The Age of Aquarius

You can ask an Angel for help to solve a problem in your life.

Thinking about Angels it might be most of the time a vision of a beautifull powerfull Creature  'up there'  in the highest dimensions. How big is your multi dimensional Universe?

Them Being far away 'up there' or we getting some help maybe in a nearby future here would mean they're not with us right now & here. It can feel that way sometimes but realy, you think you managed all the way through your life without any help at all?

The Cosmic Shift, Unconscious Crazies and Moving Forward

There’s a lot of very interesting information available on this transition we’re going through and with many interpretations, and some great advice on how to manage these vibrational changes.

My personal take is to stay very alert and aware on every front, most of all with my thoughts and feelings, remaining the observer monitoring what’s going on within and without me.

Don’t ever forget, your very thoughts and feelings at times may not even be your own but tainted by ingrained programming or some morphed projection from these both occult and hyper-technological insanely driven would-be controllers to steer humanity.

This is especially dangerous when our guards are down.

For me staying on alert also means keeping abreast of the news, the real news. It’s watching for trends, not just in the NWO rollout or political news, but following earth and space changes is very important. How our planet and solar system are behaving is intrinsic to getting a deeper sense of the energetic changes we’re undergoing. And sensing the spiritual changes around you is also imperative, much of which is intuitive.

Close communication via regular networking with other awake and aware activists is one of your best resources for keeping your finger on the pulse and grasping the big picture. Once you get rounded well-sourced information on our fluctuating condition the dots connect.

But we have to keep at it, especially now.

Real information is everything. It’s our spiritual food. Either we’re getting the adulterated stuff or we’re getting real nourishment. It makes a world of difference in how we feel and think and affects the very course of our lives and hence the rest of humanity since we each affect everything so profoundly. I avoid raw TV almost entirely and keep it unplugged.  It’s toxic and completely destructive. If there’s something worth watching as in breaking news, fine. But generally you’ll find what you’re looking for on the net where you can be in control of it. If you have to watch anything, limit it carefully and always mute the advertisements, hopefully instinctively.


It’s all part of remaining vigilant and detoxed. It all adds up. Same with steering clear of EMF pollution and using protective devices, changing out CFL bulbs, buying organic etc.

Conscious, Observant Living Is A Must – Beware the Unconscious Crazies

Learning to listen to our hearts, our real consciousness that taps into the central Source, and observe from that point is the key. As things start to pick up more speed as they are now this will be more and more important when mental processes become increasingly affected.

The mind is much like the computer that is susceptible to an EMP blast, a large electromagnetic pulse; the same kind that can stop your computer controlled car, all electrical supply and appliances and shut down the grid. The heart, however, your conscious spirit, only revels in the additional energetic bursts and will never let you down!

Now that’s empowerment – but we have to be careful.

We need to watch out for erratic behavior.

People are going to start unraveling before our eyes. Many will have psychotic type reactions to these vibrational changes especially as the matrix degrades into chaos, and we need to be wary wherever we are. As the system crumbles and basic needs become scarce this will get magnified many times over.

Society as we knew it will morph quickly so being centered and preparing those around us is imperative. It will not be nice, nor make “sense”.

It’s a very sad reality but we need to be on our toes. People may not be as they “seem” to be, nor as you would like to believe they are or “could” be. And there will be no rational control over them. This will include many of your relatives and loved ones. Not a lot will make sense as things come apart at the seams.

We who are awakened and aware of the greater depths of reality and where this all fits in the cosmic and otherwise scheme of things understand.

They don’t. Nor are they willing to accept a greater truth or reference point.

Hence: We’ll be witnessing some crazy behavior, to keep it colloquial. Psychologically and spiritually it’s much, much deeper.


Make Friends and Help Each Other

This dynamic has changed my life and many that of many others. I spend almost my full waking time on the internet and otherwise discussing in every medium possible with loved ones and targeted movers and shakers about what’s going on. There is so much to learn and there are so many amazing wonderful people who have been researching and compiling empowering information I just don’t have time for anything else. I get my walk and take breaks but it’s my full time passion because it to me is the essence of what’s happening and where I can best help and be the most effective.

Contributing to this massive wake up is all that really matters to me.

I’m a communicator. And I’m not afraid to ask questions, or to thank and try to help those who have contributed so much to this truth revolution. This has led to the best friendships of my life. I wrote to others like myself how many of us seem to be alone when in reality we’re most likely where we’re supposed to be, yet we’re united in spirit.

I received many touching comments to that post as it apparently resonated with quite a few people. Many also said they don’t mind the isolation. That’s the world they work and learn best in, and I relate to that. Most of the people I correspond with are the same. We savor conscious awareness and spreading it and helping to empower the changes we’re led to contribute to. It’s an act of love that gives tremendous satisfaction that at least we’re doing what we can.

And we do the same in our daily interactions.

These friendships that have come with meeting fellow activists are the best. They’re almost like broadening your antenna array to where you can pick up clearer signals and bounce your “readings” off those you love and trust. So often a little inkling or sensation or an email and link from a friend or comment on my site can lead to new realms of understanding and even new researchers and whole areas you weren’t aware of and a fresh re-synthesizing of what you’ve come to learn.

It’s just fabulous.

But we have to reach out.

 Conclusion – Activate or Else

These energetic changes accompanying this huge scale awakening are not the answer. We are the answer. Those they affect who in turn willingly transform and pass it on, helping others understand and utilize what’s going on, are the answer.

You and me.

With or without any new cosmic or otherwise energies, combined with all we’re co-experiencing, our mission is the same. And what a great time to be alive as this awakening and all its accompanying energies unfold. Good for conscious  humanity, but bad for the matrix whose minions are scared to death of what’s happening.

This is why we’re seeing the frantic implementation of the control system. Poor puny bastards. It’s like a bucket of water on a raging forest fire. Sorry guys, you’ve already lost. You really think you can fight the Truth? C’mon.

But we do need to keep exposing them so others can see through their false projection and find empowering Truth and Reality for themselves.


Keep On!

We’re here to act out our mission, however we’re each called. We can follow, we can lead. We can sit by the wayside.

I don’t personally condone non-action in the least. We need to be conscious responders. Not inexcusable idiots. That’s thoroughly pathetic. I think we’ve all been through enough of that..and so have the enslaved.

Raise your voice.

Radiate your energy and the change any way you can!

Love, Zen

6 Tips To Live A Zen Lifestyle

Wisdom can often be very simple, but at the same time, putting it into practice isn’t always as easy. That’s OK! Have a laugh about it and keep going!

For some of us, we live in a fast paced world, for others we make time to relax and enjoy the sunset. In either case, it’s easy to lose sight of the simple wisdom in life and fall into some habits that keep us out of peace. Fear not! Here are 6 quick tips you can throw into action so you can make your way to a more Zen-like lifestyle.

