Genetic Genealogy * Hermeneutics * Philosophy * Anthropology * Shamanism * History * Esoterics * Myth * Mysticism
THE FOG OF LORE:
ANCESTRAL MEMORIES? DO THE MATH & GET OVER IT
http://jungiangenealogy.weebly.com/debunking-bloodline.html
ANCESTRAL MEMORIES? DO THE MATH & GET OVER IT
http://jungiangenealogy.weebly.com/debunking-bloodline.html
The dragon is very much man's raw psychic energy within his unconscious
(The cave where dragons live). The fire breathing kundalini Serpent that
is at first asleep is vile and woe unto him who does not know the process
of its purification when it is passed through the alchemical process.
(The cave where dragons live). The fire breathing kundalini Serpent that
is at first asleep is vile and woe unto him who does not know the process
of its purification when it is passed through the alchemical process.
Art by Cameron Gray
Genealogy and even genetic genealogy are pursuits that require interpretation of assembled data, not literal interpretation, due to hidden variables and a variety of other factors, including the interpretive bias of the researcher. Thus, they are essentially Hermetic pursuits and should be approached as such, seeking both their wisdom and their subtle misdirection, outright lies of the past and present, misrepresentations, and other Trickster elements. Those unfamiliar with either subject are most likely to misinterpret their own family's functional relation to others, and likewise to misinterpret the evidence of their alleles in relation to antic origins and their meaning.
Genetic genealogy is the application of genetics to traditional genealogy. Genetic genealogy involves the use of genealogical DNA testing to determine the level of genetic relationship between individuals. Genetic genealogy is a science in great flux. In April 2000, Family Tree DNA began offering the first genetic genealogy tests to the public. This offering marked the first time that a personal theory on the Y chromosome could be tested outside of an academic study. Additionally, Sykes’ concept of a surname study, which by this time had been adopted by several other academic researchers outside of Oxford, was expanded into online Surname Projects (an early form of social network) and the effort helped spread knowledge gained through testing to interested genealogists worldwide.
In 2001, Sykes went on to write the popular book The Seven Daughters of Eve, which described the seven major haplogroups of European ancestors. In the wake of the book's success, and with the growing availability and affordability of genealogical DNA testing, genetic genealogy as a field began growing rapidly. By 2003, the field of DNA testing of surnames was declared officially to have “arrived” in an article by Jobling and Tyler-Smith in Nature Reviews Genetics. The number of firms offering tests, and the number of consumers ordering them, had risen dramatically.
Another milestone in the acceptance of genetic genealogy is the Genographic Project. The Genographic Project is a five-year research study launched in 2005 by the National Geographic Society and IBM, in partnership with the University of Arizona and Family Tree DNA. Although its goals are primarily anthropological, not genealogical, the project's sale by April 2010 of more than 350,000 of its public participation testing kits, which test the general public for either twelve STR markers on the Y chromosome or mutations on the HVR1 region of the mtDNA, has helped increase the visibility of genetic genealogy. Such tests show biogeographical and ethnic origins and revealed vast patterns of human migration.
Even with scientific linkage to specific ancestral groups, self-discovery should not be confounded with personal mythology though both necessarily overlap. There is what the evidence shows or suggests, then the narrative which we construct from that limited evidence, which suggests certain things about our families, current and former cultures, and the future of society.
Hermeneutics is the study of theories and methods of the interpretation of systems of meaning, including interpretations of experience, or human behavior generally, including language and patterns of speech, social institutions, and ritual behaviors. It is a specific method or theory of interpretation, such as Freud or Jung's depth psychologies, for example. The word hermeneutics is a term derived from 'Ερμηνεýς, the Greek word for interpreter. This is related to the name of the Greek god Hermes in his role as the interpreter of the messages of the gods. Hermes was believed to play tricks on those he was supposed to give messages to, often changing the messages and influencing the interpretation thereof. The Greek word thus has the basic meaning of one who makes the meaning clear. A DECODER. DNA still manages to preserve its deepest secrets about who and what we are. The bounds of fact and fancy blur in an incoherent reading -- creative misreading of SNP mutations, much like a dream interpretation.
Most people with a lot of New England ancestry descend from one or more ‘gateway’ ancestors – i.e., early colonists who descend, themselves, from English kings, primarily the Plantagenets. The latter, in turn, have their own gateway ancestors, through whom we derive our longest possible ‘ancestral lines’ – into the Dark Ages (roughly A.D. 450-750),
and perhaps (though far more conjecturally) even the Classical (Greco-Roman) and Ancient (Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian) worlds. ALL such descents are hypothetical – that is, all entail many filiative links that are not, in fact, attested in writing, but postulated by scholars on the basis of an assessment of the known chronology, ethno-political situation, and onomastic patterns of the relevant era, locale, and race. In short, ‘ancient’ pedigrees have many ‘dotted lines,’ which are plausible, even likely, but NOT susceptible to proof.
Unfortunately, popular American genealogical literature is rife with supposed ‘ancient’ pedigrees which are neither likely nor plausible, and in some cases provably bogus, passing, as they do, through long chains of supposed personages who never existed. How, short of acquiring a comprehensive knowledge of many phases of world and national history, half a dozen ancient and modern languages, the various branches of philology, and an immense (and highly specialized) research literature (surely a job for several lifetimes!), is the ‘lay’ reader to tell the plausible from the preposterous, the reasonable from the ridiculous?
We can identify the major geographic areas, ethnicities, and pre-Plantagenet ‘gateway’ ancestors through whom we MIGHT descend from Dark Age, Classical, or Ancient kings, warlords, consuls, emperors, and pharaohs, and can outline the major sources of data and forms of reasoning upon which such descents are predicated. It will also draw your attention to proposed ‘ancient’ descents which are known to be false, or have been seriously questioned, and identify the absolute historical limits beyond which it will never be possible to go.
About 360 years, or just short of 15 generations mtDNA peters out. At 15 generations, an individual living today would carry only three thousands of 1% (00.003052%) of the DNA of an ancestor who was “pure” anything 15 generations ago. So even if one ancestor was indeed Mediterranean or whatever 15 generations ago, unless they continuously intermarried within a pure Mediterranean population, the amount would drop by 50% with each generation to the miniscule amount that would be found in today’s current generation. With today’s technology, this is simply untraceable in autosomal DNA.
Joseph Campbell: "What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. There is nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way you will find, live, become a realization of your own personal myth."
COMMON ANCESTORS OF ALL HUMAN BEINGS
http://humphrysfamilytree.com/ca.html
USING GENETICS:
http://humphrysfamilytree.com/ca.genetic.html
By following only the female-female or male-male paths, we ignore the billions of other ancestral paths we could follow, thus pushing the common ancestor much further back into the past. The MRCA in any line will be much more recent than Mitochondrial Eve or Y chromosome Adam. DNA studies have a problem in telling us about the MRCA. As [Chang, 1999] notes, the MRCA will be much more recent than any MRCA that could ever be found in DNA studies, even if one were to study the ancestry of every single gene. The reason being that we are considering people who are simply ancestors, through any route, whether or not any of their genes actually survived the journey. Conclusion - Within historical times, you have ancestors from whom you have no DNA. All Common Ancestors in DNA studies will be much older than the Most Recent Common Ancestor, MRCA. Archaeology is also of limited use in telling us about the MRCA. For instance, even the MRCAs found in DNA studies will exist much more recently than the paleontologists might imagine looking at the fossil evidence - for the simple reason that they are merely "statistical artefacts" of no real importance to the overall story of human evolution. It would be totally wrong, for example, to imagine that the CA lived in an important or influential place or culture.
Genealogy, like my Royal Descents page, has the problem of only focusing on the ancestors for whom records survived, not all your ancestors. However, despite the sketchy records, it still provides strong support for the suggestions above from mathematical models and computer simulations of an MRCA in historical times. The huge number of proven descents of people from common European royal ancestry in historical times, when considered with the vastly greater number of descents that must exist but are not among the rare few that can be proven, suggest strongly that everyone, in the West at least, is descended from an MRCA in historical times.
Research suggests, for example, that everyone in the West is descended from Charlemagne, c. 800 AD. Quite likely the entire world is descended from the Ancient Egyptian royal house, c. 1600 BC. Quite likely almost everyone in the world descends from Confucius, c. 500 BC. These findings do not necessarily have any implications for our DNA. To descend from someone does not mean you necessarily inherit any DNA from them. Probably sixty percent or more of the American people are descended from kings. These findings do not conflict with the idea that most or all of your DNA is inherited from your local area. Even if you do descend from the Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs, that does not mean this can be detected in your DNA. In fact, there may be no evidence at all of these findings in humanity's DNA. And yet the findings can still be true. The MRCA of the West is in historical times, quite possibly as recent as 1000 AD. We pick him as an example because he is the proven ancestor of some people alive today (for example, he is a proven ancestor of my children). Hence probably the ancestor of all people alive today. By the same reasoning, as well as from Continental/pre-Norman figures like Charlemagne, quite likely everyone in the West descends from figures like:
All humanity is interrelated many times over (contrary to what an endless procession of racists and tribalists throughout history have claimed). For any two humans in history or today, it is not a question of do they have a common ancestor, it is only a question of when was the most recent one. If we had full genealogical records for all history, then any 2 living people on earth could identify their closest relationship to each other. Or indeed any 2 living organisms on earth, since DNA probably did not evolve twice. One could also pick any famous person, alive or dead, and show your closest relationship to them. For they are all related. See pre-historical estimates for Common ancestors of all humans.
Showing descents from successive English monarchs is probably the most convenient way of tying the West together. Of course, later monarchs are descended many times over from earlier ones. So it allows us show short descents from the most recent monarch (rather than every descent needing a long tail going up to some very remote common ancestor). Some continental descents, though, may have to go all the way up to Charlemagne, from whom all English monarchs since William the Conqueror descend. Anthropologists claim everyone on earth is a 40th cousin" (i.e. any pair of 2 people can find at least 1 common ancestor since about 800 AD).
Royal Descents of famous people - Common ancestors of all humans
Genetic genealogy is the application of genetics to traditional genealogy. Genetic genealogy involves the use of genealogical DNA testing to determine the level of genetic relationship between individuals. Genetic genealogy is a science in great flux. In April 2000, Family Tree DNA began offering the first genetic genealogy tests to the public. This offering marked the first time that a personal theory on the Y chromosome could be tested outside of an academic study. Additionally, Sykes’ concept of a surname study, which by this time had been adopted by several other academic researchers outside of Oxford, was expanded into online Surname Projects (an early form of social network) and the effort helped spread knowledge gained through testing to interested genealogists worldwide.
In 2001, Sykes went on to write the popular book The Seven Daughters of Eve, which described the seven major haplogroups of European ancestors. In the wake of the book's success, and with the growing availability and affordability of genealogical DNA testing, genetic genealogy as a field began growing rapidly. By 2003, the field of DNA testing of surnames was declared officially to have “arrived” in an article by Jobling and Tyler-Smith in Nature Reviews Genetics. The number of firms offering tests, and the number of consumers ordering them, had risen dramatically.
Another milestone in the acceptance of genetic genealogy is the Genographic Project. The Genographic Project is a five-year research study launched in 2005 by the National Geographic Society and IBM, in partnership with the University of Arizona and Family Tree DNA. Although its goals are primarily anthropological, not genealogical, the project's sale by April 2010 of more than 350,000 of its public participation testing kits, which test the general public for either twelve STR markers on the Y chromosome or mutations on the HVR1 region of the mtDNA, has helped increase the visibility of genetic genealogy. Such tests show biogeographical and ethnic origins and revealed vast patterns of human migration.
Even with scientific linkage to specific ancestral groups, self-discovery should not be confounded with personal mythology though both necessarily overlap. There is what the evidence shows or suggests, then the narrative which we construct from that limited evidence, which suggests certain things about our families, current and former cultures, and the future of society.
Hermeneutics is the study of theories and methods of the interpretation of systems of meaning, including interpretations of experience, or human behavior generally, including language and patterns of speech, social institutions, and ritual behaviors. It is a specific method or theory of interpretation, such as Freud or Jung's depth psychologies, for example. The word hermeneutics is a term derived from 'Ερμηνεýς, the Greek word for interpreter. This is related to the name of the Greek god Hermes in his role as the interpreter of the messages of the gods. Hermes was believed to play tricks on those he was supposed to give messages to, often changing the messages and influencing the interpretation thereof. The Greek word thus has the basic meaning of one who makes the meaning clear. A DECODER. DNA still manages to preserve its deepest secrets about who and what we are. The bounds of fact and fancy blur in an incoherent reading -- creative misreading of SNP mutations, much like a dream interpretation.
Most people with a lot of New England ancestry descend from one or more ‘gateway’ ancestors – i.e., early colonists who descend, themselves, from English kings, primarily the Plantagenets. The latter, in turn, have their own gateway ancestors, through whom we derive our longest possible ‘ancestral lines’ – into the Dark Ages (roughly A.D. 450-750),
and perhaps (though far more conjecturally) even the Classical (Greco-Roman) and Ancient (Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian) worlds. ALL such descents are hypothetical – that is, all entail many filiative links that are not, in fact, attested in writing, but postulated by scholars on the basis of an assessment of the known chronology, ethno-political situation, and onomastic patterns of the relevant era, locale, and race. In short, ‘ancient’ pedigrees have many ‘dotted lines,’ which are plausible, even likely, but NOT susceptible to proof.
Unfortunately, popular American genealogical literature is rife with supposed ‘ancient’ pedigrees which are neither likely nor plausible, and in some cases provably bogus, passing, as they do, through long chains of supposed personages who never existed. How, short of acquiring a comprehensive knowledge of many phases of world and national history, half a dozen ancient and modern languages, the various branches of philology, and an immense (and highly specialized) research literature (surely a job for several lifetimes!), is the ‘lay’ reader to tell the plausible from the preposterous, the reasonable from the ridiculous?
We can identify the major geographic areas, ethnicities, and pre-Plantagenet ‘gateway’ ancestors through whom we MIGHT descend from Dark Age, Classical, or Ancient kings, warlords, consuls, emperors, and pharaohs, and can outline the major sources of data and forms of reasoning upon which such descents are predicated. It will also draw your attention to proposed ‘ancient’ descents which are known to be false, or have been seriously questioned, and identify the absolute historical limits beyond which it will never be possible to go.
About 360 years, or just short of 15 generations mtDNA peters out. At 15 generations, an individual living today would carry only three thousands of 1% (00.003052%) of the DNA of an ancestor who was “pure” anything 15 generations ago. So even if one ancestor was indeed Mediterranean or whatever 15 generations ago, unless they continuously intermarried within a pure Mediterranean population, the amount would drop by 50% with each generation to the miniscule amount that would be found in today’s current generation. With today’s technology, this is simply untraceable in autosomal DNA.
Joseph Campbell: "What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. There is nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way you will find, live, become a realization of your own personal myth."
COMMON ANCESTORS OF ALL HUMAN BEINGS
http://humphrysfamilytree.com/ca.html
USING GENETICS:
http://humphrysfamilytree.com/ca.genetic.html
By following only the female-female or male-male paths, we ignore the billions of other ancestral paths we could follow, thus pushing the common ancestor much further back into the past. The MRCA in any line will be much more recent than Mitochondrial Eve or Y chromosome Adam. DNA studies have a problem in telling us about the MRCA. As [Chang, 1999] notes, the MRCA will be much more recent than any MRCA that could ever be found in DNA studies, even if one were to study the ancestry of every single gene. The reason being that we are considering people who are simply ancestors, through any route, whether or not any of their genes actually survived the journey. Conclusion - Within historical times, you have ancestors from whom you have no DNA. All Common Ancestors in DNA studies will be much older than the Most Recent Common Ancestor, MRCA. Archaeology is also of limited use in telling us about the MRCA. For instance, even the MRCAs found in DNA studies will exist much more recently than the paleontologists might imagine looking at the fossil evidence - for the simple reason that they are merely "statistical artefacts" of no real importance to the overall story of human evolution. It would be totally wrong, for example, to imagine that the CA lived in an important or influential place or culture.
Genealogy, like my Royal Descents page, has the problem of only focusing on the ancestors for whom records survived, not all your ancestors. However, despite the sketchy records, it still provides strong support for the suggestions above from mathematical models and computer simulations of an MRCA in historical times. The huge number of proven descents of people from common European royal ancestry in historical times, when considered with the vastly greater number of descents that must exist but are not among the rare few that can be proven, suggest strongly that everyone, in the West at least, is descended from an MRCA in historical times.
Research suggests, for example, that everyone in the West is descended from Charlemagne, c. 800 AD. Quite likely the entire world is descended from the Ancient Egyptian royal house, c. 1600 BC. Quite likely almost everyone in the world descends from Confucius, c. 500 BC. These findings do not necessarily have any implications for our DNA. To descend from someone does not mean you necessarily inherit any DNA from them. Probably sixty percent or more of the American people are descended from kings. These findings do not conflict with the idea that most or all of your DNA is inherited from your local area. Even if you do descend from the Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs, that does not mean this can be detected in your DNA. In fact, there may be no evidence at all of these findings in humanity's DNA. And yet the findings can still be true. The MRCA of the West is in historical times, quite possibly as recent as 1000 AD. We pick him as an example because he is the proven ancestor of some people alive today (for example, he is a proven ancestor of my children). Hence probably the ancestor of all people alive today. By the same reasoning, as well as from Continental/pre-Norman figures like Charlemagne, quite likely everyone in the West descends from figures like:
- The English/Saxon/pre-Royal Cerdic, c. 500 AD.
- The Irish/Celtic Niall of the Nine Hostages, c. 450 AD.
All humanity is interrelated many times over (contrary to what an endless procession of racists and tribalists throughout history have claimed). For any two humans in history or today, it is not a question of do they have a common ancestor, it is only a question of when was the most recent one. If we had full genealogical records for all history, then any 2 living people on earth could identify their closest relationship to each other. Or indeed any 2 living organisms on earth, since DNA probably did not evolve twice. One could also pick any famous person, alive or dead, and show your closest relationship to them. For they are all related. See pre-historical estimates for Common ancestors of all humans.
Showing descents from successive English monarchs is probably the most convenient way of tying the West together. Of course, later monarchs are descended many times over from earlier ones. So it allows us show short descents from the most recent monarch (rather than every descent needing a long tail going up to some very remote common ancestor). Some continental descents, though, may have to go all the way up to Charlemagne, from whom all English monarchs since William the Conqueror descend. Anthropologists claim everyone on earth is a 40th cousin" (i.e. any pair of 2 people can find at least 1 common ancestor since about 800 AD).
Royal Descents of famous people - Common ancestors of all humans
Art by Android Jones
THE DRAGON FIELD
The Age of Convergence
Dragon Commonwealth
"One Blood, One Life, One Law"
The Shining Ones; Resting In Clarity
May your spirit roar like a young lion
May your heart soar like a young eagle in vast blue sky
May the fog of residual illusion dawn as the warm sunshine
.. of pure wisdom awareness and deathless joy
May your loving kindness and skillful means
.. turn the Poison Planet into Medicine Mandala Paradise
May your faith, intent, voice, and heroic action
.. revive, awaken, and empower all beings
The Dragon-Wolf, the Serpent, the Ankh, the Rose & the Bee
"For it ascends from Earth to Heaven, and descends again new born to Earth,
having acquired the powers of the Above and the Below."
"The power of the 'Telesma* is not complete if it is not converted into earth."
--Emerald Tablet
having acquired the powers of the Above and the Below."
"The power of the 'Telesma* is not complete if it is not converted into earth."
--Emerald Tablet
The Dragon is collecting her own. "The Dragon" means the dragon archetype resting within the Dragon blood and passed on through the genes. It is the conduit through which flow memories of the wisdom and experience of the Dragons who have gone before, the clarity and vision of Dragon seers, and the Mystery of transcendence. Ancestral memories and foresight inform the Now, collapsing conventional notions of time. Those of Dragon descent are awakening to conscious understanding of their heritage in an unprecedented way, much like the Dragon culture arose at the Ground Zero of civilization. More and more people are finding hidden dragon lineage in their families through genealogy or genetic testing.
Divining Rod of the Gods
The "Fog of Lore" obfuscates much of the true events of pre-history, ancient and medieval times. So let the reader be aware. Many marriages of fact and fiction are hostile mergers, with their own hidden agendas, depending on their sources and supporters. It helps therefore to keep the perennial Grail question in mind: "Who do these things serve?" We yearn for the revelation of hidden secrets.
Lore is all the facts, beliefs and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience. By nature it may or may not be entirely accurate and includes controversial points of view. The body of anecdotal and popular knowledge about a particular domain is subject to revision by opinion and sometimes new information. Lore is the cumulative wisdom stories of a certain culture or subculture. It feeds into the worldview that forms an epistemological way of being and thinking -- the "background story."
We are Gaian, Christian, Gnostic, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, mystics, shamans, and seekers of the Perennial Philosophy -- often more "spiritual" than religious. Neither Ascent (Transcendence) nor Descent (Immanence) is final, ultimate or privileged: like yin and yang, dominance and submission, they generate and depend on each other. They find their own true being by dying into the other, only to awaken together, conjoined in Bliss.
All things flow. Related equally to the dark and the light, we are comfortable with both. Ultimately to go "up" in transcendence, or to go "down", in the descent to the Goddess is the same path, even if the metaphors and iconography change. The dynamic tension of the opposites creates cosmic equilibrium. Small changes can produce large effects, and the consequences of symbolic relationships have effects in the real world and on our consciousness. The Dragons connect Heaven and Earth.
Founder Event
The Dragon heritage is an epic tale that can be traced from the Neolithic era of the Great Goddess in Transylvania, then Scythia, Siberia, Sumeria, Egypt, Khazaria, Khorasan, the Merovingians of medieval France and Britain (Grail bloodline), to Emperor Sigismund's Dragon Court. Animal totism still survives among Indo-Aryan tribes. The totems of spiritual royalty have always been the serpent, the dragon, the wolf or dragon-wolf, the peacock, and the bee (hive mind). The Scythian (Saka) dragons were so named for wearing scaled armor which their horses also carried. Primary dragon symbols are the Vortex (the spinning whorl of the Goddess), Ankh, Rose, the fleur de lys, Albigensian Cross and Templar Cross. The spiraling journey to the center, a stronger version of yourself, is reflected in the labyrinth.
Genetic Affinity
Though only those who live up to the ideal can rightfully claim it, the line has always been called "sacred", and includes the god-kings or divine philosopher-kings of history. The "divine right" of spiritual royalty was usurped by the Church after the death of Constantine. Conventional and genetic genealogy have enabled many families to identify their bloodline and Dragon heritage. DNA is the only biomolecule accumulating a record of life’s evolution on Earth. But many report precursor indications and experiences, including paranormal, before discovering their common root, as Homo Lumen, descendants of 'the shining ones'.
Divining Rod of the Gods
The "Fog of Lore" obfuscates much of the true events of pre-history, ancient and medieval times. So let the reader be aware. Many marriages of fact and fiction are hostile mergers, with their own hidden agendas, depending on their sources and supporters. It helps therefore to keep the perennial Grail question in mind: "Who do these things serve?" We yearn for the revelation of hidden secrets.
Lore is all the facts, beliefs and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience. By nature it may or may not be entirely accurate and includes controversial points of view. The body of anecdotal and popular knowledge about a particular domain is subject to revision by opinion and sometimes new information. Lore is the cumulative wisdom stories of a certain culture or subculture. It feeds into the worldview that forms an epistemological way of being and thinking -- the "background story."
We are Gaian, Christian, Gnostic, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, mystics, shamans, and seekers of the Perennial Philosophy -- often more "spiritual" than religious. Neither Ascent (Transcendence) nor Descent (Immanence) is final, ultimate or privileged: like yin and yang, dominance and submission, they generate and depend on each other. They find their own true being by dying into the other, only to awaken together, conjoined in Bliss.
All things flow. Related equally to the dark and the light, we are comfortable with both. Ultimately to go "up" in transcendence, or to go "down", in the descent to the Goddess is the same path, even if the metaphors and iconography change. The dynamic tension of the opposites creates cosmic equilibrium. Small changes can produce large effects, and the consequences of symbolic relationships have effects in the real world and on our consciousness. The Dragons connect Heaven and Earth.
Founder Event
The Dragon heritage is an epic tale that can be traced from the Neolithic era of the Great Goddess in Transylvania, then Scythia, Siberia, Sumeria, Egypt, Khazaria, Khorasan, the Merovingians of medieval France and Britain (Grail bloodline), to Emperor Sigismund's Dragon Court. Animal totism still survives among Indo-Aryan tribes. The totems of spiritual royalty have always been the serpent, the dragon, the wolf or dragon-wolf, the peacock, and the bee (hive mind). The Scythian (Saka) dragons were so named for wearing scaled armor which their horses also carried. Primary dragon symbols are the Vortex (the spinning whorl of the Goddess), Ankh, Rose, the fleur de lys, Albigensian Cross and Templar Cross. The spiraling journey to the center, a stronger version of yourself, is reflected in the labyrinth.
Genetic Affinity
Though only those who live up to the ideal can rightfully claim it, the line has always been called "sacred", and includes the god-kings or divine philosopher-kings of history. The "divine right" of spiritual royalty was usurped by the Church after the death of Constantine. Conventional and genetic genealogy have enabled many families to identify their bloodline and Dragon heritage. DNA is the only biomolecule accumulating a record of life’s evolution on Earth. But many report precursor indications and experiences, including paranormal, before discovering their common root, as Homo Lumen, descendants of 'the shining ones'.
DRAGON'S DEEP
The Plenum: Connecting Field of Life Force
Foundational Presence
Genetic Genealogy * Epigenetics * Psychosocial Genomics * Meta-Genetics * KINdling * Potentiation
The Keys are in the Ignition
The Plenum: Connecting Field of Life Force
Foundational Presence
Genetic Genealogy * Epigenetics * Psychosocial Genomics * Meta-Genetics * KINdling * Potentiation
The Keys are in the Ignition
THE HARMONIC BODY
Resonance & Regeneration
What makes us free is the Gnosis
of who we were
of what we have become
of where we were
of wherein we have been thrown
of whereto we are hastening
of what we are being freed
of what birth really is
of what rebirth really is
—Valentinus (Gnostic)
First Nature
We are capable of finding divinity within ourselves and nourishing it with Inner Fire -- akashic matter, cosmic electricity, chi, prana, qi -- the telesma which Hermes Trismegistus describes in his Emerald Tablet. By whatever name, it is always the same primordial Life Force, 'the most powerful force of all forces', as Hermes Trismegistus calls it. This force comes from the 'sun' (Tengri), which is the distributor and inexhaustible source. One of the manifestations of this force is love, which makes the worlds move. Behind the light of the sun are many other forces, and telesma is a force so potent that, as the Emerald Tablet puts it, ‘it overcomes every subtle thing and penetrates every solid substance.' The dragon work is to channel this telesma and condense it within your cells until a transformation takes place.” Hermes continues, “It is the cause, this, of all perfection of all things throughout the universe. This will attain the highest perfection of powers.”
Plane of Essence
The Tabula defines the formula of "the operation of the Sun", as the ultimate goal of Hermetism -- making the Red tincture, the "stone of the philosophers", the "burning water" of incombustible Sulphur. The white elixir conveys long life, health, beauty & peace (liberation or illumination), but not eternal life, creativity & wisdom (realization or deification). The white elixir is the culmination of the "lower mysteries" (witchcraft, magic), the red stone that of the "higher mysteries" (theurgy, or the synthesis of magic & mysticism). Theurgy creates a current between the human and divine through hypercosmic sympathies.
The word "perfections" translates the Greek "telesma" or "rite" ("teleoo" means "to bring to an end" and "to initiate into the mysteries"), also found in the word "talisman", a physical object whose subtle vehicle (or etheric double) is a condensation of a spiritual state of consciousness. All these meanings are implied here :
Resonance & Regeneration
What makes us free is the Gnosis
of who we were
of what we have become
of where we were
of wherein we have been thrown
of whereto we are hastening
of what we are being freed
of what birth really is
of what rebirth really is
—Valentinus (Gnostic)
First Nature
We are capable of finding divinity within ourselves and nourishing it with Inner Fire -- akashic matter, cosmic electricity, chi, prana, qi -- the telesma which Hermes Trismegistus describes in his Emerald Tablet. By whatever name, it is always the same primordial Life Force, 'the most powerful force of all forces', as Hermes Trismegistus calls it. This force comes from the 'sun' (Tengri), which is the distributor and inexhaustible source. One of the manifestations of this force is love, which makes the worlds move. Behind the light of the sun are many other forces, and telesma is a force so potent that, as the Emerald Tablet puts it, ‘it overcomes every subtle thing and penetrates every solid substance.' The dragon work is to channel this telesma and condense it within your cells until a transformation takes place.” Hermes continues, “It is the cause, this, of all perfection of all things throughout the universe. This will attain the highest perfection of powers.”
Plane of Essence
The Tabula defines the formula of "the operation of the Sun", as the ultimate goal of Hermetism -- making the Red tincture, the "stone of the philosophers", the "burning water" of incombustible Sulphur. The white elixir conveys long life, health, beauty & peace (liberation or illumination), but not eternal life, creativity & wisdom (realization or deification). The white elixir is the culmination of the "lower mysteries" (witchcraft, magic), the red stone that of the "higher mysteries" (theurgy, or the synthesis of magic & mysticism). Theurgy creates a current between the human and divine through hypercosmic sympathies.
The word "perfections" translates the Greek "telesma" or "rite" ("teleoo" means "to bring to an end" and "to initiate into the mysteries"), also found in the word "talisman", a physical object whose subtle vehicle (or etheric double) is a condensation of a spiritual state of consciousness. All these meanings are implied here :
- the superforce accomplishing the miracles of the One Entity, according to the laws of the operation of the Sun, brings everything to its natural end, i.e. towards its completion, i.e. its return to the One Entity ;
- the spiritual states of Sun and Moon can be fixated on the physical plane, enabling physical consciousness to rise more quickly above the gross vibrations of the lowest stratum of the universe;
- the control of this telesmic superforce requires initiated consciousness, Lunar as well as Solar. In the former case, the white elixir has been prepared, enabling consciousness to remain focused on the Sun, Tiphareth. In the latter, the philosopher's stone means consciousness abides in a state of continuous spiritual openness, leading to the unshaken spirit of the Divine Presence ("Shekinah" in Qabalah; the Goddess) and Gnosis.
To come face-to-face with God is to look oneself in the Eye. To apprehend God is to apprehend ONESELF and to realize that THIS perceived reality -- THIS plane of existence is a Vision -- one of many Visions. Alchemy is the total science of Energy Transformation & Regeneration. This means that Philosophers of Fire attempt to create or capture 'sunshine' or 'soul-energy.' The alchemical quest is to revivify ones own Soul. It is both a transcendence and an ascendance, and to discover The Stone of The Wise is indeed to BECOME The Stone. Ancient Egyptian & Vedic texts speak of the Adept living his life as a Crystal. The Knowing One is experiencing Oneself also means that one experiences Omnipresence. One is able to see what has been, what IS, what will be and ALL that can ever be, all in a single glance.
--Nicolas Haywood
Moses & the Burning Bush, Ernst Fuchs
CULTURAL CATALYST
GRAND CONVOCATION; REBIRTH OF A DYNASTY
"Come you lost Atoms to your Centre draw,
And be the Eternal Mirror that you saw:
Rays that have wander'd into Darkness wide
Return and back into your Sun subside"
-- The Conference of the Birds, Sufi Poems of Farid ud-Din Attar
GRAND CONVOCATION; REBIRTH OF A DYNASTY
"Come you lost Atoms to your Centre draw,
And be the Eternal Mirror that you saw:
Rays that have wander'd into Darkness wide
Return and back into your Sun subside"
-- The Conference of the Birds, Sufi Poems of Farid ud-Din Attar
WELCOME
Ankh & Bees, Egypt
Upwelling, Iona Miller: The center of the Tree of Life is the Solar sphere, Tiphareth
Synchronicities
Synchronicity is the experience of two or more concurrent events, that are apparently causally unrelated yet unlikely to occur together by chance. They seem to merge in a meaningful manner. The idea of synchronicity is that the conceptual relationship of minds and ideas is intricately structured in its own logical way and gives rise to relationships that are not causal in nature. These relationships can manifest themselves as simultaneous occurrences that are meaningfully related by often surprising pattern recognition. Synchronistic events reveal an underlying pattern, a conceptual framework that encompasses, but is larger than, any of the systems that display the synchronicity. The larger framework may be modeled with a common language that unites psyche and physics, according to Jung. It is descriptive of a governing dynamic that underlies the whole of human experience and history—social, emotional, psychological, and spiritual.
We grossly underestimate the weird powers of research and writing. Take the Library Angel or genie, so named by the Hungarian writer Arthur Koestler. These are not subtle beings with wings, but magical moments in which we pick up a book or turn a page, seemingly at random, and -- A-ha! -- there is a resonate answer to our mental state. Such Library Angels can be very humble (the right page at the right time) or very dramatic (a book literally falling off the shelf to be noticed) or hitting the right random series of links. The same dynamic operates online with even more fluency and fluidity; the random is often synchronistic. It can be particularly true in finding one's genealogy. In the case of Dragon Lineage, the precipitating force may actually be the orchestrating effect of the Dragon Archetype. Or, so we can attribute it, adding ourselves to the Mythos, now that the Library angel has become the Multimedia Angel. Meta-narratives function as healing fictions.
We grossly underestimate the weird powers of research and writing. Take the Library Angel or genie, so named by the Hungarian writer Arthur Koestler. These are not subtle beings with wings, but magical moments in which we pick up a book or turn a page, seemingly at random, and -- A-ha! -- there is a resonate answer to our mental state. Such Library Angels can be very humble (the right page at the right time) or very dramatic (a book literally falling off the shelf to be noticed) or hitting the right random series of links. The same dynamic operates online with even more fluency and fluidity; the random is often synchronistic. It can be particularly true in finding one's genealogy. In the case of Dragon Lineage, the precipitating force may actually be the orchestrating effect of the Dragon Archetype. Or, so we can attribute it, adding ourselves to the Mythos, now that the Library angel has become the Multimedia Angel. Meta-narratives function as healing fictions.
ETERNAL RETURN
Once More With Feeling: Living in Sacred Space & Time
Once More With Feeling: Living in Sacred Space & Time
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"Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King,
a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere
in the Ocean 5000 years ago. Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul.
This is the Center, the Self." --C.G. Jung
The "Eternal Return" is, in nostalgic spiritual behavior, belief in the ability to return to the mythical age,
to become contemporary with the events described in myths. In ancient cultures, things "acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality". Something in our world is only "real" to the extent that it conforms to the Sacred or the patterns established by the Sacred. We distinguish profane space from sacred space, where the Sacred manifests itself. Myths describe breakthroughs of the sacred (or ‘supernatural’) into the World. The Sacred entered our world in the mythic age, giving it form and meaning, in sacred time.. The Sacred first manifested itself in the events of the mythical age; so, the mythical age is the foundation of value.
