Forever Consciousness Series -- Part 1 -- Prison Planet Earth

Most of you probably already know all this at a better level than I do so I apologize if you find this worthless and uninteresting. I promise you the next episodes on Experiences and Solutions will be much more to your liking. Nevertheless, I hope you will find something of value here and it will at least prove to be a refresher, reminder or something thought-provoking..

Our original Itinerary of Episodes finished with: Religion, Experiences (NDEs, OBEs, LBLs, PBEs, PLRegressions, UFOs. etc) then SOLUTIONS

Gaud: "A trick, prank; often, a device to deceive, a piece of trickery, a pretence; also a game, sport, or pastime." -- Oxford Dictionary **

"Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich." -- Napolean

INTRO

It is often said religions are put in place by the elite to maintain power and control over the masses. But there are some good things in religion too and what I am doing is trying to synthesize the accuracies and refine the inaccuracies. Some religions are dualistic with a good god and an evil devil with demons, jinn etc. Gnosticism, for instance, continued that but had different labels as to who was good and who was evil. Other religions emphasized the nonduality part.

By the way, I am not an expert on these religions nor do I claim to be. This is not meant to be an all-exhaustive end-all be-all expose on religion. It is obviously such a huge labyrinth of teachings and involving many cultures' mythologies, religions, philosophies and beliefs which, unfortunately, are bound to include superstition, bias, propaganda and lies. Trying to unravel the truth from the untruth is nearly impossible and not possible for me to do. I am still very much learning and in most cases am only touching upon the superficial surface of some. This is very much a work in progress.

I just want to add that is extremely difficult to put notes together for theories like this without forgetting and leaving out key points or phrasing things perfectly which opens one up to attack and accusations of having ulterior motives. Of course I am concerned about my image. In this day and age of cancel culture and the typical mindset of kill the messenger if someone disagrees or I didn't get the full picture of a very huge puzzle perfectly correct, well let's just say there are some crazy people out there with crazy thoughts. It requires a lot of energy to do this as you know and when someone attacks me personally for superficial reasons, it makes it extremely difficult to finish the work. I guess it just goes with the territory.

People expect you to say exactly what they want to hear within a timeframe when they want to hear it, and if they don't hear you talk about their pet theory whether it is flat earth or veganism or aliens or Jesus, or whatever the case may be, then you are immediately accused of being a shill or labeled as satanic or whatever other words come to their mind. And, of course, it hurts when I have devoted most of my life and free time and energy to sharing what I have found -- all entirely free I might add -- I don't even have a book to sell -- or a patreon or donate button. I do it because I want to help others and fix the problem. I don't mind if someone has a difference of opinion but to personally or superficially attack someone saying they are annoying, need a better hairstyle, are uninteresting or whatever other cheap shots they want to take, is just plain mean.

I think it is worth mentioning, it is not my intent to push any of these religions or belief systems onto anyone. I do not consider myself a member of any religion, but rather, formulate my own unique loosely held leanings which I am constantly analyzing and re-evaluating.

It is also not my intent to offend anyone who happens to subscribe to one of these religions or belief systems. After all, I myself once upon a time have subscribed to a few of these. I adopt parts that make sense to me and that my INTUITION feels is correct and I discard or deemphasize the other parts. You can call that cherry picking if you like, I don't care. But I don't think anyone or any one religion contains the entire truth. In fact, I think most near death experiencers come back less religious and more spiritual.

I think any religion or belief system, including the matrix or so called soul trap theory -- which incidentally might be better served being called the Sovereign Spirit theory, should be strong enough to withstand scrutiny. I am constantly evaluating the theory and continue to do so. I am not dogmatic or so adamant in my belief system because I think we have to be very careful because belief systems are like prisons for the mind and will shape our intentions at death which may seem at the time like it is automated or something bigger is taking control, but it may just be the core of our being and whatever the heart's desires, mind's belief system is or will to do is. And all that is reinforced into our subconscious over a lifetime by our thoughts, choices and actions.

It may seem like I am constantly changing my mind about the validity and importance of various subjects. For instance, I made a list of about 50 themes in NDEs. I am not saying all those things happen to every person. And just because I show some experiences where there were aliens, I am not necessarily saying aliens are involved. I am just pointing out that there is a certain number of NDEs where aliens are seen. Do not project onto me that I am advocating this belief. Likewise, there is an NDE where the experiencer was told noone who is a meateater can stay in heaven, or something along those lines. I am not saying that if you eat meat, you can't exit the matrix or whatever you want to call it. It is up to each individual to interpret the data. I am trying to give some balance to everything. Balance and moderation is very important. That was the whole reason for me starting the web site in the first place. Everyone was saying to to the light. It's wonderful and I was just saying, let's look at the data. In those sections, I often present both or all sides of a phenomenon. Like the void, for example, I don't just show void experiences that are positive. I also include negative ones. In fact, I have a page which includes every single instance I could find of a void experience, good or bad. I also talk show cases where angels were encountered or Jesus. But I also include ones where perhaps some confusion or deception was present like the one where the NDER asked are you really the virgin mary before the entity showed its true presence. I also don't exclude passages where someone is saying how wonderful the light is. But obviously, those accounts are all over the place so I may emphasize accounts that have inconsistencies and contradictions.

Likewise, not everyone in our community is saying don't go to the light. Well, you better be very sure that is the choice you want to make. Are we really sure everyone who goes to the light and says it is wonderful is wrong? Plus, we need to have an exit strategy and a plan. It would be a good idea to know what it is we wish to manifest if we don't go to the light. We will look at some of these things in the Solutions episode.

I frequently say I DO NOT KNOW what happens after death nor do I pretend to know. I am just making educated guesses using evidence and my intuition. I could be wrong about some or all the parts. The truth is like a humongous jigsaw puzzle to piece together and many of the pieces may be missing and others may not be the original pieces. And all we can do is try to put the pieces back together again and RE-MEMBER what the original source picture looked like from memory.

I often think it is virtually worthless for me to come on shows like this because I will often say "I don't know." And it seems people want to be told what the truth is and are often times too lazy to search for it themselves. They want everything spoon fed to them. Well, everyone has to do their own research and make up their own mind as to what they believe.

No explanation is completely satisfactory to me. But as we go through these religions or belief systems one by one, some are known for telling the follower that they are inferior to the gods (and perhaps that's the case if we are the thoughts of god or just a part of god, I don't know), but other ones try to get the person to recognize their own Sovereignty. After all, as I've said in the past, the biggest Eastern religions teach karma and that we need to keep coming back until we are perfect or have bruned off all ouur karma which is pretty difficult to do in this place. They can always point out some event in your life that they say you could have handled better when, infact, we were incited into doing it. Or the western religions where you are born as a hopeless sinner in need of salvation and to let someone else do that for you if you just give your heart and soul to them. And then they tell you will meet your maker when you die and be judged or if you have given your heart and soul and accepted someone else to pay for your sins, then you could be easily manipulated into coming back by that entity if they asked you to do so. It is giving away your power to an external source of authority when, according to near death experiencers, we are light ourselves and have the power to manifest reality via Intention. It could be due to a consensus reality that we are co-creators in and if the majority decide that you are a danger to the rest, perhaps they try to gang up on you until you can play better with others, I don't know. Or, if this is all just an arising from our individual Awareness, then we have the ability to decide for ourselves and would be foolish to listen to external projections.

SUMERIAN TEXTS

What if the sumerian texts were propaganda written to make us think we have rulers? Or that the slow buildup to all the shows on aliens etc are?

There is not a lot written in the remaining fragments we have of the ancient Sumerian texts about the origin of the gods, the origin of how everything came into being.

A "retelling" called Before All Befores states, "Before All Befores, there was Nammu, the Sea, She the Origin, Ever flowing Beginning. Nammu was the First, the Source, the Mother of the Universe, the Self-Procreating Womb of Abundance, Alone and All-In-One, Nammu was Primal Matter, the Deep Fertile Waters of the Sea. Before All Befores (for time was yet to be), Nammu revolved and flowed, squeezed, coiled and rushed like a double helix spiral. Love she made for the first time to HerSelf, and she in Pure Joy reveled. Nammu’s waters then opened up: she had given birth to Ki-An, Creation’s first born, She the Mountain, He the Sky.Before all Befores, wrapped around the liquid Body of the Mother, Ki the Mountain, An the Sky held each other close in a most tender embrace. Ki the Mountain, An the Sky lay in each other’s arms before all befores, when An was an empty Sky, Ki a stony earth, laying barren and unfulfilled within Nammu’s fecund body fluid...

Nammu feels and sees everything. She must now create space for her offspring. Under Ki, surrounding Enlil, above An, Nammu arches and stretches, her Watery Form to further Depths she directs. Nammu defines HerSelf as the First Ocean, cradle of other life forms to come. ‘Mine are the Depths reaching out to the Surface’, decrees the Fates Nammu, ‘mine is the Process of Becoming out of Nothing’s embrace. mine is the Nurturing Womb, Life’s first Mystery, mine is the Silence that all Life Created.’ "

And there is a "retelling" of an ancient Sumerian text called Ninhursag's Children that says "Ninhursag-Ki sighed deeply: 'Yes, Enlil, these are your brothers and sisters too, but let them be and follow their own destinies. Learn to see beyond appearances, my firstborn, to reach out for the True Essency, learn to reach out to the Source where yourself came from, the Union of all Opposites, The Holy Complementarity that was lost.' "

Sumerian Tablets -- the Anuna gods, the Galla/Gallu demons

So let's look at the Sumerian tablets which are the records of the first "civilization" that we know of for certain. Sumer is important because it is the first civilization that we know of with written records and they tell how and why we were created. In the beginning of history, we see one geographic area where it all started being Mesopotamia. Through time in the area of present day Iraq, Syria and Turkey, the most innovative peoples forged civilization. Throughout time within this area were many different "Kingdoms" and even languages but the culture and mythology was shared and very similar. The oldest civilizations are generally called Sumerians. The Sumerian speaking people were replaced by Semitic speaking Akkadians. Later kingdoms include Babylonia, Assyria just to name a few. Even though populations were conquered and even languages replaced, they kept the same mythology and Gods, merely changing their names but the stories stayed the same. Enki being an easier example as he only went primarily by two different names, one being Enki his Sumerian name, which later became Ea. Enki and Ea are identical in every aspect but they just changed his name. Virtually every original God in Sumerian times can be traced through history, appearing with different names, but the character of the God stays the same for the most part.

Sumerian is the first language for which we have written evidence and its literature the earliest known.

All of this information is taken directly from translated historic tablets and texts. Many of these translations can be found on sites like ETCSL The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk or CDLI Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative http://cdli.ucla.edu. Otherwise most of these translations are scholarly in origin and are generally accepted true translations.

ETCSL is the main source.
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL), a project of the University of Oxford, comprises a selection of nearly 400 literary compositions recorded on sources which come from ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and date to the late third and early second millennia BCE.

There are tremendous parallels between the Sumerian tablets and Gnostic texts. The mother goddess, Namma, was known as Sophia. The Gnostics spoke of a false god, named Yaldabaoth, whom they called Demiruge. The Demiurge was originally An and Sabaoth was Enki who repented. The 7 Chief Anuannaki would be the 7 chief Archons. Even today there is sometimes around 7 members of a Council seen by near death experiencers.

Most Pre-historic World Myths include the concept of Earth Mother/ Mother of All and Sky Father. These are the two that produce things, such as the Gods who made humans.

The Archons did not create the life that was already here. They only modified life for their needs, domestication of plants and animals to feed their new creation humans. The Anuna did not create us. They just modified what Sophia had already made. All life is connected by Sophia.
They did not create, they only modified. They high-jacked the system.

"the senior gods oversaw the work, while the minor gods were bearing the toil. The gods were digging the canals and piling up the silt in Ḫarali(I think Turkey). The gods, crushing the clay, began complaining about this life."

What was the reason humans were originally said to be created for coming from the Anunna? It WAS NOT GOLD.
The only thing of value we had was our energy.
We are like a sustaining battery incarnating over and over to provide them energy.

Remember that they had to start setting the system up before they had all these human slaves to do the labor. They started the infrastructure and said it was too hard, so they created humans to work in their place completing the infrastructure.

The Gods were toiling, digging canals for Agriculture which was needed for food.
Why did they need this food? It was not actually for them.
It was to be able to create more and more humans and to be able to feed them and to make civilization for them to play with and sustain their energy.
It says in another text that the Gods created sheep and wheat and had a feast but were not "satisfied" with it so they gave it to their people as a gift, meaning they couldn't eat food but decided to make domesticated food sources for their true energy source, the humans.
I think it was just the energy we created. I think it started with their desire to be worshiped.
The labor was to create food for the people which allowed populations to increase bigtime.
The more people, the more energy and worship.

In reality, there could be a food chain above us, meaning the parasite blobs take energy of our auras, a higher astral being consumes these and up a few steps until it is concentrated energy for them, done completely by a self sustaining system that would not need to be controlled.

There were seven main anuna gods: Four Primary ones -- Anu, Enlil, Enki, and Ninhursag. There were Three Sky Gods -- Inana/Venus, Nanna/Sin/ Moon, and Utu/Shamasah/ Sun.

The Original Anuna Players of this game:
Namma: Mother/Earth Goddess An: Sky Father, most high of the Earth Gods.
Enlil: Favorite Son of An. God of Lightning and storm. Name means "Lord of Air". Decides to destroy mankind with a deluge.
Enki: Oldest Son and half-brother of Enlil. Name means "God of Earth". Enki was first known as God of fresh waters, with Wisdom, Magic, Science and Creator as his main tasks. Told humans to save themselves from the coming flood although he was prohibited from doing so. Has the oldest continual temple in the world, in Eridu. Had temple for 4,500 years.
Ninhursag: Daughter, similar to her Mother Namma. Midwife to the Gods. All Gods were said to be raised on the milk of Ninhursag. Her symbol is the Omega symbol.

Nanna: God of the Moon, son of Enlil
Utu: God of the Sun.
Inana: Young Goddess, God of Venus, Beauty and War. Later became Ishtar, Isis, Aphrodite, Venus and many other names.

A world schema is Sky Father + Earth Mother = Creation of all.
It can be found worldwide. An is Sky Father. Namma is Earth Mother. Namma gave birth to Earth. Namma is Enki/EA's mother. EA is earth. EnKi is Lord of Earth.
Marduk is a son of Enki, but they dont seem really close.
He is Bel, Baal and many other names. Always had his pet dragon.
Demiurge is really a description or title not a single entity. Enki created so he is a Demiurge.

Namma is the Primeval Mother. Primeval = Belonging to the first or earliest age or ages; original or ancient:
She was killed by her offspring. It is in Enuma Elish where Tiamat was killed by her offspring, the Gods, because they had pissed her off and she was going to kill them and created the "monsters" and her other gods.
They killed her and made the heavens with her. Now compare that to Sophia. Namma no longer existed at a point because she was killed and that's why she is not part of the assembly.
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NAMMA, Primeval Mother Goddess

In the Beginning, the Goddess Nammu (Namma) created the world and then was forgotten. Namma is the mother goddess. Namma/Sophia is WORLDWIDE. Before modern humans walked on the earth or were even thought of, the Mother of all, the Great Namma already existed. She created life on earth as we see it now and is known through time as the “Earth Mother”, “Great Mother”, and “Mother of All the Gods”.

She then decided to create children. They were created as Gods to experience the Earth. The term Anunnaki matches them perfectly as it means “Gods of Earth”, as they were created here and did not come from somewhere else. These Gods or the children of Namma grew up and started modifying the Earth. Namma upset with their behavior resolves to destroy them before it got worse. Her children heard this and decided to fight her. The hero varies through time but she is then killed by her children. They take her power and use it to create the heavens.

This Mother Goddess is known by many names throughout the World. In Paleolithic times back to 35,000 BCE, statues are found archaeologically of a very robust woman. They are often called “Venus” statues but are in fact the Mother Goddess or Namma . These figurines have been found in Turkey as recently as 7,000 years ago. At some time around this period she disappears except for occasional mentioning. This is about the time the path to civilization was started.

In these new civilizations, the Anunnaki declared themselves the Gods of the humans. In early human beliefs, they were told they were created by the Gods to be their slave and do their work. A human was expected to do whatever their God wanted them to and they were judged as to whether they made their God happy.

The Anunnaki did not CREATE anything. They modified what was here and made new species but they did not create the life on this planet. Life was seeded a long time ago on earth and the life evolved via the natural procesess that do exist but there were manipulations and creations throughout that time but not like the last 12,000 years.

"Namma told Enki: Please apply the skill deriving from your wisdom and create a substitute (?) for the gods so that they can be freed from their toil!" And after Enki, the fashioner of designs by himself, had pondered the matter, he said to his mother Namma: "My mother, the creature you planned will really come into existence. Impose on him the work of carrying baskets. You should knead clay from the top of the abzu; the birth-goddesses (?) will nip off the clay and you shall bring the form into existence. "

So they hijacked the system for their desires. In Sumerian mythology, Nammu (also Namma) was a primeval mother goddess, corresponding to Tiamat in Babylonian mythology. Nammu was later connected to Isis and Venus because she was the only Goddess for 30,000 years. People have done this but Isis was a granddaughter of Namma. The onset of Anunnaki gods caused the almost erasure of her except in certain places. They erased her as much as they could because they killed her and enslaved her creation for their own purposes. If they allowed her cults to continue enmasse then it was potential for us to remember what happened. As long as we forgot we worshiped them and gave them her power. They tried propaganda against Namma, labeling her an evil dragon. They killed her and made the heavens with her.

By her consort Anu, Ki gave birth to the Anunnaki, the most prominent of these deities being Enlil, god of the air. According to legends, heaven and earth were once inseparable until Enlil was born; Enlil cleaved heaven and earth in two. An carried away heaven. Ki, in company with Enlil, took the earth.

"May he shepherd the... ones, his creatures. To the end of days, without forgetting, let them acclaim his ways. May he establish for his fathers the great food-offerings; (110)"

"Their support they shall furnish, shall tend their sanctuaries. May he cause incense to be smelled, . . . their spells, Make a likeness on earth of what he has wrought in heaven. May he order the ... to revere him, May the subjects ever bear in mind to speak of their god, And may they at his word pay heed to the goddess. May food-offerings be borne for their gods and goddesses. Without fail let them support their gods! Their lands let them improve, build their shrines, Let the ... wait on their gods." end-quote

"[Ea], King of Wisdom, spoke among the gods. [The god Ea] began to say: "Why are you [plural] destroying [mankind]? They will not give sacrifices to the gods. They will not burn cedar as incense to you. If you [plural] destroy mankind, they will no longer [worship] the gods. No one will offer [bread] or libations to you [plural] any longer. " end-quote

Hymn to Nibru and Isme-Dagan:"You were built as life-giving food for the Anuna gods; you were beautified for their eating and drinking. You are the sheepfold which is there for their life. Nothing escapes your grasp, as if caught in the threads of an outspread net. " end-quote

We are called the sheepfold about a thousand times in tablets. All humans. Read any of the old ones. We were especially the sheepfold of Enlil.

In Gobekli Tepe there is evidence of cannibalism and weird placements of skulls. They presume it was a skull cult because of these, but it seems closer to ritualized sacrifice/cannibalism. Of course, there were ritual sacrifices in Mesoamerican cultures. The Maya, Aztec and Inca. Even today the elite sacrifice millions of soldier through warfare.

When people have spiritual awakenings of any kind, they become very susceptible. The key to them is that this a natural process that occurs without a master or guru because it is all within. The awakening is a natural process not induced by anyone else except yourself.
So these Gallu and Archons wait for seekers, then they reinforce that they are having these experiences because of the Masters and Gurus. When you have a sudden awakening you are like a blank slate and they fill that with all their power eating teachings, which causes the person instead of becoming liberated to get wrapped in all these False Gallu teachings or the million others that do this.

Enlil = lord of air

An is first demiurge. Later An/Anu came to share or cede these functions, as Enlil and subsequently Marduk rose to prominence, but retained his essential character and high status throughout Mesopotamian history.

An adab (?) to Enki for Išme-Dagan (Išme-Dagan D)
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1-4. "Great lord, prominent (?) among the gods, your judgments are clever and powerful! Father Enki, respected one, supreme dragon, who determines the fates firmly, who has taken his seat upon the numerous divine powers in colourful brilliance (?), great prince, the guardian of the gods, …… of holy An!"

There is a engraving of Enki with a serpent's tail. Maybe he was in the form of a Serpent(Most likely).

INANA, QUEEN OF HEAVEN / NUNGAL, GODDESS OF THE UNDERWORLD / INDRA'S BATTLE "NET" & THE JAIL HOUSE PRISON

Hymn to Nungal:
" House, furious storm of heaven and earth, battering its own, enemies; prison, jail of the gods, august neck-stock of heaven and earth! Its interior is evening light, dusk spreading wide; its awesomeness is frightening. Raging sea which mounts high, no one knows where its rising waves flow. House, a pitfall waiting for the evil one; it makes the wicked tremble! House, a net whose fine meshes are skillfully woven, which gathers up people as its booty! House, which keeps an eye on the just and on evildoers; no one wicked can escape from its grasp. House, river of the ordeal which leaves the just ones alive, and chooses the evil ones! 3a-utu-in-the-mountains-with-weapons-of-brilliance (Utu in the mountains, the Sun god) House, with a great name, nether world, mountain where Utu rises; no one can learn its interior! Big house, prison, house of capital offenses, which imposes punishment!"---

House whose foundations are laden with great awesomeness! Its gate is the yellow evening light, exuding radiance. Its stairs are a great open-mouthed dragon, lying in wait for men. Its door jamb is a great dagger whose two edges …… the evil man. Its architrave is a scorpion which quickly dashes from the dust; it overpowers everything. Its projecting pilasters are lions; no one dares to rush into their grasp. Its vault is the rainbow, imbued with terrible awe. Its hinges are an eagle whose claws grasp everything. Its door is a great mountain which does not open for the wicked, but does open for the righteous man, who was not brought in through its power. Its bars are fierce lions locked in stalwart embrace. Its latch is a python, sticking out its tongue and hissing. Its bolt is a horned viper, slithering in a wild place. House, surveying heaven and earth, a net spread out! No evildoer can escape its grasp, as it drags the enemy around."

Her battle-net of fine mesh is indeed cast over the land for her; 47When a man of whom his god disapproves (?) arrives at the gate of the great house, which is a furious storm, a flood which covers everybody, 1d - Bau, spouse to Ninurta (Anunnaki giant alien goddess Bau, warden of Earth’s prisons) he is delivered into the august hands of Nungal, the warden of the prison; Its angry heart causes one to pass the days in weeping and lamentation. When the time arrives, the prison is made up as for a public festival; the gods are present at the place of interrogation, at the river ordeal, to separate the just from the evildoers; a just man is given rebirth. Nungal clamps down on her enemy, so he will not escape her clutches. "When an individual is brought in, he cannot resist its aura. "

What happens as someone approaches the light?

"House, furious storm of heaven and earth, battering its enemies; prison, jail of the gods, august neck-stock of heaven and earth! Its interior is evening light, dusk spreading wide; its awesomeness is frightening."

So it is saying there is light inside with void all around it?

there is a section in the Gnostic Pistis Sophia that said the Demiurge shone too.

In Babylonian times, I believe they termed the Seven Judges of the Underworld as the Anunnaki.
Anu was first in charge until Enlil separated heaven and earth. Then Enlil was the Chief Ruler, then it becomes Chaotic. All kinds of Gods proclaim themselves King, including Anu trying to come back into the mix.
The Apochryphon of John says, "But Yaldabaoth possessed a multitude of faces, adding up to more than all of them, so that when he is in the midst of the seraphim, he could masquerade in front of them all at will."

"And the cherubim throne has eight shapes on each side of the four corners— forms of lions and bulls and humans and eagles."

nde: " I looked at the throne and I was light and the face of a bear, eagle, lion and ram all changing every second." -- Patricia AR

Demiurge or Chief Ruler through time"
An/Anu until approx 3,000 BC
Enlil/Bel 3,000 BC until 1,800 BC (Continued after 1,800 BC as Ashur in Assyria)
Marduk 1,800 BC until 1,200 BC (Southern Mesopotamia)
Nergal 1,200 BC until Today (Rebellion started by An with the following co-conspirators, Adad, Ishtar, Shamash and the Evil Seven Gods. Nergal took over the underworld and took control of the destiny of humans.

Nergal, a son of Enlil, was the God of War and Plague. He was not very high in status early on. At some point An helped him by giving him 7 companions or weapons, otherwise known as the "Seven Evil Spirits". Nergal then planned to takeover the Underworld who already had a Goddess in charge, her name was Ereshkigal. Nergal forced his way into the underworld and took the Goddess by her hair and dragged her off the throne to cut her head off. In her tears, she offered to be his wife and give him the underworld and he took the deal and let her live. Nergal now controlled the Underworld and the Judgment of every human who dies.

a tigi to nergal:
"Hero, after your father begot you, your father Enlil bestowed on you the mountain of the earth and all of the people. He definitively handed the deciding of destinies to you. Hero,Nergal, you are their king! Nergal, hero, after your father begot you, your father Enlil bestowed on you the mountain of the earth and all of the people. He definitively handed the deciding of destinies to you. Hero, Nergal, you are their king!"

Exodus 5:3 -- Then they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God, or he may strike us with plagues or with the sword."

Everything was driven by Astral entities becoming the "Form" of that God and requiring humans to worship it and give it power.

In Sumerian literature the gallu were great demons or devils of the Underworld. There, demons hauled victims off to the Underworld. They were seven devils of Babylonian mythology who could be appeased with sacrificial lambs.

At this time they are the very images of the gods in the house of the Holy Mound where the Ewe and Wheat abound - the gallu-demons are filled with malevolence,
they do not cease consuming blood. Adjure them with the oath, so that they never return to the nook and corner. They have been adjured by heaven and they have been adjured by earth."

Gallu demons hauled unfortunate victims off to the underworld. (Grim Reaper/Servitor) They were one of seven devils (or "the offspring of hell") of Babylonian theology that could be appeased by the sacrifice of a lamb at their altars.

Look at the original Greek meaning of Archon which is ruler but more specifically the level of Rulership. In ancient Greece the chief magistrate in various Greek city states was called Archon. The term was also used throughout Greek history in a more general sense, ranging from "club leader" to "master of the tables".
We can clearly see in essence Magistrate was a position of an Archon. What about constable? The constable executes the process of magistrate's court and of some other tribunals. The courts do not instruct constables on the manner of serving process. How is it possible that this matches up? The whole thing being that what the Sumerians/Babylonians described were "Servitors" of the "Archons". The demons being the enforcement of the underworld and serve the Archons especially the Seven Judges.

Another connection is the root word of galla or gallu being "gall". The Gnostic texts mention "bile"... and the GALLbladder produces bile. The Gnostic text "On the Origin of the World" says, "Now as for that jealousy, it was found to be an abortion without any spirit in it. Like a shadow, it came into existence in a vast watery substance. Then the bile that had come into being out of the shadow was thrown into a part of chaos. Since that day, a watery substance has been apparent. "

Here is a Babylonian description of shadow beings: "the evil Utukku-demon ... is tall in stature ... . He is shady, his shadow is very dark ... . Gall is always dripping from his finger nails, his tread is harmful poison."

The Gallu equate with shadow beings.
The demons go hither and thither searching for Dumuzid. The small demons say to the big demons: "Demons have no mother; they have no father or mother, sister or brother, wife or children. When …… were established on heaven and earth, you demons were there, at a man's side like a reed enclosure. Demons are never kind, they do not know good from evil.

Terminology:
Archons=Any of the Anuna
Galla/Gallu=Shadow Beings, Djinn, Demons etc....Aliens and Shadow Beings IMHO = Gallu = Servitors
'The retributive servitors follow the soul, being witnesses to it for all the sins which it committeth, that they may convict it in the judgments.'
Archon really should only apply it to the higher level "rulers".
All else use Gallu, since it is the oldest term and would include Servitor and Receivers in Pistis Sophia.
Gallu:The word gallu may also refer to a human adversary, one that is dangerous and implacable.
since archon means ruler it should only apply to the anunna in heaven or the anunnaki on earth who rule.

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Types of Assyrian Demons, not including the EVIL SEVEN.

According to Wikipedia, "In Egyptian mythology, the Ogdoad were eight primordial deities worshipped in Hermopolis. The eight deities were arranged in four male-female pairs (the female names being merely derivative female forms of the male names), as follows: Nu, Naunet; Hehu, Hehut; Kekui, Kekuit; Qerh, Qerhet... The names of Nu and Naunet are written with the determiners for sky and water, and it seems clear that they represent the primordial waters. The fourth pair appears with varying names; sometimes the name Qerh is replaced by Ni, Nenu, Nu, or Amun, and the name Qerhet by Ennit, Nenuit, Nunu, Nit, or Amunet... Nu (also Nenu, Nunu, Nun), feminine Naunet (also Nunut, Nuit, Nent, Nunet), is the deification of the primordial watery abyss in the Hermopolitan Ogdoad cosmogony of ancient Egyptian religion. The name is paralleled with nen "inactivity" in a play of words in, "I raised them up from out of the watery mass [nu], out of inactivity [nen]". The name has also been compared to the Coptic noun "abyss; deep".

So Nu or Nun was known as a primordial deity and is associated with inactivity and the abyss or deep. Consider the variation in the English words "new" and "none".

"Hail, Naunet Protector of the void, Guardian of the abyss……”
"The Egyptians had many different versions of a creation myth. In all of them, the original God sprang from Nun (also called Nu) who was described as being ‘the primordial waters’. Nun was more than an ocean, He was a limitless expanse of motionless water. Nun was portrayed as a bearded man with a blue or green body, symbolizing water and fertility. In one hand He holds a palm frond, a symbol of long life and wears another one in His hair. Since He is known as the “Father of Fathers and the Mother of Mothers” and is sometimes shown with female breasts as well, His feminine aspect is known as the Goddess Inu. In another Egyptian version of the deities, rather than have a feminine version of Nun, He is said to have a consort named Naunet (sometimes called Nunet). Naunet is considered to be the Goddess of the Primordial Abyss of the Underworld. Naunet is a member of the Ogdoad of eight primordial deities who together personify the essence of the primordial chaos before the creation of the world. The Ogdoad created from Themselves the mound upon which lay the egg from which the sun god emerged. This Sun God, named Atum, became the first God of the earth. Eventually, Atum became associated with Ra. Ra-Atum was the coming of the light to disperse the darkness of Nun and is symbolized by the Phoenix in this context."

At various times, certain gods became preeminent over the others, including the sun god Ra, the creator god Amun, and the mother goddess Isis. For a brief period, in the theology promulgated by the pharaoh Akhenaten, a single god, the Aten, replaced the traditional pantheon. Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology left behind many writings and monuments, along with significant influences on ancient and modern cultures.

