Early Christians understood the importance of Astrology. Do not allow your modern Preachers, Pastors or Religious Leaders to tell that astronomy or astrology is the devil or wicked. A simple fact is if the moon moved out of place, it would have devastating ramifications on each and every coastline on the planet. They want your thought to be polarized to left-brain unconscious belief state that keeps you a slave and bringing in money for offerings.

Jerimiah 10:2
Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

Luke 21:25-27

And there shall be SIGNS in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the Earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the Earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory

The very first form of worship were the stars and heavenly bodies in the heavens or the sky above. The symbols all represent the sacred geometry that creates the shapes energy functions of celestial bodies.

When pagan and occult symbols are seen on churches,
such symbols are not placed there by rogue architects imposing
their iron will upon ignorant Christian priests, pastors, Jewish
rabbis, Muslem mullahs and their various ruling boards. If
a steeple is a pagan symbol of a phallus, what is it doing on
the local church? The steeple, whether people know it or not,
communicates the direction and ownership of that church. It
demonstrates how to find the congregation that places the
phallus at the topmost of their church building so it can be
seen from afar. It demonstrates ownership by displaying a
phallus for the entire community to see.
Once again, if such things have no meaning, WHY is the
pagan symbol used? If it has meaning, WHY is the meaning
hidden? WHY NOT express the meaning openly? The phallus
on churches (and synagogues, and mosques) is one example
of many emblems, symbols, and signs used in modern-day
religions all over the world.1
Unless you know the meaning behind the symbols, you
won’t understand — WHY THEY ARE USED. Once your eyes are
opened to the true meaning of religious symbols used in your
place of worship, it will finally “hit you,” and you will see to
what extent the religions of the western world are, in point of
fact, ancient paganism.

It all started with God’s Sun

IF WE CLOSELY EXAMINE the elder forms of religious
worship, we will find in most of them that God is
worshiped under the symbol of the sun. This is not
only true of those nations called pagan, but we also
find in the Bible itself the sun alluded to as the most
perfect and appropriate symbol of the creator. The sun
is the most splendid and glorious object in nature. The
regularity of its course knows no change. It is “the
same yesterday, today, and forever.” It is the physical
and magnetic source of all life and motion. Its light is a
type of eternal truth; its warmth of universal benevolence.
It is therefore not strange that man in all ages has
selected the sun as the highest and most perfect
emblem of God. There is a natural tendency, however,
in the human mind, to confound all symbols with the
person or thing which they were at first only intended
to illustrate. In the course of time we therefore find that
The Ancient Mysteries Described
most nations forgot the worship of the true God, and began to
adore the sun itself, which they thus deified and personified.
The sun thus personified was made the theme of allegorical
history, emblematic of his yearly passage through the twelve
constellations. The zodiac is the apparent path of the sun among the stars.It was divided by the ancients into twelve equal parts, composed
of the clusters of stars, named after “living creatures,”
typical of the twelve months. This glittering belt of stars was
therefore called the zodiac, that word meaning “living creatures,”
being derived from the greek word zodiakos, which
comes from zo-on, an animal. This latter word is compounded
directly from the Egyptian, zo, life, and on,
a being. The sun, as he pursued his wan among these “living creatures”
of the zodiac, was said, in allegorical language, either to
assume the nature of or to triumph over the sign he entered.
The sun thus became a Bull in Taurus, and was worshiped as
such by the Egyptians under the name of Apis, and by the
Assyrians as Bel, Baal, or Bul. In Leo the sun became a Lionslayer,
Hercules, and an Archer in Sagittarius. In Pisces, the
Fishes—he was a fish—Dagon, or Vishnu, the fish-god of the
Philistines and Hindoos. When the sun enters Capricornus he
reaches his lowest southern declination; afterward as he
emerges from that sign the days become longer, and the Sun
grows rapidly in light and heat; hence we are told in the
mythology that the Sun, or Jupiter, was suckled by a goat. The
story of the twelve labors of Hercules is but an allegory of the
passage of the sun through the twelve signs of the zodiac, and
past the constellations of proximity thereto.

By these means the priests of Egypt ruled the people with
a despotic power. The fables of the mythology disclosed to
them grand scientific truths, and to them only. The very stories
themselves served to perpetuate those truths for the benefit of
the initiated, and also formed an easy vehicle for their transmission.
Books were not only rare and difficult of multiplication,
but it is also probable that, in order that scientific
knowledge might be concealed, it was considered unlawful to
commit it to writing. If in special cases it became an absolute
necessity to do so, the sacred hieroglyphs were employed.
These were known only to the initiated; there was another sort
of written characters used by the common people.

Science was thus for the most part orally transmitted from one hierophant to another. While an abstruse and difficult lecture
is not easy, either to remember or to repeat, on the contrary,
a mythological tale can with ease be retained in the
memory and communicated to another, together with the key
for interpretation. These fables, therefore, served a threefold
purpose:
1. They kept the secrets of science from all but those who
understood the key to them;
2. Being themselves easy to remember, they served on the
principle of the art of mnemonics, or artificial memory,
to keep alive the recollection of scientific facts which
otherwise might be lost;
3. Being the means of keeping the people in ignorance, by
their use the priests were enabled to rule them through
their superior power of working apparent miracles.

The science in which the Egyptian priesthood were most
proficient, and which they most jealously guarded, was that of
astronomy. The people worshiped the sun, moon, and stars as
gods, and a knowledge of their true nature would have at
once put an end to the influence of the priests, who were
believed by the ignorant and superstitious crowd to be able to
withhold or dispense, by prayers, invocations, and sacrifices,
the divine favor. The priest of a pretended god, when once his
god is exposed, stands before the world a convicted impostor.
To deny the divinity of the sun, moon, and stars, or, what was
the same thing, to permit science to disclose their true nature
to the masses of the people was consequently held by the
priesthood of Egypt as the highest of crimes. By a knowledge
of astronomy the priests were able to calculate and to predict
eclipses of the sun and moon, events beheld with superstitious
awe and fear by the multitude. Seeing how certainly these predictions,
when thus made, were fulfilled, the priests were
credited with the power to foretell other events, and to look
into the future generally. So they cast horoscopes and assumed
to be prophets.

Vishnu Sun God

 

The names under which the sun was personified were

many, but the one great feature, most prolific of fables, was
his great decline in light and heat during the winter, and his
renewal in glory and power at the vernal equinox and summer
solstice, which gave rise to all that class of legends which represent
the sun-god (under various names) as dying and being
restored to life again.
Thus, we are told, in the Egyptian sacred legend, that
Osirus, or the Sun, was slain by Typhon, a gigantic monster,
typical of darkness and the evil powers of nature. The body
was placed in a chest, thrown into the Nile, and swept out to
sea. Isis, or the Moon personified as a goddess, ransacks the
whole earth in search of the body, which she finds horribly
mutilated. She joins the dissevered parts, and raises him to life
again.
In the Greek mythology we are told that Adonis (the Lord,
or sun-god) is slain, but it returns to life again for six months
each year—thus dying in the fall and winter months and
returning to life again during the spring and summer.
The ritual of the Mysteries in Egypt, India and Greece, was
founded upon this legend, in some form, of the death and resurrection
of the personified sun-god.

The names under which the sun was personified were

many, but the one great feature, most prolific of fables, was
his great decline in light and heat during the winter, and his
renewal in glory and power at the vernal equinox and summer
solstice, which gave rise to all that class of legends which represent
the sun-god (under various names) as dying and being
restored to life again.
Thus, we are told, in the Egyptian sacred legend, that
Osirus, or the Sun, was slain by Typhon, a gigantic monster,
typical of darkness and the evil powers of nature. The body
was placed in a chest, thrown into the Nile, and swept out to
sea. Isis, or the Moon personified as a goddess, ransacks the
whole earth in search of the body, which she finds horribly
mutilated. She joins the dissevered parts, and raises him to life
again.
In the Greek mythology we are told that Adonis (the Lord,
or sun-god) is slain, but it returns to life again for six months
each year—thus dying in the fall and winter months and
returning to life again during the spring and summer.
The ritual of the Mysteries in Egypt, India and Greece, was
founded upon this legend, in some form, of the death and resurrection
of the personified sun-god.

Vishnu Indian Sun God

In India the chief deity was triune, and consisted of
Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the
Destroyer. Brahma was the representative of the rising sun,
and the others respectively of the meridian and the setting
sun. The aspirant having been sprinkled with water and
divested of his shoes, was causing to circumambulate the altar
three times.
At the east, west, and south points of the mystic circle were
stationed triangularly the three representatives of the sun-god,
denoting the rising, setting, and meridian sun. Each time the
aspirant arrived in the sough he was made to exclaim, “I copy
the example of the sun, and follow his benevolent course.”
After further ceremonies, consisting in the main of solemn
admonitions by the chief Brahman to lead a life of purity and
holiness, the aspirant was again placed in charge of his conductor,
and enjoined to maintain strict silence under the severest
penalty; told to summon up all his fortitude and betray no
symptoms of cowardice.
Amid the gloom then began bewailings for the loss of the
sun-god Sita, followed by ceremonies of fearful import, and
scenic representations of a terrible nature. The candidate was
made to personify Vishnu, and engaged in a contest with the
powers of darkness, which, as the representative of the god,
he subdued. This was followed by a dazzling display of light,
and a view of Brahma exalted, glorified, and triumphant.
In Persia the candidate was prepared by numerous lustrations
performed with water, fire, and honey. A prolonged fast
for fifty days in a gloomy cavern followed, where in solitude
he endured cold, hunger, and stripes. After this the candidate
was introduced for initiation into another cavern, where he
was received on the point of a sword presented to, and
slightly wounding, his naked left breast. He was next crowned
with olive, anointed with the sacred oil, and clad in enchanted
armor (Jesus). He was then taken through the seven stages of his initiation.
As he traversed the circuitous mazes of the gloomy cavern
his fortitude was tried by fire and water, and by apparent
combats with wild beasts and hideous forms, typical of the
evil powers of nature, in the midst of darkness, relieved only
by flashes of lightening and the pealing of thunder. He was
next made to behold the torments of the wicked in Hades.
This was followed by a view of Elysium, and the initiation
concluded by a display of divine light and the final triumph of
Ormuzd, the sun-god, over all the powers of darkness.

Solar Dieties and Sun Messiahs

​African mythology​

Anyanwu, Igbo god believed to dwell in the sun
​Magec, Tenerife god of the sun and light
Mawu, Dahomey goddess associated with the sun and the moon
Ngai, Kamba, Kikuyu and Maasai god of the sun

Australian Aboriginal mythology​
Gnowee, solar goddess who searches daily for her lost son; the light of her torch is the sun
Wala, solar goddess
Wuriupranili, solar goddess whose torch is the sun
Yhi, Karraur goddess of the sun, light and creation
Ainu mythology
Chup Kamui, a lunar goddess who switched places with her brother to become goddess of the sun​

​​Arabian mythology​
Malakbel, god of the sun
Aztec mythology
Huitzilopochtli, god of the sun and war
Nanauatzin, god of the sun
Teoyaomicqui, god of lost souls, the sun and the sixth hour of the day
Tonatiuh, god of the sun and ruler of the heavens
Xiuhtecuhtli, god of fire, day and heat
Baltic mythology
Saulė, goddess of the sun and fertility
Basque mythology
Ekhi, goddess of the sun and protector of humanity​
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​Brazilian mythology
​​Meri, folk hero and god of the sun
Buddhism
Marici, goddess of the heavens, sun and light
Canaanite mythology
Shapash, goddess of the sun​

​Celtic mythology​
Áine, Irish goddess of love, summer, wealth and sovereignty, associated with the sun and midsummer
Alaunus, Gaulish god of the sun, healing and prophecy
Belenos, Gaulish god of the sun
Étaín, Irish sun goddess
Grannus, god associated with spas, healing thermal and mineral springs, and the sun
Lugh, Irish deity sometimes regarded as a sun god
Mug Ruith, Irish deity sometimes regarded as a sun or storm god

Statue of the goddess Xihe charioteering the sun, being pulled by a dragon, in Hangzhou​

​​Chinese mythology​
Xihe, sun goddess and mother of the ten suns​

​Egyptian mythology​
Bast, cat goddess associated with the sun
Horus, god of the sky whose right eye was considered to be the sun and his left the moon
Amun, creator deity sometimes identified as a sun god
Atum, the “finisher of the world” who represents the sun as it sets
Aten, god of the sun
Khepri, god of rebirth and the sunrise
Nefertem, god of healing and beauty, who represents the first sunlight
Ra, god of the sun
Sekhmet, goddess of war and of the sun, and sometimes plagues and creator of the desert
Sopdu, god of war and the scorching heat of the summer sun
Ptah, god creation, the arts and fertility, sometimes said to represent the sun at night
Khnum, god of sunset
Etruscan mythology
Albina, goddess of the dawn and protector of ill-fated lovers
Thesan, goddess of the dawn, associated with new life
Usil, etruscan equivalent of Helios​

​Germanic mythology
Sól (Sunna)

​Greek mythology
Apollo, Olympian god of light, the sun, prophecy, healing, plague, archery, music and poetry
Helios, Titan god of the sun
Hyperion, Titan god of light
Alectrona, goddess of the sun, morning and waking up
Eos, Titan goddess of the dawn Surya

Hinduism
Agni, god of fire, associated with the sun
Aryaman, god of the sun
Mitra, god of honesty, friendship, contracts, meetings and the morning sun
Ravi, god of the sun
Saranyu, goddess of the dawn and clouds
Savitr, god of the sun at sunrise and sunset
Surya, god of the sun
Hittite mythology
Arinna, goddess of the sun
Istanu, god of the sun and judgment

​Incan mythology
Inti, god of the sun and patron deity of the Inca Empire

​​Inuit mythology
Akycha, solar deity worshipped in Alaska
Malina, goddess of the sun found most commonly in the legends of Greenland

​Japanese mythology
Amaterasu, goddess of the sun
Lusitanian mythology
Endovelicus, god of health and safety. Worshipped both as a solar deity and a chthonic one.
Neto, claimed to be both a solar and war deity.
Māori mythology
Ao, personification of daylight
Tama-nui-te-rā, personification of the sun

​Maya mythology
Ah Kin, god of the sun, bringer of doubt and protector against the evils associated with darkness
Kinich Ahau, god of the sun
Hunahpu, one of the Maya Hero Twins; he transformed into the sun while his brother transformed into the moon
Tohil, god associated with thunder, lightning and sunrise

​Mesopotamian mythology
Shamash, Akkadian god of the sun and justice
Utu, Sumerian god of the sun and justice

​​Native American mythology
Wi, Lakota god of the sun

​Norse mythology
Baldr, god associated with light, beauty, love and happiness
Dagr, personification of the daytime
Freyr, god of fertility, sexuality, peace and sunlight

​Persian mythology
Nahundi, god of the sun and law

​​Polynesian mythology
Atanua, Marquesan goddess of the dawn
Atarapa, goddess of the dawn

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​Sami mythology
Beiwe, goddess of the sun, spring, fertility and sanity

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​Slavic mythology
Belobog, reconstructed deity of light and the sun who may or may not have been worshipped by pagan Slavs
Dažbog, god of the sun
Hors, god of the sun
Radegast, god of hospitality, fertility and crops, associated with war and the sun, who may or may not have been worshipped by pagan Slavs
Zorya, two daughters of Dažbog
Zorya Utrennyaya, the morning star, who openes the palace gates each dawn for the sun-chariot’s departure
Zorya Vechernyaya, the evening star, who closes the palace gates each night after the sun-chariot’s

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​Turkic mythology
Koyash, god of the sun

Western Mythology

Jesus, Solar Messiah, Sun God

Jesus: Solar Messiah

Jesus is the latest of the Solar Deities to be personified into human form to better suit the minds of the masses who cannot usually grasp theastrological importance of all religions and mythology.​

The Birth and Death of Jesus Christ is a representation of the Winter Solstice and Procession of Equinoxes.

At the Winter Solstice, The Sun Lines up with the 3 stars of Orion’s Belt and Sirius, the brightest star in the East, which signifies the dying of the Sun because it is at its lowest point in the sky, creating the shortest days of the year. After about 3 days (Dec, 22,23 and 24) of virtually sitting in the same place on the ecliptic on the Crux Constellation (Cross), where the story of Jesus Crucifiction, death for 3 days and resurrection story comes, the Sun Rises 1 degree on the 25th signifying the birth of a new sun and longer days and shorter nights once again. The Spring Equinox is when Jesus Death and Resurrection are officially celebrated due to the physical evidence of life with the sprouting of fruits, plants and animals mating.

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Santa Claus is also a Astronomical Allegory. The Story of Santa is actually based on the rituals of Shamans who picked psychedelic mushrooms and other drugs, placing them on pine trees to dry out (Christmas Ornaments), and placing them in his sack to be pulled back to the village by his reindeer and sleigh. They took these psychedelic mushrooms on Christmas to enhance the effects of the drugs during a time of “Sun Rebirth”

Procession of The Equinox

The Precession of the Earth’s orbit completes in on rotation of 25,772 years, which represents “The Great Year”. Each constellation represents an age or 2147 years of a certain constellation being the dominant constellation in the sky. Abraham representing Taurus the Bull, Moses representing Aries the Ram and Jesus representing Pisces or the Two Fish being followed by The Age of Aquarius, the water bearer.

For identical reasons, the apparent position of the Sun relative to the backdrop of the stars at some seasonally fixed time, say the vernal equinox, slowly regresses a full 360° through all twelve traditional constellations of the zodiac, at the rate of about 50.3 seconds of arc per year (approximately 360 degrees divided by 25,772), or 1 degree every 71.6 years.

*Please note as you reference for yourself and discover more knowledge, some dates and time periods maybe off slightly do to the chaotic history of man on this planet, there has been nuclear wars, comet impacts, great floods, pole shifts and wars between extraterrestrial being and Earth.*

As explained in Days of Creation, Gemini with its air element represents the Spirit of God moving over the waters in Genesis 1:2. Gemini is located above the constellation Orion. To the ancient Egyptians, Orion was Osiris, the god of light. So when God created light, he created Orion. To the Hebrews, light represented God’s power.
3And God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. (Gen. 1:3)

The Age of Taurus begins with the creation of Adam and Eve. The serpent was the constellation Serpens. Adam symbolized the constellation Bootes. And Eve was Virgo. They are located in sequence in the zodiac. When God chased them from the Garden, Virgo fell below the horizon and Perseus with his sword rose above the horizon as if to be chasing them out.

“He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.”(Gen. 3:24)

Ezekiel’s description of cherubim with four faces of a man, lion, ox and eagle define the Age of Taurus because they represent the four cardinal constellations in the Age of Taurus.

“As for the likeness of their faces, each had the face of a man in front; the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and the four had the face of an eagle at the back.” (Ezek. 1:10)

The Age of Aries the ram starts with Abraham. His original name Abram has “ram” in it. Instead of sacrificing his son Isaac, he sacrificed a ram instead.

“And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.” (Gen. 22:13)

The Age of Aries includes Moses. The report on Moses’ Sun Signs shows that his character personified the sun. The seminal event that marked the Age of Aries was the Passover when the Israelites painted their door with lamb’s blood to protect them from the tenth plague.

“Then Moses called all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Select lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the passover lamb. (Ex. 12:21)”
The Jewish week begins on a Saturday because Saturn is the planet of Yahweh.

Pisces the fish marks the time When Was Jesus Born. When he was born in the end of the Age of Aries, he was called the Lamb of God twice at the beginning of the Book of John.
“The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” (John 1:29)

After he was baptized, the Gospels continually associate Jesus with fish.

“And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.”(Matt. 4:18)

The Christian week begins on Sunday because the sun personified as Jesus is the God of Christianity. From the findings in Gospel Zodiac, Jesus’ mission lasts one solar year.
When Jesus says he will be with us until the close of the age, he means to the close of the Age of Pisces.
20teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.” (Matt. 28:20)

As man travels on this planet through the cosmos, he has personified the celestial bodies, in stories, symbolism and culture. Out of this spawned many different perspectives of how this knowledge influenced those people lives. It is safe to say that Astrotheology has been at the very root of all forms of belief systems.

As the Sun Travels Through The Sky, So does the Zodiac, and The Tales of which the people at that time decided to live their lives by. Giving birth to a new messiah each and every time….

Ra Sun God

Babilonian Shamash Stabs Shapash

Babilonian Relief on Sun Goddess Shapash being stabbed by Shamash

Relief of Jesus

A Jesus Painting with Zodiac symbolism.

Mithras

Mithras Sun God

Crown of Thorns

Rays, Crowns of Thorn or Gold are the symbolism used by those given the label messiah.

Phoenician Sun Priestess

Phoenician Sun Priestess with Swastika symbolism for sun energy.

….Countless Crusades, Wars, Genocides, Suppression of Knowledge and God Given Rights Due to those Who KNOW the SECRETS BEHIND the Power of these Astronomical Stories. It is Time to Get Into The Loop..

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The Secret History of the World
And How To Get Out Alive

Laura Knight-Jadczyk

Chapter 4
Hyperdimensional Reality
Hyperdimensional Space — The Realm of the “Gods”
The Question of Time in Myths

In numerous tales of the Grail, the description of the castle of the Fisher King includes some interesting time anomalies: it is a place where time slows down or stops altogether. This is also the case with the ancient Celtic legends of the Head of Bran the Blessed, in which presence his warriors feast and make merry with no awareness of the passage of time. This theme occurs with great regularity and suggests a deep and ancient significance that will become apparent as we proceed. The most ancient conception of time was associated with the “Goddess” and was cyclical — like women. Everything was “real” only insofar as it was connected to an archetypal gesture – illud tempus – from the beginning.
Every hero repeated the archetypal gesture, every war rehearsed the struggle between good and evil, every fresh social injustice was identified with the passion of a divine messenger, each new massacre repeated the glorious end of the martyrs.
…Only one fact counts: by virtue of this view, tens of millions of men were able, for century after century, to endure great historical pressures without despairing, without committing suicide or falling into that spiritual aridity that always brings with it a relativistic or nihilistic view of history. 46
This reflected the idea that the world in which we live was a “form,” or reflection, or “double” of another cosmic world that existed on a higher level.

These were Celestial Archetypes. Plato gave an explanation that is still unsurpassed in its simplicity:
“And now,” I said, “let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened. Behold! Human beings living in an underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette players have in front of them over which they show the puppets. …And do you see,” I said, “men passing along the wall carrying all sorts of vessels, and statues and figures ofanimals made of wood and stone and various materials, which appear over the wall?

Holy Grail in Valencia, Spain (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

…And they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave… how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads… and of the objects which are being carried in like manner they would only see the shadows …And if they were able to converse with one another, would they not suppose that they were naming what was actually before them? …And suppose further that the prison had an echo which came from the other side, would they not be sure to fancy when one of the passers-by spoke that the voice which they heard came from the passing shadow? …To them, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images. […]

And now look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error. At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive someone saying to him that what he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is approaching nearer to being and his eye is turned towards more real existence, he has a clearer vision — what will be his reply? And you may further imagine that his instructor is pointing to the objects as they pass and requiring him to name them — will he not be perplexed? Will he not fancy that the shadows, which he formerly saw, are truer than the objects, which are now shown to him? […]
And if he is compelled to look straight at the light, will he not have a pain in his eyes, which will make him turn away to take refuge in the objects of vision which he can see, and which he will conceive to be in reality clearer than the things, which are now being shown to him? […]

And suppose once more, that he is reluctantly dragged up a steep and rugged
ascent, and held fast until he is forced into the presence of the sun himself, is he not likely to be pained and irritated? When he approaches the light his eyes will be dazzled, and he will not be able to see anything at all of what are now called realities. …He will require growing accustomed to the sight of the upper world. And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves; spangled heaven; and he will see the sky and the stars by night better than the sun or the light of the sun by day? […]

Last of all he will be able to see the sun, and not mere reflections of him in the
water, but he will see him in his own proper place, and not in another; and he will contemplate him as he is. …He will then proceed to argue that this is he who gives the season and the years, and is the guardian of all that is in the visible world, and in a certain way the cause of all things which he and his fellows have been accustomed to behold? […]

And when he remembered his old habitation, and the wisdom of the den and his fellow prisoners, do you not suppose that he would felicitate himself on the change, and pity them? …And if they were in the habit of conferring honors among themselves on those who were quickest to observe the passing shadows and to remark which of them went before, and which followed after, and which were together; and who were therefore best able to draw conclusions as to the future, do you think that he would care for such honors and glories, or envy the possessors of them? Would he not say with Homer, ‘Better to be the poor servant of a poor master,’ and to endure anything, rather than think as they do and live after their manner? […]
Imagine once more such a one coming suddenly out of the sun to be replaced in his old situation; would he not be certain to have his eyes full of darkness? …And if there were a contest, and he had to compete in measuring the shadows with the prisoners who had never moved out of the den, while his sight was still weak, and before his eyes had become steady (and the time which would be needed to acquire this new habit of sight might be very considerable), would he not be ridiculous?
Men would say of him that up he went up and down he came without his eyes; and that it was better not even to think of ascending; and if any one tried to loose another and lead him up to the light, let them only catch the offender, and they would put him to death.
This entire allegory you may now append, dear Glaucon, to the previous argument; the prison house is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun, and you will not misapprehend me if you interpret the journey upwards to be the ascent of the soul into the intellectual world according to my poor belief, which, at your desire, I have expressed — whether rightly or wrongly, God knows.
When we consider a semi-physical realm that projects itself into our reality, we also have to consider the factor of Time. In our geometry we define a point as an infinitesimal section of a line. A line is an infinitesimal cross-section of a plane and a plane is an infinitesimal section of a solid. Thus, our three dimensional reality must be defined as a series of infinitesimal sections of a four dimensional body. Conceptually, this means that our entire reality is a section of a four dimensional body — a realm of potential dimensions beyond three-dimensional contemplation.
We usually consider the past as no longer existing. The future does not exist,
either, and the “present” refers to the momentary transition of non-existence into non-existence!
But, if it is true that only Now exists, then the logical conclusion is that, as wave reading consciousness units, we are, in some way, responsible for our perception of time. We regard time as linear, long or short, an endless line, a progression from past into future. But this creates an insurmountable problem. On a line, NOW is a mathematical point of infinitesimal smallness — it has no dimension! By scientific logic, it does not exist!

Mathematical Dimensions
The first mathematician to explore the fourth dimension, William Rowan
Hamilton, was born in 1805. Hamilton was so precocious that he was reading the Bible at the age of three, at which point he also began learning Hebrew characters.

By the age of ten he could read Hebrew, Persian, Arabic, Sanskrit, Bengali, Latin, and Greek, as well as several modern European languages. Hamilton was so was skilled in mental arithmetic that he was entered in a competition against a boy from Vermont who toured as a calculating prodigy. Hamilton was disappointed, however, when he found that his opponent seemed to have no knowledge apart from his unusual math abilities.

While studying at university, Hamilton joined the Tractarian movement, a
religious organization, of which Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a member.
Coleridge had the notion that algebra was the science of time, and apparently this idea had a profound influence on Hamilton who discovered a four-dimensional manifold of numbers, the “quaternions”. Though he was a genius mathematician, Hamilton seemed to be unable to think beyond the strictly material world, and though he was reaching for a fourth dimension, Hamilton could not consider the fourth dimension as “real”.
The next phase of development of the concept of fourth dimensional space was the work of Ludwig Schlaefli, a Swiss schoolteacher. He understood that four dimensions was the conceptual continuation of the first three spatial dimensions. As a schoolteacher, Schlaefli was not in the company of “academics” and this may have played a part in the fact that he was able to develop this new geometry during his early career, before he joined the mathematics department of the University at Bern. It is interesting that Grassmann, who also explored an ingenious algebra of higher dimensions, was another schoolteacher whose writings were ignored for many years. During that period, anyone who worked in these directions was thought to be a bit mad when actually, what they were really doing, was following an ancient tradition of relying upon pure thought to take them beyond what could be confirmed in the sensory world.

The Magic of Abstract Thought
Many New Age Gurus teach that “higher knowledge” can only be accessed
“directly”, through the “heart”. To this end, they produce endless techniques and rituals designed to stop thought and induce “feeling”. This is simply another variation of the “blind faith” routine that teaches a person that only knowledge brought directly by God is “true”, and all human knowledge is basically “bunk”.
What is interesting about this is that it is another example of disinformation – a lie wrapped in truth to make it easier to swallow. As we have already pointed out, most of what passes for “techniques of ascension” amounts to little more than stimulating chemicals in the body which results in a “feel good experience”, but which does nothing to increase the level of Being.

As already mentioned, there is a “gravity” to the realm of Non-being which is
the Thought Center that “creates” matter. Matter constitutes the predominate nature of our reality. What this suggests is that our “field of expression” is dipolar - gravity vs. consciousness.
The “field of consciousness” is a primary field like gravity, but we can see that it is very little manifested in our world. This means that to move from the gravity field of matter, one must act against a rather strong force.
The field of consciousness is that of thoughts, feelings that are not chemical,
ideas, motivations, attitudes, and such that acts on our minds/consciousness as gravity acts on objects and masses. Just as there is gravity and anti-gravity, so must there be consciousness and anti-consciousness as we have already described in our discussion of Thought Centers.
The consciousness field is a mirror image of the gravity field of matter. As
above, so below. And just as in the case where great effort must be made to move a stone uphill, so it takes great effort to move one’s motivations and attitudes and emotions from the influence of matter into the realm of the consciousness field. When such an uphill movement of motivation occurs, a specific effort of consciousness needs to be made. Thoughts and ideas and concepts that are based on material interpretations of reality require little effort. It is the reaching into the higher realms of thought that enables us to discern when our emotions are “material” or pure and belonging to the soul. To approach this problem without working to create the vessel of thoughts, concepts, ideas, is again, the process of believing lies and binding to “spiritual drugs”.
Understanding this permits us to distinguish when we are working toward higher consciousness. Going “downward” in the field of consciousness is like going downhill in the field of gravity: no work of lifting need be involved. Thus a downhill motion in the field of consciousness is easy, effortless, and pleasurable.
When we go uphill in any possible field, including the consciousness field, we
need to put a significant effort (work) into this motion. This leads to the logical conclusion that those things that increase consciousness are also difficult and go against the gravity of the material world explanations.
There is, of course, much more to this that will be introduced in a later volume.

For now, the important point is that developing the intellect so that it can be used as an instrument of perspicacity is one of the first requirements of spiritual development.
So, for those New Age and fundamentalist teachers who denigrate thought,
consider the following written by another schoolteacher:
Isn’t it amazing that Newton couldn’t discover universal gravitation until 50 years after Descartes created the mathematical method of analyzing geometric data in an algebraic equation? It would take about 50 years for the method to disseminate, become second nature, raise a new generation immersed it, and who then began noticing phenomena that these new mathematical expressions did a really good job of modeling. It was more than 40 years after Hamilton created quaternions that Maxwell discovered how well they fit for formulating the equations of electromagnetism. It was 50 years after Riemann created his general, curvilinear, non-Euclidean geometry that Einstein, with help from Minkowski, noticed how well it expressed the relations of special and general relativity.

My theory is that people can’t notice something until they have the reference point to understand what it is they are observing. Specifically, scientists can’t notice, “hey, these new patterns fit together” until they have a mathematics that describes this kind of relationship as being a pattern, rather than random marks on a graph.
Think about what it would be like to discover that all of your data fit into a
parabolic shape, but you don’t know what a parabola is. How disappointed you would be to realize it doesn’t make a straight line, when straight lines are all you know. “I guess there was nothing to that hypothesis after all”, you say as you discard the data. Tomorrow some brilliant mathematician will create a method of graphing quadratic equations thinking he has invented the perfect pure math, which couldn’t possibly have any practical application. Fifty years from now, your grandson will review your data, or recreate your experiments. He will get the same data points that you did, but now he recognizes the pattern as a parabola. It was a parabola all along, but you didn’t know it, because parabolae hadn’t been invented yet when you plotted the data.
If you don’t recognize the pattern, then your brain interprets it as random – no pattern at all. This means you pay it no attention. In this way, mathematicians create the world we live in. What an outrageous statement! No Physicist would admit the validity of that, after all, they are trained to observe the real world, not confirm some dreamer’s fantasy! Yeah, right. Only problem with that is, history tells us that over and over, Physicists were unable to see the patterns in front of their eyes until someone had invented a mathematics that made this kind of pattern recognizable and distinguishable from random noise.
Therefore there is a very real sense in which the only reality we can recognize is that of the patterns for which we have a mathematical template. Therefore we can only observe that part of infinite reality for which some enterprising mathematician has invented the pattern. The mathematician does NOT describe an objective reality, which he observes; he instead creates relationships, which he considers “beautiful”, or “elegant”, or perhaps “entertaining”. He doesn’t think his creation has any practical application, but it always does. Because any time somebody describes the template for a new pattern, now (in about 50 years) people will begin noticing those parts of the infinite universe, which fit into to this new pattern.

Before they just seemed random, but now that we recognize the pattern, it’s so obvious we don’t understand how Aristotle overlooked it. And a new generation of historians will write books about how Archimedes was actually on the verge of inventing this himself just before the Romans killed him.48
In exactly the same way, it is by gathering information and making unprejudiced observations while at the same time stretching the mind into the field of consciousness, that we develop the vehicle for the Soul, which can then “know” things by virtue of the gift of God.

Each adventurer into the world of these ideas of hyperdimensions, which now concern us profoundly, found the trail easier to navigate as a result of the simultaneous expansion of other branches of knowledge. For example, in
geometry it was noticed that the lines in ordinary three-dimensional space could be regarded as elements of a manifold of four dimensions. Connections of this kind soon made the fourth dimension acceptable to mathematicians.

Dimensional Thinking in Western Spirituality
It is at this point that something truly strange occurred. The idea of the “fourth dimension” was adopted by spiritualists and occultists as the “realm of the ethers” or the afterlife, the place of the dead. Séances of the nineteenth-century attracted spirit beings that produced physical effects as well as peculiar psychological states, and disappeared again – like the UFOs of our time. It was as convenient then (as it is now) to assign them a home in the inaccessible dimensions of space, and to make absolutely certain that everyone was convinced that these dimensions were ethereal.

The nineteenth-century astronomer Zollner set out to demonstrate scientifically that the ethereal beings attracted to spiritualistic séances were from the fourth dimension. Even though his demonstrations were never successful, at this point, the fourth dimension became a means of conceiving of mysterious phenomena in a non-materialistic way.
In the final phase of nineteenth-century thought, the fourth dimension became a subject for meditation and was taken up by the Theosophical Society, and later by Rudolf Steiner, who gave reportedly brilliant lectures on the subject based on the work of Howard Hinton.

Hinton’s work was the outcome of the ideas of his father, James Hinton, whose philosophy was based on the ideas of the Kantian noumenal world that lies behind phenomenal experience. This higher world was feminine, nurturing, free of social and legal restraint; virtue consisted in “harmonizing one’s intentions with the noumenal world”, and could not be captured by merely regulating behavior. The person who acts selflessly for the greater good of humanity was as likely to break the law as the brutish criminal.

Howard Hinton was inspired by Hamilton’s writings to adopt a materialistic form of Kantianism. When he began work as a schoolteacher, he came to doubt that knowledge could ever come from an external authority. In an effort to find some knowledge about which he could feel certainty, he made himself a set of colored blocks that he rearranged in various ways to make larger cubes. Using these blocks, he felt he could acquire knowledge of spatial position that was beyond all doubt. As he looked for patterns in the rearrangement of these blocks, he began to investigate the fourth dimension, which he saw as governing sequences of transformation in three dimensions.
By the time of Hinton’s death in 1907, his writings had inspired theosophists in India and England to investigate the fourth dimension for themselves. Steiner, following the theosophists, continued to view the fourth dimension as a “spiritual” realm, though he had some fascinatingly insightful comments to make about it, keeping in mind his “esoteric” approach.

Everything we do here is simply a symbolic representation of the higher worlds.
[…] Only developing new possibilities for vision can attain what lies within these higher worlds. Human beings must be active in order to reach these worlds. Howard Hinton and the ideas of the fourth dimension also had a profound influence on P.D. Ouspensky who produced a very simple illustration of the concept of our relation to the fourth dimension, which actually gives a more “physicalized” aspect to the concept. In this illustration, he speaks about a snail on a journey across a garden.

