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A Cosmology with consideration given to Astrology This is just a concept, an idea to think about. Over the years I’ve thought about the different traditional ideas about the life after, and most of those ideas just don’t seem much fun. Most importantly to me, those different concepts seem to have too many inconsistencies or are out of date. Meaning that those ideas seem to have been formed at specific historical times and with the progression of time many of the weaknesses of thinking behind those theories are clearly evident. For example the christian system is based upon the concept of “lordship”, and that allegiance and worship of a king is a necessary part of package. This ancient feudal image is appealing to many, however democratic experiences have led many to realize that whatever divinity may be, “lordship” is not necessary. There are endless comments that could be made about the failings of traditional religions, and that is not the premise of this article. But for me the one thing that is lacking is evolution of thought. Just as we see nature evolve, philosophy also evolves. Psychology has enabled man to understand our nature and thinking process, yet most traditional religions deny many of the enlightening insights that have been gained in the psychological arena. And psychology and science too, continue to reveal new information that can improve our lives. The big stumbling block that the major religions share is a belief is that if the “word” is infallible then it can’t change. And if the “word” can’t change, than those old outdated (hate inspiring) ideas can’t change and we will continue to see wars and terrorism. And yes, if we ever come to a time that a christian fundamental political state should exist, it will not be a happy place for many, many different but wonderful people. If religious leaders could imagine that just as the universe expanses, that divinity could also “expand” or evolve. Than the “word” could change with time. That actually was something of the idea of the New Testament. Except that religious leaders decided that the “New” testament is the absolute last testament and no more editions or updates are allowed. The question “Why even bother considering the idea of a here after?” does need to be addressed. Some systems suggest that an individual must do something to earn a better place. I guess this is a kind of buy in plan, a plan to get a better seat at the play. Good works, baptism by dunking, efforts to clean up one’s karma and I guess other things one must do intentionally during their earth bound years are required. Its sort of funny the baptists argue that you don’t have to do good works but you do have to get dunked, so you do need to do something, but being nice to others is not a necessary part of the buy in plan. Although I am sure that they do believe in being nice to others. But on the other hand if you do not think baptism etc is necessary than why bother thinking about the question at all. Some people believe god is “Love” so regardless of what you believe or do, if your a fairly nice person you get into the after play. I think that’s a nice view. Maybe it’s a weakness, or somewhat built into the human condition, because most people everywhere seem obsessed with the idea of life here after. Life at best seems so short and so limited that one contemplates the possibility that there may be more to life than what is clearly visible. People from the beginning in time have contemplated this matter, and have drawn their own conclusions. And for those individual that have long established and firmly held beliefs, they can perhaps face death without a great sense of disappointment with the short life that they lived. However if one is honest, at the end of the day, at the end of one’s life one must accept that we have no real knowledge and simple allow ourselves to be at peace as we go to sleep and as our known life comes to an end. But I do have an idea, perhaps it is a crazy idea but I suggest it is as good as many and maybe better than some of the other big life after ideas. This of course is blasphemy to those with firmly held religious ideas. They believe that their book of ideas is the only and absolute truth, this is also why we have religious wars. A different idea I suggest that mankind originated at the beginning of time. A great creative, explosive event created bizillions of moving sparks. Each spark a tiny but conceptual whole, containing something like the DNA of a vast consciousness. A set of thoughts carried in an energetic substance. Those sparks in constant motion, driven and gravitating to reconnect with one another. Each spark representing a potential human entity. And I say potential, because although quite alive these are not physical bodied beings at this stage of development. In time those living sparks connected and collected along a never ending line, a circle in time and space. Actually many overlapping circles, and to be particular those places of meeting are spherical in shape. Those sparks over eons of time have evolved to become complex thinking entities, composed of complex energy network patterns. Just as optical data on ones computer hard drive can coalesce into beautiful images, somehow a network of complex energies comprise these conscious living sparks. And do not imagine these "sparks"; as finite sparks as one might see shoot from a fire. Those sparks, like the universe, may comprise a size that can not be imagined. This is just a crazy idea, maybe just to much new age nuttiness, but if it were to be true I suppose light and sound come in different radio frequencies, and I would imagine that the fragrance of a beautiful flower is really a complex set of compounds, really gaseous atoms arranged in complex sets, and actually