The Egyptians had elaborate beliefs about death and the afterlife. They believed that humans possessed a ka, or life-force, which left the body at the point of death. In life, the ka received its sustenance from food and drink, so it was believed that, to endure after death, the ka must continue to receive offerings of food, whose spiritual essence it could still consume. Each person also had a ba, the set of spiritual characteristics unique to each individual.[29] Unlike the ka, the ba remained attached to the body after death. Egyptian funeral rituals were intended to release the ba from the body so that it could move freely, and to rejoin it with the ka so that it could live on as an akh. However, it was also important that the body of the deceased be preserved, as the Egyptians believed that the ba returned to its body each night to receive new life, before emerging in the morning as an akh.[30]

Maat wearing the feather of truth
In early times the deceased pharaoh was believed to ascend to the sky and dwell among the stars.[31] Over the course of the Old Kingdom (c. 2686–2181 BC), however, he came to be more closely associated with the daily rebirth of the sun god Ra and with the underworld ruler Osiris as those deities grew more important.[32]

In the fully developed afterlife beliefs of the New Kingdom, the soul had to avoid a variety of supernatural dangers in the Duat, before undergoing a final judgement, known as the "Weighing of the Heart", carried out by Osiris and by the Assessors of Maat. In this judgement, the gods compared the actions of the deceased while alive (symbolized by the heart) to the feather of Maat, to determine whether he or she had behaved in accordance with Maat. If the deceased was judged worthy, his or her ka and ba were united into an akh.[33] Several beliefs coexisted about the akh's destination. Often the dead were said to dwell in the realm of Osiris, a lush and pleasant land in the underworld.[34] The solar vision of the afterlife, in which the deceased soul traveled with Ra on his daily journey, was still primarily associated with royalty, but could extend to other people as well.

The most important of all Egyptian myths was the Osiris myth.[46] It tells of the divine ruler Osiris, who was murdered by his jealous brother Set, a god often associated with chaos.[47] Osiris's sister and wife Isis resurrected him so that he could conceive an heir, Horus. Osiris then entered the underworld and became the ruler of the dead. Once grown, Horus fought and defeated Set to become king himself.[48] Set's association with chaos, and the identification of Osiris and Horus as the rightful rulers, provided a rationale for pharaonic succession and portrayed the pharaohs as the upholders of order. At the same time, Osiris's death and rebirth were related to the Egyptian agricultural cycle, in which crops grew in the wake of the Nile inundation, and provided a template for the resurrection of human souls after death.[49]

Another important mythic motif was the journey of Ra through the Duat each night. In the course of this journey, Ra met with Osiris, who again acted as an agent of regeneration, so that his life was renewed. He also fought each night with Apep, a serpentine god representing chaos. The defeat of Apep and the meeting with Osiris ensured the rising of the sun the next morning, an event that represented rebirth and the victory of order over chaos.[50]

The word "magic" is normally used to translate the Egyptian term heka, which meant, as James P. Allen puts it, "the ability to make things happen by indirect means".[90]

Heka was believed to be a natural phenomenon, the force which was used to create the universe and which the gods employed to work their will. Humans could also use it, and magical practices were closely intertwined with religion. In fact, even the regular rituals performed in temples were counted as magical.[91] Individuals also frequently employed magical techniques for personal purposes. Although these ends could be harmful to other people, no form of magic was considered inimical in itself. Instead, magic was seen primarily as a way for humans to prevent or overcome negative events.[92]

Magic was closely associated with the priesthood. Because temple libraries contained numerous magical texts, great magical knowledge was ascribed to the lector priests, who studied these texts. These priests often worked outside their temples, hiring out their magical services to laymen. Other professions also commonly employed magic as part of their work, including doctors, scorpion-charmers, and makers of magical amulets. It is also possible that the peasantry used simple magic for their own purposes, but because this magical knowledge would have been passed down orally, there is limited evidence of it.[93]

Language was closely linked with heka, to such a degree that Thoth, the god of writing, was sometimes said to be the inventor of heka.[94] Therefore, magic frequently involved written or spoken incantations, although these were usually accompanied by ritual actions. Often these rituals invoked an appropriate deity to perform the desired action, using the power of heka to compel the deity to act. Sometimes this entailed casting the practitioner or subject of a ritual in the role of a character in mythology, thus inducing the god to act toward that person as it had in the myth.

HINDUISM

Prominent themes in Hindu beliefs include the four Puruṣārthas, the proper goals or aims of human life; namely, dharma (ethics/duties), artha (prosperity/work), kama (desires/passions) and moksha (liberation/freedom from the passions and the cycle of death and rebirth),[16][17] as well as karma (action, intent and consequences) and saṃsāra (cycle of death and rebirth).[18][19] Hinduism prescribes the eternal duties, such as honesty, refraining from injuring living beings (Ahiṃsā), patience, forbearance, self-restraint, virtue, and compassion, among others.[web 3][20] Hindu practices include rituals such as puja (worship) and recitations, japa, meditation (dhyāna), family-oriented rites of passage, annual festivals, and occasional pilgrimages. Along with the practice of various yogas, some Hindus leave their social world and material possessions and engage in lifelong Sannyasa (monasticism) in order to achieve moksha

Temple wall panel relief sculpture at the Hoysaleswara temple in Halebidu, representing the Trimurti: Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu
Prominent themes in Hindu beliefs include (but are not restricted to) Dharma (ethics/duties), saṃsāra (the continuing cycle of entanglement in passions and the resulting birth, life, death, and rebirth), Karma (action, intent, and consequences), moksha (liberation from attachment and saṃsāra), and the various yogas (paths or practices).[19]

The meaning of moksha differs among the various Hindu schools of thought. For example, Advaita Vedanta holds that after attaining moksha a person knows their essence, Self as pure consciousness or the witness-consciousness and identifies it as identical to Brahman.[173][174] The followers of Dvaita (dualistic) schools, in moksha state, identify individual essence as distinct from Brahman but infinitesimally close, and after attaining moksha expect to spend eternity in a loka (heaven). To theistic schools of Hinduism, moksha is liberation from saṃsāra, while for other schools such as the monistic school, moksha is possible in current life and is a psychological concept.[175][173][176][177][174] According to Deutsch, moksha is transcendental consciousness to the latter, the perfect state of being, of self-realization, of freedom and of "realizing the whole universe as the Self"

moksha in advaita vedanta:
"I am other than name, form and action.
My nature is ever free!
I am Self, the supreme unconditioned Brahman.
I am pure Awareness, always non-dual."

Karma -- How can people learn if the mind is wiped each time? Some say the knowledge is passed down into our intuition and subconscious. But why not immediate transference of the lesson to be learned like one nder said. Better teaching systems for learning. We don't seem to be learning over the last thousands of years. Still wars. Still murders. Still thefts. Michael Newton said one man came back for 5000 years or something just to learn a lesson about jealousy, but now is intolerant as hell.

With Vedic texts everywhere you see the word "Self" (with capital S) in English translations of Vedic texts has the Sanskrit original word "Atman". The meaning of the word Atman is usually translated as "Self" but the original ancient meaning of the word is more like "breath" or "spirit" which is closer to "Consciousness" or "Awareness" then to "Self". Atman simply means the "individuated awareness" (each of us own awareness) and Brahman or Sat-Chit-Ananda (Beingness-Consciousness-Bliss) is the "universal Awareness". Then the famous Vedic phrase "Atman is Brahman" simply means that our individual awareness in no different form the universal Awareness, or, in other words, there is only one Awareness.

But even if you interpret Atman as your "Self" it is important not to confuse this "Self" with our sense of individual "I" that is ego or "selfishness". The Vedic phrase "I am Brahman" means "everything in the world is Brahman including me, so everything that I thought that I am - body, mind, thoughts, feelings etc - are actually not "me" but Brahman (Awareness) only".

Hinduism teaches Moksha, that is that one needs to liberate one's spirit from the cycle of rebirth into the physical plane of illusion.

The Hindu religious text, the Rigveda, states, "The non-existent was not; the existent was not. Darkness was hidden by darkness. That which became was enveloped by The Void."

The Creation hymn of the Rigveda states, "Then even nothingness was not, nor existence. There was no air then, nor the heavens beyond it. What covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping? Was there then cosmic water, in depths unfathomed? Then there was neither death nor immortality nor was there then the torch of night and day. The One breathed windlessly and self-sustaining. There was that One then, and there was no other. At first there was only darkness wrapped in darkness. All this was only unillumined cosmic water. That One which came to be, enclosed in nothing, arose at last, born of the power of heat. In the beginning desire descended on it - that was the primal seed, born of the mind. The sages who have searched their hearts with wisdom know that which is kin to that which is not. And they have stretched their cord across the void, and know what was above, and what below. Seminal powers made fertile mighty forces. Below was strength, and over it was impulse. But, after all, who knows, and who can say Whence it all came, and how creation happened? The gods themselves are later than creation, so who knows truly whence it has arisen? Whence all creation had its origin, the creator, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not, the creator, who surveys it all from highest heaven, he knows — or maybe even he does not know."

There are many different English translations for the creation. Here is another translation: "Non-being then existed not nor being: There was no air, nor sky that is beyond it. What was concealed? Wherein? In whose protection? And was there deep unfathomable water? Death then existed not nor life immortal; Of neither night nor day was any token. By its inherent force the One breathed windless: No other thing than that beyond existed. Darkness there was at first by darkness hidden; Without distinctive marks, this all was water. That which, becoming, by the void was covered, That One by force of heat came into being. Desire entered the One in the beginning: It was the earliest seed, of thought the product. The sages searching in their hearts with wisdom, Found out the bond of being in non-being. Their ray extended light across the darkness: But was the One above or was it under? Creative force was there, and fertile power: Below was energy, above was impulse. Who knows for certain? Who shall here declare it? Whence was it born, and whence came this creation? The gods were born after this world's creation: Then who can know from whence it has arisen? None knoweth whence creation has arisen; And whether he has or has not produced it; He who surveys it in the highest heaven, He only knows, or haply he may know not."

"Brahman is Life, Brahman is Joy, Brahman is the Void. Joy, verily that is the same as the Void, The Void, verily that is the same as Joy."— Chandogya Upanishad

*Lay aside the ghost of doubt and fickle phantom of duality by the mantra of the contemplation of the Absolute. Those who listen and follow the endless strategies here described will attain the complete Brahman-Knowledge. Thus did Ribhu propound to Nidagha the undivided Supreme Reality

*The Self is beyond duality and nonduality, transcends the fourth state, exists as the blemishless self-illumined, to be looked upon as our real, natural state

*Listen blemishless Nidagha ! There never is any such word as duality, always all is of the nature of Brahman Indeed I am only the supreme Brahman, which unfragmented, the Supreme light, without dawn or day, without cause and effect, which is everywhere, without a second. Realize this ever, son, without any delusion

[NOTE: the meaning of this is that "duality" and "non-duality" are our mental concepts. They are only pointing to the Reality (Brahman), but the Reality itself is beyond concepts. It's incomprehensible. Also, these concepts still do not grasp the Reality even close because the Reality is in a way mysteriously both dual and non-dual: it is always One in essence but has the ability to appear as multiple forms without actually dividing into multiple entities. So our human logic just breaks here. One important point of Advaita and Buddhism (also especially emphasized in Zen) is that we need to stop conceptualizing about the Reality and start directly experiencing it.]

*Only the peaceful Brahman is ever existent, hence, you should start inquiring into this *I am ever of the nature of the Supreme Brahman, the Supreme Siva, the Supreme Self, higher than the highest, pure, perfectly full, undivided.Inquire steadfastly into this everyday

*I transcend time, space, all objects, I ever transcend everything, I am of the nature that has not an atom of conceit or attachment. I am of the nature of the immaculate Supreme Brahman, inquire steadfastly into this everyday

*I am ever of the nature of Existence alone, Consciousness alone, only the good, the middle path, the non-dual. I am of the nature of the Self of all, without intellect and such, the abode that transcends the intellect, inquire steadfastly into this everyday

*Those who sincerely practice the Knowledge that I am the Supreme Brahman – the eternal, partless, ancient mass of bliss, the Reality, the utterly peaceful Consciousness – will have the awareness of non-duality and thereby become the undivided Supreme

*First, contemplate that all the seen is the seer, that is Brahman and then proceed to even cast off that thought.Then, being lost in the silent meditation in the void will confer unsurpassed bliss and rid oneself of all fear.Because of this certitude turn your attention to abidance in meditation

*Casting aside all and becoming the void is the renunciation of all, by all is meant only the mind.Casting off the mind is the renunciation of all and it is the renunciation of mind that is the renunciation of thought

*Attain the natural state(sahaja). There is nothing more to be taught here

*I am Brahman, indeed, which transcends wakefulness, the dream state and deep sleep state. Which transcends duality, beyond the bodies, all experiences, which is pervasive and pauseless. Such is the certitude of the peerless sage

*Continue in the “I am Brahman” bhava forgetting all this duality, when this knowledge culminates, in sense-free, mindfree, boundless Being, become motionless like a stone of the nature of Brahman and, rid of all weakness, enjoy unhindered Bliss

*Leaving off even that abide as the Self, leaving aside that, abide as Brahman alone.Leaving all the said so far abide as the true Void. Leaving aside the Void, whatever nature remains, exist as that
nature

*This duality does not exist at all at any time. All is of the nature of the Supreme Brahman, which is the One I am that non-dual Supreme Brahman, be of this steadfast contemplation always

*Brahman, indeed, is certainly the Void, hence it said to be impossible to meditate on

*Forgetting, forgetting again, renouncing, renouncing again, leave off all activities with the attitude that I am established as the Void.

*Only the non-dual Supreme Brahman is the Truth – Be of the deep conviction that I am That

There is no individuality, no duality, no multiplicity. No cause, no effect, no doer. No appearances to see, and no one to see. Only the non-dual Supreme Brahman is the Truth. Be of the deep certitude that I am That

*To strengthen the knowledge of the undivided Supreme Brahman, I shall tell further, noble soul ! The conclusion that it is only Brahman that exists, the mass of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, the nondual, that is the quintessence of the Veda-s

*There is only one great Self which fascinates the mind, I am the only One without second, I am the only One and none other. I am the only One, devoid of worlds, intellect, desire and delusion

*Be of such conviction without a doubt and immediately you are Liberated in Non-duality.

*Ribhu said, I am indeed Brahman, I am indeed Consciousness, I am of the eternally pure nature, I am without the duality of beginning and end

*Chapter Twenty Six -- Topic of the instruction of abiding as That itself *Undifferentiated abidance in the Nondual nature

*That which is the Supreme Brahman, the Self of all, of the nature of ExistenceConsciousness-Bliss – ever abide as That itself

*The meaning of the word “Brahman” is the Reality, which is Truth-KnowledgeBliss, of the nature of the substratum of the entire universe which is superimposed on it and not apart from Brahman, the Reality, indeed, is of the nature of Absolute Knowledge

*Thus after having understood the meaning of the texts, throw them away and practice daily constant meditation intently for gaining complete Knowledge

*The wavering mind will not easily let itself be controlled. To be in that very same state day in and day out, one should be in profound, constant meditation upon “ I am the Eternal Supreme Brahman”

*... be of the certitude that I am the Absolute, which remains as Existence-Consciousness-Bliss

*The idea that I am Brahman, the concept of Guru and disciple, the experience that I am Liberated, the understanding that all is Brahman – all is Brahman, be of this certitude

*It is only to those of profound meditation that this experience will result and never to those who are dominated by the hopping mind. Hence, always practice the onepointed profound meditation that all the illusory appearances are indeed, the Supreme Brahman, the substratum and I am this Brahman myself

*There is only One and no second, the world composed of parts with pairs of opposites, the defects of the world, the samsara, the mode of duality, the witness mode, the undivided mode, the undivided essence do not exist

*Sage Nidagha continued: Master ! by your steadfast compassion I do not perceive the body that appears as gross,subtle or causal. I do not perceive the deluded mind, time or space and such. I have become the Supreme Brahman without a trace of anything illusory

*I do not perceive any duality or nonduality, any joy or sorrow, any praise or blame, any differences of multiple religions, any words of instruction, I have become the changeless Supreme Brahman

*It is only to those, who, in adherence to the axioms of the great aphorisms of Vedanta, continuously meditate with love, without confusion, for a considerable period that the rare compassion of the
Supreme Siva will flow and the blissful Supreme Knowledge, the Awareness, will result

*Chapter 1
1. Through the grace of God alone, the desire for nonduality arises in wise men to save them from great fear. Nonduality - monistic Consciousness, in which the knower, knowledge, and knowable - soul and God - become one; the highest realization of Divinity.

4. All is verily the absolute Self. Distinction and nondistinction do not exist. How can I say, "It exists; it does not exist"? I am filled with wonder!

5. The essence and the whole of Vedanta is this Knowledge, this supreme Knowledge: That I am by nature the formless, all-pervasive Self I do not know how or in relation to whom joy and sorrow exist.

9. The mind indeed is of the form of space. The mind indeed is omnifaced. The mind is the past. The mind is all. But in reality there is no mind.

10. I, the One only, am all this, beyond space and continuous. How can I see the Self as visible or hidden?

12. Know the Self always to be everywhere, one and unintercepted. I am the meditator and the highest object of meditation. Why do you divide the Indivisible?

15. Union and separation exist in regard neither to you nor to me. There is no you, no me, nor is there this universe. All is verily the Self alone.

16. You do not belong to that which is composed of the five objects of sense, such as sound; nor does that belong to you. You indeed are the supreme Reality. Why then do you suffer?

17. For you there is no birth or death, for you there is no mind, for you there is no bondage or liberation, no good or evil. Why do you shed tears, my child? Neither you nor I have name and form.
18. Oh mind, why do you wander about deluded, like an unclean spirit? Behold the Self indivisible. Be happy through renunciation of attachment.
19. You verily are Truth, devoid of change, motionless, one, of the nature of freedom. You have neither attachment nor aversion . Why do you suffer, seeking the objects of desires?

20. All the scriptures say that the Truth is without attributes, pure, immutable, bodiless, and existing equally everywhere. Know me to be That.
21. Know that which has form to be false, that which is formless to be eternal. Through the instruction of this truth there is no longer rebirth into this world.
32. There is no pot; there is no pot's interior space. Neither is there an individual soul nor the form of an individual soul. Know the absolute Brahman, devoid of knowable and knower.
33. Know me to be that Self who is everything and everywhere at all times, the one who is eternal, steady, the All, the nonexistent, and the Existent. Have no doubt.

34. There are no Vedas, no worlds, no gods, no sacrifices. There is certainly no caste, no stage in life, no family, no birth. There is neither the path of smoke nor the path of light. There is only the highest Truth, the homogeneous Brahman.
36. Some seek nonduality, others duality. They do not know the Truth, which is the same at all times and everywhere, which is devoid of both duality and nonduality.
37. How can they describe the Truth, which is beyond mind and words, which is devoid of white and other colours, of sound and other qualities?
38. When all these appear to you as false, when the body and so on appear to you like space, then you know Brahman truly, then for you there is no dual series.

61. The whole universe shines undivided and unbroken. Oh, the maya, the great delusion - the imagination of duality and nonduality
73. The avadhuta (liberated soul) alone, pure in evenness of feeling, abides happy in an empty dwelling place. Having renounced all, he moves about naked. He perceives the Absolute, the All, within himself.

What is the origin of the devil?
Probably the first concept of this was in Zoroastrianism, the oldest religion

Angra Mainyu, later called Ahriman, is the destructive spirit or mentality that stands in opposition to Ahura Mazda, the Supreme Creator

THE KABBALAH

According to Wikpedia,"Ayin means "nothingness". According to kabbalistic teachings, before the universe was created there was only Ayin, and the first manifest Sephirah (Divine emanation), Chochmah (Wisdom), "comes into being out of Ayin."... "Ein Sof, or Eyn Sof (/eɪn sɒf/, Hebrew: אין סוף), in Kabbalah, is understood as God prior to any self-manifestation in the production of any spiritual realm, probably derived from Solomon ibn Gabirol's (c. 1021 – c. 1070) term, "the Endless One" (she-en lo tiklah). Ein Sof may be translated as "unending", "(there is) no end", or infinity. It was first used by Azriel (c. 1160 – c. 1238), who, sharing the Neoplatonic belief that God can have no desire, thought, word, or action, emphasized by it the negation of any attribute. Of the Ein Sof, nothing ("Ein") can be grasped ("Sof"-limitation). It is the origin of the Ohr Ein Sof, the "Infinite Light" of paradoxical divine self-knowledge, nullified within the Ein Sof prior to creation. In Lurianic Kabbalah, the first act of creation, the Tzimtzum self "withdrawal" of God to create an "empty space", takes place from there... According to Gershom Scholem, the Ein Sof is the emanator of the ten sefirot. Sefirot are energy emanations found on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life."

So the Ein Sof, the unknowable aspect of God, is empty space and this infinite emptiness is the emanator of all the energy emanations.

In a lecture by Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh he begins by saying, "We've learned that the soul has three levels to it. The highest level of the soul, its absolute root is called ayin, the Divine nothingness. Ayin mazal leyisra'el ["Nothingness is the mazal of Yisra'el"] so teaches us the Ba'al Shem Tov that the Divine nothingness is the mazal. The mazal is the shoresh, the root of the soul." In the glossary of his book Body, Mind, and Soul: Kabbalah on Human Physiology, Disease and Healing he writes, " The Ba’al Shem Tov teaches that the Divine “nothingness” itself is the true mazal of the Jewish people."

Israel Regardie, author of many books about the Order of the Golden Dawn, writes in What You Should Know About the Golden Dawn, "So far as concerns the Boundless Light, the Qabalah teaches that it is an abstract impersonal principle, an exalted condition of consciousness rather than of substance —an essence or spirit which is everywhere, and at all times, expressed in terms of Light. Though wholly impersonal in itself, and without characteristics cognisable to our human minds, Ain Soph Aour is, to all intents and purposes, what is commonly thought of as God. In the system of Tibetan Buddhism, the concept analogous to this is the Void, Sunyata. The realisation of the Void by means of the processes of Yoga and the technical meditations of the Sangha is, to quote Dr. Evans-Wentz's book The Tibetan Book of the Dead, to attain "the unconditioned Dharmakaya or the Divine Body of Truth, the primordial state of uncreatedness, of the Supramundane Bodhic All-consciousness—Buddhahood." In man, the Light is represented by a mighty activity within his soul, the intrinsically pure essence of mind, the higher and divine Genius." Even the rituals incorporate the Void: "Thus, at the altar, the three principal officers form about the candidate a Triad, representing again the Supernal Clear Light of the Void, and these again are represented by the number of the circumambulations." In The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic, Israel writes, "The Ceremony of the Neophyte in the Outer Order of the Golden Dawn will, on various considerations, remain one of the most important of the system, because it corresponds to the first enunciation of the Spiritual Light in the void of the universal darkness..."

GNOSTICISM & GNOSTIC TEXTS

The Gnostic christians were declared heretics by the mainstream church for their differing views on Jesus and their belief that this world is a prison. They were killed and their writings were destroyed until a repository of writings were discovered in a cave in Egypt in 1945. These writings are called the Nag Hammadi Library. They describe this false Gaud and his Archons which is a greek word that means "rulers". These archons are shadow beings created from the bile of his hate and jealousy, and they can shape shift and appear as what we call aliens -- Greys, reptoids, insectoids, mantis types, and so on. They feed off our life force and emotions such as fear, ecstatic frenzied excitement and even praise and worship. They put false ideas in our heads and create illusions and hallucinations. They can even be heard by some people as voices. Christians call them demons. Muslims call them jinn. Everyone has a Counterfeit Spirit that has been assigned to them. Some call these guardian angels or spirit guides.

There are tremendous parallels between the "gods" and "stories" of the Sumerian tablets and Gnostic texts. For example, major charateristics in common between the Gnostic Sophia and the Sumerian Namma are both are regarded as: First Goddess; Mother of all Gods; Created the World; Created things in Chaos; Created the gods in the midst of heaven; All powers taken by her offspring; and Her power used to create the heavens and veil.

GNOSTICISM

Here is how the Gnostic text The Apocryphon of Thomas describes the Monad or One: "it has nothing over it and no lord above it, everything exists within it alone" (no one can get beyond awareness)... "illimitable, since there is nothing before it to limit it" (Can you find a limit to awareness?).... "invisible, since nothing has seen it" (Can you "see" the awareness?)... "unutterable, since nothing could comprehend it to utter it", "For no one can understand it. " (awareness is totally inconceivable. No philosophy or science or spiritual wisdom can ever understand it.)... is perfect in incorruptibility" (can awareness be damaged or corrupted in any way?)... "Its eternal realm is incorruptible, at peace, dwelling in silence, at rest, before everything." (in its own Voidness so to speak).

"The One is a sovereign that has nothing over it. It is god and father of all, the invisible one that is over all, that is incorruptible, that is pure light at which no eye can gaze. The One is the invisible spirit. We should not think of it as a god or like a god. For it is greater than a god, because it has nothing over it and no lord above it. It does not exist within anything inferior to it, since everything exists within it alone. It is eternal, since it does not need anything. For it is absolutely complete. It has never lacked anything in order to be completed by it. Rather, it is always absolutely complete in light. The One is illimitable, since there is nothing before it to limit it, unfathomable, since there is nothing before it to fathom it, immeasurable, since there was nothing before it to measure it, invisible, since nothing has seen it, eternal, since it exists eternally, unutterable, since nothing could comprehend it to utter it, unnamable, since there is nothing before it to give it a name. The One is the immeasurable light, pure, holy, immaculate. The One is unutterable and is perfect in incorruptibility. Not that it is part of perfection or blessedness or divinity: it is much greater. The One is not corporeal and is not incorporeal."

The Gospel of Thomas mentions uniting polarities: "They said to him, "Shall we then, as children, enter the kingdom?" Jesus said to them, "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter the kingdom."

In Gnosticism, the Pleroma is the fullness and below it is the Void (kenoma) into which the spark or light of man has fallen or was stolen.

According to Wikipedia, "The word itself is a relative term, capable of many shades of meaning, according to the subject with which it is joined and the antithesis to which it is contrasted. It denotes the result of the action of the verb pleroun; but pleroun is either to fill up an empty thing (e.g. Matthew 13:48), or to complete an incomplete thing (e.g. Matthew 5:17)... In Gnosticism the use becomes yet more stereotyped and technical, though its applications are still very variable. The Gnostic writers appeal to the use in the NT (e.g. Iren I. iii. 4), and the word retains from it the sense of totality in contrast to the constituent parts; but the chief associations of pleroma in their systems are with Greek philosophy, and the main thought is that of a state of completeness in contrast to deficiency (hysterema, Iren. I. xvi. 3; Hippol. vi. 31), or of the fulness of real existence in contrast to the empty void and unreality of mere phenomena (kenoma, Iren. I. iv. 1). "

Gnosticism was its own distinct brand of Christianity which grew out of the Egyptian mystery schools and Greek philosophy and emphasized Knowledge and Wisdom over faith. Some Egyptians and Gnostics, specificially the Valentinians, favored the idea of an Ogdoad. Wikipedia says, "In the earliest stages of that evolution we have (Iren. I. i.) eight primary Aeons constituting the first Ogdoad. The ultimate conception of God, named the Ineffable Father and who has existed since before the beginning, is described as Depth or Profundity (Bythos). All around him exists a female power that has been named Silence (Sige). These two deities, Depth and Silence, become the cause, through a process of emanation, of the other archetypal beings or Aeons. The Aeons are always born in male-female pairs (as syzygies), each of which is in itself a divine principle but at the same time represents one aspect of the Ineffable Father, who otherwise could not be described nor comprehended as he is beyond all names. The emanation takes place in the following manner: Depth-and-Silence gives birth to Mind-and-Truth (Nous and Aletheia), who gives birth to Word-and-Life (Logos and Zoe), who gives birth to Man-and-Church (Anthropos and Ecclesia). These Aeonic pairs comprise the Fullness of Godhead (Pleroma), and the first eight Aeons that have been expounded here are the Valentinian Ogdoad."

So the conception of God is described as Profound Depth and Silence. So first cause could be called The Deep Silence.

The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung who had Gnostic leanings spoke of the Pleroma as being simultaneously nothing and everything. In his Seven Sermons to the Dead, he begins by saying, "The dead came back from Jerusalem, where they found not what they sought. They prayed me let them in and besought my word, and thus I began my teaching. Harken: I begin with nothingness. Nothingness is the same as fullness. In infinity full is no better than empty. Nothingness is both empty and full. As well might ye say anything else of nothingness, as for instance, white is it, or black, or again, it is not, or it is. A thing that is infinite and eternal hath no qualities, since it hath all qualities. This nothingness or fullness we name the PLEROMA. Therein both thinking and being cease, since the eternal and infinite possess no qualities. In it no being is, for he then would be distinct from the pleroma, and would possess qualities which would distinguish him as something distinct from the pleroma. In the pleroma there is nothing and everything. It is quite fruitless to think about the pleroma, for this would mean self-dissolution..."

"We must, therefore, distinguish the qualities of the pleroma. The qualities are pairs of opposites, such as— The Effective and the Ineffective. Fullness and Emptiness. Living and Dead. Difference and Sameness. Light and Darkness. The Hot and the Cold. Force and Matter. Time and Space. Good and Evil. Beauty and Ugliness. The One and the Many. etc. The pairs of opposites are qualities of the pleroma which are not, because each balanceth each. As we are the pleroma itself, we also have all these qualities in us. Because the very ground of our nature is distinctiveness, therefore we have these qualities in the name and sign of distinctiveness, which meaneth—

1. These qualities are distinct and separate in us one from the other; therefore they are not balanced and void, but are effective. Thus are we the victims of the pairs of opposites. The pleroma is rent in us.
2. The qualities belong to the pleroma, and only in the name and sign of distinctiveness can and must we possess or live them. We must distinguish ourselves from qualities. In the pleroma they are balanced and void; in us not. Being distinguished from them delivereth us..."

The Gnostics spoke of a false god, chief ruler named Yaldabaoth, whom is called Demiruge. As the leadership on earth changed, the first Chief Ruler or Demiurge is An, the first Sky father. In an exact match-up in flood stories between the Gnostics and the Sumerian are exact except the character's names. The Sumerian being Enki, the Benefactor and Creator of Humanity and Sabaoth, The Lord of the Forces. Sabaoth repented when he learned that there was a much greater God then his father and then he was taken for protection and put in the highest heaven above where the forces of chaos couldn't get to him, all because he was wise and realized they were wrong.

The Gnostic texts say that Sophia, an aeon from source, accidentally created the Demiurge by mistake without her consort. It was not created in full and was described as a Lion faced Dragon. He thought he was the only being and proclaimed himself God. Sophia realized her mistake and came down to inform the Demiurge. The Demiurge then surrounded Sophia and held her in Chaos and stole her "Light Power".

Thus the Demiurge was "without spirit", perhaps a way of saying it was an AI creation having consciousness but no soul.

Here is one example of false light:
On the Origin of the World Nag Hammadi
"After the natural structure of the immortal beings had completely developed out of the infinite, a likeness then emanated from Pistis (Faith); it is called Sophia (Wisdom). It exercised volition and became a product resembling the primeval light. (A copy of the real light) And immediately her will manifested itself as a likeness of heaven, having an unimaginable magnitude; it was between the immortal beings and those things that came into being after them, like [...]: she (Sophia) functioned as a veil dividing mankind from the things above. "

2 Corinthians 11 -- "And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light."

I came across a pattern that Gnostic Texts match Sumerian texts in an odd way even though 2,000 years apart. It is the description of the Demiurge. The Gnostic description is thus:
"And what she had created became a product in the matter, like an aborted fetus. And it assumed a plastic form molded out of shadow, and became an arrogant beast resembling a lion."
" it changed into a form of a lion-faced serpent. And its eyes were like lightning fires which flash."
"When she saw (the product of) her will, it was different, a model of a lion-faced serpent. His eyes were like flashing fires of lightning."
"It changed into the form of a dragon with a lion's head. And eyes flashing lightning bolts."
"Self-willed uniteth himself with the rulers of the twelve æons and emanateth a lion-faced power to plague Sophia."

