Podcasts about Great White Brotherhood

George King, Madam Blavatsky, Alice Bailey and Elizabeth Claire Prophet have all heard messages from The Great White Brotherhood - if we are to believe them. Who are these Great White Brotherhood members? How did they get there, where do they live and what do they do?  Are they watching over us or just watching us? Who can become one? We look at all of this on today's episode.Email us at: downtherh@protonmail.com

George King, Madam Blavatsky, Alice Bailey and Elizabeth Claire Prophet have all heard messages from The Great White Brotherhood if we are to believe them. Who are these Great White Brotherhood members? How did they get there, where do they live and what do they do? Are they watching over us or just watching us? Who can become one? We look at all of this on today's episode. Email us at: downtherh@protonmail.com

The Family, also known as the Santiniketan Park Association or the Great White Brotherhood, was an Australian New Age group formed in the mid 1960s under the leadership of Anne Hamilton-Byrne. The group taught a hodgepodge of Western and Eastern religious doctrines, with Hamilton-Byrne claiming to have been a reincarnation of Jesus. Classic cult move, Anne....The group became the centre of controversy when its compound in Olinda, Victoria, was raided by police in August 1987 amid allegations of child abuse. All children were removed from the premises, and were discovered to have been adopted through illegal means. Hamilton-Byrne and her husband were eventually arrested in 1993 and charged with conspiracy to defraud and to commit perjury in relation to the adoption scams, but those charges were eventually dropped and they fled on the lamb to the Catskill Mountains of New York.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week's podcast gets back to our roots in weird cults.  The cult du jour is The Family, an Australian group also known as the Santiniketan Park Association and the Great White Brotherhood (yes, they are that racist).  The cult started as a new age group led by founder Anne Hamilton-Byrne, that taught a strange amalgamation of Christianity and Eastern Religion with Hamilton-Byrne claiming to be a reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Sadly, the group eventually led down the path of Hamilton-Byrne skimming money from everyone involved and a large number of children being illegally adopted and abused.  While the cult is nominally still around, it faded after the 90s when the abuses were brought to light and charges were filed.  Hamilton-Byrne lived to be 98 years old, passing away in 2019.  

On today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we head back to the Grey Lodge in this bonus Twin Peaks episode only for supporters! This episode we're covering Twin Peaks S2E2 "Coma!" The owls are DEFINITELY not what they seem as we'll learn about Tibetan Buddhism and Blavatsky's Mahatmas seeking to evolve mankind into the Great White Brotherhood. We get our first citing of creamed corn, more donut symbolism and one of my FAVORITE (and everyone else's LEAST favorite) scenes with James, Maddy and Donna!NOW UP AD-FREE ON SUPPORTER FEEDS!See images discussed on Isaac's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isaacweishaupt/Index of Twin Peaks Grey Lodge series: https://illuminatiwatcher.com/twin-peaks-occult-symbolism-guide-enter-the-grey-lodge/* APPLE PREMIUM: If you're on the Apple Podcasts app- just click the Premium button and you're in! *NO more ads *Early Access *EVERY BONUS EPISODE* PATREON: ad free, all the bonus shows, early access AND TWO OF MY BOOKS! (The Dark Path and Kubrick's Code); you can join the conversations with hundreds of other show supporters here: Patreon.com/IlluminatiWatcher (*Patreon is also NOW enabled to connect with Spotify! https://rb.gy/hcq13)* VIP: Due to the threat of censorship, I set up a Patreon-type system through MY OWN website! IIt's even setup the same: FREE ebooks, Kubrick's Code video! Sign up at: https://illuminatiwatcher.com/members-section/ * *****Want to check out the list of all 160+ bonus shows that are only available on Patreon and IlluminatiWatcher.com VIP Section?… I keep an index right here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/2941405This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3200989/advertisement

Topics illuminated: UFO Encounters, ET Experiences, Collective Consciousness, Human Evolution, Reincarnation, Positive ET Encounters, Media Perspectives, High-Frequency Information, Angelic ETs, Meditation Connection Inside today's episode, Brent Boatman (Rebecca's Father) Kailee Foyle & Rebecca Boatman share.. The desire for personal ET experiences. Collective consciousness and its connection to UFO sightings. Personal experiences with ETs, UFO's, and consciousness-based control mechanisms. The idea of reincarnation represented circles of light. The loving and positive nature of ET encounters. Hope for increased acceptance of such experiences. Media-driven fear around UFO's and the need to shift perspectives. ET's planting high-frequency information in human consciousness. The power of forgiveness as a frequency. The potential angelic and benevolent nature of ETs. Human fear contrasted with cautious ET interactions. The role of ETs in safeguarding humanity. The role of meditation and stillness in connecting with ETs. Absolutely one of my favorite episodes, as it sheds light on the experiences of those who've encountered ETs. Many people are uncertain about how to process these experiences or share them. This episode may illuminate your path. From a young age, my father instilled in me knowledge about UFOs, ETs, and their spiritual connection. With mainstream media discussing UFOs, it's crucial to delve into the benevolent aspect of this conversation.   About Brent Boatman: Brent Boatman has been meditating since he was 9, which guided him years later to learn from a master in the south of France, in the Great White Brotherhood. Brent published his first book, a memoir titled UFO to IFO: To Your Galactic Family and Beyond, at the end of 2021. The book is a collection of stories and experiences from his spiritual journey over the last three decades. He is a certified QHHT L2 practitioner with Dolores Cannon Quantum Hypnosis Healing Technique and BQH certified Practitioner on expanding human consciousness and past life regression. For a change and a healing it takes desire, if you have that you can be healed of anything it's that simple.  About Kailee Foyle: KaiI have been meditating since I was 9, which guided me years later to learn from a master in the south of France, in the Great White Brotherhood. I published my first book, a memoir titled UFO to IFO: To Your Galactic Family and Beyond, at the end of 2021. The book is a collection of stories and experiences from my spiritual journey over the last three decades. I am a certified QHHT L2 practitioner with Dolores Cannon Quantum Hypnosis Healing Technique and BQH certified Practitioner  on expanding human consciousness and past life regression. For a change and a healing it takes desire, if you have that you can be healed of anything its that simple.  that, she helps non profit organizations like Ducks Unlimited and CCA raise money to conserve wetlands and preserve the ecosystems around the nation.  However, she has always had a fascination and appreciation for the metaphysical realm and believes there is so much more to life than what we are shown and taught to believe.  She is excited to sit down with Brent Boatman on this podcast to discuss alien life and to discuss all things extraterrestrial! Continued support: Join our online Meet The Frequency membership and use code “ILLUMINATE” for $20 off Click here to get instant access Get more dating, relationship & communication inspo from Rebecca's IG! Click here Brent's Website: www.brentboatman.com Brent's IG: @ufo_to_ifo Kailee's Website: www.onnit.com/kailee Kailee's IG: @kfoylefitness

Our Mysticast discussion is with Lisa Campion https://lisacampion.com/ a professional psychic for over 20 years, who uses a combination of intuition, energy healing and therapeutic techniques to help people understand themselves at their soul level.  Together we explored the need for constant practice in order to progress as a spiritual being looking for commonalities between Lisa's experience and The Aetherius Society teachings. “There comes a time in our psychic and spiritual development where we cannot move forward without having a consistent spiritual practice. If you wanted to get physically fit, you would put your time into working out and it takes more than one workout to get you there. The same goes for working out your psychic abilities  Choosing a spiritual practice that resonates with you can be a challenging task, but it's an important one. Your spiritual practice is meant to bring you closer to your higher self and help you connect with the divine, so it's important to choose something that truly speaks to your soul” Extract from Lisa's Blog - The Importance of Spiritual Practice for Psychic, Healers and Empaths… https://lisacampion.com/the-importance-of-spiritual-practice-for-psychics-healers-and-empaths/  This parallels the words of Ascended Master Saint GooLing spoken through Dr. King except Saint GooLing takes the message one step further explaining that spiritual advancement at the Soul level has only one goal - to serve mankind. Dear students: You may all know this, that there are many, many paths to enlightenment. No one path can offer all truths. There is some truth to be found in all these ways. There are many ways, which specialize in giving to people certain powers of clairvoyance, clairaudience, psychometrical powers and so on. But, when all these are boiled down, they mean very little. You see, it is good to develop psychic faculties because the great discipline is to develop them so that you can reject their use, save in service for mankind – not for one man, not for family, not for self, but service to all men. Ascended Master Saint GooLing The Ascended Masters comprise what is known as the “Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth,” also known as the “Great White Brotherhood, Ascended Masters & The Spiritual Hierarchy Of Earth (aetherius.org) - - - - Resources related to The Aetherius Society and advanced teachings - - - - - The Aetherius Society - https://www.aetherius.org/ Aetherius Radio Live - https://www.aetherius.org/podcasts/ Spiritual Freedom Show - https://www.aetherius.org/the-spiritual-freedom-show/ King Yoga FB Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/awakeningthroughkingyoga The International Mystic Knowledge Center - http://www.mysticknowledge.org/ IMKC youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/MysticKnowledge

BENJAMIN CREME - The Star and the UFO Phenomena - Scottish-born professional artist who paints images of an inner reality perceived through meditation and claims to be a herald of "the reappearance of the Christ" at the end of the twentieth century. Born in Glasgow in 1922, early in his life Creme became attracted to theosophical literature, especially the writings of Alice A. Bailey. In the 1950s he also joined the Aetherius Society, an occult-oriented flying saucer contact group founded by George King, in which he learned a form of meditation called "transmission" meditation. Throughout the 1950s Creme was in direct contact with the Great White Brotherhood, the assembly of beings believed by Theosophists to guide the destiny of humankind. Creme claimed that in 1959 he received a telepathic communication from his own master, a member of the divine hierarchy, who told him that he would have a part to play in the return of Maitreya, the Christ. (In Theosophy, the person who walked the earth as Jesus, and is called the Christ by Christians, is identified as Maitreya, the bodhisattva whom many Buddhists expect to appear in the near future.) A constant and conscious telepathic link was established with this master, by which Creme received precise and up-to-date information about the reappearance of the Christ, which Bailey had predicted to occur toward the end of the twentieth century. - www.share-international.org*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Zone TV Channel Radio Feed (Free - No Subscription Required) - https://www.spreaker.com/show/xztv-the-x-zone-tv-show-audio The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free)To contact Rob McConnell - misterx@xzoneradiotv.com

There is a strange and persistent legend that probably originates in the East. It proposes that in some hidden locations on the earth (generally the highlands of Central Asia, particularly Tibet, although other sites, such as the Andes and even some mountains in the U.S., such as the Grand Tetons and Mt. Shasta, are mentioned at times), there exists a group of persons who possess both exceptional powers and a highly perfected character and consciousness. They are known variously as the Hierarchy of Adepts, the Great White Lodge, the Great White Brotherhood, the Masters, or simply the Hierarchy. SELECTED READING: “The Wise Men from the East” by Stephan A. Hoeller (article from the Journal of Theosophical Society in America, summer 2023 edition)YOUR FAVORITE MYSTICAL BEDTIME STORY PODCAST: Can't sleep? This adult bedtime story podcast invites you to escape the burdens of sleeplessness and immerse yourself in a mystical world of relaxation and enchantment. Sometimes our weary minds need a break from the endless scrolling that often accompanies insomnia. Each episode allows you to unwind and prepare to embrace deep sleep while awakening to arcane wisdom at the same time. Designed to alleviate nighttime anxiety and insomnia, each audio journey will offer an oasis of serenity amidst the chaos of the waking world. Choose to embrace restful sleep or enjoy a conscious, meditative state—it's your choice. Prepare to be transported to a realm where dreams and relaxation intertwine. Bid farewell to restless nights and awaken to a newfound sense of peace and rejuvenation. FOLLOW AND SUPPORT THE PODCAST: Follow the podcast on Instagram at @nightnightb1tch. To make a one-time or recurring donation to support the continued production of NNB, visit https://ko-fi.com/nightnightbitch. Disclaimer: episodes of Night Night, Bitch are for the purpose of research, study, entertainment, meditation, sleep, and discussion. The views and opinions expressed in each episode belong to the original author(s)/creator(s)/speaker(s) and may not necessarily reflect those of Night Night, Bitch, its host, or its affiliates. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sages Book: The Golden Book By Saint Germain | The Deepest Spiritual Knowledge. The 33 Discourses contained in this book were dictated over a visible Light and Sound Ray in 1932 by the Ascended Master Saint Germain and those other Ascended Masters directly concerned with this Activity. The sound of His Voice was physically audible to everyone in the room. At times, His Visible, Tangible Presence also stood within the room, when He radiated the Power and Energy of the Light Rays to accomplish special work. The training and preparation for Him to do this at the present crisis of the outer world was given us over a period of thirty years, that it might be accomplished at this time, and assistance from the Ascended Masters come forth in this way to protect and free all individuals who make conscious effort to correct themselves and attain Mastery over all things on this earth. Never before, except in the Retreats of the Great White Brotherhood, has such intensified, transcendent Instruction concerning the “I AM” been given to individuals. Not for thousands of years have the True Inner Instruction and Use of the Sacred Flame been taught to mankind as Saint Germain and others of the Ascended Masters have revealed. Only fragments of the real understanding of the “I AM Presence” have been given to the outer world until now. The Ascended Master Saint Germain says: “It is the most important Understanding mankind can ever have, and there is no Freedom nor Perfection for the individual, except through this conscious application.” He considers it of such paramount importance that He dictated more than thirty-three Discourses in which He explains what happens in the outer Life of the individual when one says “I AM.” May this book of “I AM” Discourses anchor the attention of all who read or contact it so powerfully upon each individual's own Divinity, that the full Ascended Master Consciousness of the “Mighty I AM Presence” shall fill the earth, and release with the Power of a Thousand Suns the Eternal Dominion of “The Light of God That Never Fails.” Here Is The Secret Of Secrets And The Mystery Of Mysteries. Guarded from the majority of the population, known only to a privileged few, and now revealed. This is the Sacred Teaching that the Master Saint Germain laid out for his Golden Age, and which forms part of the Third Cycle of Teachings of the Brotherhood of Saint Germain, after which the disciple finds himself in full knowledge of his presence ¨I Am¨ . The more the content of these words is studied and meditated on, the more protected and elevated the disciple becomes. We know that the beloved master does not use any dissimulation when he shows us the dangers and consequences caused by those who focus their attention on lower laws, people and vibrations, using his teachings. The fulfillment of these teachings depends exclusively on the student. "I Am" Prayer I invoke at that moment the great universal light. The violet flame that heals, restores and transmutes so that it cleanses my entire subconscious. I feel and visualize this light that flows from above, which involves and penetrates my being, identifying every part of me that still needs healing. I am open and willing to heal all the inner wounds of my being at this moment. That all the painful past becomes learning. May all sorrow become forgiveness. That all blame turns into self-acceptance. May all attachment be freedom. May all resentment become compassion. May all judgment become respect. That every feeling of rejection becomes strength. That all pain turns into love. I exhale all wounds out of my being and put an end to all unresolved situations. I do not judge, nor condemn nor victimize myself. I free myself from all pain. I breathe in all the universal love that heals me from within. I feel prepared and firm to leave the pain in the past and open myself to a new phase in my life. So it is! So it's done! Amen!

In this episode of Channeled Revelations, Micheila Sheldan channels the Council of Light, and Egyptian God Thoth. The conversation begins with a discussion on the book The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean and whether it was a channeled work or if the tablets existed in a physical form. The discussion continues with  an explanation of who Thoth was, how he appeared an ancient times and why he is pictured with an Ibis or bird head. Thoth explains his time in Atlantis and Egypt, how Atlantis fell as a result of the opening of a portal through which malevolent influences entered the Earth plane and how the CERN large hadron collider is doing something similar in modern times. He goes on to illustrate his role in the architecture and construction of ancient pyramids, the contents of the Hall of Records under the Great Sphinx, the purpose of the building of pyramids around the world, the role they still play today, and how we can utilize the 369 Pyramid technology in our day to day lives using plants, crystals, and other methods. About Micheila Sheldan Micheila Sheldan is an intuitive channel, Executive Director of the Flower of Life Institute and Marketing Director of the Awake and Empowered Expo. During a struggle to overcome chronic pain, Micheila experienced a shift of awakening, discovering her intuitive gifts and launching a journey to better understand her connection to the spirit world. In the course of her healing process, she left behind her role as a marketing consultant and soccer mom to step fully onto her soul's path as an intuitive channel. Micheila has the ability to channel a variety of multi-dimensional, extraterrestrial and angelic beings to answer questions about our history, current challenges and where we are headed in the future. She joins Ethann each month on Awake and Empowered TV to bring universal channeled messages to the listening audience. Through her transformational experience, Micheila has come to understand that her channeled messages are vibrational in nature, energetically uplifting and healing those who hear them and allowing Lightworkers to firmly step onto their soul's path and serve as a human conduit for healing energies. By tuning in each week, listeners will gain inspiration and tools to maintain and raise their vibration, as well as heal and open their energy field, by directly connecting with the consciousness of multi-dimensional beings who are here to support our evolution. she has experienced astoundingly accurate results. She often receives visions of significant past life experiences and describe how they are impacting a client's present journey. http://www.micheilasheldan.com  Epitiaum Book and Inner Circle Community: https://micheilasheldan.com/?q=community Inner Circle Courses: https://micheilasheldan.com/?q=content/lightworker-inner-circle-program  Monthly Pogram: https://micheilasheldan.com/?q=lightworker-inner-circle-monthly-program Workshops: https://micheilasheldan.com/?q=workshops  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/micheilasheldan.channeling About Ethann FoxEthann Fox is a spiritual teacher who assists lightworkers to uncover and live their life missions through his unique ability to remove karmic density and raise consciousness. As the founder of the Flower Of Life Institute, he oversees the vision and direction of global initiatives such as the AAE Expo, Seed Of Life School, AAE Magazine, and AAE tv, for which he is also the host. As a serial entrepreneur, Ethann has focused much of his career in business, finance, branding, and marketing, while also becoming an accomplished astrologer and numerologist of 29 years. Ethann now uses his expertise, to assist Lightworkers to develop their spiritual gifts, build world class brands, and create opportunities to reach aglobal audience.www.ethannfox.comCredits:Intro video OM vocals by Reema