not just an arranged collection of compounds but the result of the energetic interaction of those compounds; altogether creating a fragrance. And I would guess that matter and energy are about equal in value and that matter really reflects underlying energy. Also, I would suspect that it is possible to have a complex unit of energy with very little physical evidence. That’s a lot of guessing, and I’m not a scientist. But I think it is a reasonable as the concepts of karma and rebirth and all the other religious ideas. I would like to suggest that science has much yet to discover, and the world we are a part of is not limited by our understanding. We come to the fun part. In this story, these living sparks of life, actually humankind, are connected mentally and over great expanses of time created an imaginative dream like world. I suppose I need to come up with a term or phrase, you see I am using the words “dream like world” because these living being I suggest connect in a world that seems real but has no physical properties. Actually that world is real, but like the sparks of life has no discernible physical properties. This dream like world has been created, evolved by mutual agreement, over great eons of time. This dream world is an energetic medium that allows communicative interaction between the living sparks. It is of course a mental exchange, but intentions and feeling are there, so maybe that makes it as real as any possible experience might be real. What is important about this dream like world is that this is the medium in which much of the reality we experience is/was masterminded. Perhaps one might imagine the dream like world as a giant banquet with a great deal of discussion and at many time consensus is arrived at. Within that collective world, all agreement and action is by consensus. There is one limitation however, although all the personalities involved can communicate ideas they can not test ideas. Although as real as the energy that connects electrons, protons, and neutrons, the full complexity of the atomic body as we know it is absent. Actually I guess in this story these impressive life forms function within an energy system that is yet to be defined. Of course all religions are operating within a system that has no scientific basis. Individuals do however often have mind boggling experiences that suggests the reality of a greater depth to life than can currently be defined by current scientific knowledge. It is my suggestion that when an individual has such an experience it is defined within the believe system that is understood, thus one persons ghost may be another persons angel. Over time these great congregates of living sparks have with the use of their natural energy drawn together within the center space of the empty sphere upon which they dwell, great mass of matter equal and exceeding the energy they represent. Over time we can not understand, as their imagination evolved they were able to create a momentum of change upon this spherical world, and that spherical world itself evolved. As this is true in the world upon which we dwell, it is true upon all visible worlds. Stars being an exception, and another story. You may wonder why life form is not detected on all planets. Now this may really be just a bit of additional crazy imagination, but just imagine that each planet has a different frequency represented by its distance from it’s primary star, and by the unique mass of each planet. And as each planet is a different wave frequency, it’s life form also functions on the basis of different frequencies. Now just as you can only tune into one radio station at a time because the frequency must be set. We can’t tune into the life activity of all planets because they are innately operating on wave frequencies different from our own....with the exception of those planets that are on a wave frequency similar to our own. Just as “mi” follows do and re, and the earth is the third planet from the sun and so many miles distant, other planets at equivalent distances and mass may have a similar frequency; someday perhaps life on those planets could be detected. These beings have over time evolved in their ability to be receptive to sensory experience. Having a nature contiguous with light and sound waves, their vision and auditory receptivity is highly developed. Touch however is not experienced. And the opportunity to interact with a touchable reality was not an easily accessible experience. As these sparks of life interacted and prompted the movement and evolution of physical matter within their spheres, the hope of creating a means of transporting themselves to those physical spaces was born throughout the universe. In their own dream like world ideas could be postulated but to actually see cause effect results was difficult, although possible over vast periods of time. On our particular sphere the development of a complex creature form was encouraged, a creation form that the beings could enliven, actually give life to and experience life as matter rather than energy. That form evolved with one very unique feature, a brain uniquely receptive to language, actually so well made for language receptivity that I might be suggested the human brain actually was designed for language. The earth is of course set within a system of related planets. Because the apparent location of the other planets in relation to the earth are always changing, a unique planetary configuration occurs at each birth. This configuration creating a harmonic impression on each life. Thus we can see the holistic functioning of this cosmology, a whole, and all the parts interacting and relating. Each spark of life that becomes a human child seems to have a mission or life conditions that can be easily understood with a short study of the Astrological chart