Alchemy Downloads

Forex trading is the new alchemy! But this isn't about trading, but about learning to draw and extract meaning from gestalts that parallels what is meant by this picture.

The modern version is to draw gestalts into a framework that serves as a syntactic arrangement to decode the symbols. Here's an example of a download of gestalts that creates a new format for Alchemy, also for TAROT and the Kabbalist Tree of Knowledge.

You can learn to think like an Alchemist or Kabbalist.

Dualism and Reason

This information was downloaded using a pendulum.

Download Layout:

[01] Subject - Dualism

[02] External characteristics - I-Ching

[03] Internal characteristics - Peace

[2+3] Synthesis - Language

[04] Core - Illumination

[05] Consequence - Noosphere

[06] Responsibility - Liberation

[07] Probable outcome - Literalists

[08] Conditioning - 

[09] Attitude - Dionysus

[10] Right action - Helping

[11] Qty and Quality - Development

[12] Objective - Reason

[13] Outcome - Balance

Synopsis:

The subject matter calls for a new system of reasoning to engage higher mental faculties that our current binary system can do using natural language.

It expands on this with a description of what this unconscious thing looks like by giving us Jung’s explanation of the I-Ching, which is the greatest oracle of all time. Jung wrote that we need a method of inquiry with as few conditions as possible to force Nature to give us an answer that we can interpret with our intuition.

The internal characteristic rounds this off by linking this dowsing method to the interplay of Yin and Yang to the peace in Tao. Treating the unconscious as an equal partner will bring peace, and so will restoring the balance between the two brain hemispheres through whole-brain thinking.

The synthesis of these is quite obvious as it relates to this method as an oracle that speaks out from books. It forces one to think of the learning potential in being able to access this ancient knowledge base under the direction of a higher aspect of Self that supports personal growth.

To test this we need to look at what s4 introduces as the core issue to be raised here. It refers us to the creative thinking process that has stages of incubation and illumination, which is when we upload the problem into the unconscious and then wait to download the answer when ready. Another way of stating this is when we wait on the right-brain hemisphere to finish processing the problem and to relay the answer back to consciousness under mysterious circumstances. The core issue here is that this process is hardly ever acknowledged, even at creativity conferences, because of a fear of the unconscious. This fear stems from a prejudice against right-brain thinking that has been around for thousands of years, which the majority of people are not aware of. One must first become aware of this prejudice.

As a consequence (of s1-4) we get directed to Pierre de Chardin’s notion of the Noosphere as the collective consciousness of our planet that contains ‘super-vision and super-ideas’. It makes us aware of the fact that others have already given this collective database a name, and it is not the internet. This is about becoming aware of a parallel Net, a mental one, a supermind.

In s6 we get a look at our responsibility, which is to liberate ourselves from the conditioning that prevents us from seeing the truth of our interconnectedness and the true realization of this natural state.

The sad reality of the current paradigm is that the Literalists will continue hold sway over the masses (s7) as the probable outcome. To change this we need a breakthrough in how we communicate with the unconscious Mind.

The download offers a way to overcome the conditioning (in s8) and the attitude (in s9) to adopt to help bring this all about. Our belief systems reflect a conditioning that separates us from our pagan nature so it is fitting that we are advised to adopt a Dionysian attitude.

This leads us to the right action one should take, and here in s10 we get told that helping "typically involves learning, as in unlearning, relearning, new learning.

In terms of just how much helping is required we get insight in the paradox of modern life from Marx. There is a balance to strive for.

This is supported by the objective for taking this action, which is to develop the faculty of reason to arrive at objectivity. Fromm believed that if one's capacity for reason is restricted or damaged, its use in all other sectors will create illusionary perceptions.

In s13 the final outcome is about realizing one’s personal destiny. This fits with the ancient teachings that we are wiped clean of any knowledge of our destiny at birth. It is only by working with the unconscious mind that one can actively participate in following this path.

This download introduces a new method with which to engage one’s unconscious in a more transparent and meaningful way. It opens us up to Self-directed knowledge.

[01] Dualism

Subject s[01] is DUALISM: This is great start for using a pendulum. It suggests that the download will deal with the limitations of language and how this dowsing method offers raises unconscious knowledge.

Charles Hoy Fort … he is attacking the mental structure of civilized man. He is completely out of sympathy with the two-stroke motor which is the driving power of modern reasoning. Two strokes: Yes and No, Positive and Negative, Modern knowledge and modern intelligence are based on this binary system …

Where Fort is opposed to Descartes is in his insistence that we should envisage the general from an angle which would allow the particular to be defined in its relation thereto, in such a way that every object or thing would be seen as intermediaries between other things.

What he demands is a new mental structure, capable of recognizing as real the intermediate states between the yes and the no … In other words, a system of reasoning which is higher than binary and would be, as it were , a third eye for the intelligence. To express what this third eye perceives, language (which is a binary product, an organized conspiracy and limitation) is not sufficient.

[ & Bergier J. The Morning of the Magicians, 1979, Publishing]

[02] I Ching

The external characteristics is to be found in the symbol s[02] I CHING, which introduces the Chinese way of thinking to the problem raised in the subject s[01]:

The exact method of divining is explained … Jung's description of this process is reprinted here (Jung and Pauli,1955) … The I Ching, which we can well call the experimental basis of classical Chinese philosophy, is one of the oldest known methods for grasping a situation as a whole and thus placing the details against a cosmic background - the interplay of Yin and Yang. This grasping of the whole is obviously the aim of science as well, but it is a goal that necessarily lies very far off because science, whenever possible proceeds experimentally and in all cases statistically …

The workings of nature in her unrestricted wholeness are completely excluded. If we want to know what these workings are, we need a method of enquiry which imposes the fewest possible conditions, or if possible no conditions at all, and then leaves Nature to answer out of her fullness. …

Chinese sages … supposed that the same living reality was expressing itself in the psychic state as in the physical. But in order to verify such a hypothesis, some limiting condition was needed in this apparently limitless experiment, namely a definite form of physical procedure, a method or technique which forced Nature to answer in even and odd numbers … this naturally presupposes an intuitive knowledge of the meaning of each oracle figure …

The interpretations formulate the inner unconscious knowledge that corresponds to the state of unconsciousness at the moment, and this psychological situation coincides with the chance result of the method …

The method, like all divinatory or intuitive techniques, is based on an acausal or synchronistic connective principle. 

[Hook D.ff. The I-Ching and You, 1973, Routledge & Kegan Paul]

[03] Peace

Symbol s[03] is PEACE: it may refer to the dualistic relationship between the two brain hemispheres that is also male:female and how harmony is restored when communication respects the unconscious (read as also mute right brain) as an equal partner.

Peace. (Yang supporting Yin and going to meet each other …)

[Hook D.ff. The I-Ching and You, 1973, Routledge & Kegan Paul]

[02+03] Synthesis – Language

The SYNTHESIS s[2+3] relates to the limitations of language that must be addressed if we are to learn a language of symbols that can allow us to interpret unconscious knowledge. It relates to the harmony of thought generated by whole-brain thinking - Peace of Mind.

[04] Illumination

For the Core Issue in s[04] we are given the symbol ILLUMINATION. This stage of the creative process depends largely on invoking a meditative state of mind to receive this type of thought.

The Creative Process. All creativity means is the use of the imagination to produce some new thing … What makes high creativity so elusive is that, in general, we do not know how to evoke the state of mind in which we can easily make new, unique, and useful associations between ideas … creative expression is a process. Inspirations … in a flash of illumination …

Herman Helmholtz first described the stages … saturation, incubation, and illumination… Incubation begins when a problem solver gives up actively trying to solve the problem, handing it over to the realm of the unconscious … will then give birth to illumination …

Elmer and Alyce Green, biofeedback researchers … The entrance, or key, to all these inner processes [is] a particular state of consciousness in which the gap between conscious and unconscious processes is voluntarily narrowed, and temporarily eliminated when useful. When that self-regulated reverie is established, the body can apparently be programmed at will, and the instructions given will be carried out, emotional state can be dispassionately examined, accepted or rejected, or totally supplanted by others deemed more useful, and problems insoluble to the normal state of consciousness can be elegantly resolved.  

[LaBerge S. & Rheingold H. Exploring the world of Lucid Dreaming, 1990, Ballantine]

[05] Noosphere    

As a consequence s[05] we get the symbol NOOSPHERE. Teilhard stated that our biological evolution is giving rise to special forces that are a psychic phenomenon of hominisation; that this has created a dimension of 'thinking substance' that he called the Noosphere. This fits perfectly with the goal of Mx, which is to tap into this collective Brain.

