Spirituality Guide

So how does one go about learning and increasing Knowledge. As above, so below… How do we do it? We break things down into smaller chunks, find out about them, then eventually step back out and bring them together to give us a picture of a wholeness. We see a thing, call it tree, then find bark and wood, then water and chemicals, then cells and DNA, then proteins and bases, then signals and triggers, then we put it all back together and say ‘That’s a Tree!’ But now we know how it works and the Knowledge can be used in many ways other than just burning it for heat and get the animals moving towards the cliff.

So THE ALL creates internal parts of Self and begins to investigate. Agents of lesser dimension enter the inner world to experience and learn, to apply the learning and turn it into Knowledge. To be effective of course, they need to report back and combine what each agent learns with what the others learn.

How do we learn about ourselves? Two basic ways - we live our way through experiences and learn ourselves by how we react and behave, but also we imagine - we create scenarios and model ourselves within the scenarios to see how they ‘feel’ to us. If we create well and model well, we can actually respond better to real-life experiences when they come along.

Sometimes others do this to us - the military is a classic example - they make us run scenarios until they have our reactions trained to respond as they want, when they want.

In this scenario, Climate, Ice Ages, catastrophic warming and regular cycles are all simply trials of the universe we live in - the workings of the rules laid down at the start.

It isn’t a Game unless there are things to achieve, rules to follow and a final result.

Here’s some more of my thoughts… the ramblings of a mind that’s lived too long alone and apart from people who like to think of things other than work, footy and money.

First some background of from where they got stimulated:

String theory, back in the days when there were 5 of them, about the time a brane got rolled up to be a string and so reduce the 11 dimensions into 10, seemed to offer a plenitude of cosmoi. Super-symmetry math seemed to say there were 26 possible dimensions and string theory that we inhabited a subset of 10.

That’s a large number of possible and different combinations of 10 - 26×25x24×23x22×21x19×18x17×16 if I recall my high school math.

But there’s another way to look at it than the straight physical - what if (let’s call Her/Him THE ALL to stay away from predefined concepts) THE ALL came into Awareness. Now Awareness doesn’t automatically bring knowledge - think about being in a dark room and becoming sensitised to the environment around you. You will hear noise, feel warm air, feel vibrations under you, smell smells - all Awarenesses but until you start down the experience pathway (move around and get more information) you cannot turn that Awareness into Knowledge.

So we have THE ALL, a 26 dimensional Beingness (there’s a subset of this in having THE ALL be a 10 or 11 Dimensional Beingness, which would allow for other 10 or 11 Dimensional Beingnesses out there - maybe each Brane is one such? Colliding branes are reproducing and Universes the result?)…

But anyway, we have this large multi-dimensional Beingness, all Awareness and no Knowledge. Interesting that the first piece of knowledge that could possibly come that I can think of would be ‘I AM’ ::)

I find it difficult to work out how much of what we’re told of the past is real and how much is propaganda. There seem to have been a number of ‘messiahs’ who have similar characteristics such as virgin birth, death and resurrection after the summer solstice and so on.

Add to that the number of times Precession numbers come into myth and I start to wonder if ANY of the old ‘religion’ stories are based in reality or if they all encode astronomical information.

I’m pretty sure the Egypt history is not accurate as told by Egyptologists. I’m fairly sure Ankhor Wat has more going for it than a fancy arrangement of rock, that Nan Madol was built for a reason, and that the variety of underwater relics and monuments are indicators of lost civilisations.

To me that makes the Christ story a late-to-the-scene example of older stories told for a purpose. The number of Torah, Bible and Koran stories that are related elsewhere and that predate the Judaic books tend to inform me that those Judaic writings are collections of older knowledge. For example, the proliferation of Noah stories seems to be fairly convincing of a Flood epic, but the dates from science would eliminate the biblical version as being way too recent.

