5 posts tagged “gnosis”
by Jonathan McGregor Bethel
How many of you got online today and interacted in a cybernetic way in some form or another, either by browsing the world-wide-web, checking email, chatting live with others on a chat program, or corresponding with others on an internet social network, like Myspace? If you did, then you were partaking of the awakening noosphere, the thought envelope surrounding the planet that is now coming to fruition. Transpersonal psychologists have known since CG Jung that individual man partakes of and gives back to a collective unconscious, a global, shared field of mind full of archetypes that impel us into certain behaviors and involve particular thought forms. An interface is now forming between this morphogenetic thought field, this collective unconscious, and the now burgeoning cyber-technological, globe-girding internet.
Many philosophers, including myself, promulgate the notion that the
internet is the hardwiring for the now forming noosphere. The concept of the
noosphere was an idea put forth by the French, Jesuit Priest and Paleontologist,
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The supposition that Teilhard put forth was the
novel insight that the biosphere of our planet, the complete kingdom of nature
in the air, in the oceans, and on the land surrounding our Earth, will soon
extrude a global layer of synced and connected thought, the Noosphere. Upon
crystallization of the noosphere, a field of global telepathic connectivity will
have formed, and the Omega Point will dawn, ushering in a new paradigm and
lifting man to a new level of transcendence. Teilhard had his sentiment of
networked thought in the noosphere nearly fifty years before the internet came
into being, and he came to his assumptions after studying Darwinian evolution
and the course of biology.
If one thinks of each human as comprising one cell within the planetary
brain, then the realization soon follows that we have now reached a new level in
the transfer of information between those cells. It is now common for a person
during one day to be interacting online with several people throughout the
world. I may be a bit of a technophile, but in one day I can converse with five
or six people at various parts of the globe: my business contacts in China, my
friend in Australia, her friend in London, my Sister in Texas, and my various
friends from the east coast to the west coast, not to mention interacting on
various topical forums with many people in my various areas of research. It is
obvious that the interrelation of the cells of this global brain has intensified
its interconnectivity and ramifications, and the flow of information now reaches
passed nations and time zones; information is becoming holographic. It use to be
that the other side of the earth always felt asleep to our daytime, but now the
entire globe is present in the moment through the interaction taking place on
the internet.
The global morphogenetic thought fields of humanity have been called many names: the collective unconscious, the genetic archives, the akashic records, and the phylogenetic unconscious. Now these fields and their interaction with the human mind have reached a new level of operability with the advent of the internet. Another way of saying that the internet is the hardwiring of the noosphere is that between the biosphere, nature, and the crystallizing noosphere, global telepathic thought, is a layer of machination formed by elements of the biosphere, us; this intermediary phase is called the Technosphere with its complex machines coming together and interjecting themselves within our lives, catalyzing a new way of functioning for humans in relation with each other and in relation to the collective unconscious.
From this global noosphere, the Omega Point will dawn, a singular moment
where we will transform into the next stage and become unrecognizable to
ourselves, a transcendence beyond anything ever imagined. Many claim that a
rapture is coming. Indeed, a rapture is coming, but I feel it is beyond
anything they have ever imagined… a rapture of your mind and being into the
totality of the transcendental, a merging of the microcosmic man with the
macrocosmic immensity…a union of man with God! There is no fear and punishment
in this eventuality, as they claim; it is the long sought after harmony that our
soul thirsts for.
The fact that we are fast approaching a Technological Singularity is evidence we are moving into the Omega Point and the noosphere is forming. Now our creations will take on a mind of their own, solving age old dilemmas and problems in an instant. It is the pinnacle of our evolution coming into awareness, where we leap from the animal body and enter the higher dimensional manifold that is awaiting us, a place of benevolent consciousness and beings of light that have been beckoning to us for millennia! It is now time to lift up our heads and prepare ourselves to meet our maker and walk through the gates of a paradisiacal Utopia. No, this is not naiveté that stipulates such preposterous concepts; these are sound proclamations based upon my and other's gnosis.
