Post No. 3,510 - Heritages

Something I come across in the religio-spiritual and nearby/adjacent communities is people who want to have a particular physical heritage because they think it will confer special powers or prestige (“pop”, for the purposes of this post) on them. 

That is nearly as amathiac as those who think eating the remains of a vital creature will confer, in addition to physical protein etc, some measure of the special vital powers of that vital creature. 

In actuality, you are more likely to receive some of the anger and fear and panic that Sentient Being experienced as it was killed, than anything else.  

To those who quest for special genetics: 

• there are memberships of Indigenous groups that may be based, or based in part, on physical heritage (such as my own heritage - but First Peoples here [in Victoria, Australia] do NOT go down that path, as it is doing the colonisers’ genocidal work of breeding us out of existence for them); 

• there are genetic and epigenetic inheritances from parents and grandparents, but as those are traced back further, they are being combined with other genetic and epigenetic characteristics from other ancestors and are less likely to be significant; 

• human physical survival is based, in part, on a wide mixing of genetics, to ensure we do NOT become inbred - which was a notable issue for, if I recall correctly, European monarchies; 

• choose any famous person in history, and, if they had children, their DNA etc will be spread out and mixed with other people's DNA etc through a wider and wider group ... and at some stage: 
• the mixing makes the "special" presence meaningless; and 
• in ALL cases, the other vitally important aspects such as 
  (a) nurturing, 
  (b) the circumstances of that incarnation's existence, and 
  (c) what we bring into this life through who our Soul/Higher (Innermost/Truest) Self is and what our Soul/Higher (Innermost/Truest) Self has been through in previous incarnations - which is a similar error of misunderstanding/amathia to that shown by the carnists, 
  needs to be taken into account. 

In short, I am wary of seeking some special psychic or character “pop” through physical genetics - in fact, I do not believe it will work, unless you are also close enough to the person to share in family and other circumstances (e.g., sibling or child of that person), but there will still be major differences. 

Spiritual heritage in terms of who taught you in this lifetime is different: that is similar to checking whether someone obtained a degree from a genuine credentialed university or a fly-by-night dodgy operation. 

The problem is that there is no agreed, independent, objective award of credentials similar to that applying to universities - although traditions such as Reiki or specific Pagan/Wiccan paths will manage who they approve in accordance to their internal requirements. 

It also gets more complicated if you look at someone's true spiritual heritage, which involves the past incarnation and other (while not incarnate) experiences of the person and their Guides, and who their Deities of Service and Tutelage  are.  

Now, what led to me writing this post was coming across a few sites which claim to provide information about people’s “starseed lineage” - basically, their history of “incarnations” (some are nonphysical existences). 

Having made the points in the preceding, my comments on that are: 

• just as on Earth, every race or species (and I know the Zetas, for example, have scores of sub-divisions) off Earth is not a homogeneous block. There are variations - many individual - at any one time, and there are also variations that have occurred over time. 
  To use an earth analogy, having had a past life as a pre-Celtic European means you will not have any access to Celtic “pop”, and having past lives as a Celt is likely to involve changes as they moved from wherever they did come from to what is now modern day France and the UK. 
  If you have had a past life as particular ET species, that may not mean anything comparable to what that species is like these days; 

• the attributes identified to each species tends to vary slightly for each channel, and that, in my opinion, reflects: 
  (a) the flawed channelling of each person trying to do this work and, in some cases, errors where they are trying to repeat or build on other people’s work; and 
  (b) the (human) flaws of allowing personal and/or cultural worldview to influence channelling - especially concerning the gender spectrum (this is something that only Elena Danaan, IMO, came anywhere close to getting right [and keep in mind that we do change physical sex/gender over series of lives, and many interpretations/ascription of meaning of polarity are inherently flawed], but I do know there are transphobes and homophobes [and racists and misogynists] in the UFO/UAP/ET field); 

