This week, Dr Joseph Mercola posted the following information on his website, based on the work of Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman.

Cortisol is often demonized and considered this bad thing. And, indeed, you don’t want cortisol to be chronically or consistently elevated throughout the day or night. But you do want cortisol to reach its peak early in the day right about the time you wake up. One way that you can ensure that that cortisol peak occurs early in the day, right about the time you wake up, is to view bright light, ideally from sunlight, within the first 30 to 60 minutes after waking.
 
You want to trigger that cortisol increase to occur very early in your day, and you don’t want that cortisol peak to happen later, which is what will happen if you wait to get outside and see sunlight. The reason for this is that you have a set of neurons, nerve cells, in your eye. They’re called intrinsically photosensitive melanopsin cells.
 
Those neurons respond best to bright light, and especially right after waking early in the day, they are best able to signal to a set of neurons that reside over the roof of your mouth called the suprachiasmatic nucleus, which is a cluster of neurons that then sends a huge number of other signals, electrical and chemical, out to your entire body that triggers that cortisol increase, provides a wake-up signal for your brain and body, and sets in motion a timer for you to fall asleep later that night.
 
Huberman refers to viewing sunlight immediately, or within the first hour, after waking as “the most powerful stimulus for wakefulness throughout the day,” which will also help you fall asleep at night.
 
As always, the author adds the caveat that you should not look directly at the Sun. We also advise this, unless you have been taught the correct practices.  He says, “This can be as simple as going outdoors right after you wake up and looking toward — not directly at — the Sun, without sunglasses, and not through a window or vehicle windshield.”

Below is an edited excerpt of an article that appeared in the Luxor Times Magazine two years ago (10 August 2020) about the Sun Cult complex in Hatshepsut's temple at Deir El-Bahari:

"The complex of the Sun Cult is a group of rooms located in the northern part of the upper terrace of Hatshepsut’s temple at Deir El-Bahari. It was first unearthed by the expedition of the Egypt Exploration Fund in 1893 under the direction of Edouard Naville and some of its texts and representations were published in his monumental publication of the whole temple."

The Night Sun chapel was decorated with the representations of the solar barque with the Sun god while his nocturnal journey in the netherworld. The location of the chapel in the eastern part of the complex stressed the idea of the resurrection of the Sun in the eastern horizon after having traveled through the netherworld at night. From this chapel comes also the very first attestation of the text called King as the Sun Priest, an important theological treatise that stresses the role of the pharaoh as the heir and the servant of the solar god.

The Altar courtyard is, contrary to the Night Sun chapel, open to the Sun light. The courtyard is dominated by the huge limestone altar which every day was touched by the Sun rays. This part of the complex is dedicated to the diurnal journey of the Sun in the sky.

Together with the Night Sun chapel it constitutes thus the small scale representation of the whole universe, mirroring the diurnal and nocturnal journey of the Sun god.
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The main deity worshiped in the complex of the Sun cult was Amun-Re, but an important place was reserved also for Ra-Horakhty and Atum-Amun, which are nothing more than three different aspects and forms of the solar god, complementing each other. The rituals represented on the complex walls were performed by the king which once again stressed the role of the pharaoh as the heir of the Sun god. In the case of Hatshepsut it had also an additional purpose of the legitimization of her kingships as she claimed to be the bodily daughter of Amun-Ra himself."

The home page of this website includes the lines, ‘We are encouraged by science’s gradual acknowledgement that what appears to be the empty space that surrounds us, is not empty at all. They are still toying with names like dark matter and dark energy. We understand from the Zero Point Field that limitless energy is latent in the invisible worlds;’ And this, ‘In ancient times, Plato referred to the Ether. This is from his work Phaedo:
“And upon the Earth are animals and men, some in a middle region, others (elementals) dwelling about the air as we dwell about the sea; others in islands which the air flows round, near the continent; and in a word, the air is used by them as the water and the sea are by us, and the ether is to them what the air is to us.” ’
 
One of my favourite researcher/writers is Arjun Walia, who this month has posted a very interesting article about the Ether (or Aether) on The Pulse. (You can read that piece HERE).
 
As we have noted elsewhere, any conversation about esoteric or mystical matters may be easily derailed by semantics. The fact that an invisible world is nestled right alongside our 3D Earthly realm has long been acknowledged by religious teachers, spiritualists, alien theorists, psychologists and, more recently, by physicists. To assist you in forming a mental image of this parallel reality, research (or google) these words and contemplate what they mean to you.
 
