Expanded Consciousness Is Possible for Everyone (Part 2)

 

 

Many aspects of life today diverge from human experiences of past ages.  People generally have lost touch with essential metaphysical knowledge known to indigenous shamanic peoples while our 'Pop culture' has been made possible through technological inventions.  A previous blog article quoted channeled entity Yada Di Shi'ite through Mark Probert as chronicled in a 1979 case study book offering transcendental communication transcripts:
 

To those of you who have never witnessed a so-called spirit communicating through an entranced body, be assured your wonderment is due mostly because your teachings have not been in that direction.  So it is very difficult to comprehend.  Sometimes it is even frightening, awesome.  Religious teachers have let man believe there is something called the supernatural.  This means we should be very awed if not downright frightened about a condition we do not understand.

Were it not that religion bases its whole system on the belief in the supernatural, there could be no religion.  It is not only the Christian that holds with this, but every religion is based on the supernatural.

There is nothing supernatural anywhere in existence.  And when I say existence  I do not mean alone the physical world for the physical world is but a shadow of the real world.  It is an externalized image.  When we do not know this we believe the reverse.


Many people, masses of people, the whole human race go around with the eyes open and it appears that they are awake.  They're not!  They are aware only of their little outside dream and hoping it will be as they emotionally expect it to be.


By degrees we come out of our dream into a greater state of reality.  Those that leave the physical structure in what is called death, enter a plane called the astral.  The majority enter only what is called the low-level astral plane.  Are these planes stacked up out there like chips?  No!  They are merely states of awareness of this or that human being which he has taken with him as gathered on this earth plane.  Right here in this room, my friends, there are various astral levels.


It is not important that the Etherians are flying in the sky.  It is not at all important!  Unless you have found your own importance to life first.  Only then can you measure the importance of these beings.

   
Throughout the mainstream news media for decades, the Mark Probert channeling case (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) has been among the many extensively documented transcendental communication cases deemed to have no practical or commercial value as information.
  
Two years ago I first contemplated how expanded consciousness is possible for everyone in a blog article.  The concept of a shared subconscious and Superconscious Mind—an aspect of spiritual 'Oneness' and creativity among all of humanity—is confirmed by patterns of activity found in case studies of 'unexplained phenomena' as well as in other life circumstances such as bird flight flock patterns. 

Many blog articles report about how transcendental communication cases can be understood as authentic — including 'channeling' and 'Spiritualism' phenomena (incl. 1, 2, 3) along with the 'contactees' of UFOlogy.  In the preceding article it was mentioned how this blogger was guided to read The Call of the Trance (2014) by Catherine Clément — a book that has inspired a series of Pop culture articles:

"Excerpts from The Call of the Trance"

"Metaphysical Aspects of Pop Songs"

"'The Possessed' and Today's Pop Culture"

The San Francisco Chronicle on May 15 published interview commentary of a musician of the 'thrash metal band' known as Death Angel: "For Death Angel drummer, coming out of coronavirus coma was like escaping 'hell'".  The drummer Will Carroll awoke from a 12-day coma at the California Pacific Medical Center on March 30.  He became ill after a monthlong European tour in tandem with two other thrash metal bands, Testament and Exodus, also known to have members who contracted the virus.  The article reported:

Carroll’s fiancee, Leeshawn Navarro, said she could tell something was wrong after he arrived at their San Francisco apartment.  Instead of sharing tour stories and presents, he took a shower and went straight to bed — where he stayed for the next five days.

On the sixth day, March 18, Carroll had trouble breathing.  Navarro rushed him to the California Pacific Medical Center campus on Van Ness Avenue.  Chandra attended to Carroll first and recognized the symptoms — he had a temperature of 102.6 degrees and several liters of fluid in his lungs.

Will Carroll was told his best chance for survival was to be hooked up to a ventilator, which required him to be chemically paralyzed until doctors deemed him fit enough to come off it.

