A Letter to Blossom Goodchild

The subject of this blog is the Great Awakening of humanity.

At the Hundredth Monkey event in 1995 which is the background source and inspiration for this blog I encountered, first hand, for the first time, instances of channelled information, having read about this in 'The Only Planet of Choice' and other works.

Channelled information is controversial, for several reasons.  Some hold that the channellers are simply fraudulent, others that they are just expressing ideas from their unconscious, whether they understand or acknowledge that to be the case, perhaps they are like the voices some people hear.  One further interpretation is that these are indeed beings of some non-physical nature who are supplying these messages, but that they cannot be relied upon as they are mischievous or even of evil intent.  Others may be bona fide, but how do we tell?  

The Master Jesus said 'By their fruits shall you know them' and that is a hard statement to disagree with.  Crop circles, for instance, may have examples of hoaxes, but there are also many which encode extensive high level mathematical information, and have unusual physical characteristics which defy conventional explanation, so it is hard to dismiss these.  On the other hand, some channelled sources make claims or promises which are not fulfilled.  What should we make of these?  I recently encountered the writings of Blossom Goodchild on her site 

http://www.blossomgoodchild.com/  

Referenced from Ron Van Dyke

http://www.youtube.com/user/paradoxman316

who has been posting daily videos on his meditations since the beginning of the 9th Wave of the Mayan calendar earlier this year.

Blossom has been having serious issues with the fact that the supposed Galactic Federation of Light, who are ostensibly the source of her channelled messages failed to deliver on a promise that 'pillars of light' would appear and be visible on Earth recently.  She has now questioned the reliability of this source, and it looks like she may have broken off contact with it/them for the time being.  There are numerous channelled sources making comment on the progress of the Awakening transition which we have entered and are experiencing, but my own personal response to these is that mostly they generate false expectations by delivering versions of events which do not correlate with actuality, and thus give false hope.

My own perception and understanding of what is at the core of the Awakening process is that it is about recognising deception.  We see this in Egypt for instance.  The military deceived the population, lying about the future path of democracy, and then reneging on it, so the people have had to challenge, again and again.

The governments of the West are in many ways even more deeply embroiled in deception of the population through their controlled media.  The people are largely enthralled by these lies, and so will remain enslaved by them until the pain of disillusionment finally leads to them waking up from the sleep of wishful thinking.

As a meditation teacher once said to me: 'Test everything!'  This is what they do in science, they put up an hypothesis, and then test it.  If the prediction fails to be confirmed, then the theory has been falsified; this is the basis of scientific theory, as summarised by Karl Popper.  

When predictions fail, the hypothesis is wrong.  Simple.

When sources claim that something will happen, and it doesn't, then that source is wrong.  When it blames us for its failure, we have the choice of either continuing to believe it, or we challenge it.  Continuing to believe a lie when it has been demonstrated is playing into the hands of the deceivers.  Challenging it is the only valid way forward of growth.

I absolutely respect that Blossom Goodchild has challenged the lie which was presented to her, and has apparently now withdrawn from the conversation with these deceivers.  In so doing she has taken a step forward and has expanded her awareness.  It is an experience of sadness, but also one of freedom.

Only when we refuse to be entrapped by lies will we be able to see the Truth.  This is the lesson of this experience.

My letter to Blossom Goodchild follows below.

Dear Blossom,

Greetings.

I have only recently started following your postings of your conversations with the Federation of Light after I heard Ron van Dyke talk about them.  Firstly may I say I acknowledge your integrity in what you have done, and are doing with your work.

Clearly, things are difficult with this contact at present.  I have had some experience with channelled beings in the past, and know that things may not always be as they are at first presented.

The question of unfulfilled promises is a serious one, and I deeply respect the fact that you have challenged these beings as to why they have failed to manifest these promises.  Your previous posting in which you first asked them about why these things did not happen seemed to me to amount to these beings blaming you, us, for what they had not done, for why they had broken their promise.

It is my conclusion from this, and other previous experiences going back many years, that there are non material or extraterrestrial beings who purposely mislead us in order to cause us to lose our faith.  The greater purpose behind this is that we will learn to see through lies and thus be stronger through our more developed perception.  It is a part of the Great Deception which the human race has to learn to recognise.

I believe that we will not see the arrival of extraterrestrial beings or other greater manifestations until we have achieved the transition and transformation which we are all looking for.  Leading us to believe that there will be manifestations which will lead to mass awakening and so forth is encouraging us to believe in outside interventions and thus disempower our own self belief. 

It may be the case (I hope not but have to acknowledge the possibility) that the Great Awakening will not actually take place until the complete triumph of the powers of darkness over the world.  It may be that only this will cause sufficient pain to awaken all those who deny or avoid what is going on presently, who feel that there is no point, or that it is a hopeless task.  Perhaps when they see that all that was warned of by the Awakening movement has come about, they will realise that something must be done, that they, we, all of us must do something, must awake, speak the truth of it all and stand up against the lies which control our world, following paths of freedom, responsibility and, above all, love.

There is interesting work on this subject of what John Lash calls the 'Archons', who seek to subvert the spirituality of the human race in the following links, which you may or may not be aware of.