The Aether.
The Field.
The Akasha.
Zero Point.
The Void.
The Dreamtime.
Zep Tepi.
The Fifth Dimension.
Heaven.
The Higher Realm.

You may have other terms of your own. Could they all be the same thing?

Today I have posted Part X in my series Return of the Superhumans, titled AI and the Coming Age.

Lately I have been watching some of Freddy Silva’s videos, which he posts on Vimeo, and find that much of his work concurs with mine. While I don’t agree with all the conclusions that he draws from his investigations, I do see a striking parallel between the beings he calls “god men” and those I refer to as the Superhumans.

Mr Silva explores the real purpose of ancient temples and megalithic sites, and finds that they act as intermediaries between the material and the spiritual realms - essentially portals, in other words.

Visit Freddy Silva’s website HERE.

The Great Work of Self-Transformation
The following is an extract from the writing of a well-known teacher of the Hermetic Kabbalah, Paul Tisdell.

“Alchemy has the Philosopher’s Stone that transforms things, a philosophy that is so solid it is referred to as a stone.  It is said, simply by putting this stone in water, the water becomes so charged that it will heal man’s suffering.

“The water is mind and if you apply this stone to mind it transforms one metal, state of consciousness, into another until it becomes gold. Gold is incorruptible, it is the metal of the Sun, the Sun shines constantly; the movement of the Earth creates duality, night and day, life and death. Consider a Sun-like consciousness that has no day and night, no life and death, it is one consciousness – your soul, solar the Sun, the Son/Sun of God.

“The work is to transform consciousness, so the darkness of the ego’s night transforms into the light of the soul, solar/Sun.”

To Learn more about the transformational work of this remarkable teacher, click HERE.

Caves are prevalent images in the world of myths and legends. The cave is thought to be closely related to the symbolic Heart, and is often the site for initiation ceremonies where the Self and Ego unite. They can be secret passageways to an underworld, places in which to make contact with the powers and forces that have their source in the realm of Light.

It is said that Christ was born in an underground stable and, at his crucifixion, was interred within a cave. The Holy Land is filled with caves, including the praying places of David and Solomon and one at Mount Carmel in which Pythagoras resided before he returned westwards.
 
When he was still in his early twenties, Leonardo Da Vinci disappeared for two years between 1476 and 1478. In one of his very few written personal diaries, he tells of finding a vast and mysterious cave that he was drawn to enter and spend some time inside. It is speculated that he had an encounter with someone, or something, in there that enlightened him.
 
Porphyry (234-305AD) called the cave "a symbol of the universe". Indeed, it is often identified with the world-centre, the heart of all and the meeting-place of gods and men. Plato (428-348 BC) refers to the cave in his allegory as the world in its obscurity and illusion.
 
Such caves were arenas where the gods came, like the North American Mayum, who was the manifested messenger of the Great Spirit amongst the Cheyenne. He showed himself in a sacred cave hidden in the Black Hills to which representatives of all the tribes came for instruction.
 
Some of the sacred caves in India are chaityas, basically like a cathedral or assembly wherein divine ritual was held and the stupa or dagoba is housed. Others are viharas or monasteries possessing small cells and general halls for devotions. At Rajgir is the Pippala Cave in which the Buddha sat to meditate after his noonday meal.
 
In my magazine articles over the years I have written about the Way of the Iatromantis – a path of enlightenment from Ancient Greece whereby the initiate underwent a ritual called Incubation in a cave or tomb-like setting. It is time to re-visit this teaching and I will write more about it soon in an upcoming article.

As we come to the celebration of Easter 2022, I thought this post would be appropriate.

The following passages are extracted from the Rudolph Steiner Archive:

“Egyptian Myths and Mysteries (GA 106) Lecture 10 12 September 1908, Leipzig”

Here we come to a significant concept of esoteric Christianity, which can show us how this Christianity is permeated with the highest truths. We come to the remainder of what confronts us in the Baptism. Through the fact that the Christ-being took possession of the three bodies (physical, astral and etheric) in which the ego-being of Jesus formerly abode, a Being was bound up with the Earth that had earlier had its dwelling-place on the Sun. It had formerly been bound up with the Earth until the moment when the Sun departed from the Earth.

At that time the Christ also departed, and from then on he could exercise his power upon the Earth only from outside, in the moment of the Baptism, the high Christ-spirit again united himself in the full sense with the earth. Formerly he worked from outside, overshadowing the prophets and working in the mysteries. Now he was actually incarnated in a physical human body on the Earth. […]

A new force was implanted in the Earth. What earlier had worked from without, again became united with the Earth, and thereby the attractive power between Sun and Earth will grow so strong that Sun and Earth will again unite, and man will unite with the Sun-spirits. It was the Christ who gave the possibility that the Earth can again unite with the Sun and be in the bosom of the Godhead.

