Spirituality Guide

By: Seeker
Even according to normal history, the past holds special things. If we just accept what we are told, past societies did amazing things.

In the thousand or so years after we supposedly came away from hunter-gathering and became farmers, we built entire civilizations. Two thousand years after we purportedly first build communities that didn’t move with the game or the seasons, we built the pyramids at Giza.

Research and archaeology have shown that the idea the Pyramids were built by slaves is not correct. With the discovery of the town that is close to the site, the idea is now that thousands of people lived there to build the pyramids, artisans and craftsmen, respected workers who were looked after well.

But this changes how we must view these people. In a society that could NOT have been millions of people, they thought enough of their world, their society, for many thousands of people to devote long periods of time to building these magnificent structures. They were not forced to this, they contributed willingly!

This is the equivalent of a hundred million Americans leaving their daily lives and going to build a bridge over the Atlantic, or perhaps fill in the Grand Canyon with buildings. In other words, a huge contribution to a huge project.

And we are meant to believe the society did this because they believed their pharaoh to be a God who needed a good place to be buried? Even though there is actually no evidence the Pyramids, particularly the early ones, were ever used for burials?

It is further examples of how our modern society wants to believe we are the pinnacle of all the past, that there has been a steady progression from cave to mall and it’s all been an upward path to greatness.

By: Seeker
We seem to have some evidence of a past civilization that has since vanished from history. Myths and other records from the past tell of Golden Ages, times when Man lived in peace and plenty, when we ‘knew’ the Gods.

So why aren’t there coke bottles? Where is the evidence of a high-level society?

One reason could be that our type of civilization isn’t the only possible way to live. In fact there is considerable evidence this isn’t even a good way for us to live. Never have we had so many ‘things’ in our lvies nor has the standard of living been so good for so many.

Never has there been so much rampant unhappiness in the world. En masse, the people are turning to alcohol, to drugs, religion, and any escape they can find. We’ve become a race that seeks thrills, people who endanger our very being to try to find stimulation. The levels of anger are rising in our societies as our level of effectiveness in controlling the influences in our lives falls towards zero.

We deride the past, failing to learn from it, finding people who lived before us to be primitives who had no chance of being our equals. We look to the past solely to measure how much better we are, yet there are things in our past we cannot duplicate today.

Somehow, as you read of the past, it comes through that with all their problems, their strife and hardship, the people of the far past were perhaps more content with things, more contributive to their society, than we are today

What have we lost in our path into the hedonistic world of pleasure at all costs?

By: Seeker
So it is not only possible for things to change drastically for Life on Earth, it has happened before, over and over and it is feasible it can happen again.

So maybe in the past it happened to our ancestors? Is it possible that cataclysm destroyed a society that had knowledge and abilities approaching or even surpassing our levels?

One objections that has been raised for this idea is ‘if it is so, where are the coke bottles?’ In other words, if there was such a society, where is the evidence? Why haven’t we found rusted cars, plastic items and appliances or roads and buildings?

There’s a few answers to these questions. One is the Ooparts mentioned earlier – objects found that are anomalous to our understanding of history. And we have found buildings and monuments dating from much earlier times – but a lot of people keep refusing to believe they are buildings.

When there was one place off Yonaguni near Japan that looked man made, it was possible for skeptics to try to categorise it as a possible natural formation. Even with just one it was difficult to accept right angles & perfectly flat surfaces, walls and channels as being sea-formed. But now they’ve found more, much more just nearby. Are we to believe that natural processes can form arches and designs, stand obelisks side by side and create tunnels into interior rooms?

Tiahuanaco keeps being ignored yet here is evidence above water (way above, it’s about 12,000 feet in altitude) of a city built at least 12,000 years ago, as evidenced by the wharves and jetties that are now kilometers from the lake shore. There was not supposed to be anyone around at that time who could build such a place.

By: Seeker
It seems that if we look at ALL the information from history, we have mystery indeed. On the one hand we have the Darwinian notion that systems start primitive and evolve towards more order and sophistication. On the other we have some strange observations and physical evidence that seems to contradict the idea of a steady progression through our history.

