"What, in effect, is Theology? A knowledge of God imposed from without under the form of dogma, as a kind of supernatural logic. And what is Theosophy? A knowledge of God which blossoms like a flower in the depths of the individual soul. God, having vanished from the world, is reborn in the depths of the human heart."
Teasing apart my desires, I know I always gravitate to culture, myth, and history.
Can connect consciously to the Earth as I try to do with higher beings. Steiner says Christ is united with the Earth.
Notes from the last two talks with Brian:
8/7
- hopi indians and the held-back archai of america
- "hopis are the high priests of this land". go to their reservation and feel the energy
- steiner said america was a wooden man, too materialistic, has not yet discovered its hart
- samyama <-> initiation
- total empathy while retaining the I AM
- atavistic = steiner insult, "backwards looking"
- but the atavistic are still holding something important that we need to learn from. they are taking care of the earth. we must meet each other as the contemporary spirit manifests more holistically.
- "angels have stepped back fro mour consciousness soul, now we are in a moral and elemental crisis"
- land-based spirituality slowly being phased out. energy portals are not what they once were.
- astrology stations - planet inflecting between direct and retrograde, which causes it to dwell on a certain degree.
- steiner's 7 year cycles are related to the movement of uranus through the zodiac. since it's a collective planet, we go through it with everyone our age.
- saturn: conform to scripture. neptune: create what is new.
- i do have a saturn-neptune conjunct impulse: reviving ancient forms with new life
- recommends the book of hopi
- Tibetans <-> Hopis, very resonant. Dalai Lama met with Hopi elders!
- Prophecy of the Bahana: our white brother from the east will teach us something
- Athabaskan stream: Navajo, Aztecs. Took the Bering strait after the Hopis arrived.
- Mayan is an ethnicity which includes the Hopis. Sailed over in rafts. Surrounded by Navajo, land taken, pacifist.
- San Andreas fault line
- California is like the crown of the boat of America which sales west.
- yode astrological pattern
- ascendant: true mask or true persona
- 0' is strong in the sign, not a cusp. 29' is a cusp.
- image of 12 zodiac signs at chartres
- dante's hells are in the earth's core
- saturn: sennex - archetypal old man
- Christ as the unifier of religions and the possible fulfillment of the Bahana prophecy
- higher beings can use tyrants to get things done in the material world. as they use natural disasters. it's karmic
- pluto: creative destruction
- Uranium mine next to Hopi reservation?
- Alexander the Great was a student of Aristotle
- in tribal consciousness, individual loss of life didn't matter as much
- green gulch farm started as biodynamic! wendy johnson was the originator
- connection between siberian shamanism and korean shamanism - north east asia karma
- lucifer: negative light, selfish light
- ahriman: cold, dark
- clouds symbolize the etheric in the bible!!!
- steiner marked 1933 for the resurrection of christ.
- look into medici as popes and corruption in catholic popes in general
- different icons / archetypes of christ
- hopi worship grandmother spider who spins a web. may connect to indras web. in general interesting how different cultures can worship the same force.
- Archangel Gabriel was the originator of Islam
8/1
- paneurythmy
- angels and higher beings are real. the purpose of life is to experience this magic.
- in the dark night of the soul, we are being tempered
- sf has dark energy from the golden gate bridge suicides
- bolinas is a special energy pole
- north / south running mountains have a different energy that east-west. north south is more intense. don't understand this fully
- "geomancy"
- Rolling Thunder, famous animistic shaman with integrity
- Saturn-Neptune conjunction: either fixed in delusion (religion) or giving form to spirituality (religion)
- uranus - the intuitive mind
- mercury - the "lower" mind (verbal)
- can we map the planets better onto Aurobindo's model?
- 2025/2026 uranus/neptune/pluto formation. uranus 1'gem, neptune 1'52''aries, pluto 2'aquarius
- neptune square -> delusion
- saturn square -> criticism
- American Ephemeris book
- grinaval painting of Christ as a symbol
- some elemental beings feed off of conflict. tons and tons of etheric beings exist, like how there are trillions of bacteria in the body
- "we can't just think thoughts, we have to feel what these thoughts feel like, because each thought is a creative force on a subtler plane"
- Greeting the elementals practice
- Thomas Mayers book: personal elemental that stays with us throughout incarnation
- As individuals become more complex, decisions get harder. The middle ground between all our competing forces and archetypes is always unique.
- Neptune square venus can create delusional fantasies of romance
- blood flows due to the etheric body. the heart is a hydraulic ram. it builds and releases pressure