Fractal Enlightenment

Can humans bend the barriers between space and time to enter the realms of the spirit world? Do we have the ability to control the weather, divination, the interpretation of dreams, astral projection, and traveling to upper and lower worlds?

Shamans have been noted to do much more than that. They have the ability to diagnose and cure human suffering and, in some societies, the ability to cause suffering, like the tantrics in India who are known to curse people and perform black magic in return for money.

All this is believed to be accomplished by traversing the axis mundi and forming a special relationship with, or gaining control over, spirits. What exactly is the Axis Mundi?

The Axis Mundi

The Axis Mundi or the World Tree has its roots reaching down into the lower domains of ghosts and spirits, and branches stretching up towards god. It is an ubiquitous symbol that crosses human cultures, it expresses a point of connection between sky and earth where the four compass directions meet.

At this point travel and correspondence is made between higher and lower realms, communication from lower realms may ascend to higher ones and blessings from higher realms may descend to lower ones and be disseminated to all.

About Shamans and Shamanism!

Shamanism refers to a range of traditional beliefs and practices concerned with communication with the spirit world. Practitioners of shamanism are known as Shamans, they engage in various processes and techniques to incite a state of trance, such as singing, dancing, taking entheogens, meditating and drumming.

Once this state of consciousness is reached it allows a person to traverse different realms and dimensions. Shamanism has been prevalent since ancient times, although Christianity has been one of the main reasons that Shamanism went on a decline, with the Shamans accused as Devil worshipers and witchdoctors. Most of them were killed, religious practices were outlawed and temples were destroyed.

I have picked up an excerpt from Daniel Pinchbeck’s Breaking Open the Head, which speaks about his Shamanic experiences.

“While researching, I visited shamans in West Africa, Mexico, and the Ecuadorean Amazon – not to mention the fabulous neo-shamanic Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.

In Gabon, a small country on the Equator, I went through a Bwiti initiation, eating Iboga, a psychedelic root bark inducing a trance that lasts for thirty hours.

The bark powder temporarily releases the soul from the body, allowing the initiate entry into the African spiritual cosmos, where he is shown the outline of his fate.

Through direct experience, Pinchbeck learned that Shamanism was a real phenomenon, that direct access to the spiritual world is available to anybody who is willing to explore for themselves and escape the prevailing orthodoxies, the “irrational rationality” of the current system.

He supports the perspective of Christ in the Gnostic “Gospel of Thomas,” who said: “Open the door for yourself, so you will know what is.”

I was introduced to the concept of the Noosphere, a concept that I had realized but did not know the name of. The Noosphere represents a major evolutionary alteration of human consciousness.

Most of us would have heard of 2012, the end of the Mayan calendar, the end of Terrence Mckenna’s Timewave, the ascension by Michael Sharp, the end of the world for some and last but not the least is the Noosphere.

The elaboration of mystical contemplation of every kind, the definitions and explorations of cosmic consciousness, and the techniques of yoga and meditation are all considered as providing clues as to the nature of the forthcoming evolutionary shift, the noosphere.

“The coming of a spiritual age must be preceded by appearance of an increasing number of individuals who are no longer satisfied with the normal intellectual, vital, and psychical existence of man, but perceive that a greater evolution is the real goal of humanity and attempt to effect it in themselves, to lead others to it, and to make it the recognized goal of the race.”

“In proportion as they succeed and the degree to which they carry this evolution, the yet unrealized potentiality which they represent will become the actual possibility of the future.”
p. xii

“The ordinary man lives in his own personal consciousness knowing things through his mind and senses as they are touched by a word which is outside him, outside his consciousness. When the consciousness subtilizes, it begins to come into contact with things in a much more direct way, not only with their forms and outer impacts but with what is inside them, but still the range may be small. But the consciousness can also widen and begin to be first in direct contact with a universe of range of things in the world, then to contain them as it were – as it is said to see the world in oneself – and to be in a way identified with it. To see all things in the self and the self in all things – to be aware of one being everywhere, aware directly of the different planes, their forces, their beings – that is universalization.”
XXII p.317, quoted in Essential Aurobindo.

According to these thoughts and words, all of us have our individual minds and conscious. But some people have managed to tap into a collective consciousness, each one of us have the power to attain higher levels of consciousness, by different methods and means to reach this goal in human evolution.

So when you understand that the universe itself is conscious and each one of us are the same, you tend to look for answers and when this search begins, you set yourself on a wonderful journey where you can bend the space time continuum, experience telepathy just like how you connect to Google to do a search you would need to tune in to this consciousness and use it for the benefit of yourself and everyone around you.

If you remember I had spoken about being spiritual in societies filled with chaos with Nisargadatta Maharaj’s “I Am” theory, its one of the easiest ways to begin this journey into oneself. You can also read more about the I Am theory and how it applies across all religions. So bon voyage people lets begin making the world a better place by starting with ourselves!

I am not too much of a commercial movie buff, if I was it could have probably done this blog some good in the sense we could have watched a movie every other week and written a stupid review about how good or bad it was, get some traffic from the search engines for the millions of people who want to read about it, but lets put that aside for now.

Last weekend a couple of friends were over and they had not watched one of my favorite movies, Hair. The movie is based on the 1968 broadway musical, Hair and was released in 1979. The main story line is about a Vietnam draftee who decides to see a couple of places in America before he goes to war. The movie is anti-war, pro-freedom, talks about drugs, sex, some very good powerful music and dance.

The first time I watched hair, the magnificent synchronized dancing, visuals and a fascinating story line captivated me. But now after watching Hair for the second time I realized a couple of things that passed me by because of the above factors, the lyrics of some of the songs in the movie are extremely powerful.Let me start of with, “Easy to Be Hard”, at this point of time in the movie that really seems so contradictory to the characters they are playing.

How can people be so heartless
How can people be so cruel
Easy to be hard
Easy to be cold

How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no

And especially people
Who care about strangers
Who care about evil
And social injustice
Do you only
Care about the bleeding crowd?
How about a needing friend?
I need a friend

How can people be so heartless
You know I’m hung up on you
Easy to give in
Easy to help out

The next song is one of my personal favorites, its called “Walking in Space”

Doors locked (doors locked)
Blinds pulled (blinds pulled)
Lights low (lights low)
Flames high (flames high)

My body (my body)
My body

My body (my body)
My body

My body
Is walking in space
My soul is in orbit
With God face to face

Floating, flipping
Flying, tripping

Tripping from Pottsville to Mainline
Tripping from Mainline to Moonville

(Tripping from “Pot”sville to Starlight
Tripping from Starlight to Moonville)

On a rocket to
The Fourth Dimension
Total self awareness
The intention

Hair does have a very interesting storyline if you think its just a musical. Although the story is similar, but has quite a few differences from the broadway musical. The movie will make you laugh and the end is rather depressing. But on in all you really ned to watch hair, heres one of the dancing videos for you at the start of the movie.

You can also buy the movie if you like.