The Formation of the Noosphere: c) The cerebral apparatus. Between the human brain, with its milliards of inter-connected nerve cells, and the apparatus of social thought, with its millions of individuals thinking collectively, there is an evident kinship … On the one hand we have a single brain, formed of nervous nuclei, and on the other a Brain of brains … the 'cerebroid' organ of the Noosphere … a synthesis … a vault above our heads, a sphere of mutually reinforced consciousness, the seat, support and instrument of super-vision and super-ideas … it is on a higher level than the individual that everything achieves its fulfillment.    
[de Chardin P.T. The Future of Man, 1969, Books]

[06] Liberation     

The responsibility in s[06] is to free oneself from the causes of suffering, and to work at understanding life from an awakened perspective using the unconscious knowledge that rises into awareness.

Liberation: Jamgon Kontrul: " … The cause for liberation is unconditioned insight, the true realization of the natural state that is free of ego-clinging, which has the capacity to eliminate all negative emotional states. The cause of this true insight is one pointed samadhi … the cause of samadhi, which is the utterly pure discipline of renunciation. Thus, right now, in order to free myself from samsara, I will stick to the discipline, train in samadhi, and generate true insight in the sense of understanding the meaning of impermanence, suffering, emptiness and egolessness." …

In other words, we want to be free of samsara, of all samsaric states, the causes of which are the three poisons of ignorance, attachment and aggression.

[Edited by Schmidt M.B. Skillful Grace, Tara Practice for our Times, 2007, Rangjung Yeshe Publications]

[07] Literalists

The probable outcome s[07] is that humankind will continue down the bloody path that LITERALISTS have carved out over the centuries unless we start to push back against intolerant religions and try to reclaim what was lost. To do this we need a breakthrough in how we communicate with the unconscious Mind.

The Destruction of Gnosticism: In response to the continuing popularity of Gnosticism the Roman Church set out to unify Christianity by force … In 381 Theodosius finally made heresy a crime against the state. Gnostics writings were condemned as a 'hotbed of manifold perversity" which 'should not only be forbidden, but entirely destroyed and burned with fire'.  All philosophical debate was entirely suppressed …

Inherent Intolerance: Although modern Christianity is made up of countless diverse sects with opposing approaches … are fundamentally shaped by the triumph of Literalism in the fourth century …

The wanton destruction of our Pagan heritage is the greatest tragedy in the history of the Western world. The scale of what was lost is hard to comprehend. Pagan mysticism and scientific enquiry were replaced by dogmatic authoritarianism. The Roman Church imposed its creed with threats and violence, denying generations of human beings the right to think their own thoughts and find their personal route to spiritual salvation … (we ask) why was Pagan civilization replaced by the 1,000 years we appropriately call the 'Dark Ages'?  

[Freke T. & Gandy P. The Jesus Mysteries, 2000, Thorsons]

[08]

The conditioning in s[8] relates to and brings up an interesting problem that the collective unconscious which controls human behaviour, remains unchanged by civilization. The conditioning that I believe we need to overcome involves changing that which we can, the belief systems that prevent us from allowing for our pagan nature.

The crystal is a fascinating phenomenon in physical nature. Its structure, like that of an archetype, is transcendental, a noumenon: the eternally existing pattern of any class of things, of which the individual things in that class are imperfect copies, and from which they derive their existence. (Plato's Primordial Idea) …

In the same way that the structure of a crystal can be imagined and derived from an actual crystal, the psychology of an archetype can be derived from psychic utterances llike dreams and visions …   

[Edited by Mason & Stanely. Quest, 1975, Analytical Psychology Club]

[09] Dionysus

The attitude in s[09] is that of DIONYSUS, which supports the preceding point in offering a fresh perspective on Nietzsche's work.

What I Owe to the Ancients … the still rich and even overflowing Hellenic instinct, that wonderful phenomenon which bears the name of Dionysus: … For it is only in the Dionysian mysteries, in the psychology of the Dionysian state, that the basic fact of the Hellenic instinct finds expression—its “will to life.” …

I know no higher symbolism than this Greek symbolism of the Dionysian festivals. Here the most profound instinct of life, that directed toward the future of life, the eternity of life, is experienced religiously—and the way to life, procreation, as the holy way. It was Christianity, with its ressentiment against life at the bottom of its heart, which first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the presupposition of our life …

Saying Yes to life even in its strangest and hardest problems, the will to life rejoicing over its own inexhaustibility even in the very sacrifice of its highest types—that is what I called Dionysian.    

[Nietzsche F. Twilight of the Idols, 1972, Penguin Books]

[10] Helping

When faced with overcoming conditioning and the right attitude to adopt, it is fitting that we get HELPING as the right-action to take in s[10]:

Helping as an Education Process: Another way of looking at the goal of helping is client learning. As Strupp (1986) puts it, helping "typically involves learning (unlearning, relearning, new learning), which may take many different forms …

 The outcomes may manifest themselves as changes in cognitions, feeling, or behaviour (or some combination of these)" (p. 124).

Helping is thus an education process whose goal is learning. An excellent definition of learning is this: Learning takes place when options are increased. If the collaboration between helpers and clients is successful, clients learn in very practical ways. They have more "degrees of freedom" in their lives as they open up options and take advantage of them. … Every helping interview can be seen as an opportunity to help clients develop more options in their lives.

A poet once described the lot of people to be "cabined, cribbed, and confined."

At its best, helping enables clients to learn to open doors, to throw off chains, to stretch.

[Egan G. The Skilled Helper, 1990, Brooks/Cole Publishers]

[11] Development

For the quantity and quality aspects in position s[11] we get DEVELOPMENT. Note the references to archetypes and Dionysus as covered in s[8 & 9], and the paradox.

Marcuse's criticism of Marx … where Marx's favorite is attacked … : Prometheus is the culture-hero of toil, productivity, and progress through repression … the trickster and (suffering) rebel against the gods, who creates culture at the price of perpetual pain. He symbolizes productiveness, the unceasing effort to master life. … Prometheus is the archetypal hero of the performance principle.

Marcuse proceeds to nominate alternate mythological figures, whom he considers more worthy of idealization: Orpheus, Narcissus, and Dionysus … [They] stand for a very different reality. … Theirs is the image of joy and fulfillment, the voice that does not command but sings, the deed which is peace and ends the labor of conquest …

If Marx is fetishistic about anything, it is not work and production but rather the far more complex and comprehensive ideal of development - "the free development of physical and spiritual energies" (1844 manuscripts); "development of a totality of capacities in the individuals themselves" (German Ideology); … "the universality of individual needs, capacities, pleasures, productive forces, etc." (Grundrisse); "the fully developed individual" (Capital). … Marx wants to embrace Prometheus and Orpheus …

The great gift he can give us today, it seems to me, is not a way out of the contradictions of modern life but a surer and deeper way into these contradictions. He knew that the way beyond the contradictions would have to lead through modernity, not out of it. He knew that we must start where we are: psychically naked, stripped of all religious, aesthetic, moral haloes and sentimental veils, thrown back on our individual will and energy, forced to exploit each other and ourselves in order to survive; and yet, in spite of all, thrown together by the same forces that pull us apart, dimly aware of all we might be together, ready to stretch ourselves to grasp new human possibilities, to develop identities and mutual bonds that can help us hold together as the fierce modern air blows hot and cold through us all.   

[Berman M. All that is solid melts into air, 1987, Verso]

[12] Reason

In s[12] we get insight into the desired objective for the right-action, which is to develop the human faculty of REASON. There is an important distinction between reasoning and intelligence that fits brilliantly with the rest.

But even if man's frame of orientation is utterly illusory, it satisfies his need for some picture which is meaningful to him … the picture of the world which he has depends on the development of his reason and of his knowledge … it takes a long evolutionary process to arrive at objectivity … Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man. Reason is a faculty which must be practiced, in order to develop, and it is indivisible … If one lives in illusions about one sector of life, one's capacity for reason is restricted or damaged, and thus the use of reason is inhibited with regard to all other sectors. Reason in this respect is like love.

[Fromm E. The Sane Society, 1991, Routledge]

[13] Balance

The symbol for the final outcome s[13] is BALANCE, which relates perfectly to the download as a whole. I think this reads well for a first attempt using the pendulum, I'm happy :)

Finding balance is key to the success of any karmic journey. Grappling with the challenges of life often means that we have to reconcile conflicting energies. Each of the karmic paths seems to require finding the middle between two concepts that often appear to be unrelated or mutually exclusive.  Resolving this paradox is part of the journey … Working with a paradox causes one to move outside the framework of ordinary perceptions or notions of logic and can bring the student to new levels of awareness …

It is important to develop the objectivity to gather the fruits of the lessons as you encounter them. Otherwise life may seem meaningless or, worse, hopeless.   

