ahhh  the melodic chant

my heart sings robust and lusty

ahhh the melodic chant

ahhh the melodic chant that spreads out freely

across the immensity

the tone the song of the cosmic choir

ahhh the melodic chant

the channeled sound

the word and the rhythm

ahhh the rippling intensity

the awakened and unashamed lover

ahhh the release of the flaming arrow

to reach the intended mark

the sacred center

ahhh the given gift

the release of the tongue of fire

ahhh the mark that is missed

the thrust rejected

ahhh the release it is done

ahhh the release of desire

ahhh the risk the courage

the boldness commitment

ahhh to receive what returns

strong heart singing

the same as in the beginning

ahhh the original thrust 

ahhh the blessed embrace

ahhh to feel and know

the pleasure of perfect return

the flame at the sacred center 

the enlarged heart 

the spring overflowing its banks

ahhh hesitation dissolved

ahhh the sun and the earth

ahhh the stars and the moon

solar fire links vast spaces between

and i feel the aliveness of all

your spirit enlivens my world

i feel it enter my soul

ahhh the warmth reaching me

ahhh the warmth moving through me

touching all that i know and i love

and passing beyond

ahhh the breath of the being i love

ahhh the blessing released and received

ahhh i feel it so deeply

i see it and know it so well

ahhh the fragrance

again it enters my soul

ahhh i receive it and love it

ahhh the melodic chant

the romance of the cosmic choir 

the romance of the solar fire

the breath

ahhh the breath

of the man and the woman

ahhh the sun and the earth

ahhh the stars and the moon

ahhh the melodic chant

ahhh the romance of the dance

between you and i

ahhh the living world

the grasses and trees and the clouds

the waters and insects

winged ones of water and sky

mangy creatures lumbering on four legs eating

succulent berries and roots insects and stems

upturning rocks hungry for grubs

ahhh the wild energy

ahhh the morning fire

ahhh the flaming heart and the song from the center i love

ahhh for you i sing and

ahhh for you i lift the melodic chant

to you

ahhh to you

i sound the melodic chant

david barnes

Power  of  the  Individual

Alan Hammond   November 19, 2000

As the creative cycle moves on, it is useful if our conscious paradigm of life changes so that we can be more effective in the evolving situation. One of the most important subjects that we could consider is consciousness itself. This mysterious creation is where we experience life. No one has ever seen it, but everything we think, feel, and observe all comes to focus in our conscious minds. The consciousness is a wonderful part of the divine technology, so it is useful to have a closer look at it.

The current western paradigm that we have about consciousness suggests that there are three basic levels. There's the conscious level of mind in which we have all our experiences. Then there's the range which is subconscious, and in this range there are various mechanisms which we know something about. For example all the physical body's processes are governed by intelligence which is unconscious to the conscious mind, but this level of mind is controlling such processes as digestion, body chemistry and so on. The subconscious mind allows one to drive hundreds of miles without giving it a conscious thought. There are also other mechanisms to which I'll just allude—telepathy for example, where we have evidence of being psychically connected with other people. Then there's the aspect of the subconscious mind which is involved with the radiation from a person, which interacts with their environment beyond their conscious perception. This is responsible for drawing certain things or people towards them and repelling others. These are just a few examples of the subconscious mind at work. Then there's the supraconsciousness which we conceive to be the level of mind which connects the undimensional levels of Being with our conscious minds. Through this level of mind we are connected with what Spirit is doing in the undimensional levels of Being, and so our part in the outworking processes of life may be coordinated in what is happening in the Whole. So here is a commonly held paradigm relative to consciousness.

Each individual is a focus point in these three levels of mind. In other words each conscious mind is a focus point in the middle band of vibrational substance in which conscious minds are operational. This spreads throughout the body of mankind so it's quite a large band. It's the same with the subconscious level of mind. Each of us is a focus point in that band of vibrational substance: and likewise with the supraconsciousness. So each of us is a point of focus in these three bands of consciousness. Now this is a very general concept and there are probably other levels of substance and consciousness of which at the moment we know nothing.

Our interest is how to function effectively utilizing this triune mechanism even though we are confined in consciousness to the middle band of substance. How do we engage with the subconscious and the supraconscious and let them be coordinated at the conscious level where we do all our thinking? The key to this relates to what we've called feelings. Living in the conscious level we are aware of many feelings that come from the subconscious levels. We have many connections into the body of mankind, to the planet itself and to many of the processes therein. We have all sorts of feelings which come along those connective lines. Some of them are jangled, vague, uncomfortable; some of them are quite pleasant. We also have feeling connections with the supraconsciousness and these relate more predominantly to such feelings as joy, the ecstatic state, and the adventure of living. Fundamentally our responsibility is to establish in the conscious level a focus of the sense of Identity, which is the divine Self, the divine character, and then to creatively interact with the vibratory patterns represented by the feelings which emerge through the subconscious levels of mind.

