19 posts tagged “new age”

clipped from www.occultofpersonality.com In this episode, we’re joined by author Christopher Knowles. The discussion revolves around his new book, “Our Gods Wear Spandex, The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes.” We talk about the history of comic books and how the ideas contained and promoted in this medium can be traced directly to esoteric and occult concepts. “The collision of science, morality, and magic is being played out hundreds of times a month in comic books and other media, showing us the implications of superhuman potential. Is this an unconscious form of preparation for an inevitable shift in human reality? Should we pay more careful attention to the visionaries and lunatics who anticipate the future in comic-book storylines? In that supernatural realm called the human imagination, comic-book creators like Alan Moore and Alex Ross may be time-travelers, forecasting the future for us and showing us the way. It’s funny how it all seems so similar to the ancient myths. The past and future are always with us.” The Secret Sun - Christopher Knowles’ blog

clipped from www.occultofpersonality.com In this episode, Jennifer Emick, the guide to alternative religions on About.com joins me to discuss the Alternative Religions web site, her interest in the esoteric and mystical side of religion, the importance of tolerance concerning religious views and practices, and the positive and negative aspects of spirituality. Her balanced perspective is appreciated as promoting both understanding and reasoned analysis. Of particular interest are the ideas about the human flaws of spiritual teachers, as well as the degeneration of spiritual groups after the teachers depart. This is usually illustrated by the advancement in the significance of dogma. Jennifer also describes the struggle by witches for mainstream acceptance versus identification with past persecution. She notes how this recognition can result in a loss of freedom. In addition, we touch upon the concept that most, if not all, religions originate from a teacher well-versed in the ancient Mysteries.

clipped from www.realitysandwich.com Alien Dreamtime: My Fight with Whitley Strieber This is a long-winded preamble to a post on my fight, during a taped radio interview that will be aired this weekend, with the bestselling author of alien abduction memoirs and science fiction novels, and Dreamtime radio host, Whitley Strieber. Both Strieber and I were surprised by the virulence of this verbal battle - he said that I had assaulted him in his very being, and that we were no longer friends - but actually it was quite predictable based on my analysis of his work and the alien abduction phenomenon in 2012. (Strieber writes on his view of our argument here.) I suspected that Strieber was influenced by the force that the visionary philosopher Rudolf Steiner called “Ahriman,” the evil spirit who pulls humanity down into minerality, materiality, sterile technology, and extinction. and unfortunately he is helping disseminate their negative and destructive frequency into human culture and consciousness

clipped from www.occultofpersonality.com Jake Kotze, of The Brave New World Order, joins us to discuss his work. Jake delves into research that shows the connections between occult and esoteric symbolism, current events, movies and television, and how these connections can be used to learn more about our world and ourselves. It is always a pleasure speaking with Jake, and a learning experience as well. We discuss his video production, synchromysticism, and, of course, 9-11. Be sure to check out all his latest videos and research on his web site - The Brave New World Order. relevant links: The Brave New World Order Jake’s videos on YouTube “Jake Kotze, Synchromystic Magician” “Occult of Personality Podcast 1 - Jake Kotze”

clipped from www.occultofpersonality.com Welcome to the Rt. Rev. T Allen Greenfield, who joins us to discuss one of his books, “Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts.” The book describes the cipher, its use throughout history, its discovery in Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law), and how Allen found it could be utilized in instances of UFO contact to derive meaning from the odd names the entities provided. The discovery of the cipher and its usage opens up a very likely “missing link” bridging the understanding between the worlds of spiritual and magick occult concepts and the entities from UFOs, contactees, and Men In Black. This linkage is key to truly comprehending the hidden realms that seem to impose themselves upon on our world with regularity. Thanks so much to Dr. Greenfield for taking time to join us to discuss his controversial research!

clipped from www.occultofpersonality.com Todd Campbell is an eso-researcher who writes a blog entitled, “Through the Looking Glass.” He joins us to discuss the historical events that have occurred on, or around, the date of April 19. Todd synchromystically connects many of these modern occurrences with mythology, resulting in some interesting symbolical resonances. Specifically, he refers to the goddess Ceres and the Roman festival of Cerelia in relation to current events. We get into discussing the Virginia Tech massacre, this being a perfect illustration of the type of unsettling and often violent history of these days of the year. Due to some extreme audio problems at the start of our conversation, I was forced to excise a portion, resulting in a rather abrupt beginning. As the dialogue opens, Todd and I are discussing author William S. Burroughs and how his view of the universe spoke deeply to Todd and his own feelings about the present and future of our world.

