AQUARIAN MAN: Time to Sink or Swim.

Every culture from every age has their mythical messenger – light bearer, son (sun) of God, prophet – born of a virgin (Virgo).

Zoroastrians had Mithras.

Buddhists had Siddhartha.

Christians-Jesus.

Greeks-Dionysus.

Aztecs- Quetzalcoatl.

Egyptians-Ra and Horace.

Hindus-Krishna.

Mesopotamians-Shamash.

Even Plato was supposedly born of a virgin.

These cultures looked to the heavens above, personifying the planets and constellations to make sense of their world below, and venerated trinities: the father, son, and Holy Spirit…Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva… Osiris, Isis, Horus, etc. For scientists, it’s liquid, gas, solid. For alchemists, it’s sulfur, salt, mercury.

In the digital age of artificial intelligence, it should come as no surprise that a “son of God” is being manufactured before our very eyes.

Consider the mythical life of Jesus, who was put on trial, then crucified and resurrected to become immortal…invincible. Or Hermes, who was born of a virgin and anointed messenger of the gods by Zeus/Jupiter, who gave him winged sandals.

Hermes was also known as Mercury, the planet closest to the sun and the ruling planet of Gemini (II – the Twins, Janus – Roman god of gates, doors, beginnings, duality).

The atomic number for mercury is 80 and represented by the letters Hg. Why Hg? Because mercury, or quicksilver, was given the name Hydrargyrum by the Greeks, a term which means water (hydra) and silver (argyros). The atomic number for radium, represented by. Ra, is 88. Another powerful number combination expressing not only infinity, but the number seven. On the other end of the spectrum, it is HH.

As we settle into the Aquarian Age, we should expect the symbol of a man (the water bearer) to represent it in the same way a bull signified the Age of Taurus, the fish embodied the Age of Pisces, the lion the Age of Leo…and on it goes.

Whether or not Confucius said it, signs and symbols rule the world.

45 is a very powerful number, whether we realize it or not. 4 represents the physical world, the world of matter, earth. 5 represents the quintessence, spirit, or what Einstein and others called the ether – from which all things are created. In other words, 4/5 (9) represents perfection in the balance between spirit and matter, which can be represented by the symbol T. In English, the letter T is taken from the Hebrew alphabet’s 22nd and final letter Tav – judgement, the mark, the covenant.

So now we have our 88, 80, 22, 45 and the letter T. And the winged sandal.

Remember that the winged-sandal god Hermes was not only the messenger of the gods, but also a trickster. In addition to guiding travelers and shepherding souls into the Underworld, he was also the father of Alchemy and god of communication – sending his messages encoded and encrypted so that the wisdom of the ancients would not fall into the hands of the profane. In the Tarot, he is the Magician (Magus).

The ancient alchemists hid their true purpose by convincing humans they were trying to turn lead (the metal associated with the planet Saturn and represented by a cube) into gold (associated with the Sun and represented by a circle with a single point in the middle). Their ultimate goal was far more etherical: to transmute the lead of the soul into the gold of the spirit.

As we journey toward the promised “Golden Age,” learning the language of signs and symbols will be important, if not crucial, in our ability to discern what is false and what is true. While the ancients’ myths were cautiously concealed to protect the wisdom within, our current manufactured Aquarian Man is too obvious… not born of a virgin but mother’s name contains Christ Christ. He’s in truth the Gemini Man perpetuating the very duality of his nature.

Is it a coincidence that the historical society of Pennsylvania has a page on its website about the history of the pillory – Nailed to the Pillory – and includes wounds to the ear? Or that the golden shoes were launched in Pennsylvania?

Inversion is a method that has long been employed by rulers and religions.

But what every religion and false prophet fails to tell mere mortals is that the savior was, is, and forever shall be within. The Kingdom of God is within.

The Age of Aquarius is represented in the constellations by the Water Bearer. Water is symbolic of memory and emotions.

In the English alphabet the letter M is the mid-point. In the Hebrew alphabet, M is mem or mahim, which means water. The letter following mem is nun (N), which has several meanings – including fish.

Could it be that this Age of Aquarius and the manifestation of the man/men inciting chaos and polarization is an opportunity for each of us to look within and do the necessary work to balance our emotions? In other words. don’t get carried away by the shadows on the cave wall – the digital images projected on the screen.

It’s time to sink or swim.

Safe travels.

WE WERE BORN FOR A TIME LIKE THIS

If you watch main stream media, you probably believe the worst is heading our way. Even if you’re on any one of the myriad social media platforms, it’s looking pretty apocalyptic for us in America.

A while ago – maybe two years – I saw a post on LinkedIn from a guy (not an American) who wrote: “Mark my words: Before the end of this year {2022), America’s cities will be in flames from the food riots. Government tyranny will be out of control, and we will be witnessing the early chapters of either a mass uprising or a civil war (or perhaps elements of both). Mass starvation is coming to the West, and it was the insanely stupid economic sanctions against Russia that initiated the entire catastrophic chain reaction that will lead to the fall of America as we know it.”

The internet – chat platforms and social media sites – has been weaponized, and I believe many of us have known this for quite some time. In order for an event to occur, there must be a force of belief by the masses to fuel it and bring it to fruition.

But for those with an insatiable desire for wealth, material possessions, sex and control, however, the irony is for them. Their pit is bottomless. Their insatiable appetite their curse. And worse, within them is the seed of their own destruction.

LANGUAGE OF BIRDS AND THE GREEN LANGUAGE: The Hidden Meaning of Words

The following is from the words and research of Ian Broadmoor and Vincent Bridges.

The following article details what has been called “green language” or the hidden esoteric meanings of words encoded into the lexicon we use in our daily lives and on the venues of social interaction. While one can indeed make contact with these hidden meanings, it should not be assumed that these are the only interpretation. Like all symbols, words are inherently devoid of meaning, it is our minds and consciousness that give life to them by mingling with our thoughts, beliefs, and ideas.

Although it can be disturbing to know that the following meanings have a dark overtone, it is folly to assume these words will forever be ascribed to negative things. Remember, words only describe realities, ideas, and objects, whether physical or metaphysical and as such, when we change the landscape of our world through our actions, the meanings evolve with us. You are powerful, beyond words, and with your participation in reality, nearly all can be renewed and transformed.

(M M) Can you see with the eyes you have? The mind is useless , if the eyes are blind. Are you missing anything regarding the words you use on a regular basis? Let’s take a look.

Work week = work weak. Weekend = weakened. So you arrive “weakened” to your “weekend” from your work week, because the work made you weak. They’re called week days because they put you into a weak daze. A break is called a break, during your slave filled day, because most slaves would “break” without the break. Our slave masters know this and provide the break because it helps produce more milk from the human cattle. The original break of course given to a slave came when they passed out from complete exhaustion or actually died. The slave owner would say he’s broke, broken or taking a permanent break. How do you pronounce “wor”? Go ahead, right now…….pronounce it. That’s right, it’s pronounced “WAR” and “WOR” with a “K” on the end of it is “WORK.”

Did you know K is the Egyptian letter for death, the 11? So work actually means war plus death. If you WAR-K for a living, you know how this feels. The use of a hypno based language, designed by our humans farmers, helps increase control over the slave class……by planting the fertile subconscious with seeds of perpetual servitude. Control is CON-TROLL, the con job designed for the trolls. The send us to their schools and call them schools because just like school if fish, we think and react as one group, from the doctrine of sameness implanted into us. We’re trained as other animals are trained…….yet a train is literally box car after box car following the one in front of it, without question or resistance. The word graduation means gradual indoctrination.

You get up to the morning, but mourning is a form of sorrow or grieving. You say “hello” as you arrive but why is our greeting “hell-low”? Why is “hell” a part of our greeting? Why do other words referring to hot places surround us like “hotmail” (hot-male) or firefox. Who is the historical hot male? (aka…..the devil……which is the word “lived” spelled backwards…..evil being the word live spelled backwards) You get up in the morning (mourning) to earn a living but earn is also “urn”, a vessel to keep the cremated ashes of your body.