Remember: Practicing the wisdom is everything!


1. Stop Comparing
Comparing yourself, your situation, your actions and your achievements to others is a sure fire way to play in ego and create suffering. When we compare, we open up the need to feel lack and begin feeling like whatever we might have or don’t have is not good enough or better than someone else. Either way, at that point we stop seeing everything for what it is and it’s easy to not respect the path of others and ourselves.

2. Stop Judging
How often are you walking down the street, hanging with friends or watching something on TV and you realize you are judging so much of what you are seeing? Whether its people’s actions, the way they dress, the words they use, their jobs etc. it’s very easy to get caught up in judging all of it. Do you notice that judging never FEELS good inside? Sure we might try to make ourselves feel better with it but in the end the energy of judgment is heavy. Cut down on judgment and notice how much better you feel. If you feel the need to judge, ask yourself why you are judging something in the first place.

3. Stop Worrying
Worry is an interesting thing as we so often associate it with meaning when we care about or love someone or something. Worry comes from fear and a need to feel in control.  Worrying not only creates a heavy energy within ourselves but it also surrounds the situation. Do you ever notice that we can worry about something for days on end only to realize that in the end the result didn’t even matter? Most of what we spend so much time worrying about is never as bad as we think once the time comes. In fact, it is generally much better than we thought. What’s the purpose of worry? There is none, so kick the habit and let things be.

4. Stop Blaming
Sometimes it’s easier to feel like a victim vs. taking responsibility for where we are at. Blaming can be a key part of our ego’s defence in protecting itself from others judging us or even us judging ourselves. When we blame we tend not to look at the root cause of why we might be feeling the way we do. Instead of blaming, turn the pointing finger inward and look at why you might have created a situation for yourself. What lesson can be learned here?

5. Stop Competing
Competition can be fun when we are not attached to results; that’s the true spirit of coming together to play or compete in something. But when we begin to care about results and when our actions become infused with the need for the best result, we begin to bring in the ego’s sometimes vicious need to compete in everything. Jobs, conversations, being better than others etc. this is all setting us up for actions that create separation and judgment of others. Regardless of what the ruthless “success” world likes to teach at times, this type of competition sets us up for suffering as it stems directly from ego.

6. Have a Laugh!
One of the easiest ways to not have joy in your life is to take things too seriously. Whether it’s personal growth or how our life plays out, let things unfold and be! The more seriously we treat everything the easier it is to miss out on the fun that goes with the entire journey. Whether your trying to implement the wisdom from the list above or trying to do something you’ve always wanted to, have a laugh with the journey and the results. Don’t let life become too serious.

Of course this list is not useful if we simply read it and say “Ya, I know all that.” We need to take things and truly implement them into our lives. Knowing something is one thing, wisdom is doing it. Be the change.

Did something not make the list that you feel is utterly important for finding peace? Share it in the comments below!

Joe Martino

Accelerating Our Collective Emergence into a New Paradigm

While a few hundred years ago there were a handful of luminaries shining their light on the waters of human conscious awareness, today there are thousands upon thousands. 

I remember 7 years ago I had to practically go on a wild goose chase to “find the others” and now I see so many awakened intentional evolutionaries that it’s truly inspiring and hope-inducing.

The continuing emergence of a global consciousness — zeroed in on balance, harmony, and coherence with all living systems (which includes each other, nature and beyond) — within an increasingly-growing number of people is almost surreal. The shift has/is happening so fast, perhaps in order to match the unparalleled destruction that has been happening to the one habitable home we have, and to the physical/mental/emotional/spiritual well-being of humanity.

These points of positive emergence should bring us great hope about the future and inspire us to help anchor in the new paradigm because we are all in this thing called Life together, without exception!

Sure, we can focus on all the terrifying and devastating things that are still happening on the planet and in society but if we’re perpetually locked in on those things we will develop a tunnel-like awareness where we only see the state of the world as getting worse and worse, turning us into cynical and depressed clouds of negativity. Ignoring either the constructive or destructive things occurring is unhelpful in creating a bright future for humanity. Our individual actions collectively decide our fate.

Are we going to leave the fate of humanity in the hands of a few narcissistic and maladjusted manipulators or will we say enough is enough and put things back in alignment with the environment, reason and unity?

Let’s help promote the realization that Earth is everyone’s home, a place which we can make into a paradise instead of letting it become a hellscape because of actions that completely disregard the fine mesh and web of all life – plant, animal, and otherwise. read more

The Four Agreements – A Path to a Peaceful, Fulfilling Life

The knowledge of the four agreements comes from The Tolec, who lived thousands of years ago in southern Mexico. 

They were a ‘tribe’ of scientists and artists that explored spiritual knowledge and practices. Called naguals, the Tolec masters conserved this knowledge – the Tolec code of conduct – which holds the wisdom of transforming a person’s life to true happiness and freedom. This code is now available to the world in a little book called The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz which could transform your life.

“What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream.” – The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz


The Domestication of Humans

All the rules in our mind are introduced to us as children and they are taught to us through repetition. What you believe is acceptable is based upon the rules you’ve learned throughout your life. Everything that you’ve learned, including ever word and every letter, is an agreement that you’ve made. Many of the agreements by which you live – your religion, your language, your values, your morals – were established before you were born and passed down to you during childhood. To a point that you are willing to believe unconditionally in some things that you’ve never seen with your own eyes or experienced personally.

During this process of domestication, we create in our minds “a Book of Law” which dictates our truths, and based on these beliefs we start to judge…ourselves, others and the world around us. Our inner Judge can be especially self critical. It judges actions, thoughts, feelings…everything. It rewards…but it also punishes. Your Book of Law and all the beliefs contained within, rule your reality – or what you think reality should be like – even though you often did not choose them. They rule your dream.


Changing Your Dream Takes Courage

The process of domestication has left us with a picture of what we think is ‘perfection.’ Different to everyone, it is the set of characteristics, values and mannerisms that we think will make us acceptable to others around us. Our inner judge is often quite brutal if we don’t live up to a picture of our idea perfection. We start to experience envy, hate and jealousy. We abuse ourselves. We lament. We suffer. We become a victim of our own belief system. But have you considered that your expectations are unrealistic?

“…nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves, and it is the Judge, the Victim, and the belief system that make us do this.”

When your beliefs – your agreements – are challenged, you are likely to experience fear, anger, anxiety, confusion, discomfort, guilt or shame, etc. Hence confronting your own belief system takes courage and strong will. But the Tolecs believe that a path to a peaceful, fulfilling life is possible for anyone willing to challenge their beliefs by following the four agreements discussed below:


The First Agreement

“The first agreement is the most important one and also the most difficult one to honor. It is so important that with just this first agreement you will be able to transcend to the level of existence I call heaven on earth. The first agreement is be impeccable with your word.”

