CREATION in NUMBERS

THE LIGHT THAT WAS CRUCIFIED

"We have often said that the primary purpose of all established religions is to prevent, to remove from the mind, the perception of the immediate all-pervading mystery: the fact that the mere existence of anything at all cannot and never will be explained.

We think that justice has been done to Moses in ignoring his miracles and in stating that his religion was the building of a protective shell for a profound truth: a shell that has no longer any purpose.

Likewise, we must do justice to Jesus in eliminating his miraculous aspects that have nothing to do with the truth which can be discovered in the original Hebraic myth: the game of indetermination played by Aleph and Yod.

When that game is truly perceived by us, YHWH springs alive and the spirit of truth (John XIV, 16-17), foretold by Jesus, dwells within us.

The important point of contact between Hebraism and early Christianity can only be shown in the almost unknown link between the original Qabala and Gnosticism, against which the Church built its defences."

from THE CIPHER OF GENESIS: The original Code of the Qabala as Applied to the Scriptures by Carlo Suarès (p. 209)

Deeper Understandings

sacred space upon a hill by Rizza Dela Cruz

SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2014

Partzufim - Divine Personas, Holy Family


Partzufim: (Aramaic, “Countenances,” “Personifications”). First outlined in the Zohar, this metaphysical concept is more fully devel­oped by Isaac Luria. According to the Lurianic cosmog­ony, after the catastrophe of the Breaking of the Vessels, the shattering of the primeval structure of light, the ein sof reconstitutes the fragments of the cosmic order into five “countenances” or “visages” that are able to mediate between supernal and material realities in a way the pri­mordial vessels were not. Think of the Partzufim as analo­gous to a “patch” for a faulty computer program.'


The biblical proof text that Chayyim Vital offers for the partzufim is Gen. 2:4, where he reads the compound word behibaram, “when they were created,” as a notarikon, breaking it up into be-Hay-baram, “Through ‘5’ He created them,” “them” being all of positive existence (Etz Chayyim, Gate III, 39). 


The Partzufim interact with humanity in the work of tikkun. These countenances also constitute and encompass the personal dimensions of God that are described in biblical and rabbinic writings, since they symbolize the male and female principles operating within the Godhead. In fact, the partzufim constitute a kind of “holy family,” a familial metaphor for the divine pleroma. In some writings, the various partzufim are assigned the names of biblical figures: Jacob and Israel; Rachel and Leah. Presumably, one can map the functions of the partzufim on the celestial level through studyingthe biographies and actions of those biblical characters. Other partzufim get titles, such as Yisrael Sava, “grandpa Israel,” for Abba.


 This aspect of Lurianic thought has a complex relationship with the sefirotic structure of classic kabbalah, not unlike the “wave/particle” phenom­enon in quantum physics. Thus whether the divine struc­ture manifests itself as the sefirot or as the partzufim de­pends on certain conditions, but they are essentially two aspects of the same divine force. The five countenances are:

Arikh Anpin: The “long/great countenance,” also called the Atik Yamim, “Ancient of Days.”
Abba: “Father,” the male aspect of the divine gamos is linked to the sefirot of Keter and/or Cho­chmah.
Ima: “Mother,” the celestial mother is tied to Binah.
Zer (or Zaur) Anpin/Ben: “The short/lesser countenance.” Product of the union of Abba and Ima, it is tied to the lower six sefirot: Chesed, gevurah, tiferet, netzach, Hod, and Yesod.
Kalah/Malcha/Bat: “Bride/Queen.” The feminine counterpart to Zer Anpin, she is linked to malchut.


The Partzufim, like their sefirotic counterparts, are also integral to the notion of the restoration of the Adam Kadmon, the cosmic human. In a kind of inverted “imi­tatio dei,” all human actions that advance the cause of cos­mic restoration are mimicked by the Partzufim.2 Thus humans help to activate them and ensure the healing flow of divine energies between higher and lower worlds. by GEOFFREY DENNIS   




1. Scholem, Kabbalah, 140–44.
2. Faierstein, Jewish Mystical Autobiographies, 28–29. Also see Green, Jewish Spirituality, vol. 2, 65–70.