Its movements are governed by pleasure/pain. It always advances toward the one and retreats from the other. It always moves on one line, from the unpleasant towards the pleasant. And, in all probability, it senses and knows nothing except this line. This line constitutes the whole of its world. The snail on this line of motion senses all the sensations entering from the outside. And, these come to it out of time — from potentiality they become actuality. For a snail, the whole of our universe exists in the future and the past, i.e., in time. The snail is probably not self-aware — that is, aware that it is surging across the landscape — all of which exists simultaneously, of which the snail could be aware if it were possible to expand its awareness through some process of metamorphosis, lifting it high above the garden to expand its scope. But, it only perceives the various phenomena — the leaf, the grass, the twig, the sand, the walkway — at the moment it interacts with them — and then only a little at a time. They are events of long or short duration, past and future, which come to pass as the snail inches along. Ouspensky suggests that this is the way we experience our world relative to the fourth dimension. Our five sense organs are merely feelers, our means of touching and interpreting the world, through the mathematical constructs of our brains and in the limited terms of three-dimensional consciousness. Scientific gadgetry only lengthens our feelers a bit.

Imagine a consciousness not limited by the conditions of sense perception. Such a consciousness can rise above the plane on which we move; it can see far beyond the bounds of the circle illumined by our ordinary consciousness; it can see that not only does the line along which we move exist, but also all the other lines perpendicular to it which we cross (in our series of nows.) Rising above the plane, this consciousness will be able to see the plane, make sure that it actually is a plane and not only a line; then it will be able to see the past and the future living side by side and existing simultaneously.

There are several important considerations contained in the analogy of the snail. First, if our true perception is as limited, relatively speaking, as a snail’s, why is this so if we do, in fact, possess inner knowledge and capabilities unknown to our waking, ordinary consciousness which often manifest spontaneously, or which can be developed through long and difficult training? Second, we must note the implications of a consciousness of this type that DOES exist on the physical, three-dimensional plane. But, before we endeavor to deal with those questions, let’s return to the question of time.
The past and future cannot be non-existent. They must exist together somewhere; only we do not see them. The present, as opposed to the past and the future, is the most unreal of unrealities. We must admit that the past, the present and the future do not differ from one another in any way, that the only thing that exists is the Eternal Now of Indian Philosophy.The Alpha and Omega. But we do not see this — at least very few of us do. And then we only see imperfectly, “through a glass darkly”. We are snails crossing the fields of flowers of the universe, aware only momentarily of the earth, the leaf, the flower, or the raindrop before us. At any given moment we are only aware of a small fragment of the universe, and we continue to deny the existence of everything else: namely the coexistent past and future, and the possibility of perceiving it.
There are two main theories of the future — that of a predestined future and that of a free future. The theory of predestination asserts that every future event is the result of past events. If we know all the past, then we could know all the future. This is linear time. The idea of a free future is based on quantum “probabilities”.
The future is either only partially determined or undetermined because many of the varied interactions are possible at any given point. This probable future posits the idea of true free will and suggests that quite deliberate volitional acts may bring about a subsequent change in events.
Those who support predestination say that so-called “voluntary” actions are, in fact, not voluntary. Rather, they are but the results of incompletely understood causes, which have made them imperative acts — in short, nothing is accidental.
So on the one hand we have “cold predestination”: come what may, nothing can be changed. On the other hand, we have a reality that is only a point on some sort of needle named the present, surrounded on all sides by the Gulf of Non-existence — a world which is born and dies every moment. Ouspensky unifies these views:
At every given moment all the future of the world is predestined and existing, but it is predestined conditionally, i.e., there must be one or another future in accordance with the direction of events of the given moment, if no new factor comes in. And a

new factor can come in only from the side of consciousness and the will resulting from it. In other words, the snail can choose to change his direction if he increases his knowledge and becomes more aware. The snail may be following the scent of food or a need for warmth, and he may crawl into the path of a car, or into a field full of birds that wish to eat him. In practical terms, this means that snails and human beings, who are crawling through the universe very often, without knowledge, find themselves in the path of destruction. Quite often this destruction can only be overcome by mastering our instinctive urge for pleasure and avoidance of pain.
This can only come about by becoming aware of the probable course he is on. If his natural tendencies were leading him to an abyss, which will plunge him into a blazing inferno below, then it would behoove him to learn exactly what it is he must do to avoid it. And therein lies the rub. In order to do that, a being must achieve a more aware higher state of consciousness, not a more intense state of feeling! In the past, what is behind us lies not only in what was, but also in what could have been. In the same way, in the future lie not only what will be but also what may be.
In other words, motion in space is merely an illusion of the brief illuminating light of our consciousness upon a given construct of consciousness. If it is so that All exists simultaneously, then it is only we who, singly and collectively, can change the focus or development of our consciousness.
In time events exist before our consciousness comes into contact with them, and they still exist after our consciousness has withdrawn from them.

Now we come back to the questions: Why can we not perceive reality as it is?
Why can we not enlarge our perception — why are we chained in this painful
existence we call “life”? We come back to the idea of the Cave of Plato — or what is popularly known nowadays as The Matrix. What we are facing is the fact that the limited way we perceive our world is actually a sort of defect — the effect of the “fall” – the “ritual fault” that brought the Golden Age to an end. At the present time, many physicists have suggested “hyperspace” has
explanatory value in terms of bridging the gap between the physical and ethereal worlds. The New Age market took such ideas up with fiendish glee, producing endless ignorant variations on “Sacred Science” of millions of words, few of which are comprehensible to the layperson, much less the scientist. Those who read this drivel and who say, “oh, it sounds so true, but what is it saying?”, are contemptuously told that only “initiated understanding” can grasp such lofty ideas!

The fact is, the realities of our world in terms of any connecting principles
between matter and consciousness are not helped by any such philosophical
discussions. What we need is further empirical study and experimentation. What’s more, it needs to be done by those who are qualified to do it — not charlatans and con artists. There are physical scientists of the highest caliber who are open to the possibility of other forms of matter and other dimensions. They understand that such hypotheses would have explanatory value in their own fields as well as in parapsychology. Thus it is that, while the subject matter of parapsychology and physics is significantly different, their fundamental insights curiously coincide.

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Magick is dangerous. It’s about change and transformation. It isn’t about conformity and fitting in, it’s
about getting past the blinders of conventional society and manifesting your Will, sharing your dreams,
expressing the essential truths hidden within each of us–to go beyond the pale or past the point of no
return and Know what lies outside the confines of mass consciousness. A magician is the consummate
outsider, one who walks and works on the fringes of other people’s awareness, on the edges of
established paradigms.
Each of us approaches the Art and Science of Magick from a variety of ways, philosophies, traditions,
conventions, cherished notions, secret transmissions, dusty old scrolls, direct knowledge, channeled
manuscripts, goetic evocations, angelic visitations, aliens with those cold little probe-thingys, and many
other directions and orientations. People are label-making animals. We put everything into boxes. It’s a
design flaw in the currently fashionable Operating System.
The Old Ways dealt with re-programming the psyche through means that in many instances are now
considered too dangerous, illegal, or just plain horrific. That doesn’t invalidate them, it just points out that
our expectations and threshold for pain is different than what our ancestors are alleged to have
perpetrated in order to achieve some vestige of Gnosis. There’s a lot of myths, lies and tall-tales
surrounding the past. Just like the guy claiming to have jumped off a cliff from 40′ up and killing a stag
with one blow. Cool story. Great image. True or false? Doesn’t matter.
Why doesn’t it matter? It’s a story, a magickal sharing of a particular experience that carries its own
message, and it’s own frame of reference with it. Magick is inherently subjective in it’s focus, even when it
produces objective results. It’s all our own trip–we can help someone walk alongside for a spell, but
they’re not going to be walking in your shoes or thinking in your brain. You’re on your own. We’re all on
our own. That’s lonely, so we reach out. We make up stories. We create mythologies and fiction, politics
and music, hymns to Gods we hope are listening and rap about the stuff that outrages us. We’re human,
limited in our perceptions and innately dissatisfied with the Purina Dog Chow reality that the prevailing
default culture is always trying to ram down our throats.
Magick is dangerous. It deals in change and transformation. Magicians do not accept things as they are
so much as they are aware of where things are in the HereNow. Perhaps the term Magician is too limiting,
but it will serve well enough for now. Sorceror, shaman, priestess–all of these masks and roles are known
to a magician, their rites and forms are colors on the palette of a Mage. Just as is all of Creation. Our
limits are self-imposed. The crushing weight of conventional societies’ expectations and slavish insistence
upon the Way Things Are, and the inertia that keeps us all in the lock-step observation of The Real World
are tough things to overcome, to shrug off, to get out from under, to escape, to pass beyond, to conquer.
In the end it’s really not about that, but the notion of fighting the Big Monster is so seductive that everyone
faces the reflections and glamours dredged up from the collective unconscious and we falter. We fail. We
accept. We let down our guard and lower our sword. Then the real magick of the world hits us full force.
It’s not about us–at least not about the us that is rooted in ego. The world is bigger than us, older, and it’s
already in motion. It’ll be here after us as well. We’re here to play a part in the pageant, to walk onstage
for a bit and deliver our lines, say our piece, present our pet project, make our pitch, and do a little tap
dance or strip-tease depending upon our respective talents and predispositions. We’re here to entertain,
comfort and support each other in our co-dependent slavery to the World.
Magick is about change, though. Once you’ve tasted wisdom or truth, you want more. It’s like love. And
that is what makes Magick dangerous. It fosters and foments change in conformity with the Will. The
more exposure to Magick one has, the more one is confronted with the notion that things could be
different. We ask the infamous “What if?” questions, and then we begin to realize from deep down inside
us, the place the slave masters never want you to reach or connect with, and we begin to Know.
We begin to Know that all is not as it needs to be, but rather as it is needed to be. We see that we all play
our part in maintaining the farce that passes for life in our offices, factories, and warehouses. We feel the
dreadful ache deep within us, and realize that we all feel that lingering pain from separation, from being
out in the cold. We learn that our neighbors cling to their illusions because they make things more
bearable for a time. It is cruelty to strip away these things and not offer something in their place, unless
you can pierce the veil surrounding each of us and open up to the underlying machine code that makes it
all possible.
Waking up sucks. It’s cold, scary and hard. All of a sudden everything you knew is gone and it’s all
different now…and there’s no going back. Kinda like getting born. Perspective is born of experience.
Insight comes from making connections between previously unrelated items. Gnosis comes of its own
accord, or in response to stress, or from relaxing into a state of readiness. It comes in its own way, and is
unique to each one of us. No one path can carry us all, nor can any one perspective hope to encompass
us all.
Magick is dangerous because it is the path to waking up made up of all the random bits of information we
each one accumulate. It’s more in how we assemble he things we’re given, than any thing in particular.
It’s a way of doing, not an object of attainment. You do Magick and it interacts with you to create a
synergistic process of self-transformation. Magick takes you out of the stream, casts you onto the rocks,
and leaves you to find your own way through a deserted wasteland filled with other peoples’ footprints all
criss-crossing over each other.
Magick is about making choices and acting upon those choices. People who think for themselves and
who act upon their principles are dangerous, often times criminals. Heretics, artists, poets–there are a lot
of ways to attempt to harness these feral children of the numinous, the Fey who are finding themselves
among the sleepers…those drawn to Magick. The only ways that matter are the ways we choose,
whatever they may be.
Our stories and our myths are expressions of our guiding genius, constructions of our minds, hearts and
spirits that we share among one another like sacraments, viruses or flatulence, depending upon the
situation. What matters is how we perform these pieces, how we present them to our intended partners,
audiences, clients, victims. By our very nature, we are creatures of Magick, every one of us. Our very
similarity in this function, this aspect of our consciousness makes us unique and we rebel from the
group-mind that exists while we strive to grow a new collective, our own group, a fresh God molded in our
own image.
Magick is consciousness, it’s how we interact with consciousness, and each other.
That’s why it is dangerous–it works, it’s all around us, and we are already part of it.
Welcome to the Machine, New Aeon, REvolution, etc. as You Will

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A to Z Gemstones

Find out what spiritual and healing properites are associated with your favorite crystals and gemstones

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Alabaster:

Because the alabaster is so soft, it does best with a sun’s cleansing and should not be used in making elixirs.

I use this stone to assist in my art work. It helps promote clearly what I wish to make and the how of doing it. It assists me in seeing new things to create as well as assisting in old things I already know how to make but need to shift to a new level. It allows me to do things like making a gourd basket that has pine needle work added to the top and beadwork used as trimming so that many aspects that I already know how to do are put into one piece or art.

Spiritual Art Chalk

Alabaster is mostly white in color, sometimes it will have just a “hint” of soft colors as well. It is a very soft stone, 2 on a scale of 1-10. It is easily carved into charms etc. But because the alabaster is such a soft stone it can be used in different ways. It is a “drawing” stone meaning it has the ability to draw things to you or to draw things away from you, depending on what your needs are. For myself, it works wonderfully for drawing things of the Spirit to me, the white color summons the spiritual. At times, early in my walk, I would use the alabaster when I was searching for my spiritual path and would also use the alabaster to draw certain “spiritual” things that had been given to me, that I came to find later were wrong, or at least wrong for me. Because the alabaster is so soft, it does best with a sun’s cleansing and should not be used in making elixirs.

Forgiveness

It can also draw forgiveness, whether it be you that needs self forgiveness or the ability to forgive someone that has done you wrong. It also draws energy from other stones as well, meaning you can “soak” up the energy of one stone and have the properties of both stones with you while only carrying the alabaster. It helps to draw anger out of a person and to release it to the light.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Amethyst:

The amethyst is a powerful stone for healing. It carries many healing properties. It also aids in psychic awareness and helps with imagery.

Spiritual and Calming

Amethyst I use to keep me in touch with my spiritual side and connected to what is going on with myself as well as others. It allows me to act for the best of all instead of self even when it may not be what I would consider to be what is best for me. It keeps me calm and allows me to feel that I have enough time to do what I need to do even when time is limited.

It allows me to work slowly even when I am feeling the need to rush and this allows me to do things right the first time instead of having to redo things because I rushed through them. Amethyst does not like the sunlight at all but likes the moonlight, sea water, and cold (loves being under snow or in the freezer as a way of cleaning it and recharging it) it is a good stone for a creative person to have around because it does work so well at calming them.

Amethyst Aids in Psychic Awareness

The amethyst is a powerful stone for healing. It carries many healing properties. It also aids in psychic awareness and helps with imagery. It is a stone to help quieten the mind. If worn while sleeping, it helps you to interpret dreams, and to ward off nightmares. It enhances intuition and inspirations. Gives you clarity and insight. An excellent stone for meditations. Good for the upliftment of the spirit. Should never be cleansed by the sun. Carries the energy of the moon, female energy. Does best with water cleansing or the moon. Smudging works for all stones. The best stone for the 6th chakra.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Apatite:

This is one stone that many use when trying to stay on diets, as it helps to curb the appetite.

Love of Others

This stone works much like rose quartz except the love is more love of others with this stone than of self as in rose quartz.

Earth Consciousness

Apatite comes in many colors, the most common being the greens, and yellows. It has a hardness of 5 on a scale of 1-10. It helps those who are Earth conscious to continue on a path of helping our Mother Earth. It is a stone that many psychics use for it helps to open the third eye and brings revelations closer. It brings inner peace and is good for meditations as well.

Apatite Curbs Appetite

This is one stone that many use when trying to stay on diets, as it helps to curb the appetite. It shakes up the inner self and allows you to look at/for your own truth. Then to put those truths into action.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Calcite:

This stone helps to elevate the person’s vibrations and faster healing will occur

Blue Calcite is good for easing the pains of back problems. If someone has had surgery, etc. on the back, it helps to ease the pain. If someone is going to have surgery on the back, it would be a good idea to carry the Blue Calcite on them as long as they can BEFORE the surgery. This helps to elevate the person’s vibrations and faster healing will occur.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Citrine:

The citrine is a wonderful stone. It helps to manifest your goals. Also keeps one cheerful. It attracts abundance and personal power.

Manifesting Stone

The citrine is a wonderful stone. It helps to manifest your goals. Also keeps one cheerful. It attracts abundance and personal power. It stimulates the body’s own healing energies. It is good for helping to elevate self-esteem and is good for centering. Can help one’s memory and can aid in problem solving. Gives one confidence and self-discipline. Excellent for opening the 3rd chakra. Citrine can not hold negative vibes but instead dissipates and transmutes it. A good stone for clearing the aura.

Citrine Absorbs Negativity:

Citrine’s energy and color make this stone associated with the sun it’s said that the stone drives out darkness and night fears and helps to protect against negative people. It also is good for prosperity. Intuition can be increased with this stone and it can help you to discern your inner voice from free floating anxiety. This is one of two stones that I know for sure does not absorb any negativity. Because of this it holds energy for very long periods of time and doesn’t need to be recharged often

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Cobaltocalcite:

Cobaltocalcite helps people open up emotionally. It helps them to verbalize what their needs are and express their feelings easier.

Emotional Healer

Cobaltocalcite I use to help people open up emotionally. It helps them to verbalize what their needs are and express their feelings easier.

Iron, Nickel, Copper, and Calcite

Cobaltocalcite is actually many minerals combined to have what you hold in front of you. It has a combination of both iron and nickel and possibly some copper as well. The pink, is the calcite stone. Because you have the nickel in this stone, DO NOT use this in any type of elixir. Nickel has arsenic in it and can be deadly. But nickel is also a drawing metal, meaning it will either draw things to you that you desire, or it will draw things out/away from you that you desire. As Whorsew mentioned this can be a stone for the heart. It can draw things of a romanctic nature to you, whether you be married or looking for a mate. The calcite is an energy amplifier. If you stone has copper in it as well, it is very powerful with electrical impulses and can magnigy the energy that you either receive or send double-fold. This stone is good for removing energy blockages in the heart chakra.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Coral:

Red coral good stimulant for the root chakra. Protects one from depression and despondency.

Coral comes from the sea and was at one time a home for some marine life. Red Coral is good for helping to “tame” the wildness within. Such as tempers, rages, compulsive disorders. Helps to balance us to the spiritual. A good stimulant for the root chakra. Protects one from depression and despondency.

A good stone to strengthen the bone structure. Does well with mending broken bones. It carries the sun’s energy, and does very well with the turquoise. They each carry the energy of moon and sun, and are both balanced in silver settings.

Any type of cleansing does well for the red coral, salt water being preferred, but you should also take into consideration the other stone it has been matched up with. The turquoise does well in water cleansing as well. Both the turquoise and the red coral do well in silver metals.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Diamond:

The diamond is known as the stone of innocence. It is a stone to bring forth purity.

(Clear or White Diamond) helps one to pursuit excellence, develop competence, control more of ones environment. Makes one think they are rich and have abundance. Problem with clear is it also brings out warrior with these same issues which means it can take you out of balance so a need to watch how you deal with these issues while wearing this stone is important. Being it is in gold it can mellow this out some as gold slows down all frequencies it comes in contact with including your own.

The diamond is known as the stone of innocence. It is a stone to bring forth purity. This means with matters of the heart, to help one speak the truth, to keep one straight in their search or path. It brings purity to the heart. It also inspires creativity, imagination, ingenuity, brilliance and inventiveness. The diamond also draws to it abundance. Not necessarily just an abundance of wealth, but in all areas of one’s life. Happiness, success, etc. The diamond helps with clarity or removing the fog from the mind. It carries the strength of the sun or the masculine energy. It rallies strength with age. The diamond can cleanse and stimulate the crown chakra. Diamonds bring the intensity and universal focus of energy and a uniting of all centers with Universal light on a day to day basis. If a person’s vibrational level is compatible with the diamond and suddenly they find themselves without the diamond, they will have strong feelings of loss and can disrupt a person’s energy flow. This stone is compatible with people of high energy emanations

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Emerald:

Communication

Emerald helps one to communicate. It helps you to discover the truth when there is a lot of information to sort through. It helps you when you feel “what should I do?”

It helps one to communicate. It helps you to discover the truth when there is a lot of information to sort through. It helps you when you feel “what should I do?” Especially when trying to answer that from different places inside of oneself. It also makes one examine oneself to keep then in check asking– “am I thinking I am better than —?” it helps you to be more organized, creative, innovative, and balanced and great with helping with your way of dressing (sense of fashion).

Stone of Peace

The emerald is part of the beryl family and is known as the stone of Peace. It is a soft and gentle healer. It gently balances the energies of the spirit. This stone helps to knit back together that which has become undone. It fills in gaps and holes in the energy system as a whole, but centering it’s focus on “spot of damage.” While the emerald is not known as a stone of great strength, but their strength lies in their subtlety. They work steadily without disruption and can bring about great changes when worn with patience. It is also brings sensitivity and loyalty to the wearer. It also carries harmony for the spirit or soul. This stone will help to maintain rhythmic breathing during meditative states or during astral travels.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Fluorite:

Fluorite is used to prevent others from making unwanted energetic attachments.

Energy Shield

Fluorite is used to prevent others from making unwanted energetic attachments. It is kinda like a shield of energy that wards off undesired energy others may project towards you.

Calms Chaos

Fluorite comes in many colors. It carries an energy that can bring a calming to chaos. It helps to restore a balance within the 4 levels that make us human; the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual. It helps you to be unbiased and to look at a situation from all sides. Fluorite increases the ability to concentrate.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Fulgurites:

Fulgurite is a glassy tube formed following a lightening strike upon rock or sand.

Fulgurite Awakens Kundalini Energy

Fulgurites are a glassy tube formed as a result of lightening striking rock or sand. For this reason they are said to resonate with a powerful source of heat and electricity. It is used as a tool for prayer and meditation. It arouses the kundalini energy and helps it to rise to inspirational heights, an awakening. The fulgurite can be used for manifesting and focus. Helps to clear clogged chakras as well.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Geode:

Geodes can help you to see the whole picture and helps with coming to a decision before things get out of hand

Meditation Tool

Each one (geode) holds special energy. They can hold just about anything. They are more about reminding one of a feeling or a way than about healing other things. such as meditating, one can hold that knowledge and assist you in remembering to do it, or to exercise, or getting the rest you need, or something as simple as remembering to smile. it is important that you find the one that connects to you and holds a feeling you connect to when choosing to work with geodes.In the place I take people to seek vision there are many geodes. Because of this many times those seeking vision are gifted a geode by mother earth while there to remind them of what spirit has given them on the mountain. #ach memory is different and the geodes hold those for the one they are gifted too.

Assists Astral Travel

The geode comes with many crystals, some being, quartz, amethyst, and citrine. This is what I know of geodes. They can help you to see the whole picture and helps with coming to a decision before things get out of hand. It helps one have the ability to shape one’s own future. It bridges communications with the Higher Diety and also helps in communications with people that are in the same healing fields. It can assist one in astral travels. They are also good tools for meditations as well especially the amethyst geodes. These stones can be good for soothing and de-stressing. Aids in spirituality and psychism.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Iolite:

Iolite helps to open the pathway for the spiritual. It connects the throat, brow and crown chakras.

Prevents Feelings of Victimization

It helps you to feel comfortable in the leadership role and/or makes others easier to accept you in that role also. This stone will prevent you from allowing others to walk all over you or for you to allow your emotions to control you. At the same time this stone does not allow you to martyr yourself. It keeps you from feeling your are the victim of circumstanes also. There are three colors to this stone each adding their effect to it, blue effecting friendships, gray professional, purple family or sexual relationships

Iolite Opens Up Intuition

Iolite helps to open the pathway for the spiritual. It connects the throat, brow and crown chakras. It opens a subtle and gentle gateway of communication to the Higher Self. It may be detected differently than you would expect. By this I mean, it may manifest as sudden “bursts” of intuition and you may have a higher awareness for guidance or purpose. A good stone for helping one find direction in life. The Shaman’s would use this stone to ensure accuracy with visions and in healing ceremonies to influence the spirits. Iolite also helps you to release the discord from your life. It is a good healing stone. The most common colors range from a clear to a blueish-lavender. But that is not the only color of the Iolite. It also comes in brown, green, yellow and grey. The properties listed above are for the blueish-lavender.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Jade:

Jade helps you to accept things that are difficult in your life and makes things appear to go much smoother than they really are.

Jade is a good rock for parents to carry as it helps to calm one down even when many kids running through the house. It helps you to accept things that are difficult in your life and makes things appear to go much smoother than they really are. It keeps you from disconnecting from your inner peace as quickly in bad situations than you would if you did not have it.

Confidence Builder

Jade is a stone that helps you to realize the needs of others. It is also good for helping you to understand what is of prime importance for you to do on this day. It brings confidence and self-assuredness, self-sufficiency and to be self-reliant. An elixir made with jade is good for smoothing the skin. It works best with a water cleansing.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Kyanite:

A good stone for aligning all of the energy centers but is particularly good for the 5th chakra or throat chakra

Meditation Stone

Kyanite will help you understand lesson as they appear in your life and to be better able to learn from your teachers, human, animal, mineral, bird, plant, insect, fish, or spirit. This stone can be used to help you connect to these teachers, one way is by placing it on your forehead as you meditate or putting at the head of your bead as you sleep or my favorite sticking it inside of your pillow case on the down side as you sleep above it.

Aligns Throat Chakra

Kyanite aids in creative expressions such as art, dance, writing, etc. It strengthens the truth in a person and makes one more reliable. It brings to one serenity. Kyanite is wonderful when used as a shield. It does not retain negative vibes and they bounce off. A good stone for aligning all of the energy centers but is particularly good for the 5th chakra or throat chakra. It is a powerful stone to access the Universal Energy during healing. Blue (color) relates to your spiritual side. It helps you to attune while searching for inner peace.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Lapis:

Lapis helps to organize and quieten the mind and also brings self expressions, helps with dream insights, writing and creativity.

Lapis Brings Focus

Lapis (the deep blue kind) allows you to perceive emotional issues more clearly. Now, that does not mean it helps calm them or affect the type of emotions. It allows you to see them for what they are, clearly. Kinda like putting on glasses when one cannot see. It takes away the blur

Lapis is Calming and Cooling

A stone good for the 5th chakra. It helps to open the 6th chakra during meditations. It brings a higher guidance and intuition. It helps you to connect to the Higher Self. It helps to organize and quieten the mind and also brings self expressions, helps with dream insights, writing and creativity. It’s a cooling stone, by this I mean it helps to draw fevers out of the body. It calms the nervous system, helps with anxiety and insomnia. It can sooth autism. It also aids with speech and hearing difficulties. Works best with a water cleansing or the moon.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Malachite:

The malachite stone is an excellent stone for the heart charka. It also is a powerful stone for stimulating the physical and the psychic visions.

Malachite Heals Emotional Pains

The malachite stone is an excellent stone for the heart charka. It also is a powerful stone for stimulating the physical and the psychic visions. It will help you to have good concentration. It can also assist you in releasing anger and depressions, while restores a sense of peacefulness. It’s a stone that can help ease muscle tensions and stress. And is good for healing emotional pains.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Moonstone:

Moonstone enhances intuitive sensitivity. It also helps one to feel less overwhelmed by personal feelings. It allows one to except new beginnings.

Moonstone Balances Male and Female Energies

The moonstone is good stone for both male and females. It helps males connect to their creative side and emotional side which they tend to stuff. This stone helps one with vision. That is why woman carrying it during their moon time are more powerful at that time for they are given visions that are stronger than if they did not carry it. When you carry it at other times this stone will allow you to see the variety of possibilities in any situation.

It does not matter what color this stone is it will do the above things. When color is added it assists you with other aspect.

• pink tones/birthing-emotions
• green tones/growth-physical
• black tones/intellectual
• white tones/spiritual
• blue tones carry all of the above in one stone.

As far as increasing tension or cramping during moontime I felt that it did not do this but helped to lessen them, I would take a bath with several in the tub with me along with sea salt and it was wonderful.

Moonstone Balances Hormones

Moonstone is a wonderful stone for women. Helps to balance the menstrual hormones. Particularly good for women going through menopause. It gives one greater flexibility and flow with life. It also helps to soothe stress and anxiety. Enhances intuitive sensitivity. It also helps one to feel less overwhelmed by personal feelings. It allows one to except new beginnings. Also enhances perception and this allows one to make decisions which further your developments. Brings confidence and composure. Many use this as a stone of protection during travels. Brings tenderness to the surface. A stone of rejuvenation. Because it has the colors of the rainbow, it brings with it all the traits of the colors as well including the healing.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Opals:

Opal is considered to be one of the seven sacred stones of the Cherokee people.

Sacred Stone of the Cherokee People

Opal is mainly made of hydrous silica sometimes with iron and aluminum. it also can be up to 10 percent water. It can be found faily easily in the Western United States and in Mexico. It is considered to be one of the seven sacred stones of the Cherokee people. it depends upon what kind of opal you have what it can do: white opal, sunflower opal, black opal, boulder opal, sonoma opal, sun opal, mountain opal, jelly opal, mexican opal, fire opal, cacholong opal, or califoria opal. Each work differently.

Opal Carries Moon and Sun Energies

Opals are formed from balls of silica. This silica has different levels of depth and density and holds water as well. That is where the “rainbow” colors come from. The opal is used for helping one that doesn’t want to appear in the front or allows you to “fade into the background.” Or to be less noticed. A stone of happy dreams and good changes. The opal can be used to help one open their “mystical” side. Gives you understanding of the Higher Powers. This stone carries both the sun and moon’s energy. It is basically a moon’s stone or female energy but has it’s flash of male energy in the iridescent colors and carries the sun’s energy. These flashes encourage intuition and insight. These flashes also represent an “inner fire” that gently stimulates you towards the Spiritual realms. Can be used during astral travel but is NOT a powerful stone for astral travel, the energies are mor subtle. Opals should be moistened often by a natural oil or water. If all the water evaporates out of the stone it will become fragile and break. The opal is tied to our emotional side. Brings clarity by amplifying and mirroring feelings. Brings buried emotions to the surface so they can be dealt with. Helps a person to “loosen up” and become more spontanous. If this stone is not used for the good of all, it will backfire on you. This stone works best with a water cleansing.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Petersite:

Petersite helps by increasing ones clarity of presentation and improving ones public speaking skills.

Petersite Increases Clarity

Silver-blue metallic swirls. This stone helps one to become a better teacher to others. It helps by increasing ones clarity of presentation and improving ones public speaking skills. It also assists you in teaching longer without tiring (keeps the teacher from “burning out”). Petersite is not only for day use as in when teaching during a long day but for the long run for over the course of many years. Every new teacher should be gifted this stone.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Petrified Wood:

Petrified wood can be used to calm down survival based fears. It helps to make one feel safe and secure, helps one feel ageless.

Petrified Wood Calms Fears

Can be used to calm down survival based fears, helps to make one feel safe and secure, helps one feel ageless…

Timeless Energy

…it helps you to set a pace and stay with that pace all day long because you are not hurried or moving to slowly for yourself but moving forward in a good steady way, it helps you to feel all will be all right and connects one to their spirit in such a way that they know that time is not really what it appears for there is no such thing, there is only forever.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Rose Quartz:

Rose Quartz is the most powerful stone for dealing with affairs of the heart. It opens up the heart for both giving and receiving love. It soothes negative influences.

Self Love and Acceptance

Pink quartz (rose quartz) allows you to be in touch with your basic self. It will allow you to get to know your true self and to love that true self in all its beauty. It can also allow you to communicate internally with your spirit guides, which means you may or may not be aware of them but they are teaching you all the same.

Rose Quartz is a good stone for someone who has trouble loving themselves or accepting love from another because they do not believe that they are worthy of being loved. It loves soft running river water to clean and recharge and moonlight

Opens Heart Chakra

Rose quartz is the most powerful for dealing with affairs of the heart. It opens up the heart for both giving and receiving love. It soothes negative influences. This stone is good for dealing with issues on an emotional level. A stone from the heart and for the heart. It helps one to be able to love themselves. A good stone for dealing with a “broken heart.” The rose quartz is also good for helping one to release childhood traumas, neglect, lack of love, self-esteem. The best stone for opening the 4th chakra.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Ruby:

Ruby strengthens both the physical and emotional heart. It brings love, confidence, loyalty, and courage.

Love – Confidence – Loyalty – Courage

The ruby is a stone of nobility. The energy of the ruby is intense and vivid. This stone encourages one to follow bliss. It also acts as a “plug” for holes in the energy field. Wonderful stone for the 1st chakra as it stimulates our basic instinct of/for survival. It strengthens both the physical and emotional heart.

Ruby brings love, confidence, loyalty, and courage. It instills stamina, vitality and strength. A good stone for removing blocked energies in the reproductive system. It re-energizes one after exhaustion. Also good for balancing the blood’s sugar. It also helps to reduce negative thought patterns.

Ruby allows you to love Self and Spirit. A good stone of protection. Depending upon which type of gold you have the ring set in, (yellows or silvers) it would bring with it these healing properties as well. The yellows carry the energy of the Sun or a masculine energy, while the silvers carry the energy of the Moon or a feminine energy.

Ruby – Devotional Stone

This is a stone that all those who are in service to others should have upon them. it helps you feel more like giving to others and doing so with love and joy in your heart. There is no room for resentment in ones heart who is being of service to others and this stone does not allow that to be a part of your heart. it helps you relax as you caretake others because you can trust you will not be trapped in any way in that role. it helps all to be warm, caring and help out with the needs of others. it also helps one with devotion to others.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Sapphires:

Sapphires come in many different colors and hues. The healing and spiritual properties vary depending on the color variations in the stone.

Blue Sapphires: Dark blue sapphire will allow one to use their full creative potential. it is like a mother stone because it tends to your needs as your creative juices flow so that you do not become scattered about but remain grounded. It is also good for helping solve problems, sexual relationships because it tends to make deep bonding between people and creates loyalty.

Light Blue Sapphires: Light blue sapphire is the inspiration stone. It helps to bring in new thoughts or ways of thinking. it is also an excitement stone as it helps to bring the feeling of life being exciting and full.

Green Sapphires: Green sapphire brings a lucky sense to ones life for it allows things to run smoothly and rightly. lilac sapphire allows your creativity to flow freely however intensely. This would be used by someone who already uses their creative potential but may be feeling a bit blocked.

Orange Sapphires: Orange sapphire works on a totally different level for it does not allow you to deceive yourself at any level. It makes you look at things in their basic and pure form without distorting it to conform to what you want it to be. It helps you learn true knowledge. this is a good stone for students, teachers, writers and researchers.

Pink Sapphires: Pink sapphire allows one to surrender to another for the good of the all. it allows us to not need to be the one in control of what is happening but to allow another to take charge and trust that they will get the job done better than we can.

White Sapphires: White sapphire is a personal stone for it helps you to take care of yourself and to tend to your personal needs. it helps you to be nice to yourself and assist you in protecting yourself from needless sufferings.

Yellow Sapphires: Yellow sapphire connects you to the total you with all of your inner knowledge. at the same time it helps you to see what you do not know so you can find the answers instead of believing that you already know the answer. it also helps you to learn and retain what you have learned as you seek the answers.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Serpentine:

Serpentine can be helpful in the rise of Kundalini. It stimulates the pathway that Kundalini will travel and can lessen the discomfort which is sometimes associated with Kundalini rising.

Kundalini Rising

It (Serpentine) can be helpful in the rise of Kundalini. It stimulates the pathway that Kundalini will travel and can lessen the discomfort which is sometimes associated with Kundalini rising. If placed at the crown chakra it acts as a drawing force to get the Kundalini started up the channel. It stimulates the crown and can clear all other chakras when clouded. Good to use for enhancing meditation. This stone has been found in the breastplate of the high priestess.

The energy of serpentine can help with disorders in all areas of the body, the emotional and mental systems. It can be used with diabetes, hypoglycemia. Jasper is a very nurturing stone. It also protects against negativity and helps to ground with earth energy.

Enhances Meditative States

The Serpentine is formed when olivine, or peridot, breaks down and forms in metamorphosed basalts. The white lines that you describe are asbestos. Under no circumstances should you ever use this stone or stones in any form of elixir. It also can be found with iron or nickel. Sometimes it will have a glossy or waxy look to it, and some are pourous, depending on where in the earth’s crust it formed, and to what temperature that it was formed… It is also good for enhancing the meditative state. Serpentine can give assistance to the disorders in all the areas of the body, meaning the emotional state, the mental state, as well as the physical state. It can be used to help clear the other chakras as well, but the green is mainly used for the heart chakra.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Sodalite:

Sodalite helps to keep those who shut down sexually to open up and it helps those who are constantly centering themself in their sexuality to close that aspect down to balance out that energy.

