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The Wave or Adventures with Cassiopaea #2
Soul Hackers: The Hidden Hands Behind The New Age Movement
Why are we here? Why do we suffer? If this is an infinite school, what are we here to learn? And why do our efforts at "fixing" our lives often do exactly the opposite? As mystic and researcher Laura Knight-Jadczyk writes in this volume of her expansive Wave "When you ask a question if the question is a burning one your life becomes the answer. All of your experiences and interactions and so forth shape themselves around the core of the answer that you are seeking in your soul. In [my] case, the question 'How to be One with God,' and the answer was, 'Love is the answer, but you have to have knowledge to know what Love really is.'"
Soul Hackers is a deeply personal and insightful account of this very process of burning questions and transformative answers. Through the story of her own struggle with mainstream and alternative religion and the solutions they claim to offer, Knight-Jadczyk lays bare the problems inherent in the New Age movement as a whole from Reiki, Wicca, and the phenomenon of channeling, to the very real problems of spirit attachments, mind control, and otherworldly predators posing as benevolent beings. She asks what it really means to "create your own reality." Is it merely self-hypnosis, or is something more hidden in this New Age truism?
The answers lie in the very nature of the Wave the cosmic force and fabric of personal and collective evolution. For anyone wishing to understand the deeper meaning and reality of the human experience, and what our very near future may very well have in store for us, Soul Hackers provides a map to our symbolic reality and the knowledge necessary to weather the approaching storm.
Soul Hackers is a deeply personal and insightful account of this very process of burning questions and transformative answers. Through the story of her own struggle with mainstream and alternative religion and the solutions they claim to offer, Knight-Jadczyk lays bare the problems inherent in the New Age movement as a whole from Reiki, Wicca, and the phenomenon of channeling, to the very real problems of spirit attachments, mind control, and otherworldly predators posing as benevolent beings. She asks what it really means to "create your own reality." Is it merely self-hypnosis, or is something more hidden in this New Age truism?
The answers lie in the very nature of the Wave the cosmic force and fabric of personal and collective evolution. For anyone wishing to understand the deeper meaning and reality of the human experience, and what our very near future may very well have in store for us, Soul Hackers provides a map to our symbolic reality and the knowledge necessary to weather the approaching storm.
364 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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According to the Koran, God is the "Best of deceivers". In Chapter 231 of Ibn al-'Arabi's Fuhtat, ("Unveiling"), which is entitled "On Deception", there is a long description of the various forms that God's deception may take. It is said that God's deceptions appear as the "wiles of Satan" and the lower soul...
— page 118 — Tags: interesting
Q: Are there any rituals that can be performed to provide protection for one against intrusion [from the spiritual realm]?
A: Rituals are self-defeating.
Q: Are there any technological means we can use?
A: The only defense needed is knowledge. Knowledge defends you against every possible form of harm in existence. The more knowledge you have, the less fear you have, the less pain you have, the less stress you feel, the less anguish you feel, and the less danger you experience of any form or sort.
— page 125 — Tags: interesting
A: We have given much food for thought in that area to help you learn, to contemplate, to meditate.
Q: It is rather difficult to do that when one is worried about how to keep the lights on and feed the children.
A: That is interesting. You can't meditate or contemplate when you are worried about your next meal. I guess then that this means that no one on third density has ever been able to contemplate or meditate while worrying what was going to be eaten at the next meal. Hmmmmmmm.
Q: The point is that a constant state of worry, another crisis every day, the perpetual worry, eventually wears a person down to the point where one can no longer focus on any other issues.
A: Perhaps one can solve the crisis by focusing on other issues? You see, when you constrict the flow, you constrict the channel. And when you constrict the channel, you close down possibilities. And, you make it difficult, if not impossible for you to see that which is there. In other words, the obvious becomes oblivious because of constriction of the flow.
This is why we have recommended against all rituals, because ritual restricts the flow, thereby restricting the possibilities. And, what you are describing is a situation of "dire straits", as you call it - and pressures of great magnitude - which is restricting you.
But, actually, it is your concentration on same that is restricting, not the situation itself. And we realize that it is difficult for you to focus your attentions, or, more importantly to open up the flow of the channel. But, it is certainly not impossible.
