Well, we are still asking "Why?!"

We have "peeled the onion," layer by layer, and have come to the center and found nothing there.

Or, is that altogether true? It may take a little time to put the puzzle back together, and I hope the reader will bear with me because it would be completely useless for me to give the answer in twenty-five words or less. Following the trail of "clues," however, will provide many opportunities for comparison, for assimilation, and for points of further investigation.

We know that this question, "why?" is one that we don't like to face. But, when we awaken late at night, alone in our thoughts, with no distractions of daily life to fill the void, we are face to face with our existential dilemma. And it is a terrible silence. In those moments of cold clarity, the bleakness and futility of our existence in cosmic terms rises up to confront us as it has confronted all of humanity throughout millennia.

We have seen that, to escape this monstrous "dark night of the soul," we will accept any answer that may be offered because the cold, abyssal silence that follows the question must be filled at any cost. And, the sad fact is, there are plenty of people willing to try to convince us that they have "the answer to all our questions." But, these answers generally consist of confusing the discernment of reality with personal opinion which results in a judgment upon reality by refusing to acknowledge it. And we have seen that those parts of reality that are refused or judged as "wrong" or "evil" have a way of manifesting in our face, demanding to be "witnessed."

On the one hand, we have the Cassiopaeans telling us that the conditions of our reality are exactly like what Gurdjieff spoke about in the Tale of the Magician which we recounted in chapter Eight. We have found similar witnesses to this version of the "great question" in very ancient traditions such as Sufism, gnosticism, and perhaps even Catharism, as well as the more contemporary treatments, such as the writings of Carlos Castaneda, Theun Mares, and other teachers of the Toltec path.

And on the other hand we have the myriad "imaginary beliefs" of mankind. These beliefs are dearly held, as we can see by this note from one of our readers:

Dear friends Laura & Ark
I have read many of your C messages, the final feeling is always a sad tone of despair. Finally, I begin to question how can be gathered so many misfortunes on a little planet like earth if the universe is so big? ...All the message of C's is of the same: we are damned whatever we can do. However please think: the human race is far better than all those beings from 6D, 4D and all others dimensions, if we can have Mozart, Bach; Music and Poets, mothers that care for ther children and loving fathers. We are far better than all these silly things. Believe me, they are trying to confound you, and with a message as of the good guys, some truth with many lies between, and at the end we are all dammed. Do not waste your time and your soul.

Whenever I receive correspondence of this sort, I do not just automatically reject it as something from someone who is not "getting it." I always use it as an opportunity to reexamine everything I think in order to discover it, by some chance, they could be absolutely right, and I could be wrong, and the Cassiopaean information could be just another in an endless series of disinformation campaigns designed to get humanity under the control of some dark forces by the act of making them "believe" in same.

In Chapter 10, we discussed how information can be "corrupted" by the biases of the receiver or ignorance of the source, even if that source is "discarnate." . But, we still need to deal with the deeper question suggested above. How do we do this?

As the reader probably knows by now, we don't just take everything the Cassiopaeans say as "truth" without a lot of checking and cross-checking and experimentation. We don't now, nor did we ever, take it as "true believer" material. It sure is interesting because of the many areas that have independent corroboration, but some of it is, by its very nature, unverifiable.

As I have already written, there are many things we have learned, and not just from being "informed," but by having a suggestion given to us, which we then observed, experimented with, and developed more fully on our own. And, this is one of the keys to the Cassiopaean's: they don't just "hand it out." As I have noted before, they give "clues," but not roadmaps. Their position is that if we don't DO something, work for it as it were, it is useless like candy: empty calories. And, clearly, this approach is designed to make the practice of "channelling" unnecessary and obsolete. We will, eventually, "become" them. Repeatedly they tell us that "leading us by the hand" is detrimental; they have laid the groundwork, given us the boost because we ASKED (and did so repeatedly, consistently, and with dedication for over two years before the contact initiated), but that the real purpose is to get us to learn to walk on our own, aware, protected and free of fear and ignorance. Hopefully, I will be able to convey this to the reader as well. It has taken many words and hundreds of pages to get us to this point, to the moment that we "ask the question," and I would like to devote an equal amount of space to building the foundation for the answer.

This is going to become an important point, this "building your power center," so hang on to that idea.

Getting back to our reader who suggests that the Cassiopaeans are "trying to confound you, and with a message as of the good guys, some truth with many lies between ...All the message of C's is of the same: we are damned whatever we can do."

It is a logical inconsistency to teach awareness and defense against "dark forces" as a means of fostering control by these very same forces. This issue has been brought up many times in the past, the most significant treatment of it being expounded by Jesus:

Then a blind and dumb man, under the power of a demon, was brought to Jesus, and He cured him, so that the blind and dumb man both spoke and saw. ... But the Pharisees hearing it said, This Man drives out demons only by and with the help of Beelzebub, the prince of demons. And knowing their thoughts, He said to them, Any kingdom that is divided against itself is being brought to desolation and laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will last or continue to stand. And if Satan drives out Satan, he has become divided against himself and disunited; how then will his kingdom last or continue to stand? And if I drive out the demons by Beelzebub by whose help do your sons drive them out? ... Or how can a person go into a strong man's house and carry off his goods without first binding the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house. ... Either make the tree sound, and its fruit sound, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known and recognized and judged by its fruit. [Matthew 12:22-33, exc. Amplified, Zondervan]

Curiously, the effect of the demons was the condition of being "blind and dumb." The analogy also included the idea of a "strong man" being bound up so that a thief could come in and plunder his possessions which is pretty much what we are finding to be the case. But, the main point was the issue of the "Kingdom of Satan/darkness" being brought to waste and desolation by division. "If Satan drives out Satan, he has become divided against himself and disunited: how then will his kingdom last or continue to stand?" Jesus was pointing out to the Pharisees that it was completely illogical to accuse him of working in concert with darkness since the effect of his work was to free the man of his demonic attack which enabled him to both see and speak.

