I’ve just watched Grant Cameron’s video “Disclosure Update Presentation” [1] . It’s a long presentation, and covers a great deal of material: what I want to touch on from that video is the description of adverse interactions with extraterrestrials.
In the 70s, when I first came across this sort of topic through the writings of the controversial Lobsang Rampa [2] , and those writings were largely positivist of extraterrestrials, although the need for caution cropped up a few times.
Notably, there was significant weight given to a group referred to as “The Nine” (or that may have been “The Council”, but it comprised nine entities [or consciousnesses] ), who also featured in the amazing book “Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth” by Stuart Holroyd [3] .
However, as a number of sources have pointed out, experiences with extraterrestrials are not always good. (I’ve also touched on this at https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2021/08/post-no-1980-soul-agreements.html, which also comments on carnism [4] .)
- The balance here is to recognise that not everything is pleasant;
- the nuance is to recognise that people’s attitudes also have an influence (if someone has been taught that “anything not human is evil” - e.g., by a particular religious upbringing, or they are simply - and very humanly - overwhelmed by the experience [which Whitley Strieber [5] writes about in his books] ); and
- the truth is to recognise that most experiences with extraterrestrials are positive, a significant portion of negative interactions later are viewed as either benign or positive (not in the cases of death or other harm), and a lot of this is about raising our consciousness and making us truly spiritual.
Another example would be the balances between various aspects of our life. As a quick illustration, work and life is often divided into two when described as work-life balance, but:
- pandemic lockdowns have shown the benefit to many people and companies of “work from home”;
- many people get their self-esteem from work (too many people, and to too great an extent, in my grumbly opinion, but that’s a topic for another time and/or place) - and sometimes their social connections;
- families and homes may be supported financially by work, but also often (not always - families are far from perfect, and companies are starting to recognise the problem of domestic violence) provide restoration, healing, and support for workers, and thus may benefit companies.
So the boundaries are not necessarily clear cut, and that raises a bunch of human rights issues, but that’s for another time.
Having described those examples, what I want to cover is the balance between our spiritual life and our mundane life.
This has usually been presented as a conflict between “engaging with” (to simplify, living in human society and having a job & a family) and “withdrawing from” (to simplify, the stereotypical living on a mountain top, or most people’s incorrect perception of being a monk or nun [many are fierce advocates for human rights - albeit sometimes flawed by their beliefs] . . . but some have been awful, terrible, unmitigated child abusers) “the world” - meaning, human society.
Ultimately, we are a spirit having a human experience.
However:
- when we are living in our spirit-based existence, we interact with other forms of life - so clearly that is not always the same as the “living on a mountain top stereotype”;
- some people benefit from withdrawing from the world, but others find human interaction uplifting and inspiring (and there is tantric or sacred sex);
- some people need both;
- our needs can change over time - on various scales of time, ranging from hours or even minutes up to lifetimes (and longer);
- the benefit of the other can often be judged by its impact on our ability to function in a more caring way in the other. Pema Chodron wrote of a monk who, after years of meditating in a spiritual retreat, walked in to town but, when a young boy stood on his foot, started to react with anger, so he turned around and walked back into the mountains to do more meditating [6] .
Thus, the balance between material and spiritual also needs to be viewed through the lenses of truth and nuance.
Notes
[1] The video is at https://youtu.be/4VqQpdsOUnE, and Grant Cameron's website is at https://itsallconnected.weebly.com/.
[2] My assessment of this person is at http://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2016/03/lobsang-rampa.html. He was , misogynistic and homophobic (limited to homophobic as I
don’t think he knew of the BTIQ+ part of the acronym) but also was many people’s introduction
to Tibet, Buddhism, psychism, and spirituality in that era.
[3] I reviewed that book at https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2010/05/briefing-for-landing-on-planet-earth.html (the comments on balanced positivity [see http://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2014/04/balanced-positive.html and http://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2015/12/bpm.html], as opposed to toxic positivity [see https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2020/12/toxic-positivity.html] were life changing for me), with an update at https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2020/12/post-no-1719-update-of-portion-of.html, which included my concerns about blaming external "others" for our personal and very internal faults. (For other concerns I have had with the ET field - especially racism - see https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2021/10/post-no-2068-more-thoughts-on-some.html. On the other hand, Elena Danaan [see https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2021/11/post-no-2082-elena-danaan.html] writes of species with multiple genders, and talks of same sex/same gender relationships.)
[4] See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carnism&oldid=1081588801.
[5] Whitley Strieber's website is at https://www.unknowncountry.com/, and you can read a little about Mr Strieber at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whitley_Strieber&oldid=1077082001.
[6] See https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2021/07/post-no-1937-engaging-with-world.html.
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