But it turns out, if you really look at evolution, it isn’t all a nice steady forward progress through time. There have been, fairly regularly, massive events known as ELE’s – Extinction-Level Events, where Life has suffered major setbacks and had to recover from almost being wiped from the planet.

We face one now – Yellowstone is past due to go off. For those who don’t know, Yellowstone National Park is not just a pretty place of hot springs and geysers – sitting under the Park is a massive caldera, a volcano that has exploded regularly in the past, about every 600,000+ years, starting 2.1 million years ago. Three times it’s gone off – and the last time was about 630,000 years back.

Now this is not a normal volcano; Yellowstone is approximately seventy kilometers across! That’s the size of the actual mouth of the volcano. When it blows, Earth as we know it will cease to exist – it is unlikely that more than a handful of people will survive the ensuing decades as Earth slowly comes back from the effects of the colossal blast.

One wonders what sort of stories will be told of our ‘Golden Age’ by the survivors of Yellowstone? How will they talk about their memories of planes and cars, of how we went to the moon, of TV and the Internet?

By: Seeker
In previous posts I talked about the past of the Earth. There are puzzles in our history that don’t have easy explanations within our history as it is normally told.

As well as the monuments left behind by societies who should not have been able to build them, there are artefacts that belie the primitiveness of our ancestors. Check in google, look for Ooparts. Out Of Place ARTefacts.
There are constructions under water that is known to have been there since before conventional history says there were human societies. Off the coast of India, Sri Lankha, Japan, Cuba and other places, there are anomalous sites which conventional science tries increasingly desperately to explain as natural.

There is also anomalous knowledge when the ancients knew things that they shouldn’t have known. The Dogon knew that Sirius, brightest star in our skies, has a small incredibly heavy companion, and even that it orbits Sirius in fifty years. They’ve known this for a couple of thousand years – we found it out over the past century or so.

The Piri Reis map and others show the solid coast of Antarctica, yet we found the continent only after the maps were made and found the coastline details under the ice only in the 1950’s and 60’s.

How is all this possible? Some people refuse the data because they can’t conceive of a way in which all this can fit into our world as we know it. Rather than change how they view the world, they reject knowledge. It’s very sad to see and to me, seems the total opposite of who we are and the purpose for which we have come here.

By: Seeker
Disclaimer: The following is my speculation only – it’s the result of reading and learning through the years and is my attempt to rationalize both experiences I’ve had and reports of experiences others have had

So what are the Akasa channels spoken of in the Tablets? My best guess is along the lines of my earlier mention about acupuncture and naturopathy. In those and other eastern techniques, there is talk about the meridians that run through the body. Both techniques have enough success behind them to put some weight behind their theories.

If they (the Akasa channels) are the meridians being talked about, it would indicate why those who concentrate on the energy flow development in the body sometimes experience enlightenment or zen moments where everything seems to come together in a moment of connectedness.

The brain is what most people think of as the seat of consciousness, but there are fairly significant problems with that idea. But the Mind is another matter. Mostly standard psychology or psychiatry views the brain as being the mind. I think if they knew what they were talking about their rate of success should be a lot higher than it is.

Every cell has within it a little power supply called an organelle; it is almost the definition of life. There is evidence that the human body is wrapped in an electrical or electromagnetic (EM) field and the mind is the most complex part of it but that all of it matters. Mind is thought to be holographic in nature, meaning that it is far more complex than a mere physical system can be.

If the Mind and the field around the body are one, then the Akasa channels might be the ‘arteries’ of the EM ‘body’ or the subtle body as some New Age people call it.

By: Seeker
Ed Leedskalnin came to the US from Latvia after his young love stood him up on the eve of marriage. He lived in Florida and did some amazing things.

Ed (1887 – 1951) moved to Florida where he began a monument to his lost love. He built for years until apparently he was mugged in Florida City so he moved his monument, singlehanded, out into the country. He never seems to have told anyone much about his construction methods, and people did ask.

Why did they ask? Well Ed, of slight build, put together a monument that became known as Coral Castle. Coral Castle consists of over 1100 tons of coral rock, hewn, sculpted, carved and moved without benefit of modern construction gear, without a crew and done when nobody could see him doing it.

