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Tikkun Olam: Repairing the World

by Jonathan McGregor Bethel

When we walk through the world and look around ourselves, we see turmoil surrounding us in many guises: disease, starvation, poverty, illiteracy, and so many others. Like the Buddha upon learning of sickness, old age, and death, we each hold the desire to rid the world of these travesties.   Is there any one act above all others that will help bring aid and relief to this seemingly unending suffering?  The kabbalistic mystics of the past utilized a philosophy of rectifying the world to its intended glory, bringing aid and relief to this state of disarray and inadequacy; they called this notion "Tikkun Olam," literally meaning "repairing the world."

Some may ask why the world must be repaired when it is made of the archetypal perfection of god. This is an age old dilemma that has captured the minds of many people who have contemplated its facets, for it is obvious to any thinking individual that although that world contains many beautiful and divine creations, it also contains many instances and things that are grotesque and inharmonious, like death, violence, hatred and disease.   It is to this aspect of creation that Tikkun Olam is addressed.

Kabbalists believe that before the present configuration of the sephiroth and the tree of life, the primal processes of creation created a scheme whereby the light of Ain Soph, God, poured forth and was contained in consecutive vessels of creation, the sephiroth as they were before. However, an instability occurred, and the vessels shattered, light spilling out and the lower dimensions being created.   The shards of the broken vessels became matter and the physical cosmos, and the light also became locked in the dimension of the dark tree of life as evil intelligences, the qlippoth. These are truly demonic minds beyond our worst nightmares and are the source of our negative behavior and the evils of this world.   Tikkun Olam seeks to rectify this situation and lift this physical plane to the heights and archetypal synergy it was intended to know, thereby repairing the world and ending an ancient and ongoing torment.

Tikkun Olam is performed through an action that even a child can perform, simple acts of kindness.   It can also be performed by true Agape, spiritual love, and sharing with the world knowledge that will aid in its' rectification, or it may come through an individual performing the required preliminary steps in resolving any conflict that may have presented itself. These intentional causal acts will have many effects that bring peace, wellbeing, gratitude, health, prosperity, and all of the things that this world so desperately needs.

Those well acquainted with the metaphysical scene know all about the concept of a light-worker. These bearers of the light seek to bring harmony and divine sustenance wherever they may wander, and they seek to rectify any wrongdoing as they travel; these are Tikkun Olam specialists by another name.   They spread the essence of love and wellbeing, the qualities that this universe was intended to display.

And that brings up a very interesting question: Are we repairing a broken universe, or have we been and are we groping our way toward perfection, working out the kinks as we go?   Does the fact that the universe intends archetypal perfection mean that is broken and missed the mark, or as many kabbalists presume, are we moving toward a perfected state that has never yet existed?

You may have read in my previous articles how I am very much a manifestation enthusiast, in that I believe that mind is creative and affects our physical cosmos.   I realize I just lost all credibility with anyone with a scientific bent. But in actuality, science is bearing out the fact there is a relationship between our mind and the physical cosmos.  At any rate, mind is very creative, and it is crucial at this juncture in time that we set up the right causes.  As systems theory and complexity dynamics have surmised, in late 2012 humanity reaches a bifurcation point in its evolutionary trek.   It either goes the way of self-destruction and decimation or self-liberation and enlightenment. What will it be, folks?  We hold immense power in determining the course of events; we need to step up to the plate and hit a home run.

Never before has so much been riding on our collective actions and intentions.   What will we do?  Can you feel it?  Can you feel the mystery of it all bearing down on us?   It's spring 2007, and that target date is bearing down on us and is not far off, 12-21-2012, what will we do?   Utilizing the principles of Tikkun Olam in such tumultuous times is the only sane thing to do, and it is the right thing to do!   Blessings to all!  

For an article I wrote about what we may be facing in 2012 go to www.jonathanbethel.com ~ there you will find an article I wrote for John Jay Harper's upcoming book, "Science of the Soul."  The article is entitled, "2012, Doomsday, and the Omega Point."

 

by Jonathan McGregor Bethel

 

It must be stated at the outset of this article that the expectation in 2012 of any singular event could very well lead to complete disappointment. None of us know for certain what will happen in the years to come, especially the specific date of 12-21-2012, as the future is yet to occur. I try to approach this great mystery of 2012 with an open yet discriminating mind, open to possible scenarios yet discriminating and requiring evidence. That being said, it is obvious that right now is a time of radical transformation, and society is subconsciously gearing up for a "Shift of the Ages," a moment when the Zeitgeist, the spirit of our time, shifts to a higher pattern. Many are coming forward to proclaim "The End of the World," and they point to the Maya themselves as stating the end is coming. But the fact remains that the Maya encoded the ending of one 13baktun calendar cycle and a new beginning, what they called "Creation Day." This is not the "End of the World" being solicited in the main stream media, a guarantee that doom, tumultuous changes, and a turmoil ridden future lies ahead; they are using the tried and true application of fear to make money, and it is very reasonable that this fear is in place, for events could be very dire, yet we have to approach this moment in history with the poise and watchfulness of the spiritual warrior.

