Everything Is Metaphor, Part 2: The Digestive System

In today's blogpost we will use the human digestive system as an example of how everything is metaphor--how everything we encounter as humans has layer upon layer of meaning and significance to our growth and Self-awareness--especially if we are aware of and attuned to the potentiality of these layers.
     The digestive system is where the human body encounters and processes food and drink. Most biological organisms on planet Earth find food and drink necessary for growth, energy, healing and maintenance, as well as satisfaction, joy, community and security. For the rest of this post I would like you to try to think of the words "food" and "drink" and "substance" as interchangeable with the word "information" for both food and drink are physicalized metaphors for information.
     When we encounter a substance (or any information) have to decide whether or not to try to ingest it--whether or not it might have value as nourishment for our growth and well-being or whether to reject it for its distasteful, "poisonous," or deleterious effect on our being, on our beliefs, morals, values and self-concept. We have to "chew it up" in order to "swallow" it in order to deliver it to our deeper faculties of digestion. There it will be filtered and broken down into smaller usable nutrients--and it will be determined if the items of information are usable for immediate energy or for the support of other systems, or whether it should be stored for later use and processing, or whether it is to be deemed toxic or unusable--wherein it will be eliminated. The process is long and drawn out, with multiple stages wherein a series of independent "organs" interact with the "food" in order to give their assessment and input as well as to take away their own perspective and useful "nutrients." What we can't or don't want (or don't know how) to use gets eliminated as waste. What gets used gets assimilated and accommodated--it becomes part of us, helps re-fuel and re-define our selves--helps us to continue moving forward.
     Digestive disorders can be indicative of information that is irritating or improperly digested, or too quickly processed, or not given their proper amount of attention and resources, or the ingestion of information that is not truly useful or beneficial for you and your growth and health maintenance. For example, constipation can be indicative of hanging on to information for too long, of not giving the information the attention it needs for proper processing and integration, of having over-taxed or irritated the digestive system or of ingesting material that you're faculties are not presently equipped to digest thoroughly or properly. Stomach aches and stomach ulcers can be indicative of the (repeated) introduction of harmful information or of trying to take information in while the whole being is not quite prepared or not able to give the proper and full attention to it. Again, more severe and chronic digestive issues can be indicative of the being's inability (or unwillingness) to be fully prepared and fully attentive to the information s/he chooses to ingest--or of not being fully attentive to the kind of information s/he is introducing to the conscious mind and inadvertently (and repeatedly) or ignorantly ingesting information that the being is unable to handle properly. Also, diseases and disorders of the digestive system can be indicative of information that has been repeatedly introduced yet been repeatedly ignored or repeatedly under-attended and have thus set up patterns of confusion, overload, irritability or disharmony.
     In terms of our human bioenergy field, the digestive system is fed, fueled, and organized by the Solar Plexus chakra and which is in turn empowered by the Cosmic Ray of Devotion and Idealism, Ray 6, which is a derivative of and subordinate to Ray 2, the Ray of Love and Wisdom. If a human is actively pursuing his or her Soul Plan, the energy of Ray 6 is actively powering the digestive system, the individual's sense of self-esteem, its self-definition, as well as its identity as an individual.
     Issues of the Solar Plexus center and the physical system that it empowers, the digestive system, are often indicative of esteem issues. Esteem is, after all, what one thinks of oneself and his or her place in the world--how one is seeing, claiming, probing, and understanding one's place in the "world" in which one finds oneself living and occupying space. Spiritually, mentally and emotionally the issues of the solar plexus would reflect one's confidence and resolve in participating in the "world" and "body" in which one finds oneself--in remembering and adjusting the roles that one planned for this human incarnation and adapting and adjusting to the constant flow of information flowing in, around, through the conscious mind via the senses and filtered through the human psyche, i.e. one's current state of mind and level emotional charge maturity.
     So, let's go back to the human body in order to discuss how the role and experiences gathered through the digestive system are reflected metaphorically to give meaning to spiritual growth. We eat and drink in order to sustain, to maintain, to provide energy for our human vehicle. Like many biological life forms on Earth, the human bodymind is built around the alimentary canal, the gut, the digestive tract. Every other system in the body is dependent on the workings and inputs of the digestive tract. The mind seeks out food and ambient temperatures in order to preserve and sustain this life-serving vehicle. The emotional self is much more stable and composed when the vehicle is nourished. The health of every cell, of every organelle, of every molecule in the body is dependent on the nourishment delivered from the digestive tract by way of the circulatory system just as the "health" of every moment of human existence is dependent on the digestion and delivery of information to the Conscious Mind. The filters of awareness and openness deliver the food of information to the Conscious Observer where current levels of comprehension and interpretation extract significance and meaning from that which It determines is comprehensible and appropriate and then allows the rest to flow through and be eliminated.