Cooly, Milana inhaled her cigar curled in a cat's posture she purred someone responded with a corresponding shudder...

the Messiah as Superman!

Why Superman is a Better Jewish Messiah than a Christian Messiah: A Mythic Movie Review of Man of Steel

Pearl Praise afloat...

I got to see Man of Steel just before vacation (I stood atop a Mayan pyramid - about as close to a ziggurat as I'm  gonna get, being a Jew, so that was awesome) and now I am ready to comment on it.

Much has been made about the christological spin given the Superman mythology in this movie, and I found much of it quite moving, if somewhat heavy-handed (I'm thinking of the "surrender yourself" come-to-Jesus moment with the priest, where a picture of Jesus is hovering right over his shoulder). It certainly shows how a really, really good myth can be the bearer of many vectors of meaning. The screenwriter(s) foregrounded some nice elements of the Superman mythos that resonate with the Christ story. Good christ-figures fill popular culture, from Klaatu to Gandalf, and only a first-class whinger would complain about bringing together two great western mythic tales ("Chocolate!" "Peanut Butter!" "Wait, they taste great together!").

I must observe, however, that the Man of Steel as the Prince of Peace is, IMHO, an awkward fit. The narrative proves Kal El = Christ to be something of a case of Procrustean bedding (Sorry to throw in a third mythic tradition here). And here's why I think this is so:

For while the plot contrives that Kent must surrender himself for the good of humanity, he neither has to suffer death at the hands of the people he has come to save, nor does he die, crucified or otherwise, by anybody, not even General Zod (Yea, Michael Shannon!), the Prince of Darkness. Indeed, he actively works to escape his fate, and does so successfully. The only two people who willing and successfully sacrifice their lives are his father (the Joseph stand-in) - who does so for the ethically questionable principle that it is better for others to die than for his son to prematurely reveal his true nature - and the Air Force colonel who does, in fact, destroy himself for the sake of saving humanity, but in a way that is more Torpedo Squadron 8 (look it up) than Jesus of Nazareth.

Look, there is no question that the master myth undergirding Superman is a kind of messianism: the particular religious brand of utopianism that centers of the special individual, gifted with unique powers, an individual who can and will transform our reality for the better and advance all that is divine, just, true, and right, improving the human condition. The messianic myth, writ small, is arguable at the very root of the superhero as a genre. Fair enough, but how, then is Superman more Jewish than Christian? While the messiah is the special invention of the Jews, messianism is also at the very heart of the Christian myth. Even so, it is useful to recognize Christian and Jewish forms of messianism as  categorically quite distinct. The uniquely Christian vision of the messiah is the supernal empowered “chosen one” who surrenders and sacrifices himself and dies for the good of humanity, his death bringing salvation in a way his life could not. The Jewish messiah, by contrast, is the empowered “chosen one” who strives and struggles, who to the very end lives for the good of humanity, ultimately to triumph over adversity and evil, but without losing himself. And so too, is Superman. While Christ-motifs will eventually appear in the long story arc of the Superman comic run (7 decades and counting), in their earliest form, and in their overarching mythologies, all comic book heroes conquer evil by defeating its minions, not by transcending it through their own death.  Leading, fighting for, and living for humanity is an archly Jewish myth; the master motif of Superman. This Jewish myth is actually the foundational premise of all the early superhero mythologies. 

There is a second way in which Jewish messianism is different. In Christian thought, there is and can be only one messiah. All other contenders are anti-christ. In Judaism, a messiah is a role and a high office, a role not bound to one person, one time in (or even the end of) history. In point of fact, every king and high priest of Israel was a messiah in their own time. Thus, the appearance of multiple superheroes in a single “universe” - the Justice League of America, for example - has a more Jewish than Christian resonance to it.