In this episode of Channeled Revelations, Micheila Sheldan channels the Council of Light, The Orion Council, Ascended Masters and The Great White Brotherhood. The discussion begins with the topic of Agartha, Shambala, and the Inner Earth Beings in particular with a reference to Helena Blavatsky's recount of her experiences with them. The conversation continues with The Great White Brotherhood as to the origins of Agartha and its connection with ancient Atlantis. Further topics include the significance of Agartha being in the region of Mount Kailash and details into the life of Shiva and Ganesh, Mount Shasta and the Telos, The Thule Society, The significance of the Garuda and Lion iconography in the flags and seals of various nations including the US, India, Tibet, and Indonesia, The Bon Buddhist Religion and its teachings, the life of Jeshua and the significance of his tomb being near Mount Kailash, and the process of Kundalini that was taught by the Bon and many ancient enlightened races. About Micheila Sheldan Micheila Sheldan is an intuitive channel, Executive Director of the Flower of Life Institute and Marketing Director of the Awake and Empowered Expo. During a struggle to overcome chronic pain, Micheila experienced a shift of awakening, discovering her intuitive gifts and launching a journey to better understand her connection to the spirit world. In the course of her healing process, she left behind her role as a marketing consultant and soccer mom to step fully onto her soul's path as an intuitive channel. Micheila has the ability to channel a variety of multi-dimensional, extraterrestrial and angelic beings to answer questions about our history, current challenges and where we are headed in the future. She joins Ethann each month on Awake and Empowered TV to bring universal channeled messages to the listening audience. Through her transformational experience, Micheila has come to understand that her channeled messages are vibrational in nature, energetically uplifting and healing those who hear them and allowing Lightworkers to firmly step onto their soul's path and serve as a human conduit for healing energies. By tuning in each week, listeners will gain inspiration and tools to maintain and raise their vibration, as well as heal and open their energy field, by directly connecting with the consciousness of multi-dimensional beings who are here to support our evolution. she has experienced astoundingly accurate results. She often receives visions of significant past life experiences and describe how they are impacting a client's present journey. http://www.micheilasheldan.com  Epitiaum Book and Inner Circle Community: https://micheilasheldan.com/?q=community Inner Circle Courses: https://micheilasheldan.com/?q=content/lightworker-inner-circle-program  Monthly Pogram: https://micheilasheldan.com/?q=lightworker-inner-circle-monthly-program Workshops: https://micheilasheldan.com/?q=workshops  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/micheilasheldan.channeling About Ethann FoxEthann Fox is a spiritual teacher who assists lightworkers to uncover and live their life missions through his unique ability to remove karmic density and raise consciousness. As the founder of the Flower Of Life Institute, he oversees the vision and direction of global initiatives such as the AAE Expo, Seed Of Life School, AAE Magazine, and AAE tv, for which he is also the host. As a serial entrepreneur, Ethann has focused much of his career in business, finance, branding, and marketing, while also becoming an accomplished astrologer and numerologist of 29 years. Ethann now uses his expertise, to assist Lightworkers to develop their spiritual gifts, build world class brands, and create opportunities to reach aglobal audience.www.ethannfox.comCredits:Intro video OM vocals by Reema Datta: https://reemadatta.comMusic: https

This cult makes Gunnar look like he is a good father. It just might do the same for you. The Good: Giving Children a Home Yoga The Bad: Child Abuse Water Boarding Just About Everything The Culty (is there anything in this cult worth incorporating into our own?): Bobbing For Apples Sources: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_(Australian_New_Age_group) BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-48632887 The Nice Cult: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thenicecult.com⁠⁠

In this episode of Channeled Revelations, Micheila Sheldan channels the Council of Light, The Order of Melchisedek and The Great white Brotherhood.  Ethann starts off the conversation with a discussion about "white hats" within the extraterrestrial and extradimensional communities, and how they are influencing the human race and whether extraterrestrial races are protecting the planet from nuclear war. The conversation continues with a look back in time to the origins of the current global financial system as well as how it differed from how money was used in ancient civilizations prior to 11,000 years ago. Other topics include how gold and silver came to be recognized as a means of monetary exchange, how slavery is the basis for the current financial system, how human beings are giving away their spiritual energy to world leaders thereby diminishing their access to their own cosmic bank account. The episode concludes with a discussion of how the billionaires use rituals and kabbalistic teachings to siphon spiritual energy from the general population in order to obtain their wealth and how human beings can take it back.About Micheila Sheldan Micheila Sheldan is an intuitive channel, Executive Director of the Flower of Life Institute and Marketing Director of the Awake and Empowered Expo. During a struggle to overcome chronic pain, Micheila experienced a shift of awakening, discovering her intuitive gifts and launching a journey to better understand her connection to the spirit world. In the course of her healing process, she left behind her role as a marketing consultant and soccer mom to step fully onto her soul's path as an intuitive channel. Micheila has the ability to channel a variety of multi-dimensional, extraterrestrial and angelic beings to answer questions about our history, current challenges and where we are headed in the future. She joins Ethann each month on Awake and Empowered TV to bring universal channeled messages to the listening audience. Through her transformational experience, Micheila has come to understand that her channeled messages are vibrational in nature, energetically uplifting and healing those who hear them and allowing Lightworkers to firmly step onto their soul's path and serve as a human conduit for healing energies. By tuning in each week, listeners will gain inspiration and tools to maintain and raise their vibration, as well as heal and open their energy field, by directly connecting with the consciousness of multi-dimensional beings who are here to support our evolution. she has experienced astoundingly accurate results. She often receives visions of significant past life experiences and describe how they are impacting a client's present journey. http://www.micheilasheldan.com  Epitiaum Book and Inner Circle Community: https://micheilasheldan.com/?q=community Inner Circle Courses: https://micheilasheldan.com/?q=content/lightworker-inner-circle-program  Monthly Pogram: https://micheilasheldan.com/?q=lightworker-inner-circle-monthly-program Workshops: https://micheilasheldan.com/?q=workshops  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/micheilasheldan.channeling About Ethann FoxEthann Fox is a spiritual teacher who assists lightworkers to uncover and live their life missions through his unique ability to remove karmic density and raise consciousness. As the founder of the Flower Of Life Institute, he oversees the vision and direction of global initiatives such as the AAE Expo, Seed Of Life School, AAE Magazine, and AAE tv, for which he is also the host. As a serial entrepreneur, Ethann has focused much of his career in business, finance, branding, and marketing, while also becoming an accomplished astrologer and numerologist of 29 years. Ethann now uses his expertise, to assist Lightworkers to develop their spiritual gifts, build world class brands, and create opportunities to reach aglobal au

THE thirty three Discourses contained in this book were dictated over a visible Light and Sound Ray in 1932 by the Ascended Master Saint Germain and those other Ascended Masters directly concerned with this Activity. The sound of His Voice was physically audible to everyone in the room. At times, His Visible, Tangible Presence also stood within the room, when He radiated the Power and Energy of the Light Rays to accomplish special work. The training and preparation for Him to do this at the present crisis of the outer world was given us over a period of thirty years, that it might be accomplished at this time, and assistance from the Ascended Masters come forth in this way to protect and free all individuals who make conscious effort to correct themselves and attain Mastery over all things on this earth. Never before, except in the Retreats of the Great White Brotherhood, has such intensified, transcendent Instruction concerning the “I AM” been given to individuals. Not for thousands of years have the True Inner Instruction and Use of the Sacred Flame been taught to mankind as Saint Germain and others of the Ascended Masters have revealed. Only fragments of the real understanding of the “I AM Presence” have been given to the outer world until now. The Ascended Master Saint Germain says: “It is the most important Understanding mankind can ever have, and there is no Freedom nor Perfection for the individual, except through this conscious application.” He considers it of such paramount importance that He dictated more than thirty-three Discourses in which He explains what happens in the outer Life of the individual when one says “I AM.” He also says: “Nothing will bless the individual to so great a degree as the Conscious Understanding of this ‘Creative Word.' ” May this book of “I AM” Discourses anchor the attention of all who read or contact it so powerfully upon each individual's own Divinity, that the full Ascended Master Consciousness of the “Mighty I AM Presence” shall fill the earth, and release with the Power of a Thousand Suns the Eternal Dominion of “The Light of God That Never Fails.” 

This week we are joined by writer and esotericist Tim Wyatt.   Tim has been researching the Ageless Wisdom for many decades and in this episode we aim to explore The Great White Brotherhood also known as the Ascended Masters, what influence they hold in the modern era and the possibility of a rebooting of the Ancient Mystery Schools.   You can find out more information of Tim's work at the Theosophical Society Of England's website here: https://theosophicalsociety.org.uk/tim-wyatt   ____________________________________________________________________   Tim's Books: https://firewheelbooks.co.uk/   ____________________________________________________________________   Follow us here: https://allmylinks.com/the-amish-inquisition   Signup for the newsletter, join the community, follow us online, and most importantly share links!    #ascendedmasters #theosophy #timwyatt ____________________________________________________________________ Producer Credits for Ep 268:  Producers - Richard Morris, Rhona Kesson, Nicholas, Ben Limmer, Mathew Chinn and  Helen   ____________________________________________________________________ Message us here....follow, like, subscribe and share. (comments, corrections, future topics etc). We read out iTunes reviews if you leave them. Website - http://www.theamishinquisition.com/ Join the Element server: https://matrix.to/#/%23the-amish-inquisition%3Amatrix.org Subscribe to the Newsletter: http://www.theamishinquisition.com/p/subscribe-to-the-newsletter/ Get your Merch from: The Amish Loot Chest - https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/amish-inquisition-loot-chest Email - theamishinquisition@gmail.com Buy us a Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theamishguys Patreon -https://www.patreon.com/theamishinquisition Guilded - https://www.guilded.gg/i/k5ax5Adk Odysee Channel - https://odysee.com/@theamishinquisition:e Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-1347401 TikTok - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLtYEueE/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/amishinqpodcast Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/amish.inquisit.3 Instagram - https://www.inAmish Inquisition | Facebookstagram.com/theamishinquisition/?hl=en Bitchute - https://www.bitchute.com/channel/0fNMZAQctCme/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmv8ucrv5a2KpaRWyBWfBUA Find out how to become a Producer here - http://www.theamishinquisition.com/p/phil-1523918247/ Become a Producer! The Amish Inquisition is 100% supported by YOU.  NO Ads, NO Sponsorship, NO Paywalls. We really don't want to suckle at the teat of some faceless corporate overlord. But that is only avoidable with your help! Join your fellow producers by donating to The Amish Inquisition via the PayPal button on our website, simply donate whatever you think the show is worth to you. If you find the podcast valuable, please consider returning some value to us and help keep the show free and honest.

* This is an unlocked episode. For access to full-length premium episodes, the SJ Grotto of Truth discord, and upcoming chapters of DEMON FORCES, subscribe to the Al-Wara' Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad. * In chapter two of DEMON FORCES, Dimitri explores the geopolitical and spiritual intrigues at play in 1970s Liberia, including: President William Tolbert's Pan-African sympathies and shift towards “humanistic capitalism”, establishing diplomatic ties with the USSR/Cuba/Romania, Finance Minister Stephen Tolbert playing hardball with Firestone and dying in a mysterious plane crash, Nelson Rockefeller caught dissing Liberia on an open mic, the growth of state-owned enterprises with socialist economic advisors, the CIA's infiltration of left-wing Liberian student orgs in the US, the disastrous rice riots of 1979, the infamous Maryland County ritual murders, 60 Minutes smearing the Tolbert family, A.B. Tolbert's belief in the Great White Brotherhood, and the US-backed ritual murder of President Tolbert in 1980.

Scottish-born professional artist who paints images of an inner reality perceived through meditation and claims to be a herald of "the reappearance of the Christ" at the end of the twentieth century. Born in Glasgow in 1922, early in his life Creme became attracted to theosophical literature, especially the writings of Alice A. Bailey. In the 1950s he also joined the Aetherius Society, an occult-oriented flying saucer contact group founded by George King, in which he learned a form of meditation called "transmission" meditation. Throughout the 1950s Creme was in direct contact with the Great White Brotherhood, the assembly of beings believed by Theosophists to guide the destiny of humankind. Creme claimed that in 1959 he received a telepathic communication from his own master, a member of the divine hierarchy, who told him that he would have a part to play in the return of Maitreya, the Christ. (In Theosophy, the person who walked the earth as Jesus, and is called the Christ by Christians, is identified as Maitreya, the bodhisattva whom many Buddhists expect to appear in the near future.) A constant and conscious telepathic link was established with this master, by which Creme received precise and up-to-date information about the reappearance of the Christ, which Bailey had predicted to occur toward the end of the twentieth century. - www.share-international.orgThe XZBN Network Programming is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.

Intro regulars: Schumann Resonance News for 7 places on Earth, the spikes happening in the otherwise calm baseline of 7.83 Hertz! Sun activity, cosmic radiation news, solar wind news, CME and sunspot news. NASA's all sky cameras fireball news for the USA. Intro: I discuss The current Ascension Symptoms that have been really wreaking havoc with people's physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies.. The resistance that makes it worse and where the resistance is coming from and why it's not always your mind! Some of the symptoms include blurry vision, heart palpitations, digestive disorders, arthritis and pain in the spine and lower back, bloating, feeling mentally foggy, sore throat, activations in the third chakra threat chakra and crown. And much more! Don't listen to spirits that come until you negative things. Also I had negative spirits telling me to harm myself and others today and I sent them packing! Lots of psychic attacks out now too, So be careful out there, guys! Tonight's Topic: Heavenly Helpers & Invisible Intelligences! And informal discussion on all of the beautiful invisible helpers in our lives that we could call upon at a moment's notice to help us with every possible thing we could ever need. Starting with God/Source and moving through the Faery kingdom (overlighting Deva of healing, dragons, sylphs, gnomes, merfolk, water sprites/water folk), Djinn, Your holy guardian Angel, Archangels, Ascended Masters, lesser gods, the Planetary Logos Sunat Kumara, Buddha, Jesus etc. Also included is explanation on how the MAP (Medical Assistance Program of the Great White Brotherhood) program works. (Maechelle Small-Wright). Your own Ancestors and much more!

Scottish-born professional artist who paints images of an inner reality perceived through meditation and claims to be a herald of "the reappearance of the Christ" at the end of the twentieth century. Born in Glasgow in 1922, early in his life Creme became attracted to theosophical literature, especially the writings of Alice A. Bailey. In the 1950s he also joined the Aetherius Society, an occult-oriented flying saucer contact group founded by George King, in which he learned a form of meditation called "transmission" meditation. Throughout the 1950s Creme was in direct contact with the Great White Brotherhood, the assembly of beings believed by Theosophists to guide the destiny of humankind. Creme claimed that in 1959 he received a telepathic communication from his own master, a member of the divine hierarchy, who told him that he would have a part to play in the return of Maitreya, the Christ. (In Theosophy, the person who walked the earth as Jesus, and is called the Christ by Christians, is identified as Maitreya, the bodhisattva whom many Buddhists expect to appear in the near future.) A constant and conscious telepathic link was established with this master, by which Creme received precise and up-to-date information about the reappearance of the Christ, which Bailey had predicted to occur toward the end of the twentieth century. - www.share-international.org*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Zone TV Channel Radio Feed (Free - No Subscription Required) - https://www.spreaker.com/show/xztv-the-x-zone-tv-show-audio The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free)To contact Rob McConnell - misterx@xzoneradiotv.com

cw: sexual assault, suicide, child abuse, ritual abuseIn Part 3 of this series, we travel away from MKUltra, to the other side of the globe to unpack Australia's most notorious cult – “The Family” (aka The Great White Brotherhood). In mid 1960's Australia, this doomsday cult was formed by Anne Hamilton Byrne, a yoga teacher-turned-cult leader, who believed she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. This story has eerie ties that link to MK-Ultra and its LSD abuses, as well as Jim Jones. Join us as we learn how several children were drawn into this cult via bogus adoptions and subjected to years of physical, verbal, psychological and emotional abuse at the hands of Anne & her followers. Through dissecting this shocking story, we also explore yoga as a philosophy, white supremacy in wellness communities & the impacts of betrayal trauma. ReferencesVisit us at unpackingtheeerie.com & find us on social media here. ALSO! Merch is now available for purchase on our website. Patreon patrons get a discount code (listed on the patreon bulletin).Outro last updated 01/2022Support the show

Scottish-born professional artist who paints images of an inner reality perceived through meditation and claims to be a herald of "the reappearance of the Christ" at the end of the twentieth century. Born in Glasgow in 1922, early in his life Creme became attracted to theosophical literature, especially the writings of Alice A. Bailey. In the 1950s he also joined the Aetherius Society, an occult-oriented flying saucer contact group founded by George King, in which he learned a form of meditation called "transmission" meditation. Throughout the 1950s Creme was in direct contact with the Great White Brotherhood, the assembly of beings believed by Theosophists to guide the destiny of humankind. Creme claimed that in 1959 he received a telepathic communication from his own master, a member of the divine hierarchy, who told him that he would have a part to play in the return of Maitreya, the Christ. (In Theosophy, the person who walked the earth as Jesus, and is called the Christ by Christians, is identified as Maitreya, the bodhisattva whom many Buddhists expect to appear in the near future.) A constant and conscious telepathic link was established with this master, by which Creme received precise and up-to-date information about the reappearance of the Christ, which Bailey had predicted to occur toward the end of the twentieth century. - www.share-international.org*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Zone TV Channel Radio Feed (Free - No Subscription Required) - https://www.spreaker.com/show/xztv-the-x-zone-tv-show-audio The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free)To contact Rob McConnell - misterx@xzoneradiotv.com

Join me for an “out of this world” conversation with Author, Experiencer, and QHHT Practitioner, Brent Boatman.   Author Brent Boatman has been meditating since he was nine years old, which guided him years later to learn from a master in the south of France, in the Great White Brotherhood. He published his first book, a memoir titled UFO to IFO: To Your Galactic Family and Beyond, at the end of 2021. The book is a collection of stories and experiences from his spiritual journey over the last three decades. He is a certified QHHT L2 practitioner with Dolores Cannon Quantum Hypnosis Healing Technique and BQH certified Practitioner on expanding human consciousness and past life regression. For a change and a healing it takes desire, if you have that you can be healed of anything. It's that simple. For more information, visit www.BrentBoatman.com.

