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I hope you have a chance to listen to Akiane on YouTube, to read her poetry and to see her gallery of paintings which are easily found on the internet.  I was feeling creatively flat when I happened to catch an interview with her. I was moved by her deep connection with God and how effortlessly she accessed her artistic potential. Her mother described her seriousness and dedication to art, rising at four in the morning to go work at the studio.  Akiane explained to her mother “You don’t wait for inspiration; it waits for you.” How much do we miss because we don’t present our self to the muse?

I selected one of her works for comment and to share my appreciation of her art with you.  Below is Akiane’s self portrait.  It is a visual treatise on Selfhood. She is a stand-in for each of us.  At least, this is how I see it.  The real Cosmos is the backdrop and yet a beautiful living star is just now being painted.  Look at the starlit left hand. Look at her balance and her focus. Everything is vivid, breathing life –conscious yet still with the serenity of wholeness. She has merged with cosmos… or is cosmos merging and expressing itself (Herself) through her? Which is which?  She captured the ultimate creative moment when the soul reflects the face of God, in whose image she is made and through this act dissolves into the Eternal Now. What I see in Akiane’s art is what I hear with the poems of Rumi, the revelation of my own soul.

The revelation of God as God is enfolded within the self as Self.  Let go and merge into the unfettered world, your own radiant expression of the loved inner child self, far beyond the captivating constraints of millennial judgments and ego expression.  Beyond good and evil, it awaits as a Presence, always present. In the hush Rumi’s voice comes in distant echoes, “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”   The Divine is waiting…

What I know of God is not measured in my limitation but in God’s infinite capacity to manifest in me the longing to be my Self, not only as identity but as an act of being, to create and share with me the higher reality I am becoming, ever singing into my heart the soul-stirring song of Awakening . Where does the music come from? Who is the musician? Who is listening? Is the beauty in the notes or in the silence that separates them?  Am I now the note?

The joy of God’s creating is the pain in my increasing.  Does this register consciously or is this the striving of dreams.  And when I awake, am I entering another dream?  No, when the starlight of cosmos was revealed, it was I who painted it.  Cosmos and Psyche are both implicated; they are one and inseparable.  It is God looking through my eyes. It is God who guides my brush. I am whole.

Thank you Akiane, for your beautiful gift.

by Michael McCann

Was Francis Bacon really the writer behind the mysterious Works of Shakespeare? Was Sir Francis Bacon the even more mysterious Count of Saint Germain? Here is an excerpted article by William House, on of the coworkers of the Universal or Worldwide Ashram on the amazing story of this modern age adept. His website at www.reversespins.com is a treasure trove of esoterica. This article explores the secret life and legends of the genius of our age, Sir. Francis Bacon.

“Four hundred years ago, before the invention of the telescope, astronomers were amazed by the appearance of a new star. It soon dimmed to invisibility, but they noted its location in the sky. Later astronomers, with the aid of telescopes, found at the location of the new star a nebulous cloud of glowing gas (image above). The developing theory of nuclear-powered stars led them to believe the cloud was a spherical shell of gas blown away by an exploding star. With the discovery that such glowing clouds and their central stars were composed entirely of plasma, a few astronomers realized that electrical forces had to be taken into account. The invention of more powerful telescopes (yellow is the visible light image) and of telescopes that could “see” in x-ray (green and blue images) and infrared (red image) light confirmed the electrical nature of these clouds. An isolated star that explodes would be expected to produce a spherical cloud of gas. Instead, the cloud is plasma, and it reveals plasma’s characteristic feature of organizing itself into a network of electric current filaments (notice especially the yellow and green areas). Furthermore, the cloud is not spherical but shows a distinct bipolar shape, somewhat reminiscent of the form of a brain seen from above. This axis through the nebula and the central star is the path of the Birkeland current that supplies the power to energize the system. And that energy is expended in more than the visible light that reveals the filaments: Around the periphery of the cloud, on the surface of the plasma sheath that mediates the internal electrical field with the field outside, can be seen bright spots of x-ray emission (blue). This is where currents in the sheath flow between high voltage differentials and, as in a dentist’s x-ray machine, accelerate the current-carrying particles to x-ray energies. We see these x-ray spots primarily at the edge of the sheath because that is where we are looking into the currents, where the x-rays are beamed in our direction. Instead of being the result of a mechanical explosion, the nebula is the result of a sudden increase in the current that powers the central star, a stellar electrical surge. The sheath (which surrounds every star and is normally invisible) has been pushed into the “glow” discharge state; the increased current is pulling matter from the star and from the surrounding space into the filaments that compose that current; and all of it is being heated electrically. Such a surge would have had a sudden onset and an exponential decline–just like a lightning bolt. The new star that 17th Century astronomers saw flaring up in their sky was a stellar thunderbolt. What we see is the declining aftermath.” end.