There is, finally, a dark side to the Jewish Messianic/Superman myth that I take to be a curious kind of "proof" of Superman's essential Jewishness, and this is the Christian tradition of the anti-christ. It doesn't take much reading of Christian commentaries to realize that the anti-christ, as envisioned in the Revelations of John and then elaborated on by Christian tradition, is at its heart fundamentally a critique/polemic against the competing Jewish vision of the eschatological messiah. Cast as descendant of the tribe of Dan (and therefore a Jew), who triumphs and governs in this world, abet as a viceroy of Satan rather than God, the anti-christ is essentially a dig at the "carnality" of Jewish eschatological expectations.

Why am I reviewing this tangential matter? Because of a revealing conversation I had with a campus minister back in the 1970's, in which he declared Superman to be a cunning pop culture avatar of the anti-christ, a pulp-fiction blasphemy meant to mentally prepare mankind for the coming to the real satanic savior, the ubermensch bearing the the "mark of the beast." This preacher, immersed in Christian myth, intuitively detected this "Jewish" cast to Superman, and then deconstructed him through his the prism of his Christian len and, whola, he is revealed to be anti-christ. Or, Superman = Jewish Messiah = anti-christ. My experience of 40 years ago is hardly isolated; see this Washington Post article: 

So while I enjoyed Man of Steel, his ret-con (look it up) as a Christ figure is ultimately a triumph of marketing over innate narrative affinity. Superman is, and remains, more like Menachem ben David, "Comforter, son of David" rather than Christ,
"...eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end." ~ Geoffrey Dennis (7.7.2013) 

Pearl Praise small before a giant tree.

To learn more, look up the Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic, and Mysticism available at Amazon:

STUDY BEFORE ACCEPTANCE

Magic Seal Tree of Demons Necronomiconstileby Mikewildt




I don't understand why or how this symbol is a Tree of Demons. It looks exactly like the Tree of Life the Hebrews employed for thousands of years. Second, do you know how to use this? There is a third question, but it has to do with something subtle I sense in the colors the lines and the two figures carrying the Anks. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Enlarged the symbols in the circles of each of the three pillars become clear. They are menacing, or they are firm and definite in their purposes. They don't feel good or  perhaps I am off center, and I am responding to old stimuli from the perspectives of superstitious jargon I heard growing up. I need to study this.  

GODDESS ancient of DAYS

Egyptian Goddess of Love
Het-Hert

The study, acceptance, and understanding of the Goddess have not necessarily evolved. It has changed. In diminished capacity she, the Goddess, has been trivialized to imply sex, and sexual opportunity. Western Christianity has denied her existence so long women struggle with the notion of sexuality, power, divinity, beauty and spiritual power as one whole entity, or force of Nature. It has led to enormous upheaval. Daughters ill-equipped for the enormous energies of Womanhood make horrible mistakes and decisions. Without the advantages of ceremonies and rituals that bound and connect them to the vital energies of Water, their Wombs, and the Earth, our Mother this triangular relationship learns to live the way Kabbalah has learned to live amongst the mundane throughout the ages. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3.22.13

Eva Longoria's exquisite form in a purple dress & heels.

SKULL ROSE ART

Question the QUEST you are upon.

"There is death in life we either clatter away from in an effort to put distance between our lives and its presence, or one becomes still, and allows oneself to become a sacred person in relationship with their own deaths. It is all a choice until we have to die." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3.26.13

Skull & Rose Art

the TREE OF LIFE

Deep Kabbalistic Healing probes too deep for the wrong intent to attempt a try, a plunge into this vehicle.
Art: Shawn Hocking ♥

"…we give you this warning and we also give you a promise. For those of you who can "hear," know that the ticket is love in your heart. By love, we do not mean the mushy, romanticized stuff of your movies and novels. By love, we mean the absence of fear, trust in the Creator, and a willingness to put one's life on the line for the truth. In a very short time from now, those traits are going to be the only ones that gets one the "ticket to ride." A great wave of change is building now that will soon sweep the petty affairs of humans away: a great wave of purification and the cleansing of everything that is not in alignment with the destiny of this planet." www.SacredLoveOmetry.com

Experiencing Reality:Personal and Global

Laura Aida on October 6, 2010
for Areachicha magazine

Neuroscience explains that at birth, a child's brain has approximately 100 billion neurons. With maturation, the number of neurons remains constant but the synaptic connections between them develop with each new experience, forming a unique configuration of connections that personalize each one's brain, allowing us to interpret our reality through the framework of an individualized synaptic map.