In actual fact, the greatest deception of all is the teaching that there are no "real" negative forces, and if there are, in any case, we haven't to worry about them because, if we just think nice thoughts, meditate regularly, and use our warm and fuzzy affirmations nothing icky will ever enter our reality.

I can assure you that evil insinuates itself into our lives in the guise of goodness and truth. The difficulty in talking about evil nowadays lies not in the weird or bizarre, but rather from the insistence by our culture that religious views of good and evil are outdated. The problem is further exacerbated by the New Age teaching that "evil" simply does not exist unless an individual creates it in their reality. This is an important point because the process of evil follows the line of erosion of our spirituality through the erosion of knowledge. What better way to protect evil activities than to deny that they exist? The fact is, the "selves" which create evil and wish to perpetuate it are those at higher density levels and against whom we have no defense except through knowledge of who they are and how they work. We must learn about the lies in order to perceive the truth.

There are those who speak of "fallen angels" who became the "minions of Satan." However many ancient teachings describe this attitude, this essence of evil, as existing "From the beginning." This implies that there has always been a pathway of "darkness" or "service to self" since the instant of creation. This means that on one side of the coin, loving all others as the mode of loving God and self exists; and on the other, the opposing philosophy of loving oneself as God and manipulating others to perpetuate this love of self is equally valid. It might even be said that without this tension of opposition, nothing could or would exist.

If we remove the terms light and dark or good and evil, we are left with the clinical terms positive and negative polarities. But even here, we have a "judgment" that may not be appropriate. Nevertheless, using these words as a "convention," we can observe that there is a pinnacle of negative polarity and there are those entities from many realms who follow this pathway. We must understand that it is a path. It has validity in the realm of creation. If it were intended to be destroyed, could not God ease all our problems and reach out and return this energy to Himself?

There are those who believe that putting one's attention on these ideas "gives them energy." This is true only if one focuses in this way with the intention of participation, even if vicariously! However, a comprehensive understanding of these forces is absolutely necessary in order to know how to give them less energy.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

But, what should "good men" do? What are we supposed to derive or understand about the Cosmos from all the Cassiopaeans have told us? Clearly, they are NOT going to give us all the answers on a silver platter; we have to figure it out! I am working on it and these pages are the result. I am not saying that my interpretation or understanding of any of it is in any way "final" or absolute. And, with new information, some of my ideas may change. But for now, I am sharing what I think I have learned. If it finds resonance in the reader, if it provides a platform for their own experiments or seeking, then it has served its purpose.

The Cassiopaeans have said that one should not "act against" the forces of darkness, but that rather one should "act FOR" one's own destiny. In a very practical sense, this can even include physically extricating oneself from any number of unpleasant situations, even with force if necessary. If someone is trying to kill you or someone you love, and it is YOUR perception of your destiny, or you feel it is your responsibility to prevent that, then it is entirely within the parameters of "acting for one's own destiny" to do whatever is necessary to save your life or the lives of others.

But, we are talking about this in many more subtle ways. How can one act FOR one's own destiny if one has been deceived and hypnotized to think that what is good is evil or vice versa? And, it is not always that simple. The analogy of the Evil Magician and his flock suggests to us that, in a certain sense, the flock is being "cared for." But, this care has an objective: occasionally the Magician comes and takes one or more of the flock for its "flesh and skin."

We can certainly see that there seems to be a certain amount of "care" manifested for humanity by some of these forces and beings that have been proposed or identified throughout the ages. But there are certain issues about this that we need to consider with cold logic. We have the ancient legends of the Fish Gods and the Dragon cultures, the Serpent Gods and the Annunaki and so forth, all identified as "civilizing" influences on humanity. But, as we have already discussed, these "benefits" may have a different agenda than just to assist mankind!

As William Bramley noted in The Gods of Eden, when we consider history, we can clearly see that the drive of human beings to have peace is as strong, if not stronger, than the drive to have war. But, when the issue of war is examined, one realizes that, most often, the "trigger" for war and related "inhumanity to man" is that the drive for spiritual freedom is twisted by manipulation. It's easy to look back on history and see where this or that group was "misled" in their beliefs and thereby fell into errors of thinking that led to the perpetration of unspeakable horrors. We can point to the genocide advocated by the God of the Hebrews, or the religious-zeal-run-amok of the Catholic church when it instituted the Inquisition. We can see the twisted version of the "genetic superman" that led to the holocaust. It's easy to discern these errors of the past, because we "know more now." Well, isn't that an interesting thing? We KNOW more now. How much more can we learn?

Well, it almost seems as if the game has just gotten more and more complex, but the same essential errors keep getting repeated. What is at the root? (Aside from the fact that we notice the above examples all relate to monotheistic exclusivity.)