Soldalite Addresses Sexual Abuse Issues

Sodalite is the stone that I have used the most to heal from sexual abuse. It has helped with balancing out many issues around my sexuality. It helps to keep those who shut down sexually to open up and it helps those who are constantly centering themself in their sexuality to close that aspect down to balance out that energy. To me it is truly the balancing stone for sexuality.

Helps Throat Chakra Problems

Sodalite helps with 5th chakra issues such as being able to express myself verbally and also thyroid problems, hypothyroid…, sore throats and laryngitis. It was one of the first stones I wrapped and often wear it on a shortish chain so that it can be near the throat chakra. I do find I have to clear it very often, esp. when I am trying to express my feelings without hurting others in the process.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Tanzanite:

Tanzanite is a calming stone. It is good if life becomes chaotic or extremely busy and one is starting to feel out of balance from that.

Calming Stone

Tanzanite is a calming stone. It is good if life becomes chaotic or extremely busy and one is starting to feel out of balance from that. it will bring you back into balance.

Manifesting Stone

The tanzanite will help to manifest desires through will and vision. It gives personal insight and power. A good stone of protection. It helps to connect the 5th, 6th and 7th chakras because of the color that tanzanite ranges in from blue-purple-clear colors. It helps with physic abilities and if a person is just beginning to develop this field, it’s one of the most powerful stones for this.

It does best set in gold as it brings with it the Sun’s energies as well. It will be balanced with the moon’s energy, (the stone) and the sun’s energy (the gold). Works well in moon or water cleansing.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Tiger Eye:

This stone helps one be more flexible in their beliefs.

Flexibility

I use this stone to help me be more flexible in my beliefs. It also helps me to slow down when I am on the constant go. This stone is also good in helping to influence my children when I really need to get them to understand something. The way tiger eye helps with this is by giving me the right words necessary to deal with situations that are outside of my own control… when the right words are said changes can happen.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Topaz:

Topaz helps one have a practical outlook in ones life and methods of doing things.

Topaz Brings Practicality

Topaz helps one have a practical outlook in ones life and methods of doing thingsTopaz helps one have a practical outlook in ones life and methods of doing things. Helps one to know what will work best in any situation. Helps them to go from point A to point B. then on to point C without wasting time.

Stimulates Creativity

Wonderful stone to help one with their individuality. Topaz also stimulates creativity as well. It gives you the ability to trust the decisions that you have made. It replaces negativity with joy and love. It allows you to cut through uncertainty. A crystal of potency. Also good for helping one to visualize. A good stone for meditations. It allows the energies of the Universe to come to you and encourages a willingness to act in making the desired changes in your life.

Sun Energy

It carries the sun’s energy or male energy. It is good for opening and balancing the 3rd chakra. Because it has the brown colors in it as well, it indicates that “down to earth” feelings. A wonderful stone for having the Earth’s energies as well. It also brings with it a sense of appreciation for natural beauty. If you haven’t decided on which metal to have the stone set in, you may look at whether the person receiving the gift would need more of the sun’s energies, or the moon’s energies. The sun’s energy being male, the moon’s energy being female. This stone does great with either metal.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Tourmaline :

Tourmaline attracts inspiration. It will diminish fears by bringing understanding and encourages self-confidence.

Attracts Inspiration

Tourmaline comes in many colors, the most common being black. It also comes in pink to red, blues, yellows, browns, greens, oranges and then a combination of two or more of these colors. This is referred to as the rainbow tourmaline. The energy of the tourmaline relates to each of the chakras. It helps to clear and maintain and stimulate each of the energy centers. It attracts inspiration. It will diminish fears by bringing understanding and encourages self-confidence.

English: Tibetan endless knot Nederlands: Tibetaanse Oneindige knoop (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Turquoise:

Turquoise is wonderful for drawing out negative vibrations from a person.

Navajo Turquoise

The ones with the black lines in them are called Navajo turquoise and helps you to stay in a place of love and connectedness with others. By doing this it can make you feel at “home” no matter where you are. It is a combination of turquoise and sard (sard being the lines). turquoise by itself keeps one in the feeling of unconditional love and connection to all that is while sard by itself keeps one in the state of emotional attachments to family, home, their roots (the good memories of childhood) it also assist in digestion of proteins both animal and vegetable.

Draws out Negativity

One of the main compounds of the Turquoise stone is copper. This is what gives it the blue, green, blueish-green colors. It also is often combined with the Azurite stone as well. Turquoise is wonderful for drawing out negative vibrations from a person. It is best to place it at the feet or worn inside the sock for this. It dissipates negativing as it draws from the body. It allows the negativity to go back into the ground. A good stone for helping one to bond with the spiritual. It offers much uplifting. Also helps open the heart chakra for giving and receiving.

Howlite

Sometimes dyed howlite is often mistaken for turquoise. And the howlite stone has more of the “black” lines than the actual turquoise stone. But by finding the copper traits in a piece of turquoise, it assures you of true turquoise. This stone does best with water cleansing and should not be cleansed with the sun. It should be kept out of the sun as much as possible. Carries the moon’s energy or female energy. It is best set in the silver metals, also carrying the moon’s energy.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Turritella Agate:

This is a stone many use for healing Mother Earth, as it opens the channels between the plant world and the mineral world.

Transitional Stone

This stone has to do with combining the old with the new. It helps you to adjust to changes in ones life that has to do with combining the old aspects of ones life with the new ones. like families that have step children/parents in them, helps them run more smoothly. It can also help to neutralize survival base fears and allow you to know what is at the root of them.

The Turritella Agate can be used to help subdue one’s superiority complex. It helps to bring one back to earth, so to speak. It is composed by sea creatures, snails that are fossilized into stone. It is a stone many use for healing Mother Earth, as it opens the channels between the plant world and the mineral world. It can be used to hlep one through transitions and helps to rid one of unpleasant thoughts during these transitions. It encourages the survival instinct and is good for the 1st or root chakra. It also helps with calming and helps to reduce fatigue.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of White Opal:

White Opal brings a great deal of energy to your body and helps you get more done. It charges you so to speak, making you more productive.

Energizing Stone

White opal is much like caffeine. It brings a great deal of energy to your body and helps you get more done. It charges you so to speak, makes you more productive. White opal works mainly on the physical body but also the mind as it makes you want to do more as well as have the energy to do things.

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Yellow Jasper :

The ancients used jasper over their heart and naval chakras prior to astral travel for protection and balance.

Protective Shield

The yellow jasper carries the sun’s rays, and holds a masculine energy. It is a softer side, if you will, of the male energy. The yellow also can be used to assist and protect you during times that you travel, this can mean both the physical or spirtiual means of traveling. It is a stone of protection and shields you from negativity. It is good for warding away depressions.

Balances Yin and Yang Energies

Jasper helps to align the chakras, balances the yin and yang energy. It helps balance the emotional, physical and mental bodies to the etheric energy. Shamans have used jasper for protection. It connects with the solar plexus and yellow jasper was used to assist and protect during travel whether that was physical or spiritual. The ancients used jasper over their heart and naval chakras prior to astral travel for protection and balance. Its also good when your energy is low. It can help with disorders of kidneys, bladder, liver and stomach. I hope that this info is what you are looking for. I have many good books about crystals and minerals. I got this info from Melody’s Book, Love is in the Earth. It’s one of many she has written that I have found to be so complete and much of what she writes resonates with me.

Wonderstone

This is what I know about the stone that you refer to as Yellow Jasper, I call it the Wonderstone its color is soft yellow with waves of light violet/pink, usually flowing through it. It is used to facilitate and reinforce the state of tranquility. It is helpful in eliminating worries, telling you that worries do not change a situation and that the appropriate action can modify the results; it also assists in one gaining insight to a beneficial action. It helps in eliminating distress and depression. It helps increases one’s felling of well-being. It is an excellent stone for bring mental clarity to any predicament. It also stimulates imagination and furthers faith in acceptiance of ones basic impulses and intuitive energies. The medical benifits are: it can be use in the amelioration of spasms and convulsions. It helps remove blockage in the energy path which have led to poor circulation. It vibrates to the number 8.

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Excerpts from Seizing Power

The Karma-Kulture Krisis
I. No Place to Rest
According to Classical Hindu thinking, any act performed with
desire will result in an accumulation of karma. which is simply a
tendency to believe that fulfillment of desire is a worthwhile thing
to achieve. This belief traps us in the round of birth, death and
rebirth because desire can only be fulfilled if we possess a body of
tlesh, and so after death we will seek a new body out of habit. The
traditional yogic means for escaping this cycle is by renouncing all
experience. this to be done through meditation and asceticism. The
Hindu theistic counter to this, as presented in the Bhagavad Gita,
is that the desire to achieve liberation is as binding as any other.
especially when the method for attaining it involves such extreme
austerities. Its solution was for us to recognize our places in society
and then do our duties to them without any sort of personal
attachment. Warriors should fight. craftsmen should fabricate,
haulers of dung should haul dung. and by leaving aside all
ambition beyond a disciplined devotion to the vvork. desire can be
nullified and liberation achieved. But this can be difficult to
accomplish unless one is already in settled circumstances, so the
Giro suggests that one should also live for the sake of the Deity, in
this case Krishna. devoting all one’s acts to him and thus removing
self as a matter of concern.

This devotional approach to spiritual liberation works well in
any settled society, and is the paradigm for Christianity as well as
bhakti yoga. The Christian devotes self to spouse. children and
church. with the Risen Christ as his or her ongoing inspiration. So
long as he or she can find a stable role in his or her culture. it is
surely possible to lose self in this way. accomplishing a karmic
cleansing even as karma is misidentified as sin. For the sincere
devotee the effects are equivalent.
Now for the twenty-five or so centuries before this one. this
aspiration to karma-free devotion was abollt all that was available
in the way of spiritual paths within the civilized world. In tribal
cultures the way to power was by accessing the natural web of
power that made up the local ecosystem. but when the power came
to be channeled through a civic organization. devotion to the deity
that was the guardian of that channel was the only way to go.

Even the early pioneers of Western magick. heretics to the Christian
Church. can be seen as operating in this devotional mode. Bruno.
Campanella. Dee and the first Rosicrucians were a working to
bring the power down more efficiently so a more heavenly civic
order might be established on earth. Their differences with orthodoxy
were matters of symbolism and technique. not intent.
Of course then as now there were plenty of unspiritual paths
one could choose to take through life. Devotion to hedonism
commerce and political power were all options. if one’s status at
birth gave one any options at all. But even if one chose simply to
amass wealth. the ideal of devotion was still there to curb conspicuous
displays of rapacity. And to those who truly desired the
divine. the life of devotion was available. approved and easy to fall
into. The devotee became the instrument of the Divine Order
within the civic order that was the reflection of the Divine Order
on earth. and so became free of all desire. save that for the divine.
In the course of our miserable century. however. the order of
society has vanished like a flower in a flood. and the muck that has
replaced it. wide-open as it is. is in no way conducive to any sort of
service to one’s place in life. The economic situation is so turbulent
that it is next to impossible to lose self in devotion to one’s
work. Even the best craftsman will starve without marketingwhich
is the art and science of manipulating desire-and the
worker who tries to remain above the politics of the workplace is
soliciting redundancy. As for national politics, the rise of “democracy”‘
has bleached the last vestige of the divine from out of the
civic order. and the person who puts his or her faith in lawful government
might as well admit that in reality that faith is in cold,
hard cash. Money buys media time, media consultants and media
focus groups, and media exposure is what makes a candidate
acceptable to that ever-shrinking proportion of the population that
actually believes that voting matters. Laws come not from a consensus
of the people but from a consensus of the special interests
that have bought and paid for the parliaments of the world. Justice
is available only to those who can afford it.

With the civic order thus corrupted, it is no surprise that the
traditional means of shedding karma through devotion have turned
rancid. Western culture has become so anti-religious-so wrapped
up in wealth and power, status and lust-that for the average
Christian Jesus has become a mere product to be purchased. For
the truly devout. on the other hand, there is almost an obligation to
struggle against the culture. But this forces one to become involved
in it in the most negative way possible, ensuring that one will
become entangled in karma and sin both. Take the crusaders
against “Satanic Child Abuse,” for instance. I They see sin everywhere.
which is not an entirely inaccurate perception. and their
Biblical training tells them it must be from us pagans. So they sic
the gutter press on us, and in this way tar themselves to sin’s main
modern source-the putrid commercialism of the mass media.
Hopelessly stuck to it, They will go down with it.
Their religion is obsolete. so even if their hearts are pure. their
methodology will fail them. At the height of its power. their god
was the king in heaven who was the spiritual equivalent of the king
on earth. But with the change in time this ideal has become too
archaic to return the power its believers need to sustain their devotions.
A new methodology is required, and one look at the degeneration
of modern culture assures us that the need is urgent.
Back before the Salvationist theology of Christianity won its
victory in the West. the ideal of devotion to a transcendent Good
recei ved its most rigorous treatment at the hands of the Greek
philosopher Plato.

From his work there developed an ethic of otherworldliness that permeated Classical culture. one that Christianity took on almost in its entirety. But there was one aspect of Platonism that the Christians did not accept. the notion of the transmigration of souls. which is simply another term for reincarnation.
The Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus, for instance. believed
that the soul descends from the undifferentiated Absolute
One and can find bliss only if it turns back to it. But since soul is
incarnated in a body of flesh. it is also able to manipulate the
things of sense, embodied in Matter. which Plotinus saw as the
epitome of evil. To the extent that we turn away from Matter and
back to the One. he felt that we would come to a more exalted life
next time around. But if we involve ourselves in Matter. Matter
will pull us down farther in our subsequent incarnations. ultimately
causing our souls to become embodied as rats and roaches. mold
and slime.

During its passed age of health and vigor. Western society was
set up to at least allow for an aspiration to something higher than a
blind pursuit of material glamour. but no longer. Our economies
keep up their mad pace through an ongoing conjuration of greed:
our politicians keep their power through fear: and a full-voice chorus
of greed and fear. rut and horror is how the mass media earn
their bread and butter. To give them our attention is to play their
game. to be sucked into a maelstrom heading down. down to a
world were greed and fear attain their apotheosis. If we fall with
them. if we let them use our po\ver to define the world to come.
then Nature will he raped and made whore. all spirit will leave her.
and there will be places on earth only for rats and roaches. mold
and slime.

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Excerpt from the book Cosmic Memory

English: The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in Camille Flammarion’s L’atmosphère: météorologie populaire (1888). The image depicts a man crawling under the edge of the sky, depicted as if it were a solid hemisphere, to look at the mysterious Empyrean beyond. The caption translates to “A medieval missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth meet…” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

17 – The Life of Earth

In the preceding chapters has been shown how the components were successively formed which make
up the so-called “lower nature of man” — the physical body, the ether body and the astral body. It has
also been described how, with the appearance of a new body, the old ones must always be
transformed so that they can become carriers and instruments of the one formed later. An advance of
human consciousness is also associated with this progress.
As long as the lower man has only a physical body, he possess merely an utterly dull consciousness,
which is not equivalent even to that of dreamless sleep of the present, although for man of today this
latter state of consciousness is in fact an “unconscious” one. In the time when the ether body appears,
man reaches the consciousness which is his today in dreamless sleep. With the formation of the astral
body a dim image consciousness makes its appearance, similar to, but not identical with the one man
at present ascribes to himself while he is dreaming. The fourth, the current condition of consciousness
of earth man, will now be described.
This present condition of consciousness develops in the fourth great universal era, that of earth which
follows the preceding Saturn, Sun, and Moon eras.
On Saturn the physical body of man was developed in several stages. At that time it could not have
been the carrier of an ether body. And the latter was added only during the course of the Sun.
Simultaneously, the physical body was so transformed in the successive Sun cycles that it could
become the carrier of this ether body, or in other words, that the ether body could work in the physical
body.
During the Moon development the astral body was added, and again the physical body and the ether
body were transformed in such a way that they could provide suitable carriers and instruments for the
then appearing astral body. Thus, on the Moon, man is a being composed of physical body, ether
body, and astral body. Through the ether body he is enabled to feel joy and pain; through the astral
body he is a being with emotions, rage, hate, love and so forth.
As has been shown, higher spirits actively work on the different members of his being. On the Moon
the ether body received the capacity for joy and pain through the Spirits of Twilight; the emotions
were implanted in the astral body by the Fire Spirits.
At the same time, something else was taking place during the three great cycles on Saturn, Sun, and
Moon. During the last Saturn cycle the spirit man (Atma) was formed with the help of the Spirits of
Will (Thrones). During the penultimate Sun cycle, the life-spirit (Buddhi) was joined to it with the
assistance of the Cherubim.
During the third from the last Moon cycle, the spirit-self (Manas) united with the two others through
the help of the Seraphim. Thus actually two origins of man were formed during these three great
cycles: a lower man, consisting of physical body, ether body, and astral body, and a higher man,
consisting of spirit man (Atma), life-spirit (Buddhi), and spirit-self (Manas). The lower and the higher
nature of man followed separate paths at first.
The earth development serves to bring the two separate origins of man together.
But first, after the seventh small cycle, all of Moon existence enters a kind of sleeping state (Pralaya).
Thereby everything becomes mixed together, so to speak, in a homogeneous mass. The Sun and the
Moon too, which were separate in the last great cycle, again become fused during the last Moon
cycles.
When everything again emerges from the sleeping state there must first be repeated in their essentials
the Saturn condition during a first small cycle, the Sun condition during a second, and the Moon cycle
during a third. During this third cycle the beings on the Moon, which has again been split off from the
Sun, resume approximately the same forms of existence which they already had on the Moon. There
the lower man is a being intermediate between man of today and an animal; the plants stand midway
between the animal and plant natures of today, and the minerals only half bear their lifeless character
of today, while for the rest they are still half plants.
During the second half of this third cycle something else is already in preparation. The minerals
harden, the plants gradually lose the animal character of their sensibility, and out of the uniform
species of animal man there develop two classes. One of these remains on the level of animality,
while the other is subjected to a division of the astral body into two parts. The astral body splits into a
lower part, which continues to be the carrier of the emotions, and a higher part, which attains to a
certain independence, so that it can exercise a kind of mastery over the lower members, over the
physical body, the ether body, and the lower astral body.
Now the Spirits of Personality seize upon this higher astral body and implant in it just that
independence we have mentioned, and therewith also selfishness. Only in the lower human astral
body do the Fire Spirits now accomplish their work, while in the ether body the Spirits of Twilight are
active, and in the physical body that power entity begins its work which one can describe as the real
ancestor of man. It is the same power entity which formed the spirit man (Atma) with the help of the
Thrones on Saturn, the life-spirit (Buddhi) with the assistance of the Cherubim on the Sun, and the
spirit-self (Manas) together with the Seraphim on the Moon.
But now this changes. Thrones, Cherubim, and Seraphim ascend to higher spheres, and the higher
man now receives the assistance of the Spirits of Wisdom, of Motion, and of Form. These are now
united with spirit-self, life-spirit, and spirit-man (with Manas-Buddhi-Atma). With the assistance of
these entities the human power being characterized above develops its physical body during the
second half of the third earth cycle. It is the Spirits of Form which act here in the most significant
way. They already form the human physical body so that it becomes a kind of precursor of the later
human body of the fourth cycle (the present one, or the fourth round)
In the astral body of the animal beings which have been left behind, it is exclusively the Fire Spirits
which remain active, while in the ether body of the plants it is the Spirits of Twilight. 0n the other
hand, the Spirits of Form participate in the transformation of the mineral realm. They make the latter
hard, that is, implant rigid and fixed forms in it.
One must not imagine, however, that the sphere of activity of the spirits we have mentioned was
confined only to what has been characterized. Always it is only the Main directions of their activities
which are meant, in a subordinate way all the spirit beings participate everywhere. Thus at the time
indicated, the Spirits of Form also have certain functions to perform in the physical plant and animal
bodies, and so forth.
After all this has taken place, around the end of the third earth cycle all the entities — including Sun
and Moon — again become fused and then pass through a shorter stage of sleep (a small Pralaya). At
that time everything is again a uniform mass (a chaos), and at the end of this stage the fourth earth
cycle begins in which we are at present.
At first, everything which already previously had had a being in the mineral, plant, animal, and human
realms, begins to separate out of the uniform mass in germinal form. First there can re-emerge as
independent germs only those human ancestors on whose higher astral bodies the Spirits of
Personality have worked in the preceding small cycle. All other beings of the mineral, plant, and
animal realm do not yet lead an independent existence here. At this stage everything is still in that
high spiritual condition which is called the “formless” or Arupa condition.
At the present stage of development, only the highest human thoughts — for example, mathematical
and moral ideals — are woven of that substance which was proper to all beings at the stage we are
describing. That which is lower than these human ancestors can only appear as an activity in a higher
being. The animals exist only as states of consciousness of the Spirits of Fire, the plants as states of
consciousness of the Spirits of Twilight. The minerals have a double existence in thought. First they
exist as thought germs in the human ancestors mentioned above, then as thoughts in the consciousness
of the Spirits of Form. The “higher man” (spirit-man, life-spirit, spirit-self also exists in the
consciousness of the Spirits of Form.
By degrees a densification of everything now occurs. But at the next stage, the density as yet does not
exceed the density of thoughts. At this stage, however, the animal beings which originated in the
preceding cycle, can emerge. They separate out of the consciousness of the Fire Spirits and become
independent thought beings. This stage is called that of the “formed” or Rupa condition. Man
advances in it insofar as his previously formless, independent thought body is clothed by the Spirits of
Form in a body of coarser, formed thought substance. The animals as independent beings, here consist
exclusively of this substance.
Now a further densification takes place. The condition which is now attained can be compared with
that out of which the conceptions of the dreamlike image consciousness are woven. One calls this the
“astral” stage.
The human ancestor again advances. In addition to the other two components, his being receives a
body which consists of the substance just characterized. He now has the inner formless core of being,
a thought body, and an astral body. The animals receive a similar astral body, and the plants emerge
from the consciousness of the Spirits of Twilight as independent astral entities.
In the further course of the development, the densification now advances to that condition which is
called physical. At first we deal with the most refined physical condition, with that of the most refined
ether. From the Spirits of Form the human ancestor receives the most refined ether body as an
addition to his earlier components. He consists of a formless thought core, a formed thought body, an
astral body, and an ether body.
The animals have a formed thought body, an astral body, and an ether body; the plants have an astral
and an ether body; the minerals first emerge here as independent ether forms. At this stage of
development we are concerned with four realms: a mineral, a plant, an animal, and a human realm.
Along with these however, in the course of the development up to this point three other realms have
come into existence.
In the time when the animals separated from the Fire Spirits at the thought stage (Rupa stage), the
Spirits of Personality also separated certain entities out of themselves. These consist of indefinite
thought substance which gathers together, dissolves in a cloudlike manner, and thus flows along. One
cannot speak of them as of independent entities, but only of an irregular, general mass. This is the first
elementary realm. At the astral stage something similar separates from the Fire Spirits. It consists of
shadowy images or phantoms similar to the conceptions of the dreamlike image consciousness. They
form the second elementary realm. In the beginning of the physical stage, indefinite image-like
entities finally separate out of the Spirits of Twilight.
They too have no independence, but they can manifest forces which are similar to the passions and
emotions of men and animals. These non-independent, buzzing emotions form the third elementary
realm. For beings which are endowed with a dreamlike image consciousness, or with conscious image
consciousness, these creations of the third elementary realm are perceptible as a flooding light, as
flakes of color, as smell, taste, as various tones and sounds, but all such perceptions must be imagined
to be phantom-like.
One must therefore imagine the earth, when it condenses as a refined etheric body out of its astral
precursor, to be a conglomerate of an etheric mineral basic mass and of etheric plant, animal, and
human beings. Filling the interstices as it were, and also permeating the other beings, are the creatures
of the elementary realms.
This earth is inhabited by the higher spiritual entities, which, in the most diverse ways, are active in
the realms we have mentioned. They form a spirit community, so to speak, a spirit state, and their
dwelling-place and workshop is the earth, which they carry with them as a snail does its shell. In all
this it must be borne in mind that what today is separated from the earth as Sun and Moon, is still
entirely united with the earth. Only later do both heavenly bodies separate from the earth.
The “higher man” (spirit-man, life-spirit, spirit-self, Atma-Buddhi-Manas) has as yet no independence
at this stage. He still constitutes a member of the spirit state, and for the time being is bound to the
Spirits of Form, as a human hand is bound to a human organism as a dependent member.
With this we have followed the formation of the earth to the beginning of its physical condition. In
what follows, we shall show how everything in this condition develops further. The previous
development will then pass over into what has already been said in preceding chapters of the Akasha
Chronicle about the progress of earth.
States of development such as those which have been mentioned here as a formless, a formed, an
astral, and a physical condition, which thus constitute differences in a smaller cycle (a round), are
called “globes” in theosophical texts. In this respect one therefore speaks of an Arupa, a Rupa, an
astral and a physical globe.
Some have considered such a designation incorrect. But here we shall not speak further of matters of
nomenclature. Indeed, it is not names which are important, but rather the things themselves. It is better
to endeavor to describe the latter as well as possible than to worry very much about names. These
must after all always be incorrect in a certain sense. For to facts of the spiritual world one must give
names which have come from the world of the senses, and therefore one can speak only by way of
similes.
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The description of the development of the world of man has been brought to the point where the earth
reaches the beginning of its physical densification. One should now represent to oneself the condition
of development of this world of man at this stage. What later appears as sun, moon, and earth is still
united in a single body.
This body possesses only refined etheric matter. It is only within this matter that the beings which
later will appear as men, animals, plants, and minerals have their existence, For the further progress of
the development, the one heavenly body must first separate into two, of which one becomes the later
sun, while the other contains the later earth and the later moon in a still united form. Only later does a
process of division also take place in this latter heavenly body; that which becomes the present-day
moon is extruded, and the earth alone remains as the dwelling-place of man and of his fellowcreatures.
The student of ordinary theosophical literature should understand clearly that the separation of the one
heavenly body into two took place in the period in which this literature places the development of the
so-called second principal human race. The human ancestors of this race are described as forms with
refined etheric bodies. But one must not imagine that they could have developed on our present earth
after it had already separated itself from the sun and had expelled the moon. After this separation,
such etheric bodies were no longer possible.
If one follows the development of mankind in that cycle to which our description has now come, and
which leads us into the present, one becomes aware of a series of principal conditions, of which our
current one is the fifth.
The preceding expositions from the Akasha Chronicle have already dealt with these conditions. Here
we shall only repeat what is necessary for a further deepening of the discussion.
The first principal condition shows the human ancestors as highly refined etheric entities. The usual
theosophical literature somewhat inexactly calls these entities the first principal race. This condition
essentially continues during the second epoch, in which this literature places the second principal race.
Until this stage of development sun, moon, and earth are still one heavenly body. Now the sun splits
off as an independent body.
It thereby takes those forces through which the human ancestors could be maintained in their etheric
condition. With the splitting-off of the sun a densification of the human forms and also of the forms of
man’s fellow-creatures takes place. These creatures must now adapt themselves to their new dwellingplace,
as it were.
But it is by no means only the material forces which are taken away from this dwelling-place.
Spiritual entities, of whom it has been said that they formed a spirit community on the one heavenly
body we have described, also leave at the same time. Their existence remains more intimately
connected with the sun then with the heavenly body which the sun has thrust out from itself. If these
entities had remained united with the forces which later develop on the earth and on the moon, they
themselves could not have developed further to their appropriate levels.
They needed a new dwelling-place for this further development. This is provided for them by the sun
after it — so to speak — has cleansed itself of the earth and moon forces. At the stage at which these
beings now are, they can act on earth and moon forces only from the outside, from the sun.
One can see the reason for the separation we have described. Until this time, certain entities which are
higher than man have gone through their development on the one heavenly body characterized above;
they now lay claim to a part of it for themselves, and leave the rest to man and his fellow-creatures.
The consequence of the splitting-off of the sun was a radical revolution in the development of man
and of his fellow-creatures. They fell as it were from a higher level of existence to a lower. They had
to do this, for they lost the immediate connection with those higher beings. They would have entered
entirely into a blind alley in their own development if other universal events had not taken place,
through which progress was stimulated anew and the development directed into quite different
channels.
With the forces which at present are united in the split-off moon, and which at that time were still
within the earth, further progress would have been impossible. Present-day mankind could not have
been produced with these forces, but, instead, only a kind of being in which the emotions of rage, hate
and so forth, developed during the third great cycle, the Moon existence, would have increased to the
point of the immoderate and animal.
During a certain period, this was in fact the case. The immediate consequence of the splitting-off of
the sun was the arising of the third principal condition of the ancestors of man, which in theosophical
literature is designated as the third principle race, the Lemurian. Again, the designation “race” for this
condition of development is not an especially fortunate one. For in a real sense, the human ancestors
of that time cannot be compared with what today one designates as “race.” One must be completely
clear about the fact that the evolutionary forms of the distant past as well as of the future are so
entirely different from those of today that our present appellations can only serve as makeshifts, and
really lose all meaning in relation to these remote epochs.
Actually, one can only begin to speak of “races” in connection with the development attained in about
the second third of the third principal condition identified above (the Lemurian). Only then is formed
what today one calls “races.” This “racial character” is retained in the period of the Atlantean
development, and further into our time of the fifth principal condition. But already at the end of our
fifth era, the word “race” will again lose all sense. In future, mankind will be divided into parts which
it will be impossible to designate as “races.”
In this respect, ordinary theosophical literature has caused much confusion. This has especially been
done by Sinnett’s Esoteric Buddhism, the book which, on the other hand, has the great merit of having
been the first to popularize the theosophical world-outlook in recent times. In this book the universal
development is described as if, throughout the cosmic cycles, the “races” forever repeated themselves
in the same way. But this is by no means the case. That which deserves to be called “race” also comes
into being and perishes. One should only use the expression “race” for a certain span in the
development of mankind. Before and after this, there are evolutionary forms which are something
totally different from “races.”
Only because the true deciphering of the Akasha Chronicle fully authorizes one to make such a
remark have we presumed to make it here. In this the decipherer knows himself to be in complete
accord with true occult spiritual investigation. Otherwise it could never occur to him to make such
objections against the meritorious books of theosophical literature. He might also make the really
quite superfluous remark that the inspirations of the great teachers mentioned in Esoteric Buddhism
are not contradicted by what has been described here, but that the misunderstanding has only been
produced by the fact that the author of that book has transposed the wisdom of these inspirations,
which is difficult to express, into modern every-day human language, in his own way.
The third principal condition of the development of mankind presents itself as the one in which the
“races” first came into being. This event was brought about by the separation of the moon from the
earth. This separation was accompanied by the originating of the two sexes. This stage of the
development of mankind has been repeatedly referred to in the descriptions from the “Akasha
Chronicle.” When the earth, still united with the moon, split off from the sun, a male and a female sex
did not as yet exist within mankind. Each human being combined the two sexes within its still highly
refined body.
It must be remembered however that these double-sexed human ancestors were on a low level of
development as compared with present-day man. The lower impulses acted with immeasurable
energy, and nothing of a spiritual development as yet existed. That the latter was stimulated and that
thereby the lower impulses were confined within certain bounds, is connected with the fact that, at the
same time at which earth and moon separated, the former came into the sphere of influence of other
heavenly bodies. This extremely significant co-operation of the earth with other heavenly bodies, its
meeting with foreign planets, in the time which theosophical literature calls the Lemurian, will be
related in a further chapter of the “Akasha Chronicle.”
The same course of development will be described once more, but from a different point of view. This
is done for a quite definite reason. One can never look at the truths about the higher worlds from too
many aspects. One should realize that from any one aspect it is possible to give only the poorest
sketch. And when one looks at the same thing from the most diverse aspects, the impressions one
receives in this way only gradually complement each each other to form an ever more animated
picture. Only such pictures, not dry, schematic concepts, can help the man who wants to penetrate into
the higher worlds. The more animated and colorful the pictures, the more can one hope to approach
the higher reality.
It is obvious that it is just the pictures from the higher worlds which arouse mistrust in many today. A
person is quite content to be given conceptual schemes and classifications — with as many names as
possible — of Devachan, of the development of the planets, and so forth; but he becomes more
difficult when somebody presumes to describe the supersensible worlds as a traveller describes the
landscapes of South America. Yet one should realize that it is only through fresh, animated pictures
that one is given something useful, not through dead schemes and names.

