid brain was a pressure cooker of far-out ideas his obessive will-power wrenched into reality. He was a man far ahead of his time, even beyond ours. More than sixty years after his death, scientists comb his personal papers for ideas. In 1891, he invented the Tesla Coil, still used in television sets and numerous other electronic instruments. Two years later, he astounded late 19th Century Chicagoans when his electricial system lit up the World Columbian Exposition at the Windy City, the first mass-illuminated display in history. Its dramatic success led to his installation of the premiere electrical generator at Niagara Falls.

  In 1898, Tesla claimed he cloud operate an unmanned boat entirely by electrical impulses beamed at a receiver guiding its engine and steering merchanism from beyond the water. The announcement was universally condemned as a mad boast, until his pilotless model performed perfectly in a pool before thousand of astonished on-lookers at New York's Medison Square garden. he had invented the first remotely controlled vessel. Advancing rapidly from this "toy", he lighted 200 lamps without wire connections from 25 miles away. The following year, he moved to Colorado Springs, where he established a new laboratory. In it he produced great flashes of electricity over 40 feet long.
  While in Colorado, Tesla made what he considered the most significant find of his career. He said that his radio receiver had received signals from an advanced civilization on another planet. Like his remote-controlled boat, his statement was received with derision. But this time, he had no means of demonstrating his discovery. He lacked any means for recording the outer space transmissions, and, when they stopped being broadcast for no apparent reasons, he was left without proof.
  Returning to New York in 1900, he undertook construction of his most ambitious project. With a $150,000 advance from financier J.P.Morgan, Tesla began working on a huge tower powerful enough to send photographic images and written messages around the world in seconds - all this nearly one hundred years before the Internet was born. In the middle of this project, a financial crisis struck the U.S. econmoy, and Morgan suddenly withdrew his promised support, leaving the great tower half-finished. Fixated as Tesla had always been on his experiments, he had no business sense, and his ideas were routinely stolen from him, ending up as someone else's patent. With the 1929 stock market crash, he lost all his money, spending the rest of his life in solitary improverishment. He was no less engrossed in his scientific plans, but from now on they would go no further than the scraps of paper on which he sketched them.
  On 7 January 1943, Nikola Tesla died alone penniless in the single, shabby room of a low-rent hotel in New York City. News of his death revived memories of the virtually forgotten inventer, and hundreds of people, including three Nobel Prize winners, turned out for his funeral.
Feeding every energy of mind and body to his sixth chakra, Tesla had starved the rest of his vortexes. The resultant man was a powerful creative intellect with incredible vision, but his conscious connection with the soiritual source that drove his brain was cut off. Even his personal survival skills had been stunted.Tesla's dilemma was the imbalance of internal forces, which his precursor, Leonardo da Vinci, had learned to harmonize. By subduing those forces to a single chakra, Tesla set a tragic example of the hazards inherent in favouring one vortex, no matter how lofty, at the expense  of all the rest."

I-CHING Wisdom 79 : "Events are the language of the Universe." 

We speak of the Universe with words, thoughts, and actions, and the Universe speaks to us with events. An example of an event is what we call coincidence, although there is actually no such thing in the Universe. A meeting "by chance", is no actually by chance but by design. Every event is a Universal communication. By acknowledging the Universe each time we become aware of its communication, the Universe becomes aware that we are aware of it, and so raises the level of communication. To be aware that the Universe is constantly communicating with us is to live in a manner only to be thought of as magical, and brings rewards of ever greater significance. 


Ophiuchus' Notes :

Whatever may be made out to be, my understanding is, there is really no right or wrong, just different experiences...

Source : There Are No Coincidences - Synchronicity as the Modern-Day Mystical Experience by Frank Joseph, pg 13,15 and pg 92-95
Leonardo da Vinci, Part 10/10 (History Channel)
Nikola Tesla : The Lost Wizard 
I-Ching Wisdom, Volume Two : More Guidance from the Book of Answers - Universal Keys ofr Creating Peace, Prosperity, Love and Happiness by Wu Wei, pg 158

Further Readings : 

- "The Science of Leonardo : Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of Renaissance" by Fritjof Capra.