Scottish-born professional artist who paints images of an inner reality perceived through meditation and claims to be a herald of "the reappearance of the Christ" at the end of the twentieth century. Born in Glasgow in 1922, early in his life Creme became attracted to theosophical literature, especially the writings of Alice A. Bailey. In the 1950s he also joined the Aetherius Society, an occult-oriented flying saucer contact group founded by George King, in which he learned a form of meditation called "transmission" meditation. Throughout the 1950s Creme was in direct contact with the Great White Brotherhood, the assembly of beings believed by Theosophists to guide the destiny of humankind. Creme claimed that in 1959 he received a telepathic communication from his own master, a member of the divine hierarchy, who told him that he would have a part to play in the return of Maitreya, the Christ. (In Theosophy, the person who walked the earth as Jesus, and is called the Christ by Christians, is identified as Maitreya, the bodhisattva whom many Buddhists expect to appear in the near future.) A constant and conscious telepathic link was established with this master, by which Creme received precise and up-to-date information about the reappearance of the Christ, which Bailey had predicted to occur toward the end of the twentieth century. - www.share-international.org*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Zone TV Channel Radio Feed (Free - No Subscription Required) - https://www.spreaker.com/show/xztv-the-x-zone-tv-show-audio The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free)To contact Rob McConnell - misterx@xzoneradiotv.com

What is the Great White Brotherhood that has been spoken of in legend for thousands of years, and how are they connected with the Mysteries of our past, and the pivotal events of history facing us today as we approach the Gateway of 2012? How is this Order of Masters linked to the life of Jesus and the inspiration of mystics, philosophers, poets, and prophets for the last 5,000 years? What evidence is there that these Higher consciousness beings watch over the human race, and come again and again from Age to Age to change world consciousness? And will they be returning soon?Presentation from the 2010 Ozark Mountain Transformation Conference.FOLLOW US ON:Facebook: https://goo.gl/rwvBfwInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ozarkmtpubTwitter: https://goo.gl/LunK5DWebsite: https://goo.gl/2d5cX4ASSOCIATED LINKS:Ozark Mountain Publishing, Inc.: https://goo.gl/xhgoAPQuantum Healing Hypnosis Academy: https://goo.gl/64G7RD

On this weeks episode of Exit the Cult, Hollywood implodes with the bitch slap heard around the world...brought to you by Pfizer. I jump on Skype with holistic healer and New Earth Visionary, Amanda Monnier, to discuss her journey toward healing and finding balance within while surrounded by chaos. Let's exit the cult!Articles:Ukraine: Great White Brotherhood Cult1976 Kidnapped Bus of ChildrenMost Americans Blame Chris Rock for Slap?Ricky Gervais Golden Globes MonologueJim Carrey Sickened by Will Smith SlapAnthony Fauci on the FluU.S. Military Deaths Up 1100%Amanda MonnierNew Earth Visionaries PodcastSupport Exit the Cult on Patreon.Reach out to us at exitthecult@protonmail.com or visit exitthecult.comNews stories and clips shared on ETC are for entertainment purposes only and are not endorsed by Elf Tree Publishing.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In Part 2 of DEMON FORCES, Dimitri explores the geopolitical and spiritual intrigues at play in 1970s Liberia, including: President William Tolbert's Pan-African sympathies and shift towards “humanistic capitalism”, establishing diplomatic ties with the USSR/Cuba/Romania, Finance Minister Stephen Tolbert playing hardball with Firestone and dying in a mysterious plane crash, Nelson Rockefeller caught dissing Liberia on an open mic, the growth of state-owned enterprises with socialist economic advisors, the CIA's infiltration of left-wing Liberian student orgs in the US, the disastrous rice riots of 1979, the infamous Maryland County ritual murders, 60 Minutes smearing the Tolbert family, A.B. Tolbert's belief in the Great White Brotherhood, and the US-backed ritual murder of President Tolbert in 1980. For access to full-length premium episodes and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara' Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Scottish-born professional artist who paints images of an inner reality perceived through meditation and claims to be a herald of "the reappearance of the Christ" at the end of the twentieth century. Born in Glasgow in 1922, early in his life Creme became attracted to theosophical literature, especially the writings of Alice A. Bailey. In the 1950s he also joined the Aetherius Society, an occult-oriented flying saucer contact group founded by George King, in which he learned a form of meditation called "transmission" meditation. Throughout the 1950s Creme was in direct contact with the Great White Brotherhood, the assembly of beings believed by Theosophists to guide the destiny of humankind. Creme claimed that in 1959 he received a telepathic communication from his own master, a member of the divine hierarchy, who told him that he would have a part to play in the return of Maitreya, the Christ. (In Theosophy, the person who walked the earth as Jesus, and is called the Christ by Christians, is identified as Maitreya, the bodhisattva whom many Buddhists expect to appear in the near future.) A constant and conscious telepathic link was established with this master, by which Creme received precise and up-to-date information about the reappearance of the Christ, which Bailey had predicted to occur toward the end of the twentieth century. - www.share-international.org*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Zone TV Channel Radio Feed (Free - No Subscription Required) - https://www.spreaker.com/show/xztv-the-x-zone-tv-show-audio The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free)To contact Rob McConnell - misterx@xzoneradiotv.com

An Ascended Master is a great teacher, healer or prophet who has lived a human life and who is now in the realm of spirit. El Morya is the Master of the first ray and chief of the Darjeeling Council of the Great White Brotherhood. El Morya represents the godly attributes of courage, certainty, power, forthrightness, self-reliance, dependability, faith and initiative. These are the qualities of the Father principle-the statesman, the executive, the ruler. •Contact: agentk21podcast@gmail.com •Linktree- https://linktr.ee/agentk21podcast •Counseling - https://www.keandranesmith.com/ •Donations - https://linktr.ee/agentk21podcast •”NEW” Music Lessons Website -https://agentk21music.wixsite.com/mysite •”Christmas Time” [EP] by Mary J Wanna - https://linktr.ee/MaryJWanna •Social Media: @agentk21podcast (IG); @agentk21 (Twitter) •YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCVMPPFBImTwvXpbx-ndg-ZQ •Introduction music: https://soundcloud.com/agentk21/interlude - Interlude by @Agentk21music (IG).

BE PART OF OUR GALACTIC FEDERATION VIRTUAL GATHERING HERE! (January 1, 2022) Book a One-on-One New Year's Manifestation Session (December 31, January 1 & 2) Hello, dear ones! This week we hear from the Great White Brotherhood (part of the Galactic Federation) regarding the coming 6-8 weeks. Here are some highlights from their message: Allow your body to be a better receptor of messages from the Galactic Federation We will begin to send messengers and ships to key individuals on the planet. Most will be done in a way that is concealed, but those who are involved energetically will be aware. We honor your desire to connect with us and will continue to reach out to the human race. The help that we provide at this moment in time comes in the form of teachings. There is a strong emphasis on timeline shifting over the next 6-8 weeks. Many of you will be experiencing a great deal of change either inside or outside of you. Some of you will feel forgetful, or like you are changing personalities…it might feel a little bit strange to you…like you are in the “Twilight Zone.” We would like you to know that many of you will be experiencing personal timeline shifts, but there will also be collective shifts. Please be flexible and invite the flow of the divine feminine. Note--the name Great White Brotherhood can be confusing as they are neither white nor solely male. Here are some resources you can review to obtain more information: http://ascension-research.org/gwb.html https://www.kaliana.com/blogs/eatdrinkthink/the-ascended-masters-who-they-are-and-how-they-can-help Love and light, JJ https://activationswithjj.com/

In 1977, a mysterious voice took over the TV news broadcast across southern England. This voice claimed to be Vrilon of the Ashtar Command, a group of higher dimensional beings which include Lord Sananda (space Jesus) and Ashtar Sheran, and serve as the "Airborne Division of the Great White Brotherhood." Yep. But this wasn't the first time the world met the Ashtar Command or the space brothers. It wasn't even the first broadcast the Ashtar Command interrupted. In this episode we trace the history of the Ashtar Command, the sexy space heroes you channel if you're too groovy for the ascended masters, from its beginnings in the 40's with a German, an aircraft mechanic, and a dynamite mishap all the way to TikTok. That's right we're going to space and TikTok. Enjoy!   Instagram: @thenonsensebazaar Twitter: @nonsensebazaar      

BENJAMIN CREME - The Star and the UFO Phenomena - Scottish-born professional artist who paints images of an inner reality perceived through meditation and claims to be a herald of "the reappearance of the Christ" at the end of the twentieth century. Born in Glasgow in 1922, early in his life Creme became attracted to theosophical literature, especially the writings of Alice A. Bailey. In the 1950s he also joined the Aetherius Society, an occult-oriented flying saucer contact group founded by George King, in which he learned a form of meditation called "transmission" meditation. Throughout the 1950s Creme was in direct contact with the Great White Brotherhood, the assembly of beings believed by Theosophists to guide the destiny of humankind. Creme claimed that in 1959 he received a telepathic communication from his own master, a member of the divine hierarchy, who told him that he would have a part to play in the return of Maitreya, the Christ. (In Theosophy, the person who walked the earth as Jesus, and is called the Christ by Christians, is identified as Maitreya, the bodhisattva whom many Buddhists expect to appear in the near future.) A constant and conscious telepathic link was established with this master, by which Creme received precise and up-to-date information about the reappearance of the Christ, which Bailey had predicted to occur toward the end of the twentieth century. - www.share-international.org*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Zone TV Channel Radio Feed (Free - No Subscription Required) - https://www.spreaker.com/show/xztv-the-x-zone-tv-show-audio The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free)To contact Rob McConnell - misterx@xzoneradiotv.com

BENJAMIN CREME - The Star and the UFO Phenomena - Scottish-born professional artist who paints images of an inner reality perceived through meditation and claims to be a herald of "the reappearance of the Christ" at the end of the twentieth century. Born in Glasgow in 1922, early in his life Creme became attracted to theosophical literature, especially the writings of Alice A. Bailey. In the 1950s he also joined the Aetherius Society, an occult-oriented flying saucer contact group founded by George King, in which he learned a form of meditation called "transmission" meditation. Throughout the 1950s Creme was in direct contact with the Great White Brotherhood, the assembly of beings believed by Theosophists to guide the destiny of humankind. Creme claimed that in 1959 he received a telepathic communication from his own master, a member of the divine hierarchy, who told him that he would have a part to play in the return of Maitreya, the Christ. (In Theosophy, the person who walked the earth as Jesus, and is called the Christ by Christians, is identified as Maitreya, the bodhisattva whom many Buddhists expect to appear in the near future.) A constant and conscious telepathic link was established with this master, by which Creme received precise and up-to-date information about the reappearance of the Christ, which Bailey had predicted to occur toward the end of the twentieth century. - www.share-international.org *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Zone TV Channel Radio Feed (Free - No Subscription Required) - https://www.spreaker.com/show/xztv-the-x-zone-tv-show-audio The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free) To contact Rob McConnell - misterx@xzoneradiotv.com

BENJAMIN CREME - The Star and the UFO Phenomena - Scottish-born professional artist who paints images of an inner reality perceived through meditation and claims to be a herald of "the reappearance of the Christ" at the end of the twentieth century. Born in Glasgow in 1922, early in his life Creme became attracted to theosophical literature, especially the writings of Alice A. Bailey. In the 1950s he also joined the Aetherius Society, an occult-oriented flying saucer contact group founded by George King, in which he learned a form of meditation called "transmission" meditation. Throughout the 1950s Creme was in direct contact with the Great White Brotherhood, the assembly of beings believed by Theosophists to guide the destiny of humankind. Creme claimed that in 1959 he received a telepathic communication from his own master, a member of the divine hierarchy, who told him that he would have a part to play in the return of Maitreya, the Christ. (In Theosophy, the person who walked the earth as Jesus, and is called the Christ by Christians, is identified as Maitreya, the bodhisattva whom many Buddhists expect to appear in the near future.) A constant and conscious telepathic link was established with this master, by which Creme received precise and up-to-date information about the reappearance of the Christ, which Bailey had predicted to occur toward the end of the twentieth century. - www.share-international.org *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Zone TV Channel Radio Feed (Free - No Subscription Required) - https://www.spreaker.com/show/xztv-the-x-zone-tv-show-audio The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free) To contact Rob McConnell - misterx@xzoneradiotv.com

BENJAMIN CREME - The Star and the UFO Phenomena - Scottish-born professional artist who paints images of an inner reality perceived through meditation and claims to be a herald of "the reappearance of the Christ" at the end of the twentieth century. Born in Glasgow in 1922, early in his life Creme became attracted to theosophical literature, especially the writings of Alice A. Bailey. In the 1950s he also joined the Aetherius Society, an occult-oriented flying saucer contact group founded by George King, in which he learned a form of meditation called "transmission" meditation. Throughout the 1950s Creme was in direct contact with the Great White Brotherhood, the assembly of beings believed by Theosophists to guide the destiny of humankind. Creme claimed that in 1959 he received a telepathic communication from his own master, a member of the divine hierarchy, who told him that he would have a part to play in the return of Maitreya, the Christ. (In Theosophy, the person who walked the earth as Jesus, and is called the Christ by Christians, is identified as Maitreya, the bodhisattva whom many Buddhists expect to appear in the near future.) A constant and conscious telepathic link was established with this master, by which Creme received precise and up-to-date information about the reappearance of the Christ, which Bailey had predicted to occur toward the end of the twentieth century. - www.share-international.org*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Zone TV Channel Radio Feed (Free - No Subscription Required) - https://www.spreaker.com/show/xztv-the-x-zone-tv-show-audio The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free)To contact Rob McConnell - misterx@xzoneradiotv.com

Scottish-born professional artist who paints images of an inner reality perceived through meditation and claims to be a herald of "the reappearance of the Christ" at the end of the twentieth century. Born in Glasgow in 1922, early in his life Creme became attracted to theosophical literature, especially the writings of Alice A. Bailey. In the 1950s he also joined the Aetherius Society, an occult-oriented flying saucer contact group founded by George King, in which he learned a form of meditation called "transmission" meditation. Throughout the 1950s Creme was in direct contact with the Great White Brotherhood, the assembly of beings believed by Theosophists to guide the destiny of humankind. Creme claimed that in 1959 he received a telepathic communication from his own master, a member of the divine hierarchy, who told him that he would have a part to play in the return of Maitreya, the Christ. (In Theosophy, the person who walked the earth as Jesus, and is called the Christ by Christians, is identified as Maitreya, the bodhisattva whom many Buddhists expect to appear in the near future.) A constant and conscious telepathic link was established with this master, by which Creme received precise and up-to-date information about the reappearance of the Christ, which Bailey had predicted to occur toward the end of the twentieth century. - www.share-international.org

Today, you get to hear about an Australian new-age, nuclear-apocalypse doomsday, child-stealing cult called The Great White Brotherhood of Initiates and Masters. Or for short, The Family. They stole babies, and they also dropped a lot of acid.Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website.Links & ResourcesNational Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741 741Domestic Violence Helpline: 1-800-799-7233VictimConnect, a referral helpline for victims of crime: 1-855-484-2846For veterans, Make The ConnectionWritten and produced by Anna RobertsBurning palm tree artwork by Perry VasquezIntro music by Elliot MiddletonSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/failedutopia/donations

In this episode we open up to theories and techniques of channelling and possession: hearing voices; the experience of a part of awareness not being "ours"; the risk of over-engagement; a devious yellow blob and the danger of psychosis; the importance of holding the experience lightly and maintaining intentionality; Freud on the splitting of the ego; splitting in fetishism, BDSM, irony, the tacky and the camp, and in humour; splitting versus repression; the downside of splitting: that a part might assume dominance over the whole; the function of parts in PTSD and complex trauma; the importance of intentionality in a magickal context; possession as intentional splitting of the mental field; psychological trauma as a predisposing factor in splitting and a possible risk; the empty-handed approach to possession and channelling in chaos magick; the bag of art; acknowledgement of traditions that approach possession differently; the role of embarrassment and shame in possession workings and their potential uses; template for a group possession working; my personal method for getting possessed; breath of fire; bodily tension and release; an analogy of the post-coital state as a means of creating an opening for an entity; the sense that nothing is happening; accepting the experience we are having as the result; possession by the Archangel Uriel; that archangelic vibe; the differences between channelling and possession; channelling entities as a means of accessing clairvoyance; the Tempe workings: channelling a representative of the Great White Brotherhood; an indirect and interpretative means of communication; some striking results; the Aion working; an unfortunate prelude to the working; a more direct manifestation; encounters with persons presenting with Dissociative Identity Disorder; changes of personality and sense of presence; becoming sensitive to sub-personalities; my personal system of sub-personalities; every personality as a collective; we are always channelling someone. Alan Chapman & Duncan Barford (2009). The Urn. Brighton: Heptarchia. Coil (2000). Batwings (A Liminal Hymn), https://youtu.be/u8oal_1_YUk (youtube.com). Sigmund Freud (1938). Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence, in: On Metapsychology: The Theory of Psychoanalysis, Pelican Freud Library, vol. 11. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984. 60 Minutes Australia (2019). Woman with Seven Different Personalities, https://youtu.be/pLvJDsojrC8 (youtube.com). Arthur Edward Waite (1995). The Wordsworth Book of Spells [The Book of Ceremonial Magic]. Ware: Wordsworth Editions.

