Kuthumi (Video) : Transformation in Your New Year

January 14, 2008 at 5:48 am · Filed under Без категория

VIDEO:
Kuthumi channeling by Lynette Leckie-Clark (37 mins 2 secs)
http://www.cosmiclighthouse.com/jan08/channelings/kuthumi
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TRANSCRIPTION:

Good day to you. I come forward at this time as I have been asked to
speak to you of your new year, your coming year. Some of the things
that can be expected. Transformation will be the key to your coming
year, transformation of the individuals and the beginning of the
transformation of your very planet. The Earth, the plates of the Earth
will move considerably. This will create change. It will be the
beginning of change. And further, in your Earth’s weather, unforeseen
patterns will become the norm. Where there is little water, there will
be much rain. And where the temperatures are warm, will become cold.
Unexpected transformations. I have decided to use this new word
“transformation”. Many fear the word “change”.

For individuals, how can you prepare? See to it that your emotional
body and your physical self are in order. Put your house in order, I
believe is the term. Your finances, put them in order. It will be
unwise to overload yourself with debt. For to do so will create a much
higher risk in your coming year. The financial markets will become
more unstable as will the large corporate businesses. At first they
will scurry like mice and try to diversify their assets. This will
only delay the inevitable. For in your future, money, no matter what
currency, will no longer be used. You will trade, similar really to
what it used to be many of your years ago. These are changes which
will begin moving through in your coming year. To prepare is not
difficult. As I have said, it will not be difficult.

In the previous years, there has been much talk and preparation on
preparing your emotional body, on clearing, on coming to terms and
releasing karma. There has been much written on this. Those who have
done the work – the lightworkers, are now prepared for their next step
in the transformation process of all. For those who have not prepared,
it will simply mean that their times in the future will be more
difficult.

Karma has been released by many. I have spoken before on your time and
the effects of that time, how it is speeding up. In the future, you
will not address karma as you have in the past. No. Indeed, you will
address your karma instantly. So, if you mistreat another or hurt
another or create karma through your deeds and actions, you will repay
instantly. It will happen to you. You will experience what you have
given out instantly. There will no longer be pulling karma from one
lifetime to another, carrying it over. And further, it will no longer
be necessary to wait for the one that you have hurt to present again
in your life to address the karma. You will be able to address that
karma with another soul. You see, because the mass consciousness will
come more into effect. So while you may have hurt one person, it is
not necessary to adjust that karma with that same person. Another may
come on your path and hurt you so it is balanced out.

Now, I have used the term “hurt” so you can understand, many can
understand. Of course, it is all experience. That really is all your
karma is, is experience. For as you give out, you usually do not feel
the consequences, you only feel what you have given out when it is
returned to you. And usually man will not think of his actions until
he feels the consequences himself. Prior to that, one will usually
carry on their paths and not give much thought to the matter at all.
You see, it is not until you are faced with it, until you feel it,
until you have it returned to you, it is not until then, that man
begins to learn. It has always been this way. Man has learned his
greatest lesson through suffering, through pain, through hardship. It
is what he has chosen.

And so your time will become even more sped up in the future. But you
are multi-dimensional beings, all of you. Some realize this and
experience it. Others do not. Let me explain further. When you
meditate, you sit and your physical body sits on a chair or on the
floor, your physical body is there. As you begin to meditate and you
rise, your higher self rises from your physical body energy. And you
go higher to another dimension. Your physical body remains in the
lower dimension so there you have two dimensions. And further, if you
then take an aspect of your Self to adjust, perhaps your chakras or to
travel somewhere, there is yet another dimension. So then there are
three dimensions. You are operating on all three. When you are in a
higher dimension, time as you know it does not exist. There is no
time. Your time is measured in your lower dimensional physical levels.
Many feel this when they meditate and they may feel they have been
meditating for such a short time, perhaps ten or fifteen of your
minutes. Though when they fully return back to their physical bodies
and their heavy vibrations, in your measure of time, an hour could
have passed. And as you are returning, it seems so much shorter. There
is no time in the higher dimension. There is time in your lower
dimension, your physical reality. It is there for you to live by, to
work by, to have some measure by which to work and which to have
leisure time, when to eat and when to rest. It is merely there as a
guideline.