-"My Inventions : The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla" by Nikola Tesla.
-"Tesla Is Back" by Ophiuchus on this blog published 12 April 2010.

Archangel Metatron: Being Alone - The Sacred Divinity of Solitude

Archangel Metatron via James Tyberonn (Updated & Republished By Request)


Archangel Metatron : Being Alone - The Sacred Divinity of Solitude

 

Greetings Beloved! I am Metatron, Lord of Light, and we welcome this gathering. We surround each of you in a specially created vector of Unconditional Love. A vector of nonlinear space that is uniquely opened as each of you read these words from your own space and chosen time.

The present phase of linear time on your planet is a uniquely opportune juncture for self-review and chosen solitude. Masters many of you, particularly those above the age of 49, the seventh 7 year cycle, find yourselves in a state of solitude, after spouses have passed, relationships terminated and marriage contracts have ended. And although this path is at times quite lonely, quite difficult and may feel 'unnatural' for many of you, it is with purpose. So we tell you to use this time wisely, embrace it. You are on the cusp of a great graduation.

Now there is a recurring message in many of your religious texts that says "For everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven."

Indeed there is a time for solitude. Divine Solitude is a noble condition, and one that offers quantum leaps in terms of growth, when understood, and recognized for its profound purpose.

You see the Divine-Self is ultimately, conclusively alone in its final pursuit of omnipotence.

In your terms, the soul enters the earth alone, and the spirit departs the earth alone. Ascended Masters that walk the Earth, have for millennia sought solitude in their incarnations before achieving Mastery. So it is with many of you now.

Dear Ones, Many of you who find yourself alone at this time, are of the belief that you must find a partner. Many of you seek your 'soul mate' your twin flame. Yet we tell you, in many cases among the advanced souls, you are alone because you have planned it. Indeed it is a special and noble undertaking. It is time for Divine Solitude.

Solitude for those seeking sanctified light, for those seeking, what is termed 'consecrated enlightenment' chose specific periods in their life plan, to be alone for a time. This does not mean you will always be in solitude, it simply means for a time you have chosen it to 'work on the self'; to achieve self love. Among souls seeking Mastery, approximately one of every three or four lifetimes, is a lifetime chosen for solitude.

Loving the SELF is a Requirement

 

Love of self is a condition that many, especially those from Christian heritage, have lost. Christianity with its teachings of original sin taught you that you were flawed in your nature, that you needed forgiving. You spent lifetimes prostate asking forgiveness for who you are. You lost your sense of your divinity, and found it easier to give than to receive. Balance was forfeited.

Now, we tell you that as the Earth transforms to the new Crystalline Age, the nature of energy resonance and the dimensional grasp of the planet is expanded. There is a lessening of the influence of duality/polarity for those of you that choose to extend beyond the third dimension.

You may ask whether solitude or partnerships bring greater advancement to the soul. The question is timely and especially pertinent for many of you in the dawn of the Ascension.

The short answer is that both coupling and solitude have their divine purpose.... and we underline the word BOTH. Much is gained in being in committed loving relationship. This is the natural circumstance in most sojourns on the plane of Earth.

But Masters, we tell you that there is also great purpose also in solitude. It is in fact a requisite.

It is no error that great numbers of you on the finals steps of the path of enlightenment are alone in this period. Now is the prelude to the coming Ascension. If you are among these, we tell you that perhaps your solitude is appropriate. Perhaps it is as it should be. You see it is how many of you planned it.

Yet many of you feel that the loneliness is too much to bear and that you must pursue a partner...the elusive twin flame. Dear Souls, there is much confusion around the concept of the twin flame, the 'soul mate', and the role and nature of optimal partnership in Mastery of Self.