“Word” is all expression, all communication, whether it is spoken, written, expressed, gestured, thought – inwardly or outwardly. It manifests itself into all that we see, do and experience. With each word you can manipulate a person into action – good or bad – that could influence entire populations. When you are impeccable with your word, you stop expressing anything that goes against yourself. When you are impeccable with your word, you act out of love and kindness. You use your energy to do good, impact others positively, and start being loving to yourself. You have a choice if you want to say negative things, gossip, cast ugly “spells”, or if you become impeccable with your word. Once your word is impeccable, it is more difficult for others to cast dark spells on you with their words because you are more aware. The negativity of others starts to no longer affect you.

“The word is pure magic – the most powerful gift we have as humans…”


The Second Agreement

“The next three agreements are really born from the first agreement. The second agreement is don’t take anything personally.”

People say and do things because of what is happening with them – we all have our own inner world. If you take things personally, you start to believe that what others say to you is truth. This can make you easy prey for emotional predators who like to send poison to others. If you stop taking things personally, you are no longer easy prey…you can even become immune to this poison. This is the gift of this agreement.

We can also apply this agreement to the voices in our own mind. Most of us have suffered inner conflict, but with this agreement, we start evaluate all of the agreements we’ve made with ourselves. By not taking things personally, we stop reinforcing inner suffering.

“Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.”


The Third Agreement

“The third agreement is don’t make assumptions.”

Are you ready to get rid of the sadness and drama in your life? Then stop making assumptions! Stop creating truths in your mind that are just your interpretations of situations. Or perhaps a more appropriate word is misinterpretations. Assumptions are often our effort to fulfill certain expectations, fill our desire to know and understand, and take the place of actual communication. This applies to our own mind as well, with more inner conflict created by assumptions.

“The day you stop making assumptions you will communication cleanly and clearly, free of emotional poison.”


The Fourth Agreement

“The fourth agreement is about the action of the first three: Always do your best.”

By following this agreement, you can find a life balance where you will enjoy most things you do. If you do your best, then you are more likely to accept yourself for who you are. And here you have to realize: your best fluctuates. If you are ill, you may not be as patient as when you are feeling great. If you are tired, you may get your feelings hurt more easily versus when you are well rested. Action upon ideas is part of manifesting your ideas and seeing results in the process of transforming your life into a beautiful dream.

“…forget everything you have learned in your whole life. This is the beginning of a new understanding, a new dream.”

Source:   The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz

About the Author

Anna Hunt is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com and an entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in research and editorial writing. She and her husband run a preparedness e-store outlet at www.offgridoutpost.com, offering GMO-free storable food and emergency kits. Anna is also a certified Hatha yoga instructor at Atenas Yoga. She enjoys raising her children and being a voice for optimal human health and wellness. Read more of her excellent articles here.


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9 Key Components of the Shift Towards Higher Consciousness

Facing considerable political, economic, social and ecological crises, the human race is desperate for a transformation and a new direction. 

Business as usual ensures that we are doomed to run a course of half-conscious self-destruction, as man-made catastrophes multiply and stress mounts in every aspect of life. We must overthrow our ignorance, as it has become a fearful master, goading us into war, pollution, waste and exploitation.

The social problems and entrenched patterns at the source of global issues are too vast and complex to be solved at the personal level, yet, paradoxically, the personal transformation of the individual offers a lonesome opportunity to avert the catastrophes we are engineering for ourselves. Human consciousness has a critical role to play in our collective destiny and there is a seismic shift occurring here that is creating a rising class of conscious people better equipped than ever to deal with such a chaotic environment.

The shift. It is the dramatic re-ordering of one’s psyche, producing changes that greatly benefit the body, mind and spirit. It is marked by considerable expansion of awareness of the inner spaces of mind and heart, and of the inter-dependent nature of all things. It is a reconstruction of one’s life and purpose rebuilt on a foundation of truth, peace, strength and flexibility, and it is brought about by a laborious and sufferable process of reflection and self-realization. The end result of the shift is the experience of a new, world-centric perspective on life, the reclamation of mental and physical health, and the discovery of the strength, courage and fearlessness needed to wade through these interesting times.

Personal evolution is both the great duty and the great joy of all human beings and is a process of divine significance, frequently unfolding in overlapping stages and related developments. Here are 9 key components of the shift commonly experienced by evolving people, not necessarily occurring in a particular order.

1. Contemporary Consciousness – The mass consciousness of production, consumption, submission and nihilism is where the shift begins. This is the consensus trance that we have been programmed to accept as real life, while obediently serving our worst interests without examination or question. Contemporary consciousness is acquiescence to insanity for the sake of convenience. Breaking through contemporary consciousness is to strike the very root of our global dilemma. Numb, drugged, and senseless, this level of consciousness is a psychic plague blotting out our potential.

2. A Distrubance in the Force – Like a canary in a coal mine, a warning appears from somewhere, grabbing our attention, rattling our confidence, pulling us out of our tunnel vision. Some small piece of information gathered from the alternative press or from a documentary film eats at our understanding of how the world is set up, and the shift begins. This sets the stage for a deep and serious personal crises to erupt, and often engages a ferocious drive for knowledge and truth.

3. An Introspective Quest for Knowledge & Truth - Knowledge and information are the fuel for personal transformation. Once awakened, our natural draw towards truth and justice calls us to consider new ideas and outside perspectives as we search for a new bearing in a crumbling understanding of the world. Introspection reveals answers to never-before asked questions and the accompanying interest in ‘alternative’ information and ideas provides answers that profoundly contradict contemporary consciousness. Once this quest is initiated the world never again looks the same.

4. The Dark Night of the Soul – The disturbance begins to conflict with contemporary consciousness so severely that the amount of cognitive dissonance required to adhere to the status quo life manifests materially as serious personal mental and physical health crises. The foundation for this catastrophic and catalyzing series of events has been under construction for most of life up to this point, and as such, the mind, body and spirit can be forced to endure unimaginable lows as the entire sum and meaning of one’s existence is smashed and broken to pieces under the weight of one’s denial about their complicity in their own self-destruction.

This is the ultimate test. To pass it one must endure the pain to the ultimate degree, and simply not give up. For many, the dark night of the soul lasts for years, marking the most serious, frightening and life-changing phase of life. Succumbing to the suffering here means giving in to total annihilation and choosing the path of serious self-deceit, total submission to ego and to false authority, addiction, reckless endangerment of the self, suicide, overdose, etc.

