A New Age prospectus

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Picture: New Age Prospectus. A view through the back of the wardrobe.

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All the important news is good.

The universe is a friendly place which is designed to support us completely.

We are immersed in a benevolent cosmic ecosystem, a God-process, which is uncomplicatedly benign and which nourishes us at every level of our being.

Everything is alive. Everything is intelligent. Everything is conscious.

Everything is changing. Everything is improving. Everything is becoming more.

The universe is richly inhabited with positive beings of light, many of who are far more advanced than we are. Their mission and their joy is to welcome us, nurture us, heal us, protect us, guide us and assist us in our evolutionary return to the internal experience of Godhead.

There is nothing wrong with us; at the level of our core essence we are perfect.

We are held softly in the understanding arms of inclusion. We are comprehensively loved at all times, whatever we think or do.

Everything we need has been thought of by those who know us better than we know ourselves.

Everything we need is immediately available to us if we ask.

All is well and all will be well.


Picture: Prospectus for The New Age. Young woman reading book.

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An emerging spirituality for The New Age of Aquarius

A Prayer for the New Age

Gospel for the New Age

An Invocation for the New Age

Understanding the New Age Children

What is the New Spirituality?

The Art of the New Spirituality

Meditation - the direct encounter

Living through the pole shift and the global end-time tsunami

Index of blog contents

Creator creatrix creation creature

In post-religious Christian spirituality, emphasis is often given to the bigness of the universe and to the bigness of what Western culture calls God. The working assumption is that there is much more of everything than we can possibly imagine.

There are more particles, more dimensions, more parallel realities, more energy-levels, more energy forms, more soul extensions and more multiple personalities than we can comprehend. We catch glimpses of the existential possibilities in dreams and meditations. We experience intuitions of high strangeness when in elevated states of consciousness. But these data are rarely recollected with clarity in our normal waking hours. God, we sense, is a complicated place in which to live.

One of the core ideas of the New Spirituality is the notion that there is nothing outside God. But what does this mean? For example, can we still maintain a useful distinction between what we call the creator and what we understand to be its creation?

Operating from the viewpoint of human waking consciousness in third dimension physicality here on Earth, there seems to be logic in such a distinction. The creation of a watch offers a metaphor. The watchmaker exists before the watch he makes is brought into being. He is therefore separate from the watch he makes. He is separate from it in time. In framing such a distinction, we draw on the Western concept of linear time. This is a codification of distinctions: "Yesterday is categorically different from today"; "That was then, this is now," etc.

However, we also understand that time is a matrix illusion. It is a device which we physical plane humans use, when awake, to order our perception of reality.

But at the higher spiritual levels it seems likely that time does not exist. This may be why it is possible in elevated states of consciousness, such as sometimes experienced in meditation or in lucid dreams, to recall details of both past and future lives. The viewpoint from that elevated higher dimensional perspective indicates no important difference between the past and the present as understood on the physical plane.

With regard to creators, creatrixes, creations and creatures, it is helpful, perhaps, to consider their overlapping essences as they operate at the higher spiritual levels.

The creator of our local universe - a being often called Love - is, by creator standards elsewhere, young, inexperienced, brilliant and mischievous. Love is a child. Indeed, that which we call God was quite brave to allow Love to get his hands on the Lego bricks of creation at all.

So what? Well, down here in the Mystery School we think of as Planet Earth, we are still trying to puzzle out the whole bangshoot. On a bad day the universe looks like the biggest dog's breakfast since the Schleswig-Holstein Question. Most of the Lego bricks seem to be invisible, immaterial or shapeshifting. Or at least they do when we try to perceive them while trapped in waking consciousness.

Part of what Love does is to continually create an ambit of human experience on Earth involving the illusions of physicality and temporality. It is curious. It wants to know what it is like to have the gift of ignorance and not understand these things fully.

But how does the creator think? The thoughts of the creator are the thoughts of its creations. Its creations are a direct aspect of itself processing waking experience on the physical plane. We are the creator's brains; we are the creator's ability to work things out.