Mourning (morning) is another word synonymous with death. You wake from your slum-ber (from your slum, because the system never gives you enough to get ahead in life) with coffee, the same prefix used in the word coffin, Egyptian in origin, originally spelled KAffee or KAffin, KA means the spirit after death. You go to your job but Job in the bible is a man who’s heavily tormented by God. (pronounced Joob) Job in the bible has his wealth, health and children stolen from him by Satan but Satan was given permission by God to do so. Why is our work (our job) literally named after a man (Job) who has is health, children and wealth taken away? Why is God and Satan working together on Job in the bible, to make his life more miserable? Why is a meeting place of religion called a parish, pronounced exactly the same as perish, a word meaning “to die”. The word church comes from the word Kirk in Scottish. Kirk comes from the Roman word Cerc and Cerc comes from the Greek “Mother Cerce” (pronounced sir-sea), a sorceress who would tempt men into her house, turn them into pigs and eat them. Go ahead…….look it up yourself because that’s the best kind of research.

For our slavery we’re given $20 bills, $50 bills, $100 bills etc……but aren’t bills something you pay, something you owe? At a restaurant if you’re given “a bill” for $50, don’t you owe $50? And there lies the secret in plain sight, our payments are called bills by our human farmers because we owe it all back to them, first in taxes and then in useless meaningless purchases, as we waste our money trying to rabidly decorate our jail cell down on the human farm.

We spend our bills on soulless purchases from large corporations that our social engineers own. They laugh at how inept we are. This is why most people have no money, because we’re not being paid to be slaves, we’re being given bills that we need to pay. We’re paying to be slaves. That’s what debt is, the act of getting paid in bills, and having less than nothing as each week (weak) goes by…..because you owe everything in involuntary and voluntary purchases. The money is charged to leave the slave’s hand as soon as they touch it. The system is designed to make the money flow through our hands like water, and by calling the fake paper money bills (a word that means we owe it to others) ends with us being more likely to simply give that money away, when we need it to stop being slaves.

You obey the watch to arrive on time because the watch is designed to be the modern watcher or slave driver. What drives the slaves to work, when you can’t have that many people whipping each slave across the world? That’s when the watch comes into the picture and you can watch yourself, watch your watch, the next time you go to work. The watch OWNS you, rushes you and you obey it like it has a gun to your head. The watch watches you and signifies the wrist chain worn by someone who isn’t in control of their time. You keep looking at your watch as you race to work, the new watcher is in complete control of the slave…..something the slave pays for and wears themselves. The more expensive the watch, the more the slave believes they are free.

The neck tie was originally designed to signify the dog collar or neck chain, meaning being owned and controlled by someone else. You need to have a “collar shirt” on to wear the neck tie around your throat. The neck tie means you’re tied and controlled by another, a slave to the script. The slave can only pick the color and quality of their tie but can never choose to be free of the tie around their neck. Most people at work have a title. Title is really TIE-TELL, the symbolism of how your title name tells others who you are tied to.

Your TIE-TELL signifies who controls the tie (dog collar) around your neck, around the “collar” shirt…….like a dog on a leash. People often wear a uniform. Uniform is derived from the word UNI, meaning “one” and form, meaning “a way to be”. Uniform means you’re programming and conditioned to act like everyone else wearing the same uni-form, equaling no independence and no free will. You were schooled like fish to move as one and trained to follow (like a train). Your morality and ethics are spoken for.

Your time is spoken for. Your thoughts are spoken for. Inject that other slave with a toxic vaccine. Serve that other slave some poisonous coffee at the coffee shop. Go kill slaves in other countries, inside fake wars where slave master controls both sides. Welcome to the slave life. A uniform means the outsourcing of free will and being reflexively obedient to slave master. Obey, comply, consume, sedate, repeat. To follow, you must first FALL-o, to crawl on your knees the rest of the way.

The suit and tie is our most common uniform, signifying our willingness to outsource our morality and ethics to another. Your behavior dictated by forces outside of yourself, the removal of free will. You arrive on time. The word time is ti-me or tie-me……..tie me to the chains so the work can begin. Put the tie around my neck, so I can obey and comply to slave master.

The cuff links represent the hand cuffs or links of the traditional slave based chain around the wrist yet if they’re made from gold, we think we’re free. We lie to ourselves because lying is a word that means “we lie down”, submitting to our slavery, instead of standing up to slave master. Submit is made up of the words “sub”, meaning below and “mit”, meaning the hand or glove. As we submit, we agree to be UNDER someone else’s HAND or CONTROL. We’ve exchanged our chains of cast iron for chains of gold.

The person in “charge” means the person who conducts the electricity, as charge is an electrical or energy term. This describes the energy thrown into us from slave master, making us perform and dance with their electricity, as we’ve had our own personal electrical charge of free will surgically removed by master’s indoctrination systems and sleights of mind. The person in CHARGE, controls our very electrical life force, because we’ve submitted to their authority. Authority is derived from the word author, the person who writes. Someone wrote down that we are less and we complied because word magic is powerful…..FULL of POWER.

The word is more powerful than the sword but did you notice sword is “word” with an “s” on the front of it? How much are you not seeing with the eyes you have? Did you know S is the hieroglyph that represents a person versed in knowledge and word magic? Words are indeed swords if wielded by someone with knowledge of the human mind and spells. That’s why writing is called SPELLING and fancy writing is called CURSIVE…..to cast a spell or curse. S-WORDS are used against you every day by the what the ancient world called the SERPENTS (the S) , the SIR-PENTS…….and that is why you call a high ranking man in our society today SIR, as you (a slave) passes by. This is also why we’re still under SIR-VITUDE.

During conventional slavery, the slave owner had to incur all costs including housing, health care, food, cleaning of the slave quarters, clothing, birthing of the child slaves, raising the child slaves, transportation of the slaves back and forth from work, celebrations, clean up after a natural disaster, slave entertainment, schooling of the new slave children to be good slaves etc etc.

A slave owner’s profit was always revenue minus expenses, no different than any business. The big trick was to tell the slaves that they were free, let them pay all those expenses, allow them to come back to the plantations and then to tax them in order to actually make more profit compared to the original slavery concept, with little to no chance of rebellion or resistance.

All taxation is meant to increase a slave’s dependence on their slavery, as the people taking the tax away from the slaves print the money themselves and therefore don’t have any use for it. Taxation is about keeping the slave down. That’s it. Taxation has one purpose and one purpose only. To make the slave dependent on coming back to the modern plantations of slavery, day in and day out. If the slave starts to save their money, give them a TV full of negative role modelling and watch the slave magically go into debt. If the slave still has money, organize a stock market crash or increases the taxes (theft).

The people who print the money, have no use for extra fake paper money, which they can print at anytime and in any quantity they desire. The entire drive of the tax system is to make sure the slave has no extra money, as to provide them with enough freedom to figure any of this out. Slavery wasn’t abolished, the plantation was simply expanded and they mock us inside the language.

Everyone was tricked into becoming a slave, while believing they’re free. The language is loaded with many dis-empowering subconscious cues because our human farmers have been at this game much longer than they’ll allow us to know. Do you know what’s going on? Are you sure?

Reading the Green Language of Light by Vincent Bridges

Part One

Divination is one of man’s oldest spiritual technologies, its origins lost in the shift from neolithic hunter-gatherers to settled agriculturalists. As the shaman developed into the priest, divination, along with all forms of spiritism, became codified into mythology. From a framework of mythic events and divination – literally readings of the divine – came language, which evolved over time into written forms based on the original symbolic elements. In turn, these symbolic elements became the focus of divinatory practices of their own, creating sub-sets of meaning within common words and phrases. From this intentional ambiguity arose the possibility of an initiate’s language, a language of the birds, or, as it was expressed by the medieval initiates, the Green Language.

Although we can point to the Green Language in works as diverse as Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosencruz, Nostradamus’ quatrains, 18th century alchemical texts and surrealist manifestos, few authors have bothered to explain it. One who did was Fulcanelli, the enigmatic 20th century alchemist and philosopher, in his masterpiece The Mystery of the Cathedrals, published in Paris in 1926.[1] Here we have an authentic, although mysterious, voice of authority; one that was both master of the Green Language itself, and a master of the subjects usually hidden within it.

Fulcanelli’s main point, the key to unraveling the larger mystery of alchemy and the cathedrals, lies in an understanding of what he calls the “phonetic law” of the “spoken cabala,” or the “Language of the Birds.” This punning, multi-lingual word play can be used to reveal unusual and, according to Fulcanelli, meaningful associations between ideas. “What unsuspected marvels we should find, if we knew how to dissect words, to strip them of their barks and liberate the spirit, the divine light, which is within,” Fulcanelli writes. He claims that in our day this is the natural language of the outsiders, the outlaws and heretics at the fringes of society.