Although mankind has traversed the evolutionary gap between the savage rain forest and the modern civilized city, it now sits in a very alarming situation; it now faces a bifurcation point in the evolutionary path it has trod thus far. This unavoidable fork in the road will lead us either down the path of destruction and decimation, or we will be impelled down the evolutionary channels toward enlightenment and liberation, freeing ourselves from the entropic grip of materiality and the thralldom of our everyday world. This is a very novel predicament for humanity, one it has never seen before, a moment a planet brings forth only once in its' lifetime. This razor's edge that we are teetering on is fast becoming a slippery slope, and the global operational systems are careening out of control. On the one hand, we have reached a monumental moment in which all indicators point to the fact that we are approaching a quantum leap in our evolutionary trek, a rapturous instant in which our species' evolution shifts to a higher, unimaginable level of functionality; however, on the other hand, the global situation looks very grim, and certain actualities could create a situation where our existential being is subjected to harsh realities, realities that are the consequence of what we started long ago in history. This situation is building up more and more pressure and is working its' way toward a breaking point. Because of humanity's selfish and disharmonious behavior, we have created a situation that looks fairly dire and dreadful for our species, yet the contradictory is also true; never before has the human race been so perfectly poised so as to initiate a whole series of evolutionary steps that could precede a Utopian civilization.

Mankind has never found himself at a crossroads of such magnitude, a bifurcation point that will change the course of history. Nevertheless, that is no excuse for a botched job in the grave matter at hand; it is crucial to our survival that we get it right! That sounds like a paramount amount of pressure and will require an impeccable discipline; indeed, this is intense pressure, and this rite of passage requires utilizing a higher more disciplined order for quelling the more primitive behaviors that will only guarantee our demise. An immense amount of cooperation and compassion is required to get us passed the inhospitable situation before us. It is vital that we quickly get a clue and start doing what we know we need to do, yesterday and not tomorrow, before our tenuous grip on reality quickly slips away, and we tumble erroneously down the path of failed attempts. No, this will not do! If we really want to make it through this perilous passageway in the hallway of history, then we need to quickly wake up, come to our senses, and merge our scientific world view and knowhow with a true ecumenical spiritual paradigm founded upon ethics, thereby placing well meaning attention and focus on the problems at hand. A merging of these two worlds could help create the impetus for us to form a true global community where the "Good of the All" is sought out for the "Good of the All" by all our individual talents.

Modern man throughout the twentieth century was coming to terms with his theological and scientific paradigms, and in the last decade of that century s/he saw an intensification of the integration of these two worlds; the true philosopher's stone, the stone of the wise, was condensing from the merging of these two paradigmatic systems. This new paradigm of thought was synthesized in a dialectical process where the thesis and antithesis were merged, the worlds of theology and science, and it is now informing the morphogenetic fields that rule social behavior all over our planet. These fields order our behavior through the process of morphic resonance, whereby our thoughts and emotions are in sync with the planetary mind, and our mind then follows suit. These global morphogenetic fields of humanity have been called many names: the collective unconscious, the genetic archives, the akashic records, and the phylogenetic unconscious. At any rate, this morphogenetic field that humanity resonates with is a sphere of thought surrounding the planet, and the synergistic tendencies of the information couplings within those fields are gearing up for and catalyzing a transformational shift to a whole new order of being. In the notions of the French priest and paleontologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the biosphere, nature, will give rise to and exude the noosphere, a global layer of thought, the informational synergy of which will actualize the Omega Point into being. This will usher in a new paradigm, a transcendence for all of humanity. It is interesting to note that Teilhard came to his realizations long before the global network of the Internet; therefore, many philosophers consider the internet to be the hardwiring of the noosphere.

The unrelenting questions of what will happen consistently assail the mind. Will we make it through the turmoil to see ourselves basking in the sunlight of enlightenment? Or will we destroy ourselves in some apparent need for defense or through retaliation? Will the Biosphere continue supporting our species when it is being decimated daily? Will we experience some major geological changes as a consequence of our relationship with the sun? Will our technology birth the next level of our evolution? Will the Gaian Mind, which appears to be the source of crop circles, bring us a further revelation of our place in the cosmos? Can a multitude of these events occur? This intense inquisitiveness will not be abated within me, and sadly, I'm afraid that the answers that have presented themselves are both appealing and disturbing, creating further vexing enigmas. So, what we are facing is manifold and many-sided; one singular event does not take the whole happening into consideration. Does this time of devastation and/or enlightenment have anything to do with 2012 as many have foretold?