[Goldschneider G. & Elffers J. The Secret Language of Destiny]

Finding answers with a pendulum

Q&A using a dowsing method

[01] Subject - Dialectics

[02] External - Transformative power

[03] Internal - Body language

[2+3] Synthesis - Philosophical technique

[04] Core - Atlantis

[05] Consequence - Neuroses

[06] Responsibility - Answers

[07] Predictable outcome - Indifference

[08] Conditioning -

[09] Attitude - Toning

[10] Right action - Metaphor

[11] Quality and Quantity - Drawing lines

[12] Objective - States of consciousness

[13] Possible outcome - Q and A

Synopsis:

This download refers to Socrates' dialectical method, but for questioning the genius within, which is what he was doing in a round about way by submitting to a higher source. The problem with asking questions is that it activates a transformative power that will challenge one’s beliefs. Linked to this is an unconscious ability to read emotional expressions that must be raised in a synthesis to something like the Philosopher’s Stone that one can use to navigate the change process. The link with emotions has to do with overcoming one’s own fears and also those of others.

The core issue suggests that Atlantis is another name for the universal Mind we seek, and that automatic writing will help get the answers. The problem with this method is that one can produce thousands of pages of nonsense, so it needs to be improved on to enable one to tap into the collective database of knowledge for specific references and answers.

The consequence of inviting change introduces a state of ambivalence in which one must learn to accept the coexistence of opposing attitudes and feelings that challenges one’s commitment. The responsibility one then has is to learn to listen for the subtle clues in the answers we receive that can help with navigating the Path. The probable outcome is being left with the question of what the ‘right action’ is at any given step on the path, and of how to solve this.

The conditioning to overcome suggests the use of quartz crystal (pendulum) to communicate with inner guides or heart mind etc. The right attitude supports the view that there are natural energy channels in our body that one must use to stay healthy.

The right action to take is to stimulate and train one’s imagination using mixed metaphors, which is to engage right-brain thinking, using language to raise consciousness. The quantity and/or quality aspect of the right action is a problem of where lines are to be drawn. The answer one gets from the other side is a clue that depends on the reason for the transfer of knowledge which in hindsight may appear as wisdom. The objective of any right action relates to it having deeper significance, linking dreaming to day dreams, to visualization, to right brain thinking, that should be supported into the waking state. There is a new state of consciousness to explore here.

The final outcome suggests developing an effective Q&A system using the pendulum.

Details:

[01] Dialectics

The subject is Socrates' method of DIALECTICS. Where it refers to ‘others’ we should include the internal guides etc.

By the middle of the fifth century the Sophist was the popular image of a philosopher … I'm sure it was important for him to distance himself from the Sophists and to maintain his own image and independence … Sophists only talked for money … Socrates' method of question and answer [see s13], the dialectical method, may have even developed as a response … setting up a method in which he wants only to ask questions of others, not to answer them himself … had no need to act like the other wise men.

Forstater M. The Living Wisdom of Socrates, 2004, Hodder and

[02] Transformative Power

The external characteristic is an attitude change in one's faith that can be attributed to the divine energy.

The Transformative Power of the Divine Energy: The fear of the supernatural and antipathy towards religion that had been constantly present during the first few months had partially disappeared … From a devotee, I had become an inveterate enemy of faith … turned into a rank atheist … In the early stages, desperately engaged in a neck-and-neck race, with death on one side and insanity on the other.

G. Living with Kundalini, 1993, Shambhala Publications

[03] Body Language

The internal characteristic to look for relates to the unconscious reading of body language.

The Man of Seven Thousand Faces: Paul Ekman … landmark finding in the understanding of the universal nature of the expression of emotions. That led him to a serious reading of Darwin, who long ago had proposed just that universality … Paul set out to build that system … Facial anatomy allows about seven thousand visually distinct combinations of those muscles … Facial Action Coding System.

Goleman D. Destructive Emotions, 2003,

[2+3] Synthesis

This refers to a philosophical technique found in alchemy that one can use to navigate the changing attitude during the transformation process. And, just as Jung developed Active Imagination, so we need to continue to improve these methods of inquiry. This download suggests to me that I need to work on developing a system that will allow a person to use a pendulum to find answers in a library.

[04] Atlantis

The symbol ATLANTIS as the core issue is a metaphor for the higher state of consciousness.

Did Atlantis really exist on earth? Does Atlantis exist already as a state of awareness [see s12] slightly more advanced than any now on earth, but on a higher vibratory, yet earthlike level? If so, is Atlantis yet to come to earth? Is man seeking Atlantis in the wrong direction, by looking into the past rather than into the future? … Atlantis could, itself, be another name for Mind. Is man matter or mind, or both? If man is a dweller on two plane(t)s, how long must he remain so, and how can he best live with his own duality? Automatic writing will help you gain many answers.

Parrott W.S. Understanding Automatic Writing, 1974, Sherbourne Press Inc.

[05] Neuroses

As a consequence one needs to be aware of the creative ways in which the mind works with neuroses.

Let us turn to the obsessional neuroses in the hope of learning more about the formation of symptoms … fall into two groups, each having an opposite trend. They are either prohibitions … negative in character … or … substitute satisfactions which often appear in symbolic disguise … The symptom-formation scores a triumph if it succeeds in combining the prohibition with satisfaction so that what was originally a defensive command or prohibition acquires the significance of a satisfaction as well; and in order to achieve this end it will often make use of the most ingenious associative paths. Such an achievement demonstrates the tendency of the ego to synthesize … In extreme cases the patient manages to make most of his symptoms acquire, in addition to their original meaning, a directly contrary one. This is a tribute to the power of ambivalence.

Freud S. Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, 1961, The Hogarth Press Ltd.

Definition of ambivalence is (a) the coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings toward a person, object, or idea. (b) uncertainty or indecisiveness as to which course to follow. [see s07: indifference].

[06] Answers

It is one's responsibility to learn to respond to the subtle clues from higher consciousness:

We thought back over the day's long journey, attempting to marshal it in reversed images. What would have happened … (if)? … what would have happened had we not responded … And still we have no answer to this question, other than in the clue found in the fragmentary gospels now called the The Acts of John. The Disciple cries out, 'I would flee.' The Master says, 'I would rather have you stay.' The angels, no less than the Master, are not permitted to issue imperative commands. However, it seems that they may warn or persuade us with signs and wonders, even if these are no more substantial than … (whatever).

Ovason D. The Zelator, The Secret Journals of Mark Hedsel, 1999, Arrow Books Limited

[07] Indifference

For the probable outcome we get the symbol INDIFFERENCE. Note how the paragraph ends with a question on how best to act.

One can draw so-called indifference curves, i.e. lines joining the points in the coordinate system representing alternatives to which the person in question is indifferent. Given certain assumptions about preferences, these curves are always convex with respect to the origin; and a part of the person's preference system is that, of all the curves he might possibly find himself on, he prefers that which is furthest from the origin. The question now is how a reasonable or rational person who wants to maximize his well-being or utility should behave in this situation.

Ontological Investigations, 1989, Routledge.

[08]

The conditioning one needs to overcome in is given in the symbol . Note the reference to communicating with angels, and the energy fields that shape our actions.

: Aldous Huxley … had his own theory. Precious stones are precious because they remind us of the glittering vistas of the inner worlds, pregnant with light and colour. … but quartz crystals are unique. Their inner and outer aspects are identical , the only known structures on our planet to exhibit this characteristic … Elizabethan magicians John Dee and Edward Kelly attempted to communicate with angels, they did so with the aid of a crystal shewstone … Russian scientists … 1960s … explored the possibility that the Earth itself is a giant crystal. According to this theory, a crystalline lattice, providing a matrix for cosmic energy, may have formed part of the original structure of our emerging planet. More exciting still, this structure can still be seen in twelve pentagonal slabs covering the surface of the globe … has influenced diverse phenomena as magnetic anomalies, earth faults, volcanoes, mineral and oil deposits … even the siting of ancient civilizations.   

Campbell E. & Brennan J.H. Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit, 1994, The Aquarian Press.   [see s9 for natural energy channels in the body]

[09] Toning

The need to change an attitude is given by the symbol TONING:

I tone, therefore I am "… We do leave a tone by the sound of our voice and the feel of our actions, an impression that may be remembered long after our messages are forgotten." -Guidepost.

