Post No. 2,744 - Portals and (some) Post-retirement Ponderings

This is just a short post to get a couple of my ideas up online.  

Firstly, I have been watching the streaming series   “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters”   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Monarch:_Legacy_of_Monsters&oldid=1214825464    

It’s a reasonable piece of entertainment - I enjoyed it, although I found it a bit slow and drawn out at first - and overblown for me on some aspects, but that might be because I’ve been a polyamorist from a couple of decades before I discovered the term (for the sake of a now ex- of mine, who couldn’t make up her mind between a relationship between me and an ex- of hers, so I said “don’t choose”, and we worked it out from there - and she eventually chose a third person who was better for either than either of us ... ).

What I want to write about, though, is the series’ portrayal of portals.

That was excellent! 

The portals shown were between different, more-or-less adjacent, mostly physical realms, but they also gave a good idea of the transition from physical to astral (in some cases - and not from physical to etheric) levels, and to other realms such as that of the fae and those accessed by shamanic journeys.

So ... the series is well worth watching for entertainment (for those who can access it, which I acknowledge is probably not most of the world’s population), but there is this additional benefit for a few of us of seeing a reasonable attempt at portraying shifting from level to level and dimension to dimension.

OK, next. 

In my “recovering from a corporate life” series, I have covered quite a bit, including the trauma caused by forced adherence to work patterns that were unsuitable for me. I haven’t, however, (yet) explicitly looked at the damage done by simply having to do things for so long that something once loved becomes boring - or even repugnant. 

That is an issue which does not apply to everyone: some people find routine comforting - or enjoy the challenge of doing something for a longer period of time. 

That last aspect applies to the work I am doing on psychic weather reports, which was initially set up to be for 30 years (if I live that long, in good enough health).

That is a fairly long period, but it is a limited period, and it does not match the fifty or sixty years people have to work now (which, incidentally, I consider should be split at around the half way point so people can avoid the problem I am talking of).

On top of that, some things which I have loved, such as meditation and breathing exercises, have become tainted by their use to enable me to cope with the egregious demands of my day career and keep myself going. 

Breaking those associations so that I do not have the repugnance from that incidental association, is an issue - one which I am currently working at getting around by (a) focusing on the joy aspects, and (b) shifting my focus to things like moving meditation (Tai Chi, in my case, which has been a lifelong interest) and new variations of old techniques (such as my colours and chakras project). 

The point I am making here is: 

we need to start thinking in nuanced terms of longer life times of activity, and doing things for decades, not years (or months or even just days)

Be prepared for the efficacy of good things to change because they have either been used for a long time, or because their use has created an unpleasant association. 

A much simpler, improperly understood example is that some people find physical training methods seem to “lose their efficiency” over time. In my opinion, most of that is losing the emotional-mental pleasure of doing something, which may lead to an unconscious demotivation, rather than the muscles “getting used to” an exercise trope, and it does NOT apply to everyone. 

To use neurodivergence as an example, autistic people like routine, and are less likely to experience the loss of pleasure/efficacy over time (although still may experience the problem of negative associations from using a technique to cope with something unpleasant), whereas ADHD people are more prone to this effect - I could say that, in effect, after six decades the techniques have lost their dopamine hit [this is where I would love to be able to insert one of the emoticons I have on my phone, which blogger does not have yet, so ... just imagine a thoughtful face please]. 

(AuDHDers, which have both, have ... double the trouble - and the strengths 😁 )

NONE of this is a comment of the merit or value or notional effectiveness of these techniques: they are good, valid, and well worth considering ... but possibly for multiple decades or less than half a century or so - and maybe not for tens of millennia ... 

When considering timescales, don’t forget our souls are eternal (yes, there may be mergings etc, but those are millennia away from most of the people on this planet). 