One might say that our overall purpose for being alive on Earth is to re-create the experience of heaven in the conscious level of mind so that this becomes the conscious experience. The starting point for this creative accomplishment is to establish in the conscious mind an awareness of true Identity—who I am. I am actually in the undimensional levels of Being as well as having a human body. To bring this awareness out of the undimensional levels and establish it in the conscious levels of substance is the starting point for one's expanded creative activity in the consciousness of mankind, of which one is an integral part. This is so important because if you have a focus point within this conscious band of substance, the radiation coming through that instrument from the supraconscious can have rather dramatic effects in the common band of conscious mind substance. It's rather like when a particular note is bowed on a violin and if there are other violins around, they will all start resonating to that bowed tone. There are even more dramatic examples in the field of chemistry. If one spot of chemical is dropped into certain solutions the whole solution changes instantly. Well so is it with this process of transforming the vibrational bands of consciousness in the body of mankind.

I want to leave that line of thought for a moment and tell you about a television program I saw yesterday. A speaker was addressing some government officials in Washington, D.C., the subject was: factors in the changing world. He was pointing out that twenty years ago the major power centers in the world were nations. He said that over the last twenty years since the expansion of the Internet, some rather radical changes have taken place and today he could identify three major power centers now operational in the global processes. One was still national. But the second one, which was becoming increasingly significant largely because of electronic technologies, was the global commercial conglomerates which were transcending national boundaries and policies and beginning to control much of the movement of financial capital regardless of what the nations felt about it. Their resources were often far in excess of many national budgets.

The third emerging power center related to the individual and he gave three examples. One was Osama bin Laden, the Islamic activist who, by utilizing the Internet is able to mastermind international guerilla warfare against the United States. Here is an interesting example of the emerging power of an individual. Another example was the two Philippino students who, from their home, created and issued their computer virus, which disrupted the business of several large American corporations, causing tens of billions of dollars of damage. And one last example was a lady who utilized the Internet for more apparently creative endeavors. She contacted and organized several hundred international, non-government organizations to neutralize land mines in various countries. This enterprise transcended and even went against various governments' policies. She was very successful and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

These are examples of individuals who have had considerable impact on the global experience and with technology developing exponentially such incidents will undoubtedly increase. We could look at the current American election process and it might well be that it could come down to the decision of just one person, a judge perhaps, who will change the history of the world (at a certain level) by whatever he or she decides.

Human experience and technology invariably reflects in a distorted way what is happening at the spiritual level. And in the human world we see an exponential rise in the power of the individual. This relates to what I was saying earlier about correctly utilizing the divine technology, which is obviously far superior to any human derivation thereof. The changing paradigm to which I referred in the beginning is, that although we have for years emphasized the significance of the individual, the creative processes themselves are beginning to bring this truth much more vividly to consciousness. We are considering it, so presumably we have some responsibility in it. We can either accept that responsibility and take it seriously, or to us it's just another theory, which might indicate we don't have enough substance to appreciate the situation we're in.

Many people consider their lives to be involved with external things, people, and situations of various kinds, but if we consider it, the real meat of life relates to thinking and feeling. No matter what goes on externally, in the end we have to deal with it all in our own consciousness. Here is where the work is done. What is the work? The work is to let all feelings and thoughts be attuned to and governed by the feelings emerging out of the supraconsciousness, which are caused by the lines of force radiating from the undimensional levels of Being into the finest levels of substance in the human mechanism. These feelings of honor, nobility, beauty and the like, can dissipate the feelings which may arise from “below” we say.

In days of yore, in the Bible for example, people were often told to deal with their feelings in certain ways. Sometimes this advice was offered in a negative way, it was presented thus because the negative feelings were uppermost in peoples' experience—for example, Let not your heart be troubled. Let not your feelings be troubled—don't let them dominate your experience. But that's a bit difficult to do in a sense. It's rather like saying “Don't think of a white elephant!” It's almost impossible not to think of the white elephant. It is easier to banish the elephant from consciousness if it is suggested to the person that they think of a beautiful peacock instead. Thus it is really more helpful to say “Express nobility, magnanimity, spaciousness, and love the opportunity of the moment,” rather than “Let not your heart be troubled.” In this way we exercise control in our consciousness.

