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Section 6 : Esoteric learning

Originally I called this section ‘Miscellaneous’ but on reading back through it again I thought that moniker did it a dis-service, because the information in here is really more about various pieces of esoteric learning that I have come across in the last year. Each piece is a piece of a larger puzzle. Each piece offers a tiny glimpse of this larger picture that I recognise now as Nature.

Many of the topics I had dismissed long ago when I had first looked at them in my youth. Coming back to them in later years, with more knowledge, more access to knowledge, and greater resources available to me, I have found that most of the topics have some element of value to me. I am always aware, however, that each subject in itself could consume a person and drive them to distraction, so I take their practical essence, learn some basic techniques or practice, then leave the wilder and wider areas to those who wish to become absorbed by them. To me they are all pieces of a larger puzzle.

6-1. Crop circles: Definitely something odd about them. Created using earth energies, and designed by some other unknown motivational force which seems to be external to the Earth (‘extra-terrestrial’ being in the sense of some intelligence that is not born of this planet, whatever that may be). I participated in some way in the triggering of the creation of a crop circle’s formation somehow when I passed by the place where one would shortly come to be produced. The site was in between two established earth energy sites on a ley lineThe term used by many British dowsers to describe an energy leyA straight line of neutral energy linking two or more sacred sites or other energetic centres. This is often confused with Alfred Watkins’ concept of the Ley Line. Strictly speaking a ley line does not necessarily mean a neutral energy line, only a sight alignmentAlignment relates to the concept that humans have their own energy fields that are oriented or formed in a specific way such that the person is either suited better to one energy source of another. Some people have their energy fields empowered by the direct subtle energy force of The Sun, whilst others are empowered by the indirect subtle energy of The Moon. Due to the historical associations and symbolisation of The Sun with masculinity and The Moon with femininity we designate these alignments as either being ‘male’ or ‘female’ alignments accordingly. We interchangeable refer to people as being ‘sun-aligned’ or ‘male-aligned’ and similarly with the female alignment. between notable places, whereas an energy ley is like a radial spoke in a wheel, with energy flowing outwards across the land in a straight line. It has sometimes been found that the energy ley can be diverted from its strict straight path by changes in the landscape or strong attractors that pull it away from its original course. Energy leys may have inter-twining streams of male and female energies weaving along them, as though the energy ley is an attractor, a pathway or a conduit for the male and female energies.. It is easily confused with ley and therefore its use is not recommended by dowsers. that I had visited that same day. Crop circles patterns are made to trigger a revelation in human consciousness, Whether this be on an individual or a more global basis is as yet unknown.

Knighton Hill crop circle

6-2. Tarot cards: I tried the tarot cards again properly this year, and under the guidance of Kal, who had learned them thoroughly. What I was surprised to learn was that they are a useful means of obtaining more information about the qualities and intentions of the sentient energies that we encounter. They are not, as we originally thought, the product of a deranged imagination. As one might expect they also are capable of reflecting one’s own psychology very well too, and have been a valuable tool for self-analysis. However, I use them sparingly, and am quite appalled sometimes by their accuracy. I started using a Celtic Cross formation, but went on to devise my own layouts for the cards, as befitted the situation I was asking about. I now exclusively use the Druidcraft Tarot from Stephanie & Philip Carr-Gomm, only because the symbols make sense to me.

Druidcraft Tarot

6-3. Salute of the Sun: Both Kal and I have observed separately and together a phenomenon that we call “The Salute of the Sun”. This refers to the sun coming out when we do something that progresses us along our spiritual path. For example, we may be visiting a stone circle on a cloudy dull day, but the moment we make our connection with Nature during meditation, and then ask a question whose answer indicates a new direction or an answer that will help us know more about a subject, then we have noticed that the Sun comes out from impossible angles to shine upon us. This has happened so often now that we can no longer simply call it coincidence. As we have trained ourselves to recognise significant signs, we feel this is the most significant, as it is never “looked for”, but always makes us feel reassured, and we smile to ourselves.

6-4. Intuition: Following intuition has guided us very well this year. There is little point in trying to intellectualise this. Something that started out as something to try has become something of a waymarker on our spiritual path. If we follow intuition it guides us well. If we ignore it then we have to work much harder to achieve things. If we follow it, new opportunities appear – if we ignore it they close off. Simple as that.

6-5. Sacred Geometry: Gardens and building designed by noted Freemasons contain elements of sacred number and geometry that enhance the energetic potential of their sites. They encode these principles and retain the ability to attract people, power, good fortune and wealth. This is the art of Feng Shui in action. This has informed us that there was a knowledge of the power of place and energy in the Western Mystery Tradition as well as the Eastern, and that it was highly active until quite recently, in the 20th Century, when these principles were seemingly ignored and “sick” buildings began to be built.

