The Big Bang theory and the theory of Evolution are, as we all know, theories that attempt explanations as to the origin of humans, among other species, on planet Earth.

If, in spite of over a century of funded research and prestigious brains actively involved in unveiling the mystery, these theories are still called *theories,* it is because neither side has been able to mount the sort of evidence that would bounce whichever theory into the realm of factual reality.

Put simply, no one knows for sure how our species came to be and this hiatus has recently led me to ponder another theory, one inspired by ancient Sacred texts as well as by the stimulating thinking of modern people such Alan Watts, Maurice Nicoll, Krishnamurti and P.D. Ouspensky – synergized by the rigorous teachings of Moriya, my mentor.

Don't bother googling Moriya for' the' Moriya who is my mentor is not anywhere on the net – although there are many others.

These days, I am trying to understand how – circa the proverbial Dawn of Time – human *bodies*, bags of skin, bones and fluids – once in full Me-first reflex mode  – have moved away from their intended role – their sole purpose for being on Earth.

 

First there were souls

Without unpacking too much here in the early days of this blog, I will simply say that such an alternative *theory* that is outside of the square relies on the notion that something akin the Big Bang did occur and that, like the *pod* much favored by Sci-fi writers.

Like any humble seed that contains within it the potential to create an elegant tulip, a massive oak or baobab, harmless weed as well as noxious ones, the explosion released, at exactly the right nano second, all the combinations and permutations possible to create the world as we know it.

What that explosion released can be called primal matter.

The evolution discussed here is not about how we came to be standing upright, but about our connection to Soul or God or to the Spirits of Nature. Spiritual evolution does not rise from Below to Above.

It happens from Above to Below and our soul is one of our tools through which to access some sort of spiritual evolution in this lifetime.

Serious question: laden as we are by the heavy energy that is generally referred to as gross energy could we, mere bags of bones, ever have developed souls on our own?

Anyone made queasy by the reference to *bags of bones, flesh and liquids* has only to cast a fresh eye on any Anatomy chart, or visit the Intensive Care ward of any hospital, or to agree that it is simply and only the involuntary ability to breathe that keeps us alive – this ability is given to us by Soul.

Spiritual/divine energy moves from Above to Below, which explains why we, humans, cannot connect with Soul by any brain-triggered mechanical or chemical means.

Ecstasy can be induced in many ways, but unless the *way* emanates from the heart chakra, the said ecstasy is most likely of a delusional nature.

Knowing that we cannot deceive our soul, let alone any other divine energy, only attempts at true altruism, at actively accepting circumstances and others - along with a genuine generosity of spirit - truly shift our karma while induced ecstasy along with flagellation, renunciation, separation and mortification only serve to enhance the doers opinion of themselves.

 

We are souls in disguise

We have a mind but we are souls. We are souls in disguise. The disguise is our body. Our body is made up of bones, flesh and fluids but - way back in the Dawn of Time, before the earth began to solidify – it is widely understood that there were beings of light and energy.

These beings were complete.

They were able to see inward as much as outward.

They were innocent. They were as unaware and replete as babies who are happy being – just being.

These beings were free of karma.

They were androgynous, as is explained in one of the best known of all Biblical quotations: 'So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them' (Genesis 1:27)

Being androgynous, both male and female, they had no desire to seek anything outside of themselves because they were complete – as complete as the apple and her core are complete – as complete as the Yin and the Yang form a whole.

Before it became Earth as we know it, our planet was a mass of gases and dust particles. Over millions of years, it slowly cooled down. When the earth solidified, it developed a crust.

Just as Nature despatched the thick-skinned dinosaurian creatures to replace them with animals covered with scales, fur and feathers, the beings of light and energy developed a firm body of their own.

As par for the course of evolution, their original purity as well as their will became splintered in the process – they became halved. They were no longer androgynous beings. They had become gendered beings.

When their wholeness was halved, so was their power to see inward. Their gaze turned outward in the direction of newfound priorities and desires.

These desires stemmed from a longing that expressed itself through cravings. These cravings indulged to compensate for their loss – of their missing half.

It is through the pursuit of these newfound desires that these beings sought to become whole and contented again.

At the time of the Separation, when one became two and 'the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them' (Genesis 3:21) these beings were also given a skeleton of bone.

In a body otherwise made of soft flesh, fluids and cells that die off only to recreate themselves, these cells are a testament to our lives as re-incarnated beings.

The skeleton which can technically survive millions of years is of this earth and remains on this earth.

It serves to balance the body between the pull of the Law of Attraction [gravity] and the magnetic attraction of the moon – the attraction that creates such amazing occurrences as tides. It is because of this balanced energetic pull that we, humans, sustain a permanent upright position.

We are governed from Above-Below through the crown.

