Spirituality Guide

I don’t know how close to anything approaching truth these wanderings through speculation have come.

Some people seem to be equating the Fall of Man with the ‘descent’ if it is such, from the ultimate spiritual beginnings into the realm of matter, so the Fall may not only be necessary but also a good thing as it would seem to be on purpose as well as ‘on purpose’ in the sense of Beingness following correctly in the path for which it came into being.

I’m wondering if there is a different Fall, one where the Purpose was shunted aside from the path back to Beingness and the beings of this realm side-tracked into driving ever deeper into flesh. Again, it is possible it is a necessary path - perhaps we need to enmesh fully into physicality to be able to finally cast it aside and rise with absolute understanding of it all.

I look at how many myths and carvings tell of a wonderful bygone era and how we still have no explanation for the various monuments and relics of civilization around our world and I see the Fall of Man in a new light.

The ascension stories of which we hear would suggest otherwise. From them it seems that we are meant to be rising along a path to higher levels, realms where as more spiritual beings we leave behind the trappings of the solid and find new life in higher vibrations.

But if perhaps the Fall of Man was brought about by finding beings from lower vibrations, beings with maybe a different level of mastery of the solid, or perhaps with an ability to tap into power of the Reality which we, as higher vibrational beings lacked, then perhaps we are victims of our own folly. Maybe the beings brought up from below haven’t yet found the desire to continue up the spiritual ladder and their goals are more mundane – power in this realm and subjugation of those who might remove them or take power from them.

When one reads about the practice of Magic or the Occult, the warnings are always made plain – you use Demons, Beings or Powers at your own risk. Always you are told to look to your protection, to make sure you understand what you are getting into deeply enough so you know how to defend against those on whom you call.

But if anything about my speculations is correct or even close to Truth, those delving into the Deep to find power may not have been able to reach for knowledge before they tapped the lower realms. Or they may have been desperate enough to take a risk.

Imagine being there – imagine having a wonderful civilization where people had meaningful lives, where a society was whole-mindedly on a path to Immortality of Beingness, and perhaps as one mind, was working through to the Knowledge needed to help complete the task for which all life was created.

Then around them, they see their world failing. They can no longer reach out as far, maybe can’t ‘perceive’ each other as well. Perhaps it becomes possible for perfect communication to fail, where once they could instantly know what each thought and felt, now they had to struggle and sometimes failed to grasp meaning.

As one, they unite across the world, organizing all these wonderful minds to search all the possibilities for answers. Imagine the psychic, almost visceral shockwave to hit when the Pyramid blew the circuit and suddenly they are without even the physical power they thought so constant.

Under such a scenario, it isn’t hard to think of someone getting so desperate that they reach into what seems like an inexhaustible power source, maybe knowing but downplaying the risks, confident they could deal with anything that came at them, all so they could help provide salvation for their world.

They may not even have known initially how badly they failed, how large a wound they gave to our world.

Some of the Ancients may have looked to more esoteric sources to try to maintain the current standards of Life. If they knew what the myths and their monuments seem to be telling us they knew, then they would have tried delving into Consciousness itself to find a way out of the times they saw ahead.

They would know that the Reality isn’t real, that at depth, everything is illusion and only Awareness of it makes it real. How do I know they knew this? Because the ideas come from antiquity, long before anyone even knew anything about structure, about energy or form, the mystics and sages told these stories.

One way to obtain more power might be to reach out into other vibrational levels and take what was needed from them.

Perhaps we, (and I presume it was us who did so) made a choice that empowered beings for whom the mastering of the physical is an obsession? Maybe once they were so empowered, they were able to gain enough power to get to the point of control?

What I’m getting at here is that maybe we aren’t the only or the lowest sub-agents in the Game. Maybe we reached into someone else’s ‘Octave’ of vibration and in pulling energy from them, we also brought ‘them’ along?

My guess would be if they did this, they would reach ‘lower’ in the scale. It’s only a guess but it seems to me that if one is going to pull energy to help brace one’s world against the lowering of energy available, then it would probably be more efficient to pull in denser energy to convert than bringing in ‘lighter’ energy to compress into the more solid type in use here.

To get energy to live in the way in which they had become accustomed, the Ancients would have tried everything. There would have been physical methods tried out – ways to bring in more power, or to find new sources that could be used.

There may have been mental and spiritual efforts to boost the receptive qualities of people or to more effectively utilize the energy that would be available in the coming ‘dark ages’ as the Age of Silver progressed inexorably towards the Age of Bronze.

But some would have pushed the power to its limits, and maybe beyond, as they tried to boost the available energy levels so their lives could continue as they had known them – maybe trying to boost the power output of the Great Pyramid caused a blowout and precipitated a collapse such as they were trying to avoid?