It was also the “green language” of the Freemasons (“All the Initiates expressed themselves in cant,” Fulcanelli reminds us) who built the art gothique of the cathedrals. Ultimately the “art cot,” or the “art of light,” is derived from the Language of the Birds, which seems to be a sort of Ur-language taught by both Jesus and the ancients. It is also mentioned in the Sufi text, entitled “The Conference of the Birds,” by Attar the Chemist. In de Tassey’s French translation of this work, which Fulcanelli references, the “conference” of the title is translated as “language.” De Tassey goes on to explain the complex linguistic metaphor beneath the simple fable. Fulcanelli uses the same method to decode the alchemical meaning of the cathedrals.

Fulcanelli also claims that Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel is “a novel in cant,” that is, written in the secret language. Offhandedly, he throws in Tiresias, the Greek seer who revealed to mortals the secrets of Olympus. Tiresias was taught the language of the birds by Athena, the goddess of wisdom. Just as casually, Fulcanelli mentions the similarity between gothic and goetic, suggesting that gothic art is a magic art.

Emphasizing the phonetic connection to argot, cant or slang, Fulcanelli then links it to the Argonauts, of the quest for the Golden Fleece, by insisting that the crew of the Argo spoke the Green Language as it sailed “towards the felicitous shores of Colchos.” He suggests that the language of this quest is the foundation of all initiation – “All Initiates expressed themselves in cant.” In the same sentence he links this idea with the Court of Miracles of the troubadour poet Villon and the artists who built the cathedrals, implying that these groups were somehow the same nautes, or sailors, as the Argonauts.[2]

By any standard of comparison, this is an unusual collection of allusions and assertions, even for a hermetic author. Fulcanelli seems to be telling us, as plainly as possible, that the medium is the message. The argot is the art of light, the core of a Gnostic philosophy expounded so eloquently by Fulcanelli in the paragraph that follows immediately after the art of light statement. “Language,” Fulcanelli tells us in that passage, “the instrument of the spirit, has a life of its own – even though it is only a reflection of the universal Idea.” This Gnostic meta-linguistic mysticism is the core it seems of illumination itself.

From the work of modern molecular biologists Fritz-Albert Popp and Mae-Wan Ho, we know that DNA emits a weak form of coherent light that has been demonstrated to work like a communication system between cells and even between larger organisms.[3] In this sense, the art of light is indeed the instrument of the spirit. It is nothing less than the mechanism, the framework so to speak, that allows Mind to exist in the universe. The language of light emitted and received by the DNA may be the original of all languages, the ultimate language of initiation.

Fulcanelli clearly understood this, as he shows when he states that argot, the initiation of the Argonauts, is but “one of the forms derived from The Language of the Birds.” This Ur-language, Fulcanelli insists, is the common language of initiation and illumination behind cultural expressions as different as the Christian, the Inca, the medieval troubadours and the ancient Greeks. And traces of it can be found in the dialects of Picardy and Provence, and most important of all, in the language of the Gypsies.

These are stunning assertions. Fulcanelli informs us that the western cabala used by the troubadours and the builders of the cathedrals is based on the language of the Argonauts and the quest for the Golden Fleece. Which in turn is but one application of a vast Ur-language of symbols, derived perhaps from the DNA itself, that unite the global cultures of mankind, from the Inca to the ancient Greeks. And, to top it off, he told us that traces of it can be found in the language of the Gypsies, a fairly obvious reference to the Tarot, long held to be a Gypsy invention. Is he telling us that the Green Language, which is heard according to David Ovason only by those “who have clothed themselves in the skin of the dragon,”[4] is simply a symbolic approximation of the information, transmitted by weak laser pulses, coming from our DNA?

According to the work of anthropologist Jeremy Narby, this Ur-language of light is a “forest television” of images in which “DNA is a snaked shaped master of transformation that lives in water and is both extremely long and small, single and double. Just like the cosmic serpent.”[5] His assessment agrees with Ovason’s comments that only one who has the skin of the dragon, or has become one with the cosmic serpent of DNA, can understand this symbolic language of light.

Could it be possible, by looking at the structure of DNA, to reconstruct this dragon’s speech, this green language of light’s syntax, grammar and vocabulary? And could it be, as Fulcanelli suggests, that fragments of that original language of light can be found in the divinatory systems used by all nautes, shaman and initiates?

Part Two

The basics of heredity have known since Gregor Mendel’s experiments with peas, but the discovery of DNA as the carrier of genetic information revolutionized our understanding of life itself. Fifty years later, we are on the verge of a genetic revolution with the possibility of clones, genetic disease eradication in the womb and perhaps someday soon, designer humans. An inspiration hit James Watson as he walked down a spiral staircase, and in his mind’s eye he saw the structure of DNA as a double helix.[6]

Deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA, is a chain like molecule of great length, 1.3 meters, and high molecular weight in a double strand twisted like that spiral staircase that inspired Watson; a double helix with plus and minus strands. The strand itself consists of two chains of alternating acids and sugars in a simple building block like system. The strands are joined at regular intervals by rungs made of a pair of bases. There are four bases, thymine, always paired with adenine, and cystine, always paired with guanine. Thus, A, T, C, G are “letters” paired with T, A, G, C and because of the structure they fit together perfectly, like the teeth of a zipper. [7]

These base pairs form “words” that are instructions to build an amino acid compound. There are 64 such “words” and one or more of these words represent the instruction and information necessary to create one of the 22 amino acids used to create the protein structure of a living body. The sum of all these code words and amino acid sentences forms the blueprint for a specific entity, including elements that determine the individual’s fate. And the strands with all this information are present in every undifferentiated cell nucleus, a script or book with significance, expression, meaning, all the hallmarks of life itself.[8]

In 1968, Marie-Louise von Franz, a disciple of Carl Jung, published an essay in an anthology of psychology articles entitled “Symbol des Unus Mundus”. As an aside in her essay about alchemical symbolism, Dr. von Franz speculated that there might be some structural link between the I Ching and the recently discovered DNA code.[9] A year later, a physician, Dr. Martin Schonberger published a small article in an obscure German medical magazine, Zeitschrift fur Allgemeinmedizin – Der Landarzt, No. 16/1969, in which he presented “the astonishing parallels between the natural science of the I Ching and the latest discoveries of nuclear genetics.”

Dr. Schonberger’s comparisons can be summarized as: 1) Both the DNA and the I Ching are based on polarity, yin and yang in the case of the I Ching, up and down symmetry in the case of DNA’s double helix; 2) Four “letters” are available, A,T,C,G in the case of DNA, resting yin, moving yin, resting yang and moving yang in the I Ching, which are grouped in pairs; 3) Three of these words form either a code for protein synthesis or a trigram; 4) The direction in which the codes are read is strictly determined in both; 5) There are 64 of these triplets or double trigrams, from which all creation, in the case of DNA, and fate in the case of the I Ching, are derived; 6) Two of these triplets have names, beginning and end. In the DNA they serve as punctuation between code sequences. In the I Ching, we have hexagrams # 63 and # 64, which serve the same purpose.

Dr. von Franz, a Jungian psychoanalyst, was the first to notice the similarity, 64 units made of three out of four possible components, between the two but it took the practical mysticism of a working physician to elaborate the essential question: “Is there only one spirit whose manifestation (= information) must of necessity find its expression in the 64 words of the genetic code on one hand and the 64 possible states and developments of the I Ching on the other?”[10]

Soon after Dr. Schonberger’s article was published, Fritz Albert Popp began his groundbreaking work on bio-photon emission and communication by the DNA. As soon as Dr. Schonberger learned of Dr. Popp’s early work, he wrote to him and asked his opinion. “Since information and matter cross in the genetic code, it may be expected that evolution has selected the most favorable, i.e. the surest, and at the same time most economical, principle,” Dr. Popp wrote back. “The only solution to the problem is to seek understanding of DNA… as you have done, from the information theory angle.”[11]

Following this advice, Schonberger elaborated his article into a small book, The I Ching and The Genetic Code: The Hidden Key to Life, published in Germany in 1973. For the second edition in 1977, Popp himself added a short afterward in which he restated the essential question: “Is there a connection between this substantiated reflection of biological evolution and the purpose, the indication and the meaning of Life?” This question, as Popp notes, “focuses our curiosity on the phase-border between the syntax and semantics of the DNA structure.”

