The famous Trundholm Sun Chariot is a bronze and gold artifact said to belong to the Nordic Bronze Age (created around 1400 BC). It consists of a bronze horse, a bronze disc with a thin sheet of gold pressed into one side, and six four-spoke wheels made also of bronze. The artifact was first discovered on the coast of the southern Danish Island of Zealand in 1902.
 
The importance of the Trundholm Sun Chariot lies in the fact that it is the finest example of a crucial aspect of Scandinavian Bronze Age religion: the cosmic passage of the Sun through heavenly light and the darkness of the underworld. One side of the Sun disk is gilded, to give the impression of the Sun during the day, while the other side was left dark as way of depicting the journey of the Sun during the night.
 
The following two paragraphs are excerpts from an article that appeared recently in Ancient Origins (by DHWTY):
“Apart from being a ritual object, it has also been suggested that the Trundholm Sun Chariot may have functioned as a calendar. This theory was proposed by Klaus Randsborg, a professor of archaeology at the University of Copenhagen, who explained that the golden day-side of the Trundholm Sun Chariot has dimensions associated with one third of a solar year.

“Ransborg argues that the night-side of the large central concentric circle has dimensions linked to six lunar months. He therefore concluded that ‘the reference is to the Sun-calendar on the day-side, and to the Moon-calendar on the night-side of the Sun Chariot, which seems the perfect calculation’.”
 
Travelling Suns not only appeared in Norse, Celtic, and Hindu mythology, but were also prominent features of Egyptian and Greek traditions. In ancient Egypt, the Sun was represented as being transported across the sky by Ra’s solar barge, or pushed by Khepri, a being depicted as a scarab. Due to the importance of the Sun as a life-giving force, it is not too difficult to understand why the ancients perceived the Sun as being divine.

Long-time host of ‘UFO Sightings Daily,’ Scott C. Waring, has posted this article, which is accompanied by a short You Tube clip. You can see why he speculates the existence of a city in the Sun. Scott invites readers to leave comments and share with their friends.

His article says:
“A dark area of the sun began to form as the surface material moved away, revealing something below the surface of the sun. I believe this is an alien mega structure. What I mean is we see only about 3% of the structure, because the rest is deeper within the sun. We only see the 3% because these structures are taller like mountains on Earth poking through the clouds. I have done UFO research for over 20 years and during this time I have only seen this phenomenon twice. That last time was back in 2013 as I show you in the video below. This is undeniable proof that there is a Dyson sphere within our sun!”

Mostly I write about the timeline from when Western Civilization started two and a half millennia ago, up to the present day. The images on this page of beings carrying certain objects relate back to the previous era, when they often came and went between the Celestial dimension and the Earthly realm. Look at the way many ancient Egyptian images show beings (both human and other) gripping the Ankh in the same manner that ancient Sumerians gripped what appear to be “handbags.”

These are power packs and keys to the higher realm. You will see pictures of Egyptian adepts using them to endow mortals with the power of ascension.

As Empedocles recorded, there was a time of experimentation a few thousand years ago, when those of the next higher dimension took on hybrid forms. I have written about the Birdmen and the Tetramorphs in other articles on this website.

In the modern world it is rare for humans to be visited by Masters who carry these keys to ascension with them. One needs to resonate with the Frequency of Unconditional Love before they can break free from the repetitious mundane cycle.

Presently I am re-reading the classic work, Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius, having being gifted a hard-cover copy of it. I am struck by the fact that he refers to the Pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles no less than three times in the book.

My readers know that I am an ardent admirer of Empedocles. About twenty years ago, I made a pilgrimage to visit his birthplace, Agrigento in southern Sicily, where the ancient Valley of the Temples is situated. I have written about him for magazines and incorporated his life and works into one non-fiction book, The Sign of the Quatrefoil, as well as my novel, The Griffin in the Valley.

In Meditations 12.3, Marcus writes, “Make yourself like Empedocles’ Sphere, ‘All round, and in its joyous rest reposing,’ - striving to live only the life that belongs to you here and now, then you will live out the rest of your days with peace and kindness, at peace with the divine spark within you” (which he calls your Daimon).

In 8.41 he refers again the Empedocles’ Sphere saying, “Neither fire, nor iron, nor a tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. A sphere once forms remains round and true.”

In 11.12 he declares that, “The spherical form of the soul maintains its form when neither stretching itself out towards anything outside itself nor contracting itself inwards, and when it is neither dispersed outwards nor shrinking back into itself, but is illuminated by light, by which it sees the truth, the truth of all things and the truth within itself.”  Here, the image of the Empedoclean Sphere appears to merge with that of the Sun shining its pure light onto objects without being defiled by them.

Quotes from Marcus Aurelius about the Sun:
“The Sun appears to pour itself down, and indeed its light pours in all directions, but the stream does not run out. This pouring is linear extension: that is why its beams are called rays, because they radiate in extended lines.” (From Meditations).

“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the Sun. If you do not, the Sun will soon set, and you with it.” (From The Emperor’s Handbook).

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.