Brian V. Cox
05-10-2001, 04:03 PM
david, thank you for this post. it really was insightful. i'm also trying
to learn to be more accepting of people without instantly going on the
defensive, which takes quite a bit of work.
as for your rush quote, i was crying as i read it too. rush was my
favorite band for 15 years until i discovered phish and now the
disco biscuits. hemispheres is so much a part of me. i've often
wondered what neil peart would think of convergence iii...you should
try to get a copy to his manager :)
for anyone interested, here are the complete lyrics to "hemispheres"
(i never would have thought when i was an atheist at 15 years old
listening to this song and banging my head that i would be here 15
years later seeing the obvious ascension metaphors in rush lyrics!) :)
pretty ironic that rush was attacked by parents as being "satanic".
the cover of 2112 means alot more now that i've learned about sacred
geometry.
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rush "cygnus x-1, book 2: hemispheres" (from the album "hemispheres" 1978)
i: prelude
when our weary world was young
the struggle of the ancients first began
the gods of love and reason
sought alone to rule the fate of man
they battled through the ages
but still neither force would yield
their people were divided
every soul a battlefield
(every soul a battlefield...)
ii: apollo - bringer of wisdom
i bring truth and understanding
i bring wit and wisdom fair
precious gifts beyond compare
we can build a world of wonder
i can make you all aware
i will find you food and shelter
show you fire to keep you warm
through the endless winter storm
you can live in grace and comfort
in the world that you transform
the people were delighted
coming forth to claim their prize
they ran to build their cities
and converse among the wise
but one day the streets fell silent
yet they knew not what was wrong
the urge to build these fine things
seemed not to be so strong
the wise men were consulted
and the bridge of death was crossed
in quest of dionysus
to find out what they had lost
iii: dionysus - bringer of love
i bring love to give you solace
in the darkest of the night
in the heart's eternal light
you need only trust your feelings
only love can steer you right
i bring laughter, i bring music
i bring joy and i bring tears
i will soothe your primal fears
throw off those chains of reason
and your prison disappears
the cities were abandoned
and the forests echoed song
they danced and lived as brothers
they knew love could not be wrong
food and wine they had aplenty
and they slept beneath the stars
the people were contented
and the gods watched from afar
but the winter fell upon them
and it caught them unprepared
bringing wolves and cold starvation
and the hearts of men despaired
iv: armaggedon - the battle of heart and mind
the universe divided
as the heart and mind collided
with a people left unguided
for so many troubled years
in a cloud of doubts and fears
our world was torn asunder
into hollow hemispheres
some fought themselves
some fought each other
most just followed one another
lost and aimless like their brothers
for their hearts were so unclear
and the truth could not appear
their spirits were divided
into blinded hemispheres
some who did not fight
brought tales of old to light
my rocinante sailed by night
on her final flight
to the heart of cygnus's fearsome force
we set our course
sailed through that timeless space
to this immortal place
v: cygnus - bringer of balance
i have memory and awareness
but i have no shape or form
as a disembodied spirit
i am dead, and yet unborn
i have passed into olympus
as was told in tales of old
to the city of immortals
marble white, and purest gold
i see the gods in battle rage on high
thunderbolts across the sky
i cannot move, i cannot hide
i feel a silent scream begin in inside
then all at once the chaos ceased
a stillness fell, a sudden peace
the warriors felt my silent cry
and stayed their struggle, mystified
apollo was astonished
dionysus thought me mad
but they heard my story further
and they wondered and were sad
looking down from olypus
on a world of doubt and fear
its surface splintered into
sorry hemispheres
they sat a while in silence
then they turned at last to me
we will call you cygnus
the god of balance you shall be
vi: the sphere - a kind of dream
we can walk our road together
if our goals are all the same
we can run alone and free
if we pursue a different aim
let the truth of love be lighted
let the love of truth shine clear
sensibility, armed with sense and liberty
with the heart and mind united
in a single, perfect sphere
> take the words from dr. neil peart, ph.d. psychology, drummer and songwriter
> for the band "rush." he touches on this male-female archetypal struggle so
> beautifully, calling it the battle between love and reason, associating it
> with the right and left hemispheres of the brain (the album is called
> hemispheres.)
>
> peart uses greek mythology to make his point. apollo is the god associated
> with the feminine / love / right brain archetype, and dionysus is associated
> with the masculine / reason / left brain archetype. cygnus is the god of the
> greek mythos who came to unify the two perspectives of love and reason, and
> at this point in the song they have finally heard his cry for unity:
>
> "apollo was astonished,
> dionysus thought me mad.
> but they heard my story further,
> and they wondered, and were sad.
>
> looking down from olympus
> on a world of doubt and fear,
> it's surface splintered into
> sorry hemispheres...
>
> [guitar solo]
>
> they sat a while in silence,
> then they turned at last to me,
> "we will call you cygnus,
> the god of balance you shall be...""
>
> then the reprise, a beautiful melody set to a very nice, very simple
> strumming guitar track, really socks it home:
>
> "we can walk our roads together,
> if our goals are all the same.
> we can run alone and free,
> if we pursue a different aim.
>
> let the truth of love be lighted;
> let the love of truth shine clear;
> sensibility,
> armed with sense and liberty,
> with our heard and mind united
> in one single,
> perfect,
> sphere..."
>
> if you love this album you'll know why there are tears in my eyes right now.
> will we ever understand... (i guess i'm not yet transparent in
> personality... :)
>
> 2. the stated desire for "my lord" to come quickly, coupled with the utterly
> distorted sentence that "all of us hateful believers of the one and true
> jesus will not be involved" contains a whale of a lot of hidden information
> about the nature of its writer, and it will take us a number of paragraphs
> to break it down. so before we go into the idea of the compartmentalization
> of the infinitely vast oneness into something that is exclusive only to this
> being, (through the use of the word "my",) let's begin by saying that this
> statement implies that we've said that all fundamentalist christians are not
> ready for harvest.
>
> quite to the contrary, the only thing that matters for each person is
> whether or not they have truly chosen to serve others, hence serving god. a
> fundamentalist could certainly make this choice under those conditions with
> sufficient purity, providing that they are not actively going around
> proselytizing and attacking others. we've all heard every sect try to say
> that their god is the only true god. if you serve this ultimate being,
> oneness or "true" god by loving all others as yourself, then you have
> applied the higher teachings.
>
> you're here to make one simple choice... nothing else matters... will it be
> manipulation, control and enslavement of others or love, care and support
> for them? if you choose love and service to others then it must be
> unconditional love. smile. be nice. be friendly. love people. treat the girl
> at the grocery store and the man at the gas station with the respect they
> deserve as fellow co-creators, no higher or lower than yourself. it is not
> your responsibility to figure out whether they believe in jesus or not, or
> to treat them any differently if they did than if they didn't. if you're not
> doing that, then you're making the opposite choice, which is to manipulate
> and enslave them. this should be simple enough, but for a number of reasons
> having to do with negative interference, it is not.
>
> wilcock's statements on art bell that "there is no judgment involved in this
> [ascension] process" and "it truly does not matter what faith you are", that
> "the only thing that matters is how much you have become a reflection of god
> in your personal desire to serve others" sounds good enough to most new
> agers... but to others it is completely explosive. such a statement can
> certainly be disconcerting, even exasperating to those whose ego
> consciousness is heavily invested in the idea of "being right" and thereby
> asserting others as "being wrong." and as we go i'll explain exactly what i
> mean by that.