With the added light being sent to your planet and the many light
particles that are now in your atmosphere, it is creating a speeding
up of time. How can this be, you ask? It is because of the light
particles. The light particles in your atmosphere, filter through into
your conscious mind thereby creating a higher awareness for all. Yes,
even those who you would say are not workers of light will experience
a level of higher awareness. It is the levels that will vary. For
some, there will be only a slight rise in their levels. For others who
work more with the light, they will rise considerably. Some will even
move to a higher vibration and really function and work between the
dimensions. Neither in your physical reality nor quite in the very
high realms, but in the middle, finding their middle plane if you
will. It is all due to the light particles in your atmospheres which
are absorbed by all. All humanity absorb it. All animals, your plants,
all of your kingdoms, all absorb these light particles. There can be
no other way for it is in your atmosphere. It is all to assist in the
raising of your vibrations. You see, to cross over, from the heavy
matter that you have endured for so long.

This will also play a major role in your coming year. For gradually,
the particles of light will increase in intensity. Very slowly, but
they will nonetheless increase. Most of the changes that you will
experience in your coming year will be on your material plane. There
will of course be some who have resisted, who have not attended to
their emotional bodies, who have not cleared as they should. And their
own guides will attend to those souls. All the while, there will be
far more clearing on your planet. The souls that have remained between
worlds, those who have not crossed over fully, they will be assisted
and taken over to the light. Indeed, to the 4th dimension, which is
another aspect of the dimension that mankind is in at the present
time.

Now this is another interesting subject. For those who have not
crossed over fully at the time of what you call death, which is merely
just a transition, but however we will use your terminology of death
so that those who are not fully aware will understand what I am saying
fully. For those who have experienced death and have not crossed over
to the light fully, thereby being held in the lower earth planes,
their presence will be felt. Some will make their presence felt.
Others who lived in close proximity will become aware of their
energies. Because they have changed, you see. They have grown, they
will become more aware of energies being in their property, being
around in shopping malls, etc. For many of these souls wander. Some
will stay in a house or property but others will not. They will move
around.

But what I am trying to say is that many will feel these earth bound
energies where previously they have not been aware. They will become
aware now because of the transition in their energy levels. They will
become far more aware of all energies including earthbounds. But the
earthbounds will simply be taken over to where they can heal, move on
and grow. Some will learn on the other side. Others will incarnate
almost immediately. It all depends on the soul’s journey, the level of
understanding, the lessons which must be learned by that soul and of
course, the healing, and whether it is a traumatic passing or death as
you called it.

So you see, there are many changes, many transformations in many
different areas. But there will be also much joy, much more joy. For
as you bring in added light, as you absorb added light, you also gain
more inner peace. You let go of the heaviness, you see. You become a
finer vibration. You seek more peace in your life and so you create
it. And so there is more joy, more happiness because of this, more
compassion also to your fellow souls. All of these things I mention
are part of your transitional phases in the coming year. It will
continue on. The transitions are on all levels, but the focus will be
on the material, the outer, you see.

It will not be difficult. For many of you, it will not be difficult.
Man has in his history, had difficult times and happy times. If you
look, there has been waves of transformation on various issues and
levels. There are more wave patterns in your atmosphere, of energy, of
atoms, of your experiences, of mankind’s experiences. There are many
highs and many lows. Your weather patterns also, follow a wave pattern
of energy. It is that many did not think of this. But this is how you
learn and grow. It will be an interesting year, a year where many will
begin new ventures, new ways. For those who have already experienced
transformation, they will change their very life patterns to one of
less stress, more peace as I have said. So it will be what you could
term, a very busy year, energetically and also creatively, as many
seek to bring in new ways, new ventures, step on to new paths. All the
while bringing in more light, more peace, more happiness in their
daily lives because that will be what they will choose. They may never
have thought of it as energy, or having it as a choice of creating
more peace, previously in their past. But they will begin to think of
it in their new year. And so the transformation rolls forward,
according to the plan for all.

I believe that someone has a question.

Lee: Yes master. At which point in the future will we begin to
experience this new phenomenon of instant karma and perhaps instant
manifestation as well?

Kuthumi: Well, these are two quite large areas. Now, the first area of
the instant karma, it has begun to happen even as we speak. There are
those who are aware of instant karma, being returned to them, within a
day or two days. Sometimes, a week, as you deem a week, but still
classed as instant karma. This will even speed up as your year
progresses forward. So it is not that it is in your future, it has
already begun. It is that if you observe and notice as I have said,
those who are aware, who are working very much with the energies, with
the light, are already becoming aware of this. It has already begun.