In other words, if the I Ching is an accurate analogy for the syntax of the genetic code, then what does that imply about fate, free will and a host of other religious and spiritual issues? Even if we can read this “encyclopaedia of biological evolution,” by means of a “hidden key to life,” as has been done by the human genome project, the what does that imply about human evolution? Could a genetic I Ching, as suggested by Schonberger, function as a “periodic system of the spiritual element” for the evolution of forms of ever-greater complexity and self-awareness?[12]

Part Three

To begin to answer these crucial questions, we must first look at the origins of the I Ching. There have been hominids we would recognize as human in China for over five hundred thousand years. About eight thousand years ago, the rudiments of civilization appeared. A few thousand years later, around 3,000 BCE, a sort of proto-culture developed in the upper Yangtse valley. Like so many of the proto-cultures which formed around the planet within a few hundreds years of that date, the ancient Chinese culture centered on an Immortal.[13]

At the dawn of time, Fu Hsi, the primordial culture-bringer who invented the calendar, writing and the organization of society and whose name literally means Embodied Wisdom, tried to explain the workings of I, a word usually translated as “change.” To do this, we are told in the Great Commentary supposedly written by Confucius, he “observed the phenomena of the heavens and gazed down to observe the contours of the earth.” He also observed his own internal processes and their reflections in nature and then “went beyond this to take ideas from other things. Thus he invented the eight trigrams in order to comprehend the virtues of spiritual beings and represent the conditions of all things of creation.”[14]

In one version of the legend, Fu Hsi sees the eight trigrams, or primal groupings of broken and unbroken lines, on the back of a turtle, which gives us a clue as to how the oracle was originally practiced. The eight trigrams describe the major concepts of the ancient Chinese eco-philosophy which all refer back to the central image of the I, or, as an early Chou author defined it, “Change: that is the unchangeable.” The word began as a pictogram of the cosmic lizard or dragon, and meant the “fixed,” or the “straight,” in the sense of the cosmic and unchanging axis of the universe. Applied to the idea of “time,” the world axis came to denote “change” in order to describe the perceived evolution of patterns and rhythms.[15]

These patterns were conceived as the cold dark yielding forces of Yin and the hot bright expansive forces of Yang, both of which are but fluctuations in the Chi. These fluctuations give rise to the five elements – metal, wood, water, fire and earth – whose interactions in turn produce all things. These eight concepts are symbolized by the eight primal trigrams: the trigrams Heaven and Earth represent Yang and Yin, while the trigram Thunder represents the Chi. The other five, – Lake, Fire, Wind, Water and Mountain – convey the essence of the five elements, metal, fire, wood, water and earth.

Fu Hsi’s realization of the eight trigrams produces first of all a gnomic or geometric view of the universe’s expansion, from first cause to the reality event horizon symbolized by the 64 hexagrams. The One becomes two, Yin and Yang, which in turn produces four, the directions, then eight, the trigrams, and then on to 64, the hexagrams. This was thought of as the primal linear order, of both the trigrams and their resulting hexagrams. This can also be seen as the primal binary matrix, a sort of master set of off/on switches by which life unfolds through time by means of change.[16]

The number 64 is unusual in several ways. There are 64 codons, of three nucleotide units each, used by DNA and RNA to specify the amino acids needed for protein synthesis. We can think of these codons as a taxonomy, a complete and self-referencing group of symbols, that describes the possibilities of biological evolution. Interestingly enough, evidence from anthropology also suggests that 64 is the maximum number of entities that can be contained in one folkloric unit. From this it follows that the maximum level of cultural complexity is also controlled by the law of 2 to the 6th power, or 64. This connection between the evolution of proteins from DNA and the development of cultural complexity from archetypal experience forms the basis of the I Ching.[17]

While there are other ways to organize the trigrams and therefore the hexagrams, the primal linear order seems to represent some basic structure of life itself. Fu Hsi, the Embodied Wisdom, seems to have been telling us that the wisdom is also encoded within all of us. Indeed, the archaic pictogram for the oracle resembles nothing so much as a way to align the I, or cosmic center, with the unfolded spirals of DNA derived life.

However, as the text attributed to Confucius noted, Fu Hsi went beyond the code of life. He also gave us a way to understand how our DNA fits within the larger patterns of celestial alignments and temporal development. The logical way to turn the linear, binary order of the trigrams into a circular pattern is to match pairs of opposites. This produces the primal or celestial arrangement, which represents the larger patterns of time and change. We can in fact align this primal pattern to the four corners of the universe, the so-called galactic solstices and equinoxes, and thereby derive the quality of time for each trigram’s age or era.

The trigrams used to mark these large periods of time, the slow changes of the ages, can also be arranged to show the yearly cycle of natural and ecological change. This temporal arrangement begins in the spring with the appearance of the Chi trigram, Thunder, and then proceeds to develop the Chi through the year to perfection in the late winter, earth trigram Mountain, or Keeping Still, from which the Chi re-emerges in the spring.

Therefore Fu Hsi’s revelation provides us with a way to understand the evolution of the life codes, our DNA, within the organization of the space/time matrix from which reality is formed. Each arrangement of trigrams can be used to generate a sequence of the 64 hexagrams, which describes the changes, or relationships, within that level of reality. Thus, the linear or binary sequence describes the diversity of life produced through the action of tRNA, the celestial sequence describes the quality of time as the evolution of the results of action, what the Hindus call karma, and the temporal sequence describes the unfolding of the life force, the Chi, through the year and the landscape. By referring to all three, a total picture of reality emerges.[18]

Part Four

The I Ching is the oldest book in the world; its basic structure developed in pre-history. Confucius, in his Great Commentary, credited the pre-historic Three August Ones and the Five August Emperors with ordering the world according to its precepts. From the Chou Li, or Book of Chou Rites dating from around 1000 BCE, we learn that the Book of the I was only one of three prophetic or divinatory books known to the ancient Chinese. The Li Chi, one of the Five Classics, informs us that turtle shells were in common usage in divination using a system derived from Fu Hsi’s trigrams. All that we can really know of its origins is that by the 12th century BCE, the oracle had taken its basic form of 64 binary hexagrams.[19]

Apparently, up to this point, no recognized interpretations of the patterns existed. Each practitioner was free to interpret the patterns of the hexagrams in their own way. However, around the middle of the 12th century BCE, the late Shang dynasty deposed and imprisoned one of their dependents, King Wen. While in prison, King Wen turned his attention to writing descriptions, or judgments, on the 64 hexagrams. By careful use of the ideas revealed in his study, King Wen was able to affect his release and the re-instatement of his kingdom. Perhaps for this reason, his judgments have ever since been seen as definitive.

King Wen passed his knowledge on to his son, Tan, the Prince of Chou, founder of the Chou dynasty that eventually overthrew the Shang. The Prince of Chou is credited with having passed on the wisdom of his father in his judgments on the lines of the 64 hexagrams. These 384 descriptions form a unified field of understanding where all three perspectives on the eight trigrams and their subsequent sequences of hexagrams can be explored.[20]

Imagine that a being from an advanced culture gave you a toy designed to both entertain you and instruct you in the workings of our reality matrix. The toy works like this: at any moment, you can freeze the flow of time into a very small slice which not only tells you the nature of the moment, but why you chose it, the ramifications of having chosen it, and three other co-ordinates of change that create the moment and the choice.

Essentially, the I Ching, the gift of Fu Hsi, is such a toy. Any means of random selection can be used – counting yarrow stalks, tossing coins or a binary computer program – to provide the hexagram, which marks the quality of that moment. This hexagram is then interpreted by various methods and then related to other hexagrams to provide an inclusive and holistic perspective on the evolution of that moment in time. The value of such knowledge, however, comes from our ability to make use of it.

And this, perhaps, was the genius of King Wen. In addition to writing the enigmatic judgments, King Wen also designed a way to structure the hexagrams in pairs so that the increment of change between the pairs described the rhythmic structure of that elusive quality the now or the everchanging present. This discovery animated the larger structures described by Fu Hsi’s trigrams so that time or change was rendered interactive. King Wen’s arrangement became the standard sequence used in most versions of the I Ching, and for millennia was the preferred way to consult the oracle. It survived because it worked. Through the King Wen arrangement, it was possible to have a dialogue with this ancient source of wisdom.

