Ascension:
The Quest For the Holy Grail

by Laura Knight-Jadczyk

The regular readers of our websites are already aware that we are seekers of what is generally called "spiritual advancement."  And, like many of you, we have been in this seeking mode as long as we can remember - from birth, even.  Also, like many of you, in our search for "spiritual truths," we have encountered the term "Ascension" repeatedly in the course of this Quest.  And finally, like many of you, we have come across hundreds, if not thousands, of definitions of the word, and purported techniques to accomplish this most desirable objective.

In seeking a concise definition and philosophy behind it, I, Laura, decided to search the internet for clues.  I typed the word "ascension" along with the word "spiritual" into a popular search engine.  It returned 115,000 pages for my edification.

Why, at this present moment in history, is so much attention being focused on this subject?

Well, we all know the answer to that question.  It is because of the state of the World in which we live. 

The Laws of Probability tell us that, without any intelligent input, 50% of the time the events in our world would lead to great good and benefit for mankind.  In a strictly mechanical way, life in our world ought to have manifested a sort of "equilibrium."  Factoring in intelligent decisions to do good would bring this average up to about 70%.  That would mean that humanity would have advanced over the millennia to a state of existence where good and positive things happen in our lives more often than "negative" or "bad" things.  In this way, many of the problems of humanity would have been effectively solved.  War and conflict would be a rarity, at least 70 percent of the earth's population would have decent medical care, a comfortable roof over their heads, and sufficient nutritious food so that death by disease or starvation would be almost unheard of.

The facts are, however, quite different.

And it is the facts of life that stimulate certain, unique people, to seek answers to why things are the way they are.  So, even though you, the reader, are most likely aware of these facts - since you are, in fact, interested in spiritual matters - let's just have a quick look at some of them.

More than 840,000,000 people on the Earth suffer from hunger.  That's about three times the population of the entire USA.  This is chronic, persistent hunger, which kills 24,000 people every day, or over 8 million each year.  Three of four who die from starvation are younger than five years old.

According to the Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century, during the past 100 years there have been right at 2 billion deaths resulting from war (including civilians), tyrannical governments, and man-made famine.  When these figures are broken down into deaths caused by Communism vs. non-Communism, they are almost equal, with the figures slightly higher for non-Communism which may surprise advocates of Capitalism.

Turning to mortality statistics that are NOT related to war and famine, we find that it is a bit difficult to get an actual number because the stats are nearly always expressed in terms of percentages rather than in hard population numbers.  One gets the feeling that the actual count is so frightening that this approach is used for the express purpose of avoiding having to face the facts.  One thing we do know is that deaths from cardiovascular diseases and stroke are the leading cause of death in 31 of the 35 Western Hemisphere countries that report disease related mortality statistics.  The highest mortality rates are found in the English-speaking Caribbean, USA, Canada, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.  Mortality rates from these causes are increasing in the Central American and Latin Caribbean regions as they come more and more under the sway of Western capitalism.

What we are talking about above are the "quiet" statistics, from our present reality.  Even now it is easy to forget that there were 65 million deaths from WW II alone and that deaths from disease and starvation continue as a quiet, steady, drum beat of increasing mortality behind the trumpeting of school shootings, sensational murder trials, and little Cuban boys who become the center of international custody disputes.

I don’t think that one single person on this planet will disagree that they want a better life for themselves and their children; and most of them will add that they do not presently have the capacity to make it a reality.  Except for a very small minority of very sick people, I don’t think anybody likes to see misery and suffering, disease and death and despair, in any context.  And again we must ask: if these things are so detestable to human beings at large, if so many people are working and thinking and praying to improve the conditions of our world, why isn’t it happening?

Seekers of Ascension are always aware of these things, and they are asking "What is the origin of all the misery and suffering?  Does it just happen?  Do people and only people cause others to suffer?  Is it that God is good, but allows bad things to happen?"

"Don't forget the power of prayer," we are told by our religious leaders, or "positive thinking," as we are told by the New Age gurus.  The only problem is, prayers and positive thinking do not seem to have improved the world very much on the occasions when it is certain that nearly every human being was praying for a certain outcome.

Jesus promised: "If any two of you shall agree and ask...  it shall be done." (Matt 18:19)  That's a promise.  What do you want or need?  Just ask!  But it doesn't work and we see it!