— page 129 — Tags: enlightening, interesting
Folks have a lot of problems in distinguishing between "judgment" and "assessment and personal choice". I can look at and assess any number of things as "negative" and choose to act otherwise, or, in other words, learn to give negativity its "due" by non-participation. But, I don't have to think that I must impose my choice on anyone else, nor do I have to think that the negativity needs to be "fixed" or "done away with". It is the choice of some beings to follow that path. They have the right to choose it just as I have the right to choose what I choose. And, the only way I CAN choose IS TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE! And I cannot know the difference if I do not have the deepest knowledge possible about every aspect of the reality in which I live.
And that is not to say that we can ever fully know the TRUTH. But it is our job to Love the Creator, and we cannot love [the Creator] without KNOWING [the Creator]. When we deny fully half of Creation, we are choosing to love only OUR IMAGE of what the Creator SHOULD be, according to OUR judgment. And by "blocking", or ignoring information that would instruct us about the many Faces of God, we are actually taking action against God. We are judging and carrying out a sentence of exclusion. And that which we exclude from acknowledgement comes back to us over and over again in our lessons in life.
— page 138 — Tags: enlightening, interesting
Information that requires "emotion" to understand is, by definition, distorted. As I have already mentioned, any woman of childbearing age will tell you that emotions are chemical and very definitely "color" how you think. A very "neutral" personality trait that could be described as "slowness to act", can be seen as either commendable caution or cowardice depending on which hormone is in the upper ranges of distribution in the female body at the moment. A mild joke can be funny or tragic depending on what day of the month it is!
— page 150 — Tags: funny, interesting
A: And remember, your consciousness operates on four levels, not just one!
Q: And what are these four levels?
A: Physical body, consciousness, genetic body and spirit-etheric body.
Q: Are those the four composites of the human manifestation in 3rd density?
A: 3rd and 4th.
— page 155 — Tags: interesting
It is good to read and study many things. As a member of our discussion group has said:
So read the Bible. Read the Koran. Read the Three Little Pigs. Read EVERYTHING! You'll be certain to read a lot of silly things, but you'll also stand a chance of seeing bits and pieces of TRUTH.
— page 159 — Tags: interesting
I have two six foot tall, three foot wide, bookcases here in the house filled with what I jokingly refer to as the "Mumbo Jumbo" category. I am not sure what the Dewey decimal system would make of this, but after I read a book, I can generally tell if it goes in that particular section.
— page 181 — Tags: funny
Fusion, inner unity, is obtained by means of "friction", by the struggle between "yes" and "no" in man. If a man lives without inner struggle, if everything happens in him without opposition, if he goes wherever he is drawn or wherever the wind blows, he will remain such as he is.
But if a struggle begins in him, and particularly if there is a definite line in this struggle, then, gradually, permanent traits begin to form themselves, he begins to "crystallize".
But crystallization is possible on a right foundation and it is possible on a wrong foundation. "Friction", the struggle between "yes" and "no", can easily take place on a wrong foundation.
For instance, a fanatical belief in some or other idea, or the "fear of sin", can evoke a terribly intense struggle between "yes" and "no", and a man may crystallize on these foundations. But this would be a wrong, incomplete crystallization. Such a man will not possess the possibility of further development. In order to make further development possible he must be melted down again, and this can be accomplished only through terrible suffering.
Crystallization is possible on any foundation. Take for example a brigand, a really good, genuine brigand. I knew such brigands in the Caucasus. He will stand with a rifle behind a stone by the roadside for eight hours without stirring. Could you do this? All the time, mind you, a struggle is going on in him. He is thirsty and hot and the flies are biting him; but he stands still.
Another is a monk; he is afraid of the devil; all night long he beats his head on the floor and prays. Thus crystallization is achieved.
In such ways people can generate in themselves an enormous inner strength; they can endure torture; they can get what they want. This means that there is now in them something solid, something permanent.
Such people can become immortal. But what is the good of it? A man of this kind becomes an "immortal thing", although a certain amount of consciousness is sometimes preserved in him. But even this, it must be remembered, occurs very rarely.
— page 192 — Tags: enlightening, interesting
I had decided that maybe having a brain was not such a bad thing even if the "faith trip" frowns on using it to any great extent, other than offering it up as a sacrifice to be hypnotized so it can be twisted like a pretzel and used to justify theological nonsense by acts of cerebral derring-do.
