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Mar de luz

The Mother Earth has Her own Wheels… Her cycles. Some of them last so long that no human ever sees all of one cycle. She is always changing Herself. Sometimes, she added, “Mother Earth decides to change many things at once. She pushes up mountains, or makes mountains flat. Rivers disappear, prairies become lakes - everything changes.

We walk in two worlds - the outer and the inner world, the seens and the unseen – and they are in a constant state of evolution. This basic tenant of shamanism, that ancient, earth-tied belief system, is pervading our consciousness in these times of “walking between the worlds.” What we behold and regard is beholding us. The process of seeking experience and knowledge is actually becoming us, and we cannot separate ourselves from what we see and participate in. We are cogs in the wheel of tremendous, unprecedented change.

There is a physical and spiritual aspect to all things on Earth, even thought forms. All reality is based on polarity that is the male and female energies that circulate to create all life. As we learn to abide and walk peacefully through everyday life, we learn to walk within ourselves and awaken the inner landscape, and every day that we awaken, we have the choice to blend with the harmonies of nature or to swim against the tide. This is evolution and what the Hopi Elders meant in their message released in the early 1980s:

“ The river is flowing now very fast. Is is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore.”

“The river is always the river because she knows how to change.” The patriarchal world view of clinging to outmoded beliefs and fundamentalism is yielding to an open minded view that perhaps that Earth Mother knows more than we do. She is much more complicated than our scientists and politicians can even fathom, and if we could learn to just stop and listen, as indigenous peoples have done for centuries, then we would understand not to fight the river of Earth’s paths, seasons and cycles of renewal. She will seek balance at any cost and has always communicated to those with eyes to see and ears to hear.

Wheels of Remembrance

When a human embryo forms, it grows from the heart outwards, drawing the heart back into itself as it develops into a fetus.

In this way, everything contains a heartbeat, like a star at its center that emanates in circular wavelengths outward and then back in again. It is a perfectly balanced and symbiotic system that absorbs energy patterns from orbiting spheres and the redistributes them back into the universe. Because we walk in two worlds, we are starting to realize that what we behold and regard is beholding us. As we gaze toward the winter sun or visualize the stellium at the heart of our galaxy, we are regarding our nativity and gazing at ourselves.

This is the same principle at work within the central fire councils of the Iroquois, passed down through some forty to fifty generations. The fires of their matrilineal tribes were circled by native people of both sexes and all ages. No one was considered less than anyone else, and everyone had his or her say in prophecy, healing and ceremony. Even those who we would consider to have mental illnesses were regarded for their insight. They gave to the fire their offerings, prayers and sacred rhythms. The fire gave them heat and spoke vision to their hearts, which assured their survival. This is where the lesson of preparing for the next seven generations came from; the fire wisdom taught them that what we do today reaches both our ancestors and our children.

The feminine understanding of the circular movement of time and space permeates shamanistic understanding as it has for, perhaps, hundreds of thousands of years. What began as a spark or dream in the heart of the Creator became the heartbeat of creation and the created world became the heartbeat of creation, and the created world blossomed like a flower. She poured herself into oceans upon planets and rivers amidst the stars. She stirred the light like embers to glow in dark places where the desire of life has never been felt before. Then when the light had tired and the need for dreaming outweighed the need for growth, she gathered the spirits of her children close to her and inside of themselves like seeds to weave a new journey through distant winds.

This is the greatest love story – the story of Father/Mother God and how worlds blow in and out of mythological grasp, carrying the embryonic seed of each preceding reality to a new place in the Sun. Memory circulates eternally; nothing is ever lost or wasted, and everything is connected to everything and on its way to becoming a part of everything else and always.