Solitude and Nondependency

 

Solitude is intended to be a period of sublime reverence of self. Your life and your experience in this plane is your own creation, your own living tapestry, woven by your individual belief. Within solitude, the soul is prompted into self-review, and opportunity is given to dive deeply into the deep waters that flow within you. To swim in the ocean of SELF, and in so doing rediscover the love within, to learn what a brilliant spark of God you truly are.

Relationships are a method of reflecting the affectivity of your belief system, and giving you feedback on what, simply stated, is working, and what is not. Detachment requires the individual to explore the self, to reacquaint with the inner horizon, and this facilitates and necessitates sovereignty. Sovereignty is the prepotency of Mastership.

A relationship of two sovereign nondependent humans has greater balance, greater creativity, and greater longevity than a pairing of two beings co-dependent on one another. Do you understand?

Ultimately each soul must clearly define SELF in order to gain Mastery. Self Mastery is embodied in periods of planned detachment. It is that period in which impeccability is crystallized. And we tell you Dear Ones, crystallization, through impeccability is a necessary phase of Self- Mastery. It is a calibrational juncture in the multidimensional sojourn. One enters the void, the great mystery in the quest for fortitude and sovereign vision, alone, without a shoulder to lean on. And in the process, one discovers sublime wholeness and self completion.

Do not misunderstand our meaning; there is great validity in coupling, in the natural aspect of soul mate. But conclusively one walks the path of Mastery in sovereign detachment.

One becomes enlightened when one learns to transcend the physical self. Each of you must endeavor to the final conquest of what we term as 'impeccability'. Impeccability is the crystallization or uniform clarity of the soul, and it is a necessary virtue of Mastery. This involves release of dependency, the release of all that does not serve your divinity. It is a rebooting and reprogramming of all you are.

We have told you that the language, the fabric of higher dimension is sacred geometry. Impeccability is the geometric clarity of the soul mind. By defining oneself through impeccability one becomes crystalline, and thus more capable of Divine Consciousness within the geometric light of coherent higher planes. It is only accomplished by deciding who you are, what you believe, and then living it. Recognizing your truths, and aligning fully to them.

Question to Metatron: Are you saying that loving relationships, such as marriage, are not our ultimate union?

AAMetatron: Remember that in the highest realm you are in sacred Oneness, each a part of the Divine One. So in terms of duality experience, the answer to your question is yes. In this context, YES! Masters, in highest reality, you are a unified plural consciousness.

Relationships in the linear duality experience are a means to the end. We are saying that loving relationships are a sacred, joyful tool of achieving Self Mastery, but that ultimately in each soul's journey; there is requisite ultimate growth into sovereignty. The sovereign self is a sufficient self & truly has no dependent need of another. Such conceptual dependency can be a deterrent to Mastery.

In truth you merge in sovereignty with your other half. The other part of your soul that separated in duality expression. Each of you have a male and female component, and the other half is re-merged in the Integral Divine Self before rising into higher realm.

Many of you consider a soul mate and twin flame the same. Only the syntax is in parity. The true meanings are different. The twin flame is the other half of the same soul, split in duality, and these are rarely in physicality together. The 'soul mate' is in our terms, another soul with whom you have contracted to grow together within physical duality, as a means of development and exploration of love with another soul. Movement toward common purpose.

The seeming paradox in linear relationships, that of the 'soul mate' concept (not the twin flame) is that a relationship of two non-dependent sovereign beings, has greater joy, greater balance, greater interface with the divine, greater opportunity for advancement than a relationship based on co-dependence. Do you see?

In this time, in this now, many of you are actually merging with your etheric (non-physical) twin flame, and molding your sacred fullness into one physicality in order for you to enter the crystalline realm in wholeness. In most cases this soul reconnection is accomplished in solitude or in sovereign non dependent relationships.