“It was in 1572 that nature took up the challenge of Aristotle, who had claimed more than a thousand years earlier that the heavens were immutable, but the stars were fixed, that nothing could ever change in the skies. In the 14th year of Elizabeth’s happy reign, the heavens proved him wrong. A marvelous new star [a comet] flashed out of the constellation Cassiopeia. The star was as short-lived as it was a brilliant. Within a year and a half, it was gone, leaving behind a world startled by this awesome portent. Tyco Brahe, a Danish astronomer, was the first to record its appearance. He reported it as a being brighter than Venus, so bright that it could be clearly seen even in the fullest light of day. Some said it was a comet; others, a star. Some said it had the same luminous appearance as the star that guided the Magi, the Bethlehem Star, which had appeared so mysteriously 1500 years before. Whatever it was called, it was a strange sight in the heavens during the months that it could be clearly seen. After 16 months the Guest Star disappeared, never to shine again, leaving even the astronomers musing over its appearance in the “unchangeable” heavens. The portent of the star of 1572 was not easily understood. But one man had claimed to know all about it—the famous Swiss mystic Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus. He died 20 years before Francis [Bacon] was born, but he had been comfidently prophesying the coming of the comet for many years. When it comes, he predicted, it will be “a harbinger” of a great renovation of society—”the coming revolution,” he called it. The comet would announce a presence of “a marvelous being… who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.” This being would be a master of all arts, bearing three divine gifts to change the face of the world.

Prophecies of comets, stars and rarely gifted beings did not ring as strangely in the ears of Elizabethans as they do in our ears today. (And we, in our time, do not treat them as scornfully as did our brothers 50 years ago.) Just who this great master of all arts would be only the gods in heaven could know for certain, but the one man of that time who came closest to fulfilling Paracelsus’ prophecy was our man of mystery, Francis Bacon.

Francis was about 12 years old at the time of the appearance of the star, but already he was showing the marks of genius. He was a young prodigy coming into his adulthood, ready to leave the security and warmth of the Bacon home for a broader life as a student at Trinity College, on the River Cam at Cambridge. Was his coming of age the event prophesied by Paracelsus? Some Baconians believed that it was and that the three gifts are Bacon’s outer philosophical and scientific writings, the plays of Shakespeare, and his involvement with the Rosie-Crosse and Freemasonry movements.” pp. 35 &36.

“Father of modern science, re-modeler of modern law, editor of the modern Bible, patron of modern democracy, and one of the founders of modern Freemasonry, Sir Francis Bacon was a man of many aims and purposes. He was a Rosicrucian, some have intimated the Rosicrucian. … Scores of volumes have been written to establish Sir Francis Bacon as the real author of the plays and sonnets popularly ascribed to William Shakspere. … The Bacon-Shakspeare controversy, as its most able advocates realize, involves the most profound aspects of science, religion, and ethics; he who solves the mystery may yet find therein the key to the supposedly lost wisdom of antiquity.” p.542

Doesn’t this extraordinary résumé qualify him for the exalted appellation from Paracelsus, “a harbinger” of a great renovation of society—”the coming revolution,” “a marvelous being… who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.” But was Bacon’s endeavors enough to deserve such praise? Was Paracelsus’ intuitive knowledge of these events also describing an ongoing unfoldment of some great divine plan?

