Spirituality Guide

By Seeker

If we look at the documented histories of the orthodox religions, it becomes apparent that, particularly in the Judaic religions, but also in others, the message of Truth has been subverted into mechanisms to control the populations of the world.

The mystics, sages and messiahs through the ages have repeatedly told us that salvation, enlightenment or progression from the Wheel of Life are all a personal journey, yet Religion is based now on Authority. The message of Religion, originally so pure in intention, has become corrupted in the pursuit of power and the greed of possession.

But no matter which belief you hold, no matter which is your holy book, no matter who has corrupted ‘The Word’ for their own purposes, the message comes through over and over. In the Stars we can find the Truth. In the monuments left behind to bear mute witness to the glories of entire worlds now forgotten we can find evidence of what they found important.

Over and again we find exact measurements of stars, an impeccable tracking of Time by the medium of measurements of the Precession of the Equinox, by the passage of stars across the sky and by the exactingly careful placement of stones so large our modern world has difficulty lifting them let alone moving them and lining them up so precisely.

In rock walls so carefully fitted you can’t fit a card between the multi-ton rocks to walls of multi-ton rocks measured so exactly true to the meridians we can’t think how they did it, in cities built from scratch with all the basics in place and no evidence of development of the precursor techniques by people of whom we have no knowledge and in ‘impossible’ knowledge such as the Dogon people knowing not just that Sirius was a star but that it has a companion, invisible until very recently, that takes fifty years to orbit the huge star we are shown that the world is not how we see it.

By Seeker

It would seem, if we seek the media and not the messenger, Religion is about finding ourselves, not as mortal bodies in a physical world, but rather seeking the purpose behind who we are. If Graham Hancock sees any Truth, we were, in this chain of history, ‘awakened’ through trance. Somehow in Trance we found new knowledge, new paths and ways of expression that showed us a world beyond this one.

If we look at the physical evidence, the relics and monuments, we see that those who had (as far as we know) few of the technologies we now have, were able to at least equal and in all truth surpass projects of which we are not capable. If we look at the peoples of the past that are only now becoming known, we see people who venerated those who brought knowledge so highly they formed civilizations to provide for the needs of those they called Gods.

If we read our myths, we find stories so fantastic they are treated as legend, yet they seem to tell of the times when the civilizations that built the megalithic monuments, who hauled stones in the hundreds of tonnes across vast distances, and who mapped the world in accurate detail before we think there was a people capable of so doing, fell from their sophistication because of cataclysm.

Over and again the stories are of Flood and Deluge. In our knowledge of Science we now have a process by which these two events can occur and they attach directly to events we know to have happened. The evidence of the passing of the most recent Ice Age is all around us. Go to the shoreline of the sea and you will see such evidence. Ten thousand years ago you could have walked out miles further than you can do now – the sea has risen that much.

So, what is Religion? Well, what it is now for you depends on what your parents believed to be true. Very few people have the strength of mind to stand aside from what they were raised in to view Truth as it might be. But at its root, in the beginning, from all the evidence, Religion appears to have been meant as a means to preserve the knowledge of the Fall… and perhaps a forewarning of what is still to come.

By Seeker

So why are we confronted and confounded in our quest for a better life? Why is Religion, once a force in our lives that drove entire civilizations to magnificent achievements, now a subjugating establishment that will kill rather than provide freedom of belief?

The Church spent the better part of two thousand years persecuting anyone who held even slightly divergent views to what was decreed from Rome. Question the authority of a regime which bled entire nations of their strength and wealth, doubt for a moment the bishops, or worse, the Pope, were truly divine and you would die. Usually horribly.

For centuries, the scriptures were printed only in Latin, a script the average person could not even attempt to read. But you could still be killed outright for failing to fully accept what was said from the pulpit or failing to offer everything you had to those already rich on the gold and blood of the subjugated.

This is not Religion, it is oppression. It has not yet released its hold on Humanity. Today the biggest threat to our personal safety comes from religious institutions and the governments who use the beliefs of the people to justify their personal agendas.

So again, Spirituality is not Religion. There are many people out there, wrapped up in religions, who are wonderful people who do their best to embody the credo of their chosen faith. Unfortunately it is extremely difficult to find leaders of those religions who actually justify the faith of those they are supposed to be shepherding.

Spirituality is personal – the message comes down through the ages, echoed again and again by sages, mystics and spiritual people throughout time. Allowing others to tell you what is spiritual, what is right and real, simply opens one up to manipulation. Billions have died throughout history because they allowed others to decide for them what Truth is.

