Now that we see how strongly a small group of people can affect everyone’s behavior on a mass scale, the idea that the real world is like a lucid dream or a hologram doesn’t seem so crazy-sounding after all. What if the rules of the dream world actually do apply to the physical world? If so, then all these global disasters may actually be symbolic reflections of our own inner distress: our fear, pain, sorrow and anger. After years of my own meditation, I finally concluded on a deep level that our sadness comes from a very convincing illusion: the seemingly inescapable truth that we feel alone.
The evidence I have already presented here suggests that we all have a soul—constantly watching over us, while also enjoying its own experiences, thoughts and travels. I believe any one of us can reach out to this greater aspect of our own being, and develop the ability to gain reliable spiritual guidance—to understand the greater plan and Purpose we may have chosen to fulfill before we ever came here. We might also avoid a great deal of needless suffering in the process. However, when we resist our Purpose, we only encounter more and more pain, difficulty and seemingly random bad luck. According to Edgar Cayce, the noteworthy psychic reader who practiced in the early twentieth century, ignorance does not grant us an exemption from the great spiritual laws—and this includes the Law of Karma18—in which whatever we measure out to others will be measured back to us. If we sufficiently violate someone’s free will, we may require another lifetime to balance ourselves out—by enduring similar hardships. Cayce also said we can eliminate this entire cycle of karma by practicing true forgiveness and acceptance—both of ourselves and of others. That, ultimately, appears to be the core Purpose we are all here to achieve. And if it were easy, we wouldn’t require multiple incarnations to figure it out.
I realize the label “God” for some people is emotionally charged—although you may now be thinking differently about such a “foolish notion” after reading these last few chapters. Either way, the Cayce Readings used this word to discuss the universal intelligence that we have been investigating in this book. Cayce’s Readings, which allegedly came from a greater part of his own being that spoke while he was under hypnosis, said all the disturbances in the world today—wars, terrorism, government corruption, natural disasters, earthquakes—were all part of a big Story that we are being told. It’s a story about our Selves, and our relationship to the Universe.
For, as ye do unto others, ye do to thy Maker. And when those activities . . . dishonor thy fellow man, ye dishonor thy God—and it brings all of those forms of disturbance that exist in the world today. . . . When there has been in the earth those groups that have sufficiently desired and sought peace, peace will begin. It must be within self.19
The Cayce Readings spoke of God as a universal loving intelligence that does not discriminate against anyone—nor should we: “More wars, more bloodshed have been shed over the racial and religious differences than over any other problem. These, too, must go the way of all others; and man must learn . . . whether they be called of this or that sect or schism or ism or cult, the Lord is ONE.”20 According to the Cayce Readings, you don’t need to get a group of seven thousand people together in order to be effective. The reality of our greater shared mind is powerful enough that even ten souls can do an amazing amount of good for the planet.
Man’s answer to everything has been POWER—Power of money, Power of position, Power of wealth, Power of this, that or the other. This has NEVER been GOD’S way, will never be God’s way. Rather little by little, line upon line, here a little, there a little, each thinking rather of the other fellow. . . . [This is what] has kept the world in the various ways of being intact. Where there were ten, even, many a city, many a nation has been kept from destruction.21
Dr. Hew Len, a Hawaiian psychiatrist,22 discovered a similar technique that could substantially increase health and happiness in the psychiatric ward he managed. It didn’t start out very well: “That ward where they kept the criminally insane was dangerous. Psychologists quit on a monthly basis. The staff called in sick a lot or simply quit. People would walk through that ward with their backs against the wall, afraid of being attacked by patients.”23 Dr. Len’s job allowed him to be completely isolated from the ward—he reviewed patients’ case files to prescribe medication and/or treatment plans with the staff. Nonetheless, by simply holding each patient’s file in his hand and practicing the “Ho’oponopono” technique we are about to discover, he got results.
After a few months, patients that had to be shackled were being allowed to walk freely. . . . Others who had to be heavily medicated were getting off their medications. And those who had no chance of ever being released were being freed. . . . Not only that . . . but the staff began to enjoy coming to work. Absenteeism and turnover disappeared. We ended up with more staff than we needed because patients were being released, and all the staff was showing up to work. Today, that ward is closed.24
What exactly was Dr. Len doing while he reviewed each patient’s file? He simply took on their pains and problems as if they were his own, and worked on healing those issues within himself: “I just kept saying ‘I’m sorry’ and ‘I love you’ over and over again.”25 Dr. Len was practicing his own variation of a Hawaiian spiritual practice called Ho’oponopono.26 Dr. Len recommends going inside, to wherever you feel hurt by a particular person or issue, and then saying each of these four statements with as much feeling as possible—thinking through the real reasons why you genuinely feel this way: “I love you. I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.”27 That’s all it takes. You heal the other person by healing yourself—and this apparently works because in the greater sense, you are both sharing the same Mind.