Over sixty million people died because God didn't do what everybody thought he should do.  C.S. Lewis struggled with this issue in the latter part of his life.  He saw clearly that, before World War II, practically every human being on the planet was praying - to Jesus, God the Father, the Virgin Mary, Allah, Buddha and whoever else you can name or mention, so all the bases were covered - that this terrible thing would not happen.  The memory of the previous “Great War” was still fresh in the mind of mankind.  They remembered the horrible carnage and vowed, never again!

In the end, after the most mighty cry of prayer in human memory, rising from the earth, almost one-third of the world was uninhabitable and sixty-five million human beings were dead.  That was God’s answer to prayer.  That was the result of the "power of positive thinking."

THINK ABOUT IT.

Throughout history we find one group praying to their god to protect them from the depredations of another group.  The other group is praying just as fervently that their depredations will be successful.  When one group succeeds in killing another, is that proof that its god is supreme?  What then happens if the members of the successful group are then reincarnated into the group that was defeated?  This is not a rhetorical question since a rather influential book was written about the great numbers of Jews who died in the holocaust now being reincarnated as Christians.  There has also been some suggestion that many Nazis are now being reincarnated as Jews.  What then, does such an idea do to the concept of “my god is the only right one?”

I can assure the reader from my own experience as a hypnotherapist, that every single case I have worked with in terms of “past life therapy,” has demonstrated a “string” of "past lives" in such variety of nationality and religious orientation, that it literally makes a joke of anyone stating with absolute certainty, that their beliefs or orientation now, are the only right ones.  It is evident that those who declaim against another group most vehemently, will most certainly find themselves a member of that very group in the next “round” of incarnation.  And frankly, it doesn’t matter if the reader believes this or not; there is sufficient clinical evidence that it is so, that if presented in a court of law as circumstantial evidence, it would be so overwhelming that the judge and the jury would be persuaded of the truth of it even without a “smoking gun.”

This begs the question of why people cannot remember the previous lessons in past lives; why the wisdom of the soul is not available to the person.  If humans have souls or spirits, why is the knowledge of past karmic cycles not part of a person's wisdom?

What can answer the question as to why human beings engage in activities that will only trap them here for a myriad of lifetimes?  Is this planet nothing more than a huge recycling bin; no-matter what people do, there will always be new and improved ways killing other humans?

And that brings us back again to the factor that, for some reason, we are denied access to our greater self.  And thus, people continue to kill one another for the conscious beliefs they hold, never realizing the price they may pay for these actions.

What would be the pay-off for our reality to exist as such a structure that causes the soul to constantly recycle?  What would be the reason for such darkness that perpetuates this vast and abyssal ignorance?  What is the pay-off for all this misery and suffering; the tormented souls and the deaths of innocents?  What is this mysterious gap between intent, desire, and physical manifestation?  What darkness exists in our subconscious minds that has created a world so hostile and uncaring?  What power separates us from knowledge of the true nature of our reality and leaves us exposed to suffering and pain?

No matter how one defines reality - as a self-created manifestation, or as an accomplished fact thrust upon us - the reality of suffering must be seen as a consequence of this separation.  And, if the world of matter is created and maintained by us, what brought this blindness into being?

If the world is created by God, is our suffering a consequence of willful disobedience?  If so, then man's being is a blight on the cosmos.  If that is so, then what shall we do with goodness, nobility and selfless brotherly love and reverent worship?  From where has this duality originated?

If we accept that, for whatever reason, some aspect of creation has manifested the limited three dimensions in which our consciousness finds itself, how would we describe this condition and its potential for change?  What does it mean that the universe may leave all its options "open" until the very last instant?  If that is the case, then what are we doing when we pray for a specific outcome, or when we believe in the End of the World?

The questions about how our beliefs may shape our reality are among the most significant in all of consciousness research.  And so it is that many seekers step outside of the "standard religions" and begin to seek the "truth" of the ways and means of Ascension.

As noted, "Ascension" is discussed widely in books, articles, on the internet, in classes and workshops, and other media.  The general trend of ideas expressed include the search for the "one thing that will transform your life."  Various "techniques" are advertised which promise to provide stress relief and even the" key to the highest levels of human consciousness."  The shopper in the market of ascension "tools" is told that they can NOW make a choice to "swiftly and easily free the nervous system from stress, enjoy maximum creativity, clarity and health, experience inner peace, fulfillment and joy," and of course, change one's self-limiting beliefs.

