Genesis of Eden
Fig 13: Two forms of cosmic portal, the mandala
(Kashan carpet) and the Huichol nierika
opened by peyote.
Quantum Non-locality and the Stream of Consciousness
To act at all, each and every one of us has to invest commitment to the our personal capacity to decide our fate through our free-will or intent. It is virtually impossible to lift one's little finger without such an investment. Likewise, although we firmly believe in the existence of the physical universe, all our access to this is through our personal subjective experience. From birth to death, the only contact we have with the world is subjective in its entirety. Alongside this immediate reality of the subjective, the physical world is a secondary stability property coherently expressed in conscious experience, a myth we subjective beings tell one another to explain our common experiences.
Consequently science cannot address consciousness because there is no handle for the objective to latch on to. Consciousness research thus remains the abyss of the scientific revolution yawning wide enough to swallow the entire universe. This is the situation that leads directly to the schizophrenia between (modern) science and (archaic) religion. Religion addresses the subjective in apparently un-scientific terms while science can neither detect nor postulate the subjective nor indeed any meaning or purpose in existence within the cosmic machine. The solution healing this gulf is quantum non-locality.
One critical lesson of the EPR pair-splitting experiments is that when two particles are in the same wave, each knows about the other instantaneously no matter the distance. Find the nature of one and the other is immediately complementary. Moreover quantum measurements which appear random for each individual particle immediately show a correlated pattern when the two results are brought together. This illustrates how quantum non-locality can provide hidden space-time connections which appear random at the surface. Taoist philosophy asserts that chance, nature and consciousness all emerge from a common cosmic principle, which is also the karma of Buddhism and Vedanta and the synchronicity of Carl Jung. This position asserts that, even though we can't expect to continually bias our luck, what actually occurs is part of a web of coincidence in which seemingly unrelated events may become correlated through consciousness.
Conscious experience also has other modes besides sensory experience of the real world, such as dreams, hallucinations, meditative and trance states. If a central role of consciousness is to interact with quantum non-locality, it would be expected that such introception is associated with psychic and shamanistic phenomena. It is also central to the prophetic tradition as manifest in dream, vision and oracle and its relation to future events.
Common to shamanism, Vedanta, Buddhism, Taoism, Gnosticism and Sufism is a state of illumination characterized by descent into archetypal cosmic consciousness variously described as moksha, enlightenment, samadhi, gnosis, the void, or the self. Several traditions have been enriched by the use of natural evolutionary sacraments which induce visions. Others use dancing, drumming, chanting, meditation, deprivation or deep trance. Severe discipline and/or reckless abandon is required - left-hand Tantras meditate on graveyards. Such a state has common elements of ego loss or ego death, disembodiment and union with the divine source. These have one single core basis - the cosmological nature of the subjective conscious archetype - subjective cosmology.
The continuing strong thread of often intense belief in the divine permeating virtually every culture outside communism and modern technological utopia attests further to the subjective as cosmological.
The Yin and Yang of the Tao emphasizes the complementation,
rather than duality of the creative and receptive and also that
male and female each contain the essence of the 'other' (the small
spots).
The conclusion is a living universe struggling to give expression to itself in space-time through consciousness elaborated in the material realm. As in the Tantric creation myth, this is a dance between feminine and masculine principles of order and chaos, subject and object, mind and body, wave and particle, in which preserving the gender relationship is central to the 'balance' of nature.
The final, utterly awesome, aspect of this is that, despite the vagaries of fate, our lives ar not simply random or accidental - we are all part of a synchronous web of conscious becoming and have within our power the capacity to unfold a living future of untold richness for our offspring in evolutionary space-time. We are not mere selfish individuals of some three score and ten years duration but, beings over 3,000 million years old - 1/3 the age of the universe - in an unbroken genetic fabric of generations. Moreover, in our inner archetypal no-self, we are fully as ancient as the universe, fashioned in the archetype of the creatrix of the universal condition.
Emerging from the stream of consciousness and the self in the synchronous universe is the notion of archetype. As a person or a whole society enters into the abyss of the self, archetypal themes may begin to give root expression to the existential condition. These archetypes evolve with social experience, so that they present new paradoxes and paradigm shifts, despite having recurring features. When whole societies enter apocalyptic crisis or psychic expectation, the situation may predispose to manifesting archetypal synchronicity. Mythology is richly interlaced with such karmic manifestation, typified by the sequestering of Buddha from the experience of death, precipitating his enlightenment.