Proof, Belief and Hope
I’ve encountered some very sarcastic people in my life. They don’t want to hear about spirituality. They don’t care about religion. They see a Higher Purpose as nothing more than ignorant nonsense. They use Science as a weapon against anyone who believes there is a loving Purpose to the universe—that we are more than just “meat computers” who struggle for a while on the earth before our Awareness fades into a black nothingness.
At the other extreme, I have met religious fundamentalists—including Christians and occultists—who can be just as aggressive, and just as certain that they must be right. As soon as they hear the word god, or any of a number of other words, they feel like they automatically know exactly what that means—and there’s no point in arguing with them. It’s as if everybody were in a big horse race, and we all want our lucky number to take home the big prize. Religious folks may even try to use the scientific breakthroughs in this book as proof that their small group of chosen or elect will soar up into the heavens—while the rest of us burn in eternal hellfire. Dr. David B. Barrett spent forty years, and enlisted the help of 444 specialists, to discover that there are over ten thousand different religions in the world—of which 150 have at least one million followers. Dr. Barrett went and visited most of these 238 nations and territories in person. He found that within Christianity alone, there are an incredible 38,830 denominations.28 So, with almost fifty thousand groups in competition—38,830 splinters of Christianity, combined with ten thousand other world religions—how many of them honestly believe that unless you see things their way, you might as well kiss your butt good-bye?
Imagine how quickly Christianity would have failed if Bible scholars could quote Jesus as saying, “Love thy neighbor as thyself . . . as long as he’s a Christian. Otherwise, go ahead and kill him. You’ll be doing us both a favor, believe me.”
I have a strong feeling that as the Source Field investigations become increasingly mainstream—no longer suppressed by ignorance, threats or worse—the positive effects will rapidly increase. We don’t have to wish that our leaders and politicians will obey the campaign promises we voted for in the first place. We don’t need to sit by and wait for a Messiah, or Divine Intervention, in the hopes that we will be rescued from some terrible fate that is outside our control. Cayce’s
interpretation of the Book of Revelation confirmed that the Earth Changes are not merely random events—they are a “real world” story of our struggle to love and respect each other. In reading 281-16, Cayce’s source said, “The visions, the experiences, the names, the churches, the places, the dragons, the cities [in the Book of Revelation] all are but emblems of those forces that may war within the individual in its journey through the material.”29
And what about the dreaded anti-Christ that so many Christians and conspiracy theorists shout from the rooftops about?
(Q) In what form does the anti-Christ come, spoken of in Revelation?
(A) In the spirit of that opposed to the spirit of truth. The fruits of the spirit of the Christ are love, joy, obedience, longsuffering, brotherly love, kindness. Against such there is no law. The spirit of hate, the anti-Christ, is contention, strife, fault-finding, lovers of self, lovers of praise. Those are the anti-Christ, and take possession of groups, masses, and show themselves even in the lives of men.30
The Cayce Readings also gave dramatic new insight into the devastating events of the Tribulation that many people—Christians or otherwise—are expecting. The existing catastrophes we are already experiencing now—the earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes—are said to be a collective mirror of what each of us is going through. This again demonstrates the principle of a shared consciousness.
The great tribulation and periods of tribulation, as given, are the experiences of every soul, every entity. They arise from influences created by man through activity in the sphere of any sojourn.
I think hope is a good thing, as it leads us into knowing, through direct experience, that all is well. And if we feel that everything is not well, then we can do something about it. Within this book is information that unites the 38,830 religious sects beautifully, and shows that each of them have the truth in some form . . . including their most magnificent prophecies of a Golden Age that will soon arrive in our future.
CHAPTER SIX
A Precession of Prophecies
Was there an advanced ancient civilization on earth, much older than we normally believe could be possible? Did these ancestors deliberately create a wide variety of myths and spiritual teachings, worldwide, about the pineal gland? Could these cultures, or their forgotten creators, manipulate giant blocks of stone to build massive pyramids in two totally separate cultures—namely, the Mayan and the Egyptians? Did the people of these cultures enjoy direct contact with “gods”—human extraterrestrials who may have been far older, and far more advanced, than they were? Did these “ancient astronauts” understand that there was a Source Field we were all a part of—and in fact were using to think? And lastly, are there enough surviving traces of these ancient cultures left behind so we can figure out what happened—to understand who these people were, and what they might have known?
The earth almost certainly went through a catastrophe around the last Ice Age, some twelve thousand to thirteen thousand years ago. If there was an advanced civilization on earth before then, as many ancient astronaut theorists suggest, this Great Flood seems to have largely destroyed it. Rand and Rose Flem-Ath tied together a whole host of unique references worldwide, with impeccable research, to arrive at this conclusion.