And as to the other area of abundance, this is a much more complicated
matter for man. Now why do I say this? Very simply because abundance
is very much tied to the feeling of self worth. These two are very
much linked. And so when you speak of instant abundance, it is more
the question of how you think of your own worth. And further, how your
conditioning towards money was manifested, what you learnt as a small
child, whether there was abundance or whether you had hardship, were
you are always told you cannot have that because there is not enough
money or we have to wait until the end of the month to buy your shoes,
for example. In those instances, many have the seed of lack, firmly
planted in their conscious mind, which flow down to their
subconscious. So you begin to see why I say it is a much more
complicated matter. These areas must be looked at and addressed. You
see. When man clears his conditionings and realizes his worth, how
precious indeed he is, then he will also manifest in an instant
whatever you wish. It will be fully cleared, you will also be full of
light. For to work through that level, the light will also be with
you. So for this to be, there is much work for many.

Now I am aware on your planet, there are some beings who will say, oh
yes, I started with not much, and now I am a millionaire or I believe
the new term now is billionaire. And they will say, I did this or I
manifested that, but you see, for us, looking at many of these souls,
that was their destiny. They were destined to have that amount of
wealth or abundance. But remember, in attaining that abundance, there
is also great lessons and great responsibility. Man has not yet come
to the point where he is able to manifest abundance at will. First, he
must overcome his own fears that he holds within his subconscious.
That is why I say to many. Give yourself love, fill yourself with
love. See that your own temple is in order before you help another.
This brings you into balance, you see. These things must be cleared,
in order to attain what you wish.

Chee: I have another question.

Kuthumi: Proceed.

Chee: When you say that money will no longer be as it is now, do you
mean that there will be another system in place without the use of the
currency now? Or do you mean that people will barter literally, in
exchange of goods for another service?

Kuthumi: In this stage, the very short stage as we foresee it, in this
transformation stage between your current currencies and bartering,
there may be those who will try and put forward some form of what you
could call a type of currency, but it will not stand the test of your
time. You are moving to a time of bartering, of peace and of oneness.

Chee: That will be all.

Kuthumi: Yes, do you require further?

Chee: Not for the recording. Do you have any final message for our readers?

Kuthumi: For your readers. Well, there are many of us here who will be
speaking of some of the events that are expected in your coming year.
You see, man is such that he requires that everything is written out,
be spelled out. It is simply transformation. It is part of the bigger
plan for all. In looking at what is ahead, I urge all of you to
remember how we see you. We see you as wonderful beings of light, very
precious beings of light, to be guided, to be nurtured, to be loved.
Even as you learn your lessons, we stand by in love. We do not
interfere because in many situations, to interfere would prevent the
lesson. That does not mean that we stop being with you or move away.
It means that we have so much love for you that we are able to stand
by your side as you endure and learn through your hardships. There is
so much love from so many beings of light in our realms, so many here
helping and guiding. There is no need to fear, there is no need to
fear. Rather, look joyfully to your future, look joyfully to the
transitions and the happy times for you. I withdraw.

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Channeled by Lynette Leckie-Clark
http://www.kuthumischool.com
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NAMASTE’…GoddessLight

http://goddess-light.blogspot.com

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Celia Fenn’s EARTHLOG.:.Jan.12th : Coping with the Big Stretch……and more Water Magic

January 12, 2008 at 1:38 pm · Filed under Без категория

image by Jean-Luc Bozzoli at http://www.eyewithin.com

January 12th : Coping with the Big Stretch……and more Water Magic : I have been quiet the last few days, because I have been on an “organizational mission”. Well, Archangel Michael did say that this year we would be focussing more on the Masculine energy, and indeed so I have. For the last month, in fact, I have been almost driven by a need to “clean up” and simplify and organize everything, from the kitchen cupboards to the website. In the last weeks, it has been my office working space. I have files and folders for my files and folders, and everything is labelled and filed. I have never been so organized! My guidance tells me that this is in preparation for what they term the “big stretch”.

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Many truths and Univeral truth

January 10, 2008 at 1:07 pm · Filed under Без категория

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One of the unique aspects of the present time is that we have access to insights relating to the nature, meaning and operation of the universe from three entirely different perspectives. First of all, there is a development in consciousness taking place, enabling more are more people to tune into their own inner knowing. More and more people are now able to experience for themselves the ageless truths that in the past were known only to mystics.
Secondly, a wealth of ancient knowledge of wisdom traditions long hidden or kept secret has in recent times become available to everyone. These insights turn out to closely resemble the insights of a growing number of people throughout the world based on their own experiences during non-ordinary states of consciousness. This leads to a radically new perspective on the ancient knowledge of the different wisdom traditions. We are now increasingly capable of comprehending this ancient knowledge and discerning its value. It is becoming apparent that this wealth of information may be of great use in these same processes of growth and development.
The third aspect is that recent, cutting-edge scientific discoveries show a high degree of similarity with these ancient perceptions deriving from the wisdom traditionsas well as with certain perceptions based on our personal experiences. The insights of mystics, which we are now understanding more and more, in their turn shed light on a number of our personal experiences and some seemingly contradictory scientific perceptions. The unique situation at this moment in time does indeed make it possible to place all these seemingly divergent perceptions alongside each other like parts of a puzzle, giving us a picture of the ‘whole elephant’.