Left behind when he died were some wire mesh, a basic block and tackle that might be rated to lift a ton, a bsic donkey engine and a few other bits and pieces that don’t seem to ease the puzzle of how the hell he managed such a feat.

Now this is not a matter of moving lots of little rocks – these rocks weigh in the tons range each – and some of the multi-ton ones have been lifted well above ground level and some are finely balanced enough that a finger push can make them turn.

Ed is known to have said there is no such thing as electricity – he maintained it is all magnets and that north and south particles permeate all the universe. Somehow he seems to have been able to make use of this theory to perform tasks no seen since the pyramids were built.

Ed took his secrets with him, as did Tesla, but these were men who now get ridiculed by those who cannot duplicate what they achieved. It’s easy to sit at home and claim Tesla knew nothing, but his record speaks volumes. People laugh at the idea that Leedskalnin knew something about the universe that we don’t, but they obviously haven’t been to Coral Castle.

By: Seeker
Two men stand out as having done something strange that, in spite of many trying, nobody else has been able to duplicate. Each, in their own way, reached beyond what we know to alter what we thought was possible with either electric or magnetic effects.

Nicola Tesla lived at the turn of the last century (1856 – 1943) and was a prodigious inventor, born in Serbia. That electricity you plug into every day was his invention – you might think of Edison when you think of who invented Alternating Current electricity, and you’d be wrong. In fact Tesla was working on broadcast AC power while Edison was still failing to move Direct Current electricity more than a few kilometers.

And broadcast power would have provided the world with very cheap power – once you’ve bought the receiver, there’s no easy way to charge you for what you use.

Tesla is also suspected by some to have caused the Tunguska explosion – conventional science insists it was an airburst meteor or comet fragment but there is conflicting evidence that leaves the question open. Tesla was supposed to be conducting an experiment that would ‘light the sky’ over the Arctic, to be witnessed by an American expedition up there at the time. The theory is he missed his target and Tunguska occurred, fortunately striking an very unpopulated area in Siberia.

Tesla had ideas about charge that he proved in solid inventions – you most likely have a Tesla device in your electricity metering box attached to your house. Look him up – he was an interesting guy who ran afoul of the powerful Edison and suffered for it.

And there’s still a mystery as to why the FBI cleaned out his hotel room within an hour or so of his death.

By: Seeker
So electricity is an unknown to us. Magnetism is even a stranger thing. Like electric charge, it comes in two flavours, called north and south. Like electricity, opposites attract and like repels.

Magnetism shows action at a distance to an even greater extent than does electricity. Both produce fields around them and even those fields are a mystery. Move a wire through a magnetic field and you can get current flow – that’s exactly how we generate electricity in a generator. But what precisely IS a magnetic line of force? We see them at the sun’s surface, as gigantic loops of plasma surge along the twisted magnetic lines reach the surface; when such lines of force ‘snap’ like a whip, they spray vast amounts of charged particles across the solar system in what are called solar flares.

Magnetism seems to defy the energy equation by performing work with no apparent using up of the force doing the work. If we set up two magnets near each other on springs so that the north poles face each other and can’t swing away from facing each other, the slightest push on one will start an oscillation that can continue for longer than we might be willing to wait for it to stop.

And we can keep doing it, over and over – although it’s magnetism doing the work of pushing the other north pole away, it never seems to get used up. Strange stuff. And there’s two guys (both now dead unfortunately) who have made things even stranger by showing ways to use electricity and magnetism in ways that nobody else can duplicate.

By: Seeker
In the last post I talked about three pathways in the body, the blood flowing through veins, magnetism flowing through nerves and akasa flowing through ‘channels, subtle yet physical.’ Blood is obvious, but magnetism seems a strange one. But to understand maybe a quick review of some science might help.

In our world, we see the nervous system as being an electrical path through which sensory impulses pass as electrical charges. They eventually reach the brain & our brain interprets the messages as sight, sound, taste, smell or touch.