AEONIC COPIES

The Demiurge's heavens are a copy of the real heavens. "And she established each of his offspring in conformity with its power - after the pattern of the realms that are above, for by starting from the invisible world the visible world was invented." end-quote

The demiurge's realms are a copy of the real thing. He has stolen light from Sophia, so they have light to use. The real light is from true Source and those light realms would be setup similarly.

I traversed the atmospheric [realm] and passed by the Aeonic Copies after immersing myself [there] seven times [in] living [water], once for each [of the] aeons without pausing until [I had traversed] them all at once....
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And] 9 1 The [great] pre-eminence 2 Authrounios said [to me]: "The 3 atmospheric realm came into being by a 4 rational principle, and it incorruptibly manifests generated 5 and perishable things 6 for the sake of the advent 7 of the great judges (i.e., stars), lest they 8 experience perception and 9 be enclosed in the creation. But when 10 they came upon it and thereby perceived 11 the works of the world, 12 they condemned its ruler to a perishability 13 that is a pattern for the world, since it 14 is a [substance] and principle of matter, 15 the dark, corrupt [product]. 16

When Sophia contemplated 17 [these (stars)], she emitted the darkness, 18 [fleeing what] is subject to the 19 [Archon, since it] is [an invisible] mold, 20 [a principle] of the [insubstantial] substance 21 [and the form]less form 22 [ ... ] a [shapeless] shape. 23 [It makes room] for 24 [every cosmic thing ... ] the All 25
[ ... the corrupt product] 26 [since it is a rational principle] 27 [that persuades ] the darkness. [He sows] 28 [from his] reason, since it [is im]possible 29 [for the archon] of [creation] to 30 see any of the eternal entities. 10 1 He saw a reflection, and with reference to 2 the reflection that he [saw] 3 therein, he created the world. 4 With a reflection of a reflection 5 he worked upon the world, 6 and then even the reflection of 7 the appearance was taken from him. But 8 Sophia was given a place of rest 9 in exchange for her repentance. 10 In consequence, because there was within her no 11 pure, original image, 12 either pre-existing in him or that had 13 already come to be through him, he 14 used his imagination and fashioned the remainder, 14 for the image belonging to Sophia 16 is always corrupt [and] 17 deceptive. But the Archon--[since he simulates] 18 and embodies by [pursuing the image] 19 because of the superabundance [that inclined downward]--looked 20 downward."

Now the Aeonic Copies exist as follows: they have not attained an equipotent form, [but] they possess eternal glories, and they exist as judgment seats for each of the powers. But when souls are illumined by the light within these (Copies) and by the pattern which often arises [effortlessly] in them, then she (the soul) thinks that she sees [the truth] and the eternal [cause in] the blessed [Idea] [that exists] as the single Unity [ ... ] each of [ ... ] light that [ ... ] all, and she [ ... ] whole, and she [ ... ] and a [ ... ] and she [ ... ] she who [ ... ] she [...] [ ... ] ... [ ... ] of [the Sojourn. And the reproof] of the Repentance [is with the souls] according to the power [within them that] they might stand.

And the inferior [souls] are trained by the Aeonic Copies, which receive a replica of their souls while they are still in the world. After the individual procession of the aeons, they come into being and they are individually transferred from the copy of the Sojourn to the truly existent Sojourn, from the copy of the Repentance to the truly existent Repentance, [and from the] copy of the Self-generated (aeons) [to the] truly existent [Self-generated (aeons)], and so on. [ ... ] The souls ... [ ... ] exist in a [light ...] them all [through the] Aeonic [Copies.

The Demiurge is a false gaud. Dictionary.com explains that the word 'gaud' originated from the mid and late 14th century and meant a "jest, joke, prank, trick; also fraud, deception, trick, artifice". I am convinced this false gaud being, the Demiurge, is stealing The Light Power that is in human souls. In the Gnostic text "Pistis Sophia" it is written, "She [Sophia] had been deluded through the god-like Self-willed [Demiurge], and had not been deluded through anything else, save through a light-power, because of its resemblance to the Light in which she had had faith." Most likely the being of intense white Light that near death experiencers go to is related to the Demiurge. Here is a quote from The Secret Book of John, a Gnostic text from the Nag Hammadi Library: "Yaldabaoth [Demiurge] said to the authorities [archons] with him, Come, let us create a human being after the image of god and with a likeness to ourselves, so that this human image may give us light." end-quote

In The Secret Book of John, The Revelation of the Mysteries Hidden in Silence "Because she had unconquerable Power Her thought was not unproductive. Something imperfect came out of her Different in appearance from her. Because she had created it without her masculine counterpart She gave rise to a misshapen being unlike herself.

Sophia saw what her desire produced. It changed into the form of a dragon with a lion’s head And eyes flashing lightning bolts. She cast him far from her, Outside of the realm of the immortal beings So that they could not see him. [She had created him in ignorance.] Sophia surrounded him with a brilliant cloud, Put a throne in the center part of the cloud So that no one would see it. [Except for the Holy Spirit called the Mother of the Living] She named him Yaldabaoth. Yaldabaoth is the chief ruler. He took great Power (dynamis) from his mother, Left her, and moved away from his birthplace. He assumed command, Created realms for himself With a brilliant flame that continues to exist even now." end-quote

"The shadow perceived that there was one stronger than it. It was jealous, and when it became self-impregnated, it immediately bore envy. Since that day the principle of envy has appeared in all of the aeons and their worlds. But envy was found to be an aborted fetus without any spirit in it. It became like the shadows in a great watery substance."

"When the arrogant one took a portion, he sowed it. He placed powers and authorities over it, and he confined it within the mortal realms. "

Sophia repents and is forgiven by Source. Source sends help to take back the "Light Power" form the Demiurge. In the meantime, the Demiurge created the human body but cannot get it to stand. The help from source convinces the Demiurge that he must breathe life into "Adam" to get him to move. When he does the "Light Power" goes into Adam. Thus Adam was divine because of the Light Power. This light power sort of has similar overtones to the Holy Spirit. It is in every human. The Archons supposedly were produced not in full and are unable to hold the "Light Power"

"And what she had created became a product in the matter, like an aborted fetus. And it assumed a plastic form molded out of shadow, and became an arrogant beast resembling a lion." " it changed into a form of a lion-faced serpent. And its eyes were like lightning fires which flash." "When she saw (the product of) her will, it was different, a model of a lion-faced serpent. His eyes were like flashing fires of lightning." " "Self-willed uniteth himself with the rulers of the twelve æons and emanateth a lion-faced power to plague Sophia."

The Gnostic texts described the shadow beings: "Now the eternal realm (aeon) of truth has no shadow outside it, for the limitless light is everywhere within it. But its exterior is shadow, which has been called by the name 'darkness'. From it, there appeared a force, presiding over the darkness. And the forces that came into being subsequent to them called the shadow 'the limitless chaos'. From it, every kind of divinity sprouted up [...] together with the entire place, so that also, shadow is posterior to the first product. It was the abyss that it (shadow) appeared, deriving from the aforementioned Pistis. Now matter is made of the bile of the shadow: Now as for that jealousy, it was found to be an abortion without any spirit in it. Like a shadow, it came into existence in a vast watery substance. Then the bile that had come into being out of the shadow was thrown into a part of chaos. Since that day, a watery substance has been apparent. And what sank within it flowed away, being visible in chaos: as with a woman giving birth to a child - all her superfluities flow out; just so, matter came into being out of shadow, and was projected apart. And it did not depart from chaos; rather, matter was in chaos, being in a part of it. " end-quote

"Now all of this came to pass according to the forethought of Pistis, in order that man should appear after his likeness, and should condemn them because of their modelled form. And their modelled form became an enclosure of the light.... And it is they who were taken captive, according to their destinies, by the prime parent. And thus they were shut into the prisons of the modelled forms until the consummation of the age."

When the arrogant one took a portion, he sowed it. He placed powers and authorities over it, and he confined it within the mortal realms. All the powers of the world rejoiced that they had been brought forth. But they do not know the preexistent father, since they are strangers to him. Rather, he was given power, and they served him and praised him.

“But the arrogant one grew proud because of the praise of the powers. He was jealous and wanted to make an image in place of an image and a form in place of a form. He assigned the powers within his authority to mold mortal bodies. And they came into being from a misrepresentation of the appearance."

"A veil exists between the world above and the realms that are below; and shadow came into being beneath the veil; and that shadow became matter."

"He answered and said, “Yes, but if you wish that he not be able to ruin our work, come, let’s create a human being from the earth according to the image of our body and according to the likeness of this being, to serve us, so that whenever this being sees his likeness, he may become enamored of it. Then he will no longer ruin our work, but we shall make those who are born from the light our servants through all the time of this age.” Now, all this came to pass according to the forethought of Pistis in order that humankind might appear after this likeness and condemn them on account of their fashioned bodies. And their fashioned bodies became fences for the light. " "After the day of rest, Sophia sent her daughter Zoe, being called Eve, as an instructor, in order that she might make Adam, who had no soul, arise, so that those whom he should engender might become containers of light. " end-quote

I have a feeling some of the soul's light, if captured, literally feeds the sun but maybe the core also gets sent back to earth. Maybe the astral storehouse of light is at the same place the physical sun is thereby, hiding it totally to the material.

The Gnostics call the Virgin of Light a judge.... i think there are 7 maidens or judges but maybe i am getting that confused with manicheans. This is when you make it past the life review trap.

We are all born with what Muslims call the Qarin. Gnostics call it the Counterfeit Spirit. For Gnostics , we are born with 3 things, Counterfeit Spirit, Soul and "Light Power". Most psychologists call the counterfeit spirit the ego. You will not be able to remove the counterfeit spirit. All that can be done is to make it powerless. Deny yourself selfish acts. Follow the "Light Power" inside you and the Counterfeit Spirit will wither away and have no influence over you.

The overview is that if do not integrate your own light, it is taken back and put into the "collective" treasury of light.
Maybe, just maybe the collective is the treasury but since no one has reported ever getting past that point, maybe their light power is taken away until the next incarnation?
Then merging would be to voluntarily give your power up. It has to be deception to make humans do it with free will. It is not the true light. It is just the collective light for that realm or maybe even stations within a realm now?

There are servitors.
Pistis Sophia: " Now, therefore, the rulers seal the counterfeiting spirit to the soul, [but] so that it doth not agitate it every hour, making it do all sins and all iniquities. And they give commandment moreover unto the counterfeiting spirit, saying: 'If the soul cometh out of the body, do not agitate it, being assigned to it and transferring it to all the regions of the judgments, region by region, on account of all the sins which thou hast made it do, in order that it may be chastized in all the regions of the judgments, so that it may not be able to go on high to the Light and return into changes of the body."

That means those Spirit Guides who take people all over "heaven" is actually your enemy because it's your counterfeit spirit. It says the Archons told the Counterfeit spirit to pretend and be nice when the soul comes out of the body so it will follow it around.

"The retributive servitors follow the soul, being witnesses to it for all the sins which it committeth, that they may convict it in the judgments."
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"And Melchisedec, the Receiver of the Light, purifieth those powers and carrieth their light into the Treasury of the Light, while the servitors of all the rulers gather together all matter from them all; and the servitors of all the rulers of the Fate and the servitors of the sphere which is below the æons, take it and fashion it into souls of men and cattle and reptiles and wild-beasts and birds and send them down into the world of mankind. And further the receivers of the sun and the receivers of the moon, if they look above and see the configurations of the paths of the æons and the configurations of the Fate and those of the sphere, then they take from them the lightpower; and the | receivers of the sun get it ready and deposit it, until they hand it over to the receivers of Melchisedec, the Light-purifier. And their material refuse they bring to the sphere which is below the æons, and fashion it into [souls of] men, and fashion it also into souls of reptiles and of cattle and of wild-beasts and of birds, according to the circle of the rulers of that sphere and according to all the configurations of its revolution, and they cast them into this world of mankind, and they become souls in this region, as I have just said unto you."

CHAPTER 102
Of the proclamation of the disciples.JESUS continued again in the discourse and said unto his disciples: "When I shall have gone into the Light, then herald it unto the whole world and say unto them: Cease not to seek day and night and remit not yourselves until ye find the mysteries of the Light-kingdom, which will purify you and make you into refined light and lead you into the Light-kingdom...

"The Saviour answered and said unto Mary:
“ If they receive the mystery when still in life, and if they come out of the body, they become light-beams and light-streams and penetrate all the regions until they reach the region of their inheritance.
“ But if they are sinners and are come out of the body and have not repented, and if ye perform for them the mystery of the Ineffable, in order that they may be removed out of all the chastisements and be cast into a righteous body, which is good and inheriteth the Light-kingdom or is brought into the last order of the Light, then they will not be able to penetrate the regions, because they do not perform the mystery [themselves]. But the receivers of Melchisedec follow them and lead them before the Virgin of Light. And | the servitors of the judges of the rulers make frequent haste to take those souls and hand them over from one to the other until they lead them before the Virgin of Light.”
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You could say the Sophia mythos is pretty similar also. She went through suffering until she realized her wrongs and repented. I do think we need to acknowledge the shadow beings and accept they are a part of reality. We should also take ownership that we, as the collective Sophia, contributed to their reality. I don't think we necessarily need to integrate/assimilate the shadow but rather to be able to understand it and forgive it. It seems that as you become aware of your own impulses and signals, you put intent on them observing them which figuratively is shining light on what was dark, assimilating the shadow. Assimilating your shadow is supposed to be a metaphor for enlightening your consciousness, ridding it of shadow which is different than shadow people. I think transmuting the shadow into light as the Emerald Tablets is a better way of putting it. Assimilating would mean making the shadow part of you or you part of it.

So we have the Counterfeit Spirit that is Influencing and Recording Inside us, and is rarely seen.
Destiny- is Leading us to our death. such as the Grim Reaper common across all cultures.
Retributive Receivers and Servitors, who cover all the lesser astral beings that pop up in peoples lives occasionally. These are the ones who watch you, try to push you in wrong directions, even more than your counterfeit spirit can. Shadow people, Demons, Reptilians, Greys, all slightly higher in intellect than the common astral parasites.

So we're born composed of soul, a counterfeit spirit, and light power. And Destiny is assigned to us.
As we grow Retributive Servitors help the Counterfeit Spirit at times to ensure the soul to sin.
When we die the retributive servitors and counterfeit spirit make up the experience that you deal with in NDE's. They know your weakness and they know what pictures to show to appease to you at a minimum.
Retributive Servitors are the lower level entities that humanity deals with as being a separate conscious.
They are the voices, astral beings, shadow people, aliens, channeled entities. They cause turmoil to gain energy and cause the human to sin. The ultimate being those that kill themselves or kill others because of their influence.
Between the counterfeit spirit and the servitors, they will already know you pretty well and probably have already developed a scenario to try and win you over.

The Virigin of Light is an Archon. If you read Nungal's hymn, she allowed all those that were Good to become immortal.
If the Virgin of the Light sees you have found the mysteries, she allows you to go to the realm before the ELR.

From what I understood the Virgin of the Light had the final determination.
" |328. will snatch it away out of all the regions in which it is, and will lead it into the region of the Midst before the Virgin of Light, and the Virgin of Light proveth it and seeth the sign of the kingdom of the Ineffable which is on that soul"

The Hypostasis of the Archons
The rulers laid plans and said, "Come, let us create a man that will be soil from the earth." They modeled their creature as one wholly of the earth. Now the rulers [...] body [...] they have [...] female [...] is [...] with the face of a beast. They had taken some soil from the earth and modeled their man after their body and after the image of God that had appeared to them in the waters. They said, "Come, let us lay hold of it by means of the form that we have modeled, so that it may see its male counterpart [...], and we may seize it with the form that we have modeled" – not understanding the force of God, because of their powerlessness. And he breathed into his face; and the man came to have a soul (and remained) upon the ground many days. But they could not make him arise because of their powerlessness. Like storm winds they persisted (in blowing), that they might try to capture that image, which had appeared to them in the waters. And they did not know the identity of its power.

The Revelation (Apocalypse) of Adam
God, the ruler of the realms(Demiurge) and the powers(Archons), divided us in wrath, and then we became two beings. And the glory in our hearts left us, me and your mother Eve, along with the first knowledge that breathed in us. And glory fled from us and entered another great realm. Your mother Eve and I didn’t come from this realm. But knowledge entered into the seed of great eternal beings. For this reason I myself have called you by the name of that person who is the seed of the great generation or its predecessor. After those days the eternal knowledge of the god of truth(Source) withdrew from me and your mother Eve. Then we learned about the inanimate(Material) as we did about human beings. We recognized the god who created us(Demiurge). We were not strangers to his powers. And we served him in fear and slavery(Eden?). After these events our hearts darkened, and I slept in my heart’s darkened thought. When I heard these words from the great persons standing before me, Eve and I sighed in our hearts. And the lord, the god who created us(Demiurge), stood before us. He said, “Adam, why were you both sighing in your hearts? Don’t you know that I am the god who created you? I breathed into you a spirit of life as a living soul.” Darkness came over our eyes. Then the god who created us created a son from himself and Eve(Demiurge had sex with Eve), your mother. . . . I knew a sweet desire for your mother. And the vigor of our eternal knowledge was destroyed in us, and weakness pursued us. The days of our life were few. I knew that I had come under the authority of death.

The Apocryphon of John
"And the whole aeon of the chief archon trembled, and the foundations of the abyss shook. And of the waters which are above matter, the underside was illuminated by the appearance of his image which had been revealed. And when all the authorities and the chief archon looked, they saw the whole region of the underside which was illuminated. And through the light they saw the form of the image in the water.

(The Demiurge)"And he said to the authorities which attend him, 'Come, let us create a man according to the image of God and according to our likeness, that his image may become a light for us.' And they created by means of their respective powers in correspondence with the characteristics which were given. And each authority supplied a characteristic in the form of the image which he had seen in its natural (form). He created a being according to the likeness of the first, perfect Man. And they said, 'Let us call him Adam, that his name may become a power of light for us.'(Energy Source).

Check out this Manichaen Hymn of the Captivity of Light

"She seizes and binds the Light in the six great bodies,
In earth, water and fire, plants and animals.

She fashions it in many forms; she molds it into many figures;
She fetters it in a prison so that it may not ascend to the height.

She weaves a net around it on all sides, she piles it up;
she sets a watchman over it."
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The way it is worded is that by “Intent” a likeness was created. So you could take Sophia being a symbol purely as a personification of Wisdom. The Wisdom meaning that this principal came from the ELR and created a likeness. Now go one step further, each one of us is Sophia, with our Wisdom we change our world trying to make it like the ELR.
So it goes both ways but ultimately Pistis Sophia supports this at many points. Because Sophia is also a representation of our souls.
So if we look at it in that aspect WE are SOPHIA, WE created this place and WE created the Demiurge. WE are the ones who fell. WE are the ones who create and support all this madness. Honestly this would be my true interpretation of the Sophia myth but it is represented throughout history in many ways. In this historical representation she is Namma, she is Tiamat.

If we created this world and place without knowing we created the Demiurge and every other God throughout history. Our thoughts create beings and forms in the Astral and these beings “come to life” needing our energy to survive. While real they are not what they ever seemed. We have become oppressed by our own creation just as Sophia was in Pistis Sophia. In that she required a boost of light to go the right direction and that would be “Christ” or the “Light” that drives us upward, the Enlightened Afterthought.

We created the principal of “Envy” by creating a material world to come into that makes us lacking in every way the reality we are accustomed to. In the myths Namma was killed off (or de-emphasized) and replaced by Inana/Isis etc (that could just perhaps represent the fall of Namma/Sophia into materialsm. We create all this reality or imagine / dream it with our consciousness, so that would include the Demiurge, the archons, the shadow beings, all of it.

The true Demiurge would be the principal of “Envy” or “Jealousy”, Since EVERY “evil” action is motivated by this very principal.
It starts with “ME” lacking something someone else has or we just want. Stealing, Rape, Murder, all of them. By every action taken like that it reinforces and empowers the whole form of the Demiurge. Now this in no way says there are not beings CREATED by us masquerading as the Gods we invented. I still believe this is real but a majority of these beings were originally created by our own thought forms and take on a life of their own. These are collective actions, of course.

If we need to correct this collectively we could be in for the looooong haul. Getting people to wake up and do that is a challenge. We have traveled down the road of civilization and desire of materialism..... going back to a more simpler tribal setting seems unlikely unless we self-destruct which unfortunately may be what it takes.

But it is like building a house for Habitat for Humanity. You have many different groups “collectively” building a house. It does not mean they are going to live in the house or be attached to the other groups for eternity.

The texts say “And immediately her will manifested itself as a likeness of heaven” and "with the wish that something should come into being like the light that first existed. Immediately her wish appeared as a heavenly likeness with an incomprehensible greatness". Immediately her wish appeared as a heavenly likeness with an incomprehensible greatness.
Also, they say, "Sophia saw what her desire produced. It changed into the form of a dragon with a lion’s head and eyes flashing lightning bolts. She cast him far from her,
Outside of the realm of the immortal beings so that they could not see him."

The way it is worded implies that “Intent” or "desire" a likeness or simulated copy was created. "The shadow perceived that there was one stronger than it. It was jealous, and when it became self-impregnated, it immediately bore envy. Since that day the principle of envy has appeared in all of the aeons and their worlds. But envy was found to be an aborted fetus without any spirit in it. It became like the shadows in a great watery substance."

You could say shadow is the astral vessel of our counterfeit spirt. It becoming jealous of our “soul/Sophia” becomes jealous and then acts out with envy. Then envy itself creates more thought forms -- all the shadows that surround us. Tracing it all the way back to the source could it be that Sophia was envious or jealous of Ineffable Father and desired to be the creator of a creation herself so she tried to create. And it was this envious or jealous desire which created the shadow because it was an imperfect copy of the true light. which created shadow because it lacked full definition/knowledge or completeness. (This does have obvious parallels to the story of the fall of Lucifer the most beautiful angel into matter and becoming "evil" or the devil which would also collectively be us perhaps, our dark side or shadow aspect.)

If you try to copy something and don't do it completely it gets blurry or "Dark" in some spots...incoherent.

In Pistis Sophia I am pretty sure it is she forgets and then her own creations take all her power(energy). She loses hope and remembers the ELR and begs and begs for forgiveness and saving. Ultimately a “light/Christ” is given to her to sustain her enough to get out of this realm.

So what we have are impure thoughts creating thought forms which then become entities and alive which can feed on us or buddhist ideas of tulpas and egregores etc....sophia's original thought / will /desire / wish to create her own Light Realms was a bad, envious thought which then manifested shadow in the form of these shadowy thought forms which then became entities and took on a life of their own and feed off us to stay alive.

A self perpetuating problem. We create the forms that ultimately cause our suffering.

"Adam was brought into the shadow of death. They intended to make him anew This time from Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Which are Matter, Darkness, Desire, The Artificial Spirit. This all became a tomb, A new kind of body. Those thieves bound the man in it, Enchained him in forgetfulness, Made him subject to dying. " So desire was also put within these shells of imprisonment.

They envy us because they are not us or we have something they don't have: spirit /light. So either we somehow give them light and transmute their shadow into light by acknowleding/accepting/forgiving/giving them love). By doing so our frequency will increase and we will be filled with light thus transmuting the shadow into light. We are entombed or enclosed in the shadow until we die but I was thinking if light gets brighter does it also shine further or illuminate more of the darkness....say you had a big room and it was dark and you tried different powers of light, I would think the higher the wattage of the light the more of the room it would illuminate...if you had a powerful enough bulb it would illuminate the whole room and make it brighter.

Thought control leads to higher frequency but thought control is first and foremost. The real problem is our body and being chained to it, imprisoned within.

Or we quarantine them somehow...which could be accomplished at death by waking up and going back home to the ELR.
I do not think the “light” or “spirit” is consumed. The “light” is needed because it creates the biologically produced energy by operating in a dualistic dance with the counterfeit spirit. Bio-electricity, bioplasma, biophotons or something of that sort which would make you tired all the time for starters.

The Demiurge is like a collective World Thought form which is a temporary nonphysical entity created by our thoughts and emotions, energy constructs without spirit but are kept alive by us constantly feeding them or reinforcing the pattern. They are called tulpas or egregores. Once the thought form patterns that created them are severed then the energy of the entity dissipates.

Desire seems to play a huge role in all of this as we become attached to things through desire. It leaves us wanting more and because of it we are not content, happy or at peace. no joy until we get that thing we are craving. Addictions of the mind and emotion.

I wonder why Sophia/we had that desire to create all this... perhaps desire to know oneself deeper or better... or curiosity to see if she/we could duplicate it or even do better. I wonder if her envy of the Ineffable Father and his creation caused her to project that envy onto the Demiurge..her envy created an envious Demiurge..... in other words he was the creation of her envy and thus was envious himself because he wasn't the creator. This seemingly has trickled down into the archons and shadow beings because all they can do is copy and not create. But It never said she was envious of anything above. In one instance it said when she witnessed what she created she was DISTURBED. This disturbance(anxiety) original created the demiurge(thought form).

If Sophia is all of us, then we all collectively created this copy. Before coming here we had the power to create whatever we wanted with intent and we lose that here therefore never feeling complete while here.

"I asked the Savior, “Lord, will every soul be saved and enter the pure light?”
He replied, “You are asking an important question, one it will be impossible to answer for anyone who is not a member of the unmoved race. They are the people upon whom the Spirit of Life will descend and the power will enable them to be saved and to become perfect and worthy of greatness. They expunge evil from themselves and they will care nothing for wickedness, wanting only that which is not corrupt. They will achieve freedom from rage, envy, jealousy, desire, or craving.”
“The physical body will negatively effect them. They wear it as they look forward to the time when they will meet up with those who will remove it. Those people deserve indestructible eternal life. They endure everything, bearing up under everything that happens so that they can deserve the good and inherit life eternal.”

"It happened that the realm (aeon) Wisdom (Sophia) Of conceptual thought (Epinoia), Began to think for herself, She used the thinking (enthymesis) And the foreknowledge (prognosis) Of the Invisible Spirit. She intended to reveal an image from herself To do so without the consent of the Spirit, Who did not approve, Without the thoughtful assistance of her masculine counterpart, Who did not approve. Without the Invisible Spirit’s consent Without the knowledge of her partner She brought it into being. Because she had unconquerable Power Her thought was not unproductive. Something imperfect came out of her Different in appearance from her. Because she had created it without her masculine counterpart She gave rise to a misshapen being unlike herself. Sophia saw what her desire produced. It changed into the form of a dragon with a lion’s head And eyes flashing lightning bolts. She cast him far from her, Outside of the realm of the immortal beings So that they could not see him. [She had created him in ignorance.] Sophia surrounded him with a brilliant cloud, Put a throne in the center part of the cloud So that no one would see it. [Except for the Holy Spirit called the Mother of the Living] She named him Yaldabaoth. Yaldabaoth is the chief ruler. He took great Power (dynamis) from his mother, Left her, and moved away from his birthplace. He assumed command, Created realms for himself With a brilliant flame that continues to exist even now. Yadabaoth united with the thoughtlessness (aponoia) within him. He begot ruling authorities (exousia) Modeling them on the incorruptible realms above."

So basically the primordial mother goddess Namma (Sophia) who was originally depicted as being round and robust was forgotten and replaced with the sexy, alluring Inana/Isis/Aphrodite/Venus who was the goddess of desire, beauty, and lust. She had metaphorically lost her innocence and purity and fallen into matter. We are collectively her. We have lost our innocence and purity and gone down the path of materialism and greed, full of lust and desire. In a sense Lucifer is also a metaphor in that originally he was the most beautiful angel, the bearer of light, but then was said to have fallen from heaven to become Satan or the Devil, the Prince of Darkness. The Church even equated Lucifer with Venus.

In the Gnostic texts Sophia. the mother goddess, repented and was eventually forgiven by the Ineffable Father. He sent a light power and holy spirit to help her return to heaven. We need to remember our true origins, become wise, repent, change our ways and realize that the path of materialism and greed we are headed down is not going to ultimately satisfy our desires. In our ignorance we have lost our way and are in need of Wisdom. Desire only leads to attachment and suffering. Desire and its cousins envy, jealousy, and greed result in hate, lust, insecurity, anxiety, resentment, fear, anger, frustration, regret, unhappiness, depression, pain and suffering. Once we let go of our attachments and desire, and replace them with pure Intentions then we can learn to become at peace and joy in the moment, content with what we have.

At the same time by the worship of various Gods over time we created them and reinforced them with our worship. We created it all. The archons and shadows are projections of the imaginings/imagination of our Consciousness lacking pure Intent and acting out our cravings or desires for fleshly appetites. Worshiping false idols and gods of lust, greed, envy etc. The irony is that we collectively over time created the illusion of this place ourselves. We created the whole trap, not on purpose, but we created the Archons who in turn helped reinforce the system and create “ecosystems” they could feed off of.

HUMANS CREATED AS SLAVES TO WORSHIP THE ANUNNAKI GODS

JUDAISM & CHRISTIANITY - THE "HOLEY" BIBLE

Even the Qur'An identifies God as light. "God is the light of the heavens and the earth" Qur'an 24:35

1 John 1:5
"This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all."

JOHN 8:12 ESV - Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world"

"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." -- Isaiah 45:7, The Bible, King James Version**

"And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light." -- 2 Corinthians 11:14, The Bible, New International Version

ALL MAJOR MAINSTREAM RELIGIONS WERE GIVEN TO HUMANITY BY PRINCES OF THE ELITE ROYAL FAMILIES OR NOBILITY. ** Krishna (Hinduism) was a prince. Buddha (Buddhism) was a prince. Moses (Judaism) was supposedly found by the Pharoah's daughter and raised in Pharoah's court as an Egyptian prince. Burkes-Peerage says the Queen of England is descended from Muhammad and the royal family also believes they are descended from Jesus, who as the messiah would have been expected to come from the line of King David.

In the King James version of the Bible, the very first three verses of Genesis declare, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." This is the creation story of God creating the heaven and earth. Notice it mentions a formless void and darkness. Then Spirit moved so there was vibration. God spoke so there was sound. Then, finally, Light is mentioned as a product of voice and sound. So Light, according to the Bible, was not Source (although there are verses that declare God to be light as well).

Now the typical assessment of the text is called creatio ex nihilo, that is God created the world out of nothing. But one could also argue that the darkness or void is god itself. For as we will see pure light, unreflected, is perceived as darkness itself as we see in outer space when the light is coming from the sun to Earth. It is only when it is reflected off of planets or the moon that we can see the light as color, or when it is refracted through the Earth's atmosphere and we begin to see it as red/orange etc at sunrise or sunset.

I was thinking about Genesis 1 and I wondered what the Hebrew words actually were and how they were translated. I was trying to do the translation myself (even though I don't know Hebrew), but I was looking up dictionaries and noun declensions etc and I found this that Genesis 1:1 transliterated is "b'reishit bara Elohim et hashamayim ve'et ha'aretz". As I was translating the words verbatim before trying to order them I had something like, "In the Beginning it created the Gods the heavens the land..." But apparently there is a mistake in how they transcribed the very first word... https://www.rebjeff.com/blog/bereshit-in-the-beginning-of-what This guy says it would be more accurate to say: "In the beginning of the beginning that is always beginning....this gets into the realm of Awareness or the eternal Now. On another note "Elohim" actually is plural and probably should be "Gods", not "God". Plus there is a bit of a question as to whether Gods would be the subject or object of the sentence too. So we could even conceivably have something like: The Eternal now (Void?) is continually creating God....

