Teaching by Aeptha

Extract from

WELLSPRING OF CONSCIOUSNESS

From Between the Worlds Conference,

November 6, 2004

In addition, going back to the whole aspect of operating from the right hemisphere, not only was there group consciousness, but telepathy was considered normal and was not an aberration or unique. Archeologically we are finding indicators that there were Shamans in different cultures 50 to 60,000 years ago, and they were clearly recognized as having a unique relationship to telepathy, but telepathy itself was common. In addition there was the recognition of the inter-connectedness of all life. So there was not a “you” versus “me”. I recognized you as you, but I also recognized you as an integral part of the same lifeline as me. That led to the capacity to communicate, for example, with the plant kingdom, and to understand that a plant had life, but also what it could offer me. Hence there was a widespread understanding of medicinal herbs. There was the eating of animals, but according to cave drawings this was all done ceremonially. It seems there was an agreement with the group mind of the herd from which the animal was taken.

We have also all bought into a conceptualization of time and we assume that that was then, and now is now. There are some theorists who would say that it is all happening simultaneously. So what we refer to as then, is actually now, if we do not see it as separate. One of my favorite things to do at Light Haven is what I call knocking down the sacred cows because we do love our boxes and being boxed in. And as soon as we get used to a new concept we box ourselves in again, and once more we “damper down” our consciousness. I’m not even suggesting that what I’m telling you is truth, whatever that is.  What I am giving you is potentiality. What I am asking you to hear is that we should all open new areas of mind and consciousness. Why do we use only 10% of our brain? Theoretically, from the standpoint of evolution, you develop things when you need them, so, why did we develop this other 90% of the brain if we are not using it? What’s that about?

Carl Jung would say that a myth is a recollection that comes from the collective unconsciousness and that whatever was built around it was because it was trying to articulate a reality that was already there and is being remembered by the group. So when you see a recurring myth or legend across all cultures, pay attention, because there is something there that is agreed upon and known and remembered. In the history of every culture there are accounts of advanced beings that have interacted and communicated with humanity. These beings sometimes take the role of teachers, guides or directors, and their communications can include how humanity was created. They play an integral role in society. Now what is interesting is that when you analyze these stories these advanced beings were recognized as knowing things that the people of the time did not know, and that was not considered odd. What that means is that when you are operating from a universal level of consciousness, or from the right hemisphere, you don’t have a division of energies. In other words it may not have been an energy that they had come across before, but if it was there, then it was part of the natural environment. I may not understand it, I may not ever have encountered it before, but the fact that it is here means it is an extension of what is normal. Now, that is very important.

It was always easy for me to cross between the worlds, and I just didn’t know that it wasn’t considered normal. I just didn’t have the sense to know better. It takes courage to be different because there is huge societal pressure to fit in with the norm. But it was not always this way. There wasn’t this tribal pressure that we have been fed into believing, which by the way is another way of dampering us down, because if you did not believe the way the tribe believed, you were out, and you would die because you could not take care of yourself without the tribe. That was not true in right-brained societies, not according to the various texts and the legends. So who introduced the concept that if you don’t act right you’re out of here?

Another aspect about the legends is that all of the advanced beings, the gods, goddesses and the aliens came from the sky, and they had the ability to move back and forth from the sky; and oftentimes they seemed to have the ability to move back and forth into the earth. And they were mostly corporeal, and if they weren’t corporeal they had the ability to engage in telepathic communication. And that was considered normal, not odd.  Somebody comes knocking at the telepathic door and says, “Let’s talk”, and that was not odd?  In the texts of every tradition, including the early Christian, there are references to angels or advanced beings that could have direct communication with you. And of course we have all heard that the sons of the God found the daughters of the earth favorable.

There are accounts that this wellspring of consciousness brought with it teachings, and I’d like to mention the differences in the teachings because that is important. From a naturalist perspective everything was part of the whole. In other words the collective consciousness was of the belief that, “I may not understand it, but because it’s here, it belongs here, and therefore it is.”  Magical thinking seemed to develop as a result of humanity’s contact with these energies and forces that seemed to bring with them understandings that weren’t readily apparent in the interaction with the environment. “I may not know what you know, but I bet you can teach me. I recognize that I don’t get what you got, but it doesn’t occur to me that I can’t get it if you can teach me or if you can show me.” That’s magical thinking. Supernatural thinking is, “Not only are you different from me and you know more than me, but I can also never know what you know, and I can never understand what you understand.” What does that mean? Well, to me it means that there is a “them” versus “me”. That is a big separation and fragmentation, and that means that I am no longer connected to the whole. I no longer have access to all potentiality. I am limited, I am boxed in, and there is division.