The significance of the 1572 comet: The comet that Paracelsus prophesized appeared around the 12th birthday of Bacon. Why is that year important in the life of a young Francis Bacon? The first 12 years are relatively karmic free as the soul courses its way through the 12 signs of the Zodiac. This is a period of grace which allows the child to grow into maturity and is the reason why children should not be robbed of their childhood. Otherwise, the soul will suffer later in life. After the cycle of 12 years, the soul is ready to take on her karma and begin her mission. Bacon was the original ‘indigo child.’ Being the secret son of Queen Elizabeth, he was given the finest education. Even Roger Bacon, about 350 years earlier entered Oxford University at age 13. At age 12, Francis was indeed ready to begin the accelerated path of his final embodiment that would ultimately lead to his ascension as the Comte de Saint Germain. That comet provided the impetus, light and energy for Bacon to initiate the cycles of a grand life and beyond. But this was no ordinary life. And he was not your run-of-the mill adept. He wanted to bring about a revolution for all mankind. He was to receive an added boost. A Star. Not just any star, his personal Star, just as the Bethlehem Star will forever be associated with Jesus.

Sir Francis Bacon

What changes did the supernova of 1604 bring to Bacon’s life?

Witnesses have said the supernova was very bright. As with any powerful astrological aspect, the effects are often seen before they appear or go exact. There was one impediment to Bacon’s mission. It was his own mother, Queen Elizabeth. She was the reason he wrote the Shakespeare plays in secret. Within those plays he tells his true story, including his birth, using ciphers. One year before the supernova arrives to physical sight but beginning to exert an influence, the Queen dies. That year, 1603, King James ascends the throne signaling the change of fortune for Bacon. He is Knighted in 1603. The year the comet appears in 1604 he begins The Advancement of Learning which is then published in 1605. The changes start accelerating in 1607 when he becomes Solicitor. In 1608 he begins Novum Organum. The books, accolades and titles continue on, year after year until he leaves the scene in 1626.

As I have written elsewhere, (The Hidden Significance of Enoch …) many have made their ascension. Jesus ascended.

I love this stuff. Can you feel the tingling in your spine or on the back of your neck of the Presence of the Master? If not, call to him as you read on. The Count of Saint-Germain by Cooper-Oakley is absolutely the best source for information on the Count. Much has been lost: “Napoleon III, puzzled and interested by what he had heard about the mysterious life of the Comte de Saint-Germain, instructed one of his librarians to search for and collect all that could be found about him in archives and documents of the latter part of the eighteenth century. This was done, and a great number of papers, forming an enormous dossier, was deposited in the library of the prefecture of police.

Unfortunately, the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune supervened, and the part of the building in which the dossier was kept was burnt.” source. And there’s this: “Although an effort has been made to eliminate St. Germain’s name from modern Masonic literature, careful research into Masonic archives will prove that he occupied a prominent position in eighteenth century Masonry.” source. The following is from the opening page of Saint Germain on Alchemy by Elizabeth Clare Prophet:

“He was the WonderMan of Europe—this we know. But was he the lost third son of Prince Ferenc Rakoczy II, the deposed Hungarian ruler? Or did he, as the Ascended Master Saint Germain, materialize a body to give the appearance that he had descended through the royal house of Hungary? His birth, death, and true identity are shrouded in mystery.

“He was skilled in healing and the use of medicinal herbs. Some have speculated that it was Saint Germain’s use of herbs combined with his simple eating habits that prolonged his life. Prince Karl of Hesse wrote, “He thoroughly understood herbs and plants, and had invented the medicines of which he constantly made use, and which prolonged his life andhealth.”
He gave an elixir to Madame v. Georgy which made her keep looking 25 for 25 years, according to contemporary accounts. She lived so long that she came to be called the old everlasting countess. …”

“… Whenever he traveled, he was welcomed as scholar, statesman and raconteur. He formed secret societies, was a leading figure in the Rosicrucians, Freemasons, and Knights Templar of the period, and penned the occult classic The Most Holy Trinosophia, using a mixture of modern languages and ancient hieroglyphics.