Human beings have a sort of "built in drive" for spiritual knowledge. And over and over again we can see that this drive is what is being manipulated. When genuine spiritual knowledge is distorted while, at the same time, the inner desire for "salvation" is constantly being stimulated by various religious teachings, a great many people can be led into doing a lot of cruel and stupid things. The perceived need to "save souls" is a prime example of how such a seeming positive polarization can be suddenly shifted to do the exact opposite of what the religious teachings explicate. And this is an important point to remember!

Zecharia Sitchin and William Bramley following Von Danniken have postulated that the ancient evidence demonstrates the actual, physical presence of an extraterrestrial race who came to earth to set up "controls" over humanity, with possible plans to return and "harvest the fruits" of their efforts. In both cases, their studies have indicated strongly that this "extraterrestrial race" does NOT have humanity's best interests at heart! These guys did a lot of work, gathered a lot of FACTS, and were not listening to some bug eyed Gray alien who was trying to convince them that "this is for YOU! We are here to help!"

But, those same "aliens" we find today, zipping about, sliding in and out of our reality like slippery eels, gazing and probing and "communicating" all kinds of excuses and scenarios to explain what they are doing based on how gullible or ignorant their victims are; this must be considered also. In other words, what Sitchin and Bramley fail to factor into their arguments is the CONTINUING evidence of "interaction" and "domination" from another "realm" of existence. The Annunaki, as defined by Sitchin, and the "Custodians" as defined by Bramley, did not come as physical beings, (in our terms), occupy, dominate, and then leave for some obscure reason. The evidence of those, now numbering in the multiples of thousands, claiming "alien abduction" and "contact with aliens" and even "visions of the Virgin" and other miracles throughout history, contradicts this view. It seems far more likely that the ancient stories indicate a cultural openness that permitted perception of such beings, acknowledged their reality, and merely made the distinction between them and ordinary human beings by referring to them as "gods."

William Bramley also chronicled considerable historical evidence of a relation between the sightings of UFOs and the sudden onslaught of deadly diseases or plagues. We have similar concerns in the present time which indicates that this is not a "new thing," but merely part of a cycle. The Annunaki have never left, and the Brotherhood of the Serpent is still with us, active and growing stronger by the day.

As noted, a number of modern "contactees" and "abductees" claim that the aliens are here to help mankind, to eradicate disease, to bring us health and happiness. This is NOT supported by the historical evidence, though in some individual cases it may be true. But, in these particular cases, wouldn't it make sense for those of the Darkness to care for their "agents?"

In their attempts to warn us, to educate us, to wake us up, the Cassiopaeans have told us many dreadful things. Why?

The above reader sees it as "we are all damned in the end." But IS that what the Cassiopaeans are saying? Are they not really saying that we need to wake up to what is under the surface of our very contradictory reality? That we need to become aware and alert and "see the unseen?" Are they not telling us that "Satan can appear as an Angel of Light?" Are they not telling us that we are "strong men" who have been "bound" so that what is ours can be stolen? Are they not telling us to "drive out the demons" and open our eyes and begin to speak?

It's a little bit curious that just those two terms were used, omitting the "ears" as something that might be "opened" by the casting out of demons. But, the fact is, most of the distortions of our reality come to us by listening rather than observing. Deception and error of perception would have far less influence on us, and we would have no illusions, if we would look at the face value of objects and see things for what they really are. Most of mankind's illusions are the "children of the ear" and hearsay. My beloved grandmother always told me to "believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see." This is very good advice. If we open our eyes and look at the problem as objectively as we can, forgetting all our beliefs and assumptions, and all the things we have been "told," we might be able to draw some conclusions.

A problem is defined in terms of two categories: objects and operations. The objects are the things that the problem-solver has to manipulate. They may be people, things, or situations. The operations are the steps by which object A is transformed into object B. Solving a problem is a process of understanding the sequence of transformation. To do this, we try to understand the differences between object A and objective B. These understandings lead us to the choice of operations. Those operations which will add to the transformation process will be retained, those which will diminish the process will be eliminated.

I believe that we can come to some understanding of our "reality problem" in this way. I would suggest that the "aliens" demonstrate adherence to the process described above, but with time travel capabilities, it is possible for them to effect their manipulations in such a way that we have great difficulty perceiving them. With a broad historical perspective, careful examination of the cycles and events within the cycles, we can SEE the fingerprints of these elusive "controllers" of our reality. We can see human beings as the "objects," and the events of history as the "operations." When we observe these things, the events of history and how they have affected humanity, and where humanity is today as opposed to "yesterday," we begin to have a clue that we certainly are "not in Kansas anymore!"

What is even more interesting is that we come across some of those very strange periods in history where a great darkness descends and before this darkness mankind was going in one direction, and after this period, he is going in an altogether different direction. You probe into these periods, and you discover that very strange things were going on. Not only that, you discover that a seemingly concerted effort was made afterward to assure that documentation of the period was destroyed to as great an extent as possible. In other words, somebody was busy on a "global" scale, and whatever they were doing, they definitely did not want it made public! Two of these periods, within the historical period, really stand out. The first is the time in which the "national history" of the Jews was supposedly in full development. The second is the period of the transition from paganism to Christianity. Both of these periods are called "Dark Ages." Maybe that should give us pause! The idea that mankind is being manipulated and controlled like an "experiment" then becomes not merely what the Cassiopaeans are telling us, but also what we can see ourselves if we exert the effort and care to LOOK.