Others may have tried to find better ways to use the power – sometimes the way we use things isn’t always the ‘cheapest’ way – look at the low-wattage bulbs that are on supermarket shelves now compared to the old incandescent ones.

They would have set up schools and other operations to research the best ways to survive, or failing that, looking for any means to either shorten the Dark Age they saw coming or to boost the long slow climb back up to the Light. From what we know, they don’t seem to have had writing – maybe they had telepathy instead so writing wasn’t a requirement. But looking around they seem to have made fairly major investments in structures that would hold knowledge in their very shape, layout and construction.

And they built them to last through time.

In the scenario I am talking of, there was a time where Humanity was at a peak. Leaving alone for now how different such a time may have been to now, we can at least guess that Humans then weren’t a long way different to Humans now. We like to hang onto what we have, we prefer that the life we know keeps on as it always has, even when the life we have isn’t any particular bowl of cherries – the unknown will probably be better but it might also be worse.

It takes a lot to get people to leave behind what they have and step out into a new world.

Maybe the humans of the old times, the times when they mapped the world, including an Antarctica free of ice, when they built megalithic structures from rock blocks which we would have trouble lifting even now, let alone moving hundreds of kilometers, saw their world changing around them, felt the draining of power from their lives as the energy field subsided from its previous high levels and decided to try all they knew to keep things as they were.

If they were human, some would have denied anything was happening, some would have calmly prepared as best they could to minimize the changes or even the length of the time it would take to recover, and some would be trying all kinds of things, some sane and some not so sane, to maintain the status quo.

We don’t know what they used for their power source – Christopher Dunn suggests a pyramid grid – he makes a good case for the Great Pyramid to have been a vibration-to-energy converter and although he doesn’t have it nailed down, there is sufficient solid ground to at least wonder if he is on a track to truth.

If, as I have talked about earlier, we are the sub-agents of agents created by THE ALL to investigate, learn and report back on the basic knowledge and structure of THE ALL, then the Fall might be the pre-planned slide into the lower vibrations that are our Reality. It’s possible.

But I don’t think that addresses the world around us. Too many are failing to make it, too many are trapped in solidity with literally no awareness of anything else. So maybe the Fall of Man was when something occurred to bring us more solidly into the ‘solid’ Reality, to wrap us in matter so tightly we forgot almost everything we knew of who we are and why we are here?

It seems a little strange to me that we would ‘decide’ to do this. While matter may have attraction, while the senses may be appealing to embodied spirits, somewhere in there it would be a case of someone who knew Reality was a façade resting on nothingness deciding to accept the fake as real – that seems a strange decision to me.

Now if Cruttenden is correct, then we were in the Golden Age for a considerable time. He speculates that there is a body around which our Sun orbits which intermittently increases the energy or power available for us to use, and the Golden Age was when we were closest to that Centre of Power.

So is it possible that, as the Golden Age ended, or perhaps when the Age of Silver was steadily reducing the energy levels and thus the Awareness of Life on Earth, some beings may have tried things to try to maintain or even increase the Awareness level to that of the Golden Age?

There may have been attempts to tap (or further tap) into the basic energy of the Cosmos, or perhaps occult mysteries were plumbed for ways to increase Awareness and Power.

This world seems built for those who glorify the physical and the ownership of things and there seems no sign that they are somehow destined for bad things while those who suffer so much will meet in heaven - that seems to me to be the best con job around to ensure the powerful stay in place while the weak suffer in silence.

If the tales, myths and legends from the past are any indication, once upon a time, we were here, delving into the physical while maintaining a spirit-awareness that let us live bountiful and enlightening lives. The Beings we were got talked about in later times as Gods, magical beings of goodness who could do miraculous things. Looking around at some of the ancient monuments and relics left from many thousands of years ago, I have to speculate that the tales of the times of the Gods were times when we humans could do things we can no longer achieve.

It seems a simpler explanation than inventing some long-vanished race of supernatural beings who behaved insanely while they were here.

In many of the tales, there is a war, but preceding the war there is some kind of dilemma facing the ‘enlightened beings’ who run the civilization. Sometimes it is to do with those in charge ‘going’ elsewhere, but almost as often, it is Beings who should know better behaving like spoiled brats fighting over the ice cream.

What I wonder is about the tales we have from the past that talk about the Fall of Man. Most of those I’ve read tell us that we were once in a Golden Age and then there was a choice made and things headed rapidly South.

But what kind of a choice could have such drastic effects?

Now this is just speculation on my part – a wondering about the game I see around me. I’ve spoken of it in other posts here. I think Life is a Game, one where there are accepted Rules, there are Boundaries or Limits, there is an Objective and there are Players. My internal jury is still out on whether there are Umpires or not – perhaps we perform that role as well or maybe Karma is some kind of inanimate evaluation system to keep score as we go.