What we are facing is both good and bad, in my opinion; one model of our future does not contain the entirety of that happenstance. It is multifaceted and diverse, but our mammalian brain seeks to create black and white scenarios out of the mysteries before us, seeking to simplify the unknown and fearful into nice little models of what we are moving into. But there is no way that what we are facing could be all black or all white; it is indeed both. The concrescence of novelty, the eschaton, will be an infinitely novel situation and contain both the good and the bad! As the universe becomes more complex and ramified, as more novelty accrues, then we can expect the intensity of those novel forms and events to increase; the novelty of both the black and the white will intensify in its' influence upon our lives. Therefore, it is understandable that the most horrid will occur alongside of the most divine in our shared, global future.

So, what kind of things could we be facing in 2012 or beyond? What are the tenable possibilities on our global horizon? Let's first look at the negative occurrences facing our global civilization, and then we will discuss the positive effects which also appear to be breaking through into our society. These doom ridden scenarios are things that, if they were to occur, would affect our global future and life as we know it in a radical way. These possibilities are things we definitely need to be considering as we move ahead.

Humanity is in a very precarious situation; never before have so many mounting crisis points been converging together. I'm no doomsayer, but if you remove yourself from the group mind with its aversion to the facts at hand, and you take a good look at what is about to transpire, then you can't help but be white-knuckled and fearful of the future.  But this fear is not at all what we need, if reality is truly affected by our minds as scientific studies are beginning to bear out. The following situations "Could" transpire in the years to decades ahead; they are not necessarily slated to occur in 2012!

The increased complexity and convoluted nature of our global civilization has made the threat of a pandemic a much more conceivable situation. A virus could be transferred to many areas of the world through our transportation grid in a very short period of time, and an all out pandemic could be actualized in a matter of weeks. When asked about a near future, foreseeable pandemic, doctors say it's a matter of "when" not "if" one breaks out. In the last 30 years we saw the introduction of many new biological threats: AIDS, SARS, West Nile, and now the Avian Flu, and these are threats that we must take seriously. When will this speculative disaster occur? It is uncertain, but scientists are very concerned about the possibility of a major unstoppable pandemic in the near future.

A pandemic is just one possibility on the shelf of global, future threats. In addition, we have the Geo-Political environment, a motley crew of a makeup with each component striving for dominance on the world stage.  It is one thing to agree to disagree with the other parties in the global arena; however, we now have radical terrorists, self proclaimed servants of God, who believe it is their God given duty to kill all those that will not convert to their way of thinking.  It is hard to deal with these people in a rational manner, as their behavior elicits the very primitive instinct of seeking their utter destruction. In addition, we now have the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and they are now in the hands of some very fanatical and tyrannical leaders. It is easy to foresee and imagine that if the terrorists ignited a nuclear bomb in one of our cities due to their ideological insanity, then the civilized world could very easily retaliate, thereby sparking a nuclear tit-for-tat of all the countries involved. This is a very real possibility and something that MUST be avoided at all costs.  Does that mean we should not retaliate if we were ever to be attacked with a nuclear bomb?  Well, I am a warrior, and anyone trying to kill me, my family, my friends, or any of the citizens of my country should be very aware that there are many of us who will stand up and seek to destroy them utterly. But that being said, we need to be exceedingly careful not to spark a nuclear catastrophe, if that were to ever happen. Therefore, our retaliatory nature could pose a big problem as we move ahead, as we now live in a world where radical mentalities and terrorism exist. 

Our global society is also facing major economic collapse as we move forward into subsequent periods of time.  Our economic markets are so reliant on what occurs globally now, and the countries of the world have created such a deficit that some financial specialists say what we are facing is insurmountable; we are operating on borrowed time, and a huge spiral into economic collapse looks like an extremely conceivable scenario.

If those realistic threats weren't bad enough, the biosphere is being destroyed in so many aspects that it is barely possible to imagine. Researchers believe that the biosphere may become completely uninhabitable in just a couple centuries. The facts of man's destruction of the habitat that brought him forth are truly appalling and ghastly. We are decimating the rain forest by miles daily, the main source of the oxygen we breathe. Climate is changing as both the jet stream in the atmosphere and the gulf stream in the Atlantic are shifting. Our oceans are dying from pollution and over fishing, and many species are being wiped into extinction.  Is this insanity? What are we doing to ourselves? The planet was never intended to support life for 6.5 billion people, and that population is only increasing daily. The facts of the matter make one wince when looking at all the details, creating a nauseating feeling in the pit of the stomach. The melting of the ice caps is occurring from a multitude of sources that are causing Global Warming. It is not just our fuel use causing global warming; it also has to do with natural cycles that revolve around the earth-sun connection.  The melted ice will cause the sea levels to rise, obliterating the coastline and inundating us with water.  This biosphere issue is definitely not something that will cause a global catastrophe in 2012, but it is an indication of where we find ourselves and the nature of our shared predicament.  The operative word is "Shared," and we need to realize that all of us on the planet are in this boat together, and it has now begun to traverse the rapids and dangerous currents ahead. 

