Far Memory

cover of the first edition

This is the word that keeps coming up when people who are mystically predisposed contemplate their prior incarnations and past life’s*. To remember a past life, one must be advanced enough in esoteric matters to understand and be able to carry the added burden of knowing other life’s, seemingly distant, yet reflecting upon your very own spirit. Was it really you in spirit, who committed that act that was done by a different soul, who is actually you? Or is she? We were everything before; men, women, white, non-white, straight and gay, gentle and not so gentle, murderers or at least spectators to murder…

Joan Grant wrote a great novel, the Winged Pharaoh on reincarnation. You see, she was a reincarnationist, and that made her a history buff, a lover of the ancient past, Egyptian, distant civilization. Grant rose to unexpected fame upon publication. The New York Times reviewer hailed it as “A book of fine idealism, deep compassion and a spiritual quality pure and bright as flame’” a sentiment echoed in countless reviews the world over.

It was told by Grant, after she had travelled to Egypt, with the archaeologist Leslie Grant, that she found, when she held a particular scarab to her head, it transported her back to first-dynasty Egypt in the person of a female pharaoh called Sekeeta. In her autobiography, Far Memory, published in 1956, she reiterated that it was her training as a priestess in this Egyptian lifetime that developed her ability to recall other lives.

When you meet an old soul, usually there is a hint; the unexplained love of history and archeology, or even antiques; why is that certain people are drawn to old things, in general and in most cases specifically to certain eras in the human past? I, for example always had a vivid attraction to Roman era’s and to WWII. Other segments in human history were also alive in me, but these two eras have an especially strong draw. Not all people on this Earth are what some call, “old souls”. There are many, but for the most part we have young souls, one or two incarnations. Most live with this hidden and suppressed knowledge, like it was not there.

Many people who are old souls, have no clue of their past, all that is within them, in the akashic records, the tittles and jots, all acts that mattered and even thoughts, are kept forever. The reason for this, the systematic lies, obfuscation of the Truth, the aberration of the Christian faith.

The higher ups along with Constantine took all the Ancient Wisdom, the traces of the truth in the Gnostic past and wiped them all out. They systematically erased the facts of the true message of Jesus, the real agenda of his teaching, the sacred, inner destiny of men – replaced them with some phantasmagoric idea of spilled blood will save mankind, and the divinity of Jesus, the fear of Hell and striving for their bizarre notion of Heaven. Anyone who stood in their way was murdered, silenced or claimed to be a witch. Karma and Reincarnation was erased from the minds and vocabulary of the masses.

Of course, Karma – the law of cause and effect and reincarnation, the transmigration of souls, could explain a whole lot of the unexplained questions the church have been unable to provide to the masses, satisfactorily.

Questions like, “why are we here?”, or “why is god doing this to me?” should be self explanatory in the context of the Ancient Wisdom. Naturally, God is not doing anything to you; IT (not a HE or SHE) never did and never will. You are doing it ALL to yourself. You are here, in this snapshot of self, to learn ONE LESSON. This lesson is stemming from your past, most recent life. If you fail this time, no worries, you can repeat as many times as you like. Further, every thought and deed you do in this life is setting you up for your next. This is an esoteric fact!

Of course, Jesus was divine; he WAS the son of god. But so am I. You are too; you are the son of god. We all are.

When they lie to the people for 2000 years, this lie will undoubtedly cause some conflict and the need for healing. Far memories get clouded, people live in fear of death and fear of being alive. The scars of the falsehoods of religion will heal slowly. We are beginning to realize the cyclical nature of Time. We are beginning to realize that like seasons, we pass on from lifetime to lifetime, and there is no death, nothing is terminal, only passing on the soul like a used overcoat. The naked spirit will take up a new coat (a body and a soul) and will repeat the cycle until the need for rebirth and”death” are no longer needed. When the karmic slate is CLEAN, we can stop.

When people start seeing the clear picture and realize that they were duped and lied to for all this time, then and only then, they can start seeking reincarnation a plausible and even a logical mechanism of setting wrongs right. There is no heaven or hell. Both are concepts of you which can be interchanged but never jointly held.

*Far Memory is the autobiography of Joan Grant.

True Power – essay about Jesus and perversion of the US fundementalist views

I was listening to NPR and they were interviewing a new author, Jeff Sharlet. His book seems very interesting, it is about the “neo-Christian”, political cabal, the “Family” or as they are also known as “The Fellowship”. I have heard vaguely about these men, some fundamentalist Christian, some are actually Catholic, all share their political convictions and wish to mingle and mix it with their politics and power aspirations.
Some of them live in this house in Washington DC (C Street House), owned by this shadowy group, and they even meddle into US foreign affairs under the disguise of the fact than most of them are member of the US Congress, the true ruling class in the nation. Many of you are surprised how they can get away with this? The “Family” is not registered as lobbying group as the group’s founder and mastermind openly stated, staying in the shadows is better albeit, since the Abramoff scandal not quite legal anymore.
The reason I have decided to write about them is not the political or legal angle, not even to “plug” the new book (which I obviously support philosophically) but the alleged ideas of this group about the true meaning of Christianity and what Jesus taught.
The philosophical and I should say historical twist of this group’s belief is that THEY understand the true meaning of Jesus’ teaching and we, mere mortals do not grasp it. According to the twisted ideas of these people, Jesus was not about equality, love and kindness but he was about true power. Yes, you heard it. And when the group is pressed, to show political and historical figures from modern day, they quote Stalin, Hitler and other genocidal maniacs who had a power rush and obviously were mentally deranged.

Let me tell you something, if you buy into this, you are dabbling into the dark side, my friends! These people are dangerous and their followers are either very cynical and nothing to do with altruistic ideas, or they are terminally stupid.
What scares me is that these people are lawmakers and members of the US Congress.
Do you remember the rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar? In Act I,
when Jesus arrives in Jerusalem, the crowd is ecstatic, and sings hosannas (Hosanna). Simon Zealots tries to convince Jesus that he can convince the people of Jerusalem to arm against Rome (Simon Zealots). Jesus answers that no one understands what true power or glory is, and that to conquer death, one must die (Poor Jerusalem).

True power is not of this world. Anything in this world is perishable and terminal. It is dust already. Jesus and any serious Teacher would tell you this. Politics and religion do not mix, our founding fathers, knew this. Do not seek power in this world, instead, understand the true meaning of this little slice of life and seek beyond. This is the true power.