| What is metaphysics, and why should we bother | | | | dependent upon them and return to them again |
| studying it? What benefits does it have for | | | | and again for their assistance--usually for a large |
| humanity? What is its purpose? How will its | | | | fee or with some loss on our part. We will not be |
| teachings help advance society? How will it assist | | | | too specific here, we simply caution our readers |
| our civilization and culture to progress? How will | | | | to "be wary, be very, very wary!" Treading the |
| our lives be re-created individually and collectively | | | | spiritual metaphysical path will assist one to be |
| with the application of metaphysical principles? | | | | more discerning as to the understanding of what |
| Questions abound concerning metaphysics, for | | | | is True and what is false, what is Real and what is |
| people intuitively feel that it may have something | | | | illusory.Generally speaking, a portion of humanity is |
| precious to offer in terms of facilitating personal | | | | now more experienced in the ways of men and |
| growth and self-empowerment. Among those | | | | the world than in bygone days, and they seek for |
| spiritually inclined, it has become a "prime directive" | | | | that which will release them from all their mortal |
| to understanding their lives in terms of | | | | limitations and errors, from that Gorgon we call |
| metaphysical principles and concepts such as | | | | "the human ego," from concepts that bind one to |
| multi-dimensional realities, the Higher Self, love, | | | | personal illusions and glamour, and from that state |
| karma, reincarnation, etheric energies, psychicism, | | | | of human mortality. Many of us are beginning to |
| oneness with all, cosmic beings, the ascension, | | | | realize the existence of different dimensions and |
| etc., and some of the causes of this higher | | | | multifold realities. We seek ways for improving |
| thinking and awareness is the thinning of the | | | | the human condition, for perfecting human |
| cosmic veil between dimensions; the increased | | | | expression, and the generation of a new type of |
| contact with invisible forces; the influence of | | | | Homo sapiens whose intelligence and heart |
| intense electromagnetic cosmic energies | | | | matches those of the immortal gods.Human |
| bombarding upon our planet and solar system at | | | | beings are basically seekers. Some of us thirst for |
| this time; the influx of higher spiritual beings | | | | that which we know not what. The "curiosity |
| incarnating in the physical realm; the discoveries of | | | | instinct" impels every one of us to learn |
| many ancient secrets left hidden in monumental | | | | everything we can of our environment, of |
| structures and time capsules; scientific | | | | ourselves, of the universe, of Nature, and of God. |
| developments in hyper-space technologies, and | | | | What fascinates and intrigues us most are the |
| shifts in its paradigms, etc.All of these are | | | | phenomena caused by forces and powers that |
| occurring on a global scale, in every nation of this | | | | transcends the perceptual capacity of the physical |
| planet, and it is affecting every human being. So it | | | | senses and the apprehension of the human mind. |
| would seem that humanity is awakening from its | | | | Humanity is intensely interested in the Intelligence |
| long sleep of forgetfulness and ignorance. The | | | | that shapes human destiny--whether this |
| Tree of Life of immortality, enlightenment, and | | | | "Intelligence" be considered as a being, a force, a |
| illumination will be found hidden in the seeds of the | | | | Universal Mind, an omnipresent energy, or a |
| Tree of metaphysical knowledge--using the word | | | | collective consciousness. People are seeking |
| "metaphysics" in its most spiritual, gnostic | | | | explanations to their "inexplicable" experiences in |
| sense.For thousands of years we have sought for | | | | the field of psychicism and the paranormal. Such |
| truth, and most of the time from the wrong | | | | occurrences as coincidences or "synchronicity" also |
| persons and in the wrong places--what we | | | | baffles the mind as it begs for enlightenment. |
| received were man-made opinions and beliefs | | | | Those of elderly years wonder what lies for them |
| which were forced upon our minds to be | | | | in the "after-life," as the youthful ones wonder of |
| accepted as the "word of God," or the way that | | | | their place in this world. A questioning being is a |
| Nature had decreed, and that there is nothing that | | | | thinking being and it denotes, whether consciously |
| anyone can do to change it. While in our infancy, | | | | realized or not, as a desire to seek, to know, and |
| physically and spiritually speaking, we accepted | | | | to be aware of Truth. The curiosity instinct |
| everything told to us by organized religion, elders, | | | | mentioned above could well be the primitive |
| and pedagogues as gospel and truth and we | | | | stirrings of the divine will of the highest aspect of |
| based our philosophy of life on the indoctrination | | | | Man seeking to be aware of Its essential nature. |
| imposed upon us and which subsequently formed | | | | The teachings of the Ageless Wisdom as taught |
| our false sense of "conscience," and a poor | | | | in metaphysical, esoteric, occult and arcane |
| understanding of spiritual values. This caused us | | | | schools are filled with principles that would help us |
| great soulful sufferings and torment in succeeding | | | | understand ourselves and our omniverse.Humanity |
| years in our everyday life--an intense sense of | | | | as a whole, is jaded and sickened by the constant |
| shame, guilt, fear, and sin whenever we "violated" | | | | wars and conflicts; with the materialistic and |
| any so-called law of God formulated by theology; | | | | hedonistic life that do not offer any permanent |