5. Discovery of Real Medicine – Something helps us through this crisis by easing the pain of our suffering, gently re-building positive energy and providing sufficient distraction while the body and spirit begin to reclaim health. Medicine here is not pharmaceutical, but therapeutical, and can come in the form of an artistic endeavor or exercise, or better yet, an intense study of an esoteric healing physical art like Qi Gong, Yoga, Kung Fu, meditation, and so on. Medicine may also be found amongst healers, therapists, shaman, or even plant medicines like Ayahuasca and Iboga. Finding the activity or experience that nudges you away from the brink of destruction and towards healing is a critical component of the shift.

6. Purification and Detox – Along the quest for knowledge we discover the toxic nature of our processed and sedentary lifestyle and realize the need for detox and purification. Learning about fluoride, heavy metals, GMO’s and the poisons in our food reveals the link between our emotional state, stress levels, well-being and conscious awareness. A new relationship with food is developed and taking care of the body and health gradually becomes easier.

Our toxic environment also includes our social atmosphere and here we are compelled to tune out of mainstream media, conversation and logic, purging ourselves of the garbage that so many people consider important. Our consumption of mainline ideas is reduced and our mind regains a footing of independence in a sea of sensationalized conformity.

7. Re-thinking of Authority, Dependence and Liberty – As the detox pushes older versions of the self out of the way, rejuvenating the psyche, a new picture of the self emerges in a world that no longer looks anything like it did before. The designs of control and manipulation governing our social institutions and traditions are rightfully exposed as farcical constructs that deter our evolution, while modern politics and government are understood to be laughable traps of dependence and deceit and therefore no longer beneficial to positive growth. The people that invest their lives and identities in these schemes seem desperate and needy of purpose, fanatical and outrageously too certain and too serious about life.

Non-conformity and non-compliance become moral obligations and liberty is revalued to include freedom from living in the fear-based consciousness offered as the default way of life. Ordinary people seem strange now in how they self-organize into ridiculous pecking orders, squabbling for position at work and submitting to any ‘authority figure’ with a badge and cheap uniform. It becomes clear that freedom has less to do with laws and more to do with voluntary submission, and liberty becomes a constant struggle to decrease dependence on the systems that complicate life.

8. Letting Go of and Discarding that Which Does Not Serve – In order to move through the process of transformation, it is absolutely necessary to jettison the things, people, relationships, habits, and ideas which no longer serve and support us. Human beings energetically interact with the objects and people in our environment, and eliminating and purging sources of stagnant energy and negativity creates space for new experience and inspiration to enter and flow into life. This is one of the most renewing components in this transformation.

9. Initiation into Mystery - Material science and mainstream thought exclude forms of mystery and paranormal activity from consideration in our culture, therefore making an initiation into the world of the unexplainable a common feature of the shift. For some reason, as a person changes in this fashion, strange and fascinating events occur that chip away at the certainties that support consensus material reality. Synchronicities emerge and moments of clarity give greater meaning to the mundane. Awareness of the subtle life force energy, Qi or Prana, develops, and ancient modalities of thought and concentration elicit strangely powerful revelations. Once the veil of the rigid scientific mindset is pierced, intuition and curiosity flourish and one re-assesses the potential in all things and in all circumstances, abandoning certainty in favor of wonder. Life becomes at sacred, as it should be.


Conclusion

The shift is nothing short of total personal revolution, and signals the re-organization of the mind and psyche for the benefit of the individual and the collective. It is about remembering who we are and overcoming the momentous inertia of the self-destructive programming in our modern world.Coming to extra-ordinary consciousness and awareness from the depths of the contemporary trance that sickens so many people is a process compelled by both natural forces and personal will and is part of our unique journey towards individuation, freedom, and happiness in this amazing world, at this incredible time.

If you have anything of value to add to this list, please do so in the comments section below.


About the Author

Dylan Charles is a student and teacher of Shaolin Kung Fu, Tai Chi and Qi Gong, a practitioner of Yoga and Taoist esoteric arts, and an activist and idealist passionately engaged in the struggle for a more sustainable and just world for future generations. He is the editor of WakingTimes.com, the proprietor of OffgridOutpost.com, a grateful father and a man who seeks to enlighten others with the power of inspiring information and action. His remarkable journey of self-transformation is a testament to the power of the will and the persistence of the human spirit. He may be contacted at wakingtimes@gmail.com.

Taking Action – The Shortcut to Now

I’m the first to admit it seems to be tough to get off our butts sometimes and do or be what’s right. It’s a continual struggle. We’re all human and have the same battles, trials, tests and temptations.

The really ironic thing is that when we’re struggling we’re missing the point right out of the gate.

When we’re struggling it’s time to transcend what’s going on around us and get conscious. When we respond consciously it immediately gets easier. While being fully here and Now is the objective and this realization is complete unto itself, there’s a very practical daily path that leads to fully living this realization and all the life changes it implicates.

And it should rock your world – or you may not be getting the full message. The last thing I want to do is over-spiritualize our situation. We need to take action and now.


Always More Than Meets the Eye

Obviously there’s a lot we’re not consciously aware of. And while it’s good to learn more continually, it’s not what should be our main motivation. Our driving force is spiritual breath and existing and acting responsibly to consciousness. Being as fully awake and aware as possible and experiencing the infinite cosmos to its deepest depth one day at a time is our enlightened life.  All else will be fulfilled in its time, but nothing is important enough to postpone living consciously.

What that means to each of us individually is our unique experience. Especially when we find out the radical changes and responsibilities that come with it and we have to make some serious decisions. Hence the challenge to find that out for ourselves, which then needs to be accompanied by a full willingness to go with wherever the awakening takes our souls.

Up to it? Sorry, you’re stuck with it!


Awareness – and Action

Some more irony to keep in mind. We’re already where we’re supposed to be. Getting to now is simply realizing you’re already in it and expanding within the moment. The answers we seek are within us. When it comes to necessary actions such as disentangling from contracts with the matrix be they spiritual, social or literal, the action is made when the decision is reached. The rest just follows.

It’s getting fully in the Now where we’ll find the clarity to make conscious assessments and decisions and maintain our daily being where we are.

We’ve been actively full time disengaging almost 6 years, getting every little tentacle and spider’s web detached from the existence that is my life. But it all happened when I made the decision to fully disengage. The rest just followed. Getting rid of wrong attachments does take time in most cases, since we’re so flipping registered and seemingly bound with all their damned paperwork and the stuff we accumulate, never mind the social contracts. But do it we must.

In reality it’s all bullshit but cutting the ties does need to be done, stuff needs to be jettisoned, and your new more mobile “backpack” has to be carefully planned and packed with what you do need in order to carry on. And it’s way better to have it done now than have to do it under duress…or even worse perhaps not be able to escape the snare of the matrix when it starts contracting on you.