— page 279 — Tags: funny
Q: [a correspondent writes]: "I believe that an enlightened being is emanating love wherever that person is, and this is even without being asked. It just happens because that is what they are — love." Comment, please.
A: An enlightened being is not love. And a refrigerator is not a highway.
Q: What?! Talk about your mixed metaphors! I don't get that one!
A: Why not?
Q: They are completely unrelated!
A: Exactly!!
Q: What IS an enlightened being?
A: An enlightened being.
...
A: "Enlightened" does not mean good. Just smart.
— page 44 — Tags: interesting
What is it to judge? To determine the needs of another - and then, to ACT based on that determination. That leads to "sending" some kind of energy - whether it is "love and light", or "turning the other cheek", or preaching to "save" someone - all of those amount to "determining the needs of another", and doing something without having truly, at a soul level, been asked.
Now, a lot of people manipulate in order to get "energy". That is not asking. Begging, pleading, acting pitiful, being helpless or a klutz or a screw-up are all ways of taking energy. And, what is the result if you allow yourself to be manipulated and to give in response to such forms of persuasion?
“... If anything, such an energy transference even could enhance the effect... Imbalanced waves could be drawn upon by the receiver.”
This means, in a very real sense, that much of the activity on this Earth that passes for "benevolent acts" consists in FEEDING...
— page 46 — Tags: enlightening, interesting
But I am a practical person, and finding a balanced merge of cerebration and emotion has been my particular struggle. I have to really control my urge to "give my body up to be burned", to "give all I own to the poor", and to sacrifice myself in any number of ways as a martyr. For me, that is far more difficult than subjecting all of my emotions to one emotion to develop emotional will.
As I have written in Amazing Grace, at a certain point in my life I decided that this "way of the heart" was, indeed, the path for me and I embraced it wholeheartedly. I was 30 years old and pretty worn out from seeking God in knowledge; or at least I wasn't getting anywhere with it that felt satisfying, so the urgings of my (ex) husband to "get back with God" in the old-fashioned, fundamental way were like an anchor beckoning me to "come and rest". So, to put it bluntly, I plunged headfirst into the "faith trip".
Not being one to do anything halfway, I put all thinking aside, all knowledge aside, and essentially submitted myself, willingly and by choice to believe that "faith would take me home". To make the point of how effective this was accomplished, I will share a funny event.
In the early days of this "plunge", I was sitting in church with my (ex) husband and children. I was observing the order of the service, the standing up, sitting down, turning to page so-and-so to sing a hymn, the kneeling and praying and so forth. I realized suddenly, from my training as a hypnotherapist, that this whole process was a form of hypnosis. In studying mass or group hypnosis, we had been taught about what is called the "Yes set". The yes set is designed to put people into a mild trance state, to entrain their brain function, and to make them receptive to the deepening of the trance and any suggestions that follow. It is accomplished by getting a group of people to either respond "yes" to a series of questions, or to get them to comply with a series of innocuous requests. In doing so, they "give their will" to the person making the request.
One way this works for "charismatic" public speakers is for them to deliberately pose several questions in a row (at least three) that they are certain everyone, or most everyone, will agree with. For example: a politician might begin his campaign speech with these three questions:
"Are you tired of high taxes?"
"Have you had enough of crime and violence in this country?"
"Is everyone tired of spending their hard earned dollars for less and less every week?"
Hardly anyone would disagree with any of these questions. But, by agreeing with them, by saying "yes" three times in a row - even if only mentally - the first stage of induction has just been accomplished!
So, there I was, realizing that what was being done in this church - and churches around the world and down through the centuries - was that people were being hypnotized. So, what did I think about this? Well, since I had decided to "take the plunge", I decided that it was okay because it was hypnosis for the RIGHT reasons! Yup! That's me talking there! When I do something, I go ALL the way!
Immediately, my life began to fall apart.
— pages 225-226 — Tags: enlightening, interesting
I understood that the poverty of my life, the torment and the suffering, the loss of things I loved, and the many related and complex events were an expression of my actual state of being the poverty of my knowledge relative to what I was capable of knowing. When I plunged headfirst into "Faith without knowledge/works" I was choosing death, for "faith without works is... dead."