So we say embrace your chosen period of SOVEREIGN SOLITUDE, it is the sign of your souls intent to enter into Crystalline Mer-Ka-Na Mastery.

The Divine Feminine

 

We add that many who are in this life, of the female gender, have chosen particularly effacious roles in the balancing of the planet at this time. Is it not true that the planet has been imbalanced in an overage of patriarchal energies for millennia? That is why it would appear that a vast majority of those drawn to the 'New Age' are female, you see, to anchor in the Divine Feminine. Females have been conditioned and labeled in your current paradigm as the 'weaker sex'. Nothing could be farther from the truth!

Many of the females, who find themselves now in single status, are conditioned to feel they must have a partner. Again, we say, embrace your solitude. You chose it, we honor you for the path you have chosen.

The ideal for the planet is not to be female or male, rather a perfect balance of BOTH, but it is at the moment still in an imbalance of patriarchal resonance. We honor those of you in female biology, you're strength is indeed progressing in creating the nurturing balance.

Truly the over-soul is androgynous, self-contained. Self-sufficient. That does not mean that love is not the frequencial basis of the soul, indeed it is the highest vibration. It is the resonance that is produced by the Ascended Soul to the Cosmos, and reflected back as a collective harmonic of crystalline love. There is a time when those of you have played the role of soul mates, will individualize, and in your terms, part in joy. The evolved soul in achieving omnipotence, will become consummately self sufficient, and in so doing radiate spectacular unconditional love to ALL. That is as it should be, as it must be. It is how you Ascend.

Embracing Sovereignty

 

The final graduation of the soul is not done in pairing, you see. It is done within the Divine SELF in universal harmonic to the All that is. Do you understand? This is the activation of Self to the divine resonance of the Quantum Crystalline Field. Separation must osmatically occur before the final collective reunion, it must occur to allow for the final coalescence into the ALL THAT IS. It is who you ARE. It is the I AM that I AM.

Our point here, is that if you find yourself in Solitude, recognize its purpose. If you are in a relationship refine it in beauty to the greater love of non-dependence. You will indeed discover the love expands and the relationship becomes more splendid in non dependency; just as you are discovering relationships of co-dependency are imbalanced one way streets, and fail.

In sovereignty humanity will see themselves in this framework as being 'whole' and not being their partner's property or someone's 'better half'. Each will bring their integral, whole SELF in fullness, in robust flow of energy into relationship, in a manner that often does not occur today. There are pre agreed points that allow for freedom of choice and for change, even if that change is to end the partnership. In sovereignty individuals share their best, without compromise of ideals. Each will recognize the divinity of the other, and retain the integrity of SELF.

They will afford their own promises, promises and choices of a new paradigm, but there will be avenues and opportunities of adjustments and the ability of reviewing terms. This will allow for greater recognition of the SELF. These will be designed to prevent energy blockage and reduce dysfunctional marriages and divorce complications and lawsuits, you see.

Some relationships in these terms will indeed last a lifetime, some will not. But the archetype of sovereignty will better support both, based on choice and mutual agreement of each individual’s terms. And as such independence becomes joyful, devoid of one partner being dominant and imposing their beliefs, morality and will over another.

Humankind, in mass today, truly does not recognize or understand their soul, their divine SELF. Self is unfortunately regulated to the realm of ego personality by the masses. It is true that a higher degree of the light quotient is awakened on the planet now, than has occurred at any other time, but it is still only about 10% of the population of eight billion plus that has awakened. That is a sufficient number to bring about the Ascension, but much has yet to be done.

Religion in the New Paradigm

 

Religion in the new paradigm, must be individualized, must truly recognize the nature of SELF the nature of the DIVINE SOUL. None of your world religions truly answer these questions today. None of your religions answer the questions of mans true Cosmic Extra-Terrestrial multi-dimensional origins. And that must come to understanding in the new paradigm. None of your current mainstream religions can accurately and completely express the true history of man on the earth. As such, there is no one true religion on the planet today. Most are bought and sold on preset regulated templates. Each claim to know the path to God, to be able to lead the way to God, yet none truly do. Each has its dogma; each has its hierarchy and controls.