The creator, of course, is self-sufficient, but if it is to have extensions of its being in all dimensions and in all parallel realities, which it does infinitely, it must allow those extensions (us) to be their own creators in every way within the system of experience (the local universe) which it has created. Perhaps this is why the New Spirituality these days often talks about humans as being co-creators.

Human beings are portions of the creator completing its experimental and experiential business within Earth-plane physicality. We are like sensory neurones conducting energy data back to the mothership up there, and like motor neurones sending impulses to oil the wheels which squeak down here.

The purpose of created life is experience, change, growth and evolution. Creator and creation together experience change, growth and evolution, and in doing so they become more.

The watchmaker makes the watch. But without the watch, he would not be a watchmaker. Watch and watchmaker are aspects of each other. Neither exists without the other. But together they are creatively engaged in becoming more.


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Cause and causation

The central question of the universe

Synchronicity

The illusion of linear time

Tell me a little about yourself

Interdimensional travels

The man behind him in the fish shop

Ontological real deal

A new scripture shortly to be published

The Theologians' Brains Trust

The quest is on

A dream is a portal

Perhaps love

More Norfolk koans



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An emerging spirituality for The New Age of Aquarius

Weblog spirituality

The unwisdom of belief

The consciousness of the angels

Metaphysical glossaries

Index of blog contents

Spirituality websites worth watching

The unwisdom of belief

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Page update: 24.10.09

Flutterby: You've been getting emails, I see.
Alcuin: Yes. People have been finding the address at the bottom of the contents page.
Flutterby: I warned you about that.
Alcuin: I know.
Flutterby: Anyway ....
Alcuin: Yes. There's a chap here who wants to know what I believe.
Flutterby: What has that got to do with him?
Alcuin: Come on. I'm not going to say that, am I?
Flutterby: You don't have to reply.
Alcuin: Maybe not.
Flutterby: No.
Alcuin: But belief is a problem.
Flutterby: I disagree.
Alcuin: You don't think that belief is a problem?
Flutterby: No. I think that belief is the problem.
Alcuin: Right.
Flutterby: On your planet, at the moment, belief is the major problem. If there wasn't so much belief, there wouldn't be so much conflict.
Alcuin: Yes. Kevin believes in that kind and style of God; Rachel does not believe in that kind and style of God. So their belief separates them from each other.
Flutterby: And the next level up?
Alcuin: The next level up from that is .... that belief throughout the world is organised into tribes of Kevins and Rachels. These tribes are called Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, or whatever. So belief divides human from human, and tribe from tribe.
Flutterby: Yes. Each tribe is confused, and it thinks that by adopting belief, the confusion will be cleared away. But belief is merely an attempt to escape from the fact of confusion. Belief is an attempt to swap confusion for certainty.

Alcuin: OK. So it's not good for the human mind to be tethered to beliefs. If your mind is tethered to beliefs, you can't think straight.
Flutterby: If your mind is tethered to beliefs, you can hardly think at all.
Alcuin: You can't stay alert.
Flutterby: No.
Alcuin: You can't know yourself. You can't begin the spiritual path.
Flutterby: No. To know oneself as one really is, requires an extraordinary alertness of mind.
Alcuin: And such an alertness of mind is drugged stupid by belief.
Flutterby: And dogma.
Alcuin: Yes. Dogma is the hierarchical level up from belief.
Flutterby: And religion is the hierarchical level up from dogma.
Alcuin: What is the hierarchical level up from religion?
Flutterby: The hierarchical level up from religion is planetary extinction.
Alcuin: Mmm. Painful.
Flutterby: Religion likes pain.
Alcuin: Oh dear.
Flutterby: Where would religion be without unnecessary pain and the rumour of unnecessary pain?
Alcuin: I know.

