Rainbow

The Inner Way of each human Being is a Rainbow Path.

Those of us who walk the Rainbow Path are called by many Names– Witch, Shaman, Taltos, Heyoka, Volva, Mudang, Nuru, Ngakma, Machi, Miko, Satkhu…

The Names don’t matter really, because they all describe the same thing: a Being who is smart enough and skilled enough and open enough to walk the Rainbow Path, to connect with the Energies and Presences she meets there, and to bring help and knowledge from the Inner World into exterior manifestation.

Walking the Rainbow Path can sometimes be a little tricky, but it is not difficult. In fact, all human Beings are physically and psychically set up to naturally walk the Path. Oh, and I can hear the questions now– ‘Why don’t all people then walk the Path? Why isn’t every person a Witch/Shaman/etc.?’

To which I respond, ‘What did I just say? Every person already IS a Shaman…’

Let the Water of this understanding seep down a little and then take a sip. The fact of Universal Shamanism is why all religions have at least partial functionality. It does not come from the ‘truth’ that any individual religion teaches, but rather from the innate Inner Connectedness to Source that is in each individual practitioner. This is why heartfelt prayer– the Sacred Inner manifesting to the outer– can heal illness, as well as why one will never see miracles in churches– which invest ‘authority’ in the outer (priests and preachers) and waste time and energy following the external at the expense of individual Inner Connectedness.

Remember that I observed that the Rainbow Path is not difficult to walk, yet it can be tricky. It is pure Power that cannot be perceived– let alone accessed– via a power-trip; great Energy which, when approached energetically, vanishes utterly. It cannot be lied to, twisted, or controlled. S’He just IS. And when one ’stops the outside’ to go within, the View is astonishing.

‘God’ and ‘Devil’ are little human lies.

GODIS (Generating Orgasmic Divine Intrinsic Source), on the other hand, is Everything/-place/-one, and is so ubiquitous and fundamentally weirder-than-alien that S’He requires…

Every blade of grass, every flower, every seed on every individual wheat stalk growing in every farmed field that has ever existed on Earth,

Every individual bird, fish, dinosaur, elephant, sea anemone, squid, sequoia tree, human, turtle, lemur, bat, emerald crystal, flatworm, barnacle, and cricket that has ever existed on Earth,

Every drop of rain that has ever fallen in every single storm that has ever blown across the Earth,

Every river, every mountain range, every particle of dirt, every grain of sand that makes up the Earth,

Every individually unique snowflake that has ever drifted down since snow began to fall on Earth,

Every individual blood and skin cell of every individual living creature/Being that has ever moved upon the Earth,

In order to begin to fully express Hir uniqueness, and that’s just on this planet, for starters. S’He also requires…

Every other habitable planet and complete biosphere in every galaxy in the Cosmos, every star in every galaxy in the Cosmos, every hydrogen molecule, photon, x-ray, oxygen atom, plasma-cloud, comet, and asteroid in space, as well as the structure of spacetime itself in order to begin to fully express Hir uniqueness in just this particular Universe. And there may be many, many other Universes out there besides the one in which we currently exist as corporeal Beings. That is how vast, fractal, inconceivable and fundamentally non-Earth-human GODIS is.

And yet, if one is troubled or in need of help, and one sets foot on the Rainbow Path, S’He is there waiting within you, willing whatever form– or change of form– you need for your sustenance and wellbeing. You don’t even have to ask, because S’He is perfectly Self-Aware, waiting to Play serenely with you, to Co-Create…

To have this wonder, there is one thing that needs to be freely given up, and no, it is not your Self, because S’He gave that to you in likeness of Hir. It is simply that you give up looking for Source anywhere but within yourself, that you must relinquish self-held ideas and self-performed actions which block the full expression of Divine Source to– and through– you.

