The Heart is Home

The Heart is the Homing Device - Follow It

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Here follows an excerpt of chapter 25 of my book. It takes place at the pyramid of Chichén Itzá, Mexico.

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When I get to the top of the pyramid, I see the large brilliant sun. It shines into my third-eye chakra, and it puts its light there in the form of a seal, looking exactly like those serrated golden seals that adorn diplomas and degrees. The light then shines into my heart, and it puts an identical seal of light there. I see light shining from the third eye to the crown. A band of gold runs from the heart to the third eye. This reminds me of the constellation of three golden nodes and bands of golden light connecting them when I encountered the crystal snake (chapter 24).

I look at the shining sun in the sacred temple and make out the face of a serpent in it. The serpent looks like Kukulkan. The face is white and powerful looking and is adorned with red and blue feathers. I talk to the serpent and call for the purification of the Maya and their culture and rituals. That all may be restored to the pure loving essence of what they were at heart, the pure loving essence of the Feathered Serpent.

A nuclear explosion suddenly occurs at the crown, which is the sacred temple on top of the pyramid where I am having an encounter with the sun. I see its powerful, clear light rushing outwards around the temple. In chapter 24, I wrote of the nuclear explosion of the crown chakra. Here it is.

A little after this explosion, a big wind blows across the site, an effect that also occurs with a real nuclear explosion, accompanied by a whipping, coiling, back-and-forth sound generated by the ropes on the fence around the pyramid.

The channel between the third-eye and crown chakras has been blown open. Finally. Remember how the entire journey described in this book is from the third-eye to the crown chakra. I see the opening with white light shining from it. A black bird flies upwards from the channel and turns golden. A golden eagle follows. It is strikingly beautiful with wing feathers looking like knives. The eagle circles over my crown chakra.

I interact more with the Feathered Serpent. I see a white dinosaur with black eyes (remember the symbolism of the dinosaur is wisdom from the primordial, returning to earth, and inner transformation). I observe him closely and tell him he can rest now. He no longer needs to do what he has been doing. After I say this, the dinosaur falls apart and disappears in front of my eyes. I feel sad, sad about the turning of big cycles and all the changes and transformations wrought with them, sad about the sacrifices made, sad about the terrible suffering. Knowing also this is awe-fully beautiful, that it has a purpose, and that the price is great and deeply felt.

The serpent gives me a red heart. Then it turns golden. Kukulkan opens its mouth wide and eats me as I enter the black wormhole inside. As I move towards the point of light at the end, the serpent disappears behind me. Kukulkan is gone, leaving behind a crystal clarity.

The end of the wormhole is large and cosmic. I see a huge, round, counterclockwise-rotating field of white light with a dark dot located at the center. The dark dot becomes a large drop. It falls on me, and I turn golden. Another drop forms, of black colour, and from it emerges a clear drop of water. I am in front of the large drop hanging down from the center of the field of light. I look into it and see black smoke or liquid substance. A golden band of light emits from my heart into the black smoke inside the drop. The smoke turns to golden drops of rain. At the bottom of the large drop, I see planet Earth. It is blue with the continents coloured in the bright beautiful colours the local people use for their arts and crafts. The planet rises in the drop to where it is level with me. The golden drops rain down on Earth, and it becomes covered in golden light. Then Earth spins counterclockwise fast. The spinning Earth produces a dancing coil of DNA from the top of the sphere. The DNA spiral moves upwards and keeps going with the spinning movement . . .

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I return to the pyramid for the last few hours on the site and tell it this is the last opportunity for anything that still needs doing. I take a seat under some trees casting their much-needed shade over me, a ways from the pyramid. It is afternoon and the heat is oppressive and draining. After I speak, a light turns on in the sacred temple on top of the pyramid. It sends its light all around in a circular pattern like that of a lampshade.

Another powerful explosion occurs from the sacred temple, although less potent than the first one. A counterclockwise-rotating light sweeps around the site, like the beam of a lighthouse. It locks onto my heart and sends black light to it. At first, I assert only 100 percent light may enter, but I think better of that as I am imposing something that feels wrong. Besides, I know this type of light, and it holds no danger. The black light turns golden at my heart. I notice a golden channel from my heart to the third-eye and crown chakras. It is straight and open. The golden light flows through it and exists the crown, shedding its light in a widening beam. A white substance shoots from this beam. Then a torrent of white light flows through the light beam to my heart. I physically feel this light. Then the white light splashes like water from my crown, a geyser in which I make out individual drops of light holding images. One drop shows an image of a man and woman holding each other. I grab it and put it in my heart.

A golden heart appears from the beam of light. It is large. It spins fast counterclockwise. It has a line of electric white lightning feeding into the bottom at the point. The heart sends out coils of DNA, moving and dancing upwards, two strands proceeding from the rounded lobes at the top of the heart. Then the heart acquires golden wings.

I am looking at the winged golden heart.

 

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How Do I Wake Up?

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Spiritual awakening is not something that we do. To clarify, it is not something the ego does. Awareness or God wakes up in us. However, we can set the intention and then follow our heart and do what we need to do to facilitate awakening. We need the ego to be on board with this and support us in our practice. In this way, it will help us to move beyond itself and find its rightful, and not dominant, place in the totality of being. Ironic, isn't it? Even more ironic is that the ego is there for a purpose; it provides resistance and friction, a shell or barrier that will help us break through that into reality. In other words, it is the problem and the cure! This is the paradox. It is like the Zen koan. Pay attention when you encounter it as it provides an opportunity for realization. This is a big cosmic joke. God is laughing, as are the birds. You can read in my book what that is all about.