Another perspective on "ascension" tells us that ascension is "the way to integrate all portions of your self in a conscious way."  The seeker is told that he or she is a "multi-dimensional being who seeded portions of itself into the physical reality" and that fully "remembering who you are" is the act of integration and the "removal of the veil of time, identities and separateness in yourself."  What, precisely, the result will be - other than being "healthy, wealthy and wise" - is not clear.

As we read further in the available literature, we discover other ideas.  One author on the subject tells us "In past ages, ascension occurred after the death of the physical body.  Now it is possible for people to ascend with the physical body, no longer needing to leave it behind.  […] Now it is much easier for incoming souls to move along quickly to spiritualize their physical bodies because the whole process is well advanced.  Young people today can quickly awaken to their spiritual truth and begin to contribute to the forward progress of the mass consciousness rather than spending most of their lives dragging back heavily against it.  They can help bring forth the ascension for the masses before physical death, before totally wearing out the physical body in resistance to evolution. Much more energy can be expended on the positive and much less wasted on the negative."

Apparently, such authors haven't been paying a whole lot of attention to what is going on in the real world.

This leads to another point: it seems that we must accept the objective fact that attempts to change the world spiritually, or to regulate large scale events, simply do not work.  Yes, there does seem to be evidence that individuals or small groups of individuals can make small changes or produce effects with a limited range of influence.  But for some reason, the world as it is, seems to operate based on rules or laws that we do not understand.  The fundamental nature of the physical world seems to be antithetical to this “spiritualization.”  While we all might like to think we can transform our world by praying and/or thinking positively, we must remember that there is a great deal of evidence that real transformations of the planet have repeatedly been cataclysmic.  A philosophy which ignores this fact is courting disaster.

And so we have a clue that the problem may not be as easily solved as the many promoters of the different "methods or techniques of Ascension would have us believe.

But not everybody can just drop out of life and become a Yogi.

The question then becomes: if the process of Ascension is possibly more complex than the many promoters of the various methods offered in our day would have us think, what is the reason for the 115,000 web pages?

In 1958, Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in which he stated:

The older dictators fell because they never could supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they possess a really effective system of mind-manipulation.

Under a scientific dictator, education will really work - with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

Aldous Huxley also made an early connection between psychedelic drugs and the experiences of Eastern Mysticism and this set the consciousness raising bomb off with a BANG! Along came Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert AKA Baba Ram Dass with their LSD and other modes, leading the parade of those who were "turned on, tuned in."

Abraham Maslow became a father figure to the new "wave" of those desiring to fill the gaping hole of their reality with "peak experiences." Maslow cited psychedelic drugs as one of the means in which even ordinary people could have a little of what the Eastern Mystics worked many years to develop. Now, it could be had for a weekend seminar at Big Sur, or a study by mail course at only $29.95 per lesson! What a deal!

Peak Experiences - experience, experience, experience - became the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow of the 1960's. No one needed to live in Existential Despair any longer! Everyone could become a "spiritual voyager" and achieve extended periods in realms of consciousness they had only heard about in veiled, mysterious allusions down through the ages.

Encounter groups, radical therapies, old and new combinations of theories and practice came rolling off the conveyor belt of techno-spirituality. The intangibles of spirit had been harnessed! Anyone could evoke some desirable experience by manipulating awareness at the basic physical and psychological levels. Never mind that all of this bypassed the vital processes of reason and conscious decision making. By its very nature, the whole techno-spiritual machine operated completely without critical thinking; it tapped the bottomless pit of feeling - emotion - primal being. Never mind that much of this emotion was negative, confusing, anxious and fearful! Let's just get it ALL out here in the open and have a party with it!

Each of the many techniques developed during this time was fully capable of producing an emotional high of one sort or another. There were endless "peak experiences," and dramatic "personal breakthroughs." The mixtures of Zen, yoga, meditation, drugs along with strict mechanical technology was a veritable adventure in awareness!

The only problem was: in the midst of all this peaking, mind-blowing, turning on and tuning in, ecstasy and encountering, many people encountered things that, perhaps, ought not have been awakened. Boundaries were breached into unseeable and terrifying realms of consciousness.