| and it never occurred to us to question the | | | | peace and happiness or solutions to the various |
| systems, the mechanisms, and their origins that | | | | problems facing us as we approach a new |
| brought about our morbid condition. This naturally | | | | millenium with its tremendous supernal and |
| lowered our self-esteem. Conscience is not similar | | | | mundane challenges. Many seek for a more |
| to the concept of the "still, small voice." The latter | | | | profound meaning in life, for they see through |
| is the silent voice of the Spirit, whereas | | | | their mundane activities as a brittle illusory facade |
| conscience in part, is simply the engrams or | | | | presenting itself as reality. We often ask "why am |
| programs imprinted upon the subconscious mind. | | | | I here?" "why do I exist?" "where will I go from |
| Conscience is also partially our memory of the | | | | here?" Our present systems of religion, |
| negative consequences of our past actions | | | | philosophy, and science offer no real solution, |
| impinging upon our conscious mind whenever we | | | | consolation, solace or comfort to our hearts and |
| are about to act in a negative way resembling | | | | soul-search, instead they tend to mislead, confine, |
| that of the past.But to return from our digression: | | | | and circumscribe the soul and mind to a certain |
| in past centuries we were told lies by false | | | | area of life; to a limited way of living and thinking; |
| prophets and the ministers of religions that | | | | to a sense of separatism; to a dualistic judgmental |
| mediators between God and men were | | | | attitude; to a sense of fear and helplessness; and |
| necessary; that theirs was the only way to God; | | | | to a state of external dependency--it especially |
| that their race or sect were the chosen one of | | | | confines man to a mortal sense of existence--and |
| God; that everything that God would reveal to | | | | we say this not from a sense of judgment but |
| humanity lies in a single book; that God punishes | | | | from an observational standpoint.Conversely, |
| us for sinning and perhaps in the afterlife casts us | | | | metaphysics as a repository of "New-Age" |
| into hell; that illness, old-age, and death were a | | | | concepts, the Ageless Wisdom, divine energies, |
| natural part of life; that one no longer receives | | | | power-centers, and angelic and cosmic support, |
| any new revelation from God, etc. We were told | | | | seek to liberate us from self-imposed limitations |
| to fear God, to see everything as separated | | | | as it offers answers to questions that troubles |
| from us, to believe that we were born in sin, that | | | | the human soul. The soul loves freedom for |
| the sexual act is shameful, that we were simply | | | | freedom is ingrained in the soul. God gave man |
| mortals subjected to the whims of God for the | | | | the liberty to choose, and this privilege should not |
| determination of our fate, that we were | | | | be taken away from man by any being for it is a |
| inherently bad--and even more--that the world | | | | violation of the natural order of things.Freedom |
| was flat! While at the same time heinous crimes | | | | may be considered as an instinct for it is to be |
| against the Holy Human Spirit were being | | | | found in animals as well. No creature enjoys being |
| committed by those very same representatives | | | | confined in a cage. Every creature love to be free |
| of religions such as the crimes of persecution, | | | | and to express the genetic joy programmed in its |
| torture, and murder of innocent human beings | | | | DNA. Nature has granted all creatures their |
| who simply were more spiritually and psychically | | | | freedom of expression but some of us would |
| inclined or conceived the universe from a different | | | | impose our will upon Divine Will by creating cages |
| viewpoint--and all these atrocious acts were | | | | of man-made laws and regulations that do not |
| carried-out in the name of Religion, Love and God. | | | | reflect the laws of Heaven. Man-made laws may |
| The Crusades and the Inquisition are dark | | | | easily be manipulated by the unscrupulous for their |
| chapters in the history of man.One of the points | | | | own heinous purposes. Crimes may be committed |
| that we wish to put forth here is that since time | | | | that are "lawful," that goes undisciplined in our |
| began the dark, retrogressive forces have | | | | courts of judgment. In the laws of our society, |
| infiltrated or have tried infiltrating every institution | | | | the innocents are often made to pay for the |
| that have sought to improve the condition of the | | | | crimes of another. Where is the love (religion), and |
| soul, and the expression of the human spirit in our | | | | rationality (science), and justice (philosophy) in |
| mundane lives. They have always opposed and | | | | that?We are writing intuitively here and our |
| attacked the true representatives of God and | | | | statements may be interpreted and applied in |
| steered seekers of truth away from them. Their | | | | various ways. In fact, statements in our literary |
| purpose is to stall human evolution and | | | | works may seem to lack any logical structure or |
| progression indefinitely, that human beings cringe | | | | sequence. They may appear to be non sequitur. |
| and cower under their manipulative control, that | | | | Logic may appeal to the thinking mind, however it |
| humans be made into slaves and automatons | | | | is more than conceptual reasoning that we have |
| answering to their every whim. They work openly | | | | to develop. There are higher faculties of the soul |
| and subtly, physically and psychically. They make | | | | that should be cultivated and made used of, such |
| us believe that we need them--their services and | | | | as intuition. |
| wares--and we are psychologically controlled to be | | | | |