Additionally, we have the sun-earth connection to be concerned about.  The Sun's Coronal magnetic flux has increased 100% in the last century.  Global Warming is partly caused by man and is also caused by the earth's relationship with the sun, and scientists say the sun has steadily become more active in the past several hundred years.  It must be understood that when a Solar Flare or Coronal Mass Ejection occurs a wave of energy moves out in all directions, and when it impinges with a planet's magnetic field, the field contorts in reaction.  This contortion shifts the Jet Stream creating climate change, and it also puts stress on the system of plate tectonics, causing an increased number of earthquakes and volcanoes.  The last sunspot cycle ended with the two largest flares on record and the next major cycle is scheduled for 2012. 

Now that we have discussed some of the sobering bad news about our future, and because I like to be the optimist even in the most drastic and horrid of situations, I think it is essential to relay the whole picture. Yes, things look very dire, but they also look most promising.  Strides in science, medicine, government and technology are making major advances in ridding our species of the undesired effects of bad health, famine, poverty, or lack of any name.  So, like I said, what we are moving into is both wonderful and horrid.  It is a double-edged sword!

Science is making great progress, and a G.U.T., A Grand Unified Theory or a T.O.E., a Theory Of Everything, is within the grasp of humanity, giving us a true understanding of Space-Time and harnessing that understanding for benevolent and beneficial technologies, which we will use to find solutions to our present predicaments. A quantum leap in our evolution is apparently directly in front of us, if you consider the exponential explosion of technology.  A technological singularity is going to occur; it cannot be avoided.  Only one of the previously mentioned catastrophes could remove us from the course with the Technological Singularity. This Singularity will bring us technologies that will give us immense longevity and possible immortality!  That was a fairly welcome surprise as we entered a new millennium, discovering we were facing this event. The exponential explosion of technology will remove many of the problems we have dealt with for thousands of years. For instance, nanotechnology will be used to control cholesterol and plaque within our arteries, thereby alleviating one of the major causes of death.  The A.I. mind will know all our problems, and it will use intelligence a million times greater than man to find solutions and implement them in the moment.

Researchers are learning how much our mind is inextricably linked to the physical reality surrounding us, and with the advent of nanotechnology we will be able to create materially whatever we are visualizing mentally. Our science and spirituality are also no longer exclusive to each other, and the age old conflicts between the facts of science and our theological perspectives are dissolving and fading away.    Our scientific investigations are showing us that the quantum vacuum, the zero-point-field, contains the informational blueprint for the way our reality forms itself.  It is the reservoir for every occurrence that has ever happened in previous universes, universes that are iterations of the one multiverse; The zero-point-field is a non-local vacuum containing zero matter or energy but immense information that our universe uses as a guide to shape itself. This zero-point-field can be considered the mind of God, and now even most atheistic scientists realize that there is a higher dimensional information template from which our universe is formed.  Also, our world's religions are beginning to loosen the constricting belt of literalism, and they are seeing the truths of both science and other faiths; a convergence between disparities is taking place, and integration is occurring on many levels.

So, we live in a time full of radical changes of both a qualitatively good and bad nature.  The ancient seers knew that this exact period in time represented a period of catastrophic changes preceding a golden age.  Most cultural traditions have some intimation of the times we are living in, whether it is Hindu, Hopi, Mayan, or many, many others, and they are all in basic agreement that a great purging, a cataclysmic time of change, will precede a golden age of enlightenment.  The Mayans encoded 12-21-2012 into their calendrical system, and they pointed to that day for some reason.  Hundreds of years later in the 1970s a hippie botanist, Terence McKenna, had a vision under the influence of Shamanic Power Plants, and he saw how to distill a timewave from the Ken Wa sequence of the I-Ching.  This Timewave mapped the ingression of novelty into the universe, an organizing principle of ever increasing complexity upon which all of our reality is ordered. At any rate, he saw on the timewave that this nature of novelty hits a moment of infinite novelty, what is called the concrescence of novelty, at the same exact time that the Mayan Calendar cycle ends, December 21, 2012!  So, this date has given itself over to the minds of a culture of people over a thousand years ago and then to a hippie botanist in the 1970s, a very strange synchronicity indeed!  Then along comes Ervin Laszlo in 2006 stipulating that Chaos and Complexity Theory has shown how a huge bifurcation point in humanity's evolutionary trek occurs in late 2012.  At the fork in the road, we either go the route of self destruction or the high road of enlightenment and liberation.  Noting that Terence derived his timewave from the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching, and also noting the congruency of those 64 Hexagrams with the 64 codons of DNA, the 64 bit structure of computer code, and the central 64 squares of  a Tzolkin grid of the Mayan Calendar, then it can be surmised that a universal organizing principle is being perceived.

No one knows what will happen on December 21, 2012.  Will it be Doomsday or the Omega Point, or both, or neither?  One thing is for certain; now is a time of radical change, and both problems and innovations are creating a novel situation for a planet of 6.5 billion people.  The biosphere is more decimated than it ever has been. The Sun more is active than in recent time and may cause some major geological changes.  Our Technology has moved deep into exponential growth and is about to birth a singularity.  Whatever happens, I am sure it will be a ride we will never forget!