Tilting on the Wheel of Time

The evidence of life born and carried from love is found in circular archeology and artifacts; “wheels” that reveal matriarchal spiritual teaching such as campfires, peace pipes, baskets, rock and stone m monuments, Meso-American, Egyptian and Celtic calendars and so on. Time, itself is a circle. Some wheels of light in distant galaxies that we gaze at through the Hubble telescope are wheels of life that have long vanished, similar to the spiral petroglyphs carved on Anasazi rock face throughout the Southwest. And what we look at, digitally, on our watches is actually based on the Earth’s movement around the Sun.

So time is a wheel and implies a measurement of distance and travel, but that travel repeats itself in ever increasing, mathematical progressions. The fact that the long-count Mayan calendar is based on a date some 13,000 years ago tell us that we are approaching another monumental time in Earth’s history. We are approaching a monumental time, yes, in our Earth’s journey around the Sun and the Sun’s journey around our mother galaxy, but even with known cycles of time travel through space, this is a hard concept to grasp. Time is a spiral – it grows and develops – and even with all the artifacts, tradition and teachings that we know as the end of the Mayan calendar December 21 2012, the truth is that we have never been there before and will have to rely on our instincts and trust in the cycles of Earth mother to guide us.

There is intelligence in the cycles of the Earth Mother that only a few regard; it is being lifted to consciousness during the “end of time,” as the Maya refer to the present days. The tilt of the Earth that affects our seasons has a life of its own. The axis of the Earth has a wobble, much like a spinning top slowing down The slow rotation is referred to as the procession of the equinoxes and has to do with the drifting of the equinoctial sun backwards through he zodiac over thousands of years. For example, the Sun will be rising on March 21 of 2010 at the spring equinox is grazing the last degrees of the constellation of Aquarius. Approximately 2,000 years ago that same rising Sun grazed the waning degrees of Pisces. Hence the “precession” of the Piscean Age to that of Aquarius.

The Scales Tip

We are slowly waking to the realization that the rising equinoctial Sun carries ancient memory and consciousness of the civilization of Atlantis that came to closure some 26.000 years ago. This too, was a time of Aquarian sun, and the Earth has come full circle in its memory of a civilization that gave birth to our current indigenous tribes. The consciousness of that historic society now pervades our consciousness, and the same perils of life imbalanced by computers, high technology and scientific probing now challenge our concept of progress.

We can make the same mistakes and overstep our human desire for domination over nature, or will we heed the warning of our native people and seek balance between our heads and hearts? The answer is, and always has been, flowing quietly in the peaceful waters of our sacred land. That is where we were first stirred to life in the womb of our Earth Mother, and with or without us; she will keep the sacred balance.

We are approaching a time of enlightenment, a time of remembrance and a time for allowance of conscious change as our equinoctial Sun inclines ever more towards the center of the galaxy. The scales tip between darkness and light on the winter Solstice 2012 when the portal between heaven and earth floods our hearts and minds with the light of a thousand winter suns.

Will you join us in welcoming the unseen worlds to our earthly realm? With all this entails the appearance of the masters, the angels and the nature people, the release of the spirits of our ancestors trapped in the Earth due to war, climate and catastrophe and the reuniting of ourselves with our progenitors, the space brethren? Some tribes may be preparing to walk into a new dimension as all of creation takes a quantum leap. Some of us may choose to cross over to the spirit world without experiencing physical death. You can feel it, can’t you? Our world is stirring, like mist surrounding a mountain lake. We walk in two worlds with a river in between them and our hearts are the bridge.

Keeping The Sacred Rhythm

Tsunami, volcanic, earth vibrations and earthquake predictions will become commonplace, and we will all start to perceive these events prior to their likelihood, like native people and animals do. Sensations of suspended time will increase. These are kickbacks from the times of Atlantis when we could suspend time and space at will for the purpose of healing. Many new healers will emerge at this time that remembers the art of suspended state of healing trance. Remember to concentrate on breathing deeply from the solar plexus, which will always bring you back to the present moment. These are crossover episodes, stepping in and out of the fabric of reality through rifts in the fabric of the space-time continuum.

