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Incubation, The Sun, And Video Project
A lot of things have begun to fall into place. Early tomorrow morning I will begin filming the first shots of a video project that will likely take me until spring or later to complete. Several readers have come forward giving me a lot of good advice on how to get started. I thank you all for that. Needless to say I am now quite convinced that what I have to show will be somewhat stunning especially because much of the 2010-2011 footage (audio and video) I had from my Luminosity-era encounters is fairly outrageous. I have been sitting on this for quite a while. Having spent the last few days scanning you tube, I couldn’t even find a close match to the strange “artifacts” I have. In several cases, the “evidence” seems almost like a hoax and for this reason I may likely hold back a lot because I do not want to take away from the story in general. It is very clear to me that this project will not only cover that 1984 event, but just about everything from the Harlequin encounters to the present day.
To be clear, I am funding this project on my own. I am not asking for any donations and I will not ask for donations. I wouldn’t accept them if they were offered. I am giving everything I have freely to you because this is something I enjoy doing and I think the benefit is mutual.
Last night I began recording the intro to my video. It is one of the best pieces I have ever written. I was pretty much enraptured when I began writing it and didn’t stop writing until it was completed. It had a very natural flow to it. Because I write much better than I talk, keeping a slower pace was not exactly easy. I tend to be a very fast talker. When I listened to the recording I cringed and kept telling myself how difficult the whole process was going to be. My wife Sarah, may end up doing most of the talking on the video because her voice is very soft and pleasant sounding. I sound like a working class hack from Milwaukee.
Jason from Chicago recently pointed me out to Peter Kingsley who I found to be an amazing writer. I devoured “In The Dark Places of Wisdom” in a few hours. Normally when I get a book recommendation I will sort of put it in the back of my mind. Sometimes I get to it, most of the time I don’t. For some reason when I received this comment, the name of the author and book stuck out to the point it had been nagging me incessantly. I finally realized after checking my kindle why the name was so familiar. Another one of my favorite writers (that would be putting it lightly) Algis Uzdavinys mentions Kingsley in his books “The Golden Chain” and “Philosophy And Theurgy In Late Antiquity“, which I have listed on my reading list. My need to read Kingsley’s book was actually pretty intense. About ten pages in I understood why it was so important. Aside from private initiatory texts that I own, Kingsley’s book is a close second in importance to me.
Let me quickly quote something of great importance in Kingsley’s book and especially how it relates to my video project. To quote Kingsley:
“There is one central key to understanding the recipe for immortality.
This is the initiates approach to the sun. The sun is his god, his “god of gods”. It’s though the sun that he’s born again-and for that to happen he has to travel in the path of the sun itself. One of his names in the mysteries was “sun-runner”. This was almost the last stage of initiation, and was the name given to someone who’s able to ride in the chariot of the sun.
So it’s no surprise to find that making the sound of a syrinx also has a very special link with the sun. And yet the vividness of the details in the recipe that help to explain the link is quite amazing. For an extraordinary picture is presented to the initiate of how in reality the sun has a tube hanging down from it: a tube that’s not just an ordinary tube, but a musical pipe.”
Readers will be aware of this post when it comes to that last sentence. In that post my someone I thought was pretending to be my deceased mother said:
“”Danny? Danny? Look up. We can talk through this little tube.”"
Admittedly this is strange. Symbolically speaking, the “sigil” that flashed upon my wall was an upward facing traingle which is representative of many things including God, fire, the sun, and spirit. The bottom line within the triangle seems to indicate a “tube” hanging down. Keep in mind that the post that this symbol comes from was written long before I had read Kingsley’s book at a time when I was all too willing to dismiss the experience as evil.
In the summer of 1984 I started having what I would call inwardly sacred moments that related to the sun. I would awaken shortly before sunrise with the sense that I was being “called” outside by the sun. This took the form of seeing a golden glow outside of the window that was both pleasant and inviting. When this occurred the world around me seemed unimaginably still. This idea of “stillness” is talked about fairly often in Kingsley’s book. I would hop on my bicycle before anyone got up and would ride to the places that were the most meaningful to me. Riding through the city while people slept there was this sense that it was just “the sun and me” which was very profound yet simple to my young mind. The sun to me was very much alive, like everything else was to me at that age.