depicting the birth time and location. For those with some knowledge of astrology, you may understand that “transits” refer to planetary position at any given current or future real time. Some Astrologers can suggest life events and life changes at future dates from measuring the positions of transits. These transits and the geometric angles between the planets create a harmonic statements, each planet a different complex frequency and those frequencies modified and blended with the frequencies of planets create unique harmonic statement at each birth. The data on the specific locations for the planets can be found in special publications, thus future configuration can be determined for any particular date, time and location. So these sparks of life or beings of light are born to a limited physical state. At birth a road map of potentials and conditions seems to be suggested by the birth chart. Conditions established by the exchange and harmonization of complex frequencies represented by the family of planets within the local planetary system. The is evidence that some of these being of light have experienced many historical births. This road map or birth chart can also be a tool for continued study. The historically colorful archetypes offer a broad and great depth for understanding life purpose as well as the resolution of life conflicts. Exploring these archetypes can suggest practical direction in ones current and future life. This study of the birth chart should be from a holistic perspective with consideration of both the visible and not so visible sides of life. One must consider the possibility that astrology can offer a practical link between the collective and earth bound realities. From the perspective of the sparks of life, that period of time of which one may actually have a physical presence and be bound to a planet, in our particular case the planet earth, is actually a very a very short episode. To participate in this planetary experience, regardless of the setting or circumstances one might be born into, has far more intrigue than any pain that might be expected. Consider what a fascinating story is unfolding. That these sparks of life, which originated at the beginning of time, for short period to time transform into human form. That over eons of time these beings diligently worked to create not just this sphere called earth, but many planetary bodies. By carefully nudging nature to evolve, life as we see it developed. That these sparks actually enliven or are born into these amazing creative/creature bodies. Some of course might refer to the sparks of life as souls or spirits. Can we communicate with these being? I can only suggest that encounters with angels, ghosts, spirits or other such mistaken entities are probably experiences in which an individual is sufficiently clear minded to be receptive to some encounter with a representative of that creative world. Most likely encounters like this are colored by preconceived ideas about the nature of such creatures. For example, someone who may have some idea of a ghost as a scary dark entity, probably when they actually perceive the “ghost” respond with some degree of fear. Whereas another individual with religious ideas might look for or believe in Angels. When they encounter a so called Angel, they might respond with feelings of elation. There are many historical references to such encounters, and people today continue to claim to have such experiences. There are of course so many thoughts to consider in relation to this concept. For example: Now that the world is in such disorder, we might ask did these beings intend for the world to come to this state? What objectives do they have, and are they participating in any way in any clean up effort? But back to the original inquiry, what happens when one sheds this earthly skin? In this story line, when our humanity is shed, we return to a pure form of energetic life. In such a state there is no need for punishment or special reward. We return to the nature that we have known from the beginning of time. A great collective that operates with consensus. However, we do have something new to share with the collective body. We return with experience, knowledge of feelings, emotions, all the different reactions and cause effect events that we experienced in our short time in a physical state. Those experience are viewed quite dispassionately, and considered not unlike something that might be seen in a laboratory test tube. These collected experiences offer information that may help the collective actually nudge humanity toward a more productive and healthy evolved state. Our current world mess is viewed as a developmental event, an event that with maturity mankind should transit. However, the intensity of this current situation is of tremendous alarm especially considering the damage being inflicted upon the natural world, a world that evolved from much effort and a great expanse of time. I believe I’ve covered the primary points to this little story. But if you are hooked, or maybe you are certain that I’m crazy, following are some further thoughts to consider. The world wide web is certainly an earth bound model of the great collective of sparks of light. I suspect that potentially as the hardware improves we might actually come to a time when we can communicate directly with the collective through this technology or a similar technology. Consider how we operate for just a moment What is “mind”? “Mind” is not our brain. In our physical state, our mind depends upon the brain. But “mind” itself is a complex structure containing morals, emotions, historical references, and acquired knowledge. Mind also encompasses our developing and ever changing identity. Interestingly our emotions play a great role in how we respond. A feeling, with no