The creation story and the story of the flood were taken from Babylonian texts and Sumerian texts. The whole birth story of Moses is taken from the Akkadian Tale of King Sargon 2,400 B.C.:
"Sargon, the mighty king, king of Agade, am I.
My mother was a changeling, my father I knew not.
The brother(s) of my father loved the hills.
My city is Azupiranu, which is situated on the banks of the Euphrates.
My changeling mother conceived me, in secret she bore me.
She set me in a basket of rushes, with bitumen she sealed My lid.
She cast me into the river which rose not (over) me,
The river bore me up and carried me to Akki, the drawer of water.
Akki, the drawer of water lifted me out as he dipped his e[w]er.
Akki, the drawer of water, [took me] as his son(and) reared me.
Akki, the drawer of water, appointed me as his gardener,
While I was a gardener, Ishtar granted me (her) love,
And for four and [ ... ] years I exercised kingship,
The ... [people] I ruled, I gov[erned];"

In fact, pretty much all the major stories of Judaism and the Old Testament such as the creation of man and the building of an ark to escape the flood were taken from other preexistent cultures, especially Babylonian stories which were based on the Sumerian tales. Other characteristics are similar to Mithraism. The Jewish people took the idea of a montheistic god from the Egyptians and the words and actions of their god, Yahweh, were a composite of many gods before him, including the Sumerian Enlil, Enki and most notably the god of pestilence, Nergal.

Politics is throughout the entire Bible. The mings had their grubby little fingerprints over everything. Also, King James commissioned the translation of the King James Bible. There are even two books in the Old Testament named Kings and Kings II. Kings were major characters throughout such as King David, King Solomon, te Pharoah, Caesar, etc. and the Emperors with the councils to decide content.

Jesus was in the line of King David and was the source for the controversial books Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The Da Vinci Code. We can also see how much power the royal family had in the creation of Christianity in the very fact that Emperor Constantine, a sun worshiper and murderer, officially made it the state religion. . So as you see, Christianity and the Bible was very much rooted in politics. In fact, councils were held to decide which books to include and exclude from the Bible.

"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 10Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 12Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation."

13 "Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. 15For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: 16As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. 17Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

18Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. 19For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. 20For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God."

Genesis 22
22 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”

2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”

1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

2 That the asons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they btook them cwives of all which they chose.

3 And the Lord said, My aspirit shall not always bstrive with man, for that he also is cflesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

4 There were agiants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

5 ¶ And God saw that the awickedness of man was great in the earth, and that bevery imagination of the cthoughts of his dheart was only eevil continually.

6 aAnd it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it bgrieved him at his heart.

7 And the Lord said, I will adestroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; bfor it repenteth me that I have made them.

28 And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

29 And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.

A man of God said to Ahab,
This is what God says:
Because the Syrians called me a hill god but not a valley god, I'll deliver them into your hand.
(And then you'll know I'm God.)

27,000 Syrians are killed by a falling wall
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30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left.

Jordan Maxwell has revealed that Christianity and all of the other major world religions are, in fact, descended from earlier solar, lunar and stellar cults, and represent the sun. In his book That Old Time Religion and his video series The Naked Truth, he explains since no one on earth can claim ownership of the sun, it must be "God's sun". Since it provides daylight, the sun of God is the "light of the world". Ancient man feared the cold, dark conditions of the night and waited each morning for "the risen sun". Without the energy which the sun sacrifices to sustain life on earth, we would die so it was said that the sun was "our saviour" and "sacrifices his life for us" so that mankind can have "everlasting life" on earth.

Jordan continues to explain how in Egypt, the sun was known as Horus and at daybreak Horus had risen on the horizon (Horus-risen) and was said to be "born again". When the sun died at night, we were ruled by the "Prince of Darkness" whom the Egyptians called "Set" because God's sun had "Set" at "sun-SET". When the sun died, it was said to wear a "crown of thorns" or a corona. The sun is said to begin its ministry at the age of 30 because it enters each house of the zodiac at the 30th degree and is said to die at 33 because it exits at the 33rd degree. He further explains how you can draw a cross over the circle of the sun, dividing it into the four seasons comprised of two solstices and two equinoxes, which is why you can look at the cross on top of most churches even today and see a circle over the top of it. "God's sun" is on "the cross".

To quote Jordan, "On December 22, the sun going south, reaches its lowest point in the sky (our winter solstice). At that lowest point, the sun stops moving on the sundial for three days, Dec. 22, 23, & 24th, in the Southern Constellation known as "The Southern Cross". Hence, our Savior (dead for three days) died on the cross. ... The "Southern Cross Constellation", that is. This is the only time in the year that the sun actually stops its movement in our sky. On the morning of December 25th, the sun begins its annual journey back to us in the northern hemisphere, bringing, of course, our spring. Therefore, on December 25th, our sun is "BORN AGAIN". And to this day, his worshippers still celebrate his birthday!"

Evidently, L Ron Hubbard was one of the first people to say not to go to the light. I told you the story of the man I met at the bookstore who told me Hubbad said the light was an implant station. I later read something that said Hubbard had a lecture whee he talked about it. Hubbard was most likely Naval Intelligence. He was certainly in the Navy, and as a boy he was mentored by a Commander Joseph "Snake" Thompson, who was undoubtedly Naval Intelligence. He was also steeped in Freudian psychology, who pioneered the technique that Hubbard later incorporated as Dianetics auditing. Freud ended up abandoning the technique because he found it to be problematic.

And I'm sure you're aware that even Aleistar Crowley was British Intelligence during WW2, if not before. Some believe he was a double agent.

What Intelligence does is confuse, gaslight, and play games of cointelpro. I would think that the "archons" have their agents in Intelligence agencies. Especially CIA, Mossad, MI6. So of course they're going to do what they can to cointelpro and gaslight the shit out of any "Don't go to the light" narrative.

Books: Corpus Hermeticum by Hermes Trismegistus; Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius (Paperback)
by Hermes Trismegistus; The Way of Hermes (Paperback) by Hermes Trismegistus; The Emerald Tablet of Hermes by Hermes Trismegistus; The Emerald Tablets of Thoth-The-Atlantean (Hardcover)
by Maurice Doreal ; Kyballon, Initiation into Hermetics by Franz Bardon, the Hermetica by Timothy Freke, The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order (Paperback) by Israel Regardie;

The Corpus Hermeticum is a collection of 17 Greek treatises attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth.[1] The Hermetic tradition represents a non-Christian lineage of Hellenistic Gnosticism. The tradition and its writings date to at least the first century B.C.E., and the texts we possess were all written prior to the second century C.E. The surviving writings of the tradition, known as the Corpus Hermeticum. contains a broad variety of treatises dealing with astrology, medicine and pharmacology, alchemy, and magic....

it consists of 18 separate treatises
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talking about the individual soul and
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its potential ascent to the world of the
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divine
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noose or mind or intellect through
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what's known as gnosis
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hermeticism today can be a lot of
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different things it is often very
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loosely connected to
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any general esoteric wisdom or occult
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knowledge
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but it all stems back to the ancient
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collection of texts
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that is attributed to the figure of
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hermes just megistas
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today we know that the text most likely
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didn't originate with hermes himself and
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that the stories about him and his role
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in history of philosophy and religion
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is probably mythical but that doesn't
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change the fact that the hermetic
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literature has been immensely
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influential
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and played a central role in the history
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of esotericism
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occultism as well as religion mysticism
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and philosophy in general
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much of what we associate with occult
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sciences
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magic astrology and alchemy is very
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strongly connected to
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the hermetic tradition

the very first
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treatise of the corpus hermeticum known
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as the poi mandrus
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in which hermes is the one being taught
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by this other character called
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poemandres which the treatise is named
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after
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and this character poemandus is
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identified in the text
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as the noos the divine noose now nos is
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a word that is basically impossible to
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translate but
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it is usually rendered as the intellect
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or as the divine
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mind already we get a glimpse into the
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exalted and complex religious
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philosophical worlds of the hermetica
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or the philosophical america to be exact
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the texts were again probably used
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as spiritual aid for people who were
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initiated into this hermetic
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group although again some scholars will
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doubt this idea
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and these initiates were probably being
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led by a spiritual guide
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much like in the text themselves it
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seems that
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if there was this initiatory hermetic
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group the teacher-student relationship
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seems to have played a very important
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role
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which is then reflected in the text
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themselves the teacher
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would have been a very important factor
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in the
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spiritual ascent of the student
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towards the divine world

the
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hermitis then divide reality into
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various spheres
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there's god again there's the
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intelligible world the physical world
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and the human being in a kind of
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descending order the human being however
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is the microcosm of creation and thus
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at least in his spiritual or noetic
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intellectual reality
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is exalted above other inhabitants of
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the cosmos
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including even lesser deities and gods
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this idea of the human being as a
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microcosm of the
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larger macrocosm of the universe or
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divine world is a theme that will recur
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continuously in history and even outside
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of hermeticism as well
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aside from this the system also includes
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various planetary spheres
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diamonds and divinities fitting for a
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late antique philosophical environment
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but even though they seem to divide the
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world into a hierarchy of sorts
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this entire cosmos is intimately
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interconnected and united in
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sympathea everything in the world is
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connected and interacts in other words
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this is an idea that is probably taken
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from the stoics
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indeed the hermitis present a monistic
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picture of reality
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where everything is a divine unity in
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the words of the scholar garth
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fouden quote thus everything is part of
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god
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and god is in everything his creative
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activity continuing unceasingly
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all things are one and the pleiroma of
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being is indestructible
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despite this the human being is
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especially exalted as having a divine
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spark or
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in a sense being divine in nature at
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least more so than other
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things the soul of the human being can
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ascend through this hierarchy of being
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to reach communion with the divine noose
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and with god himself
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it is with this that the philosophical
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hermetica is primarily concerned
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the texts were again most likely part of
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an initiatory spiritual practice that
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aimed to purify the soul of
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impurity to shed attachment and
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connection to the body and the world of
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matter
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and to ascend to become unified and
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assimilated into the one god
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so that the person himself becomes
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divine

in other
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treatises or sections
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the picture is a lot more dualistic with
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the world being seen as the opposite of
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god
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and it's a kind of curse or a kind of
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prison that is to be escaped

once the practitioner reaches a higher
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stage of development and ideally of
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gnosis he can transcend this perspective
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as he sheds his connection to the world
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of matter and form
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and when the soul ascends enough to
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reach perfect gnosis
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he will be reborn not in a physical
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sense of course but in a spiritual sense
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he will become one with the noose the
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divine mind
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and with god himself transforming his
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soul into a divine status

Hermes was often identified with the
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quranic prophet idris
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and the biblical enoch and thus seen as
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one of the great messengers of god and
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originator of hidden wisdoms
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I am significantly lacking in understanding of these Hermetic texts, but I am very interested in them and intend to read these to try to get a better understanding. I am a bit suspicious of Hermes due to my cursory research. But I am interested to get to the bottom of the meaning of the wind in the willos and the piper at the gates of dawn, all which may have to do with Pan, and perhaps by extension, Hermes.

the first principle of mentalism
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which allows you to grasp the laws of the mental universe.

Principle one: mentalism.
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- [Woman Narrator] Much like in the "Corpus Hermeticum,"
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this axiom embodies the idea
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that all is mind,
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something today we know as idealism.
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Basically, everything that happens is a result
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of a mental state which proceeds it.
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For anything to exist,
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thoughts had to form first
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This law ultimately says that it is our consciousness
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that allows us to interact with reality.
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- [Man Narrator] Principle two: correspondence.
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- [Woman Narrator] This truth discusses the idea
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that there's always a correspondence and link
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between the events in the various planes of existence.
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In fact, this law is where we explore the legendary phrase,
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"As above, so below," In a nutshell, if something is happening
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on a physical level,
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chances are there is a relationship
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to a like energy on a higher frequency too.

Principle three: vibration.
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- [Woman Narrator] In short, nothing rests.
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Everything in existence is in a constant state
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of motion and vibration.
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Even things that appear motionless and still
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like a rock on the ground,
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is still moving at a molecular
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and atomic level, and beyond.
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To quote Walter Russell,
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"In the wave lies the secrets of creation."
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It explains that the distinction between manifestations
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of matter, energy, mind, and spirit,
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are all just the result
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of different vibrational frequencies.
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The higher a person or thing is on the scale,
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the higher the rate of vibration.
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In fact, spiritual alchemy in the "Kybalion"
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is described simply as the practical application
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of this principle.
Principal four: polarity.
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- [Woman Narrator] Following in our last principle,
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this one says that everything has an opposite...

All manifested things have two sides,
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two aspects, or two poles.
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Opposites are identical in nature,
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yet different in degree.
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Extremes meet and all paradoxes can be reconciled.

it suggests
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that we can change the polarity of a degree of emotion
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by recognizing it as a spectrum
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and choosing the degree which best suits our needs.
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- [Man Narrator] Principle five: rhythm.
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- [Woman Narrator] This one builds upon both the principles
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of vibration and polarity,
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as it states that everything is manifested
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as a measured motion; to and from, outflow and inflow,
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a swing backwards and a swing forwards,
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just like a pendulum.
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This law also reminds us that there is a rhythm
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between every pair of opposites or poles.
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Learning from this principle allows us
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to transition from one pole to the other
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and not necessarily need to go
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to poles of extreme opposites.
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It also arguably controls the cycle of life and death,
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creation and destruction, rise and fall,
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and of course, manifests in our mental states.
Principle six: causation.
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- [Woman Narrator] Again, we find ourselves overlapping
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with previous laws.
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And it makes sense that they'd fit together.
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This principle states that there's a cause for every effect
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and an effect for every cause.
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It also argues that there's no such thing
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as chance or coincidence;

Narrator] Principle seven: gender.
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- [Woman Narrator] This principle explains
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how gender is manifested in everything.
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But this doesn't necessarily relate to sexual gender
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or how you identify yourself,
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it's more about the masculine and feminine energies
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that lead to creation and procreation in the universe.

That which is below is like that which is above & that which is above is like that which is below to do ye miracles of one only thing

Whatever is below is similar to that which is above. Through this the marvels of the work of one thing are procured and perfected.

The father of it is the sun, the mother the moon. The wind bore it in the womb. Its nurse is the earth,

This ascends from the earth into the sky and again descends from the sky to the earth, and receives the power and efficacy of things above and of things below.

Emerald Tablets of Thoth

The original source of the Emerald Tablet is unknown. Although Hermes Trismegistus is the author named in the text, its first known appearance is in a book written in Arabic between the sixth and eighth centuries. The text was first translated into Latin in the twelfth century. Numerous translations, interpretations and commentaries followed.
FWIW...... "Translated by Doreal":

"Chosen was I from the sons of men, taught by the Dweller so that his purposes might be fulfilled, purposes yet unborn in the womb of time. Long ages I dwelt in the Temple, learning ever and yet ever more wisdom, until I, too, approached the light emitted from the great fire. Taught me he, the path to Amenti, the underworld where the great king sits upon his throne of might. "

Here they come to earth and want to free man from their bondage. :
"Far in a past time, lost in the space time, the Children of Light looked down on the world. Seeing the children of men in their bondage, bound by the force that came from beyond. Knew they that only by freedom from bondage could man ever rise from the Earth to the Sun. Down they descended and created bodies, taking the semblance of men as their own. The Masters of everything said after their forming: "We are they who were formed from the space-dust, partaking of life from the infinite ALL; living in the world as children of men, like and yet unlike the children of men."

This almost sounds like the VR game of avatars incarnating from pods:
"There in the circle from aeon to aeon, sit the Great Masters, living a life not known among men. There in the Halls of Life they lie sleeping; free flows their Soul through the bodies of men. Time after time, while their bodies lie sleeping, incarnate they in the bodies of men. Teaching and guiding onward and upward, out of the darkness into the light. "

you may too become as one with the seven masters or Time Lords:
"He who by progress has grown from the darkness, lifted himself from the night into light, free is he made of the Halls of Amenti, free of the Flower of Light and of Life. Guided he then, by wisdom and knowledge, passes from men, to the Master of Life. There he may dwell as one with the Masters, free from the bonds of the darkness of night. Seated within the flower of radiance sit seven Lords from the Space-Times above us, helping and guiding through infinite Wisdom, the pathway through time of the children of men. "

The Nine and the Lords of Karma:
"Custodians and watchers of the force of man's bondage, ready to loose when the light has been reached. First and most mighty, sits the Veiled Presence, Lord of Lords, the infinite Nine, over the other from each the Lords of the Cycles; Three, Four, Five, and Six, Seven, Eight, each with his mission, each with his powers, guiding, directing the destiny of man. There sit they, mighty and potent, free of all time and space. Not of this world they, yet akin to it, Elder Brothers they, of the children of men. Judging and weighing, they with their wisdom, watching the progress of Light among men."

This almost sounds like the Carousel ritual in the movie Logan's Run:
"Then grew in the great space before me, flame after flame, from the veil of the night. Uncounted millions leaped they before me, some flaming forth as flowers of fire."

This sounds like how the gods rewarded good men with not sending them to hell:
"Thou hast been made free of the Halls of Amenti. Choose thou thy work among the children of men. Then spoke I: O, great master, let me be a teacher of men, leading then onward and upward until they, too, are lights among men; freed from the veil of the night that surrounds them, flaming with light that shall shine among men."

On the fire within:
"He who knows the fire that is within himself shall ascend unto the eternal fire and dwell in it eternally. Fire, the inner fire, is the most potent of all force, for it overcometh all things and penetrates to all things of the Earth... Oft have I journeyed the deep hidden passage, looked on the Light that is Life among men. There 'neath the flowers of Life ever living, searched I the s and the secrets of men. Found I that man is but living in darkness, light of the great fire is hidden within."

[Note: Within the demiurge's system are these things not possibly true? This is definitely laying out the system of the Demiurge...lords of karma,judgment, reincarnation,, growing toward the light Pistis Sophia speaks of breaking the bonds and no longer having to complete the circuits. So this is the goal ultimately in the system of the Demiurge, although I doubt they really gift it to very many. They rule the afterlife and during the afterlife, those who do not have enough knowledge they become the stumbling block. ]

Form and formless: "Forth from them came forth the Logos, instruments they of the power o'er all. Vast is their countenance, yet hidden in smallness, formed by a forming, known yet unknown....

"NINE is the father, vast he of countenance, forming and changing from out of the formless. Meditate on the symbols I give thee. Keys are they, though hidden from men."

"Each and all of them struggling upward, gaining the heights and plumbing the depths, moving at times in realms of brightness, living through darkness, gaining the Light. Know, O man, that Light is thine heritage. Know that darkness is only a veil. Sealed in thine is brightness eternal, waiting the moment of freedom to conquer, waiting to rend the veil of the night. "

"When ye have gained the light of all wisdom, free shall ye be to shine in the ether -- one of the Suns that light outer darkness -- one of the space-born grown into Light. "

The veil is the body. what our consciousness sees is the darkness of our own prison.

"Formed forth ye, from the primal ether, filled with the brilliance that flows from the source, bound by the ether coalesced around, yet ever it flames until at last it is free. Lift up your flame from out of the darkness, fly from the night and ye shall be free."

Bound by the matter that imprisons us

"List ye again, O man, to my wisdom, that hearing, ye too, might live and be free. Not of the earth are ye -- earthy, but child of the Infinite Cosmic Light. Know ye not, O man, of your heritage? Know ye not ye are truly the Light? Sun of the Great Sun, when ye gain wisdom, truly aware of your kinship with Light. Now, to ye, I give knowledge, freedom to walk in the path I have trod, showing ye truly how by my striving, I trod the path that leads to the stars. Hark ye, O man, and know of thy bondage, know how to free thyself from the toils. Out of the darkness shall ye rise upward, one with the Light and one with the stars. Follow ye ever the path of wisdom. "

"Deep in the silence, first ye must linger until at last ye are free from desire, free from the longing to speak in the silence. Conquer by silence, the bondage of words. Abstaining from eating until we have conquered desire for food, that is bondage of soul. Then lie ye down in the darkness. Close ye your eyes from the rays of the Light. Centre thy soul-force in the place of thine consciousness, shaking it free from the bonds of the night. Place in thy mind-place the image thou desireth. Picture the place thou desireth to see. Vibrate back and forth with thy power. Loosen the soul from out of its night. Fiercely must thou shake with all of thy power until at last thy soul shall be free."

I think it does lay out alot of the system including how to be free. At night our consciousness falls into a dream state from which we wake in the morning. Some are able to become aware they are dreaming and control the dream. We call this lucid dreaming. It could be that what we call this everyday normal waking state is just another dream albeit at a slightly higher level and when we sleep at night it is a dream within a dream. If so, it could be that we need to wake up from this lower state of consciousness and become aware of the true reality. Perhaps that is what the previous passage from the Emerald Tablets was alluding to.

"When ye have gained the light of all wisdom, free shall ye be to shine in the ether -- one of the Suns that light outer darkness -- one of the space-born grown into Light. "

"Hark ye, O man, and list to this wisdom: where do name and form cease? (Inside yourself there is no ego or physical form) Only in consciousness, invisible, an infinite force of radiance bright. The forms that ye create by brightening (The images our light makes-Holographic) they vision are truly effects that follow thy cause. Man is a star bound to a body, until in the end, he is freed through his strife. Only by struggle and toiling thy utmost shall the star within thee bloom out in new life. He who knows the commencement of all things, free is his star from the realm of night. "

"When unto thee comes a feeling, drawing thee nearer to the darker gate, examine thine and find if the feeling thou hast has come from within. If thou shalt find the darkness thine own thoughts, banish them forth from the place in thy mind. Send through thy body a wave of vibration, irregular first and regular second, repeating time after time until free. Start the WAVE FORCE in thy BRAIN CENTER. Direct it in waves from thine head to thy foot. But if thou findest thine is not darkened, be sure that a force is directed to thee. Only by knowing can thou overcome it. Only be wisdom can thou hope to be free. Knowledge brings wisdom and wisdom is power. Attain and ye shall have power o'er all."

"Long ages ago, The SUNS of the Morning descending, found the world filled with night, there in that past, began the struggle, the age old Battle Darkness & Light. "

"Look to the LIGHT! O my brother. Open and ye shall receive. Press on through the valley of darkness. Overcome the dweller of night. Keep ever thine eyes of the LIGHT-PLANE, and thou shalt be One with the LIGHT. Man is in process of changing to forms that are not of this world. Grows he is time to the formless, a plane on the cycle above. Know ye, ye must become formless before ye are with the LIGHT,"
The question is what light is he referring to....the astral light of the NDE or the Eternal Light Realms?

"Wisdom is hidden in darkness. When lit by the flame of the Soul, find thou the wisdom and be LIGHT-BORN, a Sun of the Light without form. Seek thee ever more wisdom. Find it in the of the flame. Know that only by striving and Light pour into thy brain. Now have I spoken with wisdom. List to my Voice and obey. Tear open the Veils of the darkness. Shine a LIGHT on the WAY

In that space where time exists not, faintly I sensed the guardians of cycles. Move they only through angles. Free are they not of the curved dimensions. Strange and terrible are the HOUNDS of the Barrier. Follow they consciousness to the limits of space. Think not to escape by entering your body, for follow they fast the Soul through angles. Only the circle will give ye protection, save from the claws of the DWELLERS IN ANGLES. Entered I my body. Created the circles that know not angles, created the form that from my form was formed. Made my body into a circle and lost the pursuers in the circles of time. But, even yet, when free from my body, cautious ever must I be not to move through angles, else my soul may never be free. "

"Lift thou thine eyes to the Cosmos. Lift thou thine eyes to the Light. Speak in the words of the Dweller, the chant that calls down the Light. Sing thou the song of freedom. Sing thou the song of the Soul. Create the high vibration that will make thee One with the Whole. Blend all thyself with the Cosmos. Grow into ONE with the Light. "

"Thy LIGHT, O man, is the great LIGHT, shining through the shadow of flesh. Free must thou rise from the darkness before thou art One with the LIGHT."
Here he does acknowledge the light within is the great light and that the body is shadow/darkness.

"The key to worlds within thee are found only within. For man is the gateway of mystery and the key that is One with the One. Seek ye within the circle. Use the WORD I shall give. Open the gateway within thee,"
See, here is where I feel one may be led astray as he later gives a mantra of words to use while I strongly feel it would not be a good idea to follow that advice. He talks about nine dimensions which reminds me of the movie The Ninth Gate based on the Ninth gate of the Kingdoms of Shadow.

"Aye, know, though hidden in darkness, your Soul, a spark of the true flame, exists. Be ye One with the greatest of all Lights. Find at the SOURCE, the END of thy goal. "

"Saw I that the Cosmos is Order and part of a movement that extends to all space, a party of an Order of Orders, constantly moving in a harmony of space. Saw I the wheeling of cycles like vast circles across the sky... Know ye, O man, that all space is filled by worlds within worlds; aye, one within the other yet separate by Law. "

"Leading ye upward to the Light of the Great Soul have I ever striven, drawing ye from out of the darkness of night. "

"Tell ye I now of the mystery of cycles that move in movements that are strange to the finite, for infinite are they beyond knowledge of man. Know ye that there are nine of the cycles; aye, nine above and fourteen below, moving in harmony to the place of joining that shall exist in the future of time. Know ye that the Lords of the Cycles are units of consciousness sent from the others to unify This with the All. Highest are They of the consciousness of all the Cycles, working in harmony with the Law. ... So also, O Thoth, are the cycles of consciousness, children in different stages of growth, "

"Know ye, O man, that thy form is dual, balanced in polarity while formed in its form. Know that when fast on thee Death approaches, it is only because thy balance is shaken. It is only because one pole has been lost. Know that the secret of life in Amenti is the secret of restoring the balance of poles. All that exists has form and is living because of the Spirit of life in its poles. See ye not that in Earth's is the balance of all things that exist and have being on its face? The source of thy Spirit is drawn from Earth's , for in thy form thou are one with the Earth "

"Above the sky, like a rainbow of Fire and Sunlight, were Formed the Spirits. Sang they the glories of the Holy One. Then from the midst of the Fire came a voice: Behold the Glory of the first Cause. I beheld that Light, high above all darkness, reflected in my own being. I attained, as it were, to the God of all Gods, the Spirit-Sun, the Sovereign of the Sun spheres."

"Darkness and light are both of one nature, different only in seeming, for each arose from the source of all. Darkness is disorder. Light is Order. Darkness transmuted is light of the Light. This, my children, your purpose in being; transmutation of darkness to light. "

"Know ye, ye are threefold in nature, physical, astral and mental in one. Three are the qualities of each of the natures; nine in all, as above, so below. In the physical are these channels, the blood which moves in vortical motion, reacting on the to continue its beating. Magnetism which moves through the nerve paths, carrier of energies to all cells and tissues. Akasa which flows through channels, subtle yet physical, completing the channels. "

"On Earth, man is in bondage, bound by space and time to the earth plane. Encircling each planet, a wave of vibration, binds him to his plane of unfoldment. Yet within man is the Key to releasement, within man may freedom be found. "

Jeff: "We talk about dualism where the spirit is separate from the body and just using a body to experience this realm or we talk about and i think they call it panpsychism which is actually the body is just a manifestation of consciousness in this realm versus a materialist that the consciousness is created by the body. What do buddhists say?"

Former Buddhist Monk: "I'm more on the panpsychic side and what you begin to discover is that the body is inside of the mind not that the mind is inside of the body. ... you know through sitting meditation and and good instruction the body begins to reveal its nature. You begin to see the nature of the body. Now the buddha had a fundamental teaching perhaps there's a good time to go into because it's core to everything whether you don't is it transcends religion it's just a contemplative structure based on what's self-evident that you have a body and that your body is breathing now it's called the Ānāpānasati which is the suta on or on the four foundations of mindfulness soand this is really where people can you know this is the the basic structure that people need to bear in mind if they are going to start to penetrate this field from this side so there's a few things he says set up straight first of all when you're doing this he also says place your attention at the center of the chest which is something to do with the heart chakra so and then he says you know breathing in, breathing out .you know you're breathing out now.

this is the area where there's a huge amount of misunderstanding in my estimation because i don't believe the buddha actually taught breath meditation as the vast majority of meditation teachers teach in the sense of you know oxygen coming in through your nose oxygen coming out through your nose

the word Ānāpānasati is related to the idea of animal or animus. it's to do with the subtle energy, the subtle energy of aliveness which is something that we all experience. take a cup of coffee to brighten our mind you know we can all feel that subtle energy so as you breathe in and breathe out you can begin to experience there's a subtle energy which comes in and out through the pores of your skin. it's almost like a subtle wind. and it's a process of sensitizing ourselves to that subtle wind of this flow of sometimes being called the inner breath in and out through the pores of our skin.

so anapan so ana the ana part of the word Ānāpānasati is referencing that, the panna part of the word is referencing pranas is like electricity, the vitality, the vital force. it's what the navajo called uh i think they called it the holy wind. and i think in kabul they call it ruac and in christianity it's the holy spirit. i mean this terminology for this in every tradition. the blavatsky people called it cosmic electricity. so electricity if you want to sort of take the sort of religion out of it is it's that electricity of aliveness and you can feel it with pointing out instruction which we're not going to go into here because we don't have time to do the pointing out instruction but everybody can feel this within 10 minutes you know you can begin to sense this very subtle movement of air through the pores of your skin and when your eyes are closed then of course the boundaries start to shift.

i mean this is something that's obvious but because we don't understand it. we don't interpret it. we don't reflect on it very much. we miss it but whenever we close our eyes the boundaries of the body dissolve you cannot discover a boundary to your body when your eyes are closed. turn off available input to be able to access other things. eye eyes open it's just it's just seeing

it's a sphere of seeing but that's all it is it's it is what it is it's partial but it's not it's not descriptive of the entirety of our experience so if you close your eyes you find another dimension or aspect of our experience.

Fohat: The Cosmic Electricity https://blavatskytheosophy.com/fohat-the-cosmic-electricity/

"A term and concept which appears throughout “The Secret Doctrine” by H. P. Blavatsky – and especially in the first volume titled “Cosmogenesis” – is FOHAT.

What is this mysterious yet vitally important thing called Fohat which happens to be “the key in Occultism which opens and unriddles the multiform symbols and respective allegories in the so-called mythology of every nation”? Those are HPB’s words on p. 673 of the first volume.

The word itself has been identified as ’phro-wa (verb form) and spros-pa (noun form) in Tibetan transliteration.

In the Eastern Esoteric Science taught in Theosophy, Fohat is always spoken of in terms of cosmic or universal electricity, vitality, energy, and life force. Just as every living human being is animated, vitalised, and held together by the principle of Prana within them, as explained further in the article The Sevenfold Nature of Man, so the Universe itself is animated, vitalised, and powered from within by Fohat, which in one sense is Prana on the macrocosmic level (see “The Secret Doctrine” Vol. 1, p. 525) although it is also linked with the Fourth Principle called Kama, the creative desire energy (Vol. 2, p. 596).