6-6. The Shining Ones: Whoever the Shining Ones were their principles of geometry and sacred site building are inherent in the design of ancient sites. When we dowse about the influence of this little-known group of humans upon the design of ancient sites it always comes back that their principles were encoded in the designs, but that they were not personally or directly involved in the building of most of the ‘provincial’ sites. We still have to check whether they were involved in the building of the major sites, such as Stonehenge. Still a mystery!

Bringers of Esoteric Knowledge

6-7. Healing With Water: Hydrotherapy has less to do with the mineral qualities of water, than with the energy generated from its source, the amount of light it is subjected to, and its movement. This concurs with my research of Viktor Schauberger’s work, as he notes that the movement of the water is paramount in determining its qualities. The amount of radiant energy that the water consumes seems also to be highly relevant – the sunlight and moonlight appears to affect the healing qualities of water greatly.

6-8. Orbs:  I never gave Orbs a second thought until I photographed a few accidentally. They keep being photographed on power centres in sacred sites. We don’t know what relevance they have right now, but we will have to do some more research into this topic. They cannot simply be dismissed as specks of dust, or the reflections of light on the camera lens. I took two identical pictures a second apart (guided by intuition) of the chamber inside West Kennett Long Barrow in identical conditions. One has no Orb, the other shows one quite clearly! This, I cannot explain.

Note the orb positioned above the feather at the back

6-9. Animal interest: Rather annoyingly cows are over-actively interested in dowsing, for some reason. This has disrupted our dowsing trips on a few occasions because if you let them they’ll come right over and actively interfere with the dowsing process, blocking your path, chasing you away, nudging your arms. It’s quite strange! What DO they think they’re doing?

6-10. Sound and colour frequency: At Long Meg stone circle we proved to ourselves that it is possible to correlate sound frequencies with the chakra rainbow spectrum of frequencies, thus demonstrating to us a correspondence between light and sound frequencies. Interesting, but has led us nowhere else yet.

6-11, Crystals: As well as being able to transform energy from the earth into a subtle energetic form (possibly via the action of water), they also have the power to concentrate that energy and store it. This makes crystals almost indispensable when working with subtle earth and radiant energies. I intend to study this further to try to describe this quality of crystals in a much more scientific way, but for now I merely want to point these qualities out, as this is the truly important information.

Gwas.

Kal had given me a few DVDs that someone who had attended this year’s Glastonbury Symposium had obtained. Sadly, this person had not purchased the one containing Philip Carr-Gomm‘s talk, Luckily, that particular speech can be heard in two of the recent Druidcast MP3s (nos.31 and 32). And jolly interesting they were too. Nor did this kind benefactor obtain the talk by Andy Thomas (crop circles/conspiracy/2012), Nick Nicholson (photos of crop circles) or Christopher Dunn (pyramid mysteries). No, the ones that Kal got hold of were one about global warming (yawn – like we haven’t heard enough about that!), and the rather bizarrely-named Solara An-Ra, whose chosen subject was…channelling a message to us all from the star people.

Now, I know what you’re thinking. It’s exactly what Kal was thinking when he jokingly offered the DVD to me, saying “You’ve gotta watch this!“, and which I immediately thought myself when he began to describe its contents. So, for several weeks I put off watching it. When, exactly, would I get a spare hour to go through that kind of stuff? Would I be prepared to spare ANY time for that? Well, as it turns out, I did. And what unfolded not only startled me, but rather unsettled me too, but probably not for the reasons that Madame Solara may have been anticipating.

She can sit like that for hours

I have to admit, I couldn’t watch it all. I just couldn’t. It was pretty…out there. I mean, the lady’s attractive - well, I think she is - and with a comely figure, but that’s not enough to keep my attention for more than a few minutes. She started out asking everyone to do a meditation- fair enough! Embarrassing for those there, but not completely off the wall. It WAS Glastonbury, after all. She starts the meditation off by grounding herself, then connecting with the earth’s core by a golden thread of light,… [hold on - that sounds familiar!]…then she extends the thread up to embrace the sun and the moon [hey! this is sounding mighty similar to...], and then she brings it back into the centre to spread out a globe of light…[Right! Hold it right there, lady! That's MY meditation you're doing!]. She then goes on to have a Golden Shower in front of everyone in the room, but an imaginary one, so perhaps you can make your own rude imagery up for that visualisation!