Angela V. Michaels is a writer and eso-researcher who focuses on spirituality and becoming more spiritually aware in a world that poses the challenges that our’s does. By centering her philosophies on Lao Tzu’s ancient Tao Te Ching, the work is part of an eastern mystical tradition that is very enjoyable and useful. Her book, Surfing the Tao, A Revolution of Free Will is a fantastic combination of practical spirituality and historical research.

I was prompted to contact Angela after reading her excellent article entitled, “2012 Hype?” She addresses a number of subjects surrounding the 2012 phenomenon including the explosion of activity encompassing it and touches on the history of eschatalogical predictions. In order to get a bit more in depth from someone who has spent a lot of time focusing on just these types of issues, I asked Angela to join in a brief Q & A about 2012.

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I’m very pleased to introduce Synkronos23 (http://synkronos23.vox.com/). She’s a truthseeker and researcher of many, if not all, the same topics that you are familiar with - the occult, astrology, ancient civilizations, the origins of religion (astrotheology), magick, secret societies, and conspiracy. Her knowledge of the material, both academic and experiential, is noteworthy. Join us for a discussion of classical occult concepts and their relationship to the modern aeon.

In this episode, we discuss some of her recent articles, including ancient Egyptian Mystery initiation (Setian Consciousness), the pervasive symbolism of Columbia, and mainly, Aleister Crowley and “The Crowley Conspiracy.”

Thanks Synkronos23!

The movie "The Secret" has made quite a splash. It is being promoted by some of the most mainstream media entities ever created. There has also been quite a bit of praise for it in alternative press as well. IMO, it is time for another take on this cinematic chicanery. Thankfully, Stuart Davis provides it in an article he recently wrote -- "The Secret - The Spirituality of Narcissism."

Here is an excerpt from the end of the article, summing it up quite nicely:

Rhonda Byrne's Secret is bad Self-Help masquerading as mysticism. Broadly, "spirituality" can mean anything. So when we say spirituality, what level of spirituality are we talking about? What altitude of awareness are we coming from, what level of "spirit" are we referring to? I'm not saying The Secret is not spiritual. I'm saying it's a very low-level of spirituality masquerading as a high one. What it uses as enticements (become wealthy, get a better job, get a lover) are very telling. It is appealing to a person's desire to attain, acheive, and better their personal station. It is promising you a better STORY. And that is indeed one altitude of spirituality. But it's the bottom, and inflating it can end up keeping people stuck in the cycle of suffering even longer. Because the self is addicted to its STORY. The Self is the end of all stories.

Now contrast The Secret with The Mystery. The Mystery, to me, includes all four domains (inner, outer, individual, collective) and does not privilege one over the other. It engages them as tetra-arising. It includes them as inextricably inter-woven, yet distinct in important ways. The Mystery includes every altitude in every domain, and values each of them, but also understand their differences. The Mystery includes every methodology, every ontology or Way of Knowing, but it also understands what they do, and what they don't do. The Secret is but a method, and it will not set you free from The Story. In fact, it will probably suck you deeper into it. It promises money, power, increased attraction, and tells you it is "spiritual" practice. Your story could become so comfortable, why would you ever forfeit it?

Here is an important question: What level of YOU wants to get rich? What altitude of YOU wants a new house, a better lover, an improved Story?

Here's what I feel is a healthier approach. Use the right tool for the right job. The right decoy for the right level. I think it is GOOD to improve our financial station. I think it is GOOD to have an exciting love life. That's why I have a financial advisor. That's why I see a therapist. I need to work on my self. I want to improve my relative reality. But I don't need to invoke "the Universe" or quantum mechanics or magical-narcissistic mysticism to do so. That's tremendously misguided. Want to find your Self? See Swami Sally. Want to get a new house? A better blow job? See Suze Ormon and Dr Ruth. Stop it with this Secret delusion. It's offensive and detrimental to our work in the Mystery.

Perhaps worst of all, until we are truly FREE -free from the Source of Suffering, free from desire, clutching, the assault of our false identities and all their Stories- until we are that FREE, we cannot really be available to help others become FREE. And that my friends, is the hokey pokey.