So preserve yourselves, my brothers, from the calamities of this place, for distinguishing it is extremely difficult! Souls find it sweet, and then within it they are duped, since they become completely enamored of it. [1]

Nowadays most people interested in the spirituality of the East desire the "experience," though they may call what they are after intimate communion with God. Those familiar with the standards and norms of spiritual experience set down by disciplined paths like Sufism are usually appalled at the way Westerners seize upon any apparition from the domain outside of normal consciousness as a manifestation of the "spiritual." In fact, there are innumerable realms in the unseen world, some of them far more dangerous than the worst jungles of the visible world. [2]

By the end of the decade of the 60's, the "human potential" movement had become a veritable potpourri of religion, science, mysticism, magick and "the occult." The drug use got out of hand, the "techniques" began to show serious flaws in the many tragedies that occurred in any given practice, and the whole idea of human beings becoming "psychic supermen" hit the skids. The promise of the 60's decayed into an aimless lethargy - old hippies living in communes, braiding their gray locks and lusting after the sweet young teeny boppers while they fired up another bong and reminisced about the "good old days" at Esalen.

But wait! Something else happened here! Remember, this is America! The home of the Free - Market that is.

Big business saw a gold mine in the consciousness raising movement of the 60's and we saw the development of slick, newly packaged psychoanalysis and psychodrama! There was mass distribution and Madison Avenue marketing of things like Mind Dynamics, Arica, Silva Mind Control, Transcendental Meditation, and on and on.  Individual entrepreneurs knew a good thing when they saw it.

And the cults proliferated. Yes, many of the mind-wounded ran straight back into the arms of their childhood faith; but many more became victims of the many up and coming cults that were happy to take them in and patch the holes in their psyches, or fix them up for a few weekends of Merkaba Meditations, Equinox Workings, Mystery School Mish-mash, or Pagan Pow-wows.  Many of the cults, and even the old time religions, took advantage of the new marketing strategies and polished up their images, sent their people to advertising classes and then out into the world in massive fundraising and recruitment drives.  Many of them even have their own admen!

So, the race was on again! Only now, it was like buying Coca-Cola! The "pause that refreshes" right here in this very tape set, consciousness raising course, or cult practice! It had become a form of spiritual masturbation where everyone was "meeting their own needs" in private. You could put on your strobe glasses, listen to your astral travel tape, channel your very own guides, confer with the Ophanic Intelligences, merge with the "Nine Neters," and get high without ever leaving the farm! You could "change your beliefs," "create your own reality," indulge your "inner child/ego," Ascend and become One with all Creation, by mail, by golly!

What nobody seems to be talking about, however, is the concomitant changes in our world that very well may be the direct result of this so-called "shift in consciousness." Nobody wants to talk about the hard reality of what is really going on out there.

Well, I know that I am preaching to the choir here.  The reader would not be reading this website if they had not come to those same realizations outlined above.  And further, you would not be here if you had not already come to some idea that many of those who have bought into the "New Age Ascension bonanza" seem to have shut off their minds and the effect on their offspring is frightening. They have become part of a reality that is ripe for being taken over by the first "strong man" who comes along with "signs and wonders."  And this brings us to another reason you are holding this book in your hand.  You KNOW that all of the conditions of our world at present mean something!

For 2000 years, Christianity was the only acceptable "mode of ascension" for the Western World. Machiavelli observed that religion and its teachings of faith, hope, charity, love, humility and patience under suffering were factors that render men weak and cause them to care less about worldly and political things, and thus they will turn political power over to wicked men who are not influenced by such ideals. Of course, the real trick is to convince people that the "afterlife" is the only thing worth thinking about, and it is to this end that Christianity has been formulated.

Those readers who are familiar with Biblical prophecy - are undoubtedly aware that we are in a period of what seems to be definite and obvious "fulfillment of prophecy." World events, most especially the activities of the present Bush Administration, demonstrate a clear agenda to implement Draconian Controls precisely as described in the prophecies of the Book of Revelation. What makes me really curious is the almost complete silence of the Fundamentalist Christian groups who spent so many years preaching and warning everyone, and now that it is here - it's real - they don't even seem to see it.