Flutterby: To know yourself, there must be the awareness, the alertness of mind in which there is freedom from all beliefs, freedom from all idealisation. This is because beliefs and ideals surround you with an artificial coloured filter, subverting true perception.
Alcuin: You sound like Jiddu Krishnamurti.
Flutterby: Good man, Krishnamurti.
Alcuin: His teachings and Christ's teachings are very similar aren't they?
Flutterby: Krishnamurti's teachings and Christ's early New Age teachings are very nearly identical, I would say.

Alcuin: Do humans need a belief of any kind? Is any sort of belief necessary?
Flutterby: Krishnamurti pointed out that we don't need a belief that there is sunshine or mountains or rivers. We don't need a belief that we and our partners quarrel. We don't have to have a belief that life is a terrible, boring misery, with its anguish, ambition and conflicts. All that is a fact. But we demand a belief when we want to escape from a fact into an unreality.
Alcuin: But that goes for any belief, doesn't it? Not just religious belief?
Flutterby: Oh yes. Religious belief, economic belief, educational belief, medical belief, political belief. The whole lot. Belief is the bogey.
Alcuin: Belief is the boggart ....
Flutterby: Do I detect a coded reference to Harry Potter?
Alcuin: A very inexact reference to Harry Potter.

Flutterby: On your planet at the moment, religious beliefs still subtend a lot of economic, educational, medical and political beliefs ....
Alcuin: Think of America.
Flutterby: I'd rather not.
Alcuin: America was great once.
Flutterby: America will be great again.
Alcuin: But poorer?
Flutterby: Much poorer in material terms .... but much richer, spiritually.

Alcuin: So .... yes .... so what Krishnamurti is suggesting is that one's religion, one's belief in God, is an escape from actuality.
Flutterby: Yes. And a mind which escapes from the actual, from the facts of relationship, will never find God. A mind that is agitated by belief cannot know truth.
Alcuin: Relationship? You used the word "relationship" there. What do you mean? Inter-personal relationship?
Flutterby: Yes. Inter-personal relationship, and inter-faith relationship, and international relationship, and inter-competitor relationship, and inter-generational relationship, and inter-specific relationship, and inter-planetary relationship, and inter-kingdom relationship, and inter-dimensional relationship. The facts of the whole nexus of relationships which is the actuality of God.
Alcuin: Difficult.
Flutterby: Yes.

Alcuin: Back to basics for a moment .... I've got a question.
Flutterby: There's a surprise.
Alcuin: A very simple question.
Flutterby: OK.
Alcuin: What is belief?
Flutterby: What is belief?
Alcuin: Yes.
Flutterby: Belief is corruption.
Alcuin: Why?
Flutterby: Belief is corruption because behind belief and morality lies the mind, the self – the self growing big, powerful and strong. If we let spirituality degenerate into religion, we let spirituality degenerate into belief. And then we are in trouble. We are in trouble because belief acts and has a corresponding influence on the mind; the mind then can never be free.
Alcuin: No.
Flutterby: But it is only in freedom that one can find out what is true, what is God. This can't be done through belief, because your belief projects what you think ought to be God, what you think ought to be true.
Alcuin: Belief projects a fantasy, you mean?
Flutterby: Yes. And employing another metaphor, belief also clutters up the mind; fills it with yesterday's junk and trash. A cup is useful only when it is empty. A mind that is stuffed full with beliefs, with dogmas, with superstitions, with assertions, with quotations and proof-texts, is an uncreative mind. It is a mind which cannot be filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit.
Alcuin: Not the mind of God, then.
Flutterby: No.
Alcuin: A repetitive mind?
Flutterby: Yes.
Alcuin: A mind which continually parrots yesterday's bad ideas under the guise of certainty-mantrams.
Flutterby: Yes.
Alcuin: Like an endless tape endlessly replaying the same old stuff.
Flutterby: Yes. And endlessly and inevitably deteriorating into noise for noise's sake, as the tape wears out.

