The Astral Transition
- Clues From Egypt and Siberia Suggest a Shamanic Experience in 2012!
Ecdysone and the non-molecular body
Dr. Charles Muses, who died last year (2000), suggests in his 1985 book The Lion Path , 1 that the Egyptians had developed a technology in which tones, lights and an as-yet unidentified plant are used, to “open a rusty valve”, or trigger the production of hormones similar to the ecdysone (ecdydsterone), produced by larval forms of insects, which allows the adult form to emerge. In this way, they would allow the gestation of a non-molecular body that would allow the survival of consciousness beyond physical death. Just as every chrysalis has embossed wings on it, so too, does every mummy case have folded wings on it. The process was started well before death, and completed during the 70-day embalming period, that was connected to the 70-day disappearance of Sirius.
Muses, a mathematician, philosopher & computer scientist, was convinced that the synchronous perihelion (closest point of planetary orbit to the sun), of Pluto, with the periastron (closest approach of 2 stars to eachother), of Sirius B and Sirius A, which both occurred in 1994, and only happen together every 90,000 years, allowed a flow of resonant energies, and the possibility of an evolutionary jump for those prepared to follow the clues left by the Egyptians. He produced a series of cassettes designed to be used at astrologically pre-determined times, while meditating, in order to produce “ the higher human analogue of the lepidopteran metamorphic hormone, ecdysterone”. This would then “activate certain genes whose functions would otherwise remain inaccessible”. The transformative energies would start slowing in January 1999, and stop by May 2000, and Muses says that those unable to complete their development before then, would have to “re-incarnate on the life-bearing planets of other solar systems that are on a later (and non-Plutonic), Meta-Cycle”.
Shamanic Egyptians
In Wm. R. Fix’s 1979 book Star Maps, 2 the author shows the correspondence between shamanic flight and the initiation rituals of Egypt. In the 4,300-year old Pyramid Texts, on the walls of the Pyramid of Unas, it is stated repeatedly that “He is not dead, this Unas is not dead”. In fact, Fix makes it plain that the reason why no bodies have ever been found in any pyramids – even those which were sealed – is because the pyramids were designed for initiation - to facilitate a OOBE or out-of-body-experience, in which the pharaoh would be gone for about 3 days, first orbiting the planet, and then going to the circumpolar stars, to become a purified spirit, (no wonder we call it astral projection!). Upon his return, Unas was told, “Put on thy body”
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A Lapland shaman's drum shows the Axis Mundi uniting the 3 worlds. Another drum painting shows the axis pointing to the circumpolar stars.
Shamans too, traditionally fly to the polar stars, and the Axis Mundi, or World Tree, which represents the earth axis, (and connects with the underworld below, and heaven above), is shown on some of their drums, as the route taken to the polar stars. Shamans usually employ drumming, fasting and power plants to access the other planes, and typically experience dis-memberment, where they are torn to pieces, then put back together again, as a kind of re-birth. This is exactly what happened to Osiris, when his brother Set (plus 72 conspirators), tricked Osiris into getting into a coffin, then threw it into the Nile. The coffin became embedded in a tamarisk tree, and was eventually used as a pillar in a palace. Isis found the coffin, and hid it, but Set discovered it, and cut Osiris into 14 pieces. With the help of Thoth, Isis found all the pieces except one – the phallus - and re-assembled Osiris. With Thoth’s magic, and a wooden phallus, Isis conceived Horus. Then Osiris ascended.
Mystery religions
These shamanic themes formed the Osiris cult, then found their way into other Mystery religions, such as the Greek Mysteries of Dionysus at Eleusis, Attis in Asia Minor, Bachus in Italy, and Mithras in Persia. They all involved a voluntary death, a flight from the body, a descent into the underworld, an ascent to heaven, then a resurrection. They also had a sacrament, which, in later versions was wine, but in the Mysteries of Mithras, “developed from older rites which used consecrated bread and water mixed with the intoxicating juice of a psychedelic plant called Haoma.” 3 The various cultures all adapted one of their gods to take on the role of the resurrecting god-man, but, when a Jewish sect wanted their own Mystery religion, it was a bit more difficult, since they only had one god, so they based the Mysteries around the figure of the Jewish Messiah. Freke and Gandy, in their book The Jesus Mysteries,4 have pointed out 30 correspondences between the Dionysus/Osiris Mysteries and Christianity. I have also found Mithraism/Christianity correspondences in Pears Cyclopedia:
(Jesus
Mysteries by Freke & Gandy)
(Pears Cyclopaedia)
1. Virgin birth 1.Miraculous birth
2. Born in cave on 25th December 2. 25th December birth of founder
3. Crucifixion (or stuck to/in a tree) 3. Death & glorious resurrection
4. Birth prophesied by star 4. Belief in Heaven & hell
5. 3 shepherds visited the birth 5. Immortality of the soul
6. Baptism 6. Last Judgement
7. Water into wine 7. Sunday as Holy day
8. Miracles 8. Celebration of Easter
9. Transfiguration 9. Use of bell, Holy Water & candle
10. 12 disciples
11. Eating of bread & wine (=flesh and blood) to commune with the god)
12. Death redeems sins of world
13. Descends into Hell & resurrects after 3 days
14. Ascends to Heaven to appear as judge at the end of time
15. 3 women followers visit empty tomb.