As adults, many of us have lost touch with our voice as an expressive tool. We aren't as unselfconscious or spontaneous as we were as children. But if we only try, we can do amazing things with our vocal equipment … I realized that to enter the world of sustained vowel sounds - to begin toning … meaning to make sound with an elongated vowel for an extended period, it dates back to the fourteenth century … And, in 1973, Laurel Elizabeth Keyes wrote a simple and intuitive book called Toning: The Creative Power of the Voice … "There are natural channels in the energy in our body, and if we recognize and learn to flow with them, they will keep us healthy."

Campbell D. The Mozart Effect, 1997, Books

[10] Metaphor

This symbol represents the right-action to take.

Robert Graves and Alan Hodge go some way towards defining a more 'permissive' attitude [see s8]. 'A ready test of the legitimacy of a metaphor', they say, 'is whether it can be illustrated even in fantastic caricature or diagram.' … Mixed metaphors are apt to train the imagination to its furthest limits. Why do we mix them so often? Writers in other ages were far more versatile than us in the use and exploitation of imagery. Language, for the Elizabethans, was very much alive, something to be manipulated and gloried in.      

Lawrence J. Mix me A metaphor, 1972, Gentry Books Limited

[11] Drawing a Line

This symbol is apt because it raises the problem experienced at this point, which is to find the line between not enough and too much, between nurturing and spoiling, between corrective and abusive etc.

How will a clear dividing line be drawn between two … The answer to this question is uncertain … " a reason related to a transfer"    

Van Zyl rudd, Labour Law Review, 2005, Van Zyl Rudd & Assoc.

[12] States of Consciousness

The symbol sleep, as the objective, introduces another state that continues to influence our cognitive processes after we wake up.

… experiment, conducted by Fiss, Klein, and Bokert … to study the interrelations of waking and sleeping states … The results strongly suggest that the distinguishing properties of a sleep stage are not "switched-off" following awakening but may persist into the waking state … On the basis of … and NREM sleep differ sharply with respect to cognitive qualities and … are two distinct states, subject to separate regulative mechanisms.   

 Jones R.M. The New Psychology of Dreams, 1974, The Viking Press

[13] Q and A

Finally, we go back to existing methods that we simply have to build on. Note how this links back to the first symbol, that of Socrates' Q&A method. It is these links that make us aware of a higher mind at work directing what we need to become aware of within the limited focal point we call conscious awareness.

Mental questions, or the 'YES' / 'NO' system … is effectively for the pendulum only, for only the pendulum has the necessary range of reactions, precision and speed of reply.    

Graves T. Dowsing, 1980, Granada Publishing Ltd

Primal Therapy

The subject of this download has to do with practicing to connect to a PRIMAL EVENT s[1].

Primal therapy: … with a sudden flash of re-experience of some old scene is usually followed by a period of calm and floods of insight into the relevance of the Primal. … It is also important to realize that thought it may seem as if the bias factor is quite unlike the other two controls, mathematically it is qualitatively no different to the normal … The practice of Primal Therapy appears to consist of taking the patient repeatedly through this loop of anxiety, terror and panic, connection, grief, anguish, and recovery.  

Postel D. Catastrophe Theory, 1980,

The external aspect that one needs to find is contained in the symbol MEANING-MAKING s[2].

Presenting one's work to the world and saying " I am an …" requires great courage … fear of emotional consequences. … Another positive reaction would be counter-interpretation on her part that demonstrates that although my take on her situation was wrong, thinking about it helped clarify her own perspective. In either case, the next step would be to figure out what to do to turn her new clarity into intentional action. You are what you think. Meaning-making is impossible if your thoughts lead you about by the nose, if you have no way to dispute your negative thoughts, and if you can’t penetrate to the real thoughts and feelings behind your customary expressions. … Train yourself to look behind your words to discover what you actually mean. 

Maisal E. The Van Gogh Blues, 2002, Rodale Ltd.

That which is inside this puzzle is the DOUBT-MASS s[3] of the Zen Koan.

The individual with a genuine thirst for enlightenment is driven by an unremitting and powerful compulsion. It is not a passive and intellectual curiosity that drives a person to seek his or her own True-nature but a total and dynamic force. The practice of meditation gradually enables us to remove our chains, to step away from our fears, transcend our condition and move out willingly into the light of day. … We can lead a spiritual life in the world when it is a life guided by indwelling spiritual principles and not dictated by convenient and self-centred interests. We transform the quality of our lives as we consciously acknowledge our place in the whole and become attuned to the principles and patterns of life itself. … In Zen it is said that the quickest way to awakening is to struggle with a 'doubt-mass', a perplexing problem which ceaselessly seeks resolution. The Zen Koan is designed to precipitate such a doubt-mass and create the conditions in which the enlightenment will break through.

Humphrey N. Meditation the , 1987, Aquarian Press

The SYNTHESIS s[2+3] relates to the Mx system again, to the therapeutic aspects as well as language.

Mx therapy method and the trial.

The core issue is the confirmatory MARKER s[4] that is necessary to confirm the integrity of the download. This is a interesting idea that downloads are somehow linked to each other as in secret cipher text.

decryption method … He keeps this up until he either satisfies himself that the word is not embedded … Entering the garden … By the mid to late 1980s, all the principles contained in the above example had been identified in the Bible Code.

·         Genesis could be treated … as a "cipher-text" containing some kind of "plaintext."

·         The plaintext was apparently constructed by utilizing successive letters in the cipher-text …

·         The content of the plain-text was not an additional message, but a confirmatory mark indicating the unity and integrity of the cipher-text.

·         The content appeared in the form of a statistical tendency … at a greater frequency than should occur by chance. …

·         but as the research proceeded, it seemed that two or more different but related words could be found as ELSs, "in unusually close proximity" to one another. …

The "garden" of meaning hidden within the Torah was designed upon a set of principles only hinted at in the ancient manuscripts.   

Satinover J. The Truth Behind the Bible Code, 1997, Sidgwick & Jackson

As a consequence of the unfolding issue contained within s[1-4] one gets EXPERIMENT in s[5]:

Experiment - N. … research (investigation) 461: trial, tentative method, verification, probation, experimentum crucis, proof, criterion, diagnostic, test, tryout, crucial test, acid test. Crucible, reagent, check, touchstone … empiricism, rule of thumb,, feeler; pilot -, messenger … V. submit to the test, - proof, prove, verify, test, touch, practise upon, try one's strength.  

Roget P.M. Roget's Thesaurus, 1972, The No.1 Publishing Co.

Naturally, one has the responsibility to share the knowledge on how to revive an innate mental faculty, so the issue of OWNERSHIP s[6] must be addressed:

… research institutions in any society, whether rich or poor, bestow incalculable benefits upon private enterprise - benefits for which private enterprise does not pay directly as a matter of course, but only indirectly by way of taxes, which, … are resisted, resented, campaigned against, and often skillfully avoided. … The truth is that a large part of the costs of private enterprise has been borne by the public authorities - because they pay for the infrastructure - and that the profits of private enterprise therefore greatly overstate its achievement. … The … He decided to introduce "revolutionary changes" in his firm, "based on a philosophy which attempts to fit industry to human needs." … transformation of ownership …

Schumacher E.F. Small is Beautiful, 1975, Perennial Library

For possible outcome we has DIET s[7]: this makes sense in two ways; first as a marker referred to in s[4] that links DIET with that of the previous download in the same position; and then also in terms of responsibility s[6] that includes the heart and stomach minds etc.

It's an awe-inspiring feeling to pull a brain out of a cadaver. You can't help but reflect: this is it, heavy in my hands, the seat of the self. … arteries … filled up with tough yellow gunk.  "Big Macs," said the anatomy professor … Atherosclerosis is really the result of multiple factors. How much and how fast it builds up in our arteries depends on diet, lipid profile (especially ), activity, stress, hypertension, smoking, diabetes, and a bunch of different genes.

Victoroff J. Saving Your Brain, 2003, Bantam Books

The first step is to overcome one's conditioning, which is represented by the symbol DETACHMENT s[8]:

There is a law which is called the Law of Detachment. According to this law, the Spirit in man must eventually realize the following: 1. He is not the physical form. 2. He should use his form without becoming the form of being controlled by any other forms. It is this law that lets people advance toward their purpose. When people violate this law, the whole chain of misery and complication starts in their lives and environment, and their progress is retarded. … Instead, he must refine more and more his outer form, or the forms around him, until the glory of Spirit manifests in Its totality, transforming form into Spirit or making form serve Spirit.