Sensitive people may see blurred energy in the shift between the worlds, as in a blurred photograph. Don’t worry, you are not crazy and you are not alone. You can tell people you are just magnetically challenged. The key to everything is to try to keep in sacred rhythm; communication and relationship to the Earth. These who do not regard her voice or do not choose to live in moderation will risk losing their sanity.

We will start to remember unconscious conditions from past lives, including remembrance of past life trauma. This is part of the Aquarian influence on our psyche that begins to free us of everything that we no longer need. Past life guilt, shame and self-denial can begin to fall away as we walk into the light of a new reality. That which we no longer need can be replaced with self-love, confidence and renewed abilities. This is the beginning of shedding earthy karma that will liberate us to our true life’s purpose. Yes, it is possible to actually get off the wheel of karma and to change your imprint, so to speak, or the astrological map that you came with. It is all part of the search for inner meaning that begins with self-forgiveness. Unresolved trauma will be dealt with in dreams and dissipated with the light of every new day. Possibilities to heal old wounds and lionesses abound.

A Time for Allowance

Those who practice the art of conscious dreaming will experience unlimited opportunities and abundance in their lives and will help to teach others to do the same. This is a time for allowance. We are opening up to the realization that whatever we can visualize for the greater good is tantamount to materialization. The object is not to underestimate the creative powers of the human heart and to use the power of love that is all around us. Allow yourself time out to dream, and dream big! Look for repetition and synchronicity, especially in dreams. Messages from the natural world will normally repeat three times is important. Become alert to your natural surroundings and the elements.

The more conscious we become, the more we will open up to that which we do not know. Super-consciousness is the door to true intelligence and the realization that we don’t know what we don’t know. That is to say, our leading astrophysicists don’t even know what questions to ask about the universe as her secrets unfold at an alarming rate. This is a humbling experience and necessary to keep our minds curious and childlike. It is as simple as that, so expect the unexpected.

Everything we do comes full circle. It is not for us to change the Earth or alter the processes of nature that we don’t understand. It is not our right to violate the rights of any living creature or to deny others a peaceful, fulfilling life. It is not for us to perpetuate war or genocide on other people or to subjugate those that we feel is less valuable or entitled than ourselves. When we do this, we only do it to ourselves. We must each sit alone in the darkness to weigh our own richness and self-worth. But don’t believe a word I say’ search and come to know it for yourself.

As I finish this column I am reminded of the words of John Denver who wrote the following words:

Now his life is full of wonder, but his heart still knows some fear

Of a simple thing he cannot comprehend

Why they try to tear the mountains down to being a couple more

More people, more scars upon the land

And the Colorado Rocky Mountain high

I’ve seen it rainin fire in the sky

I know he’be a poorer man

If he never saw an eagle fly

Rocky Mountain high

It’s a Colorado Rocky mountain high

I’ve seen rainin fire in the sky

Friends around the campfire and everybody high

Rocky Mountain High, Colorado.

John left the earthy world to begin a greater journey October 12. 1997.

Printed in the Sedona Journal December 2009
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Connecting the Missing Link

An Interview with Zecharia Sitchin
by Siron Knight and Michael Starwyn

 

Considered the father of alternative archeology, Zecharia Sitchin has a profound knowledge of modern and ancient Hebrew and many other Semitic and European languages. This knowledge has enabled him in his research of ancient cultures in Sumer, Egypt and Mesoamerica.

Sitchin has written a series of intriguing books including The 12th Planet, The Wars of Gods and Men, When Time Began, Stairway to Heaven and Lost Realms. These books deal with Earth’s and humankind’s history and prehistory and are based on information actually written on clay tablets by the ancient civilizations of the Near East.

Born in Russia, raised in Palestine, educated in England, and a leading journalist and editor in Israel for many years, he now lives in New York. In a rare interview, we had the opportunity to ask Zecharia Sitchin about his transformational journey, which has led him to the well-researched and documented discovery that our ancestors came from the stars.

Question: When and how did your search or quest in what is now termed “alternative archeology” begin?

