" That truth did no come naked into this world, but it came in types and images. One will not receive truth in any other way... The bridegroom must enter through the image into the truth." .
Christ from the Gospel of Saint PhilipSources
Sufism.
Is now mostly to be seen within the Muslim
world, but it was not all ways as such. Nor
does it even to this day behold Islam as the
only way, but merely its cloak worn for shelter
in its present environment. Sufism sees no distinction
between the religions, but merely shadows to
gain in roads to higher reasoning. As such major
teachers have been Jews and it can be said the
head Sufi of all is Christ. They chiefly employ
stories to resonate deep into the unconscious
mind to bring out many meanings on various levels
upon seemingly contradictory events in their
fables. But, they have been known to employ
joy through dance, music, and clowning. The
Christi tended to wander Spain and throughout
Europe in the robes of Jester where some believe
the profession comes from. The twin brother
of the King is the fool. So they do not begin
or end within the mystical traditions of Islam.
They are the Merlin's of the British Isle, Cabalaists
of Canna, or the Mel Brooks of Hollywood.
What Sufism does is teach people
the path to the truth. They tend to use a primitive
version of the Myers Brigg exam to evaluate
the type a person who is seeking knowledge and
the best way to bring about that students enlightenment.
So their are many schools or methods to bring
this about depending on the disposition and
readiness of the student. One of the first things
they do is try to teach people the need to understand
how to learn. Then while they are doing this
they need to hint at the fact that there is
more to learn after that. There is a path for
everyone and the trick is to find the right
one for everyone. But they are limited to the
fact that you may lead a horse to water but
you can not make him drink
.
Carl Gustav Jung was one of
Freud's greatest students, who was called to
give a speech at his eightieth birthday party
in which he went on for an hour about how Freud
had got everything wrong. In a world that was
predominated with the scientific, Jung brought
the world back to the realm of the ancient druids
and shamans of the primitive world For in this
world he had seen the imagery of the great cathedrals,
and the signs and symbols of the worlds religion
and myth arise from the same source deep within
the unconscious mind. Through the analysis of
dreams and the study of the ancients he was
able to make correlation's between the two.
The levels of mental activity are Consciousness,
thoughts and actions controlled by the will;
preconscious memories or skills that can be
readily brought up for use; Personal unconsciousness,
a vast reservoir of repressed feeling distant
memories, or perceptions that move to the surface
in form of dreams or flash recollections. Than
deeper than all of them is the collective unconsciousness,
is where the seat of the instinctive symbolism
created by millennia's of human experience shaped
into what we now know as our emotions and values.
These take on the form of what he calls archetypes.
In keeping the psyche happy he had called for
the healthy balance of the two alpha and omega
states of the mind. To keep mastery equating
to sympathy or emotion to thought. By using
symbols or word association he would have people
focus on them until some hidden doorway opened
for them and to continue to focus on them as
more and more symbols unlock more doors that
brought about an resolution to their dilemma's.
Fairy
Tales and Myths.
As the Brothers Grimm traveled
the world as translators of dead languages,
they realized that stories from distant cultures
kept coming up in others. They seemed to only
change their clothes to fit the generation or
culture that they were talking to. This has
led Joseph Campbell to see that Star wars is
the modern day translation of a story stemming
back through the ages starting from before the
Nibelungenlied, to Sigmund the Dragon Slayer,
to King Arthur, to the Grail romances, to Wagner's
Ring Cycle, and to the Lord of the Ring. This
he called the hero cycle. There is also the
fairy tales that express psychological development
of children or the lack of it arising from suppressed
trauma at particular ages. A woman in her book
The Woman who runs with the wolf, She chronicles
these stories and breaks them down into their
archetypes. She shows how these images are expressed
through the world and were brought to together
as healing stories. As with Sufism, some times
it is easier to address an issue if you take
the subject out of its defensive nonobjective
state and create a fairy tale character for
them. Then those blockades and short fallings
can be addressed without the person closing
down into the realm of guilt and shame. In much
the same way Christ talked through parables
to those whose ears might of been closed to
him otherwise. In Pinkola-Estes book, she takes
the example of Blue Beard. The heroine of the
tale is one of three daughters and two sons.
Her father and brothers are taken away to fight
the war when she was at an earlier age. Since
the good example of healthy male personality
is removed, she sees a man with a Blue beard
and is attracted to him who her older sisters
reject as repulsive because of the beard. They
had lived with their father and brothers for
many years before they went away. Even when
rumor's of Blue Beards mysterious disappearances
of his earlier wives hit this young girls ears
she does not hear. So she marries him and is
given the free run of his castle besides this
one room whose key she must hang from her apron.
Well when he leaves on business, guess what!