But what were these works? What was it that God gives liberally and ungrudgingly? Knowledge.
For that which is known about God, is evident to them [man] and made plain in their inner consciousness; because God has shown it to them. For, ever since the creation of the world, His invisible nature and attributes have been made intelligible and clearly discernible in and through the things that have been made - His handiwork. [Amplified, Zondervan]
According to the Sufi perspective, There is no God but God and knowledge concerns itself with knowing God. But in order to gain knowledge of God, it is necessary to utilize the intermediary of creation, which is, in fact, the purpose of all that exists. It not only IS God, it is the path to God. It is incumbent upon the seeker to learn all he can with a view toward God. All things must be gathered into the knowledge base of the Seeker and be taken back to God exactly as described in the Parable of the Talents.
To NOT work as diligently as possible to know God through the creation - and that includes all branches of knowledge and art and craft - is defined by the apostle [James] as passing judgment on God.
... And so, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God or approve of Him or consider Him worth knowing... [His invisible nature and attributes have been made intelligible and clearly discernible in and through the things that have been made - His handiwork.] O man, whoever you are who judges and condemns another... for n posing as judge and passing sentence on another you condemn yourself, because you who judge are habitually practicing the very same things that you censure and denounce... [Amplified, Zondervan]
This seems to be precisely what I experienced. I dove into the faith/love and light trip and all Hell broke loose!
— pages 234-235 — Tags: interesting
I believe that when we speak of UFO sightings as instances of space visitations we are looking at the phenomenon at the wrong level. We are not dealing with successive waves of visitation from space. We are dealing with a control system.
The thermostats that regulate your house temperature summer and winter are an example of a control system. In summer, a thermostat allows air to get warmer until a certain limit is reached, an then the cooling system is triggered. But in winter, when the outside atmosphere turns cold and the temperature drops below another limit, a different mechanism, the heater, comes into play and warms the house. A naive observer might try to explain all this by assuming that warm is "good" and cold is "bad". He or she would be right half of the time. Another naive observer of the opposite school might take a reversed view and decide that warm is "evil". He or she would also be right half the time. To understand the whole phenomenon one needs a grasp of the control concept, and one must be ready to understand that it needs two opposite principles for its function.
I propose that there is a spiritual control system for human consciousness and those paranormal phenomena like UFOs are one of its manifestations. I cannot tell whether this control is natural and spontaneous; whether it is explainable in terms of genetics, or social psychology, or of ordinary phenomena - or if it is artificial in nature, under the power of some superhuman will. It may be entirely determined by laws that we have not yet discovered.
I am led to this idea by the fact that, in every instance of the UFO phenomenon I have been able to study in depth, I have found as many rational elements as absurd ones, as many that I could call friendly as I could call hostile. This is what tells me that we are working on the wrong level. And so are all the believers, and this definitely includes the skeptics, because they believe they can explain the facts as strongly as the most enthusiastic convert to Ms. Dixon's vision of Jupiterian Amazons!
There are ways to gain access to the reference level of every control system. Even a child, if smart or daring enough, can climb on a chair, change the dial of a thermostat, and elicit a response. (The response in question might be a sound spanking from his father, of course. The road to higher knowledge has such accidents.) It must be possible to gain access to the control system of the UFO phenomenon, to forget the spirits and the pranks and the claims of extraterrestrial contact, and do some real science. But it will take a very smart approach - and a very daring one.
... A newspaper column commented upon the apparent lack of reality of the whole UFO phenomenon: "It does not attack us. It does not affect our daily lives. It does not help us with our many problems. It has brought us nothing of value. It may have scared a few folks here and there, but then so do thunder storms and tornadoes. The whole thing, as a social issue, is of no consequence whatsoever." The journalist who wrote this column was superficially right, of course. But he forgot another fact:
... If UFOs are acting at the mythic and spiritual level it will be almost impossible to detect it by conventional methods.
... UFOs cannot be analyzed through the standard research techniques, if they are the means through which man's concepts are being rearranged. All we can do is trace their effects on humans and hope that we eventually stumble on some principle that explains their behavior.