Our bodies are not, so it is valid for us to focus on this lifetime - which is the purpose for being incarnated - but, while we cannot be sure how much time we have (because of accidents, etc), we do need to be mindful that the efficacy or value of things may change after decades - or half a century or, in some cases, a century, of life without losing their inherent worthh/value/“goodness”.

 

Just some food for thought [thoughtful face emoticon] . 

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Post No. 2,338 - New Grant Cameron book: "UFO Sky Pilots: Pilots of Peace and Oneness"

Grant Cameron has written a new book. I found out about this via a video which cropped up in my YouTube feed, although it didn’t really resonate with me until the 2^nd part of the interview (see https://youtu.be/CNKTiN-W7uI). 

Anyhow, the book is:

“UFO Sky Pilots: Pilots of Peace and Oneness” by Grant Cameron and Desta Barnabe

Being allowed to fly UFOs is something I occasionally do in my monthly ET Lets Talk  CE-5 contacts: those contacts typically are focused on working with earth energies in the southern half of Australia’s eastern coastline, but sometimes I get to do some flying - as with the most recent contact, where the flying was intended to be therapeutic for me (which it was). 

I am also aware that some of the displays in the craft (e.g., old fashioned gauges) are devices aimed at making me “feel at home” - the reality is that a mental connection with the craft is all that is needed. 

Incidentally, my history of non-physical flying includes: 

• lucid dreaming, starting as a primary school kid in the 60s - including one dream of outflying people who were chasing me); 
• transformation into various flying power animals while doing shamanic journeys in the 80s; and
  
• in the last few years, piloting UFOs. 
  

My experiences are different to those reported in Mr Cameron’s new book: 

• the craft are already flying when I come aboard; 
• my experiences are clearly astral only, not physical; 
  
• some of the details are different.
  

However, Mr Cameron’s new book:

• includes the importance of consciousness, which is a theme being explored more by more UFO/UAP/ET writers over the last decade and a half or so; 
• refers to the craft being organic/grown (wow - so that’s another way “Babylon 5” was ahead of its time); 
• states that he is unaware of any other writers/researchers covering this, but I have actually come across this in Elena Danaan’s books and some Whitley Strieber interviews; 
• emphasises the peaceful purposes of this.
  

On peace, in his book Mr Cameron writes: 

“Many UFO researchers and ex-government officials continue to push the UAP threat scenario, but it is not the UAP pilots that are dropping the bombs. Whenever they push me on the threat issue, I say, “When they drop the first atomic bomb, send me the evil alien petition. Until then, we have met the enemy, and he is us.””

There is some excellent commentary on the influence of peoples attitudes (e.g., wearing/having guns is a clear sign of potential violence), and I found the discussion on some of the 1940s events/evidence particularly compelling, but I’m still reading the testimonies (I have skipped ahead and read the final thoughts, etc).

Clearly I’ve bought the book: buying it is well worth considering. The book is available as an e-book on Amazon, and hard copy through other sources, such as Barnes & Noble.

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Post No. 2,123 - Grant Cameron's "Contact Modalities", and astral doorways

I have now finished reading "Contact Modalities: The Keys to the Universe" by Grant  Cameron and Desta Barnabe (pub. ItsALLconnected Publishing, 2020, ISBN 9798649219884). I have already referred to this book (see here, here, and here), and I still recommend it strongly - it is excellent. 

To me, it is like an update to Lyall  Watson's (see also here) "Supernature" (pub. Sceptre, 1989 [first printing 1986; first pub. Hodder and Stoughton, 1973; first pub. in paperback Coronet, 1974, ISBN 0 340 40429 1; Amazon), but for those who do not know that earlier book, "Contact Modalities" explores  wide range of accessing nonphysical information and perceptions, including techniques generally described as "psychism" or "ESP" or "Remote Viewing" these days, along with a stack of other techniques (some with a long history of use), and explores what this indicates about reality. This draws on scientific research along the way, and I found the information on the brain both fascinating and interesting.

Well worth buying and reading.

