http://www.nomorefakenews.com/archives/archiveview.php?key=2813SEPTEMBER 5, 2005. For the past six years, I have been doing readings for people. There is no good name for this process. People have called it soul reading. It is actually the reading of archetypes that exist in various non-continuum spaces. So far, on PREMIUM CONTENT, I have posted 36 recent articles about this process, and about the much misunderstood area of symbols and archetypes in general. Here is how it began. As a painter, I became interested in spontaneously inventing shapes that gave the impression of an unknown language. I found I could read these shapes. The reading was enormously energizing. After some intuitive trial and error, I connected each letter of the English alphabet to a shape. In this way, I could use the shape as a platform for translating the letter into hundreds, thousands of possible meanings. And in this fashion, I came into the realm of archetypes. A true archetype is a personage or an event that has, in its own way, a life. An archetype is there for one reason: to assist in the transformation and widening of consciousness. As an experiment, I took the name of a friend, and for each letter of that name, I read the shape, the symbol that went with it. I encountered many archetypes, and I gleaned massive amounts information from them. I put all this on tape. One thing led to another, and people asked for readings. In the process of doing readings, I became aware that, long before societies and civilizations started employing symbols as a way of narrowing and focusing the mind, as a way to control the individual adventuresome character of the mind, symbols were open-ended---and they were approached as objects of meditation and contemplation. This meditation was not passive. It was quite the opposite, and among the many things it did, it produced extraordinary energy. Energy the mind and body and imagination could use. This energy could also impact favorably on health. My readings were, after a fashion, a meditation on archetypes. The name of a person---and all the shapes that were connected to those letters---became my medium, just as oils are a medium for many painters. However, these shapes, these symbols, offered different meanings for different people. The shape connecting to an H in one person's name gave off a set of meanings that were different from the meanings that effused from the H in another person's name. In the same way, a painter uses red to express certain feelings and sensations in one context---but in another context, the red means something else. As I read these shapes and meditated on the archetypes, I began to see, quite lucidly, times and places and civilizations that existed beyond Earth, beyond this system of planets, beyond this Milky Way. In most cases, these civilizations were millions of years old. They connected to the experience of the person for whom I was doing a reading. I would find that this person, this soul, this psyche had lived lives in these far-flung places and times. Many lives. These lives were connected to some of the meanings of an archetype. These lives were illustrative of an archetype. Instead of choosing to pull back from these perceptions, I decided to push them to the hilt. Time after time, I saw civilizations that had headed into a decline after the use of symbols and archetypes had degenerated into strategies of control. Ironically, the very technologies that had provided a level of security and protection and comfort and survival also, in a direct manner, employed symbols in a drastically neutered style. To gain precision, the psyche was sacrificed on an altar of progress. And in the spiritual/religious realm, reductionism was the order of the day. Under the banner of consolidating the old and diverse gods, the new gods (symbols) were stripped of many poetic and suggestive qualities. On a not-very-deep esoteric level, this is the gist of the biblical Sampson story. Shorn of his uniqueness, he became powerless. Running counter to the grain of recent Earth history, it is proliferation, not reduction, that awakens the psyche. There is no possible new political order that, by boiling down the function of the State to some version of control, can offer anything useful. Decentralization of power along every channel is the answer, and it is the answer because it comes closer to the true desires of the soul, the psyche. What emerged from my readings was a deeper understanding of the staggering uniqueness of every individual. It also became apparent that every soul is engaged in a towering journey to access more consciousness, more creative power. It doesn't matter what the person is doing in this life. It doesn't matter how that looks. Behind it, there is the journey. What we take to be the basic myths of Earth culture are a drop in the bucket. They are essentially the shaving down (into lowest common denominators) of millions and millions of possible vectors. Exigency, crisis, threat, danger are the reasons that have been given, over the last 100,000 years or so, to postpone the re-vitalization of the full range of great journeys. The wise ones always tell us that we must do this and that and this and that and this and that NOW, and the rest will have to wait for later. Unseen below the level of these demands is the fact that, through the reduction of the individual psyche and its desires, there arose the very substance of every crisis and danger that has come down the pipeline. And every so-called heresy and so-called mental disorder stems, ultimately, from an attempt to falsely label and curtail the soul's ultimate journeys. As a reporter, I have spent more hours than I can count in exposing the control operations and cover stories and crimes and deceptions and mind-control strategies of planetary elites. I have run for public office. I've participated in numerous activist projects. I started a boycott of major chemical/drug/bio-engineering companies who poison populations. To act in these ways is a relevant and good thing. At the same time, there is a larger context, and no matter how we may play at ignoring it, it rings its own bell, and it has its own agenda. Which is our agenda. There is no death. There is no ceasing to exist. There is no end to basic life. There is no end to YOU. For those people for whom I've been privileged to do these readings of the psyche, I've seen the outward energy that dissolves matrixes and formulae and flimsy facades of the so-called known universe. When the greater journey swims into view and clarifies, the archetypes are there, with hands outstretched. They offer assistance in what the soul already wants. More life. More consciousness. More imagination. More power to manifest. More compassion. More enlightenment. These goals, properly seen and felt, outdistance Earth culture in a matter of seconds. That culture has never been equipped to go even a small part of the way. Having gained an appreciation of each individual's uniqueness (and it is far beyond anything I had imagined), I can say with assurance that no system will ever encompass it.
No system now, no system in the future. What began as an attempt to read shapes and symbols escalated into a medium for working with that uniqueness. A medium, not a system. Only after I was in the middle of the process did I realize I had been after that for a very long time. No assessment of what we all suscribe to together, no study of consensus, no elucidation of cultures (consensus in action) ever carried any real weight with me. I found myself falling into a trance. I found myself in a swamp. I was working against myself. I was, in fact, perceiving the world through rather sophisticated categories. I didn't think I was, but I was. Now, the veil is being torn aside. And the relief is enormous. Symbols were once my lenses. Now they are doorways. Archetypes are fundamentally joyous. They say, "We know you have been trained, and you have trained youself, to see us as representatives of a few dried-up meanings. But we're of a different nature. Look at us with a thousand new eyes. Find in us an unlimited number of meanings, energies, byways and rocketing landscapes. Put away the old premise that such an activity will merely lead you around in a circle to a subjective impasse. Don't you see? It's just the reverse.
Isn't this, when you strip away the conditioned illusions, exactly what you have been waiting for? Isn't this where you really want to go? Haven't you always suspected insight and knowledge and oceans of energy lay along this path?" Yes. And my ship has left the dock.