Wisdom traditions

My use of the expression ‘wisdom traditions’ encompasses the multitude of different faiths, mystical teachings and belief systems. Wisdom traditions have existed all through the ages and in many different cultures and many of these traditions are still in existence. However, knowledge of these matters in our Western civilization has to some extent disappeared from the picture because much of this information was often kept secret. The long history of secrecy of mystic knowledge was partly due to the fact that in many cultures such knowledge was not available to everyone, but to only a few individuals. Another factor was the influence of Christianity, for much of this old knowledge was declared by the church to be ‘heathen’ or ‘heretical’. Consequently many of these traditions were forbidden, many sources destroyed and many of the people who were in possession of this knowledge were put to death. The only remaining option, then, was to pass down these insights from generation to generation in secret.
Recently it has become apparent, that not all this knowledge has actually been lost. Much of this has become widely available at this time in many different ways. Ancient texts of wisdom, banned at some point in their history and since presumed lost, for example the Nag Hammadi writings and the Dead Sea Scrolls, reappeared. In addition, ancient texts were retranslated, thus becoming more accessible to a wider public. Even more importantly though, representatives of secret societies and spiritual leaders of indigenous peoples recently decided to make their knowledge, long kept secret, available to everyone.
Disclosing this previously secret knowledge was a conscious choice. It was the mission of many indigenous spiritual leaders to pass down the knowledge of their tradition in secret from generation to generation as long as was necessary. In this way, it could be kept safe and released to the world as soon as the time was ripe. According to many of these keepers of ancient knowledge, this time has now arrived. Many have decided in the course of the past fifty years to share their precious insights with anyone who was interested. This was not at first without risks. In the United States of America, for example, it was not until 1979 that the prohibition on publicly sharing indigenous wisdom with others was officially lifted. After 1979, a great deal of knowledge that had up to that moment been passed down by word of mouth could then for the first time be written down and published.
Since 1995, the spiritual leaders of various indigenous peoples from the whole of Northern, Central and Southern America meet on a regular basis. Although the many different indigenous peoples have widely differing traditions, it emerges that similar insights have evolved regarding their relationship with their natural environment. In their view, it is now time to reveal these perceptions, so that we can use this knowledge to restore balance and harmony throughout the world. Added to that is the fact that the knowledge held by the more spiritual and mystical movements in the different world religions, often kept secret until recent times, has also become much more accessible.
Because the wisdom and mystical knowledge of many cultures and traditions from so many different sources is now in principle available to everyone, we have the unique situation at the present time that the teachings from all these different movements can be compared. Although each tradition has its own words and terminology, it is surprising to discover the degree of correspondence between the essence of all these wisdom traditions. It turns out that, hidden under the dust of all the seeming differences in cultures and dogmas, a golden thread of fundamental Universal Wisdom is woven through all the sources of ancient wisdom. The essence of this knowledge is a wisdom that is not bound to times and cultures. It is a wisdom that is universal and that lies at the foundation of all religions, spiritual movements and belief systems.

Our idea about reality is changing

These developments coincide with the fact that for many of us, our ideas on what is true – and therefore also our ideas about reality – are in a process of change. On the one hand, what we hold to be true and our idea about reality is formed by the world view of the culture in which we live. Reality for us is therefore colored by what we think reality to be. In other words, how we observe reality is determined by this perspective. On the other hand, we also form an idea for ourselves about reality and truth on the basis of our own experiences and inner knowing. Because of this, we may then realize that things are intrinsically different from what we had first supposed on the basis of the world view of the culture in which we live.
The present time is marked by the fact that more and more people are searching for their own views about truth, for example based on the experiences they themselves have had. One of the consequences is a change nowadays in the value that is attached to the understandings of Western science. While Western science was long regarded by many as the absolute authority on truth, an ever-growing number of people no longer regard it as the only true authority. The world view derived from traditional, reductionist science in fact restricts our scope to perceive and for many people is no longer satisfactory.