The wonderful thing is we’ve been having a blast during the whole process, already doing what we love to do without waiting for some future set up, and knowing each step we’re right where we’re supposed to be. Part of that for us is staying on the move, enjoying new sights and meeting new, wonderful people and sharing what we’re learning and learning from others as we go!


Welcome–or Beware–the Accountability Factor

One of the biggest factors to me is accountability. When anyone has been confronted with any real Truth, they are now put on notice. This is especially true when the Truth is made so screamingly clear with the passion and love and commitment of so many of today’s Truth warriors. read more

The journey begins

For those who seek Joy, Happiness, Bliss, Compassion & Love in their lives, continue reading.

Albert Einstein once said: "You cannot solve a problem with the same level of consciousness that created it."

Many seekers tried for ages to alter their consciousness or simply try to change their lifes. With good results, if we understand the words of Buddha, JC & others well...

If you start this journey it will be your choice to do so. While reading this you probably realize that you've made that choice already.
Even better if your search & resque mission for yourself has already begun a while ago, most likely it's even expanded to help other people, animals & plants.

At some point in your life you realize that the outside world doesn't provide you with the happy feelings, not even from people you love. Can't blame them...
There's a gap. To fill that gap you can argue, beg, shout & even do worse things to the world.
That probably didn't work too well all the time, did it?


The Journey begins

You can say a Prayer now and then and you've probably already made a wish or two sometimes in the past, for changes in your life.

These results from the prayer/wishingswitch -you turn on now & then- can be related to 'the secret'.
The real secret is that there is no switch to turn it 'on'. Well, I don't even know how to turn it off...

Your wishfull thinking is already constantly working for you, your whole life. It's already happening in your life & mind by your thoughts & intentions.
The time between you're thinking something & experiencing that in your life is to be closely observed by you. It's just a timedelay.

Slowly you take more care of what you think & wish for. Adjusting your intentions & thoughts slightly probably now & then. As your world expands...
Confusing can be the realisation that you feel separated from family, friends or nature & life at all. At some point you start to communicate with them in another way.
Sure there are moments of despair, loneliness & loss of control over your life. That's part of the game. Accept it in the process of who you are going to become.

Your life experiences are like day & night, yin & yang and ups & downs but eventually you're graduating slowly. That graduatingprocess is a cyclic process what you're experiencing all your life already.
Thoughts & emotions are now in your toolkit ready for use when you need them. Being the Master of it. Pushing the buttons as you wish. You simply choose what to think of or what emotion you wish to experience. Turn it on/off as you wish.

Suddenly you realize that it was YOU -the Master with compassion- you were waiting for.

Then you realize more & more that with great power comes greater responsability & you're feeling better and more relaxed in daily life -probably living then in abundance.
As you receive more of the things you need in your life you can feel the need to give some of it away to those creatures who need it and show people how life can be.
That's where the hapinessfeeling inside of you comes from. Then you feel blessed that you're capable  of doing this. Other living beings nééd you.
And you need them.

Remembering walking in nature feeling one with it all and in total peace?
Now try falling from an airplane's open door with nothing more than a backpack on. I did that 12 times and died almost twice from a crash & a drowning.
The feeling of flying is unbelievable and it doesn't end there. The world of your reality turns upside down and flips from left to right all the time.
It's overwhelming to feel ALL different emotions at once, thinking of everyting at the same time & realize it's all in your hands.
It can be scary sometimes to walk and feel like flying at the same time.
But it's a joyfull feeling.


Where do we go?

When a significant amount of people on Earth start using their 'toolkit', there's no other possibility than that we turn this planet into one giant small town where we all take good care of eachother.

If Heaven has always been a place far away and something for your near future maybe...
Now when do you decide then that you're already in it? Next year?  Never? Someday? Tomorrrow?


Your journey has begun.
It's already happening.
Fasten seatbelts & enjoy the ride !


Boddhi

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Symptoms Of Spiritual Awakening

Brunette wings

Its quiet here this morning, and cooler.  The birds are not calling to each other, but chirping amongst themselves.  A hawk soars overhead while the cicadas are silent.  In the distance there are storm clouds.  All seems not waiting so much as watching… what is coming is gonna be wild.  

The preparations have been made.  There’s not much to say to each other now, we are down to the doing.  By all reports we are feeling isolated yet no longer confused; we know who we are and what we came to do.  What burns through us now is a knowing.  The truth of who you are has spoken.  Whispered or shouted it rings in your ears.  Pay attention.

We are integrating.  It may feel like oil and vinegar.  You can swish them together for something unique and yummy, but if left to sit, they will separate.  Action is necessary for creation.  We are here to DO.

Until recently, we’ve relied on our tool kit.  Carefully constructed, it has served us well, fortifying our false self.  We know each piece intimately.  Today though, as we face the same relationships and situations, these tools rest heavy in our hands.  They are awkward, unnatural even.

We look around, there is an empty box – this kit is brand new.  It is up to us to fill it.  What we select depends on who we choose to build.  Our tools now must enhance our attitude.  Our core essence will not be denied.  Oh, we can try, because in the moment the familiar seems easier.  Yet the familiar yields no satisfaction.  We require the tools of a Master.  We’ve been waiting a life time to use them.

There are others out there, fellow artisans, who will point you in the right direction.  You may have just met, and until now, they held little importance for you.  There are no small moments or insignificant relationships now.

We are integrating, returning to our core, becoming the powerful Ones.  You are surrounded with help, let nothing pass you by.  Dream your life into being for this is how it works.  Things don’t happen to you – you make things happen.

All that you are is right now in the body of you.  As you mix it up, you may see, smell or taste things that surprise or even shock you.  Explore them all – it’s you.  As you love each thread you’ll embrace the entire fabric of creation.  With just one thread cut, the entire piece unravels.  Every part matters.

As I write, a deep brunette winged dragonfly rests at my feet. It’s been there for quite some time, returning again and again.  I wonder if it holds the energy of my baby sister, who is on the other side.  Eight years ago, she told me to watch for butterflies and she’d be there.  Usually there is one nearby. Today, it’s a dragonfly.  Perhaps she too is discovering parts of herself she wasn’t aware of while on earth.  This dragonfly’s wings are the color of her hair.

The Masters are returning, and they are every One of us.  You cannot be here if you are not a Master.  Even those who have left are enjoying our becoming.

Beautiful, powerful and surprising, it is an incredible moment, hand crafted by each of us.  We are the One we’ve been waiting for.