As we see the flowering of women's circles on a local level, and technology encourages us to connect in cyberspace with others of like minds, no longer are we limited by geographical considerations. Is it possible that what we are witnessing is the transformation and evolution of humanity's synaptic map?

As patriarchal institutions are imploding- religiously, politically, financially and socially, a grassroots international connection between peoples is forming. These groups, local and global, are sharing personal stories and experiences, touching the hearts of those who listen. This teaching and learning experience is a natural and intuitive pathway to wisdom for women.

For American women who enjoy the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, now is a great time and place in which to speak our truth, so long denied us. It takes courage to step forward now that we have the opportunity- and we are empowering one another to take advantage of the moment.

In the place of patriarchal hierarchy, disempowerment and separation (of one from another, of ourselves from the natural world, and perhaps from God) a phoenix is rising- lifting us to the next rung in the ladder of evolutionary consciousness. For the first time, technology is making possible a rapidly growing network through which the human family relates and connects, creating a new reality - an empowering connection and celebration of diversity.

The past several hundred years have been tumultuous in the human story. The developing human intellect, beneficial in many ways, works best as a server rather than a master, one tool in our repertoire of ways of learning about our world. We have witnessed the worship of science and its heirs of mechanization, industrialization, consumerism and the ongoing tragedy of the colonization of less developed nations- through religion, culture and consumerism.

With the reawakening of the Sacred Feminine, we are remembering the joy of intuitive knowing, of mutuality, respect and relationship. We each have a part to play in this cosmic shift as we realize the importance of taking time- even a few minutes each day, to be present in our own lives, perhaps most easily done, by connecting, even for just moments a day, with the natural world. Everything we need to know can be learned from the trees in the garden or park. Rain, drought, sunshine or wind, day and night, they grow. They are. From them we learn presence and resilience. Their summer leaves sparkle in the sunshine, dancing in the afternoon winds. They fall effortless to the ground when it is time to release and make way for the new. Oh, at the end of each day, to be able to drop regrets, frustrations and upsets as lightly as they drops their leaves.

Just as each leaf dances to an individual melody of life in the community of the whole tree, in expressing who we are, we fulfill our individual destinies and expand the possibilities of the synaptic map not only of ourselves but of the whole human family. by Heather
November 5, 2010

a KABBALAH teaching

Adekemi Abiodun & ancient symbols

"The Heart Tiphareth (Beauty) on the version of the Tree of Life is the source of the beauty in us all to meditate upon from where the source of our aura generates from so glow on beautiful one beyond the boundaries of form that it reflects. It feels good to connect from the heart of the soul oneness ." - Siayoum Karuma

from gallery of
Zena Starseed

TRUTH or DARE

Aborigines of Australia

Well, Robert you bring this to my mind about truth. Truth isn't as wide and narrow as the projections of truth Christians hold to the world. Those assemblies (churches & church doctrines) are containers holding that which cannot be contained, contained if you need them to be contained, but not contained. Such is the mystery of truth, the Word, Tao, The Chief of the White Cloth (Obatala) as is taught and understood in Ifa. . . - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5.24.13

African children surrounding Elder

"I wasn't trying to isolate, or generalize churches. I was pointing out the way truth comes out from the perspective of the Ethiopian rabbi I grew up with and what I learned through his initiations. I was juxtaposing these things and the body of knowledge in Western Christianity we are taught to accept whole as the 'truth'." - Gregory E. Woods

TIES THAT BIND

Galleries

There is an actress, Camilla Belle, I saw in a movie, 10,000 B.C. playing a young woman named Evolet. Her people, the Yahahl lived in a remote and cold mountain range in the Urals surviving off of the hunt. Under the spiritual direction, and powers of the tribes’ Wise Woman, whom they respectfully called Old Mother, the men hunted woolly Mammoths. The White Spear, a prized possession given to the hunter who brought down the woolly Mammoth, motivated the men, and marked a hunter a man among men!