How this actually worked was a mystery until recently. Carl Jung’s study of the I Ching led to his theory of synchronicity as an acausal connecting principle, but he was unable to see how the flow of archetypes formed meaningful structures in an acausal manner. Synchronicity could be defined as a psychological event, the projection of meaning onto a background of randomness, but Jung left unanswered the question of meaning itself. Does this temporal universe inhabited by biological entities truly have a “meaning?”[21]

Perhaps not a meaning, but at least a “destiny.” One of the commentaries on the I Ching attributed to Confucius tells us that “the future likewise develops in accordance with the fixed laws, according to calculable numbers. . . This is the thought on which the Book of Changes is based.” Another even older commentary informs us that “counting that which is going into the past depends on the forward movement. Knowing that which is to come depends on the backward movement. This is why the Book of Changes has backward moving numbers.” Clearly the early commentators and interpreters saw the I Ching as something vastly more significant than a simple oracle.[22]

But what exactly? This question was answered by a couple of the century’s most brilliant minds. The McKenna brothers, Terence and Dennis, in their groundbreaking work The Invisible Landscape postulated that the King Wen arrangement contained just such a backward and forward flowing pattern of numbers, and that these numbers could be used to construct an interface with similar vital holons, or holistic hierarchies, in the organization of space/time.

The McKennas demonstrated this by overlaying the 384 lines of the 64 hexagrams (6 x 64 = 384) on the 13 month lunar calendar (13 X 29.53 days = 383.89 days). They then used these basic units to develop a temporal lock with the solar/sunspot cycle, the Zodiacal Ages, and the length of the Great Year of precessional motion. With the same increment, 64, they found it was possible to assemble a 26 step model of space/time from the size/age of the universe down to Planck’s Constant. In this view, the I Ching is a fractal model of all that is, was, or will be. It is also hologramic, in that the piece, the I Ching, contains the information of the whole, the evolving universe.

Applying this realization to the structure of the King Wen arrangement produces a model of the holonic nature of evolution. If we think of the time from the emergence of life on earth to the immediate future, roughly 1.3 billion years, as one increment and then begin to divide that by 64, some interesting time periods are highlighted. Our first division, one 64th of 1.3 billion years, brings us to the high point of the mammals, 18 million years ago. The next division by 64 brings us to 275,000 BCE, the dawn of Homo Sapiens. Dividing again by 64 brings us to the high point of the ancient cultures such as the Egyptian around 2300 BCE. Another division brings us to the mid 20th century and the last 67 + years of the cycle.

According to this view, all of biological and cosmological time is approaching a point of concrescence in the near future. The McKenna brothers went looking for possible dates for this concrescence and decided that the helical rising of the winter solstice sunrise in 2012 matched the requirements. It would certainly be an event of cosmological significance that could serve as a symbol of the concrescence itself. The McKennas found that this date also matched the wave form derived from King Wen’s arrangement with historical events. The end of World War II and the atomic bomb, for instance, fell on 1945, the year of the last division, the beginning of the last 67 + years of biological and galactic evolution which completes the vast hexagram of time which began 72.25 billion years ago.

All of the information, “novelty” as the McKennas called it, that was generated in the course of the previous billions of years from the formation of the earth to the present is compressed and recapitulated in the last 67 + years. Therefore we can apply the same scale of division, creating a new hexagramic hierarchy, to this 67 + year period. Within this time period, there are 64 groups of 384 days, which cover three major and six minor sunspot cycles. When the wave front of concrescence is applied to the time period, we find that the first node falls on the beginning of the last 384 day cycle. The McKennas suggested that this node marked a shift in “novelty” or information density, equal to that which occurred in 1945 CE, 2300 BCE, 275,000 BCE and so on.

The next node on the concrescence wave happens six days before the shift point and again represents the same kind of acceleration in “novelty.” The first trigram is completed at the next node, 135 minutes from ground zero, and represents another level of acceleration. Novelty continues to speed up at the next node, 127 seconds, and again at the next, 1.98 seconds, and then for the final time at .003 seconds when it accelerates to its maximum. The pattern then inverts and novelty decreases by the same incremental pattern with which it increased. Another round has begun.[23]

The implications of this are staggering if considered from the perspective of the universe’s meaning or destiny. Perhaps sentient life developed out of the primal matrix just to be aware of this all-important wave of information acceleration as it reaches concrescence. Perhaps the true value of the I Ching is to help us understand the transformational possibilities of living in a moment of rapidly accelerating time.

Part Five

Interestingly enough, the Taoist alchemists of the Sung Dynasty (960 – 1127 CE) seemed to understand the concept of alchemical time and the transformative process at the heart of King Wen’s arrangement. In a curious mandala entitled “The Cauldron, Furnace, Medicines and Firing Process,” the King Wen sequence is used to describe the alchemical process. “The science of the gold pill (alchemy),” as Liu I-ming, the foremost Taoist scholar of the 19th century, tells us in his commentary on the mandala, “has the Heaven and the Earth for its cauldron and furnace, Water and Fire for its medicinal ingredients; the other sixty hexagrams, beginning with Difficulty and Darkness, are the firing process. . . The science of the gold pill (alchemy) is not outside the tao of transformation, the tao of transformation is not outside the tao of evolution of yin and yang, of heaven and earth, sun and moon.”[24]

This alchemical mandala, with its circle of sixty hexagrams, is the informational link between eastern and western systems of divination and magical philosophy. Its four outer hexagrams suggest the pattern of the Kabbalistic cross – “Between the heights (heaven) and the depths (Earth), between Justice (Fire) and Mercy (Water), I am centered” – while the circle of sixty hexagrams represents the union of the microcosm, 5 the pentagram, and the macrocosm, 6 the hexagram, [5 x 6 = 30, 6 x 6 = 36, 5 x 12 (6 + 6) = 60, 6 x 10 (5 + 5) = 60 and 12 + 60 = 72] in the ratio of 5:6, or 10:12.

This numerical relationship corresponds in the double helix of DNA to the point where counting by triplets and turns merge. Two triplets, six base pairs, contain a half turn of the DNA helix, or five base pairs. Therefore, three whole turns, or six half turns, contains ten triplets, 30 base pairs or 60 amino acids, with in a framework of 12 triplets, 36 base pairs and 72 amino acids. These ratios, 5:6 and 10:12 form a common period where turns, structure, and information, triplets, coincide, echoing the overlap between mind, the microcosm, and matter, the macrocosm and the relationship between the Tree of Life, three turns and ten triplets of the helix, and the zodiac of six half turns and 12 triplets.[25]

Both the 60 hexagram cycle and the 64 hexagram cycle are related to time. The ancient Chinese calendar was based on the Chang, or Metonic cycle of 19 years solar years. This the time period in which the sun and moon go through their permutations before returning to the starting point. In astrology, this is marked by the head and tail of the dragon, markers used to note the main event of the Metonic cycle, the prediction of eclipses. If we divide our 60 hexagrams or amino acids by the 19 years of the cycle, we find a close approximation of Pi, 3.15, a geometric marker of the cycle that is also reflected in the structure of DNA. Nineteen turns, counted by triplets, brings us to the 64th triplet, completing the cycle of the code. Nineteen turns of 64 triplets is 192 base pairs and 384 amino acids, the total number of lines in the I Ching.[26]

If we count by lunar years of 384 days, 13 months times 29.6 days or 19 days more than the solar year, then 64 of these “years” would merge the eclipse cycle, the head and tail of the dragon, with the sun spot cycle, containing three major cycles and six minor ones, which echoes the three turns and six half turns created by ten triplets. This temporal unit, as we saw noted above, is the increment of change, the wave front of the increasing novelty factor, by which evolution is paced. It is no accident, given the light sensitive nature of DNA that eclipse cycles, sunspot cycles and the informational structure of DNA should all be based on the same ratios and proportions.