The point of all this is that it seems that the only criteria we may have by which to judge any phenomenon is the fruit it bears, since it is possible for things to be represented as positive and not be so, in fact. But in this case, the "fruit" can only be seen in a very broad historical perspective.

To synopsize: An alien presence has been noted at many points in history of great disaster or mass death and cultural darkness. Examination of the few records and documents has led some scholars and researchers to conjecture that many of history's Darkest Hours have been CREATED by the alien presence. The Laws of Probability tell us that, without any intelligent control, 50% of the time events would occur leading to great good and benefit. Factoring in intelligent decisions to do good would bring this average up to about 70% Yet we can clearly see that this is not reflected in our reality. Why not? Who or what is influencing things to the negative?

One answer that we are given is the ever popular New Age "channeled" teaching that the reason things are so bad is because we were an "experiment in Free Will" that went bad. We have screwed things up so badly that now we need help to haul ourselves out of the soup. And, the aliens, in their infinite wisdom and mercy are going to do that for us if we will just "let" them! Further, if we just think nice thoughts, nothing bad will ever enter our reality. And we must not look at evil because it just doesn't exist unless we believe in it! This is a dangerous and cunning lie. What better way to protect the forces of "Darkness" at higher levels than to deny their existence?

My work as a hypnotherapist has shown me that the vast majority of people want to do good, to experience good things, think good thoughts, and make decisions with good results. And they try with all their might to do so! With the majority of people having this internal desire, why the hell isn't it happening? Without exception in my experience, individuals who have had "abductions," when the surface or screen memories have been probed in a competent way, these individuals reveal memories of events so chilling in their implications that the "love and light" interpretation must be looked at carefully. Yet, the Aliens somehow convince the experiencer that it is "for their good" or for "the good of the planet" or "the enhancement of our race."

What does this mean for us in practical terms, here, on earth, today? It means that Alien intelligences, throughout history have very possibly controlled and influenced the leaders of our societies to guide us down a particular, chosen pathway; chosen by them. They are here; they are playing "cat and mouse" with us to keep us confused and off balance. They are feeding philosophical lies and distortions into our culture to lead as many astray as possible. They control many of the lions of industry, government and culture so that what exists in our world is perverted by a "twist," a peculiar upside-down, disjointed, askew perspective governed by deception and falsehood. We are living in a frightful, topsy-turvy world where everything we instinctively cherish as good, noble, honest and right has been disrupted, soiled, deformed and made ugly. And, more horrible than this, we accept it as normal!

This "Control System," this infrastructure is a subtle, goal-seeking phenomenon and it is our purpose here to discover that goal. The Cassiopaeans have given us many clues, but the answers are up to us to figure out. And we are not just interested in finding out the goal, we are interested in finding out our "proper response" to it.

If what the Cassiopaeans are saying is NOT true, will we lose anything by entertaining the possibility? Is Truth so fragile that it cannot withstand scrutiny? And if what the Cassiopaeans are saying IS true, what might we lose if we DON'T consider it as possible?

On the one hand, the above correspondent is clearly saying that he believes there are "dark forces" that seek to deceive and bind us. But, would those very "dark forces" do this by telling us that there ARE dark forces that are seeking to deceive and bind us? As noted, that is logically inconsistent.

On the other hand, what must we think about the many "Forces of Light" who say there ARE NO Dark Forces except in our minds; that WE create them by believing in them? (Naturally, putting the onus for the creation of darkness on mankind!) They say that if we cease our participation in belief in Darkness, that it will be "overcome" and made null and void. One New Age writer put it this way:

Logic tells us that anything "out of sync" with the Creator or Creation would, of necessity, imply error on the part of the Creator which would lead to the conclusion that the "creator" is, himself, limited in omniscience or omnipotence, which then leaves us in an even worse ontological dilemma than before.

This writer goes on to say that evil is:

Well, heck! Let's just blame it on Eve, why don't we?!

I repeat: it is logically inconsistent to posit an All-knowing, All-Loving Omnipotent Creator,and then to suggest either accident or rebellion. But how else can we explain it?

How can we understand the apparent fact that we are in an environment that seems to be designed to imprison us; to make us little more than cattle kept in a pen to feed ravening monsters from hyper-dimensional space that we can't even, for God's sake, comprehend, much less resist?! If we don't call it a "mistake" or a "fault" or an "error," what are we going to do with it? By seeing it as a "mistake," we at least give ourselves the hope of changing it, or believing in some Messiah who has "taken the fault" away from us, so we don't have to bear the guilt for the aeons of suffering of mankind that we observe. But that is a costly solution in the long run because it leads to ontological answers that are unbearable. But if we have arrived at the point where we can no longer support the inconsistencies of such a view, we are left with the deeper question of how can we understand the ontological existence of such a state?

In other words, if what we perceive to be Darkness and Evil or Service to Self is NOT a mistake, is NOT an error, is NOT something that can or should be "fixed" in the realm of creation, then WHAT is it? How can we ontologically justify it? Or, leaving side justification, how can we just simply understand it?

One thing we note at the beginning here is that the Cassiopaeans have said that human beings chose to experience this reality for a REASON.