Saraydarian T. The Purpose of Life, 1991, T.S.G. Publishing Foundation

One's attitude towards change relates to acknowledging IGNORANCE s[9]:

The Paradox - Bohm's Interpretation: Instead of arguing about interpretations of quantum mechanics, he reformulated the underlying mathematics. … Bohm's scheme was to endow the wave functions with physical meaning. To him it was not just a mathematical gadget that operated 'behind the scenes' - it was out there on centre stage along with the particles and waves themselves … we can't measure anything directly; what we do is infer its properties from coherent theories of how the universe works. … Quantum indeterminacy is not a sign of anything irreducibly probabilistic about the universe, but a sign of the inescapable ignorance of the observer, human or otherwise. … that superposition loses most of its meaning. A combination of wave functions is just another wave function. … Panda Principle holds that once something has become established, it cannot easily be displaced by something else, even if the alternative offers advantages.

Stewart I. Does God Play Dice? 1990, Penguin Books

The right action one needs to take here is VISION s[10] i.e. meditating on a future event.

Distant place, and forward time. With your eyes closed, take a breath and return to a state of deep relaxation. Let your mind wander forward to a time in the future.

Zdenek, M. The Right Brain Experience,  1986, Corgi Books

The quantity or quality of effort required is given in the symbol HOPE s[11]:

the Is, the Existence means the attitude which we call 'eternal'. From this point of view, it is clear that our bodies, those of everyone else and the planet's, together with the apparent universe, do not posses, and cannot posses the pure attribute of Existence, … Hope, the power which motivates us to seek and thereby allows us to find, is not directed to any of the conceptions which are incompatible with our now explained term of being, of true Existence, of Is. … What is the true origin of Hope? This power is mostly used unconsciously, as a ready result of some unknown factors. In our opinion these factors can be: a flash of intuition in us, plus dimmed awareness of our karma’s clichés. … motive power.

Sadhu M. Samadhi, 1980, Unwin Paperbacks

The right action has the following objective: VISION and PERSEVERENCE s[12]

Built their entrepreneurial dream by doing what they love. … (marketing) getting people to buy into the concept … persevering …

Patricio A. Up & Running, 2000, Massive Publishing

Final outcome relates to relying less on computers and calculators, and more on the brain. This supports the notion that one needs to develop mind to counter technology. NEUROLOGISTICAL EXERCISES s[13]:  

This is an unscheduled reminder not to use pen and paper. … (the idea is to be more alert while performing daily tasks, and to learn to think more simply and more effectively).

Buttkwitz H. Be Alert, 1995, Dymcor Publications

Linguistics and Spontaneous Language

The first symbol introduces LINGUISTICS [01], the scientific study of language, and probably relates to what we are using to decode this download. It refers to two types of mind that one needs, which may only relate to the R1 type of the NBI brain profile, the right-brain cortex.

To study Linguistics, in short, one has to be a bit if a schizophrenic. One has to have two kinds of mind: the analytic, jig-saw puzzle mind, on one hand, which will enable one to enjoy looking at a mass of language data and trying to discern patterns there; and the speculative, imaginative mind, which allows one to think about some of the more philosophical and theoretical issues in language.  [Crystal D. 1974, What is Linguistics?, Edward Arnold]

           

The surface of a fresh LIVER [02] can reflect images like a mirror. I went looking for an alchemical reference to mirror and found in

Jung's Psychology and Alchemy vol. 12 p110: an awareness of the two sides of man's personality is essential, of their respective aims and origins. These two aspects must never be separated through arrogance or cowardice. The "mirror" as an "indispensable  instrument of navigation" doubtless refers to the intellect, which is able to think and is constantly persuading us to identify ourselves with its perceptions ("reflections"). … it is indeed man's indispensable guide on pathless seas. … There is an etching by Rembrandt of Faust before the magic mirror.

Plato’s Timaeus: The liver is part of the soul which desires meat and drink … And knowing that this lower principle in man would not comprehend reason, and even if attaining to some degree of perception would never naturally care for rational notions, but that it would be led away by phantoms and visions night and day - to be remedy for this, God combined it with the liver. … in order that the power of thought … might be reflected as in a mirror … when some gentle inspiration of the understanding pictures images of an opposite character, … corrects all things and makes them to be right and smooth and free, and renders the portion of the soul which resides about the liver happy and joyful, enabling it to pass the night in peace, and to practice divination in sleep. … liver is the seat of divination. … the spleen … keeping the liver bright and pure - … clean the mirror.  [ Netherworld, 2003, Arrow Books]

           

The third symbol confirms the association of liver-mirror-intellect by linking with the evolution of EGO-CONSCIOUSNESS [03] as the internal characteristic.

We must now understand an important event which then took place when man assumed human form, for without this understanding one cannot comprehend the Apocalypse of St. John; … Up to this event when man passed into human soul-nature, something was totally hidden from his vision which was later revealed. Man had a kind of dim, hazy consciousness. … when he went to sleep he was in the spiritual world. This appeared to him as pictures … With the acquisition of the first germ of ego-consciousness man first became aware of sex. … Adam and Eve … evolution … If with spiritual vision you look back to the time which preceded that time, you see only that part of man which is the instrument of the spirit.

 [Steiner R. 1977, The Apocalypse of ]

The synthesis is the potential of one's 'intellect' to serve as a navigation device, a device that came packaged with the evolution of ego-consciousness. Does this mean an awakened person is one who has learned to use his or her intellect?

Intelligence comes from the latin verb "intellegere", which means "to understand". By this rationale, intelligence (as understanding) is arguably different from being "smart" (able to adapt to one's environment), or being "clever" (able to creatively adapt). By the Latin definition, intelligence arguably has to do with a deeper understanding of the relationships of all things around us; and with a capability for metaphysical manipulation of such objects once such understanding is mastered.;

 A second definition of intelligence comes from "Mainstream Science on Intelligence", which was signed by 52 intelligence researchers in 1994: a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings—"catching on", "making sense" of things, or "figuring out" what to do.

[ http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/intellect ]

The core issue to be studied here is how intellect can use SPONTANEOUS LANGUAGE [04] to navigate the unconscious mind in search of higher consciousness. This confirms our probability at [01], that this download relates to developing an alternative language of thought to get at the unconscious material before ego has a chance to filter it or "lie'. There is reference to getting at the truth because one can not lie during in this mode.

Language serves three purposes: (1) to indicate facts, (2) to express the state of the speaker, (3) to alter the state of the hearer. … But lies belong to the reflective use of language; when language is spontaneous it cannot lie, and cannot fail to express the state of the speaker. … I call language 'spontaneous' when there is no verbal intermediary between the external stimulus and the word or words … The immediate stimulus is again a sensation … when I say 'I am hot', I may not expect others to be hot , … But when I say 'there is a red flower' I expect others to see it too. … Thus instead of saying that a stimulus is 'external' we shall say that, in 'spontaneous' speech, the stimulus is a sensation. … I think that, in defining 'spontaneous' speech, we must give a subordinate place to the desire to affect the hearer. … The use of words is 'spontaneous' when the situation causing it can be defined without reference to the hearer. … such as might occur in solitude. 

+[p197] We have no vocabulary for describing what actually takes place in us when we think or desire, except the somewhat elementary device of putting words in inverted commas. It may be said that, when I think of a cat, I think "cat'; but this is both inadequate and not necessarily true. To think 'of' a cat is to be in a state in some way related to the percept of a cat, but the possible relations are numerous. The same applies in a stronger degree to belief. We have thus a twofold difficulty : on the one hand that the occurrences which can be correctly described as believing a given proposition are very various, and on the other hand that we need a new vocabulary if we are to describe these occurrences other wise than by reference to objects. 

[Russel B. 1667, An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth, Penguin Books]

           

As a consequence of this evolutionary process and potential there is greater knowledge of the ways in which the unconscious works through us. We need to develop a healthier relationship with the unconscious DAIMON [05] instead of suppressing it, for one needs only to look to our history to see what suffering this brings. We must therefore learn a new language. Can we use GW Bush as an example of the failure of Americans to use their collective intellect? We know how South Africans elected Zuma and know what to expect.

Hitler … He spoke of the goddesses of fate, destiny, and history. Mein Kampf, setting forth his vision, opens with his version of the Platonic myth. … Hitler's call gave him the self-appointed right to be a sleep-walker outside the human world. Outside also means transcendent, where the gods themselves live. … Absolute certainty, utter conviction - these, then, are signs of the demonic. Already at age seven, "Hitler was imperious and quick to anger and would not listen to anyone," said his half brother Alois, just as later he would not listen to his generals. No woman had his ear, , either; it heard only his daimon, his sole true companion. We begin to see how power corrupts as the guiding whisper becomes a demonic voice obliterating all others. The seed comes with sure and uncanny knowledge. … This information "proved" his transcendence and disguised his lack of thought and reflection and his inability to hold conversation. The demonic does not engage; rather it smothers with details and jargon any possibility of depth. … The daimon's transcendence places it outside time, which it enters only by growing down. In order to grasp the biography of the daimon from the chronology of a life, we must "read life backward," by means of intuition. Intuition sees everything at one, given as a whole. 