From where I sit, Jesus was a powerful Shaman. He knew something very important and he brought it out into this world from within himself. The second-rate con-artists who call themselves his ‘followers’ in this day and age have focused on endlessly recreating the trauma of his murder so that some very important things he said, and which were/are inconvenient for power-trippers of all stripes, could be swept under the rug with no one the wiser:

When Jesus worked miracles, he did not say, ‘I am doing all this because I am so great and you are all just worms compared to me.’

He said, ‘All this shall you do, and more,’ and ‘Go Thou and do likewise.’ He knew, as a Shaman, that what made him able to do what he did was the Divine hardwiring to Source that is present in each and every Being that exists, because GODIS made EVERYTHING that Way.

And this is why religions, governments, and assorted other rapists rant and abuse and kill– they try to make their victims Self-afraid, so that they will fear to turn within, because if people do, they will leave the way of pain and step onto the Rainbow Path. They will be Shamans, and they will be free, and the ones who abuse and are afraid to go inside themselves will be alone in the world, because the only way to go to Source is by yourself, within yourself.

No one else but you can get your ego-Camel through the Inward-facing Eye-of-the-Needle of Existence.

The shedding of blood brings no power, no salvation. Killing two doves and a white bullock in a temple, or burning witches at the stake, or nailing an inconvenient and Spiritually awakened individual to a cross does not erase bad karma. It increases it.

Those who have the most material goodies are in the most dire trouble; the ‘I am rich because I deserve to be’ mantra of the meritocracy is third-rate cargo-cult superstition and a lie.

There is but one Truth waiting for each person on the Rainbow Path. It is both Complex and Simple just as each person is both Complex and Simple.

GODIS is waiting for You.

S’He is Complex– in Hir limitless Bodies, Minds, and Experiences– just as You are Complex in your individual Body and single Mind and personal Experiences. It’s a fractal, a hologram, and yet, it is also Simple:

You and S’He are old, old Lovers going way back.

You and Source are Equal.

This is why most people instinctively understand that all Being is fundamentally Sacred– Everything that is, is Source. And it is not grandiose to assert You are GODIS, because the fact is, You are. It is only grandiose to assert that You are the Only One Who is GODIS, and then attempt to forcibly deny access to Hir to anyone else by labelling as ‘evil’ the Divinity each person carries, and which mirrors Your own.

The Shaman’s Truth is that Everything is Alive, Sacred and Related.

A Rainbow cannot be killed.

Song in my Hand

Light Turtle Friend drew a picture on my left hand while I was in meditation this morning. The lines he drew were beautiful, shimmering and pulsing with blue lights and fleeting rainbows of color. Turquoise triangles flitted outwards along my fingers, and in the center of my palm was a circle with triangles around it, resembling a lotus. I asked Light Turtle Friend why he had drawn what he did, and he said that all he had done was to trace the path of the energy that was already there. He said that the Water in my flesh was singing, and that all he had to do was to follow the song. ‘That is what you are seeing,’ he said. ‘It is the Healing Song of Water, which you always carry with you in your left hand.’

I turned my hand over, and the lines flowed over the back of my hand, making the same design that Light Turtle Friend had drawn in my palm. The blueness and the rainbows flickered, and a Flower of Light opened out of my hand in two directions: through the back and through the palm.

Light Turtle Friend smiled at me, and said, ‘Remember, Akkarri, you are Working from a clean slate. You have discovered that just about everything that the people of Earth take for ’self-evident knowledge’ is utterly wrong. This understanding applies not only to the external sciences, but also to the Inner Cosmos. Just because a philosophical tradition is old, that does not necessarily mean it is correct. Just as you now understand that trying to correlate any two pairs of oppositional or complementary qualities in the world around you is meaningless, it is time for you to apply this same knowledge inwardly, to the microcosm of your body.’

I looked down at the roiling, sheeting rainbows pouring out of my left hand, and I suddenly understood. ‘The idea of Yin and Yang is just as wrong inside of me as it is outside of me,’ I said.

