Spirituality Guide

By: Seeker
The Ancients knew many more things than modern views of history give them credit for – there are mysterious ruins and monuments built using either means beyond what we allow them or involving moving multi-ton stone across many kilometers. There’s the way they carved and shaped stone for which they had no tools to use. And there’s anomalous knowledge, things they provably knew but which they couldn’t have known given how we think they lived.

We have maps dating from the 15th century, based on older knowledge, that incorporates mathematics only discovered a couple of centuries later, showing not just the Antarctic, (yet to be discovered) showing not only a fairly accurate rendition of the coastline, (considering it was a copy of an older map) but showing that coastline as it is without the ice! That has to qualify, according to what we think we know, as impossible.

As it turns out, that section of the Antarctic has more evidence to offer us from modern times. Core samples taken off the coastline show river sediments, (interestingly, just where the old maps show there were rivers) that give a time of around 7,000BCE when the rivers were flowing and carrying life sediments into the sea. The implication is that for a considerable period, at least that part of Antarctica was ice free.

But, and it’s a big but, that means someone in 7,000BCE was around with the skills to navigate the treacherous Southern Ocean and the society behind them capable of building vessels capable of surviving the trip PLUS having been around long enough to develop the various parts of knowledge needed to map accurately, to determine accurate latitude and longitude and, more significantly, the mathematics to transcribe global maps to a flat plane, as that is precisely what the 15th century maps show.

By: Seeker
If we have evidence of prior civilizations, what happened? How could we reach such pinnacles and fall back into the dark? Why do the mystics tell us of times when we were much more than we now are, when we knew and could do things that sound, to we sophisticates in the modern societies, like made up fantasies?

One thing the Ancients knew about that is indisputable is the Precession of the Equinoxes. Now it isn’t impossible to notice how, on a given day of the year, the constellations appear to move slightly in the sky. Across the lifetime of a modern man, a constellation will move about 1º ‘backwards as compared to the way Earth’s rotation and orbit make it seem to move.

Over many centuries, the movement is obvious – Christ was born around the time the constellation in the East just before dawn on the vernal (Spring) equinox was changing from Ares to Pisces. Currently we are changing from Pisces to Aquarius.

But there comes a number of questions – 1º is not a large movement to notice across seventy years. According to our view of history as taught conventionally, the ravages of life in ancient times meant short life spans. So it would take quite a number of lives before the apparent movement could be large enough to notice. Also the complete cycle is over 25,000 years long; conventional history says we only kicked off civilization about 7,000 years ago.

The questions are, how did the ancients find out and accurately map the Precession? Why did they find it so important they incorporated it into myth and stone?

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
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
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Edward de Bono & others talk about Mind as a different thing to brain. A nice quote is ‘Minds are what Brains do’ & while we can MRI brains to see what parts get activated in a range of events, what we can’t seem to find is where the actual memories are stored.

But if memory is a construct held within a holographic field that is formed by the cellular activity of the brain, it opens up the field for a lot of new approaches to how we work.

The universe is huge and tiny, a complexity that has occupied the best minds for entire lives. But the universe is, at base, information. In this universe, the densest level of information is at the event horizon - and the event horizon is described by area, not volume ie. 2D not 3D.

So, while Science is important, to me so too is spirituality. Please, nobody respond with religious arguments or accusations. By spirituality I mean finding out about the part of us that doesn’t (so far) admit to investigation using the tools of science. Psychology is behavioural. Psychiatry is modifying behaviour, (usually with drugs) but if psychology had answers, we would be in a better society, we’d be able to tell which of our children are going to take a gun into a school, and the wholesale escapism of society into alcohol, drugs, religion and rage would be getting dealt with as it happens.

By: Seeker

It matters how we see things - different frequencies change what we see. It matters how we live our lives, the things we deem important & the things we abhor - it shapes the world we see.

This seems to me to be indicative of something about the universe - and a variety of science viewpoints seem to point the same way.

Biology has a problem with cells - ask the average Joe about cells & likely he will tell you that cells are run by DNA. Effectively, he is saying DNA makes cell decisions. This turns out not to be the case.

Cells react to outside stimuli. Normally it is a molecule or chemical that ‘provokes’ the cell membrane. If it is the ‘right’ one, the membrane reacts, either by passing the molecule inside or by causing a reaction through the membrane into the interior. This then causes the cell to go to work - cells produce & manipulate proteins & DNA is the ‘pattern’ from which the proteins are made.

That’s not the problem. The problem is ALL cells work this way. So, from where comes the initial impulse? If no cell ever actually initiates an action, what does?

Well, another thing affects cells - fields. But fields open up a whole new area to try to deal with - go check it out for yourself - suffice it to say here, some biologists are starting to think that the ’self’ is a field that exists outside the body. some of the evidence they look at is coming from the transplant areas. People are recording alterations to behaviour & thought when they get new parts.