This practice continued for some years. In my late 20s I was entering into what I would call hypnagogic states at will. On one occasion I wrote about earlier, I was in such a state and began explaining to my wife that the sun was “God’s visible likeness”. But this goes even deeper than that. Especially when we realize that the terra firma can indeed be transformed into the terra lucida simply by how we view things. I have been noticing this more and more lately. I went on a long hike this morning and there were several moments that I could honestly say that even though I was walking on the solid physical earth, I could see the celestial domain breaking through revealing in a profound way that the two are actually the same. The ”separation” of these worlds comes only through an error of human perception. While it is right for me to say that the celestial domain exists within us while I am in a purely physical state, these divisions of within and without disappear completely in that primordial state of eternity, which is factually right here, right now.
This is why as Kingsley states the sun is so important. While it is merely ‘the sun” in the purely physical domain, it is actually something far greater. It is God in the symbolic sense. It upholds this world and without out it, we die. Death and initiation, in a manner of speaking, transforms the Sun from a mere ball of flaming gas to the primordial sun or God that is hiding behind that solar disc. I have often told people that while they are dreaming, they should do their best to find the sun. The sun is the doorway to the realm beyond our dreams, it is the sun that frees us from the gray worlds of dreams where the often negative “street dwellers” tend to reside.
At this point I’d like to get into the idea of incubation, which Kingsley writes about in his book “In The Dark Places Of Wisdom“, which I highly recommend all of you buy at your soonest convenience. Incubation is a spiritual practice of the west, also known as Iatromantis. To be very clear this is western shamanism. Please read this excellent post from 2009 by Mike Clelland. Mike practices this naturally in his own way. A recent commentor “God Loves Ugly” AKA “Different Mike” recently stated:
“I also find intriguing Kingsley’s description of “incubation” which is very, very similar to the way I am naturally inclined to “meditate” myself.”
The pre-Socratic initiates (philosophers) were essentially “master dreamers” and it was through their dreams that they conducted not only healing (getting through those pesky errors of perception) but also communed with the Gods. People familiar with the abduction/alien lore understand that dreams seem to play a very important role in the overall experience. Anyone that is able to enter into these states understands that taking experiences back to the physical domain is difficult. There is no question of “opening ourselves up” to negative influences because in that domain, you are dealing with things that are already clearly a part of your being. The issue at hand is dealing with it and penetrating into the highest domain where the “Gods” and “Seraphs” reside, in that numinous world of light which is the Terra Lucida. The message Kingsley gives in his book is quite clear. These experiences are “deadly” in the sense that they are serious affairs. As human beings we are attempting to understand beings that exist an a completely different level of understanding. They are the “Gods” and “Heroes” of old, in particular Apollo. By nature we are left confused and grasping to understand exactly what is happening to us. This is all a part of the personal journey of ones life, particularly the explored life, which by nature ought to be a strange and interesting affair.
Incubation is not simply laying down sleeping in order to dream. These metaphysician-shamans of Greece would often go to particular areas (often caves in the pitch black bowels of the earth) and remain still (inwardly and outwardly) while they simply waited. To be sure, the ancient mind was far more receptive to this than we are today. It is a Herculean effort for most people to experience such things today because they are often very deeply stained by technology and modern culture in general. In a way, this has created a world of automatons and human robots that are ill-prepared for such events. I have stated in the past that our disconnection with the world of the Seraph is causing a destructive spirit to set in. That spirit of the age has been with us for generations now.
At a certain point in the practice of incubation a droning is often heard. Among certain “experiencers” this often comes in the form of a hum, a hissing, or a whirring sound. It is upon hearing this sound or feeling this inner vibration that the initiate begins to enter into these primordial realities. In a word, it is a kind of separation point in the practice of incubation. For well over ten years now I have been doing this without knowing anything about Iatromantis. I have done this many times by laying down flat on the floor and crossing my arms over my chest (like a mummy). In the school I was initiated in this posture was a symbol of initiatic death and it was through “dying” in this posture that I was taught to enter into these hypnagogic states, which are now very easy for me to enter. It is not important the posture. Often times this can be done by simply sitting down in a chair. What’s left behind is the shell of the human body. So while it may look like a person practicing is merely dozing off, there is much more to it. My wife has pulled me out of these states more times than I can count thinking that I was merely dozing off when in fact I wasn’t.
What is really happening in this state is that we are travelling into our own deaths. That is the reality. Many people including myself at the beginning will reach a place of complete nothingness. Often time they will quickly snap awake with a gasp or leap out of their relaxation in a startled way. People tend to not want to go any further because the level of nothingness is quite shocking. What is being presented, however, isn’t a nothingness as much as it is a something that cannot yet be seen. A something that lies in still realities of that other world, which is really this world in disguise. I will close there for now.
2012-09-30 05:21:27
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