     Remember: All dis-ease is the result of inhibited Soul Life. Ailments or "dis-ease" in the digestive system are indicative of "inhibitions" in the natural, wide-open access and use of spiritual information, The Universal Life Force, chi, ki, prana, Ray 6 & 2, etc. Digestive ailments should be looked at as constriction or congestion in the open flow of spiritual information with regards to Who You Really Are. Remember: when a disease becomes manifest on a physical level that is the Soul's way of serving notice that there is an important issue or pattern that you have not been addressing appropriately--that you have gotten stuck or negligent of an issue that would be important (imperative) for the continued growth and expansion of your spiritual Self-awareness. In the Solar Plexus Center--and in the digestive system that it oversees and feeds--this means that it is usually an issue of identity and self-definition. Perhaps you are stuck living according to an old and now-out-dated concept of your self. You have resisted many messages on the mental and emotional level that it's time to grow, time to move on, time to shed the old version of you and move into a bigger, expanded version. You are not letting things flow, not extracting all of the nutrients available to you in your "food." Or you may not be choosing to ingest the things that are "best" or most appropriate for your health and well-being.
     These type of scenarios are fairly common to humans. We get comfortable with the way things are, with the patterns that have become familiar to us. We learn to get used to and accept these patterns as "good" or "comfortable" and then we expend a lot of energy trying to maintain and perpetuate them. But, as you know, Change is the constant; growth is the reason you make these forays into illusory worlds like the Earth School. To fight against the prescribed and (on a spiritual level) desired changes and progress we have set forth for ourselves is constipating. Likewise, ignoring the obvious information that could lead to Self-awareness and Self-realization, can be just as upsetting to the Soul Plan--manifesting itself in such physical dis-ease as diarrhea and other wasting diseases. When we have created certain patterns of self-definition and self-identification that are not in line with the growth goals of our Soul Plan, we may develop allergies and intolerances to the repeated ingestion of those "substances" pieces of information--which could manifest on the physical level as food intolerances.
     Conditions or malformations that we are born with or that we manifest early on in our human lives are probably indicative of prescribed obstacles or conditions of "disadvantage," "disability" and/or "abnormality" that we asked for as a means to drawing attention to and finding strength in our will power, our creativity and our individuality eccentricity. Turned in another direction we might find ourselves getting stuck in perspectives of anger, frustration, isolation, fear, self-pity and victimhood--which are also wonderful tools for learning and growth, just more painful and more attractive to further tools of ignorance and suffering. Remember: The truth is that we are not these bodies, we are just using these bodies for adventure, experience, and information gathering. The adventures and information can, of course, all be gathered and experienced through pain and suffering--that is our choice. But we are equally free to change our patterns of choice to instead choose to learn through Joy and Celebration.
     The Monad, with the help of Its team of Soul Family members, Soul Council members, Spirit Guides and teachers, as well as a community of fellow Earth School participants, creates a plan which always usually has the goal of Self-awareness, Self-realization, and Self-improvement infused within it. Some Monads choose to create Soul Plans which course their way through events and information of great drama and great adversity, while others choose to plot out plans in which the obstacles are meted out more smoothly, more gently. There is no right or wrong. And, yes, our course is subject to the effects of the will of the Ego/Personality that we develop while on Earth. The choices that the Ego-Personality make are not always within the framework of the Soul Plan. But, ultimately, we will always find ourselves on the same Path: the path toward awareness and realization of our True Self, our True Source in Divine Oneness. Were we to always be open, receptive and instantaneously adaptable to information telling us so--information that is either gradually, incrementally, or suddenly and dramatically informing us of our True Nature, of our Divinely Sourced "bigness"--we would probably never experience digestive disorders or identity crises. We would be constantly changing--which might drive our friends and loved ones a little crazy--but we would be being true to the expansion that comes with clear, open flow of Rays 6 and 2, the Rays of Devotion and Idealism and Love and Wisdom, respectively. A truly open, "master" of Devotion, Idealism, Love and Wisdom would probably evolve beyond any perceptual "need" for food or information, would, instead, be a source or "beacon" of "food" and information for other spiritual beings who have chosen to participate in the game of Cosmic Duality with its veils and tools of the Grand Illusions of four-dimensional emotion-based human experience.
     So, eat well! Eat and drink with intention and awareness! Be adventurous but try to learn from your bodymind's reactions to the substances--and information--that you choose to ingest! That is what the metaphor is for:  for learning!