Jonathan McGregor Bethel

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by Jonathan McGregor Bethel

A synchronicity is a very poignant moment when our own thoughts and personal histories meld into the physical reality surrounding us, giving us a glimpse into the divine machine of sacred geometric gears that rule the crystallization of time and the material universe in which we are bound. We have all had moments when the uncanny occurs, a momentary happenstance mimicking a fresh thought we have just had, a statement that has just been made, or the simultaneous occurrence of two or more meaningful events. Such moments are a little wink from divinity letting us know that our world is far from the meaningless universe that reductionism has presupposed and that there is a point to even the most abstract of events that occur within our lives

The Swiss psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung was the man who first coined the term synchronicity. He stipulated that a synchronicity was a meaningful coincidence, and it was, “an acausal connecting principle;” it was not the result of any space-time causation, and it seemed to defy our rationalized deductions about our universe. More simply put, it is the occurrence of two or more events beyond mere coincidence that are meaningful logically but completely inexplicable and seemingly unconnected.

Recently Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab has conducted a study suggesting that there is a small but quantifiable and statistically measurable link between human thought and patterns that are found to occur in random data sets. No evidence has been found to determine whether this is caused by people unwittingly recognizing these complex patterns and then shaping their thoughts toward an unconsciously known outcome, or if the thoughts of the studies individuals are in fact affecting the data sets themselves. However, recent conclusions of several preeminent scientists would stipulate that our minds do indeed affect reality. They concur that our physical reality is more of a group thought than a collection of substantial things, a hologram of compressed empty space shaped by our observation of it.

Furthermore, The Global Consciousness Project, also based at Princeton, theorizes that human consciousness influences objective reality by means that are still to be determined by current scientific methodologies. Using Random Number Generators scattered over the whole globe (computers programmed to spew forth a random string of digits) they found that patterns of numbers appeared at moments of mass global focus, events such as 911, the turning of the millennium, and the burial of Princess Diana.

These findings and studies would suggest that we have a far more influential role in determining our reality than we have been led to believe. This being the case, it makes it all the more essential that we approach reality in as positive a light as possible, for we want to create the most conducive and most beneficial environment as possible for ourselves and those around us. The old adage that we create our own reality is beginning to be proven true.

How many people have noticed the frequency and intensity of synchronicities being on the increase in the last few years? I believe this increase can be explained by the fact that we are getting closer to a cosmic doorway and rupture in space-time, an Omega Point. This Omega Point on the temporal landscape, the time-scape, creates motions and waves that travel back through time utilizing the medium of the ether. This ether is the quantum vacuum, the zero point field, or the Akashic field.

According to Einstein, time is an illusion, and everything that has ever existed or will exist is happening in the “Now” on the temporal landscape. Realizing this, an Omega Point or 2012 Eschaton would create waves that travel back through time and reach us, affecting the mind-matter connection we have all but forgotten exists. As we approach this Omega Point/Eschaton, these waves will become more pronounced and frequent, as the matter-mind connection is brought into higher cognizance when these delectable, synchronous moments present themselves.

Synchronicity seems to be a communication of our soul with our lower self, bringing events and people with significance into our lives, a significance that our lower self can apprehend. It is as if our minds temporarily falls into lock-step with the cosmos, and the mystery behind it all reveals itself for a moment. In addition, synchronicity has been known to occur around certain numbers. The number 23 has been noticed by many to be a number of synchronicity. Synchronistically, I was introduced to the notorious 23 skidoo when I was 23. I will give a link to an article I wrote on 23 skidoo below. I must state that just because synchronicity appears so incomprehensible doesn't mean it is always a good thing. It usually is a great thing, but it can also manifest, as you will see in my 23 article, at times of great dissatisfaction, such is life!!!

“The Number 23” - Synchronicity, the 23 enigma, and 23 skidoo

http://jonathanbethel.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=43

Jonathan McGregor Bethel
Writer, Researcher, Lecturer
Founder, Omega Point Institute

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by Jonathan McGregor Bethel

We all operate under the aegis of different archetypes. Archetypes were first brought to light through the work of Carl Gustav Jung; they are inherited ideas, patterns, and modes of thought, and are initiated and have existence through the experience of the human race, and they form in the morphic field of the collective unconscious. They are represented in the mind by certain universal symbols and are observed in dreams, life, and myths. They basically, bring wisdom, understanding and modes of behavior into the hustle and bustle of the work-a-day world.

There are many archetypes: the mother, the lover, the wise man, the hierophant, the Empress or feminine Venus power, the town fool, the seeker, the healer etc… So, we all use these archetypes from time to time to interact with what is going on around us. There is, however, an archetype that impels itself into the life of most shamans on the path, whether we like it or not. And it must be remembered, the presence of this archetype is only evoked when choosing to walk the shamanic path and reach enlightenment!