The purpose of this book is to explore the ways and means that human beings have been persuaded to believe deceptions about who we are, what we are and where we came from. We are not the ne'er do wells we are continually told we are. Evil is not a natural human trait. We are blessed beings otherwise we would not have been chosen to be the guardians of Creation's most beautiful garden.

Have you ever read a book that spoke to you in such a way that you weren't so much reading it, but re-reading it? Having not ever encountered it before, it was strange that a book I'd never read seemed so familiar. I am lead to believe it is because the information imparted within comes from an ancient place. Researcher, writer, truth seeker, and seer Ellis Taylor reveals some very important information that has been long forgotten - until now. The subjects of numerology, symbolism, etymology, mythology, and cosmology are treated reverently, but not in a heavy or overbearing way. In fact, both while and after reading In These Signs Conquer, I felt a very serene, peaceful feeling settle deep within me. Again, this is something I haven't often encountered with the written word. Taylor has turned in a masterful tome that will raise your spirit and enlighten your mind.

It is also interesting that throughout the book, Taylor describes a spiritual battle that continues to take place both within and all around us. This ancient occult blood feud is a meta-theme through which to view the world and its history. This journey takes the reader from the farthest reaches of our solar system to the deepest recesses of their own soul. Yet another distinctive feature of this book, and Taylor's work in general, is that it does not come to any conclusions. He simply tells the story with the relevant facts without trying to convince. This tends to open up space for the reader to decide what, if anything, to believe. If nothing else, the information presented here is worthwhile because it is so thought provoking. I cannot recommend Ellis Taylor's In These Signs Conquer: Revealing The Secret Signs An Age Has Obscured highly enough. Check it out and I think you'll agree.

Ellis Taylor was kind enough to sit down for an interview about his book, work, and life. Considering just how phenomenal and rare this all is, you're in for quite a treat. So settle back in your chair and get ready...

What is the main purpose and intention of your work?

These are actually much bigger questions than they appear to be at first and they are ones that I cannot answer fully at this time.

There have been several stages in my life where I thought, ‘Yes, this is it! This is what it has all been for and this is why I am here’ - only to discover that I had merely taken another step on a long, often hazardous and strange, journey. A journey that has encompassed many, many lifetimes, I should add. But then, I am not by any means unique in this. I think that every one of us have similar pass-ages, though with different purposes… and inevitably, experiences, of course.

It seems, if I understand correctly, that most souls’ assignments are designed to complete and converge at an ultimate juncture, predestined if you like, but not necessarily at the same time as every other.  Of course, part of the responsibility of every soul is to inspire every other but amongst the souls who influence this reality some have a distinct responsibility to trigger in myriad ways the dormant (or suppressed) aptitudes that are present in every human being. It appears that I am one of the latter.

A significant truth that current convention does not understand yet is that we catalysts have by necessity a less retentive mind compared to everyone else. We are channels, fashioned to facilitate the free flow of information as it arrives. If we were to store everything we perceived the ensuing dam would prevent us from doing what we are equipped, and intended, to do. It is an important explanation for why seers et al rarely excel in school exams - and why they often decline or perform poorly when asked to conform to strictures or repeat data at a later date. In fact anything that may be considered materially valuable is a hindrance because along with that ownership comes responsibility for them, and a focus on that, and these concerns build their own dam. Having said that, Creation, in order to bring about some balance and sense, has recently been introducing new souls who are endowed with the ability to walk in both worlds more efficiently. I often see similarities with the state or progress of human consciousness and the advances of computer technology; an analogy can be made with the recent introduction of dual-core processors.

I have conscious recollections of a number of my past lives (and deaths). Not once have I died a natural death (from old age). I have been a priest (several times), a soldier, a prince (in Scotland), a student (in London), a white woman (in Africa) and many times I never survived my childhood. I had three lives in the 20^th century including this one. Some of the details of my memories I have been able to verify to my satisfaction.