>
> my personal experience has proven time and time again that this entire
> "religious" behavior complex originates from feelings of profound inner
> guilt over the past, which in turn lead to the idea that an outside divine
> force must "forgive" the being instead of that being taking the
> responsibility to forgive itself. most people in these situations claim that
> self-forgiveness is impossible, if you can get them into a candid and honest
> discussion about it, which i have often done.
>
> all too often i have heard born-agains and fundamentalists claim that their
> 'sins' are far too extreme for them to be able to ever forgive themselves.
> they say this because *that is what they are taught in their worship
> services.* i've gone and heard it myself. this teaching is what allows these
> groups to enslave their members, convince them to pay extraordinarily high
> tithes and attend services all throughout the week, not just on sundays. the
> idea that it is impossible to forgive yourself comes from the negative
> polarity, which ra claims is locally headed up by negative entities in
> fourth and fifth density who originate from a star system in the orion
> constellation. the negative polarity desires control and enslavement, and
> "seeks the aggrandizement of self or of social organizations with which self
> identifies."
>
> forgive the stark analogy, but let's enter in a far more extreme and ugly
> form of negative polarity enslavement for comparison. when you volunteer for
> the suicide hotline, they show you these very shocking films where you see
> the freshly-battered wife, replete with huge black and blue marks on her
> face, going through an entrance interview for a shelter. the counselor says,
> "you do acknowledge that he tried to kill you; he hit your head with the
> back of his gun." she replies, "yes... but i still love him." sadly, it is
> immediately evident that the person has completely handed over their own
> power to an outside entity.
>
> why did i use such a violent analogy? not because people have been
> physically assaulted in these facilities... (ah, you say... but they have.
> every week there's a new story about pastors drinking alcohol, abusing
> tithes / donations "to god" for personal gain and accosting church members
> sexually...) essentially, those wife-beaters have convinced their wives that
> life without them is simply not possible; that there is no other possible
> man for them but him. getting out of these relationships becomes difficult
> or even seemingly impossible... seemingly. all enslavement begins by
> teaching the enslaved beings that slavery is by far the preferred choice for
> them, if not the only choice.
>
> usually on a much smaller scale of intensity, these churches work the same
> way. people often come to them when their spiritual and mental bodies
> (sometimes physical as well) are in as sorrowful a condition as the battered
> wife. i've attended various fundamentalist churches without indicating the
> full range of my beliefs, and can state from first-hand experience that you
> can get a very strong "love" hit when you go there. this is an undeniable
> fact, and you can prove it for yourself, though i don't recommend it.
>
> in fact, in one case a preacher was saying a prayer that was totally
> channeled, and every now and then you could hear his ego kick in and disrupt
> the channeling by going into a sentence or two of standard, rote dogma about
> the blood of jesus before he'd give himself up to the flow again and
> continue to utter words of immaculate purity. back and forth, back and
> forth, a mostly positive channel (who doesn't even realize what he is doing)
> who is continually tainting the message to the needs of the ego.
>
> in a loose sense it reminded me of a freestyle rap music artist who can get
> long passages of material straight from the mind, and breaks it up with
> standard "licks" of filler material in between. (freestyle rappers can go
> for minutes on end producing rhyming verse that is totally original and
> improvised... but most of them have an armada of pre-planned statements that
> they use to keep the "flow" going, just like the preacher i mentioned...
>
> i know, because back in college i "dueled" another freestyle rapper in a
> club and actually "won." (one of the few times i've ever been in a club.) it
> was late at night, with an awesome funk drumbeat and real syncopated,
> delicious, groovin', movin' bassline... i had already been sober for two
> years and could keep spilling out rhyming, rhythmic god-conscious,
> non-offensive verse at breakneck speed without slipping up or repeating
> myself. i was amazed to hear all this pouring out of myself, as i had never
> tried to do it before. the other guy kept running out of steam and falling
> back on pre-planned material. at the time i didn't realize how i was getting
> the information, i just knew that as long as i concentrated very hard, it
> would keep coming... :)
>
> so yes... you can go to these churches and be "fed..." but it comes at a
> heavy price. fundamentalist churches use all the standard cult tactics for
> behavior modification and "brainwashing," though most of them don't realize
> it. how is this done? read on...
>
> cult brainwashing involves building your followers up slowly with a
> foundation of teachings, then raising them to a state of supreme spiritual
> euphoria, and then right in that moment hitting them with a statement that
> ties together all the loose ends that you've been dripping in a little at a
> time. pow!
>
> now this final statement usually is the "hardest sell" of the whole
> discourse; it is the statement that will eventually convince that person to
> trade the love that they have received from almost everyone else in the
> world (the woman in the grocery store, man at the gas station, family and
> friends, etc.) for the love they are feeling in that moment. it emphasizes
> the lack of love that they have felt from all others up until that moment
> and aggrandizes the superiority of the love that they are now receiving. it
> is the statement that makes them feel that 'everyone else is wrong' and now
> they must completely commit themselves body, mind and spirit to the group.
> remember that the cult leader wants them to believe that everyone else in
> the world, including their friends and family, are "outside" the "chosen"
> circle unless they are also a part of the group.
>
> remember, now, all this gets started because the person feels extreme guilt,
> and in their group they are told that they cannot and should not try to
> forgive themselves for what they "did." instead, they must surrender their
> resistance and turn over all their spiritual, mental and physical
> (financial) power to the group. even though they believe that they are
> worshipping jesus, or the heavenly father (who is above jesus in the
> standard trinity view,) what they are actually doing is worshipping the
> group, worshipping the pastor as proxy and spokesman for jesus, and
> worshipping a set of beliefs. instead of worshipping god, they worship their
> beliefs! think about it. this should remind us of most scientists as well,
> since it is the exact same phenomenon, only in a different category.
>
> so again, they feel that they cannot forgive themselves. therefore, their
> only option was to adhere to the belief that they could be 'washed by the
> blood of the lamb' so that jesus' death 2000 years ago "paid the ransom" for
> their "sins." this is by far the most egregious (=grotesque) distortion of
> modern christianity; the idea that simply saying "i accept christ" can
> eliminate any further engagement in the personal healing and initiation
> process, and that by such a statement the road to heaven is totally paved,
> and in one fell swoop you've "gone the distance." christ's teachings focused
> so much on self-responsibility and that has been almost hopelessly lost. why
> did he insist on calling himself "the son of man" instead of the son of god?
> most people do not actually read the bible; they read small excerpts from
> the bible that are heavily laced with spin-controlled context from the head
> of their group.
>
> but is it truly impossible to relieve your own guilt from within, contrary
> to cult dogma? yes. to forgive yourself is to claim your own divine power
> without a proxy, and accept yourself. to accept yourself is to become the
> creator, to realize what you already are. this is standard ra teaching:
> "forgive yourself, accept yourself, become the creator." to make that step
> of "claiming the i am" is to dig deep within the self until the realization
> comes that you are the "one" ***in the same way that everyone and everything
> else is the one***... and thereby you must forgive yourself to receive god's
> forgiveness. in a universe of oneness there is no other selfhood but
> oneness!
>
> so again, the fundamentalist viewpoint creates a unique distortion, where
> the person fully believes and is told in their sunday services that their
> own self-forgiveness is impossible; they were born in "original sin" and are
> automatically condemned. (yes, i know, folks, this is such tired old stuff,
> but some people do still believe it!) the idea of "original sin" is only a
> gloss for people's subconscious self-condemnation of their own "original
> sins" earlier in their life, before their "pentecost;" we could call it
> "original guilt." since they are categorically denied access to god by their
> innate "sin" from the very foundation of humankind, (and subconsciously
> denied access to god from their own self-condemnation,) their "ticket to
> heaven" hinges only on the divine forgiveness that they feel has been
> granted through their belief structure.