By Seeker
We need to study and understand the cosmoi (my invented plural of cosmos) beacuse that is the purpose visited on us by the Creator - the original Consciousness. I think, looking at who we are, what turns us on (before society messes us over) & looking at Life around me, that the Game we are in is to learn, to turn experience into Knowledge, and either at end-of-life or at some point in the future, pass the Knowledge back to the reformed Originator.

But does the Christian, Jewish or Muslim (or other) God exist? I don’t think so. I’m agnostic but the gods I see described are pale wraiths with all-too-human frailties and a variety of psychological impediments - to me they are purely human inventions and knowledge of them (or the back-stories of them) have been turned into manipulative narratives to control population for the benefit of the few at the top.

Is there Intelligent Design? I think, ultimately, yes. But I think it was a result of initial conditions - the Multidimensional ‘I’ who began it all fragmented into smaller units to go explore Self. The Cosmos is being designed on the fly, so to speak, by the totality of Life, at all the varied dimensional levels that exist between us and the All.

So… can we mess it up? Oh yes, totally. There is nothing specific looking after Humans or the Earth. In my wilder speculations I wonder if the eventual makeup of God, the ‘personality of the Being that Life will become, will be decided by our decisions, by how we react & choose our paths in life. If we all turn into aggressive ‘kill all who don’t believe as I do’ types, will the Universal Being become something that needs to be put down like a rabid dog? Is that the message we keep getting from the mystics about who we should try to be?

By: Seeker
I think, in the beginning, from whatever cause, there came to be Consciousness. Looking at the world around me, the common factor I see is about learning. Bacteria learn, viruses learn, insects, fish, reptiles and mammals all learn. Humans have the best learning ability.

It seems to me that a new consciousness, without relatives, would first be aware of self, then perhaps, aware of not-self. But whether or not there is awareness of not-self, awareness is NOT the same as Knowledge. Knowledge is information that can be applied, that is the result of trying out ideas or testing the information. While Wisdom requires Awareness, Awareness is not Wisdom. Awareness plus Knowledge begets Wisdom.

So how does a lonely, individual Consciousness go about gaining Knowledge? Pretty much as we do. We look, we listen, we model and experiment to try out our concepts. We shape our minds as we go - using Edward de Bono’s concepts we begin with a slightly modified plain. Information ‘rains’ down on the plain, slowly forming terrain with shape.

The more information about a particular thing, the deeper the valley that forms. Sometimes we have a fixed idea & it dams up the rain, preventing us from achieving real knowledge on a subject. Then one day, a new realisation, sometimes totally unrelated, will dislodge the fixed idea & the dam burst. We call this ‘Epiphany’ & it is a sought after state of mind because of the euphoria it brings us.

I think Consciousness is THE Basic, the underlying reason for it all. From what I can understand about Quantum theory, Consciousness is a requirement of Reality - something collapses the probability potentials to establish a constant state. I think maybe something chooses the pattern of collapse. It seems to me this is why our Universe is so suited to us, why the values of the basics are so precisely tuned that this is a hospitable place.

By: Seeker
Our Cosmos is stranger than even most people of fifty years back could imagine. The once widely held view of a stable, infinite universe with neither beginning nor end that existed when Einstein began to think about how things are has crumbled under an onslaught of strangeness.

For a start, the Universe is much bigger than was thought – better instruments have shown us an incredibly complex and vast environment, with energy, matter and structure that belittles the idea that there is only Man in all this vastness.

Many of the things we have thought of to explain all this require more than the three dimensions that were once the entire description of the cosmos. Extra dimensions make things incredibly complex and difficult to visualize and mathematics is sometimes the only language in which things can be expressed.

If we look out into space, we find that it goes on and on, farther than we can see, out for billions of light years and in all that unimaginable distance, there seems to be matter and energy, stars and radiation in numbers that require thirty or more zeroes to write.

When we look down to the smallest scales, we find… nothing! Atoms, once thought to be the indivisible smallness, are simply aggregates of smaller bits such as quarks. It’s is thought that way smaller than those parts of atoms, there are strings – hypothetical bits of probability which perhaps only exist because consciousness perceives them, and which vibrate in and out of our Universe in complex ways.

So where, in all the large vastness and in the tiny smallness, is there room for a God who could be as petty or as vain as that we are told is the one God of All?

By: Seeker
In the histories of many of the early civilizations, they have attempted to establish a connection to the purported writer of this document. Thoth has been called the originator of writing, the holder of all knowledge and the father of civilization, yet reading his story in The Emerald Tablets of Thoth, the Atlantean he makes it clear he was simply a survivor who brought through the cataclysm the knowledge of his race.

No matter what your background, or whatever you believe, take the time to read through the tablets, at least once. Try to leave any prejudices behind and simply let the words flow through you as you read them.

And remember as you read, I have so far been able to uncover anything which denies this story, apart from the assertions of those who hold beliefs and in particular, beliefs that we, the modern civilization, are the highest of all possible societies, that we have had a steady progression of advancement from the cave to skyscraper.