Etc. etc.
These were the outer
mysteries; the Gnostics retained the inner
mysteries.
Precession
encoded
Santillana
and von Dechend, in their 1969 book, Hamlet’s Mill,5 have shown
that there has been a knowledge of the Precession of the Equinoxes, for
millennia, and that it has been encoded into mythology all over the world. This
concerns the slow movement of the Earth axis in a circle, which takes about
26,000 years to complete. Plato called this the Great Year, of 25,920 years. The
vernal (spring) equinox slowly moves through all 12 Zodiac constellations over
the 25,920 years, until it comes back to its starting point. Actually, it is the
background stars that are moving – the equinox stays in the same place. Each
constellation takes 2,160 years to cross the equinoctial point, and it takes 72
years for each of the 360 degrees of the sky to rotate. The constellations also
oscillate up and down over the precession. Robert Bauval and his co-authors 6
have shown that the Egyptians were measuring this movement from the First
Time of Osiris, (Zep Tepi), which they put at 10,500 BC, when Orion was at its
lowest point, to the Last Time of Osiris, which is coming up soon, (half a
precessional cycle later), when Orion reaches its highest position.
These
precessional numbers – 72, 360, 2,160, 4,320 (2x 2,160), and 25,920, have been
found encoded into Egyptian myths, such as the one where Ra, upon discovering
his wife’s infidelity, said she was not to bear children on any of the 360
days of the year. Thoth intervened and played a game of draughts with the Moon,
and won 1/72nd part of the Moon’s light, creating the extra 5
epagomenal days, on which were born Isis, Osiris, Set, Nephthys, and Horus the
elder. (360/72=5). Encoded here is 72
x 360 = 25,920. Remember also the 72 conspirators of Set, who caused Osiris to
become part of the tree!
Every year,
the Egyptians held a festival for
Raising the Djed. The Djed was a pillar with 4
rings on it, which represented the backbone of Osiris, the tree he was entombed
in, and the axis of the Earth. Barbara Hand Clow has pointed out, in her new
book Catastrophobia, 7 that the relief showing the Raising of the
Djed in the Temple at Abydos, shows the Djed at an initial angle of “20 to 25
degrees off vertical” – the same as the angle of tilt on Earth’s axis.
When measuring the image with a protractor, it is actually within a degree of
the 23.5 degree tilt angle. Clow says that around 9,500 BC, at the end of the
ice-age, the catastrophe pinpointed by Allan & Delair in When the Earth
Nearly Died, 8 when
supernova fragments passed close to Earth, caused the start of the precession
cycle, by knocking the axis away from vertical.
Djed
= Axis Mundi = Tree of Life = Tree of Knowledge
Raising the djed, and Osiris as the djed - surmounted by feathers in both cases. Mayan polar axis (also surmounted by feathers -7 Macaw) with snake around it
The Mystic Cross of The Great Hierophant; Arcanum 5 of the Tarot. "The perpendicular stem of the Cross means the channel through which flows the current, passing through the three lower worlds, symbolized by the horizontal arms of the Cross." See how this relates to the 3 worlds of the Shamans (see drum above), and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life *, though the Kabbalists had 4 worlds. The central column, or Middle Pillar also represented the human spine, with its kundalini serpent, just as the djed represented the spine of Osiris.
Some
Egyptian papyri show the world tree administering spiritual nourishment, thereby
combining the concepts of the World Tree, Tree of Life, and Tree of Knowledge.