Carroll stayed comatose in intensive care for nearly two weeks, mostly in critical condition.  He was the worst of four patients who were in critical condition because of COVID-19, said Dr. George Horng, a pulmonologist.  Carroll’s heart failed during the first few days because the medication needed to keep him on a ventilator was so taxing on his body.


While in the coma, Carroll said he had dreams of visiting the afterlife.  He saw himself leave his body and plummet down to hell, where Satan — a woman in his case — punished him for the deadly sin of sloth, morphing him into a Jabba the Hutt-like-monster who vomited blood until he had a heart attack.


"I woke up on the hospital bed with tubes coming in and out of me, and there was a nurse right there and my first words were, ‘Am I still in hell?’”  Carroll said. “She ignored me."


Carroll, who celebrated his 47th birthday on Wednesday, May 13, said his near-death experience gave him a new outlook on life.  He now plans on living a healthier life without hard alcohol or bong rips, though he’ll still drink the occasional hard cider and narrow his marijuana use to edibles.  He also adopted a belief in a higher power; he feels the prayers from his family and friends helped him pull through.

"I’m still going to listen to satanic metal, and I still love Deicide and bands like that,” Carroll said.  “As far as for my personal life and my experience of what I went through, I don’t think Satan’s quite as cool as I used to.”

Human experiences in the 'dream state' are chronicled as showing considerable diversity.  Psychics and mediums such as Gladys Osborne Leonard, Eileen Garrett and Arthur Ford have described unique experiences from the perspective of being in an 'astral body.'

When asked about people remembering sleep experiences, 'Silver Birch' through the entranced medium Maurice Barbanell is quoted in a 1998 book: 

When your spirit is released from its body, you are freed from your brain, which is your limitation in the world of matter.  The consciousness now has experiences on our vibrations, according to your grade of evolution, and it is conscious of its experiences whilst it has them.


But if your soul is already evolved and you have reached an advanced state of consciousness, then you are aware of the spirit realms.  Then you can quite easily train the brain to remember.

 
Teachings of Silver Birch (1938) edited by A. W. Austen includes this quotation:
 

That which is called God is the natural Law of the universe.  The Great Spirit is within everything.  Everything is the Great Spirit.  Because the soul knows itself, the Great Spirit knows the soul.  Because the sparrow is the Great Spirit, the Great Spirit knows the sparrow.  Because the Great Spirit is in the trembling leaf, the trembling leaf is the Great Spirit.  Throughout the whole of your world and mine, throughout the universe, even in worlds which are not yet known to you, the Laws of the Great Spirit reign supreme.

  

Considering Pop culture, Pop songs are just one of the multitude of life activities that may arouse contemplation about the nature of creativity and inspiration.  Rock musician Tony Greve was once the lead guitarist of the group 'Pop Evil.'  He left the group to begin a Christian evangelistic ministry encompassing spiritual healing services.  He has described a transforming encounter in his hotel room with "the power of the Holy Ghost . . . Somehow I just knew that the Presence of God was with me . . . Clear as day I heard the Lord say to me . . . 'Tony,' He said, 'I created you for a relationship with Me, it will never work without Me.'"  The group Pop Evil went on to release the hit album "Onyx" with one sensational song being entitled "Deal with the Devil." 

One Pop music conundrum considered in previous articles concerns the thought impulse of singers showing their tongues — a vast preponderance of occurrences that may be easily found in photographs online.  During the 17th Century Monsieur des Niau wrote in a book about possessed nuns in Loudon (as translated and quoted in The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology 1959):
 

[At other times, the nuns] struck their chests and backs with their heads, as if they had their necks broken, and with inconceivable rapidity.  They twisted their arms at the joints of the shoulder, the elbow, or the wrist, two or three times round.  Lying on their stomachs, they joined the palms of their hands to the soles of their feet; their faces became so frightful one could not bear to look at them; their eyes remained open without winking.  Their tongues issued suddenly from their mouths, horribly swollen, black, hard, and covered with pimples, and yet while in this state they spoke distinctly.  They threw themselves back till their heads touched their feet, and walked in this position with wonderful rapidity, and for a long time.  They uttered cries so horrible and so loud that nothing like it was ever heard before.  They made use of expressions so indecent as to shame the most debauched of men, while their acts, both in exposing themselves and inviting lewd behavior from those present, would have astonished the inmates of the lowest brothel in the country.