>
> (yes, it sounds a little complex. sorry. i'm sure others here would be glad
> to round out this whole set of concepts... but for now we'll keep on
> explaining it. :)
>
> you can't self-forgive if you're automatically a sinner, with jesus as the
> only passageway out of "the lake of fire" where you'll "burn for all
> eternity" after your death! (they truly believe this is real and i've had
> clients who, as children, were shown vicious, realistic propaganda / horror
> films of people supposedly burning alive! really!)
>
> so if you are one of these people, then realize that your apparently
> automatic condemnation before god (which is only your mirror for your own
> self-condemnation) places *absolute importance* upon the integrity and
> inherent "rightness" of your group's belief structure, and their particular,
> narrow interpretation of jesus -- the specific definition of god that they
> believe to have forgiven them. (this has almost nothing to do with jesus the
> son of man, as he insisted that he be called!) thus, you will vigorously
> seek out and "fight" those who would challenge their definition of god, as
> we have seen on our board.
>
> those who have read percival's "thinking and destiny" (are you listening
> korga?... :) will know that these groups do indeed build up thought-form
> 'gods' that are constantly warring with each other and are essentially
> negative beings. the more they hate and condemn others, feel incessant fear,
> worry and guilt and seek to aggrandize themselves and their group, the more
> they feed the negative beings with power, which in turn gives them more
> worldly power. this in turn will eventually lead to holy wars and all other
> events that fractionalize and splinter the group consciousness of humanity.
>
> here we are one planet amongst millions of other inhabited planets just in
> this galaxy, and yet we have so many different groups, and each one of them
> is completely convinced that they are correct. yet, if god is one then we
> should honor each person's path as completely legitimate... which is exactly
> what ra does. some might work more quickly than others but all are
> ultimately sacramental in their own right, as everyone and everything is
> god. this is the message that the extraterrestrials bring us for today.
>
> in the fundamentalist / cult brainwashing scenario, true oneness is
> impossible, because their specific definition of god and all the "rules"
> that go with it is required to be correct, or that person's entire
> understanding of personal "salvation" (which short-circuits their
> participation in self-forgiveness) would appear to be destroyed. and they've
> worked and chewed on these concepts so many times in their minds that
> they've got very little left to hold onto in the aftermath; not all are
> lucky enough to have a sympathetic friend who can ease their transition out
> of the cult and into a more open form of spirituality.
>
> so, should this definition of god be successfully challenged, enough so that
> it causes them to rethink some of their positions, (dw: "there is no
> judgment in this process... it does not matter what faith you are... your
> own self-responsibility is the most important thing... your vibration is
> solely determined by how much you are willing to be of service to others")
> then they face the possibility of having to forgive themselves, of
> processing their own guilt from within instead of from without. this feels
> quite immediately distasteful, is not seen as remotely possible, and
> triggers the most bitter, venomous reactions, as we have now seen.
>
> hence, their entire guilt over their own past is challenged when their
> belief structure is challenged. at the deepest level, this inability to face
> the self is what then motivates them to enslave others. how do they try to
> enslave others? by making emphatic statements regarding the inherent
> correctness of their ideological constructs of faith, and blanket
> condemnations of all remaining worldviews. such letters are not written for
> no reason; they seek to "save" (read: enslave) whatever number of the 200 or
> more souls on this list who they feel might be willing to pay homage to
> their own thought-form god, constructed on a complex foundation of specific,
> isolationist belief patterns. (never minding that the vast majority of folks
> have joined this list because of their love for the work on the asc2k
> website, and the legacy of the universal one or christ spirit... :)
>
> let's observe a bit more of how the negative polarity worked through this
> largely innocent and unsuspecting human participant. that very suppressed
> guilt, which is theoretically alleviated by jesus's blood, continues to grow
> and gnaw within as a very real force that causes the person to lash out at
> others. being "saved" is never enough... but the cults don't give much past
> that initial "boarding pass." now in this letter, the pain has been freshly
> aggravated by the nyc / mother's day incident and by wilcock's bold
> articulation of concepts that are too freeing for the existing dogma to hold
> up under. once the venom rises enough to allow the lash-out to occur, then
> the negative polarity has the perfect gateway through which to act. (see
> section 7 of the ra study guide on negative beings.)
>
> remember that the negative beings are doing this constantly, and most people
> are never, ever aware of how they are participating in allowing negative
> "psychic attacks" to work through them. all along they feel that it is
> totally their own free will, not realizing that the negative beings
> specialize in finding cases where you choose to enslave others through your
> own free will... and then they give you a massive boost of energy to go as
> far with it as you can go. (also remember that what we're doing with this
> work is a very high priority for negative attack, due to the possibility
> that it could increase the harvest in the short time remaining on earth
> before that event occurs.)
>
> so now we're into a deeper level of how this person so clearly articulated
> the basic premises of a negatively-oriented psychic attack. in the letter,
> notice the summoning of someone named "byron" who is apparently another
> group member and has a ph.d. such reverence for graduate-level education
> seems to indicate that the being considers this person to be "more
> important" than the combined voice of most others on this list. am i wrong?
> this person, coupled with jesus, is full armor! remember? this being now
> calling itself barb is at war! (and we are the mirror of this war within the
> being... and therefore should feel compassion in our responses and not
> indulge in the same energy.)
>
> then, with the appropriate forces summoned, as seen in the statement "donned
> with the full armor, i tend to like to "spy" (...) on the enemy...," the
> being throws out feelers and creates the sense that they've formed some sort
> of "corral" around the group (read: enslaved the group) and are closing in
> for the kill...
>
> wilcock is a nazi! you're all going to "hell!" now we've got you! (but alas,
> we might be willing to let a few of you sheep out of the corral to "save"
> (read: enslave) you... if you are willing to accept that we are always and
> forever correct and no one else will ever be. but you can't run with our
> crew until you realize that you were already condemned all this time
> (original sin,) you just never knew it before now!)
>
> you may need to read over this section number two a few times to understand
> this final statement, and if you don't get it then you're probably not ready
> to get it:
>
> deep, inner, un-acknowledged self-hatred is the motivating factor that leads
> fundamentalists to attack more open-minded folks. a unique situation has
> been created where they feel that if their faith is incorrect, then their
> own 'sins' are too awesome to permit them to make further spiritual progress
> into higher planes. thus, they believe that their entire soul evolution
> requires their faith to be correct. otherwise, they feel that they are in a
> lot of trouble, as long ago they had concluded that no one but jesus could
> forgive them, including themselves. remember. this is how they really feel.
> no jokes.
>
> therefore, if wilcock is anything but a nazi, then they feel they are in a
> lot of trouble. let's again remind ourselves of ra's statement of the
> "melting influence of love." if we choose not to love and accept ourselves,
> we can keep on incarnating in third-density indefinitely, continually
> handing over our power to proxies who will tell us that we're already there.
> all the while, what we've really needed is to simply accept and forgive
> ourselves for all that we have "done" in the past... and in that moment, we
> overcome self-hatred, which in turn allows us to be able to love and accept
> others as ourselves.
>
> so all that was number 2 on our list of comments that were made, and
> subsequent analyses. so let's move on now to numbers 3 and 4, remembering
> that our focus was on pointing out the obvious despair that this being is
> feeling, showing us how we can have better compassion for this being and
> helping to explain some of the fine points of philosophy that are required
> to understand this information:
>
> 3. the letter states that the vibrational upgrade is a 'lurch forward.' such
> a statement shows this being's feelings of despair over the process itself,
> thus placing the emphasis on the difficulty and pain that would appear to be
> involved. if we choose to focus on the difficulty and pain, then we can see
> as much of it as we choose; fear and depression is a pit that knows no
> bottom. the secret is that it is entirely a free-will decision to
> participate in fear, worry and guilt! the extraterrestrials teach trust in
> this process.