Spoiler: anyone challenged by the need to better understand the invisible or by the spontaneous ability to think *outside the box* in regard to this topic should abstain from reading further. What I mean is simply that I wouldn't want you to be either annoyed or upset, dear Reader, with the alternative theory that I will be posting here in some 10 bite-sized instalments

What about that rib?

‘Rib', in the Biblical quotation that follows, implies the creation of the ‘skeleton' at the moment of the Separation, at a time when all beings were androgynous:

'So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; and the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman' (Genesis 2:22)

In effect, the ‘rib' - the skeleton - is the symbol of separation.

All beings received their ‘rib' and their covering of skin and, with their energy field protecting their new body, they began their journey as incarnated beings in the material world.

‘Deep sleep' implies forgetfulness. It implies being spiritually un-awake. It implies being ‘asleep at the wheel' which, in turn, implies that self-identity and gratification have become linked to the body's needs and the material world.

Having said that, it is only through sleep that our energy gets recharged and it is mostly through sleep that we get direct messages from soul via the dreams she crafts for us – her vehicle in this lifetime.

The way I understand it these days, Adam and Eve - generic names for our very first karmic ancestors - predate by a few million years the images we have of them frolicking in the mythical Garden of Eden and of them cowering in shame under the wrath of God, as depicted on so many Sacred paintings.

 

Good snake

It has to be understood that the original state of beings of light - as one with the cosmos, as one with all that surrounded them - turned into a state of permanent, lonely isolation in a foreign world that appeared cold and hostile.

To these beings, post-separation would have felt as if they had been permanently blinded and left to fend for themselves. They could only cringe and cling and grasp and grope.

Be that as it may, God had not set these beings on their journey empty handed for they had also been given Kundalini energy- the energy that nourishes the physical body - the energy than can potentially lead to a connection to Soul.

Now, we need to look at a couple of archetypal symbols:

The imagery of the Garden of Eden symbolises the inner temple where our soul abides.

Stripped of any *modern-day* emotional bias, the snake, even to this day in the form of the caduceus, the medical symbol of two snakes intertwined, has always been the symbol of wisdom and health.

According to Wikipedia, 'Dr. William Hayes Ward discovered that symbols similar to the classical caduceus sometimes appeared on Mesopotamian cylinder seals. He suggested the symbol originated some time between 3000 and 4000 BCE.'

I suspect that one reason why Dr. Ward, back in 1910, did not suggest a time that went even further back is because the earth has not yet released artefacts that date further back in time.

 

Don't shoot the messenger!

Back to our newly formed *Adam and Eve*, our first karmic ancestors, the story goes like this: after their separation into male and female, they were endowed with a knowledge that came from Soul.

That knowledge was the ability to be wise, to interpret symbols and to distinguish between good and evil.

This ability was the sole function of the ego-persona for the ego's sole purpose is to deliver Soul's messages. Besides a very functional body and all the attributes and abilities they needed *to go forth and multiply*, God had crafted for them the amazing planet Earth perfectly suited for their survival with its breathable air, firm ground, cascades of water, oceans and rivers, flora and fauna, cyclic rains, seasonal sunshine and so on.

These beings lacked for nothing – except for the will to refute the desires of the flesh, known to us these days as escapism, creature comforts and feel-good therapy and, of course at the top of the list - our moods which dictate our needs at any given moment, on any given day.

The ego-persona only serves to reflect signs, symbols and thoughts outwardly – through our mind, through our thoughts – no differently from the way our eyes snatch vibrations of light which the brain interprets into images of the material world that we see.

The eyes/brain connection and the ego/mind/thoughts connection are but mechanical processes which use the senses to transmit and process data.

One more point: just as all that comes into our awareness comes from Above-Below, all signs, symbols and occurrences come from within, from Soul.

These ‘situations' come to us so that we can deal with them within our physical moments.

Like the seed that contains a flower, all that comes from Soul is reflected back to our awareness via our ego and contains the spiritual solution to all our earthly conundrums.

The gift of bones

Basically, the first earthly beings had all the attributes and capabilities to reach the goal of their human existence which was – and still is - union with Soul.

Separation and the gift of bones were necessary to the early beings' evolution for, in their androgynous state, self-absorption deprived them, as it does everyone, from the motivation to forge ahead and expand one's horizon.

Separation was the necessary impetus to get the contented dream-walkers that were the early beings of light to become Soul-aware.

Ripping them apart from themselves, from their other half, was the sacrifice forced on to them in order to get them to *work* towards accessing the good will and love of their other half.

Knowing that Soul, pure divine energy, is Love, it is through striving to access that love, by giving love and compassion, that they were to re-unite with Soul.

The best laid plans are not always realized quickly, but in the fullness of time.

 

Cosmic intentions not yet been fulfilled

Clearly, Cosmic intentions have not yet been fulfilled as, throughout the parade of millennia, though mostly not androgynous, we, as a species, have remained tremendously self-interested and self-serving individuals in spite of a succession of civilisations. Giving and sharing love and compassion is still not our forte.