But electric and magnetic effects are hard to separate. Movement of a magnet produces electric effects and passing electricity through a wire will create a magnetic field. And although we make extensive use of both electrical and magnetic effects in our modern society, we don’t actually know what they are.

Electricity is defined as the movement of charge, usually electrons. But we don’t actually know what causes a particle to have charge. We know that there are apparently two kinds of charge, positive and negative but there’s nobody who can tell you what the difference is.

And it’s worse than that… the basic particles of charge are electrons (negative) and protons (positive) with a third neutral particle called a neutron. Seems fairly straightforward, right?

We have a standard model of particles that seems to be backed up by the mathematics and by (some) observations, but in reality, we don’t know for sure if we’re right. Science has had to come up with a bewildering array of particles besides the three mentioned, with exotic names – muons and leptons, and quarks of up, down, strange and charmed types, along with neutrinos and the elusive Higgs boson that CERN is hoping to find with the Large Hadron Collider.

But the stunner is, our best knowledge of things suggests that at base, none of these particles are actually there at all!

By: Seeker
Reiki is an interesting phenomenon that came out of Japan or possibly Tibet. It involves a form of healing using energy flow. The theory is that our bodies have a living energy flowing through them & illness, injury or even trauma can cause blockages in the energy.

To deal with this, the Reiki practitioner uses themselves as a focus for a Universal energy which can smooth out the bumps so to speak, and allow the inner flow of energy to resume its healthy path. There are a number of different religious and alternative medicine ideas that postulate life energy.

Does it exist? In earlier posts I mentioned the Emerald Tablets; in these the author says there are three aspects to a person, physical, astral and mental, and further in the physical are three paths, the blood flowing through veins, magnetism flowing through nerves and akasa flowing through ‘channels, subtle yet physical.’

In acupuncture and some martial arts, emphasis is placed on energy points around the body. These do not seem to be related to either nerve or blood flow. Naturopaths will test against these pressure points to look for allergies or sensitivities in a person so they can prescribe a diet or supplements to balance the body. In meditation, there are the chakras, energy complexes which run through the centre of the body. The chakras are worked on energetically to build a path towards (usually) enlightenment.

So all around the world are ideas that there is energy that isn’t electromagnetic in nature, that is beneficial to our physical, mental and emotional health.

By: Seeker
Recently I saw a set of rules for living that struck a chord with me. I was watching a DVD I picked out from a bargain bin at the mall about Reiki. I’ve had an interest in it for some time, and the video turned out to be too basic to really teach me anything I didn’t already know, but at one point they showed the five daily rules that they encourage Reiki practitioners to live by.

1. Just for today I will let go of Anger
2. Just for today I will let go of Worry
3. Today I will do my work honestly
4. Today I will be kind to every living creature
5. Today I will count my many blessings

Anger is, like most emotional states, a valuable tool when used correctly and a dangerous state of mind when not under control. It can empower us in a situation of injustice and cripple us when inappropriately experienced.

Worry is similar although probably less dangerous to those around us. I try to deal with worry by putting a limit on how much concern I give to the future. When there’s such a situation, I try to work through all the possibilities I can think of, finding my best course of action to deal with each one. When I find myself beginning to repeat them, I firmly gather up the whole package and picture myself pushing it to the back of my mind to wait for further information.

Doing my work honestly – this could be difficult in practice. I think I provide a good day of work for my pay but when I saw this one, my first thought was of the time I spend on the net and not doing actual work.

Being kind to all creatures is easy when it’s something like a cat, dog or bird. But for most of my life I’ve had a principle in place for insects – bite me and I will kill you. If I see a spider I’m not sure of in my house I will kill it – but, for example, huntsman spiders are harmless – I will endeavour to put them safely outside. I will rescue bees but kill European wasps. This one is going to be hard.

The hard thing about counting blessings comes in two parts; it was a favourite saying of my mother, which puts it over on the negative side of things, and, having suffered from depression, it is sometimes hard to see good things going on.

By: Seeker
When as children we come into the world, it seems everything about us is geared for learning. Our brains, even though still developing, have structures already in place to help us learn specific things. We go through a process of reaching out to the world to find out what it’s all about and where in it we fit.

