THE MESSAGE OF THE OLD GOD

In days of yore sacrifice was a common artifice employed by man to appeal to the various gods to insure the continued benefits they might bestow. For instance, in Aztec mythology, Cinteotl, the maize god, symbolizing continued fertility and a bountiful harvest,required corn sacrifices.

This God came to me in a dream last night and said,

"There has not been enough sacrifice of the corn, thus, the crops will not bear a rich harvest.Your people must get back to the corn rituals."

I intuitively understood this to mean that we are being warned to get back in tune with the planet, and perhaps the 'old fertily Gods' at a deeper level, to insure a continued rich harvest for the coming years ahead.

Perhaps, this is the God's messages warning us that sacrifice is necessary if we are to survive as a people, and this means that we must do without some niceties of civilization if we are going to continue to be beneficiaries of the rewards they will bestow upon us.

This is not an easy lesson for humans, since we have gotten into the belief that we can now call the tune of the world. The old gods frowned on arrogance and the fall of The Tower of Babel was a good example.

This dream suggests that we must learn to give backto the planet if we are to receive. The real secret implicit in this omen is that to achieve success as a collective species we must organically recycle torestore the balance between humanity and the planet.

Gaia has been good to us, and now we must in turn, be good to her.

This is the message of the Corn God.

Many blessings!Nahu Lanham

ARE WE INTRINSICALLY "ALL ONE?"

Most people, I am sure, are familiar with the term that is bandied about in religion that "God knows our every thought." But have you ever wondered if this is true, and if so, how could it be?

My inquiry into the contemplation of this thought led me to examine the Whole and its Parts in terms of theoretical physics for answers. For instance, one theory of physics, more specifically David Bohms' (Wholeness and the Implicate Order) indicates that we are all part of an undifferentiated Whole that is unified with the every other part, and that the appearances of separation or fragmentation is really an illusion created by the divisionary qualities of our senses.

The other predominant theory has it that we are essentially each separated into our singular space, each isolated in a unique universe that does not allow us complete access to each other. In such a universe, we never are able to fully make contact with one another. This kind of universe is based on the idea that no two atoms can occupy the same space.

But the juncture where I stand is metaphorically closer to the function of the corpus callosum in the brain, i.e., without a bridge between the dual lobes, the two hemispheres could never fully collaborate to create a complete picture of reality. Therefore, these two examples of reality could only provide lopsided or distorted pictures of its intrinsic nature.

Without the bridge in the middle between the oppositions imposed by these dual views of reality, a clear understanding of the Whole and its Parts, I feel, would be fundamentally impossible.
The bridge of the corpus callosum plays the same role of consciousness, that is, it gives us the ability to perceive holistically, and/or provides an opportunity to comprehend how the Whole is in the Part and the Part is in the Whole.

It also provides another vital role which might be overlooked at first glance; it connects us via the Third Eye, the all-seeing center of consciousness with the realization that God is with us at all times--and moreover, it tells us a story that is sudden and shockingly important: God needs us as much we need God.

Self-awareness, or transcendental consciousness provides this key because it tells us that a unit of Wholeness exists in every Part and that each Part, in turn, has its special connection with the Whole.

For me, this understanding is dynamically integral. Just think of it--God is with us at every moment and,therefore, in essence, can never be separated from us.

This is the source of the Universal meaning of Wholeness. i.e., when we locate this center of our consciousness known as Self, we link-up with our Oneness with God.

Much peace!
Nahu