The spiritual path is the path of the ordinary hero, and it sees the world very differently to the outlook that is promoted by pure science. The entire spiritual journey is one in which the individual learns by degrees to see and read the world as an all-nurturing miracle of guidance in which we have a role as co-creators. It is a path that teaches us – deeply, deeply teaches us – that the state of no effort is our greatest strength, for it is also the seamlessly integrated state of Being that enables us to harmonize with the strength of the world. Eventually that teaching leads us to the understanding that the world itself is enlightened; to join the world is to die to the endarkened ego and give yourself to the supreme light of intelligence all around you. Enlightenment is not something any individual can possess, any more than someone could possess the Logos or Buddha consciousness. Spiritual enlightenment in an individual is nurtured by a profound dissolution of the anxiety that separates us from the world, so that we can at last join it, seeing and understanding “the real as the play and work of love”, as Andrew Harvey put it.
To join the enlightened world is to awaken to a place of ceaseless renewal and revelation; a place of companionship in which you are fully known in everything you do, even as you sensationally discover and serve the world in everything you do; a place in which alienation and existential isolation are seen to be creaky illusions, because in fact you know yourself to be an indivisible part of all Being, intimately and companionably sustained by it; a place in which endless gifts arise from the deep mystery that suffuses everything ordinary.
In the ancient mythological world of Greece there existed a Thessalian tribe of chimeric kentauroi, or centaurs -creatures who were half human and half horse. They were generally a savage and untamable lot, but one among them, Chiron, son of the Titan Cronus, was exalted and recognized as having special status as possessing insight, knowledge and wisdom. The wisest and most just of all centaurs, he was also known to be a skilled healer of remarkable ability and was sought as a physician and teacher of the medical arts by the likes of Heracles, Achilles and Asclepius. Chiron is specifically known for a severe injury he received whilst in battle with Heracles where he was accidentally shot with a poisoned arrow. For mere mortals the poison, coming as it did from the Hydra, meant certain and immediate death. However, being the spawn of a Titan meant he was an immortal. So Chiron was condemned to live on, though having to endure the incessant agony of his unhealable injury. He is still recognized to this day in Western astrological systems and he symbolizes the archetype of the ‘wounded healer’.
I doubt that there is a single gifted healer who is truly called to the healing path who cannot identify with this motif. Indeed, as healers we are called upon with a unique urgency to find our own journey of self-inquiry through seeking and addressing the deepest wounds we have received, both in this life as well as previous ones. Not only do we discover a most profound type of intimacy with ourselves but we also come into contact with the very root of what it means to be wounded, to be abused or broken by this path of being human; and by doing so we also touch upon the meaning and fragility of mortality. As with Chiron, it also brings us to the heart of an existential dilemma…
Ultimately, one who attains spiritual liberation heals the deepest wounds of all.
Accessing and working with our own wounds gives us a self-knowledge that is primarily experiential and it provides a number of significant effects. One is that we have the opportunity to come to know the nature of illness or disease at the vibrational/intuitive level which gives us a kind of sensing that aids and supports assessing medical conditions that may otherwise only be done through rational or suppositional thought processes. Without the ability to ‘feel’ the disease, knowledge becomes theoretical and abstract. It may well be effective but it is nonetheless superficial. Another effect is that as we come to appreciate the vulnerability of being alive, we thereby have the opportunity to develop profound compassion for others who are being challenged on their own healing path. Without the ability to identify as self with a client (either quite literally or at the very least, by extension) we run the risk of mere objectification. Therefore, the effect we may have on those we seek to help will again be at the surface, as if simply treating and abating symptoms is sufficient.
Furthermore, there is a kind of angst that is innate to existence and most people go through their entire lives avoiding it or, worse, never becoming aware if it in the first place, such is the degree of ignorance and distraction within which we find ourselves -these so-called modern times. Our ability to know ourselves is based in that organ of reflexive self-awareness and expression, which here we will provisionally call an ego. The ability to know the difference between I and you is central to the function of the ego. Furthermore, the ego is also the way by which we express agency and thereby map and plan out our course through life. But the marriage of this awareness and the ability to make abstractions about the future comes at a terrible cost -that, ultimately, is the knowledge of mortality and death. Having no mere insignificant vested interest in self-preservation the ego positions itself in such a way as to model and predict life so as to optimize survival while at the same time adroitly side-stepping having to come to terms with the the ultimate wound; the inevitability of death. For the ego the possibilities boil down to ending tenure in annihilation, insanity, or death. Since none of these are acceptable options the ego will forever avoid them (often nonchalantly, the master magician and past master of misdirection)… sometimes aggressively (through addictions or other forms of obsessive-compulsive behaviors). All the while our avoidance mechanisms sweep a compounding anxiety of that inevitable fate underneath the proverbial rug.