Alcuin: So what we're saying here is that belief is not a good thing?
Flutterby: You noticed.
Alcuin: I did.
Flutterby: We're suggesting that belief is a bad thing. But I wouldn't say "good" and I wouldn't say "bad".
Alcuin: What would you say?
Flutterby: Instead of "good," I would say, "tending towards growth and free forward evolution."
Alcuin: Yuk. That wouldn't play well among the Southern Baptists.
Flutterby: And instead of "bad," I would say, "tending towards ossification and stasis."
Alcuin: Hold on, Flutterby. You're promoting obfuscation. And we're not past the nine 'o clock watershed yet.
Flutterby: Anyone who has stayed with us this far, will understand what ossification and stasis mean.
Alcuin: They might be experts.
Flutterby: I don't believe in the existence of experts. If there was such a thing as experts, Planet Earth wouldn't be in such a mess.
Alcuin: I'm staying positive.
Flutterby: Good.

Alcuin: But with regard to belief, it has been said that if you don't believe in something, you are in danger of believing in anything.
Flutterby: Yes. That is a good point. And it needs answering.
Alcuin: I think that to believe in something is to give away one's power to a human cultural invention. This human cultural invention is called a "belief".
Flutterby: Yes. A belief is a cultural artefact, an expedient superstition. It's a lump of stuff propping up the status quo. A belief is an invented chunk of words designed to support a fixed position. It radiates a sort of cold, negative energy which is truth-phobic. The more beliefs you allow to be implanted in your mind, the less truth gets through to you.
Alcuin: So, if you don't believe in something, you are not in danger of believing in anything – you are in danger of receiving a lot of new truth.
Flutterby: Exactly. And that is an important danger to face freely. Without facing it, there can be no spiritual growth.
Alcuin: Not that it's a danger at all....
Flutterby: No, but it may be a challenge.
Alcuin: Or feel a challenge.
Flutterby: Yes.

Alcuin: So, shuffling language around a bit, can we say that a belief is a chosen intellectual construct which has the function of keeping truth out?
Flutterby: Yes. A belief is an instrument of stuckness.
Alcuin: Mmm ....
Flutterby: And if an array of such beliefs is assembled, in a patterned or interlinked manner, as in a catechism or a creed or an atonement theory, and is wilfully held in place in conscious intellection, the mind becomes almost blind. The belief-array functions as a tight filter preventing the entry of new revelations.
Alcuin: That's saying what we hinted at just now.
Flutterby: Correct. You've got a dictionary on the shelf there. What does it say under the word "belief"?
Alcuin: OK, let's see. Right. Here we are: Belief - "a conviction of the truth of something; an opinion or doctrine held to be true."
Flutterby: Yes. So a belief is a thought-form, a construct on the mental plane (the fifth dimension), which carries an exclusive truth-claim energy which functions in the intellection by saying: "I am right; that which is anti-me is wrong".
Alcuin: A belief is a conflict-signifier energised by a right-versus-wrong referent.
Flutterby: I think you've just lost the Southern Baptists again. But I agree. The problem with it, however, is that there is no such thing in the spiritual world as "right" or "wrong". These are simply the control fictions of religiosity. One of the central lies of the religious experiment on your planet has been that a moral stasis is possible. This lie asserts that certain things are eternally right and their polar opposites are eternally wrong; certain things are good and their polar opposites are evil. But in actuality there can be no such dichotomy because there is no stasis in things spiritual. Nothing is static. All is process. All is change. All is movement. All is dance. God's will is Evolution. Static positions nowhere exist. If we attempt to set up a static position against the prevailing fluency of All That Is – a static position such as a belief - we get ill and we begin to shrivel spiritually into an anxious, undead fear. It is this fear which energises fundamentalist violence.