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English: A description of the major chakras and minor chakras in the body. Chakras are energy centers of the subtle body which absorb, digest and distribute prana to the different parts of the body to ensure the proper functioning of the whole physical body and its organs. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

18 – The Fourfold Man of Earth
In this description, we shall take man as our point of departure. As he lives on the earth, man at
present consists of the physical body, the ether or life body, the astral body and the “I.” This fourfold
human nature has in itself the dispositions for a higher development. The “I” by its own initiative
transforms the “lower” bodies, and thereby incorporates into them higher parts of human nature. The
ennobling and purifying of the astral body by the “I” causes the development of the “spirit self”
(Manas), the transformation of the ether or life body creates the life spirit (Buddhi), and the
transformation of the physical body creates the true “spirit man” (Atma).
The transformation of the astral body is in full progress in the present period of the development of
the earth; the conscious transformation of the ether body and of the physical body belongs to later
times; at present it has begun only among the initiates — those trained in the science of the spirit and
their pupils.
This threefold transformation of man is a conscious one; it was preceded by one more or less
unconscious during the previous development of the earth. It is in this unconscious transformation of
astral body, ether body, and physical body that one must seek the origin of the sentient soul, of the
intellectual soul, and of the consciousness soul.
One must now make clear to oneself which one of the three bodies of man (the physical, the ether, and
the astral body) is in its way most perfect. One can easily be tempted to consider the physical body as
the lowest and therefore as the least perfect. However, in this, one would be in error. It is true that the
astral body and the ether body will attain a high degree of perfection in the future, but at present the
physical body is more perfect in its way than are they in theirs.
Only because man has this physical body in common with the lowest natural realm on earth, the
mineral realm, is it possible for the error we have mentioned to arise. For man has the ether body in
common with the higher plant realm, and the astral body with the animal realm.
Now it is true that the physical body of man is composed of the same substances and forces which
exist in the wider mineral realm, but the manner in which these substances and forces interact in the
human body is the expression of wisdom and perfection in the structure. One will soon convince
himself of the truth of this statement if he undertakes to study this structure not merely with the dry
intellect but with his whole feeling soul. One can take any part of the human physical body as the
subject for this contemplation, for instance the highest part of the upper thigh bone. This is not an
amorphous massing of substance, but rather is joined together in the most artful manner, out of
diminutive beams which run in different directions.
No modern engineering skill could fit a bridge or something similar together with such wisdom.
Today such things are still beyond the reach of the most perfect human wisdom. The bone is
constructed in this wise fashion so that, through the arrangement of the small beams, the necessary
carrying capacity for the support of the human torso can be attained with the least amount of
substance. The least amount of matter is used in order to achieve the greatest possible effect in terms
of force. In face of such a “masterwork of natural architecture,” one can only become lost in
admiration. No less can one admire the miraculous structure of the human brain or heart, or of the
totality of the human physical body. One should compare with it the degree of perfection which for
example the astral body has attained at the present stage of development of mankind.
The astral body is a carrier of pleasure and distaste, of the passions, impulses and desires and so forth.
But what attacks this astral body perpetrates against the wise arrangement of the physical body! A
large part of the stimulants which man consumes are poisons for the heart. From this it can be seen
that the activity which produces the physical structure of the heart proceeds in a wiser manner than the
activity of the astral body, which even runs counter to this wisdom. It is true that in future the astral
body will advance to higher wisdom; at present, however, it is not as perfect in its way as is the
physical body. Something similar could be shown to be true for the ether body, and also for the “I,”
that being which, from moment to moment, must struggle gropingly toward wisdom through error and
illusion.
If one compares the levels of perfection of the parts of the human being, one will easily discover that
at present the physical body is in its way the most perfect, that the ether body is less perfect, the astral
body still less, and that in its way the least perfect part of man at present is the “I.” This is due to the
fact that in the course of the planetary development of the human dwelling-place the physical body of
man has been worked on the longest. What man today carries as his physical body has lived through
all the developmental stages of Saturn, Sun, Moon, and earth, up to the present stage of the latter. All
the forces of these planetary bodies have successively worked on this body, so that gradually it has
been able to attain its present degree of perfection. It is thus the oldest part of the present-day human
entity.
The ether body, as it now appears in man, did not exist at all during the Saturn period. It was only
added during the Sun development. Hence the forces of four planetary bodes have not worked on it as
on the physical body, but only those of three, namely, of Sun, Moon, and earth. Therefore only in a
future period of development can it become as perfect in its way as is the physical body at present.
The astral body joined the physical body and the ether body only during the Moon period, and the “I”
did so only during the earth period.
One must represent to oneself that the physical human body attained a certain stage of its development
on Saturn, and that this development was carried forward on the Sun in such a way that from that time
on the physical body could become the carrier of an ether body. On Saturn this physical body had
attained a point where it was an extremely complex mechanism, which however had nothing in it of
life. The complicatedness of its structure finally caused it to disintegrate. For this complicatedness had
reached such a degree that this physical body could no longer maintain itself by means of the merely
mineral forces which were acting in it. It was through this collapse of the human bodies that the
decline of Saturn was brought about.
Of the present natural realms, namely the mineral realm, the plant realm, the animal realm, and the
human realm, Saturn had only the last-named. What one knows today as animals, plants, and minerals
did not yet exist on Saturn. Of the present four natural realms, there existed on this heavenly body
only man in his physical body, and this physical body was in fact a kind of complicated mineral. The
other realms came into existence because not all beings could attain full development on the
successive heavenly bodies. Thus only a part of the human bodies developed on Saturn attained the
full Saturn goal. Those human bodies which did attain this goal were awakened, so to speak, to a new
existence in their old form during the Sun period, and this form was permeated with the ether body.
They thereby developed to a higher level of perfection. They became a kind of plant men. That
portion of the human bodies however which had not been able to attain the full goal of development
on Saturn had to continue during the Sun period what they had previously not completed, but under
considerably more unfavorable conditions than those which existed for this development on Saturn.
They therefore fell behind the portion which had attained the full goal on Saturn. Thus on the Sun
another natural realm came into being in addition to the human realm.
It would be erroneous to believe that all the organs in the present-day human body already began to be
developed on Saturn. This is not the case. Rather it is particularly the sensory organs in the human
body which have their origin in this ancient time. It is the first rudiments of eyes, ears and so forth
which have such an early origin, rudiments which formed on Saturn in somewhat the same way that
“lifeless crystals” now form on earth; the corresponding organs then attained their present form by
again and again transforming themselves in the direction of greater perfection in each of the
succeeding planetary periods. On Saturn they were physical instruments, and nothing else. On the Sun
they were transformed, because an ether or life body permeated them.
They were thereby brought into the life process. They became animated physical instruments. To
them were added those parts of the human physical body which cannot develop at all except under the
influence of an ether body: the organs of growth, of nourishment, and of reproduction. Of course the
first rudiments of these organs, as they developed on the Sun, again do not resemble in perfection the
form which they have at present.
The highest organs which the human body at that time acquired through the interaction of physical
body and ether body were those which at present have developed into the glands. The physical human
body on the Sun is thus a system of glands, on which sensory organs of a corresponding level of
development are impressed.
The development continued on the Moon. To the physical body and the ether body is added the astral
body. Thereby the first rudiment of a nervous system is integrated into the glandular sensory body.
One can see that the physical human body becomes more and more complicated in the successive
planetary development periods. On the Moon it is composed of nerves, glands, and senses. The senses
have behind them a two-fold process of transformation and perfection, while the nerves are at their
first stage.
If one looks at the Moon man as a whole, he consists of three parts: a physical body, an ether body,
and an astral body. The physical body is tripartite; its partition is the result of the work of the Saturn,
Sun, and Moon forces. The ether body is only bipartite. It has in itself only the effect of the work of
Sun and Moon, and the astral body is still unipartite. Only the Moon forces have worked on it.
Through the absorption of the astral body on the Moon, man has become capable of a life of
sensation, of a certain inwardness. Within his astral body he can form images of what takes place in
his environment. These images in a certain respect are to be compared with the dream images of
present-day human consciousness, but they are more vivid and colorful, and, most important, they
relate to events in the outside world, while present-day dream images are mere echoes of daily life or
are otherwise unclear mirrorings of inner or outer events. The images of the Moon consciousness
corresponded completely to whatever they were related to externally.
Assume for instance that a Moon man as he has just been characterized, consisting of physical body,
ether body, and astral body, had approached another Moon being. It is true that he could not have
perceived the latter as a spatial object, for this has become possible only in the earth consciousness of
man; but within his astral body would have arisen an image which in its color and shape would have
quite exactly expressed whether the other being was well or ill disposed toward this Moon man,
whether it would be useful or dangerous to him.
As a result, the Moon man could regulate his behavior entirely in accordance with the images which
arose in his image consciousness, These images were a complete means of orientation for him. The
physical instrument which the astral body needed in order to enter into relation with the lower natural
realms was the nervous system, integrated into the physical body.
In order that the transformation of man described here could occur during the Moon period, the
assistance of a great universal event was needed. The integration of the astral body and the related
development of a nervous system in the physical body was only made possible by the fact that what
had previously been one body, the Sun, split into two — into Sun and Moon. The former advanced to
the state of a fixed star, the latter remained a planet — which the Sun also had been — and began to
circle around the Sun, from which it had split off. Through this a significant transformation took place
in everything which lived on Sun and Moon. Here for the moment we shall follow this process of
transformation only insofar as it concerns the life of the Moon.
Man, consisting of physical body and astral body, had remained united with the Moon when it split
off from the Sun. He thereby entered into entirely new conditions of existence. For the Moon took
with it only a part of the forces contained in the Sun, and this part now acted on man from his own
heavenly body; the Sun had retained the other part of the forces within itself. This latter part is now
sent from the outside to the Moon and hence also to its inhabitant, man. If the previous relationship
had remained in existence, if all the Sun forces had continued to reach man from his own scene of
activity, that inner life which shows itself in the arising of the images of the astral body could not have
developed. The Sun force continued its activity on the physical body and ether body from the outside;
it had already acted on both of these previously. But it liberated a portion of these two bodies for
influences which emanated from the Moon, the heavenly body newly created by a splitting-off.
Thus, on the Moon man was under a two-fold influence, that of the Sun and that of the Moon. It is to
be ascribed to the influence of the Moon that out of the physical and the ether body there developed
those parts which permitted the imprinting of the astral body. An astral body can only create images
when the Sun forces reach it from outside rather than from its own planet. The Moon influences
transformed the sensory rudiments and the glandular organs in such a way that a nervous system could
be integrated into them; and the sun influences brought it about that the images for which this nervous
system was the instrument corresponded to the external Moon events in the manner described above.
The development could only progress to a certain point in this manner. Had this point been overstepped,
the Moon man would have become hardened in his inner life of images, and thereby he
would have lost all connection with the Sun. When the time had come, the Sun again absorbed the
Moon, so that again for some time both were one body. The union lasted until man was far enough
advanced so that his hardening, which would have had to take place on the Moon, could be prevented
by a new stage of development. When this had occurred a new separation took place, but this time the
Moon took Sun forces along with itself which previously it had not received.
Through this it came about that another separation took place after some time. What had last split off
from the Sun was a heavenly body which contained all the forces and beings at present living on earth
and moon. Thus the earth still contained within itself the moon which now circles around it. If the
latter had remained within it, it could never have become the scene of any human development,
including the present one. The forces of the present moon first had to be cast off, and man had to
remain on the thus purified earthly scene and continue his development there. In this way three
heavenly bodies developed out of the old Sun. The forces of two of these heavenly bodies, the new
sun and the new moon, are sent to the earth and hence to its inhabitant from the outside.
Through this progress in the development of the heavenly bodies it became possible that into the
tripartite human nature, as it still had been on the Moon, the fourth part, the “I,” integrated itself. This
integration was connected with a perfecting of the physical body, the ether body, and the astral body.
The perfecting of the physical body consisted in that the system of the heart was incorporated in it as
the preparer of warm blood. Of course, now the sensory system, the glandular system, and the nervous
system had to be transformed in such a way that in the human organism they would be compatible
with the newly added system of the warm blood.
The sensory organs were so transformed that out of the mere image consciousness of the old Moon
the object consciousness could develop, which makes possible the perception of external objects, and
which man at present possesses from the time he awakes in the morning until he falls asleep in the
evening. On the old Moon the senses were not yet open to the outside; the images of consciousness
arose from within, and just this opening of the senses to the external is the achievement of the earth
development.
It has been stated above that not all of the human bodies formed on Saturn attained the goal which
was set for them there, and that on the Sun, alongside the human realm in its form of that time, a
second natural realm developed. One must realize that at each of the subsequent stages of
development, on Sun, Moon, and earth, there were always beings which fell short of their goals and
that through this the lower natural realms came into existence.
The animal realm, which is closest to man, had already fallen behind on Saturn, but partially made up
the development under unfavorable conditions on Sun and Moon, so that while on the earth it was not
as far advanced as man, in part it still had the capacity to receive warm blood as he did. For warm
blood existed in none of the natural realms before the period of earth. The present-day cold-blooded
(or variably warm) animals and certain plants came into existence because certain beings of the lower
Sun realm again fell short of the stage which the other beings of this realm attained. The present-day
mineral realm came into existence last, in fact only during the earth period.
The fourfold man of earth receives from sun and moon the influences of those forces which have
remained connected with these heavenly bodies. From the sun those forces reach him which further
progress, growth, and becoming; from the moon come the hardening, forming forces. If man stood
only under the influence of the sun he would dissolve in an immeasurably rapid process of growth It is
for this reason that formerly, after an appropriate time, he had to leave the Sun and to receive a
retarding of his over-rapid progress on the split-off old Moon. But if then he had remained
permanently connected with the latter, this retarding of his growth would have hardened him in a rigid
form. Therefore he advanced to the development of earth, within which the two influences
counterbalance each other in an appropriate way. At the same time the point is reached where
something higher — the soul — is integrated as an inner entity within the quadripartite human being.
In its form, in its activities, movements and so forth, the physical body is the expression and the effect
of what takes place in the other parts, in the ether body, the astral body, and the “I.” In the descriptions
from the “Akasha Chronicle” which we have given up to this point, it has become apparent how, in
the course of development, these other parts of the human entity gradually intervened in the formation
of the physical body. During the Saturn development none of these other parts was as yet associated
with the physical human body. But the first beginning of its development was made in that time
However, one must not think that the forces which later acted on the physical body from the ether
body, the astral body, and the “I” did not already act on it during the Saturn period.
They were already acting at that time, but in a certain sense from the outside, not from within. The
other parts had not yet been formed, had not yet been united with the physical human body as
individual entities; but the forces which were later united in them acted as it were from the
environment — the atmosphere — of Saturn and formed the first beginning of this body. This
beginning was then transformed on the Sun because a part of those forces now formed the separate
human ether body, and now acted on the physical body no longer merely from the outside, but from
the inside. The same thing occurred on the Moon with respect to the astral body. On the earth the
physical body was transformed for the fourth time by becoming the dwelling place of the “I,” which
now works within it.
One can see that, to the eye of the scientist of the spirit, the physical body is not something fixed,
something permanent in its form and manner of acting. It is undergoing a constant process of
transformation. And such a transformation is also taking place in the current earth period of the body’s
development. One can only understand human life if one is in a position to form a conception of this
transformation.
A consideration of the human organs from the point of view of the science of the spirit shows that
these are at very different stages of development. There are organs in the human body which, in their
present form, are in a descending, others which are in an ascending development. In future, the former
will lose their importance for man more and more. The time of the flowering of their functions is
behind them; they will become atrophied and finally disappear from the human body.
Other organs are in an ascending development; they contain much which now is only present in a
germinal state, as it were: in future they will develop into more perfect forms with a higher function.
Among the former organs belong, for instance, those which serve for reproduction, for the bringing
into existence of like beings. In future their function will pass to other organs and they themselves will
sink into insignificance. There will come a time when they will be present on the human body in an
atrophied condition, and one will then have to regard them only as evidences of the preceding
development of man.
Other organs, as for instance the heart and neighboring formations, are at the beginning of their
development in a certain respect. What now lies in them in a germinal state will reach its full flower
only in the future. For in the conception of the science of the spirit, the heart and its relation to the socalled
circulation of the blood are seen as something quite different from what contemporary
physiology, which in this respect is completely dependent on mechanistic-materialistic concepts, sees
in them.
In so doing, this science of the spirit succeeds in casting light on facts which are well-known to
contemporary science, but for which with the means at its disposal, the latter cannot give anything like
a satisfactory explanation. Anatomy shows that in their structure the muscles of the human body are
of two kinds. There are those whose smallest parts are smooth bands, and those whose smallest parts
show a regular transverse striation. Now the smooth muscles in general are those which in their
movements are independent of human volition. For instance, the smooth muscles of the intestine push
the food pulp along in regular movements, upon which the human volition has no influence.
Those muscles which are found in the iris of the eye are also smooth. These muscles bring about the
movements through which the pupil of the eye is enlarged when the latter is exposed to a small
amount of light, and contracted when much light flows into the eye. These movements too are
independent of human volition. On the other hand, those muscles are striated which mediate
movements under the influence of human volition, for example, the muscles by which the arms and
legs are moved. The heart, which after all is also a muscle, constitutes an exception to this general
condition. In the present period of human development, the heart is not subject to volition in its
movements, yet it is a “transversely striated” muscle. The science of the spirit indicates the reason for
this.
The heart will not always remain as it is now. In the future it will have a quite different form and a
changed function. It is on the way to becoming a voluntary muscle. In the future it will execute
movements which will be the effects of the inner soul impulses of man. It already shows what
significance it will have in the future, when the movements of the heart will be as much an expression
of the human will as the lifting of the hand or the advancing of the foot are today.
This conception of the heart is connected with a comprehensive insight of the science of the spirit into
the relation of the heart to the so-called circulation of the blood. The mechanical-materialistic doctrine
of life sees in the heart a kind of pumping mechanism which drives the blood through the body in a
regular manner. Here the heart is the cause of the movement of the blood. The insight of the science
of the spirit shows something quite different. For this insight, the pulsing of the blood, its whole inner
mobility, are the expression and the effect of the processes of the soul.
The soul is the cause of the behavior of the blood. Turning pale through feelings of fear, blushing
under the influence of sensations of shame, are coarse effects of processes of the soul in the blood.
But everything which takes place in the blood is only the expression of what takes place in the life of
the soul. However, the connection between the pulsation of the blood and the impulses of the soul is a
deeply mysterious one. The movements of the heart are not the cause, but the consequence of the
pulsation of the blood.
In the future, through voluntary movements, the heart will carry what takes place in the human soul
into the external world.
Other organs which are in a similarly ascending development are the organs of respiration in their
function as instruments of speech. At present by their means man can transform his thoughts into air
waves. He thereby impresses upon the external world what he experiences within himself.
He transforms his inner experiences into air waves. This wave motion of the air is a rendering of what
takes place within him. In the future he will in this way give external form to more and more of his
inner being. The final result in this direction will be that through his speech organs which have arrived
at the height of their perfection, he will produce his own kind. Thus the speech organs at present
contain within themselves the future organs of reproduction in a germinal state. The fact that mutation
(change of voice) occurs in the male individual at the time of puberty is a consequence of the
mysterious connection between the instruments of speech and reproduction.
The entire human physical body can be considered in this way from the point of view of the science of
the Spirit. It was only intended to give a few examples here. In the science of the spirit, both an
anatomy and a physiology exist. The anatomy and physiology of the present will have to let
themselves be fertilized by the anatomy and physiology of the science of the spirit in a not very
distant future, and will even transform themselves completely into the latter.
In this area it becomes especially apparent that results such as those given above must not be built on
mere inferences, on speculations such as conclusions by analogy, but must only proceed from the true
research of the science of the spirit. This must necessarily be emphasized, for it happens only too
easily that once they have gained some insights, zealous adherents of the science of the spirit continue
to spin their ideas in empty air. It is no miracle when only phantasms are produced in this way, and, in
fact, they do abound in these areas of research.
One could, for instance, proceed to draw the following conclusion from the description given above:
Because the human organs of reproduction in their present form will in the future be the first to lose
their importance, they therefore were the first to receive it in the past, hence they are in a sense the
oldest organs of the human body. Just the contrast of this is true. They were the last to receive their
present form and will be the first to lose it again.
The following presents itself to spiritual scientific research. On the Sun, the physical human body had
in a certain respect moved up to the level of plant existence. At that time it was permeated only by an
ether body. On the Moon it took on the character of the animal body, because it was permeated by the
astral body. But not all organs participated in this transformation into the animal character.
A number of parts remained on the plant level. On the earth, after the integration of the “I,” when the
human body elevated itself to its present form, a number of parts still bore a decided plant character.
But one must not imagine that these organs looked exactly like our present-day plants. The organs of
reproduction belong among these organs. They still exhibited a plant character at the beginning of the
earth development.
This was known to the wisdom of the old Mysteries. The older art which has retained so much of the
traditions of the Mysteries, represents hermaphrodites with plant-leaf like organs of reproduction.
These are precursors of man which still had the old kind of reproductive organs (which were doublesexed).
For example, this can be seen clearly in a hermaphrodite figure in the Capitoline Collection in
Rome. When one looks into these matters one will also understand for instance the true reason for the
presence of the fig leaf on Eve.
One will accept true explanations for many old representations, while contemporary interpretations
are, after all, only the result of a thinking which is not carried to its conclusion. We shall only remark
in passing that the hermaphrodite figure mentioned above shows still other plant appendages. When it
was made, the tradition still existed that in a very remote past certain human organs changed from a
plant to an animal character.
All these changes of the human body are only the expression of the forces of transformation which lie
in the ether body, the astral body, and the “I.” The transformations of the physical human body
accompany the acts of the higher parts of man. One can therefore understand the structure and the
activity of this human body only if one absorbs oneself in the “Akasha Chronicle,” which shows how
the higher changes of the more spiritual and mental parts of man take place. Everything physical and
material finds its explanation through the spiritual. Light is shed even on the future of the physical if
one studies the spiritual.

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COSMOSWITHOUTGRAVITATION

ATTRACTION, REPULSION AND ELECTROMAGNETIC CIRCUMDUCTION IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Synopsis

BY

IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY

1946

CONTENTS

1. Phenomena Not in Accord with the Theory of Gravitation
2. Attraction Between Two Atoms. – Inertia. – Attraction of Bodies Toward the Earth. – The Time of Descent and of Ascent of a Pendulum. – The Effect of Charge on the Weight of a Body
3. Attraction, Repulsion, and Electromagnetic Circumduction in the Solar System
4. The Anomaly of Mercury and OtherPhenomena Explained

I

THE FUNDAMENTAL theory of this paper is: Gravitation is an electromagnetic phenomenon. There is no primary motion inherent in planets and satellites. Electric attraction, repulsion, and electromagnetic circumduction⁽¹⁾ govern their movements. The moon does not “fall,” attracted to the earth from an assumed inertial motion along a straight line, nor is the phenomenon of objects falling in the terrestrial atmosphere comparable with the “falling effect” in the movement of the moon, a conjecture which is the basic element of the Newtonian theory of gravitation.

Aside from several important facts discovered in the study of cosmic upheavals, which are not illuminated here and only enumerated at the end of this paper, and which are discussed at length in a work of research entitled Worlds In Collision now being prepared for publication, the following facts are incompatible with the theory of gravitation:

1. The ingredients of the air—oxygen, nitrogen, argon and other gases—though not in a compound but in a mixture, are found in equal proportions at various levels of the atmosphere despite great differences in specific weights. The explanation accepted in science is this: “Swift winds keep the gases thoroughly mixed, so that except for water-vapor the composition of the atmosphere is the same throughout the troposphere to a high degree of approximation.” ⁽²⁾ This explanation cannot be true. If it were true, then the moment the wind subsides, the nitrogen should stream upward, and the oxygen should drop, preceded by the argon. If winds are caused by a difference in weight between warm and cold air, the difference in weight between heavy gases high in the atmosphere and light gases at the lower levels should create storms, which would subside only after they had carried each gas to its natural place in accordance with its gravity or specific weight. But nothing of the kind happens.

When some aviators expressed the belief that “pockets of noxious gas” are in the air, the scientists replied:

“There are no ‘pockets of noxious gas.’ No single gas, and no other likely mixture of gases, has, at ordinary temperatures and pressures, the same density as atmospheric air. Therefore, a pocket of foreign gas in that atmosphere would almost certainly either bob up like a balloon, or sink like a stone in water.” ⁽³⁾

Why, then, do not the atmospheric gases separate and stay apart in accordance with the specific gravities?

2. Ozone, though heavier than oxygen, is absent in the lower layers of the atmosphere, is present in the upper layers, and is not subject to the “mixing effect of the wind.” The presence of ozone high in the atmosphere suggests that oxygen must be still higher: “As oxygen is less dense than ozone, it will tend to rise to even greater heights.” ⁽⁴⁾ Nowhere is it asked why ozone does not descend of its own weight or at least why it is not mixed by the wind with other gases.
3. Water, though eight hundred times heavier than air, is held in droplets, by the millions of tons, miles above the ground. Clouds and mist are composed of droplets which defy gravitation.
4. Even if perfect elasticity is a quality of the molecules of all gases, the motion of the molecules, if effected by a mechanical cause, must subside because of the gravitational attraction between the particles and also because of the gravitational pull of the earth. There should also be a loss of momentum as the result of the transformation of a part of the energy of motion into vibration of molecules hit in the collisions.⁽⁵⁾ But since the molecules of a gas at a constant temperature (or in a perfect insulator) do not stop moving, it is obvious that a force generated in collisions drives them. The molecules of gases try to escape one another. Repulsion between the particles of gases and vapors counteracts the attraction.
5. The weight of the atmosphere is constantly changing as the changing barometric pressure indicates. Low pressure areas are not necessarily encircled by high pressure belts. The semidiurnal changes in barometric pressure are not explainable by the mechanistic principles of gravitation and the heat effect of solar radiation. The cause of these variations is unknown.

“It has been known now for two and a half centuries, that there are more or less daily variations in the height of the barometer, culminating in two maxima and two minima during the course of 24 hours. Since Dr. Beal’s discovery (1664-65), the same observation has been made and puzzled over at every station at which pressure records were kept and studied, but without success in finding for it the complete physical explanation. In speaking of the diurnal and semidiurnal variations of the barometer, Lord Rayleigh says: ‘The relative magnitude of the latter [semidiurnal variations], as observed at most parts of the earth’s surface, is still a mystery, all the attempted explanations being illusory.’” ⁽⁶⁾

One maximum is at 10 a.m., the other at 10 p.m.; the two minima are at 4 a.m. and 4 p.m. The heating effect of the sun can explain neither the time when the maxima appear nor the time of the minima of these semidiurnal variations. If the pressure becomes lower without the air becoming lighter through a lateral expansion due to heat, this must mean that the same mass of air gravitates with changing force at different hours.

The lowest pressure is near the equator, in the belt of the doldrums. Yet the troposphere is highest at the equator, being on the average about 18 km. high there; it is lower in the moderate latitudes, and only 6 km. high above the ground at the poles.

6. Laplace, pondering the shape of the atmospheric envelope of the earth, came to the conclusion that the atmosphere, which rotates with the same angular velocity as the earth and which behaves like a fluid, must be lenticular in form; its polar and equatorial axes must be about 35,000 and 52,000 miles respectively; at the equator the atmosphere must extend more than 21,000 miles above the ground. At these distances from the ground the gravitational force of the earth is just equal to the centrifugal force due to rotation.

From the measurement of the pressure of the earth’s atmosphere, measurement based also on the principles of gravitation, it has been deduced that the atmosphere is but 17 (not 21,000) miles high.

Observations of the flight of meteorites and of the polar auroras lead to the conjecture that the atmosphere reaches to a height of 130 miles (meteorites) or over 400 miles (polar auroras). Radio measurements yield about 200 miles for the upper layer recognizable through this method of investigation.

Two computations, both based on the principle of gravitation, differ in the proportion of 17 and 21,000. Direct observations do not justify either of the computed figures.

7. Cyclones, characterized by low pressure and by winds blowing toward their centers, move counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. This movement of air currents in cyclonic vortices is generally explained as the effect of the earth’s rotation.

Anticyclones, characterized by high pressure and by winds blowing from their centers move clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere. The movement of anticyclones has not been explained and is regarded as enigmatic.

Cyclones and anticyclones are considered a problem of fluidal motion with highest or lowest pressure in the center. As the movement of anticyclones cannot be explained by the mechanistic principles of gravitation and rotation, it must be concluded that the rotation of cyclones is also unexplained.

8. The area of land in the northern hemisphere of the earth is to the area of land in the southern hemisphere as three is to one. The mean weight of the land is two and three-quarter times heavier than that of water; assuming the depth of the seas in both hemispheres to be equal, the northern hemisphere up to sea level is heavier than the southern hemisphere, if judged by sea and land distribution; the earth masses above sea level are additional heavy loads. But this unequal distribution of masses does not affect the position of the earth, as it does not place the northern hemisphere with its face to the sun. A “dead force” like gravitation could not keep the unequally loaded earth in equilibrium. Also, the seasonal distribution of ice and snow, shifting in a distillation process from one hemisphere to the other, should interfere with the equilibrium of the earth, but fails to do so.
9. Mountainous masses do not exert the gravitational pull expected by the theory of gravitation. The influence of the largest mass on the earth, the Himalaya, was carefully investigated with plumb line on the Indian side. The plumb line is not deflected as calculated in advance.⁽⁷⁾ “The attraction of the mountain-ground thus computed on the theory of gravitation, is considerably greater than is necessary to explain the anomalies observed. This singular conclusion, I confess, at first surprised me very much.” (G. B. Airy.⁽⁸⁾) Out of this embarrassment grew the idea of isostasy. This hypothesis explains the lack of gravitational pull by the mountains in the following way. The interior of the globe is supposed to be fluid, and the crust is supposed to float on it. The inner fluid or magma is heavier or denser, the crust is lighter. Where there is a mountainous elevation, there must also be a protuberance beneath the mountains, this immersed protuberance being of lesser mass than the magma of equal volume. The way seismic waves travel, and computations of the elasticity of the interior of the earth, force the conclusion that the earth must be as rigid as steel; but if the earth is solid for only 2000 miles from the surface, the crust must be more rigid than steel. These conclusions are not reconcilable with the principle of isostasy, which presupposes a fluid magma less than 60 miles below the surface of the earth. There remains “a contradiction between isostasy and geophysical data.” ⁽⁹⁾
10. Over the oceans, the gravitational pull is greater than over the continents, though according to the theory of gravitation the reverse should be true; the hypothesis of isostasy also is unable to explain this phenomenon.⁽¹⁰⁾ The gravitational pull drops at the coast line of the continents. Furthermore, the distribution of gravitation in the sea often has the peculiarity of being stronger where the water is deeper. “In the whole Gulf and Caribbean region the generalization seems to hold that the deeper the water, the more strongly positive the anomalies.” ⁽¹¹⁾

As far as observations could establish, the sea tides do not influence the plumb line, which is contrary to what is expected. Observations on reservoirs of water, where the mass of water could be increased and decreased, gave none of the results anticipated on the basis of the theory of gravitation.⁽¹²⁾

11. The atmospheric pressure of the sun, instead of being 27.47 times greater than the atmospheric pressure of the earth (as expected because of the gravitational pull of the large solar mass), is much smaller: the pressure there varies according to the layers of the atmosphere from one-tenth to one-thousandth of the barometric pressure on the earth;⁽¹³⁾ at the base of the reversing layer the pressure is 0.005 of the atmospheric pressure at sea level on the earth;⁽¹⁴⁾ in the sunspots, the pressure drops to one ten-thousandth of the pressure on the earth.

The pressure of light is sometimes referred to as to explain the low atmospheric pressure on the sun. At the surface of the sun, the pressure of light must be 2.75 milligrams per square centimeter; a cubic centimeter of one gram weight at the surface of the earth would weigh 27.47 grams at the surface of the sun. Thus the attraction by the solar mass is 10,000 times greater than the repulsion of the solar light. Recourse is taken to the supposition that if the pull and the pressure are calculated for very small masses, the pressure exceeds the pull, one acting in proportion to the surface, the other in proportion to the volume.⁽¹⁵⁾ But if this is so, why is the lowest pressure of the solar atmosphere observed over the sunspots where the light pressure is least?

12. Because of its swift rotation, the gaseous sun should have the latitudinal axis greater than the longitudinal, but it does not have it. The sun is one million times larger than the earth, and its day is but twenty-six times longer than the terrestrial day; the swiftness of its rotation at its equator is over 125 km. per minute; at the poles, the velocity approaches zero. Yet the solar disk is not oval but round: the majority of observers even find a small excess in the longitudinal axis of the sun.⁽¹⁶⁾ The planets act in the same manner as the rotation of the sun, imposing a latitudinal pull on the luminary.

Gravitation that acts in all directions equally leaves unexplained the spherical shape of the sun. As we saw in the preceding section, the gases of the solar atmosphere are not under a strong pressure, but under a very weak one. Therefore, the computation, according to which the ellipsoidity of the sun, that is lacking, should be slight, is not correct either. Since the gases are under a very low gravitational pressure, the centrifugal force of rotation must have formed quite a flat sun.

Near the polar regions of the sun, streamers of the corona are observed, which prolong still more the axial length of the sun.

13. If planets and satellites were once molten masses, as cosmological theories assume, they would not have been able to obtain a spherical form, especially those which do not rotate, as Mercury or the moon (with respect to its primary).
14. The Harmonic Law of Kepler views the movements of the planets as depending only on their distance from the sun. According to Newton, the masses of the sun and the planets must also enter the formulas. The Newtonian orbits differ from the Keplerian, found empirically. The Newtonian formula has a sum of masses (instead of a product of masses), and in view of the largeness of the sun, the Newtonian orbits are supposed to not deviate substantially from the Keplerian.⁽¹⁷⁾
15. Perturbations of planets due to their reciprocal action are pronounced in repulsion as well as attraction. A perturbation displacing a planet or a satellite by a few seconds of arc must direct it from its orbit. It is assumed that the orbits of all planets and satellites did not change because of perturbations. A regulating force emanating from the primary appears to act. In the gravitational system there is no place left for such regulating forces.
16. The perturbating activity appears unstable in the major planets, Jupiter and Saturn: Between the minimum of the year 1898-99 and the maximum of the 1916-17 there was found an 18 percent difference.⁽¹⁸⁾ As these planets did not increase in mass in the meantime, this change is not understandable from the point of view of the theory of gravitation, which includes the principle of the immutable gravitational constant.
17. The pressure of light emanating from the sun should slowly change the orbits of the satellites, pushing them more than the primaries, and acting constantly, this pressure should have the effect of acceleration: the pressure of light per unit of mass is greater in relation to the satellites than in relation to their primaries. But this change fails to materialize; a regulating force seems to overcome this unequal light pressure on primaries and secondaries.
18. The sun moves in space at a velocity of about twenty kilometers a second (in relation to the nearby stars). This motion, according to Lodge, must change the eccentricities of some of the planetary orbits to an extent which far exceeds the observed values.⁽¹⁹⁾
19. The motion of the perihelia of Mercury and Mars and of the nodes of Venus differ from what is computed with the help of the Newtonian law of gravitation. Einstein showed how his theory can account for the anomaly of Mercury; however, the smaller irregularities in the movements of Venus and Mars cannot be accounted for by Einstein’s formulas.
20. Unaccounted for fluctuations in the lunar mean motion were calculated from the records of lunar eclipses of many centuries and from modern observations. These fluctuations were studied by S. Newcomb, who wrote: “I regard these fluctuations as the most enigmatic phenomenon presented by the celestial motions, being so difficult to account for by the action of any known causes, that we cannot but suspect them to arise from some action in nature hitherto unknown.” ⁽²⁰⁾ They are not explainable by the forces of gravitation which emanate from the sun and the planets.
21. It was found that “the strength of radio reception was nearly doubled with the passing of the moon from overhead to underneath the observer … It does not appear reasonable that the relatively small gravitational tide in the earth’s atmosphere, which changes the barometric pressure by less than half of one percent, could account for a sufficient change in altitude of the ionized layer to produce such marked changes in the intensity of reception.” ⁽²¹⁾

The lifting of the ionosphere generally results in better radio reception, and the small tidal action by the moon when overhead should improve reception a little, not impair it; in any event, the moon cannot have a marked effect on the ionosphere without being itself a charged body. But if the moon is charged, it cannot behave in its motion as though the gravitational force alone acts between it and the earth.

22. The tails of the comets do not obey the principle of gravitation and are repelled by the sun. “There is beyond question some profound secret and mystery of nature concerned in the phenomenon of their tails” ; enormous sweep which it (the tail) makes round the sun in perihelion, in the manner of a straight and rigid rod, is in defiance of the law of gravitation, nay, even of the recorded laws of motion” (J. Herschel).⁽²²⁾

“What has puzzled astronomers since the time of Newton, is the fact that while all other bodies in the sidereal universe, as far as we are aware, obey the law of gravitation, comets’ tails are clearly subject to some strong repulsive force, which drives the matter composing them away from the sun with enormously high velocities” (W.H. Pickering)

23. The change in the angular velocity of comets (especially of the comet Encke) is not in accord with the theoretical computations based on the theory of gravitation.⁽²³⁾
24. Meteors, after entering the terrestrial atmosphere at about 200 km. above the ground, are violently displaced toward the east. These displacements of the meteors are usually ascribed to winds blowing in the upper atmosphere.⁽²⁴⁾ The atmospheric pressure at a height of 45 km. is supposed to be but “a small fraction of one millimeter of mercury.” ⁽²⁵⁾ On the other hand, the velocity with which the meteors approach the earth is between 15 and 75 km. per second, on the average about 40 km. per second or over 140,000 km. per hour. If winds of 150 km. per hour velocity were permanently blowing at the height where the meteors become visible, it would not be possible for such winds of rarefied atmosphere to visibly deflect stones falling at the rate of 140,000 km. per hour.

Approaching the earth, the meteorites suddenly slow down and turn aside, and some are even repelled into space. “A few meteors give the appearance of penetrating into our atmosphere and then leaving it, ricocheting as it were.” ⁽²⁶⁾

25. The earth is a huge magnet; it has electric currents in the ground and is enveloped by a number of layers of electrified ionosphere. The sun possesses an electric charge and magnetic poles; also the sunspots are found to be powerful magnets. The ionosphere is permanently charged by particles arriving from the sun; sunspots actively influence terrestrial magnetism, ground currents, the ionosphere’s charge, and auroras. As the principle of gravitation leaves no room for the participation of other forces in the ordinary movements of the celestial mechanism, these obvious and permanent influences of the electromagnetic state of the sun on the magnetic field of the earth, the ionosphere, the auroras, and the earth currents are not allowed to have more than zero effect on the astronomical position of the earth, and this for the sake of maintaining the integrity of the gravitational principle.

Sun and moon, comets, planets, satellites, and meteorites – all the heavenly host – air and water, mountain massifs and sea tides, each and all of them⁽²⁷⁾ disobey the “law of laws” which is supposed to know no exception.

* * *

To the empirical evidences of the fallacy of the law of gravitation four well known difficulties of the gravitational theory can be added:

1. Gravitation acts in no time. Laplace calculated that, in order to keep the solar system together, the gravitational pull must propagate with a velocity at least fifty million times greater than the velocity of light. A physical agent requires time to cover distance. Gravitation defies time.
2. Matter acts where it is not, or in abstentia, through no physical agent. This is a defiance of space. Newton was aware of this difficulty when he wrote in a letter to Bentley: “That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body can act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.” Leibnitz opposed the theory of gravitation for this very reason.
3. Gravitational force is unchangeable by any and all agents or by any medium through which it passes, always propagating as the inverse square of the distances. “Gravitation is entirely independent of everything that influences other natural phenomena” (De Sitter⁽²⁸⁾). This is a defiance of the principles governing other energies.
4. Every particle in the universe must be under a tendency to be pulled apart because of the infinite mass in the universe: it is pulled to all sides by all the matter in space.