Genetically there is a 2% difference between chimpanzees and us and I’m not even going to say that we are better. I like chimpanzees by the way, I think they’re incredible, but a 2% genetic difference is a pretty significant world of difference. We read accounts of the children that were born out of the interactions with the advanced beings, these gods and the daughters of men, and have you considered where the royal bloodline came from?  For those who study the Sumerian texts and the Annunaki[ii], they would say that it was alien intervention to make better workers out of humans. Who knows? I don’t know, but what we do know is that something dampered us down. Something that was so strong and so powerful that we all not only jumped on board, but we stayed on board! Until the fourth century there were stories concerning these advanced beings where it was understood that they were corporeal. In the fourth century they were made ethereal, and not only ethereal, but unattainable and inaccessible, except by priests, shamans and the wise men. But the difference was that these people used to be the bridge to bring back the gnosis so that the people could empower themselves; it wasn’t at the exclusion of the general population. But it changed when this advanced knowledge and contact with ethereal energies became inaccessible and something that only a few could do.

I strongly speculate that the dampering down was about control. It doesn’t take too far of a stretch to go there does it? I know that multi dimensions are still available to us. If you haven’t had the experience of them then you know in your heart it is true. Not only are those multi dimensions available, but we are the growing tip, and because we are all inter-connected, if we access those realms it will change the tide of consciousness on this planet. And I would also say that I think there are those energies that would just as soon not see that happen, some in corporeal form and some not, and I’m not talking about good and evil, although that was another thing that was laid upon us, but not in the way that most of us have been taught this concept.

It was recognized that these advanced beings had different functions like in a hierarchy. There were watchers and messengers; there were the high ranking advanced beings and the subordinates below them. They had different roles and different functions, and it wasn’t that some were good and some were bad. What is interesting from a mythological standpoint is that there were those advanced beings that not only wanted to interact with humanity but also wanted to teach them, and there were those who didn’t. One of the stories is that two hundred angels wanted to interact with and teach humanity. They were going to wed the women and teach them. Go back and read the stories: the pillar of fire leading the Israelites through the wilderness in Exodus; the exchange of magical tricks. What was in that Arc of the Covenant that every time it was touched people died if they didn’t wear special suits? Wake up; we don’t have to go into supernatural thinking here.

I don’t want to box anybody in because I am very aware that language is powerful, but there are indications that there used to be a universal language which was more like Khoisan[iii] which seemed to be a natural language with guttural sounds and clicks. The hyoid bone[iv] in the throat is a pretty soft bone and it will decompose relatively quickly, so it’s not really clear how long the hyoid bone has been there, but what this bone allowed for was a level of nuance in language, not only nuance, but a different capacity. There are also indicators that originally we didn’t have a tongue, but that developed later. The five vowel sounds can be made without the tongue, and the consonants came with the formation of the tongue. The point is that the power of words is very well recognized. We also know that there are many accounts where words and sounds were used to lift up and move megaton stones. So language, the power of the word, and the power of sound was very important.

What I’m trying to say is that we are conditioned to operate literally, and we are conditioned to operate in relationship to this dimension. I know that we have to have language in order to create a boundary, or we are just wandering around on the endless sea. On the other hand, I wonder if we have unconsciously participated in a level of dampering down by participating in language, because language became a means of control, and that is why we developed supernatural thinking. If you say “hell” to most people, it conjures up a picture of fire, not some place you want to spend the evening, much less eternity, right? But truly, who has ever been to hell? Who has been to heaven? These are archetypal words that you have not experienced directly. You can conjure up images, but you cannot experience them. Language became a way that separated, that controlled and that dampered down. I am constantly exploring the way that I define everything in my world through language because I know that the way I frame things in my consciousness affects how I interface.

Watch how you define in language. Watch how you perceive reality. As a community we agree about the interconnectedness of all life, that there is a life stream, that there is God/Goddess/Spirit in all things, and yet I think there is a part of us that mostly operates in fragmented consciousness. We have conditioned ourselves, or “languaged” ourselves, so that we’re automatically fragmented.

There is a Gnostic text of Mary Magdalen, and the teaching given by Magdalen is about Gnosis. It was said that after coming out of the tomb Jesus had contact with Mary and the teachings he gave was how to achieve enlightenment, the capacity to transcend these dimensions, and it was about Gnosis. Gnosis comes from the Greek word, “nous”, which is associated with knowledge, but not knowledge as we understand it. It was universal life force, creation, that which created. For those of you who are familiar with the Qabbalah, you know that Gnosis sits in Chokmah, wisdom, which is joined with Binah, the womb. It is creation. It is associated with Sophia. In the Gnostic myths it is said that Sophia came down and some say, “left Her essence”. Gnosis is beyond knowledge and information. It is even beyond an experience, although an experience would be closer to Gnosis because an important aspect of Gnostic teaching was that you can hear truths, but until you experience them, you cannot achieve Gnosis. In order to reach your truth you have to go through the experience. In other words it can’t just be some hypothetical concept. But Gnosis goes even further because in truth it is the life-stream. It’s all creation and all potentiality.