If the power of a thing lies in its origin, the entire world's power lies in the cosmogony. If the Sacred established all valid patterns in the beginning, during the time recorded in myth, then the mythical age is sacred time — the only time that contains any value. Man's life only has value to the extent that it conforms to the patterns of the mythical age. So, we express a "nostalgia for the origins", a yearning to return to the golden mythical age. Life only has value in sacred time. If the Sacred's essence lies only in its first appearance, then any later appearance must actually be the first appearance. Thus, an imitation of a mythical event is actually the mythical event itself, happening again — myths and rituals carry one back as vehicles of "eternal return" to the mythical age.
The sacred life constantly unites us with sacred time, giving existence value. The cyclic time of the Eternal Return is encoded in the Precession of the Equinoxes, in the passage of Ages. Yet, the sacred exists outside all Ages. If we identify reality with the Sacred, we believe that the world can endure only if it remains in sacred time. We periodically revive sacred time through myths and rituals in order to keep the universe in existence. In many cultures, this belief appears to be consciously held and clearly stated. The philosophical concept of eternal return is an endless cosmic cycle, with no beginning and, thus, no inherently sacred time.--Mircea Eliade
"Jung's collective unconscious, for example, consists of archetypal infolded EM structures acting in common in an overall bio-quantum-potential for the entire species. Gaia, the living earth/biosphere, really does scientifically exist as a common bio-quantum-potential with infolded living EM structures for the entire earth biosphere. The bio-potential in a single body is an overall quantum potential that links and joins all the atoms and cells of the body. The "spirit" of the biosystem, if you will, is its "living biopotential"--its living quantum potential. We already know that a potential is everywhere nonzero all the way out to infinity. So the spirit of the living system is--in the virtual state--everywhere in the universe--and everywhen as well. It's all a giant hologram, not only in space, but in spacetime." --Tom Bearden
"Men invented time to feel comfortable in space. But it doesn't actually exist.
All experience is happening at once." --Albert Einstein
a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere
in the Ocean 5000 years ago. Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul.
This is the Center, the Self." --C.G. Jung
The "Eternal Return" is, in nostalgic spiritual behavior, belief in the ability to return to the mythical age,
to become contemporary with the events described in myths. In ancient cultures, things "acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality". Something in our world is only "real" to the extent that it conforms to the Sacred or the patterns established by the Sacred. We distinguish profane space from sacred space, where the Sacred manifests itself. Myths describe breakthroughs of the sacred (or ‘supernatural’) into the World. The Sacred entered our world in the mythic age, giving it form and meaning, in sacred time.. The Sacred first manifested itself in the events of the mythical age; so, the mythical age is the foundation of value.
If the power of a thing lies in its origin, the entire world's power lies in the cosmogony. If the Sacred established all valid patterns in the beginning, during the time recorded in myth, then the mythical age is sacred time — the only time that contains any value. Man's life only has value to the extent that it conforms to the patterns of the mythical age. So, we express a "nostalgia for the origins", a yearning to return to the golden mythical age. Life only has value in sacred time. If the Sacred's essence lies only in its first appearance, then any later appearance must actually be the first appearance. Thus, an imitation of a mythical event is actually the mythical event itself, happening again — myths and rituals carry one back as vehicles of "eternal return" to the mythical age.
The sacred life constantly unites us with sacred time, giving existence value. The cyclic time of the Eternal Return is encoded in the Precession of the Equinoxes, in the passage of Ages. Yet, the sacred exists outside all Ages. If we identify reality with the Sacred, we believe that the world can endure only if it remains in sacred time. We periodically revive sacred time through myths and rituals in order to keep the universe in existence. In many cultures, this belief appears to be consciously held and clearly stated. The philosophical concept of eternal return is an endless cosmic cycle, with no beginning and, thus, no inherently sacred time.--Mircea Eliade
"Jung's collective unconscious, for example, consists of archetypal infolded EM structures acting in common in an overall bio-quantum-potential for the entire species. Gaia, the living earth/biosphere, really does scientifically exist as a common bio-quantum-potential with infolded living EM structures for the entire earth biosphere. The bio-potential in a single body is an overall quantum potential that links and joins all the atoms and cells of the body. The "spirit" of the biosystem, if you will, is its "living biopotential"--its living quantum potential. We already know that a potential is everywhere nonzero all the way out to infinity. So the spirit of the living system is--in the virtual state--everywhere in the universe--and everywhen as well. It's all a giant hologram, not only in space, but in spacetime." --Tom Bearden
"Men invented time to feel comfortable in space. But it doesn't actually exist.
All experience is happening at once." --Albert Einstein
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THE GREAT CYCLE
RESURGENCE
From Pre-history to
LIVING HISTORY:
"Those Who Unite Heaven & Earth"
Dragon Rectitude and Authority
SOURCE MYSTICISM
KINdling Effect
Connecting with the Ground of Being
Know well the form, but approach the Mystery behind the form,
then make use of the forms to reveal the Mystery.
"The mind reveals the One. The mind can blend and fuse the form and life.
Thou art the One. Thou art the form. Thou art the mind. Know this."
From Pre-history to
LIVING HISTORY:
"Those Who Unite Heaven & Earth"
Dragon Rectitude and Authority
SOURCE MYSTICISM
KINdling Effect
Connecting with the Ground of Being
Know well the form, but approach the Mystery behind the form,
then make use of the forms to reveal the Mystery.
"The mind reveals the One. The mind can blend and fuse the form and life.
Thou art the One. Thou art the form. Thou art the mind. Know this."
In alchemical Dragon tradition, the symbol of the Dragon sleeping on a hoard of gold signifies that
the dynamic of the Dragon identity "rests" upon the foundation of blood and gold ingestion.
The Dragon is the ultimate guardian and fons et origio of the Sacred Wisdom.
the dynamic of the Dragon identity "rests" upon the foundation of blood and gold ingestion.
The Dragon is the ultimate guardian and fons et origio of the Sacred Wisdom.
EVERMIND: DRAGON COMMONWEALTH
Dynamic Existence: Reality is Expressed as Living
The focus of consciousness alternates between conscious and unconscious.. If its alternation seems to go too far - physically, psychically or intellectually - it reaches into the subconscious. In this way, interconnection is established by the alternation of the focus of consciousness. Therefore, in a world in which everything is interconnected, all focuses must reciprocally transition into each other. "Reality" is a common "goal", a focus which all participants can switch into and which is conscious to them as such, as a potential one. Its "degree of reality" is the probability of its fully becoming conscious (or more simply, its current degree of consciousness) . Thus, a reality is created when all participants increase its probability or, respectively, their consciousness of it.
The dragon represents Transcendental Consciousness. The word 'dragon' in Greek is drakon (drakon); means 'to see clearly'. A dragon was one who saw clearly, and clarity of vision engendered and was always classically associated with wisdom, which itself produced power. Today we say that knowledge is power, so nothing has changed in that respect, except that it is actually wisdom - the ability to predict or intuit and synthesize knowledge - a prerequisite of druidic or fairy neurophysiology.
Painting, Martina Hoffmann
The Labyrinth & the Grail Maiden
The Grail is light, just as woman is light, and both are the light of the 'Sun'. Transcendent consciousness, (symbolized on the Tree of Life by Tiphareth, the solar Sphere), is embodied in the ancient 'Great Rite' of the Dragon families. The 'hierosgamos' is a symbolic and psychophysical act with neurological, epigenetic, and meta-genetic effects.
Discovered in the paleolithic era, shamanic sexuality is the legacy of the Great Goddess cultures.
Rock womb-tombs were memorialized as megalithic monuments from the 11,000 year old labyrinth of the stars, Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, to the neolithic subterreanean Hypogeum of Malta, and later the world navel Delphi, whose root is δελφύς delphys, "womb". Vagina-shaped ritual caves are found globally. Kashmir has a sanctuary called Garbhagriha, the house of the womb, where regeneration is effected and the higher self of the devotee is reborn. At Mycenæ, so-called “beehive” tombs were constructed as wombs of stone to receive the dead. The Sumerian word sal, means “vulva,” “womb,” and “woman.” Also, the Latin matrix carries the meanings “female cavity,” “womb,” “matron,” and “mother.”
Fire in the Belly
Nenkovo, a vagina-shaped ritual cave in Bulgaria illustrates the central Mystery. At noon the sun penetrates into the cave through an opening in the ceiling creating a phallus of light on the floor. It progressively grows longer, reaching toward the womb altar. In Winter, with the sun low on the horizon, the phallus elongates to reach the altar and symbolically fertilizes the womb. The Hawara labyrinth in Egypt was decorated with reliefs of the Dragon god Sobek. The womb temple is a place for rebirth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ni4g8yzMbs
The circle of life and the circle of breath are related through "womb breathing." Universal energy underlies the process of transformation, as the basis of life. For the Chaldeans, fire was the life-imparting breath and the dazzling, scintillating light of the multiplicity of souls and beings. The Stoics linked pneuma and the pneumatic soul with 'flowers of fire.' Bees drink the nectar of the fire flower - secretum secretorum. The Virgin is the source of the universal medicine -- ethereal light. Through vase breathing we simulate the state of a baby in the womb. The energy body feeds on 'medicine light' which enriches, energizes and stabilizes all parts of the body with fluid consciousness of Heavenly Water.
http://vimeo.com/17011448
Hierogamy & Transcendence
The morganatic "holy marriage" is played out between a symbolic god and goddess as an act that harmonizes the opposites. It doesn't need to be performed in ritual, but enlivens its mythological and alchemical context.
It echoes down the centuries, maintained in the royal Dragon Courts and couched in the secret language of alchemy.
It is a tantric/hermetic transformative generation and regeneration mystery. The couple represents a
paradigm of nature and our nature with its potential genius -- internal union in the marriage of Wisdom.
The mystical path is erotic, with many twists and turns. Melusine was said to conduct her rite in a maze garden.
A fountain at its center emanates pure sacred being.
http://trianglebook.iwarp.com/whats_new_38.html
The Grail is light, just as woman is light, and both are the light of the 'Sun'. Transcendent consciousness, (symbolized on the Tree of Life by Tiphareth, the solar Sphere), is embodied in the ancient 'Great Rite' of the Dragon families. The 'hierosgamos' is a symbolic and psychophysical act with neurological, epigenetic, and meta-genetic effects.
Discovered in the paleolithic era, shamanic sexuality is the legacy of the Great Goddess cultures.
Rock womb-tombs were memorialized as megalithic monuments from the 11,000 year old labyrinth of the stars, Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, to the neolithic subterreanean Hypogeum of Malta, and later the world navel Delphi, whose root is δελφύς delphys, "womb". Vagina-shaped ritual caves are found globally. Kashmir has a sanctuary called Garbhagriha, the house of the womb, where regeneration is effected and the higher self of the devotee is reborn. At Mycenæ, so-called “beehive” tombs were constructed as wombs of stone to receive the dead. The Sumerian word sal, means “vulva,” “womb,” and “woman.” Also, the Latin matrix carries the meanings “female cavity,” “womb,” “matron,” and “mother.”
Fire in the Belly
Nenkovo, a vagina-shaped ritual cave in Bulgaria illustrates the central Mystery. At noon the sun penetrates into the cave through an opening in the ceiling creating a phallus of light on the floor. It progressively grows longer, reaching toward the womb altar. In Winter, with the sun low on the horizon, the phallus elongates to reach the altar and symbolically fertilizes the womb. The Hawara labyrinth in Egypt was decorated with reliefs of the Dragon god Sobek. The womb temple is a place for rebirth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ni4g8yzMbs
The circle of life and the circle of breath are related through "womb breathing." Universal energy underlies the process of transformation, as the basis of life. For the Chaldeans, fire was the life-imparting breath and the dazzling, scintillating light of the multiplicity of souls and beings. The Stoics linked pneuma and the pneumatic soul with 'flowers of fire.' Bees drink the nectar of the fire flower - secretum secretorum. The Virgin is the source of the universal medicine -- ethereal light. Through vase breathing we simulate the state of a baby in the womb. The energy body feeds on 'medicine light' which enriches, energizes and stabilizes all parts of the body with fluid consciousness of Heavenly Water.
http://vimeo.com/17011448
Hierogamy & Transcendence
The morganatic "holy marriage" is played out between a symbolic god and goddess as an act that harmonizes the opposites. It doesn't need to be performed in ritual, but enlivens its mythological and alchemical context.
It echoes down the centuries, maintained in the royal Dragon Courts and couched in the secret language of alchemy.
It is a tantric/hermetic transformative generation and regeneration mystery. The couple represents a
paradigm of nature and our nature with its potential genius -- internal union in the marriage of Wisdom.
The mystical path is erotic, with many twists and turns. Melusine was said to conduct her rite in a maze garden.
A fountain at its center emanates pure sacred being.
http://trianglebook.iwarp.com/whats_new_38.html
The etymology of labyrinth has two interlinked variations: 1) derived from labrys, a pre-Hellenic word said to mean ’double headed axe’, 2) derived from the Latin labia meaning ’lips’ or ’folds’. The double-headed axe was sacred to Zeus, the Grecian Thor, whose hammer was a variant of the labrys. The spinning hammer formed the shape of the swastika or Vortex of Anu as it flew through the air, whipping up the whirlwind. This whirlwind and the spiral swastika that symbolized it were the figurative progenitors of the stylized maze, labyrinth or Vortex. Nevertheless the hammer, shaped like two opposed crescent moons was, like the labrys, a female emblem.
At the highest level, the labyrinth symbol works on several different but interconnected levels: The Folds of Time, The Spiral Cosmos, The Folds of Human Self Deceit, The Journey of Life, The Brain and Spinal Column, The Womb. The Tomb or Creachaire, The Vortex or Sumaire. The fire of Prometheus is not the fire of Kundalini going up the spine to the brain, but the fire of wisdom moving down the spinal column to the womb to become Starfire, which when shed is drunk in the royal ’Rite of the Vampire’. Starfire potentiates, amplifies and accelerates a fuller consciousness that turns the void into a pleum of gnosis. The double triangle labrys design, identical with the one found in the labyrinth of Knossos but without the handle, was used up until medieval times to denote the womb. The genital symbolism is therefore quite clear. Whether the word Labyrinth is derived from labrys or labus, it strongly indicates the maze or labyrinth was originally a graphic symbolic representation of the womb and vaginal channel.
At the highest level, the labyrinth symbol works on several different but interconnected levels: The Folds of Time, The Spiral Cosmos, The Folds of Human Self Deceit, The Journey of Life, The Brain and Spinal Column, The Womb. The Tomb or Creachaire, The Vortex or Sumaire. The fire of Prometheus is not the fire of Kundalini going up the spine to the brain, but the fire of wisdom moving down the spinal column to the womb to become Starfire, which when shed is drunk in the royal ’Rite of the Vampire’. Starfire potentiates, amplifies and accelerates a fuller consciousness that turns the void into a pleum of gnosis. The double triangle labrys design, identical with the one found in the labyrinth of Knossos but without the handle, was used up until medieval times to denote the womb. The genital symbolism is therefore quite clear. Whether the word Labyrinth is derived from labrys or labus, it strongly indicates the maze or labyrinth was originally a graphic symbolic representation of the womb and vaginal channel.
The labyrinth of Chartres Cathedral, built by the Knights Templars in the 13th century, like many ritual mazes, has no blind alleys or fake routes. At its center there is a six petaled "Plantagenet" or wild rose, carved into which there seems to be an M figure reminiscent of the symbol of Virgo, which is the M for "Our Lady", the Virgin Mary Magdalene, to which the Ichthys or Salmon of Wisdom has been appended, denoting the genital nature of the whole glyph itself. This maze in the cathedral dedicated to Notre Dame symbolizes the womb of the Virgin. The Rose Garden symbolism of the core of the labyrinth of Chartres is an echo of the Garden of Solomon and the Rose of Sharon, meaning ’Blood of the Virgin Princess’, and also of the later forest labyrinth of Melusine, with its fountain, mentioned in medieval French literature.
The Labyrinth of Solomon is a medieval alchemical symbol doubtlessly denoting the "scented fountain garden" of Sheba. In the French stories Melusine lies in hiding at the center of her maze garden, waiting to prey on victims returning from the Hundred Years War. She would draw them in and drink their blood. Conversely she also lay at the centrer of the maze, as the prize of the quester for the Grail. The center of the maze incorporated a cubic stone from which spurted the waters of life, La fonteine de soif, and the blood of the virgin womb. At Chartres the Rose in the center of the maze can be seen bathed in the sanguine light of the sun beaming through a strategically placed pane of red stained glass, making the combined Grail symbolism apparent.
The Chartres Maze was probably based itself on earlier patterns associated with Melusine and Sheba, which themselves were based on the swastika, the pre-eminent glyph of the Vortex or Sumaire, the "sucker-in" and source of life and life’s blood. Associated with this is the concept of the maze as a dance pattern which, similar to the original sacrificial sword dance of the Danes and the Scots, was an echo of the spiraling witches’ dance around the vortex and a celebratory rite of the Wild Hunt. For some, entry into the maze would result in their life being drained away by the virgin occupant, whose repast she would pass on to her kind, as she acted as the fountain of thirst and fed them in turn from her holy blood. In a sense, the Minotaur at Knossos (interchangeable with the Scythian Centaur in classical art), is also representative of the vampire king. Thus at the highest level, as a whirlpool attracting and distributing life and life’s blood, the Labyrinth was both tomb and womb, life taker and life giver.
In England labyrinths have been euphemistically referred to as "fish traps" or Veres (Norse: ’Ver’).
The Labyrinth of Solomon is a medieval alchemical symbol doubtlessly denoting the "scented fountain garden" of Sheba. In the French stories Melusine lies in hiding at the center of her maze garden, waiting to prey on victims returning from the Hundred Years War. She would draw them in and drink their blood. Conversely she also lay at the centrer of the maze, as the prize of the quester for the Grail. The center of the maze incorporated a cubic stone from which spurted the waters of life, La fonteine de soif, and the blood of the virgin womb. At Chartres the Rose in the center of the maze can be seen bathed in the sanguine light of the sun beaming through a strategically placed pane of red stained glass, making the combined Grail symbolism apparent.
The Chartres Maze was probably based itself on earlier patterns associated with Melusine and Sheba, which themselves were based on the swastika, the pre-eminent glyph of the Vortex or Sumaire, the "sucker-in" and source of life and life’s blood. Associated with this is the concept of the maze as a dance pattern which, similar to the original sacrificial sword dance of the Danes and the Scots, was an echo of the spiraling witches’ dance around the vortex and a celebratory rite of the Wild Hunt. For some, entry into the maze would result in their life being drained away by the virgin occupant, whose repast she would pass on to her kind, as she acted as the fountain of thirst and fed them in turn from her holy blood. In a sense, the Minotaur at Knossos (interchangeable with the Scythian Centaur in classical art), is also representative of the vampire king. Thus at the highest level, as a whirlpool attracting and distributing life and life’s blood, the Labyrinth was both tomb and womb, life taker and life giver.
In England labyrinths have been euphemistically referred to as "fish traps" or Veres (Norse: ’Ver’).
The Dragon Path has much in common with modern Chaos Theory which reflects nature's organic way of balancing chaos and emergent order. The labyrinth is like a Strange Attractor that that does not consist of a simple point, curve or higher dimensional manifold, but contains an infinite complex of manifolds. The vortex mechanism is at the heart of cosmology and creation at all scales.
http://www.uvs-model.com/index.htm
The Dragon is a chaotic Strange Attractor that leads us deep into multiple feedback loops. To 'enter the dragon' we have to be willing to enter that choas and penetrate to the still center of primordial awareness for renewal. It is a complex interaction of fields which forms the attractor and which forms the complex around the structure. It is not a "thing" at the center of a bunch of orbits. Rather, it is a complex infinity of dynamic interaction.
Field interaction may be the strange attractor. This may be hard to understand -- but not the first-hand experience of chaos in our lives affecting our fixations, fascinations, attention, and intentions. Chaos as the Universal Solvent dissolves problems, heals, allows life to flow in new, creative patterns. These new patterns embody the evolutionary dynamic. According to chaos theory, free-flowing energy is capable of self-organization. In consciousness this means that the obstructions to free flowing energy must first be dissolved.
It's O.K. to let go periodically and temporarily become unstructured nothingness, open to holistic re-patterning. Chaos is self-organizing, self-iterating, and self-generating. It is an evolutionary force. The tendency of new forms emerging from chaos is toward a higher degree of adaptation, hence evolution (Kauffmann, 1991). This "recycling" of consciousness leads to a self-referential vortex. Chaotic systems revolve around nexus points, known as strange attractors, because of their unpredictable quality. Rather than being "point-like," they are more like vortices within vortices.
Gold on the Moon
The Philosopher's Stone is like a psychic lodestone (or vortex). It acts like an inner magnet, ordering the contents of our consciousness around it (through feedback loops) in chaotic, yet meaningful fashion. The Philosopher's Stone may thus be seen as a "strange attractor" in the life of anyone engaged in the quest for transformation. It is an instinctual attraction toward processes which dissolve the ego and liquify consciousness, leading to transpersonal experience after symbolic death/rebirth. Freedom in the exploration of imagery comes from the creative capacity to experience loss. Experientially, it's like being channeled into the swirling mass of interacting symbols, an overwhelming vortex of pure information. We are sucked inexorably into interaction with the self-symbol, sucked into ourselves, like flotsam is pulled into a whirlpool.
This is the vortex of the system, the vortex of self, where all levels cross. It overwhelms or tangles the mental processes, the self-imaging processes that maintain the illusion of stable personality and individual boundaries. In solutio, the body is joined with the soul and spirit. The skin-boundary dissolves into visceral as well as spiritual perception. Awareness of physical processes may be greatly amplified, appearing as impressions, intuitions, sensations, sounds, odors. The body is always speaking silently. Through this raw, physical expression, that which was solid becomes liquified, dissolved, deliteralized.
The concrete image of the body "morphs" into the flow of pure energy, in a variation of Transubstantiation. It is the "rapture" of being seized up into the heavenly realm. The flow of dynamic energy from the deep Self reawakens and activates the body, and also that portion of the unconscious that the body carries. The body not only carries, but is the memory of the entire evolutionary cycle. Consciousness can access any portion of this material memory through creative regression. The body manifests kinesthetic, preverbal, and preconceptual memory of its direct experience. Immersion in the healing creative energy flow is like a spiritual baptism, which facilitates creative reformation of ordinary consciousness, and even the physical body.
Vortex-consciousness is a meta-process of complex feedback and resonance. In an environment that is increasingly in flux and perhaps heading toward an avalanche of societal and environmental change, open-ended experimentation is a valuable way in which, as a community, we might gain, at least, a symbolic and adaptive understanding of our being and the genius of our potential.
http://www.uvs-model.com/index.htm
The Dragon is a chaotic Strange Attractor that leads us deep into multiple feedback loops. To 'enter the dragon' we have to be willing to enter that choas and penetrate to the still center of primordial awareness for renewal. It is a complex interaction of fields which forms the attractor and which forms the complex around the structure. It is not a "thing" at the center of a bunch of orbits. Rather, it is a complex infinity of dynamic interaction.
Field interaction may be the strange attractor. This may be hard to understand -- but not the first-hand experience of chaos in our lives affecting our fixations, fascinations, attention, and intentions. Chaos as the Universal Solvent dissolves problems, heals, allows life to flow in new, creative patterns. These new patterns embody the evolutionary dynamic. According to chaos theory, free-flowing energy is capable of self-organization. In consciousness this means that the obstructions to free flowing energy must first be dissolved.
It's O.K. to let go periodically and temporarily become unstructured nothingness, open to holistic re-patterning. Chaos is self-organizing, self-iterating, and self-generating. It is an evolutionary force. The tendency of new forms emerging from chaos is toward a higher degree of adaptation, hence evolution (Kauffmann, 1991). This "recycling" of consciousness leads to a self-referential vortex. Chaotic systems revolve around nexus points, known as strange attractors, because of their unpredictable quality. Rather than being "point-like," they are more like vortices within vortices.
Gold on the Moon
The Philosopher's Stone is like a psychic lodestone (or vortex). It acts like an inner magnet, ordering the contents of our consciousness around it (through feedback loops) in chaotic, yet meaningful fashion. The Philosopher's Stone may thus be seen as a "strange attractor" in the life of anyone engaged in the quest for transformation. It is an instinctual attraction toward processes which dissolve the ego and liquify consciousness, leading to transpersonal experience after symbolic death/rebirth. Freedom in the exploration of imagery comes from the creative capacity to experience loss. Experientially, it's like being channeled into the swirling mass of interacting symbols, an overwhelming vortex of pure information. We are sucked inexorably into interaction with the self-symbol, sucked into ourselves, like flotsam is pulled into a whirlpool.
This is the vortex of the system, the vortex of self, where all levels cross. It overwhelms or tangles the mental processes, the self-imaging processes that maintain the illusion of stable personality and individual boundaries. In solutio, the body is joined with the soul and spirit. The skin-boundary dissolves into visceral as well as spiritual perception. Awareness of physical processes may be greatly amplified, appearing as impressions, intuitions, sensations, sounds, odors. The body is always speaking silently. Through this raw, physical expression, that which was solid becomes liquified, dissolved, deliteralized.
The concrete image of the body "morphs" into the flow of pure energy, in a variation of Transubstantiation. It is the "rapture" of being seized up into the heavenly realm. The flow of dynamic energy from the deep Self reawakens and activates the body, and also that portion of the unconscious that the body carries. The body not only carries, but is the memory of the entire evolutionary cycle. Consciousness can access any portion of this material memory through creative regression. The body manifests kinesthetic, preverbal, and preconceptual memory of its direct experience. Immersion in the healing creative energy flow is like a spiritual baptism, which facilitates creative reformation of ordinary consciousness, and even the physical body.
Vortex-consciousness is a meta-process of complex feedback and resonance. In an environment that is increasingly in flux and perhaps heading toward an avalanche of societal and environmental change, open-ended experimentation is a valuable way in which, as a community, we might gain, at least, a symbolic and adaptive understanding of our being and the genius of our potential.
"The World As Labyrinth II", by Angerer the Elder.
EXPERIMENTAL METAPHYSICS
Soul Travel, Gnosis & Metaphysical Knowledge
Primordial Serpents: Cosmic Strings, DNA, to Vortex Portals
“The vibrations of Ākāśa, the sonoriferous ether, constitute sound; and it is quite necessary to recognize the distinctive character of this form of motion. The experiment of the bell in a vacuum goes to prove that the vibrations of the atmosphere propagate sound. Any other media, however, such as the earth and the metals, are known to transmit sound in various degrees. There must, therefore, be some one thing in all these media which gives birth to sound – the vibration which constitutes sound. That something is the Ākāśa.” --Rama Prasad, Nature’s Finer Forces: The Science of Breath and the Philosophy of the Tattvas, Theosophical Publishing Society: London, 1894, pg. 3
"The master on a relative level, the appearing aspect, is ultimately the magical display of awareness itself. There, the master, self-manifest empty awareness, abides primordially together with me. I release my mind, this knowing, into all-encompassing awareness. If there is cause for delusion, let there be delusion; deluded phenomena are traceless in empty movement. If there is cause for liberation, let there be liberation; the ground of liberation is baseless, without foundation. I have reached the self-manifest Lama's exalted kingdom beyond the ordinary mind's reference points.
Oh, how wonderful!" -- Dudjom Rinpoche, Tibetan Master
From Knowing to Awareness
The transformative imperative challenges conventional beliefs about the nature of reality. Unlock and unblock your natural abilities. We take our world to be an objective reality, but is it? The assumption that the physical world exists in and of itself has struggled to assimilate the findings of modern physics for some time now. For example, an objective space and time would just "be", but in relativity, space contracts and time dilates. Likewise objective "things" should just inherently exist, but the entities of quantum theory are probability of existence smears, that spread, tunnel, superpose and entangle in physically impossible ways.
Cosmology tells us that our entire physical universe just "popped up", from nowhere, about 14 billion years ago. This is not how an objectively real world should behave! We are therefore forced to entertain the notion that we inhabit a "virtuality". This notion echoes unconventional subquantal or zero-point physics, Gnostic ideas about the Plenum and ancient Vedic concepts, such as maya that explore the ultimate nature of consciousness and matter.
This theory is not that all is one, or that the mind creates the universe, or that the universe is holistic, or that nothing really exists at all. It is that all physical reality is in essence virtual. The physical world is then a bubbling flux because, like a TV screen picture, it must be continuously refreshed to exist. This includes the phenomenal world of sensations, actions, causes and results, i.e. not just the physical body, but also the brain and the sensations and ideas it generates - including those of love, harmony, self, other selves or a universal I. So everything observed, done, said or thought is virtual, i.e., a quantum collapse.
To want to change the physical world to be of harmony and love is to want a better virtuality, a better looking screen output, while ignoring the program behind it. Wanting to "fix" the world assumes it is broken, but at the quantum level it is working perfectly, as a karmic output system of natural consequences. If each output is an input, etc, how can anything change, as this flawless machine grinds causality by trying every option?
Perhaps the way out is in. When attention is focused on the Mystery of Gnosis, another Mystery is happpening in the background -- Awareness.
Consciousness information processing needs a source, here the grid, so our sense of being an observer, if that is what you mean by "I", may be valid. Even in a virtuality, the choices made are real. So if we have choice, we can rewrite the program at source by changing our being. A program can't change the operating system, nor other programs, but it could alter itself. Spirituality is then not about rearranging inputs and outputs, as in politics and power, but about changing the program source, i.e. not about changing the physical world but about changing ourselves.
Awakening the Impulse to Evolve
We're all looking for lives of greater purpose and meaning. The natural sacraments of the biosphere are the living visionary species, and their various molecular variants, which along with meditative techniques, provide all humanity with a capacity to witness first hand the immanence and transcendence of the conscious mysterium tremendum.
We want to discover how we can live in a way that is truly aligned with our soul's deepest calling, to live the life we were born to live. But, let's face it, it's not always clear what specific steps we need to take to awaken to this deeper purpose. And even if we have awakened to it, we're not necessarily sure how to make it the driving force for our lives. Buckminster Fuller speculated that the highest human purpose was as local Universe problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. ... that "I" seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process -- an integral function of the universe.
According to spiritual luminaries, to awaken the new capacities you need to actually live that purpose -- even if you think it's too late for you to change in a dramatic and profound way. You'll discover a new approach to life and discover exciting new vistas of your interior landscape--and new ways to apply those discoveries to make a difference in the world. You are ready to live your highest calling with essential wisdom, depth-sourcing, and soul-charging purpose.
Be at one with life and transform your life by a clear perception of what truly is going on in you and everything else -- because everything else is truly you, as well. There is only the oneness and beauty of life. We serve Life and the life force. What was formerly hidden is now revealed. The mythos and propaganda of the occult can be de-mystified and applied as spiritual technology to support a change in consciousness. Complete truth is complete love. First we awaken within the illusion, activate our purpose, then fully awaken to our true selves and the Source Truth.
It is the Feminine that possesses the empathy, compassion and guidance that the focused and systematic Masculine requires. That is what has made humans a successful species, and the suppression of it has pushed our world to the brink of destruction. Practically speaking, we seek solutions that address multiple problems without creating new ones down the road -- integrated strategies dealing with key social, economic, environmental, policy and cultural issues that have a transformative effect on the system as a whole. We need options to successfully surmount the crises of unprecedented scope and complexity facing all humanity.
By liberating your mind, you find your own sovereignty. Many of us sense that, for the world to change in a profound way, a significant number of us need to awaken to -- and align with -- our true purpose and calling in life. We know deep down that we have a meaningful contribution to bring into the world, and we sense that it's only in discovering and bringing forth this potential, that we will find our own spiritual fulfillment.
There is a universe within -- the deep labyrinth of the Quantum Feminine (the "wave aspect" of the psyche), pregnant with super-potential and bursting with pure Awareness and continuous creativity. The creation takes on shape and life with feminine energy. The sacred feminine points to a subtler level of reality that animates life and enables conscious experience and spiritual transformation. Quantum mechanics also points to a subtler level of reality that suggests a modern way of talking about the sacred feminine or invisible basis for creativity and the meaning of life. The sacred feminine is alive and well, providing the interface between the spiritual and material aspects of creative life. The heart of the Cosmos lies within.
Experimental metaphysics is an experiment we make on ourselves, delving into our own microcosmic nature, much as the Dragons have done throughout history, as a basis for vision, clarity and dialogue with dragon genius. Without "tuning" (with spiritual technologies), such potential remains latent. With transformation, procedures give way to Grace. Our experiment delves into the nature of 'reality' and primordial 'truth' -- the nature and experience of fuller awareness, unhindered by the transient contents of the mind.
Can we test and even transcend quantum reality by plunging into the abyss of the subquantal realm? To build a boundary is to create a place at which travel must cease. Metaphysics establishes boundaries of knowledge beyond which questions cannot pass -- they are interrupted and rendered void. The creation of such boundaries is the translation of the unknown into the familiar.
"The master on a relative level, the appearing aspect, is ultimately the magical display of awareness itself. There, the master, self-manifest empty awareness, abides primordially together with me. I release my mind, this knowing, into all-encompassing awareness. If there is cause for delusion, let there be delusion; deluded phenomena are traceless in empty movement. If there is cause for liberation, let there be liberation; the ground of liberation is baseless, without foundation. I have reached the self-manifest Lama's exalted kingdom beyond the ordinary mind's reference points.
Oh, how wonderful!" -- Dudjom Rinpoche, Tibetan Master
From Knowing to Awareness
The transformative imperative challenges conventional beliefs about the nature of reality. Unlock and unblock your natural abilities. We take our world to be an objective reality, but is it? The assumption that the physical world exists in and of itself has struggled to assimilate the findings of modern physics for some time now. For example, an objective space and time would just "be", but in relativity, space contracts and time dilates. Likewise objective "things" should just inherently exist, but the entities of quantum theory are probability of existence smears, that spread, tunnel, superpose and entangle in physically impossible ways.
Cosmology tells us that our entire physical universe just "popped up", from nowhere, about 14 billion years ago. This is not how an objectively real world should behave! We are therefore forced to entertain the notion that we inhabit a "virtuality". This notion echoes unconventional subquantal or zero-point physics, Gnostic ideas about the Plenum and ancient Vedic concepts, such as maya that explore the ultimate nature of consciousness and matter.
This theory is not that all is one, or that the mind creates the universe, or that the universe is holistic, or that nothing really exists at all. It is that all physical reality is in essence virtual. The physical world is then a bubbling flux because, like a TV screen picture, it must be continuously refreshed to exist. This includes the phenomenal world of sensations, actions, causes and results, i.e. not just the physical body, but also the brain and the sensations and ideas it generates - including those of love, harmony, self, other selves or a universal I. So everything observed, done, said or thought is virtual, i.e., a quantum collapse.
To want to change the physical world to be of harmony and love is to want a better virtuality, a better looking screen output, while ignoring the program behind it. Wanting to "fix" the world assumes it is broken, but at the quantum level it is working perfectly, as a karmic output system of natural consequences. If each output is an input, etc, how can anything change, as this flawless machine grinds causality by trying every option?
Perhaps the way out is in. When attention is focused on the Mystery of Gnosis, another Mystery is happpening in the background -- Awareness.