A few additional remarks about the motion of bodies in the universe which bear upon the theory of gravitation are added here:

1. The notion of the tangential escape or inertia of the primary motion of the planets and satellites, being adopted by all cosmogonical theories of post-Newtonian days, led all of them into insurmountable difficulties. The retrograde motion of some satellites is one of these difficulties.
2. The principle of gravitation demands an ultimate balling of all matter in the cosmos. This is not in harmony with spectral observations, which suggest even an “expanding universe”
3. “An atom differs from the solar system by the fact that it is not gravitation that makes the electrons go round the nucleus, but electricity.” (B. Russell). Different principles are supposed to govern the motion of the planetary bodies in the macrocosm and microcosm.⁽²⁹⁾

* * *

Newton explained the principle underlying the motion of the planets and the satellites by the example of a stone thrown horizontally from a mountain with such force that gravitation bends its flight so that it revolves around the earth, coming back to exactly the same place, once again to repeat the course of its flight. But he admits “It is not to be conceived that mere mechanical causes could give birth to so many regular motions,” and invokes an act of Providence in providing each satellite with a tangential push of a strength which, together with the pull of the primary, creates an orbit. (General Scholium to Book III of the Principia) The inertia of the tangential (instantaneous) push has not exhausted itself in all the eons despite the tidal friction between a satellite and its primary, or the sun pulling the satellite away from the primary, or the resistance of matter (meteorites) in space, though all these forces act permanently and therefore with acceleration.

* * *

Newton’s gravitational theory is regarded as proved by the action of the tides. But studying the tides, Newton came to the conclusion that the moon has a mass equal to one fortieth of the earth. Modern calculations, based on the theory of gravitation (but not on the action of the tides), ascribe to the moon a mass equal to 1/81 of the earth’s mass.⁽³⁰⁾

The greatest triumph of the theory of gravitation was the discovery of the planet Neptune, the position of which was calculated simultaneously by Adams and Leverrier from the perturbations experienced by Uranus. But in the controversy which ensued concerning the priority in announcing the existence of Neptune, it was stressed that neither of the two scholars was the real discoverer, as both of them calculated very erroneously the distance of Neptune from the orbit of Uranus.⁽³¹⁾ Yet, even if the computations were correct, there would be no proof that gravitation and not another energy acts between Uranus and Neptune. The gravitational pull decreases as the square of the distance. Electricity and magnetism act in the same way. Newton was mistaken when he ascribed to magnetism a decrease that follows the cube of the distance.⁽³²⁾

Building his System of the World, Newton put before his readers “Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy.” The First Rule is: “We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.” Rule II is : “Therefore, to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.”

II

Thorough theoretical and experimental investigations will be necessary to build a new theory in place of the now accepted theory of gravitation. For the present we shall offer only general suggestions.

1. Attraction between two neutral atoms. Each atom is made up of positive and negative electricity and, though neutral as a whole, may form an electric dipole when subjected to an electric force. Thus, in the theory presented here, this attraction is not due to “inherent gravitational” properties of mass, but instead to the well known electrical properties of attraction. Two dipoles arrange themselves so that the attraction is stronger than their mutual repulsion.
2. Inertia, or the passive property of matter. “The equality of active and passive, or gravitational and inertial mass was in Newton’s system a most remarkable accidental coincidence, something like a miracle. Newton himself decidedly felt it as such” (W. DeSitter).⁽³³⁾

In Einstein’s explanation, inertia and gravitation are not two different properties, but one and the same property viewed from different points in space. According to his illustration, a man in an elevator that is being continuously pulled up by a rope invisible to the man will feel his feet pressed against the bottom of the elevator and will think that he gravitates toward the floor. But someone else observing the situation from the outside in space will judge that there is a fact of inertia; the pulled elevator has to overcome the inertia of the man standing on its floor. If the man in the elevator lets an object fall from his hand, it will approach the floor at an accelerated speed because the elevator is being continuously pulled upward; to the observer on the outside it rises with acceleration.

By this illustration Einstein tried to explain the equivalence of inertia and gravitation. But it is impossible to adopt this explanation for the gravitational effect of the globe: the observer from outside cannot perceive the globe as moving simultaneously in all directions. Einstein sees the difficulty and says: “It is, for instance, impossible to choose a body of reference such that, as judged from it, the gravitational field of the earth (in its entirety) vanishes.” ⁽³⁴⁾

In our explanation the active property is due to one kind of charge in the atom – the attracting (attracted) charge; the passive property, to the opposite charge, which repels (is repelled). Both exist in equal quantities in a neutral atom; this explains the equality of the gravitating and inertial properties of matter.

However, the charges must arrange themselves in such a manner that attraction proceeds: the attracting force overcomes the repelling force because the attracting poles of the dipoles are closer to one another than the repelling poles; when the repelling poles are closer, the atoms (or their combinations in molecules) repel each other, as is the case with gases.

A charged body attracts more strongly than a neutral body because of the presence of free electrons; in dipoles the charges rearrange themselves only a little, but free electrons can rearrange themselves much more.

3. Attraction of bodies toward the earth. The ionosphere is strongly charged with respect to the “neutral” earth; a potential difference of 100 volts per meter altitude exists near the ground, or a difference in potentials which forces the current through the electric lamps. Does any relation exist between the difference in voltage in the lower atmosphere and the difference in weight (“at the ceiling of a room 3 meters high a kilogram weighs about one milligram less than at the floor” )?

With the altitude a voltage difference per meter is not the same as near the ground, but it accumulates to a high figure: “Between a point ten miles high and the surface of the earth there is an electrical pressure difference of about a hundred and fifty thousand volts.” ⁽³⁵⁾

Neutral bodies consist of both positive and negative charges. Neutral atoms form dipoles along the lines of force of the electric field with poles turned toward the earth and the ionosphere. Is the fall of objects due to their “dipole attraction” and to their movement in an electrical field as dipoles? The proximity to the ground gives its action preference over that of the ionosphere as far as the attracting force is concerned, since the distance between the opposite electric poles of the atomic dipole is much smaller in comparison to its total distance from the ionosphere than from the ground. This means, however, that when objects reach a certain altitude, they would be attracted upward. Meteorites, repelled into space, are apparently charged identically with the upper layer of the ionosphere.

This part of the theory (concerning falling bodies) requires experimentation and exact calculation. It is probable that besides carrying a charge, the ground turns all of its atoms as dipoles toward the ionosphere.⁽³⁶⁾

4. “In contrast to electric and magnetic fields, the gravitational field exhibits a most remarkable property, which is of fundamental importance … Bodies which are moving under the sole influence of a gravitational field receive an acceleration, which does not in the least depend either on the material or the physical state of the body.” (Einstein)⁽³⁷⁾

This law is supposed to hold with great accuracy. The velocity of the fall is generally explored with the help of a pendulum; it appears to us that a charged object must fall with a different velocity than a neutral object. This is generally denied. But the denial is based on the observation that there is no difference in the number of swings of a pendulum in a unit of time, in the case where a charged or neutral bob is used. This method may produce inaccurate results. In an accurate method, the falling time and the time of ascent of the pendulum must be measured separately. In the case of a charged body, the increase in the velocity of descent of the pendulum may be accompanied by a decrease in the velocity of ascent, and thus the number of swings in a unit of time would remain the same for charged and non-charged bobs.

In a charged body the attracting and the inertial properties are not equal.
It appears also that the weight of a body increases after it is charged. An experiment made with a piece of hard rubber (ten grams), neutral and again charged by rubbing, on a scale with a sensitivity of one-tenth of a milligram, showed a change in weight of over ten milligrams. This appears to be the result of an induced charge in the bottom (ebony) of the balance (placed on a thick plate of glass). A grounded wire held over the scale with the charged rubber raises the scale. If “gravitation” is an electrical phenomenon, attraction by induced electricity is not an entirely different phenomenon. Nevertheless, this experiment cannot be regarded as conclusive for the present problem.

In the oil-drop experiment the action of the charges may be made equal to the “gravitational” pull: One and the same action is ascribed to two fundamentally different principles.

A photograph may provide the answer to the question of how much a charged drop revolving around a pole of a magnet is influenced by the terrestrial pull.

Would a metal container filled with gas fall (in a vacuum) with the same velocity as a solid piece of metal?

III

Attraction, repulsion, and electromagnetic circumduction act in the solar system. Sun, planets, satellites, comets are charged bodies. As charged bodies they are interdependent.

The solar surface is charged negatively in relation to the charge of the earth, as the spectral lines (with the dominant red line in the spectrum of hydrogen) reveal. The sun carries a charge and rotates: it is an electromagnet.

The spots of the sun are magnetic, and the filaments of hydrogen on the sun’s surface arrange themselves as iron particles in a magnetic field.⁽³⁸⁾ Besides the spots, the sun as a whole is a magnet. “The form of the corona and the motion of the prominences suggest that it is a magnet,” wrote G.E. Hale when he undertook to detect the Zeeman effect.⁽³⁹⁾ The Zeeman effect proved to be most pronounced at 45° in both hemispheres of the sun; Hale found the displacement of lines decreases to zero at the equator and near the poles of rotation; and also that “a first approximate value for the vertical intensity of the sun’s general field at the poles is 50 gausses.” Thus, it was confirmed that the sun is a magnet, but the magnetic field was found not to be strong.

This result is questioned here. The lines of the corona suggested the existence of a magnetic field on the sun to the scholar who discovered it. But the form of the corona suggests a powerful magnetic field.⁽⁴⁰⁾ Visible coronal bands and streamers reach a distance equal to ten and more diameters from the disc of the sun—Mercury is only forty solar diameters from the sun and Earth 108 solar diameters. More recent investigation by Stevens, who photographed the streamers from 25,000 feet, disclose a globular corona more extensive than any known from ground photographs.

Disturbances in filaments and vortices of the sun affect the ionosphere of the earth and prove the existence of a powerful charge on the sun; rotating at the speed of the solar rotation, a strong charge must produce a strong magnetic field.

A revised investigation of the magnetic power of the field around the sun is here suggested. It should be kept in mind that the observations have been made from the solar magnetic field, in which the earth is embedded, if our concept is correct. It is possible also that the strongest Zeeman effect will show itself in latitudes higher than 45°. As is well known, the angle of observation must be taken into consideration in observing the Zeeman effect.

The sun is a rotating charged body, and it creates a magnetic field. We assume the solar charge to be large enough to produce a magnetic field with lines of force reaching the orbit of Pluto. The charged planets move at right angles to the sun’s magnetic lines of force and describe the usual circular motion to which moving charged bodies are subjected in a magnetic field. Satellites, in turn, revolve in smaller magnetic fields produced by the rotation of the charged planets. The non-rotating planets have no satellites, for they do not produce magnetic fields. If there are rotating satellites, they may be able to revolve trabants around them.

“The origin of the earth’s main magnetic field has so far defied all attempts of solution.” ⁽⁴¹⁾ The cause of the earth’s magnetic field is in (1) the magnetic field of the sun, and (2) the rotation of the charged earth around its axis.

It has been calculated⁽⁴²⁾ that if the earth is a magnet because of the rotating charge on its surface, the charge must be so great as to “enter as a serious factor in planetary perturbations,” and therefore the theory was dropped.⁽⁴³⁾ But this is exactly what happens: the electromagnetic fields of the earth and of other planets are the causes of the planetary perturbations.

We have constructed a theory according to which the members of the solar system are charged bodies; electric attraction and repulsion, and electromagnetic circumduction act in the system; the origin of the magnetic field around the sun is in its charge—the sun is an electromagnet; planetary motion is due to the electromagnetic force exerted on the planets by the sun. The planets as charged bodies create magnetic fields by their rotation. It follows that (a) gravity, depending on electrical charge, varies with the charge, (b) the masses of the planets are inaccurately calculated, (c) the positive and negative charges are manifested only in relation to the charge of the earth.

One of the differences between the conception of celestial mechanism expounded here and the theories of gravitation of Newton and Einstein is that in our understanding the revolution of the moon is a process of a different order from that of the falling of objects near the terrestrial ground. The revolution of the moon is a phenomenon of circumduction of a charge by a magnetic field and is not a fall combined with inertia; the primary motion of planets and satellites along a straight line is a fallacious notion. At the distance of the moon the electromagnetic field of the earth causes circumduction while in the terrestrial atmosphere the electric field between the earth and the ionosphere causes the movement of the dipoles. Like the moon, the earth and other planets and satellites are subject to electromagnetic circumduction.

IV

“Universal gravitation” is an electromagnetic phenomenon, in which the charges in the atoms, the free charges, the magnetic fields of the sun and the planets play their parts.

In the frame of this theory the following phenomena become explainable:

1. All planets revolve in approximately one plane. They revolve in a plane perpendicular to the lines of force of the sun’s magnetic field.
2. The planets have a greater aggregate energy of motion than the sun. The revolution of the planets did not originate in the angular velocity of rotation of the sun; the magnetic field of the sun effected their revolution. Also, the fact that one of the satellites of Mars revolves with an angular speed greater than that of the rotation of this planet is explained here by electromagnetic circumduction.
3. The retrograde revolution of a number of satellites. It is due either to retrograde rotation of the primary with inversed magnetic poles or to a difference of charges. The fact that the retrograde satellites of Jupiter and Saturn are the most remote from their primaries poses the problem whether their remoteness from the primaries and their relative closeness to the sun play a role in their being of a presumably different charge than the other satellites of Jupiter and Saturn.⁽⁴⁴⁾

In the case of Uranus, the retrograde revolution of its satellites follows the retrograde rotation of the planet and its magnetic field. (One of the magnetic poles of Uranus can be readily investigated because it faces the ecliptic.)

4. The rotation of the earth. The tidal theory fails to account for the rotation of the planets. The position of the magnetic poles of the earth at a distance of about 20 degrees from the geographical poles may be related to the rotation of the earth. Once each day the magnetic poles of the earth occupy the southernmost and the northernmost positions in the lines of the magnetic field of the sun.
5. Perturbations among the members of the solar system are actions of attraction as well as of repulsion and depend on the charges of the planets and satellites and their magnetic properties. The fact that after perturbations, the planets resume their normal courses is due to the regulating action of the sun’s magnetic field. Similarly, the satellites are regulated in their motion by the electromagnetic fields of the primaries.
6. The anomalies in the motion of Mercury and other planets. The velocities of revolution of the planets depend on their charges. A strongly charged body is carried across the lines of the magnetic field more swiftly than a weakly charged body. If the charge of a planet increases, the velocity of revolution of such a planet must increase too. Positive as well as negative charges arrive from the sun in an uninterrupted flow.

The planet Mercury moves faster and faster. This must be the result of an increasing charge of the planet. Also, the anomalies in the motion of other inner planets may be attributed to a changing charge; other irregularities in the motion of the planets can be attributed to the fact that the electrical charge of the sun is not equally distributed on the solar surface.

7. The deflection of a ray of light passing close to the sun. Before attributing the deflection to the gravitational field of the sun, the influence of the magnetic field of the sun on the rotation of light should be calculated. (The influence of the moon on a ray of light by creating a ripple in the atmosphere during a solar eclipse must not be overlooked; an investigation of the trajectory of a stellar ray passing close to the moon in a lunar eclipse is suggested here.)
8. The repulsion of a comet’s tail by the sun. The head of a comet and its tail are charged under a great potential difference, accounting for the manifest repulsion of the tail and attraction of the head. The neck of the comet is probably composed of positive and negative elements in equal proportion, thus forming a neutral zone between the head and the tail. Under the influence of the temperature in space the charges change and the comet returns on its orbit.
9. The displacement of the meteorites in the higher atmosphere. It is caused not by the winds, but by the electromagnetic effect of the ionosphere. The light of the meteorites is caused by electric discharges. Consequently, the passage of meteorites disturbs radio reception.
10. The influence of the moon on radio reception. The charged moon on its hourly stations exerts an attracting-repelling action on the electrified layers of the atmosphere (ionosphere) to a greater degree than on the “insulating layer” of the earth’s atmosphere.
11. The semi-diurnal variations of the barometric pressure. These variations with maxima at 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. have their cause in the semi-diurnal changes of the charge of the ionosphere at the same hours, 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. The barometric pressure reflects the degree of attraction exerted by the ground and the ionosphere on the gaseous envelope.
12. The defiance of gravity by water and cloud building. The ground and the ionosphere induce secondary charge-layers in the atmosphere. In such a secondary layer cloud-building takes place. Generation of electricity in clouds is due not to the friction of neutral clouds on mountain ridges, or to the friction of neutral clouds among themselves, or to the friction of droplets by the gravitational pull on them, but to the fact that droplets rise already charged toward the charged layer of the atmosphere, and clouds are further subjected to induction by the ground and the ionosphere. This explains also the segregation of the charges in the upper and lower levels of the clouds.
13. Defiance of gravity experienced in the cumulo-nimbus clouds. This defiance recorded by airplane pilots is the result of charges and electromagnetic effects prevailing in these clouds.
14. The direction of the cyclonic and anticyclonic whirls. Their direction on the earth, as well as on the sun, depends on the electromagnetic fields and not on the rotation of these bodies.
15. Increased gravity over the sea. The increase of gravity over the sea as compared with that over the continent may be explained by the higher charge of salt water.

* * *

There were a few attempts made to unite the electromagnetic and gravitational field theories; but as far as I know nobody has tried to solve the problem of planetary movement around the sun as a motion of charged bodies in a magnetic field; my explanation implies that the measurement of the solar magnetic field by Hale is not correct.

If the sun has a sufficiently strong magnetic field so as to reach the farthest of the planets, the quantitative elements are dictated by the charge of the sun, the strength of its magnetic field, and the charge of the planets.

* * *

The theory of the Cosmos without Gravitation given here in synopsis is written also in a comprehensive form (1941-43). I arrived at this concept early in 1941 as a result of my research in the history of cosmic upheavals as they affected the earth and other members of the solar system. A number of facts proved to me that the sun, the earth and other planets, the satellites, and the comets, are charged bodies, that the planets and their satellites have changed their orbits repeatedly and radically, and that gravitational attraction or the weight of objects has changed during human history. I thus recognized the fact that not gravitation, but electric attraction and repulsion and electromagnetic circumduction govern the solar system.

In construction the electromagnetic theory of the solar system, I am indebted to Miss Shulamith Velikovsky for valuable suggestions on the dipole explanation of attraction between the atoms and the dipole concept of inertia.

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1. The usual term “rotation” may be misleading, as it is the phenomenon of planetary revolution, not rotation, to which it is here referred.
2. E.O. Hulburt in Fleming’s Terrestrial Magnetism and Electricity, 1939, p.492
3. W.J. Humphreys, Physics of the Air, 1940, p.227
4. Encyclopedia Britannica, 14th edition, “Atmosphere”
5. See Sir James H. Jeans, The Kinetic Energy of Gases, 1940
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29. Strangely enough, the movements of the electrons around the nucleus are ascribed to the electrical attraction between these bodies plus an infinitesimal gravitational attraction and to the inertia with which the electrons are trying to overcome these two pulls.
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31. Since Adams and Leverrier expected to find a planet of the size of Uranus ca. 1,750,000,000 miles beyond the orbit of Uranus, and it was found ca. 1,000,000,000 miles beyond Uranus, the mass of Neptune was overestimated by a factor of three.
32. Principia, Book III, Proposition V, Corr. V
33. Kosmos, 1932, p.107
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36. In connection with this, attention should be paid to the following: “When measurements of the earth’s magnetic field are used to evaluate the magnetic line-integral around any chosen area on the earth’s surface, the result generally differs from zero. This, according to a fundamental principle of electromagnetism, is to be taken as evidence that an electric current flows vertically across the area … The average current-density is about 10,000 times that of the air-earth current that is derived from atmospheric-electricity measurements, so that it seems inadmissible to interpret either this aspect of the earth’s magnetism or the currents observed in telegraph-lines of mountain slopes as manifestations of vertical electrical currents in the atmosphere unless there is involved here some principle or some mode of electrical transport that is yet unknown to physics… A problem that may be of fundamental importance to physical science.” O.H. Gish, “Atmospheric electricity” in Fleming, op.cit.
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43. Hale, Preliminary results, p.3.
44. The sixth and seventh satellites of Jupiter are 7,114,000 and 7,292,000 miles (mean distance) from the planet, and have a direct revolution. The eighth and ninth satellites, with retrograde revolution, are 14,6000,000 and 14,900,000 miles distant. The farthest satellite of Saturn, with direct revolution, 2,210,000 miles away from the planet; the only satellite with retrograde revolution is 8,034,000 miles away from the primary. 

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July 11, 2005

from EaglesDesobey Website

• Can it be that what we think is physical reality is made up of an illusion, a play of light of quantum participant observer probabilities?

• Is reality an illusion that is physically effective?

• What if, just like you can hypnotize someone to think they were burned when they were not, and they suffer real skin burns caused by their imagination, that you could hypnotize masses of people to both experience a world they are conditioned to expect and believe, and also have them be unable to experience something they are conditioned to deny as being real?

The brain’s body image can lead the presentation of objectively measurable physical manifestations in the body.

This is the flip side of what we usually assume, which is also true, that experience of the physical body, through sensation and action, certainly lead to experience in the brain’s body image.

But on the other hand, given the placebo power of the mind to cause the manifestation of physical symptoms, and given masses of people could do it in concert, it is possible the entire agreement about what is reality can be manipulated, and reality itself can be herded.

• Is there a global timeline placebo effect going on?

• Are we in a situation where we have been manipulated by competing ET races into using our innate and possibly soon to be more awakened creative conscious spiritual energies in a way that serves them, but not always us?

• Must they keep us asleep to get away with herding our souls like cattle for their own ends?

• Are we being led along in a fairly controlled sleepy manner to preserve and continue steps toward a realizing a large global consensus blueprint future, a future that serves these ET society future human interests, not necessarily our own present day human interests?

• What does the Dan Burisch saga have to do with this?

What is the DCTP doctrine?

1. The DCTP is a doctrine of the human race’s probable competing pasts, observer relative present and probable futures.
   

2. A DCTP prime truth is there are strongly competing timelines or futures that are in a natural semi-quiescent laminar convergence right now, until the 2012period is upon us when things change.
   

3. The DCTP suggests that future humans are warning of an upcoming environmental catastrophe following the 2012 galactic energy related natural stargate amplifications in our solar system that will be possibly precipitated by the presence of some artificial stargates on the Earth. If this future transpires, it is a future that leads to the developmental evolution, for better or worse, of various factions of future humans, now known as J-Rod ET’s or Orion Talls.
   

4. The DCTP suggests there is a future where a possibly pole shift related environmental catastrophe is averted and does not happen, and relative to this different time line, the future that generated the J-Rods as we know them will never evolve from our own, and we have taken a new path.
   

5. The DCTP suggests the remaining presence of the J-Rods in our timeline, having originated from the alternate prior timeline, will effectively be world line immigrants from a future that they helped never happen for us.
   

6. The DCTP suggests our distant descendents help us change our course in a way that precludes their own development in this new timeline, but they still exist in our timeline coming from that prior original future they traveled back from to,

   1. have helped us avert the catastrophe (Maji allied J-Rods), and/or

   2. help them raid our genetic stocks before the catastrophe (Illuminati allied Rogue J-Rods).
      

7. The DCTP suggests future humans or J-Rods, have engaged in a future into past immigration, and are using current day human genetic resources as an evolutionary pit stop to recover factors they lost in their own originating timeline.
   

8. The DCTP suggests there is a future where we continue to have an ongoing relationship with the non-Rogue J-Rods, and another where they stay relatively hidden, denied, unknown, and they either go to other planets, or otherwise gradually fade out of history. The ET phenomenon related to future humans as ET’s fades out.
   

9. The DCTP suggests there is a future where if the so called Ark of the New Dawn were not to be deployed because it isn’t needed after all (hey folks, come on out, the weather’s great up here, no catastrophe like you thought, we dismantled those remaining stargates in time!)
   

10. The DCTP suggests there are many timeline overlays going on, at least pre-2012.
    

11. The DCTP suggests there are many externally introduced novel butterfly attractors that are being stacked into motion in our timeline pre-2012.
    

12. The DCTP suggests that circa 2012 as we cross the galactic ecliptic natural stargate wormhole that exist along the galactic ecliptic will line up and activate in such a way as to cause a plenum of energy flux of some kind that will affect our solar system.
    

13. The DCTP suggests that this natural stargate activation event will produce some changes in the solar system and the sun which, along with changes and energy flux associated with any natural stargates in the vicinity of our planet.
    

14. The DCTP suggests that future humans have time traveled to the past – our present – and are working to steer timeline causality into certain trajectories.
    

15. The DCTP suggests that the future humans experienced a catastrophe that began with an event that occurs around the 2012 timing, and this catastrophe may have included the activation of artificial wormholes or stargates left over from previous ET travelers, which activation may have precipitated a radical pole-shift and other things during or subsequent to that timing.
    

16. The DCTP suggests that future humans have used the ability to time travel to return to a pre-2012 era in order to attempt to deactivate certain artificial stargates that may have helped precipitate disaster attributed to their activation during the 2012 timing.
    

17. The DCTP suggests that these future humans, known also as ET’s or J-Rods, have also returned back in time in order to migrate their future human species into a more survivable and evolutionarily efficacious future.
    

18. The DCTP suggests that timelines can be overlaid or stacked, and that we presently live in a causality nexus that combines multiple timelines and multiple loops of timeline feedback.
    

19. The DCTP suggests that if due to their influence and present human actions, the historical catastrophe of their ancient history – our immediate future – does not happen, then it is understood the J-Rods will not develop in the new timeline as they did in the original one that developed them to their current evolutionary appearance.
    

20. The DCTP suggests that if the catastrophe does not happen as it once did, the J-Rods who have migrated back in time will continue to exist from their heritage of the prior timeline they evolved in, but that humanity in the present new timelines will be spared an evolutionary path that led to the J-Rods current problems.
    

21. The DCTP suggests that the J-Rods from more than one future have migrated back to our present era, specifically the 45’s (meaning they are from the future 45,000 years ahead of us…) and the 52’s, and that the 52’s, as a whole, are suffering from a terminal form of peripheral neuropathy (PN).
    

22. The DCTP suggests that the 45 J-Rods, 7k years earlier in time than the 52’s, do not directly suffer from the PN syndrome are split into two factions, reasonable and unreasonable, or friendly and rogue, and that the rogue J-Rods resist following any agreements with current time human governments, and that the friendly 45’s and the 52’s have both formed treaties (Tau9)
    

23. The DCTP suggests that the latest summed iteration of multiple composite timelines have, across different scales, a substantial degree of relative integral convergence of causality paths with all the prior feedback loop overlaid lines after the original line.
    

24. The DCTP suggests the feedback loop overlay series of new time or world lines is constituted of varying causality streams in multi-wave paradox that we are currently riding together. The multi-wave time stream is comprised of the original and all the varying changed or tweaked world lines, through to the latest loop overlay.
    

25. The DCTP refers to a composite of multi-potential range of different possible causality trajectories, with different relative outcome probability-to-actuality biases, but existing as an overlay. Living inside a multi-trajectory time stream stack, individual participant observer by their own resonance can individually bias their superposition-to-position to one or more of the different lines in the stack.
    

26. The DCTP suggests there are causality trajectory potentials in the environment of stacked time stream potentials which all remain common across the lines. They remain singular or at least flow in unified fused convergent trajectory, and in this respect the timelines remain, at certain scales and domains of participant observation, relatively indistinguishable from each other.
    

27. The DCTP suggests other novel or divergent future potentials are also resonantly competing with each other for substantially mutually exclusive future outcomes. Yet at other scales of observation, much of the different causality stream paths are largely similar to one another.
    

28. The DCTP suggests the stacked timeline experiential paradox effect is intensified by how extreme the range of line-to-line novelty in the time line stream stack. The more extreme range the experience of locally or globally divergent timeline superposition-to-position dominance depends on the bias of the participant observer.
    

29. The DCTP suggests multiple loop or embedded time streams can alternately flow in a laminar-like convergence or causal fusion or otherwise flow divergently and separately, depending on the participant observer population intentional variations. Does this suggest the native active intentional resonance of the participant observer can converge with one stream or another and entrain their conscious observer participant influence to reinforce to particular time stream potential over another?
    

30. The DCTP suggests a paradox generating situation where the time stream is appearing to remain largely convergent and fused as if one singular largely composite world line, but on the other hand there are different causal trajectories which can super-positioned into position by the influence of participant observers. Does like attract like, and the laws of resonance entrainment apply in this regard?
    

31. The DCTP suggests any given “reality” is comprised of convergent probability waves more than solid objects, and locality is a balanced convergence of both local explicate and entangled non-local implicate pattern potentials. If this is so, do mass convergent causal vector potentials literally tend to reinforce and steer global consensus causality in a direction that is consistent with the convergence of probability waves produced by masses of observer participants?
    

32. The DCTP suggests the prime global, planetary and species strategic inference is that we live in a time that includes the progression of more than one futurein the offing that will develop. Is it true the stakes are that these currently overlaid different future potentials are each and all vying for conscious observer participant quantum population? They each have spiritual quantum superposition advocacy to entrain our souls into their particular causality orbit. Which orbit we align to is the causality time line that more of our conscious energy will be invested in, and hence feeds forward to energize those future potentials, just as those future potentials fed back to look for (1) reinforcement or (2) change.
    

33. The DCTP suggests that pre-2012 that several distinct time lines are stacked and overlaid and in relative laminar-like convergence, and that in the 2012 period there is a galactic scale alignment that provides a natural boosting and “turning on” of natural stargates in our solar system.
    

34. The DCTP suggests that the natural stargates may accommodate and support spiritual evolutionary changes and transformation for human consciousness, and will additionally produce material effects on the electromagnetic environment of the sun and our planet. Is it thought by some of the future humans that during this event, the existence of some remaining artificial stargates on Earth may have radically influenced the progress of a natural pole shift in progress to unnaturally occur in such an accelerated manner that it has radical global environmental consequences?
    

35. The DCTP suggests that some of the future humans wish to possibly avert the severity by removing or disabling any artificial stargates before the galactic alignment stargate boosting event.
    

36. The DCTP suggests there are some future humans who have effectively migrated back to this present time and appear to want to,

    1. influence their precedent future so that it may not happen as it once already did for them (and still could for us), and

    2. emigrate to this present for its expedient evolutionary resources, such as for pre-catastrophe DNA pit stop, in order to genetically engineer and accomplish a future human species evolutionary potential recovery operation.
       

37. The DCTP suggests if the future humans (who are here to be present timeline changers) avert the catastrophe that befell their species, they will still exist, and still have originated from their earlier now relatively defunct timeline, but they will now recover more of their lost evolutionary energy that was sapped by their historical accretion into that timeline, and more fully move on from their presence in this timeline.

    However, is it not also true they will themselves from present, after averting the catastrophe, diverge into a new timeline that becomes increasingly separate from ours as a species now moving along a much different future timeline trajectory?
    

38. The DCTP suggests that the future humans who have time looped back are executing a present era DNA pit stop to recover those lost factors that their soon to be averted future had eventually stripped them of. These future humans, will, through this time looped DNA hybridization operation, produce a new future genetic line for evolutionary progress for them.

    It will hopefully combine what was the best of our human future in the post-catastrophe trajectory, with the best of their past heritage, our present pre-2012 gene pool, and permit them a recovered evolutionary trajectory.
    

39. The DCTP suggests the new evolutionary trajectory project instigated by the future humans operating in our present era, looks to accomplish its ends by several somewhat conflicting means. In one instance one faction of future humans, the more logic and technology worshippers, descendents of present day Illuminati, are willing to resort to any means necessary to move along their evolutionary recovery agenda without much care for how it affects our timeline forward (since it won’t be them), and in another instance, the heart and compassion worshippers, the brothers from Orion, want to see a win-win where the new future timeline of the emigrated future humans only supports a better future for the current human species.
    

40. The DCTP suggests the service-to-self expediency logic camp is uninterested in our new future timeline and its fate just using us as a free resource for achieving their ends for an evolutionary uplift, as and such, could care less if we still hit the catastrophe that befell them – these are the Illuminati linked Rogues.
    

41. The DCTP also suggests, that in contrast, the service-to-others compassion camp is very interested in optimizing how this reverse time emigration of the future humans can also incidentally help to both,

    1. to avert the precedent catastrophic pole shift future that happened for them

    2. provide a disclosure of the 2012 events potentials in a way that can spiritually reinforce a more optimal evolutionary fate for present era humans.

    And this future human group is comprised of the non-rogue future humans – who are working with the present-era faction known as the Maji.
    

42. The DCTP suggests the future human descendents of the Illuminati and Maji, in their various flavors, are both competitively influencing the present pre-2012 for their own ends, but with the Illuminati are willing to see a win for them and losing situation for us, whereas the Maji are predisposed to influencing towards a win-win, service-to-all outcome.
    

43. The DCTP suggests that one faction of future humans called the Rogues wish to prevent disclosure of how humans may choose to populate different possible soul futures.
    

44. The DCTP suggests that the some of the future humans known as Rogue J-Rods, wish to engage in soul-energy hijacking activity in addition to genetic energy recovery activity, and this may have an additional negative effect on the prospects of the current era timeline trajectory.
    

45. The DCTP suggests that human souls from the future are influencing their soul ancestry in their relative past, our present, in to order to upgrade their own future.
    

46. The DCTP suggests the future holds a known track of development that eventually generates three
    

47. The DCTP suggests that of recent, the present day Maji allied future human J-Rods, have begun to appreciate how their ancestral genetic pit stop operation in our time will have further karmic consequence they will face in their new future if they engage in it with unwilling free souls.
    

48. The DCTP suggests, that as a result, the non-Rogue J-Rods are largely curtailing their continuing abduction activity to obtain genetic material in order to forward their hybridization program. It also suggests they have recently chosen to “live” with the state of the art DNA hybridization level of accomplishment they have reached as of this point, and further suffice through evolutionary genetic tuning of the current stock, and also suffice also through the possible influence of certain present era-human new breakthroughs in energetic biological healing.
    

49. The DCTP suggests, that in contrast to this, the Illuminati descended more Godless Rogue J-Rods dismiss abduction compassion considerations, and that even while they would like to obtain natural biological healing technologies uniquely discovered in the current loop by present humans associated with the Maji, they are far too arrogant and self interested to care about how much they “manipulate” and “use” the present era to serve their own timeline uplift resource piggy bank.
    

50. The DCTP suggests that the Rogue J-Rods are against disclosure of the situation in any manner that would promote present day human species enlightenment, as this enlightenment provides human conscious souls freedom from their plans to continue to manipulate their ancestors, after a fashion, to be an expedient resource for their own upliftment ends.
    

51. The DCTP suggests that as a result, these Rogue J-Rod future humans have deployed a population of near era time traveling human hybrids, often known as MIB’s, who are early products of prior accomplished future-human/past-human genetic hybridization work, to acts as a timeline enforcement operation.
    

52. The DCTP suggests this causality control and containment operational force of MIB’s instigated by the Rogues is intended to accomplish the ends of

    1. preventing consensus awareness of their abduction activity and present era manipulating presence

    2. preventing scientific progress to develop technologies that could be used against them

    3. preventing any mass human enlightenment breakthroughs that could impair their capacity to manipulate present day era humans toward a future of servitude to their own future evolutionary ends
       

53. The DCTP suggests from the Rogue ET view, that consensus acknowledgement and awareness of the ET presence will produce unpredictable responses among the genetic resource stock and thereby hinder their usage agenda.
    

54. The DCTP suggests that substantial leap frog scientific progress due to the feedback of future technology into this current era can provide current era humans with the ability to combat the Rogue agenda.
    

55. The DCTP suggests that the natural consequence of the 2012 period stargate activation will boost and accelerate present day human observer participant co-creative quantum energetic potentials, and that this influx into the population during this period will cause the presently semi-convergent laminar time stream flow following that period to diverge into several increasingly distinct and increasingly divergent timelines.
    

56. The DCTP suggests that pre-2012 these laminar timeline streams can be more easily crossed back and forth naturally by observer participants depending on their conscious resonance.
    

57. The DCTP suggests that there is a dimensional war or timeline resonance competition in the present day laminar flow for more soul energy migration into the different lines, and that these factions of different future human ET societies realize. They will only be successful to the degree current present era humans behave in accordance with their desires.

    The Rogue J-Rods desire to control and use this current day era as a “natural resource” to be exploited for their own future hybrid and future non-hybridized evolutionary ends, and the non-Rogue J-Rods desire to cooperatively both help themselves and us in the present, by

    1. recovering lost evolutionary factors for them own future development,

    2. contributing to our new catastrophe-averted future timeline some more balanced material and spiritual potentials

    3. enabling a limited voluntary evolutionary consensus agreement level exchange and integration of their existence between themselves and present new timeline humans to support a more optimal trajectory future for the preservation of the species
       

58. The DCTP suggests if the non-Rogue J-Rods recover lost factors from our present era they will assure themselves of avoiding an evolutionary dead end future.
    

