Have you been experiencing a feeling of shift
lately, feeling a bit antsy maybe, as if something BIG were about to happen?
All over the world, a collective re-awakening
has been underway, and has intensified over the last four years. We entered
this shift around 2011 and are in this energy until around 2018. Part of it comes
from that Uranus Pluto square everyone talks about—an energy that resembles
events of the mid to late Sixties which was when Pluto conjuncted Uranus. Remember
where you were then?
The square is even more of a jolt of
awakening energy than the conjunction was 50 + years ago. To add to this mix
this past year, starting with the solar eclipse on April 14th, we
have had four BLOOD MOONS coinciding with those squares. Today Sept 12, we are
experiencing a solar eclipse in Virgo. The last eclipse, a lunar eclipse, will
be in Aries/Libra on Sept 27th. Just in time for my birthday.
When an eclipse happens it interrupts
the earth’s magnetic field for a moment, and reboots us, kind of like your
computer rebooting when it downloads new software or programs. What this means is that within the next 2
weeks we have again, an opportunity to receive a download of new consciousness,
a mind and soul reboot that will send us into our next great work.
In a symbolic way what happened in this
eclipse is similar to what happens when a king dies… and that was the old
superstition about eclipses. The regent would die. Now in ancient Egypt, the pharaoh/king was a
divine being, a Sun (S U N) of god. And
there were religious rites in which he was eclipsed, underwent a burial rite of
a sort while in trance, in order to ‘download’ his computer, so to speak, in
order to reboot the divine plan for the culture. We are going to talk about
that in a moment, but for now, I hope to set a context for how this energy is
working now, as it may have worked then.
In addition to those blood moons and
eclipses going on there are three other outer dwarf planets (beyond Pluto)
contributing to this energy in September. They are Haumea (hoe-me-a) Makemake and Orcus. Orcus is going to align with Jupiter
to oppose Neptune—an event 500 years in the making. Think of where the culture
was in 1515. We were ending the middle ages that began in 515 AD (another 500
year cycle that began with the collapse of the Roman Empire.
Haumea is conjuncting Mercury to oppose
Uranus—the planet knowns for shaking things up and putting a spin on it, and
Makemake will be aligned with the Blood Moon on the 27th. Suffice it to say all of this unusual
activity has astrologers looking at the sky and wondering if this is the moment
that truly jettisons us into a new age.
Certainly it’s giving us a jolt of euphoria,
a very strong willpower to expand and learn, a super heightened sense of
intuition, and psychic abilities. Watch this end of September eclipse—and
remember that an eclipse ALWAYS occurs on a North Node which is a karmic point.
This eclipse and blood moon are quite related to our planetary transformation.
Now I am giving you all of this
astrological data because I want you to take seriously the astrological
significance of what I am about to say about the Ba Soul and the Phoenix. These
two spiritual bodies, which if you know Kabbala and the Tree of Life, exist in
the upper two spheres in the spiritual plane.
There are nine spiritutal bodies in the ancient tradition corresponding
to four planes of existence—physical, astral or emotional, mental and
spiritual. They are the only two winged bodies in the spiritual plane. Only these upper two bodies in the spiritual
plane exist beyond the personality lifetime after lifetime. The others function
for a time until their usefulness to the soul is complete and they are
dissolved after death. The ba soul -–usually seen in Egyptian paintings as a
human-headed hawk-- may exist over and beyond a single lifetime, but it too
will eventually need to be dissipated when the soul’s karma is dissolved.
Understand that while you are sitting and breathing in that seat whereyou are,
your ba is with you. It is as living as you are. When you dream, when you
meditate, it, your soul consciousness flies out to where you send it—to other
parts of the universe, into the past or future, into the dreams of other
people, into the land of the dead to see your mom and dad, or just to check on
the baby sleeping in the next room.
The akh is a seed atom that descends
from the god force, a yod in the Kabbalistic tradition, and takes root in the
physical form. At death it rolls everything up and returns as a spark of light
to the divine cosmic fire, contributing to the knowledge, wisdom and experience
of the divine energy at work on the earth plane.
