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2012… and more tidbits.

Doug C — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:12:57 +0000

Like I said earlier, intuition is one of the gifts given to humanity. This isn’t to say other races/people/beings don’t ahve it, but it’s one of the gifts we got, and we should use it.

I definitely think a sense of humor, a light hearted appreciation of irony, sarcasm, contrast, etc is key. I consider myself a realist, but I am a humor-minded realist with optimistic goals. Basically, i try to see things how they are, but I try not to let whatever I see get me down. And in the end I may be thinking optimistically about what I want to get done, but being a humor-able realist I don’t let my failures get me down, I jsut try harder. What I really meant was, don’t get used to doing drugs to find the answers, or you may find a dependency, or at the very least a weakened capacity for realization when not high. You know?

Although it is generally agreed that beings on the astral plane aren’t necessarily higher then us on the evolutionary ladder, the environmental constructs of the plane itself allow for a more capable being to exist. Basically, the laws that govern the activity on that plane are less hindering to a “spirit guide” or “god” as we perceive them from the material plane, and thus the astral plane and the two higher are generally where the more powerful, god-like beings live. It’s agreed as well that while many astral residents are native to the plane, many are ascended from lower planes, so hindu gods being ascended material-plane dwellers is entirely possible.

I don’t know where you(my friend being discussed with) got that higher vibration reference but that is exactly how many occultists describe it. Higher vibration, higher plane, lower vibration, lower plane. So if that was just a word you thought up, you must be channeling some serious background knowledge.

The Mayan calendar also notes, by the one you sent, that it will be the end of space/time. But that is likely an interpretation. I would assume based on what you’ve said and what I briefly researched, that 2012 is going to be something more of an awakening/ascension/realization/turning point/etc. This is not to say it won’t be crazy or catastrophic, but I don’t think it’s a blatant end to things.

Example situation that I am making up: what if 2012 there is a huge flux in the Force Plane and human beings are given a huge jump start in their capacity to manipulate forces/access the astral plane/etc. Those that are educated and learned will ascend with this new found power and leave their physical body behind, taking up permanent residence in the astral plane. Those that are apt but not educated will partially ascend, finding themselves able to traverse the astral plane, and eventually learn to move permanently. This huge flux of energy focii, in which a huge amount of human souls will no longer stay bound to their physical self, will cause a large imbalance in the energy flux of the material and force plane. This huge energy flux will result in floods, storms, climate change, auric energy imbalance and thus conflict, not to mention that the people left on the material plane will be left to deal with the fact that XXX # of people just “died”. It would be a madhouse.

Again, I made that up on the spot. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that energy/astral flow/ethereal mater is not straightforward to our understanding because we are trying to grasp the size of the continent without leaving colorado. Same thing with Taro Cards and runes and the like. If the cards suggest there is going to b e a big change in your life and someone new may come along, it could be anything from a baby to a stranger to a lover. you never know how the energy is going to shift in any given situation without divining it or really meditating and seeing the situation from as many angles as possible. Applying this life lesson I can only assume that “end of an age” could mean any number of things from apocalypse to ascension. I mean, shit, what if 2012 isn’t spectacular at all, what if 21st of december is simply the day that the human psyche is opened up. Imagine your mind is a room, you’re consciousness/awareness is a man in the room, your soul (or true self as I referenced in earlier emails) is the house (big big house). What if the 21st of December is simply the day that the door is unlocked and the man is allowed to explore the next room, or even the whole house? We, as in the all inclusive we, might not even notice. Sure the occult minded, the strong pagans, and highly spiritual will notice. The extremely intellectual might notice. But all that occurs is the doors are unlocked and we can explore more, grow, evolve, ascend if we are able, etc. What if 2012 is simply the start to the age that is going to resemble the starwars jedi, Hollywood witches. Characters like the x-men, the freemen from dune, etc. I sincerely believe we that these levels of existence were once obtainable and we lost them, but regardless, what if 2012 is simply the beginning to the next phase in our capacity, and the first few weeks, months, years of this next phase will hardly show any difference. All the naysayers will “I told you so” up a storm and all the hard-core spiritualists will realize they’re not so grounded anymore.

