The Free Radical

Let’s just dive right in…

Q: Who is Grandfather Mahat?

A: Golly, I wish I knew!

This question, I surmise, comes from the last Message #11 in which Grandfather Mahat offered some dreamtime instruction. For me personally, Grandfather Mahat is really the one who kicked off my writing career about twenty or so years ago. He has been an infrequent visitor in my dreams ever since that initial inspiration.

His words are always easy to remember upon awakening, and I find that there is an incredible “density” to what he imparts. Each sentence may be pondered at length to reveal a tremendous richness of meaning.

In Sanskrit, “mahat” means great, or the totality of material existence… which is a bit odd since I’ve only ever known him in the dreamtime… but he is pretty great and definitely cool.

He appears to me as an old man with long, mostly grey hair. He likes to laugh a lot and seems to have some association with don Genero from the Castaneda books– but he is not don Juan Matus (I’ve never dreamed of don Juan).

Q: My question has two parts to it. First, what do you think about sending love/light to troubled spots and people around the world in order to affect change? And why don’t you promote group meditations like the recent one arranged by Cobra for the opening of the Isis portal? (It didn’t have enough participants to be fully successful, but your blog alone receives enough visitors that you could’ve made all the difference!)

A: I have to be careful with my answer here; I know there’s quite a number of people taking offense and falling into denial with all of the recent articles and lectures pointing out the glaring shortcomings of the New Age movement/philosophy. And I’ve touched on this very topic in the past, but additional clarity is merited.

Another common New Age platitude says “Love is the answer to every problem.” True. I actually believe that. The problem however lies in how “love” is enacted or expressed. In order for love to express its true compassion and creativity, it must be engaged at a personal, experiential level. Sitting in a cave and pretending to send love to people unbeknownst to them is hardly beneficial and potentially harmful.

Suppose we decide to send love/light to someone we’re pretty sure is the embodiment of evil because we would like to affect a change within them. How is this not an infringement on their free will? “Oh, but it’s for their own good as well as for the greater good of all,” you insist. And is that not exactly what evil itself says to justify its own actions? Evil is often perpetrated in the name of the “greater good.”

Furthermore, when you send love/light to such a person, unless you are very specific and firm in your intent, you are essentially sending energy to be used and bent toward the recipient’s own nefarious schemes. “Here, I’m sending this energy which I call love in the hope that it will cause you to change your ways.” Well, hoping is not the same as intending. The recipient would likely answer “I am a devourer of love and light; thank you for feeding me and my intentions”… and then merrily carry on perpetuating their evil.

The very nature of love is allowing. It respects free will. When offered in an ambiguous manner from afar it can hardly be expected to be transformative. Love’s compassion and creativity must be engaged in an intimate and personal manner in order for it to have a transformative effect. It’s kind of like just throwing money at social problems. Such careless non-solutions tend to perpetuate and exacerbate the problem while giving the donor a false sense of absolving themselves of all further responsibility. “It’s not my problem; I’ve done all I could.” Actually all you’ve done is paid to have it cleared off your plate because you don’t care to know how to deal with the problem in an actual effective manner.

And light, as I’ve previously explained, is actually the CAUSE of darkness when viewed dualistically. Now what do I mean by dualistically? A mind which chooses one polarity over the other in such an extreme manner as to suggest that the opposite polarity shouldn’t even exist– for example, light is good; darkness is bad– such a mind acts exactly like the filter in a double-slit experiment. This ain’t woo woo; this is physics! The light passing through such a filter subsequently manifests an interference pattern which, when projected on a screen, results in alternating bands of light and dark. The dark bands are created where the crest of one light wave meets the trough of the other light wave, canceling each other out. Only light is involved, and yet darkness is still the result.

Instead of having polarized minds which declare absolutes, trying to deny the very existence of certain poles, our task is to occupy and embody the sacred neutral perspective which acknowledges both extremes of polarity equally in our relative world of experience, and ultimately seeks the balanced, middle way. I think this is what Buddha might have been getting at with his espousal of the middle way.