If we’re lucky, we have parents who are aware of this and who create an interesting nd challenging environment to stimulate our awakening senses.
If we’re normal, we have folks who, while wishing to do their best for us, don’t really understand what life is about themselves and have no real clues about how to maximize the experience for us.
If we’re unlucky, there’s pain, abuse and a life that teaches us not to reach out, not to hope and never to stand out from the background.

Then we get to go to school – rather than an environment to help us learn and develop into mature creative people, school is in reality aimed at producing good soldiers and citizens. In school, there is an apparency of education, but when you take a good unbiased look at the system and compare it to what we know to be true about learning, it is apparent it is a system designed to teach us the things those in charge want us to know, to instill in us the obedience to authority, and to ensure we learn the lesson that it is best to never stand out above the crowd and better to go along with everyone else than to be individual.

Somewhere in there, the path to truth gets muddied so badly it can take years to find our way again towards the light of learning – most never make it.

By: Seeker
Continuing the true story from my past…

The instructor was a fuzzy blur at my side, her anxious voice a mere buzz at the edges of my concentration. Literally, my vision greyed out until I was only conscious of the… whatever it was… moving slowly toward the door into my room! It seemed forever, but was only the time it took for a person to walk the length of the hallway, and the number of thoughts crammed into that short space of time would have done a super-computer proud. Never had I been so hyper, so keyed to an event as prosaic as an opening door.

Finally, when it seemed a choice between the energy death of the universe and the opening of the door, I saw the handle begin its downward course as the unknown entered. Hearts are not meant to do what mine was doing, and my mouth was dry enough to make it impossible for me to swallow. My lungs were complaining as my breathing failed to reach the depths needed to support the frantic oxygen transport needs of my condition.

The thudding returned as the door started to move inward, allowing access to… what?

He was slightly shorter than me, dark haired and with a touch of the gypsy to his features. Broad but not stocky, I caught a glimpse of dark eyes as he was shown to his seat and settled in with his books.

I managed to reassure the instructor that I was OK, and I calmed myself enough to act like I was back into studying, but for the next hour, all I was conscious of was a presence, sitting to my rear and left, that was burning an image into the back of my head. After some looking around, I found a reflective surface on a trophy on a shelf, that showed me just enough of a reflection of the guy that I could see his head was down and he was doing what I was pretending to do – study.

I never did find an explanation for this occurrence; during break I sought him out and we compared notes. We’d never been in the same place before so it couldn’t have been a meeting in the past. Even as I approached him for this conversation, I was aware the feeling was no longer there. How could something so powerful just vanish?

By: Seeker
A true event from my past…

I was sent from Perth, in Western Australia to Sydney, New South Wales for training. The training centre was an old bluestone house that had been designed by someone with a lot of experience in building castles or forts. The walls were 2 foot thick, there were underground rooms and passages and even a turret, 3 storeys high.

In one of the rooms below ground, around 20 people sat doing individual training. I have always been a good student, able to focus, read & comprehend at a level above my school level, and I was into some interesting material. The room was long and low, and the bluestone was painted white, which helped alleviate the otherwise oppressive atmosphere generated by tonnes of stone.

To get to the room, there were outside stairs to descend into a passage that ran the length of the room, so one side of the passage was the solid stone wall of the training room. At the far end of the passage, a door on the right gave access to the room, so sitting in class, facing forward, the door was over my right shoulder & the bottom of the steps, (outside the stone wall of the room) was at about one o’clock to my front.

Deep in the subject matter, I suddenly found myself sitting bolt upright, totally focused on where the stairs were (through the stone wall) in a highly-charged ‘fight or flight’ condition.

My heart surged as adrenaline rushed to invoke an age old state used when the organism sees things are hopeless and prepares for a last-ditch effort. A loud thudding noise started but after a moment reduced to the blood pounding around its course, delivering massive quantities of the oxygen I was suddenly sucking in through open mouth.

I wasn’t even fully in control when it got stranger. Whatever it was that had so pulled my attention, that had reached through stone and focus to affect me so, was moving along the passage outside!