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.

The Transformational Power of Creativity

I have to interrupt the flow of my series on Drew's Grand Theory of Descending Evolution because of an event that occurred this week that is so perfectly illustrative of the transformational power that an act of human creativity can have. This week my parents-in-law expressed their concern for my health (I've been experiencing low stamina since a bout with the flu laid me prostrate for four days in early July.) They wondered if a visit to a doctor might be helpful to determine if I have any issues that could be helped out from the "professionals." What my parents-in-law do not truly grasp is how little I respect the philosophy and approaches of the medical community and how sincerely I wish to handle my health my self.)
     Anyway. After hearing this from my wife (I was not present when this information was being shared), I was suddenly inspired to write them a letter. This letter came from my heart, it came from the highest form of Love that I know how to use, and what resulted feels so cathartic--feels as if I have summed up my progress and growth, summed up Who I Think I Am so well that it has left me feeling as if I have shed another layer of four-dimensional muck. Ever since sending this letter I have felt lighter, clear-headed, and very much aware of my bodymind serving as an instrument for gathering information and experience, as if my Earthly form was a conduit of unconditional love, as if I am more consciously aware of the Great Cosmic Dance that I am participating in through this four-dimensional vehicle and its "world."
     Everything I do, everything I think, is now more readily and steadily imbued with a wonderfully light and detached perspective of use, choice, curiosity, and amazement. It has been wonderful! And it is truly the result of the cathartic event of putting together and sending (letting go!) of this letter--of the most beautifully and perfectly organized and worded expression of my current truth and Who I Think I Am At This Moment--which, of course, I am not. For now that I have written and sent this letter, it feels as if I have purged myself of that version of my Self and am now ready to experience information to use for the expansion of my self-concept--in preparation for the cathartic expression of the next version of my Self.
     For those of you who have been listening to these podcasts from the beginning, you will note the repetition of the theme that I have used several times in which I have expressed my belief--based upon my personal experiences--that all art, all human creativity, is but an expression--and purging--of one's current beliefs and understandings--putting these beliefs and values and understandings in concrete form for one's self to be able to view objectively, to look at and realize "That was me! That was me then! But now I have gotten past that version of me and my truth. Now I am on the road to something else--to another version of my Self that I will create, express and then discard."
     This week's letter has accomplished the same thing that my stories and music and dreams and past-life recollections and so many other creative acts have accomplished:  they express a version of my truth "outside" of myself so that I can view it, study it, learn from it with some "objectivity," and then (proudly) let go in order to move on to new information and new adventures.
     Here is that letter:

Please don’t worry about me! I am fine, I am happy, I am listening to my inner voice, I am doing what I feel I want and need to do. I believe it is in the difference in our respective values that provides the source for your concern. You see, I do not value this human shell, this Earth existence in the same way you do. I look at my body as a vehicle in which I travel (mentally, and emotionally as well as physically). The “I” refer to is the Higher Self who is the true driver of this vehicle—the animator and, in Truth, the Creator of this vehicle. I have contracted to use this Drew Fisher body/vehicle in order to gather experiences and information. I have created a Soul with a complete Plan which helps to guide the vehicle into certain pre-arranged or rather, desirable experiences in order to test my Self, to negotiate through choices and decisions, in order to further my growth along a goal of expanded consciousness. 