Some years (actually, decades) ago I read (and subsequently mentioned here) J. H. Brennan's book "Astral Doorways" (pub. Aquarian Press, Wellingborough, 1971 [2^nd impression 1982], ISBN 0 85030 242 0), which has been a good reminder of some astral - as opposed to etheric - travel techniques (I am still looking forward to having the opportunity to develop my ability to do etheric travel). It is still only available as a hard copy version, not digital, but it has some useful information in it - including how to draw a pentagram, a version of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, some interesting postulations about the nature of reality, and, of course, a range of doorway techniques intended to be used to access the astral. 

I'm most drawn to the elemental doorways, but the symbols and colours are not what I would normally use, and I'm finding the doorways take me to places I'm not expecting - for instance: 

• the purple oval, nominated as being for Æther, takes me to the tree I use for shamanic journeys to the underworld (I use the elements for shamanic journeys in this level of reality, incidentally - often combined with non-physical shape shifting); 
• the blue square, nominated as being for earth, takes me to a lovely little tropical cove - it's not anywhere in the (white coloniser name) Cumberland Group (which many people wrongly call "the Whitsunday Islands" - Whitsunday is the white coloniser name for the passage between the islands and the mainland and - nowadays - for some of the islands; for information on the traditional owners, see  here, here, and here), which I sailed in when I living in central Queensland, but it has a very similar feel and turquoise water colour; and 
• the silver square, nominated as being for water, takes me to an extraterrestrial platform in space, in an area that I was told is in what we refer to as the  Pleiades.
  

Next, to see where the red triangle (for fire) and yellow square (for air) take me . . . 😉

BTW, the technique is explained in the book, and, to simplify, is based on staring at the shape until, when you close your eyelids, you see the shape in  its "reverse" colour - and then projecting through the shape. As always, establish and check  BPM  protection, and make sure someone knows what you're doing and can get you back.

Above all else, be mentally flexible, and don't assume things have to work for you the way they do for others. If you feel unsafe or unsure, back out of it and discuss the matter with your BPM  Guides, but I pursued the above exercises even though they didn't take me to the element I expected, and thus have new techniques that I can use. 

 

Post No. 1,016 – Reviews, Reading and This Week

I thought I’d do a post on some of the reading I’m currently doing – or have recently done, and a few other matters that cropped up this week (for various reasons).

I’ll begin with a fascinating book on the history of chakras: “Rainbow Body: A History of the Western Chakra System from Blavatsky to Brennan”, by Kurt Leland (pub. Ibis Press, Forth Worth [USA], 2016, ISBN 978-0-89254-219-2; available on Amazon). As the title states, this book covers the history of the chakra system in “the West”, but with suitable acknowledgement of Asian (“Eastern”) influences.

I’m still reading this comprehensive tome, nut it is pleasing to see the authors I regard highly getting due acknowledgement in this book – people like Leadbetter and Ouseley, along with the authors commonly attributed with having an influence. It is also pleasing to see the confusions and controversies dealt with.

Furthermore, having learned to review and delve into books very quickly at uni and since (because of the information overload that gores with staying up to date), I have read the final two chapters, and the last one is, to me, one of the most interesting, as it deals with where we are heading. Some of this overlaps what I teach on chakras, but the idea that chakras exist and need to be activated on each level of our being is a slightly different – and, in many ways, perhaps better – view, development of the sheaths on each level into full bodies (which addresses some of the inadequacies of teachings about development of our being on others that I consider Theosophy has, as well as giving useful insight into astral and etheric travel problems), and “free movement of the star of consciousness” - which is akin to my use of Castenada’s teaching of the assemblage point.

Overall, an excellent book – one that I recommend people buy and read (even if only for the end chapters :) ), and one that has given me better development exercises and that will guide a revamp of my chakra workshop.

I disagree with a few aspects –such as the use of the term “white” when that should be “clear light” or “brilliance”, but not enough to have major problems with the book.