So I’m wondering about this game. Across every race, every religion of which I’ve heard or read, there is talk of a Golden Age. Perhaps Walter Cruttenden is correct and there’s a cosmic reason why the Golden Age has passed us, and perhaps also his speculation that we are heading back into one is also right. Certainly the Greek myths would agree with their four ages of Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron, and the Hindus, who believe we are currently in the lowest Age, the Kali Yuga, and heading upwards again after thousands of years steadily passing down through the levels of awareness and energy.

I wonder, when I look around and see how many struggle on a daily basis to find enough concentration to make it through their day, when I hear and see those who face a struggle which takes all their time and energy just to get enough to live, whether maybe things aren’t as they were meant to be. Is it possible that something has gone wrong and we are trapping ourselves in a world from which fewer every day can find the will to rise instead of sink?

When one begins to question what we see around us, all kinds of strange things come to our attention. This impinges on the path to Spirituality because, as we become more aware, so do we open to new influences, find new paths and accept new choices into our lives.

But as we see new things, quite often we also begin to see patterns. As I’ve looked around I’ve found a world where, to me, things don’t seem right. The average person (yes I realize there’s really no such thing ) lives in a world where many choices are made for them, where the offered paths are towards working for at least eight hours a day for forty five years so they can ‘retire’ to an existence where, unless they’ve been lucky, all they can manage is to have a slightly comfortable life.

And that’s in the economically enriched western countries – if they are unlucky enough to be born in any of about forty or more countries not in the ‘western’ clique, they will be lucky to survive to sixty-five, let alone have a decent life after that period.

I look around and I see a world where, either we have one hell of a long way to travel in this game or the game is rigged from the start, OR, just maybe, something is wrong with it. When so many people are not only denied the knowledge they need to further their advance into a higher state of beingness but who are so trapped in the battle to survive on a daily basis, that they fail to even know there is a path of advancement, surely we are not looking at a system designed to test and increase the knowledge and awareness of the players?

Or we can go deep into science. As we view smaller and smaller, we travel down into worlds unimaginable to prior generations. We travel past the mystery of the atom, go smaller than the electron, down past the size of the wavelength of the highest frequencies of light, down smaller than photons, smaller than quarks and we find… nothing.

Or maybe we find strings, tiny pieces of nothing vibrating in and out of reality to form the very structure of our reality. The substance perhaps of quantum foam…

And THIS is the ‘normal’ theory, the one with reasonably solid theory behind it. There are stranger ones. These are hard-nosed, show-me-the-money physicists telling us this. More and more they are subscribing to a theory that suggests not only is the observer important, as Einstein’s Relativity tells us, (because the frame of reference of the observer can alter what the observer experiences) but that Consciousness is integral to the actuality of Reality. There is an implication that without Consciousness the old Zen question about a tree falling in the forest can actually be answered by ‘there is no forest nor any tree.’

So the physical world is, above and beyond (and inside and below and within)our normal everyday experience, both strange and literally unreal.

When we look closely at our Cosmos, is it any wonder someone had to create us bits-of-awareness probes to come and work it all out? Can we go on accepting the world as a simplistic place of cause and effect when, if we trace cause to its roots, we find nothing?

There’s human things we all experience which raise questions. Ever had a thought about someone of whom you haven’t thought for ages and then had the phone ring and it’s them?

Rupert Sheldrake ran experiments on this. You can participate in the online versions at Sheldrake’s site.

Sheldrake found that by sitting volunteers in a room with a phone and an observer and getting a randomly chosen friend (from a supplied list of four friends) to call, and have the observer ask the volunteer who they thought it was, he got, across thousands of people doing many experiments, a higher than 40% hit rate.

Random results would be 25% and the more people and the more experiments, the closer the result should be to 25%. Above 40% over so many experiments is what most scientists would call significant results. But most scientists don’t like the idea of the paranormal so they try to ignore him.

Ever had a thought or dream that gives an answer you couldn’t have had? Gone to say something and had someone else say it virtually word for word? Or had them tell you that you have just done it?

Or let’s get really esoteric here - ever had a true dream? Many years ago when i was a teenager, I dreamed of a very specific and detailed scene - it was so strange it stuck in my memory so, 2 years or more later, when I was in a car with a school friend I hadn’t known at the time of the dream, travelling up to Queensland, driving illegally (I was too young by about 12 months) I was able to disagree with the map to tell my friend which way we had to turn a couple of miles away from the turn. I had never been to Qld.

it has happened a number of times across the years - specific and detailed dreams that come true a couple of years later - never anything earth-shattering, none that appear truly significant to my life, just fragments of the future that I visit in a dream.