I have to say I was pretty miffed. I have read a couple of meditation techniques from druidry books, but have tended not to take any of them literally, rather my meditations have grown and changed to the point where I was comfortable with my own form and imagery. Here Solara An-She-Ra-Mistress-of-the-Universe was – using my exact meditation technique! I was a bit gob-smacked. But I left it running to see what came next…

Then she explains that she channels….OK, edging towards the outer reaches now….and that she is surrounded by her guides. Well, you know, I’m not closed-minded – she might be for all I know – I haven’t got “the sight”, so…benefit of the doubt there. Then she says they’re from The Pleiades (angelic sweet voices) and from The Sirius System (rather abrupt frank voices, she explains). I wonder which one we’re going to hear? It was those kooky Sirians. When she started I nearly fell off my chair – What the b’jeezus is THAT!!?? I won’t spoil the surprise, but when that voice comes out of her you have to bite your tongue to stop yourself from either choking or laughing! Anyway – that wasn’t what made me freak out (much), it was what she was talking about.

A few minutes in she started to say that we needed to all dis-engage from the media – stop watching TV and listening to radio – it was not doing us any good. Not a radical message in this day and age, certainly not for me to hear, because I’d been saying that for the last few years to anyone who’ll listen to my rants. So, again, I got that “That’s my idea, that is!” feeling. Although, of course, I’m not laying sole claim to the idea – I’m just saying I got that eerily familiar feeling again.

Addendum 9th December:

On Philip Carr-Gomm’s blog Paul Milne had posted “Jerry Mander”‘s four reasons to stop watching TV. For fun, I’ve included them here:

1) The mediation of experience: “As humans have moved into totally artificial environments, our direct contact with and knowledge of the planet has been snapped. Disconnected, like astronauts floating in space, we cannot know up from down or truth from fiction. Conditions are appropriate for the implantation of arbitrary realities. Television is one recent example of this, a serious one, since it greatly accelerates the problem.”

2) The Colonization of Experience: “It is no accident that television has been dominated by a handful of corporate powers. Neither is it accidental that television has been used to re-create human beings into a new form that matches the artificial, commercial environment. A conspiracy of technological and economic factors made this inevitable and continue to.”

3) Effects of Television on the Human Being: “Television technology produces neuro-physiological responses in the people who watch it. It may create illness, it certainly produces confusion and submission to external imagery. Taken together, the effects amount to conditioning for autocratic control.

4) The Inherent Biases of Television: “Along with the venality of its controllers, the technology of television predetermines the boundaries of its content. Some information can be conveyed completely, some partially, some not at all. The most effective telecommunications are the gross, simplified linear messages and programs which conveniently fit the purposes of the medium’s commercial controllers. Television’s highest potential is advertising. This cannot be changed. The bias is inherent in the technology.”

Solara grins and bears the pressures of celestial channeling

Panic a bit now – skip fast forward to somewhere else in the talk. What’s the Sirian saying now? “LOVE – is not – the high-est – vibration.” Yeaaaahhh….and….? “The high-test vi-bra-tion…is the comb-ination…of LOVE and GRAT-IT-UDE [nod, nod].” HEY – now you’re really taking the mickey! That’s exactly what I say when I receive information from…[now I'm going to sound nuts]…speaking with trees (hey – at least they’re here and tangible!). I thank them and send them a feeling of love in return for their help and guidance – and she’s stolen that TOO!!

Too much. I stopped the DVD and put it back into the paper sleeve that accompanied it. I can’t watch any more of that! She’s making everything I’ve worked on and kept close to me a mockery with her dalek-voice proselytising Derren Brown nod-nod delivery! I’m gutted. Maybe I should turn to the Syrians, sorry Sirians for guidance. Maybe they’ve got the textbook on druidry techniques and have been feeding me this stuff all the time, when I thought I’d made it up myself?

Thanks Solara An-Ra – you’ve ruined (or validated) my spiritual work! I can’t work that out, but you’ve certainly stolen my soul!

Gwas

Following the Sirian Star Guide’stextbook of mystical techniques and ideas for transformation.

There’s a really pithy and poignant article on the idea of disengaging from news on Philip Carr-Gomm’s blog at the moment. I highly recommend it as a means of finding your true path. One of the may methods you should consider is to ignore news sources, and his post and quotes explain why.

See: http://philipcarrgomm.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/no-news-is-good-news/

Gwas.

A recent visit to Treadwell’s Bookshop in Covent Garden,London allowed me to stock up on some interesting Druid-related books. I only had an hour in there but in that time managed to find some great books, details of which I will add to the Bibliograhy list soon. The books were mostly things that I haven’t seen in other book stores, and that’s probably because Treadwell’s specialises in magickal books of all varieties and ‘denominations’.

I heartily recommend a visit there if you happen to be floating around London with an hour or two to spare. I got the recommendation from Philip Carr-Gomm’s new book “The Book of English Magic” that he wrote with Richard Heygate. It was certainly true that the staff have an excellent knowledge of the subjects and can direct you wherever your fancy dictates.

They also hold lectures there on esoteric subjects regularly, so if you have an evening spare too then you might learn something interesting!

Gwas Myrrdyn.

Finding dark corners.