Glenn Milne’s Inundation maps show correspondence a little to close to a variety of other evidence to be ignored. Based in hard fact, the maps offer evidence for catastrophe that might help explain where both Ooparts (Out Of Place Artefacts) and anachronistic knowledge originates.

While none of this disproves an ongoing God in our universe, it calls into question the modern view of who it might be. For me, these pieces fit into a puzzle that I have nowhere near completed, but what I see of the picture so far makes any putative on-going God seem a trifle insane.

I don’t find an insane God to be a tenable position so I choose to think about the possibility that, Initiation of Cosmos or Cosmoi completed, the Origin entered the Game S/He had created to fulfill the purpose for which S/He had created it - to learn and gain self-knowledge and maybe self-realisation.

It’s a BIG Universe out there. We live on a planet circling a star about two thirds of the way out from the centre of a galaxy of a couple of hundred billion stars. That galaxy moves in a realm so large it’s possible we will never see the edge of it, but estimates are there are several hundred billion galaxies floating around out there.

This seems a rather large sand pit if there are only Humans to play in it. If this is the only place for Life to start, there’s a range of questions that come along, starting with what’s it all for? Unless something radically different than we have learned is going on, we’re never going to see virtually all that is out there.

If we take the hints given in religious texts and myths, including the bible, there is other life out there - which raises a whole new interesting series of questions. You see, if there is only one race, then the scene as described in the bible could make a kind of sense, with the Creator making a race in his image (whatever that actually means) and, failing to be quite the all-knowing One believed by Christians, setting us on a path to learning so we can eventually be with him.

When we look at the God described in the bible with an eye clear of blind faith and dogma, there is something seriously wrong with either God or with the story. Note I am NOT saying the Creator here, I am talking about the Creator as described in the books of the Judaic religions. This God creates mankind, then gives them a task He knows they will fail, then boots them out of paradise with no opportunity to repent or make redemption or in any way atone for what they’ve done – a few thousand years later He sends his Son to die to make up for the very thing He condemned us all for.

And that’s just a start; either there is something wrong with this Being or what we are told is a serious corruption of the reality. If things are as they are made out to be, God has serious issues with honesty and ethics as well as deep-seated anger and behavioural problems. If God is truly omnipotent and all those other omni’s then the story we’ve been given is just plain wrong.

And if there are other races out there, we have to question everything from the start.

I wrote this a few years back, in a time when I experienced a burst of poetic muse. I hadn’t written poetry since school, a long time ago. In a short space of time I wrote over 100 pages and have barely felt the urge since…

The Plenum Mystery

I’m struggling with a problem, it echoes through my brain
Whenever I am idle, I board the concept train
I know it’s always running, with quite a head of steam
It infects my writing now, and oft invades my dreams

With layers like an onion, and octopoidal reach
It lurks around the edges, and stays beyond my reach
I get clues cast here and there, a waft of truth or two
With now and then a subtle hint, of how and what to do

Layer one is in the past, where history mysteries lie
So many facts just aren’t explained, from ages long gone by
It not just that we aren’t being told, the truth about our past
But why it’s still resisted now, with truth revealed at last

The monuments are much too old, and rock blocks far too large
For Man in his beginnings, to move around by barge
And maps just far too accurate, while men knew Earth was round
And measure made of Sun and stars, in stone mapped on the ground

The next one down is stranger still, a holograph detail
For Cosmos, genes and mental worlds, the explanations fail
It seems as if all three are linked, that each one builds the next
Though searching everywhere for truth, we still are most perplexed

It seems that our reality, is not a massive thing
But rather played upon the Void, accompanied by strings
If we are made the same as God, then maybe we will find
We’re holograms in holo-world, dreams of Creator’s mind

For layer three, we reach for soul, the thing that says I’m ‘I’
We all believe it must exist, though none agree on why
There’s powers shown we can’t explain, they happen every day
Just little things, to everyone, they don’t explain away