 

 The story, narrated by Omar Sharif, whom in his youth swelled the hearts of millions of women, and astonished men with his voice, and his elegance, tells of the intense love between young Evolet, and an orphaned boy, D’Leh. Others ridiculed the boy because they believed his father had abandoned the tribe out of fear, thus labeling his orphaned son a coward. During the hunt D’Leh kills the beast, and wins the White Spear, but in his sense of integrity young D’Leh thinks the accident he had that killed the Mammoth did not earn him the right to carry the coveted White Spear. Returning it to the man who took care of him, Tic Tic,  the previous carrier of the spear, he also loses Evolet, to whom he’d made a vow of commitment, and who came along with the prestige of the White Spear. His decision breaks her heart, and would have, had not the village been raided, and Evolet stolen, returned to him the shame and ridicule of his growing up years.

Receiving the blessing and the strength of Old Mother’s powers from her Dreamtime Medicines a small party of Yahahl men track the invaders through snow, a wet jungle, and a desert. There are many dangers faced from the land, and internally the ever evolving young D’Leh is learning, unlearning, and discovering who he is, and why his value system stands a contrast to the fellows he grew up with. He learns profound things about himself, and motivated by love discovers other dimensions of love village life might never have revealed to him. He learns who is father is and what his father planted within his son, at great cost to his own soul. The sacrifice, and the tenacity within his father and passed to his son spearhead a revolt within the boy shaking away the tentacles of old beliefs, old understandings. This emboldens him in an entirely new cultural setting in a dance to the death to capture, and embrace his beloved woman.

Both Evolet and D’Leh are children of prophecies. Their ordeal does not go unnoticed by Old Mother. She saw it all in her dreaming. Bound by a code of conduct unique to her craft since the beginning of ‘soul doctoring’ in the ancient past, the old Shaman held the words of her mouth and understanding allowing prophecies, or patterns to work themselves out into the design people and events flow into and from. It is a standard and a worldview Shamans carry silently within despite every obstacle and challenge unfathomable to the people, and communities they serve.

The story leads to the deep contradictions of powerful men over people, and finally the fact of bondage, of slavery comes to the forefront challenging love, and commitment! The young warrior is now leading tribes of men into a great city, and the psychological, cultural, and spiritual dilemma of bondage confronts him with a life and death choice. This level of combat is spiritual warfare, and the story presents the timeless dance of life-death-resurrection into the man D’Leh, and his woman Evolet with penetrating energies! Their souls marry through Death before they are married in the eyes of the state, which leads to two questions: What is Marriage? Is initiation fundamentally important to marriage? © Gregory E. Woods 11.04.12

actor Steven Strait as D'Leh in movie 10,000 B.C.

The name D'Leh is an anagram for "Held" which is the German, Dutch & Afrikaans word for hero.

Evolet held by D'Leh in movie 10,000 B.C.
The name Evolet is an anagram for "t(h)e love".
She is among the few survivors of her tribe, and unique for her blue eyes.

FATHERHOOD & ABORTION

Fatherhood, in its deepest form, is a Priest-craft, and children live within the loins of every boy, and every man capable of laying seed within a womb. The craft of Fatherhood is a learned skill and with its attendant responsibilities requires initiation to introduce the depth of it all to Life to a man.

There are numerous clichés circulating around in people’s heads far from the depth of fatherhood used to rally people around the cause against abortion, but fear of losing position, or argument dominants the discourses on the subject. Other fears laced around the issue are masked under dark ominous countenances, and the emphasis of Christians upon the teachings of Christ reveals a weakness atheists pick up readily: the fear of true power, as Jesus saw, taught, and lived it.

Unable to speak truth to power, or embrace the ancient concept of Genesis Christians fail to understand that Creation is not a fixed event in our collective past, but an ever-present copulation of energies dancing between, or rather within life-death-resurrection. This is an understanding of Life plunging the individual, and the tribe into the fierceness of living truth-to-power. What many thinking Native people, or as some of us call ourselves: NDNS, understand about this is that the very people who must war against other nations are the most fervent supporters of abortion rights. It is hard for many to understand the movements within the white American soul.