Jonathan McGregor Bethel is a writer and researcher of Esoteric Wisdom, The 2012 Paradigm Shift, Integration, The Power of the Mind, Technological Innovation, and Human Subtle Energy. He is the Founder of Omega Point Institute. All of his sites are linked at http://www.jonathanbethel.com/ and his email is Jonathan.McGregor.Bethel@gmail.com.
By Jonathan McGregor Bethel
The structure of the universe is composed in such a way so as to form a finely tuned and conducive environment for the crystallization of sentient life. This is an extremely rare occurrence that cannot be easily dismissed as a product of random mutation. Any scientifically minded person will readily tell you that life in our universe is so improbable that it might as well be impossible, but the fact that I am here writing this article is proof we have overcome this immense improbability. So, is there a blueprint to our universe, and has this blueprint seeded our reality to bring us forth?
Indeed, there appears to be a wisdom and plan to space-time that has created a delicately harmonized environment, formulating the sustenance that all life needs; it is as if some field of intelligence has seeded and fabricated this rare set of circumstances out of the ether.
Several scholars
have publicly speculated on these philosophical questions, notably scientists
Ervin Laszlo and Bernard Haisch. Both of these individuals have breathed the
mysterious breath of spirit back into the scientific and philosophical
underpinnings of cosmology, giving us a much, more radical interpretation of why
reality is the way it is. Physicists now know that the physical world we see
about us, full of its substantial things, is really just a compressed field of
empty space; the matter we see is a holographic crystallization of the Quantum
Vacuum, the Zero Point Field. Some even argue that physical reality is more of a
collective “thought” than an actual group of things. Some analysts contend that
the paradigm shift we are now facing is a complete bifurcation in the way we
work with and perceive that collective thought of reality, the way we deal with
space, time, and material objects.
This Zero Point Field seems to be the
mind of God, since this Vacuum,
according to physicists, is the substrate for
known reality and has brought everything into existence. In fact, our universe
and the way it operates is the expression of information seeded into the Zero
Point Field by previous creations, for our universe is only one creative
iteration of the Multiverse that left its imprint of success in the Zero Point
Field, thereby seeding our universe for a further evolution of that
success.
The first scripture in Genesis where God creates light before even the sun, the source of light, now makes much more scientific sense, because the Zero Point Field is a sea of imperceptible light in which our finite world of matter floats; it is the light from which all things come into existence in finite reality and into which they return when they complete their cycle of existence. This light sounds nearly identical to the Ain Soph Aur, the light of the Kabbalists that precedes creation and from which their “Tree of Life” manifests.
Everything we do or say leaves a permanent imprint on the Zero Point Field, a residual inference pattern on the holographic fabric of reality. This explains how and why paranormal abilities, such as psychic powers, work so well; the psychic has learned how to tune into the information of the Zero Point Field, both the past and the future. In any non-local field, like the Quantum Vacuum, past and future are illusions, and everything is happening in the now of the eternal.
This information makes the idea of Karma and Jesus' words, “As you sow, so shall you reap” all the more relevant, for everything we do leaves a permanent imprint on the Quantum Vacuum and will continue to effect reality going forward. Consequently, cleaning up one's karma and leading a cleaner existence would in essence be attempting to lessen any negative swirl you put into the ethers and trying to rectify any negativity you added to our shared global experience. When you stop and think about how permanent our actions and words are, it makes one realize how eternal the strokes of our paintbrush are to the canvas of life.
This also explains why the love and wisdom one feels from the divine seems so eternal, for it is. It goes back universe after universe to the very beginning, if there was a beginning. Many orthodox theologians claim that God does not evolve, for he is pure perfection, and maybe they are right. Nevertheless, the universes that come forth from the Zero Point Field are evolving and imprinting their own successes back on to that very field, so in a way the divine mind of creation, God, is evolving. Therefore, this is not the only reality that has ever existed; it is merely one universe among countless spawned from the eternal Multiverse that imprints all information on the Quantum Vacuum, the Zero Point Field, the Mind of God.