>
> 4. this letter betrays this being's open, blatant categorization of the
> souls on this list as the "enemy"... despite jesus' teachings to "turn the
> other cheek" and "love your enemies". that sad statement right there, in and
> of itself, indicates that this being is not yet ready for the fourth
> density, though this certainly could change in the time remaining. you want
> to join jesus' team? practice unconditional love. service to others is not
> conditional. you should rejoice that such material as the "time of global
> shift" seminar exists, as it proves that this cherished christian event is,
> in fact, real, from a scientific perspective that no longer requires "blind
> faith!"
>
> as many sources insist that this ascension event will occur in waves, we
> have been told that there will be many fundamentalists who will quite
> obviously see that the first wave has passed and realize that they were not
> a part of it. these cult-indoctrinated beliefs run so deeply that the person
> is capable of completely hating and villainizing the outside world, thus
> standing in complete opposition to the most basic "graduation requirements,"
> and yet completely believe that they are among "god's chosen people." this
> will create quite a surprise when they realize that they missed something
> big... and we have already been told that this will occur.
>
> so to summarize, for one who has studied the teachings on the
> ascension2000.com website, they know that the christ spirit is strongly
> revered. the very first link at the top of the page, "opening quotes," has a
> number of biblical statements and many of the readings in the archives
> mention the christ spirit, christ consciousness and christ within, and yes,
> jesus; this would be easily seen if, that is, the person is willing to take
> the time to find out. furthermore, edgar cayce, the primary inspiration for
> this work, was a christian sunday school teacher, a devout (yes,
> fundamentalist) christian who gradually came to accept the message from his
> readings.
>
> anyone who reads "the shift of the ages" far enough will see cayce's
> categorization of jesus as being the primary spiritual leader for this
> earth, having been "the first and last adam" as it says in the bible,
> meaning that he has been through many incarnations from amilius, who is the
> adam of the bible -- the first person to come in to try to help the enslaved
> human race, to jesus, the first person to ascend and clear the pathway for
> the remainder of the enslaved human race to realize that such an ascension
> is indeed possible. further analysis of the cayce readings indicates that
> jesus had other pivotal incarnations including thothermes trismestigus, (see
> chapter 15 of convergence iii near the end,) zend the father of zoroaster,
> enoch, melchizedek and more...
>
> many, many, many times wilcock and other contributors to this site have
> written that we are all to follow the "christ pattern" and experience our
> own "crucifixion of the ego" which comes about through facing the parts of
> ourselves that we did not yet integrate (father let this cup pass from me)
> and finally accepting god's will (not my will, o father-mother god, but thy
> will be done.) only once we accept god's will as our own and overthrow the
> "monkey mind" of the ego do we realize the resurrection / ascension process.
>
> jesus was the first to do this, but we've probably pointed out100 different
> times that jesus said, "as i do these things, so shall ye do them, and
> greater things, for i go unto my father [i accept god's will instead of my
> own.]" (john 14:12.) jesus is not the last to have done this. he
> categorically states that you will do the same things that he did... if you
> can accept god's will for yourself, within yourself, by forgiveness and
> acceptance, by handing over your personal ego motivations to those of the
> christ within. god does not want you to fractionalize and divide your fellow
> beings into categorized, labeled groups! just love them! ok?
>
> the one statement more than any other that has created the fundamentalist
> christian distortions is "i am the truth, the way and the life... no one can
> come unto the father but by me." as wilcock's readings have stated at least
> three or four different times, this is the i am presence or christ presence
> within each person that is speaking; what ra calls the higher self. no one
> can return to the oneness without accepting god's will, as manifested in
> their own inner christ. the same christ that awakened in jesus must awaken
> in everyone.
>
> so in this letter we now have some cards on the table regarding our
> spiritual intentions, through the narrow fisheye lens of this discussion
> group... which may or may not have any direct bearing on the work featured
> on the ascension2000 website (hopefully it does.) bearing that context in
> mind, let's go back to the letter's core statements.
>
> let's remember that we have an angry fundamentalist christian being on our
> hands who will vigorously defined its precise view of god. then, in a
> previous posting, wilcock mentions one word from nietzsche in a passing
> joke, later followed by a (very loose!) conjunction with statements about
> fundamentalists striving in vain to "convert" him, then someone else
> mentions "nazi" and boom!
>
> "wilcock is a nazi!"
>
> now the being has "seen" what it wants to see and mixed this
> hastily-concocted "recipe" together to form a non-existent case. no one on
> the list will take this seriously, and the statement in reality only
> externalizes the inner turmoil and grief of this being for naked public
> viewing. then when the others on this group attack and dish back the same
> meal from the opposite side, the being's despair is only further increased,
> its desire to promulgate the cult only further enhanced. so let's again
> think about the wisdom in "there is no such thing as an emotionally charged
> situation; either be of service or withdraw."
>
> this is a being in pain. remember this. let's curb our tongues and surround
> this being with light, that it may seek greater faith and trust in the
> spiritual process now unfolding on the earth at this time. for most
> third-density beings, earth changes are scary. economic collapse is scary.
> school shootings, war, et cetera, is scary. the spiritual forces are not
> trying to scare us by telling us what experiences still remain in the short
> time that we have left; and let us not forget that the bible has some of the
> "scariest" depictions of the time that we are now in that you will find in
> any spiritual literature!
>
> ultimately we must realize that it is our choice to feel fear, and there are
> negative beings out there who will feed on any fear energy that we produce.
> if you want to call them "demons" that is your choice, again... but that
> term is also a distortion, as they too will eventually return to the oneness
> after a prolonged struggle with healing their original separation from god.
>
> when dr. mandelker and i presented this information on the air, it wasn't
> easy material to digest; we're at a point now when many changes will be
> coming very swiftly, and we will have to experience them. if we choose fear
> then we will go through these changes with more trauma than if we choose
> trust... and now more than ever we need to foster a cooperative attitude so
> that we can harmoniously integrate with others in our own local areas as
> that need manifests itself.
>
> there is not much time left for things to stay the way they are... and we're
> not going to be able to turn the clock back on this one. yes, a part of me
> doesn't want to see it or go through it either... but we must keep reminding
> ourselves that god is our source, not a job, not a government, not a social
> structure, not a car, not a grocery store, but god. we will need to draw
> upon that resource more than ever for strength and calmness in the times
> immediately ahead.
>
> so to return to the core issue that started this letter, which is an
> ad-hominum attack on wilcock and those who participate in this group:
>
> it is always and forever a free-will decision on behalf of anyone to read
> the website, to join and participate on the list, to peruse our media
> appearances and the like. this makes it categorically impossible to "spy" on
> any of this work, as it is open to all; spying is primarily defined as "the
> covert viewing of deliberately concealed information." and unlike the vast
> majority of guests on the art bell show, there is no monetary exchange
> required for you to know the cards in this deck; they're all laid out there,
> nothing has been withheld that can only be found in a paid form.
>
> so live and let live. be friendly to us, or we'll ask you to leave, as we
> really don't need this type of a letter. i'll close with dr. fritz perls'
> "gestalt prayer:"
>
> you do your thing, and i'll do my thing.
>
> i am not in this world to live up to your expectations
>
> and you are not in this world to live up to mine.
>
> you are you, and i am i,
>
> and if by chance we meet, it's beautiful.
>
> and if not, it can't be helped.
> ___
>
> i rest my case.