Basically, what I am saying, really, under this all is this: lets assume 2012 is either going to be utter disaster/Apocalypse and there’s not a thing you can do about it, or it’s nothing. This is the scope of potential we have right now. We also know there is very little, if anything, we can do about it. So instead of trying to figure out what it means, what’s going to happen, etc etc, why not prepare? If you prep yourself adequately, you might have much greater odds of survival. If right now, based on the scope of potential I threw out, you would only be able to survive in the lower 10% of outcomes. What could you achieve by preparing? 20%? 60%? What if you could become enlightened and capable enough to increase your survival rate to 90% and baring extreme chaos or apocalypse you would have a decent chance of survival.

I have always, in a way, seen life this way. My general outlook has been “I’m not going to worry about where I can go wrong and fail, because I can’t change it that way, but if I improve my person, I may reduce the potential for those failures”. Yeah I lose track of that at times, and yeah I still get wrapped up from time to time, but in general I have never really worried a ton about long term issues.

And I intend to do better. Instead of spending hours and hours researching 2012, I am going to simply assume that something will occur then, and that I have 3 years to prepare. I am going to focus my efforts in herbalism, astral-understanding/projection/vision/travel, ethereal manipulation/energy, and aura control/manipulation/healing. I am going to keep up on my martial arts and my self defense/combat training be it medieval, martial, or modern weapons. I am going to get better at building, farming, riding, tracking, hunting. I am going to learn more about meditation and keep up my studies to keep my mind sharp. I am going to do these things with this outlook: “either I have 3 years to get as prepared for anything as I can, or I am going to get to the end of this 3 years, and nothing will happen, and I will be that much more capable of a human being”.

Neo-Pagans: Further discussion

Doug C — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:08:33 +0000

I promise these email excerpts will end as soon as I get caught up;)

I wanted to clarify what I meant by neo-pagan being fluffy. It’s not that it’s wrong. They’re getting the same vibes that the rest of us are, but it’s how they go about it. The Mind controls the Body and Both are subservient to the Soul. Thus, when you have two thirds controlled by one third, you really need to be aware of what is happening. Examples I can think of on the top of my head: Astral Colors and Magnetism/Healing. If you don’t know about these, look up and read stuff on the Human Aura, Astral Colors, Human Magnetism, Thought Forms, The Prana Aura, etc.

So basically as far as my studies go, the human Aura is the field of energy around us that exists on the ethereal/astral/psychological level. It represents and in fact IS the projection of our moods, emotions, feelings, health, etc. The colors that it takes on are universal and represent specific states of being, happy, sad, sick, angry, etc. The colors also correspond to the physical realm, which is a duh, because the entire universe is in sync. So for example, the green hues of the grass and leaves on trees are calming and relaxing and soothing. If you aren’t sure you agree, picture a green field with a tree in the middle with lush green leaves. Now focus on this image very hard, and at the same time try to conjure anger/frustration/restlessness. If you’re strong willed/spirited/minded you probably can simultaneously do this, though more often then not you’re thinking back and forth like a pendulum, one second seeing the tree, then being angry, then the tree. But if you’re really linking to these colors and emotions, you will find that the colors sort of negate the fabricated anger. Anyways, point is, the colors have specific values. Human Magnetism as a healing art is the use of auric vibrations and astral colors to heal others/self. Basically, you stand with the patient, set your mind to the moods/healing/thoughts you want to impress on the patient, and the vibrations will hit their aura and produce a cause and effect situation. Now for added strength, and in fact a more complete magnetism healing, you think of the colors you wish your aura to be and impress upon the other person. If you want to cool and soothe them, you think on rich clear blues, if you want them to be stimulated you think on bright reds and then vibrant yellows.

Second example: the human body, just as any organism I’d venture to say, is the linking battery to the aura. Without the body the aura has no anchor/battery/source/fuel. This is not to say that the astral plane is not filled with entities and forces not linked to physical organisms, and this is not to say humans cannot transcend into an astral being and leave the body, but as a rule, the human aura requires a human body/person to link it. When you use energy you produce karma, consume energy, and expend astral material which must be recharged and refueled. It’s not that hard to refuel. A little rest. concentration/meditation on white astral colors, etc, but you have to do it or you get warn out. The body/aura will go into a sort of auto-preservation, which manifests as the human form requiring rest and “crashing” so that in an unconscious state the aura can regain energy without the impediment of an uneducated/immature human mind continuously sucking energy from it. Furthermore, you can’t fabricate something from nothing. You can’t create thought forms without a source aura, and you can’t project wishes and desires and positive occurrences without obtaining the energy from somewhere. In most cases this is from the self-battery. In other cases, even if unintentionally, this can be drawn from the environment and from other auras.