Somehow an explanation must hide amongst the dross
If mankind doesn’t find it soon, we’ll soon all feel the loss
We’re fractured by religion, and shackled by desire
Science isn’t coping well, as puzzle pile gets higher

If we work out the Cosmos, unite the major fields
We may still lack the answers, get short-changed on the deals
If holograms hold any truth, it all may just be fake
And souls may be vibrating strings, and life the path they take

Somehow someone built the sphinx, before the dawn of time
The knowledge used to lay it out, beyond a Bronze Age climb
They surely didn’t build in stone, to just make Pharaoh’s tomb
Why would they put in all that work, then empty leave the room

Seeking data everywhere, I think I have the skill
If possible it is at all, then find True Cause I will
I’ll find the clues come some sweet day, it all will fall in place
And understand the links between, the past, our lives, and Space

Apparently, even though the trial of Adam and Eve was clearly rigged, and humans were always going to be booted out of the Garden, the Omnipotent One decided we would be blamed for the result, forever. So according to what we are told, we are born into sin, a sin we had no say in and which could only have been sin if we actually had some kind of choice in the matter.

So we got a whole swag of laws to follow, including nice little gambits like sacrifice. As the ultimate sacrifice, and so we wouldn’t have to keep doing it, God sent his Son to die for us, to take all our sins on Himself and pay the penalty once and for all. Never mind the logic of it, that’s the story we are told.

So, Jesus died for us, was resurrected and after a brief foray around the old place, he heads off to heaven.

We are left with a major puzzle.

If there are no other races around, what was God doing? Why would He set up a no-win game for us – He should have been quite capable of tasking us with difficulties so we could grow into worthy subjects. If He truly knows the end from the start, he knew Adam and Eve would fail the test, but He ran it anyway and then punished Mankind forever because they weren’t strong enough to pass the test. Strange stuff indeed.

Even the words of the story are strange – God uses plurals to talk of Himself, and even forbids us to worship any other God before Him – note He specifically doesn’t say there are no other gods, just that He has to be Number One.

Well, aliens come into this as well – as in whether or not they are out there. Or even, as some maintain, here already.

The problem is one I think I have touched on before this. First we have the apparent fallibility of God. Knowing End from Beginning, how could He possibly have gotten Adam and Eve so wrong? I’m merely Human and I could have told Him that if you put a person into a garden with instructions to make free EXCEPT for that plant over there, it will be only a matter of time before s/he goes and tries the plant.

What I do find interesting here, as a sidewalk to the byway we are on, is how come God didn’t bar Adam and Eve from the Tree of Life while He was about it? He told them no-no to the Tree of Knowledge then moved them out of the Garden lest they eat of the Tree of Life and become just like ’Us’ – another interesting choice of word. One has to wonder what would have happened had Man eaten from the Tree of Life but not that of Knowledge…

God HAD TO KNOW that Adam and Eve would try the plant – even without the ability to see the future, surely He knew his creation at least as well as I? So the test was pre-ordained to fail – Man was always going to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.

So that raises an interesting line of thought – that God intended all along for Adam and Eve to fail the test. That the supposed trial of our obedience was never about whether they would obey or not – God knew in advance they wouldn’t and went ahead anyway.

From Abarim Publications we have
The Nephilim are mysterious supermen from ancient times, men of name, who lived before and after the flood of Noah.

The first obvious question is how could they survive the Flood? That’s a can of worms in itself but according to the bible the Nephilim were the product of the Sons of Elohim and human females. There are a number of meanings possible here, and also in Genesis there are Giants mentioned.

It seems, from the allusion to the Elohim mixing it with human women and the references both before and after the Flood, that this was an ongoing situation. The angels or whatever they were, came frequently to admire women and had children by them. This is not exactly conservative fare; we are talking here either about extraterrestrials or even a second lot of angels who left ‘heaven’ and chose a life in the more physical realm of Earth.

