Reclusland

I was going to write some thoughts I had on reading a little of Michael Topper’s system of metaphysics.  I was pulling from an article I got from fellow internet traveler Ted.

It starts off with:
“Many of you have probably heard that our planet is about to advance from “3rd density” to “4th density”. So what is this “density” about? Density in our special context doesn’t stand for inertia or opacity in the normal physical sense, but “Density” corresponds with subtlety, especially in its psychic sense (i.e. perceptual or cognitive subtlety). “Third density” (the one we are presently experiencing) tells you that things (objects) are fixed and solid; 4th density allows us to perceive such “solidity” as an energetic kind of fluid/kaleidoscopic “coagulation”

This seemed to be a more complicated way of talking about a move from 3 dimensional moment-by-moment awareness, that is likely to grasp onto things, to a more fluid 4 dimensional awareness that understands the impermanent nature of all things because everything changes constantly as it moves through time.  “To be attached to things is illusion” and all that.  

But the more I read of his stuff, the parts that float around the internet, the more sick I get of a system that tries to create a new explanation of “how it all works”.   I think the last thing we need is yet another system of explaining “higher realms”.  We have too many already!  And we have enough trouble going on in our everyday reality.

We should instead try to start finding ways that they overlap, commonalities.   When multiple ideas from multiple traditions can be compared to each other, we might be able to come up with a consistent language for describing these kinds of experiences.

Instead of reaching up higher and higher, trying to see how far we can get, I think it’s time to see what real work can be done to raise the base level of awareness.  Are there ways to encourage people to grow, to explore these things?  To stop all the overly complicated nonsense and begin to enlighten everybody, from the ground up?

The only reason I’ve ever heard given for the complexity of these kinds of esoteric teachings is that it would be dangerous for them to get into the hands of everyone.  But so what?  What’s so bad about that?  If these wise people who have an understanding of these secrets and know how to use them, why are they worried about people who have these understandings but don’t know how to use them properly.  If there’s no difference between the two, then what’s the point of having them?  Increased knowledge and awareness of the way things work should equal increased ability to put that knowledge to use.  Otherwise it’s just daydreams.

I can hear it now:

“This power shouldn’t be given to THOSE people, they wouldn’t know how to use it!  But I’ve got it!”

“Now what do I do with it?”

“Oh, life is so boring!  All my whims are granted immediately…  Boohoo, you can never understand how I suffer (or don’t suffer as the case may be).”

Hey, here’s an idea.  Teach people openly, so that everybody has that power.  If some people misuse it, then and it’s up to the people how know how to use it properly to fix their mistakes!  Bingo.  Open source wish-fulfilling jewel with proper guidance and feedback from above!  The flowering of humanity.

Maybe it’s because I’m of a generation so many years after the atomic bomb and the cold war.  Maybe it’s because of the lack of good, trustworthy leadership in the world.  Maybe it’s because of the increasing feeling that NO ONE KNOWS WHAT’S GOING ON ANYMORE.

But whatever it is, I am sick of the secrecy, sick of the idea that any kind of spiritual knowledge shouldn’t be openly shared as an aspect of your personal reality.  And rather than developing radical powers, or extreme esoteric understand, we should work instead on developing your self in increasing communicable ways.  Take one step a hundred times, until you can communicate that one step to anyone watching by merely performing it once.  Work on craftsmanship, the ability to provide reliable quality.  Work on making all this secret esoteric shit a little more open source and understandable!

Damn.  I’ll admit, I’m a bit drunk.  Perhaps I should call it a night…

A few things about the Michael Topper stuff from that article, though.  There’s all these series of increasingly complex entities, the higher up the “densities” you go.  And as you read a little farther:
“One thing remarkable and noteworthy about this “density” concept, is, that the difference between the “good guys” and the “bad guys” in higher densities becomes ever larger. The “Good Guys” in higher densities are supposed to be really extremely benevolent, whereupon the “bad guys” in higher densities are true personifications of cosmic evil itself, with ultimately one evil hierophant (known as Satan) on the top. Bad guys in higher densities prefer consciously (and have freely chosen to prefer) to play dominion and enslavement-based “games”, and they tend to organize themselves in a military hierarchy with a very strict pecking-order.”

I know that “the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us he didn’t exist”, but still, this kind of worldview just isn’t healthy!  My attitude toward good an evil is much more taoist in nature.  One supports the other, but both are part of a larger whole.  And that whole is what is important.  Focus on that and you can see how good and evil flow one into the other, not how they get more and more extreme!

No surprise then, that he disappeared because he was being attacked by negative entities from a higher dimension.

“As you sew, thus shall you reap”   His karma caught up with him, perhaps…

And yes, before anyone argues with me about it, he does go on to say in that earlier article that you don’t create your own reality:
What makes the You Create Your Own Reality evangelist fatuous (rather than a demonstrable God of the most egregious solipsism) is precisely the fact that all such “personal decreeing”, “positive thinking” and confident imagining takes place in an inevitable context. There are implications! There are repercussions ! No one decrees in a personal or private, solipsistic vacuum. There is a variegated World of myriad “pulls” and “claims” coexisting along with the private desires and designs of the given ego-subject.”

We don’t create our own reality.  We are within a context.  But the way we interpret that context is up to us.  We do define our own reality, and it’s completely open-ended.

Ahh, to post or not to post? that is the question for this drunken Thursday evening…  Well, it is going to be up on Friday, so hopefully people get a good laugh out of it is nothing else!  Don’t worry, I am hoping to get back to some more indepth stuff for next week…

Oh yeah, and one more thing from Uncle Terence:

He called the greys an intelligence test, you know…