Denial and trying to merely wish away the things we find distasteful is a poor strategy in my opinion. Now, sending or projecting a calming energy into an otherwise volatile situation, like trying to prevent a war, for instance, is quite valid. Calmness is much harder to misconstrue. We do have the limited ability to affect changes from afar, but we have to be very clear in our intentions, and we should not hesitate to put conditions upon the energy we send. None of us are currently adept at unconditional love. Think for a moment about a family member, a child or a pet whom you love unconditionally. Allow the true feeling to arise in your heart. You can feel it; it’s real. Now, if you can honestly muster that exact same feeling when you’re attempting to send it to Satan himself, then go for it! But the vast majority of us simply can’t do it. We can’t invoke the same deep unlimited feeling for nasty bastards than we can for our loved ones. No, we still require a more human approach.

And the very safest and most effective method for dealing with perceived evil from afar is to simply send any malicious intent right back to its originator. If there’s someone in political office who’s pissing you right off and you sense that the new legislation they just voted or signed into law has some nefarious intent behind it, then you have every right to stand in your sovereignty and reject that nefarious intent and send it right back to those who would choose to impose it upon you. Let them feel the full effect of their own intentions toward others. It’s only fair, and costs you absolutely nothing energetically or morally. Let the universe take responsibility; grant the world its full ability to respond in kind.

I hope now that I’ve made my position clear in this regard. In the dreamtime, we agree on this. These are precisely the discussions we’re having as we try to resolve all lingering conflict in our chaotic world.

Now, on to Cobra… oh dear Cobra! You had to bring up Cobra!

Yes, I’ve been following Cobra for quite some time now at his website, Portal 2012. On the positive side of things, I must say that he has been extremely consistent. There have also been some things that he’s published on his site which I take issue with, but that’s a discussion for another day, and doesn’t serve to answer the question posed here. Why didn’t I promote the mass meditation for the opening of the Isis portal?

What is a portal in general? What specifically is an Isis portal? Why do we want it open? Why was it closed? Who closed it? How does the specific meditation as given serve to open the portal? What are the principles and mechanisms involved? What does each step of the meditation facilitate? Why does the number of participants matter?

Perhaps you can answer some of these questions satisfactorily for yourself. Right now, I can’t. I have way too many questions to just decide I’m going to shut up and do as I’m told without having the additional deeper knowledge of what the hell I’m doing. I’m supposed to trust that in this instance that giving my power over to this particular cause is a good idea.

There’s a way of accomplishing common goals in a group setting which empowers all of the individuals involved because it deepens their understanding in an experiential way. And then there’s Cobra’s method in this instance which involved significant time pressure, announcing the meditation just a couple of days beforehand without much in terms of explanations. (See my questions above.) Whenever someone says something like “Hurry! We’ve got to get as many people as possible to do this thing exactly as it’s been outlined on a specific date at a particular time… or else,” I generally very calmly say “Um, no. Count me out.”

After spending lifetimes within a matrix of deception, coloured by obfuscations, all couched in a cosmic lie, forgive me, but I’m a bit skeptical… and Cobra has to understand that. He shouldn’t even be asking for us to blindly follow. I’m pretty sure that’s what we’re trying to put an end to. This is supposed to be about making fully informed conscious decisions for a better world that we can clearly discern as it comes into being. It’s not about blind trust in our eventual magical deliverance at the hands (or hooves) of flying unicorns! (Or portals named Isis.)

Give me empowering information that I’ll be eager to try out for myself, and I’m fully on board. Anything less and I’m very skeptical.

Now having said that, I still like Cobra, and I appreciate much of what he’s doing, and I sincerely hope that he continues. I, for my part, will continue to read all of his updates and will even participate in whatever ways make good sense to me.

If anyone is just itching for a mass meditation to get involved in, or just looking for an opportunity to return-to-sender some nefarious intent, tomorrow– May 1st– is Beltane. Historically, this is a day when the dark sorcerers inject maximum chaos and destructive intent into the burgeoning lifeforce of spring.

We can thwart their efforts by proactively supporting the Earth and her organic expression, or alternatively just by turning any negative intents back upon their originators. This can be most effectively done through the natural ley lines of the Earth. It’s really nothing more than praying/meditating for Gaia’s full emancipation and restoration. Do so in any manner that holds significance and meaning for you.