This elusive and prankster archetype is the “Trickster.” He is the “Trickster” because he gives you the “Cosmic Giggle” and causes you to see the contrary nature of reality, how un-serious the world really is, thereby seeing the deeper mystery and subtler reality beneath it all. The Trickster is purely a shamanic archetype, and he is known to show how the world of normality and rationality is somewhat of a sham. The trickster will state the obvious in extreme sarcasm and satire; he will show you how taking yourself too seriously can be a detriment to your process of awakening. The archetypal trickster can always be known to show you the contrary nature of reality, in spite of your firmly held paradigms. He asks the question, “With all this war and turmoil over God and territory, aren't we all taking ourselves a bit too seriously?”

We've all gotten accustomed to listening to the rationale of cynical science, and we no more see the mystery that lies beneath all of existence. Sure, our scientists are right when it comes to the facts of nature, but they have a hard time accepting the existence of global consciousness, morphogenetic fields, holographic reality, even though these are part of their burgeoning science! Science is beginning to get a clue, and it is backing up what ancient cosmologies have said for years. For Instance, the Kabbalah says our universe sprang from a singularity called Kether, and now modern Cosmologists are saying the same thing, that our universe sprang from a singularity. Could it be that the human mind is too serious and has gotten it all wrong? The trickster is there to make you smile and point at the deep esoteric aspects of our reality that often get overlooked.

The “Trickster” is the voice of reason in a world which the Hopi call “Koyaanisqatsi,” meaning “life out of balance!” I was introduced to the “Trickster” by my teacher Don Alejandro back in 1989, and he showed me how to derive my “Sacred Name” from the sound web that could be heard in the visionary experience. The name I derived was “Seshua,” and it is the mystical name I use. This was a very eye opening experience, and something that has stayed with me through out the years. Some time later, I showed my best friend and business partner at Omega Point Institute, David Healy, the other shaman, the same technique for finding your name in the Sacred Sound Web and he derived “Sy.” So Sy and Seshua still utilize the “Trickster” and “Cosmic Giggle” to this very day, and it has brought us both immense satisfaction.

The Trickster has played a large part in our awakening and has showed us the trap of science! The brain is not the source of sentience; consciousness utilizes the brain as a conduit, much like electricity through a wire. The Trickster is the source of “Synchronicity” and the uncanny moments of bizarreness. He brings a grin to your face, a realization of the “Cosmic Giggle!” I know we all lead hectic, busy lives; however, we need to find the time to just play and experience the “Cosmic Giggle”

This looming 2012 date could be very such a thing. Many people are predicting gloom, doom, and catastrophe, but it very well could be a moment of complete elation. From my research, and I'm no scientist, but thought is much more creative than we ever presumed. And to view this 2012 end date with fear and dread could very well be the self fulfilling prophecy we so much want to avoid. I know I may seem naïve, but I think the only way to avoid total cataclysm and catastrophe is to try to crystallize what we want out of reality. The Trickster has that mischievous grin for some reason; maybe he knows how it all turns out, for in actuality the “Trickster” is really the “Knower,” the “Gnostic”!

Jonathan McGregor Bethel
Writer, Researcher, Lecturer
Founder, Omega Point Institute

www.omegapoint.org

www.2012eschaton.com

www.sacredwisdom.net

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By Jonathan McGregor Bethel

Considering all the earthquakes, volcanic activity, and extreme weather we have been experiencing, it’s hard not to have apocalyptic thoughts and speculate that we may be approaching the end of time. It is very telling that many cultures have prophecies and calendars that focus on our current world age. These prophecies predict that our current time will be a period of great strife and transformation; they further predict this chaos will precede the creation of a new form of mankind.

I am endeavoring to present a series of articles delineating earth changes, eschatology, and the year 2012. I will discuss the nuances of our rapidly transforming biosphere, and I will describe the advent of the noosphere, a layer of collective synchronous thought surrounding the planet. I seek to present the facts as they are, how they are related to our current outlook, and what could be on the horizon. However, I also desire to dispel the fear about our approach to this radical shift and describe what it “could” mean for us.

Why is 2012 related to the end of the world? To look at this as the “End” and not the beginning of a new cycle doesn’t fit what is really happening. There are several lines of thought that point to the year 2012 as a period of radical transformation and the culmination of human history.

First of all, it is during this year that the Maya 13 baktun long-count calendar has its termination point – December 21, 2012 – the winter solstice. This 13 baktun calendar began on August 12, 3114 B.C., and its duration is 1/5 of a precession, a 26,000 year period. John Major Jenkins discovered that the 2012 end-date coincides with an alignment with the galactic center. Consequently, after 26,000 years we are completing a cycle, and we are realigning with the galactic center; this is the wake-up call for human history.

Secondly, Terence McKenna’s “TimeWave Zero”, which is based on the Chinese system of the I-Ching and maps the fluctuation between habit and novelty, is the other belief system which points to this date. The “TimeWave” reaches infinite novelty at the same time as the end-date of the Calendar of the Maya during late 2012. In other words, what it says is the complexity of modern life reaches it zenith on this date, and mankind enters a new phase of being. There are various other intimations and prophecies of 2012, and we will discuss them later in this series.