Again from Abarim Publications, Genesis 6 tells us that the Nephilim were fathered by ’sons of Elohim’ with human females. The phrase ’sons of God’ may indicate angelic creatures but also the members of some very strong race. It seems that Nephilim were generated from human stock, not just once but often and separately, and not only before the flood but also after. The Bible basically states that biology allows that human females may be and have indeed been impregnated by spirit beings, a fact of course made ultimately evident in the conception of Jesus Christ.

So even though the general view of Christians is of rather conservative types, when we take a close look at what they are supposed to believe, it isn’t hard to move them over to the side of the line where we put UFO believers, or even those who talk to ghosts and aliens.

The mind is a funny thing – I was sitting writing a response to David, who posted a comment in Christmas Thoughts and for some reason a thought I’ve had before came to mind. There’s kind of a causative link – I mentioned about how we don’t actually have the words of the Christ, we have secondhand versions of what are hopefully actual accounts of things. That seemed to lead to a conversation I had years back about whether there is alien life and how that impinges on the Christian story.

You see, Christianity relies very heavily on the Christ coming to us to die for our sins. Apparently God’s creation wasn’t doing so well and we needed re-direction to ensure it didn’t all go down the tubes.

That in itself is a strain point for the religion. God is supposed to see the beginning from the end, to know all things and to be perfection itself. The idea that the Christian God could be in error or make a mistake is simply not to be considered.

Yet God either doesn’t know it all or he can make mistakes – the bible is proof of it. No I am not talking about whether there are errors in the bible or if it contradicts itself, I mean even accepting the story as given, there is evidence things aren’t as we are told.

One such example (not of God being wrong etc. but that the story is stranger than we normally see) is that of the Nephilim. Note that Nephilim (or the original Hebrew word is a plural, which to me suggests it’s a name given to a tribe or race.

We might digress a little in the next post as the Nephilim are an interesting byway along the biblical autobahn. Many quite devout Christians have never registered them as being unusual and few of those who have, bother to look into the stories of them.

Well that time of year is almost here again – that’s right, the day before thousands of people risk death and injury trying to be the first to the bargain counters so they can spend lots more credit on buying things they don’t really need. When people degenerate to act like starving animals as they crush each other and rip clothing and whitegoods from the hands of those perceived less powerful than themselves. Where the shrieks and screams over the finding of a great price on a (usually) totally unnecessary item precede by seconds the more primal cries of rage from those for whom the bargain has disappeared from under their clutching claws.

That’s right, it’s the time of the Boxing Day Specials. The Day-of-Days when the primitive urges to get more than your fellow (wo)man are allowed full expression and the true meaning of the day just past is totally swept aside – if it was ever expressed or recalled in the first place – and the detached observer can watch and realize just how close Humankind still is to a bestial past.

It’s hard to conceive on any two other days in the normal year that are juxtaposed so closely and yet show two such opposite sides of our natures.

Christmas is supposed to be about the act of giving. It is meant, for Christians, to be a time to recall the birth of the Son of God, the selfless being who came to turn the path of Humanity from that leading steadily towards being locked into the physical realm and show a way for all people to reach for the Spiritual.

The Christ came to tell us that our path is ours, that there is the possibility of a personal redemption from the miserable lives most of us have to achieve a better path as we find our inner beings and start on the path to knowledge of the Infinite.

But apparently, unless we can get it marked down to $9.99, that sale at the Mall has a far greater importance than our Soul.

Anthropogenic Global Warming (agw) is the new kid in town. Back in the late 80’s Margaret Thatcher was looking to bring down the coal miners – her thought was to promote Nuclear Power as a viable alternative to coal-powered electricity so she formed a Panel to convince British citizens that Nuclear was safe and coal was dirty.

In the 90’s the UN took up the challenge and ever since we’ve been subjected to a barrage of media hype, stories of tragedy, fear-inducing campaigns of how horrible the future will be and how much we need to sacrifice and spend to ensure our children have a future. All because of plant food.