By Seeker

Were the people of olden times any happier than we are today? (if, that is, you can describe the modern condition as happy) We have no direct evidence of those times, and from the Vedic tales from India, the Pyramid texts from Djoser’s tomb in Egypt, and the later fragments and myths from Sumer, Egypt and other locations, we find that those civilizations fell from three main causes.

1. Disaster. Flood and Deluge mostly. Empires at their height, brought down by ‘the Gods’ for hubris and arrogance.
2. External nations. People dying out or moving away (taken into captivity) because of strife with warlike neighbours
3. God-strife. The ‘Gods’ misbehaving like the worst of spoiled brats, causing internal strife and bringing down their own empires.

Over and again in the historical evidence we find civilizations that came from nowhere, full-blown in skills, lived pretty much as is with little later innovation except for growing in size, then suddenly vanishing from the record with no trace.

Whatever the reasons for the demise, (and it seems often associated with climate change as the Earth warmed and changed after the end of the Ice Age) what we don’t see in the record, with extremely rare exceptions, is the population revolting against their governments.

It is a truism that people get the Government they deserve, but when things get bad enough, recent history has told us the people get up in arms and revolt. What they get may not be much improvement, but they will storm the cannons barehanded if needed to replace what they see as unfair.

The White and Red Russian parties started a bitch-fight to see who would rule Russia and their depredations were so intolerable, the people brought in Communism – yet at the start of the violence, there were maybe 80,000 communists in Russia. It cost 20 million lives but the people got, in spite of what the West saw it as, a better regime than what the Tsar gave them.

So it seems, the people not only didn’t suffer enough to revolt, but they gave wholeheartedly to projects that must have required massive commitment and resources from everyone in the nation or empire. How many of us would give up our TV’s to fund a giant statue, accept a reduced ‘standard of living’ to help George Bush find immortality or even stop buying imports so our country could build a monument to stand down the ages so people knew we had been here?

by Seeker

We have evidence of a civilization that could build megalithic monuments and buildings that defy even modern abilities to duplicate. But in orthodox history, there is no trace of such people.

We have anomalous ruins across the world, built using skills we thought were modern inventions, constructed for unknown purposes. (eg. The major pyramids in Egypt provide literally no evidence they were ever used as tombs; no bodies, no funerary arrangements, and with the exception of some red paint daubs above the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid, currently disputed as forgeries, not one scrap of writing has been found in them)

There are scores, or hundreds, of myths and creation stories that tell of a world disaster, commonly a flood and deluge, that destroyed the previous world and reduced man to savagery. A savagery that ended when strangers came from the sea, with (usually) knowledge, powers and seeds, to rebuild a civilized world using the local tribe as a nucleus.

Now that we can go beneath the waves, we are finding more and more ruins, megaliths and structures, once again without any ‘normal’ historic explanation, that have to have been there for ten thousand years or more.

And all the stories, the myths and mystics, as well as what we can decipher of the lives led by those back at the purported dawn of civilization, point to the importance of a spiritual existence, of following a life that leads, not to increased possessions and money, but towards growth into immortality.

From the earliest times, painted in primal colours on cold rock walls, a spiritual theme has shown up. Among the very first messages to come from the dawn of sapience are those dealing with a world beyond, a world that extends and makes sense of the one we see around us.

The buildings, the temples, the reverence for the patterns of nature and the awe at the existence of Consciousness have all been pointed to the Immortality of Beingness and highlighted the shallowness of the purely material.

We look around us at a world that glorifies the materialistic, the ‘owning’ of things and the consuming of resources. To view our world, one would think we should be the happiest of peoples – after all, we are the pinnacle of all time, the apex of humanity in all our pride and glory.

Yet, in this age, in these circumstances, it is almost impossible to find people who don’t have an escape from life. Be it alcohols, drugs, rage, TV or handing it all to God in abnegation of self-responsibility, we all find ways to turn away from living our lives to the full. As a race, as a civilization, as individuals, we are quite apparently not happy in our lives.

by Seeker

Some of the new knowledge we have come to from science tells us that the Earth is in flux. The surface of the planet is still recovering from the Ice Age, both in climate and in physical effects. The mass of ice, particularly in the Northern hemisphere, was enormous; when that much water is concentrated in one area, the excess weight can change landscapes, alter the albedo of the planet so that more sunlight is reflected away from the surface, and even press the continental plates down into the magma underneath.