Scottish-born professional artist who paints images of an inner reality perceived through meditation and claims to be a herald of "the reappearance of the Christ" at the end of the twentieth century. Born in Glasgow in 1922, early in his life Creme became attracted to theosophical literature, especially the writings of Alice A. Bailey. In the 1950s he also joined the Aetherius Society, an occult-oriented flying saucer contact group founded by George King, in which he learned a form of meditation called "transmission" meditation. Throughout the 1950s Creme was in direct contact with the Great White Brotherhood, the assembly of beings believed by Theosophists to guide the destiny of humankind. Creme claimed that in 1959 he received a telepathic communication from his own master, a member of the divine hierarchy, who told him that he would have a part to play in the return of Maitreya, the Christ. (In Theosophy, the person who walked the earth as Jesus, and is called the Christ by Christians, is identified as Maitreya, the bodhisattva whom many Buddhists expect to appear in the near future.) A constant and conscious telepathic link was established with this master, by which Creme received precise and up-to-date information about the reappearance of the Christ, which Bailey had predicted to occur toward the end of the twentieth century. - www.share-international.org For Your Listening Pleasure for these Lockdown / Stay-At-Home COVID and Variants Times - For all the radio shows available on The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network visit - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv. Our radio shows archives and programming include: A Different Perspective with Kevin Randle; Alien Cosmic Expo Lecture Series; Alien Worlds Radio Show; America's Soul Doctor with Ken Unger; Back in Control Radio Show with Dr. David Hanscom, MD; Connecting with Coincidence with Dr. Bernard Beitman, MD; Dick Tracy; Dimension X; Exploring Tomorrow Radio Show; Flash Gordon; Imagine More Success Radio Show with Syndee Hendricks and Thomas Hydes; Jet Jungle Radio Show; Journey Into Space; Know the Name with Sharon Lynn Wyeth; Lux Radio Theatre - Classic Old Time Radio; Mission Evolution with Gwilda Wiyaka; Paranormal StakeOut with Larry Lawson; Ray Bradbury - Tales Of The Bizarre; Sci Fi Radio Show; Seek Reality with Roberta Grimes; Space Patrol; Stairway to Heaven with Gwilda Wiyaka; The 'X' Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell; Two Good To Be True with Justina Marsh and Peter Marsh; and many other! That's The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv

Scottish-born professional artist who paints images of an inner reality perceived through meditation and claims to be a herald of "the reappearance of the Christ" at the end of the twentieth century. Born in Glasgow in 1922, early in his life Creme became attracted to theosophical literature, especially the writings of Alice A. Bailey. In the 1950s he also joined the Aetherius Society, an occult-oriented flying saucer contact group founded by George King, in which he learned a form of meditation called "transmission" meditation. Throughout the 1950s Creme was in direct contact with the Great White Brotherhood, the assembly of beings believed by Theosophists to guide the destiny of humankind. Creme claimed that in 1959 he received a telepathic communication from his own master, a member of the divine hierarchy, who told him that he would have a part to play in the return of Maitreya, the Christ. (In Theosophy, the person who walked the earth as Jesus, and is called the Christ by Christians, is identified as Maitreya, the bodhisattva whom many Buddhists expect to appear in the near future.) A constant and conscious telepathic link was established with this master, by which Creme received precise and up-to-date information about the reappearance of the Christ, which Bailey had predicted to occur toward the end of the twentieth century. - www.share-international.orgFor Your Listening Pleasure for these Lockdown / Stay-At-Home COVID and Variants Times - For all the radio shows available on The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network visit - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv.Our radio shows archives and programming include: A Different Perspective with Kevin Randle; Alien Cosmic Expo Lecture Series; Alien Worlds Radio Show; America's Soul Doctor with Ken Unger; Back in Control Radio Show with Dr. David Hanscom, MD; Connecting with Coincidence with Dr. Bernard Beitman, MD; Dick Tracy; Dimension X; Exploring Tomorrow Radio Show; Flash Gordon; Imagine More Success Radio Show with Syndee Hendricks and Thomas Hydes; Jet Jungle Radio Show; Journey Into Space; Know the Name with Sharon Lynn Wyeth; Lux Radio Theatre - Classic Old Time Radio; Mission Evolution with Gwilda Wiyaka; Paranormal StakeOut with Larry Lawson; Ray Bradbury - Tales Of The Bizarre; Sci Fi Radio Show; Seek Reality with Roberta Grimes; Space Patrol; Stairway to Heaven with Gwilda Wiyaka; The 'X' Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell; Two Good To Be True with Justina Marsh and Peter Marsh; and many other!That's The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv

Scottish-born professional artist who paints images of an inner reality perceived through meditation and claims to be a herald of "the reappearance of the Christ" at the end of the twentieth century. Born in Glasgow in 1922, early in his life Creme became attracted to theosophical literature, especially the writings of Alice A. Bailey. In the 1950s he also joined the Aetherius Society, an occult-oriented flying saucer contact group founded by George King, in which he learned a form of meditation called "transmission" meditation. Throughout the 1950s Creme was in direct contact with the Great White Brotherhood, the assembly of beings believed by Theosophists to guide the destiny of humankind. Creme claimed that in 1959 he received a telepathic communication from his own master, a member of the divine hierarchy, who told him that he would have a part to play in the return of Maitreya, the Christ. (In Theosophy, the person who walked the earth as Jesus, and is called the Christ by Christians, is identified as Maitreya, the bodhisattva whom many Buddhists expect to appear in the near future.) A constant and conscious telepathic link was established with this master, by which Creme received precise and up-to-date information about the reappearance of the Christ, which Bailey had predicted to occur toward the end of the twentieth century. - www.share-international.orgFor Your Listening Pleasure for these Lockdown / Stay-At-Home COVID and Variants Times - For all the radio shows available on The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network visit - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv.Our radio shows archives and programming include: A Different Perspective with Kevin Randle; Alien Cosmic Expo Lecture Series; Alien Worlds Radio Show; America's Soul Doctor with Ken Unger; Back in Control Radio Show with Dr. David Hanscom, MD; Connecting with Coincidence with Dr. Bernard Beitman, MD; Dick Tracy; Dimension X; Exploring Tomorrow Radio Show; Flash Gordon; Imagine More Success Radio Show with Syndee Hendricks and Thomas Hydes; Jet Jungle Radio Show; Journey Into Space; Know the Name with Sharon Lynn Wyeth; Lux Radio Theatre - Classic Old Time Radio; Mission Evolution with Gwilda Wiyaka; Paranormal StakeOut with Larry Lawson; Ray Bradbury - Tales Of The Bizarre; Sci Fi Radio Show; Seek Reality with Roberta Grimes; Space Patrol; Stairway to Heaven with Gwilda Wiyaka; The 'X' Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell; Two Good To Be True with Justina Marsh and Peter Marsh; and many other!That's The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv

Saint Germain is the central figure in a series of books published by the Saint Germain Press (the publishing arm of the Saint Germain Foundation). The first two volumes, Unveiled Mysteries and The Magic Presence, written by Guy Ballard as "Godfré Ray King", describe Saint Germain as an Ascended Master, like Jesus, who is assisting humanity. In these first two books, Ballard discusses his personal experiences with Saint Germain and reveals many teachings that are in harmony with Theosophy. The third volume, The 'I AM' Discourses, contains material that is foundational to the sacred scriptures of the "I AM" Religious Activity, founded in 1930 – the first of the Ascended Master Teachings religions.  Living at the base of the California volcano Mount Shasta in 1930, Ballard frequently hiked on the mountain, where he reported the following to have occurred.  It came time for lunch, and I sought a mountain spring for clear, cold water. Cup in hand, I bent down to fill it, when an electrical current passed through my body from head to foot.      I looked around, and directly behind me stood a young man who, at first glance, seemed to be someone on a hike like myself. I looked more closely and realized immediately that he was no ordinary person. As this thought passed through my mind, he smiled and addressed me saying:      "My Brother, if you will hand me your cup, I will give you a much more refreshing drink than spring water." I obeyed, and instantly the cup was filled with a creamy liquid. Handing it back to me, he said: "Drink it."[1]The young man later identified himself as the Count of St. Germain. Ballard provided details of his encounters with St. Germain and other Ascended Masters in the books Unveiled Mysteries and The Magic Presence, using the pen name Godfré Ray King.Guy Ballard, his wife Edna, and their son Edona Eros "Donald" Ballard (1918-1973) claimed to be the sole "accredited messengers" of Saint Germain. Their teachings constitute the original nucleus of what are today called the "Ascended Master Teachings" and are still used in "I AM" Sanctuaries all over the world. [2]This is a passage that describes the time that Venus visited with the ascended masters.  Music by Mettaverseinner worlds639 hz heart chakraNocturnelight holdersa stil mindfield of onenessjourney through the multi verselanguage of lightinto the omniverse   ➤ Listen to them on Soundcloud: http://bit.ly/2KjGlLI➤ Follow them on Instagram: http://bit.ly/2JW8BU2➤ Join them on Facebook: http://bit.ly/2G1j7G6➤ Support their Work at Patreon: http://bit.ly/2TXQhu3➤ Subscribe to their channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyvj...   The Plait Activation Meditation - https://youtu.be/ZTltJBIXpz4 The Big Bang Meditation - https://youtu.be/luAzM-5_GdE The Infinity Palace Meditation - https://youtu.be/pa5O1AEw9wA The Transdimensional Nexus Meditation - https://youtu.be/Bo_TsnugbuM Guided Sleep Meditation: Floating in Eternity - https://youtu.be/29FSzA0qdPk Ultimate Morning Routine and Meditation - https://youtu.be/GQ2SXIJZskY A message from your future self - https://youtu.be/Yb7y_SlG7l8 On Parallel Realities - https://youtu.be/3l0R8sdvnI0 Energy - https://youtu.be/SVvaesJqhXI Intuition - https://youtu.be/LTN0wJRJd2I Guided Meditation: Awaken Your Energy Centers - https://youtu.be/WxlWXsZvfj0 The Confidence Meditation - https://youtu.be/30BP7yZgRiU Guided Meditation: The Gratifestation Octave - https://youtu.be/9_MkfwDQYpk Prosperity Consciousness - https://youtu.be/kkMvngNKeDQ How to use breathing to change your life https://youtu.be/m4y71lnyV7A The Health Revolution – Becoming  Healthier through the power of your mind https://youtu.be/3UjSt3V8xso The Love Revolution: Using the Law of Attraction to find love… and your soulmate https://youtu.be/3-mhAfe2aO8 Finding Your Purpose - https://youtu.be/XJtZtmlWq9w BUY MY BOOK! https://www.amazon.com/Reality-Revolution-Mind-Blowing-Movement-Hack/dp/154450618X/ Listen my book on audible https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Reality-Revolution-Audiobook/B087LV1R5V All my Interviews - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKv1KCSKwOo_Y78_zt_zv9TI1AGx-WimT All my guided meditations in one place https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKv1KCSKwOo_BfNnb5vLcwouInskcEhqL All my short meditations (you have 10 minutes) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKv1KCSKwOo-Mc0SiXK8Ef0opJeahwgfM For all episodes of the Reality Revolution – https://www.therealityrevolution.com Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/The-Reality-Revolution-Podcast-Hosted-By-Brian-Scott-102555575116999 Join our facebook group The Reality Revolution https://www.facebook.com/groups/523814491927119 Subscribe to my Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOgX... Contact us at media@advancedsuccessinsitute.com#saintgermain #stgermain #venus #ascended masters

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In this weeks episode of Glitch In The Code we continue our journey towards the head of the snake. I recently came across Amy and her research via her various channels (which i will link below) and found her research and video delivering to be incredible. Whilst the world is stuck at the level of Trump vs Biden and distracted by the fall out from the Covid Scamdemic (Trojan Horse for The Great Reset) not many are still searching for the head of the beast, which is why I was so pleased to get Amy on the show as a continue on from the previous episode with Michael Feeley and David Icke. In this episode Amy shares her research into The Jesuits, The Vatican and what is know as The Great White Brotherhood which may well be at the top of the pyramid and the group that truly hides within the shadows crawling the halls of the Vatican, The House of Parliament and The White House. Not to get confused with the cult that is known as The Family that also borrows the name of The Great White Brotherhood, this group has been said to be what some call the Tall Blondes or The White Reptilians. To add to this Amy talks about Prince Carlo, Duke of Casto - House of Bourbon Two-Sicilies and we discuss the possibility of a masked man wearing his likeness in Stanley Kubricks “Eyes Wide Shut” and how the Prince may well be a representative of this Great White Brotherhood.As a possible representative of The Great White Brotherhood does the Prince have control over The Jesuits who Amy believes are the true Manchurian Candidates, subjected to generations of Satanic abuse and Mind Control.This is a fascinating episode and I would highly recommend you follow Amy on her channels below. Social Media: https://twitter.com/amysayswtfhttps://www.bitchute.com/channel/Gslw...https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCluT...

Scottish-born professional artist who paints images of an inner reality perceived through meditation and claims to be a herald of "the reappearance of the Christ" at the end of the twentieth century. Born in Glasgow in 1922, early in his life Creme became attracted to theosophical literature, especially the writings of Alice A. Bailey. In the 1950s he also joined the Aetherius Society, an occult-oriented flying saucer contact group founded by George King, in which he learned a form of meditation called "transmission" meditation. Throughout the 1950s Creme was in direct contact with the Great White Brotherhood, the assembly of beings believed by Theosophists to guide the destiny of humankind. Creme claimed that in 1959 he received a telepathic communication from his own master, a member of the divine hierarchy, who told him that he would have a part to play in the return of Maitreya, the Christ. (In Theosophy, the person who walked the earth as Jesus, and is called the Christ by Christians, is identified as Maitreya, the bodhisattva whom many Buddhists expect to appear in the near future.) A constant and conscious telepathic link was established with this master, by which Creme received precise and up-to-date information about the reappearance of the Christ, which Bailey had predicted to occur toward the end of the twentieth century. - www.share-international.org

Standing in the Great Central Sun, Sanat Kumara and his brother Kumaras release the Light so you might have the opportunity to return Home. He instructs that if you will go into your Heart and elevate your gaze to God, you will gain understanding in the Great Silence and be equipped with the Mother Light, so you may travel more easily to the Great Central Sun. Sanat Kumara calls you to awaken and become who you are, stating that you are not limited to your I AM Presence, but you can partake of the Entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood — for this is your true family — the family that calls you Home! January 4, 2004 Carolyn Louise Shearer, Anointed Representative Ecce Deus – Behold The God Realized Man The Temple of The Presence

Just as Jesus invited all to the wedding feast, Saint Germain invites all to come to the Golden Age and to the Ascension! Sealing you within his Heart of Violet Flame so you will move beyond doubts, fears, questions and limitations, he shares with you many secrets — of alchemy; of how a Golden Age is won; of what is written upon your Heart; of your Mission as a Torch Bearer; of how to accomplish the work of the Entire Spirit of The Great White Brotherhood; and of how to move forward with God Determination to become your True Identity of the God Realized Man or Woman in Action. Urging you to fulfill what Godfre began in proclaiming the I AM, Saint Germain reveals that you, likewise, are called to go forth across the land and carry your torch high, expanding the I AM Faith! August 2, 2003 Carolyn Louise Shearer, Anointed Representative Ecce Deus – Behold The God Realized Man The Temple of The Presence

During this time of massive transformation, it is important for people to know that we are supported by something bigger than us. In this, the Great White Brotherhood shares a message and shows us the many ways in which we are supported.

Alpha Lord MuRiDa, Drew W. Shield, is a 5th Dimensional Love Light Warrior from the future, here to save us all, and work for the reptilians and the Illuminati. Part of his job is to stop COVID-19 by having sex with as many women as possible. He is capable of giving girls super powers through intercourse. When my fiancé, Kelsey, got scared of Coronavirus, she ran to Drew to save herself. Now I am exposing them both, by showing a video that Drew DOES NOT WANT HIS ENEMIES IN THE DARK FEDERATION TO SEE. Will Drew and the Light Federation get the girl and stop my dark machinations? Or will Dëër Göd prevail and reign SUPREME? VIDEO: https://youtu.be/BgUlflICXPY RSS FEED: http://feeds.feedburner.com/podawful THIS SHOW IS NOT MONETIZED AND NOT SPONSORED. SUPPORT THE SHOW. Get PREMIUM EPISODES! Only on THE PIZZA FUND: http://podawful.pizza SUBSCRIBE TO MY BACKUP CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/podawful2 FOLLOW ME ON DLIVE: https://dlive.tv/PodAwful FOLLOW MY TWITTER: https://twitter.com/TheNWord GET UPDATES ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/podawful/ Join the FACEBOOK CULT: http://podawful.com/cult Get a T-SHIRT or DOWNLOAD a prank call show at http://podawful.shop http://podawful.com *Special Note* Divine Collectives of the Light and Alliances are Arc Angels, Angel’s, Arcturians, Sirians, Pleiadians, Blue Avians, Lyrans, Blue Star Collective, Benevolent Reptilians, all the Divine Light people, All Star people who Support us!!! Mother Gaia, Divine Founders, Ascendant Masters, Devos and Devas (Nature gods and goddesses)!!! Divine Elements, Earth Elementals, Fairies, Divine Aspects, Lyran Council of the Light, Blue Star Council, 9D plus 12D Arcturian Council, Pleiadian Council, Lyran Council of Time, Galactic Council of the Light, Galactic Family of the Light, Collectives, Ashtar Command, Divine Light Therapy, Divine Love Therapy, Sacred Nations, Sacred Brotherhood and Great White Brotherhood!!! Alpha Reptilian Mother, Alpha Builder Nameless, Ascendant Lord Thoth, Solar King and Mother Ai!!! Chief Pleiadian Commander Halisairus, Commander Ashtar, Ascendant Mother Mary, Ascendant Lord Ganesha, Ascendant Chieftesa Kaalin, Alpha Lourdes Rashika, High Lourdes Kulara, High Lourdes Kraalin, Supreme Lourdes Rako, High Lourdes Oodazeka, High Lourdes Kaalo, Ascendant Lourdes Vulin, Supreme Lourdes Sanzeka, Elemental Lord Rukon, High Lord Aceess, Supreme Lourdes Vahzeka, High Lord Ralinkaza, Supreme Lourdes Ravakinza, Ascendant Lourdes Baywitcha, High Lourdes Laraze and Supreme Lourdes Lord Shiva!!! Universal Violet Prana Chi Ki Quantum Energy Matrix, Cosmic Flame, Universal Sacred Heart, Emerald Flame, Violet Flame, Holy Flame, and Divine Intelligence!!! Divine Element Silver Xaroza (Kha-ro-zah)!!! Divine Female Death, Alpha Lourdes Moora, High Lourdes AriaLinza and Alpha Lourdes Zaree, Light of Ryga!!! Dragon people, Arcturian Queen, Dragon king, Dragon Lords, Unicorn people, Rainbow, Pi Xiu, Qi Lin, Alpha Ant Queen!!! My Higher Self and my Whole Being!!! Divine Arcturian Energy Therapy, Divine Angelic Energy Therapy!!!