• these quests often miss the important result of us being, in some way, holograms of the entirety of existence, which is: we can quite possibly access the skills/attributes we admire/desire by learning how to meditate and/or use the assemblage point and/or get good BPM  guidance. 
  Such access is easier and deeper if you have had a past life as or in the desired/admired species, especially if they past life is recent rather than distant past, but NOT having such contact does NOT make access impossible - although you will still have to comply with normal good manners and respect, and that may involve being subject to to limitations on some aspects (which incidentally, may also apply even if you have recent or current lives ... so knowing something doesn’t mean you get to blurt it from the [digital] roof tops), but consider also that, in many cases - ESPECIALLY ET SPECIES - there are open teachers present here now, which is WHY you probably know about the skills/attributes you admire/desire. 
  As a First Nations example, consider “The Dreaming Path: Indigenous Thinking to Change Your Life” by Paul Callaghan and Uncle Paul Gordon (Pantera Press, Neutral Bay, NSW, 2022, ISBN 978-0-6487952-7-8; Amazon, Readings, Apple), which I have mentioned here, here, and here. 

In summary, information about any one of our past heritages can be useful or empowering, but the lack of a desired or admired heritage does NOT have to be disempowering: it just means you have to work at developing the desired skill/attributes/knowledge, just as with the overwhelming majority of the rest of us. 

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlightopossible flaws / issues youoshouldoconsider: 

• there mayobe flawedologicaloarguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ freeoonline course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinkingocaps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

  

Gnwmythr 

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Post No. 125 - A sense of genetic entitlement

In my travels through various spiritual and psychic paths in this lifetime, I've come across some people who think they are - or would be if they were - inherently more psychically gifted because they are the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, or have some gypsy blood in their veins, or maybe because they have some Celtic or Nordic heritage. As an example of the latter, in the Dutch occultist Freya Aswynn's otherwise excellent book "Northern Mysteries & Magic" (pub. Llewellyn, 1998, St. Paul, Minnesota, ISBN 1-56718-047-7; I particularly enjoyed the connection of the order of the runes to the Northern creation myth, and also the explanation of the difference between invertible and reversible runes), a revised edition of her evocatively titled "The Leaves of Yggdrasil", the author writes (on page 98):

A parallel can be drawn between runic divination and a system of divination and insight found in the Far East. Anybody can read the I Ching (an ancient and very accurate Chinese divination system) in English translation and derive some value from meditating on the hexagrams, but only a Chinese person working with the I Ching in his or her native language will manage to penetrate much more deeply and correctly into its mysteries, through an understanding of the subtleties and poetic expression of the Chinese language - which is an expression of the person's own folk-soul.

The same applies to the runes. Language is an expression of the soul of a nation, and the runes are indeed a language, one useful for communicating at all levels, from the straightforward written messages to focal points of concentration and communication with the gods, who are the guardians of the evolution of the Northern group-soul. Because the runes operate as a language, they communicate information about questions asked or readings done and allow the rune reader to make contact with the deeper layers of the querent's unconscious.

OK, so here are my reactions and comments to that passage:

• Firstly, what about someone who has, perhaps, had three or four lifetimes working actively with the runes, who then reincarnates in a different situation (perhaps Africa)? Are they going to lose the three or four lifetimes' worth of skills? No - in fact, one of the benefits of past life regression (see my workshop notes) is helping rediscover and bring to consciousness past life skills (although, hopefully, with suitable adaptations for improved circumstances - see here).
• There is an issue of talent vs. hard work here. In competitive sports such as football or sailing, that is discussed, with, in general, a consensus towards the view that someone who works hard is better than someone with talent who coasts along (although, to be fair, someone with talent who also works is best of all: such people may well be bringing through skills from previous lifetimes of hard work - as I did with my competitive sailing, where I drew on many past lifetimes at sea). I recall several successful sailors (world champions and Olympic gold medallists among them) who commented to the effect that others thought they were "lucky", and the harder they worked, the "luckier" they got ...
• There is also an issue that I can only think of as describing as self esteem/worth, or maybe it is an attempt to escape from oneself. There have been many times when people have seen something "other" as exotic and desirable because it is "other" - for example, a few centuries ago "the noble savage" ("nature's gentleman") was considered desirable because it was different to the European "civilisation" of that era (gotta tend to agree with that one, actually ...). More recently, Druids and Celts have been seen as good to have in your history: again, there is an element of truth to that, but then, they were also head hunters ... As another example, look at the number of people (in Western cultures) who have stereotypical North American Indians as guides [2]. You don't need to look outside yourself: YOU have a spark of the Divine in you: it is your essence - it IS enough for all that you wish to, or could, be. YOU can achieve mastery of whatever skill or attribute you wish to - you just may need to be prepared to work at it, and, rather than look outside yourself for the exotic, be all that you can be [3].