One other thought on this: critics have made much over the apparent change in numbers of chakras and other evolutions in our understanding as reasons to discount acceptance of the validity of these teachings, but … why hasn’t that approach been applied to our human issues that we gradually increase our understanding of, such as the circulation of blood, biochemistry and microbiological understanding, the mind, and so forth?

On the other hand, I’m finding Thomas L. Friedman’s “Thank You for Being Late” (pub. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2016; ISBN 978-0-374-27353-8; available on Amazon) somewhat tedious. The author is making his case about accelerating rates of change in various fields of life with great thoroughness, but I’m simply not that interested in the minutiae of how technological breakthroughs and advances have been made.

Some of the content I’ve read so far has undeniably been good, however, such as the Dov Seidman quote (“When you press the pause button on a machine, it stops. But when you press the pause button on a human beings they start”) and the very useful concept of viewing economies from the point of view of how they manage “flows” rather than as stock markets, I’m curious about what is going to be written about (implacable) Nature, and I suspect I am going to appreciate the coming suggestions about humanness (yes, I’ve scanned ahead), but the journey to get there is harder work than I consider is merited.

I’ll possibly write more on this book when I finish working through it.

I’m also finding Anthony Lester’s “Five Ideas to Fight For: How Our Freedom is Under Threat and Why It Matters” (pub. Oneworld, London, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78084-761-3; available on Amazon) somewhat tedious, despite the five topics being excellent ones, well worth considering and well considered in this book, but this is more because the author is emphasising his role in fighting for these rights.

On the other hand, John Rawls’ “A Theory of Justice” (my copy pub. Harvard University press, 1999, ISBN 0-674-00078-1; available on Amazon, originally published 1971), although also long and slow and tedious (it is, after all, a University textbook :) ), is more engaging – or at least the section I jumped ahead to is :) .

The last three are being read as a result of my interest in human rights (specifically, actions taken in the mundane world – rights apply in all levels of existence [1] ), and my private study of political science; going back to less mundane matters, I am also still reading – and enjoying - Victor and Wendy Zammit’s excellent – and logical - book “A Lawyer Presents the Evidence for the Afterlife” (pub. White Crow Books, Guildford [UK], 2013, ISBN 978-1-908733-22-1; available on Amazon) , and will write a review on that when I do finish it, but I want that to be a comprehensive review, so it may be some time.

Now I’ll move on to some of the random contemplations from this week.

I’ve been doing more reading on LinkedIn – which is a good way to stay up to date with the latest management fad (and many of them are just that – and often recycled every few years). I’ve been noticing for some time how the latest “buzz words”, to borrow a phrase from “our American cousins”, are things like “disruption”, and these are all built around computer technology. I have to comment, therefore, that computers and people in information technology (IT) are, for the most part, no longer the rebels they think they are: they have become mainstream, everyday and mundane. Being a rebel these days is not having a so-called “smart” phone.

Furthermore, a lot of these terms are actively used as a put down of people who aren’t like – particularly those who aren’t liked by the IT/computer technology elites – and they have formed an elite, much as the nobles were an elite in the Middle Ages (note that not all nobles were rich back then, but they were still part of the social elite: I know quite a few tech-oriented people who are very poor, and yet they are part of an evolving elite).

So far, those people are mostly failing in how they handle the power they have as a result of being in that elite – badly.

I’ve also been thinking – partly as a result of reading Mr Friedman’s book –about the aspect of developing technology being possibly viewed as an attack on our humanity. The IT being actively developed by society’s new elite is destroying jobs and creating massive amounts of fear, but that is abuse / misuse / unthinking use of power, rather than an attack on our humanness.

Some social media alienates people from each other, but it also gives other people an opportunity they didn’t have to connect – and a lot of IT applications are about aspects of being human, such as our inherent desire for an easier way to do things. That isn’t always good, but it is human.