What is the variable being controlled in this control system? Thermostats control temperature; gyroscopes control the direction in which a rocket flies. What could a paranormal phenomenon control? I suggest that it is human belief that is being controlled and conditioned.
My speculation is that a level of control of society exists which is a regulator of human development, and that the UFO phenomenon should be seen at this level.
— pages 240-241, containing this quotation from Dimensions: A Casebook of Alient Contact, by Jacques Vallee — Tags: interesting
The dark man dream tells a person what predicament they are facing. The dream tells about a cruel attitude towards the dreamer. Like Bluebeard's wife, the dreamer can consciously gain hold of the 'key' question about this matter and answer it honestly, and can then be set free...
The dark man appears in dreams when an initiation - a psychic change from one level of knowing and behavior to another more energetic level of knowledge and action is imminent. The initiation creates an archway that one prepares to pass through to a new manner of knowing and being...
Dreams are 'portals', entrances, preparations, and practices for the next step in consciousness.
Dark man dreams are wake-up calls. They say: Pay attention! Something has gone radically amiss in the outer world... The threat of the 'dark man dreams' serves as a warning to all of us -- if you don't pay
— pages 33-34 — Tags: interesting
According to the Koran, God is the "Best of deceivers". In Chapter 231 of Ibn al-'Arabi's Fuhtat, ("Unveiling"), which is entitled "On Deception", there is a long description of the various forms that God's deception may take. It is said that God's deceptions appear as the "wiles of Satan" and the lower soul...
— page 118 — Tags: interesting
Q: Are there any rituals that can be performed to provide protection for one against intrusion [from the spiritual realm]?
A: Rituals are self-defeating.
Q: Are there any technological means we can use?
A: The only defense needed is knowledge. Knowledge defends you against every possible form of harm in existence. The more knowledge you have, the less fear you have, the less pain you have, the less stress you feel, the less anguish you feel, and the less danger you experience of any form or sort.
— page 125 — Tags: interesting
A: We have given much food for thought in that area to help you learn, to contemplate, to meditate.
Q: It is rather difficult to do that when one is worried about how to keep the lights on and feed the children.
A: That is interesting. You can't meditate or contemplate when you are worried about your next meal. I guess then that this means that no one on third density has ever been able to contemplate or meditate while worrying what was going to be eaten at the next meal. Hmmmmmmm.
Q: The point is that a constant state of worry, another crisis every day, the perpetual worry, eventually wears a person down to the point where one can no longer focus on any other issues.
A: Perhaps one can solve the crisis by focusing on other issues? You see, when you constrict the flow, you constrict the channel. And when you constrict the channel, you close down possibilities. And, you make it difficult, if not impossible for you to see that which is there. In other words, the obvious becomes oblivious because of constriction of the flow.
This is why we have recommended against all rituals, because ritual restricts the flow, thereby restricting the possibilities. And, what you are describing is a situation of "dire straits", as you call it - and pressures of great magnitude - which is restricting you.
But, actually, it is your concentration on same that is restricting, not the situation itself. And we realize that it is difficult for you to focus your attentions, or, more importantly to open up the flow of the channel. But, it is certainly not impossible.
— page 129 — Tags: enlightening, interesting
Folks have a lot of problems in distinguishing between "judgment" and "assessment and personal choice". I can look at and assess any number of things as "negative" and choose to act otherwise, or, in other words, learn to give negativity its "due" by non-participation. But, I don't have to think that I must impose my choice on anyone else, nor do I have to think that the negativity needs to be "fixed" or "done away with". It is the choice of some beings to follow that path. They have the right to choose it just as I have the right to choose what I choose. And, the only way I CAN choose IS TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE! And I cannot know the difference if I do not have the deepest knowledge possible about every aspect of the reality in which I live.
And that is not to say that we can ever fully know the TRUTH. But it is our job to Love the Creator, and we cannot love [the Creator] without KNOWING [the Creator]. When we deny fully half of Creation, we are choosing to love only OUR IMAGE of what the Creator SHOULD be, according to OUR judgment. And by "blocking", or ignoring information that would instruct us about the many Faces of God, we are actually taking action against God. We are judging and carrying out a sentence of exclusion. And that which we exclude from acknowledgement comes back to us over and over again in our lessons in life.