Ba and Akh at Kether and Chokmah are
permanent bodies relating to the soul and the seed atom, the phoenix part. How
the soul gathers information thru lifetime, adds to akashic records, and at the
point that you no longer need that personal transformational info, recorded at
akashic level, of soul, it is transmuted
at phoenix level and is sent to seed atom and goes straight back to divine.
Atum the Old Kingdom god of creation, of
being & nonbeing, was considered the original alpha and the omega, and it
was no error that made the Greek philosopher Lucretius say in his essay on the
Nature of Being that everything derived from Atum, which he equated with the
atom. So the spark of light that becomes
life is known as the seed atom/Atum in each of us. It resides within the
highest spiritual body. It’s all rolled
back inside us after death and the phoenix takes that info back to the source,
to Atum. The phoenix was not widely discussed in the Middle or New kingdoms of
Egypt. This information comes to us mostly from the Old Kingdom from the
information about the Step Pyramid of Djoser built by Imhotep during the third
dynasty (Imhotep was Egypt’s Leonardo daVinci), from the initiations alluded to
in the Great Pyramid of Giza during the fourth dynasty, and finally from the
FIRST EVER RECORDED hieroglyphic text inscribed in the Pyramid of Unas in the
fifth dynasty. It’s information about the intersecting influences of the ba and
akh. The Pyrmid Text of Unas is the only text that talks about the ladder of
ascension.
The royal ascension text in Unas details
how to turn the ba soul into the akh, or phoenix. The ba soul has a terrestrial existence
depicted by its human head. The akh is a resident of heaven existing with the
Imperishable Ones, the circumpolar stars that represent the ascended masters
and the ancestors and the deities of Egypt. This image of infinite time and
space is the realm of Atum, the only true source of eternal life because as a
point beween being and nonbeing, it is a state of potentiality.
The akh is the resident spark of god
within the human being, making us a co-creator with the divine. This could be seen as a reference to the
saying of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas. “IF anyone asks you where we came
from, tell them we came from the Light.
The wingedness of these spiritual bodies depict the
far-reaching abilities of these spiritual energies to move around the world at
will, and to fly in and out of alternate dimensions. They fly up and down the
ladder of consciousness, primarily from divine to human and human to divine,
although in truth everything has consciousness.
Because this is mystery initiation is the last one a human goes
through before the need to no longer be human, it’s not accomplished in a
single lifetime—and I don’t care how advanced you are spiritually, you are not
going to ascend today during or after my talk…
In fact to put it bluntly I am less concerned about your personal ascension
than I am about our planetary ascension right now. It takes group mind, group will and attention
to group karma to be overcome in order to achieve that noble end. And what it
takes to ascend to the phoenix on an individual level, it also takes to ascend
on a planetary level, but it takes many more souls working on it and doing it.
When the englightened pharaoh was
undergoing the ascension process in the ancient days, he was doing so on behalf
of his entire civilization. His
intention was to transmute his personal karma while he was still in a physical
form, to die to his old self, and to return renewed. The ancient Egyptians
called this the heb sed, or the festival of renewal and it took place in the 30th
year ofhis reign and every 7 years after that. In essence, it was a Saturn
cycle and its squares and oppositions. It was a shamanic initiation which
imitated a death while living. The pharaoh was placed in a shamanic trance,
perhaps through various herbs, and his body was wrapped as if he were a mummy.
Then in this comatose state, his khat, or physical form, was carried on a
sledge to a tomb, perhps to the initiation tomb of Unas, and left there for
three days, essentially buried. While in
this shamanic trance, the king ascended the ladder of heaven, saw the other
souls ascending to heaven and descending to earth on that same ladder. He flew
up this ladder in his bird-like state being an akh to speak with his ancestors,
with the ascended masters, and the deities.
During this time, he was communing with
them, he received a download of the divine plan, the next order of business to
which he was to dedicate himself and his people to move civilization forward.