Light Turtle Friend smiled broadly. ‘And so you come Home to the Star Turtle-People within as well as without, because you understand that you give with both hands, and you take with both hands. Healing cannot be accomplished by dividing the body or the Consciousness. Being is Wholeness, and any ’system’ which attempts to impose a rigid dualism of order on it is both practicing delusion and fostering illness. While it is true that pairs exist, there is no stasis of identity involved in the pairing– they may be pairs of opposites, complements, or identicals. There is also no stasis of position. Everything moves, turning– electrical currents, galaxies, tornadoes…’

‘Which is why my DNA spirals?’

“Yes. And just as your DNA has two mutually interconnecting strands that cannot be understood as ‘one active, one passive’ or ‘one female, one male’, so does the energy-flow that makes up your body spiral also. The idea that ‘half of your body’ is ‘active’ and ‘the other half’ is ‘passive’ is incorrect. Equating the two ‘halves’ to sexual duality doubles the error, and attributing a static position to ‘channels’ so labelled squares the fallacy.’

‘So it’s all dancing– everything, including me– I am Wholeness-in-Motion.’

‘And your Wholeness is singing…’

‘But what is the Song?’

‘It is the Song of Water, the Song of Divine Love and Healing. Understand this, Akkarri, all Energy sings the Song.’

‘And that’s why AUM, and mantras, and singing bowls, and drums, and human music, and birdsong, and the sounds of water splashing are so primally appealing and healing?’

‘Yes, all Energy sings the Song so that the rainbow of all Beings may dance the Dance. And now I will ask you a question. If you carry the Healing Song of Water in your left hand, what do you carry in your right?’

‘The hands of other Beings, so that the Song may be passed to them and shared with them in Peace. And when I hold another hand in my right hand, the Song of Water passes into that hand to them. Then my left hand will be free to reach for another hand to hold and to share with, and the Song will pass back to it. In this way, I will take with both hands, and give likewise.’

‘You have Sung the answer of Sentience, Akkarri. May you have Peace this day.’
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As the rest of my day unfolded today, I ran across the following article while visiting LiveScience.com. I have redacted the article slightly by removing the obligatory debunking-opinion of the ‘regulation’ mainstream scientist the writer of the article felt it necessary to include. In my reading of the article, it seemed to serve no purpose other than passing an unneeded dismissive judgement upon the content of the new theory because it didn’t square up with the ‘official version’ of The Way Things Are. I removed the commentary in the interests of allowing the proponents of the new theory to have their say without ‘officialdom’ interrupting every two seconds to say why ‘this just can’t be so’. If you, good reader, feel the need of parsing the article with the editorial commentary added, you can visit the LiveScience site. Anyway, here is the article in all its synchronicity, given the subject matter of my meditation this morning:

Nerves Transmit Sound, Not Electricity

Nerves transmit sound waves through your body, not electrical pulses, according to a controversial new study that tries to explain the longstanding mystery of how anesthetics work.

Textbooks say nerves use electrical impulses to transmit signals from the brain to the point of action, be it to wag a finger or blink an eye.

“But for us as physicists, this cannot be the explanation,” says Thomas Heimburg, a Copenhagen University researcher whose expertise is in the intersection of biology and physics. “The physical laws of thermodynamics tell us that electrical impulses must produce heat as they travel along the nerve, but experiments find that no such heat is produced.”

Nerves are wrapped in a membrane of lipids and proteins. Biology textbooks say a pulse is sent from one end of the nerve to the other with the help of electrically charged salts that pass through ion channels in the membrane. But the lack of heat generation contradicts the molecular biological theory of an electrical impulse produced by chemical processes, says Heimburg, who co-authored the new study with Copenhagen University theoretical physicist Andrew Jackson.

Instead, nerve pulses can be explained much more simply as a mechanical pulse of sound, Heimburg and Jackson argue. Their idea will be published in the Biophysical Journal.

Normally, sound propagates as a wave that spreads out and becomes weaker and weaker. But in certain conditions, sound can be made to travel without spreading and therefore it retains its intensity.