Zecharia Sitchin: When I was nine or ten years old, studying the Old Testament in its original language of Hebrew, we reached chapter six of Genesis. This chapter describes the beginning of the deluge – the great flood, which includes Noah and the Ark. Only when you read it in its original language do you understand what it really says.

It begins not with the story of Noah himself and what happened, but with a preamble of some eight verses that are obviously remnants of a much older and different text than the ensuing story of Noah and the Ark. These eight verses have been the delight of Sunday preachers because they talk about the reason for the deluge and why God became angry with humankind. It says that at the time just before the great flood there were giants upon the Earth who married the daughters of men and had children by them.

In class I raised my hand and said: “Excuse me, teacher, why do you say giants when the world is “nephilim,” which means “those who have come down or descended” – because it speaks like they were sons of the gods, who came from Heaven to Earth.” I was expecting to be complimented for my linguistic acumen, but instead I was reprimanded harshly. The teacher ordered me to sit down, and not to question the Bible. I was not questioning the Bible. On the contrary, I was trying to bring out the need to understand precisely what the Bible says.

Question: It sounds like this search for which the “nephilim” were became your life’s work.

Sitchin: It became an obsession with me. What did the Bible mean by “nephilim?” Later on, when I began my Biblical and archeological studies of the ancient Middle East, I realized another verse among these eight verses is even more explosive, because it talks about them as being the sons, plural, of the other gods, plural, which is very odd in a Bible totally devoted to monotheism. The search, which began when I was a schoolboy, lasted about thirty years, and took me through all the various mythologies of the ancient peoples, back to the first place or civilization that had written records. All so-called later myths have been written down on clay tablets. These were the people called the Sumerians, whose civilization blossomed about six thousand years ago in what is now Iraq – then known as Southern Mesopotamia.

Question: Wasn’t it while studying the Sumerian tablets that you discovered the Anunaki: the Keepers of the Secret?

Sitchin: Yes. The Sumerians called “those who descended from heaven to Earth” the “Ananuki.” The term in Sumerian literally means “those who from Heaven to Earth came.” Due to my ability to read the Sumerian clay tablets, I studied and reported the findings to my readers. The tablets said the Ananuki came from another planet in our solar system that comes into our vicinity ever 3,600 years, sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more. They started to come and go between their planet and our planet about 450.000 years ago in search for gold, which they needed to protect the atmosphere of their planet.

In addition, they needed manpower, so they jumped the gun on evolution, combining their genes with the genes of humanoids. They combined their genes with females already on Earth and as a result of evolution brought us about. So no wonder the search for a so-called missing link that connects Homo sapiens has proven fruitless. The link is missing because it was jumped over artificially through genetic engineering. And why were they losing their own atmosphere? Was it a matter of environment? We are facing some of the same issues right now on our own planet.

Question: The link came from another world?

The Sumerian and Biblical Data involves Acknowledging the Existence of Extraterrestrials.

Sitchin: Every planet is a world. The question is, where did their planet come from, because according to the Sumerian texts – which I take as scientific data – their planet was thrust out of another solar system. So in a way, we are the product of a cosmic connection. I can tell you my next book, due in Fall of 1998 is titled The Cosmic Connection. We are genetically a combination of the evolution of humanoids on Earth and of those visitors. This is an eternal chain. They brought it to us, and we will bring it elsewhere.

Question: I am going back to ask you about this concept of the human hybrid. It seems like we are all at that point in our own evolution where we’ve mapping out the DNA helix and starting to do our own genetic engineering. It’s almost as if we are taking on where our ancestors, the Anunaki, left off.

Sitchin: It’s really interesting if you come to think about it, all these scientific advances in genetic and space travel are happening almost at the same time. It is as if the cycle is going back to our beginnings, and we are on the threshold of going out and doing to another planet what was done to us.

Comment: This accounts for some of the changes and transformation happening in the world today.