” Monsieur de Saint Germain never confirmed or denied anything that was said about him. Instead, he would respond with a smile or a studied evasiveness. His skill as an alchemist was praised by Louis XV, who provided him a laboratory and residence at the royal castle of Chambord. And his alchemical demonstrations were nothing short of miraculous according to his chroniclers. …” “… But why all of this extravagance at court? What was he trying to prove? He was trying, precisely—with wit and humor and his prophetic, masterfull presence—to galvanize an age in the face of the inevitable passing of the old order. His plan of action was to establish a United States of Europe—before the pulling of the ripcord of the bloody French Revolution should leave nothing bad or good of the royal houses of Europe.Another of Saint Germain’s aims was to accelerate the progress of science and technology to lift man into a capacity for greater spiritual awareness. At times he played the part of patron saint of the Industrial Revolution.” pp. vii-xi, xv

The Count tried to bring about a United States of Europe. Along with Louis XV, he formed ‘The Versailles Group’ which created a document and plan to revolutionize Europe along the lines of what would later become America, including major economic reforms. That document now sits in the Louvre. Louis XVI later undid all the changes that had begun to be implemented and brought back some of the aristocracy that had been removed. One of those original members of the Versailles Group later reincarnated as Henry George (1839-1897): 1, 2. He wrote Progress and Poverty, which Leo Tolstoy, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill and John Dewey, considered a masterpiece of economics. The book included some of the principles he remembered (probably unconsciously) from his time spent in the Versailles Group.

Saint Germain next appeared in the Colonies as “The Professor” working to establish that beacon of democracy which was a dream of his when he was Bacon. He had a hand in designing the flag and he gave that electrifying speech from the back of Independence Hall, when he shouted out “Gibbet? They may stretch our necks on all the gibbets in the land–they may turn every rock into a scaffold–every tree into a gallows, every home into a grave, and yet the words on that Parchment can never die! …” (link below). He came back later to France to try and save the monarchy from ruin. But they would not listen. He was familiar with those behind the scenes causing revolution for they had penetrated a branch of his Masonic Order. After one of the Illuminati’s messengers was struck down by a lightning bolt in Bavaria (Source: Proofs of a Conspiracy by John Robison) their plans were exposed and they had to go underground. While Scottish Freemasonry remained true to the Founder’s principles, the German Freemasons were infiltrated by Adam Weishaupt of the Illuminati, whom the Count knew personally, knowing his intent and evil core. From this fertile hiding ground, they did their mischief, spreading lies about the Queen among other things. The confusion today about whether the Freemasons are Divinely inspired or something more sinister, dates from this time period.

At one point the Count had great hopes for Gustav II of Sweden and was off to assist him. He tried one more time to unite Europe through France but Napoleon’s ego got in the way. Alas, his time had run out. He’s hopes for Europe were dashed, Franz Gräffer was one of the last to see him:

“Saint Germain then freshly passed into a solemn mood. For a few seconds he became rigid as a statute, his eyes, which were always expressive beyond words, became dull and colorless. Presently, however, his whole being became re-animated. He made a movement with his hand as if in signal of his departure, then said: ‘I am leaving (ich scheide); do not visit me. Once again you will see me. Tomorrow night I am off; I am much needed in Constantinople; then in England, there to prepare two inventions which you will have in the next century—trains and steamboats. These will be needed in Germany. The seasons will gradually change—first the spring, then the summer. It is the gradual cessation of time itself, as the announcement of the end of the cycle. I see it all; astrologers and meteorologists know nothing, believe me; one needs to have studied in the Pyramids as I have studied. Towards the end of the century I shall disappear out of Europe, and betake myself to the region of the Himalayas. I will rest; I must rest. Exactly in eighty-five years will people again set eyes on me. Farewell, I love you.’ After these solemnly uttered words, the Count repeated the sign with his hand. The two adepts, overpowered with the force of such unprecedented impressions, left the room in a condition of complete stupefaction. In the same moment there fell a sudden heavy shower, accompanied by a peel of thunder. Instinctively they returned to the laboratory for shelter. They open the door. St. Germain is no more there. …” The Count of Saint Germain, by Isabel Cooper-Oakley; pp. 144, 145.