    Thus, I place far less value on what we call “life”—which to me means human life with its made-up set of four-dimensional “physical” and emotion-based “reality.” The only reality that is sure to me is the Divine state of Unified, Pure Consciousness—that place in which form and time are unnecessary. Time and dimensionality only exists as tools for our infinite number of possible adventures—and as tools for the creation of the infinitude of contextual fields that are available to us for our adventures. Earth, the human body form, emotions and physicality, are but simple tools for us to experience adventures. They are mere vehicles of information for us to use. Or not. 

     We have the option of choice. In every moment of every “day” we are presented with an infinite number of choices. The amazing gift of Divine Consciousness is that there IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG CHOICE! There is no better or worse, no good or evil, Heck! There isn’t even a here or there in the State of Pure Consciousness. Everything just IS. Every thing is just a piece of information available to us for our use. Or not. The choice is ours and ours alone. 

     So. Again, I do not place the same value on this Drew Fisher bodymind or this 21s Century Earth School contextual field as you might. I value autonomy of choice. I work to try to find Beauty, Truth, Love, and Joy in each and every experience, each and every piece of information. Or, sometimes, I may choose to use Pain and Suffering as the road to my enlightenment. Again, the choice is mine and mine alone. 

     My choices are not intended to reflect upon how much love I have for myself or for others. I enjoy this human bodymind and enjoy the beauty and experiences that this contextual field we call “Earth” has offered me. And I enjoy and love the other Sparks of the Divine (who are all, in Truth, one with me) who have chosen a human bodymind as a vehicle for their adventures and growth. I am also just as content with knowing that this illusory world, this game of illusions that we have participated in the co-creation of, is only as important as we decide to make it. We all have the choice—at each and every moment—to decide what kind of value we wish to assign this “world,” this “life,” our bodies, our relationships, etc. And we have the choice to change our minds. At each and every moment. 

     My choices are not yours, they are not Toril’s, they are not Uncle Sam’s or Donald Trump’s. They are MINE. And that is the beauty of this game: we each get to pretend we are our selves, that we are separate, that we have individuality and autonomy, when, in fact, we are all One and we are all Love and we are all Everything Possible. 

     I’m trying to learn to not get too caught up in the Game—to learn to detach from the “obstacles” that we attract into our lives. That way I can see and Love them for the Beauty and Truth that they offer in their reminder of the fascinating and amazingly creative ways we come up with in order to test our”selves”.    

     In my belief and value systems, inhibited Soul life is the source of all dis-ease is suffering. I have a body but I am much more than this body that I am using. I have feelings and emotions but I am much more than the feelings and emotions that I use. I have an intellect but I am much more than the thoughts and imaginings of the mind that I am using. I am an individuated spark of the Divine, a wave in the Great Ocean of Cosmic Consciousness, a photon in the great Spectrum of Universal Light. I do not have to be anything else. I have chosen a human bodymind on planet Earth, but I do not need it, It will do nothing for me that I already do not have. It is just a vehicle at the carnival. I do not need the carnival or its rides. I do not need anything. But I have chosen to use this ride, this vehicle. And I continue to choose to use this vehicle as well as the contextual field of planet Earth. I have also decided to try to choose mostly to learn and experience through Joy not suffering, through Love not fear, through Truth as best as I can determine it, and through filters of Beauty as best as I can open them.

     Thank you for your worry and concern. I am ever grateful and ever inspired by your presence and participation in my Drew Fisher life. But, I am okay! I am very happy with the place I am in and the choices available to me. And be assured that I am working hard on trying to make choices that favor Joy, Love, Truth and Beauty. 

I am, as ALWAYS,

Yours, in Peace and Love,

“Drew Fisher”

If I were to die today this would be what I'd like read at my funeral.

Drew's Grand Theory of Descending Evolution, Part 2: Fallibility and Distraction in the Spirit World

In the previous podcast I made the supposition that the spiritual beings who are occupying and animating our four-dimensional Earth-based human bodyminds are also using a variation of the contextual fields of space and time, and that contextual fields were necessary to these "spiritual beings" in the "Monadic Kingdom" in order to proceed with things like "form" and "history" and "cause and effect" and "identity" as well as for planning and review. Establishing this presumption was necessary as a foundation in my attempt to help argue for a theory that I have developed which tries to establish proofs that the human experiment is one that has been created and orchestrated in order to provide a gradually deepening distance from God-ness, from Unity and Pure Consciousness, from Divine Origin. I have tried to establish that without the contextuality of space and time there could be no cause and effect and, in fact, no basis for a concept of evolution much less one of evolving spirits. Now it is time to extrapolate into my theory the likelihood that spirit beings get caught up in "stuff" just like we humans do.


