Everything Is Metaphor, Part 1: The Power of Perspective

Now that I have completed my series of blogposts highlighting some of the most significant teachers in my life, and now that I have taken some time to explore my Grand Theory of Descending Evolution and a few other things, I would like to shift the focus to an attempt to illuminate my perspective that everything in the world--all information in every form--is but a metaphor for 'higher' meaning. The so-called "physical" data we gather from our world through our senses is merely information that we have attracted to our conscious attention in order to contemplate, process, and learn from the higher metaphoric implications of their meaning. That which we call "the physical world" has comparative, analogous, mirror meanings and significance on levels that we call "emotional," "mental," "Ego/Personality," "soul," and on several "spiritual" levels. Once we are able to see and practice applying this knowledge and understanding in our conscious lives, the potential for Self-understanding and Self-development increases geometrically and the art of living becomes full of so much more meaning and significance.
     The psychologists of the late Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century were the first to really apply this perspective to human beings--especially Carl Jung and Abraham Maslow. To Jung--and many others since--the human life with its events, its memories, its dreams and imaginings are all part of an allegorical story from which any human being can derive layer upon layer of deeper psychological and spiritual meaning. With Jung, a single dream, a film, a book, a painting or drawing, an unusual (or mundane) event, a memorable sensual stimulus--anything that presents a lasting and powerful impression on the mind can contain layers of symbolic meaning and significance from which one can study and extract information relevant to one's growth and self-awareness for years and years.
     To Maslow, life is a process motivated by one's internal drive or desire to attain fulfillment, to "self-actualize." Maslow created a "hierarchy of needs" which, he believed, humans needed to fulfill in each and every moment in order to be able to function at higher levels of creativity. For example, should one feel satisfied in one's basic physiological needs, one is then able to focus one's energies on dealing with the next level of needs--which include issues of safety and security. If one is feeling secure in one's dealings with the health and safety of one's body, family, property, employment and income, one can then focus one's attention on the next level of needs--which include issues dealing with love, inclusion, and belonging. If one is feeling satisfied physiologically, safe and loved psychologically, then one is "free" to focus one's energies on esteem issues. If one is then feeling confident, respected and respectful, then one is free to focus one's time, energy and resources on self-initiated and self-motivated acts of creativity and altruism.
     Both Jung and Maslow believed that an inherent desire was hardwired into man which motivated him to seek improvement and growth. I call this the Soul, Causal Body, or Soul Plan. The Soul is a kind of beacon of information that the Monad and his team of spiritual community members have put in place in order to guide and structure the achievement of certain prescribed goals and objectives for that bodymind to try to accomplish within the time and space being used in one's current human bodymind.
     Though metaphor is a linguistic term, I choose to use it because all information encountered and collected by consciousness is just information. To take information and try to relate it to other information is what consciousness does--consciousness creates relationships out of things that we choose to believe are "here" and "there," "self" and "other," subjective and objective. Using the four-dimensional world that we have created for our adventures into the depths of the Illusions of Duality, we can see the many layers of significance and meaning depending on which perspectives, which pair of glasses we are looking through. A person functioning at Maslow's lower levels of psychological satisfaction is going to see things from those perspectives--likely with insecurity and fear. A person with mastery of the laws of four-dimensional Earth School is going to be able to perceive many more layers of significance to everyday information.
     I plan to spend the next months putting together blogposts using individual examples to illustrate the meaning and means to finding metaphoric meaning in basic and exceptional things in our individual lives. For example, the human digestive system can be used as a metaphor for the way in which humans digest information in order to make sense of the world, to nourish them selves physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually, in order to continue fueling, growing, and re-defining their individuality (their bodies, their identity, their self-concept and self-definition). Like the way the human organism is built around its digestive tract, so too is the human mind built around a sense of identity or individuality. The human reproduction system is related to procreation and carrying forward of the particular host species Homo sapiens sapiens, but it is also necessary to duality, relationship with "others"--especially close, significant relationships. The boney system is foundational and structural to the human vehicle. A commitment to a human vehicle requires a commitment to dense physicality and the necessities to survival and thrive in that form. This requires a commitment to the dualistic spectrum of fear and courage--the use of which can span all parts if necessary or desired. The circulatory system rejoices in the delivery of life-sustaining nutrients to each and every cell of the body as well as the delivery of waste products to the body's eliminatory organs (skin, lungs, kidneys, liver, intestines). The muscles allow and enable motion--the circulation of the individual and his gifts and stressors on the "outside" world. The endocrine system. The nervous system. The lymphatic system is the body's sewage system--gathering up all cellular wastes from interstitial space and whisking them away to the body's eliminatory systems before these wastes can become toxic to the body. We will discuss the metaphoric significance of human life experiences to the emotional body, the etheric body, the mental body, the personality body, the Causal Body (or "Soul"), as well as the spiritual bodies and the Monad. We will also use daily events or specific trends or themes from life to explore this idea that everything is metaphor.
     For example, I was recently introduced to a form of diagnostic homeopathic therapy called Field Control Therapy (FCT). FCT was developed by Savely Yurkovsky, M.D. of Chappaqua, New York, and has been latched onto and developed further by other medical professionals who have strong understandings, experience, and/or training in areas of science like toxicology, epidemiology, and radiology. Field Control Therapy claims to be able to discover the root causes of illness, poor health, and disease and to then treat these causes in ways that eradicate the offending sources while strengthening and not destroying the other, healthy tissues. The "toxins" FCT labels as root causes of disease include heavy metals, electromagnetic fields, parasites, viruses, bacterial imbalances, as well as the residues of pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, vaccinces, old medicines and more.
     This all sounds great. It is truly fascinating--using advanced science to its fullest potential. I could see myself (and others) getting very involved and invested in the information, training, and, of course, treatment using Field Control Therapy. But, then, I stop and think:  We, the conscious beings behind (or within) the human bodyminds that we occupy, participated in the creation of this world, this Earth School contextual field. All of these tools, forms, and "obstacles" were created by us for our use--for learning; for the possibility of self-reflection, self-definition, self-improvement, and self-realization.
     If all of these "toxic" substances are but creations of our own making, things that we have purposely attracted to our "selves," then, What is the point? Isn't Field Control Therapy just another metaphor for spiritual cleansing/purification?--which means making way for expanding Self-awareness? If all matter and form are tools--servants!--of our four-dimensional sensory-based perceptual/contextual "playground" (or field), why not shift, re-train, change the perceptual reference point, the context--or accept these as part and parcel for the clutter and dross we have put in place in order to establish and maintain the context we thought we needed?