There is evidence to suggest that 2012 will coincide with what is expected to be a very active year for sunspots. Some predictions even state that the sun is going through a magnetic pole shift, and this pole reversal may be brought about by the extreme solar activity of 2012.

If this were to occur on the sun, it could bring about a devastating situation on the earth, including a pole shift. This pole shift on the earth may be actually occurring whether the sun shifts poles or not. One thing is for certain. The extreme weather we have been witnessing appears to be a direct influence from all the anomalous solar activity, not just the human induced “Global Warming” many are claiming.
In spite of that, it may very well be that the sun is emitting evolution altering energy, torsion-wave energy, and mutating us all into beings capable of operating in a new and higher existence. This is the perspective of several researchers; although, I don’t think you will get any reductionist scientists agreeing with that. True or untrue, we should remain open-minded until we find out otherwise. Main stream science would consider this to be preposterous. We shall see; this evidence, including the extreme weather is not bogus and cannot be faked. It appears that we humans veil the unknown and uncertain in ominous imagery out of our own fear. Therefore, because we’re in a time of rapid change, a disintegrating biosphere, extreme weather, and an uncertain future, the 2012 end-date takes on threatening and apocalyptic image.

On the other hand, we have others who think they have it all figured out, thinking things will remain the same as always, and that we have nothing to fear. These two perspectives are typical of human beings and get us nowhere. We need to face all of this with open yet discriminating minds, without casting doom on everything we hear and without being so self-assured that we think we have it all figured out. We need to take in the facts as they become apparent and make decisions accordingly.

Whatever the facts are, we need to be creating spiritual ideals and treating the others around us with the kindness we would like to receive, creating a positive morphic thought field and influencing the course of events in a beneficial way. This way, we will be in the best frame of mind to meet any challenges that may arise. If nothing happens, wonderful, we’re all better off with our benevolent behavior!

Jonathan McGregor Bethel
Omega Point Institute
www.omegapoint.org
www.2012eschaton.com
www.sacredwisdom.net
www.jonathanbethel.com
jonathan.mcgregor.bethel@gmail.com

It has become obvious that the world is in a state of extreme agitation and turmoil. It’s as if all the prophecies of old are manifesting before our very eyes, and the planet is building up to a crescendo of unbelievable proportions. An individual can actually sense and feel this tension within the world mounting towards some sort of climax. In a very holier-than-thou way, many doomsayers are pointing to the extreme weather, geological disasters, and geo-political turmoil we are having as evidence that this is the “End-Times.” Indeed, we could possibly be facing an “End-Times” scenario. Unfortunately, these doomsayers hope for and want this to be the end for all of us. They think this world is tainted and must be flushed, and they will then enter their heaven state with their chosen peers. They actually feel they are the rightful heirs to a new kingdom, and it is not reserved for anyone who doesn’t believe their way. It seems many of these individuals actually thrive on the negativity forming within our world, maintaining their perspectives that are based on scriptural evidence of their sacred books, whether it is the Bible, Torah, Koran, or other book. This won’t help us at all in the trying times ahead, and this is a very immature and egocentric perspective. Such is the nature of radical religious paradigms.

Many are pointing to the current events going on in the world to support their specific religious or political platforms. For instance, the hard left is pointing to all the extreme weather we have been experiencing and blaming it on just “Global Warming.” This “Global Warming,” which is blamed on human civilization and the extreme right wing, is the “catch-all” for some of our global problematic scenarios. Indeed, “Global Warming” may have a part to play in the overall weather patterns we have been experiencing, but it surely can not be the only culprit. In fact, if one were to actually get involved and research the topic a little bit, instead of just listening to and being coerced by political rhetoric, one would see that the Earth’s weather patterns are in a state of agitation due to a connection to the sun with its increased solar activity. Actually, due to the increased solar activity and the forecast of more of it, we can expect more extreme weather, earthquakes, and volcanoes as time goes on. In truth, it is thought that the year 2012 is going to be one of the most active years for sun spots we will have ever had. This is a most intriguing fact. What could it possibly mean for us?