That’s right, plant food. When you look at a tree in your back yard, where do you think all that wood and leaves comes from? The tree starts as a tiny seed yet looking at it, it must weigh over a couple of tones, right? So where does all that mass come from?

Believe it or not, only the tiniest part comes from the ground. If this wasn’t so, you’d need to get your yard topped up with soil because the tree would be leeching it all. The tree grows because of water from the ground (replenished normally by rain) and carbon dioxide from the air.

Now we are being asked to believe that the tiny amount of human generated CO2 is going to cause the Earth to boil, drought to come and bring doom to the world.

On a blog for the Daily Telegraph, a commenter stated that global warming ‘deniers’ (the agw version of heretics) should put their names on a Big List to be passed on to future generations to be blamed for ruining the planet. Tim Blair took the challenge and the list, in just a few days, is 68 pages and growing. Apparently not everyone is convinced by warming stories when they have to wear jackets in Summer.

If you aren’t ready to gulp down the unsubstantiated belief that we’re killing the planet with plant food, and you think maybe we should look a little more carefully before crippling industry, go to The Big List and let your view be known – so far it’s at 1430 replies. Given this is being promoted by word of mouth, that’s pretty impressive.

Stand aside Salvos, move along Muslims, there’s a new religion around. This one has all the best hallmarks of the creeds that have come across the ages and it is brand new. It has the backing of governments from around the world, it has coffers that bulge with billions and it has control of the mainstream media.

Anthropogenic Global Warming (agw) is backed, according to the media and those who believe what they’re told by TV, by a settled Science. Agw has the noble goal of saving the planet from dirty humans. Agw will use carbon taxes and emission trading schemes to control things so our lovely green world will survive this infestation we call Mankind. Al Gore and others got a Nobel Prize for the film An Inconvenient Truth (AIT) that shows the world how bad things are.

The only problem is, NONE of it is Truth! The Science is most definitely NOT settled. The ‘dirty’ humans produce a tiny part of all the CO2 produced by life, which in turn is a tiny part of all the CO2 produced on the Earth, and CO2 itself is a tiny part of the gasses that trap the Infra Red radiation that keeps our planet from freezing.

Carbon taxes and emission trading will distinctly NOT reduce the amount of CO2 we produce – it just lets governments and big business make money from it. Al Gore’s movie is more full of BS and (let’s be polite) carelessly handled truth than it is facts. It’s slick and designed to slide right by your critical ability but Truth, inconvenient or otherwise, it isn’t.

Go to Global Climate Change Facts: The Truth, The Consensus, and the Skeptics
and have a read through. Visit forums like Solar Cycle 24 to find out how things might otherwise be viewed and for facts and details that are not being made available to the general public.

Learn all you can and avoid the dangers of being manipulated through lack of knowledge of the facts.

Another example of strangeness in Christian celebration is the date of Easter. Surely the Christ was put on the cross on a particular day? Yet Easter is commemorated on a range of dates, from March into April. Why would that be so? It turns out that Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the Full Moon after March 20th.

Why would the death of the Christ be tied into the lunisolar cycle?

Christmas is also strange. The Christ’s birthday ranges from early January through to May. It seems 25th December is a symbolic date. And there it gets interesting.

We have ancient religions with the Sun being God. In the Northern hemisphere, (NH) the Sun moves steadily South during Autumn and Winter, to its lowest point in the Winter Solstice. The Longest night in the NH is December 21st, so the Sun reaches its lowest point in the sky on 22nd where it ‘pauses’ for 3 days, then it begins the climb back towards the highest point of the Summer solstice.

The old religions considered this the death of the Sun for three days, followed by the resurrection or birth on the 25th December.

We know that religions of all times and all places have used symbolism and parable to tell stories; what some may not realize is they have another common factor – there is normally a hidden knowledge, a level of information available only to the initiated, and that knowledge is often encoded in the stories.

So did the Christ exist? That’s a whole other question from what Christmas is about. It seems likely that a myth encoded to pass on information to the inner circle of Christianity may have been attached to sacred dates from earlier times to ensure the information is not lost.