Then I had another thought:  If all "matter" that we think has physical substance in this "world" of ours is made up of 99.9999 space (or ether or Love, depending on your perspective) and the rest is made up of "particles" that are in truth photons of light which contain a "tendency" or "probability" of occupying space, then how could these "toxins" be the true causes of ill-health and disease? They barely exist! We only see them and give them power because we choose to give them that power!

And then I cannot forget what Alice Bailey says The Tibetan (Djwal Khul) told her: "All dis-ease is the result of inhibited Soul life." If this is true--if this is my truth--then how could FCT possibly be true or real? If all dis-ease is the result of inhibited soul life, then the cause and cure of my perceptions of dis-ease and ill-health could not possibly be toxic residues or effects of heavy metals, electromagnetic fields, parasites, viruses, bacteria, pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, vaccinces, old medicines, etc. It is more likely that the true causes of my dis-eases and ill-health are in my thoughts and thought patterns; it is more likely that the true causes of my dis-eases and health challenges lay in my having chosen to give power to the systems and beliefs that my human-centric Earth world has informed me. BUT, then, I am just as free (and able) to choose otherwise, to opt out of the belief systems that members of my fellow humankind are trying to convince me to buy into. I could even choose to opt out of this game of "being human" and go "back" to a different reality--a reality in which these toxic "substances" may not hold any import or influence (or may not even exist). (I never realized before how the word "existence" is such a relative term!)

Energy follows thought. If I buy into a system, a belief system, then, of course, that system is going to have meaning, relevance, and reality to me. If energy follows thought, then isn't Field Control Therapy (or, for that matter, any therapy) giving power and credibility to these "toxins"? Aren't the real toxins in our thought/thinking patterns? Can't we make a shift in our choice o perspective(s) to choose to love these "things"--to use them for strength and health instead of toxicity and dis-ease--to correct the "flaw(s)" in our Soul Life in order to eradicate dis-ease? Why must an "EMF" or a "heavy metal" or a "residue" or "DNA mutation" be "bad" or "toxic"? Why can't we decide to choose to use them for health and hjoy and love and celebration? Why not accept things for what they are (a contextual field of "tendencies" or "probablilities" of light "particles") and accept the fact that you have created them exactly for creating the you that you think you want and need--for creating exactly what you want "need" to be? At this very moment?!

And then there is the problem I have with the word "control" in the name of this leading edge therapy. Control, in my mind, implies arrogance. Something we humans excel at. I have learned to question and, usually, run from anything that incites humans to become arrogant. To believe that one can control anything is, in my opinion, totally egotistical, arrogant, and ultimately, a lie. But, we try. Something in our conditioning, in our dualistic mindset, causes us to want to control . . . everything. Nature, human nature, language, each other, our selves. "Field control" connotes controlling "The Field." It is possible. (If you can think/imagine it, then anything is possible.) But, why that field when your "field" could be anything?! Why not choose Beauty, Love, and Joy as your "field"? Then maybe we wouldn't feel the need to want to control it. Just think of it:  Uncontrolled, unbound Beauty; uncontrolled, unbound Love; uncontrolled, unbound Joy. Wouldn't that be amazing?! If we let that happen we might just not feel the need to choose anything else! No more dis-ease, no more toxins, no more fields, no more Selves. Beauty, Love, and Joy. . . . Count me in!