Of course, maybe I'm just p*ssed off 'cos I can't find any such clearcut reason to feel superior :) but truth is I find such a sense of genetic entitlement narcissistic (see also here). ALL people are entitled to be psychic. In fact, I agree with Lobsang Rampa that the coming new world religion will be open to all, and a key feature will be (in my words) that ALL people will understand that we can ALL be "masters" ...

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr

Notes:

1. Just in case anyone should be inclined to draw the wrong conclusion about Freya Aswynn, have a look at her post Troth to the Aesir, which is an argument for inclusivity that I will be including in a post on some other views of the "Northern Traditions" (including another post by Aswynn on some problematic aspects). One key sentence from that post is "Being Asatru is open to every one, the Gods will accept the Troth of a sincere person of whatever genetic or cultural origin". The quote I have given above is about, in my words, "natural talent", which I am arguing is due to hard work in previous lifetimes - and I'm going to basically suggest that, if you want to have a "natural talent" for something, start working - HARD! - at it in this lifetime, now, as an investment in your future. After all, even if you don't accept reincarnation, perhaps you consider that you have an eternal Soul? :)
2. I have some stereotypical guides, including a North American: he was, in that lifetime (NOT on the Plains, it was up around the Great Lakes), I was responsible for his death ... which makes for some interesting dynamics :) I also have some more or less "everyday" people as guides - which basically means the image they present is of fairly ordinary people (from time in American history). The image guides present can and does change: in my case, the "North American Indian" guide chose an image which would make me feel that I owed to that entity to listen (oh stop chuckling, White Waters Fall!), but one of my teachers relayed a story of one of his guides, who initially chose to present as a Nun, thinking it would have an association of spirituality, but, when the guide found it didn't (because of some unpleasant experiences as a child in a [Christian] religious school), the guide chose another image (which, interestingly, was male this time - for those who get hung up on gender!) On that topic, one of my patron deities is Yemaya, who claims me from the time when I was incarnated in Africa ... yet I still work with runes: things can blend!
3. When I took a year off in the 80s to study alternative healing, and wound up at ASPECTS studying and learning both healing and many other skills (such as past life regressions, crystals, mediumship, etc), I - and others - spent up to 15 hours da day, seven days a week, studying and APPLYING these skills. Nothing I have now has come easily, or without effort - as another example, I have been studying the runes for around fifteen years now, under the tutelage of my friend "Venerable Rune Master from the Bush", and I still don't feel like "an expert", let alone a "master" - and I'm nowhere near being ready to move off the Elder Futhark onto the other futharks ... (and, as I mentioned, I learned some interesting things from Freya Aswynn's book). Then again, we are always learning ... I even learned some new and interesting things in my day job just yesterday, after three decades working as an engineer: learning never stops, and Lobsang Rampa often quotes a saying "the more you know, the more you know there is to know" (more or less - can't guarantee that that is word perfect!).

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Tags: about me, attitudes, courage, I Ching, Lobsang Rampa, mediumship, perceptions, personal responsibility, personal characteristics, religion, workshop notes, heritage,arrogance, genetics, heritage, psychism, spirituality, Northern Tradition,

First published: Saturday 26th June, 2010

Last edited: Thursday 5th August, 2010 (added more tags)