After the Separation, instead of accepting What Was, these beings were driven by the need to reunite with their other self – their true other half – but they went about it in the neurotic way of the one who contemplates their image in the dark surface of a pond and - imagining it to be that of their missing half - struggles to touch her, to hold her.

I suspect that each time we fall in love badly enough to lose our rational mind, it is out of an inexplicable, unshakeable conviction that we have found our soul mate in the eyes of the one who reflects us - the one who, we are convinced, will make us whole. I no longer doubt that this state of being is a throwback to the early days of post separation.

Though it could be said that pre-separation, the beings of energy were like zombies or dream-walkers, they were much more than that because they had been endowed with the *Image of God*, which simply means a built-in channel, an incredibly strong mirror, through which to regain inward vision and reach Soul. This channel, the strong mirror, is the ego-persona.

While the androgynous beings were as innocent as babies, their ego-persona was inactive. Let's just say that being as complete as yin and yang are complete, they had nothing to imagine. Thus, free of desire, their thinking didn't go beyond a state of just being. Their ego, like the surface of a pond, was clear and still.

After Separation, however, as in the case of children in the candy shop or in the case of us on a shopping spree, the natural byproduct of outward sight was a desire, a craving to possess whatever the eyes saw, which then became whatever the mind/thoughts desired. Their ego, like the surface of a pond on a blustery day, was murky and ruffled.

It is in response to this new state of being that our karmic ancestors' ego-persona got tripped. It was not the discovery of a material world that activated the ego-persona as easily as a 'sleeper spy' gets awoken into action, but their indulgent response to it.

It might have been because the soft skin of their human body was not protected by fur, feathers or scales that our karmic ancestors felt vulnerable and so, beyond creating weapons to suit their various needs, they began to hoard and they began to cling to what they had hoarded.

Animal pelts worn for protection were all these beings could access and the trend to wearing leather as protective clothing prevailed well into the turn of this century, but I find it an interesting aside to note that throughout the ages, all of them, we, humans, have always enjoyed the feel and the look of animal skin over our body in the form of furs and leather. Go figure!

 

Let's accumulate, display %26 stack on more. More! MORE!

Upon being separated into halves, the first humans' focus shifted from inward to outwards. Unconsciously, they felt incomplete and longed for *something* that has remained elusive. That *something* was the re-union with their soul but unfortunately for all of us, 6 billion+ people alive today, the early beings deployed on planet Earth misread the symptoms. They chose to self-medicate and launched themselves in a single-minded and never-ending search for their *other half*.

It is from these ancient times that the delusional sense of security that we have been feeding en masse over the course of millennia, comes to us.

From the Dawn of Time till today, we have been acting as if we honestly believed – against all evidence - that more, more, more of everything - from more love to more money to more sex to more personal space to more holidays to more bang and bling for our buck to more food to more protection to more leisure - and all manner of possessions would keep us safe, contented and insulated from the crazy world that lies in wait on the other side of our front door.

It is helpful to understand that our compulsive pursuit of accumulating and displaying and stacking our possessions, on our bodies, in our homes and in banks, stems from our equally compulsive search for love and acceptance ... but from Soul.

The sad thing is that since we are blind to her, we detour this compulsion and mistakenly refer it to a constant, exhausting search for love and acceptance from our peers and from contemporaries – mere bodies of bones, flesh and fluids themselves who can no more give unconditionally to us than we can to them.

It is also why we, as civilizations and as nations, have developed an insatiable lust for all we can conquer – even if death is the price to pay.

And then ... there was karma

Karma was created back in the Dawn of Time to redress our misguided attempts at finding unconditional love.

The soul-full original nature of our karmic ancestors suggests that they were intended to share, to give, to love un-conditionally and move that love and that acceptance forward.

Instead, although these beings were ‘in the image of God', able to evolve *back* to their original purity by tapping into the soul energy that had been sealed inside their newly formed chests, these early prototypes of the fabled Adam and Eve had no gauge with which to assess good from bad.

They became hypnotised by the stimuli of the world around.

Desires arose. Their minds turned to the selfish pursuits of deceit, greed, and sensory gratification through the chase and conquest of the physical and of the sensual. Gone was their Lightness. Heavy in their heavy bodies, they became dark and they became stuck. As Moriya explained it, 'As the Sons of God descended into Earth and became attracted to what they saw, their feet became stuck in such deep mud that their wings couldn't lift them up again and they remained forever on earth forgetting their true Self.'

And so it is that to this day, to the moment that is under our feet, it still is true that our real purpose for being here in this lifetime, as bodies of flesh, bones and liquids, is to orchestrate a re-union with our soul by detaching from our search for happiness, contentment and fulfilment through all that is outside of ourselves in the material world - and once again turn inward.