In closing I add a link to my Easter Message from four years ago.

As I write this in the third week of March, we experience the Ides of March (15th) then St Patrick’s Day/ my birthday (17th) followed by the equinox after midnight Sunday (so technically 21st March).

In line with my series of articles on the return of the Superhumans, there is a deluge of articles being posted on social media every day about the rising feeling among sensitive humans that we are about to experience something big on planet Earth. Naturally, this may be fuelled by the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and climate catastrophes occurring around the world – including the massive floods near where I live in Australia.

The crop circle pictured above appeared in England right on the June solstice last year (2021). It appeared at the time of a solar eclipse – which is depicted by the large circle on the left representing the Sun. On the right is a smaller circle – the Earth – surrounded by another circle which is the orbit of the Moon (shown in top right corner). The item that has caused the most chatter online is the circle with a cross on it, shown at the lower right side of the crop circle.

Some people believe the crossed circle represents the coming of Planet X; others say it is a planet-sized UFO; religious believers think the cross is a sign of the return of the Saviour. I sense that it is connected with the Sun, and corresponds with photos taken by NASA (see below) that spotted a crossed circle near the Sun during the previous year.

You will have your own opinion. Meanwhile we continue to observe the signs and await the coming changes.

NASA's STEREO observation mission spotted this circle (above) with a cross flying beyond the Sun. The incident took place on 29 February 2020 - the images were later posted on the “Hidden Underbelly 2.0” channel, dedicated to mysterious events and sightings.

As we near the end of the month I will take a moment to reflect on the great Giordano Bruno, who was born in this month – February 1548, and died in this month – February 1600.

Even though there is compelling evidence that certain teachers in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece understood that the Sun was at the centre of our solar system – and that Earth and the other planets revolved around it – Giordano Bruno was one of the brave pioneers of the renaissance who taught about Heliocentricity… and by ‘brave’ I mean he was killed for his teachings and remained defiant right up to the end.

The Theosophists later took a keen interest in his work, and when I wrote a magazine article a few years ago about their grand old mansion in Sydney called The Manor, I found that they established their radio station early last century with call sign 2GB, after his initials. The station is still going and very popular today. Dr Annie Besant, one of the founders of Theosophy, claimed to be a reincarnation of Bruno.

Bruno's infinite universe was filled with a substance—a "pure air", aether, or spiritus—that offered no resistance to the heavenly bodies which, in Bruno's view, rather than being fixed, moved under their own impetus (momentum).

Bruno's cosmology distinguishes between "suns" which produce their own light and heat, and have other bodies moving around them, and "earths" which move around suns and receive light and heat from them. Bruno suggested that some, if not all, of the objects classically known as fixed stars are in fact suns. He has been recognized by some as the first person to grasp that "stars are other suns with their own planets.”

In early 1600, Pope Clement VIII declared Bruno a heretic, and the Inquisition issued a sentence of death. According to the records, GB is said to have made a threatening gesture towards his judges and to have replied: Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam ("Perhaps you pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it").

The World is presently undergoing a shift in power, from West to East. China and Russia have joined forces while the Western powers – even as they continue to conduct business with them – denounce them. The UK and USA are determined to see war, but it does not have to be that way. The important thing is for us in the West to maintain our own principles and seek to co-exist harmoniously on the planet.

When Western Civilization was consciously created in the sixth century BC, the Immortal Superhumans who established it knew there would be an end to the cycle right about now. Apollo, Hermes and Aesculapius continue to guide us.

There is no need to panic. Keep attuning to the Source and express your own Light, Life and Love.

My own purpose to assist in preserving the Light here in Australia, which will, in time, be a special spiritual sanctuary for the World. Old Ways should be preserved and handed over to the new hybrid humanity now incarnating on this planet.

Many people are intuitively feeling the shift. Today, Steven Strong wrote on his ‘Our Alien Ancestry’ blog that artifacts in his possession will “assist and guide in the upcoming global transformation. What began when the ‘magic box’ was activated by Original Elders at Uluru on December 21, 2020, and complimented by over 15,000,000 souls in deep meditation, was the beginning of the end. Two paths now exist, and each soul must choose wisely as the time to make the correct decision is running out.”

His words are in line with the thought of the Cosmic Consciousness movement here in Australia. To everything there is a season…