Anyway, I see the appearance of Field Control Therapy as yet another means for me to go very deeply into the educational experience of learning and reinforcing my ability to detach from the illusions of the four-dimensional Earth School experience. Humans have devised this seemingly advanced way of treating human illness at what appears to be a very deep level. But, upon further inspection, one can see that it is not as deep as one thinks. Field Control Therapy is still firmly embedded within all of the Grand Illusions of Human Duality and, therefore, of use to me in the way that it helps remind me that systems and beliefs are just temporary stopping points; there are always different perspectives from which to view things and relationships. Everything is a metaphor; everything presents itself to us precisely as we need it to for the possibility of improving our awareness, our definitions of "reality", and, of course, for prompting expanding Self-realization.

"As Above, So Below": Factions in the Spirit World?

A new question has attracted the attention of my ruminating mind:  Could there be factions within the spirit world? Is it possible that there are disparate, argumentative groups in the spirit world, each with their own agendas and allegiances, their own values and philosophies (just as there are on Earth)?
     Of course there could be. "Energy follows thought." If one can imagine it, then it is possible, probable, even likely. The realm of Cosmic Creation is nothing but pure potentiality in which anything and everything is possible. Remember:  Energy follows thought. If a thought has occurred it has given energy, given life, to something new--has created a thing out of the field of Pure Potentiality. Thus, factions are not only possible but likely.
    This 'species' of spiritual beings using four dimensional Earth's human population as experiential vehicles is certainly becoming less evolved and more deeply invested and ensnared by the influences of the Grand Illusions of Cosmic Duality. (And, as per my Grand Theory of Descending Evolution, there is evidence that we are purposely fabricating a dumber, degraded version of human beings for our use!)
     I know of other sentient "species" who use space, time and multiple dimensionality as the contextual field for their pursuit of experience and "growth" (whatever that may mean to these other conscious beings). The Greys and the Reptillians both play a role on and with Earth and her resources and inhabitants. And there are many other advanced civilizations that "watch" us. Are some of these 'species' in conflict with one another? Or are their goals and missions so disparate that they never need to interact--though they must be aware of one another?
     In the Spirit World in which our Monads "reside" and use as another more fluid contextual field for experience and process, there is likely many choices possible in the way of form, dimensionality and activity when planning for one's next adventure, for the gaining of a certain set of experiences. I wonder if some of the Monad groups participating in the same activities feel rivalry or interest or envy or antipathy toward other groups that are using different contextual field choices for their "playgrounds." Now that I have realized that emotion and space and time constrictions are being used by the Monadic Kingdom--that the illusions of identity, individuality, separation, need, insufficiency and requirement are being used by Monads--it only makes sense that the illusions of comparison, judgment, condemnation, superiority, and conditionality are also being used by some Monads. When other entities operate under the illusion that they are separate and thus isolated as individuals and groups from other individuals and groups, then they are surely capable of operating under the veils of comparison, judgment, condemnation, conditionality, and superiority as well. Thus, competition, envy and even jealousy are likely in the Monadic World.
     But what of the quest to be reunited with the Unified Field, the Oneness of Pure Consciousness? Are there Monads so focused? Of course there are. Are all Monads equally focused "upwards"? Of course not. Some are focused on testing themselves--testing their wits and resolve and ability to rise above the greatest of temptations, the greatest contrivances of bondage and trickery and ignorance as possible. Such is the current conditions of entrapment of "21st Century" humankind: layer upon layer of muck and dross, and obstacle and trap and addiction and convoluted pattern ever conceived. All in order to test us--we "thrill seekers" addicted to ever-increasing and ever-confusing layers of ignorance.
     Perhaps there are groups in the Spirit World that mirror our own "conservatives" and "liberals" or even "reactionaries" and "radicals." Groups who are in favor of the ever-deepening descent into the murkiness of physical and emotional complexity and density, while there are probably others who are equally vociferous about choosing to work in a different direction--towards The Light and Unity or Pure Consciousness.
     My point is, that for every possibilty, for every direction and choice one can imagine for one's Self or one's Monad there are myriad other options available at each and every moment. In no-time every choice is not only available, but manifest, present in the Eternal Now, in the Infinite Imagination of Pure Consciousness. So long as we agree to use time and other dimensionality, we agree to have past, present and future, here and there, us and them. For every "us" there are unimaginable options for who and what "them" might be.
     If we give any power and credence to the adage, "As above, so below," we might even go so far as to surmise that there could be a "1%" in the spirit world--that the so-called "Monadic Kingdom" is hierarchical just like a human kingdom here on Earth. "As above, so below" suggests that form and structure are reflected between the spiritual and physical worlds, that that which goes on in the spiritual world goes on in the Earth School dimension and vice versa.