Needless to say that this feat, which has eluded our species for millions and millions of years, can only be done by following Soul's attributes - love, faith, truth and all other altruistic behaviors.

It is therefore no wonder that every recognized prophet across the globe has created his own set of commandments which have since been enshrined, cultural flavor not withstanding, in each of the main religions' sacred texts.

A re-union with our soul is what will close the circle - the portal - and grant humanity a true period of Enlightenment. Life led through a re-union with Soul would mean that everything - everyone – would become whole and inseparable from the whole.

Which brings us back to Karma – the Great Arbiter.

 

The scales - the scales - always the scales!

Karma was created to balance things out. The true belief that karma is for real – that the re-incarnation of our ego persona will occur until the debt has been repaid - does keep the believer honest; more honest, I will hazard, than a promise of walking through the Pearly Gates.

As Moriya, my mentor who - btw seriously does not have a website - explained further, 'Karma is Action. The cosmos is harmonious and everything is in the right place at the right time. Each outward thought and each action on behalf of the self interferes with and shatters this harmonious state of affairs.

Therefore whatever thought and action, big or tiny, done altruistically links up again with cosmic-pure energy while negative, selfish thoughts and actions are sent back to sender.'

Soul knows our address.

And to that, I might add, that one's soul cycle of incarnations will go on and on until we, senders, act in a manner that will lead to karmic amendment – if not now ... then ... later. Or much later. Or later again.

No matter how many lifetimes it will take each one of us, sooner or however much later – all amendments will BE made.

They will be made in, around, and through our innumerable griefs and traumas.

They will be made in and out of many death-moments – those of the ones we love as well as those of our own many times over – for however long it will take.

 

Asleep @ the reins

Nepenthe is a plant which Homer, the poet, has described as an ancient herbal drink so powerful that it eases grief and banishes sorrow from the mind.

Here is a lovely poem [found in the preface of Maurice Nicoll's, Living Time, and often attributed to E.C. Note] about the need to observe and be aware.

Give me Nepenthe

With the lulling eyes

To shut away the world!

To sleep, to dream,

And in this clover-scented air

Slip through imprisoning Time

And find my Spirit free!

Alas, not thus Shalt thou escape from Time.

Thou wilt return again

And yet again

Till thou hast paid

The uttermost farthing.

Didst thou not know Time is a debtor's prison?

Whom dost thou owe?

Owe not Nepenthe

 

From a text much more ancient, here is an extract that I particularly like from the 'Katha Upanishad', one of many early spiritual treaties, Upanishads, originally put down in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 BCE.

'Know the Atman [soul] as Lord of a chariot; and the body as the chariot itself. Know that reason [mind] is the charioteer and the mind indeed is the reins.

The horses, they say, are the senses; and their paths are the object of sense.

He who has not right understanding and whose mind is never steady is not the ruler of his life, like a bad driver with wild horses.

But he who has right understanding and whose mind is ever steady is the ruler of his life, like a good driver with well-trained horses.

He who has not understanding, is careless and never pure, reaches not the End of the journey; but wanders on from death to death.'

Once the new humans' behaviors had become patterned, their ways of being were repeated by each of their subsequent incarnations – just like in real time, each generation casts a magnified lens over the shenanigans of the preceding ones. Millions of years later, these first humans' biblical avatars were immortalised through the antics of Cain and Abel.

 

karma-newly born

In pursuing their self-oriented lifestyle, our karmic ancestors turned the tables on Soul to assume top-dog status. In doing so, they enslaved their souls – our current souls - by trapping them in such a way that they could neither save them nor save themselves from the fate they created - one action at a time – as they went about living their lives.

It is because of this turn of events that Karma was born. Passed on through Soul  and through Soul's reflection on the ego, it has created the cycle of re-incarnation.

Also from the 'Katha Upanishad', comes this lovely illustration of the process: 'Even as the caterpillar, when coming to the end of a blade of grass reaches out to another blade of grass and draws itself over to it, in the same way the Soul, leaving the body and unwisdom behind it, reaches out to another body and draws itself to it.' [1]

Although it does make Soul come across as a body-snatcher, clearly the 'body' can only be that of each newborn.

Unlike *dirty money* that somehow gets *laundered*, karma can only be laundered, one action at a time when we, by responding in a soulful manner to the choices reflected in our ego-persona, neutralize the pull of the self - away from all that we do for own gratification, for our personal ulterior motives, however well hidden, even from our mind, they may be.

And by the billions – the vast majority of us incarnated again and again since the crust of the earth has hardened along with the skeletoned body of the early beings of light - we have never looked back.

In a way, this hijacking of one organism by another is no different than when, due to an autoimmune disorder, the body turns on itself and the immune system mistakenly kills cells, tissues and organs.

This is the logical place to quote the words of the Great Master, Ramana Maharshi, as discovered - synchronistically for this piece on Creation - in the morning mail from Moriya:

'There was a time when we had free will. We could act as we pleased. We acted, and that act produced a certain result. That 'result' became our destiny. We could not escape it. We acted again.