In our overview of the conditions of the reality in which we live, we are forced to think in new ways about "purpose." How can it be "good" to live in such an environment? Sure, it's fine and dandy to say that "all experience growth... at a faster rate," and all that, but what does that really mean when we are faced with some of the factors we have been discussing in these pages? And remember, we have not been talking about just channelled material - we have been collecting facts and observations all through this examination of our reality. And, because of the many letters I receive from readers, I can assure you that it is not just "my reality," or even just a "minority" reality. It's a FACT, as don Juan would say; "and a damn scary one!"

Many individuals in the present time are convinced that the "New Age" paradigm is going to unite all of humanity into one big happy family with the amalgamation of the "common threads" of belief that run through all the great religions. They point to the messages from this or that source that claim that this is the great plan that was put into place by higher beings millennia ago, so that all different types of human beings could grow to maturity, each in their own ideal environment, much as different areas of a garden are more or less suitable for different types of plants.

Very often, such people cite the "great new research" that supports this view, that man is "creating a new reality." It's a nice idea if it works, but the Devil, as always, is in the details. Paul von Ward writes in The Solarian Legacy:

So far, so good, right? We can see (though this is greatly abbreviated) that there seems to be a real principle behind the idea "you create your own reality." So, let's keep going here:

Hmmm... have we discovered something here? Mr. Ward has given definite indications that it is not quite as easy as the YCYOR folks would like to believe. Let's go back to a clue the Cassiopaeans gave:

Right here we have some clue to the restrictions on "creating your own reality." If an individual seeks to do so in opposition to the "natural bounds of the universe," which is a manifestation of the "group mind" decision, they are going to run into some serious problems.

Now, just exactly what is the "Pot of Gold" used in the analogy above? What "event" brought about the "Fall" from alignment with Service to Others to Service to Self?

Well, the designations "STO" and "STS" give us a clue. But, there is more. At several points I returned to this issue for clarification, and I hope that my efforts will help to make it clearer for others:

Now, we need to remember the story of Lucifer, that he was an Angel of great beauty and glory. The Cassiopaeans have suggested that the legend of Orion is closest to the original version of the story.

I am not going to go into a full scale analysis of the Orion legend here, but I will give the fullest account I have been able to put together so that the reader can play with the concepts as we go along. According to Edith Hamilton, it goes like this:

It's easy to see how the legend would be transposed into the Biblical story of Lucifer, and why there would be associations with the "Morning Star," or the act of letting the first rays of sunlight, the Goddess Aurora, fall upon his eyes for healing.

But, it is interesting that the same images that were presented in the allegory given by Jesus about the "strong man" being "bound" or cast into a deep sleep, and "blinded" by demons are also present in the story of Orion. Perhaps it was a deliberate allusion to Orion?

The story of Osiris being tricked into his coffin by Set is another variation of the strong man being "bound," though in this case, we have the additional detail of the body being ultimately dismembered which seems to be the allegory of the "fragmented soul unit." The constellation of Orion is known as Osiris by the Egyptians, and the "dog companion" is his sister-wife, Isis.

But, the issue here is: how did Orion "take the fall?" It is said that he got drunk and insulted or raped the maiden whom he loved. Afterwards, he was then "made drunk" or was "put into a deep sleep" during which his eyes were put out. Whatever it was, apparently he was not in full possession of his senses as a "hunter" when he was put out for the "operation."

The story also is reflected in the Biblical legend of Samson and Delilah. Samson was a Nazarite with a vow to never cut his hair. Delilah had him"sleep upon her knees" and while he was sleeping, she called a man to come and "shave off the seven braids of his hair." And his strength went from him. He was taken and his eyes were put out. The clear connection of this to the Orion legend makes it altogether likely that this is merely the Hebrew variation of a very ancient story! I was curious about this "hair business," so I asked:

So Samson was deprived of his "virility" by losing his hair. For all we know, losing one's hair could be an ancient euphemism for having an orgasm! Maybe in the weakened condition after this "petit mort," one is less aware and therefore more susceptible to being "put into a sleep" or made drunk again.

To be drunk, or intoxicated, is to be in a condition where one has lost control over one's faculties. It is also a term that means "overcome by emotion." Do we have another clue here? Well, I asked more questions:

Remember that they have already said that we were formerly 3rd density "aligned" with STO 4th density. This suggests that to be 3rd density STO and in "contact" with 4th density STO entails significant positive interaction and "bleedthrough" between the two densities as suggested above! A very different realm indeed!

And this brings up a very interesting solution to particular problems in terms of the Reptilians being touted as the "bringers of civilization" and their association with the Goddess religions, promoted in the present time as being the "peaceful, partnership" way of agricultural paradise. Apparently, that was not exactly the case.

If we remember the story of Cain and Abel, we find the original conflict between the shepherd and the agriculturalist. Cain and Abel, being the two sons of Adam and Eve who have been "cast out of Eden," merely symbolize the two main forms that the "control system" took in order to perpetuate conflict. Both ways contain within them implicit "ownership" of something, either cattle or land, and both suggest the use and manipulation of the earth for their own benefit, and to the detriment of the Great Mother. The only reason Abel was glorified by the Hebrews was because it was THEIR way of life. But that leads to another whole line of investigation, so we will leave it for now.

So, we see that the issue is not "sex" per se, or really anything in specific about the 3rd density environment so much as it is a certain "generation of emotion" via physical processes that have to do specifically with "possession."

What is it about DESIRE TO POSSESS that brought about a "Fall?"