     So, it will not surprise you to know that I am feeling that there must be a contingent of souls from the Monadic Kingdom who have volunteered to "play" the role of the "dark forces" on Earth--the greedy, manipulating "1%." Perhaps the greedy 1% was created (by us) explicitly to usher in the deepest behaviors of ignorance, blind conformity, depravity, cutthroat competition, and disenfranchised, enslaved populi mundi because an interested group of us in the Spirit World requested those depths of despair and depravity! Or perhaps there is a faction of Monads using greed and ruthlessness for their learning contexts in the Spirit World. Regardless of how it started, I believe that we have all chosen of our volition to participate in this game called Earth School humankind. We have all willingly participated in the creation and habitation of the game field of this particular contextual field--a game we might call Risk for Homo sapiens sapiens. The flaw in this analogy is that in the game of Risk there are only armies as resources and territories for winning. In the real world of Earth occupation, we are but tenants of the land. If and when the land can no longer support our styles of living, we will have to find other land (or suffer and die). If and when we can find no more habitable land, then we will have to fight against one another for the land and other life-sustaining resources still available--which means more suffering and death. When there are no more life-sustaining resources, we will simply die off.
     Of course the game field we have been convinced to think we have needs a full population distribution: it needs the power-hungry rich as much as it needs the indentured slaves. We have all willingly joined the game, we are all are excited to be exposed to the tremendous and intense variety of experience these crisis times will provide, otherwise we would not be here. We will all be swept up in the catastrophic "End of Days" of which we are ALL willing and knowing participants. And, from a spirtual perspective, we are all given the choice, as always, to choose to learn through Joy or to choose through Suffering--even in these horrific End of Days circumstances. And that goes for the "bad guys" as well as the "good guys."
     So, let's say I'm a soul family member of yours and I'm asked to consider whether or not I want and am willing to play a leadership role in the this destruction of Earth's biodome. I would be aware of the fact that the demise and destruction--and all of the horrors and suffering that will come along with it--are all part of The Big Plan for this chapter of the Earth School experience--that someone has to do it, so why not you? You know that the majority of the Earth peoples will hate and vilify you, so what would you do? Naturally, you would use your power and resources to try to insulate yourself and your family and loved ones from the hate, from the chaos, as well as from the destruction. Right? I know I would!
     In my experience in dealing with the elite 1% (and having been born into a family with that status), I know that the elite have a mental/psychological perspective that thinks them right, that thinks them innocent, that isolates and protects them from the guilt and remorse that would come to the average human with their more natural egalitarian, democratic, and cooperative morality. The majority of the family members of the elite simply do not think of themselves as leaders, creators or causes of the inequality, injustices and abuses, pain and suffering that the rest of the world is experiencing. I believe that the self-proclaimed "captains of industry"--themselves a group of less than 250 men of wealth and power--are very much aware of the direction that they are steering the "ship" we call biological life. But, as I surmised in my opening paragraph, they may be steeling themselves to carry through their heinous directive(s) all the while knowing, hoping, that they will be forgiven in the Spirit World when everyone returns and remembers that the "bad guy" role was necessary to the fulfillment of The Big Plan. But, even those who chose to incarnate into the membership of the wealthy elite have choice. Some--those unable to avoid feelings of guilt and recrimination--may be numbing themselves through hedonistic overindulgence and gluttonous addictions in order to distract their minds from the devastation that they know they are perpetrating to this beautiful planet and all of the life it harbors. I know that some of those born into the ranks of the wealthy elite may choose to rebel as their consciences just won't allow them to stay the course of "evil." These rebels may end up leading counter movements against the insurmountable momentum of chaos and destruction while others may simply slip quietly into self-imposed exile or seclusion. And yet still others may disappear behind closed doors, into self-imposed hermetic isolation, while continuing to delegate the course and control of demise to others who are under their hire or power or influence. There are many options of participation--or not--available to those with power and money.
     My point is, once again, that ultimately there is no such thing as "good" or "evil," "right" or "wrong," "moral" or "depraved." We are all playing roles that fit perfectly into the ultimate manifestation of a Plan set forth thousands of years ago--a plan that is probably leading up to an apocalyptic demise of our current civilization if not an end to the entire human species. No matter what role you choose to play--and you can change your mind, change your role, at any point along the way--you are contributing perfectly to the realization of The Plan. Your contribution will not deter the fulfillment of The Plan--though it could delay or accelerate it. Like my wife, Toril, you might as well live life to its fullest--enjoy daily the activities and experiences that are available specifically to this host species since they may not be available to you again.