This time our free will carried with it the experience of our first act and was qualified and limited to that extent. This act again produced results, and these results again curtailed our original freedom.

Now that we have been acting and producing results for millions of ages, these actions and their reactions act upon us as our unavoidable fate called Prarabdha. Our body, mind, intellect, and reasoning are fashioned by these and make us choose a certain course.

Our previous acts determine our present life, and our present acts go to make our future. We reap now what we have sown in our previous births, and we shall reap in the future what we are sowing now.'[2]

1. The Upanishads, copyright Juan Mascaro, 1965

2. www.gita-society.com/bhagavad-gita

What's that little voice I hear?

Finally from the Dawn of Time, we are now back here and now - back in the moment that is under our feet, the only real moment we can shape from the inside/out.

'Our previous acts determine our present life, and our present acts go to make our future. We reap now what we have sown in our previous births, and we shall reap in the future what we are sowing now.'[1]

That does sound quite plausible but, as such reasoning is a bit heavy going for some of us, I thought I would concoct a very basic illustration of how Soul and Ego, Thought and Mind come together to interact with Karma.

Here goes:

Here I am, indulging in a series of grumpy thoughts because, last night, my darling announced it was time to invite over a few friends we hadn't seen for quite some time.
I reminded her that seeing as we all lived on average within 30 minutes of each other, if neither we nor any of them had organised a catch up get-together in over a year then, surely, there had to be a reason for that – at their end as well as at ours.

And now, so many hours later, I am actively stewing about the flaws I perceive in my darling's funhouse plans. Thoughts of sabotage and mutiny flit across my mind.

'Don't go there! Let it go,' says Thought. 'Breathe! Stick to the moment that's under your feet,' she urges. 'Why get all worked up about a plan that's not even pencilled in?'

Question: where did this *little voice* come from?
The obvious answer would be to say that it came from Common Sense a.k.a. Voice of Reason - and don't we all know that voice well

This little voice brought to my consciousness by Mind is actually Soul's voice commonly known as Consciousness.

What's in our aura?

EVERYTHING we do, think, say and feel emerges into our awareness compliments of Soul.

We do not have a self, not as such, but we do have Soul – all of us do and each soul is pure energy.

No one – not even the worst of the international community's current *enemies* - has a dark soul. There is no such thing as a *dark* soul.

Karma and an Ego-Persona are the other two of our *drivers*.

Karma and Ego are naturally neutral. They are as neutral as, in itself, fire is neutral – it can warm us, cook our food, stop a greater fire in its tracks, just as it has the potential to create havoc and devastation.

The wind and the rain are neutral, too. So is uranium. So are cars.

They each serve a genuine purpose. Electricity is neutral, too. Neither good nor bad, and we can't live anymore without it. It just *is*. As for all natural and man-made resources, our safety depends on what use we make of these resources and how carefully we handle them.

Similarly, it is the manner in which we interact with Karma and Ego that, too often, renders us energetically volatile and often hostile.

That's mostly because we understand even less about Karma and Ego than we do about electricity, wind and fire. And imagine the chaos in our lives – in the world - if we all mishandled fire and electricity on a daily basis!

Soul uses Mind to push us in the right direction.

Here is how she does it: our Karma is embedded in our energy field a.k.a. our aura.

 

Our aim, Mind's aim, should be obvious by now!

Quick question that's just popped into my mind: just as it is through the evolution of the species that we have supposedly *lost* the tail we have been told our early ancestors had inherited from the salamander, because we no longer needed it, why have we not yet lost our aura, our energy field, seeing as we have done absolutely nothing with it over the past couple of billion years?

Why hasn't it just faded away? Karma and Ego are partly inherited from our Karmic ancestors and partly reshaped by us on a moment-to-moment basis.

Both Karma and Ego are the result of how Mind has responded to the long string of moments they have presented us since our birth.

Quick facts about Ego-persona:

Ego is not an entity. It doesn't come in any size.

The argument based on the theory that someone has a small ego while someone else is said to have an XXXL ego does not belong in this discussion – not any more than the notion of *dark* souls do.

Ego is not something that can be excised from our brain like a gland or a piece of the neo cortex.

Ego is not something we can sit on a chair and reason with it as we would with a fractious 3 year old child.

Although it, too, is pure energy, Ego, like the face of the moon, generates no light of its own. Just as Moon reflects Sun's light, Ego reflects Soul's energy in our energy field/aura. Here is a rough illustration of how all the components interact together: Let's compare Soul, pure energy, to the most amazing program money can buy and let's say that Soul *runs* through an installation named Ego. Or we could say that Ego is the processor while Mind is the decoder.

Generally speaking, most of us, neither Awake nor Aware nor present in the moment, are far from evolved and we could say that Soul's energy, bright and pure, comes to Mind reflected by Ego.