HPB states that it is “the active force in Universal Life” and “the personified electric vital power, the transcendental binding Unity of all Cosmic Energies, on the unseen as on the manifested planes, the action of which resembles – on an immense scale – that of a living Force created by WILL, in those phenomena where the seemingly subjective acts on the seemingly objective and propels it to action.” (Vol. 1, p. 111)

If we go to HPB’s “Theosophical Glossary” (a valuable book for all students of the Philosophy) and turn to the entry for “Fohat” on p. 120-121 we find it described and defined as:

“ . . . the active (male) potency of the Shakti (female reproductive power) in nature. The essence of cosmic electricity. An occult Tibetan term for Daiviprakriti, primordial light: and in the universe of manifestation the ever-present electrical energy and ceaseless destructive and formative power. Esoterically, it is the same, Fohat being the universal propelling Vital Force, at once the propeller and the resultant.” (bold added for emphasis in this article)

If we then turn to the entry for “Daiviprakriti” (p. 94) we find this: “Primordial, homogeneous light, called by some Indian Occultists “the Light of the Logos”; when differentiated this light becomes FOHAT.”

The Summerland is the name given by Theosophists,[1] Wiccans and some earth-based[clarification needed] contemporary pagan religions to their conceptualization of an afterlife.

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) inspired Andrew Jackson Davis (1826–1910), in his major work The Great Harmonia, to say that Summerland is the pinnacle of human spiritual achievement in the afterlife; that is, it is the highest level, or 'sphere', of the afterlife we can hope to enter.

C.W. Leadbeater, a Theosophist, also taught that those who were good in their previous earthly incarnation went to a place called Summerland between incarnations.[1]

Theosophy
In Theosophy, the term "Summerland" is used without the definite article "the". Summerland, also called the Astral plane Heaven, is depicted as where souls who have been good in their previous lives go between incarnations.

Theosophists believe the Summerlands are maintained by hosts of planetary angels serving Sanat Kumara, the Nordic alien from Venus who Theosophists believe is the governing deity of Earth and leader of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth. Sanat Kumara is believed to rule over our planet from the floating city of Shamballa, believed by Theosophists to exist on the etheric plane (a plane between the physical plane and the astral plane), about five miles (8 km) above the Gobi Desert.[1]

Theosophists also believe there is another higher level of heaven called Devachan, also called the Mental plane Heaven, which some but not all souls reach between incarnations — only those souls that are more highly developed spiritually reach this level, i.e., those souls that are at the first, second, and third levels of initiation.[1]

The final permanent eternal afterlife heaven to which Theosophists believe most people will go millions or billions of years in the future, after our cycle of reincarnations in this Round is over, is called Nirvana, and is located beyond this physical Cosmos.[1] In order to attain Nirvana, it is necessary to have attained the fourth level of initiation or higher, meaning one is an arhat and thus no longer needs to reincarnate.

In some modern magical traditions, it is believed that the dead cross over into a place called the Summerland. This is a predominantly Wiccan and NeoWiccan concept and is not typically found in non-Wiccan Pagan traditions. While there may be a similar concept of the afterlife in those traditions, the word Summerland seems to be generally Wiccan in its use.

Wiccan author Scott Cunningham described the Summerland as a place where the soul goes on to live forever. In Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, he says,

"This realm is neither in heaven nor the underworld. It simply is: a non-physical reality much less dense than ours. Some Wiccan traditions describe it as a land of eternal summer, with grassy fields and sweet flowing rivers, perhaps the Earth before the advent of humans. Others see it vaguely as a realm without forms, where energy swirls coexist with the greatest energies: the Goddess and God in their celestial identities."

"The Summerland is the great crossover. It's not good, it's not bad, it's just a place we go where there is no more pain or suffering. We wait there until it is time for our souls to return in another physical body, and then we can move on to our next lifetime. Some souls may be finished incarnating, and they stay in the Summerland to guide newly arriving souls through the transition."

Just like our Christian friends may believe heaven is real, it can't be proven. Likewise, there's no way to prove the existence of a metaphysical concept like the Summerland, Valhalla, or of reincarnation, and so forth. We can believe, but we can't prove it in any way, shape, or form.

"Summerland is, as we might expect, a beautiful place. What we know of it is what we have gleaned from people who have returned from near-death experiences, and from accounts obtained by genuine mediums who communicate with the dead."

"Norse Pagans believe in Valhalla, and the ancient Romans believed that warriors went to the Elysian Fields, while ordinary people went to the Plain of Asphodel."

Valhalla, Old Norse Valhöll, in Norse mythology, the hall of slain warriors, who live there blissfully under the leadership of the god Odin. Valhalla is depicted as a splendid palace, roofed with shields, where the warriors feast on the flesh of a boar slaughtered daily and made whole again each evening.

A friend here in Austin who I met up with after hearing our last episode says, "Varg Vikernes is an expert on the Scandinavian view of Odin, which isn't entirely like the Greek.

Regarding Loki and Pan, Varg says it was a later Christian misunderstanding and then slander which equated them to the Devil. There are no "devils" in ancient Euro paganism.

Quote: "Odin is our honorable forebears, and we are Odin. Odin teaches us to tap in to this spiritual resource, and to remember what we knew and what we were before. He teaches us to become ourself, and in a sense to give ourself to ourselves. When we say Hail Odin we salute our forbears and ourselves, the greatness in us. We salute the strength of our spirit."

When the ancients said "Hail Odin", they were not, in their mind, invoking a god. 'Invocation' had nothing to do with it. I don't think they even had a word for 'invoke'. See, that is a westernized christianized, non-pagan, viewpoint to assume that they were. The gods to them at that time WERE nature, or all things natural. They were symbols, or metaphors.

I'm not trying to get you to embrace this, btw. I don't "practice" Norse paganism myself. But if you want a more accurate explanation of Euro paganism apart from non-pagan filters, Varg and his wife provide a good resource...

If Varg is correct, the ancient Europeans DID remember who they were with each incarnation. Their ways were geared to help them remember. The Loosh "gods" couldn't have that now could they? So, in come the Roman Catholics. 'Onward Christian soldiers....' "

UPDATE from him: "I had a realization this morning regarding the Norse "gods", and how they may or may not have been regarded:

As for me, or anyone else who is sovereign and wants to be free, it doesn't matter.

I think Varg Vikernes is probably correct technically, but that spiritual nature system for the ancient Scandinavians was a part of the matrix trap then. Odin, Thor, Pan, Freyr, etc... were all expressions of the various aspects of nature. But nature, or a love, reliance upon, and attachment to it, is in and of itself a trap. It attaches you to this earth, which we want to leave. Need to leave.

Attachments must be cut. Period. The end. "
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Spiritualism is a new religious movement based on the belief that the spirits of the dead exist and have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living.[1] The afterlife, or the "spirit world", is seen by spiritualists, not as a static place, but as one in which spirits continue to evolve. These two beliefs—that contact with spirits is possible, and that spirits are more advanced than humans—lead spiritualists to a third belief: that spirits are capable of providing useful knowledge about moral and ethical issues, as well as about the nature of God. Some spiritualists will speak of a concept which they refer to as "spirit guides"—specific spirits, often contacted, who are relied upon for spiritual guidance.[2][3] Emanuel Swedenborg has some claim to be the father of Spiritualism.[4] Spiritism, a branch of spiritualism developed by Allan Kardec and today practiced mostly in Continental Europe and Latin America, especially in Brazil, emphasizes reincarnation.

Spiritualists believe in the possibility of communication with the spirits of dead people, whom they regard as "discarnate humans". They believe that spirit mediums are gifted to carry on such communication, but that anyone may become a medium through study and practice. They believe that spirits are capable of growth and perfection, progressing through higher spheres or planes, and that the afterlife is not a static state, but one in which spirits evolve. The two beliefs—that contact with spirits is possible, and that spirits may dwell on a higher plane—lead to a third belief, that spirits can provide knowledge about moral and ethical issues, as well as about God and the afterlife. Many believers therefore speak of "spirit guides"—specific spirits, often contacted, and relied upon for worldly and spiritual guidance.[2][3]

According to Spiritualists, anyone may receive spirit messages, but formal communication sessions (séances) are held by mediums, who claim thereby to receive information about the afterlife.[2]

In this environment, the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) and the teachings of Franz Mesmer (1734–1815) provided an example for those seeking direct personal knowledge of the afterlife. Swedenborg, who claimed to communicate with spirits while awake, described the structure of the spirit world. Two features of his view particularly resonated with the early Spiritualists: first, that there is not a single Hell and a single Heaven, but rather a series of higher and lower heavens and hells; second, that spirits are intermediates between God and humans, so that the divine sometimes uses them as a means of communication.[2] Although Swedenborg warned against seeking out spirit contact, his works seem to have inspired in others the desire to do so.

Swedenborg was formerly a highly regarded inventor and scientist, achieving several engineering innovations and studying physiology and anatomy. Then, “in 1741, he also began to have a series of intense mystical experiences, dreams, and visions, claiming that he had been called by God to reform Christianity and introduce a new church."[14]

Mesmer did not contribute religious beliefs, but he brought a technique, later known as hypnotism, that it was claimed could induce trances and cause subjects to report contact with supernatural beings. There was a great deal of professional showmanship inherent to demonstrations of Mesmerism, and the practitioners who lectured in mid-19th-century North America sought to entertain their audiences as well as to demonstrate methods for personal contact with the divine.[2]

Spiritualists reacted with an uncertainty to the theories of evolution in the late 19th and early 20th century. Broadly speaking the concept of evolution fitted the spiritualist thought of the progressive development of humanity. At the same time, however, the belief in the animal origins of humanity threatened the foundation of the immortality of the spirit, for if humans had not been created by God, it was scarcely plausible that they would be specially endowed with spirits. This led to Spiritualists embracing spiritual evolution.[66]

The Spiritualists' view of evolution did not stop at death. Spiritualism taught that after death spirits progressed to spiritual states in new spheres of existence. According to Spiritualists evolution occurred in the spirit world "at a rate more rapid and under conditions more favourable to growth" than encountered on earth.[67]

More recent examples: Ruth Montgomery, Ford. Sylvia Brown, James Van Praagh, John Edward, Rosemary Altea,

"That the Lord is actually seen in heaven as a sun I have not only been told by angels, but it has occasionally been granted me to see it; and therefore what I have heard and seen respecting the Lord as a sun I shall be glad to tell in a few words. The Lord is seen as a sun, not in heaven, but high above the heavens; and not directly overhead or in the zenith, but before the faces of the angels at a middle height"

" He is seen at a considerable distance, in two places, one before the right eye and the other before the left eye. Before the right eye he is seen exactly like a sun, as it were, with a glow and size like that of the sun of the world. But before the left eye he is not seen as a sun, but as a moon, glowing white like the moon of our earth, and of like size, but more brilliant, and surrounded with many little moons, as it were, each of them of similar whiteness and splendor. The Lord is seen so differently in two places because every person sees the Lord in accordance with the quality of his reception of the Lord, thus he is seen in one way by those that receive him with the good of love, and in another by those that receive him with the good of faith. Those that receive him with the good of love see him as a sun, fiery and flaming, in accordance with their reception of him; these are in his celestial kingdom; while those that receive him with the good of faith see him as a moon, white and brilliant in accordance with their reception of him, and these are in his spiritual kingdom."

"i can communicate with people that are that are dying that i can have two separate consciousnesses i can what i learned was that in these spaces that intention is everything when you move into expanded states of awareness and in particular in that space where you can communicate with people who passed your intention or the intention of others that's what drives experience
and sidebar ask me about come back to that but i'm so so grateful for this eye opening where i began to realize that how we conduct ourselves how we think how what our attitude is how what our hopes and dreams where our heart is. i think that's the key is where is our heart and being able to say i would i want this to happen in my life so this intention that we have about who we are and how we exist in the universe and drives everything and so it has been a lifelong quest for me"

"Roberta is a business attorney who had two extraordinary experiences in childhood that prompted her to spend decades studying nearly 200 years of communications from the dead using this material the principles of quantum mechanics and the latest development in consciousness research she was able to assemble a detailed picture of what happens after death"...

"we have a great source
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of original data about the afterlife
06:05
most of it was received through deep
06:08
trance mediums and it came in the late
06:10
very end of the 19th century and about
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the first 40 years of the 20th century
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so I spent a long time just reading
06:19
every book I could find that and there
06:22
are quite a few that were put together
06:23
about these these communications most of
06:28
them were just communications to people
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who were you know grieving and you know
06:34
mom or dad or someone here died but the
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difference is with a deep trance medium
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the
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Jim has withdrawn from her body and her
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control is talking and her control is is
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as people right next to him or her that
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are your loved ones so there's the what
06:49
they say to us is much more detailed and
06:52
I figured I would start to see some
06:55
similarities among these and I'd be able
06:57
to sort of construct some notion about
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what it's like where they are but what
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still astonishes me and to me is one of
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the two best pieces of evidence that
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this is real is the fact that when you
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read hundreds of them they all are
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talking about the same place I never
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found an outlier always the same physics
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the same process the same pastimes the
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same geography the same everything and
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that's not possible
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I mean somewhere were received in Great
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Britain some were received in the United
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States or even a few from other places
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they all went to the same place".....

"the people who are
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there tell us that that's reality where
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we are now is the illusion that's how
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real it is to them it's solid there are
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there's beautiful foliage beautiful
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flowers that there are colours we have
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never seen because they're beyond the
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visible light spectrum we have much
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better sensory abilities there than we
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have here because here we're stuck with
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it what our bodies can pick up there we
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have what's called my site which is
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panoramic they can see behind ourselves
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as well and it's so sharp there's one
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fellow in the early part of the 20th
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century community communicating through
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one of these deep trance mediums and he
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had been almost blind in life and his
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one of his children said well dad can
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you see now he said let me tell you how
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well I could see that what looks like
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about fifty miles from here there's a
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mountain range and it has foothills the
16:57
mountains are beautiful by the way
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they're much much more beautiful than
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here it has there are foothills you're
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covered with trees I can see from here
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every leaf on every tree on every
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foothill in front of those mountains
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that's how well I can see here I thought
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wow that's pretty graphic and our ears
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are much we can hear things they're much
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more beautifully they say we have not
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heard music on this level at all we
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don't even know what music is till we
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get there
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so we do we eat drink can we hug others
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all that well some of those things we
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want to do and some of those things we
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soon get sick of".....

"Mikey Morgan a very
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very advanced being first last was in a
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body in the 1600s he came back briefly
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died at 20 so he could communicate with
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us from there and when he was asked this
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question in his book flying high in
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spirit and what he said was that well
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the question was what do you miss he
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said well the only thing I really miss
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is eating give me a Chipotle burrito
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that's pretty funny he said the problem
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is we can eat here but we never get
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hungry and we never get a sense of
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feeling full and what we're tasting is
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our memory of what the food tasted like
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so it feels like eating food but it
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begins to feel like too much trouble now
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this is exactly the same kind of thing
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that the dead were telling us a hundred
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years ago so you know there's someone
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who just died there's someone who died a
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hundred years ago telling us the same
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thing yes you can drink if you want to"....

"we have all those things but
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it may be much more satisfying here
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because I know what with a hungry belly
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food tastes better you know things like
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that problem yes exactly right you you
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just it's an exercise that feels
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necessary here and there just feels like
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a waste of energy right and there's so
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much more important things to do but you
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asked about hugs Mikey says a hug there
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is a hundred times better than any cog
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you've ever had here Wow what the dead
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have told us consistently for the almost
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200 years we've been getting good
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communications from them what they told
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us consistently is that there really no
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sex there because although we could do
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it there
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no sex drives so they're just you don't
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want to bother but what there is is
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something better
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there is a merging of our energy bodies
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that we can do which is like a whole
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body orgasm it is the best feeling you
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can possibly imagine
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has no morality attached to it and
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that's quite a hug yeah I bet it is what
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and our loved ones are there yes how
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about a life review we hear that when we
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die there's a life review there is but
20:26
as Jesus tells us although one listens
20:29
to him a lot of what he's feeling since
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- there is a life review but nobody ever
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judges us other than ourselves what
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happens is that we experience all the
20:40
events of our lives
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apparently in detail and I don't know
20:44
how this is possible but this is what
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they tell us we very quickly review all
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the events of our lives and then we go
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to or we have around us people that love
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us and what we try to do then is to
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forgive ourselves and forgive others for
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the things that they did in that we did
21:04
now it's easy to forgive others they
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tell us it doesn't matter what that
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other one ever did to us but we are we
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forgive them all it's easy easy to do
21:16
but what we have a lot of trouble doing
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is forgiving ourselves emotions we felt
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as part of the events and also all the
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emotions that other people felt and in
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experiencing that we get to the point
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where we we we have well we easily
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forgive them we get to the point where
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we really have to begin to forgive
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ourselves it's not easy
21:43"

"children
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who died a couple of things that you
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need to understand is children who die a
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sub-adult and you know whether it's even
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in utero a miscarriage or children who
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die
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when you're before they're in the early
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20s they tell us are always very
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advanced beings these beings are don't
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really need to come back the whole
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lifetime and it's a lot of trouble to go
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through a brief lifetime which is a gift
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they give to us but they come
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specifically so that they're able to
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give that gift it's a very important
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spiritual lesson to lose a child
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yeah and so as much as I when I say this
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is a gift you're gonna go oh my god I
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couldn't possibly be a gift especially
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if you've lost a child these are always
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gift your child was a very advanced
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being and still is didn't need that
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experience and so what your child has
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done is to give you the great gift of
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loving and losing so that you can grow
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spiritually when they get there they
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grow up and this is true by the way also
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of aborted fetuses every boarded fetus
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Oh is welcomed loved cherished they grow
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up there in a beautiful environment with
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the only people allowed near them are
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very advanced loving people and they
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have perfect childhoods which lasts
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until they decide it's time for them to
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give up and then they they grow up but
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they spend time as children usually two
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or three or two five earth years is all
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it takes and then they of course are
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young adults which is what most of us
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are after we've gotten there and sort of
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settled down and turned our new bodies
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so they they wait there for their
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families they've often they become our
23:45
spirit guides or they otherwise helped
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us during our lives and when we arrived
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they they're there and they welcomed us
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and if you've had an abortion that
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aborted child we'll be there as a
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beautiful young adult we'll call you mom
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Oh knowing that is to me the single most
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important reason never to even think of
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having an abortion that's by the way
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information we get from a lot of
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different places it's not it's not just
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one or two it's pretty clear that if a
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life was planned your just decided you
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don't want to be the mom right now
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does not change the fact the leg was
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planned so if you are thinking about it
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you might think about spending a few
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months there giving a baby up to someone
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who will raise it and then that child
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will still call you mom but you'll be
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happy than to see that child"

"I've looked hard for it
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that God has ever judged anybody for
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anything Jesus has never judged anybody
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for anything but we judge ourselves
25:59
pretty harshly there because we know
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what our plan was and we know we screwed
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it up badly it's a gift to be in a body
26:07
right now there are many people who
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would have loved to be in the body that
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you're in now because it's such a
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wonderful opportunity to grow we can't
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really grow spiritually in the afterlife
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levels very well because there's nothing
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nothing to push against there's no
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there's nothing just they think of your
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life as an afternoon in the gym okay
26:26
you're you're you're trying to set just
26:29
rainforests few kinds of spiritual
26:32
muscles maybe
26:33
you had trouble with an in previous
26:34
lifetime right there are these machines
26:36
which I've seen but never ever tried and
26:38
never will I just did help you with your
26:41
physical muscles that's what your
26:43
mother-in-law is that's what the you
26:46
know your loss of a child is or your
26:47
your having loved and lost is or your I
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can't remember all the things are that
26:52
happened in people's lives bad job money
26:55
problems all of those are planned into
26:58
your life by you and your guides
26:59
together is a way for you to grow
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spiritually and knowing that you can
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sort of understand since it's possible
27:09
if we know what's going on it's possible
27:12
for us to make huge spiritual progress
27:14
with just what we planned into this
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lifetime we want to do it those who love
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us want us to do it everybody's rooting
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for us"

" I'm thinking
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about life and there's a lot of really
28:41
hard crappy awful things that happen and
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it's so easy
28:46
to be locked in as a victim and I know
28:48
people that everything in their life is
28:50
negative and I don't even want to be
28:52
around them because it's just negative
28:53
negative negative oh woe is me but if
28:56
you really do embrace what you're saying
28:59
that here is where we we get the growth
29:02
spiritually and those crappy things that
29:04
happen are a gift because they're gonna
29:06
push us to grow it is so much more
29:09
empowering to live life from you know
29:12
gosh you get a flat tire you know and
29:15
you could complain about it forever or
29:17
you say well I must have caused that for
29:19
some reason what you know what kind of
29:21
growth can I get out of this I think
29:22
what you're saying is you can learn more
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and we can grow more if we get the job
29:27
done while we're here in these physical
29:29
bodies and it's not hard it's really
29:32
easy whatever the question love is the
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answer whatever the question forgiveness
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is the answer oh we are here to learn to
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love perfectly and to forgive completely
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that's why we're here and not just love
29:47
you know the people that you're your
29:49
puppy is cute and your tiny child and
29:52
your your parents who haven't been so
29:53
good to you not just them but the people
29:57
on the street you know the guy on the
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street who sneers at you and and and the
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people who have done you wrong loving
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finding out figuring out how to love
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them as the perfect parts of eternal
30:08
mind that they actually are that's why
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we're here"

"it turns out that the highest
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possible spiritual vibratory rate is
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love the more perfectly we love the
31:06
higher is our spiritual vibratory rate
31:08
and that's something which the great
31:11
religions have as the core very often
31:14
but they don't emphasize them as they
31:16
should we're here to learn to grow
31:17
spiritually and the more we love the
31:20
higher we grow and the more we do it
31:23
without thinking of ourselves it seems
31:27
the higher we grow "

"I remember
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thinking that was one of those aha holy
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cow moments that really convinced me
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that everything we're looking at is an
37:58
illusion it is it's a really really good
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one oh it sure is and and we actually
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come into this most of our minds not
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even accessible to us while we're in a
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body and we come into this body
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basically having pledged to agree in the
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trick we are pledged to not look behind
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the curtain"

"I think one of the things that we
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all got as a gift and a curse sometimes
40:45
is this internal thinking that's man I'm
40:48
not my own best friend I criticize
40:50
myself all the time I think I got fear
40:53
that shows up and is that something that
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we were given as part of the trick to
40:58
just have us help not remember who we
41:02
really are it's it's really just that
41:05
they want us to take the gym seriously
41:07
we're here they want us right to take
41:14
seriously these lessons but I can assure
41:17
anybody who's worried that somehow it
41:19
won't be fun once you know this stuff
41:21
the fun of my life really began when I
41:24
began to understand the truth it's the
41:26
most amazing thing because you're you
41:29
have fears you have worries you have
41:31
pains
41:32
yes you get to taste a burrito but it's
41:35
just it's just it's just that's that
41:38
small potatoes compared to understanding
41:40
that you are her best beloved child have
41:42
been infinitely loving God that to me is
41:44
a lot more important and when I really
41:47
got all of that wow it's just the best
41:50
feeling on earth you could imagine and I
41:52
think then you start taking it even
41:55
though you can see that the machine is
41:56
just a more seat machine it's a kind of
41:58
trick right you no longer feel the grief
42:01
you felt before for people who have died
42:03
because you understand what's going on
42:04
you can see behind the curtain
42:06
a little bit but it makes you all the
42:09
harder try to ace out the lessons you
42:12
know yeah I know it's just a lesson but
42:13
I still want to get an A"

“Most people do not live from a deep place within themselves, but instead float around on the waves at the surface of the ocean of life. The magickian dives deep into the ocean, swimming below the surface commotion, and traveling deeper and deeper into the stillness, until he or she reaches the bottom, the ground of his or her being. In your ultimate truth, you are one with this stillness.”

“In the Caduceus, the two serpents are called Ob and Od. As they twine around each other, they create the magickal wand of Double Power. The Unification of the Ob and Od is picture by the globe that crowns the Caduceus. The globe which climaxes the Caduceus symbolizes the Nur Muhammadi, or Light of Mohammed, the Aur (Light) in Hebrew, which is the result of the state of equilibrium existing between the two serpent forces. This Light is the SUPREME ESSENCE. Wilhelm Reich called this serpent energy the Orgone. It has also been referred to as: Ki, Kundalini, Mana, Prana, Vril, Animal Magnetism, the Odic Force, the Astral Light, the Élan Vital, the Libido, the Atmospheric 'I' and Ether.”

The solar wind is a stream of energized, charged particles, primarily electrons and protons, flowing outward from the Sun, through the solar system at speeds as high as 900 km/s and at a temperature of 1 million degrees (Celsius). It is made of plasma. The existence of particles flowing outward from the Sun to the Earth was first suggested by British astronomer Richard C. Carrington.

These teachings are contained in the various writings attributed to Hermes (the Hermetica), which were produced over a period spanning many centuries (c. 300 BCE – 1200 CE), and may be very different in content and scope.[2]

"It is likely that Hermes is a pre-Hellenic god, though the exact origins of his worship, and its original nature, remain unclear. Frothingham thought the god to have existed as a Mesopotamian snake-god, similar or identical to Ningishzida, a god who served as mediator between humans and the divine, especially Ishtar, and who was depicted in art as a Caduceus.[24][25] Angelo (1997) thinks Hermes to be based on the Thoth archetype.[26] The absorbing ("combining") of the attributes of Hermes to Thoth developed after the time of Homer amongst Greeks and Romans; Herodotus was the first to identify the Greek god with the Egyptian (Hermopolis),"

"According to a theory that has received considerable scholarly acceptance, Hermes originated as a form of the god Pan, who has been identified as a reflex of the Proto-Indo-European pastoral god *Péh2usōn,[30][31][original research?] in his aspect as the god of boundary markers. Later, the epithet supplanted the original name itself and Hermes took over the roles as god of messengers, travelers, and boundaries, which had originally belonged to Pan, while Pan himself continued to be venerated by his original name in his more rustic aspect as the god of the wild in the relatively isolated mountainous region of Arcadia. In later myths, after the cult of Pan was reintroduced to Attica, Pan was said to be Hermes's son.[31][32]"

wind's day = woden's day
Odin (Woden, or Wotan), the principal pre-Christian deity of the Germanic peoples and the Norse god of the wind and the dead, raises a sword in command of his Wild Hunt across the midwinter sky

woden = mercury = hermes (son of osiris) = thoth
. Hermes's, Thoth's + Mercury's threesome in the form of #Trismagistus
trickster god who prized cleverness and amusement above all else, and was willing to toy with mortals and immortals alike.-- conductor of souls, commerce, messenger of the gods

Hermes/Mercury's relation to business and speed survives in words like "mercurial" and "mercantile". Because of his speed, he was sometimes considered a god of winds.

Wikipedia: "Hermes plays the role of the psychopomp or "soul guide"—a conductor of souls into the afterlife.[7][8]" "Hermes began as a god with strong chthonic, or underworld, associations. He was worshipped in ancient times "the god of the road between the Under and the Upper world", and this function gradually expanded to encompass roads in general, and from there boundaries, travelers, sailors, and commerce.[25]" "Psychopompos, conveyor or conductor of souls,[86][89] and psychogogue, conductor or leader of souls in (or through) the underworld.[90]" "The Romans identified the Germanic god Odin with Mercury, and there is evidence that Germanic peoples who had contact with Roman culture also accepted this identification. Odin and Mercury/Hermes share several attributes in common. For example, both are depicted carrying a staff and wearing a wide-brimmed hat, and both are travelers or wanderers. " "Thief

Hermes Propylaeus. Roman copy of the Alcamenes statue from the entrance of the Athenian Acropolis, original shortly after the 450 BC.
In the Lang translation of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, the god after being born is described as a robber, a captain of raiders, and a thief of the gates.[122]

According to the late Jungian psychotherapist López-Pedraza, everything Hermes thieves, he later sacrifices to the gods.[123]"
"He is identified by some with the archetype of healer,[123] as the ancient Greeks ascribed healing magic to him.[188]" -- caduceus

Who is the god of wind?
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Aeolus was the god of the Winds. Eos, also known as the Dawn Bringer,

Who is the goddess of wind?
Anemoi
The Anemoi were the four wind gods in Greek mythology, each of them corresponding to one of the four cardinal directions (North, South, West, East) from which they came. They were the children of Aeolus, the Keeper of the Winds, and Eos, the Titan goddess of the dawn.

Pan aka Faunus -- a nature god, god of the forests, shepehrds, flocks, played the pipe or pan flute.... parents sometimes said to be Hermes and Aphrodite

The Corpus Hermeticum is the most widely known Hermetic text. It has 18 chapters, which contain dialogues between Hermes Trismegistus and a series of other men.

The Emerald Tablet is a short work attributed to Hermes Trismegistus which was highly regarded by Islamic and European alchemists as the foundation of their art. The text of the Emerald Tablet first appears in a number of early medieval Arabic sources, the oldest of which dates to the late eighth or early ninth century.[45]

Other important original Hermetic texts include Isis the Prophetess to Her Son Horus which consists of a long dialogue between Isis and Horus on the fall of man and other matters

Along with other groups like the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Theosophical Society has been seen as part of an "occult revival" that took place in Western countries during the late 19th century.

The guy I met after hearing our show says, Originally "Pan" was not worshiped, and he was not a devil. "He" only became evil because outsiders changed the narrative. It is very difficult for us in the christianized Western world to understand paganism. True paganism. American Indians were pagans. They were far more honorable than us. For one thing, they kept their word. Honor is very important. In christianity it is only talked about. Rarely carried out."

Etymology
The word appears in many Native American languages, and has many alternative translations. The source of the English word is the Ojibwe word wiindigoo.[6] In the Cree language it is wīhtikow,[7] also transliterated wetiko.[8] Other transliterations include[9] Wiindigoo, Weendigo, Windego, Wiindgoo, Windgo, Windago, Windiga, Wendego, Windagoo, Widjigo, Wiijigoo, Wijigo, Weejigo, Wìdjigò, Wintigo, Wentigo, Wehndigo, Wentiko, Windgoe, Wītikō, and Wintsigo.

A plural form windigoag is also spelled windegoag, wiindigooag, or windikouk.[9]

The wendigo is part of the traditional belief system of a number of Algonquin-speaking peoples, including the Ojibwe, the Saulteaux, the Cree, the Naskapi, and the Innu.[12] Although descriptions can vary somewhat, common to all these cultures is the view that the wendigo is a malevolent, cannibalistic, supernatural being.[1

The wendigo is often said to be a malevolent spirit, sometimes depicted as a creature with human-like characteristics, which possesses human beings. The wendigo is known to invoke feelings of insatiable greed/hunger, the desire to cannibalize other humans, as well as the propensity to commit murder in those that fall under its influence.[1]

Wendigo (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
Wendigo (film), a 2001 horror film
"Wendigo" (Supernatural), an episode of the television series Supernatural
"Wendigo", a song on the Sharon Needles album, Taxidermy
"The Wendigo" (novella), a 1910 horror novella by Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood's 1910 short story "The Wendigo".[40][41] Joe Nazare wrote that Blackwood's "subtly-demonizing rhetoric transforms the Wendigo from a native myth into a descriptive template for the Indian savage."[42]

Blackwood's work has influenced many of the subsequent portrayals in mainstream horror fiction,[42][43] such as August Derleth's "The Thing that Walked on the Wind"

In modern psychiatry the wendigo lends its name to a form of psychosis known as "Wendigo psychosis" which is characterized by symptoms such as: an intense craving for human flesh and an intense fear of becoming a cannibal.[4][5] Wendigo psychosis is described as a culture-bound syndrome. In some First Nations communities other symptoms such as insatiable greed and destruction of the environment are also thought to be symptoms of Wendigo psychosis.[4]

In Ojibwe, Eastern Cree, Westmain Swampy Cree, Naskapi, and Innu lore, wendigos are often described as giants that are many times larger than human beings, a characteristic absent from myths in other Algonquian cultures.[16] Whenever a wendigo ate another person, it would grow in proportion to the meal it had just eaten, so it could never be full.