Why did YOU choose to come to Earth?

Before I enter into a series of posts regarding the metaphoric symbolism of everything in our lives, I want to take a moment to remind you of the main reason I'm doing this blog:  As a species, we don't have long on this planet. If climate scientists, Sam Carana, Guy MacPherson, and Christopher Hedges are on track, we who are still present and healthy on planet Earth in the year 2015 are in for some very challenging times in the next few years. I am interested in not only preparing you for these times but also making sure that you know some of your options, your choices, your possible perspectives for the coming years.
     We should all be asking ourselves some big questions, like, Why did I choose this Earth incarnation? Why did I choose Earth? Why Homo sapiens sapiens? Why the "21st Century"? Why this country? this community? this family?
     Imagine you are a spirit being in the Monadic Kingdom and you have literally infinite choices as to where and how you will seek your adventures and experiences, how you will spend your time, what kind of learning you feel you need to do, and who you'd like to work with. You could choose material-based, time-based, emotion-based, mental-based, multi-dimensional-based and many, many spiritual-based perspectives and forms from which to encounter your test goals and objectives. But, you chose Earth. Not "Mars," not "Jupiter," "Gx24," "Europa," "Sol," "Polaris," "Andromeda," "NGC 1300," "Crab Nebula" "asteroid Thisbe," or some other Universe or celestial being beyond our human knowing. You chose Homo sapiens sapiens, not Neandertals, Cro-magnon, astralopithicus, Homo erectus, "Giant" or "Atlantean," "Grey" or "Reptillian," or any of the many species of homonids that pre- (and post-) date our own. You chose Homo sapiens sapiens. And you choose this time that we Anglo-centric Homo sapiens sapiens have chosen to call "the 21st Century."
     Why? What are the attractions? What are the specific lessons these certain, very specific set of circumstances offer to you for your growth, for your Self-testing and potential Self-realization?
     Obviously, the challenge of overcoming the tremendously handicapping contextual field of "emotions" was one of the primary motivations for your choice to come here. But why? Had you heard about it and felt drawn by the excitement, the challenge, the adrenaline, the severity of the test? Or, had you been here before and felt you had some "mistakes" or "unfinished business" to re-do or refine? Or had you been here before and gotten trapped Self-identifying within some of the many illusions that we created to make this place more interesting, more challenging? Are you "addicted" to the emotional context, the thrills and challenges, the adrenaline rush, the game of chance, as a gambler is? Or are you here as part of a service contract to another member of your Soul Family or members of your Soul Community? Or are you here as part of a self-imposed "penance" for "failures" or "mistakes" in past lives.
     There are many, many reasons one could have made to come to planet Earth at this time. I have only named a few general categories. Hopefully you are hearing enough of the beacon of the Voice of your Soul to be questioning the significance and meaning of your presence, the goings-on around you, and the choices and patterns you have acquired, the challenges you have attracted to your self, and the infinite spectrum of choices you have before you at each and every moment. That is my hope for you. That is the reason I write these posts. To provoke you to think a little differently than you may have before. I hope I am succeeding in my task.
     Should you have any doubts about my starting premise--that Homo sapiens sapiens has little time left on planet Earth--I beseech you to do your research. Seek out the writings, videos, blogs, websites of Guy MacPherson, Christopher Hedges, Sam Carana, Near-Term Human Extinction, Andrew Harvey, Michael C. Ruppert, Naomi Klein, Carolyn Baker, and even Anthony Watts to get some well-presented information.
     I especially beg and urge all of you to read Christopher Hedges' numbing portrait of the state of the world--including his perspective of that which is coming, that which is already in progress, and that which is virtually inevitable. You can find it in his Truth Dig article, "The Great Unravelling."

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_great_unraveling_20150830.

Then I want you to do an immediate assessment on yourself to discover where your emotional instincts lie: How does this article make you feel? Do you feel incensed? Excited? Argumentative? Numb and disbelieving? Distrusting? Disgusted? Ready to take up arms--ready to fight? Elated? Relieved? Surprised? Confused? Betrayed? Hopeless? Hopeful? How did you find your emotions and psychological state shifting during the reading of it? How do you find yourself thinking and feeling as you distance yourself from it? Are you rising above? Letting go? Retreating into a numb world of denial? Hanging on to anger and fear?

     As signs of the coming battle become more prominent and the fact of "class conflict" (i.e., the armies of the wealthy elite versus the dispossessed 99.9%) become more evident, what course of action do you see yourself choosing? Will you continue to be the willing slave to the wealthy elite, serving them in numb supplication, or will you rise up in arms against their oppression and greed? Or will you try to hide--to remain invisible and self-sufficient? Or will you be a willing submissive victim--fodder for the rapid depopulation of the human species?

    The essence of it all comes down to the question, Will you succumb to the forces and motivation of fear and anger or will you be able to remain passive and detached? Do you have the spiritual confidence to dispassionately allow things to unfold as they will knowing full well that your human life is in danger at each and every minute or will you fight for every last minute of breath and sensual input you can earn for your self?
     These and many, many questions will arise for you within the next ten to fifteen years. It is my hope that these blogposts will help make you better prepared for them--that you will be better able to make informed choices of action when confronted by them. Then you can really take advantage of the real reasons why you chose a human bodymind on planet Earth at this time.


   

Drew's Grand Theory of Descending Evolution, Part 3: Historical Pretexts

In two of my recent blogposts I spent quite a bit of time trying to establish the basis for a theory that I've been developing which supposes that the role of Homo sapiens sapiens and the current Earth School experience is to create increasingly deeper or increasingly distant degrees of separation from the Original State of Pure Consciousness. The spiritual beings of the Monadic Kingdom have in fact created this contextual field for the express purpose of testing themselves--of testing their ability to work within and rise above the thick veils of ignorance that exist while occupying the vehicles of 21st Century human civilization. I have even gone so far as to posit a theory that this ever-deepening spiral of descent into the Illusion of Separation is possibly being spurred on by an Earth-borne dis-ease--by an addiction to the machismo, adrenaline-pumping, thrill seeking psychosis so common to Earth-based humans.
     I believe that the Earth-using element of the Monadic Kingdom has entangled itself within a web of obsessive desire through the repetitive use of the emotion-based sensory-dominant human experience and that the weight of the baggage that comes with these experiences hangs on and accrues without proper separation, perspective, processing, and distance. I know from Journeyman Paul's own experience that the weightiness of the improperly processed emotional baggage accrued over several lifetimes of perceived "failure" and "regret" led to the need for a great deal of time and work in order to fully process and let go of. The dross of the Earth-based human experiences can be unknowingly carried with the Soul and can cloud his or her perceptions even when "done" with the human incarnation--even when "home" within the Spirit World. This cloud of misperception can then cloud one's judgment in preparation for one's next adventure.