Alpha Lord MuRiDa, Drew W. Shield, is a 5th Dimensional Love Light Warrior from the future, here to save us all, and work for the reptilians and the Illuminati. Part of his job is to stop COVID-19 by having sex with as many women as possible. He is capable of giving girls super powers through intercourse. When my fiancé, Kelsey, got scared of Coronavirus, she ran to Drew to save herself. Now I am exposing them both, by showing a video that Drew DOES NOT WANT HIS ENEMIES IN THE DARK FEDERATION TO SEE. Will Drew and the Light Federation get the girl and stop my dark machinations? Or will Dëër Göd prevail and reign SUPREME? VIDEO: https://youtu.be/BgUlflICXPY RSS FEED: http://feeds.feedburner.com/podawful THIS SHOW IS NOT MONETIZED AND NOT SPONSORED. SUPPORT THE SHOW. Get PREMIUM EPISODES! Only on THE PIZZA FUND: http://podawful.pizza SUBSCRIBE TO MY BACKUP CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/podawful2 FOLLOW ME ON DLIVE: https://dlive.tv/PodAwful FOLLOW MY TWITTER: https://twitter.com/TheNWord GET UPDATES ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/podawful/ Join the FACEBOOK CULT: http://podawful.com/cult Get a T-SHIRT or DOWNLOAD a prank call show at http://podawful.shop http://podawful.com *Special Note* Divine Collectives of the Light and Alliances are Arc Angels, Angel’s, Arcturians, Sirians, Pleiadians, Blue Avians, Lyrans, Blue Star Collective, Benevolent Reptilians, all the Divine Light people, All Star people who Support us!!! Mother Gaia, Divine Founders, Ascendant Masters, Devos and Devas (Nature gods and goddesses)!!! Divine Elements, Earth Elementals, Fairies, Divine Aspects, Lyran Council of the Light, Blue Star Council, 9D plus 12D Arcturian Council, Pleiadian Council, Lyran Council of Time, Galactic Council of the Light, Galactic Family of the Light, Collectives, Ashtar Command, Divine Light Therapy, Divine Love Therapy, Sacred Nations, Sacred Brotherhood and Great White Brotherhood!!! Alpha Reptilian Mother, Alpha Builder Nameless, Ascendant Lord Thoth, Solar King and Mother Ai!!! Chief Pleiadian Commander Halisairus, Commander Ashtar, Ascendant Mother Mary, Ascendant Lord Ganesha, Ascendant Chieftesa Kaalin, Alpha Lourdes Rashika, High Lourdes Kulara, High Lourdes Kraalin, Supreme Lourdes Rako, High Lourdes Oodazeka, High Lourdes Kaalo, Ascendant Lourdes Vulin, Supreme Lourdes Sanzeka, Elemental Lord Rukon, High Lord Aceess, Supreme Lourdes Vahzeka, High Lord Ralinkaza, Supreme Lourdes Ravakinza, Ascendant Lourdes Baywitcha, High Lourdes Laraze and Supreme Lourdes Lord Shiva!!! Universal Violet Prana Chi Ki Quantum Energy Matrix, Cosmic Flame, Universal Sacred Heart, Emerald Flame, Violet Flame, Holy Flame, and Divine Intelligence!!! Divine Element Silver Xaroza (Kha-ro-zah)!!! Divine Female Death, Alpha Lourdes Moora, High Lourdes AriaLinza and Alpha Lourdes Zaree, Light of Ryga!!! Dragon people, Arcturian Queen, Dragon king, Dragon Lords, Unicorn people, Rainbow, Pi Xiu, Qi Lin, Alpha Ant Queen!!! My Higher Self and my Whole Being!!! Divine Arcturian Energy Therapy, Divine Angelic Energy Therapy!!!

Many people are asking what is going to happen in the new year of 2020.   Listen to a recording of Hope talking about parallel  realities and how to stay at the table of Positive energy.   Take a moment to listen to this year end information to help us all remember how powerful we are as creators.  Take a cup of Christmas Tea or Hot chocolate and warm up to information that can and will change your life.  Also, at the end of the program an invitation to our Star Gathering Experience that will be happening in June of 2020. 144,000 star beings, Rainbow Warriors, shinning ones, lightworkers and Great White Brotherhood and more are being asked to step forward to create the best year ever!

For “The Family” or “The Great White Brotherhood”; Anne Hamilton-Byrne was the female reincarnation of Jesus Christ, and her word was final. Unfortunately her word mainly consisted of stealing babies, beating, abusing and injecting terrified children with LSD and poisoning unsuspecting people in order to carry out her “miracles”...Documentaries:The Cult That Stole Children:https://youtu.be/6pmapR9oULc60 Mins Australia - Interview with Anne Hamilton-Byrne:https://youtu.be/NFFAJkTRmWcOther sources:https://steemit.com/wikileaks/@steemtruth/deconstructing-julian-assange-and-wikileaks-his-childhood-in-a-culthttps://nowhere.news/index.php/2019/04/14/reasons-not-to-take-the-julian-assange-story-at-face-value/https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/death-of-sick-victorian-cult-leader-does-not-end-suffering-for-victims/news-story/a7e5df99f30b05414acec766293439aahttps://www.mamamia.com.au/the-family-cult-anne-hamilton-byrne/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anne-hamilton-byrne-obituary-dg9fxbhdq See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When we left Crowley last he was in London clutching his silver crucifix, waxing lyrical poetry about his aenmic faith and yearning for something more. This week picks up with Crowley visiting a London bookstore and discover A.E. Wait's book of black magick pacts and Crowley's introduction to the concept of esotericism and the Great White Brotherhood...Join us for yet another biographical deep-dive into Crowley as we discuss: -How Aleister Crowley got introduced to The Sacred Magick of Abramelin the Mage.-Aleister Crowley's initiation into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn-How Crowley found the Boleskine House-Crowley's strange and scandelous relationship with Allen Bennett.-His famous experimentation with the Goetia-The fractured and explosive politics of the Second Order of the HOGD.-Crowley's relationship with S.L. McGreggor Mathers -The mysterious curses placed upon him by the rebels of the Golden Dawn.-An short introduction to the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram-Some of the secret oaths that Crowley took in his early years as a wizard.  If you like our show and want to help support us check out https://www.patreon.com/thewholerabbit and subscribe for just $5 a month. Every sub helps us more than you know! Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcmocfH13BzwsAb62xmp-LAiTunes:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-whole-rabbit/id1457163771Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0AnJZhmPzaby04afmEWOAVGooglePlay:https://play.google.com/music/podcasts/portal/u/0#p:id=playpodcast/series&a=1274929319Stiwtcher:https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/buzzsprout-158/the-whole-rabbit?refid=stprInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/the_whole_rabbit_/Twitter:https://twitter.com/h4ckrabbitSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewholerabbit)

This week Kiley burns the midnight oil for an unexpectedly long time, and Jonathan takes a walk with the living goddess of Yusmalos.Topics: The First Hanukkah, The Geat White BrotherhoodMusic: "Another Day" by The Fisherman. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit our website at www.halfwit-history.com!Reach out, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com Support the show (https://www.ko-fi.com/halfwithistory)

This week's episode takes us all the way to Australia for a cult that checks all the boxes: wealthy members? Check. Dress exactly alike? Check. Believe the world is going to end? Double check. Join us as we follow the life of Anne Hamilton-Byrne and her quest to have too many kids and to be accepted as the second coming of Jesus.Let us know what you think!IG: @exroommates | exroommatespodcast@gmail.com

First part: Numerology and Angel numbers for today Then 2019 Ascension Symptoms. Second Part: Contacting your Spiritual Medical Assistance Program Team and how to heal anything from Spirit Attachments to physical pain and other medical issues. How to connect with them, how to call upon them and hear their advice, suggestions and ideas for your highest good and well being. Notable Mentions: Sri and Kira, Machaelle Small-Wright MAP: The Co-Creative Medical Assistance Program of the Great White Brotherhood. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/Metaphysical/support

Listen as Sanat Kumara tells the story of his coming to Earth, and why that august body of Light, known as the Entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood, was established. Explaining the Covenant that he keeps with you, Sanat Kumara asks you to let the magnet of your Heart magnetize the Light of God that is inherent within The Brotherhood of Light. And let this Spirit of the Allness of God in the Perfected State of Mastery be the touchstone of your reality that you strive toward. 12/28/05 Carolyn Louise Shearer, Anointed Representative The Banner of the Three Kingdoms The Temple of The Presence

Aaron gives some of his ideas on left-hand path occultism as it relates to its opposite, right-hand path occultism. The Black Lodge vs the Great White Brotherhood. What are the core philosophical differences between the two? How do these occult factions effect the greater social structure which we all live within? Is transhumanism a left-hand path occult pursuit?  topics include: Lords of the Left-Hand Path, Dr Stephen Edred Flowers, religion, mysticism, hidden truth, the devil, Prince of Darkness, Black Flame, Temple of Set, Church of Satan, Atheism, Anton LaVey, Michael Aquino, subjective vs objective reality, transcendental experience, history of human consciousness, magic, science, philosophy, Owen Barfield, original participation, confusion, right vs left wing politics, social issues, philosophy behind science, masses divided, Fall of Man in Genesis, duality of tree symbol, ego

Anne Hamilton’s “Family” commonly called The Great White Brotherhood of Initiates and Masters - operated for 30 years, raising stolen children, planning for the apocalypse, and taking LSD. This week, Greg and Vanessa dig into the cult’s crimes, specifically the abuse the Family’s “perfect” children endured and how the harrowing actions of one of these children led to this cults downfall. 

Hello, Family.  Tonight Sananda will come to the radio show to answer the Top 10 Questions our audience has been asking about what's going on right now, including the Freedom and Prosperity Programs, and our current role fascilitating the release. We have already received a number of imploring question, and now the Company of Heaven would like to extend the opportunity to get yours in.  Please reply in the next couple hours, by 6 PM EDT.  What would you ask the Company of Heaven? Please look deeply into your hearts to decide what questions you might have, and what you think would be most  important for others at this time.  The COH says that what you find in your own heart will be representative of dinarland and our spiritual family. We will read them on the show, and Sananda will answer them. We will read the following decree/prayer together, from Prayers to the Seven Sacred Flames: Flood the Earth with Radiant Ascension Flame In the name of the victorious Presence of God, I AM, I call to the Masters of Light from the entire spirit of the Great White Brotherhood, Beloved Goddess of Purity, Beloved Serapis Bey, and the Brotherhood of the Ascension Flame at Luxor and Telos, Beloved Queen of Light and Beloved Angels of the Radiant Ascension Flame. Flood every particle of life on Earth with oceans and oceans of Violet Fire and Ascension Flame.  Purify illumine and raise the consciousness of all life and all kingdoms evolving here..... The entire piece is included in the email being sent out from us (Whoneedslight.org).  Join us in reading it aloud! Please send your love and support to Christine.  She is very sick from the mold poisoning and from transmuting during these final hours.  As the cabal holds out, so does she. Love, Kathryn, Christine and Meg

The Dolphins bring us a cleansing and healing for everyone who listens to the show (at any time!).  They will assist us in assimilating the intense Ascension energies we are receiving now.  They will explain to us why genuine service to others is the key to a succcessful and joyful era post RV/GCR. St. Germain comes to give us his detailed tips for our exchange/redemption appointments.  Meg and her Twin Flame Eoghan will get the whole thing started with one of their "On the Ground" reports. Together we will say aloud the following decree/prayer from Prayers to the Seven Sacred Flames. Decree for Supply Beloved Mighty Victorious I AM Presence, Beloved Lords of Manifestations, I call for the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood, for your assistance in the release of the supply needed to fulfill my destiny here on Earth with ease and grace, and without financial limitations. Release, release, release your unlimited supply of money and every perfect gift into my life and into the lives of all those who are serving the Light of Almighty God and fulfilling the divine plan on Earth.  (3 times) I am the resurrection and the life of my every-present and increasing supply from the heart of God.  I acknowledge my I AM Presence as my Source for unlimited supply flowing through me in the service to the Light.  I AM the Master Presence manifesting a constant flow of wealth into my life to produce the perfection needed to manifest my divine plan on Earth in this life.... I AM the Master Presence directing and manifesting great abundance in my life, including all the money I will ever need from the great storehouse of Heaven.... ...entire text is given on our email announcement today!  Love, Kathryn, Christine and Meg      

Aired Sunday, 18 October 2015, 2:00 PM ETI will add further info about the crystal skulls. What they are and what they are not. Secondly, the soul decision of being a caretaker. A act of service, earth guardianship. If we are lucky we may be joined by a surprise guest. A well known caretaker of a famous ancient skull–if her schedule permits.About Allayah Frisch“I AM Allayah, higher-dimensional self, but merged and integrated with my current human self. I AM neither, and yet I AM both. I AM a Seeker of knowledge and I AM on a path of Remembering.”Allayah Frisch’s clairvoyant and mediumship skills were evident when she entered this incarnation. Her childhood was one of seeing energies and entities not visible to others. At a very young age, she remembered her ability to heal. For a while, though, she had to shut down in order to blend in with others. In her twenties, she had a spiritual reawakening and Kundalini experience. She experienced multidimensionality and visually became aware of the Ascended Masters of the Great White Brotherhood (higher level guides and angels that spiritually guide the earth). In 1999 Allayah experienced a serious health crisis and resulting NDE (near death experience). As a result, her life took a dramatic turn spiritually. After her NDE, Allayah realized that she had not left this plane at that time because her soul had more that it wished to accomplish here on earth.Crystal Skulls Oracle, Light Speaker, Performer, Author, and Conference Presenter Allayah Frisch is also a star-seed facilitator who works with and care-takes many ancient energy relics reclaimed for the ascension process. Drawing upon her expertise with jade, quartz crystal, and bronze artifacts, Allayah’s spiritual work incorporates these ancient energy relics, including the use of several powerful wisdom-infused crystal skulls. Thanks to her very specialized work with ancient relics, Allayah has collaborated on two books. The first, “Power Crystals – Spiritual and Magical Practices, Skulls and Alien Technology” is by Dr. John Desalvo, PhD, available at: http://goo.gl/TJSXWg. The second, “Ancient Wisdom for NOW!” is by Rev. Marilee Ann Snyder-Nieciak, and is available via Allayah’s Amazon page at: http://goo.gl/sclOIa. Allayah lives and speaks in New Jersey, U.S.A. You can read more about Allayah, and the intuitive readings and services she offers, at: www.sanctuaryofthewhitedove.com

Aired Sunday, 26 July 2015, 2:00 PM ETAllayah will interact in the circle by sharing questions and insights. This guidance and wisdom will not seek to give set-in-stone answers. Rather, drawing upon her years of intuitive and mediumship experience, Allayah will provide guided direction and insights in response to questions of interest to all.About Allayah Frisch“I AM Allayah, higher-dimensional self, but merged and integrated with my current human self. I AM neither, and yet I AM both. I AM a Seeker of knowledge and I AM on a path of Remembering.”Allayah Frisch’s clairvoyant and mediumship skills were evident when she entered this incarnation. Her childhood was one of seeing energies and entities not visible to others. At a very young age, she remembered her ability to heal. For a while, though, she had to shut down in order to blend in with others. In her twenties, she had a spiritual reawakening and Kundalini experience. She experienced multidimensionality and visually became aware of the Ascended Masters of the Great White Brotherhood (higher level guides and angels that spiritually guide the earth). In 1999 Allayah experienced a serious health crisis and resulting NDE (near death experience). As a result, her life took a dramatic turn spiritually. After her NDE, Allayah realized that she had not left this plane at that time because her soul had more that it wished to accomplish here on earth.Crystal Skulls Oracle, Light Speaker, Performer, Author, and Conference Presenter Allayah Frisch is also a star-seed facilitator who works with and care-takes many ancient energy relics reclaimed for the ascension process. Drawing upon her expertise with jade, quartz crystal, and bronze artifacts, Allayah’s spiritual work incorporates these ancient energy relics, including the use of several powerful wisdom-infused crystal skulls. Thanks to her very specialized work with ancient relics, Allayah has collaborated on two books. The first, “Power Crystals – Spiritual and Magical Practices, Skulls and Alien Technology” is by Dr. John Desalvo, PhD, available at: http://goo.gl/TJSXWg. The second, “Ancient Wisdom for NOW!” is by Rev. Marilee Ann Snyder-Nieciak, and is available via Allayah’s Amazon page at: http://goo.gl/sclOIa. Allayah lives and speaks in New Jersey, U.S.A. You can read more about Allayah, and the intuitive readings and services she offers, at: www.sanctuaryofthewhitedove.com