She opens the door to find all of his past wives
hanging from the walls. She runs out and tries
to hide the key that began to bleed. No matter
where she hides it, it is surely to be found
by the pool of blood that gives it away. Now
Pinkola-Estse says the room was the unconscious
that knows the mistake we have made and the
key is the fact that we can not deny it until
we open the door a little wider and deal with
the issues hanging from the walls. Now Blue
Beard now comes home to find the room breached
and now is after her to kill her. Now he takes
on the shadow side of a persons personality
that is the self destructive personality that
tries to help and is always getting the person
in trouble. If it is drinking under stress,
over eating on a hard day, or pushing away those
you love. It is the short term fixes that ask
you to pay them pack at high interest. Treating
the symptoms and not the disease. But she is
not saved until her brothers come back from
the war to meet their new in law that they hear
her screams and put an end to Blue Beard. Which
states it is never too late to have healthy
influence brought into your life to bring about
change.
Druids.
Native Americans and Tribal Societies.
These are cultures that were
dependent on teaching stories to explain their
environments and their lives. Also they had
highly developed rituals to go along with these
stories to help you through the periods of your
life. Most interesting were the rituals that
they used during the coming of age ceremonies
that marked the transition from childhood to
an active participating member of the tribe.
In these rituals there was a marked focus on
self introspection to find your path and place
in society. For the unruly, these rituals roped
in those who would be harmful to the society.
Sometimes these rituals would include physical
and mental tests of endurance to mark a strong
transition. Either sensory depravation or physical
pain, the ego is shaken to bring about a death
to the old states that are no longer useful
or harmful to future growth. The child was to
leave the world of the mother for that of the
father. Either a man joined the hunt or the
woman seek a man to replace their father in
their life. It was a time for both to gain a
trade or position. A time to become able to
be independent of thought and action, along
with the responsibilities it entailed. Also
they had no compunction about removing leaders
that seemed to be harmful or selfish. The tribes
raised each other within a community throughout
their lives.
Is the same as the food chain
in environmental studies. It is a flow chart
with basic principles that can be applied to
anything. It is the understanding that a fully
competent doctor can become an ace mechanic
It is the same process from intake, to combustion,
and out to the exhaust. In a simple description.
It is a diagram with ten spheres called seriaphs
divided into four triangles. Each triangle represents
the letters of God, YHWH. The first triangle
consists of a trinity. Kether is the original
at the crown. Binah is to the left, it is the
differentiated reflection. The introspection.
Chokham is to the right and is the wisdom that
knows the reflection is the same as the original.
They are the source, the conserver, and destroyer.
Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva. This triangle is the
original, the Y. The next one is inverted. This
is the H, it is only a reflection of the first.
W is a copy of the second, with the second H
as a copy of a copy. Y is the place of the idea.
H is that of planning. W is that of building.
The second H is that of putting the idea to
use. From God, to archangels, cherubs, and finishing
with us in our world. These four are the systems
and its parts are the organs. It brings everything
down to a stem idea. It is reverse engineering
at its best.
Gnostics.
Is the study of comparative
religions stemming out of Zoriastorism into
Platonics, Egyptian , Hindu, Judaic, Christian,
and Muslim traditions. The Essene community
during the time of Christ was in Gnostic thinking.
Gnostic means self knowledge. They put influence
on the fact that any one can access god on their
own without an intermediary such as a priest.
They have been the ones who wrote the Dead Sea
Scrolls and the Nag Hamadi ones as well in Egypt.
They are the mystics, Sufi, Essene, or Mason.
It is the study of finding the civilized religion
before the destruction of the Tower of Babel.
In which languages and ideas became, well, babbled!
The Gospels of Thomas, Mary, Barnabus, and James
are examples of Gnostic Christian books. Here
Christ is more portrayed as the way and not
the idol or God. For in them he says that he
and the stone are one. As well he is the son
of God as well the son of man. No different
then you! You just got to realize it for yourself!
Grail Stories.
Is stories stemming out of
even older teaching stories that center around
the Indo-European language. First being oral
traditions that stretched from Lithuania to
Ireland. These centered around the Hero Story.
A tale used to lead youths into adulthood. From
fool to hero. The first major work was the Nibelungenlied.
This became the Volsung Saga with Siegfried
the dragon slayer. Later years it would become
the Ring Saga and then Tolkien's Lord of the
Rings series in one branch. Another branch stemming
out of the bardic oral stories of England was
the Arthurian cycle. Around the Twelve Hundreds
this branch was reinvented for the audiences
of the day as the Romances of the Grail. Chriatien
was the first major source from France that
remained unfinished to be topped off by the
German Eschebach. It was a time that the west
was invading the east during the crusades as
science, spices, literature, and religion was
making an influx into Europe. It was colored
by the Knights Templars' and read within the
courts of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Eleanor being
one of the major sponsors. These were stories
about a youth who has to go through what he
has been taught as a youth and realize which
was the truth and which was harmful for his
growth into an adult. He is to find his trade
in society. Marry the right woman after meeting
the wrong ones. Acquire rank and privilege.