HISTORICAL PRETEXTS IN SUPPORT OF A THEORY OF DESCENDING EVOLUTION

Drew Fisher. Obviously Drew Fisher is not a genius. I am not blazing intellectual or theoretical pathways that others before me haven't already travelled. I'm just blazing them, for the first time, for myself. So, "Drew's Grand Theory of Descending Evolution" is really not Drew's. And it's probably not even very grand. Since coming up with this title, however, I've been excited to find myself stumbling upon more and more information that seems to support my current and evolving "theory" of descending evolution.

Rumi. Once I believed as Persian mystic poet Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī, or, as we Westerns refer to him, Rumi (meaning "Roman"), that all humans are hardwired to work toward God-return. Rumi believed that we humans are animated by fragments of God and that we have worked our way through an ascending hierarchy of physical media--mineral, plant, animal, and human--through many incarnations and that now, as humans, it is our duty and design to try to ascend above our animal nature and achieve reunion with our original Self, that is, with God.
     I now believe that there is more choice available to we "individuals" using the human instrument--that we do not have to be in any hurry to reach the "end goal" of reunion with God. There are other options; other experiences and "tests" available to we who choose adventure and excitement as our means to spiritual evolution.

"Devolution" v. "Descending Evolution" Originally I had proposed this theory of mine as a theory of "devolution." But, upon further research, I found out that the concept of evolution places no value much less a hierarchical value upon progress or regress, upon complexity versus simplicity. Evolution is only concerned with change and adaptation in the process of natural selectivity for species life. Evolution has no concern for success or failure. 99% of all life species that have ever lived on planet Earth are now extinct. Therefore, devolution has no real meaning. It is a moot topic.
     It turns out that what I am really concerned with is the descending or deepening path of Ignorance and distraction that spirits are subjecting themselves to when choosing "modern day" human hosts. It has become my belief that we of the Monadic Kingdom have purposely advanced this deepened veil of Ignorance in order to heighten the thrill of the adventure attached to human experience.

Rudolf Steiner. According to anthropologist and occult scientist Rudolf Steiner--who was writing over 100 years ago--Homo sapiens sapiens has been on a purposeful evolution away from spiritual advancement into an increasingly denser commitment to the physical-material world since before the time of the pyramid builders. This makes perfect sense to me as the technologies used to build, much less use, the world's grid of pyramids are not only lost but irretrievable to us in our current capacity for understanding. (Which, to my mind, indicates quite clearly that there were intelligent species using the planet before Homo sapiens sapiens came into his own. Heck! These predecessors may, in fact, have been the ones who trained us, gave us "gifts" of information, or even planted our species here! [Think: Arthur C. Clarke's 1 x 4 x 9 monoliths.])
     Steiner, the founder of Anthroposophy, Waldorf education and Biodynamic agricultural, among other things, traced this evolutionary "densification" [my term] back to the earliest more spiritually attuned cultures in history. In Ancient Egypt, he posits, spiritual work was more of an ubiquitous element of daily life and living; the material/physical were used as simple tools for the true consciousness of our being. Their real work was being done on mental and spiritual levels. Also, they may have been using this time period for getting used to this new form and its abilities and limitations. Thus the short life spans.
     "Backwards" evolution can be traced from more spiritual-minded Egypt to Classical Greece and onwards in a descending slope through Imperial Rome, through the low points of recent control of spirituality within the Roman Catholic Church even into the ironically labeled Renaissance, Reformation, Age of Enlightenment, Rise of the Nation-State, Industrial Revolution, and current Globalization Revolution. Each phase of civilization since the Egyptian time of the pyramids has proven to be less spiritually focused, less reliant on spiritual information and spiritual law for its wisdom, guidance, healing, and governance and more detached from awareness and acknowledgement of the presence of a spiritual essence in life and living things. Members of the Monadic Kingdom investing their time and energy into Homo sapiens sapiens throughout this flow of history were perfecting and deepening this young species' true potential for darkness and depravity.  

     The "evolution" that Huxley, Darwin, Wallace, and Lamarck referred to is, of course, of a physical progression. "Survival of the fittest" applies to physical survival, to the ability to perpetuate physical, biological species. Darwin's "Theory of Evolution" has led humans to learn to use their consciousness to manipulate their surroundings and resources with fear and control as their motivators. When love is the motivator there is no fear of death, there is no competition, there is no violence, there are no destructive and self-destructive behaviors, addictions and codependencies, there is no need to control others or to control one's resources. When love is the motivator there is only calm confidence and faith in the interconnected needs of all things and the recognition of the oneness, the interconnectedness, of all things, the permanence of life and consciousness, the illusory nature of the physical world. With fear as the prime motivator all kinds of 'evil' and havoc are possible.