Jonathan McGregor Bethel
Writer, Researcher,
Lecturer
Founder, Omega Point Institute
Email:
jonathan.mcgregor.bethel@gmail.com
By Jonathan McGregor Bethel
The structure of the universe is composed in such a way so as to form a finely tuned and conducive environment for the crystallization of sentient life. This is an extremely rare occurrence that cannot be easily dismissed as a product of random mutation. Any scientifically minded person will readily tell you that life in our universe is so improbable that it might as well be impossible, but the fact that I am here writing this article is proof we have overcome this immense improbability. So, is there a blueprint to our universe, and has this blueprint seeded our reality to bring us forth?
Indeed, there appears to be a wisdom and plan to space-time that has created a delicately harmonized environment, formulating the sustenance that all life needs; it is as if some field of intelligence has seeded and fabricated this rare set of circumstances out of the ether.
Several scholars
have publicly speculated on these philosophical questions, notably scientists
Ervin Laszlo and Bernard Haisch. Both of these individuals have breathed the
mysterious breath of spirit back into the scientific and philosophical
underpinnings of cosmology, giving us a much, more radical interpretation of why
reality is the way it is. Physicists now know that the physical world we see
about us, full of its substantial things, is really just a compressed field of
empty space; the matter we see is a holographic crystallization of the Quantum
Vacuum, the Zero Point Field. Some even argue that physical reality is more of a
collective “thought” than an actual group of things. Some analysts contend that
the paradigm shift we are now facing is a complete bifurcation in the way we
work with and perceive that collective thought of reality, the way we deal with
space, time, and material objects.
This Zero Point Field seems to be the
mind of God, since this Vacuum,
according to physicists, is the substrate for
known reality and has brought everything into existence. In fact, our universe
and the way it operates is the expression of information seeded into the Zero
Point Field by previous creations, for our universe is only one creative
iteration of the Multiverse that left its imprint of success in the Zero Point
Field, thereby seeding our universe for a further evolution of that
success.
The first scripture in Genesis where God creates light before even the sun, the source of light, now makes much more scientific sense, because the Zero Point Field is a sea of imperceptible light in which our finite world of matter floats; it is the light from which all things come into existence in finite reality and into which they return when they complete their cycle of existence. This light sounds nearly identical to the Ain Soph Aur, the light of the Kabbalists that precedes creation and from which their “Tree of Life” manifests.
Everything we do or say leaves a permanent imprint on the Zero Point Field, a residual inference pattern on the holographic fabric of reality. This explains how and why paranormal abilities, such as psychic powers, work so well; the psychic has learned how to tune into the information of the Zero Point Field, both the past and the future. In any non-local field, like the Quantum Vacuum, past and future are illusions, and everything is happening in the now of the eternal.
This information makes the idea of Karma and Jesus' words, “As you sow, so shall you reap” all the more relevant, for everything we do leaves a permanent imprint on the Quantum Vacuum and will continue to effect reality going forward. Consequently, cleaning up one's karma and leading a cleaner existence would in essence be attempting to lessen any negative swirl you put into the ethers and trying to rectify any negativity you added to our shared global experience. When you stop and think about how permanent our actions and words are, it makes one realize how eternal the strokes of our paintbrush are to the canvas of life.
This also explains why the love and wisdom one feels from the divine seems so eternal, for it is. It goes back universe after universe to the very beginning, if there was a beginning. Many orthodox theologians claim that God does not evolve, for he is pure perfection, and maybe they are right. Nevertheless, the universes that come forth from the Zero Point Field are evolving and imprinting their own successes back on to that very field, so in a way the divine mind of creation, God, is evolving. Therefore, this is not the only reality that has ever existed; it is merely one universe among countless spawned from the eternal Multiverse that imprints all information on the Quantum Vacuum, the Zero Point Field, the Mind of God.