Such ideas of synchronicity are almost impossible to confirm or deny objectively because they are part of an historical process which by its own watersheds is never repeated. They do however, even for the 'scientific' sceptic form the osmotic grains of salt for an astounding perspective on reality. We do not need synchronicity as an excuse or raison d'etré for saving the living world. You already have enough ecological justification to save biodiversity and the genetic heritage without any spiritual justification. Neither do the following sections require belief, but simply the intent to choose a living world.
Religious Apocalypse and the Millennium
By comparison with the founding nature of bio-apocalypse in evolutionary time, religious apocalypses are but transient visionary outbursts - archetypal reactions to cultural crisis of an apocalyptic nature. Many of these are linked to natural disaster, or to the consequences of male dominion - political and military conflict and environmental crisis, as became a feature of Near Eastern civilizations early in the piece. The events of Jesus' time were truly a crisis of world genocide. Over 1,100,000 people are supposed to have died in the fall of Jerusalem and the defeat of the Zealots by Rome. The Sea of Galilee ran red with blood. This was just the last phase in a stream of consciousness paradigm which had been gathering intensity for several centuries. It has in turn led to a two-millennium epoch of religious expectation of the Day of Judgement accounting for humanity in the cosmic scheme, otherwise called the Requital. This end of days scenario, along with its messianic advent, is woven into the final destinies of all the three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam and permeates the ancient prophetic traditions of Essenes and Samaritans as well.
Fig 14: Religious apocalypse is also bio-apocalypse,
as highlighted by the division of the physical realm into immortal
paradise (left) and the polluted wastes of hell (right).
All these traditions derive ultimately from Eden and the Fall and all constitute a terrible reckoning followed by restoration of the natural order in a divine paradise in which the Tree of Life (fig 22) figures prominently, along with its life and vision giving fruit and the garment of immortal splendor.
These themes are all consistent visions of the mother of all apocalypses - bio-apocalypsia seen 'through a glass darkly' in the somewhat twisted paranoid dark and light manner the patriarchs traditionally assume. They have continued with gathering intensity throughout the Christian epoch of hope for the return of Christ, culminating this century in events which lead to the end of times in both Judaic and Christian traditions, the holocaust, the founding of Israel and the birth of nuclear Armageddon in the Trinity test. The advent of nuclear holocaust finally brings Armageddon into full force in the human psyche. Many of us have had to bring up children in complete uncertainty as to whether there will be survivors to continue the genetic fabric. This crisis has only temporarily eased and is now proliferating alarmingly again and includes new and more vicious potentials in genetically-engineered germ warfare. Many of the people who have their fingers on the nuclear button have an implicit belief in the end of days confrontation and/or religious martyrdom.
We are now moving into two direct phases of biological apocalypse, burning and clearing the dwindling biodiversity gems of the great tropical forests and witlessly embarking on an epoch of rampant commercially-exploited genetic engineering without any democratic ethical vision of the brittle mechanistic end-game this scenario harbingers.
One can thus appreciate the uncanny synchronicity between the Christian millennium and the bio-apocalyptic transition, which you could choose to accept as the golden 'heaven-sent' opportunity for us all to wake up, illuminate, and realize our cosmological fortune and responsibility - to care for the earth, to replenish her and unfold her in evolutionary splendor as a genuine living paradise - this is the love song and the warning of bio-apocalypse - revealing the concealed visionary relationship between religious apocalypse and our cosmological coming of age in bio-apocalypse. These are the 'things hidden since the foundation of the world' the association between primordial Wisdom 'or ever the Earth was', the repressed feminine, and the Tree of Life, sequestered until the end of days of the patriarchal epoch.
The Gnostic Kiss from the Abyss
Fig 15: The term apocalypsia
means bridal unveiling. Algerian bride in commemoration of the
slaughter and disemboweling
of pregnant women in Algeria in the name of Islam.
We now enter into abyss of the mythological zone as visionaries of the millennial apocalypse. In doing so, we can all gain the very essence of true meaning in existence if we so choose, while saving the living world and conceiving and guarding the genetic heritage for the unfolding future. Such are the awesome opportunities and devastating responsibilities for those whose fortune it is to be born in this unique generation of bio-apocalypse, for if we fail our offspring could suffer for thousands of generations.