— page 138 — Tags: enlightening, interesting
Information that requires "emotion" to understand is, by definition, distorted. As I have already mentioned, any woman of childbearing age will tell you that emotions are chemical and very definitely "color" how you think. A very "neutral" personality trait that could be described as "slowness to act", can be seen as either commendable caution or cowardice depending on which hormone is in the upper ranges of distribution in the female body at the moment. A mild joke can be funny or tragic depending on what day of the month it is!
— page 150 — Tags: funny, interesting
A: And remember, your consciousness operates on four levels, not just one!
Q: And what are these four levels?
A: Physical body, consciousness, genetic body and spirit-etheric body.
Q: Are those the four composites of the human manifestation in 3rd density?
A: 3rd and 4th.
— page 155 — Tags: interesting
It is good to read and study many things. As a member of our discussion group has said:
So read the Bible. Read the Koran. Read the Three Little Pigs. Read EVERYTHING! You'll be certain to read a lot of silly things, but you'll also stand a chance of seeing bits and pieces of TRUTH.
— page 159 — Tags: interesting
I have two six foot tall, three foot wide, bookcases here in the house filled with what I jokingly refer to as the "Mumbo Jumbo" category. I am not sure what the Dewey decimal system would make of this, but after I read a book, I can generally tell if it goes in that particular section.
— page 181 — Tags: funny
Fusion, inner unity, is obtained by means of "friction", by the struggle between "yes" and "no" in man. If a man lives without inner struggle, if everything happens in him without opposition, if he goes wherever he is drawn or wherever the wind blows, he will remain such as he is.
But if a struggle begins in him, and particularly if there is a definite line in this struggle, then, gradually, permanent traits begin to form themselves, he begins to "crystallize".
But crystallization is possible on a right foundation and it is possible on a wrong foundation. "Friction", the struggle between "yes" and "no", can easily take place on a wrong foundation.
For instance, a fanatical belief in some or other idea, or the "fear of sin", can evoke a terribly intense struggle between "yes" and "no", and a man may crystallize on these foundations. But this would be a wrong, incomplete crystallization. Such a man will not possess the possibility of further development. In order to make further development possible he must be melted down again, and this can be accomplished only through terrible suffering.
Crystallization is possible on any foundation. Take for example a brigand, a really good, genuine brigand. I knew such brigands in the Caucasus. He will stand with a rifle behind a stone by the roadside for eight hours without stirring. Could you do this? All the time, mind you, a struggle is going on in him. He is thirsty and hot and the flies are biting him; but he stands still.
Another is a monk; he is afraid of the devil; all night long he beats his head on the floor and prays. Thus crystallization is achieved.
In such ways people can generate in themselves an enormous inner strength; they can endure torture; they can get what they want. This means that there is now in them something solid, something permanent.
Such people can become immortal. But what is the good of it? A man of this kind becomes an "immortal thing", although a certain amount of consciousness is sometimes preserved in him. But even this, it must be remembered, occurs very rarely.
— page 192 — Tags: enlightening, interesting
I had decided that maybe having a brain was not such a bad thing even if the "faith trip" frowns on using it to any great extent, other than offering it up as a sacrifice to be hypnotized so it can be twisted like a pretzel and used to justify theological nonsense by acts of cerebral derring-do.
— page 279 — Tags: funny
Q: [a correspondent writes]: "I believe that an enlightened being is emanating love wherever that person is, and this is even without being asked. It just happens because that is what they are — love." Comment, please.
A: An enlightened being is not love. And a refrigerator is not a highway.
Q: What?! Talk about your mixed metaphors! I don't get that one!
A: Why not?
Q: They are completely unrelated!
A: Exactly!!
Q: What IS an enlightened being?
A: An enlightened being.
...
A: "Enlightened" does not mean good. Just smart.
— page 44 — Tags: interesting
What is it to judge? To determine the needs of another - and then, to ACT based on that determination. That leads to "sending" some kind of energy - whether it is "love and light", or "turning the other cheek", or preaching to "save" someone - all of those amount to "determining the needs of another", and doing something without having truly, at a soul level, been asked.
Now, a lot of people manipulate in order to get "energy". That is not asking. Begging, pleading, acting pitiful, being helpless or a klutz or a screw-up are all ways of taking energy. And, what is the result if you allow yourself to be manipulated and to give in response to such forms of persuasion?
