We have spoken in previous Bulletins about the existence of invisible spheres surrounding the Earth, where beings of a higher vibrational frequency dwell. There are places or complexes in the Astral World (also known as the “Inner Planes” of magic), which present to the clairvoyant visitor certain distinct features. But the impressions of such places vary, according to the visitor’s own “filters” – their cultural conditioning and expectations.

  Some say they have projected themselves to the Alexandrian Library, or even Atlantis, (i.e., a place of the past). Others from our plane have been privileged to find themselves in an inaccessible location like the Himalayas. One such “place” is Shambhala, the spiritual city of Tibetan Buddhism.

  George Hunt Williamson is said to have located the Monastery of the Brotherhood of the Seven Rays in the region above Lake Titicaca in South America. He also found a monastery he called The Abbey in a hidden valley of Pariahuanca. Elsewhere on this site we have examined Lake Titicaca as the place where Viracocha travelled to and from the Sun.
  There is also said to be a hidden land somewhere in the East called Agarttha, beneath the surface of the earth, where a population of millions is ruled by a Sovereign Pontiff, the “Brahatmah,” and his two colleagues the “Mahatma” and the “Mahanga.”  Agarttha has, for over 5,000 years, enjoyed the benefits of a technology advanced far beyond our own.
  In my most recent issue of my online magazine Australian Esoteric (Issue #20), in my editorial I quoted Swedish author and blogger, Håkan Blomqvist, who said: “A fascinating prophecy in esotericism is that a revolutionary discovery is awaiting mankind that will force many advanced scientists and scholars to consider esotericism as a reasonable theory, paradigm or working hypothesis. This paradigm shift will be ushered in by science when the etheric worlds around us can be photographed and filmed.”

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While I was attending the Cosmic Consciousness Conference recently, I made a new friend who introduced me to the yoga work of Claire Diab. Her style can be particularly beneficial to those of us who are not in good physical strength, as she includes what is called “chair yoga”.

I was especially interested in her video below, which is called Sun Salutations.

You are one important cell of humanity currently moving this planet forward.
When I checked the global population today on Worldometers.info, I found it stands at 7,714,576,923 – that’s 7.7 billion people. In terms of net gain (360,000 births minus 150,000 deaths), we are adding over 210,000 people to this planet every day. We only reached our first billion milestone a little over 200 years ago, and I was just 7 years old when we hit the 3 billion mark in 1960. About 100 billion people have lived on Earth throughout history.

Scientists have said that the maximum the Earth can stand is between 9 to 10 billion people at one time, and we will reach that target within 2 decades from now, as we are adding more than a billion every 12 years (or less). At 10 billion, we would need to stop eating animals and use all our farming land to produce fruit and vegetables. But there are many who think we are doomed to destroy civilization by famine, with dwindling supplies of food, water and clean air to breathe.

"The power of population is so superior to the power of the Earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race." The late-18th century philosopher Thomas Malthus wrote these ominous words in an essay on what he saw as the dire future of humanity. Humans' unquenchable urge to reproduce, Malthus argued, would ultimately lead us to overpopulate the planet, eat up all its resources and die in a mass famine.

So, do you sometimes feel insignificant, as if whatever you do does not matter in the greater scheme of things? You will have heard many times that “we are all connected” but our brains do not register this truth via our 5 senses. We need to connect with our higher mind. One blogger this week posed the question: “Do you think a single drop of water feels responsible for the flood? Or Do you think a single snowflake feels responsible for the avalanche? Individually, we may not feel responsible for the world, but we are.”

And you could also ponder the question that if a person has a full and rewarding life, having great experiences and gaining lots of knowledge, does it all go to waste as soon as they die? No! It is all added to the collective experience of humanity. Each of us adds to the human existence, in however small a way. It all gets recorded in the Akasha! (Refer to last week’s bulletin about the Akashic Sphere).

These days, mainly due to the influence of Theosophy, the word Akasha has been popularized as an adjective, through the use of the term "Akashic records" or "Akashic library", referring to an etheric compendium of all knowledge and history. However, there is growing acceptance of the word Akasha in its original form as a noun, describing the Cosmic field that used to be referred to as the Void.

Traditionally, Akasha was a term for either space or æther, depending on the region of the world and religious background of its people. In Hindustani, Nepali, Bengali, and Tamil it means "sky". In many modern Indo-Aryan languages and Dravidian languages, the corresponding word (often rendered Akash) also retains a generic meaning of "sky". It is instructive, therefore, to picture the Akasha as a field or sphere surrounding the Earth, corresponding with the Stratosphere.

Ervin László in Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything (2004), based on ideas by Rudolf Steiner, posits "a field of information" as the substance of the Cosmos, which he calls "Akashic field" or "A-field". Scott Cunningham (1995) uses the term Akasha to refer to "the spiritual force that Earth, Air, Fire, and Water descend from". So, we can see a correspondence with the term Noosphere, which we examined in a previous bulletin, however the Akasha is more pervasive throughout the Cosmos than the Noosphere – it just happens to gather energetically as a sphere around our planet, magnetised by human consciousness.

In Vedantic Hinduism, Akasha means the basis and essence of all things in the material world - the first element created. Hindu philosophy states that Akasha or aether is the fifth physical substance, which is the substratum of the quality of sound. It can be translated as "upper sky" or “space”. It is the One, Eternal, and All-Pervading physical substance, which is imperceptible. First appeared the space, from which appeared air, from that fire or energy, from which the water, and therefrom the earth.