The implication of Gnosis is that the deeper you can go into a multi-dimensional reality and not be confined to the belief that what we experience here is all there is, then we can have greater and greater access into that stream that is not outside of us but is within us and all around us, and is that in which we live and move and have our being. That almost says it all.

“In the beginning was the Word.” Make no mistake, words are living forces. They are vortexes, wormholes; they are doorways into multi dimensions. That was why in the story of the Tower of Babel they built a tower to reach the gods. In the way that we do we have interpreted this story literally, and we suppose that there was one mother language and it was broken up and fragmented into multiple languages. Maybe so, but on another level of understanding it could be that we knew the power of the word, and we were building up an understanding in unified consciousness, and when it was broken up we forgot. We became fragmented in the use and the power of those words to move consciousness through dimensions, because what makes sound is breath. In truth, they are not two separate things; they are aspects of the same gem of wisdom. To “breathe upon the waters”, the “power of the word”, these have to do with creation, and not only creation, but also the movement of consciousness or Gnosis, which is creation.

I know that when we speak of language we are framing our agreed-upon reality, both as individuals and as a group. The advanced Beings that are attributed with being supportive of humanity taught language, the alphabet, numerology, as well as astronomy, because they were teaching about interfacing with the energies that were moving in and out. There are structures that date back 20,000 years where the perspective could not have been achieved from the earth plane; you had to have been outside the earth. A planet was not just something that was floating out there that you saw occasionally. It was recognized as a living being that you had a relationship with, and you connected with, and you exchanged energies with. Words were not just something you said to conceptualize an idea, like, “Go down the street”. It was recognized that you could have a relationship with words, and therefore there was an exchange of energy. Have you ever thought about the exchange of energy we have with our spoken word? We see it as a one-way street. For those who have watched the political scene in the past month, you will have seen how there are those who clearly know how to manipulate with the power of the word and the sound of the voice. Another aspect of speech is the modulation of the voice.

We enter into our meditation or our prayer work and we may have a gnosis, an experience, an embodiment of understandings or of wisdom. But we are also participating with an exchange of energy. That was one of the first things I learned early on as a medium. I would have beings that would come to me and want to “come in”, not because I was so nice, or to give me some great teaching, but because of the experience of being in a body. And a lot of times I said no, by the way, for lots of different reasons, but in that way I learned that we exchange energies. In other words there is nothing that is a one-way street. That understanding has opened up a lot of doors for me because I learned that even though we are exchanging these energies, we still communicate in a way that we understand, but if we open up to other potentialities we will learn that there is another way that they communicate with us. I’ll give you an example. When we started this class this morning, I rang the bell, and that particular vibration wasn’t for you. It was at the request of the spirits that are present because it was feeding them. They liked it. I’m saying that because sometimes we move into our work and we think it is all about us. It is about communication, and that was an understanding our ancestors had, that it is never a one-way street. Everything is interactive, an exchange of energy, because we’re all part of the One, part of the whole. That means that you have access to incredible levels of vitality.  Do you know that there are over fifty-two words for what we call prana or chi? Over fifty-two to describe the life force, the life stream.

Do you wonder why we were dampered down to begin with? I’m not speaking of humanity so much as I am speaking of the earth as whole of which we are a part, as are all other aspects seen and unseen in the earth. By many accounts the dampering was because of the potentiality that is held in our consciousness. Put metaphorically, it is like we are this incredible, very dry tinder; lots of wonderful wood that has got spark going but hasn’t quite caught fire; but when it does it will be a light to behold!

I think that the ability to communicate with the whole was diverted, but it’s still there. I experience it, little tiny snippets here and there, those moments where I step into the stream. But I think it was diverted by a level of consciousness that did not necessarily set out to harm us. It was more like what we did when we colonized new continents and there was an exploitive component, and we did it because we could, but also because we did not know better, or did not care. So I think there was a diversion that happened, and then several things came into play, and then there was actually disagreement between these advanced beings. We were caught in those disagreements and it was a power struggle. If you go back and study the legends and myths it seems that after the last cataclysmic loss, which we all know was around twelve or thirteen thousand years ago, certain things were set in place, like the Shemsu-Hor[v] from the Egyptian system. There was still minimal contact from advanced Beings but the legends state that the gods left us. Go back to around four or five thousand B.C. and it seems that there are some indicators that these particular Beings that were involved in this exchange moved on, and what was left was a genetic mutation. I must add that I absolutely know that it isn’t something that is not available to us now, but it is something that we have been conditioned to be separated from.

I will leave you with a thought from the Book of Jubilees[vi]. This came from The Gospel of Thomas, which was one of the Gnostic books:

“We come from the Light, the place where the Light came into being on its own accord and established itself and became manifest through our image. The original Light was self-creating.”

Thank you all very much.