I do not define the modern pagan groups as a whole as “neo-pagans”. Sort of how whereas the common definition of religion is “a group of people practicing a faith together as one body”, I define it as “the dictation of a faith being created by a select few, and then forced/coerced/guilted/brainwashed/pressed upon a population, often times in subversive means”.
Neo pagan, and I should have clarified this, to me, is the portion of the new-age pagan group that does not practice holistically. Yes, intuition should guide you, intuition should direct what you believe and don’t. But neo pagans are the people that, knowing what I said about astral colors and magnetism try to practice without regard for the colors, or without regard for recharging themselves after. They’re the types that press and press and press and send their will out with no regard for the effects, no regard for the source of energy, and little consideration to the direction/force/capacity of these thought forms despite sending great amount of effort/energy into them. It’s like loading a black powder rifle and not measuring or even watching how much black powder you put in. The people that learn about casting intention spells (not sure a better word for this) where they are trying to obtain something and cast this spell with no regard for creating direction or limitations on it. They want a dog, so they cast an intention spell as strong as they can and with no real motive implanted, and then a week later their grandma dies and they get her dog, or someone’s dog runs away to their house and a little girl cries herself to sleep for two months. As per the second example, these are the people that shoot energy out in all directions with no regard for why or what. They burn down their battery and then, without even realizing it because they never took the care to learn or figure it out, suck energy from people and entities around them. I call those types astral vampires. Intentional or not, they still suck the life out of people. These are the types that want all the benefits and rewards with none of the prep-work, or effort, or study. They want to use the tool before asking what all the unlabeled buttons do.

Third, these are the type that do it not because they have a sincere calling. Maybe they were drawn to it initially but now it’s just a trend. Example: I was in a hippie head shop in Eugene. We walked in and the girl behind the counter said hello and then without any preface “There’s a lot of oppression in the air lately. Everyone is walking around with, like, desperation and in a hurry. I think I’m going to sage the room”. We nodded and smiled and kept looking around and again, “It’s just, like, everyone is frazzled and they keep bringing in their sad energies and it’s making the store really unhappy, I’m going to sage the room”. She gets some sage, lights it, and walks around, sort of half talking, half mumbling to us about “so heavy and oppressive. I feel, like, much better now. I can feel it lifting”.

Now granted, she has a sense of the current trends and motivators. She is possibly even driven by them. She might have the capacity to direct energy (but I sure didn’t feel it) and she chose to use sage to clear the room, which is a decent choice to start. But she had to announce it, like some sort of badly written script for an informational video on Wicca. She had to get affirmation from us, and she was intentionally pointing out all these energies she was feeling before dealing with them. And she had to find clique words like “sage” as a verb and desperation. “there is a desperation in the air” loses it’s strength, sincerity, and validity when changed to “there is, like, a desperation in the air”. She is trying to speak with a vocabulary and understanding above her actual one.

I see this as shallow pagan. It’s based in the same place, but she is doing it to be trendy. “Look at me, I work in a hippy store and know how to clear a room of energy”. She had to make sure we knew she was talking about something occult to get a reaction. If it had been me, or any number of people I consider traditional-pagans. They would have sensed it, dealt with it, and moved on, cleared the room, energized it, and just smiled. If there had been two of us, someone more experienced and myself, I might have asked them what she would feel is best to deal with it, but mostly out of a learning/educational stance. Furthermore, I’d have burnt some sage to clear the room, pressed some cleansing energy into the space, and then once the sage smoke cleared, flushed the room and then burnt some nice uplifting incense, or lavender. Something to bring pep and energy back into it. You can’t clear a room and then expect it to stay clear. Energy flows into empty spaces if they’re not guarded or constructed.