Great changes within Western science

At the same time, extensive radical changes are also taking place at this moment within the world of present-day Western science. In its search for the truth, Western science bases itself not only on observations and repeatable experiments, but also on axioms, that is to say on unproven assumptions about the nature of the world. Certain of the new perceptions appear so radical that a number of these axioms on which Western science has long been based may well need to be reconsidered. Many new revolutionary scientific perceptions have meanwhile demonstrated the restrictions of so-called mechanistic thinking in science.³ Furthermore, because results from quantum physics suggest that the observer has an influence on what is observed, even the ideas on objective observation have begun to falter.
Within the scientific world, the idea has now emerged that instead of one objective truth, there may be several truths, depending on the perspective of the observer. Furthermore, there is a growing perception among scientists that overemphasizing the intellect is starving their own hearts and souls. They too, are feeling an increasing need for an integration of their own experiences on the one hand with scientific reality on the other. At the present time, we are therefore seeing that scientists are endeavoring to unite their scientific perceptions with spiritual perceptions on a much wider scale than was previously the case.
These profound changes, for example in circles of pioneers in physics, biology and psychology, which lead to radical new perceptions, is referred to as a paradigm shift, following philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn.⁴ This is the foundation for an entirely new world view now evolving, that everything that we were used to believing on the nature of our world and how we see ourselves is being shaken. In fact, there is a revolution taking place from the analytical, reductionist science of the last three hundred years toward a holistic science. This new science is revealing the deep interconnectedness and harmony of the universe, spoken of in the wisdom traditions and suspected to exist by quantum physicists. The confirmation of ancient knowledge by the latest scientific perceptions is of great importance. It allows us to use this knowledge to help restore the balance and harmony in ourselves as well as worldwide.

INNER KNOWING

The Truth itself…can only be self-realized within one’s own deepest consciousness.

How, though, do we know for ourselves what is true? How can we, each for ourselves, know what is true at a time in which everything is in the process of change, and when what Western science holds to be true today, may well be obsolete by tomorrow? How can we know what our own truth is in a world in which more and more varieties of truths appear to exist? In the present time, when all the truths and certainties are seemingly being undermined, each of us is challenged day by day to determine for ourselves what we do and don’t actually regard as truth. It is therefore becoming increasingly more important to develop our own powers of discernment and confidence in our own inner knowing.
The great sages have always pointed to the importance of this inner knowing, advising against believing their words as the truth unquestioningly. The Buddha gave this advice 2500 years ago already:

Do not believe what you have heard.
Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations.
Do not believe in anything that has been spoken of many times.
Do not believe because the written statements come from some old sage.
Do not believe in conjecture.
Do not believe in authority or teachers or elders.
But after careful observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it.⁶

For mystics this is nothing new. They have always known that the truth is to be found somewhere deep within ourselves which, through practice, one may learn to tune into more clearly. However, this is something virtually ignored by our Western culture for a long time and completely so by Western science. The Indian-Canadian Ravi Ravindra – former professor in comparative religious studies and former physicist – points out in his book Science and the Sacred, Eternal Wisdom in a Changing World (2002) that in its enthusiasm modern Western science has unfortunately gone one step too far. In seeking to attain objective results by excluding all personal impressions and feelings, science has thrown out the baby with the bath water.
He states that it is indeed the case that the history of Western science has demonstrated that our everyday common sense is not a reliable guide to truth. However, he adds that it is a unanimous understanding in all spiritual disciplines that the feelings themselves are an avenue to knowledge and that they are the instruments for the highest form of knowledge. He explains that all these spiritual traditions emphasize that “…a cleansing or a deepening of these feelings is required so that one can come to objective knowledge through feeling.” ⁷ In other words, once we learn to cleanse our feelings, then they may become an objective instrument for observing inner knowing.
What is completely new in history at the present time is that this is a phenomenon not only encountered by mystics, but by us all. We are thrown back on our own resources to determine our truth for ourselves and the existence or not of a Universal Truth. In our quest for the truth, we can test the validity of possible truths for ourselves either from our own experience or with the help of contemplation and meditation. In this way, we can determine whether they are merely opinions or real truths.

EXPERIENCES OF ONENESS

Whether it is this religion, or that religion, or Tao, or Zen, or yoga, whatever – it all comes from the same source of an inner experience – when a person experiences the unity within himself.