“... If anything, such an energy transference even could enhance the effect... Imbalanced waves could be drawn upon by the receiver.”
This means, in a very real sense, that much of the activity on this Earth that passes for "benevolent acts" consists in FEEDING...
— page 46 — Tags: enlightening, interesting
But I am a practical person, and finding a balanced merge of cerebration and emotion has been my particular struggle. I have to really control my urge to "give my body up to be burned", to "give all I own to the poor", and to sacrifice myself in any number of ways as a martyr. For me, that is far more difficult than subjecting all of my emotions to one emotion to develop emotional will.
As I have written in Amazing Grace, at a certain point in my life I decided that this "way of the heart" was, indeed, the path for me and I embraced it wholeheartedly. I was 30 years old and pretty worn out from seeking God in knowledge; or at least I wasn't getting anywhere with it that felt satisfying, so the urgings of my (ex) husband to "get back with God" in the old-fashioned, fundamental way were like an anchor beckoning me to "come and rest". So, to put it bluntly, I plunged headfirst into the "faith trip".
Not being one to do anything halfway, I put all thinking aside, all knowledge aside, and essentially submitted myself, willingly and by choice to believe that "faith would take me home". To make the point of how effective this was accomplished, I will share a funny event.
In the early days of this "plunge", I was sitting in church with my (ex) husband and children. I was observing the order of the service, the standing up, sitting down, turning to page so-and-so to sing a hymn, the kneeling and praying and so forth. I realized suddenly, from my training as a hypnotherapist, that this whole process was a form of hypnosis. In studying mass or group hypnosis, we had been taught about what is called the "Yes set". The yes set is designed to put people into a mild trance state, to entrain their brain function, and to make them receptive to the deepening of the trance and any suggestions that follow. It is accomplished by getting a group of people to either respond "yes" to a series of questions, or to get them to comply with a series of innocuous requests. In doing so, they "give their will" to the person making the request.
One way this works for "charismatic" public speakers is for them to deliberately pose several questions in a row (at least three) that they are certain everyone, or most everyone, will agree with. For example: a politician might begin his campaign speech with these three questions:
"Are you tired of high taxes?"
"Have you had enough of crime and violence in this country?"
"Is everyone tired of spending their hard earned dollars for less and less every week?"
Hardly anyone would disagree with any of these questions. But, by agreeing with them, by saying "yes" three times in a row - even if only mentally - the first stage of induction has just been accomplished!
So, there I was, realizing that what was being done in this church - and churches around the world and down through the centuries - was that people were being hypnotized. So, what did I think about this? Well, since I had decided to "take the plunge", I decided that it was okay because it was hypnosis for the RIGHT reasons! Yup! That's me talking there! When I do something, I go ALL the way!
Immediately, my life began to fall apart.
— pages 225-226 — Tags: enlightening, interesting
I understood that the poverty of my life, the torment and the suffering, the loss of things I loved, and the many related and complex events were an expression of my actual state of being the poverty of my knowledge relative to what I was capable of knowing. When I plunged headfirst into "Faith without knowledge/works" I was choosing death, for "faith without works is... dead."
But what were these works? What was it that God gives liberally and ungrudgingly? Knowledge.
For that which is known about God, is evident to them [man] and made plain in their inner consciousness; because God has shown it to them. For, ever since the creation of the world, His invisible nature and attributes have been made intelligible and clearly discernible in and through the things that have been made - His handiwork. [Amplified, Zondervan]
According to the Sufi perspective, There is no God but God and knowledge concerns itself with knowing God. But in order to gain knowledge of God, it is necessary to utilize the intermediary of creation, which is, in fact, the purpose of all that exists. It not only IS God, it is the path to God. It is incumbent upon the seeker to learn all he can with a view toward God. All things must be gathered into the knowledge base of the Seeker and be taken back to God exactly as described in the Parable of the Talents.
To NOT work as diligently as possible to know God through the creation - and that includes all branches of knowledge and art and craft - is defined by the apostle [James] as passing judgment on God.