>
> peace be with you -
>
> - david
>
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**magpu** music for your mind: http://www.magpu.com
"yawlurjazz!!!" - poor david, 7/1/98
to learn to be more accepting of people without instantly going on the
defensive, which takes quite a bit of work.
as for your rush quote, i was crying as i read it too. rush was my
favorite band for 15 years until i discovered phish and now the
disco biscuits. hemispheres is so much a part of me. i've often
wondered what neil peart would think of convergence iii...you should
try to get a copy to his manager :)
for anyone interested, here are the complete lyrics to "hemispheres"
(i never would have thought when i was an atheist at 15 years old
listening to this song and banging my head that i would be here 15
years later seeing the obvious ascension metaphors in rush lyrics!) :)
pretty ironic that rush was attacked by parents as being "satanic".
the cover of 2112 means alot more now that i've learned about sacred
geometry.
----
rush "cygnus x-1, book 2: hemispheres" (from the album "hemispheres" 1978)
i: prelude
when our weary world was young
the struggle of the ancients first began
the gods of love and reason
sought alone to rule the fate of man
they battled through the ages
but still neither force would yield
their people were divided
every soul a battlefield
(every soul a battlefield...)
ii: apollo - bringer of wisdom
i bring truth and understanding
i bring wit and wisdom fair
precious gifts beyond compare
we can build a world of wonder
i can make you all aware
i will find you food and shelter
show you fire to keep you warm
through the endless winter storm
you can live in grace and comfort
in the world that you transform
the people were delighted
coming forth to claim their prize
they ran to build their cities
and converse among the wise
but one day the streets fell silent
yet they knew not what was wrong
the urge to build these fine things
seemed not to be so strong
the wise men were consulted
and the bridge of death was crossed
in quest of dionysus
to find out what they had lost
iii: dionysus - bringer of love
i bring love to give you solace
in the darkest of the night
in the heart's eternal light
you need only trust your feelings
only love can steer you right
i bring laughter, i bring music
i bring joy and i bring tears
i will soothe your primal fears
throw off those chains of reason
and your prison disappears
the cities were abandoned
and the forests echoed song
they danced and lived as brothers
they knew love could not be wrong
food and wine they had aplenty
and they slept beneath the stars
the people were contented
and the gods watched from afar
but the winter fell upon them
and it caught them unprepared
bringing wolves and cold starvation
and the hearts of men despaired
iv: armaggedon - the battle of heart and mind
the universe divided
as the heart and mind collided
with a people left unguided
for so many troubled years
in a cloud of doubts and fears
our world was torn asunder
into hollow hemispheres
some fought themselves
some fought each other
most just followed one another
lost and aimless like their brothers
for their hearts were so unclear
and the truth could not appear
their spirits were divided
into blinded hemispheres
some who did not fight
brought tales of old to light
my rocinante sailed by night
on her final flight
to the heart of cygnus's fearsome force
we set our course
sailed through that timeless space
to this immortal place
v: cygnus - bringer of balance
i have memory and awareness
but i have no shape or form
as a disembodied spirit
i am dead, and yet unborn
i have passed into olympus
as was told in tales of old
to the city of immortals
marble white, and purest gold
i see the gods in battle rage on high
thunderbolts across the sky
i cannot move, i cannot hide
i feel a silent scream begin in inside
then all at once the chaos ceased
a stillness fell, a sudden peace
the warriors felt my silent cry
and stayed their struggle, mystified
apollo was astonished
dionysus thought me mad
but they heard my story further
and they wondered and were sad
looking down from olypus
on a world of doubt and fear
its surface splintered into
sorry hemispheres
they sat a while in silence
then they turned at last to me
we will call you cygnus
the god of balance you shall be
vi: the sphere - a kind of dream
we can walk our road together
if our goals are all the same
we can run alone and free
if we pursue a different aim
let the truth of love be lighted
let the love of truth shine clear
sensibility, armed with sense and liberty
with the heart and mind united
in a single, perfect sphere
> take the words from dr. neil peart, ph.d. psychology, drummer and songwriter
> for the band "rush." he touches on this male-female archetypal struggle so
> beautifully, calling it the battle between love and reason, associating it
> with the right and left hemispheres of the brain (the album is called
> hemispheres.)
>
> peart uses greek mythology to make his point. apollo is the god associated
> with the feminine / love / right brain archetype, and dionysus is associated
> with the masculine / reason / left brain archetype. cygnus is the god of the
> greek mythos who came to unify the two perspectives of love and reason, and
> at this point in the song they have finally heard his cry for unity:
>
> "apollo was astonished,
> dionysus thought me mad.
> but they heard my story further,
> and they wondered, and were sad.
>
> looking down from olympus
> on a world of doubt and fear,
> it's surface splintered into
> sorry hemispheres...
>
> [guitar solo]
>
> they sat a while in silence,
> then they turned at last to me,
> "we will call you cygnus,
> the god of balance you shall be...""
>
> then the reprise, a beautiful melody set to a very nice, very simple
> strumming guitar track, really socks it home:
>
> "we can walk our roads together,
> if our goals are all the same.
> we can run alone and free,
> if we pursue a different aim.
>
> let the truth of love be lighted;
> let the love of truth shine clear;
> sensibility,
> armed with sense and liberty,
> with our heard and mind united
> in one single,
> perfect,
> sphere..."
>
> if you love this album you'll know why there are tears in my eyes right now.
> will we ever understand... (i guess i'm not yet transparent in
> personality... :)
>
> 2. the stated desire for "my lord" to come quickly, coupled with the utterly
> distorted sentence that "all of us hateful believers of the one and true
> jesus will not be involved" contains a whale of a lot of hidden information
> about the nature of its writer, and it will take us a number of paragraphs
> to break it down. so before we go into the idea of the compartmentalization
> of the infinitely vast oneness into something that is exclusive only to this
> being, (through the use of the word "my",) let's begin by saying that this
> statement implies that we've said that all fundamentalist christians are not
> ready for harvest.
>
> quite to the contrary, the only thing that matters for each person is
> whether or not they have truly chosen to serve others, hence serving god. a
> fundamentalist could certainly make this choice under those conditions with
> sufficient purity, providing that they are not actively going around
> proselytizing and attacking others. we've all heard every sect try to say
> that their god is the only true god. if you serve this ultimate being,
> oneness or "true" god by loving all others as yourself, then you have
> applied the higher teachings.
>
> you're here to make one simple choice... nothing else matters... will it be
> manipulation, control and enslavement of others or love, care and support
> for them? if you choose love and service to others then it must be
> unconditional love. smile. be nice. be friendly. love people. treat the girl
> at the grocery store and the man at the gas station with the respect they
> deserve as fellow co-creators, no higher or lower than yourself. it is not
> your responsibility to figure out whether they believe in jesus or not, or
> to treat them any differently if they did than if they didn't. if you're not
> doing that, then you're making the opposite choice, which is to manipulate
> and enslave them. this should be simple enough, but for a number of reasons
> having to do with negative interference, it is not.
>
> wilcock's statements on art bell that "there is no judgment involved in this
> [ascension] process" and "it truly does not matter what faith you are", that
> "the only thing that matters is how much you have become a reflection of god
> in your personal desire to serve others" sounds good enough to most new
> agers... but to others it is completely explosive. such a statement can
> certainly be disconcerting, even exasperating to those whose ego
> consciousness is heavily invested in the idea of "being right" and thereby
> asserting others as "being wrong." and as we go i'll explain exactly what i
> mean by that.