Obviously it must have worked to a great
degree because ancient Egyptian culture is one of the few cultures I know that
lasted for nearly 3000 years in tact. That divine plan certainly held the long
view of things.
Not simply transmuting personal karma, but
as the cultural emissary, the pharaoh transmuted the collective karma of his
people.
I need to mention here that there is a third spiritual body,
albeit a bit lower than the ba and the akh. It is the ka, the animating
principle or desire nature that resides closest to the mental and emotional
planes. Ka expresses our desires—what sustains us: food, a house, a partner,
and divine, sacred love. Its hieroglyph shows two arms outstretched in a way
that can be simultaneously viewed as prayer or grasping something. That is the desire nature that Buddha kept
telling us was going to get us into trouble. It generates a lot of karma. I want and I will get what I want… unless we learn to transmute the desire
nature by invocation to the divine, saying “This or something better.” Ka is
the energy that keeps us alive on planet earth, but it also generates karma,
which keeps us tied to planet earth. The trick is to relinquish desire for
things that are not a part of the divine plan. The ka is a servant to the akh on
this earth plane until our bodies are no longer necessary.
To summarize, your ka keeps you on this plane; your ba contains
your soul’s record, and your akh connects you to your spiritual purpose and
your highest potential.
Light is the prima
materia of Creation that emanates from the mind of God and that is what
your akh is, also called the Shining One or the Englightened One. As the
essence the spark from the fiery mind of God, the phoenix is said to be born in
eternal fire. This expanded intelligence and higher consciousness is accessible to us now whenever we engage in
work that is undertaken with and known to be of the highest clarity and
spiritual power. Our ba and akh work in concert with the divine beings, whose
very existence is based on cosmic law and order—what the Egyptians knew as ma’at.
The ba tended to
access the spiritual plane by flying through the Duat, a nether world that
might be defined as the Jungian unconscious (not the Freudian) where the
archetypes and symbols spoke to use to teach, inform, and work with us. It
contained remenants of lifetimes past as well, karmic memories that were part
of the subconscious until such time as we are able to process their messages
and relieve ourselves of them.
The akh has more direct access to spiritual knowledge, and its
wisdom is unclouded by personal attachments. One experienced the ba soul flying
through the duat, the underworld, moving from east to west in the same
direction the sun moves. In that way one gained an understanding of how to turn
death consciousness into life consciousness. That was the whole point of the
texts that became known as the Egyptian Book of the Dead.* You
can never completely understand the akh or phoenix until you have understood
the way the ba educates the soul. In the realm of the duat, one works on
personal and transpersonal issues related to the progression of the soul.
The second way of
accessing spiritual knowledge is by moving from the physical experience into
the spiritual experience through an ascension process that was depicted as the
akh bird flying into the realm of eternity. Known as Akhet (Light Land), this
realm was reached either by way of a long climb up a staircase that resembled
the stacked mastabas of the Step Pyramid, or by ascending a ladder held by both
Horus and Set, one on each side.
Once the initiate accessed the divine plan, he had to return to
this world with the Plan. The Pyramid Texts described a kind of communion rite
that was called opening the mouth, and which allowed one to ingest spiritual
food, to be nurtured by it and to bring this nurturing body of God back to his
people for distribution.
To “open the mouth”,
as the ancient rite calls it allows us in a spiritual sense to connect with the
god who spoke the world into existence. This merger of divine and human wills,
words and love defines the essence of co-creation. Adding your voice to this
process is of vital importance to the collective mind. We are reminded of the
law that “thoughts are things,” and how they manifest through the action of
speaking them and then acting on those spoken words.
But here is the trick to becoming an akh and communing with the
divine, first you have to die to your old self, like a caterpillar in a
chrysalis, like a shaman left bound in his mummy rags inside a darkened tomb
under a mound of earth. You must forget your story, your vita and all the
things you’ve accomplished. You must forgive and forget all of those people who
wounded you and all of your old errors in thinking. You must put your karma behind
you. It is the shroud in which you have hidden yourself. Burn it up and rise
like smoke as the eternal living consciousness. You must die to your old self
with no intention of coming back to the way things were.