In the human Internet nobody's in charge. It's an interesting situation. In the “Internet” of the Archangelic Body on Earth, what is needed is a conscious focus of government relative to feelings—and ultimately, government of feelings would result in government of everything else. People often get confused when they discuss control of feelings. For example, I've been suggesting that one assert the divine qualities of character no matter what one is feeling. But “Oh,” some would say, “we mustn't deny our feelings”—our feelings of resentment perhaps. Well we don't deny that we have such feelings, so we're not denying them, but we do deny them the power to control us. We do deny them that, and we assert the creative expression of true character.

From the divine standpoint everything is absolutely under control. It has never been anything else. It is only in the very narrow band of consciousness in which human beings have resided that things seem to be out of control. If, in our conscious experience, there seem to be incomplete, unwholesome experiences, the answer is very simple. It is to intensify the radiation of the heavenly character at the level where the unsatisfactory experience meets who I Am. So we assert our Presence more fully in this level of substance and that produces an increased conscious experience of our character, which is heavenly.

So this is our conscious purpose and it is exciting to let the creative cycle move on and to play our parts moment by moment, knowing our character and being true to that. Simple. We've heard this virtually all our lives now, that this is what is required. The difference today is that we can more consciously see the potential effect this individual function has in the creative cycle, and there's plenty of evidence appearing in the world all around us. As individuals we have an integral part to play in the divine machinery exactly where we are. And what else is there to do? Well nothing. This is exactly why we're here, and we're doing it!

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Karen  Rootenberg

The Coming of the Magi

They left in the early hours of the waking day
Unsure, frightened and doubting.
There were no followers
cheering from the side - (Go Wise Men!)
Only their camels and the wind
and that Star
They were not freaks excited about their purpose
they had a precise uncompromising commitment
to their destiny.
Nothing arbitrary, nothing whimsical
(oh, we can change, always change our minds)
No. A journey under that Star
They felt their individual stars
Aligned with that Great Star.
They had a choice, and they had no choice.
And they would have arrived
Strangers in a strange land
bearing gifts
Broken with joy and longing
They must have been roused
to an unspoken intensity - terrifying
And in witnessing a Birth
They witnessed their own Death
a new dispensation
With absolute precision they were
bound to the New Law.

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Bones  and  the  Cross

Karen Rootenberg

He didn't die on the cross for our sins. Human beings made that up so that we don't have to be accountable for our actions. He has become the ultimate scapegoat. But the cross has significance. It has a great symbolic meaning. He was crucified on the Cross of the World. And we each bear a cross. Of course mostly we don't want to hear this religious 'crap'. We prefer our suburban spirituality which is so much easier to bear. Eat your vegan, do your yoga, consult the astrology charts for the month. Pray for those at Standing Rock. And these are all good things. I am not saying that they are not. But when one substitutes domesticated suburbia for the 'the wild' we pay a price. And wild is not anarchy. It is connection with the powerful forces that spiritually inhere in this world - in us.

We have made bearing a cross something distasteful. But Standing Rock is a cross of sorts. We are all bearing the greed of the corporations who put profit ahead of life. We are all bearing the cross of our own greed; of consumerism. We bear it whether we subscribe to the idea of Christ or not. The power of intensity can feel unbearable to those who need to be comfortable. And we all do to some degree. Of course. Why would one want to be uncomfortable. But it isn't what we want. The stubborn human mind wants to improvise rather than have a clear beat and rhythm. Just as well that our heart, lungs and inner organs don't improvise too much. When they do we start to get things like cancer where rogue cells take over. One can have too much lawfulness which becomes restricting, stifling and authoritarian. But then human beings go to the other polarity (and humanity insists on polarising) which is a society where everyone does exactly what they want - sometimes called anarchy. In the former we become domesticated and bored and trapped, so we turn to the latter for freedom and it becomes escapism. And in escaping we lose meaning.

Playing an instrument has taught me so much about this. It is when I have the bones, the skeleton of lawfulness that I can put my own interpretation into a piece. But if I play it without this it is really awful. It is sentimental, it is mediocre and without the force of my inherent sensitivity. I substitute and compromise. Really it is not pleasant to listen to domesticated music.

We need the skeleton. The cross is a skeleton. It lives as a form in our bodies. We need the bones, the structure of this skeleton. It was an esoteric reality that not one of Christ's bones be broken.

I personally love majestic pictures which draw me closer to the forces living behind this unbelievable world. I do not love this world particularly. I love the spiritual forces that inhere in this world making it alive. I love the Christ force who brought the turning point for humanity.

I turn and in turning I take up my Cross. And in this turning, in this taking up of my Cross I am accountable. I am deeply thankful for this.

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