There is the famous story of Sri Ramana Maharshi. As a boy of 16, he challenged death through a practice of self-enquiry and awakened. Just like that. It doesn't have to take a lot of time and hard work. It requires a deep realization and complete surrender to what is real.

For most of us, however, awakening is a process and we each experience our own unique expression of it. You can read about mine in the book I published. My experience has been that each awakening opened up deeper aspects and challenges in my being. It has been a wondrous journey but also difficult, and it is still ongoing. Yours will be unique to you and will be different from mine.

We are crystallizations of God or awareness, rays of light on Earth, each with our own body, personality, and set of circumstances. One way of looking at this is that God or awareness wants to be fully present and grounded here on this Earth and it wants to wake up to itself. But something is in the way and that is us, our personality and ego and our beliefs, thinking, and emotions. The channel is plugged up, as it were. This is not wrong or bad. It is this way for a reason.

We can help the process of awakening along by working at unplugging the channel, or, more aptly put, by changing our perspective from the ego to the heart. This can be done in many different ways. It doesn't necessarily require that you go to church, have a spiritual path,  meditate hours a day, or seek therapy. All these things can be very helpful and may be necessary but it depends.

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This is a simple guide to taking steps toward your goal:

1. Is the will and desire to awaken present?

2. Set the intention to awaken.

2. Pray, meditate, or ask to be given guidance as to the best path to walk. Then pay close attention to everything in your life to discern an answer.

3. If you have traumas and psychological challenges, you can get help as these wounds can obstruct the process.

4. Engage with practices that you feel are important for you to do. Perhaps you want to meditate and then you can find out what the best practice is for you. You can join a group to get instruction and meditate in the container of a group. This can be helpful as a group is supportive and helps the meditation experience. Or perhaps you want to meditate on your own or do another practice.

You can attend retreats with an awakened teacher and make progress toward your goal.

5. Examine your life and determine if you are doing something you enjoy. Do you like your work? Are you forcing yourself to do things you don't enjoy? Are you living the life you want to lead or are you living someone else's life or a life motivated by fear?

It is important that you are able to express who you are in whatever way: through creativity, work, hobbies, volunteering, etc.

6. Whatever you do: follow the heart, make a relationship with the heart and the body, the two aspects of our being.

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In Buddhism, there are teachings that delineate this path in an even simpler way. The path, mentioned in point 4 above, is outlined as follows:

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1. The view

2. The practice

3. The result

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Very simple and true. First you learn about what you want to accomplish. Then you do the practice, and the result will follow. Things may seem complicated but they are simple at heart.

When the ego looks at this path, it becomes overwhelmed and thinks "how on earth am I going to do this? I'll never be able to do this." And that's true, because it's not the ego that will be doing the waking up - that's the problem. So watch for the ego going on the spiritual path. The ego is with us whatever we do and with whatever intention we set. It can very quickly coopt this path. This will probably happen with most of us, but at some point, we will be shown what is happening, as I was, and then we will have an opportunity to move past this.

This is why the path can be difficult as the ego wants to be awake and it never will be. It will strive and work and try to obtain this treasure but it will never possess it. It is a potentially tricky time on this path when we realize the ego is never going to be awake. You can read about this realization in my book.

It is the ego and its thinking mind and pain that make this path difficult. The trick is to stop doing all that hard work and focus on and stay in the heart instead of engaging with the thinking mind. The stronger this mind and the stronger our identification with our stories and wounds, the longer and more complex the journey back to our heart may be. But it matters not. Our journey will have purpose and meaning and it will bring us what we need. So that we will move beyond the thinking mind and ego, which are the veil that obscures and distorts reality. The "work" is to see this veil and to realize who and what we are.

The spiritual journey can bring us amazing experiences. They can become distractions because we want to hold on to them and recreate them and this creates suffering. Watch out! Please let go of experiences, which are fleeting and impermanent, and move on to discovering what is the foundation or heart that gives rise to the experience, what is always here and never changes.

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This journey, if you decide to embark on it, is the hunt for the treasure. The treasure is your heart, the consciousness we can access there. We seek our happiness on the outside, with other people, with a career, with teachings that promise abundance and happiness. We seek in the wrong place. What we want is so close, so incredibly close that we overlook it. In Buddhism, there is a story about this, of a poor family living in a dilapidated house. Unknown to them, a treasure is hidden beneath the floor, but they don't look there. This is the pure consciousness that is so close to us, hidden in our own heart, but we look outside of ourselves.

We are searching for the diamond of our awareness, our pure consciousness. It is hidden in the manure heap of our pain, fear, and the negative thinking mind. The journey is getting into that manure heap, if you can't let it all go, like Ramana Maharshi. So roll up your sleeves and get ready for shovellling into that manure heap to find the treasure of your being. Your treasure is like a diamond encrusted with hard minerals. The work is to find the diamond and clean off the manure, remove the minerals, the years and lifetimes of stories and pain, and polish it until nothing is left but the hard, indestructible shine of the diamond, the essence of your being.

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Whatever and wherever your path brings you - it will be necessary. Trust that it will bring you to where you need to be. Stay with it, accept it, and don't let the thinking mind and its desires take you away to fantasies of how things should be.

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