Genesis contains for each of us a deeper mystery - a key to conscious realization - our gnostic adventure of becoming - a realization which you can discover by wandering its labyrinthine pathways, running from the African Rift Valley 100,000 years ago to the Amazon today - from ancient prophecy to living reality, from cosmogenesis to quantum non-locality. Indeed you may never return to the place from which you came, for the end of this labyrinth is the unfolding of the universe itself.
Central to this journey of becoming is the concept of the gnostic re-entry in the apocalypse, the idea that history can give birth to a synchronicity which reveals, in the climacteric, the truth that the universe is utterly, awesomely alive and aware of its own destiny in space-time, in ways which can absorb and take account of our own folly in a denouement of poetic irony right in the flux of the millennial moment which liberates our free-will for all time.
Fig 16: (a) The
Dream of Mary: Christoforo Simone dei Crocefissi c AD 1350.
Christ's sacrificial blood streams from her tree of Calvary -
the Skull. (b) Quetzalcoatl and Xochipilli beside the Aztec Tree
of the Middle Place emerging from the Blood Mother of the Corn
from Place of Skulls. A symbolic bird crowns each. The close correspondence
between the Christian and Aztec
traditions of blood sacrifice and renewal indicates uncanny
confluences of archetype spanning diverse world traditions.
The hidden key to the Genesis is Parousia - the return of the gnostic archetypes in the millennial transition as a confirmation of cosmic consciousness in synchronicity. Christianity has always been a heresy of Christ for, in its very origin, there was a schism between the gnostics, who claimed to have the inner mystical tradition of full illumination and the orthodox who enforced the power of the Church against the individual vision of the 'elect'. Orthodox Christianity has fashioned Christ into an eschatological figure, half-man and half-God, in a way which is intended to make it impossible for the natural tradition, which Jesus manifested, as a natural flesh and blood messiah to refertilize the epoch.
The key to Parousia is not the return of an avenging Christ of heaven, dripping blood, nor of Armageddon in the male combat myth, but the refertilization of the source tradition of the human prophet-hero of quantum shamanism and the long-awaited Tree of Life in the birth of the immortal genetic age of paradise. Parousia is the return of that which was stolen in the Fall. Return of sovereignty to the female, the reunion of peace and forgiveness, the sacred marriage of mind and body, the burgeoning-forth of the Tree, the sacraments of the twelve fruit and, last, but not least, gnostic transference of the full meaning of cosmic illumination - the Christ state. This is my gnostic kiss to you in truth and love from the abyss of incarnation as one ancient gypsy spirit of the universe to another.
Fig 17: The Annunciation of Mary: The advent of
Christ is an archetypal revisitation of the Eden apocalypse, to
undo the mortality of the Fall. Mary's virginity is the circumcision
of Eve's 'original sin'. The tragic fallacy was that it was the
repression of the feminine in Eve which was the source of mortality.
This is a promise to be fulfilled in visionary democracy. The gnostic and biological vision which shall make us all egalitarian messiahs in love, all Christs in the discovery of the living conscious world, in unveiling the promised immortal era of the Tree. This is our cosmic coming of age. The marriage of Kingdom and Garden, the sacred marriage of the Bridegroom to the Bride - for the apocalypse is the Reunion and the Consummation - the restoration of the feminine principle and of nature herself to her original place of glory in the physical completion of the divine. Thus wave and particle, chaos and order, female and male, meet in the verdant complexity and diversity of living fertility - at once in the frightening day of reckoning - omega of the patriarchal epoch.
Few people would have realized that Parousia could actually come true in a biological - in a quantum mechanical sense. What do you do when you find yourself literally in the centre of the cyclone, in the climacteric of reality of all time? When the boy child El Niño's hurricane roars across the ocean in echo of the very unveiling you are witnessing? What do you do when the future of life stands in the balance, when the great forests burn and the oceans are fished to near-extinction, when in the coming-of-age of humanity in the midst of a genocide of living diversity, you discover a streak of fire running all the way from the quantum to the millennium, from the 'revered and accursed one' to the very shoes in which you stand?
That the terms Bridegroom, Son of Man, and True Vine are not just terminology from the year zero, but part of a living web of synchronous gender reunion in which the feminine aspect of divinity, long repressed in her diversity - Mariam, Chochmah or Sophia (Wisdom), Shekhinah, Sakina the spirit of tranquillity, the Anathema of the scarlet woman, returns as the divine partner to consummate the apocalyptic bridal unveiling. What does it mean to find at once that it is to Leucothea, the White Goddess of the subconscious mind, a figment of a crazed poet's flight of inspiration, that one owes one's very physical incarnation on the Epiphany, in a twist of fate culminated by Trinity, that overturns the long, lone supremacy of the Father in a dramatic resurgence of feminine illumination, seeping through dream, accident and the very way the wind blows?