There are changes happening, however, that are profound – almost as profound as the invention of the printing press, the linked development of agriculture and civilisation, and the domestication of fire.

Almost, but not quite.

I would rate the changes happening now as greater than the changes that happened during the industrial revolution, even thought that has put the planet’s ecosystems at risk, but less profound than the three changes I mentioned in the preceding paragraph.

The invention of civilisation (or “the domestication of humans”, as I somewhat irreverently refer to it from time to time :) ) resulted in specialisation of work, time to move beyond struggling to survive, and thus thinking. The industrial revolution resulted in more specialisation of work, the (human connections, cross-fertilisation of ideas, etc) and disadvantages (poverty, pollution, more crime, etc) of larger cities.

The IT revolution is going to result in more specialisation of work, but also – as it is going now – an underclass of underemployed people, the Morlocks in HG Wells’ novel “The Time Machine”. I also consider it unlikely to lead to any greater thinking – there will be a lot more detailed assessment of bits and pieces, but nothing “big”.

We need, for the sake of the quality of our humanness, to find a balance between diving onto the IT bandwagon, and being compassionate, caring and inclusive.

Having a computer does not absolve one of karma, or the obligation to grow and develop as a human being.

Finally, some reading links:

• from the ever excellent John Beckett:
   - “The Authority of the Gods”;
   - a respectful festival of jealousy (I’m jealous of the lot of ‘em – which you will understand when you read the linked posts :) );
   - a healthy perspective on Nature and the Deities;
   - a  thoughtful critique of being rooted vs. being on the move (with a few other interesting perspectives :) );
     on being authentic;
   - open vs. occult in the context of simpler vs. deeper;
• lists of attributes can limit our depth of understanding and connection with the Deities (and lots of other things in life);
• some thoughts on what I would term “nonBPM” use of magick – or, to put that more accessibly, using magick to harm or hinder others. Now, I am all for using magick in a BPM way, and I am up for BPM use of magick in a psychic or spiritual war (as often accompanies the physical conflicts in this world), but the biggest problem I have with what this article – and its follow up – are considering is that it is too often vengeful, and thus ultimately harmful to the person using the magick, as well as its victim (and I use that word deliberately). Such actions can be needed and justified when they are in the context of stopping someone who is harming others – as happens in every clearing of an uncooperative – and I do that regularly, as I posted about recently. However, before you do anything like, you need to be absolutely sure (a) there is nothing personal about this (talk to someone who can judge that – and if you aren’t prepared to do that, I would suspect there is a strong personal element to it), and (b) that is done as dispassionately and objectively and carefully as possible  as if you were a police officer subject to the rule of law and thus unable to use excessive force, etc (and I know that is not always observed, and does not exist in all nations). A few other thoughts I would add to this debate:
    - the harder, judgemental types of magick were often practised in situations where survival was at risk, which is not the case today;
    - religions such as neochristianity practice their equivalents of hexing, and that needs to be acknowledged and debated as well. Examples of that would be the prayer wars, putting non-christian people on lists for special attention, religious right-to-lifers, sexism and misogyny, etc – but I’m not including the terrible history of child abuse here (and on that, in addition to neochristian abusers, here is an update on a Pagan abuser); and
    - there is an issue of it being unfair that those in a discriminated against group have to try harder and be “nicer” to get acceptance (it applies to women, refugees, etc as well), but being politically naïve about that is not necessarily the best approach – and I have seen a lot of political naiveté on this topic recently. On this aspect, the follow up article has a lot of good comments about the issue of safety (although I disagree that “being truthful” initially wouldn’t have made us less safe now: the author is talking about practices that not all Pagans accept, just as not all neochristians accept physical self-flagellation [some do], and, incidentally, I consider Wicca to be a valid path and not just a put down). Of course, there is also the issue that to be restrained can be both incredibly difficult and damaging to human beings … ;
• relevant to the previous point, a post on the problem of “silliness”;
• spiritual (and psychic) composting;
• personal growth as a result of becoming a witch;
• some excellent advice in “Night Has Fallen, Light Your Torches”;
• the need to be political here, here, here, and here;
• an interesting, nuanced perspective on history – not trying to recreate it, and not idolising it;
• religious approaches to magick (some very good and/or interesting points);
• a PhD thesis “The Cultic Life of Trees: What Trees Say About People in the Prehistoric Aegean, Levant, Egypt and Cyprus” has been published – and I hope to read it one day :) ;
• PAN has a new website (looks good);
• an article on parenting, kids, rituals and standards of behaviour;
• Jungian perspectives on the election of the new US President (I liked the comment about “Active Imagination”, and might explore that further … );
• from the Correllian YouTube channel:
    - a nuanced explanation of the reasons why the First Priest and Paramount High Priest of the Correllian Tradition chose not to be part of the attempted binding spell on the current US President (including that these views come from a neochristian movement which has been working towards these goals since the late 1960s, and a questioning of efficacy) … and the (malicious? stupid?) misuse of that vlog / images;
  - a nuanced view on “reflecting harm” back to others, and the risks (I would also suggest reading the situation where Dresden uses this type of spell in “Proven Guilty”);
  - commentary on the rubbish notion that chakras are things to be removed, with a comment that it may be an outgrowth of a neochristian idea;
  - electric candles and energetic constructs;
  - incarnational diversity;
  - the similarities and differences between corporate and traditional totems;
• from the Zen Habits blog (which I am WAAAY behind on reading):
  - the antidote to self-harshness and resentment (I particularly liked the reference to a “Love Muscle” – I will have to see if I can track that down on that blog);
  - three practices for the overwhelmed, stressed and anxious (sadly, I tend to follow the Harry Dresden approach to worry: it’s never solved anything before, but there’s always a first time :) [joke, Joyce]);
  - how to build the “change muscle”.