59. The DCTP suggests that if the non-Rogue elements contribute to averting the catastrophe that will help karmically balance the use they have made of the present era as an evolutionary pit stop for their continuing into a new future from this loop back point.
    

60. The DCTP suggests that if the non-Rogue J-Rods help enable an optimum evolutionary engagement by present era humans of the natural stargate activationand boost during the 2012 period, then this will feed forward to produce new evolutionary future spiritual factors that will feedback to support their new course in even deeper positive participant quantum energetic karmic loop back terms.
    

61. The DCTP suggests that the non-Rogue J-Rod future humans are allied with the present day Maji human faction, through a treaty called the “Tau-9 treaty for the preservation of humanity”, but that the Rogues are not a party to this treaty, which is why they are called Rogues.
    

62. The DCTP suggests that the present day Illuminati are building a number of Arks to survive a predicted abrupt global change due to the hypothesized 2012 stargate activation, and that their descendents will become the Rogue J-Rods.
    

63. The DCTP suggests that if the global catastrophe is averted by whatever means, that the re-direction of quantum observer participant energy away from their precedent future will result in a weakening of their capacity to influence our future in their current era loop back immigration trajectory.
    

64. The DCTP suggests that if the post global pole shift environmental catastrophe does not occur, that there are significant positive benefits reaped from the 2012 natural stargate activation period. The benefits could be to alternatively produce a human consciousness liberating evolutionary leap frog, and a level of enlightenment among the masses, that will produce a new set of future timeline trajectories that will compassionately steer the course of humanity into a virgin future of untold beneficial futures and heights, and in fact fulfill the original evolutionary directive to evolve the consciousness of humanity into its optimum potential as future creative agencies in the universe.
    

65. The DCTP suggests that if the Illuminati connected Rogue J-Rods can obtain the secrets of new biological re-vitalization technology associated with the discovery of how to produce Ganesh particles, (cellular level effective electromagnetic energy bundles which carry the potential to heal as well as potentially harm), that this could help them to achieve some of their desired ends with regards to their DNA hybridization and recovery goals.

    However sharing this disclosure is being reasonably withheld by the Maji in order to possibly influence the Rogue J-Rod current course of action, and as a result have them abide by some of the Tau-9 treaty objectives.
    

66. Another prime DCTP truth is that Post 2012, the different timeline streams, “old lines” (original and earlier loop back and forward), and new ones (later loop back and forward), will increasingly and naturally more and more separate and diverge into less and less interacting phase coherence with each other. There is a global timeline split event coming up soon.

    When there is,

    1. enough mass population cohesion of competing conscious observer quantum energy potentials, combined with

    2. enough natural quantum resonance boosting factors (2012),

    …then, several different global futures can and will establish themselves in different mass-quantum phase positions of forward time.
    

67. The DCTP says there is a future where the original environmental catastrophe occurs. The Ark is deployed, and the illuminati style Ark distant descendents eventually become the J-Rods, apparently more Rogue than not. The post-catastrophe surface dwellers survive and some eventually head for Orion to become the Talls, the others head elsewhere as an Ark society, and the classic archetypal H.G. Well’s Eloi versus Morlock like human evolutionary split somewhat transpires.
    

68. The DCTP says there is a future where the catastrophe is not averted, though attempted to be averted, and things go so bad that the loop back J-Rod Rogues use us effectively as spiritual batteries for their own future benefit (The Matrix movie was close to revealing the nature of our illusion). These Rogue folks are like a spiritual vampire soul sucking slow motion 911 Al Qaida attack on the sly against the whole human species. They don’t want their presence to be known, since history has proven it potentially fatal to getting away with soul trapping, and they don’t want us to figure out how to be free of them, and they are afraid we might use our awakening to control them.
    

69. The DCTP infers that the Rogue J-Rods are scared of what our spiritual potential can unleash in terms of our own newly possible futures. The Rogues prefer us to not have the capacity to be transparently at-one-with-and-within the wonderful conscious creative quantum energy potentials that 2012 alignments can forge that robs them of their unknowing human livestock flock. That is their greatest fear.
    

70. The DCTP identifies that humanity as a whole is quantum volitionally participant in their different mass futures from different grouped biases of quantum accretion potential.

    The fact is, present time humanity could become the conscious, subconscious, or unconscious victims of its own negative future that has already cruised into existence ahead of us, and is even already bouncing back to us in a shout for help, and watch out!! Or, humanity can increasingly become a fully awake conscious creator in the matter of its future.

    Furthering that opportunity for conscious choice and influence for the preservation of humanity, is the choice that the DCTP recognizes and is challenged to provide an answer to, without shooting itself in the foot, without the cure killing the patient. Hence the operational need for extreme discretion about the process of disclosure and assimilation of the DCTP truths into the pre-2012 culture.
    

71. The DCTP suggests the natural life boosting effects of the 2012 timing will one day begin to boost different global competing futures, and amplify their diverging into increasingly separate and distinct global future timelines. While we all will continue to exist in all the futures, our conscious volitional quantum soul energy has a choice as to where we take most of our consciousness.

    When we take enough of our consciousness somewhere – that somewhere becomes more physically real and solid and dense. When we take very little of our consciousness down another possible free-will timeline, that timeline tends to hold less energy, and is comparably, a more dream-like phantom reality.
    

72. The DCTP suggests there the more conscious you become by connecting with the consciousness that exists, the more potential you have to be an agency, in your own way, of helping to steer the mass quantum field towards more optimal self-corrective revision.
    

73. The DCTP suggests there are Blue Apples everywhere at all scales of creation and life, from subatomic, to atomic, to molecular, to electromagnetic, to cellular to organismic. Blue apples are simply all the active hyper-dimensional toroidal vortex connection points of and between all conscious local “life” or “soul” in the universe at large.
    

74. The DCTP suggests that Blue Apples are natural spatio-temporal locations, points and regions and events where the non-local oneness continuum that encompasses this universe is more actively linked across dimensions, from local to non-local. Blue apples are the natural wormholes between local physical life and non-local spiritual life. Blue apples connect the energetic beingness vortexes of universal soul into individual expression. Blues apples connect the tough-love of transpersonal consciousness and unified beingness that is the force of evolution with individual souls, lifeforms, and all diversity of identity in time and space.
    

75. The biggest DCTP secret is our spirits, souls and hearts, if awakened, are natural and very powerful blue apple stargates.
    

76. The DCTP suggests there is a dimensional war for harvesting our soul creative energy into different future timeline realities. Heaven, hell and purgatory timelines are a literal choice for the future physical existence of the human species. Every human soul, consciousness itself, is in reality a blue apple, every auric Chakra is a blue apple, every type of vortex relationship between this dimensionality and others at all scales is a blue apple – blue apples of the solar system gravitational EM field, the blue apples of the planetary EM vortex field, blue apples in the magnetic cross lines of the geo-electromagnetic Earth field currents, blue apples of geophysical mineral life, plant life, animal life and human life.
    

77. The DCTP suggests technology based artificial blue apple stargates exist, whose presence on Earth may cause an Earth EM field flip short-circuit or blowout during the 2012 period, and cause consequent disastrous global environmental conditions following the 2012 period.
    

78. The DCTP suggests there have always been competing streams of future mass consensus reality timelines, and that competing reinforcement of different paths, different futures currently embedded in the larger time stream is a manipulated affair. There is more than one past, present and future timeline potential that is unusually converged for a while right now, all mixed for our integrated pleasure right now, as our opportunity to solve the questions of conflict that this world presents.
    

79. The DCTP suggests that if we solve the challenges of compassion and inclusion, of sensitivity and courage, and we dismantle the artificial stargates that are a symptom of an overload of arrogance, we then avert a planetary system overload, things go more smoothly, and the natural 2012 period stargate activation becomes all the more wonderful an opportunity for awakening and vitalizing a new untrammeled future, an undiscovered new world, where instead of a catastrophe befalling our arrogance, there is, in contrast, a grand resonance of spiritual awakening that heralds a bright future that is newly born.
    

80. The DCTP suggests that right now, we are pre-2012, so now is the time to make the difference by waking up from our slumber, and begin to realize how we have our individual and collective strong mass quantum probabilities associated with and invested in several different distinct futures.
    

The DCTP Transcendence Debriefing

1. Transcending the DCTP suggests identifies that the more energy patterns in the time and space of the subconscious or unconscious mind are at odds with the intentional energies of the conscious mind, the more we are dis-integrated and in a Gordion knot slumbering to the consciousness of the living loving infinity that surrounds us.

   Our multi-dimensional soul vortex, that is the portal of who we are as pure beingness, in this numb slumber, ends up stuck with much of its essential quantum influential conscious awareness capacity being ineffective in directing its own course.

   The true and hidden potential and natural powers of quantum creative influence remain elusive and hidden from easy access by the average human soul.

2. Transcending the DCTP suggests that your consciousness is deprived of much of your energy capacity as a soul, due to all the mind numbing, feeling numbing, arrogance increasing preoccupations, distractions, negative investments, unhealthy engagements, recessions into the subconscious, or into the unconscious, the buying global propaganda, the refusal to think or feel, not growing up, not being alive, not loving and not being connected to the truth and feeling and the beauty and the pain and intricacy of all that is in your worldly perceptual sphere.

3. Transcending the DCTP suggests you can be an agency of conscious compassionate loving spheres of intention and quantum accretion influence that far exceed your local limits of prescience.

4. Transcending the DCTP suggests it is our natural potential as human beings to be completely connected with God, to consciously accept the invitation from the universe, every living thing, every changing thing, and all the beauty and chaos within the whole and all its parts.

   It is not only our birthright, it is our invited responsibility to wake up now and make the coming 2012 natural stargate quantum blue apple life vortical reality boosting events occur to our maximum evolutionary benefit.

5. Transcending the DCTP suggests that transpersonal awareness, is experiencing your relationship to the wholeness and connection of other souls and connection to the universe of course. Transpersonal awareness is the natural connection between the spark of divinity that is your conscious soul, with any of the chaos and intelligence of creation.

   This awareness is expressed through the enlightenment of the internal conscious awareness capacity to be in directed and receptive sentient and sensorial union with any and all of the spiritual and material aspects of any object of perception. This skill is available to everyone as an effortless experience to have, if they tell the truth to themselves. This is effective without anything other than childlike humility to truly wake up and see what is, and not what you expect or want.

   This is sharing connection, riding the quantum entanglement currents between everything in the living and alive universe that is, discovering how all of the consciousness of creation is available to be connected with your own consciousness, if you so truly invite it and intend it and allow it and become its agency.

   When you consciously experience higher self and unconscious self manifestations that allow you access reality at a larger and deeper scale, all of creation can be a synchronistic reflective medium of who you are and who you are becoming in the beyond.

6. Transcending the DCTP it is calculated, that right now, circa 2005 on planet Earth the global mass quantum accretion power distribution is as follows:

   1. 10% Higher conscious creation, up from recent past

   2. 10% Unconscious creation, down from recent past

   3. 60% Subconscious creation, down from recent past

   4. 20% Conscious creation, up from recent past

7. Transcending the DCTP suggests if you are personally over 50% in the conscious domain for yourself, you are as enlightened as anyone can ever typically claim. But if you are volitionally all spent in the unconscious domain then the momentum consensus blueprint future is more probably your future.

   If you don’t consciously stand for something, you fall for everything.

8. The DCTP suggests there are future timelines that are more probable depending on what part of the quantum future power distribution you are biased to.

9. Transcending the DCTP suggests if you have invested too much of your blue apple soul energy in the subconscious domain, then you are slumbering through the predilection of your personal story, your local concerns, your perceptual habits, patterns, scripts, contracts, karmas, and illusions.

10. Transcending the DCTP suggests most are asleep in the real dream of the real world, unable to awaken from the realness of the illusion they have invested themselves into.

11. Transcending the DCTP suggests the secret truth beyond the DCTP is there is a universal mind-heart-infinity symphony of all beingness hoping we will reach out and become a co-creative friend, companion and partner in the larger creation’s unified intentional quest for evolving higher orders of love and consciousness.

    To eventually each of us have the capacity to recover the yield of all the soul energy lost into all Maya wheels of pain and unconsciousness we have passionately invested ourselves in to learn, understand, love, become one with, and eventually transcend.

12. Transcending the DCTP suggests the secret truth of enlightenment is that simple innocent yet wise humility, honesty, sensitivity, vulnerability, caring, courage, openness, receptiveness, and desire to experience and know more of love, along with a little discernment, is and has always been the natural answer to realizing the desire for union and connection and cosmic belonging with all life and beingness.

    These habits of humility, being as the wise fool lilies of the field, can make transparent all the mysteries of the soul’s own grain of sand within the world’s disguise, freeing one to forge into a new future never before predicted, never before possible, and that will become more spiritually integrated in ways that are currently unimaginable by any individually bound consciousness, agenda or storyline.

    It is virgin timeline territory and virgin consciousness evolution territory.

13. Transcending the DCTP suggests it is the destiny of more and more souls to eventually choose the timeline of more love and less pain, more beauty and less violence, more oneness and less chaos, and more enchantment and less crisis.

    But to actualize this higher evolutionary path, we must not be the ones that somehow escaped the problems in the world, but be the ones that found a way to consciously solve and resolve them.

14. Transcending the DCTP suggests that the optimal future timeline is the timeline where all the problems were solved, not avoided. The irony is that the timelines where the huge problems are avoided and ignored or covered up are the timelines that run into serious problems.

    Creating something wonderful requires waking up and getting to work, not expecting someone or some spiritual agency to fix it for you. For this reason it is asserted that some disclosure of the hidden truth of our situation occur.

    As a species if we can wake up to and recognize what is at stake, we may change the course of the future the DCTP fears will transpire.

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by Gerry Zeitlin

from OpenSETI Website

Spanish version

Soul Technology. Now there is a provocative juxtaposition of terms. The reader (that is, you) likely wants to know WHAT these two words are doing together like that, sharing the same period.

Before attempting to reply, I would like to place before you an article by Paul Davies (2003): ET and God - Could earthly religions survive the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe?.

Get it? God: Soul. E.T.: Technology.

Davies’ topic is grander than mine, which by comparison is a mere detail.

But Davies’ is somehow more acceptable, isn’t it? Why is this?

We will approach our subject on the level of myth, and that our modern world view is but one possible myth. People, I said…

…do not know that they have simply chosen their myth. They believe that they possess knowledge of their general cosmic situation, so far as is possible for anyone to obtain such knowledge, and that there is little point attempting to learn any more about it.

 

People are also being taught, usually subliminally, about what is important and what is not. In fact, people’s beliefs about what is true and what is important are fed to them by society’s institutions. Thus people in their beliefs arevulnerable to manipulation at every level.

Society’s Common Approved Myth (The SCAM *) holds that there is, hypothetically, E.T., and that technology may be the means of contacting E.T.

* The SCAM: Society’s Common Approved Myth. Its scope is cosmic. Its level of detail? An exercise for the reader. But it is not necessarily a judgment of “everything you know”. Note the qualifiers: common and approved.

To grasp The SCAM, one cultivates an attitude of skepticism. This is not a reference to the several “skeptics” organizations, which actually function as thought police, seeking to correct deviations from The SCAM.

Meanwhile, for those who subscribe to this section of The SCAM, there is “God“ from whom flows the Bible and all Good Things, and as a matter of fact, everything, including, inscrutably, bad things, and E.T. too. God, also inscrutably, chooses not to communicate via radio waves, although there may be an issue over Light.

And that is His prerogative, being Creator, so there’s no point questioning it.

It’s a pretty pickle. It’s totally outside the domain of Science, but since He created science, and us, who are we to question it? Although unscientific, it just IS.

He also neglected to mention much of anything about E.T. in His Bible. You’d think he might have, if He had created any E.T. But He didn’t. Is He telling us not to Go There?

Although science does not venture to discuss the existence of God, its creator, it nevertheless is acceptable to explore the relationship of E.T. and religion, which is about God, obviously, since Paul Davies does it and gets away with publishing his musings in The Atlantic Monthly. Davies notes that hypothetical E.T. coexists fairly well with God and his religions, but E.T. in the flesh, or whatever E.T. has, could pose a problem.

Therefore he spends a good part of his article on the subject of astrobiology, which after all has a bearing on the likelihood that E.T. in the flesh will someday have to be faced.

That is the scientific side of the problem. Davies devotes the next part of his article to reviewing the familiar old theological issues: relative status of E.T. and man, multiple incarnations of Jesus Christ, could an alien be a Jew or a Muslim. These are the really important things to worry about if you subscribe to religion.

And in this context he brings in the SETI Institute’s Jill Tarter with a truly heroic statement:

“God is our own invention. If we’re going to survive or turn into a long-lived technological civilization, organized religion needs to be outgrown.”

That is a very brave thing for anyone to say in today’s world, and besides, it’s true.*

* Davies was quoting from Tarter’s article SETI and the Religions of Extraterrestrials, (2000), in which she applies the SETI scientific method to the subject of extraterrestrial religions. That is, she uses the Drake Equation, just this one time (“which in fact I hardly ever use”), along with her observations of Earth’s religions, to reach the following speculations:

“If and when we ever get a message, it’s going to be a missionary appeal to try to convert us all. And, on the other hand, if we get a message and it’s secular in nature, I think that says that they have no organized religion—that they’ve outgrown it.”

Unfortunately Davies finds it to be naive.

As he says, some sort of spirituality seems to be part of human nature, and Einstein had a “cosmic religious feeling” when contemplating the awesome majesty of the universe. Excuse me, but Tarter was speaking of God and organized religion. This, apparently, is spirituality for Davies.

The remainder of Davies’ article is concerned with the interface of science and religion – that is, evolution and Darwinism and that sort of thing.

But we will leave Davies and his article at this point, because this page has other business to attend to, such as WHAT is “soul technology”. Before leaving, we will just mention that the reason for bringing all this up about E.T. and God is to make the point that if it is acceptable to talk about God and SETI in the same breath, it should also be ok to discuss souls and technology.

But where do we begin, to say nothing of why should we bother?

We should bother because there are myths that raise the issue, and Open SETI tries not to rank myths. Although they haven’t made it into The SCAM, there are, for example, the psychopomps: spirits, gods, demons, or angels whose function is to escort newly-deceased souls to the afterlife. Please do check out that hyperlink, as you will be amazed to see how many mythologies had these.

So Open SETI is now inquiring into the afterlife. Very bizarre… or is it?

No less than Carl Sagan (1997) suggested the same, when his character Ellie Arroway, the leading SETI scientist pursuing a provocative signal, encountered her own deceased father.

1) The souls

In a sense this needs no explanation. Souls are a feature of the religious part of The SCAM.

 

They exist in one form or another in almost all mythologies, though not in our science myth. Invariant in all of the descriptions is the soul as a consciousness principle, separate from the body but inhabiting the body during life. In many belief systems, the soul can detach during the lifetime and travel. This occurs in our own culture and is called anout of body experience.

 

Shamans can interact with souls, while themselves traveling in their soul body.

 

Since there are numerous instances of experience of souls, it is useful to consider them to be in some way “real”. Furthermore, if there is any reality whatsoever to the soul, it could well be very real in E.T. cultures. SETI ignores this crucial possibility.

 

2) The psychopomps

These are beings that exist in the same “reality space” as souls do, and exert control over the souls.

 

They also are encountered in our culture, often taking the form of “gray aliens“. When encountered physically, they have a way to control the behavior and experience of the human. They also have the ability to take the human out of body.

 

In other words, to conduct the human somewhere, as a soul.

 

3) The technology

Artifacts are reported.

 

Psychopomps in all cultures are said to carry wand-like devices which, when held against a subject’s forehead, induce a paralysis of the body and a separation of the soul from it.

 

However, aside from the specific instance of the wand-like artifact, the general ability to separate, guide, and to reconnect souls to the previous body, or connect them to different bodies, is a technology possessed by psychopompsand whatever larger group they represent.

War in Heaven and The Theocrats

Having introduced the major entities: souls, those who manipulate them, and the technology for doing so, we need to develop these concepts much further.

This is as good a place as any to refer to the groundbreaking visionary work of Kyle Griffith, found in his book War in Heaven (1988).

As a physical framework, Griffith speaks of “astral matter” that has an atomic and subatomic particle structure resembling that of physical matter, but possessing much less mass than the physical counterpart. Although the mass ratios among the various astral subatomic particles is the same as that of the physical ones, all have much less absolute mass than physical electrons.

Astral subatomic particles have gravitational properties that resemble but do not interact with the gravitation of physical particles. Likewise there is astral energy that does not interact with physical systems.

There is however one very important exception to this general lack of interaction, and this actually is the basis of “the secret of life“:

Astral matter forms complex organic molecules just as physical matter does, and their respective chemical bonds have similar energy levels and photon frequencies associated with them.

 

This allows for resonance and chemical bonding between physical and astral matter. It is the combined molecular system that exhibits the basic characteristics of “life”, such as irritability and the ability to reproduce.

This is how astral matter and the soul, which is constructed of astral matter, become involved in the reduplication of DNA and many aspects of cell metabolism.

The bonding provides a pathway by which some of the cell’s metabolic energy can be converted into astral energy that feeds the soul, powering its various functions, and providing for regeneration of its astral matter, which is then used to perform cellular growth and repairs.

Death is caused by breaking the bonds between physical and astral matter.

The soul spoken of here is a primitive analog of the physical body. It is alive, but it is not sentient. It has a nervous system but not a mind. Griffith calls this the somatic soul. The “true” soul is the astral soul.

The astral soul is a body of astral matter linked to the somatic soul’s nervous system by the famous silver cord. This is structured like a segment of plant root with feeder roots at both ends, tapping into the two souls’ nervous systems.

Energy flowing from the body into the somatic soul and through the silver cord to the astral soul is the astral soul’s only truly efficient source of nourishment.

When the body dies, the somatic soul decomposes. The astral soul does not, but it loses its best source of energy.

A new somatic soul is created during the embryological development of every new human being.

Griffith provides a complicated discussion of various methods of reincarnation, involving ways in which the astral soul connects, and interactions with the mother’s astral soul. Although quite interesting, this is beyond the scope of our page.

What is important for us here is this: the astral soul (or spirit) normally receives its energy from the living physical body and must reincarnate within ten to fifty years in order to revitalize itself. If it does not accomplish this, it faces illness, insanity, and death.

However there are many drawbacks to reincarnation also:

• the chance of encountering hidden body flaws
• poor earthly environments
• birth traumas, and so forth…

Some spirits are unwilling to take these chances. They take a different, evil, and immoral path to replenishing themselves: cannibalism.

They are able to use telepathic powers to “hypnotize” spirits who then allow them to attach their own silver cord to them, just as though they were the somatic soul of an infant. By this means they can draw out enough energy to sustain themselves, but the process destroys the other spirit.

In War in Heaven, the spirits that do this are termed Theocrats, probably because for long millennia the vehicle they have used to capture and destroy weaker spirits has been religion. The Theocrats obtain victims by posing as gods and persuading religious believers to come to them voluntarily after death thinking they are entering “eternal bliss in Heaven.”

Readers who are wondering what this interesting discussion has to do with SETI, need only recall the opening paragraphs of this page. It is the SETI community itself that recognizes a need to confront concepts of “God“ in their line of work. Indeed there is a need and we intend to help them to meet it.

We have reached the end of the page but the beginning of a vast topic.

You can continue now with Gnosticism, Archons/Greys – The Controller Agenda…

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• E.T. : Invasion (Review) (miclifemagazine.wordpress.com)

30 July 2004
from Montalk Website

This is a summary of what I have learned from my encounters with inner and outer demons.

Let this text be food for thought and don’t take my word for anything… but do customize what you read here to fit your own experience.

1. First, understand that you only experience what you need or choose to experience, and what you need to experience was chosen by you at some other time or level of being. Therefore, you are in some way responsible for all that happens to you, whether you created it or allowed it. The attacks you receive ultimately serve to teach you lessons, and how successfully you defend against these attacks determines how easily you learn your lesson. Learning a lesson before the experience often voids the necessity of having to experience it.
   

2. Second, in the absolute sense the Matrix Control System serves to accelerate your spiritual growth, and although its agents see you as the enemy, know that you can utilize them as teachers. You do not need to seek them out, for they will find you as you progress in your learning path. Most importantly, know that you will never be given anything you cannot choose to handle successfully.

Now, the likelihood of an attack depends upon two factors:

1. their desire to attack – the attention you garner

2. their ability to attack – the weakness of your defense

Having strong defenses and lowering your profile as a target reduce the probability of being attacked.

Strong defenses consist of the following:

1. being aware of your internal weaknesses and countering or watching them closely:

   1. emotional buttons

   2. ego flaws

   3. lack of knowledge and false assumptions

   4. resentment and envy

   5. bias and prejudice against the bitter truth

   6. emotional dependency upon sources of authority

   7. blindspots in your awareness, etc…
      

2. being aware of your external weaknesses and countering or watching them closely:

   1. people you depend upon or who depend upon you, who can become unwitting tools of attack via their weaknesses being exploited

   2. aspects of your finances and business which can be sabotaged and thus lead to a cascading series of problems

   3. potential health weaknesses you may have which can be flared up in an attack to wear you down

   4. physical and mechanical problems like car accidents and malfunction, slipping and falling on something to hurt yourself, missing appointments due to various odd mishaps delaying you

   5. if all that doesn’t work, then the people you care for are attacked in these same areas which necessarily gets you involved
      

3. being resolute and wise in your decisions:

   1. They attack mainly to bias the decisions you haven’t yet made, and to reinforce the wrong decisions you make

   2. This has to do with the Law of Freewill and the STS (negative path) preference to win by their target’s own will to submit

   3. So prior to making the right choice, you may be attacked to keep you from making it

   4. But once you make it, since any further attacks may only confirm for you that you’ve made the right choice, so they tend to stop immediately once that learning plateau has been reached

   5. If you make the wrong choice, they then attack you even harder to make you think you’ve made the right one

If you are wishy washy, agnostic, and conservative in your decision making, perhaps because you’re afraid of making mistakes or being definitive, you will receive constant attacks because you’re straddling the fence and that is where you’re most easily tipped over to either side by the least amount of force. STS attacks the weakest link at its weakest moment, and being irresolute about your decisions creates just such an opportunity for them.

It is better to make a firm decision and be wrong (as then the results show that you have been wrong and you can easily reverse the mistake) than to fear ever being wrong and thus become wishy washy (which makes you uncertain of everything and totally undisciplined in your progress).

Lowering your profile as a target consists of these:

1. stopping whatever you’re doing that makes you a threat

   Not a good option, as that defeats the very purpose of your existence. Any step forward toward independence for yourself and others will naturally shine the spotlight upon you. To reduce attack, don’t cower in the spotlight and return to your former self, but rather move forward with ever increasing strength of your defenses. Gaining knowledge and applying it naturally ups your defenses – so the very knowledge that makes you a target can protect you against succumbing to attacks. Those who hoard knowledge without taking it seriously enough to apply in life get all the targeting that comes with great knowledge, but possess only half the protection, so they get eliminated pretty quickly.
   

2. seeking to learn from all you experience

   If you are open to learning from your experiences, then the more they try to attack you, the more knowledgeable you become. They take a gamble every time they attack – either they win and you become weak, or they lose and you become stronger. It’s your choice. Being egotistical psychopaths prone to wishful thinking about their skill and prowess, they always attack and usually end up shooting themselves in the foot when they attack a strong target.
   

3. keeping up a positive emotional frequency

   If you are spazzy, frightful, and fearful, you become a reaction machine, one with buttons so sensitive it takes a simple “boo” to get you to splurge all your emotional energy into your etheric environment which STS forces lap up with delight and then use to hack into your reality more easily next time. You become a puppet they can easily control, and they will do their best to use your reactive condition to their advantage.

   Additionally, although 4D STS forces can see beyond linear time and analyze our probable futures and pasts, their perception range is limited due to the narrow spectrum of their soul frequencies. Thus they can only see and predict that which resides within their choice to perceive. If you are in a negative mindset or mood, your probable future is within that narrow spectrum, or alternately, you resonate with the sector of hyperdimensional reality that is their territory. In that case, they can more easily screw with you, predict what you’re going to do next, and thus control you. The solution is to stay out of their probability-detection-range by having composure, being active rather than reactive, and generally keeping up a positive emotional state.

   So keeping up your emotional frequency isn’t about shielding yourself from the truth (because you can gain knowledge and stay positive if you choose), but rather it’s a necessary tactical method when involved in a hyperdimensional ambush. Consider it donning your metaphysical body armor and camouflage.

4. having foresight, awareness, and knowledge

   This makes you less predictable. The more knowledge you have, the more freewill you have, the more choices you can make because you’re aware of those choices, and the harder it is for them to calculate what you will do next. Being unpredictable makes them less efficient in their attack because they must spread their resources to account for a wider range of probable weaknesses.

Some general tips about attacks:

1. attacks ALWAYS have more than one way of succeeding

   Countering one route of attack doesn’t mean you have countered all, and you can be your own worst enemy. For example, when using an agent to sabotage or harass you, they can win through directly sabotaging your efforts, or by getting you to sabotage yourself via overreaction and paranoia. Often, when they cannot harm you directly, they try to scare you so that by your own overreaction you accomplish their goal. In such encounters, you have two adversaries: them and yourself. Know yourself, and know them, and you will never succumb – that’s common sense and also the key advice of Sun Tzu in “The Art of War”.

   Another example is this: if their goal is to prevent you from accomplishing yours, then they can win either by sabotaging your goal directly, or getting you to become so distracted with this whole business of “defending against attack” that you forget to continue your original goal. The best defense is a balanced defense. Sabotage and distraction are thus the two key things you must watch for.

   Another method of self-sabotage is to become frightful and reactive, which lowers your frequency as mentioned and puts you deeper into their game, which means they have more power over you and your reality. So although defense is necessary, never forget about what you’re defending, and never forget about your own weaknesses and potential for self-sabotage. Add to this the possibility of being abducted and mind programmed with self-destructive thought loops and posthypnotic suggestions, and you can see the importance of watching not only your adversary, but also yourself.

2. you have more power than they want you to believe

   They have created numerous falsehoods in religion, philosophy, spirituality, politics, and culture designed to disempower you by inducing within you a lack of faith in what you can accomplish. It’s the whole “Oh well, what’s the use” mentality that allows predators to run rampant, not because they are strong, but because people make themselves weak by not standing up for themselves or others. It’s worth at least trying, as that tests your limits rather than falsely assumes them.
   

3. you can rarely succeed in fighting them in the dark

   As that is their territory and there are a million directions from which an attack can come invisibly from the dark. But if you drag them into the light by making their tactics visible to everyone, they whither, flee, or in rare cases go bonkers and thus reveal themselves fully. They play dirty, exploiting loopholes and cheating to win, as the ends justify the means for them. For example, winning a debate usually consists of successfully arguing the logic of one’s case. But there is another way of winning: wear down and overwhelm your opponent.

   This they do by leveling loaded questions and accusations against you faster than you can respond. If you don’t respond, they claim a win. If you do respond, the ignore what you say and immediately throw you another accusation or question, and thus they eventually win when you slip up or give up. The best you can do in that case is see if the fight is really worth fighting, and extracting yourself if it isn’t…often the truth speaks for itself, and you have no obligation to explain yourself to the ignorant who purposely avert their eyes away from the truth.
   

4. watch your emotional energy output

   Emotions are energy that open doors into other realms. Normally, emotions help you expand your range of action and thus enter new states of being and levels of experience and learning, but your negative emotion and misdirected thoughts can equally be used by STS forces to open doors into your realm. Or to look at it another way, if they cannot directly reach you, they can still taunt you into exposing yourself where they can reach, then hit hard what you reveal.

   Although negative emotions are helpful sometimes in alarming you to present danger, be wary of indulging in them beyond their initial use as alarms. Also, watch out for interacting with clearly harmful individuals who seem preoccupied with demanding your time and energy – some are decoys sent to milk you of energy, which can then be used to breech your realm (hack your reality) as stated, leading to more severe attacks than was possible before. Also beware of implanted paranoia that cuts you off from potentially fruitful networking opportunities. As you can see, balance is the key – there’s no substitute for discernment.
   

5. know that attacks happen on multiple fronts, meaning inside you and outside you simultaneously

   Your mood can be artificially depressed by malevolent forces using technology or pure psychic attack, and these can be coupled with external attacks exploiting the external weaknesses mentioned earlier. Your judgment may be detrimentally affected while external conditions are set up to test your judgment and lure you into making unwise decisions.

   Therefore, when in a negative state of mind, refrain from making important decisions and instead have faith in your sober self, waiting until you sober up before making a decision. But if the situation is urgent, you can center yourself mentally, concentrate upon a happy thought or feeling, and through sheer willpower sober yourself up – then you have the clarity of mind and heart to carry on wisely. Whatever your negative emotion is, just meditate upon its diametric opposite – this establishes an internal feedback cycle that over the span of a couple minutes brings you to it.
   

6. employ your intuition and nonphysical guidance

   Pay attention that little intuitive voice that has always warned you in the past of danger or unwise moves on your part, it is your Higher Self attempting to communicate with you through your subconscious. If what it conveys matches all the evidence you see, or if nothing you see contradicts what it advises, then you better take it seriously. Your intuition and logic are the most trustworthy aides you have.

   Also, pay attention to symbols in your dreams and external waking environment which may convey the presence and nature of an attack. Dreams will generally warn of an upcoming attack or one that is underway. As for symbols in your external waking environment, these are known as omens or synchronicities. Pay attention to them – they often give you a heads up as well. Waking reality is no different from a dream except that it is shared. Just as nightly dreams contain meaningful symbols, so can waking reality contain them. If you pay attention, you will see signs in your environment correlating with hyperdimensional attacks, either as a warning by your subconscious or as a simple byproduct of the attack itself.

   An odd but significant form of guidance is the phenomenon of intermittent ear ringing – not tinnitus, which is constant and due to nerve damage, but rather the sporadic type. Ear ringing is generated by your nervous system as an internal audible signal either warning you of psychic intrusion or alerting you to an important thought. The pitch, duration, volume, and apparent location (left, right, both ears, above, below, etc…) communicate different things, and only by observing and correlating them with concurrent events and thoughts can you figure out what each type means. In my case, generally speaking, left ear ringings indicate monitoring by hyperdimensional sources prior to an attack or abduction – while right ear ringings confirm the importance of some thought I was just having. Either way, they signal “Be alert, pay attention.”

7. call upon help from divine sources

   Such as your Higher Self or God or Jesus or whomever you understand to be representative of the divine will. The help you receive will be in the form of knowledge and strength, and occasionally in the form of direct squelching of the attackers if the fight is otherwise terribly unbalanced against you. They can’t always help you directly, but they can help you help yourself in ways you may not be aware of at the time. In your 3D form, you are very limited in what you can do yourself. You are like the pinky of a hand, barely able to flick a fly—but you can flick on the powerful bug zapper; likewise, you can choose to align with and receive assistance from higher divine laws and principles who command far greater power than you could muster via strategy and personal willpower. Have gratitude for their assistance.
   

8. you cannot win by taking the choices your adversaries give you

   Always look for the third option, the way of skipping, skirting, or circumventing the rules they try to foist upon you. This is known as the ‘third man’ theme. The best way to win a game is to stop playing by its rules. Their games are customized to fit what they know about how you react, so stop reacting and alter your methods as fits the situation on the basis of what seems like the smartest thing to do. By gauging your method upon their approach, you are always one step ahead. But generally, it’s wise to not even play their games, so watch out for falling into their ambush: stay centered in your territory where the light shines.

Lastly, here is a summary of guidelines to keep in mind when slandered or challenged:

1. Acknowledge any truth in the criticism

   This ensures that you don’t become delusional by becoming ignorant of potentially constructive criticism.
   

2. Remain non-judgmental, observant, impeccable, and calm

   This keeps your emotional frequency elevated and stable, ensures that you don’t overreact, and helps you focus on resolving the situation with finesse.
   

3. If necessary, reveal only the universal truth in the situation

   This helps you avoid becoming distracted by trivial facts, such as he-said/she-said drama that is plentiful but worthless for you and others to invest time and energy. The universal truth consists of that which can be applied again elsewhere to help you or another make better choices. Arguing over petty facts and issues is a trap, quicksand that can quickly suck you in while making you believe you’re defending the truth – instead, you’re defending your ego and personality.
   