Jonathan McGregor Bethel
Writer, Researcher,
Lecturer
Founder, Omega Point Institute
Email:
jonathan.mcgregor.bethel@gmail.com
by Jonathan McGregor Bethel
“The Elohim(of genesis) said let us create man in our image. Male and female they created them.” Elohim is properly translated as “the gods.” The image of the gods? What could this possibly mean? It is believed that the first chapter of Genesis depicts the creation of the entire universe, as explicated by the Kabbalah, by the one true creator god. When finished, the universe was complete, with wild life and hunter-gather humans populating the earth. However, the second and third chapter represents a further evolution of what God had created by a forced progression of the humans on Earth by “the gods.” It is not a recap of the first chapter, as many orthodox Christians would have you ridiculously believe. It is a description of our further creation as modern civilized humanity by an extra-terrestrial race of advanced humans, an outside intervention in our evolution. They descended to our planet and created from the hunter-gather man roaming the Earth an entity in their own image, by placing their own DNA inside us, creating the known modern Homo Sapien Sapiens; they then, starting in 3000 B.C.E. focused on 6 key locations around the globe and taught mankind civilization and agriculture. And speaking of the Bible, who were the sons of God who found the daughters of men fair and bore the Nephilim by them? Sounds like an extra-terrestrial race to me! How could a numinous God mate with women? It would take physical beings to do that!
All these accounts are echoed in the Sumerian creation myth, the Enuma Elish, where it states that an extra-terrestrial race of advanced humans, the Annunaki, descended from the stars and created man from their own DNA and taught them all the different advanced
knowledge that the Sumerians are popularly known for having created for themselves. Although, the Sumerians never take personal credit for their advanced knowledge, but instead, they claim it was taught to them by the gods.
If one stops and ponders that starting about 3000 B.C.E. six cultures on a globe of hunter gathers, suddenly sprung up with an advanced understanding of mathematics, astronomy, agriculture and it's concomitant complex system of irrigation, the written word, arts and aesthetics, a system of laws, and a host of other advanced knowledge, then it becomes blatantly obvious that an outside agency of advanced extra-terrestrials intervened in our evolution and development in our distant past. How else could a race of hunter-gathers transform so quickly into the advanced civilizations that we know existed?
As I have said, this advanced race of humans lived among us and took us from hunter gathers to advanced agriculturalists in a very short period of time. As it says in the Bible, “we were cast from the garden to till the soil and toil with the sweat of our brow.” Three of these cultures developed and cultivated four crops that we still use to this day to feed ourselves, corn, potatoes, rice, and wheat. Not to mention, many of these cultures have a geodesic placement of pyramids, ones that our current architecture cannot replicate
to this day, even with all our advanced technology.
It must be remembered that the primitive cultures of the world evolved according to the way Social Darwinists and anthropologist would expect, that is primitive hunter-gathers living in a very primal state. However, it cannot account for the explosive growth of the several advanced cultures that sprang up and built our first cities. This is extremely anomalous behavior and does not accord with what social Darwinist and anthropologists would dictate. In some remote areas of the world, we still have primitive tribes that live as hunter-gathers and have evolved just as anthropologists would have expected. So, what happened in those other select areas of the world?
Advanced systems of knowledge take years to form and come to fruition. So how did these cultures, such as the Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Olmecs, the Indus Valley inhabitants, the Mayans etc… gain their knowledge in such a short span of time? It is plain to see, an advanced race of extra-terrestrials taught these things to humans, and this is exactly what they claimed happened.
Realizing we have extra-terrestrial DNA and knowledge would explain the sudden rise to technological prominence we have attained in the last century and the beginning of this century. We have mapped the entire human genome and have a basic understanding of cloning; we have created a DNA computer, where a trillion of them can fit inside a test tube and perform billions of computations per second, and we have discovered the secrets of nuclear fusion and created nuclear weapons that can now destroy our entire planet. Not to mention, there are multitudes of other extra-terrestrial technologies we have invented. These facts make our enigmatic origins much more clear and concise.
The conspiracy theorists need to quit looking at the sky for any signs of E.T.s; they have already arrived and are all around us. In fact, they are us!