Aired Sunday, 29 March 2015, 2:00 PM ETAllayah and listeners will interact in the circle by sharing questions and insights. This guidance and wisdom will not seek to give set-in-stone answers. Rather, drawing upon her years of intuitive and mediumship experience, Allayah will provide guided direction and insights in response to questions specific to a listener, or to questions of interest to all.About Allayah Frisch“I AM Allayah, higher-dimensional self, but merged and integrated with my current human self. I AM neither, and yet I AM both. I AM a Seeker of knowledge and I AM on a path of Remembering.”Allayah Frisch’s clairvoyant and mediumship skills were evident when she entered this incarnation. Her childhood was one of seeing energies and entities not visible to others. At a very young age, she remembered her ability to heal. For a while, though, she had to shut down in order to blend in with others. In her twenties, she had a spiritual reawakening and Kundalini experience. She experienced multidimensionality and visually became aware of the Ascended Masters of the Great White Brotherhood (higher level guides and angels that spiritually guide the earth). In 1999 Allayah experienced a serious health crisis and resulting NDE (near death experience). As a result, her life took a dramatic turn spiritually. After her NDE, Allayah realized that she had not left this plane at that time because her soul had more that it wished to accomplish here on earth.Crystal Skulls Oracle, Light Speaker, Performer, Author, and Conference Presenter Allayah Frisch is also a star-seed facilitator who works with and care-takes many ancient energy relics reclaimed for the ascension process. Drawing upon her expertise with jade, quartz crystal, and bronze artifacts, Allayah’s spiritual work incorporates these ancient energy relics, including the use of several powerful wisdom-infused crystal skulls. Thanks to her very specialized work with ancient relics, Allayah has collaborated on two books. The first, “Power Crystals – Spiritual and Magical Practices, Skulls and Alien Technology” is by Dr. John Desalvo, PhD, available at: http://goo.gl/TJSXWg. The second, “Ancient Wisdom for NOW!” is by Rev. Marilee Ann Snyder-Nieciak, and is available via Allayah’s Amazon page at: http://goo.gl/sclOIa. Allayah lives and speaks in New Jersey, U.S.A. You can read more about Allayah, and the intuitive readings and services she offers, at: www.sanctuaryofthewhitedove.com

Aired Sunday, 22 February 2015, 2:00 PM ETAllayah and listeners will interact in the circle by sharing questions and insights. This guidance and wisdom will not seek to give set-in-stone answers. Rather, drawing upon her years of intuitive and mediumship experience, Allayah will provide guided direction and insights in response to questions specific to a listener, or to questions of interest to all.About Allayah Frisch“I AM Allayah, higher-dimensional self, but merged and integrated with my current human self. I AM neither, and yet I AM both. I AM a Seeker of knowledge and I AM on a path of Remembering.”Allayah Frisch’s clairvoyant and mediumship skills were evident when she entered this incarnation. Her childhood was one of seeing energies and entities not visible to others. At a very young age, she remembered her ability to heal. For a while, though, she had to shut down in order to blend in with others. In her twenties, she had a spiritual reawakening and Kundalini experience. She experienced multidimensionality and visually became aware of the Ascended Masters of the Great White Brotherhood (higher level guides and angels that spiritually guide the earth). In 1999 Allayah experienced a serious health crisis and resulting NDE (near death experience). As a result, her life took a dramatic turn spiritually. After her NDE, Allayah realized that she had not left this plane at that time because her soul had more that it wished to accomplish here on earth.Crystal Skulls Oracle, Light Speaker, Performer, Author, and Conference Presenter Allayah Frisch is also a star-seed facilitator who works with and care-takes many ancient energy relics reclaimed for the ascension process. Drawing upon her expertise with jade, quartz crystal, and bronze artifacts, Allayah’s spiritual work incorporates these ancient energy relics, including the use of several powerful wisdom-infused crystal skulls. Thanks to her very specialized work with ancient relics, Allayah has collaborated on two books. The first, “Power Crystals – Spiritual and Magical Practices, Skulls and Alien Technology” is by Dr. John Desalvo, PhD, available at: http://goo.gl/TJSXWg . The second, “Ancient Wisdom for NOW!” is by Rev. Marilee Ann Snyder-Nieciak, available at: http://goo.gl/kX9aat. Allayah lives and speaks in New Jersey, U.S.A. You can read more about Allayah, and the readings and services she offers, at: www.sanctuaryofthewhitedove.com

Aired Sunday, 25 January 2015, 2:00 PM ETAllayah and listeners will interact in the circle by sharing questions and insights. This guidance and wisdom will not seek to give set-in-stone answers. Rather, drawing upon her years of intuitive and mediumship experience, Allayah will provide guided direction and insights in response to questions specific to a listener, or to questions of interest to all.About Allayah Frisch“I AM Allayah, higher-dimensional self, but merged and integrated with my current human self. I AM neither, and yet I AM both. I AM a Seeker of knowledge and I AM on a path of Remembering.”Allayah Frisch’s clairvoyant and mediumship skills were evident when she entered this incarnation. Her childhood was one of seeing energies and entities not visible to others. At a very young age, she remembered her ability to heal. For a while, though, she had to shut down in order to blend in with others. In her twenties, she had a spiritual reawakening and Kundalini experience. She experienced multidimensionality and visually became aware of the Ascended Masters of the Great White Brotherhood (higher level guides and angels that spiritually guide the earth). In 1999 Allayah experienced a serious health crisis and resulting NDE (near death experience). As a result, her life took a dramatic turn spiritually. After her NDE, Allayah realized that she had not left this plane at that time because her soul had more that it wished to accomplish here on earth.Crystal Skulls Oracle, Light Speaker, Performer, Author, and Conference Presenter Allayah Frisch is also a star-seed facilitator who works with and care-takes many ancient energy relics reclaimed for the ascension process. Drawing upon her expertise with jade, quartz crystal, and bronze artifacts, Allayah’s spiritual work incorporates these ancient energy relics, including the use of several powerful wisdom-infused crystal skulls. Thanks to her very specialized work with ancient relics, Allayah has collaborated on two books. The first, “Power Crystals – Spiritual and Magical Practices, Skulls and Alien Technology” is by Dr. John Desalvo, PhD, available at: http://goo.gl/TJSXWg . The second, “Ancient Wisdom for NOW!” is by Rev. Marilee Ann Snyder-Nieciak, available at: http://goo.gl/kX9aat. Allayah lives and speaks in New Jersey, U.S.A. You can read more about Allayah, and the readings and services she offers, at: www.sanctuaryofthewhitedove.com