This, of course, brings us to the matter of what authors Clive Prince and Lynn Picknett call The Stargate Conspiracy.  This is, basically, what could be called a COINTELPRO operation set up to trap seekers of "ascension" so that no ascension, in fact, takes place. 

In other words, not only was the original promise of Christianity co-opted and corrupted, but the very fact that so many people are seeking answers in the idea of "ascension," or development of REAL spirituality, has necessitated that the Control System in operation these many millennia do precisely the same thing: co-opt, corrupt, promulgate lies and disinformation, and so on.  And disinformation is certainly most effective when it contains a large body of truth, but twists are introduced to ensure that the seeker is never able to achieve the goal.

One of Machiavelli's chief ideas is that a religion is good only if it supports the state and contributes to state ends. By using religion, one can give "divine sanction" to laws which people would otherwise have no reason to obey. Therefore, the state must control the teachings of the Church. This is certainly what Constantine had in mind when he made Christianity the state religion.

If we simply change the word "state" to "hyperdimensional Control System," it is easy to see how the seeking of "Ascension" can be utilized to support exactly the opposite agenda.

There are many variations on this theme, most of which are constituted of the idea that we can exert our will and voice upward to change what is "above" us in order to change our reality, our lives, our thinking, moving our brains into harmony, or aiding the "heart in opening," obtaining "harmony and balance" which is then going to "open windows in our mind, our heart, and our spirit," etc.  It is then stated, (quite truthfully, I should add, since good disinformation is always wrapped in a warm and fuzzy truth), that, "without Divine Unity inside of us, these windows of inspiration are rarely available."

Sure, such activities will temporarily produce chemical changes that will feel VERY good, the same way a good meal satisfies hunger temporarily.  It really "feels good!"  But just as the steak and salad are digested and most of the matter excreted in a few hours, and another steak and salad is needed to fill the stomach again, so do such practices fail to so anything more than perpetuate the "food chain."  And, staying with the analogy, very little of the "substance" of such practices actually "stays with" the individual.

After over thirty years of research, the one thing that has become evident is that the energies of Creation emanate "downward," and our individuality as human beings is merely an expression of the "Theological Dramas," so to say.  To attempt to exert our will or to make our voice travel "upward," against Creation results only in a clash of forces that the human being is simply not sufficiently developed to deal with.  It is, in essence, an attempt to violate the Free Will of Creation, i.e. Hubris.  This is why praying, rituals designed to "change" reality, "positive thinking" with the "intent" to change something "up there," in order to receive the benefits "down here," is always doomed to produce more strife, misery and suffering globally.

What we CAN do is to prepare ourselves for the emanations that are traveling "downward" to be better received.  This is the essential point of Castaneda's Don Juan when he said:

One of the greatest accomplishments of the seers of the Conquest was a construct he called the three-phase progression.  By understanding the nature of man, they were able to reach the incontestable conclusion that if seers can hold their own in facing [human] petty tyrants, they can certainly face the unknown with impunity, and then they can even stand the presence of the unknowable.

The average man's reaction is to think that the order of that statement should be reversed," he went on. "A seer who can hold his own in the face of the unknown can certainly face petty tyrants. But that's not so. What destroyed the superb seers of ancient times was that assumption. We know better now. We know that nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to stand the pressure of the unknowable.[3]

All around us we see the results of this error: the idea that we can exert our will and voice upward to change what is "above" us in order to change our reality.  This idea is at the root of rites and rituals, demanding, pleading, visualizations, "workings," and so forth.  When people think that "meditating on compassion," or "feeling the feelings of all beings," is going to result in the "sonic entrainment of the heart's rhythm [being] braided into more complex and coherent patterns," which will then enable the person to "create a diamond imperishable body for use as a teaching vehicle down here on earth," has missed the entire point.  To compare such ideas to the true work of Seeker of Ascension is simply ignorant.

An extensive study of the historical literature shows that those who actually MAY HAVE achieved Ascension don't just sit down one day and meditate on compassion or the feeling of oneness and "boom!" experience an "implosive soul force."  Before the seeker of Ascension can ever achieve the point of being able to think even momentarily about "the oneness of all being," or the "feelings of all being," he will have spent many, many years in the struggle to "face petty tyrants," or to fully REALIZE objective reality.  He has repeatedly exposed himself to as many "unpleasant experiences" as he can find, all the while struggling to master his emotions, his desires, his physicality.  It is the work of making the physical vehicle "down here," receptive to whatever may be "up there," as opposed to trying to forcibly create something "up there," in order to have it "down here."