From this we can see that the structure of the I Ching and the DNA code contains both local solar system time orchestrated by the permutations of sun, moon, eclipses and sunspot cycles, and the larger cycles of precessional time. Counting by turns and triplets reveals that a macrocosmic framework of precessional numbers supports the microcosm. The movement of the spring equinox backward through the zodiac due to the tilt of the earth’s axis is measured at the rate of one degree every 72 years, therefore 12 triplets, 1 and 1/5th turns of the helix equals 1/6 of a degree of precessional motion, or 12 years. Given that there billions of turns and millions of triplets in a single strand of DNA, then the entire history of the universe, from beginning to end, could be coded into our DNA.[27]

From this perspective, the mythic Akashic Records are simply the coils of DNA within every cell of your body, and they can be read by those who, in Ovason’s phrase, “have clothed themselves in the skin of the dragon,” that is, only by initiates who have learned the Green Language of Light. But, while the I Ching provides us with an alphabet and a way to spell out meaningful “words,” the 64 codons it fails to provide a grammar and syntax that would allow us to use these “words” in sentences and metaphors, in other words, to turn the images into a discrete form of communication.

For that piece of the puzzle, we must turn to the western mystery tradition and a much newer psycho-technology, the Tarot and its Gnostic and Kabbalistic roots.

Part Six

While keeping in mind that the label “Gnosticism” covers an enormous number of different and often contradictory belief systems, it is possible to sort through its spiritual kaleidoscope and arrive at an overview of the basic gnostic cosmology. Gnosticism’s main tenets contain both good and evil gods, a dualism that is often the opposite of what we would usually expect. The real force driving gnostic philosophy was its sophisticated and experiential vision of the End of the World.[28]

According to the gnostic myth, at the creation of the world the spirit of Light was imprisoned by the powers of Darkness. This light, the essence of God, was trapped in human bodies as separate sparks of light, our souls. The gnostic sects held that the goal of their knowledge was the path of return, or the ability of the individual sparks to return to the original Light through the process of redemption. According to the Gnostics, this world, and its history, are the works of the evil Demiurge. This is the false god, or the evil one, who built this world as a trap for souls, or the light.

As each soul is redeemed, it travels back to the shattered source of the divine Light. The soul returns its own small spark of light to the main source, which slowly, as more and more souls return to it, becomes whole again. Eventually, when all souls have returned, the physical universe, being now completely without Light, will end. Given modern biology’s understanding of the light emitting and information carrying ability of DNA, and the implications for the kind of hologramic reality described by the Gnostics, then such eschatology of Light gains a new and more scientific meaning. Therefore this “eschatology of Light” synthesized from Egyptian, Persian and Hebrew elements can be seen as the framework supporting the vast diversity of gnostic traditions. These traditions included the new messianic form of Judaism that would become Christianity a century or so later.[29]

The key concept in this eschatology of light is the Tree of Life, Etz Chaim, as described in the work of creation texts such as the Sepher Yetsirah. The Tree of Life is a diagram that pictures reality as the intersection of four great realms, or levels of abstraction. A geometric pattern crystallizes within the intersection planes like a moiré pattern in a hologramic projection. Twenty-two paths, processes or states of becoming connect ten localities, spheres or sephiroth. The entire diagram was thought to describe the nature of creation, God’s artistic technique if you will. But it’s true importance to the sages was its application to the human condition.[30]

As God is supposed to have made man in his image and likeness, then man was thought to contain, in microcosm, the entire Tree of Life. Some medieval Kabbalists used the concepts in the Sepher Yetsirah to create an artificial form of life, as in the Golem legends of Prague and Warsaw. To the western esotericists, the Tree of Life functioned much like the Kundalini diagrams of the Hindu mystics. By mapping the internal power centers, and then projecting outward and aligning them with the forces of nature, the magician sought to re-enact the process of creation. And so become, like God, a co-creator of the universe.[31]

The sephiroth and the paths are arranged in a few basic patterns. The top three localities, Kether, Chokmah and Binah, (Crown, Wisdom and Understanding) create a triangular motif that is then inverted and projected downward through the pattern. The first inverted triangle, Chesed, Geburah, Tiphareth, (Mercy, Strength and Beauty) is repeated by the third and last triangle, Netzach, Hod and Yesod (Victory, Splendor and Foundation). The whole pattern is then resolved by, and enfolded into, the last sephiroth, Malkuth (Kingdom).

Each of these triangular patterns represents one of the realms or levels of abstraction. The repetition of the pattern also creates three columns or pillars on the Tree. Facing the Tree, the three columns are Mercy, Transformation (note this column connects Malkuth with Kether, heaven to earth), and Severity. These repetitions of three can also be seen as the three persons of the trinity, the law of threes, or thesis, antithesis and synthesis to the modern philosopher. They can also be seen as the triplet code at the heart of transfer RNA, which creates proteins according to the DNA’s blueprint, and the three turns formed of ten triplets.

Indeed, the whole Tree of Life pattern echoes the structural components of DNA and its processes that we found in the I Ching. The ten spheres are joined together by the serpent like entwining of the 22 paths, for a total of 32 qualities and their reflection, which of course matches the 64 protein synthesis code words of t-RNA. The 22 letters of the paths correspond to the 20 amino acids and the two punctuation marks formed by t-RNA. As these are formed of words made of base pairs, we might think of them as possible sentence structures, or varieties of syntax, that allow for the “metaphor” of a physical body to be “written” or constructed. Even the 23 chromosomes that each individual passes on in reproduction can be seen as the 22 paths of the Tree, with the addition of the Malkuth, or earth element, that creates both gender and individuality. In essence, the Kabbalah and the Tree Of Life are elegant and symbolic ways to express the patterns found in the DNA. It is therefore no wonder that it was thought capable of bestowing life on inanimate clay as in the Golem legends.

Understanding of this combination of mythic mathematics and DNA geometry almost disappeared with fall of the ancient world. It survived in fragments, and in the quotations of the ancients, until an almost unknown English scholar named William Stirling wrote the first formal explication since Vitruvius in ancient Rome. Published anonymously in 1897, his book, entitled The Canon: An Exposition of the Pagan Mystery Perpetuated in the Cabala as the Rule of All Art,[32] managed, like Fulcanelli’s Mystery of the Cathedrals, to become influential in spite of its obscurity. It inspired thinkers as diverse as the psychic archaeologist F. Bligh Bond and the perennial Victorian bad-boy magician Aleister Crowley, who liberally sprinkled his work with swipes from Stirling.

According to Keith Critchlow, a geometric philosopher and student of Buckminster Fuller’s, “the Canon is based on the objective fact that events and physical changes which are perpetual are never the less completely governed by intrinsic proportions, periodicities and measures.” As Critchlow notes, “it is to just such a hidden intrinsic language that the author of this book (Stirling) has dedicated himself.”[33]

In his chapter on Rhetoric, one of the liberal arts surrounding Alchemy on the base of Notre-Dame’s middle pillar, Stirling gives us a simple description of the Great Tree of Life: “The process of creation may be expressed by inscribing the cabalistic diagram in the upper hemisphere, so that the apex or crown reaches to the Milky Way, while the tenth step will coincide with earth.” Stirling’s “cabalistic diagram” is the ten-step pattern of unfoldment known to occultists as the Tree of Life, and according to his explication, it is the basic pattern of the Canon itself.

He writes: “The doctrine of the Cabala was reduced to a geometric diagram, in which ten steps were grouped according to a progressive scheme, so that the emanations of the Spirit of the Elohim issues from the first step called the Crown, and after passing through the whole figure is carried through the ninth step, and finally reaches the tenth or last of the series.” This cabalistic diagram described by Stirling, the Tree of Life, was first elucidated in the 2nd century Sepher Yetsirah, and pictures reality as the intersection of levels of abstraction, again reminiscent of the intersection of mind and matter, information and structure, that is the DNA code.

Stirling tells us that “the ideas which the ancients connected… and combined into this figure of ten progressive steps, appears to form the basis of all their philosophy, religion, and art, and in it we have the nearest approach to a direct revelation of the traditional science, or Gnosis, which was never communicated except by myths and symbols.” From this we can see that the framework, the Gnostic pattern, behind the universal language of symbolism, the Language of the Birds and the Green Language, is this great word/world tree of DNA geometry. It is also the Ladder of our western shamanic Gnosis.