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When discussing spheres, we have looked at the Heliosphere and all within it: the Sun, planets and moons; also the unseen spheres that surround celestial bodies. Naturally the Earth itself is one of the most influential spheres in our lives. In addition to the lifeforms (including humans) that dwell on our planet’s surface, there are discarnate entities above us, often around non-material formations such as Mount Meru, that are not within the EM wavelength of our sight.

And what about inside the Earth? Christians have said that is where Hell is – the Book of Enoch tells how fallen Angels were cast into its depths, and some forms of Buddhism have stated that “Ghosts live in a world located five hundred leagues beneath the surface of the Earth” (from The Norton Anthology of World Religions, Jack Miles. 2015 W. W. Norton & Co).

Elsewhere on this site I have written about the massive network of subterranean tunnels running around the world, and whole underground cities. Some of them are closer to the surface and were abandoned millennia ago, to be rediscovered by present-day archaeologists. But there are many more remaining in use, deeper down, complete with underground lakes of fresh water and food crops.

In the video below, the host is worried about possible catastrophe to be caused by the Sun – that is something that I am not worried about, but nevertheless, he gives a good outline of some of the subterranean areas we do know about.

While attending the Cosmic Consciousness Conference at Uluru in Central Australia this month, I heard two speakers say basically the same thing in different ways: namely, that as human beings we exist on two separate bandwidths of reality at the same time. This is our duality.

The main challenge for most of us is that our consciousness is stuck in our physical brain during our waking hours, which is turn is subject to the chatter of unwanted thoughts that arise continuously. Meditation is the time-honoured method of ridding ourselves of mental clutter… however we do not want to rid ourselves of any part of our being that constitutes our real Self, including our Soul Personality or our real Ego (with a capital E – it is Latin for “I”).

One contemplation we can practice is visualizing our Overself as a Miniature Sun above us – as taught by New Age teachers concerning the five Universal chakras above our head, and as symbolized in Egyptian art by the Ancients with a solar sphere above their head.

As a duality, we also have our Solar Heart within us, connected to our Earth Spirit. We need to connect our Earth Star with our Soul Star while still alive, so that Soul and Spirit do not keep separating at death, as St Paul warned. Once they are reunited, we do not need to keep reincarnating if we don’t want to. Bring the Miniature Sun from above down to re-join the Spirit at the Heart of us.

One of my favourite books is called The Division of Consciousness (by Peter Novak, 1997). According to Division Theory, a person’s consciousness and unconsciousness split apart upon death. Some mystical societies teach that the Spirit and Soul split apart when we die, and St Paul wrote about the difference of the Spirit and Soul. The Egyptians spoke of the two immaterial spiritual parts of humans: the Ka, which was the person’s double, their unconscious self; and the Ba which is what we call the Soul or their life-force.

Of course, we all have a third part which is our body. But we leave this body (and brain) behind when we die, so what will remain of the self that is a trinity while we are here on Earth? Jesus Christ made it clear that the Father and Spirit were all about redeeming that third part (the “Son”), so that we don’t split apart at death. Just like the Sun and the Earth working together to save humans. The body is animated by what I call the Earth Spirit or, your Earth Star. The message of all the ancient mystics is not to divide, but to unite our parts. If we combine the energy of our bodies – our heart and personality – with our Soul and Spirit, then a new Light body can be born (created) which takes the place of the physical body.

When people tell you that you must let go of your Ego, be careful. The idea is to transmute or transfigure your Ego, not to cut it out and throw it away. To quote from the Gospel of Thomas (22 & 61) “When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below… then you will enter the kingdom… If (one) is undivided, he will be filled with light, but if he is divided, he will be filled with darkness.”

Make your inner heart shine so that it is at the centre of your Sphere, powering it, and making it join with the Sphere of the Sun of Righteousness above you.

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In the current issue of my magazine Australian Esoteric #18 (December 2018) I have included a short piece about the Camino Way in Spain. This route was originally used in pre-Christian times by the Celts, then by the Romans, who put little monuments along the way, dedicated to some of their gods, especially the goddess Venus. The main pilgrimage route to Santiago follows an early Roman trade route, which continues to the Atlantic coast of Galicia, ending at Cape Finisterre. (literally, End of the Earth, or Land’s End).

The full name is Camino de Santiago de Compostela. Camino means the Way and refers to the Milky Way, which points the way overhead for pilgrims. Santiago means Saint James.  Compostela has a couple of meanings, possibly ‘field of stars’.

The route was claimed by Christians in the 9th century when it was said that the relics of St James were buried in what is now called Santiago. The secret burial place was revealed to a hermit by a bright shining star twinkling overhead.

The symbol of the route is the scallop shell, which dates back to Roman times – the symbol of Venus. Along the Camino Way are Dolmens, which face east, toward the rising Sun. These were built by ancient inhabitants thousands of years ago, whose understanding of Solar influence has been long forgotten.

The interior of the Santiago Compostela Cathedral is designed so that the light of the Sun shines on the relics of St James at three times of year: the Spring Equinox in March, the Solstice in December, and on 25th July – his Feast Day.

Following the Way is both a pilgrimage and an initiation for believers. Its ancient roots are connected to the Sun and stars. There is no need to look for divisions between “pagans”, Christians and New Age pilgrims. The Camino is a valid Way for all of us.