FALLIBILITY AND DISTRACTIBILITY IN THE SPIRIT WORLD

Is the Goal of the Monadic World 'Divine Reunion'?

Before we can begin a discussion of the possibility that the current course of human evolution is downward, in a descent toward greater ignorance and more extended and creative uses of the Grand Illusions of Duality, we must consider what the goals, aims, or purpose of the Spirit or Monadic "World" might be.
     Until recently, I thought that in being oriented from an Earth-bound, human perspective I was supposed to aim high, to seek The Light, to look upward towards Heaven. I thought that the primary purpose or ultimate goal of my core being, of my "soul," if you will, was to do everything in my power to figure out how to return to Oneness with the Unified Field, to be reunited with the Divine Source of my Life Force, to return to the State of Pure Consciousness. I had made the assumption that soul-return, and God-return, were the aims of every person's existence--even if only unconsciously--as if we each had homing beacons inside us that were tirelessly trying to steer us back to our One True Source.
     Now I have changed my mind.
     Now I believe that we are in no hurry, that, in fact, we may be far more interested in exploring the depths and depravities of the Illusions of Duality than in returning to God-Unity. Let me try to retrace the steps I took to get to this stage of understanding.

The Human Experiment

If Pure Consciousness (God) is unbound by Time, then any step away from anything but Pure Consciousness entails buying into illusory constructs of belief and behavior, such as the Illusion of Separation, the illusions of fragmentation, changeability, need, failure, requirement, judgment and condemnation, conditionality, superiority and ignorance, as well as the illusions of space and time--in which Time becomes the key reference of measurement.
     I have finally come to understand that the human experiment was devised as an effort to move consciousness further away from the timeless, unity consciousness of Pure Consciousness. This was set in motion because . . .  because we can. Because we Monads are co-creators. Because we are active participants in the creation and play of the "games" we play in order to gather experiences. Because it is another challenge, another way to test our Selves.
     The further consciousness moves away from Unity Consciousness and its state of timelessness, the slower, more immersed or trapped in time and in slower, heavier vibrational states of being it is. We Monads want to see--we want to feel--what that feels and looks like. We want to test our Selves against the deepest veils of Ignorance, against the deepest trappings of the Great Illusions of Duality. However, as my personal experience as Journeyman Paul has shown me, the feel of feelings, the 'brainwashing' of sentient existence, is quite powerful and engaging--even overwhelmingly and distractively so. Once engaged, it is quite difficult to extract or detach one's mind and consciousness from sensuality and rationality. A lifetime spent using these perspectives--using the Illusions--takes some time to decompress and extricate from. This information led me to ruminate upon the choices Monads make--the myriad options that are (probably) available to them--and why they make the choices they do--like the one to come to Earth and use "21st Century" "Homo sapiens sapiens" vehicles for their adventures.

The Current State of Planet Earth and Our Human Species

There are more Homo sapiens sapiens on planet Earth right now than ever before. More of these people are feeling isolated and separated by fear and automation. More people are disconnected from all other life on the planet. This is leading to a deterioration of the health of the planet as well as a deterioration of the health of all life forms on the planet. To my mind, these are all points in support of my theory that we Monads are purposely seeking, creating, desiring--maybe even addicted to--the "high stakes" game of seeing how "low," how "far," we can take the illusion of Separation, how little consciousness we can use and still find our Godness inside us (or not). Remember: the Monad knows that Life and our core being, the spark of the Divine that is our animating Life Force, is indestructible and independent of time and dimensionality. And remember also that Earth's Solar System has just begun its return trip from which our host star, Sol, was at its greatest distance from its Cosmic Twin in the Pleaides. Using the 24,000 year cycle of Kali Yuga the Earth is just coming out of the most intense period of fear, "darkness," and consequent ignorance. Because our solar system will be continuously cycling into greater and greater proximity and effects of Light and Love during the next 12,000 years, the opportunities to succeed in deeply engulfing oneself within the veils of Ignorance will become increasingly more difficult to create and acquire in that time period. I believe it only natural that creative beings should think that they should take advantage of the full range of opportunities for experience, no matter how twisted and far-fetched these choices may seem to we humans with our limited, brainwashed intellects and values. Now is the time to experience the deepest depths of darkness and depravity.