Considering the Pop culture of today, I personally have never been interested in Heavy Metal music and wonder what the fans of this genre are thinking about the behavior and philosophies being exhibited. 
  
A Pop music conundrum mentioned in my case study Testament (1997) is the honor given by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members to composer Jerry Goldsmith with an Oscar for his score for "The Omen" with the song "Ave Satani" also being nominated for an Academy Award.  His daughter penned the lyrics for another album song that seemingly places the fantasy aspects of the horror movie in context.  The song "The Piper Dreams" includes the lyrics: "Lovely make believe that reappears somehow when every now and then the piper dreams again."

Manly P. Hall commented about his research into the history of the so-called diabolic arts in the Autumn 1974 PRS Journal:

In our time two classes of persons are involved in the perpetuation of ancient beliefs in the power of evil.  The first group and by far the largest, is made up of frightened neurotics.


Our traditional Devil with horns, goatee, cloven hooves and forked tail, is no more nor less than the great God, Pan, a pastoral deity of antiquity who liked to play his pipes among the reeds along the banks of rivers.


The other group which has found Satanism fascinating is made up of sophisticated exhibitionists.  Whether they actually believe the infernal rites they practice is of secondary consequence.  It is the morbid thrill together with the sense of power over the minds and lives of other mortals that brings satisfaction.


There is one account that the Devil cast the bronze doors of Notre Dame Cathedral, and it is also rumored that he cooperated with the architect in designing The Cathedral of Cologne.  In recent years theater, motion pictures and television have catered considerably to the basic fears in man, and it cannot be denied that horror films have a pernicious effect on both young and old.

 
Manly P. Hall wrote in The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928) about 'The Evil One' having been depicted as "either hideously deformed or else of the nature of certain despised animals."

Another Pop song mentioned in Testament is the XTC song "Dear God".  This is an example of sophisticated exhibitionism because there is the implication of the innate knowledge that God exists or the letter wouldn't have been addressed in such a way.  Just as the attempt to convey the Devil as a single figure has a droll aspect, the orientation toward God as having a singular exalted human embodiment is the baseless belief that the song is repudiating.  A central leitmotif seen in the video is that of a tree.  In When God Had a Wife (2019) by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, Bible passages are identified with the saying: "For now the axe is set at the root of the tree.  Every tree that fails to bear good fruit is chopped down and flung in the fire."  The tree is a symbol equated with holiness and wisdom, 'the Tree of Life' in Eden, 'Sophia,' 'Asherah' as "a goddess and had some connection with trees," and the goddess 'Hathor.'
 

When God Had a Wife is another book that I was recently guided to read.  I was surprised about this as a previous book by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince had showed some difficulty with placing in perspective such transcendental communication cases as The Nine, Edgar Cayce and Madame Blavatsky. 

In comparison to the contents of When God Had a Wife, in the case chronology of my experiences as a contemporary 'Christed one' I found my friend Marie's life expressing symbolic and mythologized aspects of the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdelene.  (article)  One of Marie's songs that I still vividly remember included lyrics about taking you "Beyond the Limit" (the song title).  She sometimes played small parts in movies and TV shows, including being the costume party contest winner for showing herself as having an invisible man escort in an episode of "Diff'rent Strokes."  Other contributions include the two "Addams Family" movies, "Out for Justice" (movie) and "The Twilight Zone" and "Saved By the Bell" TV shows.  Something we had in common was frustration in our preferred occupations.  She was a singer who couldn't find backing from a record company while I was a frustrated would-be screenwriter.  It's the human predicament of finding one's path in life determined by circumstances that in our case at times blatantly expressed symbolically the involvement of both the Divine will of God as well as the influence of choices and decisions made by other people.  Something she concluded about actors and actresses is: "Their lives are revealed by their movies."  In my case, aspects of my future interests and research about metaphysical aspects of life were revealed by the subjects in movies that I helped publicize.