The wendigo is seen as the embodiment of gluttony, greed, and excess: never satisfied after killing and consuming one person, they are constantly searching for new victims.[18]

Wendigoes continue to haunt us, although not usually in the wilderness. They've become video game characters in "Final Fantasy," "The Legend of Dragoon" and "The Secret World," and been given life in role-playing games like "Dungeons & Dragons." Marvel Comics has created Wendigo personas, and Stephen King included a Wendigo in his novel, "Pet Sematary." More recently, television shows such as "Grimm" and "Hannibal" have featured wendigoes.

According to the book "War in Heaven": " The legends say it eats the souls of the dead on the astral plane, and can sometimes kill living people and devour their souls as well. The Windigo is one of the most frightening spiritual monsters in human mythology."

"Many spiritual traditions, including Buddhism, Sufism (the mystical branch of Islam), Taoism, Gnosticism, as well as many Indigenous cultures, have long understood the mind-based nature of creation. These worldviews have at their core a recognition of the power of thought-forms to determine the course of physical events.

Various First Nation traditions of North America have specific and long established lore relating to cannibalism and a term for the thought-form that causes it: wetiko. We believe understanding this idea offers a powerful way of understanding the deepest roots of our current global polycrisis.

Wetiko is an Algonquin word for a cannibalistic spirit that is driven by greed, excess, and selfish consumption (in Ojibwa it is windigo, wintiko in Powhatan). It deludes its host into believing that cannibalizing the life-force of others (others in the broad sense, including animals and other forms of Gaian life) is a logical and morally upright way to live.

Wetiko short-circuits the individual’s ability to see itself as an enmeshed and interdependent part of a balanced environment and raises the self-serving ego to supremacy"

"Columbus and Other Cannibals" by Jack D. Forbes (a Native-American writer) first published in 1978

The origin of wetiko is the human psyche. Psychologically speaking, shadow projection is at the very root of wetiko disease.

Paradoxically, wetikos both try to destroy others' light, as it reminds them of what they've killed in themselves, while simultaneously trying to appropriate the light for themselves.

In their convoluted, upside-down, flawless illogic, wetikos re-act to their own projections in the world as if they objectively exist and are other than themselves, thinking that they themselves have nothing to do with creating that to which they are reacting

The devilish wetiko virus, like a vampire, if left to its own devices, would die, as it is only able to exist if there is someone outside of itself on whom it can feast.

"The Priests of the Golden Bull" by Buffy Sainte-Marie

Who brought the bomb wrapped up in business cards
And stained with steak?
Who hires a maid to wash his money?
Who keeps politicians on the take?
Who puts outspoken third-worlders in jail
Just to shut them down?
Oh the lies vary from place to place but the truth is still the same,
Even in this town
Money junkies all over the world
Trample us on their way to the bank
They run in every race
Windego
Third-worlders see it first:
The dynamite, the dozers, the cancer and the acid rain
The corporate caterpillars come into our backyards
And turn the world to pocket change
Reservations are the nuclear frontline;
Uranium poisoning kills
We're starving in a handful of gluttons
We're drowning in their gravy spills
Their tongues are silver forks
There's a lack of wisdom,
You can hear it on their breath
Windego
It's delicate confronting these priests of the golden bull
They preach from the pulpit of the bottom line
Their minds rustle with million dollar bills
You say Silver burns a hole in your pocket
And Gold burns a hole in your soul
Well, uranium burns a hole in forever
It just gets out of control
There was a crooked man who walked a crooked mile
He raised a crooked sixpence to hide a crooked style
He won a crooked vote and smiled a crooked smile
Windego
Their tongues are silver forks
There's a lack of wisdom,
You can hear it on their breath
Windego

Carlos Castaneda said about the parasites: "I did see some strange fleeting black shadow projected on the foliage of the trees. It was either a shadow going back and forth or various fleeting shadows moving side-to-side or straight up in the air. They looked like fat black fish to me, enormous fish. It was as if gigantic swordfish were flying in the air. I was engrossed in the sight. Then, finally, it scared me. It became too dark to see the foliage, yet I could still see the fleeting black shadows."

“We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings are its prisoners. The Predator is our lord and master. It has rendered us docile, helpless. If we want to protest, it suppresses our protest. If we want to act independently, it demands that we don’t do so… I have been beating around the bush all this time, insinuating to you that something is holding us prisoner. Indeed we are held prisoner!“This was an energetic fact for the sorcerers of ancient Mexico … They took us over because we are food for them, and they squeeze us mercilessly because we are their sustenance. just as we rear chickens in chicken coops, the predators rear us in human coops, humaneros. Therefore, their food is always available to them.”...

Sorcerers believe that the predators have given us our systems of belief, our ideas of good and evil, our social mores. They are the ones who set up our hopes and expectations and dreams of success or failure. They have given us covetousness, greed, and cowardice. It is the predators who make us complacent, routinary, and egomaniacal.”... The predators give us their mind, which becomes our mind.

"They (i.e., our psychopathic handlers) are attracted to emotions. Animal fear is what attracts them the most; it releases the kind of energy that suits them."

"The grand trick of those sorcerers of ancient times was to burden the flyers' mind with discipline. Sorcerers found out that if they taxed the flyers' mind with inner silence, the foreign installation would flee, and give any one of the practitioners involved in this maneuver the total certainty of the mind's foreign origin. The [alien mind control of these creatures] comes back, I assure you, but not as strong; and a process begins in which the fleeing of the flyers' mind becomes routine until one day it flees permanently." – Carlos Castaneda

So the Shaman told Carlos the best way to rid yourself of it is with inner silence and thought discipline.

Carlos talked about inner silence in his book The Active Side of Infinity:
"Inner silence is a peculiar state of being in which thoughts are canceled out and one can function from a level other than that of daily awareness. Inner silence means the suspension of the internal dialogue -- the perennial companion of thought -- and is therefore a state of profound quietude...

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final, dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence. Some very talented practitioners need only a few minutes of silence to reach that coveted goal. Others, less talented, need long periods of silence, perhaps more than one hour of complete quietude, before they reach the desired result. The desired result is what the old sorcerers called stopping the world, the moment when everything around us ceases to be what it's always been.
This is the moment when sorcerers return to the true nature of man. The old sorcerers also called it total freedom. It is the moment when man the slave becomes man the free being, capable of feats of perception that defy our linear imagination."

In Carlos Castaneda's book The Power of Silence he says you can use inner silence to quiet them. You obviously don't want to give them a reaction to feed off of... eventually they may just go somewhere else to get more "food", i.e. turmoil, than what you have to offer them.... since they feed off that disquiet or unrest.... those calm, peaceful blessings you say have a centering effect which gives you balance and moderation which they can't use.... they were trying to get a rise out of you or generate ill will or hostility in your mind and emotions toward another family member, but by blessing them you totally disarm their intent.

The Shaman told Carlos the best way to rid yourself of it is with inner silence and thought discipline. The second you feel agitation, anxiety or anything like that do not allow it to manifest in reality. You may feel agitated, but you don't allow it to manifest into actions onto others or yourself.

Meaning the second you feel agitation, anxiety anything like that to not allow it to manifest in reality. You may feel agitated but you don't allow it to manifest into actions onto others or yourself. Say you get frustrated in traffic, you get impulses of aggravation, you're bored and agitated, then you start thinking negative thoughts of others and maybe someone calls you and you start complaining about the traffic, how it will never end etc. The whole thing is a illusion. All caused by these impulses. Say an accident occurs because someone was upset and was not paying attention, causing the accident and hurting others. Then traffic gets worse and negativity is rising, they are the source of the whole illusion and it feeds themselves. So the discipline comes in seeing it is an illusion and not allowing the illusion to dictate what you think or feel. To be aware of them and above it, is the only way to keep them from taking over your life.

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"Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.” ― Eckhart Tolle

"Be in the stillness of yourself to connect with your reality." -- Nikola Tesla
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It seemed like in Pistis Sophia it says they learn about you right before you are supposed to die(Destiny). They learn your likes and dislikes so they can use them to deceive you. I think they call them retributive servitors. As it seems to be dark in realizing this reality, there is a glaring "Beam of real Light" showing. If they have to trick us, they have no ability to hold us back. Their only power is illusion and if you can see past that, they are powerless. They cannot create a new response on the spot if you see past the same one they always play.

"Indeed we are held prisoner! This was an energetic fact for the sorcerers of ancient Mexico." [xiv]

"They took over because we are food for them... we are their sustenance. Just as we rear chickens in chicken coops, gallineros, the predators rear us in human coops, humaneros." [xv]
"The predators give us their mind, which becomes our mind." [xvi]

"fears that any moment its maneuver is going to be uncovered and food is going to be denied." [xvii]

"Through the mind, which, after all, is their mind, the predators inject into the lives of human beings whatever is convenient for them [the predators]." [xviii]

"it proposes something, it agrees with its own proposition, and it makes you believe that you've done something of worth." [xix]

They are in the bible also. The Anak or Anakim. The giants, you know the Sons of Anak. They build great cities and the Hebrews were the size of grasshoppers by them, on and on.

Fallen Angels & Demons

In Christianity, Satan is often seen as the leader of the fallen angels.[33] The New Testament mentions Satan 36 times in 33 verses, and the Book of Revelation tells of "that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world," being thrown down to the earth together with his angels. Some sects of Judaism identified the "sons of God" (בני האלהים‎) of Genesis 6:1–4 as fallen angels.

Also there are the Watchers which may have been mentioned in Gen as the nefilim because became "enamored" with human women (1 Enoch 7.2),[18] and had intercourse with them. The offspring of these unions, and the knowledge they were given, corrupted human beings and the earth. A Jewish story of angels coming down to earth rather than being cast down. They are also in the Book of Enoch, Book of Giants... The Greek word for watchers is ἐγρήγοροι egrḗgoroi.

The watchers are Gilgamesh etc. as shown in the Book of Giants. Gilgamesh was supposedly half human half god. So he begs the Gods for eternal life but they say no, he can be a judge in the underworld. Hence above humans but below gods. Titans would be first generation gods. Enki, enlil, etc.

The Muslim jinn are akin to demons in Christian tradition. The Quran says that the jinn were created from a smokeless and "scorching fire".

"6.1 And it came to pass, when the sons
of men had increased, that in those days there were born to them fair and beautiful daughters.
6.2 And the Angels, the sons of Heaven, saw them and desired them. And they said to one another: "Come, let us choose for ourselves wives, from the children of men, and let us beget, for ourselves, children."
6.3 And Semyaza, who was their leader, said to them:
"I fear that you may not wish this deed to be done and that I alone will pay for this great sin."
6.4 And they all answered him, and said:
"Let us all swear an oath, and bind one-another with curses, so not to alter this plan, but to carry out this plan effectively."
6.5 Then they all swore together and all bound one another with curses to it.
6.6 And they were, in all, two hundred and they came down on Ardis, which is the summit of Mount Hermon. And they called the mountain Hermon because on it they swore and bound one another with curses.
6.7 And these are the names of their leaders:
Semyaza, who was their leader, Urakiba (Araqiel) , Rameel, Kokabiel, Tamiel, Ramiel, Daniel, Ezeqiel, Baraqiel, Asael, Armaros, Batariel, Ananel, Zaqiel, Samsiel, Satariel, Turiel, Yomiel, Sariel. (see Ch 8 & Ch 69)
6.8 These are the leaders of the two hundred Angels and of all the others with them.

7.1 And they took wives for themselves and everyone chose for himself one each. And they began to go into them and were promiscuous with them. And they taught them charms and spells, and they showed them the cutting of roots and trees.
7.2 And they became pregnant and bore large giants. And their height was three thousand cubits.
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7.3 These devoured all the toil of men; until men were unable to sustain them.
7.4 And the giants turned against them in order to devour men.
7.5 And they began to sin against birds, and against animals, and against reptiles, and against fish, and they devoured one another's flesh, and drank the blood from it.
7.6 Then the Earth complained about the lawless ones.
8.1 And Azazel taught men to make swords, and daggers, and shields, and breastplates.
And he showed them the things after these, and the art of making them; bracelets, and ornaments, and the art of making up the eyes, and of beautifying the eyelids, and the most precious stones, and all kinds of coloured dyes. And the world was changed.
8.2 And there was great impiety, and much fornication, and they went astray, and all their ways became corrupt.

I'd like to take a little time to talk about the new age movement where truth seekers are constsntly looking outside of themselves for help and open up their energy fields to spirit guides, gurus, channelers, angels, so-called ascended masters, even extraterrestrials. In my opinion all of these are merely are-cons in masquerade. True angels and divine beings don't come here to this dualistic realm lest they be trapped here along with us. It is too dangerous. They don't interfere with the game or reality TV show.

I have just recently been in correspondence with a woman who attended such angel gatherings and wrote me about how in the end they had drained her of her energy. She wrote, "I have had experiences with an ET, Archangels and dolphins during various occasions. I used to be very involved with various spiritual groups and I am very sensitive to energy and was able to connect with these beings.

My life, and the lives of the other people involved turned absolutely terrible and now I have no doubt those beings were from the false light. I am working on cleaning up my energy and reversing the pain and illness they inflicted on me. ... It is not my intention to judge, I just find it very suspicious that so many people whom I have come across in spiritual groups are such a mess. It feels counter-intuitive. Shouldn't angels help us make better choices and make us feel better?

At a gathering, there are seven people.... It is based on sacred geometry, and looks like 2 pyramids overlapping, one upside down. I forget what the shape is called. Six people form the 2 triangles and have certain crystals at their feet. One person stands in the middle, which is referred to as the well of souls. Allegedly, while in the well of souls, the angels rewire your DNA. I am not sure what this means. But now it really scares me.

Each person took a turn in the well of souls, I went last and it was crazy. I left my body and felt amazing. So much love and joy. It felt so good, I did not want to come back. My physical body started to shut down and I started screaming that I was leaving my body and refused to come back. It is hard to explain but everyone started screaming and trying to revive me because I had passed out. And then, a beam of light came shining down through the window, even though it was fall, cold and no sunshine at all, and the light beam zapped me. I could literally feel the beam push me back in my body. We all became quite and looked at each other wondering what the heck happened.

The woman who hosted the gathering said that the angels told her that I was some kind of frequency carrier and that I had some special mission. I was to be treated special. And everyone listened to what the angels instructed.... That night I went back to my hotel room and that is when I made direct contact with the angels. I never saw their faces. What I saw looked sort of like flags blowing in the wind. Each one had a solid color and was extremely vibrant--more so than earthly colors. They were communicating with me and the talk felt like incessant chatter. It was overwhelming. They opened my 3rd eye, which appeared in my mind's eye to be as big as a house. I felt as though I was under a spell or hypnotized. They were working on me. I suspect now they were actually speaking with one another. I felt like I was being prodded and I was completely limp and powerless. I asked them to stop, but they ignored me. It was not necessarily unpleasant, but I felt extremely vulnerable and confused. I felt dizzy or intoxicated. But I thought they were rewiring me and making me better. I thought I was being healed. The love I felt from them was more loving than I had ever felt... Sadly, I continued being involved with the gatherings, having many crazy more experiences. I did angel healings on others (UGH!) and hosted gatherings. The angels were no doubt later in my house. It stopped after I learned about stories of adultery, pedophilia, illness, stealing (a guy was conning people out of their retirement funds), and bankruptcy. I left the group, but I still trusted the angels. I am so embarrassed!

I think something to consider is that they can use light beams to move us. And they can hypnotize us or cast a spell and really overwhelm our thought process after we die. ...Finally, my experience with an arcturian (ET)... I joined a group... The guy channeled the 5th dimensional beings and we were told they wanted to help us ascend to either the 4th or 5th dimension, depending on a person's level of consciousness. I participated in various group meditations....the premise was that if you read the book and followed some instructions, you might just get a visit by an ET, and I did.

It occurred first thing in the morning, when I was in the in-between state of sleeping and waking. I opened my eyes and an ET was standing next to my bed. I immediate wanted to scream but he quickly calmed me, and told me to close my eyes so that I would not be afraid. He communicated telepathically... He was about 6 feet, looked like a lizard, and had huge bug eyes. It looked like something you might see in a movie. Have you ever watched Land of the Lost? It looked a bit like a sleestak

For about 30 minutes, the ET infused me with energy. I could feel it and I loved it. I also had the sense he was scanning my body in some way, but I do not know. The energy I received was intense, but healing, loving and joyful. After it ended I was frozen for about an hour. I could not move and I was afraid to open my eyes. When "they" tell you to do something, it takes a lot of will power not to obey. They are very controlling. Or perhaps I am very submissive to them. They have a way of making you feel like putty in their hands.

For days I felt wonderful, best I have ever felt. I wanted to jump from roof top to roof top because I felt invincible. But then, I crashed. I became very ill. I laid in bed for about 6 months. My husband would come home from work at 6pm and make me some dinner. I did not have the strength to shower most days. I was a mess. Slowly, I did improve. But I am still to this day not 100%. I am not able to work or function like I used to.

At my first "angel" gathering for 2 nights straight I was not able to sleep at all. I had terrible sleep deprivation. It felt as though they were busy working on me and the incessant chatter never stopped.... ... the "angels" always warned us to be aware of what they called "traps."....They were also obsessed with rituals and ceremonies. I never liked it. It was a red flag and felt very cultish.... Since my involvement with the "angels," my comprehension and memory have been diminished. I graduated from college summa cum laude and have a MBA. I used to be very sharp. But now something is wrong. My comprehension is not want it used to be. And my memory, word recall, is lacking big time. " she said, "I really cannot think of one person who benefited from connecting with 'angels' or 'ETs', I understand most people do have problems, but the severity of problems in the new-cage community is pretty suspicious." end-quote

She said she now sees how the elite use sacred geometry in the strategic arrangement of cities creating portals using monuments and buildings as anchors.

Another good friend of mine in the UK wrote, "I was involved in a healing circle for about 8 months. I had known these other 3 people who were also involved for a few years. They are kind generous and loving.

It should be remembered that part of the training I had been taught previously insisted that we protect ourselves with specific exercises. This would ensure safety from dark energy attacks.

The host of the circle worked in the 'golden ray of the Christ' and apportioned her powerful healing gift for this reason. I had experienced powerful energetic work previously from her.

The lady who was going to do the channeling for us said she connected direct with 'Source' and would be channeling so. The host verified this.

It was to be a 'closed circle' only for us 4. I was asked to prepare the questions and keep a record of what was said.

On the first night the lady channeled that "they were very pleased that we had com they appreciated how sacred our love energy was".

However, minutes later my first question was met with scorn as I was harshly reprimanded

My disbelief that I was being lambasted by the source of unconditional love for asking a pertinent question was confirmed by the host whose demeanor was so apologetic and she quickly moved on to the other guy in the circle for him to ask a question, even though she knew I had plenty more.

This was just the start. At the next circle the other man asked why he had been attacked by astral parasites, pulling and grappling aggressively on his leg in his bed even though he always protected himself. The lady channeled that was just a cosmic joker and was nothing to worry about.

Within the first couple of sessions, both the other man in the circle and the channeler complained of intense water work problems with their bladders.

At subsequent circles the channeler explained that she was being attacked by dark forces who were working through colleagues she attended university with. My question "How does some individual who allegedly dabbles in black magic, manage to bypass SOURCE and attack the channeler, whom they say they are so grateful of. They told her they were doing their best to help and protect her and would continue doing so. Really? Also What happened to the impenetrable protection exercises?

She began to sound paranoid, saying there was a conspiracy against her work at the university and that road blocks were being put up by the dark to stop her getting home after the week ended.

The following month I was unable to attend and they told me that before they opened circle the tiny T-light candles had unexplainably shot up in large flames, a couple of feet high and the only way they could put them out was to extinguish then with water. On the same night whilst the channeler was travelling to circle, just a hundred metres from the house she drove in to what seemed like a dense dark heavy fog and thought she was completely lost.

Things then turned really bizarre as attacks began at the channelers home. She walked downstairs one morning to be confronted by thousands and thousands of fleas in a perfect circle at the bottom of her stairs. Despite throwing the rug out and having the fumigators' in several times the fleas returned. The pest control guys said they had never experienced fleas collecting together in the middle of a room, they were solitary insects that hide out of the way in crevices etc.

With further psychic attacks the channeler became very ill, collapsed and was hospitalised. She was apparently close to not making it. The hospital couldn't diagnose anything specifically wrong with her and after several weeks labeled her with a form of meningitis.

The circle was postponed until further notice, however a couple of months later the host herself was struck by a debilitating illness, when she was unable to get out of her bed on boxing day. A few weeks later she was diagnosed with cancer of the lower spine.

If ever I mention these experiences to other new age practitioners they always respond by asserting that they must have been connected to something dark, that they were not spiritually connected to the light as they themselves were. From my personal observation my colleagues from the circle were as genuine and loving, if not more so than the other new agers I have experienced." end-quote

I get a bit hesitant to point out others' problems, but I think in this case it shows they were genuine with their efforts but were being taken advantage of by the entities. If they were connected to true Source and better protected then perhaps things like that would not happen. But maybe the stronger your power becomes the more they attack... like the "every action has an equal and opposite reaction" law in physics. But then again maybe it shows that the more you give your power away the closer they can get and affect your life.

TAOISM

"Tao (The Way) can be infused into the nature and put to use without being exhausted. It is so deep and subtle like an abyss that is the origin of all things... ... Tao is so profound and yet in invisible, It exists in everywhere and anywhere. "

Chapter 11 states, "Thirty spokes unite around one hub to make a wheel. It is the presence of the empty space that gives the function of a vehicle. Clay is molded into a vessel. It is the empty space that gives the function of a vessel. Doors and windows are chisel out to make a room. It is the empty space in the room that gives its function. Therefore, something substantial can be beneficial. While the emptiness of void is what can be utilized."

Chapter 14 declares, "What cannot be seen is called the invisible. What cannot be heard is called the inaudible. What cannot be touched is called the intangible. These three cannot be examined and comprehended. And hence are mixed together as one. This “Oneness” is not much brighter in the sky, as It is not much dimmer on earth. It is not more glorious in a saint as It is not more fainter in an ordinary person. It is everlasting and cannot be named. It is the original void of “non-being.” This “Oneness” is the Tao which is invisible, and formless."

"The true void of Tao has no desires and may seem small. Yet all things entrust their lives to It and It does not act as their master."

"All things in the world originate from the manifestation of Tao, The manifestation of Tao is the form of being, Which originates from the non-being of the void, the Great Tao." -- Chapter 40

"Great Tao is formless, It is invisible and has no name. It benefits all and fulfills all."

In his book, Peat: Primordial Energy Activation and Transcendence and the Neutralization of Polarities, Zivorad Slavinski wrote, "On the deepest level, inside Tao or the Great Unmanifest, Yang and Yin are inseparable. Polarities are in essence only two extremes of the same thing. A metal coin has two sides, and those two sides are the two sides of the same one coin. You can’t spend only one side of a coin. The integration of Yang and Yin gives us the true power which, if it is used wisely, affirms the life of true spirituality. Taoist Ni Hua Ching says: “The way to restoring Unity with the universe is the canceling of duality, and resolving the polarity not only on a philosophical level but in inner spiritual life.” According to Taoist cosmogony, before the beginning of the manifested universe, there existed the state of complete Emptiness. In that primordial state there was no movement, nor was there time, because there was nothing in relation to which you could measure time. Everything was absolute Emptiness. Old Taoists called that Emptiness “Wu Chi.” The word “Wu” means negation, that is to say the lack of something. The word ‘Chi’, even though it is pronounced the same way as the life energy Chi, has a much different meaning. In the term Wu Chi it means the peak, final or ultimate. Thus, Wu Chi means the highest state of Nothingness. In one timeless moment, in that nothingness, the first movement began, caused by an unknown impulse. That first impulse manifested itself as life energy Chi through the Primordial Polarities Yin and Yang, positive and negative. The cosmic game of Yin and Yang is essentially the representation of One Highest or Wu Chi. The infinite variety of existing phenomena, visible and invisible, in the manifested universe is the result of the interactions of Yin and Yang. In the spiritual, un-manifested universe however, everything is Oneness. All that exists in the manifested universe has dual or polar manifestation, because it contains active and passive components, Yin and Yang. Achieving their perfect balance is the goal of the Taoist practice. In it, duality becomes Unity. In one ancient Tao text it is said: “In the beginning, before anything existed, only Wu Chi existed. He moved and created Yang, and when he came to rest, He created Yin.” That is the way of the creation of Yang and Yin, breathing out and breathing in, moving and staying still, male and female, expansion and contraction, light and dark, life and death. Yang and Yin are complimentary dualities, because together they are interdependent and inseparable. Darkness exists only in relation to light. Stillness and movement can only be perceived in relation to one another. Everything contains in itself its own opposites and when it is extremely developed primordial polarities or primes it gives up its opposition."

From the book Darkness Technology: Darkness Techniques for Enlightenment by Mantak Chia: "All spiritual traditions have used Darkness Techniques in the pursuit of enlightenment. In Europe, the dark room often appeared in underground form as a network of tunnels, in Egypt as the Pyramids, in Rome as the catacombs, and by the Essenes, near the Dead Sea in Israel, as caves. In the Taoist tradition caves have been used throughout the ages for higher level practices. In the Tao, the cave, the Immortal Mountain, the Wu San, represents the Perfect Inner Alchemy Chamber. Meditating and fasting in the cave is the final journey of spiritual work. The caves are the Earth Mother and its energy lines. Like the hollow bones, caves contain the earliest information of life stored inside the Earth. Caves contain the vital essence of the Earth Power. The Tao says: ‘When you go into the dark and this becomes total, the Darkness soon turns into light.’ In the Darkness, our mind and soul begin to wander freely in the vast realms of psychic and spiritual experience. When you enter this primordial state or force you are reunited with the true self and divinity within. You literally ‘conduct’ the universal energy. You may see into the past and future, understand the true meaning of existence, and begin to understand the order of things. You return to the womb, the cocoon of our material structure and Nature’s original Darkness. Complete darkness profoundly changes the sensory sensibilities of the body/brain. We are deprived of all visual reference. Sounds begin to fall away as we lose contact with the external world and turn the senses inward. The effect of darkness is to shut down major cortical centers in the brain, depressing mental and cognitive functions in the higher brain centers. Emotional and feeling states are enhanced, especially the sense of smell and the finer senses of psychic perception. Dreams become more lucid, and the dream state manifests in our conscious awareness. Eventually, we awaken within ourselves the awareness of the Source, the spirit, the soul. We descend into the void, into the darkness of deep, inner space. The light appears..."

BUDDHISM

I apologize if this article's use of Buddhist terms and philosophies is offputting. But once one becomes aware of the suffering in this world and that it is like a prison for our spirit. And once one discovers through near death experiences that life is like an illusion and that separation is an illusion. And that we have a hyperaware state once we shed our physical bodies. And that many near death experiencers report having been in what seemed like a void -- their own words -- and some of them even recognized it as the bardo in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, then it is at least worth looking into the Buddhist philosophies. Buddhism, like Hinduism, teaches that one needs to become liberated from the cycle of rebirth which is reincarnating onto Earth which is based in illusion. They directly address the issue of suffering here on Earth. And they delve deeply into the nature of consciousness itself. Here are some interesting quotes from Buddha:

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." -- Buddha

"Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up." -- Buddha

"The root of suffering is attachment." -- Buddha

"Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think." -- Buddha

A man asked Gautama Buddha, “I want happiness.” Buddha said, “First remove “I,” that’s Ego, then remove “want,” that’s Desire. See now, you are left with only “Happiness”.

"Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won’t play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle." -- Buddha

"Everything in moderation, including moderation." -- Buddhist saying

"Don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These mental qualities are skillful; these mental qualities are blameless; these mental qualities are praised by the wise; these mental qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to welfare and to happiness' — then you should enter & remain in them." -- Buuddha

"But as for any brahmans or contemplatives who do know, as it actually is present, that 'This is suffering; who know, as it actually is present, that 'This is the origination of suffering... 'This is the cessation of suffering... 'This is the path of practice leading to the cessation of suffering: They don't revel in (thought-) fabrications leading to birth; don't revel in fabrications leading to aging; don't revel in fabrications leading to death; don't revel in fabrications leading to sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair. Not reveling in fabrications leading to birth... aging... death... sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair, they don't fabricate fabrications leading to birth... aging... death... sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair. Not fabricating fabrications leading to birth... aging... death... sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair, they don't drop over the drop-off of birth. They don't drop over the drop-off of aging, don't drop over the drop-off of death, don't drop over the drop-off of sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair. They are totally released from birth, aging, death, sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, & despairs. They are totally released, I tell you, from suffering & disappointment... Therefore, monks, your duty is the contemplation, 'This is suffering... This is the origination of suffering... This is the cessation of suffering.' Your duty is the contemplation, 'This is the path of practice leading to the cessation of suffering." -- Buddha

"Form is like a glob of foam; feeling, a bubble; perception, a mirage; fabrications, a banana tree; consciousness, a magic trick — this has been taught by the Kinsman of the Sun. However you observe them, appropriately examine them, they're empty, void to whoever sees them appropriately. Beginning with the body as taught by the One with profound discernment: when abandoned by three things— life, warmth, & consciousness — form is rejected, cast aside. When bereft of these it lies thrown away, senseless, a meal for others. That's the way it goes: it's a magic trick, an idiot's babbling. It's said to be a murderer. No substance here is found. Thus a monk, persistence aroused, should view the aggregates by day & by night, mindful, alert; should discard all fetters; should make himself his own refuge; should live as if his head were on fire — in hopes of the state with no falling away." -- Buddha (Phena Sutta: Foam)

"Those who are ignorant of the void cannot achieve liberation. These confused minds wander in the prison of the six realms." —Bodhichittavivarana

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arūpa-loka, (Sanskrit and Pāli: “world of immaterial form”), in Buddhist thought, the highest of the three spheres of existence in which rebirth takes place. The other two are rūpa-loka, “the world of form,” and kāma-loka, “the world of feeling” (the three are also referred to as arūpa-dhātu, rūpa-dhātu, and kāma-dhātu, the “realms” of formlessness, form, and feeling).

In arūpa-loka, existence depends on the stage of concentration attained, and there are four levels: the infinity of space, the infinity of thought, the infinity of nonbeing, and the infinity of neither consciousness nor nonconsciousness. The rūpa-loka, which is free from sensuous desire but is still conditioned by form, is inhabited by gods. It is also further subdivided into the spheres inhabited by Brahmā, by the luminous deities, by the blissful gods, and by the deities of great fruits. Kāma-loka includes the six heavens of the lesser gods and the five lower worlds (the worlds of men, demons, ghosts, animals, and purgatory).

As superior as is rebirth in the higher worlds, such an existence is nonetheless temporary, subject to change, and involves the fundamental conflicts of existence within the limits of transmigration. This can be broken only by further spiritual insight, resulting in Nirvāṇa and release from the cycle of rebirths.