However, like an old pitted mirror left in the corner of the attic, Ego's surface is pitted and tainted. No matter how bright the light of Soul and the neutral energy of Ego, reflection can only be fuzzy.

We could also humbly agree that Ego is like the old computer I gave away last year. Why did I give away that lovely laptop that was only 2 yrs old? Because it was not powerful enough to *run* the new programs I had begun using. So, in summary, splendid Soul is unable to do its thing because Ego's surface is either dusty and stained ... or lagging.

Our aim, Mind's aim, should be obvious by now. If we want to feel the full energy of Soul, we need to restore the reflective surface of Ego, Soul's mirror, or upgrade Ego, Soul's processor.

 

Mechanics of an aldult tantrum

Actually, it is to better explain the [spiritual] elements that form an adult tantrum that I felt compelled to go all the way back to an alternative take on Creation - the fist posts on this blog.

Without a clear picture of the entire, huge, millenia-long backdrop of our daily moments, it is very hard to make sense of what makes us tick here %26 now - and how to attempt overriding whatever that is.

Without a clear understanding of how karma, ego and Soul inter-relate, it is almost impossible to understand the mechanics of our human decision-making processes.

So, if you've arrived to this post by accident and are puzzled, I'd suggest you go back to the source, a couple of pages back

Soul is the Overseer. She has infinite power.

Ironically, though Soul is free of any automation, she is imprisoned within our chest and therefore can do no more than project her messages via the ego-persona which acts as a mirror reflecting to the mind/brain her images/messages in the form of thoughts and impressions.

Soul is of the lightest form of energy and she is always pure and inseparable from the Cosmos/from the Divine.

Ego has limited powers because she can only see the world through our senses and thus, unlike Soul who has infinite energy from which to sustain herself, because of her inherent limitation Ego has to burn up energy to remain buzzing.

Ego is a centripetal force that attracts egoistical cravings to itself – like a magnet attracts all that is metal regardless of its shape and size - while Soul is a centrifugal force which spins Heart energy outwards from her core.

Back to the moment of the inner tantrum I have already referred to in preceding posts:

What happens when I'm faced with a situation I find quite annoying? Soul nudges me. She appeals to my better nature.

Ego reflects the beam, Mind decodes it and I hear the little voice that is prompting me to be grown up about my darling's funhouse plan and to deal with it with an open heart.

Mind leaves me with 2 choices:

Option #1

I throw my shoulders back, breathe with intent and agree that my annoyance reflects an energetic block inside of me, in my energy field.

The block undoubtedly comes from Heart Chakra. Soul understands that I, CC - the body – needs to rise to the occasion and can rise to the occasion – hence this test. My little task, here, now, in the moment under my feet is to ACTIVELY accept What Is.

What Is, is my darling's wish for a get-together to reconnect with people we have not seen in a long time. I, CC – body - understand that ANY gathering is a huge opportunity to give from the heart.

It is about a lot more than merely cooking up something - or having it catered - and serving it with drinks. I, CC – body - understand that the idea of that particular get-together has been sent to my darling's mind by my Soul as a way to test my Higher reflexes a.k.a. reining in my automated responses.

Mind-over-matter [under duress] has no place in this discussion UNLESS it comes preceded by HEART i.e. let's do whatever needs doing, but let's always do it heart-over-mind-over-matter.

Should I, CC – the body - shift into Higher gear to respond to the whisper of Soul as reflected by Ego and decoded by Mind, the get-together, once I ACTIVELY accept it, plan AND deliver from Heart, alongside my darling, will score me some nice soulful kudos for I will have acted for the greater good of all AND the greater good of self.

If I actively choose option #1, by the time my darling comes home from work, I will be able to discuss with her the logistics of the get-together with an open mind.

By actively challenging my comfort zones for the greater good of all and of self, I will be amending Karma inside Ego and, yes, as a bonus, I will have a good time with our guests AND my darling will think I rock – which is not anything to sneeze at. As an aside – I will add that, as is often the case, the moment we ACTIVELY accept Soul's dare, the dare disappears. It is vaporised.

Option #2

I can keep tallying all the annoying traits of these friends we haven't seen in months, which would confirm why our acquaintanceship has found itself interrupted.

I can grumble about how untimely that get-together would be and also, OMG! I can even conjure visual images of the sink overflowing with dirty dishes, glasses and pans stacked everywhere, as well as the unavoidable hours of cleanup waiting for us the next morning.

Energy already bristling, at the first opportunity, I, through Mind, will broach the topic of this gathering.

An argument with my darling is sure to follow and then there will be the fallout of the argument to deal with. Soul understands that by creating such an obstruction, I, CC - the body - am feeding my base reflexes – the ones that have been purpose-built to indulge Me, My, Mine and I - above all else.