I am a little saddened re-living this scene of St. Germain’s disappointment. There may be nothing worse in the Universe than the disappointment of a Great Adept. Perhaps there is something worse: being the instrument for the disappointment of a Master. A side note, I remember seeing one of those history type programs a few months ago on the invention of the train in England. I always thought it was invented in America. I can see why they beat us, he helped them. No mention was made of St. Germain on the TV program. A pity. Understandable however, since he was always doing things behind the scenes, giving others credit. The goals and interests of Bacon were ever-present in the Count and undeniable. Wanting to lift the burdens upon mankind he continued to prod scientific inventions along. Not only did he help invent the train, but also mass-production methods and he helped create all sorts of new clothing that allowed the common man to dress almost as well as the upper classes.

The pyramid reference above is yet another parallel with Jesus. When Joseph and Mary fled with a very young Jesus to Egypt, it is entirely possible, and many have suggested it, that he studied with the heirophants at Luxor and in the pyramids.

The author, Isabel Cooper-Oakley pegged that quote above at about 1790. The Count said he would return in 85 years after taking a rest in the Himalayas. That would be 1875. Guess what organization of the Himalayan Brotherhood started in 1875? Correct, The Theosophical Society, primarily started by the Master M. and K.H. but with Saint Germain’s and D.K’s help. However, Saint Germain may have kept his word and appeared in 1875, albeit in an unlikely place, Santa Fe, New Mexico. The sisters of Loretto Chapel needed a staircase so they did a Novena to St. Joseph. An extraordinary “miracle” staircase was built by a mysterious man who left before being paid. Those who are familiar with Saint Germain’s past embodiments know him as St. Joseph. The Count would go on to personally sponsor other activiities of the Great White Brotherhood starting in the early 20th century.

“During the Theosophical Era, beloved Brothers Morya and Kuthumi invested their energies instead and I builded those energies so that when I came forth again and my energy again began to flow, my more personal association with mankind would begin again in a renewed and powerful activity. [Starting with the I AM activity. Editor]

I shall always remember the ceremony in which I received the ceremony as Chohan of the Seventh Ray from the beloved Kwan Yin. I considered in my heart, if I could ever hope to embody mercy, the compassion and the love of such a Being as Kwan Yin, half hoping that I might not have to assume that responsibility after so short a preparation at inner levels.

In regard to the use of the Sacred Fire of Transmutation, one of the major impressions which have differentiated her activity from mine seems to be that she taught the use of the Flame of Mercy as a power of transmutation in the changing of the quality of energy; whereas the presentation of the Violet Flame as brought forth more recently emphasized the consuming of discord. …

“… Now it is time to assume another vestment. In addition to assuming the vestment as the Chohan of the Seventh Ray, I will assume the cosmic of vestment as the director of this great incoming cycle of 2,000 years, which closes the major cycle of 14,000 years as well. I ask for the prayers and decrees, the devotion, the thought and, the calls of all who love me in this hour, so that I may avail myself of all that my consciousness can absorb and which I can pour as the greatest blessing to the mankind of earth through the consciousness of each of you and all my friends throughout the world. I have lived but to serve life. I have lived to set it free. Now is the hour of my opportunity.” Saint Germain 4/21/54; The Bridge to Freedom Journal, Book 2; p. 228.