Alcuin: Got it. OK. So .... in the spiritual mind there can be no legitimate place for belief because the spiritual mind has to be kept free and open at all times to receive new data uncritically. It cannot do this efficiently if it is cluttered up with belief-constructs which function to keep new data out.
Flutterby: No. And there are a lot of new data - new truths - new revelations - coming through now. That is what the New Age of Christ, the Maitreya Buddha, is all about.
Alcuin: I know. But there are snags, aren't there? There are challenges. This kind of thinking raises a whole cluster of consequential questions. For example, how can I assess what is veridical? If a new idea comes along, how do I make a spiritual value-judgement about it?
Flutterby: Good question.
Alcuin: Got a good answer?
Flutterby: What do you do if a new idea comes along? A new revelation? How do you assess it?
Alcuin: Yes. How do you work out whether it is true or not?
Flutterby: Speaking personally, I would ask: "Is this new idea interesting?" and "Is it beautiful?" and "Does it feel good?" and "Does it keep me free?" If the answer to each of these four questions, considered unhurriedly over a period of time, is yes, then I would be inclined to trust my intuition and regard the new idea as veridical. But only for me, and only for now.


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Life The Goal
An essay by Jiddhu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)


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Anti-spiritual belief systems of control
Henry See suggests that the monotheistic religions are elite systems of manipulation, negativity and deceit.


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My name is God and these are My instructions

Creator creatrix creation creature

Heretic unfrocked

What is the function of religion?

How silly is salvation?

Gospel for the New Age

What is the New Spirituality?

Meditation - the direct encounter

The Share International revelations

Strange news; strange times

Is Harry Potter true?

Index of blog contents

Spirituality websites worth watching

Seven signs of ascension

Page update: 24.06.07

Alcuin: As we and the planet evolve to higher vibration states, and ascend from the third dimension to the fourth dimension, what are the signs of the times that we should be looking for?
Flutterby: In the immediate future, you mean?
Alcuin: Yes. Between now and the year 2012 CE.
Flutterby: I would suggest that as 2012 approaches, and the end of the world of your experience in the third dimension draws to a close, seven fairly obvious signifiers of change will become apparent.
Alcuin: Seven signs of ascension?
Flutterby: You could say that, yes. Seven results of a higher vibration state sweeping through the planet and its inhabitants.
Alcuin: What are these seven signs of ascension, in your opinion?
Flutterby: (1) There will be a major western stock market crash beginning in Japan.
(2) Human natality will change. In the next six to eight years, your surface population will gradually move towards a situation where three girl babies will be born for every one boy.
(3) A third human gender of tetragametic origin will begin to establish itself.
(4) Unusually persuasive strangers will give high-profile international press conferences.
(5) Your military and covert security organisations will begin to keep an irrationally close watch on certain ancient world heritage sites.
(6) Ordinary people will begin to see things they have never noticed before.
(7) Unexpected things will land.
Alcuin: Some of those signs are very specific, and some are very general.
Flutterby: I agree.


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Planetary Ascension Year 2012
Some resources for exploration

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What about ascension?

Extraterrestrial visitor news

2012 AD – A spiritual terminus or a change of trains?

Tell me a little about yourself

The central question of the universe

The unwisdom of belief

Index of blog contents

Spirituality websites worth watching

Jesus said: "I am Evolution"

I want to suggest two things. First, that Jesus said: "I am Evolution," and, second, that Jesus understood that God's will is Evolution.

In the New International Version of the Protestant bible, the spiritual master known in the west as Jesus of Nazareth is recorded as having said: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father except through me.” (Jn 14:6)

I suggest that something of what Jesus may have meant by these words is as follows:

“I am process not stasis. The truth of my being is alive and dynamic. I am living movement. As the way changes as I move along, so does the truth and livingness of my being change. In the life of the Father there are no fixed positions.”

“This living change at the heart of my being describes the truth of who I am. Without living a truthful life of constant change, no-one can come to the Father.”

“I am Evolution. Without enshrining evolution at the heart of his being, no-one can approach the Father. Without evolving, no-one can experience a veridical contact with God.”

“The journey is my home. I am the journey. Be at home travelling. No-one comes to the Father except through travelling as I travel. Eschew the illusion of fixed positions and free yourself to travel. Truth is travel. God’s will is Evolution."


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How important is Jesus?

Jesus said: "You must be reincarnated"

Photographed light blessings from Jesus

The Share International revelations

Gospel for the New Age

Index of blog contents

Spirituality websites worth watching