So, sorry for the rant, but I just wanted to clarify. I am not saying you should disregard your intuition in favor of following the trends, that would by hypocritical and backwards. I am simply saying, know the full breadth of the subject you are investigating before assuming completion. Does your intuition tell you to shoot energy out without regard for the source of that energy? When put in front of a 16 ton earth mover with 8 levers controlling various motions and enough horsepower to crush a large house, knowing that the pedal controls the forward motion of the tracks, does your intuition tell you to jump in and drive around, not knowing what the other 8 levers do, or just exactly how to turn the thing and not run something over? The problem is that human beings are, as an average of the whole, not educated/aware/in tune with the astral/ethereal plane, it’s something that you’re either very adept with, are trained to know, or must study/meditate/research/learn to know. Thus the problem with neo-pagans: they are trying to jump full into something without learning how it works. It’s the same trend in society as a whole; everyone wants the benefits and the privileges without the work, understanding, or effort.

More Tidbits

Doug C — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:03:48 +0000

Further excerpts:

Well, I sincerely believe there is an uprising of energy going on, hence validity for the first option, but that this first option(higher energy is coming INTO our lives, causing christian increase in “holy spirit” and thus media efforts) might have CAUSED the second(nothing special is occurring, but due to modern uprise of awareness of eastern and non “traditional” beliefs the churches feel threatened and must increase conversion efforts) to occur. The thing about people is we have been severely desensitized (I think that in the past, as in 3000+ years ago, magic and ethereal activity was much more prominent and has been fading since, hence myths about merlin and knights with powerful swords) and this uprising of energy could have been going on for 50 years and we’d not have noticed. The empathy and the powerful pagans might have, but under such scrutiny and pressure from non-pagan sects, why would they bring it up?

I agree, that the churches as separates and as a general mass of political/social entities looking for power are trying to suppress alternate perspectives, because their power comes from the fact that they’ve convinced nearly a billion people that their ideas are right and if you dont follow suit you are doomed beyond the end of your life. They are threatening the quality of existence beyond death, which should be held as morally accountable as threatening someone’s current life, but they’re churches, so its apparently ok. But the thing to remember is the pagan groups have been around for a whole lot longer, they’ve evolved and changed and grown with the times and people that practice, and there is hardly any oppression occurring in their history beyond reciprocated aggression towards those oppressing them in the first place. They were around before Christianity started, before the old testament even, and they will be around after, guaranteed, because no spiritual group that is used as a political tool can survive. People may tell you Wicca is a new tradition, less then 100 years old, and its true, but its because the blood lines of the witches have adapted as they go. Wicca is simply the most recent adaptation, and before that the community of witches was much much more secretive, or accepted as medicinal/herbal/magic members of the community and no mention was made of “evil”.

Agreed. The thing is the media has been making light of the pagan myths and traditions for a long time. Movies like Ginger, Hokus Pokus, The Craft, etc, have all been using these (in my opinion true) ideas and legends for entertainment, and you know what makes me laugh all over the place: they’re SUPER popular. The Craft is a classic “fantasy” movie. Harry potter is loved by everyone(except me), Lord of the Rings is a household classic now. People are, whether they realize it or not, craving a connection to these aspects of our existence that society has drifted away from and labeld wrong/obsolete/myth/etc. It’s on the rise, its just a matter of time. Look at the huge organic food uprising, but what do you think herbalist pagans and naturalists have been doing for a hundred years? None of it is new, people are just realizing that something is missing in their lives.

The movie Constantine is, in my opinion, probably a fairly solid account of the potential reality of our universe, or at least some aspects of it.

The transformers thing(movie referencing ancient religious symbols/beliefs): totally not new, like I said, they’ve been using our(now I’m speaking as a member of the collective traditional pagans) beliefs and sacred rites and symbols for their own entertainment for a long time. But you know, I don’t really mind because I know where I stand and I don’t really care if people think its all just a movie. When the cork finally pops there will be no disputing the reality of what is occurring, regardless of how much they might try to write it off, and I’ll just smile and think “I told you so” and be happy knowing I found it on my own, just like you’re doing. But you’re right, the first phases will be hard, are hard, because people negate it as science fiction fantasy.

Global warming is, as far as my research a while back, actually global climate re-distribution. The poles are getting colder and the equator is getting hotter, which is reducing the gradient, so that the area that is cold enough for ice is smaller but colder and the area that is hot is bigger but not significantly hotter, and that the space between is less of a transition and more abrupt thermaclines. Not sure what the current is on that study, but it makes more sense because my aunt (works in Antarctica every arctic-summer) said the average temp is dropping down there at the actual caps.