We live at a momentous time. All eras and cycles are converging right now. The 25,800 year Kali Yuga (1, 2, 3) ends now. The 14,000 and 2,000 year cycles are here for change and we are now half-way through the 800 year old cycle. The Avatar of that Supernova in 1604 is still counting on “Other souls, strong and true, [who] promised to weave their life energies into completing the pattern of my free star!” It will be another 400 years till the next “fiery trigon and great conjunction”, possibly Maitreya’s Star. Until then, Saint Germain is still counting on us to complete his mission. Just as events hung in the balance in late 18th century Europe for the Count, so it is in America today. Only this time, the denial permeates all of American society and culture not just the powers that be. The Count is not without his resources in this day and age. He hopes history does not repeat itself and that we heed the warnings, especially the one received by his ablest disciple, Washington, when he heard those dire words for the third time: ‘Son of the Republic, look and learn, …’ and then saw the vision of his beloved Americal under the gravest of threats. And later, Washington himself returned during the time of the Civil War to give General McClellan a vital message. It ended on this note:

“… for ere another century shall have gone by, the oppressors of the whole earth, hating and envying her exaltation, shall join themselves together and raise up their hands against her. But if she still be found worthy of her high calling they shall surely be discomfited, and then will be ended her third and last great struggle for existence. Thenceforth shall the Republic go on, increasing in power and goodness, until her borders shall end only in the remotest corners of the earth, and the whole earth shall beneath her shadowing wing become a Universal Republic. Let her in her prosperity, however, remember the Lord her God, let her trust be always in Him, and she shall never be confounded.”

Change at the highest levels of government was the order of the day in France to head off catastrophe. Back then it was possible to change a government from the top down. Because of its unwieldy size and the consciouness of the people, that would be very difficult in America today. As Toynbee said, a civilization that wishes to survive, needs to transcend its focus on the material and begin the process of etherealizing culture. A quantum spiritual change in America is the need at this late hour.

The codes and ciphers of yesteryear have been unlocked and laid bare. But only those with ears to hear can unfold the Rosy Cross so near, and know the secret spiritual truths the Great Adept since 1604 has loosed.

Take a moment, go within, and look at these two. What does your heart tell you?

Francis Bacon, 18 years old; by Nicholas Hilliard

Saint Germain by Charles Sindelar, circa 1930′s

The Blessed Mother Mary has been appearing in Medjugorje for nearly thirty years. The original six children, now adult seers,  tell the same remarkable story about the coming of the heavenly Queen of Peace as Mary describes herself in the appearances. These messages have brought hope to millions and rekindled faith, community and prayer.

Not many New Age leaders have commented on or supported these appearances. One leading New Age spiritual writer and speaker, and a Messenger for the Ascended Masters, Elizabeth Clare Prophet did speak about these appearances of Mother Mary in Medjugorje.

In 1998, Elizabeth Clare Prophet gave us updates on the appearances of Mother Mary at Fatima and Medjugorje. [i] She instructed us that the messages give us prophecies and they also give us antidote to prophecies. They are warnings so that we can act in time to avert or mitigate prophecy.
“These children were prophets of their time and of our time.” We are encouraged to take these messages to heart and rededicate ourselves to giving the rosary. “Know that as you faithfully recite the rosary every day, you are contributing to world peace. And you have a very special place reserved for you in the heart of the Blessed Mother…. At both Fatima and Medjugorje the Blessed Mother has given the same message–that we can save ourselves and the planet–if we will faithfully pray and give the rosary.”[ii]
“I believe that Mother Mary began her appearances in Medjugorje because her requests at Fatima have not been fulfilled. The Pope to this day has never revealed the third part of the Fatima secret…. The children said that during her Medjugorje visitations the Blessed Mother gave them messages stressing peace, conversion, prayer, fasting, penance and a sacramental life.”[iii]
In 1987, Mother Mary dictated through the Messenger Elizabeth
Clare Prophet saying, “I have come to prepare for calamities to come….
Know, then, beloved, that I have also appeared in Yugoslavia to these
special hearts, young in body but ancient of days, as the Queen of Peace. For peace is a pillar of fire that is thrust as a sword in the very midst of Communist territory….Blessed ones, Medjugorje has become as a figure-eight flow where so many hearts give attention to me that the light may descend as judgment….The simple of heart need to be reminded of their original faith. To deliver to them a message beyond that which they comprehend within the supposed security of the Church would only serve to neutralize the message and their opinions of its authenticity. Thus, to depart from scripture or canon would be to obviate the very purpose of my coming, which is to draw a tremendous devotion of people of every faith to the heart of God and the Divine Mother, that in this sacred tie to heaven they might pass through a darkness to come….I have desired, then, that you should see and understand the light, the determination, the joy, the confidence that the seeing of myself has given to the six—and which through them has been radiated to the many.”
On July 4, 2009, Marija, one of the visionaries of Medjugorje that Mother Mary has been appearing to regularly, reported that the reconsecration of America to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart was accomplished. This took place at a conference in Alabama. You can read more at this website: http://www.medjugorje.com/medjugorje-america/medjugorje-america/658-july-4-2009-apparition-in-the-field.html
Pray the Rosary
“In response to Mother Mary, I believe it is imperative that we all give a rosary daily.”[iv] And we can now invoke and affirm the Reconsecration of America to the Immaculate Heart of Mother Mary as we walk through our daily activities multiple times a day.