There are many who simply accept that the ‘history’ we have been told throughout our school years is not just true but is solidly backed by fact and documentation. It isn’t. Just take one actual fact – the victors of any battle get to write the history.

This means that anything we see in our modern history is only the story that the winners of any conflict want us to know. Just remember that the losers had their own version. Those who died in Troy probably had their own reasons for refusing the Greeks.

So, given the discoveries going on around the world, the lessons science teaches us about looking at the evidence and the discrepancies between what we are told against what is out there, it isn’t so unusual to wonder if the details of Thoth’s life are not a more real reality than that we’ve been spoon-fed.

By: Seeker

If the document is really what it says it is, our world is a very different place from what we’ve been led to believe. If the writer is who he says he is, the Fall of Man has been both of different nature and a lot further than we could have dreamed.

Sometimes, just deciding whether or not pieces of information are relevant to your path will make your head hurt, but I’ve found that returning to the original document and seeing what it says can help with these times.

Some background… In earlier posts about the Birth of Religion, I brushed across references to earlier times, and the possibility that there was once a thriving civilization, differently valued than ours but at least as competent in technology and possibly far beyond us.

The end of the Ice Age brought cataclysm, not just once but maybe three times. Events where tsunamis hundreds of metres high swamped the lands, when the seas rose virtually overnight and swamped the coastal towns and lands brought down the civilization, then wiped out the attempts to restart and scoured the evidence from the land.

If true and not merely(?) an expression of Truth, the document has been written and passed down to us by a remarkable being, one who survived the Fall and who possessed knowledge to make our ablest sages look like kindergarten children.

If not true and merely(?) an expression of Truth written a long time ago, the document provides thought provoking passages of morality and ethics for us to absorb. It describes the struggle of Light against the Dark, of higher Man against the lower orders.

By: Seeker
In Old Testament times it was bad enough; do the wrong thing and there were punishments and make-up steps to take to get back to being ‘right with God’ but the Christian era brought a whole new level of sin. By twisting the words of Christ around, suddenly you could be sinning simply by having an errant thought.

This makes a nice little corral for the masses. Everyone has a variety of thoughts, nearly all of which are not acted upon. This is particularly true of sexual thoughts. A person sees an attractive member of the opposite sex and genetics thrust forward a thought of sex.

By making sex a sin, the Church managed to make all people guilty. The Original Sin of Adam and Eve has a huge gaping hole in it. To many, being made guilty for something someone did thousands of years ago wasn’t a Christian thing. How could Christianity or other religion preach forgiveness of others when the God of All couldn’t even forgive those who were separated by thousands of years from the acts of the original pair?

So is it Truth that sex is sinful? I sincerely doubt that anyone lined up before the Pearly Gates facing the black book will find an account of their sexuality in there. Compared to destroying entire races, purging any who dared have a differing opinion, enslaving entire populations, giving smallpox blankets to those with no defences, assisting tyrants in their efforts to commit genocide… these are sins. Finding pleasure in natural acts of affection and love would seem to be more on the positive side of the journal than the negative.

So… to me, Religion is abomination. It corrupts and has been corrupted, it kills, mains and tortures in the name of the very principles it is breaking as it does it. Religion convinces people that they, and only they, are right and all others are wrong and if they will not convert to the Truth, they are damned.

Small ‘r’ religion on the other hand is an expression of the highest states of Man; the words used tend to echo in the mind, to spark a stirring in the soul, and to make us wonder if the wonderful possibilities of which we’ve dreamed are actually available in spite of our darkest fears.

By Seeker

Following along from What is Religion? (Part Two) the Universe followed the ‘expanding as gravity slowed it’ process until about five billion years back at which point, for no reason we can discern, it began to accelerate the expansion. Because we have no explanation for why, once again, our math fails to predict what we see around us, we have ‘Dark Energy’ – a strange property of the universe that adjusts things so what we see matches what our theories tell us.

This has become dogma – anyone who tries to query it cannot get peer review because the ‘peers’ refuse to review it. This means they cannot get funding, they commonly lose their jobs, and the nay-sayers (who DO get peer review) get quoted as experts in fields they refuse to research because they ‘know the truth’ of things.

The problem is, and it can be seen in glaring starkness in the Anthropogenic Global Warming (lack of) debate, Science goes missing and what we get is Dogma and Belief masquerading as Truth.

Like Religion, which began as a codifying of Truth into stories that would pass through time, Science has fallen by the wayside as funding, vested interests and ‘authority’ get to determine what we get told. I imagine there were people with knowledge but not position who watched in horror as the Ancients Priests conned the populace into weird practices on the basis that such would lead them to life in Eternity.

It seems the practice of keeping knowledge ‘where it can be understood’ has led us yet again into the realms where wrong belief will allow people to see other beings as ‘alien’ and not simply as an alternative expression of the same life force of which they are formed.

So, again, what is Religion and from where did it come?