Consciousness information processing needs a source, here the grid, so our sense of being an observer, if that is what you mean by "I", may be valid. Even in a virtuality, the choices made are real. So if we have choice, we can rewrite the program at source by changing our being. A program can't change the operating system, nor other programs, but it could alter itself. Spirituality is then not about rearranging inputs and outputs, as in politics and power, but about changing the program source, i.e. not about changing the physical world but about changing ourselves.
Awakening the Impulse to Evolve
We're all looking for lives of greater purpose and meaning. The natural sacraments of the biosphere are the living visionary species, and their various molecular variants, which along with meditative techniques, provide all humanity with a capacity to witness first hand the immanence and transcendence of the conscious mysterium tremendum.
We want to discover how we can live in a way that is truly aligned with our soul's deepest calling, to live the life we were born to live. But, let's face it, it's not always clear what specific steps we need to take to awaken to this deeper purpose. And even if we have awakened to it, we're not necessarily sure how to make it the driving force for our lives. Buckminster Fuller speculated that the highest human purpose was as local Universe problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. ... that "I" seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process -- an integral function of the universe.
According to spiritual luminaries, to awaken the new capacities you need to actually live that purpose -- even if you think it's too late for you to change in a dramatic and profound way. You'll discover a new approach to life and discover exciting new vistas of your interior landscape--and new ways to apply those discoveries to make a difference in the world. You are ready to live your highest calling with essential wisdom, depth-sourcing, and soul-charging purpose.
Be at one with life and transform your life by a clear perception of what truly is going on in you and everything else -- because everything else is truly you, as well. There is only the oneness and beauty of life. We serve Life and the life force. What was formerly hidden is now revealed. The mythos and propaganda of the occult can be de-mystified and applied as spiritual technology to support a change in consciousness. Complete truth is complete love. First we awaken within the illusion, activate our purpose, then fully awaken to our true selves and the Source Truth.
It is the Feminine that possesses the empathy, compassion and guidance that the focused and systematic Masculine requires. That is what has made humans a successful species, and the suppression of it has pushed our world to the brink of destruction. Practically speaking, we seek solutions that address multiple problems without creating new ones down the road -- integrated strategies dealing with key social, economic, environmental, policy and cultural issues that have a transformative effect on the system as a whole. We need options to successfully surmount the crises of unprecedented scope and complexity facing all humanity.
By liberating your mind, you find your own sovereignty. Many of us sense that, for the world to change in a profound way, a significant number of us need to awaken to -- and align with -- our true purpose and calling in life. We know deep down that we have a meaningful contribution to bring into the world, and we sense that it's only in discovering and bringing forth this potential, that we will find our own spiritual fulfillment.
There is a universe within -- the deep labyrinth of the Quantum Feminine (the "wave aspect" of the psyche), pregnant with super-potential and bursting with pure Awareness and continuous creativity. The creation takes on shape and life with feminine energy. The sacred feminine points to a subtler level of reality that animates life and enables conscious experience and spiritual transformation. Quantum mechanics also points to a subtler level of reality that suggests a modern way of talking about the sacred feminine or invisible basis for creativity and the meaning of life. The sacred feminine is alive and well, providing the interface between the spiritual and material aspects of creative life. The heart of the Cosmos lies within.
Experimental metaphysics is an experiment we make on ourselves, delving into our own microcosmic nature, much as the Dragons have done throughout history, as a basis for vision, clarity and dialogue with dragon genius. Without "tuning" (with spiritual technologies), such potential remains latent. With transformation, procedures give way to Grace. Our experiment delves into the nature of 'reality' and primordial 'truth' -- the nature and experience of fuller awareness, unhindered by the transient contents of the mind.
Can we test and even transcend quantum reality by plunging into the abyss of the subquantal realm? To build a boundary is to create a place at which travel must cease. Metaphysics establishes boundaries of knowledge beyond which questions cannot pass -- they are interrupted and rendered void. The creation of such boundaries is the translation of the unknown into the familiar.
Dragon Mysteries
The Dragon Mysteries preceded all others. These "enlighteners" were fully aware of the 26,000-year cycle of Precession of the Equinoxes. When their line arose, the star Thuban in the constellation Draco was the pole star. They were a hereditary caste of seers, philosophers, political advisors, priests, natural scientists, historians, doctors of medicine, judges, poets, royal advisors, musicians, geometers, orators, navigators, and magicians. They were teachers, scholars, mystics. The Bards sang oracular songs. They preserved 'knowledge' or gnosis. In Druid lore myth is not plot, but image; not action, but rhythm; not character, but ghosts. Images animate the soul with guidance from higher dimensions.
Those with dragon genetics claim a predisposition to paranormal/PSI ability, as these cultures have practiced psychic abilities for generations in ancient rituals. Therefore, it is in the genetic memory of people of these bloodlines, even if they have not practiced psychic ability themselves.
Ancestral Field Work
Mysteries are primal 'secrets' regarding all human evolution. We can mine our ancestral memories. But those secrets are in the experiential aspects of the process. It is not the conceptual part that is secret, but the lived reality unique to each individual -- the realization of self and spirit. They are the signposts along the primal path of alchemy leading to Gnosis. The first masters on Earth were all Dragons and Serpents. They bestowed wisdom and the means of experiencing Gnosis. Unbound consciousness is the basis of metaphysics.
Physics and metaphysics are not so separate as some philosophers and physicists indicate. In fact they are in a sense symbiotic. Physics cannot exist without metaphysical postulates upon which it can rest its own theories, while metaphysics can, in turn, be directly influenced by physical experiments. The meaning of this is that there is nothing unscientific about spirituality and its arts. Ultimately it is fully empirical. The only issue is perception. It is only in perception that materiality "appears" to separated from the divine or spiritual oncology. This also means that there is no mysterious "magic" about the higher realm of spirituality.
The search for truths in metaphysics should be supplemented by progress and advances that occur in physics, while physics should regard itself as being able to provide not final truths about reality, but truths that are dependent upon a more general metaphysical scheme. If metaphysics rejects physics as a valid partner in the search for truth, then its explanations can be valid to those who need final and ultimate answers, but the goal of metaphysics should not be to pose as any arbiter, but as the one that provides the best final and ultimate answers. Where do explanations cease?
The Dragon Mysteries preceded all others. These "enlighteners" were fully aware of the 26,000-year cycle of Precession of the Equinoxes. When their line arose, the star Thuban in the constellation Draco was the pole star. They were a hereditary caste of seers, philosophers, political advisors, priests, natural scientists, historians, doctors of medicine, judges, poets, royal advisors, musicians, geometers, orators, navigators, and magicians. They were teachers, scholars, mystics. The Bards sang oracular songs. They preserved 'knowledge' or gnosis. In Druid lore myth is not plot, but image; not action, but rhythm; not character, but ghosts. Images animate the soul with guidance from higher dimensions.
Those with dragon genetics claim a predisposition to paranormal/PSI ability, as these cultures have practiced psychic abilities for generations in ancient rituals. Therefore, it is in the genetic memory of people of these bloodlines, even if they have not practiced psychic ability themselves.
Ancestral Field Work
Mysteries are primal 'secrets' regarding all human evolution. We can mine our ancestral memories. But those secrets are in the experiential aspects of the process. It is not the conceptual part that is secret, but the lived reality unique to each individual -- the realization of self and spirit. They are the signposts along the primal path of alchemy leading to Gnosis. The first masters on Earth were all Dragons and Serpents. They bestowed wisdom and the means of experiencing Gnosis. Unbound consciousness is the basis of metaphysics.
Physics and metaphysics are not so separate as some philosophers and physicists indicate. In fact they are in a sense symbiotic. Physics cannot exist without metaphysical postulates upon which it can rest its own theories, while metaphysics can, in turn, be directly influenced by physical experiments. The meaning of this is that there is nothing unscientific about spirituality and its arts. Ultimately it is fully empirical. The only issue is perception. It is only in perception that materiality "appears" to separated from the divine or spiritual oncology. This also means that there is no mysterious "magic" about the higher realm of spirituality.
The search for truths in metaphysics should be supplemented by progress and advances that occur in physics, while physics should regard itself as being able to provide not final truths about reality, but truths that are dependent upon a more general metaphysical scheme. If metaphysics rejects physics as a valid partner in the search for truth, then its explanations can be valid to those who need final and ultimate answers, but the goal of metaphysics should not be to pose as any arbiter, but as the one that provides the best final and ultimate answers. Where do explanations cease?
In the Book of Hermes, Pymander appears to Hermes in the shape of a Fiery Dragon of "Light, Fire, and Flame."
Pymander is the "Thought Divine" personified.
Pymander is the "Thought Divine" personified.
DRAGON PEN
Verities Journal
"Revisioning Our Being through Consensus, Clarity and Compassion"
Rootedness & Transcendence
Genetic Genealogy * Epigenetics * Meta-Genetics *Psychosocial Genomics * KINdling * Gnosis
THE TEMPLE OF TRUTH
ENDURING VERITIES
It is the Ring of Truth that binds us all.
The ring as a symbol of kingship originated with Enki.
Which binds you? Love of Power or Power of Love?
The natural state of order is harmony and balance with the Universe.
ENDURING VERITIES
It is the Ring of Truth that binds us all.
The ring as a symbol of kingship originated with Enki.
Which binds you? Love of Power or Power of Love?
The natural state of order is harmony and balance with the Universe.
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER
Authenticity and legitimacy are based on factual history and the power of sacred history.
Let the truth be our wisdom. The proclamation of Truth is fearless.
In Ancient Egypt Truth was the Motherhood of Being
The Quest: Dogma-Free Search for the Truth
Insight, Intuition, Self-Knowledge, Fuller Awareness
'Re-ligare' means to re-connect or bind back to the Source.
Like 'yoga', it means to yoke or connect body, mind, soul and spirit, (self and Self).
Science deconstructs or takes things apart while religion puts them back together.
Semiramis
NUMINOUS & LUMINOUS
NUMINOUS & LUMINOUS
Blavatsky claimed that the universal “religion of the ancients” was the worship of the Dragon and the Sun. She said, “The tradition of the Dragon and the Sun is echoed in every part of the world, both in its civilized and semi-savage regions. It took rise in the whisperings about secret initiations among the profane, and was established universally through the once universal heliolatrous religion. There was a time when the four parts of the world were covered with the temples sacred to the Sun and the Dragon; but the cult is now preserved mostly in China and the Buddhist countries. … We find (a) the priests assuming the name of the gods they served; (b) the ‘Dragons’ held throughout all antiquity as the symbols of Immortality and Wisdom, of secret Knowledge and of Eternity; and (c) the hierophants of Egypt, of Babylon, and India, styling themselves generally the ‘sons of the Dragon’ and ‘Serpents’."
Truth is what stands the test of experience. -- Einstein
Some Myths are True
TRUE MYTHS ARE UNIVERSAL
Historic Truth * Mythic Truth * Whole Truth
Proofs Preserve the Truth; We Dragons are Living Proof of the Bloodline
Truth is what stands the test of experience. -- Einstein
Some Myths are True
TRUE MYTHS ARE UNIVERSAL
Historic Truth * Mythic Truth * Whole Truth
Proofs Preserve the Truth; We Dragons are Living Proof of the Bloodline
Zarathustra with Beehive Headress & Roses astride the Dragon
English engraving provenance unknown, c. 19th Century
English engraving provenance unknown, c. 19th Century
Cosmic Dragon's Egg, Io
Egg of Spirit in Equilibrium between the Pillars of the Temple.
Egg of Spirit in Equilibrium between the Pillars of the Temple.
Humanity's conventional view of "the truth" is severely flawed.
What are enduring truths in an era of flux?
Peer-Based Learning Objectives:
Co-development, Rapid, Deep Self-Learning
Dynamic Synthesis * Spiral of Development
Discovery, Awakening, Integration, Implementation
Rapid Permanent Dynamic Learning
1. To compare traditional, contemporary and dragonkin thinking about
symbols, myths and themes and their place in the dragon heritage;
2. To analyze the creation, use and misuse (exploitation; coercion) of symbols in cultural and personal life;
3. To create symbolic meaning and describe its impact on individuals and culture;
4. To describe symbolic processes and expression in individual and group transformation;
5. To critique new conceptualizations of our historical symbols and the creation of symbolic meaning.
What are enduring truths in an era of flux?
Peer-Based Learning Objectives:
Co-development, Rapid, Deep Self-Learning
Dynamic Synthesis * Spiral of Development
Discovery, Awakening, Integration, Implementation
Rapid Permanent Dynamic Learning
1. To compare traditional, contemporary and dragonkin thinking about
symbols, myths and themes and their place in the dragon heritage;
2. To analyze the creation, use and misuse (exploitation; coercion) of symbols in cultural and personal life;
3. To create symbolic meaning and describe its impact on individuals and culture;
4. To describe symbolic processes and expression in individual and group transformation;
5. To critique new conceptualizations of our historical symbols and the creation of symbolic meaning.
DRAGONBORN: TREE OF TRUTH
Firstborn Fruit of the Tree of Life
Autochthonic European Civilization, circa 7000 to 3500 B.C.
DNA is Your Past & Your Future
Firstborn Fruit of the Tree of Life
Autochthonic European Civilization, circa 7000 to 3500 B.C.
DNA is Your Past & Your Future
EPOCH-alypse
The untranslatable Portuguese word "saudade" describes the feeling of missing something very intensively. They also have a saying: "To Yearn for the Future" This feeling for the connection to a destiny in time that is not yet, may be a particular genetic skill.
Soul Vision
The mythological theory of foreknowledge explains the view that all knowing is “memory.” Our task in the world is to remember with our conscious mind what was knowledge before the advent of consciousness. Think about the quality of thinking and attitude and its effects on all linked life and consciousness. Is your thinking in order, from the heart? To change your world, change your thinking to an atmosphere of Understanding, which is love.
The master of the Qabala is an authentic person -- a realized human being -- a role model for us all. He lives harmony by being himself, most perfectly. The Zaddik is highly individual, but always a paragon of ethical virtue, and impeccable in wisdom and understanding. S/He teaches aspirants how to immerse themselves in the divine stream, like most mystical traditions ultimately finding union in the Divine. Qabala is a theistic meditation practice. A state of total realization is created through synergetically balancing and raising the consciousness of the practitioner through all the levels of Existence represented by the Tree of Life. Ultimately, one merges back into the source. Qabala provides both training and direct experience. Once the theories are learned, they must be practiced.
QBL describes the Creation from Nothing to Everything in one fell swoop. It is an analogue model of the Absolute. The experienced qabalist gains an understanding of his limitations and perceptions of reality, enabling his consciousness to contemplate the Truth of Existence, an expansive vision. If it is God's Will and Grace, he becomes an exemplar among men, a role model for realization of both human potential and mystical attainment. The Jews called such a person a Zaddik, or Saint. The Qabala answers visible problems. It affirms the practicability of personal spiritual development. Without the transformation of individual consciousness through self-understanding, we are left to witness the breakdown of culture and society in chronic degeneration.
The Saddik finds that which has been lost since birth and restores it to men. It is the same conception as Plato’s philosophical doctrine of the prenatal vision of ideas and their remembrance. The original knowledge of one who is still enfolded in the perfect state is very evident in the psychology of the child. For this reason many primitive peoples treat children with particular marks of respect. In the child the great images and archetypes of the collective unconscious are living reality, and very close to him; indeed, many of his sayings and reactions, questions and answers, dreams and images, express this knowledge which still derives from his prenatal existence. It is transpersonal experience not personally acquired, a possession acquired from “over there.” Such knowledge is rightly regarded as ancestral knowledge, and the child as a reborn forebear.
The theory of heredity, proving that the child has the ancestral heritage biologically in himself, and to a large extent actually “is” this heritage, also has a psychological justification. Jung therefore defines the transpersonal - or the archetypes and instincts of the collective unconscious - as “the deposit of ancestral experience.” Hence the child, whose life as a prepersonal entity is largely determined by the collective unconscious, actually is the living carrier of this ancestral experience." (Erich Neuman, Origins & History of Consciousness)
Soul Vision
The mythological theory of foreknowledge explains the view that all knowing is “memory.” Our task in the world is to remember with our conscious mind what was knowledge before the advent of consciousness. Think about the quality of thinking and attitude and its effects on all linked life and consciousness. Is your thinking in order, from the heart? To change your world, change your thinking to an atmosphere of Understanding, which is love.
The master of the Qabala is an authentic person -- a realized human being -- a role model for us all. He lives harmony by being himself, most perfectly. The Zaddik is highly individual, but always a paragon of ethical virtue, and impeccable in wisdom and understanding. S/He teaches aspirants how to immerse themselves in the divine stream, like most mystical traditions ultimately finding union in the Divine. Qabala is a theistic meditation practice. A state of total realization is created through synergetically balancing and raising the consciousness of the practitioner through all the levels of Existence represented by the Tree of Life. Ultimately, one merges back into the source. Qabala provides both training and direct experience. Once the theories are learned, they must be practiced.
QBL describes the Creation from Nothing to Everything in one fell swoop. It is an analogue model of the Absolute. The experienced qabalist gains an understanding of his limitations and perceptions of reality, enabling his consciousness to contemplate the Truth of Existence, an expansive vision. If it is God's Will and Grace, he becomes an exemplar among men, a role model for realization of both human potential and mystical attainment. The Jews called such a person a Zaddik, or Saint. The Qabala answers visible problems. It affirms the practicability of personal spiritual development. Without the transformation of individual consciousness through self-understanding, we are left to witness the breakdown of culture and society in chronic degeneration.
The Saddik finds that which has been lost since birth and restores it to men. It is the same conception as Plato’s philosophical doctrine of the prenatal vision of ideas and their remembrance. The original knowledge of one who is still enfolded in the perfect state is very evident in the psychology of the child. For this reason many primitive peoples treat children with particular marks of respect. In the child the great images and archetypes of the collective unconscious are living reality, and very close to him; indeed, many of his sayings and reactions, questions and answers, dreams and images, express this knowledge which still derives from his prenatal existence. It is transpersonal experience not personally acquired, a possession acquired from “over there.” Such knowledge is rightly regarded as ancestral knowledge, and the child as a reborn forebear.
The theory of heredity, proving that the child has the ancestral heritage biologically in himself, and to a large extent actually “is” this heritage, also has a psychological justification. Jung therefore defines the transpersonal - or the archetypes and instincts of the collective unconscious - as “the deposit of ancestral experience.” Hence the child, whose life as a prepersonal entity is largely determined by the collective unconscious, actually is the living carrier of this ancestral experience." (Erich Neuman, Origins & History of Consciousness)
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" Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
LIVING BRIDGES
Between the Past and the Future
2012 is the Year of the Dragon
Amplified Awareness * Fuller Consciousness
Awakening Psychokinetic Bloodlines from the Cave of Forgotten Dreams
GROUND ZERO
Psychologically, the Dragon is the union of ordinary human reality with the Transpersonal Self and a passion for transformation. Some now say it is a symbol of DNA or the kundalini energy. The winged dragon represents the Anima Mundi, or Soul of the World, which is the sum total of planetary existence -- the holographic blueprint on which form is based, the informational level or primal source of being - Zero Point vortex energy. It is said that medicine providing the gift of youth can be made from the dragon's venom.
The dragon is a healing power. The spiritual food of immortality signifies the ability of the ego to assimilate the previously unconscious aspects of the Self. This is the elixir of youth that creates the immortal body, equivalent to the Philosopher's Stone. In legend, the alchemical Stone is kept in the custody of the reawakened Dragon, the Adept who inhabits his or her Body of Light. Alchemy itself is a triple process of uniting the physical, psychological and spiritual. The Dragon is a symbol of the volatile elements. The winged dragon appears as a symbol of coagulation, suggesting both embodiment of the archetype and the pandemonium of psychic images.
Remember that the Dragon is the vehicle that takes you to your True Self. It is not you, but your vehicle. It is a manifestation of the Goddess that envelopes you and performs all your actions. She is the true Doer, and you are the Infinite Spirit and Witness of Her. When you achieve the transcendental state you experience the divine paradox of doing everything while not doing anything. As Einstein said,"Men invented time to feel comfortable in space. But it doesn't actually exist. All experience is happening at once."
The dragon is a healing power. The spiritual food of immortality signifies the ability of the ego to assimilate the previously unconscious aspects of the Self. This is the elixir of youth that creates the immortal body, equivalent to the Philosopher's Stone. In legend, the alchemical Stone is kept in the custody of the reawakened Dragon, the Adept who inhabits his or her Body of Light. Alchemy itself is a triple process of uniting the physical, psychological and spiritual. The Dragon is a symbol of the volatile elements. The winged dragon appears as a symbol of coagulation, suggesting both embodiment of the archetype and the pandemonium of psychic images.
Remember that the Dragon is the vehicle that takes you to your True Self. It is not you, but your vehicle. It is a manifestation of the Goddess that envelopes you and performs all your actions. She is the true Doer, and you are the Infinite Spirit and Witness of Her. When you achieve the transcendental state you experience the divine paradox of doing everything while not doing anything. As Einstein said,"Men invented time to feel comfortable in space. But it doesn't actually exist. All experience is happening at once."
EVOLUTION OF A LEGENDARY BLOODLINE
The Two Brothers
Brothers of the Dragon
The drama of human civilization is set against the cosmological backdrop of the Precession. Dragons are real and the basis of scientific priesthood and royal lineage. The sacred past is a story of sacred dragon or serpent worship. In prehistory, myth veiled astronomical fact. Animals in myth are stars, and gods are planets. Settlements developed as cosmological models mirroring the order of the heavens.
Civilization was originally rooted in prehistoric observations of the order of the stars. It tracked time and created calendars, and most importantly allowed predictions of eclipses rooted in the GREAT CYCLE of PRECESSION of the Zodiac, the serpentine ring of the Ecliptic, cycle of Eternal Return.
Deep Knowledge
The Center of the Universe, the Pole Star, is the most important point in the Universe. The dimension of Heaven is Time, but the axis of heaven moveth not. Therefore, the Pole Star, the Hole in the Center, was the entrance to the Other Worlds. Ouroboros is the irresistible circle of time.
Megalithic temples were tuned to this Great Cycle drama in the heavens. They expressed the laws of the universe in the language of time. Time is framed in eternal forms, expressed only in self-explanatory universal cosmological myth. This knowledge meant participation in ultimate things through mythical awareness. The Center of the Universe is not fixed. It moves around in a circle counter the Circle of the Zodiac. Plato called Precession the Great Year, and each of its "months" is a sign of the Zodiac.
Myth was the technical astronomical scientific language of the ancestors -- coded celestial events. Decoding the sky meant connecting the dots of the starry constellations, making star maps, reproducing that heaven on earth in the form of sacred sites, and embodying it in sacred royal lineage. The most ancient lines are symbolically related to the circumpolar constellation Draco, the great Dragon or "crooked" Serpent (Babylonian Sir). The winged serpent was a symbol of the Gods of Egypt, Phoenicia, China, Persia, and Hindustan.
Roughly 3000 BC, the heavens revolved around the Great Dragon, and so did earthly civilization. Dragons became synonymous with immortality because the celestial dragon was exempt from the cycle of time, and because the dragon lineage did not die but was preserved in the noble bloodline. The point of circumpolar rotation, inhabited by the draconic star Thuban or not, became the "Eye of the Dragon". The stars were the witnesses or Watchers - the seers. Egyptian rulers wore the Uraeus serpent (Wadjet) as their crown symbol of sovereignty (serpent of life), a link to the celestial Ouroboros.
Civilization was originally rooted in prehistoric observations of the order of the stars. It tracked time and created calendars, and most importantly allowed predictions of eclipses rooted in the GREAT CYCLE of PRECESSION of the Zodiac, the serpentine ring of the Ecliptic, cycle of Eternal Return.
Deep Knowledge
The Center of the Universe, the Pole Star, is the most important point in the Universe. The dimension of Heaven is Time, but the axis of heaven moveth not. Therefore, the Pole Star, the Hole in the Center, was the entrance to the Other Worlds. Ouroboros is the irresistible circle of time.
Megalithic temples were tuned to this Great Cycle drama in the heavens. They expressed the laws of the universe in the language of time. Time is framed in eternal forms, expressed only in self-explanatory universal cosmological myth. This knowledge meant participation in ultimate things through mythical awareness. The Center of the Universe is not fixed. It moves around in a circle counter the Circle of the Zodiac. Plato called Precession the Great Year, and each of its "months" is a sign of the Zodiac.
Myth was the technical astronomical scientific language of the ancestors -- coded celestial events. Decoding the sky meant connecting the dots of the starry constellations, making star maps, reproducing that heaven on earth in the form of sacred sites, and embodying it in sacred royal lineage. The most ancient lines are symbolically related to the circumpolar constellation Draco, the great Dragon or "crooked" Serpent (Babylonian Sir). The winged serpent was a symbol of the Gods of Egypt, Phoenicia, China, Persia, and Hindustan.
Roughly 3000 BC, the heavens revolved around the Great Dragon, and so did earthly civilization. Dragons became synonymous with immortality because the celestial dragon was exempt from the cycle of time, and because the dragon lineage did not die but was preserved in the noble bloodline. The point of circumpolar rotation, inhabited by the draconic star Thuban or not, became the "Eye of the Dragon". The stars were the witnesses or Watchers - the seers. Egyptian rulers wore the Uraeus serpent (Wadjet) as their crown symbol of sovereignty (serpent of life), a link to the celestial Ouroboros.
Dragon's Eye of Circumpolar Star Trails - the Lathe of Heaven.
The Ain or Eye of the Void, Absolute No Thing
The Ain or Eye of the Void, Absolute No Thing
The serpent cult worshiped the esoteric or inner sun, manifested as the biophotonic energy body. This inner light is the realization of our own connection to the greater universe, of our own inner balance and our own growth toward resonance with the world around us. It is also the part of ourselves and our outer world, which gives life, sustains and gives growth -- Life Force. The dragon and serpent cults inspired megalithic monuments, global dragon and serpent mounds.
The most ancient initiatory and healing symbols, the circumpunct, a dot within a circle and/or a cross within a circle symbolize this inner sun. It is the primal sign of Tengri, Tangra (Тангра), a sky god, formerly the chief deity of the early Turkic peoples, including the Xiongnu and Gokturks. The core deities of Tengriism were the Sky Father and Earth Mother (Yer Tanrı). Its practice involved elements of shamanism, animism, totemism and ancestor worship. The wolf, wolf-dragon, and dragon were the totems of the royal line. In the ancient Altaic language the word “Shaman” literally means “the one who knows”.
The narrative of the Sky had to be a “rotating” cyclic narrative because the sky was in constant cyclic motion. Ancient tradition states that heavenly locations had earthly counterparts (”As Above, So Below“). The next step was to project this Narrative of Eternal Return on the Sky using highly visible stars as a connection point. In the last step, the Sky was projected onto Earth again, in megaliths but also in the celestial family of god-kings who unite heaven and earth, the Persons of True Becoming.
The most ancient initiatory and healing symbols, the circumpunct, a dot within a circle and/or a cross within a circle symbolize this inner sun. It is the primal sign of Tengri, Tangra (Тангра), a sky god, formerly the chief deity of the early Turkic peoples, including the Xiongnu and Gokturks. The core deities of Tengriism were the Sky Father and Earth Mother (Yer Tanrı). Its practice involved elements of shamanism, animism, totemism and ancestor worship. The wolf, wolf-dragon, and dragon were the totems of the royal line. In the ancient Altaic language the word “Shaman” literally means “the one who knows”.
The narrative of the Sky had to be a “rotating” cyclic narrative because the sky was in constant cyclic motion. Ancient tradition states that heavenly locations had earthly counterparts (”As Above, So Below“). The next step was to project this Narrative of Eternal Return on the Sky using highly visible stars as a connection point. In the last step, the Sky was projected onto Earth again, in megaliths but also in the celestial family of god-kings who unite heaven and earth, the Persons of True Becoming.
Draco remains the pole of the ecliptic throughout the Ages - the Cosmos appears to revolve around it. Thus, it became the meta-paradigm.
Archetypal Brothers
Once upon a time there were Two Brothers, the Celestial Twins. Well, actually there were a lot more of them, but these two were very special. They were destined to become the most prolific progenitors of the world. Their offspring divided in two. Those that went east to cross the Bering Strait, to become the most prominent inhabitants of the New World as far as Tierra del Fuego, were the descendants of one brother, while the numerous descendants of the other brother that remained created a shock-wave in the Old World, felt as far as West Africa, the Atlantic and India.
Like in a fantasy tale, both people founded incredible civilizations, each highlights of human talent and splendor. Tales of the Two Brothers persisted in myth and legend, representing the dichotomy of all polarities and their underlying transcendental unity. This is a story of the reunion of the archetypal brothers.
Legends of the Two Brothers arose in the Age of Gemini (6000 BC - 4000 BC) and come down in the story of Cain and Able, which was historically preceded by allegorical stories of Enki and Enlil. Each Age has its gods. The Age of Gemini corresponded to the flourishing period of early Hinduism. It was under this sign that Rama, the seventh incarnation of Vishnu was manifested by the birth of the two pair of brothers: Rama and Lakshmana on the one hand, Satrughna and Bharata on the other. Rama Himself had twin sons: Lav and Kush. Lav went to Russia; from this we get the name of Slav. The other son, Kush went to China, hence we get the name Kushan. These two divine principles were also incarnated as Buddha and Mahavira, then as Adi Shankaracharya and Gnyaneshwara. In other Avatars they were Hassan and Hussein the sons of Fatima and Hazrat Ali.
The generally accepted number of 2160 years for the length of each Great Age, is derived by using 72 degrees, in which the Earth moves throughout the constellations, multiplied by 30 degrees in a Zodiacal sign – assuming one is using twelve signs per cycle. 2160 years multiplied by 12 (signs) sets the ‘full cycle’ of all Great Ages at 25,920 years.
However, the Earth today moves through thirteen signs, including Ophiucus the Serpent-Bearer, in the Mazzaroth Trail [the constellations], so the set number of 2160 years per Great Age is no longer correct. Each Age would be somewhat different in duration one from the other,. In earlier Ages past, the length of Earth time was anywhere from 1994 years [13 signs] to 2520 years [ten signs], in difference. Scientists use an average of 2160 years now, but during ancient Biblical times the sum of 2520 years was the number later repeated by Plato. Perhaps, if incorporating the entire twelve Great Ages, the first Great Age was 2520 years. Today, the count would be approximately 1994 years for the duration of the Great Age of Aquarius.
Living Reality; True Existence
During the Great Age of Leo, ANU was the Elohim god who ruled the golden Age. From Sumerian and Scythian times, over 5,000 years ago, the abiding symbol of wholeness, unity and eternity was the Ring, which symbolized divinely inspired justice. Golden circlets worn as head-bands ultimately became crowns. As the generations passed from those ancient times, the ideal of sacred dynastic kingship spread through the Mediterranean lands into the Balkans, the Black Sea regions and Europe. The Sumerian culture had an older origin in the Balkans, specifically in Transylvania and the Carpathian regions, home of Vinca culture. Clay tablet found in Romania were inscribed with a form of script which Carbon-14 dating and strata positioning reveal as more than 1,000 years older than the earliest Sumerian writings from the neolithic era of the Great Goddess. The Great Age of Cancer was an Age of fertility.
The Tartarian symbols nearly matched those which emerged later in Mesopotamia. The very name of Ur (the capital of Sumer) came from the Scythian word Ur, meaning Lord. Not only that, but the name of Enki is clearly defined on one tablet in an identical form to that subsequently used in Sumer. Apparently, the Anunnaki culture was far more widespread than had previously been thought. Another significant discovery was made high in the Altai Mountains between Siberia and Mongolia. A Scythian burial mound revealed the bodies of ancient chieftains, together with their horses, clothing and possessions, all remarkably preserved from decay.
These were the people who, in the Black Sea steppe lands, first domesticated the horse in about 4000 BC. Their migrations ranged geographically from Hungary and Romania, north into the Russian steppes and Siberia, eastwards across the Ukraine and Anatolia (modern Turkey), south into Syria and Mesopotamia, and still further east into Mongolia, Tibet and the Chinese border country.
The Great Age of Gemini saw Enlil and his twin brother, Enki, as the ‘gods’ who ruled that Age of the twins. The Age of Taurus had the goddess of love and beauty and the bull; while the ‘god’ of Aries was Yahweh, or Marduk. The symbol of the Aquarian Age is the She-Messiah, an image of gender reunion and holding the tension of the opposites. We all carry the opposites within ourselves and can now awaken and draw on both our male and female potentials. Our power is to remember our deep past and carry it forward informing the future. Gnosis helps us save our souls by actively conserving our genetic heritage.
Age of LEO - ANU - 10,652 BCE to 8492 BCE
Age of CANCER - GODDESS - 8492 BCE to 6332 BCE
Age of GEMINI - ENLIL & ENKI - 6332 BCE to 4172 BCE
Age of TAURUS - ISHTAR - APHRODITE - ISIS - 4172 BCE to 2012 BCE
Age of ARIES - YHWH or MARDUK - 2012 BCE to 148 BCE
Age of PISCES - JESUS - 148 BCE to 2012 CE
Age of AQUARIUS - SHE-MESSIAH - 2012 CE to 4172 CE
Age of CAPRICORN - Survivors - 4172 CE to 6332 CE
Symbolizing the duos of the Gemini Age, we have Adam and Eve, the two opposing trees in the Garden of Eden, the twin brothers, Enki and Enlil, Jacob and Esau, and Cain and Abel. The twin brothers, Enlil and Enki, brought to Earth, many mental attributes, such as the various sciences, mathematics, languages and communication skills, which are all Gemini patterns. The Lord Enki (despite the wrath of his brother) granted the Sumerians access to the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life. It was Enki who set up the escape strategy during the Flood, and it was Enki who passed over the time-honoured Tables of Destiny - the tablets of scientific law which became the bedrock of the early mystery schools in Egypt.
The kings of the early succession (who reigned in Sumer and Egypt before becoming kings in Israel) were anointed upon installation with the fat of the sacred crocodile. This noble beast was referred to as the Mûs-hûs or Messeh (from which derived the Hebrew verb 'to anoint') - and the Kings of this dynastic succession were referred to as Messiahs (meaning Anointed Ones).
The first king of the Messianic succession was the biblical Cain, head of the Sumerian House of Kish. So, the historical line to David and Jesus was not from Adam and Eve's son Seth at all. It descended from Eve's son Cain. He was married to his half-sister, a pure-bred Anunnaki princess called Luluwa. Her father was Enki and her mother was Lilith, a granddaughter of Enlil.
The word 'kingship' (kainship) is identical with kinship - and kin means 'blood-relative'. The first King of the Messianic succession was the biblical Cain (Kain), who 'rose far above Abel', so that his brother's blood was swallowed into the ground. The story was thoroughly misinterpreted for the modern Bible, which now claims that Cain 'rose up against Abel' and spilled his blood upon the ground. We can correct it by recognizing the oldest Grant of Arms in sovereign history - an entitlement which 'marked' the Messianic Dragon bloodline for all time. Stories where brother kills brother abound -- including Set and Osiris, and Hamlet.
Without naming Cain's wife, the Bible calls their younger son Enoch, while the Sumerian records cite his elder son and kingly successor Atûn, who is perhaps better known as King Etâna of Kish. This kingly succession was modelled specifically for leadership and, in all aspects of knowledge, culture, awareness, wisdom and intuition, they were highly advanced over their mundane contemporaries.