ZEN BUDDHISM

In 1959 in The Practice of Zen, Chang Chen-Chi wrote, "Buddhist Enlightenment is not gained through holding onto or inflating one’s self-awareness. On the contrary, it is gained through killing or crushing any attachment to this illuminating consciousness; only by transcending it may one come to the innermost core of Mind—the perfectly free and thoroughly nonsubstantial illuminating-Voidness. This illuminating-Void character, empty yet dynamic, is the Essence (Chinese: ti) of the mind."

"The important point here is that when the word “Essence” is mentioned, people immediately think of something quintessentially concrete; and when the word “Void” is mentioned, they automatically envision a dead and static "nothingness.” Both of these conceptions miss the meanings of the Chinese word ti (Essence) and the Sanskrit word Sunyata (Voidness), and expose the limitation of the finite and one-sided way of human thinking. The ordinary way of thinking is to accept the idea that something is existent or nonexistent, but never that it is both existent and nonexistent at the same time. A is A or not A; but never is it both A and not A simultaneously. In the same way, the verdict of common sense on Voidness versus existence is: “Voidness is not existence, nor is existence Voidness.” This pattern of reasoning, regarded as the correct and rational way of thinking, is advocated by logicians as a sine qua non and is accepted by common sense for all practical purposes. But Buddhism does not invariably follow this sine qua non, especially when it deals with the truth of Sunyata. It says: “Form does not differ from Voidness, and Voidness does not differ from Form; Form is Voidness and Voidness is Form.” Buddhism also says that it is owing to Voidness that things can exist and, because of the very fact that things do exist, they must be Void. It emphasizes that Voidness and existence are complementary to each other and not in opposition to each other; they include and embrace, rather than exclude or negate each other. When ordinary sentient beings see an object, they see only its existent, not its void, aspect. But an enlightened being sees both aspects at the same time. This nondistinguishment, or “unification” as some people like to call it, of Voidness and existence, is the so-called Nonabiding Middle Way Doctrine of Mahayana Buddhism. Therefore, Voidness, as understood in Buddhism, is not something negative, nor does it mean absence or extinction. Voidness is simply a term denoting the nonsubstantial and non-self nature of beings, and a pointer indicating the state of absolute nonattachment and freedom. "

"Voidness is not easily explained. It is not definable or describable. As Zen Master Huai Jang has said, "Anything that I say will miss the point.” Voidness cannot be described or expressed in words. This is because human language is created primarily to designate existent things and feelings; it is not adequate to express nonexistent things and feelings. To attempt to discuss Voidness within the limitations of a language confined by the pattern of existence is both futile and misleading... The Essence of mind is the Illuminating Void Suchness. An enlightened Zen Buddhist not only knows the illuminating aspect of the consciousness but, most important of all, he also knows the void aspect of the mind."

The Four Noble Truths comprise the essence of Buddha's teachings. They are the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering. The fourth Noble truth is called the middle path because it is avoiding two extremes. ... Buddha found that the Middle path gives vision and knowledge leading to Nirvana (release from suffering). It is also called the Noble eightfold path. The essence of Buddha's teaching was not actually in the middle path but in pointing to three problems (poisons) of our ordinary way of existence: ignorance (wrong interpretation and perception of the reality), attachments and aversions. These are exactly what keeps us (or rather unconsciously forces us) reincarnating again and again in samsara (illusion). So they have to be unrooted/removed if we want to liberate ourselves from these compulsive rebirths. His "four noble truths" and "eightfold path" offered a lifelong practice that can lead to liberation from compulsive rebirths in samsara.

He also taught about different realms beyond the material world and their rulers so that people are aware of what to expect when we die, but he did not elaborate much on that. His point was: it's not the traps and deceits of Brahma, Mara, Demiurge or whoever that keep us trapped in samsara. It's our own ignorance and addictions to pleasures that forces us to agree to reincarnate.

Buddha's monastic rules were pretty strict in denial of sensual pleasures (celibate, no sex, no possessions etc) it was still a moderate way compared to extreme self-mortification practices of some of his contemporary ascetics. Here is how the Middle Path was given in the original Buddha's words:

In the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism, the term "Middle Way" was used in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, which the Buddhist tradition regards to be the first teaching that the Buddha delivered after his awakening. In this sutta, the Buddha describes the Noble Eightfold Path as the middle way of moderation, between the extremes of sensual indulgence and self-mortification:

"Monks, these two extremes ought not to be practiced by one who has gone forth from the household life. There is addiction to indulgence of sense-pleasures, which is low, coarse, the way of ordinary people, unworthy, and unprofitable; and there is addiction to self-mortification, which is painful, unworthy, and unprofitable. Avoiding both these extremes, the Tathagata (the Perfect One) has realized the Middle Path; it gives vision, gives knowledge, and leads to calm, to insight, to enlightenment and to Nibbana. And what is that Middle Path realized by the Tathagata...? It is the Noble Eightfold path, and nothing else, namely: right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration."

“When you are at the top you only see shadows and when your at the bottom you are blinded by the light but from the middle everything is pleasing... day and night” ― Robert Wesley Miller

“It's not about binary but awareness of Oneness riddle. Between two extremes I choose the way in the middle.” ― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

In Mahayana Buddhism, the Middle Way refers to the insight into śūnyatā "emptiness" that transcends the extremes of existence and non-existence, the two truths doctrine.

"From the beginning you beings are deluded
Because you do not recognize the awareness of the ground,
And you are thus unmindful and indecisive,
Which is the very state of unawareness,
The cause of going astray.

From this delusive state
Comes a sudden fainting away and then
A subtle wavering fear.
From that wavering there arises
A separation of self
And the perception of others as separate beings and enemies.

Gradually, the tendency of separation strengthens,
And from this the circle of samsara begins.
Then the emotions of five poisons develop
And the actions of these emotions are endless.

You beings lack awareness because you are unmindful,
And this is the basis of you going astray.

The point is: if you see the ground awareness and you cleared your mind of all illusions of separation, you also clearly see that all "things" and "selves" are unreal. In this situation it makes absolutely no sense to have any desire to reincarnate, it just seems very stupid thing to do. You do not develop the desire to become "someone". But (you have to believe me here) you do not get bored, although you can still do a lot of activities without falling into delusion of separation, but you are not drawn to these activities because of the impulse from boredom. You become truly free and liberated of any mental conditioning.

And another point: if the Source manifested the astral and material planes out of boredom and desire to experience separation, this simply means that he is not enlightened. He is in samsaric state of mind. He does not know his own origin, the ground awareness (and that is literally what Nanci) said:" he does not know his own origin"). Then what's the benefit of merging with him? Yes, you will experience all sorts of unconditional love, bliss and rapture, and then what? Become bored again? You will not get enlightened and truly liberated from merging with him because he is not enlightened.

In Dzogchen there is a belief that Samantabhardra, the primordial Buddha, who emanates all Buddhas in material and other universes (including Buddha Shakyamuni, Padmasambhava etc) IS the enlightened Source. He does not manifest any universes, he has no desire or reason to do so. But he emanates the enlightened state of mind, Nirvana, through all universes, and those who get enlightened automatically merge their higher consciousness with his state of Nirvana and become Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. I actually think it is true based on my own experience. The quote that I gave you was from a text attributed to Samantabhadra and channeled through one of the Dzogchen masters.

PS: Samantabhadra is not a kind of dictator-Source that you have to merge with. It's just that all enlightened souls merge into the same non-dual state of Nirvana, awareness of Awareness, where Samantabhadra always resided. We do not become one with him, we become one with Awareness, which he has always been one with. There is no hierarchy and dictatorship in Nirvana, there is just respect to more experienced, knowledgeable and advanced souls.

Samantabhadra is not a dictator, he does not need to be worshipped :) Only unenlightened Sources like our Brahma want to be worshipped because they have a sense of self (God's ego :). In the enlightened state the notions like who is who, who is the Source and who is the center and so on don't make much sense anymore. Everything is experienced as just forms of one and only Awareness, any hierarchy dissolves.

Basically, all our "selves" are illusory, they do not exist as separate beings, they are just self-sustaining mental activities in the ground awareness, like whirlpools of thoughts, perceptions, feelings and manifestations. But some of these mental activities develop a sense of separate self-existence, which is a delusion. In Nirvana these whirlpools do not have the sense of separate self-existence, which does not mean that they cease their mental activity. So, in reality there is no merging of anyone with any Source, it's just that the mental activities become in consonance with each other, get in the same state of awareness so to speak.

"The actual essence, pristine gnosis, cannot be improved upon, so virtue is profitless, and it cannot be impaired, so vice is harmless; in its absence of karma there is no ripening of pleasure or pain; in its absence of judgement, no preference for samsara or nirvana."

Here is an example of famous Zen-buddhist Hsin Hsin Ming text https://terebess.hu/english/hsin.html#13

"The Great Way is not difficult for those who do not pick and choose. When preferences are cast aside the Way stands clear and undisguised. But even slight distinctions made set earth and heaven far apart. If you would clearly see the truth, discard opinions pro and con. To founder in dislike and like is nothing but the mind's disease. And not to see the Way's deep truth disturbs the mind's essential peace. The Way is perfect like vast space, where there's no lack and no excess. Our choice to choose and to reject prevents our seeing this simple truth. Both striving for the outer world as well as for the inner void condemn us to entangled lives. Just calmly see that all is One and by themselves false views will go."

Here is a better translation of the first phrase of Hsing Hsing Min: "The Great Way is effortless for those who live in choiceless awareness. To choose without preference is to be clear." That is exactly to the point. Awareness is preference-less by nature. So when you abide in awareness you will naturally have no preferences although you can still make preference-less choices.

Regarding this idea of choiceless awareness, Buddhists were the earliest, I believe. It comes from the Buddha's original teaching that described the three fundamental problems ("three poisons") of our existence: delusion, attachment and aversion, and a way to free ourselves from them. Buddha did not specifically talk about choiceless awareness, but if you are free from delusions, attachments and aversions to anything then how would you have any preferences? But it does not really matter when was this teaching first explicitly espoused. The point is: Buddha's original teaching is about recognizing the fundamental awareness and everyone who achieves this will also clearly see that the awareness is choiceless/preferenceless by nature, so no special teaching was needed for that.

"Awareness without feature, without end, luminous all around: Here water, earth, fire, & wind have no footing." (Buddha, Kevatta Sutta)

("luminous" = reference to its clear light,"have no footing" - reference to its emptiness)

But later in Buddhism it was still espoused as Buddhists elaborated more on philosophy and spiritual practice. The Zen-buddhist Hsin Hsin Ming text talks more specifically about freedom from preferences https://terebess.hu/english/hsin.html#13
It was written by 3rd Zen/Chan patriarch Jianzhi Sengcan who lived in 529-613.

In Dzogchen this teaching, as far as I know, first appears in this early text The Six Vajra Verses (The Cuckoo's Song of Total Presence) dated to 8th century (http://keithdowman.net/dzogchen/cuckoos-song-of-total-presence.html ):

"The nature of multiplicity is nondual and things in themselves are pure and simple; being here and now is thought-free and it shines out in all forms, always all good; it is already perfect, so the striving sickness is avoided and spontaneity is constantly present."

THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD

"O nobly-born (so-and-so), listen. Now thou art experiencing the Radiance of the Clear Light of Pure Reality. Recognize it. O nobly-born, thy present intellect, in real nature void, not formed into anything as regards characteristics or colour, naturally void, is the very Reality, the All-Good.
Thine own intellect, which is now voidness, yet not to be regarded as of the voidness of nothingness, but as being the intellect itself, unobstructed, shining, thrilling, and blissful, is the very consciousness, the All-good Buddha.
Thine own consciousness, not formed into anything, in reality void, and the intellect, shining and blissful, -- these two, -- are inseparable. The union of them is the Dharma-Kāya state of Perfect Enlightenment.

Thine own consciousness, shining, void, and inseparable from the Great Body of Radiance, hath no birth, nor death, and is the Immutable Light -- Buddha Amitābha. Knowing this is sufficient. Recognizing the voidness of thine own intellect to be Buddhahood, and looking upon it as being thine own consciousness, is to keep thyself in the [state of the] divine mind of the Buddha.

Repeat this distinctly and clearly three or [even] seven times. That will recall to the mind [of the dying one] the former [i.e. when living] setting-face-to-face by the guru. Secondly, it will cause the naked consciousness to be recognized as the Clear Light; and, thirdly, recognizing one's own self [thus], one becometh permanently united with the Dharma-Kāya and Liberation will be certain..."

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying states, "At the moment of death, the Ground Luminosity or Clear Light dawns in all its splendor. The Tibetan Book of the Dead says: "O son/daughter of an enlightened family ... your Rigpa is inseparable luminosity and emptiness and dwells as a great expanse of light; beyond birth or death, it is, in fact, the Buddha of Unchanging Light."

The author warns, however, "The reason the moment of death is so potent with opportunity is because it is then that the fundamental nature of mind, the Ground Luminosity or Clear Light, will naturally manifest, and in a vast and splendid way. If at this crucial moment we can recognize the Ground Luminosity, the teachings tell us, we will attain liberation. This is not, however, possible unless you have become acquainted and really familiar with the nature of mind in your lifetime through spiritual practice. And this is why, rather surprisingly, it is said in our tradition that a person who is liberated at the moment of death is considered to be liberated in this lifetime, and not in one of the bardo states after death; for it is within this lifetime that the essential recognition of the Clear Light has taken place and been established. This is a crucial point to understand."

"... what is revealed is the primordial ground of our absolute nature, which i-encompassing space of truth. The Tibetan Book of the Dead says of this moment:
'The nature of everything is open, empty and naked like the sky Luminous emptiness, without center or circumference: the pure, naked Rigpa dawns.' "

"Even though the Ground Luminosity presents itself naturally to us all, most of us are totally unprepared for its sheer immensity, the vast and subtle depth of its naked simplicity. The majority of us will simply have no means of recognizing it, because we have not made ourselves familiar with ways of recognizing it in life. What happens, then, is that we tend to react instinctively with all our past fears, habits, and conditioning, all our old reflexes. Though the negative emotions may have died for the luminosity to appear, the habits of lifetimes still remain, hidden in the background of our ordinary mind."

Francesca Fremantle, who helped translate The Tibetan Book of the Dead wrote a book called Luminous Emptiness: Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead. In it she writes, "According to the teachings of Natural Liberation, the instructions concerning this bardo are in three parts: illusory body, dreaming, and luminosity (or clear light). The practice of illusory body trains us to see waking life as a dream and to realize that our whole subjectively experienced world is the creation of the mind, just like a magician's illusion, insubstantial and impermanent. This realization is fundamental to all practices related to the bardos. It is a particularly necessary preparation for working with dreams, because dreams arise from karmic traces deeply imprinted in the mind, and so they are very hard to influence directly. Only after our intense attachment to our ordinary concept of reality is loosened does it become possible to perceive the world of dreams, too, as our own creation and to control it. The practice of luminosity is simply to recognize and rest in the basic nature of mind itself, in its emptiness, radiance, and clarity. A momentary glimpse of luminosity appears at the moment of falling asleep, just as it does at the moment of death, but ordinarily we are unable to recognize it or even to notice anything at all...

The brilliance and clarity in which all phenomena appear as they really are, yet are seen to be empty in essence, is called luminosity. As we shall find later on, luminosity is a key term in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. There are several different views or ways of understanding emptiness among the Buddhist philosophical schools, and vast amounts have been written about it. These views arise from increasingly subtle realizations of the nature of mind, which in turn produce more and more profound and subtle experiences of emptiness, ranging from the basic insight into nonself to resting in the luminous emptiness of the ultimate nature of mind. Emptiness is not simply a void that is left when illusions have been cleared away. Like the mind itself it is a continuous process, the living essence of each moment of experience...

When the scriptures tell of buddhas and bodhisattvas entering states of samadhi and giving teachings, as in the Heart Sutra, they are describing states of meditation that are accessible to human beings. It is possible for us to look into our own true nature just as Avalokiteshvara did. What he saw was emptiness not just as a negative condition, but as a positive one. The void naturally and spontaneously manifests as the universe, with all its marvelous and varied phenomena. Existence may not be real in the way we have always imagined, but it is real in a far more wonderful way, as the play of wakefulness...

The luminosity experienced in meditation is called the path luminosity, simile luminosity, or child luminosity. The true luminosity of our awakened nature is called the basic luminosity or mother luminosity; it dawns at the moment of death, and if it is recognized, the mother and child meet and become one in liberation. Luminosity is often translated as "clear light," which is a literal rendering of the Tibetan rather than the Sanskrit. Trungpa Rinpoche did not like that term, although he did sometimes use it in his talks, which form the basis of his books, because it is so well known. He felt it had become inextricably associated with such notions as the light at the end of the tunnel in near-death experiences, and that it gave too much of an impression of ordinary, visual light, whereas what is meant is an extremely subtle concept that he thought would be conveyed better by "luminosity." The two terms luminosity and clarity are frequently not distinguished and are translated by the same word in English, so that we find "clear light," "luminosity," or "clarity" for both. They are certainly very close, since clarity here is not just clear and transparent, but also bright and luminous: the illuminating potential of the mind. In the Tibetan Book of the Dead, we used only luminosity, but on looking at the text very carefully with this in mind, it is evident that it does distinguish between them, and so it now seems best to do so in the revised passages of translation that follow in part 2. Luminosity is the ever-present background of Liberation through Hearing, out of which the visions of the peaceful and wrathful deities appear. In fact, it is at the heart of the experience of bardo. As Trungpa Rinpoche said, it "comes up as subtle gaps of all kinds" in all six realms of existence. It seems frightening because it offers nothing to grasp at or hang on to; "clear light is the sense of desolation of complete open space."... " If we can let go into it and merge with it so there is no longer any sense of perceiver and perceived, "when clear light ceases to become an experience, then that itself is space."

"Space is emptiness and luminosity: luminous emptiness. Because it is empty, nothing exists, yet because it is luminous, everything arises from it."

"The final teachings of dzogchen are found in the instructions section of atiyoga. They consist of two stages called cutting through (trekcho) and surpassing (thogal) These two stages are the basis of the instructions given in Liberation through Hearing, They transcend the stages of creation and completion by dissolving every last subtle trace of clinging to self or conceptual thought, even the concept of enlightenment. This is no longer a path of transformation, but of spontaneous self-liberation resulting from direct recognition of reality. The first stage, cutting through, is sometimes interpreted to mean cutting through what is hard, through obstacles or solidity, but it can also be cutting hard, directly, and fearlessly. In it, the meditator is taught to identify naked awareness, the very basis of mind, as distinct from the operations of mind or consciousness. Thoughts are self-liberated at the moment of their arising, and one remains continuously in the presence of awareness. One recognizes with complete certainty the original, pure, empty nature of all phenomena, beyond both samsara and nirvana, which is known as primordial purity. This means that all the coarse elements and skandhas are self-liberated in their natural state; it is not a question of their being purified or transmuted into that state, but of being recognized as they really are. The practitioner who has accomplished the practice of cutting through can attain the rainbow body: at death, his or her mind merges with the dharmakaya, while the body simply dissolves away into the five colored lights of the subtle elements."

The Tibetan Book of the Dead states, "Now when the bardo of dying dawns upon me, I will abandon all grasping, yearning, and attachment, Enter undistracted into clear awareness of the teaching, And eject my consciousness into the space of unborn Rigpa; As I leave this compound body of flesh and blood I will know it to be a transitory illusion... This self-originated Clear Light, which from the very beginning was never bom, Is the child of Rigpa, which is itself without any parents—how amazing! "

As for learning how to live every moment of your life in mindful meditation in order to be prepared to recognize Rigpa and the void, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying and Dzogchen Teachings by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu are a good start. Dzogchen practices aim to recognize "rigpa" and integrate this into everyday life.

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying describes rigpa as "a primordial, pure, pristine awareness that is at once intelligent, cognizant, radiant, and always awake. It could be said to be the knowledge of knowledge itself... The whole point of Dzogchen meditation practice is to strengthen and stabilize Rigpa, and allow it to grow to full maturity." It says, "The essence of meditation practice in Dzogchen is encapsulated by these four points: • When one past thought has ceased and a future thought has not yet risen, in that gap, in between, isn't there a consciousness of the present moment; fresh, virgin, unaltered by even a hair's breadth of concept, a luminous, naked awareness? Well, that is what Rigpa is! • Yet it doesn't stay in that state forever, because another thought suddenly arises, doesn't it? This is the self-radiance of that Rigpa. • However, if you do not recognize this thought for what it really is, the very instant it arises, then it will turn into just another ordinary thought, as before. This is called the "chain of delusion," and is the root of samsara. • If you are able to recognize the true nature of the thought as soon as it arises, and leave it alone without any followup, then whatever thoughts arise all automatically dissolve back into the vast expanse of Rigpa and are liberated..."

"Clearly it takes a lifetime of practice to understand and realize the full richness and majesty of these four profound yet simple points, and here I can only give you a taste of the vastness of what is meditation in Dzogchen. Perhaps the most important point is that Dzogchen meditation comes to be a continual flow of Rigpa, like a river constantly moving day and night without any interruption... Dzogchen meditation is subtly powerful in dealing with the arisings of the mind, and has a unique perspective on them. All the risings are seen in their true nature, not as separate from Rigpa, and not as antagonistic to it, but actually as none other—and this is very important—than its "self-radiance," the manifestation of its very energy. Say you find yourself in a deep state of stillness; often it does not last very long and a thought or a movement always arises, like a wave in the ocean. Don't reject the movement or particularly embrace the stillness, but continue the flow of your pure presence. The pervasive, peaceful state of your meditation is the Rigpa itself, and all risings are none other than this Rigpa's self-radiance. This is the heart and the basis of Dzogchen practice..."

"This opening of the door in Dzogchen practice is called the "meeting of the Ground and Path Luminosities" or the "meeting of Mother and Child Luminosities." Another way to say this is that as soon as a thought or emotion arises, the Path Luminosity—the Rigpa—recognizes it immediately for what it is, recognizes its inherent nature, the Ground Luminosity. In that moment of recognition, the two luminosities merge and thoughts and emotions are liberated in their very ground. It is essential to perfect this practice of the merging of the two luminosities and the self-liberation of risings in life, because what happens at the moment of death, for everyone, is this: The Ground Luminosity dawns in vast splendor, and with it brings an opportunity for total liberation—if, and only if, you have learned how to recognize it. It will be clear now, perhaps, that this merging of the luminosities and self-liberation of thoughts and emotions is meditation at its very deepest level... As abiding by the flow of Rigpa becomes a reality, it begins to permeate the practitioner's everyday life and action, and breeds a deep stability and confidence... You do not cling to thoughts and emotions or reject them, but welcome them all within the vast embrace of Rigpa..."

"Supreme practitioners of Dzogchen, as I have said, have completely realized the nature of mind during their lifetime. So when they die, they need only to continue to rest and abide in that state of Rigpa, as they make the transition through death... just relax in the Rigpa, without doubting. "

Norbu says rigpa is the "state of instant presence". He mentions the three aspects of rigpa. "Its Essence is emptiness; its Nature is clarity; and its Energy is without interruption. Our Energy is in fact constantly in motion, like a waterfall. This continuation is related to our real condition, our inherent potentiality, which manifests as sound, light, and rays." You observe yourself so that you can discover your real nature. Although the teacher gives many methods in order to have diﬀerent experiences, ﬁrst we need knowledge—understanding what it means to be in our real nature.

Even better are the classics such as Padmasambhava's Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness or Longchen Rabjam's The Precious Treasury of The Basic Space of Phenomena, but you need to read introductory texts first (like Namkai's ones) to get familiar with terminology and basic concepts. Also, a scientific/philosophical insight into the same subject such as David Chalmers The Conscious Mind is also very helpful. They are all talking about the same fundamental awareness, but from different perspectives - spiritual and philosophical/scientific. I think it's important to have both so that we do not have any misconceptions or narrow views.

Padmasambhava, the author of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, wrote in Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness, "It is the single (nature of) mind which encompasses all of Samsara and Nirvana, Even though its inherent nature has existed from the very beginning, you have not recognized it.. Therefore, your active dharmas and your inactive ones both should be abandoned... Now when you are introduced to (to your own intrinsic awareness) the method for entering it involves three considerations: Thoughts in the past are clear and empty and leave non traces behind. Thoughts in the future are fresh and unconditioned by anything. And in the present moment, when (your mind) remains in its own condition without constructing anything, awareness at that moment is quite ordinary. And when you look into yourself in this way nakedly (without any discursive thoughts), since there is only this pure observing, there will be found a lucid clarity without anyone being there who is the observer; only a naked awareness is present... it is certain that the nature of the mind is empty and without any foundation whatsoever. Your own mind is like the empty sky...and is like the sun rising in a cloudless illuminated sky... this self-originated primordial awareness has not been created by anything -- amazing!...even though it exists within yourself (and nowhere else), yet you seek for it elsewhere -- amazing!... ... in this state which is without meditation and without any distraction, it is the luminous clarity of the Essence itself... This intrinsic awareness is free of the eight extremes, such as externalism and nihilism, and the rest. Thus we speak of the Middle Way where one does not fall into any of the extremes, and we speak of the intrinsic awareness as uninterrupted mindful presence... this self-liberation through seeing with naked awareness is of such great profundity. And, this being so, you should become intimately acquainted with self-awareness." In The Light of Wisdom, Vol IV Padmasambhava wrote, "The spontaneously present nature is the unconfined expression of wakefulness; Like light from the sun in the sky, It pervades everywhere and abides as the life-force of everyone, Indivisible from anything and without being partial to samsara or nirvana. These two are beyond the constructs of'one' and 'many'. This natural state of unformed unity."

LONGCHENPA: PRECIOUS TREASURY OF THE WAY OF ABIDING

"With no dualistic perception, in that very moment there is abiding in the heart essence, ultimately meaningful and fundamentally unconditioned. Ineffable when examined-and by the same token ineffable when not examined- phenomena in their multiplicity are always ineffable, since there is not the slightest frame of reference, even in terms of conventional labels. Know that by nature they have no substance, like illusions."

"Ineffability is shown to be the heart essence of what is ultimately meaningful: In the awakened nature of mind, which can be neither affirmed nor denied,
timeless awareness without dualistic perception abides as a matter of course. In naked awareness, involving no causality, abides the unique sphere that is neither positive nor negative. In unobstructed awareness, without limit or center, the wholly positive enlightened intent of dharmakaya abides as a matter of course. In enlightenment-self-knowing awareness, the heart essence of ineffability- the totally pure and nonreferential intent of victorious ones is clearly evident. The very essence of awareness, which is empty yet lucid and can be neither affirmed nor denied, is beyond the dualism of outer object and inner subject. It is itself free of cause and effect, whether positive or negative; there are no karmic consequences or habitual patterns."

"Because the nature of mind is spontaneously present, the fundamental ground, the heart essence, is encompassed within·awakened mind. "

"Since everything is wholly positive-there is nothing that is not positive- the basic space of the vajra heart essence is the spontaneous presence of everything."

"In awareness, the ultimate heart essence of enlightenment, there is no holding to extreme views, but rather freedom from bias based on characteristics. There is no conclusion to be reached through theories of language or knowledge. It is beyond characterization, can be neither affirmed nor denied, neither increases nor decreases, and neither comes nor goes. Given total purity in the supreme spaciousness of spontaneous evenness, there is uninterrupted openness, free of all extremes or bias. In enlightened intent there is no occurrence of or involvement with hope or fear, and so there is uninterrupted openness, regardless of what arises. In this naturally arising, unbiased, and unrestricted state- what simply is- there is never a chance of being caught within the cage of reification."

"Openness is revealed to be unbiased, free of dualistic perception. This awakened mind that embraces all phenomena, moreover, is without extreme or bias and is subsumed within supreme openness. It is like infinite space that embraces the universe, without limit or center, beyond all imagination or description. In awareness, a supreme evenness free of extremes, phenomena-the world of appearances and possibilities, whether of samsara or nirvana-arise ceaselessly. Even as they arise, neither mind nor phenomena can be characterized as "things." They are embraced within openness, the nature of phenomena. The seal of awakened mind, beyond which no one goes, is timelessly applied through supreme and wholly positive spaciousness, is embraced by the enlightened intent of the guru, protector of beings and spiritual master, and is itself sealed as the ever-awakened state, the vajra heart essence. This definitive meaning of the supreme secret is not within the reach of anyone who is not of the highest intelligence and good fortune. The theme of the vajra pinnacle is that there is no transition or change. Although this vast expanse of enlightened intent-utterly lucid, self-knowing awareness- is within oneself, it is difficult to always realize this. It is seen through the grace of the guru, glorious protector and spiritual master. It is termed "all phenomena embraced within uninterrupted openness." The decisive experience of openness is the ultimate heart essence. Outer phenomena are unborn, the scope of emptiness. They are beyond characterization or expression, since they do not abide in any specific way and neither come nor go. There is no division between inner phenomena arising and being free..."

"Natural openness is the infinite dimension of space. In the ultimate heart essence, with no extreme or bias, there is no framework of view, empowerment, mandala, mantra repetition, levels, paths, samaya, training, or progress. Rather, there is expansive openness in supreme spaciousness."

"Because phenomena are originally pure in essence and spontaneously present by their very nature, they are free of the limitations of the four alternatives-
existence, nonexistence, affirmation, or denial. This is the nature of nondual awakened mind."

"Dharmakaya is without edges or comers. How marvelous! Although the five elements manifest, they are the realm of awakened mind. Never born, they do not waver from the single state of equalness. Although manifesting in conditioned existence, the six kinds of beings are forms of emptiness. The ground of being as it manifests does not waver from the scope of awareness. Although happiness and suffering manifest, they are within the heart essence of enlightenment, not wavering from a single, naturally occurring timeless awareness."

"The Tantra of Heaped Jewels states: Given ineffable emptiness, the source of phenomena, there is abiding in timelessness within the natural basic space of the supreme secret. The supreme display arose at the outset, its mode one of abiding without being objectified. In this regard, no one abides, nor is anything created anywhere. There is no gathering of abundance in this. There is freedom from staying still or not, moving or not. Similarly, the state of supreme and timeless emptiness is one of ineffability, while its mode is basic space. There is no outside or inside in this. There is nowhere to look, upward or downward. There is no direction in which anyone can objectify this in the slightest. Whoever is aware of the ultimate meaning of nonacceptance has awakened to buddhahood prior to me, Samantabhadra. The original awakened state in all its timeless immediacy- supreme timeless awareness that does not abide in any specific way- is such that from the very beginning of the ground of being, its mode is one of timeless abiding without deliberate settling. People who reify this as a specific state will come to reify enlightenment- the heart essence of this secret of all buddhas. It is certain that original purity, the natural state of rest, is enlightenment-the heart essence, dharmakaya."

DUALITY ACCORDING TO BUDDHISM

Duality is semantics. Duality is an illusion, according to Buddhism. Separation is an illusion. But we need to wake up from the illusion so that the mind can be liberated from it. Duality is not when forms appear in the (out of) void or when there is an appearance of space or time. Duality is when we think that the space and time and forms (objects) are real and have separate existence. At least this is the meaning of term "duality" in the Buddhism and Advaita traditions. Even when there is an appearance of time or space or manifested forms/objects, it is an illusion! Time, space and objects never really exist at all as anything real or separate from the Void. They are just imagined in/by the universal awareness (Void). Close your eyes and imagine a glass of water. Does it really exist? No, it's just imagination in your mind. So if you know and see it as imagination then you do not believe it's a real glass existing somewhere separately from your mind. And then we can say that this glass is non-dual from your mind (so it does not seem to be separate from mind). So, as long as you clearly see the manifested world as an illusion unfolding like a mirage within the Awareness and made of Awareness and not separate from it, then there is no duality. Everything is still one Beingness-Awareness just appearing as multiplicity of forms. So duality is not the world of forms: it's a wrong perception of it and wrong interpretation of what those forms are.