Nevertheless, the many teachers of ascension continue to expound on the subject by saying such interesting things as: "It is possible to ascend physically as Jesus and the other masters demonstrated.  In this process, the physical cells are all expanded into a higher frequency.  The physical body begins to glow from within and radiate light.  Much as the blades of a fan seem to "disappear" as they rotate faster and faster, a body that is vibrating at higher frequencies seems to disappear from the third dimension. Its primary focus is on a higher dimension. It seems "magical" to those who remain focused on the denser third dimension, but it is a perfectly natural process."

Unfortunately, such promulgators of wisdom do not seem to be able to demonstrate what they are teaching.  But nobody usually notices that part because they are too busy having "spiritual experiences" produced by any number of "techniques" which make them "feel good" long enough to whip out the credit card or sign the check.  A considerable period of time is required to finally come to the realization that techniques that relieve stress or produce "good feelings," have done nothing to actually change their lives or their "vibrations."  They are still recognized by their neighbor's dog, they still find new gray hairs on their heads, and they still get sick and have aches and pains like everyone else. And they still "die in their sins."

What the modern day seekers of ascension are looking for - whether they realize it or not - for is the age-old quest.  Those who are not familiar with the literature don't realize that the Quest for the Holy Grail and the Great Work of Alchemy are described in almost the same terms.  However, the Quest for the Holy Grail and the Work of the Alchemists hold many clues for us as to the REAL WORK OF ASCENSION.  Repeatedly they present allegories of struggle, deception, battles with dragons, deceivers, and evil forces of all kinds.  The story o the Knight who slays the Dragon and rescues the Princess from the Tower after years of seeking, struggling, suffering and overcoming, is an allegory that is as valid to day as it was in ages past.  It is the TRUE PATH OF ASCENSION.

Based on the Cassiopaean Transmissions and our related research, the reader of this site has been introduced to the idea that the science of the ancients may have included a very comprehensive knowledge of the deeper reality that present day sciences, including physics, chemistry, mathematics, and astrophysics, are only rediscovering.  And here we do not mean the ancient Egyptians or Babylonians or Sumerians, but rather peoples of far greater antiquity than they, and that the Egyptians, Babylonians, Sumerians, and so on, retained only distorted and corrupted versions of these things in the form of myths and legends which they elaborated and utilized in their "magical practices."  Further, we propose that it is only in the light of the present day scientific knowledge that the true ancient knowledge, depicted in these myths and legends and religious rites, can be properly understood.  Which is not to say that we are suggesting that we understand or have interpreted all of them.  We are only saying that there are many things in these ancient stories that suggest the former existence of an advanced science, that may have enabled interface between layers, or dimensions of reality on this planet in archaic times. Science. Not mystical mumbo jumbo.

This idea is not original to us, as many readers will know.  However, we do think that we have been able to shine a light into certain dark corners that have been, heretofore, poorly understood.  Arthur C. Clarke pointed out, "Any sufficiently evolved technology is indistinguishable from magic." 

When we divest our minds of preconceived notions about what the ancients may or may not have known, and we just look at myths and legends, the substrate of religions, over and over again we see descriptions of activities, events, terms and potentials that express such things as a knowledge of free energy, anti-gravity, time travel, interplanetary travel, atomic energy, atomic molecularization and demolecularization; just a whole host of doings that actually can be compared to what we consider to be commonplace ideas or activities of our current technological state. 

Many scholars of myth and folklore explain that such stories were attempts to understand the environment by personifying, or anthropomorphizing, the forces of nature.  Other interpreters make the mistake of assuming that it was a "sacred science" in terms that strictly deny any form of material interpretation. I gave this idea a great deal of thought at one point, all the while observing children develop, and noting how they noticed things and what they noticed, and how they explained it to themselves and each other.  One of the earliest observations I made about children and their reactions to their environment was that they pretty much just accept it as it is.  They don't seem to need "explanations" for it.  It is what it is until some adult repeats to them some story about it which may entertain them or frighten them.  Until "stories" are told to them, children are intensely busy just imitating what they see other people do, most generally the adults in their lives.  Without fantastic tales being told to them, their games of make-believe consist of ordinary mundane dramas.  And even when they are told magical stories about flying horses or people with super powers, they often resist these dramas in preference for those that directly apply to their own experience and observation.