The task of raising children needs mirrors, but the extremes within this controversy are unable to see the correlation between mirrors, and child-rearing, water, and fire, or the propensity to war and the survival of the fetus, and the inexplicable ability of white people, over our collective history, to eradicate whole tribes with the stroke of a pen, and their furious fight to shut down abortion clinics to save the lives of unborn babies. For many the contradictions are gross, too many, and overwhelming. They are complicated in the midst of the struggle, but easy to see.” – Gregory E. Woods 10.21.12

Evelyn Thorns waiting for train at Union Station

RESURRECTION: Preparation to LIVE???

If one goes deeply down into the depths of the oceans, there are powerful currents and a rich absence of turbulence - a profound presence of silence, power, and potential adventure, encased in a soothing smoothness of texture and sound. If you withdraw from your ordinary world and dive deeply within, it is similar. There you will find a profound presence of power, potential adventure, and a deep, calming release. ♥! www.SacredLoveOmetry.com

the Art Form of Sacred Geometry

There is a lot to be said about power, men and men of power. If you know the stories or know the men or teach the men, are one of the men the stories held need to be told, and told by any means necessary. So, I ask:

How does a son prepare himself for his mother's death? How does a man prepare to be without his mother's life in the temporal state of being Mommy? How do sons become the patriarchs of their families in the physical absence of their parents? What form does the eldest take during the transition of his Mother's life to the next? What alters and what grows in the wake of change this profound?

The relationships, all the relationships abounding in life are watching this drama. Integrity has a say. Righteousness has a say. Experience has a contribution, and prophecy and maturity are conscious as the veils between this life and the next thin daily for Mommy and I. Mothers become mothers to sons in ways daughters are not privy to, and daughters become daughters to mothers and fathers in ways a boy, a man, and a father can gaze at attentively, but not know in fullness. I think of how broken and distraught my own sister is in her life as Mommy dies not to her self but to the conscious reality she lived so well here with us. There is one broken thing my Mother cannot fix, and it lives in the denials and gross contradictions of my sister, and the relationship between the two of them: my sister's inability to forgive, her two attendant energies anger and fear and her inability to admit to ever being wrong.

This is rather personal. This request, this plea, these questions are not made for gossips. It is for healers to perceive and probe with their Medicines into this my personal story. AHO! These are my words. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 3.27.13

a dream BEYOND dreams is seen within the transitions from this life to the next. It is seen, it seems, in a form dependent upon the life one led in their days breath held them together upon the Earth when Earth is our Mother. How do we prepare to live beyond the dream of our terrestrial life? Is it the same or similar to the adjustment made when we came into this world as a baby? Or do we enter the next life as the adult we are in this life? I've long wondered, but is it important the pondering of those thoughts and ideas while alive? What is more important than being in the present and becoming and giving birth to your Self?
 - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
3.27.13

My poem was Inspired by film~The Fountain

The Fountain~*
Tree of Life & Tree of Knowledge,
take from one & you are lost,
take from both without greed
& ego for the greater good in
Love & Truth.

Let go & your Heart light opens
& shines, your mind's eye sees the
way & all flows in the Fountain,
spilling into existence with Rainbow
colour & Awesome Life,
we are one & all, Divine, Loved, Liberated
& Free 

Lisa Morris

JESUS said, " "

"There is an important, but missing insight. It lives to evolve within these questions. "What did Jesus study? How was he initiated and who initiated him, and why? If Jesus is to be followed why study what others have said of him only? Why not study what he studied? How else can you follow him, and do the things he did, and greater, as he so fervently wished for any followers of his?" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2.25.13

Where does the GODDESS live?