>
> my personal experience has proven time and time again that this entire
> "religious" behavior complex originates from feelings of profound inner
> guilt over the past, which in turn lead to the idea that an outside divine
> force must "forgive" the being instead of that being taking the
> responsibility to forgive itself. most people in these situations claim that
> self-forgiveness is impossible, if you can get them into a candid and honest
> discussion about it, which i have often done.
>
> all too often i have heard born-agains and fundamentalists claim that their
> 'sins' are far too extreme for them to be able to ever forgive themselves.
> they say this because *that is what they are taught in their worship
> services.* i've gone and heard it myself. this teaching is what allows these
> groups to enslave their members, convince them to pay extraordinarily high
> tithes and attend services all throughout the week, not just on sundays. the
> idea that it is impossible to forgive yourself comes from the negative
> polarity, which ra claims is locally headed up by negative entities in
> fourth and fifth density who originate from a star system in the orion
> constellation. the negative polarity desires control and enslavement, and
> "seeks the aggrandizement of self or of social organizations with which self
> identifies."
>
> forgive the stark analogy, but let's enter in a far more extreme and ugly
> form of negative polarity enslavement for comparison. when you volunteer for
> the suicide hotline, they show you these very shocking films where you see
> the freshly-battered wife, replete with huge black and blue marks on her
> face, going through an entrance interview for a shelter. the counselor says,
> "you do acknowledge that he tried to kill you; he hit your head with the
> back of his gun." she replies, "yes... but i still love him." sadly, it is
> immediately evident that the person has completely handed over their own
> power to an outside entity.
>
> why did i use such a violent analogy? not because people have been
> physically assaulted in these facilities... (ah, you say... but they have.
> every week there's a new story about pastors drinking alcohol, abusing
> tithes / donations "to god" for personal gain and accosting church members
> sexually...) essentially, those wife-beaters have convinced their wives that
> life without them is simply not possible; that there is no other possible
> man for them but him. getting out of these relationships becomes difficult
> or even seemingly impossible... seemingly. all enslavement begins by
> teaching the enslaved beings that slavery is by far the preferred choice for
> them, if not the only choice.
>
> usually on a much smaller scale of intensity, these churches work the same
> way. people often come to them when their spiritual and mental bodies
> (sometimes physical as well) are in as sorrowful a condition as the battered
> wife. i've attended various fundamentalist churches without indicating the
> full range of my beliefs, and can state from first-hand experience that you
> can get a very strong "love" hit when you go there. this is an undeniable
> fact, and you can prove it for yourself, though i don't recommend it.
>
> in fact, in one case a preacher was saying a prayer that was totally
> channeled, and every now and then you could hear his ego kick in and disrupt
> the channeling by going into a sentence or two of standard, rote dogma about
> the blood of jesus before he'd give himself up to the flow again and
> continue to utter words of immaculate purity. back and forth, back and
> forth, a mostly positive channel (who doesn't even realize what he is doing)
> who is continually tainting the message to the needs of the ego.
>
> in a loose sense it reminded me of a freestyle rap music artist who can get
> long passages of material straight from the mind, and breaks it up with
> standard "licks" of filler material in between. (freestyle rappers can go
> for minutes on end producing rhyming verse that is totally original and
> improvised... but most of them have an armada of pre-planned statements that
> they use to keep the "flow" going, just like the preacher i mentioned...
>
> i know, because back in college i "dueled" another freestyle rapper in a
> club and actually "won." (one of the few times i've ever been in a club.) it
> was late at night, with an awesome funk drumbeat and real syncopated,
> delicious, groovin', movin' bassline... i had already been sober for two
> years and could keep spilling out rhyming, rhythmic god-conscious,
> non-offensive verse at breakneck speed without slipping up or repeating
> myself. i was amazed to hear all this pouring out of myself, as i had never
> tried to do it before. the other guy kept running out of steam and falling
> back on pre-planned material. at the time i didn't realize how i was getting
> the information, i just knew that as long as i concentrated very hard, it
> would keep coming... :)
>
> so yes... you can go to these churches and be "fed..." but it comes at a
> heavy price. fundamentalist churches use all the standard cult tactics for
> behavior modification and "brainwashing," though most of them don't realize
> it. how is this done? read on...
>
> cult brainwashing involves building your followers up slowly with a
> foundation of teachings, then raising them to a state of supreme spiritual
> euphoria, and then right in that moment hitting them with a statement that
> ties together all the loose ends that you've been dripping in a little at a
> time. pow!
>
> now this final statement usually is the "hardest sell" of the whole
> discourse; it is the statement that will eventually convince that person to
> trade the love that they have received from almost everyone else in the
> world (the woman in the grocery store, man at the gas station, family and
> friends, etc.) for the love they are feeling in that moment. it emphasizes
> the lack of love that they have felt from all others up until that moment
> and aggrandizes the superiority of the love that they are now receiving. it
> is the statement that makes them feel that 'everyone else is wrong' and now
> they must completely commit themselves body, mind and spirit to the group.
> remember that the cult leader wants them to believe that everyone else in
> the world, including their friends and family, are "outside" the "chosen"
> circle unless they are also a part of the group.
>
> remember, now, all this gets started because the person feels extreme guilt,
> and in their group they are told that they cannot and should not try to
> forgive themselves for what they "did." instead, they must surrender their
> resistance and turn over all their spiritual, mental and physical
> (financial) power to the group. even though they believe that they are
> worshipping jesus, or the heavenly father (who is above jesus in the
> standard trinity view,) what they are actually doing is worshipping the
> group, worshipping the pastor as proxy and spokesman for jesus, and
> worshipping a set of beliefs. instead of worshipping god, they worship their
> beliefs! think about it. this should remind us of most scientists as well,
> since it is the exact same phenomenon, only in a different category.
>
> so again, they feel that they cannot forgive themselves. therefore, their
> only option was to adhere to the belief that they could be 'washed by the
> blood of the lamb' so that jesus' death 2000 years ago "paid the ransom" for
> their "sins." this is by far the most egregious (=grotesque) distortion of
> modern christianity; the idea that simply saying "i accept christ" can
> eliminate any further engagement in the personal healing and initiation
> process, and that by such a statement the road to heaven is totally paved,
> and in one fell swoop you've "gone the distance." christ's teachings focused
> so much on self-responsibility and that has been almost hopelessly lost. why
> did he insist on calling himself "the son of man" instead of the son of god?
> most people do not actually read the bible; they read small excerpts from
> the bible that are heavily laced with spin-controlled context from the head
> of their group.
>
> but is it truly impossible to relieve your own guilt from within, contrary
> to cult dogma? yes. to forgive yourself is to claim your own divine power
> without a proxy, and accept yourself. to accept yourself is to become the
> creator, to realize what you already are. this is standard ra teaching:
> "forgive yourself, accept yourself, become the creator." to make that step
> of "claiming the i am" is to dig deep within the self until the realization
> comes that you are the "one" ***in the same way that everyone and everything
> else is the one***... and thereby you must forgive yourself to receive god's
> forgiveness. in a universe of oneness there is no other selfhood but
> oneness!
>
> so again, the fundamentalist viewpoint creates a unique distortion, where
> the person fully believes and is told in their sunday services that their
> own self-forgiveness is impossible; they were born in "original sin" and are
> automatically condemned. (yes, i know, folks, this is such tired old stuff,
> but some people do still believe it!) the idea of "original sin" is only a
> gloss for people's subconscious self-condemnation of their own "original
> sins" earlier in their life, before their "pentecost;" we could call it
> "original guilt." since they are categorically denied access to god by their
> innate "sin" from the very foundation of humankind, (and subconsciously
> denied access to god from their own self-condemnation,) their "ticket to
> heaven" hinges only on the divine forgiveness that they feel has been
> granted through their belief structure.