Sophia

Related:
I’m Awake – Now What Do I Do?
Symptoms Of Spiritual Awakening
Flatland: Understanding Multiple Dimensions From Our Third Dimensional Perspective
Our Spirit Speaks The Loudest
How to Empower Yourself and Re-Discover Freedom
How to By-Pass Your Reptilian Brain and Restore Your Creative Power
Ascension and Reality 


 
 

Heavenletter: Lights Are Going On All over the World

Heavenletter describes a dramatic event in consciousness which the Divine Mother said today on An Hour with an Angel will be happening soon.

 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. Each sound contains its own vibration. What distance is there between sound and meaning? Does the sound of a word come first, or does the meaning come first, or do they come simultaneously? Can there be meaning without vibration? Even thoughts have vibration. Even light has a vibration.

We can say that life began with a jiggling of a vibration. We can say that life began with a twang.

There are a lot of things We can say. We can say that life began with a bang. We can say that life always was, yet, nevertheless, it would appear that there was a moment before the match of life was lit, a moment on the verge, the way there is a moment when the conductor holds up the baton.

On an airplane, there is just the moment before take-off. A moment exists, and that moment is Eternity, and, yet, in the world, a clock strikes. And what does it matter? What does it matter after all what anything is called when all is in readiness?

And yet it matters. A moment matters to you very much. A moment is almost like a match you strike. There is the match. There is a fireplace on a cold snowy night. And then there is a spark. The fire is lit, and the light grows.

And there is a light within the mind, and light within the heart, that lights up everything. A light goes on. Now your light is staying on. It may well be that you no longer locate dark. Dark will have vanished from the face of the Earth. Darkness itself is a thought, a sound, a vibration. How many vibrations are dancing on the head of a pin?

Are all vibrations twanging at this moment? Even as a thought may not yet have been thought, is the twanging on call? Is the sound already ready? Is the church bell about to peal?

Ladies and Gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts. You are about to take off on a new chapter of your life. No holds barred. We can say that your life which always was is just beginning.

It is like you are vibrating on an exercise machine, and when you get off, all your blubber will have vanished. You will be streamlined. You will have taken a great weight off you. You will have taken off the weight of the past. You will not only be tremendous light, gravity will be less, and you will weigh less. You will not be, however, what is called a lightweight. In service to the Universe, you will be a heavyweight. You will matter. You may be the lighter of all the sparks that are going to go off all at once, and nothing will be the same.

You will be a light-striker, a light enthusiast, and you will be the Light of God, and you will be known as the Light of God, for, truly, there is no other light to be known, resurrected, beheld, ventured, arisen. The light of a new world is being lit right now. It is lit in your heart, and it is lit in your mind. A sparkler is ready to go off, and everyone will look up, and you will see the heralder of a new Light of Love coursing through the sky and wrapping you around its little finger. No one can resist this light that is dawning in your heart and mind right now.

The world has always been waiting for this comet of love to cross the horizon. And here you are, just ready to step over the threshold.
This is the moment.
This is the moment you have been waiting for.
You have been waiting, haven’t you?
You have been waiting for the splendor.
Well, it is here.
Lights are going to go on all over the world. 

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Intersting:
The return of Christ
What a strange planet [email to my homeplanet]
How big is your world?
People Worldwide claim their Sovereignty [updated, thanks to Beatrix stepping down]

Re: What a strange planet

What a strange planet [email to my homeplanet]

Re: What a strange planet

Dear Boddhi,


Now you've woken up from the 3D reality you lived in there on Earth, there are a few things you need to understand from Earths' past.

A long time ago on Earth there were civilizations wich are described in ancient -sometimes religious- scriptures.
Humanity nowadays is mostly based on these cultures, kwowledge, philosofies & religions although most of that history has been forgotten.
Some of these ancient wisdoms got lost for a reason.

One of the things the people of Earth were never supposed to find out is that how the Earth's population was controlled all these thousands of years. These 'controllers' were kindky asked to leave recently because they've served their purpose. The last ones who who refused to leave are removed by force. This 'finding out' started in Earth time in 1945. Let me explain:

A lot of people now are afraid of a 3rd WW but in true fact -Armageddon as they name it in ancient texts- it has already happened (1914/1945). So someone is keeping you in the dark  there & there's really nothing like this to be afraid of anymore. Two significant events marked the end of that period. The end of that was planned in the Middle-East near the Deadsea not with a big bang but with the creation of the state of Israël. The 2nd event was detonating 2 atomic bombs on Nagasaki & Hiroshima (Japan) wich ended that war. These nuclear events were allowed to happen to end the Big War and to let everyone decide for themselves if this will be their future,  or not and teach everyone a valuable lesson. Both events still affect humanity today and no one really wants to be nuked, expelled or locked away.

Só many (over a 100 million) people have lost loved ones during these decades (1914/1945) that Humanity & Earth gave a loud cry out for help. Earth had to be saved. This Planet is in trouble.


This is the moment where you all came in.

This cry for help & the atomic explosions as well, reached our dimensions and volunteers were asked to be born on Earth to help these people to change the threat. Many of you voluntering heroes didn't have the slightest idea of the mess you're going into knowing & experiencing that you are not from this third dimension originally and  thanks to these experiences now you're finally figuring out your biggest question in life like what are you doing here, but also proper help was send to assist you of all your life, to become yourselfs again there and to start your task. Many of you are activated right now and awakening to a new  reality..

Since 1945, thousands of lightworkers, higher energy conductors, wayshowers, lightwarriors & a combination of these are born there on Earth with you. They all answered the Call. A fine example of this is the Flower Power period when peacefull actions were started for freedom and against war, cruelty & injustice. Right then and even more powerfull today our brothers & sisters are not only raising the frequency of their personal life but as they do so they also raise Earths' frequency to benefit all. That means the improvement of life in general with all changes within humanity. Some of their 'enhancements' are activation of unused DNA wich will result in a younger looking & feeling body. Also activation of the 'extra senses' & gaining extra brainuseage are happening right now for all. These are the 'inside' changes felt  by a lot of people and this awakening will continue.

As these energies are all raising now, the old controllers of humanity feel less & less comfortable here on Earth and they are at the run, hiding and leaving Earth at this moment. The big challenge nowadays is that millions of people are loosing their faith in current (believe-) systems and need guidance on how to live in a true and new freedom. Between sending out an emergency Call and living in that asked freedom takes some time and everyone has to help eachother in big & small things in life because this is happening now for everyone.

Energy, awareness & consciousness are rising dramatically up nowadays and things are changing on all levels in your life moving to a higher level. You're upgraded day by day. Emotions like anger, fear & hate have to be abanded right nów. Stop putting energy in it. They serve you no good anymore. Instead, think of the positive things you want in your life to change.
This is thé question every individual has to ask himselves: Whàt do I want?

And remember: help is only one thought away. We are already with you and you're never alone in this. No one is!
Now what do you want?