Esoteric Healing. I have been a student and practitioner of Esoteric Healing for almost 20 years now. As a practitioner of Esoteric Healing's "structured prayer" I work within biodynamic energy fields. Using the scientific practices and anatomy or 'architecture' of the Esoteric Healing knowledge base for my reference point, I can assess the levels of awareness, development, or 'awakeness' that a person has achieved in terms of recognizing and using spiritual law and spiritual information while veiled and confined in the murky ignorance of four-dimensional 21st Century human being. Many souls who commit to human bodyminds as test vehicles never fully 'awaken' to their spiritual/Godly source much less to the powers that arise from that awareness. Fear, separation, automation, resignation, Ego/Personality, obedience and supplication are much of what these "unawakened" souls experience for the entirety of their human incarnations. Those who do awaken to the Inner Beacon of Light, Love, Knowledge, Wisdom, Will and Power may progress through the challenging stages of development. Breaking through one barrier of belief construct that proves unnaturally illusory and confining, one may master the informations and laws of the four-dimensional Earth School experience--which will allow one to (re-)turn one's focus to learning and mastering spiritual information and spiritual law. But it is not the norm. Those who master Earth-bound law and manipulation of its information have the option of not returning to Earth School:  They can graduate! They have no more use for the "tests" that we have set forth in the form of the human experience. They can move on to mastering other perspectives of the Illusions, of dis-unity and dis-harmony and dis-ease, all in the effort to experience as many forms of the Illusions as possible.
     EVERYONE who chooses to come to Earth in a human bodymind has agreed to subject themselves to the rules and laws of the four-dimensional Earth-based human experience. As exposed above, I used to believe that each one of these individual entities desires and plans to be able to climb out of the murk of Ignorance toward the light of Higher Mind, Higher Knowledge, Love and Will. But, due to the severity of Earth's attractions, distractions, traps and trappings, many people are severely impeded from achieving these goals. They have become handicapped by the strength and complexity of the fabric of the cultural, societal and conditional constructs of the Ego/Personality, addicted to the glitz and glamor that is the physical-emotional world in which they have chosen to reside, or they have fallen under the spell of the constant flood of information bombarding their senses into believing that their Earth-based contextual field is real!
     Still, at the core of each individual human being resides an object--or maybe more accurately I should call this 'thing' a concept. The "Blue Pearl," it is called in Esoteric Healing. The Blue Pearl (or "Blue Dot," "Blue Flash," "Blue Disc," "Blue Sphere") is the physically imagined incarnation or metaphor for that Spark of The Divine, that Drop of The Great Ocean of Cosmic Consciousness, that Essence of Unified Nonduality, that (supposedly) animates all of us, every thing, every thought, every idea in Cosmic Creation.
     The Blue Pearl is that microcosmic reminder and microcosmic representative of the Oneness of All Things, of God Unity. To focus on the indestructible and immutable Blue Pearl, to identify with It instead of the human form that our Ego/Personality persuades us to identify with, is to identify with one's Godness. In this 'state' one does not value human life or Earth 'reality' in the same way as one does through the filters of the Ego/Personality. Experiencing the Earth School through the perspective of the Blue Pearl is like remembering that you are in a movie theater watching a movie:  you do not have to be attached to the events and emotions coming from the screen because you are not the movie. You are the observer. You do not have to think of yourself as a participant. The information appearing on screen is only for your use. If you wish.
     And yet, we have chosen to take on these human forms in this Earth School environment for a reason. Whether that reason is in order to test your Self or whether that goal has been lost in lieu of the addictive attraction to the thrills and excitement of the adventure is immaterial. We are here. We chose to be here. We can use the experience in whatever way we wish. BUT, your Monad, your Soul Family, your team of Spirit Community, Spirit Guides and Council of Wise Elders in the Spirit World may have placed a Plan inside you that is not in line with the patterns you are living. How do you know if this is the case? Disease. Pain. Suffering. Depression. These are the tools Souls use to try to awaken the Higher Mind, to try to remind our True Selves that We are not on the course that We had planned for our Earth School journey.
     The Higher Mind is quite wise and attuned to our Soul Plan but the power of the Ego/Personality patterns that are established in our youth as Homo sapiens sapiens are quite stultifying, quite challenging to unravel and breakdown once they have established ascendant control. That is one of the ingenious traps or obstacles that We of the Monadic Kingdom put in place in order to make this Homo sapiens sapiens experience so challenging. The Veil of the Illusion of Ignorance.