>
> (yes, it sounds a little complex. sorry. i'm sure others here would be glad
> to round out this whole set of concepts... but for now we'll keep on
> explaining it. :)
>
> you can't self-forgive if you're automatically a sinner, with jesus as the
> only passageway out of "the lake of fire" where you'll "burn for all
> eternity" after your death! (they truly believe this is real and i've had
> clients who, as children, were shown vicious, realistic propaganda / horror
> films of people supposedly burning alive! really!)
>
> so if you are one of these people, then realize that your apparently
> automatic condemnation before god (which is only your mirror for your own
> self-condemnation) places *absolute importance* upon the integrity and
> inherent "rightness" of your group's belief structure, and their particular,
> narrow interpretation of jesus -- the specific definition of god that they
> believe to have forgiven them. (this has almost nothing to do with jesus the
> son of man, as he insisted that he be called!) thus, you will vigorously
> seek out and "fight" those who would challenge their definition of god, as
> we have seen on our board.
>
> those who have read percival's "thinking and destiny" (are you listening
> korga?... :) will know that these groups do indeed build up thought-form
> 'gods' that are constantly warring with each other and are essentially
> negative beings. the more they hate and condemn others, feel incessant fear,
> worry and guilt and seek to aggrandize themselves and their group, the more
> they feed the negative beings with power, which in turn gives them more
> worldly power. this in turn will eventually lead to holy wars and all other
> events that fractionalize and splinter the group consciousness of humanity.
>
> here we are one planet amongst millions of other inhabited planets just in
> this galaxy, and yet we have so many different groups, and each one of them
> is completely convinced that they are correct. yet, if god is one then we
> should honor each person's path as completely legitimate... which is exactly
> what ra does. some might work more quickly than others but all are
> ultimately sacramental in their own right, as everyone and everything is
> god. this is the message that the extraterrestrials bring us for today.
>
> in the fundamentalist / cult brainwashing scenario, true oneness is
> impossible, because their specific definition of god and all the "rules"
> that go with it is required to be correct, or that person's entire
> understanding of personal "salvation" (which short-circuits their
> participation in self-forgiveness) would appear to be destroyed. and they've
> worked and chewed on these concepts so many times in their minds that
> they've got very little left to hold onto in the aftermath; not all are
> lucky enough to have a sympathetic friend who can ease their transition out
> of the cult and into a more open form of spirituality.
>
> so, should this definition of god be successfully challenged, enough so that
> it causes them to rethink some of their positions, (dw: "there is no
> judgment in this process... it does not matter what faith you are... your
> own self-responsibility is the most important thing... your vibration is
> solely determined by how much you are willing to be of service to others")
> then they face the possibility of having to forgive themselves, of
> processing their own guilt from within instead of from without. this feels
> quite immediately distasteful, is not seen as remotely possible, and
> triggers the most bitter, venomous reactions, as we have now seen.
>
> hence, their entire guilt over their own past is challenged when their
> belief structure is challenged. at the deepest level, this inability to face
> the self is what then motivates them to enslave others. how do they try to
> enslave others? by making emphatic statements regarding the inherent
> correctness of their ideological constructs of faith, and blanket
> condemnations of all remaining worldviews. such letters are not written for
> no reason; they seek to "save" (read: enslave) whatever number of the 200 or
> more souls on this list who they feel might be willing to pay homage to
> their own thought-form god, constructed on a complex foundation of specific,
> isolationist belief patterns. (never minding that the vast majority of folks
> have joined this list because of their love for the work on the asc2k
> website, and the legacy of the universal one or christ spirit... :)
>
> let's observe a bit more of how the negative polarity worked through this
> largely innocent and unsuspecting human participant. that very suppressed
> guilt, which is theoretically alleviated by jesus's blood, continues to grow
> and gnaw within as a very real force that causes the person to lash out at
> others. being "saved" is never enough... but the cults don't give much past
> that initial "boarding pass." now in this letter, the pain has been freshly
> aggravated by the nyc / mother's day incident and by wilcock's bold
> articulation of concepts that are too freeing for the existing dogma to hold
> up under. once the venom rises enough to allow the lash-out to occur, then
> the negative polarity has the perfect gateway through which to act. (see
> section 7 of the ra study guide on negative beings.)
>
> remember that the negative beings are doing this constantly, and most people
> are never, ever aware of how they are participating in allowing negative
> "psychic attacks" to work through them. all along they feel that it is
> totally their own free will, not realizing that the negative beings
> specialize in finding cases where you choose to enslave others through your
> own free will... and then they give you a massive boost of energy to go as
> far with it as you can go. (also remember that what we're doing with this
> work is a very high priority for negative attack, due to the possibility
> that it could increase the harvest in the short time remaining on earth
> before that event occurs.)
>
> so now we're into a deeper level of how this person so clearly articulated
> the basic premises of a negatively-oriented psychic attack. in the letter,
> notice the summoning of someone named "byron" who is apparently another
> group member and has a ph.d. such reverence for graduate-level education
> seems to indicate that the being considers this person to be "more
> important" than the combined voice of most others on this list. am i wrong?
> this person, coupled with jesus, is full armor! remember? this being now
> calling itself barb is at war! (and we are the mirror of this war within the
> being... and therefore should feel compassion in our responses and not
> indulge in the same energy.)
>
> then, with the appropriate forces summoned, as seen in the statement "donned
> with the full armor, i tend to like to "spy" (...) on the enemy...," the
> being throws out feelers and creates the sense that they've formed some sort
> of "corral" around the group (read: enslaved the group) and are closing in
> for the kill...
>
> wilcock is a nazi! you're all going to "hell!" now we've got you! (but alas,
> we might be willing to let a few of you sheep out of the corral to "save"
> (read: enslave) you... if you are willing to accept that we are always and
> forever correct and no one else will ever be. but you can't run with our
> crew until you realize that you were already condemned all this time
> (original sin,) you just never knew it before now!)
>
> you may need to read over this section number two a few times to understand
> this final statement, and if you don't get it then you're probably not ready
> to get it:
>
> deep, inner, un-acknowledged self-hatred is the motivating factor that leads
> fundamentalists to attack more open-minded folks. a unique situation has
> been created where they feel that if their faith is incorrect, then their
> own 'sins' are too awesome to permit them to make further spiritual progress
> into higher planes. thus, they believe that their entire soul evolution
> requires their faith to be correct. otherwise, they feel that they are in a
> lot of trouble, as long ago they had concluded that no one but jesus could
> forgive them, including themselves. remember. this is how they really feel.
> no jokes.
>
> therefore, if wilcock is anything but a nazi, then they feel they are in a
> lot of trouble. let's again remind ourselves of ra's statement of the
> "melting influence of love." if we choose not to love and accept ourselves,
> we can keep on incarnating in third-density indefinitely, continually
> handing over our power to proxies who will tell us that we're already there.
> all the while, what we've really needed is to simply accept and forgive
> ourselves for all that we have "done" in the past... and in that moment, we
> overcome self-hatred, which in turn allows us to be able to love and accept
> others as ourselves.
>
> so all that was number 2 on our list of comments that were made, and
> subsequent analyses. so let's move on now to numbers 3 and 4, remembering
> that our focus was on pointing out the obvious despair that this being is
> feeling, showing us how we can have better compassion for this being and
> helping to explain some of the fine points of philosophy that are required
> to understand this information:
>
> 3. the letter states that the vibrational upgrade is a 'lurch forward.' such
> a statement shows this being's feelings of despair over the process itself,
> thus placing the emphasis on the difficulty and pain that would appear to be
> involved. if we choose to focus on the difficulty and pain, then we can see
> as much of it as we choose; fear and depression is a pit that knows no
> bottom. the secret is that it is entirely a free-will decision to
> participate in fear, worry and guilt! the extraterrestrials teach trust in
> this process.