Central to the Mahayanist Buddha Dharma is the notion of the Bodhisattva -a being who forsakes his or her own ultimate emancipation in order to be of compassionate service to others, ultimately to the point of forestalling complete enlightenment until all other beings are themselves enlightened. From the Buddhist perspective, the very nature of being embodied in a material dimension entails ‘struggle’ and is therefore a realm where suffering is intrinsic to existing. Chiron’s unhealable injury can be seen metaphorically as the suffering endemic to human life. In Chiron’s case, this struggle is made even worse for he is the master healer who is possessed of an intractable malady. The agony of his wound is inseparable with his existence, compounded by the fact that, despite his mastery as a physician, as an immortal his fate was apparently cast to suffer without end. For us normal people this predicament appears outrageous indeed, yet as mortals we all face our individual (sometime collective) poisoned arrows. Life crushing illness is a reality for many. There are numerous pathologies such as trigeminal neuralgia (known as the ’suicide disease’), TMJ, burn victims, and untreatable cancers which cause unimaginable pain, and from which death is a welcome release.
One of lessons embedded in Chiron’s archetype is that there is no excuse for not taking our art to the highest levels. At the same time we should not overlook that Chiron finally resolved his predicament and chose to forsake his immortality. Zeus honored him and placed him amongst the stars as the constellation Centarus, or Sagittarius as we call it today. Seeing that kind of beauty interwoven with tragedy is germane to the Greek way of seeing life. We all have potential to master and share great gifts, yet there are are limits to what we can not only do but, ultimately, endure. How that plays out is up to us, each to their relative capacity to perceive, understand, serve, endure and ultimately transcend. These processes of self-exploration can be honed to a fine edge through the Buddhist heuristic. Through the Dharma, the existential dilemma resolves in the now, and this brings us to the notion of addressing the deepest wounds of all: being confronted with insanity, annihilation, or the purity of the destruction of death. Not every client interaction is life and death, but spend enough time in service and you will inevitably come face to face with the most challenging issues of being alive. The depth and degree of how you address your own challenges will determine your capacity to be of genuine service to others. Ultimately, one who attains spiritual liberation heals the deepest wounds of all. Chiron transcended his dilemma through death. But if, like the Buddha, such a being were able to do so and still walk the Earth, that healing would be spread out like ripples over a vast ocean of space and time, ultimately touching and easing the suffering of uncountable others. May it be so.
“It’s important to be clear and honest here: by its very nature, shadow work is not fun or pretty. It takes courage and fortitude to see parts of our being that are not as we wish then to be, and that mess with our self image. It takes enormous resilience and dedication to transform these parts of ourselves into something healthy and beneficial. And once we decide to meet the shadow’s darkness, it inevitably moves toward greater and greater light.
The energies locked in the shadow elements now get released and can be directed toward supporting transfiguration through integration. This is both beautiful and exciting. Significantly, it is also the beginning of the end of suffering.”
-from Wasteland to Pureland; Reflections on the Path of Awakening [D. Duncan/C. Pawasarat]
The days here in British Columbia and exquisitely long and getting hotter as summer is getting its stride. We are at the turning point and orient ourselves at that place in the celestial cycle where the light far outshines the dark and we celebrate in the glorious riches the sun showers over the entire world. Celebrating with this marvelous crystal mandala we created using huge quartz Light generators spread over a two meter table and covered in many other precious stones and marvelous flowers. We give thanks for this time. May all the beings who look upon this creation be blessed and find clarity, joy and purpose. May it cleanse your mind and brighten your soul. may all beings share in the bounty of extraordinary riches. EH MA HOH!!!
After doing up-wards of one thousand iterations of logo designs I finally narrowed it down to a few, and finally to the present design. It obviously needed the standard utility functions of a logo, but also I needed it to incorporate a number of visual/conceptual notions within its meta.
Like mandalas based on sacred geometry the center point is the bindu, focal point/particle which functions as the infinitesimal portal to and from the Ultimate Source. Emanating from that is the cosmic web, the skein of interconnected and interpenetrating gross, subtle and mysterious phenomena that form Indra’s net, the holographic multiverse and dream catcher that was sung into existence at the time of the Great Singing.