Something else that has always accompanied my incarnations is a propensity to slip between worlds and participate with the beings that inhabit them. It is rarely something I have made any conscious efforts to do. For me they just happen; and on occasions they have been downright terrifying - at the time that is.  For some reason I recover from the trauma immediately but unfortunately my memories of them are scant. They told me once, ‘We do not understand why you are so frightened.’ Well, if they’d have been just lying in bed reading and strange beings came and launched them through a window and took them to God knows where then returned them with drawings and scars on their bodies and feeling like they’d been run over by a truck I think they’d understand. They do try to soothe me though, bless ‘em. ‘Peace. No harm,’ they’ll say.

I’m a natural medium as well and it is something that I feel I would like to do more of. No end of spirits have appeared to me with messages or sometimes just wanting me to tell whoever I am with that they are there. I love that. One of the really profound things about this for me is that they are usually immediately corroborated so provide both comfort and substantial proof of continued life after death.

These kinds of things are what give me my knowing, not my belief, in the afterlife and other worlds and entities. Their unequivocal reality inevitably enhances and informs my life, my perceptions, my understandings, my views, my research and my writing. There is so much that I just know but I can’t explain. So many things that I have always taken for granted and been surprised are not common knowledge. I have always talked about my experiences. It never occurred to me that they were unusual and it wasn’t until I started to go public in the media that I encountered any hostility. It pissed me off but not for long. Wisdom is never dictated to by ignorance. 

So, after wandering away from the question perhaps, I suppose I could say that the main purpose and intention of my work is twofold but concurrent. They are to present fresh ideas to demonstrate how intricately linked we all are to everything else, to show what a truly awesome privilege this experience called ‘life’ is; and to reawaken our knowledge of how exceptionally gifted we humans are.

For the few - but encouragingly growing in number - who are astute enough to recognise the meanings in the often very deep messages I relay it hopefully inspires them to recognise their own connections. I unconsciously (and often intentionally) use vocabulary that can be understood at different levels; most all of them being relative to the subject. I think it is to impart more information than language alone can communicate. To efficiently understand what someone is saying (or not saying) it is vital to employ every sense we have while listening and/or watching them, or reading what they have to say.

It is encouraging for me when readers of my work tell me that they have felt obliged to reread something at a later date and having done that grasped a deeper and sometimes entirely different perspective than they had done the first time. I do acknowledge that nearly everything I write is inspired so for me to say ‘I wrote something’ or ‘my work’ is not entirely correct. I also accept that many people through past and present societal and personal environmental circumstances are sadly incapable of seeing at the moment. But then, that is the great thing about books. They have an enduring potential that the internet is unlikely to ever have and because of this their messages remain available for many years. The net is an alarmingly vulnerable medium.

I always aim to leave readers with questions and hopefully more than they had before they started. I do not consider it possible to provide answers to the meaning of life etc because there are none really, and certainly not ones that apply to everyone. There are only questions – quest-i-(am) on. The meaning of one’s life, even life, will always be a question. Life is the greatest mystery (my-story), so it is a personal journey and many aspects of it may, and will be specific and meaningful to one person or just one particular path.

 

For all those unfamiliar, would you please define Albion and its significance?

Albion is an anciently used name for the British Isles and although a Latin dub it derives from their word alba meaning ‘white’ and thus segues well with the earlier Celtic names such as Alba or Albany (Scotland) and Yr Alban (Wales), which also mean ‘white’. What ‘The Isles’ were known as prior to this is a mystery but there is an intriguing hint deemed to us.

A 2,500-year-old merchants’ book, the Massaliot Periplus used by traders from Phoenicia and Tartessus (in Iberia) calls Albion ‘Ierne’. Unfortunately the book exists no more but a Roman poet copied extracts from it in the 4^th century. This ancient name accords very well with the remote name for Ireland – Eriu or Erin; a name that means ‘peace’.

Place names deriving from ‘white’ abound throughout ‘The Isles’ and together with the Welsh and Scottish names make a nonsense of the theory that Albion is named after the white cliffs of Dover. Clearly there must be a far more pervasive reason why the early occupants of these lands associated them with ‘white’. It is clear to everyone that the earliest inhabitants of ‘The Isles’ had an intense spiritual connection to their environment so I would suggest that rather than going for the bleedin’ obvious (the white cliffs of Dover) we instead examine what it is that the colour ‘white’ traditionally represents. White is associated with grace, spirituality, peace, reflection, nurturing, brightness, purity, virtue, and innocence. And then ‘white’ is not one colour at all but the sum of all of the colours in the visible spectrum. It is a description of the true Goddess, the hidden white of the inner light – intuition and imagination. It makes sense to me that the Ancients of these lands called out to the world, “The Goddess lives here!” 