physically related component, can offend or uplift our mind. And with an emotional experience this mind can instantly cause a physiological response, anything from anxiety to a fatal heart attack. And consider the speed of emotions. To think through an idea requires neurological activity sending messages or signals, at the speed of light. But an emotional response can occur faster than any other response. An emotional event, a non physical event, can cause a physiological response faster than a cognitive function that operates at the speed of light. Some may suggest that emotions are chemical responses. A chemical response may follow emotions, but emotions are completely independent of chemistry. I would suggest that emotional responses occur outside the physical body. These very emotions, feelings, actually motivate our mental processes, the kinds of thoughts we entertain. And positive feelings operate at a complex level equivalent to the functioning of the sparks of life, or our own pure life form. When I refer to positive emotions or feelings I am not exactly referring to ideas like those expressed by Dale Carnegie or similar advisors. I am referring to an open minded state in which a high degree of receptivity and exchange of fine energies or frequencies exist. At a very high level of mind, when our feelings are positive, I’d suggest that we think or can think with very little brain activity. Only a few individuals develop the mental skills that operate at this high state. And for those individuals an activity in the brain is a reflection or response to mental activity that actually takes place on a pure energy basis carried on in the medium of positive emotions. Is there interaction, communication between the sparks of life and those in physical form? I believe I recall a biblical passage that states that “we are surrounded by a cloud of witnesses,” certainly that is a wonderful image of the concept of these living thinking complex beings. But what interaction if any might exist between these being and those of us present on the earth? Of course there are limitations because they lack a definable presence. However, I do think that those who have refined abilities to think with a very refined level of energy, much like the energy or frequency field that those beings exist within, those individuals may tap into the frequency field of the collective. I’d suggest that there is a complex exchange between the two levels of life, and without that exchange life as we know it could not continue. The archetype sign Pisces is represented by two fish. These fish represent the two levels, the collective and the physical life as we see it on earth. Christ, as a fisher of men, attempted to help people connect with the collective using the knowledge that was available at his historical time period, the beginning of the age of Pisces. In many ways christ represented the age of Pisces. I would suggest that much of the wisdom of christ was politically derailed, that those early followers of the gnostic perspective probably had a thorough understanding of his work. Amazingly today scholars are recovering much of the early gnostic wisdom. We are however now moving into the age of Aquarius. This dramatic harmonic change of frequencies will I suspect allow new insight and experience in common in the connectivity between man and the beings of light. Aquarius, the water bearer, will allow for more fluid manners of thinking, and evolutionary changes will allow greater appreciation and participation with the collective. Maybe all the above is just a story, so much new age make believe. Maybe we are here by the evolution of chemical design and change. But on the other hand maybe we are really beings of light, angels in disguise. I’d like to think that there is more to the world than can be seen and that a greater story is unfolding. Many people on a daily basis have experiences that suggest a need to be open to a vast and creative universe. I suspect that as a rule many of the unusual experiences people have are interpreted in light of their own belief systems, following is a short illustration of this phenomenon. Many years ago four different people felt a call to walk to their village plaza. Each of these individuals were profoundly spiritual. Each of the individuals walked from a different point on the compass. As they approached the plaza each were over come with awe as a lovely vision was experienced. One, a pious catholic woman saw a vision of the holy mother, standing on the neck of a great snake, a more holy vision she could not imagine. Another, a student of hindu training saw krishna in full armor in a great chariot roll over a serpent. The third, an old man a student of nature, that believed in natural healing saw a great eagle destroy a nest of snakes. And the fourth saw an angel with a scroll, on on that scroll was the image of a burning snake, that scroll surely spoke of the justice of allah. Each person had an experience, at the same time and location yet each experience was different. We live in this great universe with vast untouched resources. Resources that we can share for continued development and enrichment of all humanity. However, although our evolution and genetics tell us that humanity is family, we have divided into squabbling tribes. These tribes steal from and destroy their brothers and sister in other tribes. It is my hope that humanity will one day have a common hope and a deep sense of our shared humanity; and also that humanity discovers a divinity that is within all, that all humanity are beings of light. Maybe it’s not about becoming something else or doing something to erase our badness, maybe it’s best to simply discover the wonder and underlying goodness that we have as sparks of life. 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