(Beltane by Jethro Tull from the 2003 reissue of their 1977 album Songs From the Wood– a bonus track)

(Team Of United Renegade Sovereigns)

Sometimes when I awaken in the morning all I have is a phrase repeating in my head and no other recollections to go along with it.The title of this piece, Cry of the Eagle and the Unfocused Eye, is just one such phrase from several days ago.

Frequent readers of my blog will already know that these past couple of weeks have seen a great deal of interaction with Eagle energy. I’ve refrained from writing up every encounter in my Daily Forest Reports for fear of being too redundant. Then I realized that Eagle was actively working with me in both the waking world of physicality as well as in the dreamtime. Knowing this, I was able to bring additional awareness into dreaming…

Raven is the Dark Priest
who divided the light
of consciousness,
Hiding self from Self
in the sacred act of creation
of ‘another.’
He flies as a moving veil,
casting shadows before the sun,
subtracting dimensions
as they move upon the ground.
He would speak to you
of flights and fancy words,
But his meaning is often lost…
in the cost of dreaming…

Make no mistake; Raven too is a being of light… Even the darkness is held in constructs of light. What does this say about inevitability?

In 1972 a quiet and ever-so-sublime turning point was reached. Light tipped the scales so that even dark obfuscations thereafter served enlightenment. The secrecy of false elitism (all elitism is false) could venture no further… yet many dramas still needed to be played out.

In 1995 the Cry of the Eagle went out from the collective voice of humanity. In Toltec reckoning (not mesoamerican), the Eagle is the representation of our collective consciousness. At that time, the Eagle was sated, and its cry was a call for the deepest level of change possible on this planet. We’ve been diligently working at this for nearly twenty years!

A young eagle on a power pole, I watched him closely… as he observed me. A colorful aura developed around him and his perch. At first red, then quickly blue and to purple in a single heartbeat, I marveled at him limned in light so startling! He cried to me, ruffled his feathers, dispersing the light, and then flew off to the West, then arcing North. His flight was powerful now, where only days ago he struggled to stay aloft… harassed by the other birds.

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Two days later, three emissaries from the New Unfoldment came to greet us in the rain. First, Grouse flew up in my face, as Sitka, my dog, initiated the Dance. A moment later Whitetail Deer was waiting at the Gate as Eagle perched nearby. It was clear that they were in cahoots. “It is Time.” Brief encounters set the heart to beating brand New Rhythms…

And in the dreamtime… Grandfather Mahat explained. (I had never noticed the eagle feather braided in his hair before.)

“The Cry of the Eagle initiated a long journey. Countless households were called and brought to order… though chaos seemed to reign. All was broken down into singular indivisible units– capable of choice.

“Free Will, your power of choice, is only as large as that which you grant to others. To the degree that you allow others to choose for themselves is the degree to which your own choices hold sway.”

“I’m not sure I understand.”

Laughter.

“Has anyone ever changed your mind?”

“Well sure, lots of people have served to change my mind.”

“Who has changed your mind? Pick one.”

“Okay. I’ll say David Icke.”

“Have you ever met David? Have you ever spoken to him?”

“No.”

“So how did he manage to change your mind? Through magic?” More laughter.

“I read his books, listened to some of his talks. It changed my mind about a number of things.”

“David shared his journey… with all… and individual minds made the choice to change… or not. Each mind has a unique criterion for truth. Is there enough information freely available now for any mind seeking change to find satisfaction… to find suitable catalyst?”

“Yes, I imagine there is… but many still refuse to change, or to even look.”

“And is that not their right of choice?”

“Yes… but aren’t they holding the rest of us back? I feel so much frustration among the torchbearers!”

“Do you remember some of the things you would see with unfocused eyes?”

(Grandfather Mahat was referring to my early childhood when I would often allow my stare to ‘go soft.’ I would completely relax my eyes, letting them fall out of focus… and I could see the strangest things!)

“Yes! It’s like the aura, or etheric sheath, I saw around the young eagle on the power pole. I would see that around everything when I relaxed my gaze! It was fun, almost mesmerizing.”

“The Focused Eye sees the mind’s lines of intent. The Unfocused Eye sees unknown possibilities. It is time to remember the unknown possibilities… to remember the Unfocused Eye. The Cry of the Eagle calls for new lines of intent, but only the Unfocused Eye can see such possibilities out at the periphery of habitual awareness. The mind’s habit is to recreate the past… unless exposed to new stimuli. You must seek it now– a new stimulus– by letting go of your habitual focus.