The Goddess form of a woman unfolds in the most intimate of moments, and not on a scheduled prompting. There are moments a woman, similar to cats,  gives in and relaxes into safe, and sacred space. In those precious moments she is making clear the Goddess within her. So often it has had to be hidden. In today's climate it can be in the open and not perceived.   The Goddess is, comes from and is like Kabbalah over the centuries appearing, and disappearing according to the clarity, or the blindness of people, their sharpness,  or the murkiness of their knowledge of light,  their study of  Creator's works, and the discipline of spirit in the work of becoming a deeper soul.©  Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
1.18.13

PETRA G.

One day I walked up and upon an Indian woman from behind unwrapping her sari. She didn't hear me so I froze where I was and beheld something I probably shouldn't have seen, but transfixed before the movements she made I couldn't feel myself turning away, or retracing my steps.

She was in her  safe place dreaming about what is important to her. Humming to herself the sari flowed with the melancholy of the refrain she hummed. The graceful nature of her hands combing her hair made the scene around her slow down. The small spring near by seemed excited about the prospect of her bathing. In a rural setting outside of Bombay where I lived the villages were ancient with time honored traditions unfamiliar to me. One I knew had to be in place was the danger I was in should she turn, scream and accuse me of something I'd not done, but may have thought about. It was frightening when I thought about it, but I couldn't think about it because there was something here I'd never known, and needed to know about.

It came from my dreams. It lingered around every Indian woman I'd seen in my lifetime, and now it was unwrapping before me not more than a few feet away from where I stood. "What should I do?" I asked myself.  With no answer coming forth I stood still, and became void of thought to become the land we stood upon, and I listened to the sound of my voice talking to the water spirits. Her voice talking to the water spirits did not recognize mine and looked up to see me there. The water spirits beckoned her. Nodding in my direction she followed their gaze, turned and saw me.

She didn't say a word, or appear afraid. She just stood as calmly as I matching her breath with the rhythm of my own breath I could barely hear myself. How did she, or how could she comprehend the cadence of my body from there?  I didn't know, but I did know she was looking at me very closely. Her breasts must have been as soft as they were round and full. I wondered. She looked up at me which meant she was looking at my body parts too.

"American man."

I nodded.

"Why are you here?"

I wanted to say, "For you." but that might lead to an uncomfortable conversation that would arouse suspicions. I didn't know what to say except the truth.

"I was just walking through the village. I apologize for intruding your privacy."

"What is your name?" she asked.

I couldn't contain the excitement I felt listening to her voice. Her voice seemed to belong to her, and it seemed to come from everything around her. Even the water spirits understood her, but I was a suspect in their presence, and they wanted to understand how I came to stand on the land.

"Why are you standing there?" she asked me. I had to answer, but how?


© Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

SACRED STORY: after sex

Many thought their manhood held superior attributes, and erroneously projected those notions into the air they breathed. She felt them coming to her womb after sex and time had passed. Her essence was trained. Her mind was disciplined thanks to her father. Her beauty was layered within the context of power and beauty being what it was had knowledge as much as existence has knowing. Penetrated by the seeds of men who loved her She lived upon the knowing of how things worked together conspiring to be wisdom or folly. It was a dangerous life she lived taking chances being vulnerable, and endearing at the same time, but the need to be held and loved understood the risk factors negotiating with the souls of men not fully developed in the realms of power She was.

Did it make sense, she asked her Medicine, to take such risk?

Yes, came an answer.

But the pain of mistakes...

Yes. They are teachers.

by Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (Dawn Wolf)

COMING MESSIAH: les enfants (the children)

SOCIAL CHANGE

If we don't listen and act upon what our children clearly see what will we become? Our children seem to be pointing us to a type of independence for the people upon the Earth who worship Life who are devoted to higher ideals than self-service. Our children baptize with water. Our children are demanding a clear spirituality that will guide us to simplicity we can afford to embrace because we have acquired so much from our discoveries and knowledge without Spirit. Our children are guiding us towards a spirituality to match our intellectual accomplishments. They are tearing our stories apart and against our Adamic fears of nakedness they are undressing the emotional immaturity of their parents, leaders, and elders who set forth on a train of thought based on misplaced allegiance to imbalanced male principles.