Throughout, the landscape, names and iconography of ‘The Isles’ are references to white, peace and very revealingly, the Goddess. She might go by various names but they are only descriptions of aspects of her character as the Ancients saw them or later lingual and cultural changes (mostly) by invading blow-ins. The name itself, is born from the great Goddess known variously as Bride, Brigit and Bridget. From this we get Britannia. Until recently Britannia graced the reverse of our penny coins, our coppers, a metal associated with the goddess Venus. This familiar portrayal of Britannia is intriguingly reminiscent of the shape of mainland Britain. Indeed the premier river of England, the Thames, is alternatively called ‘The Isis (I-siss, Venus). The Goddess, who she is and how she has been portrayed are major themes in my book, ‘In These Signs Conquer ~ Revealing the secret signs an Age has obscured’.  And she is rising once more in the hearts and minds of humankind across the globe because now, more than we have for a very long time, we need Her. She is the natural counterbalance to the gross, materialistic view and agenda that currently assaults every facet of our lives.

This acknowledgement of the power of our Goddess, and the attendant devotion to what it is that she represents, has always been, and still is, wrought with danger. Only courage and a true heart will succeed. The Seige Perilous is unforgiving but it offers itself to us all. And, do you know, we can all take up that seat, we can do it. We, every one of us have it in us to be Galahad. (emphasis mine - OoP)

There have been many who have taken up the challenge and they include da Vinci and the even more remarkable (in my view) Francis Bacon. One person I haven’t mentioned much, but perhaps should have done more, was the visionary poet and artist William Blake who left us a wealth of clues to our travails, our heritage and our destiny. One line in his poem, 'Jerusalem' conveys this significant message:

'All things begin and end in Albion's ancient, Druid rocky shore'.

I have lived in or near Oxford in for most of my life and from my observations it is now clear to me why this has been so. This ancient city built on books; to where the greatest minds amongst humankind (I don’t mean me in case you’re wondering) have been drawn and dispersed, for 800 years, is presumed to be the symbolic womb of the Earth. At Oxford the River Cherwell (Spring of Love) and The River Isis (Thames) meet and then flow down through London and into the North Sea between the counties of Essex and Kent. The latter county name, Kent, the Garden of England, being derived from the same root as (avert thine eyes if you can’t take the truth) cunt. And this is very telling because the mouth of the Thames is the vulva of the Goddess, the river itself is the birth canal and the swollen land mass of East Anglia, her belly.  To cut a long story short, Oxford is deemed to be where the New Age will be conceived in an anciently conceived plan.

Long ago Carfax (meaning four ways – or the force of four) in the centre of Oxford was promoted as ‘the geographical centre of England’. This was because Merlin had said that Oxford was the centre of Albion but what he meant was that the lands upon which Oxford sits are the spiritual heart of Albion. In those days this was a landscape of marsh, islands and networks of streams – the mists of Albion, so sacred that no buildings were allowed. T’was here that Merlin told of two dragons that fought out of sight (under ground). Yet again he was misinterpreted over centuries of retelling. One was a white dragon and the other a red dragon. In the Welsh Mabinogion it is said that Llud discovered them under Carfax and took them back to Wales. But this teaching applied not to real creatures but to the white dragon of the Isles, the Goddess, to imagination and inspiration and the fateful assault by the red dragon of the Darkness, materiality, ego, greed and intellectualism. It was a prescient warning of the coming of the Piscean Age and what not only Oxford and Albion were to suffer (and apparently condone and nurture) but the world too. As Blake said, 'All things begin and end in Albion's ancient, Druid rocky shore'.

Your insights about numerology are astounding to me. Are these things obvious to you, do you have to work at it, or the process something altogether different?

Throughout my life I have had countless experiences that have not fitted with the decreed doctrine of reality. I’d always just taken them for granted, accepted them and not given them any deep consideration. This all changed in the early 90s when I had a Damascus moment which, looking back, catapulted me into the work I am doing now. Following this, instead of the steady stream of supernatural events I was used to I was all of a sudden engulfed in them. I was being made to recognise and appreciate true reality instead of wandering about in the somnambulist state I