In order to keep their blood as pure as possible, they always married within a close kinship, for it was fully recognized that the prominent gene of the succession was carried within the blood of the mother. Today we call this the mitochondrial DNA. The Sumerian Gra-al, which biblical tradition calls the Mark of Cain, was an emblem dignified as the Cup of the Waters, or the Rosi-Crucis (the Dew Cup), and it was identified in all records (including those of Egypt, Phoenicia and the Hebrew annals) as being an upright, centered Red Cross within a Circle, the original symbol of the Holy Grail.
In Isis Unveiled, H. P. Blavatsky suggests that Adam, Cain and Abel can be likened to the sephirothal triad of Crown, Wisdom and Intelligence. Correlating the Sephiroth with the classical zodiac, it follows that Abel symbolizes Gemini, marking it as the point where pure creative force is divided in two, such that one half is elevated and the other half descends into the multiplicity of phenomena. In the Aquarian Age the opposites are reconciled, but only after many healing challenges.The warring brothers are reconciled in the new paradigm our Age. Our "epigenetic" code - an extra layer of biochemical instructions in DNA - can evolve more quickly than the genetic code and can strongly influence biological traits.
The ultimate dualities within include "good" / "evil," "heaven" / "earth," and "masculine" / "feminine." We've interpreted the dark as bad, with the consequence that the feminine is demeaned and the Earth ignored in favor of unbalanced male energies.This unexamined attitude separates us from half of ourselves, our Shadow nature, which contains our unlived potential for both light and dark. We are earthy creatures who really do get our feet dirty traveling through all the trials of living on the earth. Yet our light shines through us everywhere we go, because our essence is light. Balancing the two is the key to authentic living in any situation.
Today, the Divine Feminine archetype does not defeat "the dragon" like the masculine hero. She accepts the dragon for having 'dragon nature' and loves it for what it is. In this way she conquers her "enemy" through the potent energies of the heart…a higher way that dissolves all dualism. Instead of 'me against the dragon', it's 'the dragon and I are one'. We are developing an integration between the spirit and the body. From this integration there arises a divine "tension," allowing for an unpolarized consciousness to unfold in unconditioned awareness.
The intuitive wisdom of the grandmothers is in our mitochondrial DNA. Dragon kin are re-discovering a deep awareness of the sacredness of matter, unity in diversity, and a profound relationship to nature and awareness in which sexuality is a central mystery of spirituality. In our 'divine nature' we experience loving acceptance of our human limitations, our wounding and suffering; we learn to value and trust the wisdom of our bodies; to access our creativity and compassion, and to know deeply the living reality of nature and the interrelationship of all things. Healing our splintered vision depends on this willingness to embrace a new concept of consciousness, a new appreciation of the sacredness of matter and a new understanding of unity in diversity.
Haplogroups R and Q
Historically, the primordial Brothers' feats, marked by dragon R1b and Q1b lines, were almost unequaled and competing – even though they were separated by two mighty oceans. Each completely forgot about the existence of the others, until the people on the hither side learned how to tame the waves and crossed the oceans. Their final reunion should have been a reason for joy and celebration but when they met again, 500 years ago, pitiful moans of distress filled the air and blood soaked the earth. The once great people of the New World never recovered from the blow of what probably qualifies as the most tragic example of mass fratricide in history.
In the genetic tree these two people are now known as members of the R-clade and the Q-clade. The offspring of the multitudes of other brothers and close patrilinear relatives that couldn’t catch up with their success, dwindled, but some of them survived in fringe areas on both sides of the oceans. For convenience sake these people are considered members of the same ancestral clade as their fathers, the P-clade. Geneticists would easily recognize the Y-DNA markers of each clade, and say that their respective haplogroups were R, Q or ancestral P. Together they form a superclade on a single branch of the genetic tree. They make up a substantial part of the human population, but still they represent nothing but a single branch that on a paleolithic scale can’t be considered very ancient.
Where did those very successful P-derived haplogroups originate? The story of the two brothers may be an undue simplification since the full development of each clade involved nomads that probably roamed wide swaths of Central Asian territory during many generations. The Old World was subject to an accumulated prehistory of up to a million years in every single corner, which tends to render our information for reconstructing the relevant demographic events almost intangible. Their legacy doesn’t include a unified language, not even overall genetic uniformity. Their genetic “kind” remains essentially restricted to the male lineage, that never became numerous in most of Africa and remained virtually absent in Oceania and the Far East.
The Near East traditionally harbored a rich variety of male genes in all stages of development, but so far nothing points at a historic predominant position in the region in comparison to other clades, including notorious “stayers”, defined by haplogroup markers like Hg J and Hg E. These current distribution issues hardly give any clue about the origin, especially since more often than not the trail leads to disparate isolated and remote areas, or otherwise to historically cosmopolitan areas that received too many foreign visitors to reveal unambiguous answers. The only security we have is that on a genetic scale those three clades were exceptionally close related along the male lineage. The incredible success of two P-derived branches may point to something systematic underneath, that also applies to the virgin soils of the Americas. Continued: http://rokus01.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/the-siberian-brotherhood-of-mankind/
Historically, the primordial Brothers' feats, marked by dragon R1b and Q1b lines, were almost unequaled and competing – even though they were separated by two mighty oceans. Each completely forgot about the existence of the others, until the people on the hither side learned how to tame the waves and crossed the oceans. Their final reunion should have been a reason for joy and celebration but when they met again, 500 years ago, pitiful moans of distress filled the air and blood soaked the earth. The once great people of the New World never recovered from the blow of what probably qualifies as the most tragic example of mass fratricide in history.
In the genetic tree these two people are now known as members of the R-clade and the Q-clade. The offspring of the multitudes of other brothers and close patrilinear relatives that couldn’t catch up with their success, dwindled, but some of them survived in fringe areas on both sides of the oceans. For convenience sake these people are considered members of the same ancestral clade as their fathers, the P-clade. Geneticists would easily recognize the Y-DNA markers of each clade, and say that their respective haplogroups were R, Q or ancestral P. Together they form a superclade on a single branch of the genetic tree. They make up a substantial part of the human population, but still they represent nothing but a single branch that on a paleolithic scale can’t be considered very ancient.
Where did those very successful P-derived haplogroups originate? The story of the two brothers may be an undue simplification since the full development of each clade involved nomads that probably roamed wide swaths of Central Asian territory during many generations. The Old World was subject to an accumulated prehistory of up to a million years in every single corner, which tends to render our information for reconstructing the relevant demographic events almost intangible. Their legacy doesn’t include a unified language, not even overall genetic uniformity. Their genetic “kind” remains essentially restricted to the male lineage, that never became numerous in most of Africa and remained virtually absent in Oceania and the Far East.
The Near East traditionally harbored a rich variety of male genes in all stages of development, but so far nothing points at a historic predominant position in the region in comparison to other clades, including notorious “stayers”, defined by haplogroup markers like Hg J and Hg E. These current distribution issues hardly give any clue about the origin, especially since more often than not the trail leads to disparate isolated and remote areas, or otherwise to historically cosmopolitan areas that received too many foreign visitors to reveal unambiguous answers. The only security we have is that on a genetic scale those three clades were exceptionally close related along the male lineage. The incredible success of two P-derived branches may point to something systematic underneath, that also applies to the virgin soils of the Americas. Continued: http://rokus01.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/the-siberian-brotherhood-of-mankind/
In the human genetic tree only two haplogroups share a common origin -- R and Q, both from para-haplogroup P.
Q turns out to be the most recent branch on human genetic tree. R belong to so-called "white" Caucasoid people and Q to so called "red" or mongolic people. The biological and historical fact is that both lines are rooted in the same blood.
Six human remains (dating ~2500 years ago) were excavated from Pengyang, China, an area occupied by both ancient nomadic and farming people. The funerary objects found with these remains suggested they were nomads. To further confirm their ancestry, we analyzed both the maternal lineages and paternal lineages of the ancient DNA. From the mitochondrial DNA, six haplotypes were identified as three haplogroups: C, D4 and M10. The haplotype-sharing populations and phylogenetic analyses revealed that these individuals were closely associated with the ancient Xiongnu and modern northern Asians.
Single-nucleotide polymorphism analysis of Y chromosomes from four male samples that were typed as haplogroup Q indicated that these people had originated in Siberia. These results show that these ancient people from Pengyang present a close genetic affinity to nomadic people, indicating that northern nomads had reached the Central Plain area of China nearly 2500 years ago. Y-DNA halpotype Q seems to suggest they were one of proto-Turkic groups from Siberia like today's Yakut.
2500 years ago is a really crucial period. Around that time in the area North of the Great Wall is a formative period for the Japanese and Korean languages and predecessor kingdoms, it was a time of Bronze age technology acquisition and political unification among "barbarians" North of China. It is 270 years prior to to the political unification of China, and this time and place roughly corresponds with the Urheimat of the Turkic and Mongolian languages (and possibly a division from a proto-Altaic language). But, subsequent waves of Mongolian and other steppe nomad expansions going back and forth since diluted the original Dragon line. http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2010/02/ancient-dna-from-pengyang-nomads.html
Later migrations of R moved westward in Europe (merging with the Basque root) from the proto-Scythian steppe homelands, while the Q branch lived on in the Saka-Turk lines that included the Q group of Royal Ashinas "dragons" which peopled the Silk Road and another branch that ruled the Jewish-convert Khazaran Empire. The Celestial Turk Empire split into the Siberian Ashina Clan and the Khazarian royal lines that spread through Europe as Ashkenazi.
Through marriage bridges, both R and Q merged in the common root of the Dragon Court -- the Merovingian Dynasty, both descended from David and Solomon. Their descents form the transnational Dragon Sovereignty, led by the ancient dynastic houses to this day.
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Grail Liine; Magdalene Descent
GRAIL LINE:
Hidden Dragon Treasure - Underground Stream
We Dragons have reclaimed our voice on the world stage. We are speaking out, in part, because of the needful state of the world and because whole industries and memes are based on misapprehensions, out-right lies, and exploitation. We are awakened. We are engaged in a transpersonal, metaphysical method of knowing Truth. Namely, that Necessity binds us to our destiny, which is not to be confused with linear preordination.
The most common symbol used by the Merovingians was the serpent, or the dragon. “Meroveus” derives from the French words “mer” meaning “sea” and “vere” meaning “werewolf” or “dragon.” Indeed, the most well known amphibian god was Dagon, whose name connotes Dragon. One of the Merovingian kings bore the name Dagobert. In Egyptian, Mer is associated with second chakra energy and indicates sexual balance .
Mer is the essence of the regeneration of our Universe indicating, combining the Natural balancing powers within and without.. Mer also describes "going into" and is associated with "a counter rotating field of light". Mer is given as instruction to actualize the transcendent process, unveiling the path out of the duality. The idea is that by combining these polarities (plus a few more steps) one achieves a very special oneness, which is called the Center Eye of Horus, or The Child's Eye of Horus.
Mer activates the mind's eye. The first step is the Wisdom which is altering the consciousness combining positive and negative. Oneness unleashes the Light which rises and begins healing the body, be it Person, Earth, or Universe. Mer [the second power] is the very first step in Becoming Self Aware. Mer enables the Energies of two people, simultaneously, into The Light of the same Portal.
Mer means:"a going into", or "a counter rotating field of Light", or "Light". Ka represents the Higher Spiritual Self and it's primary connection to The Archtypes, known also as "the Spirit of the cosmos". Ba translates as "Soul" or"astral body". "Ba exists from beginning to end". Merkaba is perceived as a balanced male/female field of counter rotating Light which contains the Higher Spiritual Self and its connection to the Archtypes, plus the soul or astral body -- combining the energies into a transdimensional vehicle. Mer is the Light that is created in the primal cause and effect, and is used in the Merkaba Light Body, creating the Light of Genesis, the beginning of new consciousness.
Catholic Inquisitions of the Middle Ages were set against all the so-called heretics who in one way or another supported the Messianic Blood Royal (the Sangréal) of the Dragon Kings against the corrupted dogma of the bishops. Many of the victims were classified as occultists and witches, and they were charged with upholding the ancient and heretical cult of Draco, the Prince of Darkness. They were proclaimed by the Church authorities to be vampires, maligned and persecuted.
The Mystery of the Fisher King goes back to the dawn of time, when the universal God and Goddess united to produce the Divine Son in the form of the Vesica Pisces "fish." The Divine Son swam through the cosmic waters -- sea of constellations -- as the Fisher or "Fisher" King of the universe. In the Sumerian tradition in his primal form he is known as Goat-fish Enki, the Primal Dragon- fish, who while swimming in the Apsu, the Cosmic Ocean, created the universe and then came to Earth to rule as its Fisher King.
The Holy Grail association with the Fisher King began with Enki, who was the "keeper" of the the Holy Grail and the embodiment of its power. Enki, the Lord of Wisdom, was an embodiment of the Holy Spirit or Kundalini. The Sumerian monarchs who descended from Enki were all similarly represented as King Fishes swimming in the Apsu - and this tradition could be found in other parts of the world, where Earth's monarchs were Fisher Kings that guarded and protected the Holy Grail power.
When Parzival discovered Fisher King Anfortas in "Parzival", the monarch had forgotten who the Grail Serves and had become a cripple. The power of the Holy Grail, which is the Holy Spirit and life force, serves all persons, not just its owner. When Anfortas realized his mistake he was cured of his malady. The lesson for all people is to share your power by serving all beings.
One of the biggest distortions of western civilization has been the legend of St. Michael and the Dragon. St. Michael never slayed the Dragon. He tamed it and rode it to Heaven, i.e., to enlightenment. We are all spiritual warriors taming our vehicles and then riding them to the goal. Our inner spirits are St. Michael and the various sheaths that surround our spirit are collectively our Dragon. The Dragon is also the Serpent Fire at the base of the spine. We ride it up the Tree of Life, the spine, to "Heaven," the 6th and 7th chakras and their corresponding gnostic enlightenment.
The Underground Stream of knowledge, the hidden mysteries of western esotericism, is gnostic Goddess Worship. Cultural Transformation theory asserts the original direction of cultural evolution was toward partnership. We are here to set the record straight and define ourselves with our own narratives in today's world, as the stewards we rightfully claim to be. The "underground stream" connotes an unacknowledged and thus "subterranean" bloodline -- the Grail families of Jesus. The Desposyni (from Greek (desposunos) meaning "of or belonging to the master or lord" was a sacred name reserved for Jesus' blood relatives, descendents of King David.
Throughout the Renaissance, 'Arcadia' was used as a sort of code word for “the underground stream,” an invisible college of kindred souls who secretly shared their esoteric knowledge with one another, passing it around Europe via a network of secret societies and mystery schools, often utilizing its arcane symbolism in works of art and literature. Such symbolism shows up, for instance, in the works of Rene d’Anjou, Giordano Bruno, Leonardo da Vinci, Nicholas Poussin, and many others. The authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail (Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln) describe the symbolism of the underground stream:
… the motif of an underground stream seems to have been extremely rich in symbolic and allegorical resonances. Among other things, it would appear to connote the ‘underground’ esoteric tradition of Pythagorean, Gnostic, Cabalistic, and Hermetic thought. But it might also connote something more than a general corpus of teachings, perhaps some very specific factual information — ‘secret’ of some sort transmitted in clandestine fashion from generation to generation. And it might connote an unacknowledged and thus ‘subterranean’ bloodline.
The Merovingians (also Merovings) were a Salian Frankish dynasty, sometimes referred to as the "long-haired kings" (Latin reges criniti). The Frankish King Dagobert II, and the Merovingian dynasty from which he came carried attributions of saintliness and magical powers (derived from their long red hair). Men's hair was worn long, especially men of the royal house, thus their title. These long-haired monarchs claimed the divine right to rule from being descended from the House of David.
The Merovingians, who wore long hair as a symbol of their power, are named after their semi-legendary, fifth-century founder Merovech. The Merovingian's tradition of long hair and the name Samson among the Royal House would indicate descent from Samson. The primordial Merovingian king, father of Clovis, had gold bees buried with him. So let's remember the long hair of the Merovingians, and also the golden bees found on their tombs and in their societies based on the beehive.The last Merovingian King Childeric III was humiliated by Pepin the short and Pope Zachary having his hair cut, and imprisoned on the dungeons of his castle until his death.
Charles Martel went on to become Duke of all the Franks and founder of Carolinian line of Kings. Thirteen years later in 732 he defeated the Saracen Army at Poitiers in France, and saved Western Europe from complete invasion by the Moslems. As a result of this, his son Pepin III, became 1st King of the Franks. Pepin in turn was the father of Charlemagne. Charlemagne, 2nd King of the Franks," Berta (Bertrada) was the wife of Pepin and mother of Charlemagne.
The most common symbol used by the Merovingians was the serpent, or the dragon. “Meroveus” derives from the French words “mer” meaning “sea” and “vere” meaning “werewolf” or “dragon.” Indeed, the most well known amphibian god was Dagon, whose name connotes Dragon. One of the Merovingian kings bore the name Dagobert. In Egyptian, Mer is associated with second chakra energy and indicates sexual balance .
Mer is the essence of the regeneration of our Universe indicating, combining the Natural balancing powers within and without.. Mer also describes "going into" and is associated with "a counter rotating field of light". Mer is given as instruction to actualize the transcendent process, unveiling the path out of the duality. The idea is that by combining these polarities (plus a few more steps) one achieves a very special oneness, which is called the Center Eye of Horus, or The Child's Eye of Horus.
Mer activates the mind's eye. The first step is the Wisdom which is altering the consciousness combining positive and negative. Oneness unleashes the Light which rises and begins healing the body, be it Person, Earth, or Universe. Mer [the second power] is the very first step in Becoming Self Aware. Mer enables the Energies of two people, simultaneously, into The Light of the same Portal.
Mer means:"a going into", or "a counter rotating field of Light", or "Light". Ka represents the Higher Spiritual Self and it's primary connection to The Archtypes, known also as "the Spirit of the cosmos". Ba translates as "Soul" or"astral body". "Ba exists from beginning to end". Merkaba is perceived as a balanced male/female field of counter rotating Light which contains the Higher Spiritual Self and its connection to the Archtypes, plus the soul or astral body -- combining the energies into a transdimensional vehicle. Mer is the Light that is created in the primal cause and effect, and is used in the Merkaba Light Body, creating the Light of Genesis, the beginning of new consciousness.
Catholic Inquisitions of the Middle Ages were set against all the so-called heretics who in one way or another supported the Messianic Blood Royal (the Sangréal) of the Dragon Kings against the corrupted dogma of the bishops. Many of the victims were classified as occultists and witches, and they were charged with upholding the ancient and heretical cult of Draco, the Prince of Darkness. They were proclaimed by the Church authorities to be vampires, maligned and persecuted.
The Mystery of the Fisher King goes back to the dawn of time, when the universal God and Goddess united to produce the Divine Son in the form of the Vesica Pisces "fish." The Divine Son swam through the cosmic waters -- sea of constellations -- as the Fisher or "Fisher" King of the universe. In the Sumerian tradition in his primal form he is known as Goat-fish Enki, the Primal Dragon- fish, who while swimming in the Apsu, the Cosmic Ocean, created the universe and then came to Earth to rule as its Fisher King.
The Holy Grail association with the Fisher King began with Enki, who was the "keeper" of the the Holy Grail and the embodiment of its power. Enki, the Lord of Wisdom, was an embodiment of the Holy Spirit or Kundalini. The Sumerian monarchs who descended from Enki were all similarly represented as King Fishes swimming in the Apsu - and this tradition could be found in other parts of the world, where Earth's monarchs were Fisher Kings that guarded and protected the Holy Grail power.
When Parzival discovered Fisher King Anfortas in "Parzival", the monarch had forgotten who the Grail Serves and had become a cripple. The power of the Holy Grail, which is the Holy Spirit and life force, serves all persons, not just its owner. When Anfortas realized his mistake he was cured of his malady. The lesson for all people is to share your power by serving all beings.
One of the biggest distortions of western civilization has been the legend of St. Michael and the Dragon. St. Michael never slayed the Dragon. He tamed it and rode it to Heaven, i.e., to enlightenment. We are all spiritual warriors taming our vehicles and then riding them to the goal. Our inner spirits are St. Michael and the various sheaths that surround our spirit are collectively our Dragon. The Dragon is also the Serpent Fire at the base of the spine. We ride it up the Tree of Life, the spine, to "Heaven," the 6th and 7th chakras and their corresponding gnostic enlightenment.
The Underground Stream of knowledge, the hidden mysteries of western esotericism, is gnostic Goddess Worship. Cultural Transformation theory asserts the original direction of cultural evolution was toward partnership. We are here to set the record straight and define ourselves with our own narratives in today's world, as the stewards we rightfully claim to be. The "underground stream" connotes an unacknowledged and thus "subterranean" bloodline -- the Grail families of Jesus. The Desposyni (from Greek (desposunos) meaning "of or belonging to the master or lord" was a sacred name reserved for Jesus' blood relatives, descendents of King David.
Throughout the Renaissance, 'Arcadia' was used as a sort of code word for “the underground stream,” an invisible college of kindred souls who secretly shared their esoteric knowledge with one another, passing it around Europe via a network of secret societies and mystery schools, often utilizing its arcane symbolism in works of art and literature. Such symbolism shows up, for instance, in the works of Rene d’Anjou, Giordano Bruno, Leonardo da Vinci, Nicholas Poussin, and many others. The authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail (Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln) describe the symbolism of the underground stream:
… the motif of an underground stream seems to have been extremely rich in symbolic and allegorical resonances. Among other things, it would appear to connote the ‘underground’ esoteric tradition of Pythagorean, Gnostic, Cabalistic, and Hermetic thought. But it might also connote something more than a general corpus of teachings, perhaps some very specific factual information — ‘secret’ of some sort transmitted in clandestine fashion from generation to generation. And it might connote an unacknowledged and thus ‘subterranean’ bloodline.
The Merovingians (also Merovings) were a Salian Frankish dynasty, sometimes referred to as the "long-haired kings" (Latin reges criniti). The Frankish King Dagobert II, and the Merovingian dynasty from which he came carried attributions of saintliness and magical powers (derived from their long red hair). Men's hair was worn long, especially men of the royal house, thus their title. These long-haired monarchs claimed the divine right to rule from being descended from the House of David.
The Merovingians, who wore long hair as a symbol of their power, are named after their semi-legendary, fifth-century founder Merovech. The Merovingian's tradition of long hair and the name Samson among the Royal House would indicate descent from Samson. The primordial Merovingian king, father of Clovis, had gold bees buried with him. So let's remember the long hair of the Merovingians, and also the golden bees found on their tombs and in their societies based on the beehive.The last Merovingian King Childeric III was humiliated by Pepin the short and Pope Zachary having his hair cut, and imprisoned on the dungeons of his castle until his death.
Charles Martel went on to become Duke of all the Franks and founder of Carolinian line of Kings. Thirteen years later in 732 he defeated the Saracen Army at Poitiers in France, and saved Western Europe from complete invasion by the Moslems. As a result of this, his son Pepin III, became 1st King of the Franks. Pepin in turn was the father of Charlemagne. Charlemagne, 2nd King of the Franks," Berta (Bertrada) was the wife of Pepin and mother of Charlemagne.
Likewise, their Cathar successors: Cathar priests – known under the name “perfects” or “the perfect” – were dressed in black. Men had long hair, particularly the characteristic long red hair like Mary Magdalene. Their Perfects were considered living Christs. They were called the Good People. They sought only the light, through the Light-Bringer, who was the same as Christ and the archangel Michael. Cathars had a specific fascination with Mary Magdalene and the Languedoc tradition of Courtly Love.
The Cathars retained the Ring Lord culture and traditions, refering to the Messianic bloodline as the Elven Race, venerating them as the Shining Ones. In the language of old Provence, a female elf was an 'albi', and Albi was the name given to the main Cathar centre in Languedoc. This recognized the matrilinear heritage of the Grail dynasty, for the Cathars were supporters of the Albi-gens - the elven bloodline which had descended through the Grail queens such as Lilith, Miriam, Bathsheba and Mary Magdalene. The Shining Ones of the elven race were there to light the way. This is why their 1209 genocide was called the Albigensian Crusade.
In Ireland they were known as Tuadhe d'Anu - the people (or tribe) of Anu, the great sky god of the Anunnaki. They migrated from the Central European lands of Scythia, which stretched from the Carpathian mountains and Transylvanian Alps, across to the Russian River Don. They were strictly known as the Royal Scyths and they were said to be the masters of a transcendent intellect called the Sidhé, which was known to the Druids as the Web of the Wise.
The terms 'fairy' and 'elf 'are castes within the succession of the Shining Ones. Another is the 'pixies', of utmost importance within the overall structure of the princely bloodline. Having the same Sidhé heritage as the historical elves and fairies, their familiar name derived from the description Pict-sidhé. When they migrated into Anjou, Ireland and the far North of Britain, they became known as the Picts. They called their northern domain 'Caledonia' - the land of the Caille Daouine forest people. The 'leprechauns' were the armoured horse troops of the Pict-sidhé. Their body armour was made from small overlapped plates of bronze, which tarnished to a greenish colour so they looked like lizards or dragons. In this regard, they were called 'lepra-corpan' (scaly body), a word corrupted in Ireland to leprechaun.
The concept of calling the original princely race the Shining Ones, while also defining them as 'elves', dates well back into Biblical times and can be traced into Mesopotamia and Palestine. The ancient word El, which was used to identify a god or lofty-one (as in El Elyon and El Shaddai) actually meant Shining in old Mesopotamian Sumer. To the north in Babylonia, the derivative Ellu meant Shining One, while in Saxony and Britain it became Elf.
The concept of fairies was born directly from the Ring Lord culture and, deriving from the Greek word 'phare', the term related to a Great House, from which also stemmed the designation 'pharaoh'. In the Gaelic world, certain royal families were said to carry the fairy blood - that is to say, the fate or destiny of the Grail bloodline and of humankind at large. Meanwhile, the elf-maidens of the Albi-gens were the designated guardians of the earth, starlight and forest.
Certain royal families, in the Celtic world, were said to carry the fairy blood, that is to say, the fate or destiny of the royal bloodline, while the elf princesses of romance and history were often called 'elf-maidens'. Certain royal families were said to carry the fairy blood, and it was their responsibility to safeguard the royal blood, but not only for their family but for mankind itself. Elf-maidens were the guardians of the earth, starlight and forest. It's for this reason that the elves have been called the 'Shining Ones", because they led the way.
The Cathars retained the Ring Lord culture and traditions, refering to the Messianic bloodline as the Elven Race, venerating them as the Shining Ones. In the language of old Provence, a female elf was an 'albi', and Albi was the name given to the main Cathar centre in Languedoc. This recognized the matrilinear heritage of the Grail dynasty, for the Cathars were supporters of the Albi-gens - the elven bloodline which had descended through the Grail queens such as Lilith, Miriam, Bathsheba and Mary Magdalene. The Shining Ones of the elven race were there to light the way. This is why their 1209 genocide was called the Albigensian Crusade.
In Ireland they were known as Tuadhe d'Anu - the people (or tribe) of Anu, the great sky god of the Anunnaki. They migrated from the Central European lands of Scythia, which stretched from the Carpathian mountains and Transylvanian Alps, across to the Russian River Don. They were strictly known as the Royal Scyths and they were said to be the masters of a transcendent intellect called the Sidhé, which was known to the Druids as the Web of the Wise.
The terms 'fairy' and 'elf 'are castes within the succession of the Shining Ones. Another is the 'pixies', of utmost importance within the overall structure of the princely bloodline. Having the same Sidhé heritage as the historical elves and fairies, their familiar name derived from the description Pict-sidhé. When they migrated into Anjou, Ireland and the far North of Britain, they became known as the Picts. They called their northern domain 'Caledonia' - the land of the Caille Daouine forest people. The 'leprechauns' were the armoured horse troops of the Pict-sidhé. Their body armour was made from small overlapped plates of bronze, which tarnished to a greenish colour so they looked like lizards or dragons. In this regard, they were called 'lepra-corpan' (scaly body), a word corrupted in Ireland to leprechaun.
The concept of calling the original princely race the Shining Ones, while also defining them as 'elves', dates well back into Biblical times and can be traced into Mesopotamia and Palestine. The ancient word El, which was used to identify a god or lofty-one (as in El Elyon and El Shaddai) actually meant Shining in old Mesopotamian Sumer. To the north in Babylonia, the derivative Ellu meant Shining One, while in Saxony and Britain it became Elf.
The concept of fairies was born directly from the Ring Lord culture and, deriving from the Greek word 'phare', the term related to a Great House, from which also stemmed the designation 'pharaoh'. In the Gaelic world, certain royal families were said to carry the fairy blood - that is to say, the fate or destiny of the Grail bloodline and of humankind at large. Meanwhile, the elf-maidens of the Albi-gens were the designated guardians of the earth, starlight and forest.
Certain royal families, in the Celtic world, were said to carry the fairy blood, that is to say, the fate or destiny of the royal bloodline, while the elf princesses of romance and history were often called 'elf-maidens'. Certain royal families were said to carry the fairy blood, and it was their responsibility to safeguard the royal blood, but not only for their family but for mankind itself. Elf-maidens were the guardians of the earth, starlight and forest. It's for this reason that the elves have been called the 'Shining Ones", because they led the way.
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Will the return of the Divine Feminine herald a long-awaited age of peace in the Aquarian Age? Magdalene is rising out of a long, imposed sleep. Like a Sleeping Beauty, she and her people have been ‘drugged’ into unconsciousness for two thousand years, by an extraordinary effort to suppress ‘the other half of the story’, Her story. From the moment that Peter’s Church formed the ‘rock’ and foundation of Christianity, she was written out of accepted doctrine, save for references to her as sinner, a woman from whom seven devils were removed by Jesus, and the one who dried the sweat on his body with her long hair. Peter’s religious authority stemmed from the church’s acceptance that he was the first disciple to see Jesus appear after the crucifixion. Yet, three of the gospels claim that Magdalene was the first to see him in the Garden. The sacred Grail pattern, that requires presence of the feminine, was severed at the core during the founding of the Church, yet the pieces are revealing themselves to any who choose to awaken. http://www.aniwilliams.com/magdalene.htm?mid=4
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Pleroma (Greek πλήρωμα) generally refers to the totality of divine powers. The word means fullness from πληρόω ("I fill") comparable to πλήρης which means "full", and is used in Christian theological contexts: both in Gnosticism generally, and by Paul of Tarsus in Colossians 2:9 (the word is used 17 times in the NT).
Gnosticism holds that the world is controlled by archons, among whom some versions of Gnosticism claim is the deity of the Old Testament, who held aspects of the human captive, either knowingly or accidentally. The heavenly pleroma is the totality of all that is regarded in our understanding of "divine". The pleroma is often referred to as the light existing "above" our world, occupied by spiritual beings who self-emanated from the pleroma. These beings are described as aeons (eternal beings) and sometimes as archons. Jesus is interpreted as an intermediary aeon who was sent, along with his counterpart Sophia, from the pleroma, with whose aid humanity can recover the lost knowledge of the divine origins of humanity and in so doing be brought back into unity with the Pleroma. The term is thus a central element of Gnostic religious cosmology.
Gnostic texts envision the pleroma as aspects of God, the eternal Divine Principle, who can only be partially understood through the pleroma. Each "aeon" (i.e. aspect of God) is given a name (sometimes several) and a female counterpart (Gnostic viewed divinity and completeness in terms of male/female unification). The Gnostic myth goes on to tell how the aeon wisdom's female counterpart Sophia separated from the Pleroma to form the demiurge, thus giving birth to the material world.
Gnosticism holds that the world is controlled by archons, among whom some versions of Gnosticism claim is the deity of the Old Testament, who held aspects of the human captive, either knowingly or accidentally. The heavenly pleroma is the totality of all that is regarded in our understanding of "divine". The pleroma is often referred to as the light existing "above" our world, occupied by spiritual beings who self-emanated from the pleroma. These beings are described as aeons (eternal beings) and sometimes as archons. Jesus is interpreted as an intermediary aeon who was sent, along with his counterpart Sophia, from the pleroma, with whose aid humanity can recover the lost knowledge of the divine origins of humanity and in so doing be brought back into unity with the Pleroma. The term is thus a central element of Gnostic religious cosmology.
Gnostic texts envision the pleroma as aspects of God, the eternal Divine Principle, who can only be partially understood through the pleroma. Each "aeon" (i.e. aspect of God) is given a name (sometimes several) and a female counterpart (Gnostic viewed divinity and completeness in terms of male/female unification). The Gnostic myth goes on to tell how the aeon wisdom's female counterpart Sophia separated from the Pleroma to form the demiurge, thus giving birth to the material world.
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Serpent-Dragon, Apprentice Pillar, Rosslyn Chapel; Melusine
The Picts of Scotland were known to be a matriarchy, passing the kingship through the mother. My theory is this is because the gift of sight, the faerie ability to see the future, was only contained in the mitochondrial DNA. A king born of a faerie woman was a hard king to defeat if he had the power of sight
The Picts of Scotland were known to be a matriarchy, passing the kingship through the mother. My theory is this is because the gift of sight, the faerie ability to see the future, was only contained in the mitochondrial DNA. A king born of a faerie woman was a hard king to defeat if he had the power of sight
Senior Bloodline of Eleven House of Princess Maelasanu, Melusine de Lusignan
Mitochondrial DNA, (mtDNA) is of great importance in tracing recent human migrations and paths of species evolution. Unlike nuclear DNA, this circular molecule is present in our cells not only in one, but in a number of copies (there are usually 100 to 1000 mitochondria in each eukaryotic cell), which enables detection of much lower amount of the sequence of interest, especially that from fossil material. Due to the fact that only an egg contributes its mitochondria to the developing embryo with only rare exceptions, all human mtDNA is inherited maternally [GILES et al. 1980, CUMMINS 2000]. Because it doesn't recombine, it carries traits for many generations.
THE DNA BRIDGE: Paternal & Mitochondrial Dragon DNA explains the importance of the female decent. Mitochondrial DNA is passed only through the female line. Mitochondria is a living sentient and separate life form from ourselves. The mitochondria are dependent on us for life; we live in a symbiotic relationship. Mitochondrial DNA can live 15 generations. 15 generations of living mitochondria live inside you. Your 15 generation grandparents living cells are in you. A mutant mtDNA will drift to fixation in a human matriline in 15 generations. Recently an attempt was made to estimate the age of the human race using mitochondrial DNA. This material is inherited always from mother to children only.
By measuring the difference in mitochondrial DNA among many individuals, the age of the common maternal ancestor of humanity was estimated at about 200,000 years. It remains implausible to explain the known geographic distribution of mtDNA sequence variation by human migration that occurred only in the last ~6,500 years. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) (by virtue of its maternal, nonrecombining mode of inheritance, rapid pace of evolution, and extensive intraspecific polymorphism) permits and even demands an extension of phylogenetic thinking to the microevolutionary level. Many species exhibit a deep and geographically structured mtDNA phylogenetic history. Study of the relationship between genealogy and geography constitutes a discipline that can be termed intraspecific phylogeography. ’alien genes’ in human DNA
Both Pressina and her daughter Melusine in their turns served as "fountains" or Grail Maidens, until they were in their marriageable prime, as Dragon Queens, capable of bearing children without too many complications. Gille Sidhean, Pressina’s husband, and Raymond, Melusine’s husband, and both the women themselves, all had comparable Vere descent. Clearly, the men were related to their spouses, by blood, race or name. Raymond de Verrieres, or Ver-en-Forez, Lord of Pictavia and Anjou, had the Druidic Blue Boar as his family badge.