It is only very recently that I have understood the meaning of the Biblical quote that states, 'In the day when God created man. He made him in the likeness of God.'

This energy field is the biblical image of God – our ego-persona. As I am not religious, I can substitute God for Soul and respect the integrity of the message, and what it says is that we, bodies, have within us all that we need to evolve through our Ego to become likeness of Soul – pure energy – in the fullness of time – at the end of many other lifetimes.

I find this an interesting concept.

What's a good person to do?

Though Ego is neutral by nature, knee-jerks, automated reactions to any stimulus do feed the *low* end of Ego, the one that craves sensory gratification and the best of what the material world can tempt us with.

Every time we react in a way that spells out Not now, Too tired, Can't be bothered, Go away, You're stupid, What's WRONG with you!  – regardless of with whom we are engaging – we feed into that *low* end.

Reality is that Soul constantly beams at us messages of Best Practice, but either we are unable to *get* them or we fail to understand them because Ego doesn't reflect them back clearly for Mind to snatch in mid air and decode for us - or we DO understand them well enough but we ACTIVELY choose to sidestep Best Practice.

We are unwilling to sacrifice time/space/money/principled opinion and/or pride.

We are unable to soften and open up.

We are unable to *give* and we choose to hold on to cold, old ideas, resentment and insecurities.

We let our bad mood push us along.

We create all the thoughts and images we need to shore up our stand until Mind ends up totally convinced that the decision made is the correct one.

Soul sighs in resignation and curls up in her corner, knowing that the wait is going to be a long one before we action any positive change to our M.O.

In not resisting our own thinking, we, bodies, allow Mind to indulge our base nature by feeding the *low* end of Ego instead of the *high* end of Ego – the soulful end.

So again: Great beam of pure energy reflected fuzzily by pitted mirror – what's a good person to do?

Amazing program but low RAM renders it useless – what's a good person to do?

If Mind chooses option #2, I, CC - body - will not be amending any karma. Instead, I will be presented in the fullness of time with a similar situation - except that that new one will, in all likelihood, be more difficult to execute than the original funhouse plan of having long-lost friends over for a get-together.

Imagine! What if, instead of long-lost friends, it were a relative descending on us? And not just for dinner but for a week!

For a month.

How about FOREVER?!?

 

Ego is our tool

The link from one event to another event, from one mishandled test to the new one, though invisible, intangible and lacking any synaptic connection in Mind, is as real and as concrete as the knots that we knit.

Soul dispenses tough love through Karma and through Ego, our energy field.

Time to recap and move this along by introducing a few more supporting characters:

Reversed Sight: we are so totally focused on *getting* that we fail to comprehend that all the frustrations and setbacks we get, be they big or small, are stimuli intended to force us to turn the reflection upside down and *give*. Oh, it's not about giving money – that would be too easy. Much harder is to actively give of ourselves - and from the heart.

Soul, you see, cannot but give of her energy and Ego's role is to project this energy outward for the benefit of others.

Instead, usually, the Mind intercepts and interprets Soul's message for us and the interpretation is too often steeped in negativity.

Mind, in moments of small-mindedness, flicks that interpretation on to the nearest catalyst, the messenger, i.e. the friend, the boss, the child, the stranger in the street, the lover, the neighbour, the parent; and on to that situation or person, Mind's default *me-first/mine-first* small-mindedness sticks like gum to shoe.

I do believe in the Law of Attraction in as much as we do attract what is karmically intended to make us outgrow the way we are, like a bug struggles out of its chrysalis to live its life fully formed.

Unfortunately, instead of growing and soaring, we shrink, skulk, become anxious and become ill.

Ego has little Helpers = Mind, Senses, Thoughts a.k.a. Emotions, Consciousness etc.

They are all integrated in the preset configuration of Ego/energy field. As Ego's little Helpers, their sole role is to transmit directly from Soul and back to Soul through Mind. They do that by hijacking Body's basic wiring.

 

Ego is our most useful *enemy*

Ego is not *a rose by any other name.*

Psychology has its own definition/understanding of the ego – something in our personality that needs to be cancelled out or shrunk, at the very least, no matter what or how.

Religion also has its specific understanding of the ego – one that equally maligns it.

In reality, Ego and Karma are the only tools we have, the only tools we can use towards a cleansing of the channel that leads to Soul.

Though Ego is neutral by nature, knee-jerks, automated reactions to any stimulus do feed the *low* end of Ego, the one that craves sensory gratification and the best of what the material world can tempt us with.

Every time we react in a way that spells out Not now, Too tired, Can't be bothered, Go away, You're stupid, What's WRONG with you!  – regardless of with whom we are engaging – we feed into that *low* end.

Reality is that Soul constantly beams at us messages of Best Practice, but either we are unable to *get* them or we fail to understand them because Ego doesn't reflect them back clearly for Mind to snatch in mid air and decode for us - or we DO understand them well enough but we ACTIVELY choose to sidestep Best Practice. We are unwilling to sacrifice time/space/money/principled opinion and/or pride.

