The Hero's Journey

Extract from my paper on which I based my talk at New Horizons, St Anne's, in October 2016.

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......The Truth movement has been wearing away at the world

of corporate power and corruption since the early days of the

internet and 9/11, building a solid, but regrettably still small,

core of awakened souls who have sought to expose the dark

underbellyof our enemy.

But in the last couple of years things have begun to move,

and not just from the work of the Truth movement.

It is my firm conviction that the core process should be

seen as a battle between evolutionary drives and the attempted

social conditioning and control of the globalist elites. The

evolutionary drives must win or we are lost.

In the nineties I was involved in a project known as the

Hundredth Monkey Camps. These were a series of three

meditation camps held over consecutive years seeking to build a

‘morphic field’ of international co-operation and reciprocity.

You are probably familiar with the ‘Hundredth Monkey’

concept, the idea that when a certain critical number of people

with an idea or understanding is reached, that this idea will

spread through the collective unconscious and others in distant

parts will pick it up. ‘Nothing can stop an idea whose time has

come’ sums up the aspiration of this concept, if I may

paraphrase Victor Hugo, although it is perhaps not so simple.

My book ‘Waking The Monkey! ~ Becoming The

Hundredth Monkey (A Book for Spiritual Warriors)’ details my

experience of the first camp of 1995 in a stream of

consciousness.

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I would like to be able to say that the project was a

‘success’,but some of the outcomes were perhaps unintended,

as indeed often happens with experiments, and the organisers

had this billed as ‘An experiment in consciousness’, so these

unintended consequences need to be considered.

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The seeking of agreement through dialogue to create the

morphic resonance thought necessary for the ‘Hundredth

Monkey Effect’ was a key part of the ‘Allting’ (from the Norse

term Allthingi meaning a moot or Parliament) process that we

went through, the sharing of inner experiences and feelings from

our meditations on world issues.

It would be a long time before I faced the conclusion that

universal agreement cannot ever be fully achieved without

coercion. There will always be different interests, and these

may conflict. A point we are obliged to face now, at this crucial

time, and one to which I will return.

But my own process during that seminal week was one

that became a Rite of Passage in which I faced my own demons

and made some progress in both mastering them and finding my

own Agency, as it is termed in the psychological sciences, the

sense that one has the power to effect change in one’s life andthe world through insight, choice and action. The understanding

that you are a force of nature.

But how can Agency be found? And how does it relate to

‘World Healing’?

It was not until much later, and after I had completed my

book that I looked in detail at the Hero’s Journey, as it is named

by Joseph Campbell, the late mythologist and philosopher, and

realised that my own experiences at each of the camps had

followed this arc.

This proto- or Mono-myth in its simplest form can be

summarised as ‘Fate chooses naïve stripling to face challenges

or danger, stripling despite inner doubts and actual failings

achieves the goal, slays the dragon, usually with a little bit of

advice and assistance from a wise elder, who can’t do the job

himself because it is as much about the stripling finding his own

inner power as it is about killing the external dragon.’

In the infinite elaborations which different versions have

made of this arc there are usually included unexpected setbacks

or reversals of fate, failures after apparent success which have to

be fought back from, nemeses who appear to win and have to be

overcome, visits to the Underworld, the Dark Night of the Soul,

magical spirit guides who give healing, and mystical inner

worlds of the Hero himself.

A little graphic of this I found on the internet.

The overcoming of these challenges will in the end

empower the Hero with confidence and self belief ~ Agency ~

although this has often been gained at a price that has been paid

through the pain of the ordeals that have been endured. Odin

had toto hang on a tree for nine days and nights, as well as give an

eye as the price of wisdom for a draft from the Well of Mimir.

Often the Hero’s final journey will be to the Otherworld where

he is healed by the powers of that realm. We see this in the

hobbits as they return to the Shire and then in Frodo who leaves

Middle Earth for Eldamar after the successful quest of the Ring

and the Fall of Sauron.

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My own early interest in Heroic literature such as the

Arthurian cycles, the Odyssey and Tolkien had led on to what

one might now call ‘New Ageism’ in the late eighties and early

nineties which had deep roots in Theosophy and the Occult

Revival of the 19thC fin-de-siecle a century before, but also

spiced up with input from the post-psychedelic ‘Human

Potential’ movement, and ‘channelling’ material, which also had

links, not fully recognised by me at the time, into social

engineering and military intelligence agencies.

The ‘Hundredth Monkey’ events were amazing, intense

events in which to participate, but it eventually came to seem to

me that there was an element of this social engineering

embedded into them. Some of the organisers had participated in

Erhardt Training Seminars (EST), a controversial and

challenging training program which some have criticised as

being akin to brainwashing in the way in which participants are

forced to conform through extreme social pressure.

This was a thread which seemed to have found its way into

the Monkey Camps. Now, I will acknowledge that a certain

degree of organisation and procedural integration are necessary

when you have a hundred or more people in a field for a week

trying to perform various group activities. And this is fine.

Rather it was on the meta-levels of aspiration and intention

that the assumptions were embedded.

Ruminating on and digesting as many sides of a major

world issue as possible in a formal meditational and ritual

setting is an activity which may have subtle effects on that issue

and indeed the world; but my own feelings about this are that

those effects are at least as likely to be worked out through the

participants involvement in the world over time, as they are

through direct resonance immediately on the particular situation

which is focussed upon.

Certainly this is the manner in which I have found my own

experience progress, and the principle thrust of my book.

However, there do appear to have been some rather unexpected

consequencesof the group meditational work that took place,

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and the importance of these, subtle though they may have been,

has grown in my mind over the years, but also more recently.

Firstly, let me pose my principle hypothesis.

Although the ‘2012 Node’ as I shall call it was vastly

overhyped and misrepresented by frauds and well meaning

amateurs alike, it is my firm conviction that we have been going

through, and are going through, a ‘fractal time event’ in our

recent and current time frame.

While on the one hand the predictions, which ranged from

catastrophe (such as portrayed in Roland Emerich’s ‘2012’) to

mass awakening or enlightenment (as suggested by such as Ken

Carey, of ‘Strarseed Transmissions’ fame, and many others in

the New Age fraternity) have all signally failed to come to pass,

nonetheless 2012 was still the end date of the Mayan calendar

Long Count which began in 3113 BC. Interestingly researchers

have concluded that the Long Count was not first instigated on

that date, but that it was retrofitted, one might say, some time

perhaps a couple of thousand or so years later.

Thus one might say that the Mayans, or proto-Mayans.....

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