Pictavia was founded by Melusine’s maternal forefathers, the Ver Kings of the Danaan remnant, and so the assertion as fact that the House of Vere, The First Royal House of Anjou, was of the pure elven, Royal Dragon Blood appears inescapable. Much to the annoyance of the church and its chroniclers, who appear to have attempted to eclipse the pure origins and thus the genuine sovereign status of the Royal House of Vere by various means, as they did with many other Royal Dragon families of the Sang Real and the San Graal. For the Dragon and the Grail, for the Vere it is of some considerable importance that we maintainour royal status and assert our Elven, Dragon origins.
Raymond de Vere, Count of Anjou, alias Rainfroi de Vere, married, in 733, Melusine de Lusina. She was the daughter of Elinas, King of the Picts, and Bruithina MacBrude, and, thus, was a princess of the southern Picts of Alba. Her totem tribal badge was the Dragon, hence the fairytale connotations. The Dragon Motif was depicted in 1200 AD. on the seal of Hugh de Vere, whilst the Blue Boar, a Druidic caste badge, was [n.b.] derived from the family of Raymond de Vere.
Their son was Count Maelo de Vere, commander of Emperor Charlemagne's army. From Maelo's own marriage to Charlemagne's sister, Bertha Martel, sprang a succession of Earls of Genney. Maelo's brother was Roland, for whom "Song of Roland" was written.
In the Arthurian and Magdalene traditions of the Ladies of the Lake, Melusine was a fountain fey - an enchantress of the Underwood. Her fountain at Verrières en Forez was called Lusina - meaning Light-bringer - from which derived the name of the Royal House of Lusignan - the Crusader Kings of Jerusalem. The Fount of Melusine was said to be located deep within a thicket wood in Anjou. She was also known as Melusina, Melouziana de Scythes, Maelasanu, and The Dragon Princess.
The Melusine story is a powerful initiatory legend emerging from the deeply transformative Faery Tradition of ancient Europe. There had always been a Melusine back and back beyond the reaches of time. Such legends manifest as history: the innate sacromagical power of Melusine affected key places and events in the development of the medieval world and from there reached far into the shaping of the modern world through the conflicts for Jerusalem and the Middle East. Melusine de VERE appeared in the book Roman de Melusine written in 1393 by Jean d'Arras. The story is a mix of fiction and fact, commissioned by the Duke de Berry, a French noble who was brother to King Charles V, and uncle of King Charles VI. It was meant to be a family history and to uphold the proprietary claims to Lusignan and Anjou.
In this story Melusine's mother was a Presine fairy who charmed Elinas, the king of Scotland. The result was their daughter Melusine. Half fairy and half princess, Melusine wandered over to the Continent and eventually met up with Rainfroi/Raymond in the forests of Anjou. They met while he was out boar hunting. Overcome with her beauty, he took her hand in marriage, and many adventures ensued. As a result of this book, Melusine was subsequently featured in medieval tales across Europe, variously depicted as a mermaid, a water sprite, a fairy queen, a fairy princess, a dragon princess, and a forest nymph. She came to represent any magial creature who marries a mortal man. This fay by enchantment built the castle of Lusignan for her husband. Most royal houses in Europe have claimed lineage to the real Melusine, so she has been the subject of great speculation.
Charles Martel went on to become Duke of all the Franks and founder of Carolinian line of Kings. Thirteen years later in 732 he defeated the Saracen Army at Poitiers in France, and saved Western Europe from complete invasion by the Moslems. As a result of this, his son Pepin III, became 1st King of the Franks. Pepin in turn was the father of Charlemagne and Berta. Charlemagne, 2nd King of the Franks, is the ancestor of every existing and former ruling house or dynasty in Europe. His sister Berta was joined in marriage to the son of Rainfroi de VER, Milo de VER in 800 AD, the same year her brother was crowned Holy Roman Emperor. Then, the entire Merovingian line is transmitted to Plantagenets only through Eleanor of Aquitaine.
The end of the Grail quest is the return to the source of life and rebirth into it as divinely self-conscious entities purified by involvement in earthly experiences and having also contributed to the ongoing process of cosmic evolution by refining our substance. The great lesson for Parzival -- for all of us because he is our prototype -- is the interconnected relationship of all earth entities. The bonds of a universal brotherhood make us all kin. The suffering of one hurts all, and compassion in our heart obliges us to ask forever: What ails our brother?
THE DNA BRIDGE: Paternal & Mitochondrial Dragon DNA explains the importance of the female decent. Mitochondrial DNA is passed only through the female line. Mitochondria is a living sentient and separate life form from ourselves. The mitochondria are dependent on us for life; we live in a symbiotic relationship. Mitochondrial DNA can live 15 generations. 15 generations of living mitochondria live inside you. Your 15 generation grandparents living cells are in you. A mutant mtDNA will drift to fixation in a human matriline in 15 generations. Recently an attempt was made to estimate the age of the human race using mitochondrial DNA. This material is inherited always from mother to children only.
By measuring the difference in mitochondrial DNA among many individuals, the age of the common maternal ancestor of humanity was estimated at about 200,000 years. It remains implausible to explain the known geographic distribution of mtDNA sequence variation by human migration that occurred only in the last ~6,500 years. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) (by virtue of its maternal, nonrecombining mode of inheritance, rapid pace of evolution, and extensive intraspecific polymorphism) permits and even demands an extension of phylogenetic thinking to the microevolutionary level. Many species exhibit a deep and geographically structured mtDNA phylogenetic history. Study of the relationship between genealogy and geography constitutes a discipline that can be termed intraspecific phylogeography. ’alien genes’ in human DNA
Both Pressina and her daughter Melusine in their turns served as "fountains" or Grail Maidens, until they were in their marriageable prime, as Dragon Queens, capable of bearing children without too many complications. Gille Sidhean, Pressina’s husband, and Raymond, Melusine’s husband, and both the women themselves, all had comparable Vere descent. Clearly, the men were related to their spouses, by blood, race or name. Raymond de Verrieres, or Ver-en-Forez, Lord of Pictavia and Anjou, had the Druidic Blue Boar as his family badge.
Pictavia was founded by Melusine’s maternal forefathers, the Ver Kings of the Danaan remnant, and so the assertion as fact that the House of Vere, The First Royal House of Anjou, was of the pure elven, Royal Dragon Blood appears inescapable. Much to the annoyance of the church and its chroniclers, who appear to have attempted to eclipse the pure origins and thus the genuine sovereign status of the Royal House of Vere by various means, as they did with many other Royal Dragon families of the Sang Real and the San Graal. For the Dragon and the Grail, for the Vere it is of some considerable importance that we maintainour royal status and assert our Elven, Dragon origins.
Raymond de Vere, Count of Anjou, alias Rainfroi de Vere, married, in 733, Melusine de Lusina. She was the daughter of Elinas, King of the Picts, and Bruithina MacBrude, and, thus, was a princess of the southern Picts of Alba. Her totem tribal badge was the Dragon, hence the fairytale connotations. The Dragon Motif was depicted in 1200 AD. on the seal of Hugh de Vere, whilst the Blue Boar, a Druidic caste badge, was [n.b.] derived from the family of Raymond de Vere.
Their son was Count Maelo de Vere, commander of Emperor Charlemagne's army. From Maelo's own marriage to Charlemagne's sister, Bertha Martel, sprang a succession of Earls of Genney. Maelo's brother was Roland, for whom "Song of Roland" was written.
In the Arthurian and Magdalene traditions of the Ladies of the Lake, Melusine was a fountain fey - an enchantress of the Underwood. Her fountain at Verrières en Forez was called Lusina - meaning Light-bringer - from which derived the name of the Royal House of Lusignan - the Crusader Kings of Jerusalem. The Fount of Melusine was said to be located deep within a thicket wood in Anjou. She was also known as Melusina, Melouziana de Scythes, Maelasanu, and The Dragon Princess.
The Melusine story is a powerful initiatory legend emerging from the deeply transformative Faery Tradition of ancient Europe. There had always been a Melusine back and back beyond the reaches of time. Such legends manifest as history: the innate sacromagical power of Melusine affected key places and events in the development of the medieval world and from there reached far into the shaping of the modern world through the conflicts for Jerusalem and the Middle East. Melusine de VERE appeared in the book Roman de Melusine written in 1393 by Jean d'Arras. The story is a mix of fiction and fact, commissioned by the Duke de Berry, a French noble who was brother to King Charles V, and uncle of King Charles VI. It was meant to be a family history and to uphold the proprietary claims to Lusignan and Anjou.
In this story Melusine's mother was a Presine fairy who charmed Elinas, the king of Scotland. The result was their daughter Melusine. Half fairy and half princess, Melusine wandered over to the Continent and eventually met up with Rainfroi/Raymond in the forests of Anjou. They met while he was out boar hunting. Overcome with her beauty, he took her hand in marriage, and many adventures ensued. As a result of this book, Melusine was subsequently featured in medieval tales across Europe, variously depicted as a mermaid, a water sprite, a fairy queen, a fairy princess, a dragon princess, and a forest nymph. She came to represent any magial creature who marries a mortal man. This fay by enchantment built the castle of Lusignan for her husband. Most royal houses in Europe have claimed lineage to the real Melusine, so she has been the subject of great speculation.
Charles Martel went on to become Duke of all the Franks and founder of Carolinian line of Kings. Thirteen years later in 732 he defeated the Saracen Army at Poitiers in France, and saved Western Europe from complete invasion by the Moslems. As a result of this, his son Pepin III, became 1st King of the Franks. Pepin in turn was the father of Charlemagne and Berta. Charlemagne, 2nd King of the Franks, is the ancestor of every existing and former ruling house or dynasty in Europe. His sister Berta was joined in marriage to the son of Rainfroi de VER, Milo de VER in 800 AD, the same year her brother was crowned Holy Roman Emperor. Then, the entire Merovingian line is transmitted to Plantagenets only through Eleanor of Aquitaine.
The end of the Grail quest is the return to the source of life and rebirth into it as divinely self-conscious entities purified by involvement in earthly experiences and having also contributed to the ongoing process of cosmic evolution by refining our substance. The great lesson for Parzival -- for all of us because he is our prototype -- is the interconnected relationship of all earth entities. The bonds of a universal brotherhood make us all kin. The suffering of one hurts all, and compassion in our heart obliges us to ask forever: What ails our brother?
Part of the later Plantagenet ancestry included the descendants of the Danish Jarl, Rollo Duke of Normandy. The senior Angevin dynasty - the Vere - also have the Viking Rollo as an ancestor in the female line. The word ’Viking’ has been explained in various ways. Originally spelt ’Wicking’ it was thought to derive from the word ’wic’ meaning the inlet or mouth of a Fjord, whilst the earlier meaning of the word from the Old Friesian and Old English had ’wic’ as an encampment. In Russia however the ’Vikhr’ was a whirlwind, a manifestation of the Zmei or Dragon king which is dealt with later. The Vikhr is a character which is common to both the Russians and the Irish and it will be remembered that Russia was actually founded by the Viking Ruotsi Clan, intimating that the actual definition of the word ’Viking’ is the same as the Irish word ’Sumaire’, a Dragon and a Vortex.
Anciently the Danes and the Danaan were closely related and an examination of the Royal Clan in both cultures will reveal the same egalitarian system of self regulation that distinguished the Danaan from the rest of Celtic society. Their worldview, based on the ’Nine Worlds’ or emanations of being, was duplicated in earlier or contemporary variants of the Qabalah and Kaula Tantra. As with the former where the spheres or Sephirah were incorporated into the Hebrew ’Tree of Life’, the Viking spheres or worlds were thought to rest within the branches of a tree which, in the Norse, was called Yggdrasil, the World Ash Tree. Yggdrasil’s roots were embedded in Hel or the Underworld, whilst its branches brushed against the turnips of Heaven.
Yggdrasil is a shamanic glyph which represents the macrocosm - the universe both subtle and material - and the microcosm - the human body. The tree glyph itself in all cultures represents the path the shaman takes, from the roots, embedded in matter, up the trunk and into the branches and the turnips, to the rarified spiritual spheres and beyond, to unite with godhead itself. Such a journey inevitably must transcend mundane care, fear, greed, opinion or morality, and he or she who embarks upon and completes such a journey successfully becomes united with the One Unmanifest, the True Will and the Total Self. As we shall see later, the Tree is actually a woman, a goddess incarnate or Avatar.
Anciently the Danes and the Danaan were closely related and an examination of the Royal Clan in both cultures will reveal the same egalitarian system of self regulation that distinguished the Danaan from the rest of Celtic society. Their worldview, based on the ’Nine Worlds’ or emanations of being, was duplicated in earlier or contemporary variants of the Qabalah and Kaula Tantra. As with the former where the spheres or Sephirah were incorporated into the Hebrew ’Tree of Life’, the Viking spheres or worlds were thought to rest within the branches of a tree which, in the Norse, was called Yggdrasil, the World Ash Tree. Yggdrasil’s roots were embedded in Hel or the Underworld, whilst its branches brushed against the turnips of Heaven.
Yggdrasil is a shamanic glyph which represents the macrocosm - the universe both subtle and material - and the microcosm - the human body. The tree glyph itself in all cultures represents the path the shaman takes, from the roots, embedded in matter, up the trunk and into the branches and the turnips, to the rarified spiritual spheres and beyond, to unite with godhead itself. Such a journey inevitably must transcend mundane care, fear, greed, opinion or morality, and he or she who embarks upon and completes such a journey successfully becomes united with the One Unmanifest, the True Will and the Total Self. As we shall see later, the Tree is actually a woman, a goddess incarnate or Avatar.
BLOOD KNOWLEDGE
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Hermetic King, Alchemical plate and painting, by Johfra Bosschart
INNER FIRE
I am the Hermetic King resurrected from the sepulcher of the Nigredo. My fire has been drawn out of the darkness; purified and exalted. My expansive fire is Solar by nature and I am called the Son of the Sun. I am the purified and exalted fire of your soul. I am the solar radiance of your consciousness and the true Gold of the philosophers. Blessed are they who have assimilated the innermost nature of this most adorable Fire!
Dorn said "Become a Living Philosopher's Stone".
This inner fire is then projected outside into the world,
as we see it outside and around the vessel. It is in this way that
we transmute the world and whatever we project the Stone upon. For our stone is "Our Fire".
Once one extracts the Philosopher's Stone one eventually becomes "A Stone of the Philosophers". Inner fire is a God-given gift and can persist in male and female lines indefinitely.
I am the Hermetic King resurrected from the sepulcher of the Nigredo. My fire has been drawn out of the darkness; purified and exalted. My expansive fire is Solar by nature and I am called the Son of the Sun. I am the purified and exalted fire of your soul. I am the solar radiance of your consciousness and the true Gold of the philosophers. Blessed are they who have assimilated the innermost nature of this most adorable Fire!
Dorn said "Become a Living Philosopher's Stone".
This inner fire is then projected outside into the world,
as we see it outside and around the vessel. It is in this way that
we transmute the world and whatever we project the Stone upon. For our stone is "Our Fire".
Once one extracts the Philosopher's Stone one eventually becomes "A Stone of the Philosophers". Inner fire is a God-given gift and can persist in male and female lines indefinitely.
KINdling Effect
A self aware Dragon is waking up in the old Dragon Lines
by Sympathetic Resonance & Entanglement.
KINdling causes permanent changes in dragon neural circuitry.
by Sympathetic Resonance & Entanglement.
KINdling causes permanent changes in dragon neural circuitry.
More Than Metaphor?
Kindling is a metaphor that implies Inner Fire, Light or Life Force can be stimulated and modulated by driving forces both internal and external to ourselves. The word kindling is thus a metaphor for the stimulation and modulation of energy dynamics. The increase in response to small stimuli is similar to the way small burning twigs can ignite a large fire. By resonance, mirroring and entanglement, dragon kin can awaken latent capacities in one another in a similar KINdling process, facilitating superfluid consciousness.
Our "epigenetic" code - an extra layer of biochemical instructions in DNA - can evolve more quickly than the genetic code and can strongly influence biological traits. "It's not all in the genes," says Joseph Ecker, a professor in Salk's Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, who led the research team. "We found that these plants have an epigenetic code that's more flexible and influential than we imagined. There is clearly a component of heritability that we don't fully understand. It's possible that we humans have a similarly active epigenetic mechanism that controls our biological characteristics and gets passed down to our children. "
With the advent of techniques for rapidly mapping the DNA of organisms, scientists have found that the genes stored in the four-letter DNA code don't always determine how an organism develops and responds to its environment. The more biologists map the genomes of various organisms (their entire genetic code), the more they are discovering discrepancies between what the genetic code dictates and how organisms actually look and function.
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Scientists have even found that identical human twins exhibit different biological traits, despite their matching DNA sequences. They have theorized that such unexplained disparities could be the work of epigenetic variation. Since none of these patterns of variation and inheritance match what the genetic sequence says should happen, there is a clearly a component of the 'genetic' heritability that is missing. Epigenomes are changeable, programmable.
Ecker and other scientists have traced these mysterious patterns to chemical markers that serve as a layer of genetic control on top of the DNA sequence. Just as genetic mutations can arise spontaneously and be inherited by subsequent generations, epigenetic mutations can emerge in individuals and spread into the broader population.
Although scientists have identified a number of epigenetic traits, very little was known about how often they arose spontaneously, how quickly they could spread through a population and how significant an influence they could have on biological development and function.
Researchers found that overall there is very little change between each generation, but spontaneous epimutations do exist in populations and arise at a rate much higher than the DNA mutation rate, and at times they had a powerful influence over how certain genes were expressed. They mapped the state of all locations on the DNA molecule that could undergo a chemical modification known as methylation, a key epigenetic change that can alter how certain underlying genes are expressed. They then watched how methylation states of these sites evolved over the generations.
Superfluid Consciousness
The epigenetic code is far more fluid than genetic code. Even more surprising was the extent to which some of these changes turned genes on or off, for substantial alterations in their expression - the process by which genes control cellular function through protein production. Not only do the epigenomes morph rapidly despite the absence of any strong environmental pressure, but these changes have a powerful influence on form and function.
Ecker said the results of the study provide some of the first evidence that the epigenetic code can be rewritten quickly and to dramatic effect. "This means that genes are not destiny," he said. "...our epigenome may also undergo relatively rapid spontaneous change that could have a powerful influence on our biological traits." The wisdom of the grandmothers in their mitochondrial DNA. Is epigenetics a long-hidden mechanism for awakening dragonkin to their full potential? Since epigenetic changes don't persist in the evolutionary chain, perhaps they are adaptations required for the immediate moment.
The Sleeper Must Awaken
Epigenetic changes may not last but may be the adaptive mechanism that is awakening dragons through gene expression of dormant capacities and memories. We an speculate that the expression may be triggered by psychosocial genomics -- interaction with dragon kin. Dragon culture brings new meaning to Transdimensional Communication (T.D.C.)
Researchers have shown the extent to which spontaneous epigenetic mutations occur. They plan to unravel the biochemical mechanisms that allow these changes to arise and get passed from one generation to the next.
They also hope to explore how different environmental conditions, such as differences in temperature, might drive epigenetic change, or, conversely, whether epigenetic traits provide organisms with more flexibility in coping with environmental change. "We think these epigenetic events might silence genes when they aren't needed, then turn them back on when external conditions warrant," Ecker said.
The key is in the ignition. What gets ignited is primordial energy transformation and transcendence. The pre-physical quantum ground state is the vacuum. The Gnostics were correct in insisting this void is a Pleroma, a plenum of information-infused energy that interacts with the manifest world. They were correct that it is driven by polarities, in this case the vacuum fluctuation of matter/antimatter annihilation. There is a relation between DNA, epigenetics, the topology of the vacuum, morphological development and evolution in biology. In the Pleroma state, polarities neutralize in balance leading to a sense of peace, as inner conflicts resolve.
The KINdling concept is analogous to the "butterfly effect" in chaos theory which demonstrates how a small amount of energy applied strategically in time or space can be pumped up into macrocosmic effects. In this trope, small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state. Such state changes are most often permanent or continue to evolve based on their attractor patterns. Such forces can either build or destroy, create order or chaos.
KINdling Bioenergy
While the term 'kindling' is used in brain research to refer to "electrical kindling", symbolically it can be applied more widely as a metaphor for "ignition" by repeated exposure or stimulation producing emergent phenomena through epigenetics or otherwise. Kindling has been shown to effect both transient and permanent gene expression in some contexts, and that extends our metaphor toward plausible effects in unreported pathways. We don't have to take such notions literally to benefit from their conceptual application.
We can reinterpret the notion of 'kindling' with a positive arc, relating to concepts of sympathetic resonance, entrainment, and quantum entanglement, which can be applied in the psychosocial field. It bears on how we connect with our essential nature, others and Cosmos. Can we awaken and balance the forces within through the relational field? Shamanism and modern psychotherapeutics show that intense creative relationships can 'kindle' positive healing and creativity through the phenomena of psychic contagion and 'mirroring', by 'kindling' transformation through what Jung named the transcendent function.
In quantum mechanics, 'entanglement' is a phenomena that explains synchronous nonlocal action. Likewise in the relational domain, 'entangled minds' is a notion that has been explored in noetic science. It has been suggested in the field of radionics as a guiding principle for the transformation of subtle energy, suggesting applications in the modulations of the biofield, energy body or field body via the life force or chi energy. Thus, 'kindling' can be imagined as the emergence or transformation of preferred pathways of neuronal activity that result in multidimensional psychophysical changes in behavior, emotions, thoughts, and beliefs.
KINdling takes place in the infolded (negative) time dimension of virtual photon flux (hyperspace), or zero-point -- the Light that is Not, or Naught. The effect of coherent time collection is 'kindling', and orthorotation of one type of field into another. The collection of de Broglie waves is moving much faster than light. Supraluminal waves behave like a super fluid. For very slow-moving objects, the collected and projected bioenergy on their deBroglie waves is moving at essentially infinite velocity. Thought energy can be turned into electromagnetic energy by 'kindling' and can even be materialized if 'kindling' is of sufficient intensity.
KINdling is a possible mechanism for 'soul retrieval' in the dragon lines and alternative mechanism for epigenetics and gene expression in psychosocial genomics. Soul Retrieval refers to the shamanic practice that reintegrates various interpretations of the soul that might have become disconnected, trapped or lost through trauma. In variants such as Carlos Castaneda's recapitulation technique, fragments of soul are sought solely within the memories of the retriever, making them largely psychoanalytical in nature; in others, the scope extends to rehabilitation of lost souls of the deceased, paralleling the Roman Catholic practice of offering prayer for the dead to assist their progress through purgatory. Robert Monroe explored the concept of retrieval extensively through use of out-of-body and astral projection techniques, sometimes finding the personalities perceived suggestive of ancestors or prior incarnations of oneself.
In Synch
Sympathetic resonance, entrainment and entanglement are related concepts we can use to amplify and explore our model. Resonance is a harmonic phenomenon where a formerly passive string or vibratory body responds to or is entrained by external vibrations to which it has a harmonic likeness. Recent research has revealed applications in quantum physics, brain function, and the acoustic and photonic nature of DNA holographic projection. The discovery of 'mirror neurons' in the human brain has revealed subtle resonant linkages in our interpersonal relationships.
Brainwave synchronization is the ability of the brain to synchronize with external stimuli such as another individual, as well as visual and/or audio signals. Brainwave synchronization is also called Frequency-Following Effect, Photonic Stimulation, Photonic Driving, and Visual and/or Brainwave Synchronization. Brainwave synchronization is very effective for changing from one brain wave state to a targeted brainwave state. Such spontaneous "biofeedback" may be one of the mechanisms behind shamanic and psychotherapeutic healing, through mirroring and shared "biofeedback".
Mirror, Mirror
This cluster of mirror neurons holds the key to understanding many enigmatic aspects of human evolution. Pre-adaptive mirror neurons affect us from the cradle to the grave, being associated with bonding, imitative learning and collective consciousness. We construct a self-image first of our bodies and their capacities and limitations through experimentation, and then of our essential nature as we gaze into the "mirrors" of our caregivers.
Learning replicates itself within cultures with astounding speed, sometimes refered to as 'the hundredth monkey effect'. Mirror neurons could well play a role in resilience, mentoring, language and self-awareness. Our primal self-images shapes our perceptions based on the input of our senses and nervous system. Mirror neurons fire when we observe others expressing or doing similar actions. They help us read and understand the intentions of others. Therefore, they are the psychobiological root of mindreading, empathy, "mindsharing," and our innate ability to adapt and change -- resilience, as well as innovation.
Inner journeys, using our dreams, symptoms, feelings, fears and pain as doorways to deeper levels of ourselves, allow us to exercise our right-brain functions much as intellectual pursuits exercise the rational mind. Dreams are related to DNA programming, They also help us find and share our joy. We connect directly with our emotions, our non-linear irrational elements and the sensations that arise in our psychophysical being.
Also, kindling apparently causes permanent changes in the neural circuitry. Pulsed repetitions of telepathic senders have also been shown to increase the reception of telepathic messages. Thus the kindling effect apparently applies to the paranormal channel as well as to more orthodox transmission channels. (For further details, see "Kindling, once epilepsy model, may relate to kundalini," Brain/ Mind Bulletin, Vol. 2, No.7, February 21, 1977; pp. 1-2.)
The KINdling mechanism is a far more general mechanism than epilepsy researchers have realized. Coherent time collection of bioenergy in one bioframe "kindles" toward the threshold of the next bioframe, which has a fixed threshold. When sufficient kindling occurs to reach the threshold, automatic orthogonal rotation of the kindled bioenergy occurs into the next frame. There it simply constitutes the kindling or superposition of the imperceivable subquantum state into the perceivable quantum state. This is the mechanism whereby one kind of field can be turned into another. E.g., thought energy (third biofield) can be kindled into second biofield (flux), which can be kindled into first biofield (electromagnetic energy), which can be kindled into zeroth biofield (matter). (Tom Bearden, Excalibur Briefing)
Light My Fire
Whether in a positive or negative drection, kindling is a relatively permanent state of heightened susceptibility. Kindling effects result from neuroplasticity, the ability of groupings of neurons to change and realign themselves in response to repeated exposure to stimuli.
While the term 'kindling' is used in brain research to refer to "electrical kindling", symbolically it can be applied more widely as a metaphor for "ignition" by repeated exposure or stimulation producing emergent phenomena. Kindling has been shown to effect both transient and permanent gene expression in some contexts, and that extends our metaphor toward plausible effects in unreported pathways. We don't have to take such notions literally to benefit from their conceptual application.
Biophotons govern the interaction of coherent EM fields and biological matter, in a coupled feedback loop between field and matter. Biophotons also have a characteristic frequency that defines their resonance patterns and energy distribution. The dominating role of source and sink of the field is likely DNA, which produces most of the biophotons. Both morphology and dynamics of DNA indicate it is a phase-conjugate adaptive resonance antenna. It both transmits and receives holographic information from the subquantal domain.
DNA receives and emits this information as biophotons that coordinate, communicate and stimulate the biochemistry. Waves of energy vibrate and resonate with one another creating an interference pattern that is a 3-dimensional holographic field. From the center of each cell, DNA molecules create, coordinate, and control the field. By altering our biophoton field, we can change our DNA expression.
Soul Retrieval
Kindling is a metaphor that implies Inner Fire or Light can be stimulated and modulated by driving forces both internal and external to ourselves. Soul retrieval is an ancient shamanic technique for healing the fragmented self that is perhaps 50,000 years old.
"KINdling" is a possible mechanism for 'soul retrieval' in the dragon lines and an alternative mechanism for the mutual stimulation of gene expression in psychosocial genomics. Soul Retrieval is part of our Journey to Wholeness and quest for self-knowledge. It refers to shamanic practices that reintegrate various interpretations of the soul that might have become disconnected, trapped or lost through trauma -- loss of vitality and connection to life. KINdling is renewal of life force.
Kundalini KINdling
Some of the conditions for the initiation or KINdling of kundalini appear to be:
Hyperactivation of the thyroid and parathyroids.
Hyperactivation of estrogen and testosterone (plus metabolities of T. eg: Estradiol).
Hyperactivation of the sympathetic nervous system (adrenaline, norepinephrine).
Hyperactivation of the stress hormones (corticosteroids eg: cortisol, DHEA) Hyperactivation of opiate systems (endorphins, enkephalins, anandamide, phenylethylamine).
Repetitive or overwhelming circumstances and conditions create cumulative resonance that increases in magnitude until the entire organism is in sympathetic resonance. The barriers to unity are penetrated so to speak. The increased charge and particular frequency of neural firing opens up unique neural thresholds in crucial parts of the brain. As the contagion of kundalini builds it pulls all bodymind systems into its service. Kundalini awakenings are likely if hyper-arousal of the nervous system is kept going for several years and conditions of perpetual irritation to the brain neurons occurs. The particular blend of hormones and neurotransmitters reduces the threshold by which kundalini passes through the body. Like a river of fire, kundalini forges its own effluent cascade through the nerve tributaries and sustains itself through the changes it induces. In recent years there has been some attempt to correlate the phenomena of kindling with kundalini. The bran became sensitized. Kindling apparently causes permanent changes in the neural circuitry.
Kundalini has elements similar to the kindling phenomena, and yet runs through a very complicated sequence of "events." The article: "Kindling, once epilepsy model, may relate to kundalini," Brain/ Mind Bulletin, Vol. 2, No.7, February 21, 1977; pp. 1-2.) reports on the convulsion-like phenomenon called kundalini. At the Max Planck Institute in Germany, subjects reported "electrical sensations, tingling, inner lights, even convulsions usually followed over a period of time by a moderation of 'symptoms' and apparent alterations in the central nervous system."
This article says that the kundalini phenomena typically occurs after a period of meditation in a setting that is non-threatening. This report suggests that while meditating, the individual tries to arrest all thought or cortical activity, thus allowing the evolutionary more primitive areas of the brain to assert itself. The Kindling Model is one of the current interpretations of PTSD. The scientists concluded that those who experienced the kundalini phenomenon were actually reexperiencing primal pain laid down before the brain has completely developed (See Toxic Mind Theory).
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Kindling is a metaphor that implies Inner Fire, Light or Life Force can be stimulated and modulated by driving forces both internal and external to ourselves. The word kindling is thus a metaphor for the stimulation and modulation of energy dynamics. The increase in response to small stimuli is similar to the way small burning twigs can ignite a large fire. By resonance, mirroring and entanglement, dragon kin can awaken latent capacities in one another in a similar KINdling process, facilitating superfluid consciousness.
Our "epigenetic" code - an extra layer of biochemical instructions in DNA - can evolve more quickly than the genetic code and can strongly influence biological traits. "It's not all in the genes," says Joseph Ecker, a professor in Salk's Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, who led the research team. "We found that these plants have an epigenetic code that's more flexible and influential than we imagined. There is clearly a component of heritability that we don't fully understand. It's possible that we humans have a similarly active epigenetic mechanism that controls our biological characteristics and gets passed down to our children. "
With the advent of techniques for rapidly mapping the DNA of organisms, scientists have found that the genes stored in the four-letter DNA code don't always determine how an organism develops and responds to its environment. The more biologists map the genomes of various organisms (their entire genetic code), the more they are discovering discrepancies between what the genetic code dictates and how organisms actually look and function.
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Scientists have even found that identical human twins exhibit different biological traits, despite their matching DNA sequences. They have theorized that such unexplained disparities could be the work of epigenetic variation. Since none of these patterns of variation and inheritance match what the genetic sequence says should happen, there is a clearly a component of the 'genetic' heritability that is missing. Epigenomes are changeable, programmable.
Ecker and other scientists have traced these mysterious patterns to chemical markers that serve as a layer of genetic control on top of the DNA sequence. Just as genetic mutations can arise spontaneously and be inherited by subsequent generations, epigenetic mutations can emerge in individuals and spread into the broader population.
Although scientists have identified a number of epigenetic traits, very little was known about how often they arose spontaneously, how quickly they could spread through a population and how significant an influence they could have on biological development and function.
Researchers found that overall there is very little change between each generation, but spontaneous epimutations do exist in populations and arise at a rate much higher than the DNA mutation rate, and at times they had a powerful influence over how certain genes were expressed. They mapped the state of all locations on the DNA molecule that could undergo a chemical modification known as methylation, a key epigenetic change that can alter how certain underlying genes are expressed. They then watched how methylation states of these sites evolved over the generations.
Superfluid Consciousness
The epigenetic code is far more fluid than genetic code. Even more surprising was the extent to which some of these changes turned genes on or off, for substantial alterations in their expression - the process by which genes control cellular function through protein production. Not only do the epigenomes morph rapidly despite the absence of any strong environmental pressure, but these changes have a powerful influence on form and function.
Ecker said the results of the study provide some of the first evidence that the epigenetic code can be rewritten quickly and to dramatic effect. "This means that genes are not destiny," he said. "...our epigenome may also undergo relatively rapid spontaneous change that could have a powerful influence on our biological traits." The wisdom of the grandmothers in their mitochondrial DNA. Is epigenetics a long-hidden mechanism for awakening dragonkin to their full potential? Since epigenetic changes don't persist in the evolutionary chain, perhaps they are adaptations required for the immediate moment.
The Sleeper Must Awaken
Epigenetic changes may not last but may be the adaptive mechanism that is awakening dragons through gene expression of dormant capacities and memories. We an speculate that the expression may be triggered by psychosocial genomics -- interaction with dragon kin. Dragon culture brings new meaning to Transdimensional Communication (T.D.C.)
Researchers have shown the extent to which spontaneous epigenetic mutations occur. They plan to unravel the biochemical mechanisms that allow these changes to arise and get passed from one generation to the next.
They also hope to explore how different environmental conditions, such as differences in temperature, might drive epigenetic change, or, conversely, whether epigenetic traits provide organisms with more flexibility in coping with environmental change. "We think these epigenetic events might silence genes when they aren't needed, then turn them back on when external conditions warrant," Ecker said.
The key is in the ignition. What gets ignited is primordial energy transformation and transcendence. The pre-physical quantum ground state is the vacuum. The Gnostics were correct in insisting this void is a Pleroma, a plenum of information-infused energy that interacts with the manifest world. They were correct that it is driven by polarities, in this case the vacuum fluctuation of matter/antimatter annihilation. There is a relation between DNA, epigenetics, the topology of the vacuum, morphological development and evolution in biology. In the Pleroma state, polarities neutralize in balance leading to a sense of peace, as inner conflicts resolve.
The KINdling concept is analogous to the "butterfly effect" in chaos theory which demonstrates how a small amount of energy applied strategically in time or space can be pumped up into macrocosmic effects. In this trope, small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state. Such state changes are most often permanent or continue to evolve based on their attractor patterns. Such forces can either build or destroy, create order or chaos.