The lipids in a nerve membrane are similar to olive oil, the scientists explain. And the membrane has a freezing point that is precisely suited to the propagation of these concentrated sound pulses.

The idea from Heimburg and Jackson, if it were proven true, could have implication for anesthetics, another mysterious process.

Oddly, scientists don’t understand exactly what happens when a patient is anesthetized. While the goal of an anesthetic is to prevent the brain from feeling pain, the drugs can affect a patient’s heart rate and breathing. So a better understanding of how it all works would allow development of better drugs.

Researchers do know that the proper doses of ether, laughing gas, chloroform and other anesthetics are all based on their solubility in olive oil. But how the nerves are turned off is a mystery.

Heimburg and Jackson offer an explanation.

If a nerve is to be able to transport sound pulses, they say, then the melting point of its membrane must be close to body temperature. Anesthetics change the melting point so that sound pulses can’t propagate, they conclude. Nerves are put on stand-by and a patient doesn’t feel the knife slicing into his body.
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Of course, experiments will need to be conducted and so on, so that mainstream types can get their heads around the ‘new paradigm’, which mockingbirds, symphony orchestras, chanting monks, splashing fountains, keening winds and my doorbell all naturally and holographically express:

Everything Sings the Song.

Talking With Turtle-Beings…

Perhaps a month ago, I was reading an article about a prehistoric creature called Henodus Chelyops in a back-issue of National Geographic.  Paleontologists describe it as a ‘turtle-like creature’, and do not consider it a ‘true turtle’ (although it looked and lived like one) because of some anatomical indicators that indicate it was a member of a different class of prehistoric reptiles than the one that gave rise to the grouping of creatures we call turtles today.

As I was reading about Henodus, I started to get what I amusedly refer to as ‘Incoming Call’ flashes from Inner-Infolded-Infinite-Space.  The flashes consisted of a quick image of Henodus, followed by an equally quick picture of the face of a male Being who himself looked like a turtle crossed with a human.  He was smiling and shaking his head, and although he did not speak words, I understood clearly that he was telling me that what I had just read was in some way incorrect, and that he wanted to talk to me about this.

After I finished with my day and was able to sit in meditation for awhile, I went to my Inner Healing Space.  Sure enough, there was the Being, smiling and waiting to talk with me.  We went into a stupa-like Temple that is in my Healing Space (and that is a Port within it for accessing a whole spectrum of Healing Energy) and sat down on the Temple floor to talk…

Being: It is delightful to see you, Akkarri.

Me:  It is very nice to see you, too.  I heard you earlier, and I knew that you wanted to talk with me.

Being:  Yes, I wanted to tell you something about what you read, but I first want to tell you that You are Turtle.

Me:  I think I understand… Is this because I have Turtle as my totem? Something like a natural affinity for the energy?

Being:  That is not what I mean.  You are literally a Turtle, as a human would understand literally being something. But you are a Turtle who has chosen to wear a human shape for awhile.  That is why you see Turtles all the time when you enter Within.  They are your Family, coming to help you.  Your People and your own Origin as a Being are not earth-human, although you have spent a lot of time exploring the form.

Me:  Okay, then I guess I haven’t been understanding the whole ‘Totem/Spirit Guide’ thing correctly.

Being:  It is more that you just need to be clear about how Living Energy manifests.  All Beings arise out of Something that, for the purposes of explanation, can be visualized as a rainbow pool of energy.  ‘Turtle’ is a ‘color’ in the pool.  The turtle ‘color’ creates the bodily form of the Beings that spring from it, and the Beings feed back resonance into it, so that within the main ‘color’ Turtle, there is another rainbow composed of Turtle variations and developments.  It doesn’t matter where the ‘color’ Turtle manifests anywhere in space-time, any more than it does when you, as an artist, create an image of Turtle.  Your image will follow the Turtle-form and be recognized as ‘Turtle’, whether you make it out of clay, paint it on a rock, embroider it on a piece of cloth with thread, or make it out of silver and wear it as a Jewel.  This is where the limited point of view of those who were looking at the Being they call Henodus is apparent: Henodus was Turtle, and arose from the ‘Turtle Rainbow’.  There are Beings throughout the Cosmos, on many, many worlds, that are Turtle, and would be instantly recognized as such by the people living on your current world.  Humans would see these life-forms and say, ‘Oh look!  It’s a turtle, and here, on this far-away planet, of all places!’  Of course, current human-based science would insist that such Beings were not ‘true turtles’, which is analogous to saying that, among your artistically-made turtles, only the embroidered ones are actually ‘real turtles’.  All the other ones– the one of clay, the one painted on a rock, and the one made of silver– ‘only look like turtles, but aren’t really turtles’.  This view is both arbitrary and incorrect.