     But just how dark and depraved--how veiled and ignorant--are we 21st Century humans? How 'distant' are we from Pure Consciousness? If Pure Consciousness is the state of dimensionless, timeless ubiquity, and each step away from 100% Pure Consciousness involves the use or buying into Illusions of Separation, Fragmentation, Isolation, and measurable, linear movement and activity, then where on a 'scale of consciousness' would we put humans--and where on the same 'consciousness scale' would we put monads?
     My intuition and logic have me believe that the human state of consciousness is more distant from the Original Unifying State of Pure Consciousness than that of a "spiritual" monad--and that we are using the Illusions of Duality to a much greater degree than previously. But where on the 'consciousness scale' would we place each of them? Let's explore this question a little further looking at the Homo sapiens sapiens question. And let's use a little of our own human ingenuity to do so.

Using Science to Support the Descending Evolution Theory

     It is scientific fact that there is a correlation between brain size and intelligence. Larger brains predict higher intelligence and apparently science has ample proof to support this--though I wonder how widely the definition of "intelligence" varies between scientists. But the real question is:  Are humans on a path that shows increasing or decreasing brain use and, thus, correspondingly, increasing or decreasing intelligence? What does science say about this matter?

     Anthropologists say that the evolution of Homo sapiens over the past two million years had been marked by a steady increase in brain size (though much of this can be accounted for by corresponding increases in body size). Intelligence seemed to have increased over much of that time as well. It is, however, scientific fact that human brain size has been decreasing since its peak about 28,000 years ago. At 1600 cubic centimeters, the Neanderthal species had the largest recorded brain size among Earth's recent samples of hominids. (Current human brain sizes average between 1200 and 1300 cubic centimeters--this despite overall increases in average size among modern day Homo sapiens sapiens.) With this in mind, it only makes sense to predict that human intelligence has been commensurately decreasing over the same 28,000 years. This seems to line up with my belief that "smaller thinking," that is, more self-centered, isolated, robotic, fear-based thinking and behaviors, have become more the dominant "intelligence" of the evolutionary trail of Homo sapiens sapiens during this, its "civilized" phase of history. It seems to me our smaller brains have caused us to become much more docile, passive, fear-motivated, and herd-like over recent millennia. This is, to my mind, ever so obvious with our current state of mass human complacency during a time in which the impending collapse of everything that supports human life and so-called "civilization" is occurring. The progressively increasing rate of mass species extinctions that has been caused by human-induced global climate change is truly cause for alarm, if only because we humans are not so far down the chain of species at risk. And yet, nobody seems excited enough to do anything, much less change their consumer-comfort behaviors. Look at Sao Paolo, Brazil:  20 million people with less than 90 days of fresh water left and nothing is being done! Talk about denial! And California! The food basket of the United States is in the middle of a 30-year drought that is causing radical modifications and limitations to fresh water supply and distribution. And yet, it's business as usual for those 40 million inhabitants (and their very dependent neighbors)! Denial and "the bliss of ignorance" are the runaway choices for our species' preferred mental states! 

Are We Addicted to Four-dimensional Earth-based Experience? 