History is littered with pretenders to the messiahship, most of whom are harmlessly sequestered, incarcerated or lead doomsday cults to the fringes of the surreal. Among them are numbered demented despots great and small, from Jim Jones to Adolf Hitler. The great divide is perilously thin. Jesus was accused of being possessed by Ba'al Zebul, the Lord of Flies and lived as controversially as he died, on the border between divinity and possession.
Fig 18: Tragic mask of Dionysian
Dhu Shara, Nabataea.
This phenomenon arose out of a tradition much older than Christ, common to Dhu Shara of Edom, Dionysus, Joseph, Noah and of course Adam, a tradition that spans cultures as diverse as the ancient Semites, the Hindus' Krishna and Shiva and the Toltecs' Quetzalcoatl, for the prophets stand in the tradition of quantum shamanism, the Shekhinah herself - the "indwelling" manifestation of immanent deity being at once eagle, the Toltec Nahualli, and the Holy Ghost. This is also the tradition of the Dionysian sacraments - the True Vine - the Eucharist - Soma - flesh of the Gods.
Fig 19: Left: Eleusis had an inner sacred repast
called the epoptea
at which it is believed Dionysus played a role. Here panel from
Eleusis has Persephone passing a liberty bell to Demeter. Right:
Gordon Wasson receives the eucharist from Maria
Sabina, an event which she had prophesied in a vision. He
described the event as 'Holy Communion' and spoke of the dawning
of Pentecost. Maria's house was burned down and a son killed,
apparently for revealing the secret concealed since the arrival
of the conquistadores.
For all the fear of the scarlet whore, we find standing at Christ's left side Magdalen, a free Mariam of seven familiars, who stands at the Christian source, pronouncing the exaltation in the ancient tradition of Adonai and of Inanna's descent, who along with Salome and Martha was believed to have passed the gnostic tradition to Marcellina, and who now stands embodied in the feminine consciousness of sustainability and natural spirituality - the witch, the Wisdom woman, who unlike the 'Lord hastening it in his time', bides unto the climacteric: 'the female abides and cannot be hastened', coming in our genuine moment of reckoning, to take her ancient place of fecundity, the concelaed Shulamite river, sustaining immortal ongoing life, embodied in every woman and in all of us together, as the light and dark spots within the Yin-Yang attest.
Fig 20: Magdalen as the embodiment
of the Free Spirit
in woman in exaltation of the sacred marriage.
It is to the prophetic shamanistic mind that the most unusual quantum non-localities congregate, in vision, dream, reflection and circumstance. Rather than the universe being a mechanical, deterministic fulfillment of God's Newtonian design, or of random chance alone, it evolves as a synchronistic chaotic process revealing quantum non-locality, in which apocalypse may become living reality, not because it has to happen, but because this is the collective dream of humanity - our living conscious heritage, the 'unveiling' of our collective existential condition. Because the messiah was expected, Yeshua manifested. So now in the mother of all apocalypsias. "Ecce homo - Kia ora!".
The same superconscious dream threads all the way back to our hunter-gatherer origins, in the Eden Genesis myth, and the patriarchal Fall of culture from nature as it struggles forward to nuclear Armageddon, biodiversity genocide and the ecocrisis eschatology of the present day. It is a dream of humanity that has been dreamed on evolutionary time scales and one which is the harbinger of a possible mass-extinction of biodiversity that will take up to ten million years to recover from and which echoes through the anticipatory prophetic conscious in the Day of Judgement. No one who finds the entire evolutionary history of the earth being decimated at their feet can afford to leave this planet to such a fate without first saving the living genetic garment of immortal diversity for its future evolutionary unfolding. In this sense we are all gnostic twins, all Christs, all witnesses to the unveiling - the time of your life and the time of all life!
"I have said ye are Gods and children of the most high."
Why is it that history is singular and that such unexpected twists of fate can become true? How can the millennium coincide with biodiversity genocide in a scientific, biological universe? Because the quantum-mechanical nature of the universe is singular in all its unexpected historical watersheds, in a way which anticipates unfolding events and lies at the very foundation of conscious existence - we are here to witness, through conscious experience, the living singular history of the universe in a passion drama of human encounter. The difference between the mechanical model and the living universe is this subjective aspect of reality and it is all we have. Our only contact with the physical world is through this interior shadow, our subjective experience, an inexplicable phenomenon, which gives the astounding experience of free-will, the capacity of subjective consciousness, despite its immateriality, to alter the course of physical history in decisive and often permanent ways. We are thus existentially strung along the crack between the worlds, just as Jesus has been stranded for two millennia between Earth and Heaven.