Our young people are testing the waters with the technology we proudly gave them and have determined our religion and politics are foul, and wretched. They know very clearly that all of our great advancements do not understand growth, relationship, balance, reciprocity, love, or the sacredness of anything sacred. They are demanding change from individuals, not corporations or politicians. They are demanding change from within from a culture that lives from without, and is fearful of introspection.


The children are intuitive. They know the sensibilities of the Euro-American paradigms are unable to travel from introspection to illumination, and later head south to the physical realm and north to sit with the Creator in a sacred manner! Our children’s spirits are walking the ancient Medicine Wheel teachings in different ways. They understand that the circular thought waves of this path are resisted by the linear scope of being alive upon the planet. They have perceived the difference between a planet being Earth, and the Earth as our Mother as the distinction between Life and Death.


Everything we dreamed about and didn’t want to dream about are the dreams of our children. Our nightmares are their dreams now. That is why they are carrying Dream Catchers with them in their cars. Logically, it doesn’t make sense to travel with a Dream Catcher in your vehicle, but through their eyes it does make sense if you acknowledge that our nightmares have become their dreams. They need help we cannot give them in that realm. They need to enter into the Dreamtime to discover the wings, and relationships, and teachings, and revelations that will turn their lights on in the midst of their terror, their horrible nightmares.


If we enter into a time of healing and reconciliation our children know it will not be through politicians. Dead souls have never resurrected the dead or restored Life to live. They are looking at their parents, their elders, and are conscious of the next 7 generations, which in itself changes the world we live in. ©Gregory E. Woods

 

Time is linear, circular, spiral & eventually fractal

Tree of Life from Carmen Stevenson

 

Ascending Consciousness of Man

Ascending consciousness of man by Milton Foster

DISEASE


“Most people have 1000 wishes for Christmas; a cancer patient only has one, to get better.” – Sylvia Bunny Traymore


"I think disease is effective at levels of being science and medicine dare not probe. Hidden in those arenas of study, of being answers live. But like all mystics the answers to the questions disease poses live in the structure of our other bodies..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

JESUS a captured moment within eternity

JESUS IS KING?

"You have made comparisons, but to what end? What redemptive purpose lies in stating the obvious: that Jesu is King? It will not improve the state of affairs in government, nor deepen the experience of our walk on Earth in part because the majority of Christ walkers are not initiated into the mystery teachings Jesus was! Not being exposed to the study, and the spiritual disciplines Jesus had to submit to average Christians cannot possible walk or rule as Jesus could if he was King!" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

 

a child, Ms. Wynter by Phelan Marc

"The Eight Propositions"

Chapter 29 of The Second Coming of Reb YHSHWH, by Carlo Suares, Weiser, 1994 (Carlo Suarès)


"And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:20-21). And this would be the keynote of the New Era. Here are the eight propositions:


1. Seek your total individuality. Don't write it down anywhere. Don't give it a name. Any definition of yourself is a deceptive hideout.
2. You will not find your total individuality. It is your total individuality that sees you, that witnesses your doings. It acts in our space-time continuum but is not restricted to it.
3. Your total individuality is your soul. It abides in the indeterminate plurality of universes. Because it is alive, it is evolving. Because it is outside of time, its evolution is only the time that you need to permit it to find you. Because it is multidimensional, it contributes to the composition of an Ecclesia. It is one and innumerable.
4. Your soul will not find you as long as your consciousness is made of the stuff of false evidences created by your mind: as long as you do not feel a sense of suffocation in those space-time false evidences.
5. The death of false evidences is a psychological death, announcer of resurrection. Each false evidence denounced opens a window in the inner space where the measurable dies.
6. This death of the measurable in the inner space is a personal experience. All that is said to you about it will prevent it from occurring. Do not listen to the professionals of any religions.
7. Beyond this death, our infinitely multiple individuality reveals to our present person that we are only one of its multifarious manifestations. We then meet the other manifestations of our soul spread out through history, still present and alive.
8. So this consciousness emanating from our soul integrates its earthly past and also its future. It knows itself continuous, without limits. It is all-consciousness, it penetrates every consciousness, it understands every consciousness, and that understanding is love.