It is the contemporary experiencer of divine revelation whose circumstances allows new insights to modern theories and conjectures about ancient mysteries.  Picknett and Prince are on a sensible track with this excerpt —

Today even among some believers, the Holy Spirit is a source of some bafflement.  (As is the concept of the Trinity as a whole.)  But its function was clear to the first Christians.  It was the force or power through which at first Jesus, and then the apostles, performed their healing and miracles.  And, of course, it ended up as part of the mysterious Trinity, along with the Father and Son.

There is enough data in the Testament accounts to address all controversies concerning the interpretation of religious mysteries and uncertainties through parallels and correlations that may be noticed.  Something that Picknett and Prince also conclude is about Jesus speaking of himself as a bridegroom:

Given Jesus's self-identification as Sophia's messenger, we can make a shrewd guess she was "the Bride."  Which is exactly what the Valentinian Gnostics—those behind the Gospel of Phillip—said.

Identifying the sources of research quotations, the authors offer some perspectives about the nature of the Being equated with the word 'Sophia':

In the Wisdom of Solomon, Sophia is "the artisan of all things" [Wisdom of Solomon 7:21], echoing her role as creator in Proverbs.  She is "God's chief agent."  [Hurtado, One God, one Lord, 44]


She is also responsible for maintaining the cosmos in good order.  Such is her creative function that in later passages even the distinction between Sophia and God becomes very blurred.  [Ringgren, Word and Wisdom, 115]


Sophia looms large in Philo's teaching, as Helmer Ringgren explains in his classic 1947 study Word and Wisdom: "Here we find Sophia as a cosmic principle, a pre-existent being, the mother and nurse of everything. . . ."  [124] 

It becomes apparent that 'Sophia' is a female variant of the term 'Christ' that became associated with Jesus the Nazarene as 'Jesus Christ.'  (incl. 1, 2, 3)   My own orientation to the 'bridegroom' metaphor is expressed in a previous article mentioning my remote viewing experiment.  
 
Each personal experience brings some form of knowledge to be placed in perspective through evaluating what has happened in comparison with all else that has become known.  In Catherine Clément's The Call of the Trance readers are reminded about the nature of the excitement generated by performers of our day.
 

Joy Sorman is describing Joey Starr of the rappers NTM in concert — "Joey's body on stage toppling, swivelling, jerking; his crippled piston of a body, mounted on ball bearings, left hanging by the 'scratch' effect, its movements first suspended, then picking up again epileptically.  With a series of breaks and suspensions, he thrashes around like a madman, writhes as a croaking shakes his body, laughs until he cries.  This isn't the spectacle of a man in a trance but a commitment to performance, a giving of himself."

And yet you'd have to describe it as a trance — "Joey is all animals: buzzard, puma, falcon, jaguar, bear, hyena, stuck pig.  He knows all their noises.  Joey Starr is a menagerie."

But no, not a trance.  Just its representation.  "Give the audience its money's worth," says Joy Sorman in this story which she titled "Noise."

  

A multitude of the famous have been photographed with their tongues protruding.  Einstein.  President Trump.  Obama too.  Tampa bay buccaneer Rob Gronkowski.  "Jeopardy" TV gameshow winner James Holzhauer.  Yet it is the singers who seem to most often embody the thought impulse.  Catherine Clément referred to the extended tongue as "the mark of the trance."  
 

The goddess Kali, who reigns over Bengal, sticks out a very long, very broad red tongue.  With her necklace of decapitated heads, her skirt of severed arms and her tigress' fangs, she frightens the Whites but not the Bengalis who call her their Mother, adore her fierce appearance and the blood dripping from the limbs she turns into baubles.
 
Why do they love her so much?