It seems paradoxical that in the myriad of the many possible truths, something of the nature of a Universal Truth should exist. And yet, the great traditions of wisdom all speak of Truth with a capital T. None of these traditions, however, has the sole right to this Truth. As they tell us, insight into the Truth is what lies at the culmination of each development in consciousness, regardless of the differences in the path that has led there. This Truth is independent of time, culture and religion. Consequently we can say that, apart from the multitude of our own different relative truths, there is only one universal and timeless truth, which is therefore also referred to as Universal Truth or Ageless Truth.
True knowledge or Truth with a capital T is not simply the collection of actual or conceptual information, but distinguishes itself from rational thinking through the integration of the heart. These traditions of wisdom teach that we can make contact with our soul through our heart and many mystics have emphasized the important function of the soul as the key to the Truth. Insight into Truth is based on the skill to make inner contact with a multidimensional world via our soul. This enables us to distinguish between Truth on the one hand, and theories, concepts and opinions on the other.
Already centuries ago, the Christian mystic Meister Eckhart (1260 – 1328) advised developing the heart into an organ capable of being used, like he did, to perceive the Truth: “If you could see with my heart you would understand my words: for it is true, and the truth itself says it.” ⁹ Ravi Ravindra formulates this as follows: “Love is required to know Truth, and knowledge of Truth is expressed by Love. (…) Whenever truth and love are separated from each other, the result is either sentimentality or dry intellectualism, in which power is divorced from compassion.” ¹⁰ He indicates that many of our modern predicaments are due to our dedication to truth as an exclusively mental attribute, while both these attributes, truth and love, are in fact the most essential aspects of the human soul.

The direct mystical experience

How can knowledge of Universal Truth be acquired? The most direct way of acquiring this knowledge is via the direct experience of the ‘Oneness-with-everything’. Such a direct experience transcends our ego and our rational, logical mind, as well as transcending time and space. The British authority on mysticism, Andrew Harvey, writes in the preface to the collection Essential Mystics, the Soul’s Journey into Truth (1996) that such an authentic mystic opening first and foremost brings a sense of wonder and a freedom from timeт€™s anxiety. But more than this, it is, as he puts it: “…a growing revelation of a far larger and more marvelous universe and a far vaster identity than anything we could begin to intuit with our ordinary senses and consciousness.” ¹¹
It is therefore understandable that mystics tell us that such an experience can scarcely be put into words. It is experiencing a sense of oneness, of merging, of becoming All That Is. And because we ‘become’ everything, during such a direct mystical experience we are also able to ‘know’ everything. Through such an experience of Oneness, it is no longer necessary to believe, because we ‘know’, based on that direct experience. Through this kind of direct experiencing of Oneness-with-Everything, highly developed individuals who lived in widely differing times and cultures gained an understanding of this Universal Truth. True knowledge of this Universal Truth is therefore completely universal and of all times and all cultures. The different sages achieved essentially the same insights into the supreme truth. And time and again, individuals who are highly enough developed, are able to gain an understanding of this Universal Truth through direct experience.
A fine example of the description of such a direct experience can be found in the Hermetic texts known as the Corpus Hermeticum. In the tale Poimandres, Hermes Trismegistus – known in ancient Egypt as Thoth – describes his experience of Becoming-One-with-Everything.¹² Thoth is said to have revealed all knowledge on astronomy, architecture, geometry and medicine to the ancient Egyptians.