And yeah, the earth does this (global climate change/warming) all the time, we’re not causing it, we might just be producing enough green house gas to alter its usual progression, but it’s gonna do it anyways, because a planet’s orbit isn’t perfect, and neither is its rotation speed or tilt. that stuff shifts. It is all far to exact and dependent on itself to not change over time. I wouldn’t mind some aliens though, I mean, it’s pure probability that there are more out there. Read this site, I found it a bit ago and it seams to make sense to me. http://zebu.uoregon.edu/1999/ph123/lec19.html Even if life is super rare and there is only life near 1 of every 1000000 stars, there are still a shit-ton of stars, so there has to be at least a 100,000 other planets in the universe (assuming it isn’t infinitely sized based on the whims of a greater being) with intelligent life. Even if they’re super far away, they could be a hundred times more advanced. I don’t discount the possibility because pure logic states that there’s a decent chance based purely on science. I personally don’t feel an intelligent lifeforms would chose to make a single planet with life. That seams an immense waste of an immense gift/capacity.

See if you can find the book of Enoch, which is a portion of the bible removed by the catholic church because it linked Christianity to pagan systems of belief as well as masonry I believe.

Gardernarian wicca as I have understood its history is the first branch brought to america by mr Gardener whom claimes(It’s disputed) that he was accepted into an old-style witch coven in europe and that he was sharing what they taught him. This bothers me for two reasons: its part of the wiccan tradition not to publish the book of shadows of a coven. People are supposed to be drawn to the craft enough to search out witches and learn directly, not buy a 10$ book at barnes and nobles. it removes the oral tradition, the whole point behind the BoS, and the human aspect, making it another fad/religion/church. He also gained a ton of popularity and money(?) by bringing it out into the open and gets this “father of wicca” title which is bullshit, because he simply brought it into mass media. He also used his status as the high priest of his first coven to take advantage of people, including many women, and I think that is a severe corruption of his position as high-priest to his coven. Regardless, if you read up on gardenarian wicca, it is similiar to the traditional witchcraft that we once knew and that I am striving to realize through some other traditionalists. Gardernarian wicca also started this neo-pagan new-age witch movement, which I already mentioned is a broken toy that doesn’t know it yet.

I define “church” as a group that uses spiritual or personal beliefs to direct, control, and manipulate people into doing things their way with threat/suggestion of doom/failure/loss of eternal life/etc. I define religion as one of these sets of ideals being used by these churches. While traditional shamans and traditional wiccans may be fairly standard, when you find real pagans (non neo-fluffies) you will find that there is no propaganda, cohesion, forced belief, standardizing of ideals. If anything a high priest or priestess will try to help guide and teach his/her coven members but if doing his job correctly he should never direct their own spiritual journey directly.

I agree 100%. The body is simply a material tool/vessel that is granted us so that we can learn and grow in this specific environment before we return to our true selves and take our found knowledge with us. We’ll never know the full point to this until we get back and can use our full capacity to see everything.
On the other hand I might debate that our thoughts are expressions of the partition of our whole self that was sent here to learn. The formulation and processing of ideas and knowledge. Some are good thoughts and some aren’t, we just need to learn what is important. Our thoughts, to me, seem more like our limited self making rationality of the material plane so as to fully take advantage of this opportunity. More or less we’re on the same page: you are seeing it as being a higher-observer of a process that is occurring by a second, lesser entity(correct?), while I am saying that this mental self is a partition of our higher-self, sent here to learn and then return. Regardless, same overall effect, and whatever guides you/myself to learning the most productively is the way we must each use for ourselves.

Churches and the Future

Doug C — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:39:13 +0000

Another email excerpt:

So you know how you’ve been sensing a change in the ethereal presence around you, whether it be that you’re simply noticing it more or its becoming more prominent? Well I agree, it is becoming more prominent, but you’re also becoming more aware.

I preface this with the statement that I have no problems with christian beliefs but that I do have a problem with any church of any sect using cohesion, condemnation, guilt, peer pressure, and/or brainwashing to convert/keep members.