This is the way the Sun-Earth connection works. When there happens to be a solar flare or a CME(coronal mass Ejection) from the surface of the sun, it creates a huge wave of energy that travels vast distances and eventually collides with the Earth’s magnetic field. As this happens, the earth’s magnetic field reacts and contorts the envelope surrounding our planet, causing electro-magnetic disturbances, shifting the jet stream, and adding torque to our system of plate tectonics. The result is black outs, extreme weather, earthquakes, and volcanic activity. Currently, all the planets in our solar system are experiencing anomalies of one form or another. This surely can’t be blamed on global warming.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not trying to minimize the effects of this horrendous problem of global warming. It is definitely a major problem, and we need to lessen our dependency on fossil fuels and find alternative sources of energy. Unfortunately, the damage may already be done, and it may be too late to save our biosphere. We shall see. That doesn’t mean we should exasperate the situation or ignore it. I just can’t jump on the bandwagon and state that the problems we are facing are just the result of our oil consumption; they are not. Granted, mankind through its uncaring attitude, greed, and its slothful use of oil has decimated our biosphere and made our future survival nearly impossible. That being said, it is time we quit playing the holier-than-thou and blame game and start putting our heads together and find some solutions to our mounting global problems. It may be the prophets of old could see that we were facing a huge cataclysm, and we are only now able to collect the scientific evidence, which portends such a demise. One can’t be sure; however, if we’re facing such a bleak future, would it not be wise to be treating each other with the benevolent caring one would expect from spiritual creatures, trying to clean up as much karma as possible, before the sword of Damocles falls? Or do we gallop blindly into the sunset in the hypocritical and uncaring behavior we’ve all become accustomed to? The choice is yours to make!

Jonathan McGregor Bethel
Omega Point Institute
www.omegapoint.org
www.2012eschaton.com
www.sacredwisdom.net
www.jonathanbethel.com
jonathan.mcgregor.bethel@gmail.com

It has become obvious that the world is in a state of extreme agitation and turmoil. It’s as if all the prophecies of old are manifesting before our very eyes, and the planet is building up to a crescendo of unbelievable proportions. An individual can actually sense and feel this tension within the world mounting towards some sort of climax. In a very holier-than-thou way, many doomsayers are pointing to the extreme weather, geological disasters, and geo-political turmoil we are having as evidence that this is the “End-Times.” Indeed, we could possibly be facing an “End-Times” scenario. Unfortunately, these doomsayers hope for and want this to be the end for all of us. They think this world is tainted and must be flushed, and they will then enter their heaven state with their chosen peers. They actually feel they are the rightful heirs to a new kingdom, and it is not reserved for anyone who doesn’t believe their way. It seems many of these individuals actually thrive on the negativity forming within our world, maintaining their perspectives that are based on scriptural evidence of their sacred books, whether it is the Bible, Torah, Koran, or other book. This won’t help us at all in the trying times ahead, and this is a very immature and egocentric perspective. Such is the nature of radical religious paradigms.

Many are pointing to the current events going on in the world to support their specific religious or political platforms. For instance, the hard left is pointing to all the extreme weather we have been experiencing and blaming it on just “Global Warming.” This “Global Warming,” which is blamed on human civilization and the extreme right wing, is the “catch-all” for some of our global problematic scenarios. Indeed, “Global Warming” may have a part to play in the overall weather patterns we have been experiencing, but it surely can not be the only culprit. In fact, if one were to actually get involved and research the topic a little bit, instead of just listening to and being coerced by political rhetoric, one would see that the Earth’s weather patterns are in a state of agitation due to a connection to the sun with its increased solar activity. Actually, due to the increased solar activity and the forecast of more of it, we can expect more extreme weather, earthquakes, and volcanoes as time goes on. In truth, it is thought that the year 2012 is going to be one of the most active years for sun spots we will have ever had. This is a most intriguing fact. What could it possibly mean for us?

This is the way the Sun-Earth connection works. When there happens to be a solar flare or a CME(coronal mass Ejection) from the surface of the sun, it creates a huge wave of energy that travels vast distances and eventually collides with the Earth’s magnetic field. As this happens, the earth’s magnetic field reacts and contorts the envelope surrounding our planet, causing electro-magnetic disturbances, shifting the jet stream, and adding torque to our system of plate tectonics. The result is black outs, extreme weather, earthquakes, and volcanic activity. Currently, all the planets in our solar system are experiencing anomalies of one form or another. This surely can’t be blamed on global warming.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not trying to minimize the effects of this horrendous problem of global warming. It is definitely a major problem, and we need to lessen our dependency on fossil fuels and find alternative sources of energy. Unfortunately, the damage may already be done, and it may be too late to save our biosphere. We shall see. That doesn’t mean we should exasperate the situation or ignore it. I just can’t jump on the bandwagon and state that the problems we are facing are just the result of our oil consumption; they are not. Granted, mankind through its uncaring attitude, greed, and its slothful use of oil has decimated our biosphere and made our future survival nearly impossible. That being said, it is time we quit playing the holier-than-thou and blame game and start putting our heads together and find some solutions to our mounting global problems. It may be the prophets of old could see that we were facing a huge cataclysm, and we are only now able to collect the scientific evidence, which portends such a demise. One can’t be sure; however, if we’re facing such a bleak future, would it not be wise to be treating each other with the benevolent caring one would expect from spiritual creatures, trying to clean up as much karma as possible, before the sword of Damocles falls? Or do we gallop blindly into the sunset in the hypocritical and uncaring behavior we’ve all become accustomed to? The choice is yours to make!

Jonathan McGregor Bethel
Omega Point Institute
www.omegapoint.org
www.2012eschaton.com
www.sacredwisdom.net
www.jonathanbethel.com
jonathan.mcgregor.bethel@gmail.com