We are generalists who, with dedication and training, can turn our body to many things & achieve levels of expertise that astound even other humans.

When I look at what we know of life, I see a (fairly) steady progress towards intelligence. Many animals are smart, but I think we made a qualitative step towards bringing self-awareness to Gaia. Over the years I’ve come more & more towards the idea of the planet being alive & the findings of both Bruce Lipton & Rupert Sheldrake seem to be providing the next link in the chain that leads towards an idea of just how complex & interconnected Life actually is once you get away from the ‘we are just bodies’ idea.

I think of ego as an add on, as if the over-mind or higher being that each of us is part of has assigned ego so we have identity. If I create a series of probes to go explore the Antarctic, I don’t send them out and sit to wait for a mass of reports without some way of identifying from which probe I am getting data. I would set things up to ensure that each report can be collated with relevant reports from the same probe.

Without ego, could we be human? We might have personality but would we have had to drive to explore the physical realm as we have? But ego seems also to be what separates us from the ALL, from sensing directly the interconnectedness of all things. It puts up walls around us that have to come down if the Being is to progress beyond this realm.

There are numerous things I’ve run into across the years that fall, for me, into the Spirituality area. There’s quite a bit on the pages here, but I am still working on how it comes together.

First: We would appear to be more than simply physical bodies, but there IS the physical body to account for. It is a fantastically complex machine that provides a myriad of responses and quite sophisticated input, yet we know now that it is both better than needed and not as good as it could be.

Better than needed…? If Evolution is the only force acting, the human brain has taken a light-year step beyond what was needed to achieve reliable survival. The genome seems to have changed in different ways to that used by other life forms. The intellect seems to have taken a step beyond what we needed to become pre-eminent among the primates. Society has formed into a over-riding formative structure that dictates the ongoing changes to us. We have taken memes to a level not seen among other species.

Not as good as it could be…? We are poorly adapted to our lives - if God designed us s/he should have done some basic medical work first. Teeth that replace only once? What’s that about? Telemeres that will only allow 13 cell divisions? Talk about a death sentence. Backs that are poorly adapted for upright posture? Muscles that decay rapidly if not used enough but which poison us with free radicals and acids if used too much? Eyes and hearing that require translation before we understand what’s around us while smell goes straight past the guardian filters to affect us at a level we can’t control?

But what is the other way?

Think about this… you go out with a friend in your car. You get in & drive 100 miles to your destination. Along the way you talk, laugh, joke, reminisce & generally interact with your friend. When you arrive at your destination, how much of the road do you recall?

If you’re normal the chances are the time passed much faster than the length of the trip would necessitate & you can’t recall most of the trip. But you arrived safely. How can this be?

It’s because your driving skills are now habitual - you have done enough driving that you can farm out the driving process while you focus on your friend & the conversation.

We have 2 (at least) levels of awareness - the spotlight, where our focus is here, now, on THAT subject, and the floodlight, where there is no specific focus & we are observing everything around without needing to run a train of thought on any specific thing. We do it all the time.

Psychology tells us that we actively process a tiny proportion of what is being received. Our Minds or maybe our brains do a kind of filtering where only the important stuff gets our attention. But if we do the Zen thing and derail our immediate attention, we can simply ‘BE’ in our space, being a part of ALL and experiencing without analysis.

Our society is very much about the here and now focus, but there is a beingness in us that can use and grow if we practice the floodlight view of reality. Connections come from floodlighting, specific details come from spotlighting.

Our society is very focussed on focus. From the time we begin to perceive the world around us, we are structured towards a single focus. Think of Mother trying to teach or the teacher in school - it’s ‘loud noise’ ‘look at me’ ‘do this’ etc. The teacher will even say ”Pay Attention’ & wait till every eye is on her/him.

Our society is geared towards it - we get punished for not focussing here & now. In spite of the woders created by day-dreamers they are still singled out in class for attention. We label children with ‘attention deficit disorder’ because & drug the crap out of them they won’t stay focussed long enough.

It wasn’t always that way. A boy being shown the ways to warrior status would be encouraged to merge into the stillness, to lose focus & feel the world around him, to become the animals he sought.

So what are we talking about here? I am saying that the way we are being brought up, the way we see the world & interact with it, while a part of reality, these are NOT the only way to Be.

Walk into a room, glance quickly around & walk out. Now sit down & write what you saw in the room. You will be surprised at how much that 3 second sweep of eyes gave you. There simply wasn’t the time to list & categorise all the things you saw in the room, yet you did it.

When we focus, we tend to shut off all the senses that are not immediately involved in what we are doing. It is why TV is such a soporific - it provides the input for multiple senses & the reasoning mind shuts down. This makes it perfect for advertisers.