From all corners of the earth, the same story is told. The sun deviates from its regular path. The sky falls. The earth is wrenched and torn by earthquakes. And finally a great wave of water engulfs the globe. Survivors of such a calamity would go to any lengths to prevent it from happening again. They lived in an age of magic. It was natural and necessary to construct elaborate devices to pacify the sun-god (or goddess) or monitor its path.1
Thanks to the best-selling Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock, the scholarly work of Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend is now central to any investigation of these ancient prophecies. Why? Their magnum opus Hamlet’s Mill tied together an incredible number of different ancient legends around the world—and found that they all had common roots. Author Colin Wilson stated it clearly.
In effect, Santillana is presenting a rich tapestry of legends of the Eskimoes, Icelanders, Norsemen, American Indians, Finns, Hawaiians, Japanese, Chinese, Hindus, Persians, Romans, ancient Greeks, ancient Hindus, ancient Egyptians, and dozens of other nations, and asking: how did these strange similarities develop unless [all these] myths have some common origin? And this origin, he is inclined to believe, lies in astronomy.2
What could possibly have caused all these different cultures around the world to end up with the same exact information—about astronomy? And what did all these different worldwide legends want us to know? The answer is deceptively simple: The myths encoded a long-term cycle in the earth’s orbit, which takes some twenty-five thousand years to complete. The prophecies also tell us these periods of great difficulty give way to what they often call a Golden Age. One classic example is the Norse legend of the Ragnarok. This is admittedly one of the most doom-and-gloom-sounding prophecies out there—but it does have a happy ending, as Bulfinch described in 1855:
It was a firm belief of the northern nations that a time would come when all the visible creation, the gods of Valhalla and Niffleheim, the inhabitants of Jotunheim, Alfheim, and Midgard, together with their habitations, would be destroyed. . . . The earth itself will be frightened and begin to tremble, the sea leave its basin, the heavens tear asunder, and men perish in great numbers. . . . The whole universe is burned up. The sun becomes dim, the earth sinks into the ocean, the stars fall from heaven, and time is no more. After this Alfadur (the Almighty) will cause a new heaven and a new earth to arise out of the sea. The new earth filled with abundant supplies will spontaneously produce its fruits without labour or care. Wickedness and misery will no more be known, but the gods and men will live happily together.3
Let’s consider the evidence we’ve examined so far. I do not believe these are literal prophecies, but they may be telling us a story about our future—using dreamlike symbolism. We have powerful clues that the basic energy of the Universe is conscious, and we all “think with the field,” to some degree. Could there be long cycles of time in which the character, quality and even intelligence of the Source Field change for everyone here on earth? Could these cycles drive our entire planet through a mass evolution—so we don’t all keep reincarnating again and again, learning the same lessons, for millennia? Many scholars agree this great twenty-five-thousand-year cycle ends in 2012, or thereabouts—which makes this a very cutting-edge and relevant discussion in today’s world.
Understanding the Precession
The best way to understand this twenty-five-thousand-year cycle is to imagine the earth as if it were a spinning top. Let’s say you have a top that is spinning clockwise at a fast speed. At first it stands up straight, but then it starts tracing circles in the opposite direction—counterclockwise—as it slows down. Now imagine the earth is the top. Imagine you can see the earth’s axis, as if it were a solid bar running through the North and South Poles. Over the course of about 25,920 years, the earth’s axis makes a nice, slow circle in the opposite direction from the earth’s normal rotation—like the circles the top starts making as it winds down. Some ancient myths compare the earth’s axis to a long spoon in a pot of soup. The slow circular path of the earth’s axis is the stirring of the pot. (This visual only works if you keep the bottom of the spoon in one place as you make circles with it.) This slow movement of the earth’s axis causes the position of the stars in the night sky, during the equinox, to shift by one degree every seventy-two years. If you built your church or temple to line up with a certain star during every spring equinox, as many cultures, from the Druids at Stonehenge to Anasazis in Arizona, did, you’d be pretty unhappy when the stars started drifting away. By the time your grandchildren started growing up, your building would already be noticeably out of alignment.
In Western astrology, this master cycle is divided up into twelve “Ages of the Zodiac.” Though the earth changes i
ts speed slightly over time as it moves through this cycle, most astrologers round it off to 50 arc seconds per year. This creates twelve ideal Ages of the Zodiac at 2,160 years each, adding up to a total of 25,920 years.4 If you calculate the cycle based on our current speed of 50.3 arc seconds per year, it would come out to 25,675 years—but since it fluctuates, most modern astronomers round it off at about 25,800.5 The technical name for this cycle is the precession of the equinoxes. The word precession essentially means “movement.”
Remember that Santillana and Von Dechend’s book is called Hamlet’s Mill? The Hamlet story is one of many ancient myths that describe the axis mundi—the earth’s own axis—getting disrupted in its orbital path. The earth’s axis is often described, in metaphor, as the axle of a mill for grinding corn. In order to build a mill, you have a horizontal wooden rod that runs through the center of a heavy stone wheel. The wooden rod is connected to a central, vertical axle. A strong worker then grabs the rod and starts pushing it around in circles. As the heavy stone wheel moves along, it grinds the corn underneath it.
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