This connection is also emphasised on Stela 25 from Izapa, Mexico, which shows
“Hunahpu with Seven Macaw in his polar perch”. The polar axis is shown
looking very similar to a Djed pillar, with Seven Macaw representing the Big
Dipper (Plough/Great Bear) constellation. John Major Jenkins has shown in his
book Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, 9 that the Maya were tracking precession, and that
this is what is behind the Long Count calendar. The Crocodile Tree on the stela
represents the Milky Way, and Hunahpu is shaking Seven Macaw off his perch,
representing the precessional movement of the Big Dipper away from the celestial
pole (and also signifying the change in preferred shamanic destination to
Galactic Centre, via the Crocodile/Caiman Tree). Notice that there is a snake wrapped around the
two trees!
Tree of Knowlege is Amanita Muscaria - a 13th Century fresco in Plaincourault in France
In
Plaincourault, France, there is a mural showing the Tree of Knowledge , with the
snake wrapped around it, and Eve talking to the snake. The Tree is a Fly Agaric
mushroom! The Fly Agaric is, of course, a hallucinogenic mushroom, and John
Allegro, who translated the Dead Sea Scrolls, went as far as to suggest that the
early Christians used it as a sacrament. Bishop
Jim Pike, (a friend of sci-fi author Philip k. Dick), found the argument so
convincing, that he went to the desert near Qumran on the Dead Sea, in search of
Fly Agarics – but unfortunately, he died of dehydration while in the
desert. Gordon Wasson wrote a book called Soma, Divine Mushroom of Immortality,
identifying the Fly Agaric with Soma, the sacrament of the Hindus, meaning
“body”, (which gives us the word somatic). Andrija Puharich also wrote a
book about Fly Agaric, called the Sacred Mushroom – Key to the Door of
Eternity. A summary of all this can be found in James Arthur’s book, Mushrooms
and Mankind.
Taking
the pee?
Every year
at Christmas, we re-enact our own Mystery play, which has somehow survived to
remind us of all this. December 25th used to be Winter solstice. It
is the birthday of the god-man Osiris/Dionysus/Mithras/Jesus, who, as Osiris,
represents the polar axis, (Djed) and its 72 x 360-year precession cycle. We
pretend that a wise old elf called Santa Claus flies through the sky, pulled by
reindeer, (having frozen time, so
he can visit everyone), and enters via the chimney. He leaves traditionally
wrapped red and white gifts under a pine tree that we have brought indoors, and
in socks hanging over the fireplace. Then he flies off to the North Pole!
In Siberia,
since time immemorial, around Winter Solstice shamans have gathered the red and
white Fly Agaric mushrooms from under the very same pine trees we put in our
living rooms, and distributed them from a sack. In Siberia, the entrances to
homes are in the roof, and double as a smoke outlet, so they really are entering
via the chimney! The mushrooms are left to dry out by hanging them over the
hearth. The mushrooms have to be gathered quickly, because the reindeer love
them. However, it is a fact that the psychoactive ingredient can be recycled
several times, and unpleasant side effects such as vomiting, are thus avoided.
It is also a fact that the reindeer love eating yellow snow! If a reindeer
herder wants to gather his herd, he only has to urinate, and they all come
running.
That is why
the reindeer all fly along in frozen time. Even the reindeer names reinforce the
encoding (– see
Solstice
Studios for more info). The tree also represents the
Axis Mundi, with the candles or lights and baubles representing stars, and the
star on the top representing the Pole Star. It is usually a 5-pointed star, and
therefore encodes 72, since a pentacle is formed by 5 x 72-degree angles. Santa
lives at the North Pole, which encodes the OOBE destination, and Santa’s
helpers, the elves, are either the fourth dimensional astral beings encountered,
or even our higher dimensional selves - also represented by the angel/fairy on
the tree.
What crazy
kind of world is this? Is Jack’s trip up the beanstalk to get the golden eggs
another version? Is Humpty Dumpty an exploded planet?
What
does it all mean?
As
I said just now, Jenkins has shown that the Maya
were tracking precession with the Long Count calendar, but rather than the
Vernal Equinox, they were tracking the movement of stars (the Milky Way) against the Winter
Solstice. He also showed that the Mayan 13-baktun cycle (5,125 years), ends on
Winter Solstice 2012. What is more, the Maya used to take hallucinogens,
including toad venom, and psilocybin mushrooms. Jenkins has also found some
evidence they may have taken Amanita Muscaria (Fly Agaric),10 but they mainly used
the psilocybin mushroom. This is the same mushroom that Terence & Dennis
McKenna took, when they were “informed by an elf-troupe that the laws of
physics would change in 2012”, and conceived the Timewave Zero concept – a
hierarchy of waves governing all change in the universe, and terminating in
2012, encoded in the Chinese I Ching oracle. The psilocybin mushrooms contain
DMT, which is also produced in the pineal gland, or third eye, and which is
shaped LIKE A PINE-CONE.