+[p226] As the old preacher explained: God created time so that everything wouldn't happen at once. … This timelessness of the acorn and its push to make everything happen at once indicates possession by the daimon, daimon becoming demonic. 

[Hillman J. The Soul’s Code, 1997, Bantam Books]

           

One's responsibility is to learn to MEDITATE [06] and to understand what is meant by spiritual warrior [refer back to the previous download - Gilgamesh and Faith]. This is about learning to let go of the anger and greed that draws on deep reserves of energy in support of a demand for answers.

How did this whole process of mind and body all begin? There's a story of a man who was shot by a poison arrow.  … wanted to remove the arrow and treat the wound. But the man said "No, you can't take it out, I have to know who shot the arrow and where it came from and from what kind of tree the shaft … Certainly that man would die before he could get an answer to all those questions. In the same way, the Buddha said that a lot of philosophical speculation … is like that man … We find ourselves in a certain predicament ; … one of being a mind-body that is full of anger and greed, ignorance and pain. The task is to take the arrow out, to free the mind … from suffering. Why does greed arise? When we see something pleasant, we want to hold on, not understanding the impermanence of it all. As soon as we become mindful, paying attention to what's happening, seeing how everything is arising and passing away, the grasping and greed decreases. There's nothing to hold onto. It's all bubbles. … state of non-attachment. … It's inspiring to become a warrior. There's no one else who can do it for us. … There's nothing mystical about it, it's so simple and direct and straightforward; but it takes some doing. That's what meditation is all about.

[Goldstein J. 1980, The Experience of Insight, Buddhist Pub. Society]

           

The following symbol ILLUMINATION [07] fits with patterns in [01] in the life-cycles that can be read in the biographies of mystics. The problem we have is that we are not taught to aspire to higher levels of consciousness i.e. we are not taught to live to our full potentials as human beings. The outcome of an awakened person is to become aware of true potential and the benchmark. Simply becoming aware of this is just the first step on the path, so take note of the symbols that follow, to prepare for the right-action one should take.

… new faculty. … illumination occurred between early spring and late summer, have of all the cases occurring in or about May and June.  … general correspondence between the age at illumination and the length of life of the individual. … (31 - 39 yrs).

[Bucke R.M. Cosmic Consciousness, 1991, Arkana]

The symbol that relates to the conditioning one needs to overcome is quite complex: St Bernard - SION [08] - Black Virgin - Queen of the South - Sophia and it links to a previous download that dealt with institutions, which in this case refer to Cistercians as a multi-national corporation. The Cistercians not only worked as farmers but also as metallurgists and builders, their influence was pretty significant.

Taken from TheFreeDictionary: Some historians believe that the suppression of the English monasteries may have stamped out an industrial revolution. … In 1534 had Parliament authorize Thomas Cromwell, to "visit" all the monasteries, ostensibly to make sure their members were instructed in the new rules for their supervision by the King instead of the Pope, but actually to inventory their assets. … This phase is termed the "Visitation of the Monasteries." In the summer of that year, the visitors started their work, and "preachers" and "railers" were sent to deliver sermons from the pulpits of the churches on three themes: [i] The monks and nuns in the monasteries were sinful "hypocrites" and "sorcerers" who were living lives of luxury and engaging in every kind of sin; [ii] Those monks and nuns were sponging off the working people and giving nothing back and, thus, were a serious drain on England's economy; [iii] If the King received all the property of the monasteries, he would never again need taxes from the people.

This leads me to believe that the Cistercians had got something right; that they hadn't suppressed the feminine while developing industrial skills. This may fit with the notion that we lost the Spirit in the industrial revolution that gave us our current industry, that has shown itself to be unsustainable.

If Rennes-le-Chateau … linking the Merovingian blood-line to Mary Magdalene, … Easter Sunday 1146, … St Bernard preached the Second Crusade. … In 1217, Francis of , …the first house of his order in . His Cordeliers and Capuchins are sometimes guardians of the Black Virgin. … St Bernard … he had taken over the ailing young Cistercian Order and turned it into a power-house of civilization. … Vast multi-national corporations like the Benedictines, Cistercians and Templars provided the infrastructure vital to the unity, efficiency and progress of . … as a great saint and mystic … his real goal was the spiritual Sion, the bride of God, where lasting treasure can alone be found. … The Queen of the South came to hear the wisdom of Solomon … Now there is one greater than Solomon … The heart of Bernard's spirituality is his devotion to Jesus as lover of the soul, … identifying himself in soul with the black Shulamite, he abandons himself to the spiritual caresses of the divine lover.

[Begg E. The cult of the Black Virgin, 1985, Arkana]

           

The question now is what the symbol PARTNERSHIP [09] tells us about the attitude to adopt in terms of the relationship between ego-consciousness and the unconscious, between brain and mind, and between male and female.

Gebo … union, uniting or partnership in some form is at hand. … true partnership can only be achieved by separate and whole beings who retain their separateness even in unity and uniting. Remember to let the winds of Heaven dance between you. … It is particularly appropriate when entering into partnership with what some call your Higher Self, while others speak of the interplay between the conscious and unconscious in each of us. But most of all it is the case when seeking union with the Divine: God always enters into equal partnerships.

[Blum R. The Book of Runes, 1985, Angus & Robertson]

           

It does not surprise me to get FAITH [10] as the symbol for the right-action one needs to take. This came up in [12] of the previous download, and now needs to be understood in terms of its components.

The West has unfortunately not yet awakened to the fact that our appeal to idealism and reason and other desirable virtues, delivered with so mush enthusiasm, is mere sound and fury. It is a puff of wind swept away in the storm of religious faith, however twisted this faith may appear to us. We are faced, not with a situation that can be overcome by rational or moral arguments, but with an unleashing of emotional forces and ideas engendered by the spirit of the times … the antidote, should in this case be an equally potent faith of a different and non-materialistic kind, and the religious attitude grounded upon it would be the only effective defense against the danger of psychic infection. … Churches … The disadvantage of a creed as a public institution is that it serves two masters: on the one hand, it derives its existence from the relationship of man to God, and on the other hand, it owes a duty to the State. … unreflecting belief …

+[p37] People call faith the true religious experience, but they do not stop to think that actually it is a secondary phenomenon arising from the fact that something happened to us in the first place which instilled ( ) into us - that is, trust and loyalty. … the standpoint of the creeds is archaic;

[Jung CG, The Undiscovered Self, 1958, Routledge & Kegan Paul]

           

Faith is a component of ENERGY HEALING [11], no surprise here. It also links acceptance of this form of healing to the potential to transcend materialism.

Spiritual healing is, however, such a universal occurrence, with countless mediumistic persons capable of performing these tasks, that we have to accept that Jesus was an exponent of the use of this power. … Healing as such must fundamentally be an alteration in the atomic and molecular structure of tissues. Again, it must have sufficient atoms of a healthy potential available to be able to generate from these biochemical and physiological material necessary for normal function. … Again we are forced to adjust our minds to the existence of a dimension of energy which transcends the world of our physical senses, and leave consciousness confined to its grossly material attachments. … We can, of course, refuse this adjustment and prefer the anchorage of materialism, and so perpetuate the stunted condition of humanity tuned to its animal nature.

[Laubscher BJF, In the Quest of the Unseen, 1969, Vantage Press]

           

The objective for having faith needs to be interpreted here as relating to the symbol EVOLUTION [12], which I suppose may relate to the influence of intellect on the speed of one's evolution to higher consciousness. The collective or universal mind has no problem with time, being outside of it, and so if we choose to take the wrong decisions it simply means we get to suffer longer than is necessary.

Milford H. Wolpoff: Additional evidence for the relationship between apes and humans is based on a quite different source - genetic comparisons of the living species … The surprise is that the sister species for humans is not the group of great apes … and not even the group of African apes (chimpanzee and gorilla) as the genetic data first indicated, but is almost certainly the chimpanzee alone. … Five to seven million years ago is a currently accepted estimate from mitochondrial . … The fact is that in terms of genealogical relationships we are apes, albeit of a special kind. … is a critic of the "Eve" theory which holds that modern humans are a new species that arose in alone between one hundred thousand and two hundred thousand years ago.     [Brockman & Matson, How Things Are, 1996, ]

           

The last symbol PLATE [13] is about raising levels of awareness. There is always going to be another level and we must aspire to rise above what we have become in order to save this planet from our current level of consciousness. We are only now starting to become aware of the collective responsibility we have towards the environment, but this may be too late. I don't believe for one moment that the universal Mind cares how many millions or billions must die for the masses to  become more aware.

the plate as a container … will represent what belongs to the feminine … Spiritually, to own a plate suggests that we have achieved a certain level of awareness.