KINdling Bioenergy
While the term 'kindling' is used in brain research to refer to "electrical kindling", symbolically it can be applied more widely as a metaphor for "ignition" by repeated exposure or stimulation producing emergent phenomena through epigenetics or otherwise. Kindling has been shown to effect both transient and permanent gene expression in some contexts, and that extends our metaphor toward plausible effects in unreported pathways. We don't have to take such notions literally to benefit from their conceptual application.
We can reinterpret the notion of 'kindling' with a positive arc, relating to concepts of sympathetic resonance, entrainment, and quantum entanglement, which can be applied in the psychosocial field. It bears on how we connect with our essential nature, others and Cosmos. Can we awaken and balance the forces within through the relational field? Shamanism and modern psychotherapeutics show that intense creative relationships can 'kindle' positive healing and creativity through the phenomena of psychic contagion and 'mirroring', by 'kindling' transformation through what Jung named the transcendent function.
In quantum mechanics, 'entanglement' is a phenomena that explains synchronous nonlocal action. Likewise in the relational domain, 'entangled minds' is a notion that has been explored in noetic science. It has been suggested in the field of radionics as a guiding principle for the transformation of subtle energy, suggesting applications in the modulations of the biofield, energy body or field body via the life force or chi energy. Thus, 'kindling' can be imagined as the emergence or transformation of preferred pathways of neuronal activity that result in multidimensional psychophysical changes in behavior, emotions, thoughts, and beliefs.
KINdling takes place in the infolded (negative) time dimension of virtual photon flux (hyperspace), or zero-point -- the Light that is Not, or Naught. The effect of coherent time collection is 'kindling', and orthorotation of one type of field into another. The collection of de Broglie waves is moving much faster than light. Supraluminal waves behave like a super fluid. For very slow-moving objects, the collected and projected bioenergy on their deBroglie waves is moving at essentially infinite velocity. Thought energy can be turned into electromagnetic energy by 'kindling' and can even be materialized if 'kindling' is of sufficient intensity.
KINdling is a possible mechanism for 'soul retrieval' in the dragon lines and alternative mechanism for epigenetics and gene expression in psychosocial genomics. Soul Retrieval refers to the shamanic practice that reintegrates various interpretations of the soul that might have become disconnected, trapped or lost through trauma. In variants such as Carlos Castaneda's recapitulation technique, fragments of soul are sought solely within the memories of the retriever, making them largely psychoanalytical in nature; in others, the scope extends to rehabilitation of lost souls of the deceased, paralleling the Roman Catholic practice of offering prayer for the dead to assist their progress through purgatory. Robert Monroe explored the concept of retrieval extensively through use of out-of-body and astral projection techniques, sometimes finding the personalities perceived suggestive of ancestors or prior incarnations of oneself.
In Synch
Sympathetic resonance, entrainment and entanglement are related concepts we can use to amplify and explore our model. Resonance is a harmonic phenomenon where a formerly passive string or vibratory body responds to or is entrained by external vibrations to which it has a harmonic likeness. Recent research has revealed applications in quantum physics, brain function, and the acoustic and photonic nature of DNA holographic projection. The discovery of 'mirror neurons' in the human brain has revealed subtle resonant linkages in our interpersonal relationships.
Brainwave synchronization is the ability of the brain to synchronize with external stimuli such as another individual, as well as visual and/or audio signals. Brainwave synchronization is also called Frequency-Following Effect, Photonic Stimulation, Photonic Driving, and Visual and/or Brainwave Synchronization. Brainwave synchronization is very effective for changing from one brain wave state to a targeted brainwave state. Such spontaneous "biofeedback" may be one of the mechanisms behind shamanic and psychotherapeutic healing, through mirroring and shared "biofeedback".
Mirror, Mirror
This cluster of mirror neurons holds the key to understanding many enigmatic aspects of human evolution. Pre-adaptive mirror neurons affect us from the cradle to the grave, being associated with bonding, imitative learning and collective consciousness. We construct a self-image first of our bodies and their capacities and limitations through experimentation, and then of our essential nature as we gaze into the "mirrors" of our caregivers.
Learning replicates itself within cultures with astounding speed, sometimes refered to as 'the hundredth monkey effect'. Mirror neurons could well play a role in resilience, mentoring, language and self-awareness. Our primal self-images shapes our perceptions based on the input of our senses and nervous system. Mirror neurons fire when we observe others expressing or doing similar actions. They help us read and understand the intentions of others. Therefore, they are the psychobiological root of mindreading, empathy, "mindsharing," and our innate ability to adapt and change -- resilience, as well as innovation.
Inner journeys, using our dreams, symptoms, feelings, fears and pain as doorways to deeper levels of ourselves, allow us to exercise our right-brain functions much as intellectual pursuits exercise the rational mind. Dreams are related to DNA programming, They also help us find and share our joy. We connect directly with our emotions, our non-linear irrational elements and the sensations that arise in our psychophysical being.
Also, kindling apparently causes permanent changes in the neural circuitry. Pulsed repetitions of telepathic senders have also been shown to increase the reception of telepathic messages. Thus the kindling effect apparently applies to the paranormal channel as well as to more orthodox transmission channels. (For further details, see "Kindling, once epilepsy model, may relate to kundalini," Brain/ Mind Bulletin, Vol. 2, No.7, February 21, 1977; pp. 1-2.)
The KINdling mechanism is a far more general mechanism than epilepsy researchers have realized. Coherent time collection of bioenergy in one bioframe "kindles" toward the threshold of the next bioframe, which has a fixed threshold. When sufficient kindling occurs to reach the threshold, automatic orthogonal rotation of the kindled bioenergy occurs into the next frame. There it simply constitutes the kindling or superposition of the imperceivable subquantum state into the perceivable quantum state. This is the mechanism whereby one kind of field can be turned into another. E.g., thought energy (third biofield) can be kindled into second biofield (flux), which can be kindled into first biofield (electromagnetic energy), which can be kindled into zeroth biofield (matter). (Tom Bearden, Excalibur Briefing)
Light My Fire
Whether in a positive or negative drection, kindling is a relatively permanent state of heightened susceptibility. Kindling effects result from neuroplasticity, the ability of groupings of neurons to change and realign themselves in response to repeated exposure to stimuli.
While the term 'kindling' is used in brain research to refer to "electrical kindling", symbolically it can be applied more widely as a metaphor for "ignition" by repeated exposure or stimulation producing emergent phenomena. Kindling has been shown to effect both transient and permanent gene expression in some contexts, and that extends our metaphor toward plausible effects in unreported pathways. We don't have to take such notions literally to benefit from their conceptual application.
Biophotons govern the interaction of coherent EM fields and biological matter, in a coupled feedback loop between field and matter. Biophotons also have a characteristic frequency that defines their resonance patterns and energy distribution. The dominating role of source and sink of the field is likely DNA, which produces most of the biophotons. Both morphology and dynamics of DNA indicate it is a phase-conjugate adaptive resonance antenna. It both transmits and receives holographic information from the subquantal domain.
DNA receives and emits this information as biophotons that coordinate, communicate and stimulate the biochemistry. Waves of energy vibrate and resonate with one another creating an interference pattern that is a 3-dimensional holographic field. From the center of each cell, DNA molecules create, coordinate, and control the field. By altering our biophoton field, we can change our DNA expression.
Soul Retrieval
Kindling is a metaphor that implies Inner Fire or Light can be stimulated and modulated by driving forces both internal and external to ourselves. Soul retrieval is an ancient shamanic technique for healing the fragmented self that is perhaps 50,000 years old.
"KINdling" is a possible mechanism for 'soul retrieval' in the dragon lines and an alternative mechanism for the mutual stimulation of gene expression in psychosocial genomics. Soul Retrieval is part of our Journey to Wholeness and quest for self-knowledge. It refers to shamanic practices that reintegrate various interpretations of the soul that might have become disconnected, trapped or lost through trauma -- loss of vitality and connection to life. KINdling is renewal of life force.
Kundalini KINdling
Some of the conditions for the initiation or KINdling of kundalini appear to be:
Hyperactivation of the thyroid and parathyroids.
Hyperactivation of estrogen and testosterone (plus metabolities of T. eg: Estradiol).
Hyperactivation of the sympathetic nervous system (adrenaline, norepinephrine).
Hyperactivation of the stress hormones (corticosteroids eg: cortisol, DHEA) Hyperactivation of opiate systems (endorphins, enkephalins, anandamide, phenylethylamine).
Repetitive or overwhelming circumstances and conditions create cumulative resonance that increases in magnitude until the entire organism is in sympathetic resonance. The barriers to unity are penetrated so to speak. The increased charge and particular frequency of neural firing opens up unique neural thresholds in crucial parts of the brain. As the contagion of kundalini builds it pulls all bodymind systems into its service. Kundalini awakenings are likely if hyper-arousal of the nervous system is kept going for several years and conditions of perpetual irritation to the brain neurons occurs. The particular blend of hormones and neurotransmitters reduces the threshold by which kundalini passes through the body. Like a river of fire, kundalini forges its own effluent cascade through the nerve tributaries and sustains itself through the changes it induces. In recent years there has been some attempt to correlate the phenomena of kindling with kundalini. The bran became sensitized. Kindling apparently causes permanent changes in the neural circuitry.
Kundalini has elements similar to the kindling phenomena, and yet runs through a very complicated sequence of "events." The article: "Kindling, once epilepsy model, may relate to kundalini," Brain/ Mind Bulletin, Vol. 2, No.7, February 21, 1977; pp. 1-2.) reports on the convulsion-like phenomenon called kundalini. At the Max Planck Institute in Germany, subjects reported "electrical sensations, tingling, inner lights, even convulsions usually followed over a period of time by a moderation of 'symptoms' and apparent alterations in the central nervous system."
This article says that the kundalini phenomena typically occurs after a period of meditation in a setting that is non-threatening. This report suggests that while meditating, the individual tries to arrest all thought or cortical activity, thus allowing the evolutionary more primitive areas of the brain to assert itself. The Kindling Model is one of the current interpretations of PTSD. The scientists concluded that those who experienced the kundalini phenomenon were actually reexperiencing primal pain laid down before the brain has completely developed (See Toxic Mind Theory).
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Tutankhamen DNA Project
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iGENEA Tutankhamen DNA Project
Are you a direct male descendant of the Pharaohs?
iGENEA exclusively published the Y-DNA profile of Tutankhamun and began searching for his last living relatives.
In the year 2009 extended DNA-tests were carried out with the mummy of Tutankamun and other members for his family. These were only partiallypublished in February 2010. Despite several demands, the results of the Y-DNA tests have been shut away.
iGENEA was able to reconstruct the Y-DNA profile of Tutankhamun, his father Akhenaten and his grandfather Amenhotep III with the help of a recording of the Discovery Channel. The astonishing result: Tutankhamun belongs to the haplogroup R1b1a2, which includes more than 50% of all men in Western Europe.
Background: The haplogroup R1b1a2 arose about 9.500 years ago in the surrounding area of the Black Sea. The migration of this haplogroup into Europe started at the earliest with the spread of agriculture since 7.000 BC. It is very probable that it is also connected to the Indoeuropeans who spread over Europe a little later in several waves of migrations.
In Egypt, the contingent of this haplogroup is below 1% and partially caused by European immigration during the last 2,000 years. Tutankhamun was the last Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty and ruled from about 1.332 until 1.323 BC. His paternal lineage begins with Pharaoh Thutmose I. who ruled from about 1.504 until 1.492 BC. His paternal ancestry is unknown. Therefore it is not clear at this point of time, how this lineage came from its region of origin to Egypt.
The fourth expansional wave of the probably Indoeuropean Kurgan Culture between 2.500 and 2.200 BC is also a good candidate. This culture spread since 4.400 BC to Europe which explains the correlation with haplogroup R1b1a2. This haplogroup was also widespread in the indoeuropean Hittite empire in Anatolia. From the time of Akhenaten's or Tutankhamun's reign a letter of an Egyptian queen is known from the Hittite archives. In this letter she asks the Hittite King for one of his sons as a new Pharaoh because her husband died and she herself had no son. The identity of the queen is unknown, perhaps the 18th dynasty was related to the Hittites, the origin of the R1b1a2-lineage could point to this. The detailed context can only be clarified by further research. By the publication of the test result we want to contribute to the scientific discussion and bring it forward.
iGENEA Tutankhamen DNA Project
Are you a direct male descendant of the Pharaohs?
iGENEA exclusively published the Y-DNA profile of Tutankhamun and began searching for his last living relatives.
In the year 2009 extended DNA-tests were carried out with the mummy of Tutankamun and other members for his family. These were only partiallypublished in February 2010. Despite several demands, the results of the Y-DNA tests have been shut away.
iGENEA was able to reconstruct the Y-DNA profile of Tutankhamun, his father Akhenaten and his grandfather Amenhotep III with the help of a recording of the Discovery Channel. The astonishing result: Tutankhamun belongs to the haplogroup R1b1a2, which includes more than 50% of all men in Western Europe.
Background: The haplogroup R1b1a2 arose about 9.500 years ago in the surrounding area of the Black Sea. The migration of this haplogroup into Europe started at the earliest with the spread of agriculture since 7.000 BC. It is very probable that it is also connected to the Indoeuropeans who spread over Europe a little later in several waves of migrations.
In Egypt, the contingent of this haplogroup is below 1% and partially caused by European immigration during the last 2,000 years. Tutankhamun was the last Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty and ruled from about 1.332 until 1.323 BC. His paternal lineage begins with Pharaoh Thutmose I. who ruled from about 1.504 until 1.492 BC. His paternal ancestry is unknown. Therefore it is not clear at this point of time, how this lineage came from its region of origin to Egypt.
The fourth expansional wave of the probably Indoeuropean Kurgan Culture between 2.500 and 2.200 BC is also a good candidate. This culture spread since 4.400 BC to Europe which explains the correlation with haplogroup R1b1a2. This haplogroup was also widespread in the indoeuropean Hittite empire in Anatolia. From the time of Akhenaten's or Tutankhamun's reign a letter of an Egyptian queen is known from the Hittite archives. In this letter she asks the Hittite King for one of his sons as a new Pharaoh because her husband died and she herself had no son. The identity of the queen is unknown, perhaps the 18th dynasty was related to the Hittites, the origin of the R1b1a2-lineage could point to this. The detailed context can only be clarified by further research. By the publication of the test result we want to contribute to the scientific discussion and bring it forward.
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DRAGON SOURCE FAMILY
Despite "elitist" accusations, metaphysical memes, reptilian ridicule, and books which compound our bloodline Mystery, (such as Holy Blood/Holy Grail, The Da Vinci Code and films such as "Bloodline"), the Dragon/Grail families are not missing, hiding, nor sequestered. Here we are in broad daylight with or without the aid of the Priory of Sion or other legendary bodies claiming a relationship with this noble line. We aren't Hollywood or conspiracy media cliches: aliens, angels or devils, satanists, reptiles, the Undead, New World Order, Dungeon Masters, scheming Illuminati, or any other evil cabal. We are simply dragon - First Nation, Lords of the Tree of Truth & the Secret Knowledge Therein.
Lineal Descent.
History is being systematically pushed back to around 50,000 years ago. Over the centuries the various royal houses which constitute the Sovereign Grand Duchy of Drakenberg have been known by many names in various places: the Fallen House, the Lost Tribes, Anunnaki, the Fairy Folk, Elves, Vampires, Druids, Serpents, Goths, Templars, Jacobites, Illuminati, Saka, Khazar, Ashina. The list is interminable, tracing back to the proto-historical homelands in Transylvania and the Altai Mountains of Central Asia, when "dragon" armour clad proto-Scythian warriors roamed the Steppe on horseback.
Today's "shining ones" constitute a microcosmic "U.N." of global dragon kin. We are Gaian, Christian, Gnostic, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, mystics, shamans, and adherents of the Perennial Philosophy. We are vocally engaged in global politics in a move toward transparency, outreach and consultancy. We are seers, artists, writers, teachers, journalists, and scientists. We are economists, financiers, civil servants, entrepreneurs, politicos and ambassadors of good will. Most fundamentally, we are one family, one blood, one vision.
We are dedicated to advancing approaches to the study of its heritage in a critically informed, historically responsible manner. Dragon heritage designates a broadly interdisciplinary approach to that study, integrating research from neurosciences, genetics, depth psychology, anthropology, shamanism, and philosophy. We wish to consider the ways in which genetic, linguistic, historical, esoteric, and ethnographic data can be used to test theories and discuss theoretical and methodological concerns that are directly relevant to study, research and data interpretation. We have surveyed and are correlating historical sources and secondary sources: legends, folklore, astrological, genealogies, tales, chansons, oral histories, mystical writings, etc. Even genetic genealogy requires interpretation.
Gene regulation, expression, and repair. Non-coding (for protein) Satellite DNA is the anchor for mitosis. But such 'junk DNA' does contain a code or order that is linked to language and controls gene expression. New studies present genomic evidence that a major functional consequence of Alu exonization is the lineage-specific evolution of translational regulation. Moreover, the preferential creation and establishment of Alu exons suggest that Alu exonization may have globally affected the evolution of primate and human transcriptomes by regulating the protein production of master transcriptional regulators in specific lineages. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/01/27/1012834108
Hermeneutics is the study of theories and methods of the interpretation of systems of meaning, including interpretations of experience, or human behavior generally. It includes language and patterns of speech, social institutions, and ritual behaviours (such as religious ceremonies, political rallies, football matches, rock concerts, etc.). It is a specific method or theory of interpretation, such as Freud or Jung's depth psychologies. The word hermeneutics is a term derived from 'Ερμηνεýς, the Greek word for interpreter. This is related to the name of the Greek god Hermes in his role as the interpreter of the messages of the gods. Hermes was believed to play tricks on those he was supposed to give messages to, often changing the messages and influencing the interpretation thereof. The Greek word thus has the basic meaning of one who makes the meaning clear. A DECODER.
DNA Vortex
The first form of Spirit is the Dragon Spiral, or Vortex and Golden Mean that as pure energy crystallized to become physical matter. Thus, all material form, including the human body, is based upon the spiral and Golden Mean (and the pentagram that is based on the Golden Mean). Dragon Vortex:
Alchemical Wedding (Walter Bruneel) incorporating white, black and red Dragon Energies.
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DRAGON FIELD
Source Field Plenum of Information
THE CHURNING OF THE MILKY OCEAN
Fountainhead of Manifestation * Fuller Consciousness
Zero-Point Vortex
Authenticity and legitimacy are based on factual history and the power of sacred history.
No One is "returning", because the One Blood never left. It is always " right here, right now".
In the family, no one is ever "gone" - they are all alive and well within our inner consciousness:
One Blood, One Life - immortal.
We die just in time.
Nothing Moves.
Is there life after death in the Infinite Field, in the vast Dragon Egregor?
At minimum, it is a vortex of existential revelation fraught with meaning.
When the time comes for the Ancestors to call, the Robe opens the Gate and lights the Flame for the Blood to cross through. The awareness crosses to swim once again in the ocean of the ancestral mind. The oneness of the ancestral spirit is empowered by the love of their children once again embraced by the arms of the mother and father.
How we view our life as a story often determines how life treats us.
If we see our life as a trivial story, we fall easily into inertia and defeat. Seeing our life as a larger story puts us back on our feet and makes it possible to get on with life. A great story, however, can fill us with the passion for the possible, give us access codes to infinite possibilities, and grant us a mythic life.
No One is "returning", because the One Blood never left. It is always " right here, right now".
In the family, no one is ever "gone" - they are all alive and well within our inner consciousness:
One Blood, One Life - immortal.
We die just in time.
Nothing Moves.
Is there life after death in the Infinite Field, in the vast Dragon Egregor?
At minimum, it is a vortex of existential revelation fraught with meaning.
When the time comes for the Ancestors to call, the Robe opens the Gate and lights the Flame for the Blood to cross through. The awareness crosses to swim once again in the ocean of the ancestral mind. The oneness of the ancestral spirit is empowered by the love of their children once again embraced by the arms of the mother and father.
How we view our life as a story often determines how life treats us.
If we see our life as a trivial story, we fall easily into inertia and defeat. Seeing our life as a larger story puts us back on our feet and makes it possible to get on with life. A great story, however, can fill us with the passion for the possible, give us access codes to infinite possibilities, and grant us a mythic life.
EPOCH-alypse:
The Change of Age is the Birth of a New Era Mythology
The prime paradigm of each era is that of its Age. We are at the grand cross, entering Aquarius. This age is the Hope or Star card. The Star card has 8 stars with 8 points, a sign of the grand cross.
Our story can only be understood against the vast backdrop of the archetype of Eternal Return -- the Great Cycle of Precession which changes world Ages, but not without catastrophic growing pains. What happens in the grand cosmic cycles happens within our individual life cycles. The Dragon remains unchanging at the heart of this process. Earth wants an answer to Chaos, and it may be We Dragon. The axiom "As Above, So Below" means Earth's sacred dragon clan mystically connects with the Dragon, the "Infinite Nothing" at the center of the Universe. Society is recalibrated from this cosmic zero-point -- an Archaic Renaissance begins the Great Cycle anew, and Earth once again knows the Dragon's footprint.
The Dragon symbolizes the universal ether as the fundamental light frequency or form of ‘pure energy’. All other forms of energy are a modification of this primal energy, creating the impression of a concrete physical world, along with the astral impressions of the imagination, and the various sensations and perceptions that accompany human existence. It appears that reality has two aspects: the underlying field continuum, and the nature of the form perceived in it. The mere probability of measurable particle level asymmetry remaining beyond the Big Bang suggests that antimatter may be significantly influencing brain dynamics and conscious mindstates.
The Dragon is Anima Mundi, the divine spirit is in all living things, the soul of the universe -- source of all life. She gave us the divine spark, the innate divine potential within us. This is a power that can only be activated by immersing us in the black waters of Tiamat, in the depths of the subconscious where the dragon lies asleep waiting to be awakened.
The darkness contains the hidden treasures of the soul. This darkness is the gateway to the deepest levels of being, our latent hidden potential. The Enuma Elish is a text that describes the war between the forces of Light and Darkness, that took place before the earth and man were created. The Darkness is symbolized by Tiamat, the Goddess of Chaos Dragon. She remains in waiting for the awakened ones whose blood was created from the earth. We find the divine spark of the divine and immortal and find enlightenment in the vast and endless ocean of darkness.
Our practices include techniques for dreams, astral practices, meditation, trance, visions and ritual work that enables us to face our own shadow and descend into the depths of his mind to find their divine potential. The only light that exists is our own divine spark,self-reliance and absolute commitment. Our work is not based on ceremonial magic. Techniques, rituals and magical tools are just symbols that help us tune our minds so we can develop hidden abilities.
The magic of the Philosopher's Stone lies in its seeking. The Stone forms itself. The real magic is inherent in the quest for self-knowledge. In The Golden Tractates of Hermes, the Philosopher' s Stone declares, "My light, exceeds every light, and my good things are better than all other good things. I give freely and reward the intelligent with joy and gladness, glory, riches, delights; and them that "seek" after me I make to know and understand, and to posses divine things."
In the search for the stone, it is the Work that counts. One should not worry too much about the right way. The right way with the wrong man will never succeed. The wrong way with the right man will eventually right itself, for the stone is found somewhere at the crossroads of Heaven and Earth. Those who seek the Stone with true heart, shall be found by the Stone itself.
The Asian Dragon represents chi, or universal prana, feeding on dragon energy. The Dragon is also connected with the serpent of wisdom, the dynamic energy connecting the paths of the tree of life, and sometimes depicted in myth as swallowing the sun or moon during eclipses. It is also related to the kundalini in another context. In one sense, the "central" constellation Draco is the personification of Nuit, and infinite space itself. Ananta, the great serpent which surrounds the Universe, devours its own tail, thereby reducing it to Zero.
Our story can only be understood against the vast backdrop of the archetype of Eternal Return -- the Great Cycle of Precession which changes world Ages, but not without catastrophic growing pains. What happens in the grand cosmic cycles happens within our individual life cycles. The Dragon remains unchanging at the heart of this process. Earth wants an answer to Chaos, and it may be We Dragon. The axiom "As Above, So Below" means Earth's sacred dragon clan mystically connects with the Dragon, the "Infinite Nothing" at the center of the Universe. Society is recalibrated from this cosmic zero-point -- an Archaic Renaissance begins the Great Cycle anew, and Earth once again knows the Dragon's footprint.
The Dragon symbolizes the universal ether as the fundamental light frequency or form of ‘pure energy’. All other forms of energy are a modification of this primal energy, creating the impression of a concrete physical world, along with the astral impressions of the imagination, and the various sensations and perceptions that accompany human existence. It appears that reality has two aspects: the underlying field continuum, and the nature of the form perceived in it. The mere probability of measurable particle level asymmetry remaining beyond the Big Bang suggests that antimatter may be significantly influencing brain dynamics and conscious mindstates.
The Dragon is Anima Mundi, the divine spirit is in all living things, the soul of the universe -- source of all life. She gave us the divine spark, the innate divine potential within us. This is a power that can only be activated by immersing us in the black waters of Tiamat, in the depths of the subconscious where the dragon lies asleep waiting to be awakened.
The darkness contains the hidden treasures of the soul. This darkness is the gateway to the deepest levels of being, our latent hidden potential. The Enuma Elish is a text that describes the war between the forces of Light and Darkness, that took place before the earth and man were created. The Darkness is symbolized by Tiamat, the Goddess of Chaos Dragon. She remains in waiting for the awakened ones whose blood was created from the earth. We find the divine spark of the divine and immortal and find enlightenment in the vast and endless ocean of darkness.
Our practices include techniques for dreams, astral practices, meditation, trance, visions and ritual work that enables us to face our own shadow and descend into the depths of his mind to find their divine potential. The only light that exists is our own divine spark,self-reliance and absolute commitment. Our work is not based on ceremonial magic. Techniques, rituals and magical tools are just symbols that help us tune our minds so we can develop hidden abilities.
The magic of the Philosopher's Stone lies in its seeking. The Stone forms itself. The real magic is inherent in the quest for self-knowledge. In The Golden Tractates of Hermes, the Philosopher' s Stone declares, "My light, exceeds every light, and my good things are better than all other good things. I give freely and reward the intelligent with joy and gladness, glory, riches, delights; and them that "seek" after me I make to know and understand, and to posses divine things."
In the search for the stone, it is the Work that counts. One should not worry too much about the right way. The right way with the wrong man will never succeed. The wrong way with the right man will eventually right itself, for the stone is found somewhere at the crossroads of Heaven and Earth. Those who seek the Stone with true heart, shall be found by the Stone itself.
The Asian Dragon represents chi, or universal prana, feeding on dragon energy. The Dragon is also connected with the serpent of wisdom, the dynamic energy connecting the paths of the tree of life, and sometimes depicted in myth as swallowing the sun or moon during eclipses. It is also related to the kundalini in another context. In one sense, the "central" constellation Draco is the personification of Nuit, and infinite space itself. Ananta, the great serpent which surrounds the Universe, devours its own tail, thereby reducing it to Zero.
SOURCE MYSTICISM: The vacuum (Void, Plenum, Pleroma) plays a key role in structuring the Universe. Astrophysicists says that the vacuum accelerates charged particles, sweeping them up to form concentrations of matter surrounded by vast cosmic voids. Philosophers were right: Nature does abhor a vacuum. Even empty space is seething with activity. It is the vacuum energy fluctuations which cause "white noise" in electronic circuits, and limits the level to which signals can be amplified. Might this be the metaphysical basis of the audible life stream, the Sound, the Word in mysticism?
The so called wave particle duality is illusory. The actual explanation is that at the elemental level of reality things happen in an entirely logical PREdimensional space. Only when quantum decoherence occurs is space actually dimensionalized. All the so called quantum paradoxes are actually describing the way space gets dimensionalized instead of the standard view that quantum events occur within a framework of classically dimensionalized space. The 'fuzzy' stuff is actually space itself rather than quantum particles in space.
The so called wave particle duality is illusory. The actual explanation is that at the elemental level of reality things happen in an entirely logical PREdimensional space. Only when quantum decoherence occurs is space actually dimensionalized. All the so called quantum paradoxes are actually describing the way space gets dimensionalized instead of the standard view that quantum events occur within a framework of classically dimensionalized space. The 'fuzzy' stuff is actually space itself rather than quantum particles in space.
2012 is the Year of the Dragon
~Amplified Awareness~
Blood Calls to Blood
The Dragon is Earthly Cosmic Life Force
Awakening Psychokinetic Bloodlines from the Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Dragon Esoterics
~Amplified Awareness~
Blood Calls to Blood
The Dragon is Earthly Cosmic Life Force
Awakening Psychokinetic Bloodlines from the Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Dragon Esoterics
"To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion, entirely in itself, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own understanding, and with deep humility and patience to wait for the hour when a new clarity is born: this alone is what it means to live as an artist: in understanding as in creating."
--Rainer Maria Rilke
Concealment & Revelation: The Western esoteric tradition represents a distinct form of spirituality extending from Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism and Gnosticism in the early Christian era up until the present. Diffused by Arab and Byzantine culture into medieval Europe, these esoteric currents experienced a marked revival through the Florentine neo-Platonists of the late fifteenth century. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, esoteric spirituality was carried by Renaissance magic, Christian Kabbalah, Natural Philosophy (proto-science), astrology, alchemy, German Naturphilosophie, theosophy, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry until the modern occult revival in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in which Theosophy played an important role.
Alongside and within this Western tradition, Arabic and Jewish currents have played a major role since the Latin Middle Ages. Arabic astrology, alchemy and natural science entered the medieval West through southern Italy and Spain from the tenth century onwards. In the fifteenth-century Jewish kabbalists in Spain and Italy assisted the Christian assimilation of Kabbalah, which henceforth became a major strand of European esoteric spirituality and thought. Accounts of spiritual ascent, angelic hierarchies and religious experience evidence strong commonalities between the Jewish, Christian and Islamic esoteric traditions.
Esotericism, as an academic field, refers to the study of alternative or marginalized religious movements or philosophies whose proponents in general distinguish their own beliefs, practices, and experiences from public, institutionalized religious traditions. Among areas of investigation included in the field of esotericism are alchemy, astrology, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Kabbalah, magic, mysticism, textual hermeneutics, interpretations of ritual/liturgy and art. Esotericism draws a distinction between the theosophic and esoteric. 'Occult' simply means 'hidden.'
Self-Transcending Experience
There are "unknown" qualities of consciousness. Most of us have had anomalous experiences. What can loosely be called 'events' appear within our space and time. During such an event you may have an imaginal conversation with other people, visit strange lands, or interact with total reality in uncommon ways. These events may have a purpose beyond conscious realization, so that we are 'doing more than we know'. Neurological explanations may be inadequate.
Our storied experiences hint at the multidimensional nature of the human psyche, and of the self within. Each of us is quite capable of creating psychological bridges to Total reality using this imaginal capacity, an inherent part of our human nature. We operate from the premise that we are delicately balanced between realities, choosing from a myriad of possibilities, using the clear focus of our own consciousness.
Precognition applies from birth, where we are quite aware on unconscious levels of the conditions that we will meet in the life that spreads out ahead of us. Our impulses reflect those unconscious levels of knowledge, and , when followed, will help us make choices. Although the conditions open to us are 'set' in one way, they are still filled with possibilities. We make decisions, based on impulses, inclinations, and proclivities rooted in unconscious knowledge.
Precognition and our impulses are woven together, and with these we continue to create the framework of our lives. You have created your present situation from your nature and the unconscious knowledge you were born with. Your experiences are not the accidental outcome of a mechanical universe. The impulse to act, in one possible direction, is the result of your unconscious knowledge of your possible future.
It is more than neurological psychological structure, or mathematical ideas of statistics. Consciousness is composed of energy. Your psyche can be modeled as an energetic conglomeration , following rules and properties that physics is only beginning to acknowledge. There are certain laws of dynamics that apply to the psyche, which is the energy source of the self, where the self is an energy gestalt of consciousness. That nucleus, according to its intensity, will attract to it certain possibilities from all the energy patterns available to it, the possible choices it has.
Esoterics
The modern term “Western esotericism” is used as a general label for a great variety of religious currents and trends in Western culture – from Antiquity generally, and from the Renaissance to the present more in particular – characterized by their belief that true knowledge of God, the world, and man can only be attained by means of personal spiritual experience or inner enlightenment. The first English usage is found in Thomas Stanley, History of Philosophy(1701), with reference to the mystery-school of Pythagoras who divided his disciples into the "exoteric" (under training), and "esoteric" (admitted into the "inner" circle).
Faivre's differentiation in Access to Western Esotericism (p. 23 & 33-35) is given as follows:
* Mysticism: Direct, often revelatory knowledge (Gnosis) of the Divine, mainly without intermediaries.
* Esotericism: Gnosis through intermediaries, symbols, initiatiory practices, (rituals, theurgy), etc.
* Occultism: Practices or actions deriving their legitimacy from esotericism (where esotericism is theory/worldview and occultism is practice/action that derives from it).
Magic can be religious but it does not equal religion. There are two types of magic - Theurgy and Thaumaturgy, the former being magic as worship, and hence religious, and the latter being magic to do things, which may also be religious or may not. Among the things magic can do is potentiate our higher consciousness, and this is its most suitable use. Nature directly reveals her Wisdom.
Such ceremonial magic relies heavily on symbol system manipulation, identification and dialogue with archetypal forces, with similar results to Jungian amplification, using ritual instead of free association. It makes manifest that which was formerly concealed or hidden from the conscious mind of the participant, leading to experiential knowledge of primordial forces. It builds awareness of the higher vehicles, including the etheric, subtle or energy body, mental body and Light Body. True ritual and ceremonial magic, involves Words of Power, consciousness-altering sounds, gestures, postures and Sacred Movements; means of activating centers and energy systems of the subtle bodies; subtle body diagnosis and healing; methods of attack and defense; metamorphosis and transformation of the bodies; psychospiritual alchemy; philosophy and theology of Cosmos and Chaos.
If one conceptualizes magic as coming from, or through, a god(s) then all magic could be considered religious. If on the other hand one considers magic as either a phenomena of the natural world or a skill of humans, then one might not consider it magical, although if one admits that a deity(ies) created the manifest universe then arguably one might argue that all magiic is religious as it has its source in a god(s).
Magic is totally separable from religion. An atheist magician might well take this position. One who has integrated physical body, conscious mind, and the unconscious already can be distinguished functionally from less developed human beings by consciously inhabiting a wider spectrum of imaginal dimensions of experience. Symbolic meaning is created on the path of individuation. Symbols appear in myths, fairy tales and rituals, as well as dreams, active imagination, and projection. They activate the transcendent function in psychic life and become a primary motivator of change, of transformation. We learn to intuit the past as well as the future to amplify and deepen the present.
Complex Adaptation
Alchemists sought the experience of Unus Mundus, the one world united through material, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects. Science illuminates the spiritual quest, and spiritual tech illuminates the deep nature of matter and our nature. Paradoxically, when we look into the depths of matter, we look into the depths of ourselves. Scientists and mystics report similar phenomena in their models and phenomenology. Focus determines phenomenology when exploring a multidimensional network of pure information. A fully multidimensional network includes multiple types of relations and connections among all possible types of entities.