Your Father.


Interesting:
What a strange planet [email to my homeplanet]
People Worldwide claim their Sovereignty
Dutch veterans in trouble are finally compensated 

Is a new race of super Earthlings being born?

Scientists have made an unexpected and unsettling discovery - a large number of new and previously unseen mutations have been detected among humans.

There are those who suggest that there will soon be fantastic X-men among humans. These super earthlings do not come out of secret laboratories, as in famous blockbuster movies, but are born naturally. Other scientists are less optimistic and consider the unforeseen development can to lead to unknown changes in the human body.

This unexpected and terrifying discovery is a result of a study conducted by scientists from Cornell University (USA) and University of California.

When they examined genes of several thousands of people from around the world, it turned out that mankind has acquired over the past few years new, previously unseen mutations.

The scientist studied 202 genes in 14,002 people. The human genome contains some 3 billion base pairs; the scientists studied 864,000 of these pairs. While this is only a small part of the genome, the sample size of 14,002 people is one of the largest ever in a sequencing study in humans.

This project led by John Novembre of the University of California Los Angeles and Vincent Mooser of UK-based drug company GlaxoSmithKline, reports that more than 95% of variants found by sequencing 202 genes in 14,002 people were rare, and that 74% of the variants were carried by only one or two people in the study.

"I knew there would be rare variation but had no idea there would be so much of it!" said the senior author of the research, John Novembre, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and of bioinformatics at UCLA.

In the study, 10,621 people had one of 12 diseases, including coronary artery disease, multiple sclerosis, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, osteoarthritis and Alzheimer's disease; 3,381 did not have any of the diseases.

"The large sample size allows us to see patterns with more clarity than ever before," Novembre said.

"If rare variants are like distant stars, this kind of large sample size is like having the Hubble Telescope; it's allowing us to see more than before.

We see a ton of rare variation, and these rare variants more often make changes to proteins than not. In that way, this study has important implications for the genetic basis of disease in humans. It's consistent with the idea that many diseases may be partly caused by rare variants."

"Research carried out fifty years ago, showed that the mutant gene had only one man among a thousand, and now five people", explained John Novembre.


What is causing the mutations?

Previously it was thought that genetic abnormalities are caused by of radiation, viruses, transposons and mutagenic chemicals, but now scientists have identified yet another factor that results in mutations - overpopulation!

Human population growth helps to explain the large number of genetic variants, the scientists said.

"The fact that we see so many rare variants is in part due to the fact that human populations have been growing very rapidly," Novembre said. "Because the human population has grown so much, the opportunity for mutations to occur has also grown. Some of the variants we are seeing are very young, dating to population growth since the invention of agriculture and even the Industrial Revolution; this growth has created many opportunities for mutation in the genome because there are so many transmissions of chromosomes from parent to child in large populations."

As a result of overpopulation, rare gene variants are much more likely to occur. And scientists do not rule out that soon there may be new types of mutations that lead to unknown changes in the human body.


Is a new race of X-men being born?

There are scientists who see benefits with mutations. Professor Darren Kessner of Univerist of California has for example suggested that among Earthlings there will soon be a fantastic group of "X-Men." They beings do not come out of secret laboratories, as in the famous blockbuster movies, but are born naturally.

"New mutations are the source of inherited variation, some of which can lead to disease and dysfunction, and some of which determine the nature and pace of evolutionary change. These are exciting times.

We are finally obtaining good reliable estimates of genetic features that are urgently needed to understand who we are genetically," said Joseph Nadeau, from the Case Western Reserve University in the US.

Both useful and harmful mutations have always existed as a completely normal phenomenon, but if the number of mutations increases dramatically, one cannot help wondering what implications this development will have for the human race...




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Interesting:

What a strange planet [email to my homeplanet]

Consciousness: What It Is And How It Can Be Manipulated

The Vision Alignment Project
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience 

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience

An old Zen story once was told about using the terms “good” or “bad” to judge situations and events as they happen to us.

Perhaps you’ve heard it before. The story is about a farmer who’s horse ran away. When the neighbors heard the news, they said, “Such bad luck!” whereas the farmer replied, “maybe.” The next day, the horse returned with three more wild horses, and the neighbors once again exclaimed, “How wonderful!”, and the farmer again said, “maybe.” The following day, the farmers son rode one of the wild horses and was thrown off and broke his leg. The neighbors said, “How unfortunate!” and the farmer’s response was “maybe.” Finally, the day after, the military was passing through to draft young men to the army. The farmer’s son couldn’t go, in which the neighbors rejoiced and said, “How fortunate”, and the farmer finally said, “maybe!”

Easier said than done. If you really lost your job tomorrow, could you truly be at peace with it? I think it is crucial for our evolution to stop labeling events that happen to us as good or bad, and instead take on a neutral attitude. Life is all about perspective. By expanding our understanding of this universe on Earth, in which we call home, perhaps we can see that our day-to-day interactions are a mirror of who we are and how the universal laws are evident in us too. Everything is connected. How we treat ourselves is how we treat others. Our attitude about what we are capable of is a direct reflection of our hope for humanity. I invite you to watch Neal Degrasse Tyson in this short video that truly did, astound me.

One way to elevate our consciousness is to dive in to understanding about the universe we live in. It is easy and very natural from a  young age to only interpret the data we collect from our five senses and then formulate beliefs based on those perceptions as to what is real and fake. Besides our five senses, we are conditioned by our environment just as significantly, as to what is true, real, fake, and important, and the messages are very vague, shaky, and unclear. From a young age we are taught to obey authority in school, and in our family structure, we learn the same unconscious limitations that are bestowed upon us. As we grow up to be an adult, we start to get glimpses or shimmers of the truth, but we are still unsure. I believe that it is not only important, but perhaps essential that we begin to question our existence, something that mass media is amazing at distracting us from. They are solid at tuning in to the ego side of us that feeds into illusions and our five sensory perceptions of what is real, and then they belittle, criticize or ostracize anyone that wants to go a little deeper or question things. I think the paradigm needs to change and perhaps it is shifting. We used to look to our elderly folks and sages for their wisdom about how to live more fulfilling lives, and today we are seeing the shift from wisdom to stupidity, glamorizing and exploiting youth. Ultimately, I believe this is happening for a reason, but I want to promote that we can change the world, by being the change we wish to see, as Gandhi best said it. There is only so much we can control “out there” and so it is only wise to change “in here” so that what we see “out there”,  is not something harmful, threatening, or negative, and instead necessary for the evolution of humanity’s consciousness. This is where pure love resides, when we can see the love among the ugliness of the ego. Neal Degrasse Tyson stated two facts about the universe as:

1. We are in this universe

2. We are part of this universe.

He said more importantly, “the universe is in us.”