4. Disarm an attack by revealing its underlying mechanism for all to see

   This brings the manipulations into the light, where the manipulator then loses all power except over the most gullible and ignorant of people. People rarely give into manipulations when they know they’re being manipulated, so show them why they are being manipulated and they will refuse to give it power.
   

5. Never attack or defend ego, for that puts you dangerously upon their turf

   This is a big one. Anything done out of ego, for the benefit of ego, or in defense of the ego will always come back to bite you. So always act for the highest good and noblest of reasons, unless you want to learn the lesson of their necessity the hard way. Anytime you’re dealing with an attack and applaud yourself for being so fiendish, look again as you may be unwittingly setting up your own booby trap to trip in the future.
   

6. The battle is waged for the undecided who deserve an informed choice, not the permanently ignorant

   In other words, when involved in an argument or defending against a slanderous attack, you can’t convince those who have chosen to ignore, and you have no need to fight for those who already see the situation for what it is. Thus, all your arguing, defending, etc… are only for the benefit of those who have yet to choose, who are open to the truth, and who may benefit from learning. If there are none of these (as time goes on, there will be less and less of them as the facts become more than obvious), then there is no point wasting your energy defending yourself. Therefore, know what you’re fighting for, and it’s nothing worth fighting for, then don’t fight.
   

7. You cannot and should not override freewill, but you can help people use it

   You cannot reverse people’s choices, but you can help them make more informed ones. This means your energy isn’t spent preaching, but rather sharing what you see and know so that those who have yet to choose can use it for their betterment.
   

8. To avoid defeat by distraction or avoidance, never abandon your principles or give up progress for the sake of defense

   As explained before, the counterpart to sabotage is distraction, and you are the only one responsible for succumbing to distraction. Deal with attacks as quickly and efficiently as possible, then get on with your life and don’t dwell on the past. Don’t hold regrets or grudges or dig up the dead, and don’t succumb to those individuals who try to open your wounds.

Knowledge protects, ignorance endangers. Always use love: kind love for the kind, tough love for the tough.

Follow the compass but watch where you step.

Excerpt from:The Pyramids of Montauk

by Preston Nichols and Peter Moon

from GreyLodge Website

“The Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu is in the Khabs.”
-Aleister Crowley

The most important aspect concerning the discoveries made in the previous chapter is that they explain key aspects of our ancient heritage. As was already said, The Book of the Law leads us into the Great Pyramid with a line drawn at a 26′ angle. We are also led to the Sphinx when the anagram of Bast appears in the book. This leaves us in the middle of two ancient wonders and right next to Cairo, the city of Mars. It has already been demonstrated that Egypt as well as many other aspects of our civilization have fashioned themselves to serve as a tribute to the planet Mars, but there was another heavenly body that was held in even higher regard: the star Sirius.

Shining as the brightest star in our heavens, the Egyptians based their entire calendar on the movement of this sacred star. It was already indicated that the Great Pyramid was built to synchronize with Sirius so that the star would shine through the hole to the Queen’s Chamber at a precise moment. Esoteric writings indicate that the light shining through the shaft was meant to impart the starlight of Sirius to an initiate during a ritual. If Egypt was so fascinated with Sirius, it stands to reason that the ancient civilization of Mars had a similar reverence for the star. In fact, the geometric shapes on the planet Mars have been said to be built in tribute to Sirius.

According to one legend, the face on Mars was in honor of the god or solar logos known as Sukon. The Sirians settled Mars through his permission. He has also been identified as Set or Seth. The reason the Sirians settled Mars was because it was at that time in the cradle orbit of life. Taking 720 days to get around the sun would have resulted in the most preferable weather that was conducive to civilization at that particular time period.

In The Montauk Project, it was the Sirians who provided the Montauk chair used for the time experiments. It was a Mr. X who had approached me and told me that he had been involved in negotiations to obtain the chair. This man also told me of Crowley’s ability to manipulate time and was the first to suggest that the Philadelphia Experiment and Montauk Project were both resulting effects of Crowley’s magick.

All of this is very ironic when one looks yet deeper into Crowley’s secret connections. Crowley was not only involved in the OTO but was also a member of an arcane secret society known as the A:.A:. (Argenteum Astrum) or the Order of the Silver Star. The “silver star” referred to isSirius itself, the most prominent in the heavens and positioned as the chief star in the ancient constellation “Phoenix”. The ancient Assyriansand Phoenicians both derive their name from this legacy.

Crowley identified the Order of the Silver Star as the Illuminati itself. As he was considered to be the head of the Illuminati, the correspondences continue to run even deeper. The heart of his magical current was inspired from Sirius and there was much tradition to back this up. In occult tradition, Sirius is the Hidden God or “the sun behind the sun”. As the moon reflects the sun, so does the sun reflect Sirius.

This concept was expressed in The Book of the Law when Crowley wrote “The Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu is in the Khabs.” The wordKhab means star while Khu refers to light. What is being taught here is that collective “wisdom” often assumes that the stars emanate light. The truth of the matter is that the stars are in the light and are merely reflecting it. It was in this sense that Crowley and the ancients who worshipped Sirius were worshipping the light of creation. Sirius was the brightest star, therefore it reflected the most light and was the most powerful.

According to the ancient Egyptians, there was a special occult link between Sirius and the Earth when they were at their closest distance. In other words, more universal light was being reflected from Sirius than at any other time of the year. This link was found to be most powerful during the Dog Days of August (Sirius is known as the Dog Star) which run from July 23 rd to August 23rd. Some consider them to peak out as late as September 8th.

This aspect of Sirius is very synchronistic if you remember the theory referred to in The Montauk Project that the biorhythms of the Earth run every twenty years on August 12^th. This date is not only the anniversary of Crowley’s wedding, the Philadelphia Experiment and the culmination of the Montauk Project; it is right in the center of the Dog Days. Of course, the Montauk chair was supposed to be supplied by the Sirians. Obviously, if this whole incredible Montauk scenario is true, it stands to reason that the Sirians might have an idea or two about how to make a chair that resonates with the consciousness of time.

According to information from the Montauk story, the Sirians were technical creatures and were not very political. According to Al Bielek, the Sirians look very human in some respects. They are muscular but have vertical slit eyes, like a cat’s eyes. They wear a covering over their hair, and it is suspected that they are bald. Sometimes they have strange things on their ears which could be communicating devices. They are approximately six feet in height and can pass for humans in the proper attire. At Montauk, they were generally affable and did their job.

Not too much else has been said about them, nor do I have anything more to add from that quarter. What is important is that they seem to have a rather strong correspondence in the information that is being revealed.

A book entitled The Twelfth Planet by Zecharia Sitchin documents very well that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrial critters since time immemorial. This work traces the activity back to ancient Sumeria which is exactly where the Sirians settled. All of this not only places the Sirians at the focal point of our planetary theology, it makes them a center of all sorts of alien activity.

Crowley studied this time line at its source when he examined the ceremonial rites of the Sirians or ancient Sumerians, whatever you want to call them. In history, these beings were known as the shepherd kings and they were called the Yezidi. Their prophet was Yezid and Crowley discovered that he was a reincarnation of him.

As Crowley studied these ancient Sumerians and their rites, he learned they were sexual in the extreme and orgiastic. The ceremonies were all done in synchronization with the stellar revolutions. Many eventually found-their way into the Roman and Greek mystery schools. These ancients looked at the primitive urges in a much different way that “civilized” society does today. Not unlike animals in mating season, they recognized instinctually that revolutions of the universe coincided with sexual urges that enabled one to gain access to invisible worlds or other dimensions.

In the Hindu tantric arts which is known as the yoga of love, these urges would be better defined as kalaswhich are units of time or vaginal vibrations. If one reduces space and time to its male and female aspects, it is easy to grasp that Mother Nature is going to have undulations that correspond to the vagina. Earlier in this book, the vesica pisces was illustrated. This was an eye shaped glyph that resulted as the second act of creation unfolded. It is not only the shape of an eye, it is known as the Eye of Horusor as the Eye of Set (Sirius). When this “eye” is in a vertical position, it is symbolic of the vagina.

As the geometry of space and time unfolds in the evolutionary process (which is known as Mother Nature), there are processes and repetitions that mimic or harmonize with what we know as the sexual process. These very energies are incredibly powerful as they make creation a reality. Of course, the morphogenetic grid is the blueprint that becomes reality. It is in this manner that the ancient Sumeriansor Sirians did orgiastic rites. They were honoring the undulations and unfoldments of geometric evolution by linking their consciousness through the sexual process.

We all know that we go into a different state of consciousness during the sexual act. As it is a creation process, it is not hard to relate that we can then have an effect on creation when in this form of consciousness. When we engage in sex, we are tapping into the blueprint that made the whole universe possible.

As Crowley studied this information, he saw that the ancients understood what they were doing in their orgiastic rites. Of course, if you were to walk in on an orgy today, you might find that the procedure has degenerated into an unholy mess. On the other hand, magical energies would definitely be present.

All of this brings us back to Bast, the goddess of witchcraft and sexual magick in the Egyptian pantheon. If you ever had the urge to do anything of a bizarre sexual nature, you were entering the realm of Bast. Who exactly was she?

Often identified as the Egyptian cat goddess, Bast is one of the most ancient forms of Babalon, the Mother goddess. Bast is portrayed as both a cat and lion. As the goddess of sexual magick, she ruled over lust and sexual heat. It was her job to see

The Sacred Cat of Bast 664-525 B.C.; Late Period, Dynasty 26; Bronze; height 26.4 cm

that all potentialities manifested and had their day in the sun. Bast is readily identified as the Beast because she “presided” over the vast sexual experiments of Atlantis (and later Egypt) which gave rise to mermaids, minotaurs, centaurs, Pegasus and the like.

Bast’s legacy gives us at least two words in our modem lexicon. The word “bastard” was derived from the Pandora’s Box that opened with the unrestricted breeding practices that were common during her reign. During the reign of the goddess, paternity was not an issue. Marriage came into being in large part due to the need to preserve a patriarchal structure for inheritance and succession purposes. When the father god took over, he made parentage an issue and punished women who bore children outside of the established tradition of wedlock. This is not so much a moral issue as a power issue.

Amazon cultures were known to be able to breed without the use of a male. Because the human body is primarily androgynous, a separation of the sexes is not theoretically necessary for procreation. This contention about the Amazons is backed up by the fact that the zona pellucida (the reproductive body in the female which contains a sack) can be penetrated by a latent male protein within the inherited genetic structure of the female that the body thinks and treats like a sperm. This results in a virgin birth.

It could be argued that the Amazons were unbalanced in the direction of the female energies. Whether or not that is true is not the point. Their culture and the general goddess culture of that time period was supplanted by a patriarchal culture that has attempted to subjugate women to the most unbearable of conditions. The male forces established control. Morality was then generated by the power elite of that particular civilization.

On a very primal level, the purpose of the female energies is to regenerate through the sexual organs. This is the gateway to immortality for the beast or animal form of the species. Only through the female genitalia can the beast project its image into a future circumstance and thus obtain perpetual life for his/her kind. Bast symbolized this and also the idea of uninhibited breeding practices which is sometimes known as “catting”.

This is the derivation of the word “cunt”, common slang for the vagina but almost always used in a derogative sense. This word is so taboo that it has earned its way onto the “list of seven dirty words” that cannot be used on television or radio. As you can see, Bast’s influence has no small part in our culture. One can easily see that the rancor and enmity that generally accompanies the words “bastard” and “cunt” derives from the ancient criticism of the culture that was prevalent during the time of Bast.

Crowley’s concept of the Scarlet Woman or Babalon is another name for the goddess Bast. Scarlet is chosen because it is the color of blood (also the color chosen for the cover of The Book of the Law). As stated earlier, blood represents the passage of the moon and the menstrual period. The lunar calendar is therefore the calendar of Bast and represents the true time line. This is in direct opposition to the Gregorian calendar that was given to us by the decree of Pope Gregory, the same pope who authorized the inquisition.

In regard to her lunar aspect, Bast’s offspring were known as children of the moon, hence the name moon child. In the previous chapter,Crowley was identified as the incarnation of the Priest Ankh-af-an-Khonsu which equates to the Priest of Mentu. As Khonsu also refers specifically to the moon, Bast can be identified as the Priestess of Mentu with regard to her lunar aspect. It is in this respect that Bast could be considered to have presided over the sexual and genetic experiments that are said to have occurred at Montauk.

In what is an amusing correspondence, there are usually various cats that roam the picnic area near the lighthouse parking lot at Montauk. They have no apparent home but are always well fed by the tourists who sometimes take one home for a pet. These cats are known as the “Montauk Cats”. I was once told that if you follow the cats before a rainstorm, they will lead you to the underground.

Although Bast’s correspondence with Montauk is a bit obscure, Bast was glorified in ancient Egypt as the Sphinx. She had the loins of a lion, symbolized by the constellation Leo and the top half of a virgin woman, symbolized by the constellation Virgo. The Sphinx had breasts at one point, but these were defaced as the patriarchal culture established its foothold. The face was also altered at one point to look more like a chimpanzee. This desecration of the Sphinx prompts an important question: why did we get a chimp?

The answer lies in our genetics. Human evolution on this planet has been primarily restricted to the biology of the ape. It was said previously in this book that Rh positive blood refers to the rhesus monkey genetics being present in the human system. Rh negative implies an alien blood type. One can also see a resemblance to apes in human beings. If you don’t believe me, just go to the gorilla exhibit at the zoo.

• The word “monkey” itself gives us an interesting play on words. “Mon” refers to Montu, Montauk or the earlier definitions provided for that phoneme while “key” refers to the “key to Montauk”. Although there is some contention about it amongst scholars, “Monkey” derives from the Dutch word monnekijn which traces back to the Roman word monne, the origin of which is uncertain. The handwriting is on the wall. Manikan means little man or an imitation of man. Monne is intimately related to the root words already covered.
  
• The word “ape” is said to be borrowed from a Teutonic word yet there is argument and some say it is really from the Celts. It all becomes clear when we consult the derivation of the word ” apex”. This means several interesting things. It is the highest culminating point of time and also refers to the vertex of a triangle or the conical top of a pyramid. Apex strongly suggests the concept of the Tower of Babalon or the mountain aspect of Montauk. The word itself derives from tip, specifically referring to the tip of a flamen’s cap. (Aflamen was a priest or magician in ancient Rome, the word deriving from the Sanskrit word brahman.)
  
• Orangutan derives from oran which means man and utati which equates to forest. The word oran is Malaysian word which is suspiciously close to Orion. Chimpanzee derives from “pan” which means all embracing. It also refers to Pan, the god of the forest and fields. He was quite sexually active and Crowley wrote a lot of poetry about him.
  
• Gorilla was coined as a word by the real life Doc Savage based upon a West African word for a race of hairy women. It is a direct reference to a genetic specimen that we don’t see or hear too much about today. You can read the book Mother was a Lovely Beast byPhilip Jose Farmer for more information along this line.

The point of all this is very clear and the phrase “to monkey around with” takes on a whole new meaning. Somebody monkeyed with our genetics in quite a literal sense. In the time of Bast, all types of genetic samplings were embraced. The conquering influence chose to propagate a similitude with the apes through the morphogenetic grid of evolution.

Bast established that human consciousness could become a lower form it if chose to or that the lower forms could obtain the equivalent of human consciousness. This is a sacrilegious teaching to many, but it was highly regarded as the truth in times past. The city of Bubastis was found by archeologists to contain a multitude of mummified cats who stood as guardians of the temple. The reverence to Bast was intense.

The The Book of the Law teaches us that the propagation of life is completely unrestrictive in its nature. All potentialities are real and this is accomplished through the evolving geometries that lie beneath the blue print of evolution. The goddess Bast champions the unrestricted potential of all creation. Our limitations in evolution are influenced by those who dominate the morphogenetic grid but are essentially determined by our own free will and choice in the matter.

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_brain01.htm

Biology – Brain

Brain Waves
When you drop a small stone in water, you see waves. Similarly our heart and our brain have wave patterns. The wave pattern of the heart is measured by ECG (electro cardiograph). The brain waves are measured by EEG (electro encephalograph).

Using the brain wave studies, scientists have discovered that our brain waves are of four types.

The brain waves also have peaks that are similar to the peaks we see in water waves. The number of times the peak appears in one second is called “cycles per second “. For example, the electricity in India is of 50 cycles per second.

• Beta (13 to 25 cycles per second)
  This brain wave indicates that your conscious mind is in control. It indicates a mental state of logical thought, analysis, and action. You are alert and awake talking, speaking, doing, solving problems, etc.
  
• Alpha (8 to 12 cycles per second)
  This brain wave indicates relaxation and meditation. It is a state of relaxed alertness good for inspiration, learning facts fast.
  
• Theta (4 to 8 cycles per second)
  Deep meditation. This is associated with life-like imagination. This is best for suggestibility and inspiration. This brain wave is dominant in children of age 2 to 5.
  
• Delta (0.5 to 4 cycles per second)
  Deep dreamless sleep. Deep relaxation.

Left brain and right brain working together

Usually the left brain and the right brain waves are independent. They reach peaks independent of each other. During meditation and deep relaxation, the left brain waves and the right brain waves happen together.

For both, the peaks are reached together. This is called synchronization. Scientists now believe that synchronization makes much greater mind power available. This is associated with learning large amounts of information very quickly as well as with creativity. Brain self-control

Scientists had long believed that brain activity such as brain waves and secretion of brain chemicals were beyond conscious control. But, experiments on Swami Rama of the Himalayas and on biofeedback have now changed that belief. Now it is proven that some people can control their brain waves, etc.

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Brain Activity During Meditation

The brain is an electrochemical organ - using electromagnetic energy to function. Electrical activity emanating from the brain is displayed in the form of brainwaves.

There are four categories of these brainwaves. They range from the high amplitude, low frequency delta to the low amplitude, high frequency beta. Men, women and children of all ages experience the same characteristic brainwaves. They are consistent across cultures and country boundaries.

During meditation brain waves alter.

• BETA - 13-30 cycles per second – awaking awareness, extroversion, concentration, logical thinking – active conversation. A debater would be in high beta. A person making a speech, or a teacher, or a talk show host would all be in beta when they are engaged in their work.
  
• ALPHA - 7-13 cycles per second – relaxation times, non-arousal, meditation, hypnosis
  
• THETA - 4-7 cycles per second – day dreaming, dreaming, creativity, meditation, paranormal phenomena, out of body experiences, ESP, shamanic journeys.

A person who is driving on a freeway, and discovers that they can’t recall the last five miles, is often in a theta state - induced by the process of freeway driving. This can also occur in the shower or tub or even while shaving or brushing your hair. It is a state where tasks become so automatic that you can mentally disengage from them. The ideation that can take place during the theta state is often free flow and occurs without censorship or guilt. It is typically a very positive mental state.

• DELTA - 1.5-4 or less cycles per second – deep dreamless sleep

NEWS ARTICLES

• Meditation found to increase brain size

  PhysOrg – January 31, 2006

   

  
  

• Meditation Shown to Light Up Brains of Buddhists
  Yahoo – May 2003
  
  Using new scanning techniques, neuroscientists have discovered that certain areas of the brain light up constantly in Buddhists, which indicates positive emotions and good mood.

   

  • “We can now hypothesize with some confidence that those apparently happy, calm Buddhist souls one regularly comes across in places such as Dharamsala, India, really are happy,” Professor Owen Flanagan, of Duke University in North Carolina, said.

  Dharamsala is the home base of exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama.
  
  The scanning studies by scientists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison showed activity in the left prefrontal lobes of experienced Buddhist practitioners. The area is linked to positive emotions, self-control and temperament.

  Other research by Paul Ekman, of the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, suggests that meditation and mindfulness can tame the amygdala, an area of the brain which is the hub of fear memory.

  Ekman discovered that experienced Buddhists were less likely to be shocked, flustered, surprised or as angry as other people.

  Flanagan believes that if the findings of the studies can be confirmed they could be of major importance.

  • “The most reasonable hypothesis is that there is something about conscientious Buddhist practice that results in the kind of happiness we all seek,”Flanagan said in a report in New Scientist magazine.

 

 

• Meditation mapped in Monks

   

  
  During meditation, people often feel a sense of no space
  

  March 1, 2002 – BBC
  
  Scientists investigating the effect of the meditative state on Buddhist monk’s brains have found that portions of the organ previously active become quiet, whilst pacified areas become stimulated.

  Andrew Newberg, a radiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, US, told BBC World Service’s Discovery programme:

  • “I think we are poised at a wonderful time in our history to be able to explore religion and spirituality in a way which was never thought possible.”

  Using a brain imaging technique, Newberg and his team studied a group of Tibetan Buddhist monks as they meditated for approximately one hour.

  When they reached a transcendental high, they were asked to pull a kite string to their right, releasing an injection of a radioactive tracer. By injecting a tiny amount of radioactive marker into the bloodstream of a deep meditator, the scientists soon saw how the dye moved to active parts of the brain.

  Sense of space
  
  Later, once the subjects had finished meditating, the regions were imaged and the meditation state compared with the normal waking state.

  The scans provided remarkable clues about what goes on in the brain during meditation.

  • “There was an increase in activity in the front part of the brain, the area that is activated when anyone focuses attention on a particular task,” Dr Newberg explained.

  In addition, a notable decrease in activity in the back part of the brain, or parietal lobe, recognized as the area responsible for orientation, reinforced the general suggestion that meditation leads to a lack of spatial awareness.

  Dr Newberg explained:

  • “During meditation, people have a loss of the sense of self and frequently experience a sense of no space and time and that was exactly what we saw.”

  Prayer power
  
  The complex interaction between different areas of the brain also resembles the pattern of activity that occurs during other so-called spiritual or mystical experiences.

   

  Brain Images provide painless study

  
  Dr Newberg’s earlier studies have involved the brain activity of Franciscan nuns during a type of prayer known as “centering“.

  As the prayer has a verbal element other parts of the brain are used but Dr Newberg also found that they, “activated the attention area of the brain, and diminished activity in the orientation area.”

  This is not the first time that scientists have investigated spirituality. In 1998, the healing benefits of prayer were alluded to when a group of scientists in the US studied how patients with heart conditions experienced fewer complications following periods of “intercessory prayer“.

  Inner world
  
  And at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston last month, scientists from Stanford University detailed their research into the positive affects that hypnotherapy can have in helping people cope with long-term illnesses.

  Scientific study of both the physical world and the inner world of human experiences are, according to Dr Newberg, equally beneficial.

  • “When someone has a mystical experience, they perceive that sense of reality to be far greater and far clearer than our usual everyday sense of reality,” he said.

  He added:

  • “Since the sense of spiritual reality is more powerful and clear, perhaps that sense of reality is more accurate than our scientific everyday sense of reality.”

• Areas of the brain activated during meditation
  Tracing the Synapses of Spirituality
  June 17, 2001 – Washington Post
  
  In Philadelphia, a researcher discovers areas of the brain that are activated during meditation. At two other universities in San Diego and North Carolina, doctors study how epilepsy and certain hallucinogenic drugs can produce religious epiphanies. And in Canada, a neuroscientist fits people with magnetized helmets that produce “spiritual” experiences for the secular.

  The work is part of a broad new effort by scientists around the world to better understand religious experiences, measure them, and even reproduce them. Using powerful brain imaging technology, researchers are exploring what mystics call nirvana, and what Christians describe as a state of grace. Scientists are asking whether spirituality can be explained in terms of neural networks, neurotransmitters and brain chemistry.

  What creates that transcendental feeling of being one with the universe? It could be the decreased activity in the brain’s parietal lobe, which helps regulate the sense of self and physical orientation, research suggests. How does religion prompt divine feelings of love and compassion?

   

  Possibly because of changes in the frontal lobe, caused by heightened concentration during meditation. Why do many people have a profound sense that religion has changed their lives? Perhaps because spiritual practices activate the temporal lobe, which weights experiences with personal significance.

  • “The brain is set up in such a way as to have spiritual experiences and religious experiences,” said Andrew Newberg, a Philadelphia scientist who authored the book “Why God Won’t Go Away.”
  • “Unless there is a fundamental change in the brain, religion and spirituality will be here for a very long time. The brain is predisposed to having those experiences and that is why so many people believe in God.”

  The research may represent the bravest frontier of brain research. But depending on your religious beliefs, it may also be the last straw. For while Newberg and other scientists say they are trying to bridge the gap between science and religion, many believers are offended by the notion that God is a creation of the human brain, rather than the other way around.

  • “It reinforces atheistic assumptions and makes religion appear useless,” said Nancey Murphy, a professor of Christian philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif.
  • “If you can explain religious experience purely as a brain phenomenon, you don’t need the assumption of the existence of God.”

  Some scientists readily say the research proves there is no such thing as God. But many others argue that they are religious themselves, and that they are simply trying to understand how our minds produce a sense of spirituality.

  Newberg, who was catapulted to center stage of the neuroscience-religion debate by his book and some recent experiments he conducted at the University of Pennsylvania with co-researcher Eugene D’Aquili, says he has a sense of his own spirituality, though he declined to say whether he believed in God because any answer would prompt people to question his agenda. “I’m really not trying to use science to prove that God exists or disprove God exists,” he said.

  Newberg’s experiment consisted of taking brain scans of Tibetan Buddhist meditators as they sat immersed in contemplation. After giving them time to sink into a deep meditative trance, he injected them with a radioactive dye. Patterns of the dye’s residues in the brain were later converted into images.

  Newberg found that certain areas of the brain were altered during deep meditation. Predictably, these included areas in the front of the brain that are involved in concentration. But Newberg also found decreased activity in the parietal lobe, one of the parts of the brain that helps orient a person in three-dimensional space.

  • “When people have spiritual experiences they feel they become one with the universe and lose their sense of self,” he said.
  • “We think that may be because of what is happening in that area ‚ if you block that area you lose that boundary between the self and the rest of the world. In doing so you ultimately wind up in a universal state.”

  Across the country, at the University of California in San Diego, other neuroscientists are studying why religious experiences seem to accompany epileptic seizures in some patients. At Duke University, psychiatrist Roy Mathew is studying hallucinogenic drugs that can produce mystical experiences and have long been used in certain religious traditions.

  Could the flash of wisdom that came over Siddhartha Gautama ‚ the Buddha ‚ have been nothing more than his parietal lobe quieting down? Could the voices that Mosesand Mohammed heard on remote mountain tops have been just a bunch of firing neurons‚ an illusion? Could Jesus’s conversations with God have been a mental delusion?

  Newberg won’t go so far, but other proponents of the new brain science do. Michael Persinger, a professor of neuroscience at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, has been conducting experiments that fit a set of magnets to a helmet-like device. Persinger runs what amounts to a weak electromagnetic signal around the skulls of volunteers.

  Four in five people, he said, report a “mystical experience, the feeling that there is a sentient being or entity standing behind or near” them. Some weep, some feel Godhas touched them, others become frightened and talk of demons and evil spirits.

  • “That’s in the laboratory,” said Persinger. “They know they are in the laboratory. Can you imagine what would happen if that happened late at night in a pew or mosque or synagogue?”

  His research, said Persinger, showed that “religion is a property of the brain, only the brain and has little to do with what’s out there.”

  Those who believe the new science disproves the existence of God say they are holding up a mirror to society about the destructive power of religion. They say thatreligious wars, fanaticism and intolerance spring from dogmatic beliefs that particular gods and faiths are unique, rather than facets of universal brain chemistry.

  • “It’s irrational and dangerous when you see how religiosity affects us,” said Matthew Alper, author of “The God Part of the Brain,” a book about the neuroscience of belief.
  • “During times of prosperity, we are contented. During times of depression, we go to war. When there isn’t enough food to go around, we break into our spiritual tribes and use our gods as justification to kill one another.”

  While Persinger and Alper count themselves as atheists, many scientists studying the neurology of belief consider themselves deeply spiritual.

  James Austin, a neurologist, began practicing Zen meditation during a visit to Japan. After years of practice, he found himself having to re-evaluate what his professional background had taught him.

  • “It was decided for me by the experiences I had while meditating,” said Austin, author of the book “Zen and the Brain” and now a philosophy scholar at the University of Idaho.
  • “Some of them were quickenings, one was a major internal absorption ‚ an intense hyper-awareness, empty endless space that was blacker than black and soundless and vacant of any sense of my physical bodily self. I felt deep bliss. I realized that nothing in my training or experience had prepared me to help me understand what was going on in my brain. It was a wake-up call for a neurologist.”

  Austin’s spirituality doesn’t involve a belief in God ‚ it is more in line with practices associated with some streams of Hinduism and Buddhism. Both emphasize the importance of meditation and its power to make an individual loving and compassionate‚ most Buddhists are disinterested in whether God exists.

  But theologians say such practices don’t describe most people’s religiousness in either eastern or western traditions.

  • “When these people talk of religious experience, they are talking of a meditative experience,” said John Haught, a professor of theology at Georgetown University.
  • “But religion is more than that. It involves commitments and suffering and struggle ‚ it’s not all meditative bliss. It also involves moments when you feel abandoned by God.”
  • “Religion is visiting widows and orphans,” he said. “It is symbolism and myth and story and much richer things. They have isolated one small aspect of religious experience and they are identifying that with the whole of religion.”

  Belief and faith, argue believers, are larger than the sum of their brain parts:

  • “The brain is the hardware through which religion is experienced,” said Daniel Batson, a University of Kansas psychologist who studies the effect of religion on people.
  • “To say the brain produces religion is like saying a piano produces music.”

  At the Fuller Theological Seminary’s school of psychology, Warren Brown, a cognitive neuropsychologist, said,

  • “Sitting where I’m sitting and dealing with experts in theology and Christian religious practice, I just look at what these people know about religiousness and think they are not very sophisticated. They are sophisticated neuroscientists, but they are not scholars in the area of what is involved in various forms of religiousness.”

  At the heart of the critique of the new brain research is what one theologian at St. Louis University called the “nothing-butism” of some scientists ‚ the notion that all phenomena could be understood by reducing them to basic units that could be measured.

  And finally, say believers, if God existed and created the universe, wouldn’t it make sense that he would install machinery in our brains that would make it possible to have mystical experiences?

  • “Neuroscientists are taking the viewpoints of physicists of the last century that everything is matter,” said Mathew, the Duke psychiatrist.
  • “I am open to the possibility that there is more to this than what meets the eye. I don’t believe in the omnipotence of science or that we have a foolproof explanation.”

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Third Eye – Pineal Gland

In the physical body the eye views objects upside down.

It sends the image of what it observes to the brain which interprets the image and makes it appear right side-up to us. But the human body has another physical eye whose function has long been recognized by humanity.

It is called the ’Third Eye’ which in reality is the Pineal Gland. It is long thought to have mystical powers.

Many consider it the Spiritual Third Eye, our Inner Vision.

It is located in the geometric center of the brain. This correlates to the location of the Great Pyramid in the center of the physical planet.

The Pineal Gland is about the size of a pea, and is in the center of the brain in a tiny cave behind and above the pituitary gland which lies a little behind the root of the nose. It is located directly behind the eyes, attached to the third ventricle.

The true function of this mysterious gland has long been contemplated by philosophers and Spiritual Adepts. Ancient Greeks believed the pineal gland to be our connection to the Realms of Thought. Descartes called it the Seat of the Soul. This gland is activated by Light, and it controls the various biorhythms of the body. It works in harmony with the hypothalamus gland which directs the body’s thirst, hunger, sexual desire and the biological clock that determines our aging process.

When the pineal gland awakens one feels a pressure at the base of the brain. This pressure will often be experienced when connecting to higher frequency. A head injury can also activate theThird Eye – Pineal Gland.

While the physiological function of the pineal gland has been unknown until recent times, mystical traditions and esoteric schools have long known this area in the middle of the brain to be the connecting link between the physical and spiritual worlds. Considered the most powerful and highest source of ethereal energy available to humans, the pineal gland has always been important in initiating supernatural powers.

Development of psychic talents has been closely associated with this organ of higher vision.

The third eye can see beyond the physical as is looks out through the chakra system

when we meditate or look for answers from higher frequencies.

The pineal gland contains a complete map of the visual field of the eyes

and it plays several significant roles in human functioning.

There is a pathway from the retinas to the hypothalamus called the retinohypothalamic tract.

It brings information about light and dark cycles to a region of the hypothalamus called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN).

From the SCN, nerve impulses travel via the pineal nerve (sympathetic nervous system) to the pineal gland. These impulses inhibit the production of melatonin. When these impulses stop (at night, when light no longer stimulates the hypothalamus), pineal inhibition ceases and melatonin is released. The pineal gland is therefore a photosensitive organ and an important timekeeper for the human body.

Retinal research done with hamsters demonstrates another center for melatonin production.

Located in the retina, this center implies that the eyes have their own built in circadian timepiece. This retinal system is distinct from the brains body clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus(SCN). Biologists found that they could throw the retinal rhythms out of sync with other circadian cycles. They also found that they could set and reset the retinal clock even when the SCN was destroyed.

The retinal clock produces (stimulates the production of?) melatonin. Researchers are now looking for the exact location(s) of this clock in the human eye (and expect to find it).

No one yet knows what the separate clock is for or how it relates to the SCN.

In some lower vertebrates the Epiphysis Cerebri - Pineal Gland – has a well-developed eye-like structure; in others though not organized as an eye, if functions as a light receptor.

In lower vertebrates, the pineal gland has an eye like structure and it functions as a light receptor and is considered by some to be the evolutionary forerunner of the modern eye.

The gland weighs little more than 0.1 gram. The gland is large in children and begins to shrink with the onset of puberty. It appears to play a major role in sexual development, hibernation in animals, metabolism, and seasonal breeding. In humans it affects circadian rhythms, sleep patterns (melatonin levels increase at night), and is implicated in seasonal affective disorder. The abundant melatonin levels in children is believed to inhibit sexual development. When puberty arrives, melatonin production is reduced.

The pineal gland secretes melanin during times of relaxation and visualization. As we are created by electromagnetic energy – and react to EM energy stimuli around us – so does the pineal gland.

When activated, the pineal gland becomes the line of communication with the higher planes. The crown chakra reaches down until its vortex touches the pineal gland. Prana, or pure energy, is received through this energy center in the head. With Practice the vibration level of the astral body is raised, allowing it to separate from the physical.

To activate the ’third eye’ and perceive higher dimensions, the pineal gland and the pituitary body must vibrate in unison, which is achieved through meditation and/or relaxation. When a correct relationship is established between personality, operating through the pituitary body, and the soul, operating through the pineal gland, a magnetic field is created.

The negative and positive forces interact and become strong enough to create the ’light in the head.’ With this ’light in the head’ activated, astral projectors can withdraw themselves from the body, carrying the light with them.

Astral travel, and other occult abilities, are closely associated with the development of the ’light in the head ’. After physical relaxation, concentration upon the pineal gland is achieved by staring at a point in the middle of the forehead. Without straining the muscles of the eye, this will activate the pineal gland and the ’third eye’.

Beginning with the withdrawal of the senses and the physical consciousness, the consciousness is centered in the region of the pineal gland. The perceptive faculty and the point of realization are centralized in the area between the middle of the forehead and the pineal gland. The trick is to visualize, very intently, the subtle body escaping through the trap door of the brain.

A popping sound may occur at the time separation of the astral body in the area of the pineal gland.

Visualization exercises are the first step in directing the energies in our inner systems to activate the ’third eye’. The magnetic field is created around the pineal gland, by focusing the mind on the midway point between the pineal gland and the pituitary body. The creative imagination visualizes something, and the thought energy of the mind gives life and direction to this form.

’Third eye’ development, imagination, and visualization are important ingredients in many methods to separate from the physical form. Intuition is also achieved through ’third eye’ development. Knowledge and memory of the astral plane are not registered in full waking consciousness until the intuition becomes strong enough. Flashes of intuition come with increasing consistency as the ’third eye’ as activated to a greater degree, through practice.

The pineal gland corresponds with divine thought after being touched by the vibrating light of Kundalini. Kundalini starts its ascent towards the head center after responding to the vibrations from the ’light in the head.’ The light is located at the top of the sutratma, or ’soul thread’, which passes down from the highest plane of our being into the physical vehicle.

The ’third eye,’ or ’eye of Siva,’ the organ of spiritual vision, is intimately related to karma, as we become more spiritual in the natural course of evolution.

As human beings continue to evolve further out of matter, on the journey from spirit to matter back to spirit, the pineal gland will continue to rise from its state of age-long dormancy, bringing back to humanity astral capacities and spiritual abilities.