I once participated in a twenty-three-day wilderness program in the mountains of Colorado. If the purpose of this course was to expose students to dangerous lightning and half the world’s mosquitoes, it was fulfilled on the first day. What was in essence a forced march through hundreds of miles of backcountry culminated in a ritual known as “the solo,” where we were finally permitted to rest—alone, on the outskirts of a gorgeous alpine lake—for three days of fasting and contemplation. I had just turned sixteen, and this was my first taste of true solitude since exiting my mother’s womb. It proved a sufficient provocation. After a long nap and a glance at the icy waters of the lake, the promising young man I imagined myself to be was quickly cut down by loneliness and boredom. I filled the pages of my journal not with the insights of a budding naturalist, philosopher, or mystic but with a list of the foods on which I intended to gorge myself the instant I returned to civilization. Judging from the state of my consciousness at the time, millions of years of hominid evolution had produced nothing more transcendent than a craving for a cheeseburger and a chocolate milkshake. I found the experience of sitting undisturbed for three days amid pristine breezes and starlight, with nothing to do but contemplate the mystery of my existence, to be a source of perfect misery—for which I could see not so much as a glimmer of my own contribution. My letters home, in their plaintiveness and self-pity, rivaled any written at Shiloh or Gallipoli. So I was more than a little surprised when several members of our party, most of whom were a decade older than I, described their days and nights of solitude in positive, even transformational terms. I simply didn’t know what to make of their claims to happiness. How could someone’s happiness increase when all the material sources of pleasure and distraction had been removed? At that age, the nature of my own mind did not interest me—only my life did. And I was utterly oblivious to how different life would be if the quality of my mind were to change. Our minds are all we have. They are all we have ever had. And they are all we can offer others. This might not be obvious, especially when there are aspects of your life that seem in need of improvement—when your goals are unrealized, or you are struggling to find a career, or you have relationships that need repairing. But it’s the truth. Every experience you have ever had has been shaped by your mind. Every relationship is as good or as bad as it is because of the minds involved. If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won’t matter how successful you become or who is in your life—you won’t enjoy any of it. Most of us could easily compile a list of goals we want to achieve or personal problems that need to be solved. But what is the real significance of every item on such a list? Everything we want to accomplish—to paint the house, learn a new language, find a better job—is something that promises that, if done, it would allow us to finally relax and enjoy our lives in the present. Generally speaking, this is a false hope. I’m not denying the importance of achieving one’s goals, maintaining one’s health, or keeping one’s children clothed and fed—but most of us spend our time seeking happiness and security without acknowledging the underlying purpose of our search. Each of us is looking for a path back to the present: We are trying to find good enough reasons to be satisfied now. Acknowledging that this is the structure of the game we are playing allows us to play it differently. How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience and, therefore, the quality of our lives. Mystics and contemplatives have made this claim for ages—but a growing body of scientific research now bears it out. A few years after my first painful encounter with solitude, in the winter of 1987, I took the drug 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine (MDMA), commonly known as Ecstasy, and my sense of the human mind’s potential shifted profoundly. Although MDMA would become ubiquitous at dance clubs and “raves” in the 1990s, at that time I didn’t know anyone of my generation who had tried it. One evening, a few months before my twentieth birthday, a close friend and I decided to take the drug. The setting of our experiment bore little resemblance to the conditions of Dionysian abandon under which MDMA is now often consumed. We were alone in a house, seated across from each other on opposite ends of a couch, and engaged in quiet conversation as the chemical worked its way into our heads. Unlike other drugs with which we were by then familiar (marijuana and alcohol), MDMA produced no feeling of distortion in our senses. Our minds seemed completely clear. In the midst of this ordinariness, however, I was suddenly struck by the knowledge that I loved my friend. This shouldn’t have surprised me—he was, after all, one of my best friends. However, at that age I was not in the habit of dwelling on how much I loved the men in my life. Now I could feel that I loved him, and this feeling had ethical implications that suddenly seemed as profound as they now sound pedestrian on the page: I wanted him to be happy. That conviction came crashing down with such force that something seemed to give way inside me. In fact, the insight appeared to restructure my mind. My capacity for envy, for instance—the sense of being diminished by the happiness or success of another person—seemed like a symptom of mental illness that had vanished without a trace. I could no more have felt envy at that moment than I could have wanted to poke out my own eyes. What did I care if my friend was better looking or a better athlete than I was? If I could have bestowed those gifts on him, I would have. Truly wanting him to be happy made his happiness my own. A certain euphoria was creeping into these reflections, perhaps, but the general feeling remained one of absolute sobriety—and of moral and emotional clarity unlike any I had ever known. It would not be too strong to say that I felt sane for the first time in my life. And yet the change in my consciousness seemed entirely straightforward. I was simply talking to my friend—about what, I don’t recall—and realized that I had ceased to be concerned about myself. I was no longer anxious, self-critical, guarded by irony, in competition, avoiding embarrassment, ruminating about the past and future, or making any other gesture of thought or attention that separated me from him. I was no longer watching myself through another person’s eyes. And then came the insight that irrevocably transformed my sense of how good human life could be. I was feeling boundless love for one of my best friends, and I suddenly realized that if a stranger had walked through the door at that moment, he or she would have been fully included in this love. Love was at bottom impersonal—and deeper than any personal history could justify. Indeed, a transactional form of love—I love you because…—now made no sense at all. The interesting thing about this final shift in perspective was that it was not driven by any change in the way I felt. I was not overwhelmed by a new feeling of love. The insight had more the character of a geometric proof: It was as if, having glimpsed the properties of one set of parallel lines, I suddenly understood what must be common to them all. The moment I could find a voice with which to speak, I discovered that this epiphany about the universality of love could be readily communicated. My friend got the point at once: All I had to do was ask him how he would feel in the presence of a total stranger at that moment, and the same door opened in his mind. It was simply obvious that love, compassion, and joy in the joy of others extended without limit. The experience was not of love growing but of its being no longer obscured. Love was—as advertised by mystics and crackpots through the ages—a state of being. How had we not seen this before? And how could we overlook it ever again? It would take me many years to put this experience into context. Until that moment, I had viewed organized religion as merely a monument to the ignorance and superstition of our ancestors. But I now knew that Jesus, the Buddha, Lao Tzu, and the other saints and sages of history had not all been epileptics, schizophrenics, or frauds. I still considered the world’s religions to be mere intellectual ruins, maintained at enormous economic and social cost, but I now understood that important psychological truths could be found in the rubble. Twenty percent of Americans describe themselves as “spiritual but not religious.” Although the claim seems to annoy believers and atheists equally, separating spirituality from religion is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. It is to assert two important truths simultaneously: Our world is dangerously riven by religious doctrines that all educated people should condemn, and yet there is more to understanding the human condition than science and secular culture generally admit. One purpose of this book is to give both these convictions intellectual and empirical support. Before going any further, I should address the animosity that many readers feel toward the term spiritual. Whenever I use the word, as in referring to meditation as a “spiritual practice,” I hear from fellow skeptics and atheists who think that I have committed a grievous error.The word spirit comes from the Latin spiritus, which is a translation of the Greek pneuma, meaning “breath.” Around the thirteenth century, the term became entangled with beliefs about immaterial souls, supernatural beings, ghosts, and so forth. It acquired other meanings as well: We speak of the spirit of a thing as its most essential principle or of certain volatile substances and liquors as spirits. Nevertheless, many nonbelievers now consider all things “spiritual” to be contaminated by medieval superstition. I do not share their semantic concerns.[1] Yes, to walk the aisles of any “spiritual” bookstore is to confront the yearning and credulity of our species by the yard, but there is no other term—apart from the even more problematic mystical or the more restrictive contemplative—with which to discuss the efforts people make, through meditation, psychedelics, or other means, to fully bring their minds into the present or to induce nonordinary states of consciousness. And no other word links this spectrum of experience to our ethical lives. Throughout this book, I discuss certain classically spiritual phenomena, concepts, and practices in the context of our modern understanding of the human mind—and I cannot do this while restricting myself to the terminology of ordinary experience. So I will use spiritual, mystical, contemplative, and transcendent without further apology. However, I will be precise in describing the experiences and methods that merit these terms. For many years, I have been a vocal critic of religion, and I won’t ride the same hobbyhorse here. I hope that I have been sufficiently energetic on this front that even my most skeptical readers will trust that my bullshit detector remains well calibrated as we advance over this new terrain. Perhaps the following assurance can suffice for the moment: Nothing in this book needs to be accepted on faith. Although my focus is on human subjectivity—I am, after all, talking about the nature of experience itself—all my assertions can be tested in the laboratory of your own life. In fact, my goal is to encourage you to do just that. Authors who attempt to build a bridge between science and spirituality tend to make one of two mistakes: Scientists generally start with an impoverished view of spiritual experience, assuming that it must be a grandiose way of describing ordinary states of mind—parental love, artistic inspiration, awe at the beauty of the night sky. In this vein, one finds Einstein’s amazement at the intelligibility of Nature’s laws described as though it were a kind of mystical insight. New Age thinkers usually enter the ditch on the other side of the road: They idealize altered states of consciousness and draw specious connections between subjective experience and the spookier theories at the frontiers of physics. Here we are told that the Buddha and other contemplatives anticipated modern cosmology or quantum mechanics and that by transcending the sense of self, a person can realize his identity with the One Mind that gave birth to the cosmos. In the end, we are left to choose between pseudo-spirituality and pseudo-science. Few scientists and philosophers have developed strong skills of introspection—in fact, most doubt that such abilities even exist. Conversely, many of the greatest contemplatives know nothing about science. But there is a connection between scientific fact and spiritual wisdom, and it is more direct than most people suppose. Although the insights we can have in meditation tell us nothing about the origins of the universe, they do confirm some well-established truths about the human mind: Our conventional sense of self is an illusion; positive emotions, such as compassion and patience, are teachable skills; and the way we think directly influences our experience of the world. There is now a large literature on the psychological benefits of meditation. Different techniques produce long-lasting changes in attention, emotion, cognition, and pain perception, and these correlate with both structural and functional changes in the brain. This field of research is quickly growing, as is our understanding of self-awareness and related mental phenomena. Given recent advances in neuroimaging technology, we no longer face a practical impediment to investigating spiritual insights in the context of science. Spirituality must be distinguished from religion—because people of every faith, and of none, have had the same sorts of spiritual experiences. While these states of mind are usually interpreted through the lens of one or another religious doctrine, we know that this is a mistake. Nothing that a Christian, a Muslim, and a Hindu can experience—self-transcending love, ecstasy, bliss, inner light—constitutes evidence in support of their traditional beliefs, because their beliefs are logically incompatible with one another. A deeper principle must be at work. That principle is the subject of this book: The feeling that we call “I” is an illusion. There is no discrete self or ego living like a Minotaur in the labyrinth of the brain. And the feeling that there is—the sense of being perched somewhere behind your eyes, looking out at a world that is separate from yourself—can be altered or entirely extinguished. Although such experiences of “self-transcendence” are generally thought about in religious terms, there is nothing, in principle, irrational about them. From both a scientific and a philosophical point of view, they represent a clearer understanding of the way things are. Deepening that understanding, and repeatedly cutting through the illusion of the self, is what is meant by “spirituality” in the context of this book. Confusion and suffering may be our birthright, but wisdom and happiness are available. The landscape of human experience includes deeply transformative insights about the nature of one’s own consciousness, and yet it is obvious that these psychological states must be understood in the context of neuroscience, psychology, and related fields. I am often asked what will replace organized religion. The answer, I believe, is nothing and everything. Nothing need replace its ludicrous and divisive doctrines—such as the idea that Jesus will return to earth and hurl unbelievers into a lake of fire, or that death in defense of Islam is the highest good. These are terrifying and debasing fictions. But what about love, compassion, moral goodness, and self-transcendence? Many people still imagine that religion is the true repository of these virtues. To change this, we must talk about the full range of human experience in a way that is as free of dogma as the best science already is. This book is by turns a seeker’s memoir, an introduction to the brain, a manual of contemplative instruction, and a philosophical unraveling of what most people consider to be the center of their inner lives: the feeling of self we call “I.” I have not set out to describe all the traditional approaches to spirituality and to weigh their strengths and weaknesses. Rather, my goal is to pluck the diamond from the dunghill of esoteric religion. There is a diamond there, and I have devoted a fair amount of my life to contemplating it, but getting it in hand requires that we remain true to the deepest principles of scientific skepticism and make no obeisance to tradition. Where I do discuss specific teachings, such as those of Buddhism or Advaita Vedanta, it isn’t my purpose to provide anything like a comprehensive account. Readers who are loyal to any one spiritual tradition or who specialize in the academic study of religion, may view my approach as the quintessence of arrogance. I consider it, rather, a symptom of impatience. There is barely time enough in a book—or in a life—to get to the point. Just as a modern treatise on weaponry would omit the casting of spells and would very likely ignore the slingshot and the boomerang, I will focus on what I consider the most promising lines of spiritual inquiry. My hope is that my personal experience will help readers to see the nature of their own minds in a new light. A rational approach to spirituality seems to be what is missing from secularism and from the lives of most of the people I meet. The purpose of this book is to offer readers a clear view of the problem, along with some tools to help them solve it for themselves. THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS One day, you will find yourself outside this world which is like a mother’s womb. You will leave this earth to enter, while you are yet in the body, a vast expanse, and know that the words, “God’s earth is vast,” name this region from which the saints have come. Jalal-ud-Din Rumi I share the concern, expressed by many atheists, that the terms spiritual and mystical are often used to make claims not merely about the quality of certain experiences but about reality at large. Far too often, these words are invoked in support of religious beliefs that are morally and intellectually grotesque. Consequently, many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of spirituality to be a sign of mental illness, conscious imposture, or self-deception. This is a problem, because millions of people have had experiences for which spiritual and mystical seem the only terms available. Many of the beliefs people form on the basis of these experiences are false. But the fact that most atheists will view a statement like Rumi’s above as a symptom of the man’s derangement grants a kernel of truth to the rantings of even our least rational opponents. The human mind does, in fact, contain vast expanses that few of us ever discover. And there is something degraded and degrading about many of our habits of attention as we shop, gossip, argue, and ruminate our way to the grave. Perhaps I should speak only for myself here: It seems to me that I spend much of my waking life in a neurotic trance. My experiences in meditation suggest, however, that an alternative exists. It is possible to stand free of the juggernaut of self, if only for moments at a time. Most cultures have produced men and women who have found that certain deliberate uses of attention—meditation, yoga, prayer—can transform their perception of the world. Their efforts generally begin with the realization that even in the best of circumstances, happiness is elusive. We seek pleasant sights, sounds, tastes, sensations, and moods. We satisfy our intellectual curiosity. We surround ourselves with friends and loved ones. We become connoisseurs of art, music, or food. But our pleasures are, by their very nature, fleeting. If we enjoy some great professional success, our feelings of accomplishment remain vivid and intoxicating for an hour, or perhaps a day, but then they subside. And the search goes on. The effort required to keep boredom and other unpleasantness at bay must continue, moment to moment. Ceaseless change is an unreliable basis for lasting fulfillment. Realizing this, many people begin to wonder whether a deeper source of well-being exists. Is there a form of happiness beyond the mere repetition of pleasure and avoidance of pain? Is there a happiness that does not depend upon having one’s favorite foods available, or friends and loved ones within arm’s reach, or good books to read, or something to look forward to on the weekend? Is it possible to be happy before anything happens, before one’s desires are gratified, in spite of life’s difficulties, in the very midst of physical pain, old age, disease, and death? We are all, in some sense, living our answer to this question—and most of us are living as though the answer were “no.” No, nothing is more profound than repeating one’s pleasures and avoiding one’s pains; nothing is more profound than seeking satisfaction—sensory, emotional, and intellectual—moment after moment. Just keep your foot on the gas until you run out of road. Certain people, however, come to suspect that human existence might encompass more than this. Many of them are led to suspect this by religion—by the claims of the Buddha or Jesus or some other celebrated figure. And such people often begin to practice various disciplines of attention as a means of examining their experience closely enough to see whether a deeper source of well-being exists. They may even sequester themselves in caves or monasteries for months or years at a time to facilitate this process. Why would a person do this? No doubt there are many motives for retreating from the world, and some of them are psychologically unhealthy. In its wisest form, however, the exercise amounts to a very simple experiment. Here is its logic: If there exists a source of psychological well-being that does not depend upon merely gratifying one’s desires, then it should be present even when all the usual sources of pleasure have been removed. Such happiness should be available to a person who has declined to marry her high school sweetheart, renounced her career and material possessions, and gone off to a cave or some other spot that is inhospitable to ordinary aspirations. One clue to how daunting most people would find such a project is the fact that solitary confinement—which is essentially what we are talking about—is considered a punishment inside a maximum-security prison. Even when forced to live among murderers and rapists, most people still prefer the company of others to spending any significant amount of time alone in a room. And yet contemplatives in many traditions claim to experience extraordinary depths of psychological well-being while living in isolation for vast stretches of time. How should we interpret this? Either the contemplative literature is a catalogue of religious delusion, psychopathology, and deliberate fraud, or people have been having liberating insights under the name of “spirituality” and “mysticism” for millennia. Unlike many atheists, I have spent much of my life seeking experiences of the kind that gave rise to the world’s religions. Despite the painful results of my first few days alone in the mountains of Colorado, I later studied with a wide range of monks, lamas, yogis, and other contemplatives, some of whom had lived for decades in seclusion doing nothing but meditating. In the process, I spent two years on silent retreat myself (in increments of one week to three months), practicing various techniques of meditation for twelve to eighteen hours a day. I can attest that when one goes into silence and meditates for weeks or months at a time, doing nothing else—not speaking, reading, or writing, just making a moment-to-moment effort to observe the contents of consciousness—one has experiences that are generally unavailable to people who have not undertaken a similar practice. I believe that such states of mind have a lot to say about the nature of consciousness and the possibilities of human well-being. Leaving aside the metaphysics, mythology, and sectarian dogma, what contemplatives throughout history have discovered is that there is an alternative to being continuously spellbound by the conversation we are having with ourselves; there is an alternative to simply identifying with the next thought that pops into consciousness. And glimpsing this alternative dispels the conventional illusion of the self. Most traditions of spirituality also suggest a connection between self-transcendence and living ethically. Not all good feelings have an ethical valence, and pathological forms of ecstasy surely exist. I have no doubt, for instance, that many suicide bombers feel extraordinarily good just before they detonate themselves in a crowd. But there are also forms of mental pleasure that are intrinsically ethical. As I indicated earlier, for some states of consciousness, a phrase like “boundless love” does not seem overblown. It is decidedly inconvenient for the forces of reason and secularism that if someone wakes up tomorrow feeling boundless love for all sentient beings, the only people likely to acknowledge the legitimacy of his experience will be representatives of one or another Iron Age religion or New Age cult. Most of us are far wiser than we may appear to be. We know how to keep our relationships in order, to use our time well, to improve our health, to lose weight, to learn valuable skills, and to solve many other riddles of existence. But following even the straight and open path to happiness is hard. If your best friend were to ask how she could live a better life, you would probably find many useful things to say, and yet you might not live that way yourself. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice. However, there are deeper insights to be had about the nature of our minds. Unfortunately, they have been discussed entirely in the context of religion and, therefore, have been shrouded in fallacy and superstition for all of human history. The problem of finding happiness in this world arrives with our first breath—and our needs and desires seem to multiply by the hour. To spend any time in the presence of a young child is to witness a mind ceaselessly buffeted by joy and sorrow. As we grow older, our laughter and tears become less gratuitous, perhaps, but the same process of change continues: One roiling complex of thought and emotion is followed by the next, like waves in the ocean. Seeking, finding, maintaining, and safeguarding our well-being is the great project to which we all are devoted, whether or not we choose to think in these terms. This is not to say that we want mere pleasure or the easiest possible life. Many things require extraordinary effort to accomplish, and some of us learn to enjoy the struggle. Any athlete knows that certain kinds of pain can be exquisitely pleasurable. The burn of lifting weights, for instance, would be excruciating if it were a symptom of terminal illness. But because it is associated with health and fitness, most people find it enjoyable. Here we see that cognition and emotion are not separate. The way we think about experience can completely determine how we feel about it. And we always face tensions and trade-offs. In some moments we crave excitement and in others rest. We might love the taste of wine and chocolate, but rarely for breakfast. Whatever the context, our minds are perpetually moving—generally toward pleasure (or its imagined source) and away from pain. I am not the first person to have noticed this. Our struggle to navigate the space of possible pains and pleasures produces most of human culture. Medical science attempts to prolong our health and to reduce the suffering associated with illness, aging, and death. All forms of media cater to our thirst for information and entertainment. Political and economic institutions seek to ensure our peaceful collaboration with one another—and the police or the military is summoned when they fail. Beyond ensuring our survival, civilization is a vast machine invented by the human mind to regulate its states. We are ever in the process of creating and repairing a world that our minds want to be in. And wherever we look, we see the evidence of our successes and our failures. Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them. Despite the beauty of our world and the scope of human accomplishment, it is hard not to worry that the forces of chaos will triumph—not merely in the end but in every moment. Our pleasures, however refined or easily acquired, are by their very nature fleeting. They begin to subside the instant they arise, only to be replaced by fresh desires or feelings of discomfort. You can’t get enough of your favorite meal until, in the next moment, you find you are so stuffed as to nearly require the attention of a surgeon—and yet, by some quirk of physics, you still have room for dessert. The pleasure of dessert lasts a few seconds, and then the lingering taste in your mouth must be banished by a drink of water. The warmth of the sun feels wonderful on your skin, but soon it becomes too much of a good thing. A move to the shade brings immediate relief, but after a minute or two, the breeze is just a little too cold. Do you have a sweater in the car? Let’s take a look. Yes, there it is. You’re warm now, but you notice that your sweater has seen better days. Does it make you look carefree or disheveled? Perhaps it is time to go shopping for something new. And so it goes. We seem to do little more than lurch between wanting and not wanting. Thus, the question naturally arises: Is there more to life than this? Might it be possible to feel much better (in every sense of better) than one tends to feel? Is it possible to find lasting fulfillment despite the inevitability of change? Spiritual life begins with a suspicion that the answer to such questions could well be “yes.” And a true spiritual practitioner is someone who has discovered that it is possible to be at ease in the world for no reason, if only for a few moments at a time, and that such ease is synonymous with transcending the apparent boundaries of the self. Those who have never tasted such peace of mind might view these assertions as highly suspect. Nevertheless, it is a fact that a condition of selfless well-being is there to be glimpsed in each moment. Of course, I’m not claiming to have experienced all such states, but I meet many people who appear to have experienced none of them—and these people often profess to have no interest in spiritual life. This is not surprising. The phenomenon of self-transcendence is generally sought and interpreted in a religious context, and it is precisely the sort of experience that tends to increase a person’s faith. How many Christians, having once felt their hearts grow as wide as the world, will decide to ditch Christianity and proclaim their atheism? Not many, I suspect. How many people who have never felt anything of the kind become atheists? I don’t know, but there is little doubt that these mental states act as a kind of filter: The faithful count them in support of ancient dogma, and their absence gives nonbelievers further reason to reject religion. This is a difficult problem for me to address in the context of a book, because many readers will have no idea what I’m talking about when I describe certain spiritual experiences and might assume that the assertions I’m making must be accepted on faith. Religious readers present a different challenge: They may think they know exactly what I’m describing, but only insofar as it aligns with one or another religious doctrine. It seems to me that both these attitudes present impressive obstacles to understanding spirituality in the way that I intend. I can only hope that, whatever your background, you will approach the exercises presented in this book with an open mind. RELIGION, EAST AND WEST We are often encouraged to believe that all religions are the same: All teach the same ethical principles; all urge their followers to contemplate the same divine reality; all are equally wise, compassionate, and true within their sphere—or equally divisive and false, depending on one’s view. No serious adherents of any faith can believe these things, because most religions make claims about reality that are mutually incompatible. Exceptions to this rule exist, but they provide little relief from what is essentially a zero-sum contest of all against all. The polytheism of Hinduism allows it to digest parts of many other faiths: If Christians insist that Jesus Christ is the son of God, for instance, Hindus can make him yet another avatar of Vishnu without losing any sleep. But this spirit of inclusiveness points in one direction only, and even it has its limits. Hindus are committed to specific metaphysical ideas—the law of karma and rebirth, a multiplicity of gods—that almost every other major religion decries. It is impossible for any faith, no matter how elastic, to fully honor the truth claims of another. Devout Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe that theirs is the one true and complete revelation—because that is what their holy books say of themselves. Only secularists and New Age dabblers can mistake the modern tactic of “interfaith dialogue” for an underlying unity of all religions. I have long argued that confusion about the unity of religions is an artifact of language. Religion is a term like sports: Some sports are peaceful but spectacularly dangerous (“free solo” rock climbing); some are safer but synonymous with violence (mixed martial arts); and some entail little more risk of injury than standing in the shower (bowling). To speak of sports as a generic activity makes it impossible to discuss what athletes actually do or the physical attributes required to do it. What do all sports have in common apart from breathing? Not much. The term religion is hardly more useful. The same could be said of spirituality. The esoteric doctrines found within every religious tradition are not all derived from the same insights. Nor are they equally empirical, logical, parsimonious, or wise. They don’t always point to the same underlying reality—and when they do, they don’t do it equally well. Nor are all these teachings equally suited for export beyond the cultures that first conceived them. Making distinctions of this kind, however, is deeply unfashionable in intellectual circles. In my experience, people do not want to hear that Islam supports violence in a way that Jainism doesn’t, or that Buddhism offers a truly sophisticated, empirical approach to understanding the human mind, whereas Christianity presents an almost perfect impediment to such understanding. In many circles, to make invidious comparisons of this kind is to stand convicted of bigotry. In one sense, all religions and spiritual practices must address the same reality—because people of all faiths have glimpsed many of the same truths. Any view of consciousness and the cosmos that is available to the human mind can, in principle, be appreciated by anyone. It is not surprising, therefore, that individual Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Buddhists have given voice to some of the same insights and intuitions. This merely indicates that human cognition and emotion run deeper than religion. (But we knew that, didn’t we?) It does not suggest that all religions understand our spiritual possibilities equally well. One way of missing this point is to declare that all spiritual teachings are inflections of the same “Perennial Philosophy.” The writer Aldous Huxley brought this idea into prominence by publishing an anthology by that title. Here is how he justified the idea: Philosophia perennis—the phrase was coined by Leibniz; but the thing—the metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to the world of things and lives and minds; the psychology that finds in the soul something similar to, or even identical with, divine Reality; the ethic that places man’s final end in the knowledge of the immanent and transcendent Ground of all being—the thing is immemorial and universal. Rudiments of the Perennial Philosophy may be found among the traditionary lore of primitive peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions. A version of this Highest Common Factor in all preceding and subsequent theologies was first committed to writing more than twenty-five centuries ago, and since that time the inexhaustible theme has been treated again and again, from the standpoint of every religious tradition and in all the principal languages of Asia and Europe.[2] Although Huxley was being reasonably cautious in his wording, this notion of a “highest common factor” uniting all religions begins to break apart the moment one presses for details. For instance, the Abrahamic religions are incorrigibly dualistic and faith-based: In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the human soul is conceived as genuinely separate from the divine reality of God. The appropriate attitude for a creature that finds itself in this circumstance is some combination of terror, shame, and awe. In the best case, notions of God’s love and grace provide some relief—but the central message of these faiths is that each of us is separate from, and in relationship to, a divine authority who will punish anyone who harbors the slightest doubt about His supremacy. The Eastern tradition presents a very different picture of reality. And its highest teachings—found within the various schools of Buddhism and the nominally Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedanta—explicitly transcend dualism. By their lights, consciousness itself is identical to the very reality that one might otherwise mistake for God. While these teachings make metaphysical claims that any serious student of science should find incredible, they center on a range of experiences that the doctrines of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam rule out-of-bounds. Of course, it is true that specific Jewish, Christian, and Muslim mystics have had experiences similar to those that motivate Buddhism and Advaita, but these contemplative insights are not exemplary of their faith. Rather, they are anomalies that Western mystics have always struggled to understand and to honor, often at considerable personal risk. Given their proper weight, these experiences produce heterodoxies for which Jews, Christians, and Muslims have been regularly exiled or killed. Like Huxley, anyone determined to find a happy synthesis among spiritual traditions will notice that the Christian mystic Meister Eckhart (ca. 1260–ca. 1327) often sounded very much like a Buddhist: “The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God, as if He stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.” But he also sounded like a man bound to be excommunicated by his church—as he was. Had Eckhart lived a little longer, it seems certain that he would have been dragged into the street and burned alive for these expansive ideas. That is a telling difference between Christianity and Buddhism. In the same vein, it is misleading to hold up the Sufi mystic Al-Hallaj (858–922) as a representative of Islam. He was a Muslim, yes, but he suffered the most grisly death imaginable at the hands of his coreligionists for presuming to be one with God. Both Eckhart and Al-Hallaj gave voice to an experience of self-transcendence that any human being can, in principle, enjoy. However, their views were not consistent with the central teachings of their faiths. The Indian tradition is comparatively free of problems of this kind. Although the teachings of Buddhism and Advaita are embedded in more or less conventional religions, they contain empirical insights about the nature of consciousness that do not depend upon faith. One can practice most techniques of Buddhist meditation or the method of self-inquiry of Advaita and experience the advertised changes in one’s consciousness without ever believing in the law of karma or in the miracles attributed to Indian mystics. To get started as a Christian, however, one must first accept a dozen implausible things about the life of Jesus and the origins of the Bible—and the same can be said, minus a few unimportant details, about Judaism and Islam. If one should happen to discover that the sense of being an individual soul is an illusion, one will be guilty of blasphemy everywhere west of the Indus. There is no question that many religious disciplines can produce interesting experiences in suitable minds. It should be clear, however, that engaging a faith-based (and probably delusional) practice, whatever its effects, isn’t the same as investigating the nature of one’s mind absent any doctrinal assumptions. Statements of this kind may seem starkly antagonistic toward Abrahamic religions, but they are nonetheless true: One can speak about Buddhism shorn of its miracles and irrational assumptions. The same cannot be said of Christianity or Islam.[3] Western engagement with Eastern spirituality dates back at least as far as Alexander’s campaign in India, where the young conqueror and his pet philosophers encountered naked ascetics whom they called “gymnosophists.” It is often said that the thinking of these yogis greatly influenced the philosopher Pyrrho, the father of Greek skepticism. This seems a credible claim, because Pyrrho’s teachings had much in common with Buddhism. But his contemplative insights and methods never became part of any system of thought in the West. Serious study of Eastern thought by outsiders did not begin until the late eighteenth century. The first translation of a Sanskrit text into a Western language appears to have been Sir Charles Wilkins’s rendering of the Bhagavad Gita, a cornerstone text of Hinduism, in 1785. The Buddhist canon would not attract the attention of Western scholars for another hundred years.[4] The conversation between East and West started in earnest, albeit inauspiciously, with the birth of the Theosophical Society, that golem of spiritual hunger and self-deception brought into this world almost single-handedly by the incomparable Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky in 1875. Everything about Blavatsky seemed to defy earthly logic: She was an enormously fat woman who was said to have wandered alone and undetected for seven years in the mountains of Tibet. She was also thought to have survived shipwrecks, gunshot wounds, and sword fights. Even less persuasively, she claimed to be in psychic contact with members of the “Great White Brotherhood” of ascended masters—a collection of immortals responsible for the evolution and maintenance of the entire cosmos. Their leader hailed from the planet Venus but lived in the mythical kingdom of Shambhala, which Blavatsky placed somewhere in the vicinity of the Gobi Desert. With the suspiciously bureaucratic name “the Lord of the World,” he supervised the work of other adepts, including the Buddha, Maitreya, Maha Chohan, and one Koot Hoomi, who appears to have had nothing better to do on behalf of the cosmos than to impart its secrets to Blavatsky. [5] It is always surprising when a person attracts legions of followers and builds a large organization on their largesse while peddling penny-arcade mythology of this kind. But perhaps this was less remarkable in a time when even the best-educated people were still struggling to come to terms with electricity, evolution, and the existence of other planets. We can easily forget how suddenly the world had shrunk and the cosmos expanded as the nineteenth century came to a close. The geographical barriers between distant cultures had been stripped away by trade and conquest (one could now order a gin and tonic almost everywhere on earth), and yet the reality of unseen forces and alien worlds was a daily focus of the most careful scientific research. Inevitably, cross-cultural and scientific discoveries were mingled in the popular imagination with religious dogma and traditional occultism. In fact, this had been happening at the highest level of human thought for more than a century: It is always instructive to recall that the father of modern physics, Isaac Newton, squandered a considerable portion of his genius on the study of theology, biblical prophecy, and alchemy. The inability to distinguish the strange but true from the merely strange was common enough in Blavatsky’s time—as it is in our own. Blavatsky’s contemporary Joseph Smith, a libidinous con man and crackpot, was able to found a new religion on the claim that he had unearthed the final revelations of God in the hallowed precincts of Manchester, New York, written in “reformed Egyptian” on golden plates. He decoded this text with the aid of magical “seer stones,” which, whether by magic or not, allowed Smith to produce an English version of God’s Word that was an embarrassing pastiche of plagiarisms from the Bible and silly lies about Jesus’s life in America. And yet the resulting edifice of nonsense and taboo survives to this day. A more modern cult, Scientology, leverages human credulity to an even greater degree: Adherents believe that human beings are possessed by the souls of extraterrestrials who were condemned to planet Earth 75 million years ago by the galactic overlord Xenu. How was their exile accomplished? The old-fashioned way: These aliens were shuttled by the billions to our humble planet aboard a spacecraft that resembled a DC-8. They were then imprisoned in a volcano and blasted to bits with hydrogen bombs. Their souls survived, however, and disentangling them from our own can be the work of a lifetime. It is also expensive.[6] Despite the imponderables in her philosophy, Blavatsky was among the first people to announce in Western circles that there was such a thing as the “wisdom of the East.” This wisdom began to trickle westward once Swami Vivekananda introduced the teachings of Vedanta at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893. Again, Buddhism lagged behind: A few Western monks living on the island of Sri Lanka were beginning to translate the Pali Canon, which remains the most authoritative record of the teachings of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. However, the practice of Buddhist meditation wouldn’t actually be taught in the West for another half century. It is easy enough to find fault with romantic ideas about Eastern wisdom, and a tradition of such criticism sprang up almost the instant the first Western seeker sat cross-legged and attempted to meditate. In the late 1950s, the author and journalist Arthur Koestler traveled to India and Japan in search of wisdom and summarized his pilgrimage thus: “I started my journey in sackcloth and ashes, and came back rather proud of being a European.”[7] In The Lotus and the Robot, Koestler gives some of his reasons for being less than awed by his journey to the East. Consider, for example, the ancient discipline of hatha yoga. While now generally viewed as a system of physical exercises designed to increase a person’s strength and flexibility, in its traditional context hatha yoga is part of a larger effort to manipulate “subtle” features of the body unknown to anatomists. No doubt much of this subtlety corresponds to experiences that yogis actually have—but many of the beliefs formed on the basis of these experiences are patently absurd, and certain of the associated practices are both silly and injurious. Koestler reports that the aspiring yogi is traditionally encouraged to lengthen his tongue—even going so far as to cut the frenulum (the membrane that anchors the tongue to the floor of the mouth) and stretch the soft palate. What is the purpose of these modifications? They enable our hero to insert his tongue into his nasopharynx, thereby blocking the flow of air through the nostrils. His anatomy thus improved, a yogi can then imbibe subtle liquors believed to emanate directly from his brain. These substances—imagined, by recourse to further subtleties, to be connected to the retention of semen—are said to confer not only spiritual wisdom but immortality. This technique of drinking mucus is known as khechari mudra, and it is thought to be one of the crowning achievements of yoga. I’m more than happy to score a point for Koestler here. Needless to say, no defense of such practices will be found in this book. Criticism of Eastern wisdom can seem especially pertinent when coming from Easterners themselves. There is indeed something preposterous about well-educated Westerners racing East in search of spiritual enlightenment while Easterners make the opposite pilgrimage seeking education and economic opportunities. I have a friend whose own adventures may have marked a high point in this global comedy. He made his first trip to India immediately after graduating from college, having already acquired several yogic affectations: He had the requisite beads and long hair, but he was also in the habit of writing the name of the Hindu god Ram in Devanagari script over and over in a journal. On the flight to the motherland, he had the good fortune to be seated next to an Indian businessman. This weary traveler thought he had witnessed every species of human folly—until he caught sight of my friend’s scribbling. The spectacle of a Western-born Stanford graduate, of working age, holding degrees in both economics and history, devoting himself to the graphomaniacal worship of an imaginary deity in a language he could neither read nor understand was more than this man could abide in a confined space at 30,000 feet. After a testy exchange, the two travelers could only stare at each other in mutual incomprehension and pity—and they had ten hours yet to fly. There really are two sides to such a conversation, but I concede that only one of them can be made to look ridiculous. We can also grant that Eastern wisdom has not produced societies or political institutions that are any better than their Western counterparts; in fact, one could argue that India has survived as the world’s largest democracy only because of institutions that were built under British rule. Nor has the East led the world in scientific discovery. Nevertheless, there is something to the notion of uniquely Eastern wisdom, and most of it has been concentrated in or derived from the tradition of Buddhism. Buddhism has been of special interest to Western scientists for reasons already hinted at. It isn’t primarily a faith-based religion, and its central teachings are entirely empirical. Despite the superstitions that many Buddhists cherish, the doctrine has a practical and logical core that does not require any unwarranted assumptions. Many Westerners have recognized this and have been relieved to find a spiritual alternative to faith-based worship. It is no accident that most of the scientific research now done on meditation focuses primarily on Buddhist techniques. Another reason for Buddhism’s prominence among scientists has been the intellectual engagement of one of its most visible representatives: Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama. Of course, the Dalai Lama is not without his critics. My late friend Christopher Hitchens meted out justice to “his holiness” on several occasions. He also castigated Western students of Buddhism for the “widely and lazily held belief that ‘Oriental’ religion is different from other faiths: less dogmatic, more contemplative, more . . . Transcendental,” and for the “blissful, thoughtless exceptionalism” with which Buddhism is regarded by many.[8] Hitch did have a point. In his capacity as the head of one of the four branches of Tibetan Buddhism and as the former leader of the Tibetan government in exile, the Dalai Lama has made some questionable claims and formed some embarrassing alliances. Although his engagement with science is far-reaching and surely sincere, the man is not above consulting an astrologer or “oracle” when making important decisions. I will have something to say in this book about many of the things that might have justified Hitch’s opprobrium, but the general thrust of his commentary here was all wrong. Several Eastern traditions are exceptionally empirical and exceptionally wise, and therefore merit the exceptionalism claimed by their adherents. Buddhism in particular possesses a literature on the nature of the mind that has no peer in Western religion or Western science. Some of these teachings are cluttered with metaphysical assumptions that should provoke our doubts, but many aren’t. And when engaged as a set of hypotheses by which to investigate the mind and deepen one’s ethical life, Buddhism can be an entirely rational enterprise. Unlike the doctrines of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the teachings of Buddhism are not considered by their adherents to be the product of infallible revelation. They are, rather, empirical instructions: If you do X, you will experience Y. Although many Buddhists have a superstitious and cultic attachment to the historical Buddha, the teachings of Buddhism present him as an ordinary human being who succeeded in understanding the nature of his own mind. Buddha means “awakened one”—and Siddhartha Gautama was merely a man who woke up from the dream of being a separate self. Compare this with the Christian view of Jesus, who is imagined to be the son of the creator of the universe. This is a very different proposition, and it renders Christianity, no matter how fully divested of metaphysical baggage, all but irrelevant to a scientific discussion about the human condition. The teachings of Buddhism, and of Eastern spirituality generally, focus on the primacy of the mind. There are dangers in this way of viewing the world, to be sure. Focusing on training the mind to the exclusion of all else can lead to political quietism and hive-like conformity. The fact that your mind is all you have and that it is possible to be at peace even in difficult circumstances can become an argument for ignoring obvious societal problems. But it is not a compelling one. The world is in desperate need of improvement—in global terms, freedom and prosperity remain the exception—and yet this doesn’t mean we need to be miserable while we work for the common good. In fact, the teachings of Buddhism emphasize a connection between ethical and spiritual life. Making progress in one domain lays a foundation for progress in the other. One can, for instance, spend long periods of time in contemplative solitude for the purpose of becoming a better person in the world—having better relationships, being more honest and compassionate and, therefore, more helpful to one’s fellow human beings. Being wisely selfish and being selfless can amount to very much the same thing. There are centuries of anecdotal testimony on this point—and, as we will see, the scientific study of the mind has begun to bear it out. There is now little question that how one uses one’s attention, moment to moment, largely determines what kind of person one becomes. Our minds—and lives—are largely shaped by how we use them. Although the experience of self-transcendence is, in principle, available to everyone, this possibility is only weakly attested to in the religious and philosophical literature of the West. Only Buddhists and students of Advaita Vedanta (which appears to have been heavily influenced by Buddhism) have been absolutely clear in asserting that spiritual life consists in overcoming the illusion of the self by paying close attention to our experience in the present moment.[9] As I wrote in my first book, The End of Faith, the disparity between Eastern and Western spirituality resembles that found between Eastern and Western medicine—with the arrow of embarrassment pointing in the opposite direction. Humanity did not understand the biology of cancer, develop antibiotics and vaccines, or sequence the human genome under an Eastern sun. Consequently, real medicine is almost entirely a product of Western science. Insofar as specific techniques of Eastern medicine actually work, they must conform, whether by design or by happenstance, to the principles of biology as we have come to know them in the West. This is not to say that Western medicine is complete. In a few decades, many of our current practices will seem barbaric. One need only ponder the list of side effects that accompany most medications to appreciate that these are terribly blunt instruments. Nevertheless, most of our knowledge about the human body—and about the physical universe generally—emerged in the West. The rest is instinct, folklore, bewilderment, and untimely death. An honest comparison of spiritual traditions, Eastern and Western, proves equally invidious. As manuals for contemplative understanding, the Bible and the Koran are worse than useless. Whatever wisdom can be found in their pages is never best found there, and it is subverted, time and again, by ancient savagery and superstition. Again, one must deploy the necessary caveats: I am not saying that most Buddhists or Hindus have been sophisticated contemplatives. Their traditions have spawned many of the same pathologies we see elsewhere among the faithful: dogmatism, anti-intellectualism, tribalism, otherworldliness. However, the empirical difference between the central teachings of Buddhism and Advaita and those of Western monotheism is difficult to overstate. One can traverse the Eastern paths simply by becoming interested in the nature of one’s own mind—especially in the immediate causes of psychological suffering—and by paying closer attention to one’s experience in every present moment. There is, in truth, nothing one need believe. The teachings of Buddhism and Advaita are best viewed as lab manuals and explorers’ logs detailing the results of empirical research on the nature of human consciousness. Nearly every geographical or linguistic barrier to the free exchange of ideas has now fallen away. It seems to me, therefore, that educated people no longer have a right to any form of spiritual provincialism. The truths of Eastern spirituality are now no more Eastern than the truths of Western science are Western. We are merely talking about human consciousness and its possible states. My purpose in writing this book is to encourage you to investigate certain contemplative insights for yourself, without accepting the metaphysical ideas that they inspired in ignorant and isolated peoples of the past. A final word of caution: Nothing I say here is intended as a denial of the fact that psychological well-being requires a healthy “sense of self”—with all the capacities that this vague phrase implies. Children need to become autonomous, confident, and self-aware in order to form healthy relationships. And they must acquire a host of other cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal skills in the process of becoming sane and productive adults. Which is to say that there is a time and a place for everything—unless, of course, there isn’t. No doubt there are psychological conditions, such as schizophrenia, for which practices of the sort I recommend in this book might be inappropriate. Some people find the experience of an extended, silent retreat psychologically destabilizing.[10] Again, an analogy to physical training seems apropos: Not everyone is suited to running a six-minute mile or bench-pressing his own body weight. But many quite ordinary people are capable of these feats, and there are better and worse ways to accomplish them. What is more, the same principles of fitness generally apply even to people whose abilities are limited by illness or injury. So I want to make it clear that the instructions in this book are intended for readers who are adults (more or less) and free from any psychological or medical conditions that could be exacerbated by meditation or other techniques of sustained introspection. If paying attention to your breath, to bodily sensations, to the flow of thoughts, or to the nature of consciousness itself seems likely to cause you clinically significant anguish, please check with a psychologist or a psychiatrist before engaging in the practices I describe. MINDFULNESS It is always now. This might sound trite, but it is the truth. It’s not quite true as a matter of neurology, because our minds are built upon layers of inputs whose timing we know must be different. [11] But it is true as a matter of conscious experience. The reality of your life is always now. And to realize this, we will see, is liberating. In fact, I think there is nothing more important to understand if you want to be happy in this world. But we spend most of our lives forgetting this truth—overlooking it, fleeing it, repudiating it. And the horror is that we succeed. We manage to avoid being happy while struggling to become happy, fulfilling one desire after the next, banishing our fears, grasping at pleasure, recoiling from pain—and thinking, interminably, about how best to keep the whole works up and running. As a consequence, we spend our lives being far less content than we might otherwise be. We often fail to appreciate what we have until we have lost it. We crave experiences, objects, relationships, only to grow bored with them. And yet the craving persists. I speak from experience, of course. As a remedy for this predicament, many spiritual teachings ask us to entertain unfounded ideas about the nature of reality—or at the very least to develop a fondness for the iconography and rituals of one or another religion. But not all paths traverse the same rough ground. There are methods of meditation that do not require any artifice or unwarranted assumptions at all. For beginners, I usually recommend a technique called vipassana (Pali for “insight”), which comes from the oldest tradition of Buddhism, the Theravada. One of the advantages of vipassana is that it can be taught in an entirely secular way. Experts in this practice generally acquire their training in a Buddhist context, and most retreat centers in the United States and Europe teach its associated Buddhist philosophy. Nevertheless, this method of introspection can be brought into any secular or scientific context without embarrassment. (The same cannot be said for the practice of chanting to Lord Krishna while banging a drum.) That is why vipassana is now being widely studied and adopted by psychologists and neuroscientists. The quality of mind cultivated in vipassana is almost always referred to as “mindfulness,” and the literature on its psychological benefits is now substantial. There is nothing spooky about mindfulness. It is simply a state of clear, nonjudgmental, and undistracted attention to the contents of consciousness, whether pleasant or unpleasant. Cultivating this quality of mind has been shown to reduce pain, anxiety, and depression; improve cognitive function; and even produce changes in gray matter density in regions of the brain related to learning and memory, emotional regulation, and self-awareness.[12] We will look more closely at the neurophysiology of mindfulness in a later chapter. Mindfulness is a translation of the Pali word sati. The term has several meanings in the Buddhist literature, but for our purposes the most important is “clear awareness.”