... And so, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God or approve of Him or consider Him worth knowing... [His invisible nature and attributes have been made intelligible and clearly discernible in and through the things that have been made - His handiwork.] O man, whoever you are who judges and condemns another... for n posing as judge and passing sentence on another you condemn yourself, because you who judge are habitually practicing the very same things that you censure and denounce... [Amplified, Zondervan]
This seems to be precisely what I experienced. I dove into the faith/love and light trip and all Hell broke loose!
— pages 234-235 — Tags: interesting
I believe that when we speak of UFO sightings as instances of space visitations we are looking at the phenomenon at the wrong level. We are not dealing with successive waves of visitation from space. We are dealing with a control system.
The thermostats that regulate your house temperature summer and winter are an example of a control system. In summer, a thermostat allows air to get warmer until a certain limit is reached, an then the cooling system is triggered. But in winter, when the outside atmosphere turns cold and the temperature drops below another limit, a different mechanism, the heater, comes into play and warms the house. A naive observer might try to explain all this by assuming that warm is "good" and cold is "bad". He or she would be right half of the time. Another naive observer of the opposite school might take a reversed view and decide that warm is "evil". He or she would also be right half the time. To understand the whole phenomenon one needs a grasp of the control concept, and one must be ready to understand that it needs two opposite principles for its function.
I propose that there is a spiritual control system for human consciousness and those paranormal phenomena like UFOs are one of its manifestations. I cannot tell whether this control is natural and spontaneous; whether it is explainable in terms of genetics, or social psychology, or of ordinary phenomena - or if it is artificial in nature, under the power of some superhuman will. It may be entirely determined by laws that we have not yet discovered.
I am led to this idea by the fact that, in every instance of the UFO phenomenon I have been able to study in depth, I have found as many rational elements as absurd ones, as many that I could call friendly as I could call hostile. This is what tells me that we are working on the wrong level. And so are all the believers, and this definitely includes the skeptics, because they believe they can explain the facts as strongly as the most enthusiastic convert to Ms. Dixon's vision of Jupiterian Amazons!
There are ways to gain access to the reference level of every control system. Even a child, if smart or daring enough, can climb on a chair, change the dial of a thermostat, and elicit a response. (The response in question might be a sound spanking from his father, of course. The road to higher knowledge has such accidents.) It must be possible to gain access to the control system of the UFO phenomenon, to forget the spirits and the pranks and the claims of extraterrestrial contact, and do some real science. But it will take a very smart approach - and a very daring one.
... A newspaper column commented upon the apparent lack of reality of the whole UFO phenomenon: "It does not attack us. It does not affect our daily lives. It does not help us with our many problems. It has brought us nothing of value. It may have scared a few folks here and there, but then so do thunder storms and tornadoes. The whole thing, as a social issue, is of no consequence whatsoever." The journalist who wrote this column was superficially right, of course. But he forgot another fact:
... If UFOs are acting at the mythic and spiritual level it will be almost impossible to detect it by conventional methods.
... UFOs cannot be analyzed through the standard research techniques, if they are the means through which man's concepts are being rearranged. All we can do is trace their effects on humans and hope that we eventually stumble on some principle that explains their behavior.
What is the variable being controlled in this control system? Thermostats control temperature; gyroscopes control the direction in which a rocket flies. What could a paranormal phenomenon control? I suggest that it is human belief that is being controlled and conditioned.
My speculation is that a level of control of society exists which is a regulator of human development, and that the UFO phenomenon should be seen at this level.
— pages 240-241, containing this quotation from Dimensions: A Casebook of Alient Contact, by Jacques Vallee — Tags: interesting
The dark man dream tells a person what predicament they are facing. The dream tells about a cruel attitude towards the dreamer. Like Bluebeard's wife, the dreamer can consciously gain hold of the 'key' question about this matter and answer it honestly, and can then be set free...
The dark man appears in dreams when an initiation - a psychic change from one level of knowing and behavior to another more energetic level of knowledge and action is imminent. The initiation creates an archway that one prepares to pass through to a new manner of knowing and being...
Dreams are 'portals', entrances, preparations, and practices for the next step in consciousness.
Dark man dreams are wake-up calls. They say: Pay attention! Something has gone radically amiss in the outer world... The threat of the 'dark man dreams' serves as a warning to all of us -- if you don't pay
— pages 33-34 — Tags: interesting
July 19, 2020
Re-read this one last month. Gets better every time!
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