Me:  So Henodus was Turtle, despite the ‘genetic media’ used to make the turtle-shape it had.

Being:  Yes.

Me: Well, then why don’t I look Turtle-like if this is my ‘color’?

Being:  Let’s go back to the Turtle Rainbow within the ‘color’ Turtle.  As Beings of the original Turtle-color manifest Turtle, they expand the Turtle Rainbow.  Turtle was one of the first Colors in the original Rainbow Pool of Energy– even on your current planet, Turtle is a very, very old form.  This means the ‘Turtle Rainbow’ is very developed, and has expressed more of its ‘colors’.  To use another analogy, it is like a flower that is open in full bloom, rather than a flower-bud.  And when a flower opens all the way, what does it do?

Me:  It is the reproductive organ of a plant, so it makes pollen and/or seeds.

Being:  And does the flower keep all its pollen to itself?

Me:  No, usually, it is best for the flower to spread pollen to other flowers, so that their seeds will be strong from shared genetic resources.  So what you are saying is that I am essentially ‘Turtle-pollen’ that has been spread to a Human ‘flower’?

Being:  Yes.

Me:  But doesn’t that ‘mess up’ the Human flower?

Being:  Go back to the flower analogy again.  Both the Turtle Rainbow and the Human Rainbow are Flowers that have sprung from the same Seed– the original Rainbow Pool of Energy.  Also remember I have been using the analogy of rainbows and color to describe ‘Turtle’ and ‘Human’.  You are a ‘Bearer of Turtle’ to Human-ness because it is energetically appropriate that this can happen.

Me:  So it is a case of the Turtle-flower being, say, a yellow variety of rose, and the Human-flower being a pink rose: they can in fact share pollen.

Being:  Yes, but remember the flower analogy is limited somewhat.  With regard to earth-flowers, pollen is shared and goes on to produce seeds, which produce other individual plants that express the mixing of parentage in their flower colors.  This analogy breaks down with regard to what we are calling the Turtle-Rainbow-Flower and the Human-Rainbow-Flower, as the ‘pollen-exchange’ is done to affect the flower receiving the pollen and to enhance and improve the ‘receiving’ flower’s development.  It isn’t about producing seeds, and so on.  The flower analogy in this regard is inexact.

Me:  But that leads me back to ‘messing up’ the Human flower– the way you describe things, a lot of ‘Turtle-pollen’ could do that.

Being:  Yes, which is why only a little ‘Turtle-pollen’ has been allowed into the Human flower.  Turtle-pollen has just been used to awaken the Human flower to the idea that it is sufficiently opened to the point where it can now begin to ‘accept pollen’.

Me:  In other words, the Human flower can direct its own development by deciding what pollen it will accept?

Being:  Yes.  Turtle-pollen, such as you are yourself, is both restrained and trustworthy.  You can be counted on to just deliver the message that it is time for the flower to start figuring out how it wants to change itself and grow, without insisting that the Human flower needs to ‘become Turtle’.

Me:  How do I do that?  I mean, without getting anything I might share turned into yet another cage with religious bars?

Being (laughing):  Your reticence does you credit, Akkarri, and is so very Turtle!  I am happy we are Flower-kin.  To help you find the answer to your query, I will pose another: What do the Turtles you see here, in your Internal Space, do with you when they come to visit you?