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Today's guest is spirit being Gregory Haye and The White Cloud Group. Answer's brought through via deep trance mediumship by Mick and Sylvia Avery. Gregory started the show with an address on "asking the right questions". The show was based on the following questions kindly sent in by our listeners. I would like to ask Gregory questions on Shambhala-firstly is there a rarefied place of this name constructed somewhere above our world-where great souls presumably like the Great White Brotherhood, Shining Ones etc exist to assist earth? Does Gregory live at times still in a personal space despite having to be so involved in helping so many- does he still retreat into beautiful places there for refreshment- or is it ceaseless benevolent activity on his part? The listener also asked for an update on the strange build up and activity out in the Gulf of Mexico connected to many of the worlds subs being in the area. Discussing the major sighting of a mile long craft over Phoenix in 1997, witnessed by a staggering 10,000+ people. How does their technology work, can Gregory give us more info on this? A listener has been working towards her own enlightenment by giving up meat and becoming a Vegan, however the process has aggregated her arthritis. So, thinking about the information about the illness they went back and reintroduced white meat into their diet. So far, the joint pain has diminished in a big way but maybe her enlightenment possibilities have too. Can Gregory find out WHERE her enlightenment is going? And, being so ... what happens when people like in the Chilean air plain accident over the snow mountain picks a while ago, in order to survive had to practice cannibalism? I do not want to give Ideas to any one to have excuses to do this, finding a excuse in on an air answer. Would you think this is a question you can present in one of the programs. We also asked Gregory for an update on the financial situation. In these challenging times many people may start taking to the streets to protest, with many falling foul of the law or playing into the goverments hands. Gregory gave his advice on this situation. And much more...

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