Sitchin: Yes. I appreciate the back issues of Magical Blend. I was reading over and over again the statement of purpose of the magazine. It says that Magical Blend accepts the premise that society is undergoing a fundamental transformation, and a new world view is being born. The magazine intends to deal with where we are going and how everyone may or may not have some input.

The brought to mind Arabic folk story that dealt with two travelers who were walking from one town to another town. After a while, they reached a crossroad. There was a pole with pointers to the left and right, bearing the names of the various cities. The pole had fallen down. One of the travelers sat and started to cry, saying: “We are lost. This directional pole has fallen down and we do not know where to go and we are lost.” The other traveler said: “”Oh, no, we are not lost.” He took the pole and pointed it towards the town from which they came. When he did this, all the other directions fell into place. He told the one who was crying: “So you see, my friend, in order to know where you are going, you have to know where you came from.”

This, I think, is the moral of my writings, because I really feel a kinship with the past. This is what happened so many millenniums ago. Here is what the Sumerians wrote down, and this is what the Anunaki who came did; they did this and that. They gave this knowledge and that knowledge: the zodiac, etc. The value of this knowledge is that in this information lies the clue to the future. So while I am supposedly writing about the past, I am really erecting the poles with directional signs for the future.

Question: You point out in our books that we are entering a New Age, moving into the Age of Aquarius. Why is that so important?

A Sumerian Cylinder Seal depicts an Astronaut on Mars, The Sixth Planet and an Astronaut on Earth, with a Space ship between them.

Sitchin: A Sumerian Cylinder seal over 4,500 years old depicts an astronaut on Mars, the sixth planet (counting from outside of the solar system in), and an astronaut from Earth, with a space ship between them. There is a date on this, which is Pisces. That encounter took place during the Age of Pisces. The zodiacal cycle returns to exactly the same spot every 25,920 years. So we are now leaving the Age of Pisces. Enki was the prototype god of Aquarius. Whether this means that it is all going to happen again the Enki is coming back, I don’t know There are a lot of signaling and signs that all point in that direction.

Question: The way you correlate temple dates and uses with changing times is intriguing. What was the purpose of the ancient structures such as Stonehenge?

Sitchin: Stonehenge was not the only astronomically-oriented, megalithic structure at that time. For example, there is a kind of Stonehenge on the Golan Heights in Israel. The structures are similar and have similar orientations. Around 2200 BC, the conflict arose between Enki and Enhil and their two sons about who was supreme on Earth, and they used nuclear weapons. They had to do this with the changing of Age of Taurus into the Age of Aries. The spaceport at the Sinai Peninsula was destroyed and the observatory structures were built. These were not structures for use by the Anunaki, but to enable humankind to follow the celestial cycle. There were two different kinds of temples, ones that were oriented by the equinoxes, called eternal temples, and ones that were oriented towards the solstices. The solstice temples were not eternal, because over a period of years the axis changes and shifts. By measuring the shift you can tell when the solstice temples were built.

Question: Why do we feel scholars continue to misinterpret the written records?

Sitchin: There are two prime reasons. One reason is we are all captive of our technology. For example, there is a depiction of two eagle-men saluting a rocket on one tablet. A hundred years ago, if I were asked what this was showing, I would have said two men saluting a pencil, because I would have never heard of a rocket. Some of the Sumerian tablets are so complex they look like computer print-outs. It is quite possible that someone will go back to the texts and say, “How come Sitchin didn’t realize they were talking about this or that?”

The second reason is that accepting the Sumerian and Biblical data involves acknowledging the existence of extraterrestrial. There is a text that describes how Enki leading a group of fifty Anunaki splashed down in the waters of the Persian Gulf, wades ashore, and established the first base on Earth. Then he assigned tasks to his personnel. Privately, many scholars tell me that I am right, but publicly they have to protect the status quo. Even so, my books are being used in many colleges and university courses. They are called alternative archeology. So changes are happening.

This article was printed in the October 1998 Issue of Magical Blend.