     Part of my inquiry is driven by the belief I have that Monads are using four-dimensional human vehicles expressly for the test of diving as deeply as one can away from the Unity of Pure Consciousness--in the curiosity of what would it be like, and "how far can we go" and yet still maintain the hope of success in "getting back," that is, in recognizing our spiritual nature, our God-ness, the spark of the Divine Oneness of Pure Consciousness (if the Monads in question are in fact still cognizant of that End Goal).
     I believe that we Monads have become addicted to the thrill, to the challenge, of how deeply we can dive into devolutionary states of four-dimensional consciousness. The fact that we have chosen to continue using a four-dimensional vehicle, the most recent model being Homo sapiens sapiens, which has been losing brain capacity, losing intelligence over the measurable time of its existence on Earth, only re-confirms my theory that we are using the Earth-based human bodymind as a vehicle for testing how low can we go--how deep, how far away from God-consciousness can we go--what does that experience feel like, etc. But more, I believe that we--or, at least a certain percentage of us (those that are choosing to jump on board the sinking ship that is 21st Century humankind)-- have become addicted to the challenge of doing something that no one else has done before. Like thrill seekers. We have become adrenaline addicts.
     I have even come to surmise that these beings which use four-dimensional experience as their 'playground' have become so familiar, so comfortable, so attached to the constructs, behaviors and thinking patterns of their four-dimensional (Earth-based) vehicular hosts that they have become accustomed or even addicted to those patterns. Just as we Americans have become accustomed (or, some would argue, addicted) to having shoes, clothes, our own car, our own telephone, our own computer, etc., we "monads" have become accustomed (or addicted) to being emotional, to being four-dimensional, to using and regularly acquiring new human vehicles for the transportation and gathering of information.
     Please let me insert here my personal definition of what constitutes an addiction. I believe a person has an addiction when one becomes so possessed by the pursuit of an object, feeling, or state of being that s/he lets other needs and/or obligations and relationships suffer--like basic nutrition and self-care (including a well-balanced diet, proper sleep, and basic hygiene), effective two-way communication with and attention to family and friends, commitments to contractual agreements like school, jobs, scheduled appointments, etc. I think that Monads can (and, perhaps, have) become so obsessed by the challenge of the pursuit of the deepest descent into four-dimensional sentience, into the most complicated and convoluted uses of the Illusions, that they forget their other "business" as well as the other choices available to them in the Spirit World.

     I'd like to go back to the video game analogy that I used in the previous blogpsot for a minute. I think it will help to explain how the game of four-dimensional emotion-based Earth School experience might become so addictive. The being playing a video game can become so mesmerized, so caught up in the illusory world of the video game, that s/he becomes a couch potato sucked into playing the game for hours on end while forgetting all of the other things it could or should be attending to (like feeding itself, moving ["movement is life"], interacting with others, thinking, attending to duties and responsibilities, contributing to a collective or to the greater good, becoming a living, growing, expanding consciousness, etc.). I believe that a segment of the Monadic population have become as addicted to the challenges and adventures of the Earth-based Homo sapiens sapiens experience as an American teenager can become addicted to the video world.
     Were we to step back from the human equation we might be reminded of the fact that there are other choices--that we do not have to use human beings, Earth School, or even four-dimensionality as vehicles for our growth and learning. But, addictions have a way of clouding out all other choices, of creating myopic tunnel vision of perceived choices. Were we Monads able to divest ourselves of the baggage and familiarity of human incarnation we might also remember that we have our own work to do that does not necessarily require us to slow our vibrational fields down in order to adapt to a more cretinous state of conscious awareness. We could and can choose higher evolution, that is, we could choose a focus on true Self-realization and re-unification with our God-hood. But right now a lot of Monads seem quite content (or obsessed) with the Game that is "21st Century Homo sapiens sapiens."

     But why? Why are so many Monads stuck in this loop of Earth School dependency? I think that it has something to do with pride! Or perhaps it has to do with all of the proverbial "seven deadly sins." (They are, after all, "deadly" for a reason!) The deeper into ignorance and illusion we can immerse our Monads and still climb out, still find a way back to Monad consciousness, the more we can toot our horn and puff up our chests to say, "I did it!"
     "I" did it.
     Within that little prideful phrase lies a clue to one of the major flaws of our Earth School addiction:  the motivation to test our Selves has become totally Ego-driven, totally selfish; it has lost it's Unity-driven motivation. We have become totally immersed and dependent upon the Grand Illusions of Creation--and oblivious to the Beauty, Joy, Truth, and Love of re-memberance and reunification with our Divine Source. We have become more enamored of our experiments and adventures into Darkness and negligent and forgetful of our connection to The Light.
     This is not, in my opinion, a sign of progress; this is not illustrative of evolutionary gain. This is not illustrative of Unity- or God-Consciousness shining through and blowing away the illusions of duality, separation, Ego, and dimensionality. This is, to my mind, an example of an addict living in either ignorance or denial of the truth and true reality. We have become addicted to our own creation; addicted to the worlds, forms, constructs of our own imagining. We have forgotten that we have choice, that there are other choices, other options. There is no right or wrong, no better or worse. But there are other options.