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience. In understanding this, things become more light and less heavy. We have less resentment and anger and become more curious and compassionate. We are less serious and more humorous. We don’t become our emotions and let them drive us, we instead observe our emotions and detach from what no longer serves us. The connectivity he refers to I think is most obviously evident in reproduction. Two souls merge to invite a new soul to Earth.

The story about the farmer is relevant here because we get so caught up in our everyday lives, judging everything that occurs as bad or good, and we fail to see that doing so is counter productive to our evolution. A situation is only “bad” because we label it that way with our mind, and then respond to it with our body as if it were true. Its not good or bad, it just IS. Everything is connected and we are all part of a long story called humanity. As Mitch Albom says, “The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”

 Sammy

Interesting:

What a strange planet [email to my homeplanet]

Consciousness: What It Is And How It Can Be Manipulated

The Vision Alignment Project 

Is a new race of super Earthlings being born?

Cannabis & The Pineal Gland: Turn On The Third Eye

The Pineal Gland or the ‘Seat of the Soul’ as described by Rene Descartes, is the focal point of our spiritual guiding system which makes us go beyond the five senses of rationality and become multisensory, tuned into and aware of higher dimensions of consciousness within a holographic cosmos.

Cannabis or Marijuana among other psychedelics facilitates the activation of the pineal gland and helps turn on the third eye or the mind’s eye directing our spiritual evolution to wholeness.

The pineal gland, located in the centre of the brain, is about a quarter of an inch in size, reddish-gray, and weighs about one-tenth of a gram. Unlike other parts of the brain which come in pairs, the pineal gland is singular. Its location in the center of the brain and presence in other species indicates it is an older part of humanity’s evolutionary brain system.

The pineal gland is present in all lower vertebrae. In other species, like birds, reptiles and frogs, the pineal gland is called the parietal eye or “third-eye” as its functions closely resemble that of an actual eye. In these other species, the pineal gland has components of an actual eye, with a cornea, rod and cone. It is considered to be the vestige of a functional sense organ of early primitive vertebrates.

Directly affected by the light taken in through the eyes, the pineal regulates sleep, menstrual cycles, mating seasons, hibernation, seasonal flight patterns and many other “instinctual” behaviors.

Tryptamine Trippiness

Psychedelic researcher Dr Rick Strassman has explained how the pineal gland “is quite active in synthesizing compounds related to serotonin, an important neurotransmitter in the brain. Neurotransmitters are the chemical messengers allowing communication among individual nerve cells. Most typical psychedelic drugs, such as LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, and DMT are active in brain sites which are also affected by serotonin. In addition, most of these drugs are similar in their chemical structure to serotonin.”

Strassman states that most of the above substances belong to the “tryptamine” class of drugs, and proposed that the pineal gland produces “one or two endogenous tryptamines found in human blood and cerebrospinal fluid. This latter fluid continually bathes the brain, and compounds found in it most likely affect brain function.”

Strassman also explains how “psychedelic drugs, meditational states, spontaneous near-death experiences and other phenomena which may induce stereotypic death/rebirth and paradisal/hellish states act via the pineal gland.

Lyttle points to the universal mystic vision of God as an all-consuming white light, and postulates that on a physiological level, this experience is produced from chemical reactions in the pineal gland which is extremely light sensitive. “Light, the eyes and the ‘third eye’ or pineal gland form a triad which directly controls and regulates normal or altered consciousness and many bodily functions? these three factors are also directly related to, or implicated in, mystical states and the ‘psychedelic’ experience.”

Visions of white light are not only associated with mysticism and psychedelic explorations, but are also a prevalent image recorded by those who experience the near-death state. A reason for this recurring theme in near-death states may be found with Dr Strassman, who suggests that after death, as the pineal gland shuts down, some of the chemical present in it may turn into “psychedelic” drugs!

According to Dr Strassman, the pineal gland may not only play an important role in death, but also in birth, possibly even in rebirth…

The pineal gland first becomes visible in the human fetus at the same time as does the clear differentiation of the fetus into female or male gender. The time for both of these events is 49 days, the period of time that, according to several Buddhist texts, the life force of a deceased individual coalesces around its next corporeal existence. If the life force does indeed enter through the pineal, the manifestation of this coming and going would be the release of psychedelic tryptamines, which would mediate the visionary experiences associated with near-death, and near-birth states.

Spiritual Traditions

Certain initiatory cults, such as Tantrism, Kundalini and Gnosticism, acknowledged the role of the pineal gland in the spiritual process. The spiritual/instinctual life force was seen as a serpent, due to its physical structure extending from the genitals, through the spine and up into its single all-seeing eye in the pineal gland.

These spiritual systems focussed around the raising of this primordial serpentine energy, based in the genitals and at the core of the pro-creative process. Through certain yogic practices this energy can be reversed and forced to travel up the spine into the brain, where it is reputed to cause “enlightenment”.

In the Kundalini system, which has seven distinct energy centers, the pineal gland has been variously identified with the “Ajna Chakra” and alternatively the “Sahasrara Chakra”. Both pre-Christian Mithraic and second century Gnostic texts also distinctly refer to the pineal gland in relation to seven distinct energy centers and this serpentine energy.

Not surprisingly, a common experience of those who have successfully raised their kundalini is the vision of all-consuming white light. More importantly, the devotee who successfully raises the kundalini experiences a radical switch in consciousness, obliterating the sense of individuation, and enters Nirvana.

Another potential reference to this curious little gland may occur at the end of the New Testament book of Revelation, where we find that the elect will know God intimately, “his name will be in their foreheads,” which is where the pineal deeply lies. Noting the gland’s strong connection with light, the rest of the passage is interesting: “There will be no more night; they will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light.”

Likewise in the Qabalistic tradition, the primordial archetypical man, Adam Kadmon, shines forth with a light from his forehead that was rich in complex patterns and linguistic symbols. Similar imagery occurs in the Persian tradition of the light-like sacred fluid, the “vivifying and spermatic” xvarenah. “Ahura Mazda is preeminently the possessor of xvarenah, but this ‘flame’ also springs from the forehead of Mithra and like a solar light emanates from the heads of sovereigns.”

This mind-light from the forehead is also identical with the 3rd Eye of Shiva, which when opened in the individual burns away the concept of ego-bound consciousness, and when opened collectively has the potential to burn away the ties and fetters of the Old World Order.

Perhaps if enough modern psychonauts achieve the pineal experience we can push this new frame of mind onto the rest of ego-bound humanity. Here at the turning of the millennia, in the apocalyptic year of 1999, never has the potential for the state of mind which has been the goal of yogic sages, and psychedelic voyagers alike been so possible to attain for humanity as a whole.

Chris Bennet