But when we look at what Christmas is now, it seems a far cry from the celebration of the birth of someone who came to bring Peace and Love as a path to salvation.

If you’ve been reading through the Spirituality Guide posts you may be wondering just how I view Christmas. It should be quite apparent that I don’t have a lot of time for established religion, and I’ve had to work my way back from a rejection, early in my life, of all that came attached to churches and ministries towards finding a new way to think of spirituality.

As a part of my journey, I’ve learned a lot about our past, and about how various groups have co-opted the work, knowledge or traditions of others to create the platform they wanted for themselves. For example, as Christianity moved into pagan Europe, they put effort and time into destroying the old religions. To do so, they took over the holy days (holidays) used by others, and they went to pains to build the Christian churches on the older sacred sites.

Some people think this was more than destruction, that the early Christians recognized the power of those sites and wanted it for their own religion.

Be that as it may, it explains why, in our Christian, western world there are some strange things going on. Easter is an example. How the heck does a commemoration of the death and resurrection of the Christ get celebrated by a rabbit delivering eggs? Where does Santa Claus come into the celebration of the birth of the Son of God? Reindeer flying, elves and present down the chimney? I mean, let’s get serious here!

But if the traditional days for Christanity have been chosen to remove them from a pagan calendar, and if some of the practices have been brought forward from the old religions, things begin to make more sense.

I wrote this a few years back, in a time when I experienced a burst of poetic muse. I hadn’t written poetry since school, a long time ago. In a short space of time I wrote over 100 pages and have barely felt the urge since…

The Plenum Mystery
I’m struggling with a problem, it echoes through my brain,
whenever I am idle, I board the concept train.
I know it’s always running, with quite a head of steam;
it instigates my writing now, and oft invades my dreams

With layers like an onion, and octopoidal reach,
it lurks around the edges, and strives my mind to teach.
It gives me clues cast here and there, and wafts a truth, or two,
with now and then a subtle hint, of how and what to do

Layer one is in the past, where history mysteries lie;
so many facets aren’t explained, from ages long gone by.
It not just that we aren’t being told, the truth about our past,
but why it’s still resisted now, with truth revealed at last.

The monuments are much too old, and rock blocks far too large,
for Man in his beginnings, to move around by barge.
There’re maps made far too accurate to not know Earth was round
and measure made of Sun and stars, in stone mapped on the ground.

The next one down is stranger still, a holograph detail;
for Cosmos, genes and mental worlds, the explanations fail.
It seems as if all three are linked, that each one builds the next;
though searching everywhere for truth, we still are most perplexed

When viewing our Reality, it’s not a massive thing,
but rather played upon the Void, accompanied by strings.
If we are made the same as God then maybe we will find
we’re holograms in holo-world, dreams from Creator’s mind.

For layer three, we reach for soul, the thing that says I’m ‘I’
we all believe it must exist, though none agree on why.
There’s powers shown we can’t explain, they happen every day
just little things, to everyone, we can’t explain away.

Somehow an explanation must hide amongst the dross;
if mankind doesn’t find it soon, we’ll soon all feel the loss
We’re fractured by religion, and shackled by desire
and Science isn’t coping well, as puzzle pile gets higher.

If we work out the Cosmos, unite the major fields,
we may still lack the answers, get short-changed on the deals.
If holograms hold any truth, it all may just be fake
and souls may be vibrating strings, and life the path they take.

Somehow, someone built the sphinx, before the dawn of time;
the knowledge used to lay it out, beyond a Bronze Age climb.
They surely didn’t build in stone, to just make Pharaoh’s tomb.
Why would they put in all that work, then empty leave the room?

Seeking data everywhere, I think I have the skill,
if possible it is at all, then find True Cause I will.
I’ll find the clues come some sweet day, it all will fall in place
and understand the links between, the past, our lives, and Space