Well, let's just have a look at some other ideas here:

Now, we are getting somewhere. "Believing that one source contains all knowledge is contradicting reality." It is "conceptually limited."

Over the years, many scientists have studied the effects of head and brain injuries. These studies were aimed at understanding the physiological and psychological effects and used a number of experiments to "map the brain." The results have led to theories about two different modes of thinking or "styles of thought," which are generally attributed to the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

In general, the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body. According to the test results and the developing theory, the right brain is most often associated with direct sensual experience of the five sense organs as well as the "sixth sense" of intuitive thinking. "Feelings" are also associated with this side of the brain, and these feelings are often observed to be the result of the person's "sensation" of the environment. This "sensation" of the environment can be the external world or the internal "state of being." Also, we must note that the Right brain, as the Observer of the external and internal environment, only perceives NOW.

The Left Brain is associated with the process of CONCEPTUALIZATION and IMAGINATION in its many forms, including the powers of symbolic imagination and those functions related to the symbols we know as language such as labeling, categorizing, following verbal rules and rules in general. The left hemisphere mode of operation is much like a computer screen on which the whole range of concepts of the mind are portrayed and manipulated in the "mind's eye." One of the main "concepts" we utilize is TIME as in Time future and Time past. Have a look at the chart below to see how the different hemisphere's seem to operate.

Left Hemisphere Consciousness	Right Hemisphere Consciousness
Conceptualization/imagination/dogma/TIME future/TIME past	Sensing/Perceiving Directly via observation/Empiricism/NOW (no time)
Theoretical imagination	Physical connection
Linear logic	Nonlinear logic
Ritual/habit/fixed roles/repetition/fixation	Creativity/spontaneity
Morality/judgment	Compassion/acceptance
Superstition derived from imagination; often misuses limited direct observation and experience	Science based on collecting of data, direct observation; can create theories with proper use of theoretical imagination
Asceticism/sense deprivation	Celebration
Theology: Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Greco-Roman Religion, Judaism, Christianity, Islam	Mysticism: Taoism, Tantrism, Yoga, the "Mystery Traditions," Gnosticism, Alchemy

Now, this is enormously important to grasp: religions, philosophies, "beliefs" in general, through which we view the world and by which we interact with the world also fall to one hemisphere or the other in terms of how they activate our consciousness. There are teachings that place emphasis on the sensual Right Brain, and there are teachings that place emphasis on the abstract, imaginative Left Brain.

Belief systems organically reflect one or the other of the two kinds of human consciousness.

The "sense oriented" traditions encourage direct interaction with the physical environment. This has been often corrupted to "gala sensuality" of physical pleasure. Nevertheless, the pure Mystical Traditions tend to identify spirituality with the Cosmos itself and urges its followers to seek their unity with God THROUGH the physical world.

On the other hand, concept bound theologies tend to forbid sensual experience and observation, relying instead on imagination to support certain beliefs/faith. In this mode, spirituality is equated with conceptual constructs, images, symbols and words that must be "pictured in the mind's eye," or upheld in an abstract thought of imaginary belief, so that the person is effectively attempting to IMPOSE an imaginary construct on reality rather than observing reality and allowing the observations to form the abstraction.

This is why the central issue in Christianity, to use just one example, is whether or not one "believes in Jesus Christ." What one is being asked to do is to imaginatively support the church's conception of Jesus: that he was the son of God, that he died for remission of sins, and so on.

Each theological construct has its own cast of characters and its own plot, and each one demands that the followers "believe" in these imaginations. But the point is: the various symbols themselves are less important than the fact that the common act of conceptualizing, or imagining and "making real," of "make believe," that is central to theologies, is the LEFT HEMISPHERE mode of thought.

Left hemisphere thought also tends to assign religious "authority" to different writings or permanent scriptures and words. It also has a hierarchy of clergymen and priests who are designated to administer or interpret those words.

The Left Hemisphere mode of consciousness is opposed to direct observation and scientific progress and discovery. It focuses on ritual repetition of "established" ideas and traditions. The "words of the scriptures" and the traditions of the interpreters of these words are given more authority than the natural world itself.

The Cassiopaeans have often commented on "ritual."

Pure universal knowledge includes everything, and if you establish a ritual, that means you are adhering to one line of thought, one mode of thinking, one idea structure, and, excluding all others. As noted, Mystic traditions identify spirit WITH the Cosmos itself. They have no sacred traditions or priesthood. The authority to discover God is suggested to be within the power of each individual and they are encouraged to make direct and personal observations.

This is why all major scientific progress has been associated with mysticism. What we call modern science was derived directly from the alchemists of the European Renaissance, such as Newton and Paracelsus who were part of the historical attitude of empirical scientific inquiry fostered by the earlier mystical traditions. Mircea Eliade writes:

It is not just science that is the child of mysticism, but creativity in general.

So how are we to interpret this seeming contradiction that a "sensual" experience led to the "Fall," and yet the Right hemisphere, which relates to sensual experience, seems to be the mode of consciousness that is concerned with gathering knowledge and "seeing things as they are?" How do we interpret the fact that the Left Hemisphere Patriarchal, dominator theologies point to this "sexual fault" repeatedly, which the Cassiopaeans have also confirmed, and then the Cassiopaeans then go on to say that this "fault" was the actual "door" for the imposition of the Monotheistic Left Brain domination?

I think that we may find some clues in the comparison of the legend of Orion to the stories of King Arthur and the Quest for the Holy Grail.