At certain brainwave frequencies, a sense of ego boundary vanishes. In the theta state, we are resting deeply and still conscious, at the threshold of drifting away from or back into conscious awareness. As the brain enters deeper states, our consciousness is less concerned with the physical state, our ’third eye’ is active, and separation becomes natural.

Many native traditions and mystical practices refer to the ability of ’seeing,’ or being aware of energy fields at higher levels. This abstract awareness is much more subjective and does not involve the normal level of mundane consciousness, which is mostly concerned with self-identity. This ’seeing’ refers to the sight of the ’third eye’.

Consciousness is raised from an emotional nature into an illumined awareness when the pineal gland is lifted from dormancy. If the pineal gland is not yet fully developed, it will be in the course of evolution.

When our sense of ego and personality are set aside and we keep our mental energy intact, we can become conscious of the non-physical, our inner self, the subconscious, through different practices to activate the ’light in the head.’

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The Reptilian Brain

The brain stem is the oldest and smallest region in the evolving human brain. It evolved hundreds of millions of years ago and is more like the entire brain of present-day reptiles. For this reason, it is often called the ’reptilian brain’.

Various clumps of cells in the brain stem determine the brain’s general level of alertness and regulate the vegetative processes of the body such as breathing and heartbeat.

It’s similar to the brain possessed by the hardy reptiles that preceded mammals, roughly 200 million years ago. It’s ’preverbal’, but controls life functions such as autonomic brain, breathing, heart rate and the fight or flight mechanism.

Lacking language, its impulses are instinctual and ritualistic. It’s concerned with fundamental needs such as survival, physical maintenance, hoarding, dominance, preening and mating. It is also found in lower life forms such as lizards, crocodiles and birds. It is at the base of your skull emerging from your spinal column.

The basic ruling emotions of love, hate, fear, lust, and contentment emanate from this first stage of the brain. Over millions of years of evolution, layers of more sophisticated reasoning have been added upon this foundation.

Our intellectual capacity for complex rational thought which has made us theoretically smarter than the rest of the animal kingdom.

When we are out of control with rage, it is our reptilian brain overriding our rational brain components. If someone says that they reacted with their heart instead of their head.

What they really mean is that they conceded to their primitive emotions (the reptilian brain based) as opposed to the calculations of the rational part of the brain.

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Memory

Memory is one of the activities of the human mind, much studied by cognitive psychology. It is the capacity to retain an impression of past experiences. There are multiple types of classifications for memory based on duration, nature and retrieval of perceived items.

The main stages in the formation and retrieval of memory, from an information processing perspective, are:

• Encoding  (processing of received information by acquisition)
• Storage  (building a permanent record of received information as a result of consolidation)
• Retrieval  (calling back the stored information and use it in a suitable way to execute a given task)

A basic and generally accepted classification (depending on the duration of memory retention and the amount of stored information during these stages) identifies three distinct types of memory:

• sensory memory
• short-term memory
• long-term memory

The first stage corresponds approximately to the initial moment that an item is perceived. Some of this information in the sensory area proceeds to the sensory store, which is referred to as short-term memory.

Sensory memory is characterized by the duration of memory retention from miliseconds to seconds and short-term memory from seconds to minutes. Once the information is stored, it can be retrieved in a period of time, which ranges from days to years and this type of memory is called long-term memory.

The sensory and short-term memory are bio-electrical types of memory, as they store information in form of electrical signals, whereas the long-term memory is a bio-chemical type of memory.

When we are given a seven digit number, we can remember it only for a few seconds and then forget (short term memory). On the other hand we remember our telephone numbers, since we have stored it in our brain after long periods of consolidation (long term memory).

The definition of working memory, which is erroneously used as a synonym of short-term memory, is based on not only the duration of memory retention but also the way how it is used in daily life activities. For instance, when we are asked to multiply 45 with 4 in our head, we have to perform a series of simple calculations (addition and multiplications) to give the final answer. The process of keeping in mind all this information for a short period of time is called working memory.

Another good example is a chess player, who is playing with multiple opponents at the same time and trying to remember the positions of pieces in all games and using this information to make a good move, when required. Long-term memory can further be classified as declarative (explicit) and procedural (implicit).

Explicit memory requires conscious recall, in other words the information must be called back consciously when it is required. If this information is about our own lives (what we ate for breakfast in this morning, our birth date etc.), it is called episodic memory, if it concerns our knowledge about the world (capital of France, presidents of US etc.), then it is called semantic memory.

Implicit memory is not based on the conscious recall of information stored in our brain, but on the habituation or sensitization of learned facts. We perform better in a given task each time we repeat the task, that is we use our implicit memory without necessarily remembering the previous experiences but using the previously learned behaviours unconsciously. For example, classical conditioning is one kind of implicit memory.

Another example is memory resulting from motor learning, which depends upon the cerebellum and basal ganglia.

Articles

• Key to a Good Memory: Predict What You Need to Remember Live Science - November 28, 2005
• Too Much Knowledge Can Be Bad For Some Types Of Memory Science Daily – May 20, 2005
• Short Term Memory’s Effectiveness Influenced By Sight, Sound Science Daily – September 2004
• The amazing memory man BBC – October 2003
• Computer boosts memory by 10% – Neurofeedback BBC – January 2003
• Key memory process identified June 2002 – BBC

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Messages From Hypnotic States

As a Certified Hypnotherapist I have placed many clients in a hypnotic state.

During a session clients can bring messages from:

• another entity
• other aspects of themselves
• their unconscious mind
• other dimensions of reality

Messages received through a hypnotic state may not seem valid – but there could be a connection with another aspect of the person’s physical reality.

Some people speak in ’tongues’ when hypnotized. This is called Polyglot or Xenoglot.

Often people who have had traumatic experiences such as an alien abduction - will go to a hypnotherapist to gain relive them and release pain suffered or to help them understand their spiritual purpose or personal lives.

Message gleamed through past life regression therapy allow the individual – insight into a collective memory and greater understanding of their behavior in this time line.

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Contrary to common ideas as expressed in this diagram, brain functions are not confined to certain fixed locations. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

People who meditate grow bigger brains than those who don’t. Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the first evidence that meditation can alter the physical structure of our brains. Brain scans they conducted reveal that experienced meditators boasted increased thickness in parts of the brain that deal with attention and processing sensory input.

In one area of gray matter, the thickening turns out to be more pronounced in older than in younger people. That’s intriguing because those sections of the human cortex, or thinking cap, normally get thinner as we age.

“Our data suggest that meditation practice can promote cortical plasticity in adults in areas important for cognitive and emotional processing and well-being,” says Sara Lazar, leader of the study and a psychologist atHarvard Medical School. “These findings are consistent with other studies that demonstrated increased thickness of music areas in the brains of musicians, and visual and motor areas in the brains of jugglers. In other words, the structure of an adult brain can change in response to repeated practice.”

The researchers compared brain scans of 20 experienced meditators with those of 15 nonmeditators. Four of the former taught meditation or yoga, but they were not monks living in seclusion. The rest worked in careers such as law, health care, and journalism. All the participants were white. During scanning, the meditators meditated; the others just relaxed and thought about whatever they wanted.

Meditators did Buddhist “insight meditation,” which focuses on whatever is there, like noise or body sensations. It doesn’t involve “om,” other mantras, or chanting.

“The goal is to pay attention to sensory experience, rather than to your thoughts about the sensory experience,” Lazar explains. “For example, if you suddenly hear a noise, you just listen to it rather than thinking about it. If your leg falls asleep, you just notice the physical sensations. If nothing is there, you pay attention to your breathing.” Successful meditators get used to not thinking or elaborating things in their mind.

Study participants meditated an average of about 40 minutes a day. Some had been doing it for only a year, others for decades. Depth of the meditation was measured by the slowing of breathing rates. Those most deeply involved in the meditation showed the greatest changes in brain structure. “This strongly suggests,” Lazar concludes, “that the differences in brain structure were caused by the meditation, rather than that differences in brain thickness got them into meditation in the first place.”

Lazar took up meditation about 10 years ago and now practices insight meditation about three times a week. At first she was not sure it would work. But “I have definitely experienced beneficial changes,” she says. “It reduces stress [and] increases my clarity of thought and my tolerance for staying focused in difficult situations.”

Controlling random thoughts

Insight meditation can be practiced anytime, anywhere. “People who do it quickly realize that much of what goes on in their heads involves random thoughts that often have little substance,” Lazar comments. “The goal is not so much to ‘empty’ your head, but to not get caught up in random thoughts that pop into consciousness.”

She uses this example: Facing an important deadline, people tend to worry about what will happen if they miss it, or if the end product will be good enough to suit the boss. You can drive yourself crazy with unproductive “what if” worry. “If, instead, you focus on the present moment, on what needs to be done and what is happening right now, then much of the feeling of stress goes away,” Lazar says. “Feelings become less obstructive and more motivational.”

The increased thickness of gray matter is not very much, 4 to 8 thousandths of an inch. “These increases are proportional to the time a person has been meditating during their lives,” Lazar notes. “This suggests that the thickness differences are acquired through extensive practice and not simply due to differences between meditators and nonmeditators.”

As small as they are, you can bet those differences are going to lead to lots more studies to find out just what is going on and how meditation might better be used to improve health and well-being, and even slow aging.

More basic questions need to be answered. What causes the increased thickness? Does meditation produce more connections between brain cells, or more blood vessels? How does increased brain thickness influence daily behavior? Does it promote increased communication between intellectual and emotional areas of the brain?

To get answers, larger studies are planned at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Harvard-affiliated facility where Lazar is a research scientist and where these first studies were done. That work included only 20 meditators and their brains were scanned only once.

“The results were very encouraging,” Lazar remarks. “But further research needs to be done using a larger number of people and testing them multiple times. We also need to examine their brains both before and after learning to meditate. Our group is currently planning to do this. Eventually, such research should reveal more about the function of the thickening; that is, how it affects emotions and knowing in terms of both awareness and judgment.”

Slowing aging?

Since this type of meditation counteracts the natural thinning of the thinking surface of the brain, could it play a role in slowing – even reversing – aging? That could really be mind-boggling in the most positive sense.

Lazar is cautious in her answer. “Our data suggest that one small bit of brain appears to have a slower rate of cortical thinning, so meditation may help slow some aspects of cognitive aging,” she agrees. “But it’s important to remember that monks and yogis suffer from the same ailments as the rest of us. They get old and die, too. However, they do claim to enjoy an increased capacity for attention and memory.”

Source: Harvard University (By William J. Cromie)

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Astronomical symbols/glyphs representing the Sun, Moon, and planets, along with the Earth, in Western astrology. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

by Mike Adams

the Health Ranger

December 11, 2010
from NaturalNews Website

Spanish version

Mention the word “astrology” and skeptics go into an epileptic fit.

The idea that someone’s personality could be imprinted at birth according to the position of the sun, Moon and planets has long been derided as “quackery” by the so-called “scientific” community which resists any notion based on holistic connections between individuals and the cosmos.

According to the conventional view,

• your genes and your parenting determine your personality

• the position of planet Earth at the time of your birth has nothing to do with it

Then again, conventional scientists don’t believe the position of the Moon has anything to do with life on Earth, either.

They dismiss the wisdom that farmers have known for ages – that planting seeds or transplanting living plants in harmony with the Moon cycles results in higher crop yields.

Even the seeds inside humans are strongly influenced by the Moon, as menstruation cycles and Moon cycles are closely synchronized (28 days, roughly).

Researchers demonstrate scientific principle of astrology

Skeptics must be further bewildered by the new research published in Nature Neuroscience and conducted at Vanderbilt University which unintentionally provides scientific support for the fundamental principle of astrology – namely, that the position of the planets at your time of birth influences your personality.

In this study, not only did the birth month impact personality; it also resulted in measurable functional changes in the brain.

This study, conducted on mice, showed that mice born in the winter showed a “consistent slowing” of their daytime activity. They were also more susceptible to symptoms that we might call “Seasonal Affective Disorder.”

The study was carried out by Professor of Biological Sciences Douglas McMahon, graduate student Chris Ciarleglio, post-doctoral fellow Karen Gamble and two additional undergraduate students, none of whom believe in astrology, apparently.

They do, of course, believe in science, which is why all their study findings have been draped in the language of science even though the findings are essentially supporting principles of astrology.

“What is particularly striking about our results is the fact that the imprinting affects both the animal’s behavior and the cycling of the neurons in the master biological clock in their brains,” said Ciarleglio.

This is one of the core principles of astrology:

That the position of the planets at the time of your birth (which might be called the “season” of your birth) can actually result in changes in your brain physiology which impact lifelong behavior.

Once again, such an idea sounds preposterous to the scientifically trained, unless of course they discover it for themselves, at which point it’s all suddenly very “scientific.”

Instead of calling it “astrology,” they’re now referring to it as “seasonal biology.”

How to discredit real science

It all reminds me of the discovery of cold fusion in 1989 by Fleishmann and Pons, who were widely ridiculed by the arrogant hot fusion researchers who tried to destroy the credibility (and careers) of cold fusion researchers.

After the very idea of “cold fusion” was attacked and demolished by these arrogant scientists, it soon returned under a new name: Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR).

LENR has now been verified as true by none other than the U.S. Navy – along with hundreds of other researchers around the world. And yet, even today, the conventional scientific community still insists cold fusion doesn’t exist and cold fusion researchers are frauds.

Just as there is a solid scientific basis for LENR, there is a scientific basis for astrology, too.

The relationship between the Earth, Moon and Sun naturally alter light exposure, temperature, gravitational pull and other conditions that may be sensed by living organisms. To believe in astrology, all that’s really required is to grasp the basic concepts of the interrelationships between all living things.

Does the position of the sun or Moon influence life on Earth?

Of course it does:

Life as we know it wouldn’t even exist without the Moon tugging on Earth and preventing its rotational axis from shifting around to the point where radical changes in seasonal temperatures would make life far more challenging.

(The Moon, in other words, is one of the key “stabilizers” of life on planet Earth because it tends to stabilize the seasons and keep the Earth on a steady rotational plane.)

None of this, of course, means that the position of Saturn today is going to make you win the lottery or find a new love.

That’s the tabloid version of astrology, not real astrology.

Don’t confuse tabloid astrology with real astrology

Even astronomy has its tabloid versions, too, which are entirely non-scientific.

For example, every model of our solar system that I’ve ever seen is a wildly inaccurate tabloid version of reality, with planet sizes ridiculously exaggerated and planet distances not depicted to scale. These silly, non-scientific solar system models imprint a kind of solar system mythology into the minds of schoolchildren and even school teachers.

Virtually no one outside the communities of astrophysics and astronomy has any real grasp of the enormity of not merely our solar system, but of our galaxy and the space between neighboring galaxies.

To show a giant sun the size of a basketball, with a depiction of the Earth as a marble-sized planet three inches away is the astronomical equivalent of a gimmicky horoscope claiming you’re going to win the lottery today because you were born under the sign of Pisces. Both are fictions. And both are an insult to real science.

In fact, even the whole idea that an “electron” is a piece of physical matter, made up of other “particles” is an insult to real science.

The sobering truth of the matter is that “particle physics” doesn’t have much to do with actual particles at all. It’s all about energies that might, on occasion, vibrate in just the right way so that they momentarily appear to take on the illusion of a particle as measured by our observers – observers who inevitably alter the outcome of the entire experiment, by the way, once again proving the interrelated nature of things in our universe, including observer and experiment.

The horoscope predictions in the Sunday paper - as well as much of the hilarious mythology found in the modern description of an atom – are both simplified, comic-book versions of a larger truth – the truth that we live in a holistic universe where every bit of physical matter, every bit of energy and every conscious mind impacts the rest of the universe in subtle ways.

There is no such thing as an individual who is isolated from the Cosmos, because we are of the Cosmos and we exist as the physical manifestations of energies that, for our lifetimes, are momentarily organized as beings.

We are made of star stuff, says Carl Sagan.

He’s right:

We are not only made of star stuff, we are influenced by that stuff, too.

And finally, modern science is beginning to catch up to this greater truth that astrologers have known since the dawn of human existence on our tiny planet.

Babies’ Biological Clocks Dramatically Affected by…

Birth Light Cycle

by Chris Ciarleglio
December 6, 2010

from VanderbiltUniversity Website

Spanish version

The season in which babies are born can have a dramatic and persistent effect on how their biological clocks function.

That is the conclusion of a new study published online on Dec. 5 by the journal Nature Neuroscience. The experiment provides the first evidence for seasonal imprinting of biological clocks in mammals and was conducted by Professor of Biological Sciences Douglas McMahon, graduate student Chris Ciarleglio, post-doctoral fellow Karen Gamble and two undergraduate students at Vanderbilt University.

The imprinting effect, which was found in baby mice, may help explain the fact that people born in winter months have a higher risk of a number of neurological disorders including seasonalaffective disorder (winter depression), bipolar depression and schizophrenia.

“Our biological clocks measure the day length and change our behavior according to the seasons. We were curious to see if light signals could shape the development of the biological clock.

“Our biological clocks measure the day length and change our behavior according to the seasons. We were curious to see if light signals could shape the development of the biological clock,” said McMahon.

In the experiment, groups of mouse pups were raised from birth to weaning in artificial winter or summer light cycles.

After they were weaned, they were maintained in either the same cycle or the opposite cycle for 28 days. Once they were mature, the mice were placed in constant darkness and their activity patterns were observed.

The winter-born mice showed a consistent slowing of their daily activity period, regardless of whether they had been maintained on a winter light cycle, or had been shifted to summer cycle after weaning.

When the scientists examined the master biological clocks in the mouse brains, using a gene that makes the clock cells glow green when active, they found a similar pattern: slowing of the gene clocks in winter-born mice compared to those born on a summer light cycle.

“What is particularly striking about our results is the fact that the imprinting affects both the animal’s behavior and the cycling of the neurons in the master biological clock in their brains.

“What is particularly striking about our results is the fact that the imprinting affects both the animal’s behavior and the cycling of the neurons in the master biological clock in their brains,” said Ciarleglio.

In addition, their experiments found that the imprinting of clock gene activity near birth had dramatic effects on the reaction of the biological clock to changes in season later in life.

The biological clocks and behavior of summer-born mice remain stable and aligned with the time of dusk while that of the winter-born mice varied widely when they were placed in a summer light cycle.

“The mice raised in the winter cycle show an exaggerated response to a change in season that is strikingly similar to that of human patients suffering from seasonal affective disorder,” McMahon commented.

Exactly when the imprinting occurs during the three-week period leading up to weaning and whether the effect is temporary or permanent are questions the scientists intend to address in future experiments.

Seasonality and Personality

The new study raises an intriguing but highly speculative possibility: Seasonal variations in the day/night cycle that individuals experience as their brains are developing may affect their personality.

“We know that the biological clock regulates mood in humans. If an imprinting mechanism similar to the one that we found in mice operates in humans, then it could not only have an effect on a number of behavioral disorders but also have a more general effect on personality.

“We know that the biological clock regulates mood in humans. If an imprinting mechanism similar to the one that we found in mice operates in humans, then it could not only have an effect on a number of behavioral disorders but also have a more general effect on personality,” said McMahon.

“It’s important to emphasize that, even though this sounds a bit like astrology, it is not: it’s seasonal biology!” McMahon added.

Mice in this study were raised on artificial seasonal light cycles in the laboratory and the study was repeated at different times of the year.

In humans, studies conducted in the northern and southern hemispheres have confirmed that it’s the season of winter – not the birth month – that leads to increased risk of schizophrenia. There are many possible seasonal signals that could affect brain development, including exposure to flu virus.

This study shows that seasonal light cycles can affect the development of a specific brain function.

“We know from previous studies that light can affect the development of other parts of the brain, for example the visual system. Our work shows that this is also true for the biological clock,” said Ciarleglio.

Background

The experiment was performed with a special strain of genetically engineered mice that it took McMahon two years to develop.

The mice have an extra gene inserted in their genome that produces a naturally fluorescent green protein causing the biological clock neurons in their brains to glow green when they are active. This allows the scientists to directly monitor the activity of the master biological clock, which is located in the middle of the brain behind the eyes in a small area called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN).

For the study, the researchers took three groups of six to eight newborn pups each and placed them (and their mothers) in environments with controlled day/night cycles.

• one group was placed in a “summer” cycle with 16 hours of light and eight hours of dark

• another group was placed in a “winter” cycle with eight hours of light and 16 hours of dark

• a third group was placed in an equinox cycle with 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness

They were kept in these environments for three weeks until they were weaned.

“When they are born, the brains of mice are less developed than those of a human baby. As a result, their brains are still being wired during this period,” McMahon said.

Once they were weaned, half of the summer-born mice were kept on the summer cycle and half were switched to the winter cycle for the following 28 days as they matured.

The winter-born mice were given the same treatment. The equinox-born mice were split into three groups and put into summer, winter and equinox cycles.

After the mice matured, they were placed into an environment of continuous darkness. This eliminated the day/night cues that normally reset biological clocks and allowed the scientists to determine their biological clock’s intrinsic cycles.

The scientists found a substantial difference between the summer-born and winter-born groups.

The summer-born mice behaved the same whether they had been kept on the summer cycle or switched to the winter cycle. They started running at the time of dusk (as determined by their former day/night cycle), continued for ten hours and then rested for 14 hours.

The behavior of the winter-born mice was much different. Those who had been kept on the winter light cycle through maturation showed basically the same pattern as their summer cousins: They became active at the time of dusk and continued for 10 hours before resting. However, those who had been switched to a summer cycle remained active for an extra hour and a half.

When they looked at what was happening in the brains of the different groups, they found a strikingly similar pattern.

In the summer-born mice, the activity of the neurons in the SCN peaked at the time of dusk and continued for 10 hours. When the winter-born mice were matured in the winter cycle, their neuronal activity peaked one hour after the time of dusk and continued for 10 hours.

But, in the winter-born mice switched to a summer cycle, the master bioclock’s activity peaked two hours before the time of dusk and continued for 12 hours.

When they looked at the equinox group, the scientists found variations that fell midway between the summer and winter groups. Those subjected to a summer cycle when they matured had biological clocks that peaked one hour before the time of dusk and the biological clocks of those subjected to a winter cycle peaked a half hour after the time of dusk.

In both cases the duration of SCN activity was 11 hours.

Their analysis showed that these variations are caused by alterations in the activity patterns of the individual neurons, rather than by network-level effects.

“It is quite striking how closely the neuronal wave form and period line up with their behavior. It is quite striking how closely the neuronal wave form and period line up with their behavior,” McMahon said.

Ciarleglio completed his graduate studies and is now assistant director of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute. 

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Virtual Reality

Volunteers Use Their Thoughts to Perform Various Actions

Brain Controlled Switches Coming

Source: University Of Rochester

http://www.rochester.edu

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/05/000503180714.h tm

May 5, 2000

Glancing at a stereo and turning it on with a thought may have once been science fiction, but inside a virtual world at the University of Rochester, people are listening to music by simply wishing it so. Outfitted with a virtual reality helmet and a computer program adept at recognizing key brain signals, volunteers use their thoughts to take actions like those of any apartment dweller-turning on the television or the stereo, for instance. The line of research, which links a brain and computer in a near real-world environment, may someday allow patients with extreme paralysis to regain some control of their surroundings, say the project’s developers, and could eventually eliminate keyboards and computer mice as the go-betweens connecting our thoughts and the actions we wish to see in our environment.

While several teams around the world are working on brain-computer interfaces (BCI), computer science graduate student Jessica Bayliss is the first to show that detection of the brain’s weak electrical signals is possible in a busy environment filled with activity. She has shown that volunteers who don a virtual reality helmet in her lab can control elements in a virtual world, including turning lights on and off and bringing a mock-up of a car to a stop by thought alone.

Though all this is currently taking place only in virtual reality, the team is confident that the technology will make the jump to the “real world” and should soon enable people to look around a real apartment and take control in a way they couldn’t before.

“This is a remarkable feat of engineering,” says Dana Ballard, professor of computer science and Bayliss’ adviser. “She’s managed to separate out the tiny brain signals from all the electric noise of the virtual reality gear. We usually try to read brain signals in a pristine, quiet environment, but a real environment isn’t so quiet. Jessica has found a way to effectively cut through the interference.” The National Institutes of Health is supporting Bayliss’ research because it may someday give back some control to those who have lost the ability to move. A person so paralyzed that he or she is unable even to speak may be able to communicate once again if this technology can be perfected, explains Bayliss. By merely looking at the telephone, television or thermostat and wishing it to be used, a person with disabilities could call a friend or turn up the heat on a chilly day. Bayliss hopes that someday such people may even be able to operate a wheelchair by themselves simply by thinking their commands.

“Virtual reality is a safe testing ground,” says Bayliss. “We can see what works and what doesn’t without the danger of driving a wheelchair into a wall. We can learn how brain interfaces will work in the real world, instead of how they work when someone is just looking at test patterns and letters. The brain normally interacts with a 3-D world, so I want to see if it gives off different signals when dealing with a 3-D world than with a chart.”

The brain signal Bayliss listens for is called the “P300 evoked potential.” It’s not a specific signal that could be translated as “Aunt Nora” or “stop at the red light,” but rather a sign of recognition-more like “That’s it!”

“It’s as if each neuron is a single person who’s talking,” explains Bayliss. “If there’s just one person, then it’s easy to hear what he’s saying, but the brain has billions of neurons, so imagine a room full of a billion people all talking at once. You can’t pick out one person’s voice, but if everyone suddenly cheers or oohs or aahs, you can hear it. That’s what we listen for, when several neurons suddenly say ‘that’s it!’ “

Bayliss looks for this signal to occur in sync with a light flashing on the television or stereo. If the rhythm matches the blinks of the stereo light, for instance, the computer knows the person is concentrating on the stereo and turns it on. A person doesn’t even have to look directly at the stereo; as long as the object is in the field of view, it can be controlled by the person’s brain signals. Since it’s not necessary to move even the eyes, this system could work for paralysis patients who are completely “locked in,” a state where even eye blinks or movement are impossible.

The virtual apartment in which volunteers have been turning appliances on and off is modeled after Bayliss’ own. Such a simple, virtual world is the first step toward developing a way to accurately control the real world. Once Bayliss has perfected the computer’s ability to determine what a person is looking at in the virtual room, the next hurdle will be to devise a system that can tell what object a person is looking at in the real world. BCI groups are also close to surmounting another obstacle-that of attaching the sensors to the head.

Right now dozens of electrodes must be attached to the scalp one at a time with a gooey gel, but Bayliss says dry sensors are just around the corner, and simple slip-on head caps should not be far behind.

“One place such an interface may be very useful is in wearable computers,” Ballard says. “With the roving eye as a mouse and the P300 wave as a mouse-click, small computers that you wear as glasses may be more promising than ever.”

BCIs are divided into two categories: biofeedback and stimulus-response. Bayliss uses the latter approach, which simply measures the response the brain has to an event. Biofeedback is a method where a person learns to control some aspect of his or her body, such as relaxing, and the resulting change in the brain can be detected. Though many BCI groups use this approach, Bayliss decided against it because people must be trained, sometimes for a year or more, and not everyone can learn to accurately control their thought patterns.

Bayliss and Ballard work in the University’s National Resource Laboratory for the Study of Brain and Behavior, which brings together computer scientists, cognitive scientists, visual scientists, and neurologists to study neural functions in complex settings. The laboratory’s research combines tools that mimic real-world sensations, such as virtual reality driving simulators and gloves that simulate the feel of virtual objects, with sensory trackers that measure eye, head, and finger movements. Recently the lab added virtual people, robot-like actors with which volunteers can interact in a limited way.

So in the future will we all be wearing little caps that will let us open doors, channel surf and drive the car on a whim? “Not likely,” Bayliss says. “Anything you can do with your brain can be done a lot faster, cheaper and easier with a finger and a remote control.”

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by Jeffrey Norris
April 15, 2013
from UCSF Website

UCSF researchers have uncovered a role in brain development and in neurological
disease for little appreciated molecules called long noncoding RNA. In this image,
fluorescent dyes track the presence of the RNA molecules and the genes they
affect in the developing mouse brain.

Image courtesy of Alexander Ramos

Specific DNA once dismissed as junk plays an important role in brain development and might be involved in several devastating neurological diseases, UC San Francisco scientists have found.

Their discovery in mice is likely to further fuel a recent scramble by researchers to identify roles for long-neglected bits of DNA within the genomes of mice and humans alike.

While researchers have been busy exploring the roles of proteins encoded by the genes identified in various genome projects, most DNA is not in genes. This so-called junk DNA has largely been pushed aside and neglected in the wake of genomic gene discoveries, the UCSF scientists said.

In their own research, the UCSF team studies molecules called long noncoding RNA (lncRNA, often pronounced as “link” RNA), which are made from DNA templates in the same way as RNA from genes.

“The function of these mysterious RNA molecules in the brain is only beginning to be discovered,” said Daniel Lim, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurological surgery, a member of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF, and the senior author of the study (Integration of Genome-wide Approaches Identifies lncRNAs of Adult Neural Stem Cells and Their Progeny In Vivo), published online April 11 in the journal Cell Stem Cell.

Daniel Lim, MD, PhD

Alexander Ramos, a student enrolled in the MD/PhD program at UCSF and first author of the study, conducted extensive computational analysis to establish guilt by association, linkinglncRNAs (Long noncoding RNA) within cells to the activation of genes.

Ramos looked specifically at patterns associated with particular developmental pathways or with the progression of certain diseases. He found an association between a set of 88 long noncoding RNAs and Huntington’s disease, a deadly neurodegenerative disorder.

He also found weaker associations between specific groups of long noncoding RNAs and Alzheimer’s disease, convulsive seizures, major depressive disorder and various cancers.

“Alex was the team member who developed this new research direction, did most of the experiments, and connected results to the lab’s ongoing work,” Lim said.

The study was mostly funded through Lim’s grant – a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award, a competitive award for innovative projects that have the potential for unusually high impact.

LncRNA versus Messenger RNA

Unlike messenger RNA, which is transcribed from the DNA in genes and guides the production of proteins, lncRNA molecules do not carry the blueprints for proteins.

Because of this fact, they were long thought to not influence a cell’s fate or actions.

Alexander Ramos

Nonetheless, lncRNAs also are transcribed from DNA in the same way as messenger RNA, and they, too, consist of unique sequences of nucleic acid building blocks.

Evidence indicates that lncRNAs can tether structural proteins to the DNA-containing chromosomes, and in so doing indirectly affect gene activation and cellular physiology without altering the genetic code. In other words, within the cell, lncRNA molecules act “epigenetically” – beyond genes – not through changes in DNA.

The brain cells that the scientists focused on the most give rise to various cell types of the central nervous system.

They are found in a region of the brain called the subventricular zone, which directly overlies the striatum. This is the part of the brain where neurons are destroyed in Huntington’s disease, a condition triggered by a single genetic defect.

Ramos combined several advanced techniques for sequencing and analyzing DNA and RNA to identify where certain chemical changes happen to the chromosomes, and to identify lncRNAs on specific cell types found within the central nervous system. The research revealed roughly 2,000 such molecules that had not previously been described, out of about 9,000 thought to exist in mammals ranging from mice to humans.

In fact, the researchers generated far too much data to explore on their own.

The UCSF scientists created a website through which their data can be used by others who want to study the role of lncRNAs in development and disease.

“There’s enough here for several labs to work on,” said Ramos, who has training grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and the NIH.

“It should be of interest to scientists who study long noncoding RNA, the generation of new nerve cells in the adult brain, neural stem cells and brain development, and embryonic stem cells,” he said.

Other co-authors who worked on the study include UCSF postdoctoral fellows,

• Aaron Diaz, PhD

• Abhinav Nellore, PhD

• Michael Oldham, PhD

• Jun Song, PhD

• Ki-Youb Park, PhD

• Gabriel Gonzales-Roybal, PhD

• MD/PhD student Ryan Delgado

Additional funders of the study included the Sontag Foundation and the Sandler Foundation.

Junk DNA Crucial for Brain Development

by PTI

April 16, 2013

from FreePressJournal Website

Washington

Specific DNA once dismissed as junk plays an important role in brain development and may be involved in several devastating neurological diseases, a new study has found.

The so-called junk DNA has largely been pushed aside and neglected in the wake of genomic gene discoveries, said researchers from the University of California, San Francisco.

The team studied molecules called long noncoding RNA (lncRNA, often pronounced as ‘link’ RNA), which are made from DNA templates in the same way as RNA from genes.

“The function of these mysterious RNA molecules in the brain is only beginning to be discovered,” said Daniel Lim, the senior author of the study published in the journal Cell Stem Cell.

Alexander Ramos, a student at UCSF and first author of the study, conducted extensive computational analysis to establish guilt by association, linking lncRNAs within cells to the activation of genes.

Ramos looked specifically at patterns associated with particular developmental pathways or with the progression of certain diseases.

He found an association between a set of 88 long noncoding RNAs and Huntington’s disease, a deadly neurodegenerative disorder.

He also found weaker associations between specific groups of long noncoding RNAs and Alzheimer’s disease, convulsive seizures, major depressive disorder and various cancers.

Ramos combined several advanced techniques for sequencing and analyzing DNA and RNA to identify where certain chemical changes happen to the chromosomes, and to identify lncRNAs on specific cell types found within the central nervous system.

The research revealed roughly 2,000 such molecules that had not previously been described, out of about 9,000 thought to exist in mammals ranging from mice to humans.

In fact, the researchers generated far too much data to explore on their own so they have created a website through which their data can be used by others who want to study the role of lncRNAs in development and disease.

Junk DNA May Be Behind Devastating Neurological Diseases
April 16, 2013

from ZeeNews Website

Washington

UC San Francisco scientists have revealed that specific DNA once dismissed as junk plays an important role in brain development and might be involved in several devastating neurological diseases.

Their discovery in mice is likely to further fuel a recent scramble by researchers to identify roles for long-neglected bits of DNA within the genomes of mice and humans alike.

While researchers have been busy exploring the roles of proteins encoded by the genes identified in various genome projects, most DNA is not in genes. This so-called junk DNA has largely been pushed aside and neglected in the wake of genomic gene discoveries, the UCSF scientists said.

In their own research, the UCSF team studies molecules called long noncoding RNA (lncRNA, often pronounced as “link” RNA), which are made from DNA templates in the same way as RNA from genes.

“The function of these mysterious RNA molecules in the brain is only beginning to be discovered,” said Daniel Lim, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurological surgery, a member of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF, and the senior author of the study.

Alexander Ramos, a student enrolled in the MD/PhD program at UCSF and first author of the study, conducted extensive computational analysis to establish guilt by association, linking lncRNAs within cells to the activation of genes.

Ramos looked specifically at patterns associated with particular developmental pathways or with the progression of certain diseases. He found an association between a set of 88 long noncoding RNAs and Huntington`s disease, a deadly neurodegenerative disorder.

He also found weaker associations between specific groups of long noncoding RNAs and Alzheimer`s disease, convulsive seizures, major depressive disorder and various cancers.

Unlike messenger RNA, which is transcribed from the DNA in genes and guides the production of proteins, lncRNA molecules do not carry the blueprints for proteins. Because of this fact, they were long thought to not influence a cell’s fate or actions.

Nonetheless, lncRNAs also are transcribed from DNA in the same way as messenger RNA, and they, too, consist of unique sequences of nucleic acid building blocks.

Evidence indicates that lncRNAs can tether structural proteins to the DNA-containing chromosomes, and in so doing indirectly affect gene activation and cellular physiology without altering the genetic code. In other words, within the cell, lncRNA molecules act “epigenetically” – beyond genes – not through changes in DNA.

The brain cells that the scientists focused on the most give rise to various cell types of the central nervous system.

They are found in a region of the brain called the subventricular zone, which directly overlies the striatum. This is the part of the brain where neurons are destroyed in Huntington`s disease, a condition triggered by a single genetic defect.

Ramos combined several advanced techniques for sequencing and analyzing DNA and RNA to identify where certain chemical changes happen to the chromosomes, and to identify lncRNAs on specific cell types found within the central nervous system. The research revealed roughly 2,000 such molecules that had not previously been described, out of about 9,000 thought to exist in mammals ranging from mice to humans.

In fact, the researchers generated far too much data to explore on their own. The UCSF scientists created a website through which their data can be used by others who want to study the role of lncRNAs in development and disease.

The study was published online in the journal Cell Stem Cell.

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