>
> 4. this letter betrays this being's open, blatant categorization of the
> souls on this list as the "enemy"... despite jesus' teachings to "turn the
> other cheek" and "love your enemies". that sad statement right there, in and
> of itself, indicates that this being is not yet ready for the fourth
> density, though this certainly could change in the time remaining. you want
> to join jesus' team? practice unconditional love. service to others is not
> conditional. you should rejoice that such material as the "time of global
> shift" seminar exists, as it proves that this cherished christian event is,
> in fact, real, from a scientific perspective that no longer requires "blind
> faith!"
>
> as many sources insist that this ascension event will occur in waves, we
> have been told that there will be many fundamentalists who will quite
> obviously see that the first wave has passed and realize that they were not
> a part of it. these cult-indoctrinated beliefs run so deeply that the person
> is capable of completely hating and villainizing the outside world, thus
> standing in complete opposition to the most basic "graduation requirements,"
> and yet completely believe that they are among "god's chosen people." this
> will create quite a surprise when they realize that they missed something
> big... and we have already been told that this will occur.
>
> so to summarize, for one who has studied the teachings on the
> ascension2000.com website, they know that the christ spirit is strongly
> revered. the very first link at the top of the page, "opening quotes," has a
> number of biblical statements and many of the readings in the archives
> mention the christ spirit, christ consciousness and christ within, and yes,
> jesus; this would be easily seen if, that is, the person is willing to take
> the time to find out. furthermore, edgar cayce, the primary inspiration for
> this work, was a christian sunday school teacher, a devout (yes,
> fundamentalist) christian who gradually came to accept the message from his
> readings.
>
> anyone who reads "the shift of the ages" far enough will see cayce's
> categorization of jesus as being the primary spiritual leader for this
> earth, having been "the first and last adam" as it says in the bible,
> meaning that he has been through many incarnations from amilius, who is the
> adam of the bible -- the first person to come in to try to help the enslaved
> human race, to jesus, the first person to ascend and clear the pathway for
> the remainder of the enslaved human race to realize that such an ascension
> is indeed possible. further analysis of the cayce readings indicates that
> jesus had other pivotal incarnations including thothermes trismestigus, (see
> chapter 15 of convergence iii near the end,) zend the father of zoroaster,
> enoch, melchizedek and more...
>
> many, many, many times wilcock and other contributors to this site have
> written that we are all to follow the "christ pattern" and experience our
> own "crucifixion of the ego" which comes about through facing the parts of
> ourselves that we did not yet integrate (father let this cup pass from me)
> and finally accepting god's will (not my will, o father-mother god, but thy
> will be done.) only once we accept god's will as our own and overthrow the
> "monkey mind" of the ego do we realize the resurrection / ascension process.
>
> jesus was the first to do this, but we've probably pointed out100 different
> times that jesus said, "as i do these things, so shall ye do them, and
> greater things, for i go unto my father [i accept god's will instead of my
> own.]" (john 14:12.) jesus is not the last to have done this. he
> categorically states that you will do the same things that he did... if you
> can accept god's will for yourself, within yourself, by forgiveness and
> acceptance, by handing over your personal ego motivations to those of the
> christ within. god does not want you to fractionalize and divide your fellow
> beings into categorized, labeled groups! just love them! ok?
>
> the one statement more than any other that has created the fundamentalist
> christian distortions is "i am the truth, the way and the life... no one can
> come unto the father but by me." as wilcock's readings have stated at least
> three or four different times, this is the i am presence or christ presence
> within each person that is speaking; what ra calls the higher self. no one
> can return to the oneness without accepting god's will, as manifested in
> their own inner christ. the same christ that awakened in jesus must awaken
> in everyone.
>
> so in this letter we now have some cards on the table regarding our
> spiritual intentions, through the narrow fisheye lens of this discussion
> group... which may or may not have any direct bearing on the work featured
> on the ascension2000 website (hopefully it does.) bearing that context in
> mind, let's go back to the letter's core statements.
>
> let's remember that we have an angry fundamentalist christian being on our
> hands who will vigorously defined its precise view of god. then, in a
> previous posting, wilcock mentions one word from nietzsche in a passing
> joke, later followed by a (very loose!) conjunction with statements about
> fundamentalists striving in vain to "convert" him, then someone else
> mentions "nazi" and boom!
>
> "wilcock is a nazi!"
>
> now the being has "seen" what it wants to see and mixed this
> hastily-concocted "recipe" together to form a non-existent case. no one on
> the list will take this seriously, and the statement in reality only
> externalizes the inner turmoil and grief of this being for naked public
> viewing. then when the others on this group attack and dish back the same
> meal from the opposite side, the being's despair is only further increased,
> its desire to promulgate the cult only further enhanced. so let's again
> think about the wisdom in "there is no such thing as an emotionally charged
> situation; either be of service or withdraw."
>
> this is a being in pain. remember this. let's curb our tongues and surround
> this being with light, that it may seek greater faith and trust in the
> spiritual process now unfolding on the earth at this time. for most
> third-density beings, earth changes are scary. economic collapse is scary.
> school shootings, war, et cetera, is scary. the spiritual forces are not
> trying to scare us by telling us what experiences still remain in the short
> time that we have left; and let us not forget that the bible has some of the
> "scariest" depictions of the time that we are now in that you will find in
> any spiritual literature!
>
> ultimately we must realize that it is our choice to feel fear, and there are
> negative beings out there who will feed on any fear energy that we produce.
> if you want to call them "demons" that is your choice, again... but that
> term is also a distortion, as they too will eventually return to the oneness
> after a prolonged struggle with healing their original separation from god.
>
> when dr. mandelker and i presented this information on the air, it wasn't
> easy material to digest; we're at a point now when many changes will be
> coming very swiftly, and we will have to experience them. if we choose fear
> then we will go through these changes with more trauma than if we choose
> trust... and now more than ever we need to foster a cooperative attitude so
> that we can harmoniously integrate with others in our own local areas as
> that need manifests itself.
>
> there is not much time left for things to stay the way they are... and we're
> not going to be able to turn the clock back on this one. yes, a part of me
> doesn't want to see it or go through it either... but we must keep reminding
> ourselves that god is our source, not a job, not a government, not a social
> structure, not a car, not a grocery store, but god. we will need to draw
> upon that resource more than ever for strength and calmness in the times
> immediately ahead.
>
> so to return to the core issue that started this letter, which is an
> ad-hominum attack on wilcock and those who participate in this group:
>
> it is always and forever a free-will decision on behalf of anyone to read
> the website, to join and participate on the list, to peruse our media
> appearances and the like. this makes it categorically impossible to "spy" on
> any of this work, as it is open to all; spying is primarily defined as "the
> covert viewing of deliberately concealed information." and unlike the vast
> majority of guests on the art bell show, there is no monetary exchange
> required for you to know the cards in this deck; they're all laid out there,
> nothing has been withheld that can only be found in a paid form.
>
> so live and let live. be friendly to us, or we'll ask you to leave, as we
> really don't need this type of a letter. i'll close with dr. fritz perls'
> "gestalt prayer:"
>
> you do your thing, and i'll do my thing.
>
> i am not in this world to live up to your expectations
>
> and you are not in this world to live up to mine.
>
> you are you, and i am i,
>
> and if by chance we meet, it's beautiful.
>
> and if not, it can't be helped.
> ___
>
> i rest my case.
>
> peace be with you -
>
> - david
>
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