The circle around that connotes the transition between discrete phase-shifts. In the next dimension of the expansion we find the nine-based nodal structure, a la Nikola Tesla’s admonition to seek the mysteries of the universe within the numbers 3, 6, and 9. Three is the sacred trinity, Norse triskelion, and the Daoist cosmological polarity (plus neutrality). Six is the base of the Seed of Life and the root progression of Sacred Geometry… but nine -now there is a mystery. The outer pattern shifts back and forth between winding DNA strands (the code of all Life as we know it) and the super-symmetrical lobes of a Peyote cactus. Each strand terminates as an unbounded extension into the meta. This is symbolic of the open-ended potential of an infinitely creative system that is self-organizing, self-reflective and hyper-conscious.
This logo, the symbol of my life’s work, is consecrated with compassionate benedictions and the sincere wish that all beings are lead along the path of understanding, wisdom and ultimate liberation. I pray that it spreads far and wide within the collective, working on the gross, subtle and mysterious levels to heal, inspire and awaken all beings.
Humans began their technological hybridization at the dawn of the paleolithic era with cultural innovations such as simple tools and the harnessing of both fire and language -much in the same way that we see chimpanzees and other primates doing now. Fast forward to humans as Earth’s dominant super-species: breaking out of the gravitational lock on our global civilization, peering into the furthest reaches of the cosmos to see the echos of the Big Bang, mapping out the quantum landscape at the foundations of matter/energy, linking every part of the globe with land and space-based IT webs, galloping into the realms of virtual reality and hyper-computing with blisteringly fast computational data centers that clock in at hundreds of teraflops a second and… (the holy grail of transhuman evolution) sashaying through the AI Turing Test turnstiles with scarcely an over-the-shoulder glance.
“Robots with biological brains and biological bodies with digital devices already exist, as do human-computer and brain-machine interfaces.”
I remember well my paternal Grandmother (born a stretch before radio and airplanes) struggling to cope with such advanced forms of tech as a TV remote. Not wishing to become a technological outcast, I am doing my best to buttress my mind against the tsunami that is presently crashing over our collective heads in the form of tech and AI advancements. A peek into the Canadian government’s uber-creepy attempt to normalize the globalist agenda of turning us all into cyborgs gives a drip-feed of clues as to what we might be coping with in the improbable future that is unfolding before us in this very moment [https://horizons.gc.ca/en/2020/02/11/exploring-biodigital-convergence/]
If you happen to be curious go to the section titled:
Full physical integration of biological and digital entities “Digital technology can be embedded in organisms, and biological components can exist as parts of digital technologies. The physical meshing, manipulating, and merging of the biological and digital are creating new hybrid forms of life and technology, each functioning in the tangible world, often with heightened capabilities. Robots with biological brains and biological bodies with digital brains already exist, as do human-computer and brain-machine interfaces. The medical use of digital devices in humans, as well as digitally manipulated insects such as drone dragonflies and surveillance locusts, are examples of digital technology being combined with biological entities. By tapping into the nervous system and manipulating neurons, tech can be added to an organism to alter its function and purpose. New human bodies and new senses of identity could arise as the convergence continues.”
Chances are that you have completely adapted to living life enmeshed with the passive AI nodes we benignly call cell phones. One or two more generations of Siri and Alexa (fours years…. tops) and you will be having a primary relationship with the training-wheels version of AI the tech overlords begrudgingly allow you access to (I will put good money on that many people now are in primary relationships with virtual AI agents and don’t even know it). How long after that until we loose the clunky and cumbersome bricks we call phones in exchange for an easily implantable up-grade (that comes with a discount early-subscription offer… and a ten thousand page ‘terms and conditions’ contract [click here to agree])? The domains already forged within virtual on-line games span entire galaxies. Neural-link enhanced brains will operate at computational speeds a million times faster than the old-fashioned homegrown version, and kids (living in timeframes that dwarf biology) may well live simulated lifespans in the thousands of years. What on Earth will you have in common with these beings?
Kubrik/Clarke’s Dave Bowman ends up living out his biological sentence as a zoo specimine, only to be re-born as a ‘Starchild’. In Spielberg’s AI, David suffers a similar fate when he manages to survive beyond the next ice-age to be resurrected by the successive race of anthropological mechano-bioids. These scenarios, though seemingly taken to the extreme, may not be so implausible given what we can do even today. So, what’s your call: specimen or spectator? How will you handle the re-defining of ‘humanity‘? If we as a species are having such a hard time dealing with such prosaic issues as the differences in race and culture, what will it be like to grapple with a meta that has introduced transhuman X-Men and extraterrestrials onto the gameboard?
The locus of what we perceive and the assembly point of how we create our experience and formulate reality is at the center of perception, that place where your awareness merges with the internal stream of thoughts and mindstuff that continually bubbles into existence. When we trace our thoughts and awareness back to that Sourcepoint we approach the nexus of our infinite creativity, that which we refer to when we say that we are made in the Image of the Creator. And because the Creator is Infinite, we too are infinitely creative. Finding and orienting to that assembly point brings us to the face of the primordial mind.