Alberta Fredricksen
[i] Elizabeth Clare Prophet, PoW, Vol. 41 No. 39, Copyright © C.U.T, September 27, 1998; [ii] Ibid. [iii] Ibid. [iv] Ibid.

(Follow up on Emerging from the Shadows Article)

Ludwig Feurerbach, who dominated German philosophy in the 1840s, was an avowed opponent of theology and an inspiration to Karl Marx. He said: “The turning point of history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only God of man is man himself.” He was surely correct, for as the philosophy of materialism gained wide-spread acceptance, society did reach a turning point. If we are just an arrangement of chemicals and biological processes, if there is no inherent sacredness to human life, then we are philosophically and conceptually free to engineer “human material” as we see fit. When people are no more than animals, they can then be treated as cattle.

I believe philosophical materialism is the rationale of the authoritarian character that, according to psychiatrist Eric Fromm, loves to limit human freedom and rob people of their humanity. He writes, “Authoritarian philosophy is essentially relativistic and nihilistic… it leads to the denial of life.”  At its core, it is irrational and anti-intellectual. This is why the materialistic view, which is inherently authoritarian, cannot co-exist with any other perspective or belief system. To do so would disempower the anti-life matrix which sustains it.

Philosophical materialism leads to the ultimate question—who shall play God? After all, has not man usurped that Throne? There are many who would play God, who would be more than happy to impose their personal vision upon the whole of society and there are many who have done so. The perfect example of the self-anointed playing God is found in genetic engineering. Here economic determinism is replaced by biological determinism as the factor of control.

All scientists are mad scientists when their actions are directed by the technological imperative: “If it can be done, do it.”, without regard for the consequences. Today, genetic engineers are working on altering human physical and behavioral characteristics to improve society but critics Ted Howard and Jeremy Rifkin warn they are potentially leading us into a post human society. They write, “More ominous are the well-credentialed and well-financed researchers who propose the complete retailoring of human life.  Name your wildest fantasy, or nightmare, and some authority somewhere is proposing it: from redesigning stomachs so that people will be able to consume cheap hay and grass, like cows, to the hybridization of humans with lower primates.” Or consider the implications of Nobel laureate Francis Crick’s statement “…no new born infant should be declared human until it has passed certain tests regarding its genetic endowment and…if it fails these tests it forfeits the right to live.” This is just the tip of the iceberg but these chilling quotes seem to bear out Dostoevsky’s belief: without God, all things are permissible.

The socialist wants to contain the spontaneous order of the economy; the geneticist wants to control or manipulate the spontaneous order of life itself.  There is a struggle in the collective unconscious of humanity between the life instinct and the death instinct.  We need to see it for what it is and choose.  I am not kidding about this death instinct.  What happens when the funding of this research is controlled by the corporations? Look at the nightmare of Monsanto and its drive to destroy organic farming, traditional farming practices and the control of food supply or the pharmaceutical industry’s catastrophic influence on medical practice, alternative healing modalities or even the sale of herbs and vitamins. What about biological and chemical weapons?