Part Seven

Since we have been following the Gnostic footprints of the Green Language, let us return to Fulcanelli and his most direct Gnostic symbol, the enigmatic credence of Lallemant Mansion in Bourges described in Mystery of the Cathedrals.[34] An architectural credence is a false door or window. This immediately suggests the Egyptian false door used in tombs and the Islamic mithrab or prayer niche. In Egyptian architecture, the false door allows the ‘Ka’, or the spirit double that lies within all of us, access to the ‘Ka’ statue, the body’s immortal form, hidden in a chamber behind the door. This is the doorway to the Duat, or the astral realm of the light beings. The spirit, or light within us, lives in this realm after the death of the body. This echoes the Gnostic “spark of light” trying to find it’s way back to the great central light of the universe.

In Islam, the mithrab is the prayer doorway to Mecca and the inner mysteries of Mohammed’s revelation. In many Sufi sects, the mithrab has the geometric pattern of the Tree of Life, without Malkuth, inscribed in its niche. This is usually coupled with the Light Verse from the Qu’ran – Sura 24, verse 35. To the Sufis, this verse exemplifies the very idea of illumination. Idries Shah called the verse “the essence of Sufism,” and goes on to suggests that it “conceals the nature of the cognition of the extra dimensions of the human consciousness which comes beyond the intellect.”

The mithrab/credence in Lallemant Mansion combines Islamic concepts with the even deeper meaning of a door to the Duat from Egyptian cosmology. It has three layers, as does the Egyptian false door. On the inner surface of the niche is a letter rebus that, as we will see, distils the essence of the Sufi Light Verse. We are also reminded of the Abbot Suger: “Bright is the noble work, this work shining nobly/ Enlightens the mind so that it may travel through the true lights/ To the True Light where Christ is the true door.”

In the niche of the credence at Lallemant are the letters RERE on one line, followed by the letters, RER on the next. This is repeated twice more for a total of six lines, hence doubling or crossing: two times three equals six. It looks like this:

RERE

RER

RERE

RER

RERE

RER

The repetition suggests a sequence with six lines, such as a hexagram of the I Ching. If we take the RER to be a yin line and the RERE to be a yang line, then the credence gives us the 64th hexagram of the I Ching: “Before Completion.” If we flip the attribution so that RER is yang and RERE is yin, then we have hexagram #63, “After Completion.” These hexagrams are composed of two trigrams, Li, flame or light, and K’an, water or the abyss. Therefore we have the image of “fire over water; the conditions before transition,” and “water over fire, the conditions after transition,” as the sages described it in the text. This image suggests the Silver Star of the Wise, rising from the depths of space to signal the completion of the Great Work, and the symbol of both the prima materia and the completed process, the cosmic serpent biting its own tail of DNA itself.

Jeremy Narby, in his book The Cosmic Serpent, describes DNA as “living in water and emitting photons, like an aquatic dragon spitting fire.”[35] This certainly matches the image of the two hexagrams we can make from the pattern on the credence, and suggests that the I Ching and the DNA light language might be the same thing, the same “text.” Researchers, such as Rattemeyer, Popp and Ho, consider this bio-photon emission and absorption as a kind of “bio-communication between cells and organisms,” and their work over the last 15 years suggest that this language is used not merely on the cellular level but also as a communication and organization mechanism in macro-organisms such as plankton swarms.[36] Narby presents startling evidence that shamanic states can function as an access way to this internal flow of information in the form of symbols and imagery.

As we saw above, the Tree of Life is also a way to organize the information of the DNA. When viewed as a 3 dimensional object, the Tree of Life becomes a prism-like crystal, which increases its resemblance to the liquid crystal of DNA.[37] We can see these two great information theories as emblematic of the eastern and western approaches. The Ladder-like approach of the Tree of Life complements the language-like structure of the I Ching. What unites them is the end result, the realization of the DNA/light, even in symbolic terms, from which they originate.

Is there really a very sophisticated meme for transformation and gnosis that runs through all religions and spiritual traditions? Is this tradition holding the knowledge of our past for a release some time in the future? Could light, in the form of weak laser pulses from our DNA, be the source of this information? Could the pattern itself, represented by the yin/yang polarity of hexagrams #63 and #64, reveal when understood the ultimate secrets of life, time and fate?

The answer to these questions, and the others we originally proposed appears to be yes. It is possible to reconstruct the dragon’s speech, the green language of light’s syntax, grammar and vocabulary, because fragments of that original green language of light can be found in the divinatory systems used by all nautes, shaman and initiates, from the archaic oracles of the I Ching to the medievalism of the Kabbalah and the Tarot. By comparing these to the structure and processes of DNA, we can assemble a complex of photo-linguistic meanings that allow us to fulfil the ultimate goal of man’s spiritual yearnings, that of reading the divine.

I’VE BEEN DOING SOME RESEARCH LATELY…

So many people I know say they feel like they are stuck in the Twilight Zone or a time loop.

Time is flying by! Where did the time go? How can it be the middle of 2022?

It got me thinking… again. What if time isn’t moving at all? What if we are moving? In circles and cycles. Which brings me to my research…

Astrotheology.

I came across a video from the 1990s. In it, the speaker is discussing the bible and how it relates to the Sun’s journey through the zodiac. And that journey is exactly the same as every son of God story ever written. Jesus, Krishna, Horus, etc. And, it’s the same journey happening within us.

I grew up attending Catholic schools yet cannot recall one single passage from the bible except this one: “The kingdom of God is within.” And that’s only because I tried to read Tolstoy’s book of the same title. I’ll admit, I thought reading the title was enough. I never did understand the whole concept of Jesus dying for our sins and that we were born sinners. And that God was somewhere out THERE.

My curiosity about the Sun’s trip through the sky led me to others who’ve laid out the same blueprint. These others, the ancients, left behind temples, pyramids and symbols meant to be interpreted and passed along through the ages (the cycles).

Turns out, being a messenger of this wisdom, however, brings dire consequences. Even death. But, nothing can ever destroy truth. And that alone is comforting and empowering, especially as we go through the trials and tribulations of the present.

If I have learned anything from my research, it’s that I have only just begun. I’m four years old all over again. Thinking about the white ring in the black sky. Only this time I am not searching for the beginning.

My mother was right. “Always was and always will be.”

MAN’S FINAL FRONTIER

“Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes,
And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes
The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,
Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:-
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:
Environment is but his looking-glass.”

– James Allen

THE CURE FOR CORONAVIRUS

Most people think it’s unpleasant to contemplate death… to contemplate one’s own mortality and potential to not exist. Of course, for many it’s terrifying at first. But, with daily consideration, it’s the surest path to freedom from fear.

Let’s take the manufactured pandemic, for example. The fear campaign around this has been monumental, remarkably orchestrated and intensely effective. But, the only thing about it that’s different from the seasonal flu or any other illness is us – a good lot of whom have become cowards. And ignorant ones at that.

So, here’s an idea: Wake up in morning, slap some cold water on your face, and really get it through your head that today may be your last. Ask yourself how you want to spend that precious time, and with whom. Then question those who have put themselves in a place of authority on the world’s stage. Use logic, reason and intuition to guide you. If you make it through the day, pour yourself a nice, neat scotch and toast to freedom.

I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE

How technology and ignorance have shaped a new era of “truth decay”

In the highly acclaimed 1976 film Network, fictional veteran news anchor Howard Beale delivers an infamous speech in which he savagely commands viewers to “get up right now, and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell, I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!” His crazed rant about a world gone mad under corporate totalitarianism is, without a doubt, as relevant today as it was four decades ago.

We know things are bad. Worse than bad. We are in the midst of a manufactured global pandemic and race war in the U.S., walking blindly into the unknown. But rather than sticking our heads out the window to be heard, we now have the ability to express ourselves and reach millions—without getting up and out of our chairs. Depending on one’s perspective, that convenience could be a curse or a blessing given the current controls sweeping the country and most of the world.

It is undeniable that advancing technology and a burgeoning global network of interconnected mobile devices has drastically changed the way we digest, discern, share and respond to news. In a poll conducted among a national sample of 2200 adults by the Hollywood Reporter between March 12-March 15, 2020, half the individuals surveyed said they trusted experts such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization over news outlets.

In a recent National Public Radio (NPR) poll, only 37 percent of Americans surveyed said they had a good amount or a great deal of trust in what they’re hearing from President Trump, while 60 percent expressed not much or no trust in what he’s saying. In a Pew Research Center survey conducted between March 10-16, most respondents think media outlets have exaggerated the risks, with about half saying they believe they have seen at least some made-up news about COVID-19.