Notes

1.       I’m aware that there are also responsibilities, but I have too many negative associations with bigots (yes, I’m p****d off with them) trying to use “responsibilities” as a “tough love” type justification for not respecting rights.

I apologise for publishing these posts twice, but Blogger keeps changing my formatting. I can either publish it and then correct it, or save and close the post and correct it when I reopen it, but that leaves an extra copy in my "drafts" folder ...

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr  
(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear") 
Pagan Energy Worker, Wéofodthegn, Bellatrix Lux, Venatrix Maga, would-be Drýicgan. 

I am revamping my former website, and getting at least one other underway.

My "blogiography" (list of all posts and guide as to how to best use this site) is here, and my glossary/index is here. 

I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "Pagans for Peace" project (and join me for a few minutes at some time between 8 and 11 PM on Sunday, wherever you are, to meditate-clear for peace), and here for my bindrune kit-bag. I also strongly recommend learning how to flame, ground and shield, do alternate nostril breathing, work with colour, and see also here and be flexible. 

May the best in me, my Higher Self,
and those of the Clear Light who assist me,
help me to keep myself grounded, centred and shielded,
to be Balanced and a Fulcrum of Balance,
a centre of Balanced Positivity and Spiritual Maturity,
with my aura continuously cleansed, cleared and closed,
repelling all negative or unwanted energies,
whilst allowing positive, balancing and healing energies in and through.

The real dividing line is not between Christianity and Islam, Sunni and Shia, East and West. It is between people who believe in coexistence, and those who don’t.

Tom Fletcher, Former UK Ambassador to Lebanon

• All of the above - and this blog - could be wrong, or subject to context, perspective, or state of spiritual evolution ...

Tags: abuse of power, astral travel, change, chakra, discrimination, elites, etheric travel, growth, human rights, morality, politics, power, society, survival after death, technology,  

First published: Manadagr, 17^th April, 2017

Last edited (excluding fixing typo's, Blogger's change of my formatting and other minor matters): Monday, 17^th April, 2017