I have noticed that there are a lot, A LOT, of christian talk radio stations now. I mean, there are like 5 in Eugene and 3-4 in Bend now. And they’re all talking about the way to live and why to be christian and how the blasphemers are going to hell and blah blah blah. I wonder if they sense it too, this awakening of the human capacity, and they’re afraid that once people see that it’s about spirituality and personal power/self/relationship that they’ll loose their sway as a dominant political entity in the religion market. You know? This potential revolution, be it DNA activation, magic, evolution, or spirituality finally taking hold, threatens their way of life as a “ruling body” with followers and a populace. If people can be greater then who they are and reach higher levels of awareness and connection with other planes, learn for themselves what it means to be spiritual and know universe, what need would they have for a church to tell them how to think, act, live, and do?

I think the corrupt churches are losing ground and they’re afraid.

PS, I count generally count some established public pagan sects to be one of these “churches”, in line with most christian churches in its use of negative tactics to maintain a populace. It’s not just the christian groups that are susceptible to bad ideas, and person on the planet is capable of being persuaded to do “bad” things.

Thoughtful tid-bits

Doug C — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:35:29 +0000

Here is a selection of thoughts I had in an email convorsation with a friend. For their privacy I ahve chosen not to quote and discussion material from their end, so you just get to rad and think/comment on what I have to say;)

Questions mean stimulation and activity and that means a lack of stagnance. Stagnance is the fuel of failure and destroyer of growth, and of course leads to the dark side;)

Intuition is reguarded by the pagan community is a tool of ones inner self. The inner self is a connective bridge between the physical person we are and the limited capacity of our current state to our complete self which -most pagan groups agree in one form of another- is an ethereal, timeless being. Theoretically we can access this Self, and thus ideologies like buddhism, shaolin, taoist, and native american belief systems form. Point is, use that shit, you we’re given it for a reason, and you can make up whatever reason you’re most comfortable with, but its a good tool.

Not only do we create words for things we don’t understand, but we create entire vocabularies, dialects, rules, and dogmas. And I agree completely. I sincerely believe that most human religions are simply self-fabricated idealologies used to explain something we can’t fully comprehend to develop some sort of self comfort, however misguided some of us get by doing so. And Religion does not equal spirituality.

And you should feel restless. Restless is another inner-self tool, alarm system if you will, to remind you that youre lacking something or have yet to complete a task. I had a huge spell of restlessness back near the last years of my time at a catholic private school, 7th and 8th grade, and by the time I started 9th grade in highschool I had found that the restlessness was religion and spirituality and I derastically stripped and rebuilt my understanding of self. It was a very long, painful process, because I met a lot of opposition along the way.

The thing is, and you can label it god, god/godess, shiva, buddha, the force, gaia, etc, but there is a greater energy/power moving through the universe, and it’s not that it can’t get to us, its that our current state is too weakened to hear the message (and this is not to say we cant become twice as great as we are, but even that elevated human-condition wouldn’t compare to our true selves), so this greater entity (we’ll use “the Gods” just because that’s how my particular brain works) communicates with us however we will recieve it best. But I totally agree with you, you have to want it. Like the cirstians say “You must let Jesus into your heart”.

Imperial science is a system of labels and “laws” defined by man to understand his surroundings. I find it best to use this as a tool of simplification. but to negate it in its entirity as I believe it hinders full understanding of the world. I love studying science because the way humans as a whole think is intriguing, but I don’t look to it as my first source of explanation in any situation.

In referral to the third, that eastern cultures already follow these ideas, I would point out that spiritual groups, such as native american, old shaman, traditional wiccan, etc, are cases of common spirituality with trends and commonalities but in fact each tribe, group, and even individual has his own personal relationship with this ethereal existence. Shamanism, for example, is more of a language for a people to communicate about their spirituality in a way that they will all understand and can grow as a tribe. Every tribe has different specifics, and yes there area lot of commonalities, such as what a wolf in a dream means versus a bear, but each person has his own relationship with each animal spirit, his own pulls towards specific ideas, and his own spiritual essence which he sends forth ahead of him and leaves behind him, that no one can copy. This is what I consider spiritual, whereas a christian church defining the beliefs and telling people to join and conform or die/suffer doom, sending out “what the pope has decided we believe” pamphlets every year, and shunning people that reject complete conformity is simply a man made creation of manipulation. Many “churches” are simply political entities working in a social network based on belief and fear and not actually functioning as a community, despite any over-tones and layers they put over the top.