We are unable to soften and open up.

We are unable to *give* and we choose to hold on to cold, old ideas, resentment and insecurities. We let our bad mood push us along.

We create all the thoughts and images we need to shore up our stand until Mind ends up totally convinced that the decision made is the correct one.

Soul sighs in resignation and curls up in her corner, knowing that the wait is going to be a long one before we action any positive change to our M.O.

In not resisting our own thinking, we, bodies, allow Mind to indulge our base nature by feeding the *low* end of Ego instead of the *high* end of Ego – the soulful end.

What we end up with is this great beam of pure energy reflected fuzzily though tantalizingly by a pitted mirror – the *low* end* of our ego and so ... what's a good person to do, huh?

There's only soMUCH we can do!

All of us alive today can compare ourselves with the planet Earth.
The Law of Attraction of Earth - gravity - symbolizes the reality that ALL things come from Above-Below.

Everyone understands that in order to ascend anything and anywhere, any object or body needs to be propelled upward by some sort of energy. Not even birds can fly through sheer will.

Reality is that the mightiest of acceleration can propel a mass of steel through the sound barrier - all the way to the moon - and beyond the pull of gravity.

For us, humans, this mighty elevation can only be done by connecting Mind to Soul via responses made through the statics of Ego.

Only Soul has the right energy. She has an energy that I like to compare to that of a drag racing car and its nitro propulsion that yields around 8000 horsepower. This propulsion, however, cannot be measured accurately because there are no dynometers strong enough to measure such an extreme power – but it, too, needs to be balanced.

Ego's energy, like fossil fuel, is simply unable to do more than transmit from Soul to Mind.

Any attempt to bypass Soul and attempt a so-called spiritual ascension simply propelled by the creative powers of the Brain, visualization and an ecstatic faith, can be compared to the elevation of a weather balloon.

It will rise but will not enter the spiritual realm and will bring us down in a big SPLAT – imagine Nitro into a 1.5 litre, 4 cylinder car engine!

As an aside, because we are inseparable from each other and inseparable from the whole of the cosmos, it is helpful to see a link between massive natural forces and our *Ego* eruptions.

What if we were subjected to the same rules as planet Earth but in reverse?

Here's how it can be explained: Earth supplies us with air and we have no choice whether we breathe or not - our lungs insist on breathing for us.

Earth supplies us with a range of natural food products without which we neither function nor grow.

Earth supplies us with solid ground on which to stand and we are bound to it by gravity.

Earth is surrounded by a huge magnetic field and we cannot but react magnetically to every aspect of it in our days. We react magnetically to fauna, flora and to minerals, just as we react emotionally, mentally, spiritually and philosophically. Our attraction to each other is magnetic.

All aspects of our interactions through body and thought are within the boundaries of our Ego - of our energy field - and cannot pass into timelessness.  Our thoughts do not pass into the 4th Dimension.

And just as the planets above, we are swept into the processes of birth, growth and death. No one can sidestep any of these.  We are obliged to go through each of them, be it willingly or unwillingly.

The only stage that we can control to some degree by bringing it forward, is death.

By day, a teacher of Senior English and French in Brisbane, Australia, and, by night, first a writer of novels and now a writer of spiritual material, I am on a quest of sorts – I am searching for a connection to my soul, right here, right now.

Admittedly, I have an ulterior motive – quite a strong one at that: I am trying to edit some karma out of my energy field by altering its properties. This, from me, who a couple of years ago thought about my soul as often as the molecular composition of my body, which was never.

Dear Reader,

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What is the difference in "CC" - Closed Captions - and "Subtitles"?

Also, if the DVD cover does not have "CC" on it, does that mean it definitely does not have this option? I want to purchase the BBC boxed set of "Pride and Prejudice", but it does not indicate that it has this option. None of the places that have it for sale can answer the question. I have been told I have to purchase it and see if it does.

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While I don't know the exact definitions of "subtitles" and "closed captions," I do watch movies frequently enough with both that this is what I have noticed...

Subtitles are becoming more and more frequently included on DVDs regardless of whether or not they are foreign or domestic. Subtitles are usually just the dialog displayed.

Closed captions usually include dialog, in addition to music lyrics and descriptions of background noises. Take for example a movie opening with the opening credits and a violin playing in the background. What closed captions does is display [violin playing] at the start of the music.

As for finding Pride and Prejudice with subtitles, good luck. If the box set you are looking at looks like this (http://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/pride-and-prejudice-DVDcover.jpg) chances are you are never going to find one with subtitles or CC. This box set does not include it. But, this is the only box set I've ever seen for sale, so you may be able to find another edition/version some where else, if you look hard enough. Another option is grabbing the book and following along while watching the movie, since this film version has the dialog almost verbatim from the novel.

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