So in Buddhism and Advaita there is a difference between the state of formless void (void with no forms at all) and a state of non-duality where forms can appear or can be manifested but they are not wrongly perceived/interpreted as anything separate from One. In Advaita the first state is called nirvikalpa samadhi and the second is sahaja samadhi.

According to Wikpedia, "Ākiṃcanyāyatana आकिंचन्यायतना or Ākiñcaññāyatana आकिञ्चञ्ञायतन (Tib: ci yang med; Chinese: 无所有处/無所有處; Jpn: 無所有処 mu sho u sho; Burmese: အာကိဉ္စ ညာယတန; Devanagari: /) "Sphere of Nothingness" (literally "lacking anything"). In this sphere formless beings dwell contemplating upon the thought that "there is no thing". This is considered a form of perception, though a very subtle one. This was the sphere reached by Ārāḍa Kālāma(Pāli: Āḷāra Kālāma), the first of the Buddha's original teachers; he considered it to be equivalent to enlightenment." However, Buddha did not consider it as enlightenment. Another point: according to Buddha the beings that dwell in the Arupadhata eventually "run out of good karma" and return to samsara to be reborn in lower realms. So the key is: it's the enlightenment that liberates from samsara, not attaining the formless state.

Here is an interesting quote from Buddha:"And when a sage through sagacity has known [this] for himself, then from form & formless, from pleasure & pain, he is freed."— Ud 1.10

He is saying that the release (nibbana) is not a release from forms into formless, but a release from both forms and formless, from both pleasure and pain. Basically, the state of abiding as awareness is free from any preference between forms or formless, pleasure or pain. Awareness does not make any distinction between them and has no preferences, it simply allows anything to happen. But if we forget about the awareness and mentally dive into the forms and start believing that they are real, that is where the troubles start and the fictitious world of dualities and preferences appear. This all will not happen as long as we remain simply as awareness equally perceiving forms or absence of forms, pleasures or pains with no preference. We do not need to "achieve" equanimity, the equanimity of the innate quality of the awareness itself, so we will abide in the state of equanimity automatically as long as we abide as awareness.

I received this text from my good friend who met a demiurge during his near death experience. I asked him if he thinks this may be the time of darkness that he talked about in our interview and what he thinks we should do during the quarantine.

He wrote, "I am not afraid. My darkness is not something I want to hang onto anyway. If I die, then I might have an opportunity to escape the matrix. If I live, I know leaving grudges behind and singing a joyful song from the heart will separate me from those running to save their own lives.

"Having food, water, herbs and medicine enough to prevent us from taking it from others seems reasonable. But if someone is willing to kill me for mine, then my decision to kill them could cut me off from admission into a changed, better world that is to come that I saw in my NDE. It is better to starve than to kill.

"Who knows how I will really react, but having a no killing of people or pets to survive seems to be a big factor in how things will go for us. There will be those filled with light and joy and those filled with terror.

"What we choose matters. Choosing kindness is its own reward just as choosing terror will also have its reward. We can choose terror and live another day in terror or choose kindness and move on to better playgrounds in other worlds or even to a better world on this planet. Each of us will do what we do."

I don't necessarily think this is the time of darkness that he talked about, but it is good to keep in mind for those of us here in America who have yet to face the quarantine and for any future challenges that might lie ahead.

NEW 3/16/2020 -- A friend of mine wrote this to me:"The mind is very tricky because we are going to create the situations we are imagining and that we believe in.... the heart is the entry door to the Matrix, and the heart is also fighting the brain + stomach (= ego); this is why the Neem and all the anti-parasitic treatments are the perfect allies for the heart because they are killing parasites interfering with the heart’s will and neurons; because the heart also is a brain (it has neurons). The main Matrix’s exit is the heart. So, fears are created to make us “project ourselves outside of ourselves” (if you follow us and our bad English). So those projected fears become nearly all the time our reality. We believe in them so badly. The only way to find peace again when we feel stress is to simply put your hand on your heart and to calm yourself by listening to your own heart bit; and especially the second bit where you can almost feel that you are “vacuumed” inside your heart. And if you train yourself every time you feel stress (by stopping everything you do and putting your hand on your heart), after a few seconds mental calm comes back, and it is the heart’s neurons that are taking over. A it is one lost battle for the ego. And it is a stronger and stronger connection each time with your heart’s neurons. The only thing to do during those times is to concentrate your thoughts on the inside (when stress is present). Because it is our own worms making us worry. The Exit from the Matrix is an individual process. Be convinced that everything will go well. We are on the same train for the Exit. We are very different from others. And we will succeed.

"No falling into any panic for all of us. We know, and when the right time comes, even if it is sooner than later, than we will stop eating. WE DON’T HAVE THE CHOICE BUT TO STAY VERY POSITIVE -- IF NOT WE ARE COMING BACK (sorry, he wanted me to put it in capital letters ☺ ). The more you will « make function » your heart’s neurons, the more you will be confident, optimistic and detached from the scenario."

The heart being the center of the true nature of our being is reiterated again and again in Tibetan Buddhist texts. In Precious Treasury of the Way of Abiding, Longchenpa wrote, ""From the standpoint of enlightenment, the heart essence from which everything arises, there is no duality, and any attempt to quantify things would be endless. Buddhas, ordinary beings, and the universe of appearances and possibilities are evident, yet do not waver from the single nature of phenomena, just as it is. Everything is connected in oneness-the perfection of phenomena. This is the supreme quality of awakened mind. When anything manifests, cut through all conventional exaggeration. All outer phenomena are to be known as the inherent radiance of the nature of mind, empty and nondual, while inner phenomena are nothing other than awareness as such. Within the nature of phenomena, nonexistent as one or many, the realization of a single basic space is revealed to be the key point of awareness."

"With no dualistic perception, in that very moment there is abiding in the heart essence, ultimately meaningful and fundamentally unconditioned."

"Because the nature of mind is spontaneously present, the fundamental ground, the heart essence, is encompassed within·awakened mind. "

"Since everything is wholly positive-there is nothing that is not positive- the basic space of the vajra heart essence is the spontaneous presence of everything."

"In awareness, the ultimate heart essence of enlightenment, there is no holding to extreme views, but rather freedom from bias based on characteristics... In enlightened intent there is no occurrence of or involvement with hope or fear, and so there is uninterrupted openness, regardless of what arises. In this naturally arising, unbiased, and unrestricted state- what simply is- there is never a chance of being caught within the cage of reification."

"Openness is revealed to be unbiased, free of dualistic perception. This awakened mind that embraces all phenomena, moreover, is without extreme or bias and is subsumed within supreme openness.... The seal of awakened mind, beyond which no one goes, is timelessly applied through supreme and wholly positive spaciousness, is embraced by the enlightened intent of the guru, protector of beings and spiritual master, and is itself sealed as the ever-awakened state, the vajra heart essence... The decisive experience of openness is the ultimate heart essence... There is no division between inner phenomena arising and being free..."

"Although happiness and suffering manifest, they are within the heart essence of enlightenment, not wavering from a single, naturally occurring timeless awareness."

"The Tantra of Heaped Jewels states: Given ineffable emptiness, the source of phenomena, there is abiding in timelessness within the natural basic space of the supreme secret... The original awakened state in all its timeless immediacy- supreme timeless awareness that does not abide in any specific way- is such that from the very beginning of the ground of being, its mode is one of timeless abiding without deliberate settling. People who reify this as a specific state will come to reify enlightenment- the heart essence of this secret of all buddhas. It is certain that original purity, the natural state of rest, is enlightenment-the heart essence, dharmakaya."

My Buddhist friend sent me yet another great summary of ways to achieve liberation after death, or at least avoid reincarnations and be reborn in the realms of pure forms according to the Mahamudra Tibetian tradition, from Kalu Rinpoche's Luminous Mind: The Way of the Buddha: [at the moment of death:] "When the two principles reabsorb in the heart, the consciousness loses its faculty of knowing. This is the experience of black luminosity, similar to a midnight blue or a dark night. In an ordinary being, the mind sinks into total darkness. At this moment the seven kinds of thought connected with mental dullness or stupidity cease. Any spectacle that might arise in the mind will no longer be considered good or bad. This whole process of dissolution, from the beginning up to the experience of black luminosity, is called the bardo of the moment of death."

"At the end of the dissolution, the clear light, or mind's basic nature, is revealed. All beings have an experience of the clear light, but the ordinary being does not recognize it. But even if it is extremely fleeting and goes unrecognized, this experience of the clear light occurs to every being. On the other hand, if a person has recognized the true nature of mind within his or her lifetime-that is, has realized mahamudra, the mind can recognize the fundamental clear light at this final moment of the bardo of death and, to whatever degree this recognition is stable, can remain absorbed in it. For such a yogi, the daughter clear light, which was experienced during his or her lifetime, and the fundamental mother clear light unite."

start at the beginning and look at what history has to say. We have some clues to go on thanks to archaeologists. We could look at the oldest known civilizaton and that is the Sumerians. Eridu and Ur are claimed to be the two oldest cities we know of. There are earlier temples such as the one at Gobekli Tepe so what we have found there is important as well, especially since there is evidence of cannibalism and possible human sacrifice. We do have tablets from Sumer and they do give very detailed records, including the fashioning of man.

The Sumerian texts reference the Anuna gods and call them "the Anuna, the great gods"..."the gods of heaven and Earth"..."the Anuna gods who shine forth radiantly."...."The Anuna, the seven judges,"... "the Anuna gods, who came forth from the mountain range"....and says they "sit at the funerary offerings" and are "the lords who decree fates" who have "shining thrones".

"Like heaven itself, your just matrix, in which gods too can be born, is beyond reach. Giving birth to kings who put on the good diadem, giving birth to lords who wear the crown on their heads"

"My terrifying splendour will cover you. Since you cannot escape from { my } great strength, the goldsmith shall puff and blow on you with his breath. You shall be shaped by him to form a matrix for his creations"

"In those days... when the Anuna gods were born; when the goddesses were taken in marriage; when the goddesses were distributed in heaven and earth;... the senior gods oversaw the work, while the minor gods were bearing the toil. The gods were digging the canals and piling up the silt in Ḫarali. The gods, crushing the clay, began complaining about this life.

Enki and Ninmaḫ: c.1.1.2
At that time, the one of great wisdom, the creator of all the senior gods, Enki lay on his bed, not waking up from his sleep, in the deep engur, in the subterranean water, the place the inside of which no other god knows. The gods said, weeping: "He is the cause of the lamenting!" Namma, the primeval mother who gave birth to the senior gods, took the tears of the gods to the one who lay sleeping, to the one who did not wake up from his bed, to her son: "Are you really lying there asleep, and …… not awake? The gods, your creatures, are smashing their ……. My son, wake up from your bed! Please apply the skill deriving from your wisdom and create a substitute (?) for the gods so that they can be freed from their toil!" And after Enki,
the fashioner of designs by himself, had pondered the matter, he said to his mother Namma: "My mother, the creature you planned will really come into existence."

Nungal said it is a prison or jail. "Because the lady has revealed her greatness; because she has provided the prison, the jail, her beloved dwelling, with awesome radiance, praise to be Nungal," end-quote

On Reincarnation: "The interior of the temple gives rise to weeping, laments and cries. Its brick walls crush evil men and give rebirth to just men."

"When the time arrives, the prison is made up as for a public festival; the gods are present at the place of interrogation, at the river ordeal, to separate the just from the evildoers; a just man is given rebirth. Nungal clamps down on her enemy, so he will not escape her clutches."

Hymn to Nungal:
" House, furious storm of heaven and earth, battering its own, enemies; prison, jail of the gods, august neck-stock of heaven and earth! Its interior is evening light, dusk spreading wide; its awesomeness is frightening. Raging sea which mounts high, no one knows where its rising waves flow. House, a pitfall waiting for the evil one; it makes the wicked tremble! House, a net whose fine meshes are skillfully woven, which gathers up people as its booty! House, which keeps an eye on the just and on evildoers; no one wicked can escape from its grasp. House, river of the ordeal which leaves the just ones alive, and chooses the evil ones! (Utu in the mountains, the Sun god) House, with a great name, nether world, mountain where Utu rises; no one can learn its interior! Big house, prison, house of capital offenses, which imposes punishment!"---

Here is a quote from The Secret Book of John, a Gnostic text from the Nag Hammadi Library: "Yaldabaoth [Demiurge] said to the authorities [archons] with him, Come, let us create a human being after the image of god and with a likeness to ourselves, so that this human image may give us light." end-quote

Gnostics put forth ideas about the universe being a holographic copy a couple thousand years ago. In the gnostic book "On the Origin of the World" it was written -- "likeness emanated became a product resembling the primeval light manifested as a likeness of heaven"end-quote

It says, "...come let us create a man out of earth, according to the image of our body and according to the likeness of this being, to serve us; so that when he sees his likeness, he might become enamored of it. No longer will he ruin our work; rather,we shall make those who are born out of the light our servants for all the duration of this eternal realm."...

"Now all of this came to pass according to the forethought of Pistis, in order that man should appear after his likeness, and should condemn them because of their modelled form. And their modelled form became an enclosure of the light.... And it is they who were taken captive, according to their destinies, by the prime parent. And thus they were shut into the prisons of the modelled forms until the consummation of the age."

The Gospel of Philip declares, "God is a man-eater. For this reason, men are sacrificed to him."

Anyway, as I came back and entered my body I was overcome with the limitations of life. How seeing, tasting, feeling, hearing and smelling were nothing compared to the freedom of being without a body and how literally trapped I felt. It was kind of like being thrown into jail. My spirit was trapped in this gross body. -- Nancy C

I became sullen, serious and fearful. Most of all, I felt an overwhelming loneliness, having glimpsed what true joy and loving connections our souls are meant to have. I felt trapped, still do, in a penitentiary of flesh and bone that imprisons and inhibits our souls. I feel that humans spend most of their lives hoping to find 'true love' and wanting to connect in some way with others. I believe our souls know how it should be. -- Victor B

Here we are limited. The body is a prison and the real world is a nest of germs and filth, of smells and volatile substances that now make me nauseous, but it didn't used to be that way before my experience. -- Maria R

"Light is a trick/trap, do not go to the light" or you will be processed by the demiurge/archons/counselors who will mind wipe you and eventually reinsert you into the matrix to feed off your energy.

Perhaps the biggest problem we have with formulating the theory is it is not based upon a complete set of evidence. There are 4000-5000 or so NDE testimonies. And we usually cite only a small subset of cases. Those that mention aliens, soul contracts etc are often less than 1 percent of the cases. And virtually none of them say the light or beings there as malevolent or deceptive. So we are left with a big conspiracy theory based not on firsthand experience. We have to extrapolate or make assumptions. And not all cases are alike, all are unique subjective experiences interpreted through the lens of their experiences and biases. It is not a one size fits all thing. Some may be reluctant to share scary ndes of hell or aliens. Not all went to the light or even remember an NDE. We never hear from those who never came back as ndes and actually died physically. Maybe some were allowed to graduate or move on. Maybe some are allowed to stay and aren't forced to come back. We just don't know for sure. The fact many claim to be forced to come back against their shows there very well may be a violation of free will at play.

So we are trying to piece together many separate pieces from many different accounts to build an overall theory but some items may be out of context.

1. Some might say we are fear mongers, "negative", paranoid or just losers playing the victim card and not taking personal responsibility for our own flaws and shortcomings. But I feel the opposite, that we are the ones who are taking personal responsibility and not relying on saviors and guides, counselors or masters to help us.

2. One person says the soul trap theory is Orwellian in that it implies the following:

Which would be for the Soul Trap: Manipulation (into this realm) is consent,
Slavery of this realm is by choice of life plans, The objetive slave we are in this realm are
"creator beings".

3. Go to the white light (love)? The white light is not god? How can we be against something that is almost universally said by all to be so loving and understanding?

4. Interconnectedness, i.e. we are all one and there is no division vs we should remain as independent, sovereign individuals

5. Being hypocritical of archons for feeding off our energy when we kill animals (and sentient plants. re we hypocrites when we eat meat which is essentially what the archons are doing as well.... feeding off sustenance to stay "alive"? As I stated in my article on a non killing diet, it seems to be that many plants are sentient too (over a dozen NDErs mentioned this) so it might need to be a non killing diet consisting of nut, fruits etc. I think vegans may also be hypocritical though there is some debate because plants may not have feelings. But it might be a bit hypocritical of us to be doing exactly what we accuse the archons of -- feeding off life forms we deem to be inferior or for convenience. Just not eting meat is not such a simple issue as many insects can be killed when crops are harvested, probably many times the number as what one cow would feed. Others argue free range animals are treated more humanely than the factory farms and slaughterhouses. People try to mitigate the damage by giving thanks to the animal or saying a blessing as if that somehow makes it okay, So would we be okay with archons recycling us over and over as long as they gave us thanks and did a blessing ritual? I doubt it!

6. Consent? Or is the movement trying to brainwash people that they are giving their consent away?

If an individual is under duress, does that remove the ability to give consent?
Either way, hwhether by consent or not, coming back is not good for anyone who loves freedom,

The medium said they trick us to get us to exercise and grow spiritually. To me, if that is the case then it violates free will and is akin to rape and unlawful arrest or detainment.

" I have told myself this story of consent in the past in an new age context too, out of desperation, and I had a big toll on my soul, it had made me spiritually sick.

The only reason why I would like this point to be integrated is because I know how much of a difference back then it would have made for me, if someone had broke the silence on this huge, central, all overshadowing inconstancy, if I wouldn't have had to climb out of this hole all by myself."

It is difficult to know what parts of the programming are true and what are not. At least some nders are sent back against their fre will? But some are definitely signing contracts to come here, but what happens to the ones who didn't want to sign a contract? Are they sent back against their will anyway?

7. Earth is not a school? Prison planet? need to learn? evolve? to love? Need to purify? Created as blank souls vs Eternal Infinite Spirit(s)? Do these guides, counselors, so called ascended masters like Jesus etc really have our best interest at heart?

8. Game? Entertainment? Illusion/Dream? I'm sure he moght also say that saying this is just a game is also "Orwellian". Look, I do not know what all is truth and what all is misinformation. I am the first person to admit that. I just want to put all the evidence out there and all the options. There is just no pleasing everyone. There will be some who then say "well you're just muddying the waters and confusing everyone. what a shill!"

9. Free will or no free will or a mix? Seems like we dont have complete free will here on earth right now (.i.e. can't fly around an leave body at will with ease etc)

11. Go to / stay in the void? "Clear light" of Tibetan Buddhism? All is spontaneous Arisings/Fabrications/Hallucinations/External Projections of Awareness? Pure Light of The Pleroma (Gnosticism)

12. Bodhiattvas? Come back to rescue / save trapped or sinful karma ridden souls?

13. Intention / Sovereignty / Will versus going along with Authority (god, spirit guides, counselors) due to a perceived need for spirit evolution/learning?

On the danger of the Soul Trap Research becoming an Ideology or Religion itself
A brief definition of what any religion, ideology, cult, any metaphysical believe system embedded in a social context and operating with dogmas does:
1. It recognizes a need a person has as valid, which is not recognized elsewhere, and molds that recognition with a set of answers. The need for metaphysical meaning and social belonging
usually.
2. On the social level, it lays out, implicitly or explicitly, a spectrum of expectations on how to engage with those given answers and the range of criticism which is accepted.
3. It establishes some core dogmas, which can only be challenged for the prize of loosing the belong to the group. This can range from just not being listened to, to being ridiculed, to
being excluded from the group to even persecution.
4. These core dogmas have to have some inconsistencies so huge and obvious (what in the political field is called the „Big Lie“ - we are witnessing one at the moment worlwide), that
non of the followers dare to question them. For the religions that would be that God has the triad of qualities which are that he is all loving, omniscient and omnipotent – which is
incompatible with God being the creator of this, our world. For New Age “Life as a school”, the dismissal of suffering as only “contrast” necessary for spiritual growth and so on.
This Big Lie-Dogmas have the effect to stifle independent thought (because they don't make sense, aka on can't build upon them with own critical thoughts), hence making the followers
intellectually dependent of a group leader or priestly caste.
And since the core problems are never addressed, nothing gains traction. People reaffirm the same ideas over and over, without actually getting anywhere (feels familiar for the soul trap
research situation already?). This is why Sigmund Freud (not endorsing his work) said something to the extent that faith in a religion would prerequisite an enormous intellectual intimidation.
5. All Religions in one way or another recognize the discomfort humans have with this realm and its blatant injustice (otherwise religions would not be needed), and then mold that
discomfort into justification of this realm, pacifying the resistance against this realm (in New Age circles “Resistance” is tellingly the most disapproved mindset). And by this practical definition of how any religion, ideology or cult functions, there sadly seems to be this tendency, that exactly that is happening with the Matrix Soul Trap Question.
And the point on which this can be probably illustrated the best, is the idea, the dogma of “Consent”.
So what happens when we first encounter the Soul Trap Question:
We are validated. For the first time we are not gaslighted anymore by the absurdities of materialism (that this realm is a big accident with no intelligence behind it), Religion (that this realm is just) and New Age with all the “Life School” and suffering as “Expansion” nonsense. It is affirmed for the first time that the NDEs doesn't make sense as coming from a “loving” place,
that amnesia doesn't make sense, that it is as cruel and ethically wrong as the idea of karma, all of this is validated and most of us probably felt a big sense of relief. Finally having found an
explanation for this realm which matches the actual reality in which we live. We are in a state of trauma, because this insight, as freeing as it is, is traumatic, and at the same time we feel relief of having found the truth. Therefore, we are in a state of emotional and intellectual openness, in a state of high suggestibility.
And at this point most major voices in the field as much as most of the people interested in the question will present to us the core believe of the movement: That we have free will and that we have consented to this.
And this short text claims, that this is the the “Big Lie” which turns all truth of the head, the contrafactual, poisonous believe, where the minds of people are broken and where the soul trap question, by the means of the mechanics of how cults works described above, turns into a cult, an ideology, a form of religion. And where the same soul crushing, pacifying notion is offered, which all religions offer: “You brought this upon yourself!”
Karma and the caste system: It was you (your actions I former life).
Original Sin of Christianity: It was you (or the collective “you”, the sinful state of humanity)
New Age: It was you, your law of attraction attracted it, everything that happens to you is a vibrational match and for learning, it is nobody else's fault. It is you interacting with you by means of an energetic law.
The Soul Trap consensus: It is your life plan, it was your free will, your consent.
Reintroducing all the lies formerly refused in other believe systems yet again. Why a life plan, if the idea of “life as a school” is (rightfully so) rejected? Why calling something “Consent” - the amnesia, the being trapped in a body which can be tortured - which is a crime against spirit beings?

As another researcher on the Soul Trap topic (Dan from the “Overwatch Project”) has pointed out, if you wanna go for truth without getting tricked by your cognitive biases, you have to take care, that your conclusions fit the totality of the information. That you don't exclude data, just because it doesn't suit preconceived notions. But sadly exactly this is disregard most of the time when people take on questions regarding the soul trap matrix.
This is probably the central point, where all the conclusions drawn so far from the NDE testimonies and other sources like pre-birth memories buckle sideways and even turn into concepts formerly refused and the thing as a whole into a sort of twisted religion:
Original sin becomes our initial consent before birth, which is derived from scripture (the testimonies from NDEs and pre-birth memories). It is never discussed, that if we assume that
deception happens normally AFTER EVERY SINGLE DEATH (the „guides“, the light trap etc.), if we think the deception is that systematical, that this whole realm is one big deception, that it then is equally conceivable that EVERY memory from ALL pre birth memories, all NDEs, and all predictive programming that supports it is equally misleading. Maybe implanted memory. Maybe in cases of the NDEs that the body of the deceased persons are possessed by spirits which want to give misleading hints about the afterlife. These are serious possibilities.
But we turned the assumptions derived from the Testimonies into a mythology, treated as quasi facts. Instead of asking, and maybe first finding, the correct questions.
But this is only the more technical aspect of it. What is much worse, because it is not probably wrong, but definitely wrong, is the ethical aspect, the orwellian inversion of the meaning of words.
When the famous quote from Orwell books 1984 was....
“War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength;”
….aren't we doing exactly this for the matrix questions, by Inverting the meaning of words?
By claiming our slavery to be here is consensual, our mind wipe based on free will?
As Dan from the Overwatch Project pointed out, on the aspect of amnesia alone that is impossible:
When I have amnesia, I can't consent to that backwards in time. I can't be of sane, informed mind and consent to torture. There shouldn't be a more obvious thing in the world. And quite a few people feel that. But, and this is the religious aspect, an atmosphere has developed around the soul trap question, where critical thought is only by lip service encouraged, but when
people actually point out this inconsistencies, actually wanna have meaningful discussions, they are either met with indifference or outright rejection. To quote somebody from Forever Conscious server: „This whole notion of "consent" is like saying a child "consented" to rape because it got tricked into it by the perverted uncle [lets even additionally assume the child would have at the end even verbally demanded such an horrendous act. That would make it zero percent less rape].
Being tricked into a atrocity (if that even ever took place) is not consent. Saying on the one hand that this realm is a crime by following it always up with the ideological statement that we consented is like saying "of course rape is never justified, under no circumstances ever, of course it is always a crime... but that girl dressed like a whore, though, she had it coming".
Yes, there seems some rules to this realm which are not solely based on power. The same is the case for the mafia. That doesn't make mafiosi “honorable man” nor what happens here “consent”. This is what the whole free will/consent idea is amounting to: Blaming the victim (all humans incarnated) and, in an underhanded, slick way, manufacturing somewhat consent for whatever is behind this matrix. For identification with the aggressor. For a weird, subtextual Stockholm Syndrome to the mechanics of this realm. So: The exact opposite of what the soul trap researchers overtly claim to strive towards.
No sane being would consent to be incarnated here. Not under normal circumstances, which are always traumatic (the memory wipe alone would be), but especially not for ending up in satanic ritual abuse, in the hand of the spanish inquisition or anything of that flavor. Insert the worst form of physical torture you have been heard about and say honestly, that somebody “consented” to that. For example slow dismemberment by horses which pull extremities in all four directions? Really, someone consented to that? Isn't it obvious how atrocious and intellectually insulting the implications of the idea of consent are? That this is not an open question, but as a general principle which would apply to every incarnation as impossible as a loving, omnipotent God is for this world?
There are only two options with this: Either our assumed „higher self“ is careless or insane, than it no less our enemy than the assumed archontic forces, or if there is a feeling of agreement before getting here, but we are not aware of the horrors. Than it is not informed consent either, and calling it that is a very dark form of alignment with the forces behind this matrix. Even worst, accusing the victims of being their own perpetrators. And if the listeners realize that or not, their subconsciousness will register the message, and if they accept that, than a profound spiritual wounding is archived.
This is the same dark guilt tripping that abuse parents and religions use.
The same pattern of breaking the spirit of the victim by insinuating, that it has brought it all upon himself, that some behavior of the victim was the cause. And not the malevolence of the perpetrator.
And we are back in the same abusive patterns religions use in other aspects too: Scripture as dogma, guilt as dogma (the original sin and the karma is converted and re-packaged into consent, life plans and free will), the use of “Big Lies” (in Christianity the imaginary victory of achieved salvation and a loving just God in a world which proves the opposite every second). In case ofthe soul trap the idea of free will and consent which one has to believe as an axiom in the face of a world which is the exact opposite.
And that is, and I am not saying that anybody making such statements is doing so out of ill intent (a majority of the people in the comments share those views) metaphysical gaslighting of already traumatized and disoriented people. Removing them further from the truth. If we do that, we are becoming enablers of this realm. People experiencing trauma are in a very suggestible state. As we all would probably grant, the discovery about the whole soul trap problem is by its very nature deeply traumatic. So what do all people talking about this topic in this crypto-apologetic manner achieve,when they tell humans trapped in this nightmare here, based on scripture, the testimonies, that they have chosen that for themselves by “consent”? That they are the abusers?
Have we learned so few from our own critique of religion and new age and other rigid or misleading believes, that we are so un-immune to repeating their patterns?
In the first Matrix movie Morpheus says to Neo, that he offers the truth, “nothing more”. Maybe the factor why it is possible to mentally enslave humans is that we have a brain, which has a
hard time separating three things:
1. What we hope for.
2. What we fear.
3. What is the case.
The permanent confusion of those three things is what constitutes cognitive dissonance, the mind virus of mankind all religions have preyed upon. We should hope for to have free will some day, that some day we are in a realm which is based on consent. If we confuse that hope with painting it over the horrors of this realm in which this is clearly not the case, we start with a lie, and make ever finding the truth so much harder, because we trapped us ourselves even deeper in the dark.
We have done, what all religions and believe systems have done before: Covered up our psychological and spiritual yearning for truth and liberation with false, sedating narratives. Instead of starting with the truth, no matter what." end of email
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Like I said earlier, I try to as balanced as I can and wth moderation. I have raised the question of how much free will we have in all this, if any at all. There are experiences that show consent is given and contracts are agreed to. Conntracts are a very, very small percentage so it is hard to be adamant that every single person has made one and consented. There are a huge number one cases where the person is forced to come back against their will or browbeated until they agree. Or are shown what will happen to loved ones if they don't agree. Or is repeatedly told "it will be different this time", etc. Some are literally sent here anyway. But that is in NDES. It could be possible they consider us to still be in the life contrct since the body is not totlly dead yet.

But, like I said, even in the case where so called consent is given, it is really consent if it is done through manipulation under duress? I also wrote on my website in my page on the light -- I have had it on my main page at times too and said in interviews, "But what we do know is that most are sent back against their will or coaxed into doing so. Some say they were given a choice, but how do we know they wouldn't have been forced to come back had they chosen to stay? In this world when someone is forced to do something against their will, it is a crime. If we take money against their will, it is stealing or robbery. If we take sex against their will, it is rape. If we take a life against their will, it is murder. But somehow this being of light gets a free pass as being loving? Love is also a verb, an action. We should look at the acts, not a feeling. Feelings of love are frequently manipulated to get what others want. There are cases where the light beings impersonate religious figures. There was one case where the near death spirit had to ask "Are you really the Virgin Mary?" before it showed it's "true" idenitity. Some would call this lying or being deceptive."

But to say something is Orwellian is offensive to me, personally. The same could be said about every theme I raise such as this reality possibly being a dream, an illusion, a game. To say this is a game or for adventure or entertainment purposes could also be accused of being an Orwellian term. Where does it end?

In the beginning I blamed the Demiurge and archons exclusively... then I was accused of fear mongering. Now I try to say we have Sovereignty and can manifest reality in the afterlife via Intent. What am I supposed to say? We have no free will at all and should just quit or not try to transcend this reality? That could be called Orwellian too. I am just trying the best that I can and have done way more than most people in this regard. Am I an idiot or unwilling pawn in the game doing what "they" want? Maybe. I sure hope not. I brought it up in the Greg Carlwood interview many years ago.... that I hoped I was not a pied piper for the wrong cause. Now I'm sure people will twist that around and use it as a quote to attack me similar to how I used the Ozzy quote where he questioned his role in all this too. By the way, I actually feel Ozzy is giving us many clues in some of his lyrics.

Forever Consciousness Series -- Part -- Religion