Gain compassion and to think for himself. To
acquire Christ consciousness. These were stories
for us to follow through our life. Just colored
with the local flavoring of the time. In the
twelve Hundreds the stories had to contain allot
of pageants and jousting because that was cool
then. In the seventies it was space ships and
aliens as it was retold for our generation in
Star Wars. Just another story from the Great
Man.
Alchemy.
The precursor to our modern
chemistry and distillation process. In another
words, they invented alcohol! Have a McKewans
on me, Aye! Newton was even one. But what is
mostly ignored is the physical manifestation
of their practice was secondary. As so many
Kings were disappointed when they found out.
For turning lead into Gold was only a metaphor.
Yes they tried to turn it physically, but this
was only used to illustrate the principles through
Cabala how to turn the lead of your soul into
Gold. This practice stretched from China to
England. Their language was secretive. It was
the language of birds. They lived in solitude
to avoid hungry kings. Their art was highly
symbolic for secrecy but also they knew that
sometimes pictorial references sunk deeper into
the mind without the tangles of words. Each
chemical process they used had a corresponding
emotional one to lead. They searched for the
philosopher's stone. Some said the stone was
an elixir for life, the way to gold, or the
grail. But it was all of them, and none!
Shamanism.
Is the art of leading one out
of an outdated reality into the next. It is
bringing one out of the box. It is removing
one from the old world and its restrictions.
It is removing old demons that prevent growth.
It is building the constructs needed for creating
a new world for ones self. It is the dismantling
of your psyche. It is the study of alter realities.
It is the study of your potential. It is making
your potentials realities. It is pruning the
plant for new life. It is practice throughout
the world where tribal societies still dominate
over civilization. It holds a strong link to
the natural and animal world, often mimicking
them in its rituals. They are the ones that
bring respect to the land so it still sustains
us.
Comparative Mythology.
Started this century by the
Brothers Brim as they traveled the world translating
Sanskrit and other languages into German. They
realized that the same tales were being told
from country to country. Only the names changed,
but not the story. Then Frazier came forth with
his Golden Bough. In the Occult circles Madam
Blatsky came out with her Isis Revealed. The
major player of the last century was the Late
Joseph Campbell. He researched everything from
man's first burial and his worship in bear caves
to modern authors recreating or inventing myths.
He found myths more important than historical
accuracy. Seeing the historical aspect getting
in the way of the transformation principles.
Tribal religions and their counter parts of
civilization. He became the historian and mediator
for a middle path in our lives. Much has been
gained by many by his studies. He is the leading
proponent of finding the lost one religion and
the original that spawned it.
Intuition.
An art that is gained at birth
and fostered by logic. An art soon lost if logic
conflicts it. If a mother is stressful during
pregnancy, it sends stress hormones and discomfort
to the fetus. For survival upon birth the infant
wants to be removed from what has caused it
such stress. But is soon told by its logic that
the source of its stress, is what is going to
sustain its life. In pregnancies without stress,
it is what tells the infant to search out for
the nipple. It is what tells the sea turtles
to book it for the ocean before the birds they
never saw before eat them. It is the house kept
chick on Easter ducking from Grandpa's shadow
coming down the stairs, who never seen a hawk.
It is our ability to find someone in town we
have not seen in a week. The ability to know
who is on the other side of the phone line.
It is what tells us to pet this dog and run
from the other. It is the knowledge gained from
beyond ourselves. It is often confused with
fear and repercussion, but it is never either
one. It is listening to your voice. It
is what tells you to trust, and when not to.
It is what rings in your head when the truth
is found.
25 Years.
I have spent the last fifteen
years listening and reading from life. It all
started when my friend Cindy needed someone
in fifth grade to help her get through a break
up and avoid getting into another abusive situation.
This skill then was applied from friend to friend
up to today. I listen, justify, bring comfort,
reassure, deliver joy, correct where needed,
and push you toward change. There is never any
judgment. But only a need to contain the harm
until change can happen. People over the years
just have been gravitated towards me for compassion,
friendship, and justification. The hard part
they find is change I advise though, but all
in your own time. My knowledge comes from life
and having a job in my past that gave me lots
and lots of time to read. From History, religion,
mythology, psychology, popular movies and literature,
art, music and dance I have experienced the
many sides of humanity and listened to us about
what it is. The good, the bad, and the ugly.
My job is just to find the right semiotics to
interpret what the Holy Spirit advises me to
explain to you. It is a gift that resides out
of myself as much as within. It is the removal
of the self without fear of loosing it in the
help of others. The way of the spiritual warrior
of Scandinavia, the more you have to offer,
the more you can give.
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