Jonathan McGregor Bethel
Writer, Researcher, Lecturer
Founder, Omega Point Institute
Email:
jonathan.mcgregor.bethel@gmail.com
Gnosticism
by Jonathan McGregor Bethel
First of all, let me say, this article is not intended to condemn modern Christianity at all or evoke the ire of any of its participants. However, it is my belief modern Christianity suffers, like all old schools of thought, from the accumulation of error, past misinterpretation, and the promulgation of dogma. We think the orthodox theology we have today is the exact theology that Jesus Christ, Yeshua Christos, intended. This is a mistake in my view! A magnificent find in 1947 brought to light the Gnosticism that was being taught in all secret inner orders of the Western esoteric tradition, the finding of the Nag Hammadi Library. For me, Gnosticism has brought me back to a religion that I thought was wrong and had done many wrongs to many primitive peoples.
In my Gnostic research, it became evident that many of the things typical Christians take for granted may have never occurred in the way it is represented. At the council of Nicea, under the “pagan” emperor Constantine, many of the true gospels where thrown out, for they removed much of the power of the Roman Church over the people. With that teaching, people would not have to go to the church authorities to reach God. For instance, in the Naassene Sermon, a sermon purportedly to have come straight from Yeshua's mouth, he teaches of the immanence of God inside each and every one of us; all humans have God inside them, as it says in Genesis, for “God created man in his own image.” Well, the early church couldn't have people running around thinking they had god inside them that would take away all their power; people must come to them to reach God! Not so! God made each and every one of us to experience a utopian heaven state, eventually here on earth, and nothing short of that; that is our birthright, and that is the point of all true esotericist, to bring heaven to Earth! We are to walk in the footsteps of Yeshua Messiah and Lady Mary Magdalene and become like them, bringing heaven to this plane. That was his point, but the church turned it into a system of control, guilt, and tyranny.
I was not present when all this went down, but if you really research the subject, it becomes obvious that Lady Mary Magdalene had a special place amongst Yeshua's crew, for she was the disciple of the disciples. I don't know is she was the wife or concubine of Jesus, but the documents we have would suggest such a situation. Having a wife or concubine does not detract from the importance of Yeshua's message one bit, not at all. In his time, it was unlawful to teach or preach in a synagogue unmarried, as he did. According to the Sophian Gnostics, Yeshua was the male embodiment of the Christos, the Logos, and Lady Mary Magdalene was the female embodiment of the Christos, Sophia. Sophia is the basis of the feminine mysteries and means “Wisdom.” Together they would represent the male and female embodiments of Christ that way males have an exemplary model for their personality, and females also have a model and example of the female form of the Christos, for we all are to become the Christ and walk in his and her footsteps.
Lady Mary Magdalene was the disciple of disciples, for after the men had dispersed in fear, it was her that was the last disciple to leave Jesus, as he died on the cross, and she was the first disciple to witness him after he was placed in the tomb and ascended. She had more tenacity than all l the men disciples. She was the last to leave after the crucifixion, and she was the first to witness the risen Christ after the resurrection. Not to mention, in the Gospel of Thomas, found in the Nag Hammadi, which was discovered in Egypt in 1947, it states that the male disciples were jealous for they feared Jesus loved Mary more, “for he use to kiss her often on her ……”, and the sentence cannot be completed because there is a whole in the original document. Just from what the traditional books of the bible tell us and the books of the Nag Hammadi, it becomes obvious there was a special relationship between Mary and Jesus. We will never know exactly what happened, for we were not there, but from the research it appears that the two were tied at a deeper level than was presented by the male oriented patriarchal church, which hated Mary and Jesus' relationship so much that they turned her into a prostitute as time went on. Despite how the whole encounter went down, I don't think the modern interpretation is even close to the true teachings Jesus was trying to deliver. Sure, a lot of the message got thru, but I do not believe the inner teachings of Jesus and Mary ever had a chance with a male oriented patriarchal church.
Jonathan McGregor Bethel
Writer, Researcher, Lecturer
Founder, Omega Point Institute