Ok, skipping on to 2012. I might start by borrowing a quote from Morpheus in the movie the Matrix. In response to the other guy saying “Not everyone believes as you do, Morpheus.” he replied “My beliefs do not require them to”. If something is in the works, have a healthy dose of skepticism, but learn, watch, grow, and be open to accepting the new changes. Being of a stance to “not believe, but also not un-believe” is a very healthy position if it is accompanied by curiosity and a thirst for understanding.

Be wary of new-age spirituality. Shifts in the human-condition are one thing and are potentially good, but there are a lot of neo-pagans/new-age spiritualists that have studied old ways, taken the parts that they like, and ditched the rest. If you had the power to create a plant with your bare hands, and decided to only build the flowers because you liked them best, the plant would be corrupt and broken without its thorns and leaves, because those are functions of its exhistence in a material plane. Many neo-pagan/new-wiccan/etc groups are doing just that: taking the happy parts they like and neglecting the growth and knowledge and understanding that comes with it.

Just weed through the you-tube craziness and let your intuition guide you. You also have other tools: curiosity, skepticism, analysis, logic, creative thought. I also count ethereal connection, energy manipulation, and meditation/shaman walks as my Gods-given tools as well, and I do my best to use them all equally.

Youtube is actually, for this sort of research[2012], a good source of information. Thing is we tend to define “good source” and “bad source” as correct and incorrect information respectivly. But, considering the afore mentioned tools at your disposal, are you not capable of weeding through any information no matter how bizarre and decide for yourself? Don’t think of it as electronic, because electrons are simply aspects of the same energy you said was used to build everything anyways. THink of Youtube as a window into the day-by-day developments of our society. If one day you see 500 new posts on crop circles and the next day there are 1100 new posts on herbalism, you can gather not only information (for yourself to analyze) but you can look at the bigger picture. What does 1100 posts on reptilian monsters represent? A surge in population interest in potential conspiracy? An impending threat? Just weed through this massive tide of information with your critical self and your intuition to guide you and allows you to make fluid decisions when it comes to specific facts. Recognize that you are a constantly evolving entity, and that any form of concrete opinions or decisions will only hinder this. I get tied down by a ton of stuff but I am constantly trying to remove my restraints. If you find reptilians to be a semi-feasible idea, than take it in as your own with the recognition that of proven wrong or alternate, you can change your thoughts. It’s not wishy washy to feel that crop circles are legit one week and bullshit the next, it’s simply taking advantage of your capacity to grow at any given moment, at a whim.

I personally think DNA activation is legitimate. I think this because I know, as a personal point of fact that I have the capacity to evolve. I’ve gone through a few personal ascensions myself, though minor in relation to my true-self. I think a lot of the dormant dna relates to a complete use of mental capacity and the development of a greater connection to the ethereal plane. I connect with it when I can, and I have had many very wise people tell me that I had “ethereal tentacles that I feel out the world around me with constantly” but I can’t always get a full connection to it. I think we have that capacity on this planet, but we have lost the way, or possibly have not been granted it in this cycle of human existence.

Higher dimensional beings, from my experience, observe and guide us all the time, you just have to learn to be aware of the influence. I also feel that there are many lesser-being around us as well. I didn’t get a wolf tattoo on my arm because I thought it was cool, and if no one ever saw it I wouldn’t care. I got it because, to me, it represents a respectful reverence for a spiritual guide which has been at my side as long as I can remember, and likely before I even knew it was there. I made a permanent physical alteration to myself to mark, for me, an enlightenment in a part of me. The next part of my tattoo has the same value, as does my first. It’s a way of reminding/telling myself that I achieved something I can be proud of and that I should never forget it’s effect on my person. The thing is, the Gods express themselves in everything, and can become whatever you want them to be. It’s not out of a desire to please you though, it’s because we as humans currently require labels and definitions to feel safe and content, and the higher entities in the universe are offering a connection to them in whatever way we are most comfortable. Example: for all we know the same higher-entity that comes to my family as God the Father, Jesus Christ, could be the same Gods that come to me as the wolf Spirit, and the same God that the Mormons are communicating with. It’s equally possible that some of us (or all of us?) are completely off, but I sincerely feel that the population is evolving as a whole and that some of us have found connections to the next phase, and that regardless of the negative impact they can have, everyone has some semblance of purpose on this planet, however specific or vague or both.