Let’s put a fine point on this death- consciousness with an actual example.  Paul Greenberg wrote an article about  the well know company Neocutis, which offers a skin cream made from human fetal tissue. He quotes the company’s website: “Inspired by fetal skin’s unique properties, Neocutis’s proprietary technology uses cultured fetal skin cells to obtain an optimal, naturally balanced mixture of skin nutrients.”  The company says its product can “turn back time to create flawless baby-skin again.”  Here we have the ultimate death industry, the ‘abortion mill’, providing its ‘byproduct’ to create “beauty crème.” I will allow Paul Greenberg the last word on this.

“It does make one wonder why, if the use of human fetuses for such purposes is so unalloyed a good, the company feels the need to assure us that the practice is ‘limited, prudent and responsible.’ Is that the faint echo of some vestigial conscience? Or a slight bow to what might be called the wisdom of repugnance? For how can anyone read such an ad without repressing a shudder?  Or have we lost the ability to shudder?”

Michael McCann

Thank you so much for these powerful insights, Michael. It does truly appear that we are in an Aquarian ‘break-out phase.’

We are so privileged to be living during this magnificent process of awakening. It is widespread, it is largely intuitive and each of us reading these pages is likely seeing it and experiencing it daily.

‘Scientism’ in all of its brittle material disguises is being exposed! The examples are outpouring. In medicine and psychotherapy, while we can still appreciate the contribution of ‘materia medica’ (a.k.a. pharmacology), we understand that it does not, and cannot, answer the breadth of health and wellness challenges we face. Millions upon millions now turn to ‘unscientific’ and ‘unproven’ (more often, unsanctioned) ‘alternative therapies,’ with enormous success.

The abject failure of formal public school education, at least for large segments of the population, is now in common discourse. And the jack is not going back in the box! Private school enrollment is rapidly expanding. And millions of children are now homeschooled. All indications are these latter options are serving our children far better than the public indoctrination factories.

The news media is also in the exposure cue, it’s rank materialistic worldview and overarching spewing forth of propaganda is increasingly observed and ridiculed. This is becoming so well documented and appreciated that it hardly needs specific defense, which means the news media will either transform into an organ of truth, or be eclipsed and disappear as alternative exponents of truth come forward.

Institutional, dogmatically-based religion is in for reform as well. Yes, many continue to follow the strident voices of the profane who have successfully infiltrated positions of authority. But many others are not longer tolerating the debasement of their traditions, and are finding kinship in the global community of believers who know that their shared spirituality is not determined by specific beliefs so much as by the loving compassion felt and experienced in one another’s Presence.

Humanity is receiving at present and with increasing intensity onrushing photon showers from the galactic center, and this phenomenon is causing us to accelerate in consciousness. Remarkably, this process appears to be encoded in the Mayan calendar; and almost as remarkably, the actual science behind this is now being confirmed by astronomers and nuclear physicists.

Like other utterly stunning information such as the admittedly far more mundane, but fully documented 25 TRILLION dollar 2007 to 2010 secret expenditure of our Federal Reserve mandarins, the major media is very nearly completely silent on these matters. We of course remind ourselves of how grateful we must be for the global internet.

All of this awakening is really an element of Gautama Buddha’s Bo Tree experience, his entry into nirvana, the state of the Presence, the Eternal Present. It is at least partly the realization that many practitioners now encounter: “I am waking up into a state of conscious awareness which, more and more, I am not ‘falling out of,’ as I have tended to do earlier on my Path.”

All genuine spiritual practice plays into the Awakening, and people in every faith are experiencing this like never before. The photons of light and enlightenment are onrushing….

I do not presume to understand the fullness of this process. I only know it is observable, verifiable and wonderful to behold in its varied manifestations. For me the whole blessed phenomenon takes a prominent place on the shelf of Holy Mystery.

May our Eternal Father Mother bless, guide and keep us on this upward flight of Being.

T Connor