The Antarctic is made up of two islands, something not many people realize, with a channel between them. One island is pressed down below what would be sea level by the ice on it. Were the ice on that island to slip and slide into the ocean, not only would the mass of water alter the sea level rather rapidly, there would be a surge back from the island as the magma below ‘popped’ the dimple back out to the normal surface.

As well as the weight stress on the continental plates, there is the effect of huge masses of ice entering the sea in a very short space of time. For example, recent findings show an increase in liquid water under the ice on the Antarctic islands – it isn’t hard to see this water as a lubricant, allowing the sudden slip of a large mass into the ocean.

Not only would this raise the sea level, a sudden mass slippage would cause a tsunami, the size of which would depend on how much ice moved. There would also be climate change as the fresh water altered currents in the ocean and even changed precipitation rates and distribution.

There’s another effect as well; huge amounts of water can be trapped behind ice masses and when the ice lets go, the water releases all at once. Canada was once almost covered by a large lake held back by an ice dam. When it released, possibly due to an atmospheric air burst of a comet, (of which they are finding traces in excavations across North America) it scoured across the US, entering the Gulf of Mexico in such an amount it altered the salinity enough that the life forms changed from marine to freshwater for a time.

Ice dames are dangerous even today – in India there are often unexpected floods as valleys in the Himalayas, flooded for centuries, suddenly empty as the ice holding them back is swept away.

So, it is certainly feasible that the end of the Ice Age brought about massive cataclysms that altered the world. Even today, most of our civilization lives in the lowlands, close to the sea. Were the sea to rise within a day or so, by (say) twenty metres, how much of our world would change forever?

by Seeker

There is other knowledge that is out of place in Time. We are taught about Pythagoras, and how he came up with Pi, the relationship between the circumference and diameter of a circle, yet we have evidence, set in stone, (literally) that shows others knew of Pi.

We have the incredible accuracy of placement of the Great Pyramid and the other monuments on the Giza Plateau – aligned more accurately to the meridians than we could achieve today. Yes, we have accurate ways to measure such things, but to build such a large structure in multi-tonne blocks of stone and have it align so accurately is a task to quail the finest engineers.

Building at all from blocks weighing into the hundreds of tones is not something we do, nor would it be easily achieved, yet the Osieron and other temples in Egypt are built from such massive blocks. And worse yet for the poor engineers of today – imagine if we told them to go build with blocks weighing more than a hundred tones, coming from up to fifty miles away, using no wheels nor machinery, and they had to do it at a height where just breathing is an effort for most people. Tiahuanaco seems to have had super-human engineers.

Back to maps – Admiral Piri Reis set off exploring with a map which is in a Spanish museum now. It has his note on it proclaiming he copied it from older sources, and it shows the East coast of South America, the Mediterranean, the Atlantic coast of Africa and what has to be the coast of Antarctica.

The problems are – it’s quite accurate in latitude and longitude, in a time two hundred years before an accurate chronometer was devised, (essential to get accurate longitude) it shows coasts not yet visited and it shows Antarctica – yet to be discovered. It’s not alone by any stretch – there are a number of such maps which show, accurately, things they couldn’t, by orthodox history, have known.

There’s even maps which show the coast of Antarctica… without the ice! That’s something we only learned in the 1950’s and 1960’s when we did seismic testing to determine where lay the land under the ice.

So how can all this information come together? Is there a way to make sense of multiple mysteries and contradictions?

by Seeker

A brief overview of things so far…

Mankind seems to have a capacity for accepting that there is more to this universe than just the mundane. That the physical world has a counterpart, or perhaps alternate, reality alongside or at the base of what we can see, feel, hear, smell and taste.

We have literally no evidence that there is a ‘solid’ reality out there as everything we know, we know via little electric impulses that activate our brains and inform our minds.

Science teaches us there isn’t such a thing as a ‘solid’ world – at the smallest scales we are hard put to find anything at all, let alone anything solid.

Awareness or Consciousness seems to be integral to Reality.

The spiritual awareness of Man goes back to the very first records we have, the cave paintings and has been present all through our history, yet the start of it is lost in the mists of time.

There are puzzles about our history which are difficult to reconcile with the idea that Man’s progression has been an ongoing steady improvement from caveman to nightclub man. These include the suddenness with which ‘civilisation’ appeared on the scene after Man settled down from the hunter-gatherer life, the common ‘disaster’ themes from around the world, the megalithic buildings and monuments left scattered on both land and sea and the anachronistic knowledge we find from the past.