“You have exactly zero power to change another’s mind. That sovereignty has been reinstated individually; that is why so many seem so stubborn. It is actually what you have struggled so hard to achieve! Only events will convince them. Their own experience holds ultimate sway… as it should be. Wouldn’t you agree?”

“I guess…”

“Abandon those who disagree. Embrace those of like-mindedness. Together now you can manifest the New Possibilities… and THAT will move the recalcitrants… through their own experience. Do not squander your power and ability where it can make no headway. Respect the Free Will of others in order to claim the power of your own.”

“I’m not a tube of toothpaste!” But sometimes it sure feels like it!

Let this serve as a brief commiseration. The reports are coming in, and it’s clear that we’re in the thick of things right now. Like aspiring diamonds, we’re being compressed… and all that is not of glitter and shine is being squeezed from our bodies.

For the past two weeks, the most common description I’m receiving is that many of us are feeling simultaneously restless and exhausted. Part of us wants to get up and run while the rest of us wants to go back to sleep. Unplanned naps are insinuating themselves into our busy schedules, and yet as night falls we can’t find rest in our beds.

Additionally, our dreams are presenting new situations and challenges. Many are indeed reporting new dreaming identities being discovered, but sometimes those identities don’t even have our familiar human construction. There’s at least two things going on here. Some of us, at a soul level, are not predominantly human, so alternative body constructs are now entering our remembrance. And secondly, even our fully human attributes are undergoing radical recalibration and reconfiguration.

The parts of the body currently being targeted all reside in the upper half. There may be a few minor lingering issues in the lower back, but mostly the reconfiguration has moved upward. Last week especially there was restlessness and tension centred in the mid-back to shoulder region. The physical sensations of stiffness, stagnation, and pain often alternated with a need for vigorous movement to dispel a strange muscular irritability, mostly characterized as restlessness. Some felt odd sensations centred directly within the heart. The reconfiguration does involve the interaction between the spiritual heart and the physical appendages of acting and doing– our arms. Our primary means for manipulating the world around us in physicality is expressed through our arms and hands. Historically, our actions have been centred about our heads– our thinking. Etherically it is as though our arms grew from our ears (which might also account for our listening problems!). The current energetic recalibration has our actions returning to a heart-centred orientation. Many of us are not used to this, having learned to be predominantly cerebral in order to survive in Earth’s former density. It can be somewhat uncomfortable having our arms reattached again at the heart level.

And now this week, the endless tinkering has moved to the tops of the shoulders, into the neck and out through the head. Old thought patterns and attitudes are finding their way out. Physically, this is manifesting as all sorts of maladies involving stiff and cramping necks, tense shoulders, sinus or ear problems and even eruptions on the scalp. That which is no longer useful is making its way out one way or another.

Do whatever you can to ease the discomfort as it arises. The key is simply to remember that the overall process involved is one of purging. It is a flow from within unclogging the channels to the external expression in physicality. Except in rare cases, it is not an affliction coming from the outside as an invader; it is what is already there, and has likely been there for a very long time, that is making its final exit.

This process is happening to all of us in some way or another. The ways in which such an occurrence can express itself are literally endless. Highly inexplicable behaviour in individuals refusing to cooperate with the process is being witnessed individually and collectively. Two such manifestations upon the world stage centred around individuals are the bizarre and incomprehensible actions of the South Korean ferry captain, and the accused in the quintuple homicide in Calgary last week (Matthew de Grood). For some, the intensity is just too much… and they’re blowing their circuits! To a lesser degree, many in our everyday lives are behaving uncharacteristically. We’ll have to cut each other some slack, but also remain vigilant for further “volcanoes” about to erupt.

The psycho-spiritual virus known as wetiko (Paul Levy; Dispelling Wetiko) is being forced into the light. It is the source of transpersonal evil… and it’s fighting for its very life, so we can well expect some extreme manifestations. Stay centred; stay grounded; remain vigilant. Hopefully, we can work through this quickly now.

There will be another TOURS update in a few days.