In our realization of 'common sense', all these contradictions will be resolved. In this homecoming to the 'indwelling' wings of Shekhinah, all things hidden since the foundation of the world become revealed. The Fall from nature can only be consummated in the return of the Tree of Life. It is to this Tree and the verdant restoration of living diversity in the feminine spirit of divine chaos this work is dedicated in reweaving the garment of immortality, the unfolding germ-line of the biosphere.
This change of heart requires the development of a new ethical conscience 'with-science' a democratic ethic complementing science, a soul of humanity which can help address the future of ourselves and living diversity together by considering the implications of genetic technology, and its impacts on biodiversity and the unforeseen dimensions of our evolutionary future. It requires a fundamental change of perspective, in which humanity recognizes the implications of free-will, the repression of the feminine and the divinity within us in learning to take care and responsibility for the Earth to enrich her verdant diversity, instead of raping her to oblivion.
The Mystery Play at the End of the Universe
Fig 21: The descent from the
cross of violence, central to the concept of Sakina prophetically
painted by Hannah Omer. Bringing Jesus down from the cross will
both end the epoch and refertilize the tradition of the Song of
Songs.
A central key living part of this adventure revolves around the phenomenon of Sakina Jerusalem Epiphany 2000 as climacteric and gnostic wild card of the millennium - the passion play of the Reunion - the Song of Songs, the Descent from the Cross of Violence, the return of the Tree and the fruit - the drawing down of the Shekhinah. Nothing is certain, everything is possible - the enigma the illumination and the reunion. You are expressly invited to the Sakina climacteric to be party to the birth of the immortal epoch and urged to give it and the Renewal your full support. Realizing Sakina depends on all of us coming to terms with the opportunity, not just of our lifetime but of the universe.
Associated with the millennial apocalypsia and leading to Sakina is the eco-feminine awakening of The Renewal and the common ground of the Gaea Wisdom Democracy as avenues of resurgence of the hidden repressed Shulamite river personified in the dark Goddess of the enclosed garden, " The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation."
Key aspects of the apocalypsia as a fulfillment of the messianic heritage of Isaiah 61 - the planting, the liberation, the marriage of bridegroom and bride, as the garden springeth forth - are discussed in the Requital Document. This is a statement of the ethics of the mission of the greening liberation.
The Genesis and its millennial transformation is a deep mystery in the ancient sense of the mystery cults, requiring curiosity, intrigue and the inspiration of the elect to fathom its many parts and make sense of the unusual world description it contains. In a sense you will, like me, have to descend to the disincarnate to realize your true destiny.
It is at once a psychic and conceptual adventure for each and every one of us, which radically extends conventional scientific and religious world-views. The sparkling world you shall find is not the fairy-tale fantasy world of a novel or computer game, but the fragile future of our own living planet and the adventure is saving the world for all time "from the beginning or ever the earth was" - a mystery not just of mythology but of evolutionary biology, sexual intrigue, and modern physics - transaction, symmetry-breaking and inflationary cosmology.
Not only this - it is the mystery of our entire conscious becoming unveiled. The poem of the epoch is Revelation. Many of the episodes of Revelation, including the name and mark of the beast, the travail woman with twelve stars standing on the moon, the eagle's wings on which she is borne, the sanctuary of the wilderness, the harpers, the sharp sword tongue, the grapes of the wine vat, the twelve monthly fruit and the Tree of Life are realized and woven into the reality as I speak.
By tracing the labyrinth of the Genesis you can find these as you perform your vision quest. Some of the facets of Revelation are yet to come to pass in the chaotic uncertainty of the apocalypse, others will never happen because the initial vision was 'through a glass darkly' as Paul confessed. Your adventure in reading the Genesis is to discover personal illumination and to engage in the climacteric through Renewal and Sakina. This is an adventure not only of scientific existence but of the entire prophetic heritage. Never before or after in the history of our planet will there be such a mystery play or such an unveiling of reality.
Fig 22: The Prophecy of the Tree of Life - The
final chapter Revelation 22 .
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal,
proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst
of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there
the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded
her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the
healing of the nations.
