Long before the writing of the Old Testament, apocryphyal texts tell us that many ancient cultures were fully aware that what they were living on was a ball, a sphere. Somewhere along the long cycles of millenia, this concept was entirely lost, at least in the Western mindset. Not until the middle of the 15th Century did Copernicus (re)introduce the notion that our Earth was indeed spherical and was not at the center of the Universe….What? How dare he think we not to be masters of the Universe! some of his colleagues and the priests would scream! It was five centuries later when we first saw our own Earth from space and came to realize that not only were we not the center of the Universe, we were just a tiny speck of dust way out in the back 40 (from the perspective of the 3rd dimension, that is) and no where near the center of anything but in our own anthropocentric minds.
Carl Sagan said in his book “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space” (Random House 1994):
(T)he aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ’superstar,’ every ’supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived here, on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot… . Our posturings, our imagined self importance, the delusion that we have some privleged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
Can anyone look at the arrow above showing that “You Are Here” and not have a flicker of humility? Wisdom teachers from many ancient cultures, through ancient manuscripts, codices, stelae and other means preserved for us the need for humility as a Spiritual path. One of Jesus’ sayings was: “Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 18:4) . Although I am not one to visit traditional churches or church-based web sites, I did find a wonderully insightful and even humorous interpretation of humility written by Pastor Eugene Harder on their New Hope Community Church website in Humility The Road To Strength. (Excerpt: “Please expel from your mind your extreme, outrageous and the radical perceptions of humility. I invite you to seriously consider this truth . . . ‘Humility puts us on the road to wholeness, pride locks us into denial and defeat.’”)
As I wrote in Jesus, My Way:
Jesus, like many other enlightened beings that have touched our tiny planet and have touched our souls, was for me (and is still) a man who understood the stillness of the soul within humankind…that quiet inner voice…the part that knows that we are all far more than we have been led to believe. He teached that the concepts of balance, yin/yang, masculine/feminine must manifest in our world to manifest our paradise . He demonstrated the peace that could be found when one recognized and sloughed off the illusions of this world and sought their own Truths from within. He understood that in order for mankind to be fully human, the balance of natural occurring dualities must first occur. He demonstrated this by bringing women into the fold of his ministry. Jesus and his Magdalene together fully demonstrated the concept of reflection; Jesus recognized Mary Magdalene as the the sacred feminine that she was and saw it as the intuitive, nurturing reflection of himself . In turn, Magdalene recognized Jesus as the strength of the masculine reflection of herself. They were indeed companions in the truest sense. The portrayal of the crucifixion of The Christ, to me, is among other things a metaphor for the “death” of the Light and the “rule” of the Dark. We today, in 2007, are coming into the midsts of those teachings again. There is manifesting a great tug on this planet (and extraterrestrially) between the forces of Light and the forces of Darkness. Personally, I would say that this time, the Jesus’ and Magdalenes of our world will win the battle and draw back the veil of darkness and let the Light shine upon us all.
Beyond humility, though, I look at the above photo of our galaxy and our place in it, and I see our “mote of dust” as a thought in the Universal Mind/God/Higher Mind, whatever we choose to call it. Have you ever had a nagging thought, a vague feeling that something is just not right or something is alerting you that you just can’t pin down ? If we view this on the scale of the Universal Mind, this troubled thought we call Earth has been a sore thumb in Universal Mind with all its internal and external strife. We talk about love, respect, unity, but even in the 21st Century when the common man has been able to come in intact with many cultures and find much more in common than not, our so-called leaders seem to be bent on creating wars and manipulating the masses for sinister and greedy reasons instead of using that agressive energy to bring prosperity to ALL to all the planet through our encomonic powers and through humility (there’s that word again) of understanding that lifting up others around the planet lifts us up as well.
The Druids, Mayans, and Native Americans, and other pre-Churchianity cultures stressed humility as well, and my personal perspective is that we have interpreted humility as a weak point in this Era of the patriarchal imbalance on our planet. Humility, however, simply means understanding that are are all sailing uncharted territory together on this spacecraft called Earth right along with millions of other spacecraft. If our boat starts sinking, it would be best to work as a team to plug the leaks rather than killing our fellow helpers. If Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise were constantly at each other’s throats, would they have nurtured the unity and mutual respect for each other (and ambassadors from other planets) to keep a proper balance in place for survival ? I think not.
I also see our mote of dust, as Dr. Sagan termed it, as a cell in the body of “billions and billions” (another Sagan legacy) of other cells in the known and the unknowns of the Universe. This Earth cell seems to run rampant every so often and creates a cancer that needs to be irradiated so that it does not overcome all the other cells. This, for me, naturally turns my thoughts to the extraterrestial phenomenon that has been with us long before Roswell, but that is another story. In our system, the Sun is in charge as the radiation therapist of our particular solar system to my mind via Earth changes (brought about by re-coding DNA through the rays of its LIGHT from my perspective***).
It boils down to this for me: As Above So Below. We must push all the exquisite mind energy and creativity into a positive mindset on this planet to wipe out the “nagging negative thought” to bring about balance in nature and to bring about a higher conscious awareness; to know deeply how everything is connected. We all might need to consider that these cancers that develop from time to time are initiated by sinister and greed-driven powers, some of whom are from here and some of whom are not. But again, another story.
A friend of mine has asked me why our world leaders, who must surely know our position in the Universal scheme, would continue to lead us into wars and ruin the planet. Well, my short answer was that I perceive that some of them have connections to intelligent beings on other planets or dimensions, and Earth is somehow a strategic location—an ongoing battle is being waged to control it. A long answer will require a different blog.
__________________________________________________
***(In the context of the positioning of our Little Blue Marble into alignment with the Galactic Center, which is already beginning, Earth indeed becomes very significant in partnering with our other intrasystem solar planets to prepare for cyclical change (rebirth if you will) that will bring us back into the fold of the interplanetary Enlightenment.)
…wandering in the clouds with my feet on the ground
Worldy issues from an otherwordly perspective