And finally, prior to COVID-19 but after the 2016 presidential election, the nonprofit think tank RAND surmised through analysis conducted between 1989 and 2017 and released in May 2019 that American journalism is suffering from ‘truth decay’—with the media becoming more biased over the last 30 years.

Strangely enough, there are no surveys in which Americans are asked if they trust their intuition, or better yet, use logic and reasoning to decide for themselves what they believe.

Maybe that is too much to ask of people in this current climate of information chaos, where finding solid ground is like trying to stand on water.

Perhaps the question is not about American journalism losing its objectivity but rather Americans losing our ability to think rationally and for ourselves.

John F. Kennedy stated, “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” Even as likes and comments become the norm in public discourse and engagement, social media platforms are now taking it upon themselves to patrol and remove comments and news identified as false or misleading—all in the name of truth. But whose truth? 

Many brilliant minds have offered their views, from German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who said, “There are no facts, only interpretations,” to Indian writer and philosopher Jiddhu Krishnamurti who maintained throughout his adult life that “Truth is a pathless land.” Yet most of us still look to politicians, billionaires, spiritual leaders, Google, Twitter, Facebook, Tik Tok, LinkedIn, Siri and Alexa to feed us the answers. And it’s understandable considering our propensity for fear, our increasing dependence on the government, and technology, which in many ways has been a boon to society.

Right now, at a time we are being asked to take responsibility for ourselves, to shelter in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and fight the good fight against police brutality, we have a tremendous opportunity to take personal responsibility for the information we choose to digest, trust and share in this historic time.

Well before Network swept the 1977 Academy Awards, consumers of news have had the ability to voice their opinions, share their observations and express their versions of the truth. The only difference now is that we may be closer to sticking our heads in the sand than out a window.

TOUGHER THAN TEFLON

How Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFOS/PFOA) Adversely Affect Human Health

In 1938, research chemist Dr. Roy J. Plunkett accidentally discovered Teflon® as a result of a failed experiment to create a new refrigerator coolant for E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont). After ten years of research, Dupont introduced the heat-resistant, nonstick polytetrafluoroethylene resin to the general population and by the time of its inventor’s death it would provide the coating for three-quarters of the pots and pans sold in the United States.

In 1985, when Plunkett was inducted into the National Inventors’ Hall of Fame, he stated that he was proud of his invention that “has been of great personal benefit to people — not just indirectly, but directly to real people whom I know.” In his 1994 obituary, the New York Times praised the scientist who died of cancer at age 83 for “not only changing the way Americans cook” but also helping “develop a multibillion-dollar plastics industry.”

More than two decades later, however, the same news agency would publish an in-depth feature story titled “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare,” chronicling the eight-year journey of corporate defense attorney Rob Bilott who exposed a decades-long history of the chemical pollutant, Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA).

According to documents unwittingly supplied by Dupont, the toxicity and risks to human and animal health had long been known, not only by the Teflon manufacturer, but also by 3M Company.

Up until 2000, 3M had manufactured the chemical commonly referred to as C8, as well as Perfluorooctanesulfonic Acid (PFOS), the key ingredient in the fabric protector and stain repellant, Scotchgard™, and the aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) used by firefighters and found in a wide range of personal care products. In fact, for more than four decades both organizations had been conducting sequestered medical studies on the effects of PFOA and PFOS toxins, which belong to a class of poly- and perfluoroalkyl man-made chemicals collectively known as perfluoroalkyl sulfonates (PFAS).

By the mid-1970s, tests revealed that PFOA, in particular, not only increased the size of the liver in rabbits and rats but also was resistant to degradation and showed up in high concentrations in the blood of factory workers at Washington Works, DuPont’s second largest manufacturing facility in the world.

In 1984 DuPont became aware but did not disclose that PFOA had infiltrated the local water supply near the plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia.

Thanks in large part to Bilott’s research and a subsequent 2002 investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) into the chemical’s toxicity, far more facts became known. Based on information Bilott provided to the EPA concerning drinking water tainted with PFOA in six water districts and dozens of private wells, the chemical was classified as a threat to human health. In 2005, the EPA fined DuPont a miniscule $16.5 million for violating the Toxic Substances Control Act by withholding the dangers of PFOA and that same year a panel of scientists convened to determine its health effects in residents of communities located in the Mid-Ohio Valley who had been drinking the contaminated water since the 1950s. After seven years of research, the C8 Science Panel released a Probable Links Report establishing the connection between PFOA and the following human health conditions:

  • Heart disease
  • Kidney disease
  • Liver disease
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Autoimmune disease
  • Infectious diseases
  • Neurodevelopmental disorders in children
  • Respiratory disease
  • Stroke
  • Thyroid disease
  • Cancer
  • Diabetes
  • Birth defects
  • Pregnancy-induced hypertension and preeclampsia
  • Miscarriage and stillbirths
  • Preterm birth and low birth weight

Officials at DuPont assured the phase-out of C8 by the end of 2015, however, the company had already developed new replacement chemicals from the PFAS class of substances, which are still found in a wide variety of popular and commonly used products today, including shampoos, electronics, clothing, pizza boxes and other food containers among other things.

Alarmed and outraged, more than 200 scientists representing 38 nations came together to sign the Madrid Statement, which was published in the May 2015 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives and warns the general public about the harmful effects from both old and newly introduced PFAS chemicals. The document lists the many adverse health risks, which include the following:

  • Liver toxicity                 
  • Disruption of lipid metabolism and the immune and endocrine systems
  • Adverse neurobehavioral effects           
  • Neonatal toxicity and death
  • Tumors in multiple organ systems       
  • Testicular and kidney cancers
  • Liver malfunction      
  • Hypothyroidism
  • High cholesterol         
  • Ulcerative colitis
  • Reduced birth weight and size               
  • Obesity
  • Decreased immune response to vaccines          
  • Reduced hormone levels and delayed puberty

Migrating via industrial processes, military and firefighting operations and consumer product use, PFAS toxins are released into the air, soil, ground and surface water, traveling in large diluted plumes through aquifers contaminating food supplies and infiltrating drinking water and monitoring wells. Spreading like tentacles, these plumes can be miles long, which make them difficult to detect, analyze and treat.

According to an August 2015 report by David Andrews, Senior Scientist with the Environmental Working Group, nationwide testing indicates that 6.5 million Americans in 27 states are drinking water tainted with PFOA. Detected in 94 public water systems—quite heavily in Southern California and Arizona—research confirms that PFOA and closely related PFAS chemicals—even at the tiniest doses—can cause cancer, birth defects and heart disease and weaken the immune system. An interactive map is included in the report to give readers information on where contamination has been detected.

Fortunately, new and highly specialized instruments such as LC-MS and LC-MS/MS have been developed to detect and analyze contaminants. The combination of liquid chromatography (LC) with mass spectrometry (MS), these tools have the increased sensitivity capabilities needed to gain more structural information on contaminants in the soil and groundwater. PFAS substances, however, are recalcitrant in the environment and require extreme conditions to initiate chemical transformation reactions. In fact, most chemical, biological and thermal in situ remediation techniques are ineffective, particularly in preventing the spread of plumes underground.

Top researchers and leading scientists from around the U.S. convened at the March 2016 Emerging Contaminants Summit in Westminster, Colorado, to address the mitigation of contaminants such as PFAS substances and share insights as well as preliminary results from on-going research in possible treatments. Highlighting pump-and-treat and ex situ techniques that use activated carbon filters on site, research suggests that these treatments may need to be in place for 10, 20 or, in rare instances, up to 100 years to successfully remediate groundwater contaminated with PFAS substances. In addition, pump-and-treat technologies do not address on-site risks associated with in surface soils.

Some in situ technologies, however, offer ways to quickly and effectively treat contaminated groundwater and prevent the spread of contaminated plumes. Through highly dispersible, fast-acting, sorption-based technology, which captures and concentrates contaminants within its structure, the groundbreaking products lasts for decades, pulling contaminants directly from groundwater.

While more research is needed on the real and long-term health risks associated with PFAS substances, it is quite clear that grave atrocities have been inflicted on unsuspecting populations around the globe in the past as well as the present.

Though the harmful effects cannot be reversed, bold new discoveries and environmental remediation techniques have at least been developed, offering hope and ensuring for a better, cleaner future. This requires tremendous courage, first to come forward and acknowledge who started the fire and then collaborate with likeminded courageous groups and individuals to end it.