5 posts tagged “gnosticism”
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
by Jonathan McGregor Bethel
Everyone has heard the cliché phrase, “you create your own reality,” but has anyone ever stopped to contemplate just how that process might work and how it could be true? Sure, if we focus on something about ourselves long enough, we tend to harmonize with it and start imitating it in our lives, thereby becoming that thing. But in addition to that, I believe our subconscious mind is actually changing reality to our subconscious desires and aversions; our mind is syncing with quantum events and transforming the apparent random universe to our innate wishes and fears, thereby crystallizing reality into what is occurring within our own brain and subconscious mind.
The scientific school of reductionism has stipulated for years that there is no scientific proof mind and matter are connected. Nevertheless, researchers have now witnessed this connection through experiment, and it can now be proven utilizing the scientific method that there is indeed a connection! It is obvious from various studies done within the last several decades that our minds have the ability to shape matter and reality. This ability to influence does not only occur in our present time, but research has also shown that our minds can even effects events from the past as well. I call this retroactive magick! That is really what we are talking about here, a true magickal connection with reality. However, the magick of the past will become the science of the future, as we learn more and more about this process. Only recently has science begun to see and experiment with this relationship, and it is now beginning to see there is sync between mental states and events, especially in regards to global mind and planetary occurrences.
Quantum physicists have known since the middle of last century that an experiment is wholly determined by the mind of the experimenter. They contend that a quantum event is permanently determined, “collapsing the waveform,” when a perceiver's mind has witnessed the actual quantum occurrence. “Collapsing the waveform” made physicists speculate and joke that the universe was not really manifest when not being perceived, like a huge swirl of nothingness occurring just out of sight; it was only crystallized into reality upon perception. Our minds appear to be the one force that distinguishes deterministic states from indeterminism and pure randomness.
This process of manifestation is not that difficult to perform once you understand the techniques needed to accomplish it. For instance, the process of creative visualization creates a holographic representation and imprint upon the ethers of space-time, also know as the “quantum vacuum” and the “Akashic field.” It consequently creates what chaos theorists call an “attractor point,” which then pulls the current frame of reality and space-time towards it. Reality transforms and changes into this holographic “attractor point,” as the random and chaotic system we call the universe flows into it. Consequently, this is why it is so important to keep goals out in front of you, for without a goal or “attractor point,” we aimlessly wander without any direction. However with goals, the system we call our life has an “attractor point” to move towards. It must be noted, this same process is what accounts for the horrible things that happen in our life, for we tend to manifest our most wonderful desires and our darkest fears.
This merging of mind and matter is why rumor can be so dangerous, because it “collapses the waveform” and crystallizes a perspective of someone or something, thereby locking an individual or a group into false and inauthentic viewpoints within the mind of the perceivers. This is also how untrue gossip spreads so easily; it “collapses the waveform” and creates and crystallizes a new morphic field of untrue information about the subject of the gossip. This new morphic field then colors the perspectives of future people that become part of the gossip pool.
The occurrence of synchronicity is a perfect instance of mind syncing with matter. This is a meaningful coincidence whereby the contents of our mind seem to bleed into the world around us. If the contents of our head determine the unfolding of physical consequences, then it behooves us all to fill our mind and being with positive and beneficent thoughts and energies, so as to manifest a harmonious and conducive environment for ourselves and those around us.
The real secret behind the western esoteric tradition, especially alchemy, is the ability of the mind to transmute oneself and the world and the conditions outside us. This is accomplished by emanating divine light and transmuting ourselves and the world around us to a higher octave of vibration. The Kabbalah, Gnostic Christianity, and Sufism all understand and utilize this occult secret. It seems that these secrets have been buried within our esoteric traditions for a long time, and it is only now rising to the surface and being rediscovered. Society is beginning to wake up and realize these long hidden secrets of our connection to the world. We are the makers of our own reality, and all the global thoughts that we have help manifest the events we encounter. There is randomness to our space-time continuum, to be sure! However, our mind adds to this randomness and helps to shape it into what we observe. We were all created as co-creators in this universe, and we are now discovering how powerful our thought really is!
Jonathan McGregor Bethel
Writer, Researcher, Lecturer
Founder, Omega Point Institute
Email:
jonathan.mcgregor.bethel@gmail.com