Spiritual technologies, the software of sacred penetration and amplification, virtually predicted the fine nature of matter as nothing but a complex illusion - what we have come to understand as a hologram. Existence is simultaneously real and unreal, as quantum physics reveals. Mystics have also always emphasized the primal nature of Light, and claimed that we are in fact made of light itself. Science has confirmed this in numerous ways. We now speak about the mystics Law of Vibration in terms of resonance and field theory.
The Philosopher's Stone may be equated with the Body of Light (Photonic Body; Scalar Field Body), the Resurrection Body, or the Immortal Body. Alchemy strives for the experience of spiritual rebirth through the union of opposites, or the sacred marriage. The Philosopher's Stone is also a symbol of the embryonic Self. It is the product of the sacred marriage, which has been characterized in alchemy as the Hierosgamos, Royal Union of the Sun (+) and the Moon (-). The symbolism conceals the Great Mystery. It cannot be known without being experienced.
Husserl's phenomenological approach is one that puts any metaphysics outside the framework of discussion. My own view is a generaliation of this: in essesnce, phenomenological is any methodology involving a decision to ignore/put aside one level/feature. What is that which is put aside varies for different scholars. For myself, I shall give two definition. The first is philosophially oriented in which case what is shunned off is ontology. It seems to me that this is also at> the basis of the Husserlian approach. Second is a psychological view of phenomenology. There what is put aside are: (a) underlying covert computational processes, and (b) underlying brain dynamica. Most of (non-phenomenological) cognitive research today pertains to (a) or (b) or both.
French Iranologist-Islamologist Henry Corbin defines phenomenology based on the Persian Sufi technical term *kashf al-mahjub*, literally meaning "*the unveiling of what is hidden*." This approach revalorizes metaphysics and dismisses the post-metaphysical (and anti-Platonic) perspectives of both Husserl and Heidegger and makes the questions of *being* (in the Aristotelian/Neoplatonic denotation, i.e. being *qua* being) and *phenomena* both synonymous as well as synchronous. It suggests an epistemology by '*intuitive presence*' much like Plato employs both the terms *noesis* as well as *eidai*(i.e. as the act of perceiving the Ideal-Forms) in the Dialogues. Within this constellation, the phenomena of a thing is held to be its very *act of being*, its instantiation or existentiation. In this denotation of phenomenology, epistemology, and ontology -- knowing and being -- are seen as two sides of the same coin.
Magic is therefore not necessarily under the umbrella of religion, and might be conceived as an ancient method of self-potentiation and self-development. Dragon Mysteries, as a current, historically ran parallel to religion. It is a worldview and there are many schools of thought. Dragons are neurologically hardwired for magic, whether they choose to pursue it, or not. The Dragon Mysteries emphasize potentiating the subtle and endocrine systems of clan members, to enhance visionary and illuminative states. Integration of body and mind opens the way to exploration of the unconscious, deepening the meaning of life. The inner void opens into a Plenum. Ultimately, the spiritual domain merges with the mundane into a unified experience of Awareness.
Alongside and within this Western tradition, Arabic and Jewish currents have played a major role since the Latin Middle Ages. Arabic astrology, alchemy and natural science entered the medieval West through southern Italy and Spain from the tenth century onwards. In the fifteenth-century Jewish kabbalists in Spain and Italy assisted the Christian assimilation of Kabbalah, which henceforth became a major strand of European esoteric spirituality and thought. Accounts of spiritual ascent, angelic hierarchies and religious experience evidence strong commonalities between the Jewish, Christian and Islamic esoteric traditions.
Esotericism, as an academic field, refers to the study of alternative or marginalized religious movements or philosophies whose proponents in general distinguish their own beliefs, practices, and experiences from public, institutionalized religious traditions. Among areas of investigation included in the field of esotericism are alchemy, astrology, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Kabbalah, magic, mysticism, textual hermeneutics, interpretations of ritual/liturgy and art. Esotericism draws a distinction between the theosophic and esoteric. 'Occult' simply means 'hidden.'
Self-Transcending Experience
There are "unknown" qualities of consciousness. Most of us have had anomalous experiences. What can loosely be called 'events' appear within our space and time. During such an event you may have an imaginal conversation with other people, visit strange lands, or interact with total reality in uncommon ways. These events may have a purpose beyond conscious realization, so that we are 'doing more than we know'. Neurological explanations may be inadequate.
Our storied experiences hint at the multidimensional nature of the human psyche, and of the self within. Each of us is quite capable of creating psychological bridges to Total reality using this imaginal capacity, an inherent part of our human nature. We operate from the premise that we are delicately balanced between realities, choosing from a myriad of possibilities, using the clear focus of our own consciousness.
Precognition applies from birth, where we are quite aware on unconscious levels of the conditions that we will meet in the life that spreads out ahead of us. Our impulses reflect those unconscious levels of knowledge, and , when followed, will help us make choices. Although the conditions open to us are 'set' in one way, they are still filled with possibilities. We make decisions, based on impulses, inclinations, and proclivities rooted in unconscious knowledge.
Precognition and our impulses are woven together, and with these we continue to create the framework of our lives. You have created your present situation from your nature and the unconscious knowledge you were born with. Your experiences are not the accidental outcome of a mechanical universe. The impulse to act, in one possible direction, is the result of your unconscious knowledge of your possible future.
It is more than neurological psychological structure, or mathematical ideas of statistics. Consciousness is composed of energy. Your psyche can be modeled as an energetic conglomeration , following rules and properties that physics is only beginning to acknowledge. There are certain laws of dynamics that apply to the psyche, which is the energy source of the self, where the self is an energy gestalt of consciousness. That nucleus, according to its intensity, will attract to it certain possibilities from all the energy patterns available to it, the possible choices it has.
Esoterics
The modern term “Western esotericism” is used as a general label for a great variety of religious currents and trends in Western culture – from Antiquity generally, and from the Renaissance to the present more in particular – characterized by their belief that true knowledge of God, the world, and man can only be attained by means of personal spiritual experience or inner enlightenment. The first English usage is found in Thomas Stanley, History of Philosophy(1701), with reference to the mystery-school of Pythagoras who divided his disciples into the "exoteric" (under training), and "esoteric" (admitted into the "inner" circle).
Faivre's differentiation in Access to Western Esotericism (p. 23 & 33-35) is given as follows:
* Mysticism: Direct, often revelatory knowledge (Gnosis) of the Divine, mainly without intermediaries.
* Esotericism: Gnosis through intermediaries, symbols, initiatiory practices, (rituals, theurgy), etc.
* Occultism: Practices or actions deriving their legitimacy from esotericism (where esotericism is theory/worldview and occultism is practice/action that derives from it).
Magic can be religious but it does not equal religion. There are two types of magic - Theurgy and Thaumaturgy, the former being magic as worship, and hence religious, and the latter being magic to do things, which may also be religious or may not. Among the things magic can do is potentiate our higher consciousness, and this is its most suitable use. Nature directly reveals her Wisdom.
Such ceremonial magic relies heavily on symbol system manipulation, identification and dialogue with archetypal forces, with similar results to Jungian amplification, using ritual instead of free association. It makes manifest that which was formerly concealed or hidden from the conscious mind of the participant, leading to experiential knowledge of primordial forces. It builds awareness of the higher vehicles, including the etheric, subtle or energy body, mental body and Light Body. True ritual and ceremonial magic, involves Words of Power, consciousness-altering sounds, gestures, postures and Sacred Movements; means of activating centers and energy systems of the subtle bodies; subtle body diagnosis and healing; methods of attack and defense; metamorphosis and transformation of the bodies; psychospiritual alchemy; philosophy and theology of Cosmos and Chaos.
If one conceptualizes magic as coming from, or through, a god(s) then all magic could be considered religious. If on the other hand one considers magic as either a phenomena of the natural world or a skill of humans, then one might not consider it magical, although if one admits that a deity(ies) created the manifest universe then arguably one might argue that all magiic is religious as it has its source in a god(s).
Magic is totally separable from religion. An atheist magician might well take this position. One who has integrated physical body, conscious mind, and the unconscious already can be distinguished functionally from less developed human beings by consciously inhabiting a wider spectrum of imaginal dimensions of experience. Symbolic meaning is created on the path of individuation. Symbols appear in myths, fairy tales and rituals, as well as dreams, active imagination, and projection. They activate the transcendent function in psychic life and become a primary motivator of change, of transformation. We learn to intuit the past as well as the future to amplify and deepen the present.
Complex Adaptation
Alchemists sought the experience of Unus Mundus, the one world united through material, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects. Science illuminates the spiritual quest, and spiritual tech illuminates the deep nature of matter and our nature. Paradoxically, when we look into the depths of matter, we look into the depths of ourselves. Scientists and mystics report similar phenomena in their models and phenomenology. Focus determines phenomenology when exploring a multidimensional network of pure information. A fully multidimensional network includes multiple types of relations and connections among all possible types of entities.
Spiritual technologies, the software of sacred penetration and amplification, virtually predicted the fine nature of matter as nothing but a complex illusion - what we have come to understand as a hologram. Existence is simultaneously real and unreal, as quantum physics reveals. Mystics have also always emphasized the primal nature of Light, and claimed that we are in fact made of light itself. Science has confirmed this in numerous ways. We now speak about the mystics Law of Vibration in terms of resonance and field theory.
The Philosopher's Stone may be equated with the Body of Light (Photonic Body; Scalar Field Body), the Resurrection Body, or the Immortal Body. Alchemy strives for the experience of spiritual rebirth through the union of opposites, or the sacred marriage. The Philosopher's Stone is also a symbol of the embryonic Self. It is the product of the sacred marriage, which has been characterized in alchemy as the Hierosgamos, Royal Union of the Sun (+) and the Moon (-). The symbolism conceals the Great Mystery. It cannot be known without being experienced.
Husserl's phenomenological approach is one that puts any metaphysics outside the framework of discussion. My own view is a generaliation of this: in essesnce, phenomenological is any methodology involving a decision to ignore/put aside one level/feature. What is that which is put aside varies for different scholars. For myself, I shall give two definition. The first is philosophially oriented in which case what is shunned off is ontology. It seems to me that this is also at> the basis of the Husserlian approach. Second is a psychological view of phenomenology. There what is put aside are: (a) underlying covert computational processes, and (b) underlying brain dynamica. Most of (non-phenomenological) cognitive research today pertains to (a) or (b) or both.
French Iranologist-Islamologist Henry Corbin defines phenomenology based on the Persian Sufi technical term *kashf al-mahjub*, literally meaning "*the unveiling of what is hidden*." This approach revalorizes metaphysics and dismisses the post-metaphysical (and anti-Platonic) perspectives of both Husserl and Heidegger and makes the questions of *being* (in the Aristotelian/Neoplatonic denotation, i.e. being *qua* being) and *phenomena* both synonymous as well as synchronous. It suggests an epistemology by '*intuitive presence*' much like Plato employs both the terms *noesis* as well as *eidai*(i.e. as the act of perceiving the Ideal-Forms) in the Dialogues. Within this constellation, the phenomena of a thing is held to be its very *act of being*, its instantiation or existentiation. In this denotation of phenomenology, epistemology, and ontology -- knowing and being -- are seen as two sides of the same coin.
Magic is therefore not necessarily under the umbrella of religion, and might be conceived as an ancient method of self-potentiation and self-development. Dragon Mysteries, as a current, historically ran parallel to religion. It is a worldview and there are many schools of thought. Dragons are neurologically hardwired for magic, whether they choose to pursue it, or not. The Dragon Mysteries emphasize potentiating the subtle and endocrine systems of clan members, to enhance visionary and illuminative states. Integration of body and mind opens the way to exploration of the unconscious, deepening the meaning of life. The inner void opens into a Plenum. Ultimately, the spiritual domain merges with the mundane into a unified experience of Awareness.
Dragon Magick, Walter Bruneel
META-GENETICS
META-MEMORY * GENE EXPRESSION * EPIGENETICS * BRAIN PLASTICITY * BIOHOLOGRAPHY
Genetic control architecture, Psycho-physiological remodeling, Nonlocal communication.
META-MEMORY * GENE EXPRESSION * EPIGENETICS * BRAIN PLASTICITY * BIOHOLOGRAPHY
Genetic control architecture, Psycho-physiological remodeling, Nonlocal communication.
Crypto-Dragons Rediscovery
We can call anyone of the dragon blood who has yet to discover or prove their dynastic heritage, a "crypto-dragon." Over and over the phenomenon and transformative reaction repeats itself. A seemingly ordinary person somehow develops an interest in their family genealogy, finds a historical Gateway Ancestor, who's pedigree leads them back to medieval times where they find they descend from nobility and royalty. Because of intensive intermarriage among nobles in past eras, finding one royal usually means tapping into several blueblood lines.
At first we are struck with the richness of our personal family story, but soon come to realize many of our noble lines are intimately crossed with those already aware of their Dragon heritage. We come to understand our lineage is that of the greater Dragon Dynasties, who are already deeply involved in their own historical reclamation and heritage projects. We begin to understand that this is, indeed, our tue family.
As the seeker's online search widens, sooner or later they come across some material on the Dragon legacy, or those involved with the Dragon Court or universal dragon culture. There are many fraudulent claimants in this arena, so beware. Given a few hints on where and who to look for, and suddenly they are faced with the mind-blowing distinction that they descend arguably from the oldest royal line on the planet, and that there is a deeper 'reality' to the mythic stories -- a living reality. No one is 'royal' unless the bloodline comes through both parents. None are 'noble' without integrity.
The Dragon God-Kings are rooted in mythic prehistory and extended their rule well into the Classical Period, before they were deposed and separated from their divine-rights by socio-political machinations. Looking to their own family lines and/or genetic genealogy reports, such crypto-dragons come face to face with the relevation of their true being.
Thus awakened, they draw new energy from the collective unconscious and their dragon companions on the same journey to pursue the depths of their being and connection to Cosmos. So it has been, from the dawn of time. Suddenly their 'differences' make sense, possibly for the first time. They may experience an infusion of trustworthy Knowledge welling up from the Plenum within.
Genealogists are now using molecular genealogy, comparing and matching people by matrilineal DNA lineages-mtDNA or patrilineal Y-chromosome ancestry and/or autosomal tests. People interested in ancestry now look at genetic markers to trace the migrations of the human species. You can trace your genealogy by DNA from your grandparents back 10,000 or more years.
Anyone can be interested in DNA for ancestry research, learning how different populations from a mosaic of communities reached their current locations. From who are you descended? What markers shed light on your deepest ancestry? You can study DNA for medical reasons or to discover the geographic travels and dwelling places of some of your ancestors. Specifically, you can interpret your DNA test and/or genealogy for family history.
Initiation opens a communication link between the aspirant and this divine guiding principle -- our inner genius -- fostering balance in the personality as the firm foundation for spiritual development. Maat or 'Balance' was the prime expression of the Egyptian Mystery Schools, because it gave order and meaning to life. In the East, it is called the Tao, a dynamic blending of yin and yang. Balance helps you to achieve the goals you want in life and to manifest your dreams. You can easily integrate this wisdom tradition in your own life. Empowerment comes through grounding and centering
Such knowledge transforms and activates a new level of Being, internally and in the world, at large. The Dragon has come calling and collected its own, informing that consciousness spark with a connection to hyperdimensional depth, with a sense of mission and purpose, with a commitment to the recovery of full Dragon nature and inherent potential of genius for clarity. This is the Path of Return.
The Metaphysics
"Meta-genetics" transcends genetic science, touching on spirituality, metaphysics, and the hereditary nature of Jungian archetypes. The foundations of meta-genetics lie in intuitive insights as old as the Dragon people, however, this is not an ethnic philosophy, but an emergent science. Genetic bonds are psychic and spiritual, rooted in "knowing", in gnosis. Genetic kinship is a time-transcending unity, unbound by our narrow perceptions of the past, present, and future.
Living by synchronicity -- paradoxical but seemingly meaningful coincidences -- isn't just about getting messages or reading 'signs'. It is about immersion in the flow state, being at one with the cosmos. It is about nurturing the poetic consciousness that allows us to taste and touch what rhymes and resonates in the world we inhabit. Through opening ourselves we learn how the world-behind-the-world reveals itself by fluttering the veils of our consensual reality. We learn how to live with one foot rooted in the inner and outer world.
There are spiritual and metaphysical implications to heredity, extending back through the whole history of life. DNA itself carries ancestral memories, the collective unconscious, or the "phylogenetic unconscious" (Grof). Meta-genetic principles also apply to animals, plants, other organic kingdoms, and on down into the quantum and subquantal roots of matter. When we let go of our ego orientation in hypnosis, trance, meditation, vision quest, or consciousness journeys, we can experience identifications from any era and scale of evolution. Isolation, fatigue, hunger, and rhythmic sound are re-discovered as psychic drivers by different generations and cultures.
Altered states may be pleasurable, meaningful, and healing. They are likely to be actively sought in every age and methods of inducing them remembered and transmitted across generations. Collective psyche is inherited, including archaic modes of functioning and residues of animal ancestry, which also reiterate in embryogenesis. The primordial image is a psychic expression of the inherited (ever-recurring) potential of the soul for experience that is psychophysically determined.
Evolution appears in our psychic nature. Stanislav Grof reports that people who had phylogenetic meta-memory experiences or identification with existing life forms not only found them unusually authentic and convincing, but often acquired in the process extraordinary insights concerning animal psychology, ethology, specific habits, or unusual reproductive cycles. In some instances, this was accompanied by archaic muscular innervations not characteristic for humans, or even such complex behaviors as enactment of a courtship dance.
We can call anyone of the dragon blood who has yet to discover or prove their dynastic heritage, a "crypto-dragon." Over and over the phenomenon and transformative reaction repeats itself. A seemingly ordinary person somehow develops an interest in their family genealogy, finds a historical Gateway Ancestor, who's pedigree leads them back to medieval times where they find they descend from nobility and royalty. Because of intensive intermarriage among nobles in past eras, finding one royal usually means tapping into several blueblood lines.
At first we are struck with the richness of our personal family story, but soon come to realize many of our noble lines are intimately crossed with those already aware of their Dragon heritage. We come to understand our lineage is that of the greater Dragon Dynasties, who are already deeply involved in their own historical reclamation and heritage projects. We begin to understand that this is, indeed, our tue family.
As the seeker's online search widens, sooner or later they come across some material on the Dragon legacy, or those involved with the Dragon Court or universal dragon culture. There are many fraudulent claimants in this arena, so beware. Given a few hints on where and who to look for, and suddenly they are faced with the mind-blowing distinction that they descend arguably from the oldest royal line on the planet, and that there is a deeper 'reality' to the mythic stories -- a living reality. No one is 'royal' unless the bloodline comes through both parents. None are 'noble' without integrity.
The Dragon God-Kings are rooted in mythic prehistory and extended their rule well into the Classical Period, before they were deposed and separated from their divine-rights by socio-political machinations. Looking to their own family lines and/or genetic genealogy reports, such crypto-dragons come face to face with the relevation of their true being.
Thus awakened, they draw new energy from the collective unconscious and their dragon companions on the same journey to pursue the depths of their being and connection to Cosmos. So it has been, from the dawn of time. Suddenly their 'differences' make sense, possibly for the first time. They may experience an infusion of trustworthy Knowledge welling up from the Plenum within.
Genealogists are now using molecular genealogy, comparing and matching people by matrilineal DNA lineages-mtDNA or patrilineal Y-chromosome ancestry and/or autosomal tests. People interested in ancestry now look at genetic markers to trace the migrations of the human species. You can trace your genealogy by DNA from your grandparents back 10,000 or more years.
Anyone can be interested in DNA for ancestry research, learning how different populations from a mosaic of communities reached their current locations. From who are you descended? What markers shed light on your deepest ancestry? You can study DNA for medical reasons or to discover the geographic travels and dwelling places of some of your ancestors. Specifically, you can interpret your DNA test and/or genealogy for family history.
Initiation opens a communication link between the aspirant and this divine guiding principle -- our inner genius -- fostering balance in the personality as the firm foundation for spiritual development. Maat or 'Balance' was the prime expression of the Egyptian Mystery Schools, because it gave order and meaning to life. In the East, it is called the Tao, a dynamic blending of yin and yang. Balance helps you to achieve the goals you want in life and to manifest your dreams. You can easily integrate this wisdom tradition in your own life. Empowerment comes through grounding and centering
Such knowledge transforms and activates a new level of Being, internally and in the world, at large. The Dragon has come calling and collected its own, informing that consciousness spark with a connection to hyperdimensional depth, with a sense of mission and purpose, with a commitment to the recovery of full Dragon nature and inherent potential of genius for clarity. This is the Path of Return.
The Metaphysics
"Meta-genetics" transcends genetic science, touching on spirituality, metaphysics, and the hereditary nature of Jungian archetypes. The foundations of meta-genetics lie in intuitive insights as old as the Dragon people, however, this is not an ethnic philosophy, but an emergent science. Genetic bonds are psychic and spiritual, rooted in "knowing", in gnosis. Genetic kinship is a time-transcending unity, unbound by our narrow perceptions of the past, present, and future.
Living by synchronicity -- paradoxical but seemingly meaningful coincidences -- isn't just about getting messages or reading 'signs'. It is about immersion in the flow state, being at one with the cosmos. It is about nurturing the poetic consciousness that allows us to taste and touch what rhymes and resonates in the world we inhabit. Through opening ourselves we learn how the world-behind-the-world reveals itself by fluttering the veils of our consensual reality. We learn how to live with one foot rooted in the inner and outer world.
There are spiritual and metaphysical implications to heredity, extending back through the whole history of life. DNA itself carries ancestral memories, the collective unconscious, or the "phylogenetic unconscious" (Grof). Meta-genetic principles also apply to animals, plants, other organic kingdoms, and on down into the quantum and subquantal roots of matter. When we let go of our ego orientation in hypnosis, trance, meditation, vision quest, or consciousness journeys, we can experience identifications from any era and scale of evolution. Isolation, fatigue, hunger, and rhythmic sound are re-discovered as psychic drivers by different generations and cultures.
Altered states may be pleasurable, meaningful, and healing. They are likely to be actively sought in every age and methods of inducing them remembered and transmitted across generations. Collective psyche is inherited, including archaic modes of functioning and residues of animal ancestry, which also reiterate in embryogenesis. The primordial image is a psychic expression of the inherited (ever-recurring) potential of the soul for experience that is psychophysically determined.
Evolution appears in our psychic nature. Stanislav Grof reports that people who had phylogenetic meta-memory experiences or identification with existing life forms not only found them unusually authentic and convincing, but often acquired in the process extraordinary insights concerning animal psychology, ethology, specific habits, or unusual reproductive cycles. In some instances, this was accompanied by archaic muscular innervations not characteristic for humans, or even such complex behaviors as enactment of a courtship dance.
The Science
The memories of mankind are mankind's collective inheritance. Jung modeled archetypes as genetically inherited factors, perceived first as forms without content then as action potentials and mindbodyspirit links. Many people have transcendent experiences in heightened states of consciousness. The phenomena of ancestral memories is arguably a more supportable notion than reincarnation.
We function in a nonlinear field that includes the whole ancestral line. Time openings allow constant information exchanges between past, present and future.They give us intuitions, premonitions and vital instincts.Controlling them enables us to optimize our future before we live it. We are in an evolutionary partnership to unleash the genius that lies in the depths of our being. We are literally drawn from the smaller, personal self to the larger, universal possibility.
Meta-genetics is a separate field at the very heart of genetics -- the study of how inheritance itself evolves, even while it mediates all evolution. It attempts to interpret or explain the organization, structure and dynamics of genetic material -- the master program of the archetypal creative "programmer". The meta-genetic program is the inherent intelligence of the life-force itself.
Today, meta-genetics encompasses a group of related fields including quantum bioholography, genetic linguistics, and wave-genetics. Whether or not genetics is evolving, our view certainly is. The discovery of gene-expression transcended the nature/nurture dichotomy. Meta-genetics accepts two of the major premises of genetics and epigenetics, namely that:
1. The coding portion of the DNA molecule is physically responsible for building proteins; and
2. Regulatory proteins play an important role in interacting with environmental signals to determine which genes in coding DNA are silenced and which are expressed.
From the above, it should be obvious that meta-genetics subsumes crucial, irrefutable aspects of genetics and epigenetics and, thus, respects the relative importance of both nature (genetics) and nurture (epigenetics) in human experience.
For over 3 billion years, all living creatures on this planet have used the same 20 amino acids, even though there are hundreds available in nature. Amino acids are will likely be found throughout the galaxy, hinting at a certain level of predictability in the way things turned out. Would changing the amino acids effect the proteins you could build?
The question of life’s amino acid toolbox is interesting both in tracing the origin of the life on Earth,and in wondering about lifeforms on other planets. A different set of amino acid building blocks would likely result in different characteristics in the resultant life. It begs the question, "Is Earth's DNA unique or a universal constant?"
Concentrations of life-chemicals are found in meteorite samples. The physics of the organic jigsaw don’t need a miracle to generate the chemical cocktail for early life, just a decently large asteroid with the right components. That’s all. The original cells would could pick and choose from early Earth’s organic cocktail. The entire universe could be teeming with life, from the earliest prebiotic proto-proteins to fully DNAed descendants. The path from one to the other is long, but in thirteen and a half billion years we know it happened at least once.
Scientists wondered if life could have arisen based on a different set of amino acids. They used computers to estimate the fundamental properties of the 20 amino acids life uses, such as size, charge and hydrophilicity, or the extent to which the molecules are attracted to water. There are three important ways to build proteins, but no other combinations end up producing the numbers of successful offspring that the existing set achieved. Life seemingly did not choose its 20 building blocks of chemical code randomly. Life knew exactly what it was doing.
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May the blessing of Light be on you
Light without and Light within.
May the blessed sunlight shine on you like a great peat fire,
So that stranger and friend may come and warm himself at it.
And may Light shine out of the two eyes of you,
Like a candle set in the window of a house,
Bidding the wanderer come in out of the storm.
Light without and Light within.
May the blessed sunlight shine on you like a great peat fire,
So that stranger and friend may come and warm himself at it.
And may Light shine out of the two eyes of you,
Like a candle set in the window of a house,
Bidding the wanderer come in out of the storm.
DRAGON PEN
Art by Walter Bruneel
Dragon Meta-Program
In an ideal world, this would be the nature of dragon culture; alas, the world is not ideal:.
We suggest Dragon culture is a meta-program initialized internally or kindled by contact with dragonkin, even crypto-dragons who do not recognize themselves. Meta-programs in general are programs that kindle, create, control or make decisions about programs, such as when and how to run them, preferred and unpreferred programs, and strategic choices of fall-back or alternative programs. Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) uses the term specifically to indicate the more general pervasive habitual patterns commonly used by an individual across a wide range of situations.
In NLP, the term programs is used as a synonym for strategy -- specific sequences of mental steps. The meta-program tells you what to do with the information you are getting. You can use the same strategy to process a lot of different kinds of information, which guide and direct other thought processes. Specifically they define common or typical patterns in the strategies or thinking styles of a particular individual, group or culture. Ideally, we have the capacity to superpotentiate one another.
The Draconian meta-program, which operates as a communal Social Cradle, influences the following:
Neural Ecology, Biosocialization & Cultural Adaptation
Research suggests, we can literally turn on one another's genes, perhaps operating hyperdimensionally in primordial domains beyond the emotional and cognitive. Biosocialization is a symbolic penetrative process.
Associations are produced through the neurobiological effects of cultural adaptation of individual learning and memory on the development of the brain's neuronal microstructures (Castillo, 1997a). Synaptic structure formation is plastic, or malleable, a response to learning created by repetitive and synchronous activation of nerve fiber systems. The formation of learning and memory associations involves a repetitive use of cultural schemas to interpret interactions with the environment. This results in cultural schemas being imprinted in the brain microstructures during the formation of neural pathways. Learning, adaptation, stress, and cultural interpretations of these experiences have effects on the formation of neural microstructures, dendrites, neurotransmitter receptors, and hormones. Socialization thus embeds cultural patterns of thinking in the formation of nervous system circuitry (Castillo, 1997a).
Socialization links neurons into networks through adaptation to the environment, one that is mediated by culture and language. Symbolic relationships between cognition and behavior "tune" the body—its muscles, organs, and nervous system—into specific response patterns.
The symbolic process is fundamental to the neural organization of experience, the development of models of the environment, and organisms' basic affective, behavioral, and cognitive responses. Symbols present in socialization processes that evoke particular physiological responses—for instance, symbols associated with rituals that induce relaxation—create associations that subsequently enable those symbols to evoke the same relaxation responses. These response patterns become habitualized, responding in programmed ways that operate outside of consciousness. (Winkelman)
Dragon life activates latent parts of our DNA blueprint, awakening dormant potential and a supercharged holographic model, or Light Body. Dragon culture has always advocated looking at a multidimensional reality governed by forces that are invisible or disguised to theories generated by other paradigms. Without the paradigm, the theory is impossible to formulate. Without the theory, no hypothesis can be tested. Experiments come along after the ability to ask new questions, not before.
Dragon Gene-Expression
Gene expression is the cellular process that decodes the genetic information in DNA and converts it into proteins. It is regulated at many levels: when messenger RNA is transcribed from DNA; when mRNA is translated into proteins; and at the epigenetic level, when the structure of chromatin, coils of DNA wound around histone proteins, is altered. Although most discussion of gene expression focuses on the regulation of transcription, the other components of the process are also crucial. Yet little is known about how they are integrated. (Rossi, 2010)
Work by Tom Misteli at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and his team provides a striking example of the integration of seemingly disparate components in gene-expression regulation (Luco et al., 2010). They describe how patterns of alternative splicing of newly made RNA, a key regulatory mechanism, can themselves be regulated by specific chemical modifications in the chromatin. They also found that a given set of modifications to histones predicts patterns of RNA splicing. The authors conservatively estimate that this mechanism occurs in dozens to hundreds of genes in the human genome. This remarkable study makes a connection between a quintessential transcription-regulation mechanism, histone modification, and a post-transcriptional process, alternative splicing. It shows that chromatin can regulate not only how much of a protein, but also which protein, is made in a cell. We have seen a surge of intriguing studies suggesting that molecules that were thought to regulate transcription also direct epigenetic modifications, modify alternative-splicing patterns and participate in the intracellular transport of RNA.
Deep Psychobiology
Dragon culture modifies synaptic connections that underlie associative learning. Psychological, social, and cultural signals modulate gene expression. Psychosocial Genomics measures changes in the deep psychoblological process of “activity or experience-dependent gene expression and brain plasticity” associated with creativity and healing. Psychosocial genomics produces long-term changes in behavior, vision and worldview, through learning and morphological changes in gene expression that alter the strength of synaptic connections. Structural changes alter the anatomical pattern of interconnections between nerve cells of the brain. Stated simply, the regulation of gene expression by social factors makes all bodily functions, including all functions of the brain, susceptible to social influences. (Rossi)
Dragons exert a therapeutic, novel and excitatory effect on each other. This shared trance of focused awareness is born of resonance and amplification through feedback, a consensus paradigm or worldview, rooted in the Tree of Knowledge or gnosis. Not only does dragonkin transform us, our male and female ancestors are nested within us like Russian matryoshka dolls, as fractals of the universal. Surprise motivates memory and learning in a self-reinforcing culture. It primes the pump of the unconscious. Classical theories offer no no satisfying understanding of the dragon sense of adventure, quest, spiritual striving, and the experience of the numinosum — the sense of fascination, mystery and the tremendous. This is our Dragon Legacy.
Uber-thought
Creativity is generally addictive for a very good reason -- the sensation of being in a state of full concentration or hyper-concentration is both pleasant and productive.
The research of Waelti, Rossi and others opens a new model of the relationships between the most interesting and motivating experiences of consciousness and the molecular dynamics of memory and learning that are described as the “novelty-numinosum-neurogenesis effect” (Rossi, 2002). It isn't what is expected and easily predictable in human affairs that is motivating, but the exact reverse. That which is surprising, unknown, and unpredicted garners our attention and sets us forth on the human quests for problem solving and creative adventure in the novelty-numinosum-neurogenesis dynamics of mind-body communication and healing explored by the new discipline of psychosocial genomics.
The neuro-molecular dynamics of the brain state and physiological substrate of priming underlies its potential efficacy - priming plasticity. priming may be the key to controlling the strength of chemical transmission between nerve cells. The roots of cognition, behavior, learning and memory are embedded in the brain’s intricate network of nerve cells and their specialized points of contact, the synapses. Synapses can convert electrical impulses into chemical signals and back again, as well as modulate the strength of the transmitted signals. This ability to modify the strength of transmission -- known as synaptic plasticity -- is theorized as the cellular basis of the brain's ability to compute, learn and remember. Neuro-gnosis
Neurognostic structures organize experience and cognition, and correspond somewhat to Carl Jung's archetypes. Jung was ambiguous about the ontological status of the archetypes and the collective unconscious, because of the inadequacy of the science of his day. Modern developments in the neurosciences and quantum physics - especially the new physics of the vacuum - allow us to develop Jung's understanding of the archetypes further. Direct neurophysiological-quantum coupling suggests how neural processing and quantum events may interpenetrate.
He insisted that the archetype is not merely another word for the physiology of the image or thought. While it included the physiological basis of knowledge, the concept was intended to run deeper - deep into the instincts and beyond, outward into the universal ground of existence. Archetypes form the total ground - the collective unconscious - upon
which conscious cultural and personal experience develops. These structures are the products of natural selection, and are the impressions left by recurrent experiences of the species upon the nervous systems of individuals.
They generate (or "cause") an endless variety of transformations that are experienced as images and ideas had in dreams, fantasies and visions. These images and ideas bear the mark of personal and cultural conditioning, and
the archetypes themselves are involved in the development of consciousness. The archetypes produce all of the universal material in myth and ritual drama. Archetypal experiences tend to be numinous and transpersonal in their
impact upon personal development, for they are the eruption of archaic and timeless meaning into the personal world of the ego.
The archetype exists as the intersection of spirit and matter. We are now beginning to understand in a scientific way how this intersection might be possible, if by "spirit" we mean the order of the quantum sea. Human experience becomes the localized instantiation of the universal - the transcendental - through the medium of neurognosis. And neurognosis is precisely the local embodiment of the structure of the sea, and at the same time the structures mediating consciousness.
When Michael Persinger suggests in his book, Neuropsychological Bases of God Beliefs (1987), that certain experiences of unity with the Godhead may be mediated by structures in the temporal lobes, such an analysis need not imply a reduction of transpersonal experiences to neurophysiology. Among other things, to reduce these experiences to their neurophysiological foundations begs such questions as the profundity of insight, or the causation-at-a-distance that may accompany such experiences. Neurognostic or archetypal structures in the brain may transduce insights pertaining to the universal structure of the quantum sea. Each human brain may indeed prove to be a microcosm that contains - like the proverbial mustard seed, or the more modem hologram - all the wisdom of the ages, requiring only the optimal conditions of development for each person to individuate into a sage. http://neurotheology.50megs.com/index.html
Rossi reports that neurogenesis can occur in the motor cortex simply through the act of imagining playing the piano (Pascual-Leone, Amedi, Fregni, & Merabet, 2005). Similarly, taxicab drivers develop the areas of their brains involved in spatial relationships by memorizing the labyrinthine streets and avenues ofthe cities in which they work (Maguire et al., 2000). Although the underlying mechanisms are different, neuroplasticity research suggests that challenging learning experiences can lead to the development of brain tissue in a manner analogous to the ways that physical exercise can lead to the development of muscle tissue.