Walter Russell’s experience of Oneness

A more recent example of such an experience of Oneness is that of Walter Russell, documented by the North American Glenn Clark in the first half of the 20th century. An inner voice asked him to go in search of a person from his own time who had gained an understanding of the Universal Truth from his own experience. He was looking for someone who knew the hidden secrets of the universe and applied this knowledge lovingly and with full awareness in his everyday life. Such a person should preferably be outside all religious traditions, because such a person could be an inspiration for everyone, regardless of religious, spiritual or cultural background.¹³
In his book The Man Who Tapped The Secrets Of The Universe (1946), Glenn Clark describes how he finally found such a man in the person of the painter, sculptor, architect and mystic Walter Russell (1871 – 1963). When he asks Walter Russell how he came to his far-reaching perceptions, Walter Russell then tells him what happened to him in May 1921. Everyone who is familiar with the Hermetic tale of Poimandres, will find striking similarities with this account by Walter Russell:
“A brilliant flash like lightning severed my bodily sensation from my consciousness and I found myself freed from my body and wholly in the Mind universe of Light, which is God”, recounts Walter Russell. “And the secrets of the universe were unfolded to me in their great simplicity as the doors to the Light opened fully to my consciousness. In less time than it takes to put it into words, I knew all there was to know of the Cause of all effect, for there was very little to know.” ¹⁴
Walter Russell continues to recount that it was as though the infinity of complexity within the moving kaleidoscope were suddenly taken apart and the underlying simplicity was shown to him in such a way that he “… at once had the key to all the sciences, mathematics, chemistry, astronomy and mechanics, likewise all the underlying principles of creation; of life and the healing principle; of continuity in a universe in which there is no death; of energy which is not what man thinks it to be; and of matter which is not substance as man supposes it to be; and of the forces which act upon it which man has learned how to use somewhat but knows not the why of that which he uses. And likewise the mystery of the soul was mine to know; and of growth; and the patterns of things in the seeds of things; and the manner of their unfolding, and their repetition and their evolution.”
Above all, he gained insight into the operation of the universal principles governing all things that extend from the Source. “Thus I was made to see the universe as a whole and its simple principle of creation as one unit…”, as Walter Russell tells Glenn Clark. “And so it happened that I who had never had any school or university training above the primary grade, thus knew instantly, while in the Light, what all the universities in the world could never teach. (…) No greater proof than my experience is needed to prove to the doubting world that all knowledge exists in the Mind universe of Light – which is God – that all Mind is One Mind, that men do not have separate minds, and that all knowledge can be obtained from the Universal Source of All-Knowledge by becoming One with that Source.” ¹⁵

THE GOLDEN THREAD OF UNIVERSAL TRUTH

The essence of all authentic religions, spiritual movements and mystic teachings can be traced back to similar mystical, direct experiences of Becoming-One-with-Everything. Yet the various different traditions of wisdom are just as diverse as the colors of the rainbow. Any difference that there may be, however, lies not so much in the insights that are obtained during the experience of Oneness, but in the manner in which the different traditions present these insights. The yogi mystic Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev says on this subject: “The reason Gautama, the Buddha, chose to teach in a particular way, the reason Jesus chose to teach in a different way, and somebody else in a different way is simply because of the kinds of situations around them. What was most understandable for the people around them, accordingly they proceeded. Depending on the quality of minds around them – the level of receptivity available to them, accordingly they chose their teachings. Even now, it’s the same thing, so we are presenting it in a certain way, as it will be most appealing to the modern mind.” ¹⁶
Once we understand that a golden thread of fundamental Universal Truth has been woven through all the ancient wisdom traditions in the world and their present-day equivalents, we can again go in search of all those original similarities in order that we may obtain an ever more precise perception of that Universal Truth.

Esoteric and exoteric teaching

It is important that we realize that all the major religions not only have an outer but also an inner teaching. The outer teaching has always been public and is what is taught in temples, churches, synagogues, mosques and schools. This outer teaching appears to differ considerably according to the particular belief system. Nonetheless, every religion and spiritual tradition is characterized by some variant of the Golden Rule: “Do not unto others what you would not have them do unto you.” However, with this exception, there would at first sight appear to be few similarities.
The inner teaching, which was often kept secret from the outside world, is generally about the deeper knowledge of the great prophets or mystics who were the founders, keepers or disseminators of these religions. At the present time, in which many ancient writings have come to light and many of these secret teachings have been brought into the open, we are able to determine that it is in particular these inner, esoteric teachings that display a great resemblance to each other. In some cases, it even appears that the similarities between these different inner teachings is greater than the similarities between the inner and the outer teachings of the same religious or spiritual tradition.
This is hardly surprising when we consider that the goal of all authentic mystical disciplines, and therefore also the goal of all esoteric initiates, was purely to gain insight into the Universal Truth. While one cannot go so far as to say that all mystics totally agree with each other, all these differences are of marginal importance. This explains why over the ages the esoteric movements have had no qualms about drawing on the wisdom of other traditions where these add something to their own teachings. We come across knowledge of Universal Truth for example among indigenous peoples, in Hinduism (Veda), in the teachings of the Chinese sage Lao Tse (Tao Te Ching), in Hermetic philosophy, and among the ancient Greek philosophers. We also come across it in the esoteric teachings of Jewish mysticism (the Kabbala), Islamitic gnosticism (Sufism) as well as in the ‘inner’ teachings of Christianity.