I can hear you asking… what anachronistic knowledge? It turns out there’s quite a lot, but let’s start with one that everybody knows. According to what we were taught in school, Christopher Columbus proved the world to be a ball by sailing to America. Of course, he supposedly wasn’t aiming for America, nor did he actually find it. He thought he was going to the Orient to find a new spice route, and what he found were the islands off the mainland.

But Chris didn’t just sail off into the briny West; he was using maps. And interestingly, when you delve into the maps that were in use by the sailors of that time, a number of them were maps of a globe mapped flat… our Atlases use a Mercator projection to do this, but there are other ways.

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As one looks into the past, over and over we find ‘religious’ views. The Ancients were like you and I, pragmatic people, quite capable of reasoning, (even if a lot of us don’t now indulge in the practice) and oriented towards survival. Why would they hold things spiritual so close to their lives? Was it really just a need for a security blanket or a wish to believe in fairy tales?

In the bible we have some rather mysterious stories – the Old Testament contains things that don’t sit easily within the Christian churches. We have people living for hundreds of years – Noah was supposed to be six hundred years old when he started to build the ark. There are giants, and strange beings who come down to Earth and find human women attractive and breed with them. And there’s the flood.

There’s a problem about the Flood – several actually. One is that there’s no evidence that, around the time Noah was supposed to be extant, there was anything like a flood that could be considered big enough to wipe out the known world – and let’s leave out the idea it was the whole physical world.

There is however, evidence of at least one flood and deluge event, and fairly good evidence of more, but the timing is wrong. These floods predate even the Sumerians – we’re talking about events that occurred because of the ending of the last Ice Age.

Another problem is that, across the world, many cultures talk about a flood and deluge event. For all of them it seems to have been a pivotal time. They tell in myth and history of how their civilization got its start after the Flood. Over and again there is a tale of strangers coming from the sea, teaching them the rudiments (and sometimes more) of how to live in a civilized way, and then leaving – usually back to the sea.

If the Noah story is so unique to the bible, (after all, God wiped out all mankind because of the evil in Men) then why do we find essentially the same story across the world? And in tribes and nations which have had literally no connection with the Middle East as far as we can show? And in tribes and nations which clearly predate that of the Hebrews?

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When we reach down into the tiniest things of the universe, into realms that even the math says are the tiniest things possible, it is natural to be uncertain as to the reality of what we imagine. Strings are so tiny, there is not only no experiment to verify them, we haven’t yet thought of a possible experiment that could work.

One of the finest ‘microscopes’ we have is the electron microscope; it streams electrons at things and we ‘read’ the results on a screen. Streaming electrons at a string is like trying to identify a piece of wool by throwing Jupiter size planets at it. Only worse.

But the theory says if strings are there, they vibrate. In their vibration they create the particles of which we have evidence. The ancients and mystics have talked for millennia of the Song of the Universe and it appears they may have known more than we give credit for. The orchestra is all of the cosmos, the players every piece of mass and energy, the score is mathematics and the music is the combination and interaction across time and space that produces Consciousness.

It may be that our task, as Conscious beings, is to simply appreciate the symphony of creation, to be the audience to an orchestra beyond the wildest imaginations of Beethoven and Bach. Or it may also be that we are here to bring harmony into the Sounds of Chaos, to so order our lives and our paths that we impose scale and beauty on what might otherwise be chaotic dissonance.

Another facet that the Theory of Strings http://www.superstringtheory.com/ brings up is it still doesn’t have a built-in description of awareness. In fact, in Quantum theory, awareness seems to be a required part of the schema; a necessary part of collapsing the probability matrix that is the quantum potential into a settled ‘state’ that then makes up our universe.

The past, like the future, is what we make of it. However, what we make of it is applied different ways. In both, there are circumstances beyond our control which have influenced or will influence our lives. That is a given. However:

In terms of the past, ‘what we make of it’ can be taken as we either learn the lessons and take the knowledge, or we simply repeat what has likely been repeated by those who came before us.

In terms of the future, ‘what we make of it’ can be interpreted in a more expansive way. What we make of it, while still being subject to outside forces, the future can still be shaped in one way or another. Even in the cyclical time beliefs, there are still only overall prophecies that come to pass, not absolutes for every individual. Perhaps there are times of strife ahead, but you can shape your personal future by saving, learning, and preparing as much as you can.

But what is the point of all this? Why not just live for today and forget what the past and the future are all about?

Well, doing that is certainly a personal choice and I won’t fault anyone for deciding to do that. However, I choose to believe that both the past and the future, no matter how you choose to interpret time, have things to teach us. Those valuable lessons are there for the taking, so I choose to take.

How about you?