[Ball PJ, The Complete Book of Dreams and Dreaming, 2005, Capella]

Gematria and Spiritual Masters

The first symbol of this download is GEMATRIA [01]:

(Heb. גימטריה, from the Greek εωμετρία) is numerology of the Hebrew language and Hebrew alphabet, and is used by its proponents to derive meaning or relative relationship. Several forms can be identified: the "revealed" form and the "mystical form". The word itself comes from the Greek word geometry' and the concept or system is the same as the Greek isopsephy and the Arabic isāb al-Jummal. There is also a gematria of Latin-script languages, dating from the early Middle Ages, and very possibly back into Roman times, too. Recent times have also seen an emergence of new gematrias, though these lack a length of exploration that more ancient versions have seen. … One fascinating application of gematria is its use by exegetes to suggest that authors of certain biblical texts were keenly aware of specific mathematical principles and properties.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Gematria 

I suppose we can refer to Mx as a new gematria.

Another popular game - also taken dead seriously - connected with the Apocalypse is "beasting." At the end of the 13th chapter, it says,"Here is wisdom (Sophia). Let him that hath understanding [Nous] count the number of the beast [Therion]: for it is the number of a man [Anthropos]; … This advice plainly has to do with Hebrew gematria or Greek isopsephos, …. But when the world failed to end in the first few centuries of the Christian era, other candidates were selected for the "the Beast 666," usually this or that pope or King. … Napoleon was a popular beast. Most American presidents and Soviet Premiers, … However, if you consult scripture rather than horror movies, you will find that the Beast puts his mark on other people; it is not something he possesses himself. … Jesus is quoted as chiding the church at Ephesus "because thou has left thy first love." … the Goddess … [ref. to The Woman of the Apocalypse - woodcut by A Durer]: It's also possible that Christianity here improves upon Gnosticism in its veneration of the Goddess by making Sophia the mother of Her own redeemer rather that her having to be rescued by someone from the Pleroma. 

Godwin D. Light in Extension, 1992, Llewellyn Publications.

The quest for the Holy Grail: a psychological interpretation of why Parsifal failed to ask Anfortas the most important question: What ails you? The second symbol FATE [02] relates to the first as a device to decode archetypal patterns. This thing looks like a Quest that one is fated to experience as a calling.

Parsifal: The psychological history of virtually every modern man. His is offered a vision of the meaning of his life in his mid-teens but cannot find the strength of consciousness to accept it. The first meeting fails, inevitably. … Parsifal spends the night in the Grail castle, awakens in the morning to find no one about … and is back in the ordinary world of time and space. The myth tells us that he then spends the next twenty years in the exhausting work of rescuing fair maidens, fighting dragons, … Fate is kind and allows us two chances in life when the veil between consciousness and the unconscious grows thin. … the other is in mid-life when he has a second chance to touch his visionary life if he has earned the right. The Grail castle is close at hand every night … but is most easily accomplished at these two critical times … The Parsifal we find this time is a middle-aged man, weary, worn, and tired of the heroic journey. … principle duty of his life, to heal the suffering fisher king. … The meaning of life is not in the quest for one's own power or advancement but lies in the service of that which is greater than one's self. … Parsifal need only ask the question; he is not required to answer it. +[p46] Jung: is to relocate the center gravity of the personality from the ego to the Self.  Johnson R.A. The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden, 1993, HarperCollins

The third symbol introduces MUSIC THERAPY [03], returning to the mystery of why certain music has the power to activate archetypes within the collective unconscious.

In a 1993 lecture Rodgers discussed the role of music therapy in the operating room … ideal music … is anxiolytic - designed to reduce anxiety. Developed by the department of anesthesiology at a hospital in , in the mid -1970s, anxiolytic music avoids lyrics, singing, and anything else that can trigger harmful memories or associations. The idea is to provide a free-flowing river of sound, … Rodgers concluded, "it is reasonable to expect a more rapid recovery from surgery with fewer complications (etc.)" … In 1997, President Bill Clinton tore a tendon and required extensive surgery, which he chose to undergo without general anesthesia.  Campbell D. The Mozart Effect, 1997, Books.

This SYNTHESIS [01+02+03] is more difficult because it appears to describe Mx as a Grail device with which to help navigate unconscious relationships and patterns. It is in some ways like the Grail 'inscriptions'. As a gematria, it serves the higher-Self and not the ego; it has that number/geometry/music magic thing going for it like an innate musical language, like the Ur-song.

I found this awesome blogger who wrote:

Carl Jung believed that we are born, not just with our physical bodies, but also with a collective consciousness. He suggested this collective consciousness was composed of “the residues of ancestral life… (whose) origins can only be explained from assuming them to be deposits of the constantly repeated experiences of humanity.” How else to explain, for instance, universally accepted sounds, terms, symbols, etc– for ‘Mother’? Along these same lines there are those who believe that part of this collective consciousness includes or contains what has been called an ‘Ur-Song’, that is: A basic, fundamental and universal sequence of notes, forming a melody; and so named because of the of , regarded as the first civilization. Some academics think of melodies as symbols, and indeed a motif can heighten dramatic intent via deft symbolic use. So, it's not a great leap to consider that that this Ur-Song while itself not literally a symbol –not a graphic one, anyway– is nevertheless equivalent to a symbol, –or in fact it is a musical or sonic symbol– and therefore worthy of semiotic analysis.   CRITICAL NOISE features essays on the subject of sound. Topics include natural audio phenomena, sensory perception, the urban landscape, modern music production, music brain cognition, cultural aesthetics, audio design, language, media as the medium, sound and symbol, audio in advertising and sonic branding. The author is Terry O'Gara, an award winning music producer and creative consultant.

 http://criticalnoise.blogspot.com/2002/02/ur-song.html

I can see that I'm going to have to start mapping the patterns in this series of downloads. This fourth symbol: MEDITATION [04] comes up frequently, as does the power of music; the emphasis is on using music while practicing mindfulness, to raise consciousness. This is something we know, but fail to do.         

Meditation is at best a means and not in itself an end. … Western Buddhists who, not content with study alone, want a careful blend of study, meditation and application with which to prepare for the mind for direct experience. … For the few, there is the ideal of meditation all the day, the cultivation of a state of mind in which consciousness is deliberately raised whenever it is not chained to lower purposes, and used as a searchlight in the darkness of Ignorance. This is the highest form of mindfulness, what the Lama Trungpa called 'working meditation, where wisdom and skilful means must be companied as the two wings of a bird.' Only a mind so poised can be said to 'abide nowhere'. … In such a way one may be busily and happily 'walking on', 'living as life lives itself', as Dr Susuki calls it, flowing with one's karma and laughing all the time. Humphreys C. A Western Approach to Zen, 1993, Quest Books.

The consequence is that our HISTORY [05] (knowledge) has been lost; as Charroux said

"Man is in danger of disappearing without having known where he came from and whether or not his destiny was controlled by unknown masters who changed its natural course. … Fascinating, frustratingly impenetrable mysteries still challenge our curiosity: …Sensing, perhaps, that they are living at the end of an era, rebellious men now want to take off their blindfolds and question everything that has been imposed on them …"

With reference to GEMATRIA, one cannot ignore the fact that so much esoteric knowledge was encrypted and subsequently lost. Take note of the word MASTER for it comes up again, and it includes spirit masters.

In the thirteenth century, when chivalry and the myth of the Grail flourished, the octagonal castle corresponded to a triple mysticism that made it the athanor (alchemist's furnace) … The emperor (Frederick II) had a spiritual master: the monk Michael Scot. … he sometimes gathered his friends around an empty table and then, when he made a certain sigh, dishes of food appeared magically … Scot would point … 'This one comes from the table of the King of …' . He wrote many scholarly books … transcription of an alchemical collection titled De Sole et Luna (Vol. 5 of the Theatrum Chimicum) in which he reveals the procedures for transmutation in cryptic language. Charroux R. Legacy of the Gods, 1979, Sphere Books.

Scot himself, an ordained priest, was an alchemist. Frederick II, another 'beast'?: … His empire was frequently at war with the , so it is unsurprising that he was excommunicated twice and often vilified in chronicles of the time. Pope Gregory IX went so far as to call him the Antichrist. After his death the idea of his second coming where he would rule a 1,000-year reich took hold, possibly in part because of this. He was known in his own time as Stupor mundi ("wonder of the world"), and was said to speak nine languages and be literate in seven ... a ruler very much ahead of his time, being an avid patron of            science and the arts.  