Recent Film and Literature

In his recent film, 2014's Lucy, writer-director Luc Besson posited the possibility that the more brain-power we humans tap into the less dependent we become on emotional and physical information, and then the less reliant we become on the physical and emotional bodies that we are using. This is because we would able to use and manipulate information--to put things in formation--in ways that benefit and connect us with different, larger communities instead of just the 'community' of our selves--of the cells and singular perspective of our human bodies. Thus, with greater brain use we would be feeling less confined to our bodies, our vehicles, less attached to our beliefs and fears, and more open to and connected with everything (that we formerly, errantly, thought was) around us. Using the belief and understanding that every thing, every definable entity in the Cosmos is in and of itself a point of consciousness, the limited, self-defining community of three trillion communing cells we call "the human body" suddenly becomes connected--and in open and full communication--with hundreds, millions, trillions, or an infinity of other sentient being "communities" and, thus, quite naturally, loses the "need" to self-define. Instead, one revels in the connection to and expanded perspective of an expanded contextual field of expanded community.
     This idea was also touched on by writer/director/producer Spike Jonze in his 2014 film,  Her  (which, curiously, also starred actress Scarlett Johansson). In Her, Jonze explores the idea that the cyber world offers a vastly expanded amount of information (which is constantly expanding--like a Universe in a Big Bang theory), and that information in this universe is available at instantaneous (speed of light) speeds, at all times.
     I first remember contemplating this possibility with the first TRON movie (1982) and with Daniel Simmons' science fiction series that began with his multiple award-winning novel,  Hyperion 
(1989). The cyber world is like an infinite system of highways and intersections or "nexuses"--which represent the singular pieces of information and their infinite ways of being connected to all other pieces of information. Each nexus point is like a single concept or a single piece of information, holding independent form and energy while remaining connected to the rest of the network by an infinite number of connecting highways--which provide connections to other nexus points in any and all directions and dimensions imaginable. Within this network one (one what? One thought or idea? one word or concept? one number or lack of number?) could be connected instantaneously to another piece of information--a thought, image, concept, idea or feeling--through this highway system or one could "veer" from the established "system" and create new "pathways" in order to connect pieces of information in new and different ways.

Choosing Between a Deepened or a Detached Commitment to Duality

The beings we organize ourselves into in order to use four-dimensional Earth's four-dimensional, emotion-based experience--which we call "humans"--are themselves devolved several (or many?) steps away from 100% or Pure Consciousness. To use the base-100 scale used in the film Lucy, we might say that while humans consciously use their brain capacity to access perhaps 5-10% of their Ultimate Potential, the spiritual entities with whom we identify when not occupying/using human or other four-dimensional vehicles--which I call 'Monads'--may be operating at, let's say, around 25-40%. Space and time are, obviously, useful to Monads but they are not always bound to linearities within space and time; that is, in the "Spirit World" Monads are able to bend, stretch, leap, rewind, fast-forward time and space--space and time are much more elastic, not so rigid as we humans perceive it. Monads have the advantage of an expanded awareness, an expanded consciousness of the interconnectedness of all things. And yet, not all Monads are focused on increasing that percentage of use of their Ultimate Potential. Not all Monads are working toward 100 percent, that is, toward God-return. Some Monads are more interested in testing themselves, testing their creative powers, exploring the infinitude of possibilities available to them within the realm of Cosmic Creation. And this is okay. This is fine because, as always, we have that magnificent gift of choice. Freedom of choice.

     Which means that, in the end, the outcome of my theoretical findings is the same as they've always been: We are in choice. Every conscious being in Creation--and remember, every thing in creation has consciousness in that it arises as a spark from the Pure Consciousness of the Divine--at every moment is faced with an infinite number of choices. This is why a lepton can in one instant be measured or "found" at one end of the Universe and in the next be present in a close proximity. "It" wants to be both here and there and yet in reality "It" is only existing for the observer who is trying to measure it. Here and there are only relative to a place with time and dimensionality. And every observer is a co-Creator of his/her/its own reality.

    Monads have helped to create and constantly modify the contextual field we call Earth and the experiential vehicles they use there. A faction of Monads have obviously invested quite a bit of energy into the creation of Homo sapiens sapiens. They have also invested quite a bit of energy into orchestrating the development of Homo sapiens sapiens into more and more ignorant and depraved versions so that we could get to this place we call 21st Century Near-Term Human Extinction. What will come next? Well, I am willing to bet that some members of the Monadic Kingdom, because of their addiction to the four-dimensional Earth-based human experience, will either continue to try to incarnate into Homo sapiens sapiens vehicles despite the horrific conditions that survivors of the coming apocalypse will have to deal with or they will seek other planets, human-like beings or emotion-based four-dimensional vehicles in order to satisfy their addictive "needs." Another set of Monads will probably try to seek out other human-like hosts to continue to test themselves in somewhat familiar conditions. Others will probably try to orchestrate the creation or development of another form--maybe even human--for their continued adventures into four-dimensional experiential learning. Still others may "wake up" and see that the four-dimensional "physical" or "emotional" experience is not the only way to provoke Self-growth and Self-realization. These may decide to forego further trips to four-dimensional experience and may instead choose among the myriad other dimensional forms and experiences available to them (and their imaginations). I'd like to think that some of us may get back on track and "seek the Light" or, that is, return to our quest for reunion with our One True Source. I am feeling that that may be the next aim for Journeyman Paul. Like our Cosmic Birth Twin, Toril, We may be done with the Earth School. There are so many choices!
     In the meantime, we are still here. We have these aging human bodies to use for the gathering of still more experiences and information.
     In preparation for this extended journey on Earth I am going to next use a series of blogposts to focus on the metaphoric significance of the information we can and do take in through our human bodyminds.