This my friends is precisely where we are now, poised between
these eclipses in the final moments of a culture that is rapidly shifting into
something that may be unrecognizable to us even 10 or 5 years from now. It’s
happening so fast, and I don’t have to remind you of everything going on in our
world for you to see what I mean. You are already feeling it.
The phoenix partakes of a great alchemical mystery—the turning of
lead into gold, the transformation of the physical world and its desires, into
the spiritual dimension and its love wisdom. This shamanic death and rebirth
can be a messy business that involves the disintegration of the ego and
personality as we know it. But the soul knows all about death and renewal, about
maneuvering through the astral realm, and finally making its spiritual
ascension to the fully realized human.
The akh as the fully realized highest human potential taps into
the ongoing cyclical, eternal nature of our soul and its evolution through
time. The akh bird’s forté could be summarized as death-rebirth, death-rebirth,
death-rebirth, etc., and what happens between those spaces of death and
rebirth, especially during those less and less fleeting moments of
enlightenment.
The further up you fly in your
spiritual ascension on this ladder, this Tree of Life, the less you will find
yourself restricted by the physical dimension of your earthly existence. The
danger here is that you become so enthralled with the possibilities of your
spiritual bodies that you may lose the desire to work within your physical body
on the Earth plane. If you have understood, however, that the natural world is
indeed a godly and divinely embodied world, then you realize that you can’t
stop working in the physical because it is still part of the divine—there is no
other place to go. As above, so below . . . As below, so above . . . As within,
so without . . . As without, so within. It’s all one big enchilada.
I
want to make a note here that I will be leading a Ba and Akh day-long workshop
at Camp Chesterfield where I live on Sept 26th. I hope you can join
me. I say this because we can do the
work of ascension and burning up karma individually, but it elevates the planet
exponentially when we do it together. The pharaoh in his shamanic initiation
certainly had all of his priests and entourage preparing him for and awaiting
his return. All their thoughts were moving with him in unison.
Focused
consciousness creates a wave of energy that moves in a determined form.
Consciousness that is unfocused on an outcome creates particles that move in a
random pattern. We know this model from quantum physics. Observed light creates
light waves, and our minds are electrical structures. Focusing our attention on
an ideal amplifies its energy into wave forms moving in unison.
You
may also be aware of the idea of entrainment, which means that smaller
vibrations follow the pattern of the strongest vibration. All of the clocks
ticking in a room will eventually follow the rhythm of the loudest and
strongest ticking clock in that same room.
The stronger the wave form the more it leads the others. Apply that idea to consciousness and you will
understand why I believe that group work and meditations for planetary healing
are a potent use of group consciousness.Of course, every individual is a
conduit for light energy, but like-minded individuals gathered together create
a bundled channel of energies like a light-filled fiber optics cable.
The
living masters (who have no observable form on this plane) and their initiates
use the power of the one group combined with their own to exponentially raise
the energies. In particular during the full moons the ascended masters D.K. and
Kuthumi transmit their teachings to create a fellowship and empower all
humankind and planet Earth. Groups working together, meditating at the same
time with the same intention, create an even greater voltage for affecting
change. We can create a planetary change
and that work is vitally important now.
Just
as many of us consciously at work to manifest a positive change, many are
perhaps unconsciously manifesting negativity through their actions, thoughts,
and the astral realm of disharmonious emotion.
Just as we meditate to calm the warlike turmoil of an Islamic State, we
must meditate to calm the rampant materialism of our own culture. We must
combat such mind-numbing materialistic propaganda (“as seen on TV”) with
mindful meditations that set our planet on a better, more compassionate path.
The idea is for each of us to keep burning up our individual
karma and not adding to it. To regenerate our culture from the ashes in which
it now rests, we must focus our love upon the task. Wherever you are in your
life right now is a launching pad for the phoenix. As I look out, I can see
that each of you is a light worker, conscious, fully alive and working on
planetary healing. I thank you for your love of this sacred work.