Esoteric knowledge within Christianity

This mystic knowledge is also present in the Bible, though often in veiled form. Because it was regarded as heresy by the early Christian church fathers, in Christianity – as in many other religions – a quite considerable difference developed between the outer teachings of the church and the often secret inner teachings. More is now known about the existence of these hidden Christian teachings, particularly following the unearthing of ancient writings, such as the discoveries at Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt in 1945 and the Dead Sea Scrolls in the caves near Qumran on the Western bank of the Jordan River in 1946. Dutch pastor and author Hans Stolp wrote in his article De Nag Hammadi-geschriften voor het leven van alledag (The Nag Hammadi writings for everyday life) (2005) that one of the important admonitions in the Nag Hammadi-texts is the plea to once and for all let go of all authorities outside ourselves and to go in search of our own inner knowing. ¹⁷
In addition, in recent times, the wise insights of Christian mystics, like Hildegard von Bingen (1098 – 1179) and Meister Eckhart (1260 – 1328), have achieved a wider recognition and their insights have been reappraised. In his book Essential Mystics (1996), Andrew Harvey describes in his wonderful, poetic language his recent recognition of mystical knowledge within Christianity in the following way: “Many Western seekers, like myself, have been on long, complex journeys into the depths and disciplines of Eastern mysticism to find at the end of them a renewed wonder at the Christian inheritance. (…) The Christian revelation at its richest contains and reflects the Kogi and Hopi knowledge of the interconnection of all life, the Taoist sense of organic balance and the mysterious conjunction of opposites, the Hindu awareness of the grandeur of the soul, the Buddhist devotion to compassion and clear ethical living, the Jewish awe at the unutterable holiness of God and the sacredness of ordinary life, the Greek adoration of divine beauty, and the Islamic passion for God as the Beloved.” ¹⁸

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¹ Quotation from Dhyani Ywahoo, Voices of our Ancestors, 1987. p. 88.
² Quotation from Walter Russell, The Science of Thinking and Action, 1935; on the website: http://www.philosophy.org/articles
³ The mechanistic world view is based on the premise that everything in the universe works like a machine, made up of separate parts.
⁴ Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962.
⁵ Quotation in Thomas J. McFarlane, Einstein and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings, 2001/2002; p. 50. Quoted from Goddard, Dwight, ed. A Buddhist Bible, Boston: Beacon Press: 1970. p. 293.
⁶ Quotation taken from Valerie Hunt, Infinite Mind, 1996. p. 105. quoting from Shakyamuni Buddha, The Dhammapada, Berkeley, CA: Dharma Pub.; 1985.
⁷ Ravi Ravindra, Science and the Sacred, Eternal Wisdom in a Changing World, 2002. p. 37, p. 29 and p. 37/38 resp.
⁸ In an interview with Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev for the magazine Evolve following the publication of the book Mystic Musings:Sadhguru, a profound Mystic of our times, 2003.
⁹ Quotation from G. Wehr, Uit Stilte Geboren: Meester Eckhart, 1992, p. 21-22.
¹⁰ Quotation from the article by Ravi Ravindra, Truth and Love, in the reader for the conference Paths to Peace – Soul in Education, Boedapest, October 2004, p. 47-51.
¹¹ Andrew Harvey, in Essential Mystics, 1996, p. xi.
¹² R. van den Broek & G. Quispel, Corpus Hermeticum, 1990/2003, p. 27-35.
¹³ Glenn Clark, The Man Who Tapped The Secrets Of The Universe, 1946, complete texts at http://www.philosophy.org/mwt/
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¹⁶ In an interview with Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev for the magazine Evolve after the publication of the book Mystic Musings:Sadhguru, a profound Mystic of our times, 2003.
¹⁷ Hans Stolp in his article De Nag Hammadi-geschriften voor het leven van alledag in the magazine Prana, No. 147, Feb/March 2005, p. 36. In this article, Hans Stolp points out that the Nag Hammadi writings herald a revolution in the Christianity preached in the present-day churches and that they bring us an entirely new view of the human condition. In the traditional church tradition, we have become accustomed to the fact that there are four Gospels: ‘Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. We have also grown accustomed to the fact that these gospels contain a description of the life of Jesus: his birth, his suffering, his death and his resurrection. But then, in 1945, the fifth gospel was found: the Gospel of Thomas. And in that gospel we do not find a single word about the birth, suffering and death of Jesus. Here we read something entirely different. What we find are 114 sayings, or in other words 114 directions showing us how a person should live who wishes to seek the inward path. The true gospel, or the original gospel, is therefore nothing other than a set of helpful directions on how we – nowadays too – can find the inward path.’
¹⁸ Andrew Harvey, Essential Mystics, 1996, p. 169.

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