…because the Creator is infinite, we too are infinitely creative.
This crystal healing grid is composed of selenite, quartz, malachite, appetite, pyrite, tourmaline and other sacred geometry enhancers all focused on a quadpartite arrangement allowing us to ground into the fundamental stability of original mind. Through cleansing and purification we quiet an anxious mind and allow a peaceful consciousness to blossom. It is from this state that we can effectively explore the true nature of our minds and the ultimate ground of our reality.
We built this crystal healing grid on our last visit to Mt. Shasta in California. It was truly a magical journey with loved ones and filled with the adventure of discovery. Shasta is a remarkable hotspot of geomagnetic fluxlines, an ideal place to go for clearing many levels of unfinished karma, inspiration/insight, healing, and for connecting up with angelic guidance and Divine Presence.
Ever wonder how to easily and effectively increase the positive healing energy of a space? I have been working with crystals, holy objects and sacred geometries for many years and am constantly building, inventing and manifesting crystal grids for doing just that. It’s easy to get started if you are new to it as well. You already have some cool things that speak to you so create an altar and pay a little attention to it every day. You will be amazed at what happens over time!
Holographic Flower of Life with Herkimer Diamond, pyrite pyramid, and Lemurian shards.
As you go through your daily life, have you ever noticed a reoccurring image, pattern or number? Some people, like me, see the number 11:11 (sometimes 111, or variations thereof) at often ridiculous frequency. Some may chock it up to the brain just doing it’s own thing. Admittedly, our brains are evolutionarily crafted pattern-recognizers. So it does make sense that if we see and then pay attention to a particular pattern (regardless of it’s relevance to survival) then the mind/brain system keys into it and increases sensitivity awareness, thus making it more likely that we will notice said pattern in the future. The more these neural pathways are exercised then it makes sense that we will activate those stimulus/response functions again and again.
But I did say that my awareness of 11:11 began to seem ‘ridiculous’. Initially I saw it on digital clocks since that was the most obvious and common place for that number sequence to occur. Then it was happening in what seemed way more than then random events, especially when I compared it to any other number sequence that I would see on a clock. I mean, it is kind of cool, being super-symmetrical and all. But after a while that number was showing up elsewhere: plane tickets, movie seat assignments, hotel rooms… eleven-eleven (or it’s variant one-eleven). We know that the function of seeing an object and consciously recognizing it as discrete from it’s background (field) is a primary function of the so-called left brain. But the right brain is working almost a hundred times as hard in paying attention to the field and doing the heavy lifting of collating and filtering information that may or may not be useful -though as far as the right brain is concerned, it’s all useful. Could the right brain be participating as a super-power in pulling environmental data into awareness?, even for seemingly trivial phenomena as apparently ‘random’ number sequences?
…not only is the true ‘I’ more of an ‘us’, but also that it is smeared out across multiple dimensions of both time and space… space and time.
This is where we begin to tip-toe into the world of woo… for instance, how could the right brain know that the information you were looking for was going to be on page 111, or that a life-changing event would happen on January eleventh? At some point we have to abandon mere statistical probability and brush shoulders with the likes of Jung. The collective unconscious has gone from fringe idea to theory, and now a science used in nudging and coaxing the drift of billions of minds that are feverishly participating in our toddler-stage Internet. It is also vogue to speak in terms of ‘the observer determining the results of an experiment simply through the act of observing’. In the world of woo we need grapple with the idea that our minds are indeed powerful enough to manifest phenomena ‘out of thin air’, or so it may seem.
For the initiated, it is quite obvious that time is not a constant. It is a fluid, inseparably enfolded into the skein of the substrate field where apparent things continuously arise and pass away. Further the discrete perception of an ‘I’ persistently manifesting locally and sequentially is an illusion, for not only is the true ‘I’ more of an ‘us’, but also that us is smeared out across multiple dimensions of both time and space…. space and time. From this perspective we exist as much in the future as in a now -and for the followers of this peculiar philosophy our future selves can communicate with and even direct the discrete self we are experiencing, the notional/functional self in a relative now. 11:11 is a wake-up alarm we have set for ourselves in the future, an impulse that is running backward in the timescape. It is a message in a timebottle that we tossed into the great ocean of the ever-becoming with the prayer that we awaken swiftly and with resolve. How does that feel to you? Do you love yourself enough to tenderly write a love letter to your past self and send it off to the pre-post office? Wake up!
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