Man searches for GOD more fervently now than at any other time in on the planet, and so this seeking in itself has the potential to bring in the light. Few religious teachers are true teachers, scholars perhaps, but not true teachers, you see. Others are charlatans, even within metaphysics and the so called 'New Age'. Few who make claim to channel Ascended Masters or Angelics truly do.

Discernment

 

When integrity is not maintained the connection to true spirit is disconnected, and all who are human are subject to fall in and out of integrity. Truly the way in the Ascension is the ability of each soul to rise into his/her higher self. Look inside and find your own divinity within your heart. Not through blindly following a guru, evangelist, channeler or spiritual leader, but through SELF. Accept only what you discern individually to resonate as true, Dear Ones, and do not give your power to another. Each of you can and must channel your higher selves. Study, look, listen, discern, review and only accept what resonates within you.

The way to the divine, Masters, is through the sacred sovereignty of SELF, and in the Ascension, the way to the higher SELF is through self-definition, and seeking that aspect of God inside each of you, with the great desire that is embedded in each of your souls. Study, seek, and work! There is little hope for the lazy. You are here to make known the unknown! Work at it! Be a warrior of light within duality, for the true battles are within for self mastery. The path is not easy. But within Self Mastery lies an energy so exquisite that it fuels all you require to move forward and there is another level above each you ascend to. Consciousness ever expands.

You Are Never Alone

 

Oh Dear Human, We truly do feel your occasional despair and longing, and know that we want you to know that we honour you, know that you are never truly alone. Spirit embraces you, and we are especially available for you to find solace and comfort in the walk of divinity that you are undertaking. For we assure you, that you have chosen to be exactly where you are, and there is a great reason, a noble aspiration and goal in your celibate secular aspect.

It is the very sense of resulting loneliness that so often feels bittersweet and hollow, that compels you to seek the rich ocean of wisdom available to you in rediscovering the vast solace within your own divinity.

So we gently urge you to understand that this, for many Master Souls is precisely why you are outside of relationship at this profound time on your planet.

You are then not alone because of a failed relationship; you are not alone because you are incapable of finding a partner. Indeed you are in noble solitude because you have chosen to move higher, to focus on the inner soul. Every soul enters in solitude, and will depart to higher realms in solitude. But that solitude is an opening to your true nature of plurality consciousness, you are reconnecting to the bigger part of you, and that part does not know loneliness. Lonely only exists in duality.

Dear Hearts, use this time wisely, and embrace it., for you have chosen a path that Masters on the 'Cusp of Graduation' often select. We know it is not easy, but the very real pain you at times feel, is the motivating driver of inner reflection. You are on the cusp of a great quantum leap.

Closing

 

Discover your path. Discover yourself. Love yourself, love one another, love the divinity inside you and inside every one! Discover the multidimensional aspects of your true Soul. That is the nobility of solitude.

And thought the path is at times quite difficult and lonely, know that such is the challenge of duality, for above, you are whole, and lack nothing. In the higher realm, Masters, you are in your sacred nature of integral wholeness, in complete and abundant bliss.

I am Metatron, Lord of Light, and I share with you these TRUTHS!

You are Beloved.

...And so it is.

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Ophiuchus' Note : I have been single all my life. Never dated, never been in love, and at the same time, never really felt the lost of not having yet experience the joys and tears of having a soul mate to learn and share my life with me. Came across this article recently and it definitely helped to bring much clarity and understanding as to the possiblity of why I  am alone. Nevertheless, whatever experience awaits me, I know I am never alone, I shall discover my own path. discover myself. love myself, love one another, and love the divinity inside you, me and inside each and every one!