Some
have suggested that the Egyptians too, took psilocybin mushrooms. They did take
the blue water lily, which Paul Devereux says in The Long Trip – A Prehistory
of Psychedelia,11 “was the form in which Isis restored the murdered Osiris, and
was thus a symbol for him”. The lily has hypnotic effects. Devereux says
the Egyptians also had access to opium (which gave Errol Flynn an out-of-body
experience), and khat, which produces a dream-like state. Also, in the Americas,
a different species of tobacco was taken, and in huge doses. A near-lethal dose
can give an OOBE. We have heard recently of the “cocaine mummies” found in
Egypt – well, they also contained large amounts of nicotine – another plant
that should not have been in Egypt – very upsetting for Egyptologists!
Devereux
has shown that most of these power plants can cause OOBEs when taken in large
enough doses, or in combination, (though very dangerous or unpleasant in some
cases), and that they have been used for just such purposes for thousands of
years. In another book – Shamanism and the Mystery Lines,12 Devereux
makes a very strong case that these magical shamanic flights were
associated with the alignments we know as Ley Lines, where ancient barrows,
standing stones, stone circles, and even pre-reformation churches (built on
sacred sites), are aligned in straight lines.
Will the
“Galactic Winter Solstice” in 2012 allow a mass out-of-body experience? Will
celestial and terrestrial grids align? Will a passing celestial body re-align
the Axis Mundi to its pre-fall state? Or maybe the falling geomagnetic field
will lead to a magnetic reversal, and switch our polarity ( OOBE researcher
Robert Monroe found that the body’s polarity reverses while out of body).
Maybe the Sun’s sunspot mega-cycle will trigger it (largest EVER solar flare
in April 2001- fortunately pointing away from Earth – plus 11-year sunspot
cycle just shunted forward almost a year, shifting the next solar Max. to 2012).
Or it may be triggered by magnetised bands of plasma which the solar
system is passing through.
Better get practising those OOBEs!:
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*NB reversed positions of Star & Emperor
UPDATE: This crop formation appeared on 15th July at east field, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, UK. It connects many of the themes of this essay: It points directly to a Long Barrow called Adam's Grave, thus being identified as the apple tree of the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden, and showing a mushroom with gills in its reflection, thus suggesting that the tree of Knowledge could be a fly-agaric or other psychoactive mushroom, by which shamans "climbed" the tree. It also shows a heaven/overworld and an underworld, suggesting the Norse Yggdrasil, on which Odin hung himself for 3 days to attain knowledge. See http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2002/eastfield2/eastfield2002b.html
East Field, Wilts., UK 15/7/02 C. Photo: Steve Alexander Yggdrasil
Notes
1. The Lion Path: You Can Take It With You by Muasios (Charles Muses) House of Horus 1985-90; 45911 Silver Avenue, Sardis, BC, V2R 1Y8, Canada.
2. Star Maps by Wm. R. Fix, Octopus Books, 1979; 59, Grosvenor St,., London W1
3. The Jesus Mysteries, by Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy, Thorsons, London, 1999; p. 61
4. Ibid.
5. Hamlet's Mill - An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and its Transmission Thrtough Myth, by Giorgio De Santillana and Hertha Von Dechend, David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 1977-92
6. The Orion Mystery by Robert Bauval & Adrian Gilbert, Mandarin Paperbacks, London, 1995; Keepers of Genesis, by Robert Bauval & Graham Hancock, Heinemann, London, 1996.
7. Catastrophobia, by Barbara Hand Clow, Bear & Co., Rochester, Vermont, USA; 2001
8. When The Earth Nearly Died - Compelling Evidence of a Catastrophic World Change 9,500 BC, by DS Allan & JB Delair; Gateway Books, Bath, UK, 1995
9. Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, by John Major Jenkins, Bear & Co, 1998
10. Ibid., p.193
11. The Long Trip - A Prehistory of Psychedelia, by Paul Devereux, Arkana (Penguin) 1997; p.88
12. Shamanism and the Mystery Lines, Llewellyn publications, 1999