Perhaps the comparison of the development of a child's thinking in relation to their environment, to the development of evolutionary thinking of human beings in general, but I do think that it ought to give us some pause to question just where and how the creation of myth and legend actually served human beings evolutionarily speaking.  Why would anyone tell a story about a man with magic sandals that enabled him to fly if they are merely anthropomorphizing the forces of nature?  If it is a "magical being" such as a "god," why does he need sandals to fly with?  He could just as easily have wings that are part of his physical structure.  He's already a god, after all.  He's not human.  So why the sandals?

Indeed, there may be an "archetypal pool of ideas" from which all humanity may draw in dreams and visions, but that leads us into realms that of thought that do not answer the simple question as to where and how and why howling savages were served by making up fantastic tales about the forces of nature, that included certain elements that suggest technology and not a truly "magical state of being?"

In the present day, there are all sorts of "mystical" groups and organizations that claim to be the recipients of ancient knowledge, and that this matter has to do with what is commonly called "occultism," or the "esoteric" or magical practices.  There is a plethora of books that purport to be scientific, but which totally reject mainstream science in any context.  Subjects such as sacred geometry, archaeoastronomy, new physics, have all become subjects of fevered study in order to discern the "occult significance" of the works of the ancients.  And invariably, it is done in strictly ephemeral terms, positing that all of the abilities of the ancients were accomplished strictly by magical rites or rituals.

Occultists claim that the mental and spiritual powers of the ancients were what we have lost.  They then assert that this ancient wisdom was broken up and obscured in magical doctrines which those who are not "initiated" simply cannot grasp.  They claim that parts of it have been handed down by continuous tradition, and released to the world at opportune times, and other parts have only been released to an elect few, of which exalted company, they, of course, are obviously members.

When considering such ideas, we do come to the thought that it is very likely that there are rites or stories or myths behind the rituals, that may, indeed, have been passed down in such secret groups in a more pure form than the stories that make their way around the globe across millennia.  But that does not mean that the "priesthood" of such groups truly understand the stories or rites of which they are guardians - especially if they do not consider the possibility that such information may be strictly and purely scientific codes and require a trained scientist to decode them.

Most of the so-called "occultists" and "sacred geometers" remind me of David Macaulay's "Motel Of Mysteries,[4]"a humorous account of an archaeological excavation of a twentieth century motel, in which everything is meticulously excavated, recorded and then totally misinterpreted.  The "vast funerary" complex unearthed by Howard Carson contains wonders such as the "Great Altar" (Television), a statueof the deity WATT (bedside lamp) and theInternal Component Enclosure (or ICE box).  But there are others who seem to be part of the very Control System we have mentioned above with what seem to be extremely dangerous proclivities as we will discuss further on.

In terms of archaeology, there are processes involved in the formation of the archaeological record.  A lack of understanding of these formation processes is not always confined to the non-professionals.  It has only relatively recently been suggested that the archaeology of a site is not a direct record of what went on there, but instead may have been distorted by a whole series of processes.

We are suggesting that the same may be true regarding myths and legends and religious rites.  They are a sort of archaeological record of the history of mankind held in archetypal terms, buried in stories, distorted by a whole series of processes.

Even if some of the purported ancient schools and mystical paths have kept some of this information intact, or in a purer state, it still seems that much has "faded on the page" due to the long period of time since such things were part of the external reality.  But still, there are those who have seen the contradictions in our reality and our beliefs and who have sought in these ancient teachings to discover what might have been known.  Many of them have made discoveries that, when considered with information from many other fields, assists us in this essential discovery of our true condition and purpose.

The question naturally arises, what does the history of the subject have to tell us about what may or may not "really work?"  Can we examine it; can we track it and discover not only the obstacles of the process, but also the REAL BENEFITS that might accrue to the Seeker?  Can we track and discover the apparent abilities that are the SIGNS of accomplishment of the successful Quest?

In short, what is the REAL Philosophers Stone?  What can the Hero really accomplish when he finds the Holy Grail?

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