What does Orion have to do with the Grail Quest?

A great deal, I think. The similarities between the stories of Orion and Arthur, in essential terms, are many.

The Arthur of the Grail Quest is not, in a certain sense, a real flesh and blood man, but an archetypal complex of images. Arthur is other and more than the sum of his appearances in literature, and he is present in myths, stories and images that have NO direct mention of him.

Arthur is present in the myths of all the sacrificial kings, dying saviors, and heroic slayers of dragons from time immemorial. His story grows with every episode we study, and after a time, we realize that Arthur, himself, is only a clue.

Arthur is a clue to the mythology of Fall and Redemption: The Once and Future King. He is the symbol of the Lost Eden and his story has branches that reach out to embrace all the ideas of cyclical changes and power over the environment.

The Myth of the Golden Age: a period when the Pole was "Oriented" differently; when the seasons were different; the year was different; a primordial paradise where time had no meaning.

The memory or imagination of a Golden Age seems to be a particularity of the cultures that cover the area from India to Northern Europe. In the Americas, the most fully developed mythologies of history were those of the Mayas and Aztecs, for whom there was no past era unclouded by the threat of cyclical destruction by fire of flood. Nor does the philosophy of Buddhism have any place for nostalgia, although in practice it absorbed the idea of declining ages from its Indian surroundings. But in the ancient Middle East there is an obvious relic of the Golden Age in Genesis, as the Garden of Eden where humanity walked with the gods before the Fall. The Egyptians spoke of past epochs ruled by god-kings. Babylonian mythology, as reported by Berosus, had a scheme of three ages, each lasting while the vernal equinox precessed through four signs of the zodiac; the first of these, under the dominion of Anu, was a Golden Age, ended by the Flood. The Iranian Avesta texts tell of the thousand-year Golden Reign of Yima, the first man and the first king, under whose rule cold and heat, old age, death and sickness were unknown.

The most fully developed theory of this kind, and probably the oldest one, is the Hindu doctrine of the Four Yugas. A modern scholar describes the first of these ages:

In the first Krita Yuga, after the creation of the earth, Brahman created a thousand pairs of twins from his mouth, breast, thighs, and feet respectively. They lived without houses; all desires which they conceived were directly fulfilled; and the earth produced of itself delicious food for them, since animals and plants were not yet in existence. Each pair of twins brought forth at the end of their life a pair exactly like them. As everybody did his duty and nothing else, there was no distinction between good and bad acts.

After the Krita or Satya Yuga, things get progressively worse: each successive yuga sees the human race falling into increasing unhappiness and evil, until at the end of the Kali Yuga, the world is set on fire, deluged with water, and then reborn. [Arktos, Joscelyn Godwin, 1996]

In order to see the relation of Arthur to Orion, and their respective quests, we need to understand at the outset that stories can be translated both linguistically AND culturally to provide meaning to their new "owners." There is a story found in the History of Herodotus which is an exact copy of an original tale of Indian origin EXCEPT for the fact that in the original, it was an animal fable, and in Herodotus' version, all the characters had become human. In every other detail, the stories are identical. As R. E. Meagher, professor of humanities and translator of Greek classics remarks:

Clearly, if characters change species, they may change their names and practically anything else about themselves.

The truth of the Holy Grail, the quest of the Arthurian knights, the finding of which would restore "Arthur" to the throne is the same as Orion's quest for the cure for his blindness. Arthur represents something other than just a British Dux Bellorum; he represents a long ago Golden Age, a time of social harmony and wise government, a time of ethics and morality, a time of the "Way of Former Kings." The theme of the "lost Golden Age" is so potent that when Geoffrey made Arthur a sort of Messiah, combining Welsh myth and tradition with genuine history, he touched something so deep in the human psyche that the Medieval Soul took flight in hopes of the restoration of the Kingdom on Earth which could only be restored by the discovery of the Grail.

The story of the Grail is the story of the creative potential of the human race in very real, though esoteric terms - the power to re-create the Golden Age - a pathway to knowledge of an Ancient Technology that gave rise to the great megalithic monuments for which no rational explanation exists - a power that has been hidden from us for ages past.

In discovering the True Grail, we may also find the source of the control system that has operated on our planet for the past many thousands of years, keeping mankind in bondage to time, history, misery, decay and suffering.

We note above that the Left brain rules by conceptualization, imagination, and dogma. We then note that the Right Brain rules by sensing, perceiving directly via observation.

When the story says that Orion raped his love, the meaning is clear: the Left Brain took over the function of the Right brain which was the direct conduit to universal powers of creation within the individual.

In the prologue to Le Conte du Graal, we are informed that there was once a paradise on earth. There were two aspects of reality: an inner and an outer "nature." Events took place not only in a "real location" in the material world, they also simultaneously had an existence at another level of being, a realm of archetypes. The everyday world and the twin "otherworld" were twin universes running parallel to one another.

In this paradise, maidens lived by sacred grottos, wells and springs. It was at these points that the two worlds were believed to meet, overlap, or bridge. It was at these points that one could cross over to the other side. This is a symbol of the Feminine potential, or the functions of the Right hemisphere of the brain.

The "Maidens of the Sacred Wells" would feed wanderers and travelers from golden bowls and cups. This symbolized the "creative potential" of the Right hemisphere, that it was through this "wellspring of creativity" that one could literally "create reality and all that was needed."