Me:  Oh, They are wonderful!  They have taken me on their backs to many Places, and have brought me energy when I have needed it.  In turn, I have tried to give energy back to them, by making water, food and flower-offerings to them, for their health and well-being, and to help keep my connection with them strong.  I also try to mirror their generosity and patience, and I behave that way towards others.  I know that it is good for me and my development as a Being to have this kind of attitude.

Being:  Good.  Now, have you ever seen Turtles, out in the everyday environment of your planet, with other things resting on their shells?

Me:  Yes.  I have seen photos of Turtles with everything from leaves and flowers to frogs, pebbles, birds and even other smaller Turtles sitting on their shells, and I have seen live Turtles carrying around clumps of mud and water grasses.

Being:  Do the Turtles seem to have cared about what was sitting on their shells?

Me:  No, the ones I saw seemed pretty intent on just going about their own business, irrespective of what was perched on their backs.

Being:  Can you offer to others in the same way that Turtles offer their backs?

Me:  You mean without particularly caring about what use is made of what I offer, or whether or not what I offer is accepted?

Being:  Yes.

Me:  I think so.

Being:  Good.  Just remember that though the Turtle’s shell can be really useful to a frog seeking a place to sit and look for insects, it is first and foremost there to be of use to the Turtle.

Me:  Meaning that I actually develop others simply by demonstrating that I am capable of developing myself?

Being:  That is precisely it.  In fact, there is no other way to do it, since it is basically impossible for the Turtle to coerce the frog into sitting on its back.  It’s the frog’s decision whether or not to take advantage of the Turtle’s Shell.

Me:  And the Turtle’s ‘offer’ is essentially the byproduct of it manifesting a Shell in the first place.

Being:  Yes.  If you keep this firmly in mind, you will take no harm and your development will aid and assist many other Beings.  Also bear in mind that you are Loved greatly by your Turtle-Flower-kin.  Recalling this adds immeasurably to your own Offering.

Me:  Thank you for the reminder.

Being:  You are most welcome, Akkarri.

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One thing only will I add as postscript to this– everyone who lives and breathes has direct access within themselves to the Teachers, Teachings and all the information each individual needs to fully unfold and develop her- or himself.  The Truest Love and the Highest Wisdom are inside of You, ready to be expanded in blossoming expression.  So…

WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE SEVEN HELLS AND THE SEVEN HEAVENS ARE YOU WAITING FOR, AND WHY ARE YOU UNWILLING TO GIVE YOUR OWN INFOLDED TRUTH AND LIGHT THE PRIORITY THEY DESERVE?

Compare and Contrast

Compare and contrast the following:

(1)

Our Father,
Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy kingdom come,
Thy Will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day
Our daily bread,
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil,
For Thine is the Kingdom
And the Power and the Glory,
Amen.

(2)

Radiant First Turtle Mother,
Who art present everywhere,
Hallowed be Thy Light.
Thy Love doth flow
Above, below,
In the Waters of Earth and in Heaven.
Give us each day
That we, in turn, may give,
And help us to be inwardly tolerant
Despite external intolerance.
Show us our own Goodness
And help us to manifest generosity and abundance for all,
For Thou art Source, and Sustenance,
And Peace, and Awareness.
Amen.

Neither one of these two statements are prayer in the active sense of actual, immediate interface with Spirit, but as a Magickal template for creating a desired effect upon Reality, the second template far superior to the first. That this is in fact true can be seen from simple observation of the state of general consensus-Reality around us, which has arisen in large part due to incessant fixation on the first of the two templates given above. I, on the other hand, have chosen to utilize the second of the two templates as my Reality-generator, and the result has been personal well-being, even in the face of consensus-Reality mayhem.

This is in a nutshell how Magick works.

Rote ‘prayer’ is the Reality-driver of organized religion and its agendas, and is actually a form of Witchcraft.

Have the courage to come up with your own Reality-templates, and make your own Magick.