One area of research that has found significant evidence of mental training leading to neuroplastic modifications in brain activity focuses on the study of meditation. Meditation, although greatly varying in technique and purpose across the diverse spiritual and cultural traditions in which it is used, may be generally defined as the intentional practice whereby one grasps "the handle of cognition" to cultivate a competent use of one's own mental capacities, gaining agency over thought and emotion (Depraz, Várela, &Vermersch, 2003). Such intentional mental training has been shown to induce functional neurobiological changes.
Jung's reference to the essential unknowability of the archetypes-in-themselves also applies to neurognostic structures. Neurognosis may also refer to the functioning of these neural structures in producing either experience or some other activity unconscious to the individual. This usage is similar to Jung's reference to archetypal imagery, ideas, and activities that emerge into and are active in consciousness. This includes ancestral / genetic memory. We cannot understand a thing until we have experienced it inwardly. In the inward experiencethe connection between the psyche and the outward image or creed is first revealed as a resonance, relationship or correspondence.
Jung's genius was in holding the tension of opposites of mind-body dualism - that is, between experiential relativism on the one hand. and physical reductionism on the other. It was clear to Jung that an individual's experience is both structured by processes universal to the human psyche, and the manifestation of individuation. Holding the tension of the opposites one transcends them. Holding a divine "tension," allowis a new consciousness to unfold. As hybrid "spirit-matter" beings, we must realize it is appropriate for us to be living in two worlds at once -- the world of the ego and the world of the soul. We do not become one watered-down nondescript composite: we each bring forth our entire way of being -- which is a very rich and inviting way to live.
Today the Divine Feminine archetype -- for which our world is starved and needful -- is teaching us many new ways. She does not defeat "the dragon" on her heroine's journey as does a masculine hero. She accepts the dragon for having 'dragon nature' and loves it for what it is. In this way she conquers her "enemy" through the potent energies of the heart. This higher way dissolves all dualism. Instead of me against the dragon, it's the dragon and I are one.
You can't wait to discover something without knowing how it is going to happen. Expectancy and surprise in the neuro-psycho-physiology generate detectable changes in the dynamics of gene expression and neurotransmission. Regulation of the priming step of the neurotransmitter release has important consequences for memory, learning, problem solving, and behavior change at the synaptic level. A synaptic protein called RIM, among others, is involved in a key regulatory step of synaptic plasticity facilitated by priming the synaptic vesicles between neurons to release their neurotransmitters. Cultural Genomics has profound implications for understanding the human condition. Dragon culture is a coherent underground stream, unlike the chaos of contemporary mass-media.
The molecular messengers generated by stress, injury, and disease can activate immediate early genes within stem cells so that they then signal the target genes required to synthesize the proteins that will transform (differentiate) stem cells into mature well-functioning tissues. Such activity-dependent gene expression and its consequent activity-dependent neurogenesis and stem cell healing is proposed as the molecular-genomic-cellular basis of rehabilitative medicine, physical, and occupational therapy as well as the many alternative and complementary approaches to mind-body healing.
The therapeutic replaying of enriching life experiences that evoke the novelty-numinosum-neurogenesis effect during creative moments of art, music, dance, drama, humor, literature, poetry, and spirituality, as well as cultural rituals of life transitions (birth, puberty, marriage, illness, healing, and death) can optimize consciousness, personal relationships, and healing in a manner that has much in common with the psychogenomic foundations of naturalistic and complementary medicine. The entire history of alternative and complementary approaches to healing is consistent with this new neuroscience world view about the role of psychological arousal and fascination in modulating gene expression, neurogenesis, and healing via the psychosocial and cultural rites of human societies. (Rossi, 2003).
The bioinformatics of psychosocial genomics in alternative and complementary medicine.
A single genotype, the genetic blueprint of an organism, can be expressed in a multiplicity of distinct physiological and behavioral forms, known as phenotypes. The mechanisms by which such different phenotypes are expressed are just beginning to be understood, but they appear to involve the regulatory effect of internal and external environmental signals on stress hormones, which in turn modify gene transcription processes (Kandel, 1998; Rossi, 2004).
Experiences modulate gene expression. In turn, experience-dependent modifications to neural tissue may be driven by epigenetic processes (that is, changes in gene expression produced by environmental determinants) .The human environment is constantly conditioned by social experiences, which, when transduced by the nervous system into electrochemical signals, may modulate protein synthesis in the nuclei of nerve cells, ultimately leading to changes in the replication and growth of neurons. Social experience can change gene expression, leading to the restructuring of the
brain through neuroplasticity.
Creative adaptation
Psychological experiences of trauma, stress, and surprise evoke psychobiological arousal to engage the levels of gene expression and protein synthesis could also facilitate neurogenesis, creative problem solving and healing. The complementary dynamics of expectancy and surprise act as a complex system of creative adaptation to facilitate rehabilitation and healing on many levels of human experience from mind to gene expression. Psychosocial experiences of expectancy, by contrast, may prime more focused and predictable hypnotic responses by modulating neurotransmitter release at the synaptic vesicle level between neurons. We can all learn to facilitate our evolving consciousness with numinous experiences of Art, Beauty, Truth, and Happiness in our daily creative work of building a better brain.
Current research has identified at least three different mechanisms whereby environmental factors such as trauma, stress and surprise can interact with the genomic level.
1. Modulation of gene expression;
2. Alternative splicing of genes to produce different proteins, and
3. Translocation of neuritic mRNA during long-term neuronal hypersensitivity.
Since these three psycho-genomic mechanisms are fundamental in integrating mind-gene communication (information transduction) during health, stress and healing (Rossi, 1990, 1994, 2002)
Emergent Interactionism
These new biopsychosocial sciences are consistent with a view of human beings as holistic, recursive systems structurally coupled with their environments in a process of mutual change (Maturana & Várela, 1987). Intentionality and volition can generate changes in the structure of the brain, the very organ assumed to produce such mental phenomena (Schwartz & Begley, 2002). With this finding, it is evident that human experience is not driven solely from the bottom up by neurobiology and genetics. Instead, there is growing evidence that psychosocial experience can exert a macrodeterministic, top-down force on our biology.
In the philosophy of emergent interactionism, Roger Sperry (1987), Nobel laureate neuroscientist, described macrodeterminism as a higher order, molar level of organization that determines and conditions the activity of lower order, nested subcomponents. Hence, human beings, who are at one level assemblies of organ systems comprising aggregates of cells, which are in turn composed of organic molecules made up of subatomic particles, are not merely the sum of these physical elements.
Instead, the consciousness that emerges from the interaction of these components can act back upon its physical substrate. Thought, emotion, and action trigger neural activity, which can lead to a reorganization ofthe brain, shaping future psychosocial experience. From this perspective, we are not the passive products of neurophysiology and heredity; rather, through our behavior in the social environment, we become active agents in the construction of our own neurobiology and, ultimately, our own lives. We have the power to transcend and transform their limitations into opportunities for growth and well-being.
Genealogists are now using molecular genealogy -- comparing and matching people by matrilineal DNA lineages-mtDNA or patrilineal Y-chromosome ancestry and/or racial percentages tests. People interested in ancestry now look at genetic markers to trace the migrations of the human species. You can trace your genealogy by DNA from your grandparents back 10,000 or more years. But which parts have you activated and which parts remains dormant?
Anyone can be interested in DNA for ancestry research, learning how different populations from a mosaic of communities reached their current locations. From who are you descended? What markers shed light on your deepest ancestry? You can study DNA for medical reasons or to discover the geographic travels and dwelling places of some of your ancestors. How do Europeans in general fit into the great migrations of prehistory that took all to where they are today based on their genetic DNA markers and sequences? Where is the geographic center of their origin and the roots of all people? Specifically, how can you interpret your DNA test for family history? And then, knowing that, what are you able to do with it that might be extraordinary?
The deep psychoblological basis of consciousness and the nascent possibilities for future research in therapeutic hypnosis and all the mind-body therapies.
How can the experience of beauty and truth really be alike? Well, they are both deeply meaningful and motivating for one thing - most people like them!
The really surprising thing is that beauty and truth both heighten the activity of your brain with wonderful excitement!
This heightened activity of our brain turns on "activity-dependent gene expression and brain plasticity" to optimize human consciousness, sense and sensibility at the deepest level of our being!
There is a profound secret of evolution and genius hidden in this! It is an example of how the highest and brightest experiences of our mind and consciousness can modulate the organic molecular-genomic foundation of our physical being.
This implies that our consciousness, mind, brain, and genes activate and co-create each other!
Does this suggest to you any insight into what "enlightenment" is supposed to mean?
Only you can really answer to this question by exploring how your own mind and brain co-create each other. How? By asking yourself a few simple questions.
What are you most curious about?
What seems so exciting that you want more of it?
What is so enlightening that it actually wakes you up with wonder?
What are the most beautiful and fascinating experiences of your life?
What is the truth you would really like to understand?
We suggest Dragon culture is a meta-program initialized internally or kindled by contact with dragonkin, even crypto-dragons who do not recognize themselves. Meta-programs in general are programs that kindle, create, control or make decisions about programs, such as when and how to run them, preferred and unpreferred programs, and strategic choices of fall-back or alternative programs. Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) uses the term specifically to indicate the more general pervasive habitual patterns commonly used by an individual across a wide range of situations.
In NLP, the term programs is used as a synonym for strategy -- specific sequences of mental steps. The meta-program tells you what to do with the information you are getting. You can use the same strategy to process a lot of different kinds of information, which guide and direct other thought processes. Specifically they define common or typical patterns in the strategies or thinking styles of a particular individual, group or culture. Ideally, we have the capacity to superpotentiate one another.
The Draconian meta-program, which operates as a communal Social Cradle, influences the following:
- Paradigm Preference for overview or detail (or generalization v. specificity): The Dragon view is of a vast [pre-]historical panorama full of details reflecting components of dragon heritage, coupled with a deeply informed sense of the Now, the gnostic Plenum. Those details most relevant to personal genetics are given preference, consciously and unconsciously. Divergent perception, framing and thinking.
- Reference System, (Internal or External focus): Whether introverted or extroverted, the internal "Dragoness" orchestrates the magico-mystical experiences of dragonkin, and their interaction with one another. Symbolic healing through metaphors; rebirth paradigm. Social context and symbolic actions produce psychobiological changes in which symbolic cognition is grounded in the body. Nonsemiotic social and biological processes produce healing through meaning in the body and society with coherent mythic narratives. Metaphor links body and society through myth and the archetypes of the body. Processes rooted in the nervous system are presented in subjectively-compelling images. Archetypes arise from interaction of the body with social relations as universal substrate. Intuitive powers manifest in visual symbols. "Knowing how", related to images of the body's action, is the neurognostic foundation of consciousness.
- Modal properties:
- proactive or reactive - awareness of a "higher" mode of being; Observer Self; preference for signs and symbols. Meaning embodied in metaphors. Neurological structuring of phenomenal experience -- neurophenomenology.Rituals and symbols can affect health because socialization associates them with physiological processes. Mental effects on physiological processes are inherent to human functioning because the meaning of situations elicits physiological responses. Our genes provide neurognostic structures and endogenous healing responses. Neurognostic structures are the initial structural and functional organization of neural networks for representing information, which provide the basis for behavior and mind.
- Outcome preferences (towards/away) - Longterm view of the meaning of the global Big Picture; strong sense of fatedness or Destiny. Synchronicities; flow. Our endogenous healing processes are elicited by symbols that are associated with these natural responses.
- Processing
- Comparison: Making distinctions (more aware of sameness or differentness); sociosomatic-psychosomatic interaction shapes the biological responses of emotions. Emotions mediate social relations and the mindbody.
- Match/mismatch. Emotional contagion, empathy and feedback in the Draconian social context, enhance immune system response. Emotional empathy is a form of contagion; psychoneuroimmunological enhancement. Heightened response to unconditioned effects.
- Comparison: Making distinctions (more aware of sameness or differentness); sociosomatic-psychosomatic interaction shapes the biological responses of emotions. Emotions mediate social relations and the mindbody.
- Time orientation (near/far past, present, near/far future) -- Dragons operate with a consciously expanded sense of orientation within the pre-historical/historical span, and also outside of time-boundedness in the transcendent infinity or void of primordial consciousness, in which the contents of the mind are emptied. Also includes ancestral memories of Primordial Time.
- Sorting categories
- Self-other is strongly determined by perception of kinship, resonance, or relatedness.
- Filters: Preferential awareness of people, activities, location, things, information etc. in others' communication
- Self-other is strongly determined by perception of kinship, resonance, or relatedness.
- Rule structure: Preferred social styles (assertiveness, indifference, complacency, tolerance) -- Personal Sovereignty is the preferred mode. Autonomy, autarch, synarchy. Self-Narrative. Strong persona and self-image; self-validation, self-esteem; self-regulation, self-defined; self-healing; self-empowered; self-actualizing.
- Convincer patterns & learning preferences (learn by reading, by observing others, by doing, from own experience) - Gnostic Contagion is a direct effect of shamanic and Dragon culture. Kindling.
- Motivational preferences (power, popularity, or performance) -- Self-motivation is a powerful driver, with inherent rewards generated internally. Integrative mode of consciousness.
- Absorptive Capacity: Mystical / Transcendent Experience is potentiated within the Dragon Social Matrix. Special relationship to creativity, the reality of dream life and ancestral memories. Initiates, mystics, dreamers, poets, inventors. Shamanism as a biopsychosocial paradigm of consciousness and healing. Shamanism is a neural ecology of consciousness and healing. Shamanism is the Original Neurotheology. Ritual procedures for altering consciousness; brain-wave synchronization, soul-flight, ego death, rebirth SoCs. Development enhanced discernment and clarity. Introvertive/extrovertive polarities of mystical experience (Void: absorption, spacelessness, timelessness; Plenum: merger of self and Universe; sense of living unity of all). Manipulation of ergotrophic-trophotrophic system of ANS.
Neural Ecology, Biosocialization & Cultural Adaptation
Research suggests, we can literally turn on one another's genes, perhaps operating hyperdimensionally in primordial domains beyond the emotional and cognitive. Biosocialization is a symbolic penetrative process.
Associations are produced through the neurobiological effects of cultural adaptation of individual learning and memory on the development of the brain's neuronal microstructures (Castillo, 1997a). Synaptic structure formation is plastic, or malleable, a response to learning created by repetitive and synchronous activation of nerve fiber systems. The formation of learning and memory associations involves a repetitive use of cultural schemas to interpret interactions with the environment. This results in cultural schemas being imprinted in the brain microstructures during the formation of neural pathways. Learning, adaptation, stress, and cultural interpretations of these experiences have effects on the formation of neural microstructures, dendrites, neurotransmitter receptors, and hormones. Socialization thus embeds cultural patterns of thinking in the formation of nervous system circuitry (Castillo, 1997a).
Socialization links neurons into networks through adaptation to the environment, one that is mediated by culture and language. Symbolic relationships between cognition and behavior "tune" the body—its muscles, organs, and nervous system—into specific response patterns.
The symbolic process is fundamental to the neural organization of experience, the development of models of the environment, and organisms' basic affective, behavioral, and cognitive responses. Symbols present in socialization processes that evoke particular physiological responses—for instance, symbols associated with rituals that induce relaxation—create associations that subsequently enable those symbols to evoke the same relaxation responses. These response patterns become habitualized, responding in programmed ways that operate outside of consciousness. (Winkelman)
Dragon life activates latent parts of our DNA blueprint, awakening dormant potential and a supercharged holographic model, or Light Body. Dragon culture has always advocated looking at a multidimensional reality governed by forces that are invisible or disguised to theories generated by other paradigms. Without the paradigm, the theory is impossible to formulate. Without the theory, no hypothesis can be tested. Experiments come along after the ability to ask new questions, not before.
Dragon Gene-Expression
Gene expression is the cellular process that decodes the genetic information in DNA and converts it into proteins. It is regulated at many levels: when messenger RNA is transcribed from DNA; when mRNA is translated into proteins; and at the epigenetic level, when the structure of chromatin, coils of DNA wound around histone proteins, is altered. Although most discussion of gene expression focuses on the regulation of transcription, the other components of the process are also crucial. Yet little is known about how they are integrated. (Rossi, 2010)
Work by Tom Misteli at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and his team provides a striking example of the integration of seemingly disparate components in gene-expression regulation (Luco et al., 2010). They describe how patterns of alternative splicing of newly made RNA, a key regulatory mechanism, can themselves be regulated by specific chemical modifications in the chromatin. They also found that a given set of modifications to histones predicts patterns of RNA splicing. The authors conservatively estimate that this mechanism occurs in dozens to hundreds of genes in the human genome. This remarkable study makes a connection between a quintessential transcription-regulation mechanism, histone modification, and a post-transcriptional process, alternative splicing. It shows that chromatin can regulate not only how much of a protein, but also which protein, is made in a cell. We have seen a surge of intriguing studies suggesting that molecules that were thought to regulate transcription also direct epigenetic modifications, modify alternative-splicing patterns and participate in the intracellular transport of RNA.
Deep Psychobiology
Dragon culture modifies synaptic connections that underlie associative learning. Psychological, social, and cultural signals modulate gene expression. Psychosocial Genomics measures changes in the deep psychoblological process of “activity or experience-dependent gene expression and brain plasticity” associated with creativity and healing. Psychosocial genomics produces long-term changes in behavior, vision and worldview, through learning and morphological changes in gene expression that alter the strength of synaptic connections. Structural changes alter the anatomical pattern of interconnections between nerve cells of the brain. Stated simply, the regulation of gene expression by social factors makes all bodily functions, including all functions of the brain, susceptible to social influences. (Rossi)
Dragons exert a therapeutic, novel and excitatory effect on each other. This shared trance of focused awareness is born of resonance and amplification through feedback, a consensus paradigm or worldview, rooted in the Tree of Knowledge or gnosis. Not only does dragonkin transform us, our male and female ancestors are nested within us like Russian matryoshka dolls, as fractals of the universal. Surprise motivates memory and learning in a self-reinforcing culture. It primes the pump of the unconscious. Classical theories offer no no satisfying understanding of the dragon sense of adventure, quest, spiritual striving, and the experience of the numinosum — the sense of fascination, mystery and the tremendous. This is our Dragon Legacy.
Uber-thought
Creativity is generally addictive for a very good reason -- the sensation of being in a state of full concentration or hyper-concentration is both pleasant and productive.
The research of Waelti, Rossi and others opens a new model of the relationships between the most interesting and motivating experiences of consciousness and the molecular dynamics of memory and learning that are described as the “novelty-numinosum-neurogenesis effect” (Rossi, 2002). It isn't what is expected and easily predictable in human affairs that is motivating, but the exact reverse. That which is surprising, unknown, and unpredicted garners our attention and sets us forth on the human quests for problem solving and creative adventure in the novelty-numinosum-neurogenesis dynamics of mind-body communication and healing explored by the new discipline of psychosocial genomics.
The neuro-molecular dynamics of the brain state and physiological substrate of priming underlies its potential efficacy - priming plasticity. priming may be the key to controlling the strength of chemical transmission between nerve cells. The roots of cognition, behavior, learning and memory are embedded in the brain’s intricate network of nerve cells and their specialized points of contact, the synapses. Synapses can convert electrical impulses into chemical signals and back again, as well as modulate the strength of the transmitted signals. This ability to modify the strength of transmission -- known as synaptic plasticity -- is theorized as the cellular basis of the brain's ability to compute, learn and remember. Neuro-gnosis
Neurognostic structures organize experience and cognition, and correspond somewhat to Carl Jung's archetypes. Jung was ambiguous about the ontological status of the archetypes and the collective unconscious, because of the inadequacy of the science of his day. Modern developments in the neurosciences and quantum physics - especially the new physics of the vacuum - allow us to develop Jung's understanding of the archetypes further. Direct neurophysiological-quantum coupling suggests how neural processing and quantum events may interpenetrate.
He insisted that the archetype is not merely another word for the physiology of the image or thought. While it included the physiological basis of knowledge, the concept was intended to run deeper - deep into the instincts and beyond, outward into the universal ground of existence. Archetypes form the total ground - the collective unconscious - upon
which conscious cultural and personal experience develops. These structures are the products of natural selection, and are the impressions left by recurrent experiences of the species upon the nervous systems of individuals.
They generate (or "cause") an endless variety of transformations that are experienced as images and ideas had in dreams, fantasies and visions. These images and ideas bear the mark of personal and cultural conditioning, and
the archetypes themselves are involved in the development of consciousness. The archetypes produce all of the universal material in myth and ritual drama. Archetypal experiences tend to be numinous and transpersonal in their
impact upon personal development, for they are the eruption of archaic and timeless meaning into the personal world of the ego.
The archetype exists as the intersection of spirit and matter. We are now beginning to understand in a scientific way how this intersection might be possible, if by "spirit" we mean the order of the quantum sea. Human experience becomes the localized instantiation of the universal - the transcendental - through the medium of neurognosis. And neurognosis is precisely the local embodiment of the structure of the sea, and at the same time the structures mediating consciousness.
When Michael Persinger suggests in his book, Neuropsychological Bases of God Beliefs (1987), that certain experiences of unity with the Godhead may be mediated by structures in the temporal lobes, such an analysis need not imply a reduction of transpersonal experiences to neurophysiology. Among other things, to reduce these experiences to their neurophysiological foundations begs such questions as the profundity of insight, or the causation-at-a-distance that may accompany such experiences. Neurognostic or archetypal structures in the brain may transduce insights pertaining to the universal structure of the quantum sea. Each human brain may indeed prove to be a microcosm that contains - like the proverbial mustard seed, or the more modem hologram - all the wisdom of the ages, requiring only the optimal conditions of development for each person to individuate into a sage. http://neurotheology.50megs.com/index.html
Rossi reports that neurogenesis can occur in the motor cortex simply through the act of imagining playing the piano (Pascual-Leone, Amedi, Fregni, & Merabet, 2005). Similarly, taxicab drivers develop the areas of their brains involved in spatial relationships by memorizing the labyrinthine streets and avenues ofthe cities in which they work (Maguire et al., 2000). Although the underlying mechanisms are different, neuroplasticity research suggests that challenging learning experiences can lead to the development of brain tissue in a manner analogous to the ways that physical exercise can lead to the development of muscle tissue.
One area of research that has found significant evidence of mental training leading to neuroplastic modifications in brain activity focuses on the study of meditation. Meditation, although greatly varying in technique and purpose across the diverse spiritual and cultural traditions in which it is used, may be generally defined as the intentional practice whereby one grasps "the handle of cognition" to cultivate a competent use of one's own mental capacities, gaining agency over thought and emotion (Depraz, Várela, &Vermersch, 2003). Such intentional mental training has been shown to induce functional neurobiological changes.
Jung's reference to the essential unknowability of the archetypes-in-themselves also applies to neurognostic structures. Neurognosis may also refer to the functioning of these neural structures in producing either experience or some other activity unconscious to the individual. This usage is similar to Jung's reference to archetypal imagery, ideas, and activities that emerge into and are active in consciousness. This includes ancestral / genetic memory. We cannot understand a thing until we have experienced it inwardly. In the inward experiencethe connection between the psyche and the outward image or creed is first revealed as a resonance, relationship or correspondence.
Jung's genius was in holding the tension of opposites of mind-body dualism - that is, between experiential relativism on the one hand. and physical reductionism on the other. It was clear to Jung that an individual's experience is both structured by processes universal to the human psyche, and the manifestation of individuation. Holding the tension of the opposites one transcends them. Holding a divine "tension," allowis a new consciousness to unfold. As hybrid "spirit-matter" beings, we must realize it is appropriate for us to be living in two worlds at once -- the world of the ego and the world of the soul. We do not become one watered-down nondescript composite: we each bring forth our entire way of being -- which is a very rich and inviting way to live.
Today the Divine Feminine archetype -- for which our world is starved and needful -- is teaching us many new ways. She does not defeat "the dragon" on her heroine's journey as does a masculine hero. She accepts the dragon for having 'dragon nature' and loves it for what it is. In this way she conquers her "enemy" through the potent energies of the heart. This higher way dissolves all dualism. Instead of me against the dragon, it's the dragon and I are one.
You can't wait to discover something without knowing how it is going to happen. Expectancy and surprise in the neuro-psycho-physiology generate detectable changes in the dynamics of gene expression and neurotransmission. Regulation of the priming step of the neurotransmitter release has important consequences for memory, learning, problem solving, and behavior change at the synaptic level. A synaptic protein called RIM, among others, is involved in a key regulatory step of synaptic plasticity facilitated by priming the synaptic vesicles between neurons to release their neurotransmitters. Cultural Genomics has profound implications for understanding the human condition. Dragon culture is a coherent underground stream, unlike the chaos of contemporary mass-media.
The molecular messengers generated by stress, injury, and disease can activate immediate early genes within stem cells so that they then signal the target genes required to synthesize the proteins that will transform (differentiate) stem cells into mature well-functioning tissues. Such activity-dependent gene expression and its consequent activity-dependent neurogenesis and stem cell healing is proposed as the molecular-genomic-cellular basis of rehabilitative medicine, physical, and occupational therapy as well as the many alternative and complementary approaches to mind-body healing.
The therapeutic replaying of enriching life experiences that evoke the novelty-numinosum-neurogenesis effect during creative moments of art, music, dance, drama, humor, literature, poetry, and spirituality, as well as cultural rituals of life transitions (birth, puberty, marriage, illness, healing, and death) can optimize consciousness, personal relationships, and healing in a manner that has much in common with the psychogenomic foundations of naturalistic and complementary medicine. The entire history of alternative and complementary approaches to healing is consistent with this new neuroscience world view about the role of psychological arousal and fascination in modulating gene expression, neurogenesis, and healing via the psychosocial and cultural rites of human societies. (Rossi, 2003).
The bioinformatics of psychosocial genomics in alternative and complementary medicine.
A single genotype, the genetic blueprint of an organism, can be expressed in a multiplicity of distinct physiological and behavioral forms, known as phenotypes. The mechanisms by which such different phenotypes are expressed are just beginning to be understood, but they appear to involve the regulatory effect of internal and external environmental signals on stress hormones, which in turn modify gene transcription processes (Kandel, 1998; Rossi, 2004).
Experiences modulate gene expression. In turn, experience-dependent modifications to neural tissue may be driven by epigenetic processes (that is, changes in gene expression produced by environmental determinants) .The human environment is constantly conditioned by social experiences, which, when transduced by the nervous system into electrochemical signals, may modulate protein synthesis in the nuclei of nerve cells, ultimately leading to changes in the replication and growth of neurons. Social experience can change gene expression, leading to the restructuring of the
brain through neuroplasticity.
Creative adaptation
Psychological experiences of trauma, stress, and surprise evoke psychobiological arousal to engage the levels of gene expression and protein synthesis could also facilitate neurogenesis, creative problem solving and healing. The complementary dynamics of expectancy and surprise act as a complex system of creative adaptation to facilitate rehabilitation and healing on many levels of human experience from mind to gene expression. Psychosocial experiences of expectancy, by contrast, may prime more focused and predictable hypnotic responses by modulating neurotransmitter release at the synaptic vesicle level between neurons. We can all learn to facilitate our evolving consciousness with numinous experiences of Art, Beauty, Truth, and Happiness in our daily creative work of building a better brain.
Current research has identified at least three different mechanisms whereby environmental factors such as trauma, stress and surprise can interact with the genomic level.
1. Modulation of gene expression;
2. Alternative splicing of genes to produce different proteins, and
3. Translocation of neuritic mRNA during long-term neuronal hypersensitivity.
Since these three psycho-genomic mechanisms are fundamental in integrating mind-gene communication (information transduction) during health, stress and healing (Rossi, 1990, 1994, 2002)
Emergent Interactionism
These new biopsychosocial sciences are consistent with a view of human beings as holistic, recursive systems structurally coupled with their environments in a process of mutual change (Maturana & Várela, 1987). Intentionality and volition can generate changes in the structure of the brain, the very organ assumed to produce such mental phenomena (Schwartz & Begley, 2002). With this finding, it is evident that human experience is not driven solely from the bottom up by neurobiology and genetics. Instead, there is growing evidence that psychosocial experience can exert a macrodeterministic, top-down force on our biology.
In the philosophy of emergent interactionism, Roger Sperry (1987), Nobel laureate neuroscientist, described macrodeterminism as a higher order, molar level of organization that determines and conditions the activity of lower order, nested subcomponents. Hence, human beings, who are at one level assemblies of organ systems comprising aggregates of cells, which are in turn composed of organic molecules made up of subatomic particles, are not merely the sum of these physical elements.
Instead, the consciousness that emerges from the interaction of these components can act back upon its physical substrate. Thought, emotion, and action trigger neural activity, which can lead to a reorganization ofthe brain, shaping future psychosocial experience. From this perspective, we are not the passive products of neurophysiology and heredity; rather, through our behavior in the social environment, we become active agents in the construction of our own neurobiology and, ultimately, our own lives. We have the power to transcend and transform their limitations into opportunities for growth and well-being.
Genealogists are now using molecular genealogy -- comparing and matching people by matrilineal DNA lineages-mtDNA or patrilineal Y-chromosome ancestry and/or racial percentages tests. People interested in ancestry now look at genetic markers to trace the migrations of the human species. You can trace your genealogy by DNA from your grandparents back 10,000 or more years. But which parts have you activated and which parts remains dormant?
Anyone can be interested in DNA for ancestry research, learning how different populations from a mosaic of communities reached their current locations. From who are you descended? What markers shed light on your deepest ancestry? You can study DNA for medical reasons or to discover the geographic travels and dwelling places of some of your ancestors. How do Europeans in general fit into the great migrations of prehistory that took all to where they are today based on their genetic DNA markers and sequences? Where is the geographic center of their origin and the roots of all people? Specifically, how can you interpret your DNA test for family history? And then, knowing that, what are you able to do with it that might be extraordinary?
The deep psychoblological basis of consciousness and the nascent possibilities for future research in therapeutic hypnosis and all the mind-body therapies.
How can the experience of beauty and truth really be alike? Well, they are both deeply meaningful and motivating for one thing - most people like them!
The really surprising thing is that beauty and truth both heighten the activity of your brain with wonderful excitement!
This heightened activity of our brain turns on "activity-dependent gene expression and brain plasticity" to optimize human consciousness, sense and sensibility at the deepest level of our being!
There is a profound secret of evolution and genius hidden in this! It is an example of how the highest and brightest experiences of our mind and consciousness can modulate the organic molecular-genomic foundation of our physical being.
This implies that our consciousness, mind, brain, and genes activate and co-create each other!
Does this suggest to you any insight into what "enlightenment" is supposed to mean?
Only you can really answer to this question by exploring how your own mind and brain co-create each other. How? By asking yourself a few simple questions.
What are you most curious about?
What seems so exciting that you want more of it?
What is so enlightening that it actually wakes you up with wonder?
What are the most beautiful and fascinating experiences of your life?
What is the truth you would really like to understand?
"Solve et Coagula"
The Lunar Nodes -- the Dragon's Head & Tail -- which move clockwise and opposite each other, visit each pair of Signs for about a year and a half before moving on. In March of 2011, the North Node entered Sagittarius, while the South Node slipped into Gemini, activating the axis. The Nodal dragon remains splayed across this pair well into 2012, drawing us into the issues that emerge from this polarity, and challenging us to engage in the underlying alchemy and transformation of the present.
Sagittarius and Gemini both represent ways of understanding the world. Gemini analyzes and searches for systems while Sagittarius finds the connections between disparate elements. The Gemini method yields Knowledge, the Sagittarian approach Wisdom. Knowledge and Perspective, Power and Purpose - with these, there is little an individual, a nation or a world cannot achieve. In the Eclipse Cycle, the Nodes not only connect a pair of Signs, but change them. The South Node, now in Gemini, asks us to let go, while the North Node, in Sagittarius, urges us to take on more. The combined action of the Nodes creates a process of letting go of affairs in one area of life to commit more deeply to another. With the South Node in Gemini, there is a call to let go of excessive analysis as well as the divisions which no longer serve us. With the North Node in Sagittarius, there is a corresponding call to bring it all together, to figure out what this means for us and what to do about it. But the energy to bring it all together is stuck in the unnecessary division of our mind and our energy. We have to free the energy from the sign in which the South Node resides in order to commit it to the direction the North Node suggests.
Jeremy Stone
Also see
SangREALITY NOW
http://sangreality.weebly.com/index.html
Jungian Genealogy
http://jungiangenealogy.weebly.com/
ANCESTORS & ARCHETYPES
http://ancestorsandarchetypes.weebly.com/
Our genealogy is our natural History. Our psychogenealogy is the natural history of our soul. The ancestors saturate our ordinary lives, as so successful ritual such as genealogy. There is another kind of primordial human in us that responds to a transgenerational approach to the family tree. Jung called it 'the two million year old man," the instinctive self, rooted in nature, who speaks the forgotten symbolic language of the unconscious. As a whole, the Tree symbolizes the true self.
Consciousness is the alchemical prima materia, our awareness, our true selves -- the essence of the Great Work. The mystical marriage is the unification and transcendence of male/female duality. Conflicting drives originating on the spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical levels create splits in the personality. "We can conquer unconsciousness by regular work but never by a grand gesture." (Jung, 1925 Seminar, Page 31)
Jung says that, "The obvious analogy, in the psychic sphere, to this problem of opposites is the dissociation of the personality brought about by the conflict of incompatible tendencies resulting as a rule from an inharmonious disposition. The repression of one of the opposites leads only to a prolongation and extension of the conflict, in other words, to a neurosis."
Further, Jung said that "it very often does not depend upon the use one makes of an image, but rather upon the use the archetypes make of ourselves, which decides the question whether it will be artistic creation or a change of religious attitude.
http://ancestorsandarchetypes.weebly.com/
Our genealogy is our natural History. Our psychogenealogy is the natural history of our soul. The ancestors saturate our ordinary lives, as so successful ritual such as genealogy. There is another kind of primordial human in us that responds to a transgenerational approach to the family tree. Jung called it 'the two million year old man," the instinctive self, rooted in nature, who speaks the forgotten symbolic language of the unconscious. As a whole, the Tree symbolizes the true self.
Consciousness is the alchemical prima materia, our awareness, our true selves -- the essence of the Great Work. The mystical marriage is the unification and transcendence of male/female duality. Conflicting drives originating on the spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical levels create splits in the personality. "We can conquer unconsciousness by regular work but never by a grand gesture." (Jung, 1925 Seminar, Page 31)
Jung says that, "The obvious analogy, in the psychic sphere, to this problem of opposites is the dissociation of the personality brought about by the conflict of incompatible tendencies resulting as a rule from an inharmonious disposition. The repression of one of the opposites leads only to a prolongation and extension of the conflict, in other words, to a neurosis."
Further, Jung said that "it very often does not depend upon the use one makes of an image, but rather upon the use the archetypes make of ourselves, which decides the question whether it will be artistic creation or a change of religious attitude.
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