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Frederick+II+Hohenstaufen

The irony is that we are all must accept responsibility for our part in history that actively allowed or participated in suppressing intellectual reasoning. Take for example that if it was not for Jung we would have lost the alchemical insight into the transformational forces at work in the individual. Just imagine if the next generation stopped studying the Kabbalah. It is fortunate that there is 'something' inspiring one to do the Work and fitting that symbol number six is INSPIRATION [06]

Only the spirit matters, for it is that alone which connects us with God. … I do believe that the imagination and the thirst after knowledge have the power to bring me closer to the wonders of the world as symbols of the Godhead. … I see him in the hand of Leonardo, as he fixed an unearthly smile upon the lips of his divine creation, … I recognize God in the inspiration which he sends me as if in a dream, and in the long labour by which I must carry it out.  Ludwig E. I believe, 1952, George Allen & Unwin Ltd.

This download is getting interesting; we get conditioned as kids not to challenge the beliefs of others, especially religious            beliefs. I went to a Catholic boarding school and found it interesting that information was hidden in plain sight of those trained in psychology and languages such as Latin; that it was the priest's job to suppress the truth, but to what degree this was unconscious I don't know. Back then, whenever one explored any of the mysteries, the doors slammed shut. The symbol SIRIUS [07] suggests an outcome, that our magical history will remain lost to us unless we do the Work.

The Greeks were reputed … to have considered music the highest art; and the Pythagoreans made harmony and number into an actual religion. … ubiquitous Hercules who is connected in so many ways with the Sirius complex. adds: 'Thespius's fifty daughters - like the fifty Danaids, Pallantids, and Nereids, or the fifty maidens with whom the Celtic god Bran (Phorineus) lay in a single night. … Moon-goddess, to whom the lion-pelted sacred king had access once a year during erotic orgies … Eros … I assume that the cycle of fifty lunations which Graves mentions here is identical to his fifty month period of the reign of the sacred king, …the two-to-one ratio as a means of signifying the concept of the musical octave … 

[+p325]: that Hecate (whose pet Cerberus was, and who was a form of Isis-Sirius and whose name literally means 'one-hundred') had three heads or forms, and that the boat of Sirius in ancient Egypt had three goddesses … the Dogon insist(ed) that there are three stars in the Sirius system.  The Sirius Mystery, 1999, Arrow. 

The point this symbol makes is that the Dogon knew of the three stars thousands of years before our modern astronomers were able to confirm it. There are things that the ancients knew that they couldn't have known unless there was or is a higher civilization we don't know about.

As to the condition one needs to overcome: It’s PASSIVE IMAGINATION [08]: Active imagination is a natural spontaneous process that must be developed as a meditation tool because one needs to             make an effort to live according to its principles.

Q: What is the difference between how I use my imagination in day-dreaming and how it is used in the inner guide meditation?

A: Dr. Carl Jung answers this in his book, Psychological Types, written in 1921: … Active fantasies are the product of intuition; i.e. they are evoked by an attitude directed to the perception of unconscious contents, as a result of which the libido immediately invests all the elements emerging from the unconscious and, by association with parallel material, brings them into clear focus in visual form. … Active fantasy … owe their existence not so much to this unconscious process as to a conscious propensity to assimilate hints or fragments of lightly-toned elements, to elaborate them in clearly visual form. … positive participation of consciousness. … is one of the highest forms of psychic activity. For here the conscious mind and the unconscious personality of the subject flow together into a common product in which both are united.

Steinbrecher E.C. The Inner Guide Meditation, 1988, The Aquarian Press.

The attitude to adopt is given by the symbol MIRROR [09] or ASTRONOMY which in my mind relates to looking inwards, where looking out is a projection of the same need to discover the secrets of life. It also suggests the need to be open to a multi-disciplinary approach to resolving the mysteries.

In Proclus' commentary on Plato's Timaeus, Richard Proctor read that the Great Pyramid was used as an observatory in the intermediate stage of its building … Proctor also speculated that by looking down the Descending Passage into a mirror - a polished copper screen, or even a pool of water - the exact transit times of particular stars could have been noted. The Descending Passage, it will be recalled, was aligned on Alpha Draconis, the polar star. The earth's northern axis is inclined toward this star, which would have appeared virtually stationary. The other stars would have described a circle around … angle of 26deg 17min. … The problem of credibility seems to hinge on the fact that Proctor and Lockyer were astronomers. In applying their astronomical knowledge to fields of Egyptology and archaeology, they were breaking the rules.  

Johnson K. The Ancient Magic of the Pyramids, 1978, Corgi Books.

This next symbol suggests a disturbing relationship between what one believes based on the books one looks to for answers, especially when it justifies destroying others we see as inferior. Consider the destructive power of the Jesuits; their ADAMANT BELIEF [10] is a symbol of right-action i.e. what not to do because blind faith delivers devastating consequences.

Kircher: He was fascinated by Chinese civilization and for years collected all the information brought back to by his fellow Jesuits. … publication in 1667 of Illustrata. … he wanted to demonstrate that Chinese culture originated with , and he interpreted any piece of information as evidence supporting his thesis. Kircher starts with his adamant belief that every aspect of Chinese wisdom was brought to the country by the third son of Noah, Ham who became an Egyptian Pharaoh, inventor of idolatry and magic, whose adviser was Hermes Trismegistus himself. … the hieroglyphs were of divine origin … Recent research has proved that the Amerindians' pictograms were in fact an instance of a very flexible pictorial language, also able to express abstract ideas. It really is a pity that Western scholars finally discovered this only some centuries after we had destroyed those civilizations on the grounds of their semiotical inferiority. … To justify such a violent transformation of a country and a culture, it was useful to demonstrate that their writing had no philosophical interest.… Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.

Serendipities, Language and Lunacy, 1998, Press.

The quality of right-action is represented by the symbol TENSION [11]: This I-Ching reading confirms Jung's position on marriage, that it is an alchemical vessel, a pressure cooker. One needs the tension that an individual’s right to personal growth creates.

Separate and clarify what is in conflict while acknowledging the essential connection. … You must be able both to join things together and to separate them. … These two things, individual expression and holding together, can be connected through brightness and awareness. … Man and woman are polarized, but their purposes interpenetrate. … Spirit speaks through the intermediaries, … There is fire over metal: the conflict between inner form and outer radiance that creates a polarizing tension. The ideal Realising Person reflects this by mobilizing his ability both to accept and reject. Hold the heart fast and take the risk. Change the mandate of heaven. … Don't worry over what seems gone. Harmony, strength and love will return by themselves.  Karcher S. total I-Ching, 2004, Time Warner.

The 12th symbol highlights the importance of keeping a SPIRITUAL DIARY [12] of the transformation process. This blog is such a diary, and I experienced a synchronicity that placed Jung's Red Book in my hands in the same period, probably the only copy in the .

One of the most important of all the disciplines, … is the keeping off a spiritual diary. … the Master is able to assess at any time … where the student is on the Path, … such as symbols, spiritual perception, intuitive knowledge, creative insights, synchronicities, mental telepathy, … Usually the initial contacts which a Master makes with a disciple are through visual impressions. That is why your waking dreams are so important, because it is the time that the Master or an initiate … is trying to contact you. … Therefore, these dreams should be recorded and pondered over and related to events that have recently occurred or which take place later. … You should have three works (of the Masters) under your attention at any one time. … you will get answers from the Masters either through dreams or visions, or in meditation, … because They either wrote or inspired the esoteric classics. … entries related to the services you are rendering to mankind should be recorded. … Meditation energises the crown chakra; study of the occult classics energises the brow chakra; and service to mankind energises the alta major chakra. The simultaneous arousal of all three of these head centres results in the emergence of the Third Eye. 

Baker D. Super Consciousness through Meditation, 1995, Baker Publ.

The final symbol is about an outcome that relates to becoming a DISCIPLE [13] of a spiritual master. See how this links with the preceding DIARY symbol; Jung encouraged his patients to keep a diary, using his own Red Book as an example.

Without faith, you cannot make any progress. … The beginning of spiritual life is faith. … The third stage is to perform the processes of devotional service. … naturally feel , "Why not become a disciple of a spiritual master?" … Then comes anartha-nivrtti, vanquishing unwanted habits.   Bhaktivedanta A.C. Dharma, The Way of Transcendence, 1998, The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.   

My take on this is that the Master is one's higher-Self that is linked to the universal mind and a collective database of knowledge. Genius can refer to the ability to tap into this database. Most geniuses may not want to talk about their support base, but history shows that most had inner characters that they communicated with. We called some of them Prophets and burned others, and generally ignored exploring this human potential.