Interview discussion on his writings about the Archons, sources within the Nag Hammadi Gnostic texts.

http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2011/10/RIR-111002.php

Website with more interviews

http://www.futureprimitive.org/john-lash-not-in-his-image/

General website about uncovering the lies of history and creating positive myths and direction for the future
http://www.metahistory.org/

I hope you find this interesting.  My own blogs can be accessed on the following links
Excerpts and discussion around the subject of stimulating the Great Awakening from my book Waking The Monkey (yet to be published) about my experiences at the 1995 Hundredth Monkey world healing camp.
http://wakingthemonkey.blogspot.com/

My general blog, with some excerpts from the book, and other thoughts about the process we are in at present.
http://cosmicclaire.blogspot.com/

Best regards, and I hope you come to your own resolution on these issues which we all find so difficult.

Cosmic Claire

Shamanism

What is Shamanism?  I am prompted to write this piece since I was approached by a student of film production at the local University this morning, asking me if I would be willing to be interviewed for the documentary she is making for her coursework.

Interesting…  This was in response to a small ad I had placed in the local wholefood shop offering an introduction to Shamanism.  So the way this has happened is like an example of Shamanism in itself.  I put out an offer, a question to the Universe, and the Universe responded.

A mere chance connection, you may say.  No such thing in the world of the Shaman.  The Shamanic world is one being, a spiritual entity of which we all are simply nodes, monads reflecting the Universe back to itself, fragments of the hologrammatic unity.  Break a holographic plate into a thousand pieces and each shard will be found to have a complete, if miniature image of the original whole.

Shamanism is about recognising that wholeness, of finding a path of reconnection.  The Hundredth Monkey healing camp was essentially about that, seeking it for world healing.

People will have many images of Shamanism: native American ‘witchdoctors’, the original people of Australia following the songlines, getting in touch with the Dreamtime, Merlin of the ancient Britons summoning spirits and demons.  These are all part of Shamanism, but it is important not to mistake the images and the practices for what it is.

It is a path of getting in touch with the Universe, or remembering who we are.  It is The Path of Soul Awakening.  We may use drumming, dancing, chanting, meditation, entheogens and anything which opens the doors of perception and makes the scales fall from our eyes so that we may see a deeper and truer vision of reality.

Reality is a living thing.  The Universe is a living and conscious being which is mirrored in each and every one of us.

We presently face the greatest challenge which could be imagined.  For whatever reason, and we can perhaps discuss what that is later, our society, our world has become disconnected from the source of all that is.  It has become mired in illusion.  It does not feel gratitude and love for our Mother the Earth who had nurtured us, it does not recognise the pervading spiritual power of our Father the Sun which gives his energy that we may be sustained.  Instead our civilisation, if it can be called as such, is trapped in the extremes of separation, which sees the World as no more than matter to be used and then discarded.  But even in that view Matter is a word which comes from the Latin meaning Mother.  To use your Mother in such a way is the greatest disrespect.  She is not only our Mother, but our Sister too, a fellow child of the Universe.

What have they done to the Earth?

What have they done to our fair Sister?

Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her,

Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn, 

Tied her with fences

And dragged her down

Jim Morrison

Not all Shamans are medicine men or women from traditional indigenous cultures.  Jim Morrison was probably the greatest Shaman of popular culture in the last half century.  Poet and performer he confronted and awoke his audience with sometimes terrifying visions that unnerved the establishment.  The power of his presence was surely unrivalled in his generation and since.  He contacted and manifested a transpersonal energy.  The Doors were named after Aldous Huxley’s book ‘The Doors of Perception’ about the authors experiences with mescaline, the sacred entheogen of the native American Shamans of the south west.  The first track on their debut album was entitled ‘Break on Through (to the Other Side)’.

This is all about getting in touch with a reality which is beyond the surface, beyond the superficialities of conventional existence.

Consensus reality is all very well for the mundane and even necessary functions of material existence, but that is a small and narrowly confined circle.  If we allow ourselves to be persuaded that it is all that there is then we will be like the prisoner who does not believe there is anything beyond his cell.  To begin to understand the limitless extent of the Universe beyond the horizons we experience we must first accept that we know but a miniscule fraction of what is.  The hubris of the modern technocracy which rules the mind of the world is to try to persuade us that it has all knowledge, or that at least such an attainment was within its reach.

Lord Kelvin said such a thing in about 1895, claiming that there were no great mysteries left to solve, that all which remained for science was to dot the i’s and cross the t’s.  Within a decade Einstein had proposed Relativity and Planck the beginnings of Quantum Physics.  This is the fate which befalls any who dare to make claims of this nature.

The ancients knew the truth, that consciousness is the foundation from which all else flows.  That the Universe is a Great Mind in which we are thoughts.  To believe that we are trapped in matter is the great delusion.  The purpose of Shamanic practice is to free us from the constraints of this delusion, to break the bonds of the brainwashing and mind control which has been placed on the world.

I said near the beginning that we could discuss the cause of this.  In some ways it is perhaps of little consequence.  Perhaps this enslavement is perpetrated by those who having forgotten who they truly are and seek to hide in even greater forgetfulness.  Perhaps it is simply a test put on us by the Great Mind in order that we may learn and grow.  Either way we are confronted by this challenge, to break out of the cage of thought limitation which surrounds us.  To challenge what we are told to believe, and believe what our inner senses tell us, that the Universe is magical beyond belief, that thought and consciousness is a foundation beyond the gross nature of projected matter and most important of all, that there is purpose to our existence, in defiance of the Religion of Meaninglessness which extends its thrall ever further over the minds of the human race.