The "maidens" served all wayfarers and the realm was at peace and fertile until one day and evil King, Amangons, ravished one of the maidens, held her in captivity and stole her sacred bowl. Amangon's followers took example from their king and began finding and raping the Well maidens. Soon, there were no maidens serving at the wells. From that time onward, earth was the "Wasteland." The "wells and waters dried up" and the land became infertile. The "Barren Wasteland" was the condition of the loss of contact with the Otherworld.

'Collective Identity, which is a result of a covenant of Monotheism is explicitly narrated in the Bible as an invention, a radical break with Nature. A transcendent deity breaks into history with the demand that the people he constitutes obey the law he institutes, and first and foremost among those laws is, of course, that they pledge allegiance to him, and him alone, and that this is what makes them a unified people as opposed to the 'other,' as in all other people which leads to violence. In the Old Testament, vast numbers of 'other' people are obliterated, while in the New Testament, vast numbers are colonized and converted for the sake of such covenants." [Schwartz, 1998]

'In ancient Near Eastern rituals, the cut made to the animal is symbolically made to the inferior who enters into the covenant with a superior." [Ibid.]

'We are heirs of a long tradition in which Monotheism is regarded as the great achievement of Judeo-Christian thought. Monotheism is entangled with particularism, and with the assertion that this god, and no other, must be worshipped. This particularism is so virulent that it reduces all other gods to mere idols, and is so violent that it reduces all other worshippers to abominations. The danger of a universal Monotheism is asserting that its truth is THE truth; its system of knowledge, THE system of knowledge; its ethics, THE ethics; not because any other option must be rejected, but because there simply IS NO OTHER OPTION. They presuppose a kind of metaphysical scarcity, a kind of hoarding mentality, hoarding belief, hoarding identity, hoarding allegiance, because there is a finite supply of whatever, it must be contained in whole or part. It suggests limit and boundaries.' [Ibid.]

What if you are just trying to "believe it is NOW?" BELIEF is a function of the Left brain, it blocks the manifestation Creativity because the creative Right brain is also the Empirical half of the brain that observes the dichotomy between the belief and the reality.

Desire is anticipation. Anticipation is read by the Right brain as "in the future, therefore not right now," and the Right brain can only create NOW.

When we desire, we have a "future object" in mind. The Right brain only knows Now.

If we "desire to Love God," we have a concept (Left Brain) of the "future goal of loving God." It can't exist Now. Therefore we experience struggle to constantly "love God," against the ongoing "Now" of "not loving God."

If we desire to win the lottery, and produce in the Left brain "future image of money flowing into our life." It isn't now. So "now" continues moneyless.

If we desire happiness, and create the concept in the Left Brain, we have "future happiness" in mind. And the Right brain reads it as unhappiness now, and this can manifest in thousands of unhappy experiences.

By the same token, if we "send love and light" to any directed recipient, we are holding a concept of future "fixing" which signals a state of "brokenness" NOW to OUR Right brain, and the repercussions are felt in OUR life! In a larger sense, we may be signalling the "Collective Right Brain" that a "future state of peace" is desired, and therefore, NOW is NOT peaceful. And the Right Brain creates NOW.

But you noticed, I hope, that INTENT is not considered to be "anticipation" or "desire." The words themselves may provide a clue.

We see clearly the connection between anticipation and "time."

Do we see a subtle difference? Even if it is somewhat semantical, it is sufficient to make us think about how to deal with our "creative potential."

Thus we see that the key becomes ACTING NOW with intent, but NO imaginary anticipation for the future! A goal, with applied WILL of action, which necessitates left brain consciouss preparing and planning, via the heightened AWARENESS of the Right Brain, which deal directly with the present conditions, will result in an opening of life changing creative potential.

If NONanticipation opens the door to the creativity of the universe, what closes the door to NEGATIVE occurrences? Can it be that we have a clue here as well?

So, it seems that the answer to this part of the problem is that when we are "connected" to the Cosmos via the Right brain, and are not blocking the ability of our Cosmic Connection by limiting the forces with boundary forming imagination or images or illusory concepts, we allow the perfect manifestation of our own frequency resonance to occur. By the same token, when necessary, we can "close the door" to manipulation of our minds by constantly running a sort of "computer scan" of possible breaches of our security system in the Left brain. We must marry the Left Brain Kingship of the MATERIAL world to the Right Brain Queen of the Inner Realm.

Yet, it was only when Parzival rejected ALL of ...The advice, the exhortations, when he quit seeking to be a great knight on a sacred quest to save the world, only when he rejected God as the pure and good all-father that... It found him!

What is the Wasteland? That we cannot accept the world and all within it, including ourselves, as being perfectly natural and perfect just the way it is - with all the good and evil it contains as part of the natural and necessary balance - the whole of existence is natural and as it should be at every moment. When you accept that all IS perfect, when you cease holding God hostage by usurping the power of the Right brain Feminine principle with the images in your Left brain, then the world will BE perfect and fertile and you will heal the wound of the Wasteland in your own heart.

If only we can act spontaneously, without being programmed into someone else's belief system, we can ask the real question of ourselves; ask with no preconceived notion of what the answer will be; ask with no anticipation...

Then, miraculously, for one moment the vessel of the Grail is empty... and in the next it is filled with the wonder and glory of ALL AND EVERYTHING!

Chapter 25