Tricked out world so full of whatever can be imagined.
I am grateful for the slippery coyote like stealth of my shadow!
http://www.soundstrue.com/podcast/trans ... mefromhomeHank Wesselaman conversation concerning Hale Makua's view on our being set up by CULTURE.
"....On that particular day, I asked him very specifically about this issue, which he often mentioned, that we come into this world as gods, it's just that we forget who and what we really are, as well as what we're supposed to be doing here. Makua was quite adamant that human beings, alone on this world, possess godlike qualities. These involve the ability to be creators, to choose. As opposed to all of those well-intentioned transformational speakers, from the top guys on down, who have said things like, "You've got to get rid of your ego," or "You've got to drop your ego."
If you told that to this kahuna, he would just laugh long and hard. Then he would recover and he'd say, "Absolutely not! That's exactly the opposite of what we're here to do! We're actually here to develop the ego. That's why we embody, because the ego is the sole aspect that involves our ability to choose, to create, to become more than we were, to create thought-forms and goals of things that we wish to have or achieve, and then to act on them, to bring things into being."
I mean, it's like I'm talking on this telephone here in Hawaii, sitting in a house that's designed by my wife, and you're sitting in Louisville or Boulder or wherever you are in Colorado. And I used to live there, so I can sort of project my conscious awareness and think about you sitting and talking with me, connected by this incredible technology that we've brought into being. That's a godlike ability, to create what we have created!
The problem is now that we have to develop a sense of ethics, a really hardcore sense of ethics, because if you look at the way we're treating each other and the world at large today, it's hard to believe that we're godlike beings, isn't it?
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This morning, I was thinking about the fact that, in all truth, we are the Romans of our time. When I say that, I mean, if you look at ancient Rome, we're very much like them. We're superb engineers. We've created these incredible things, like the Romans did. And like the Romans, we've created these gladiatorial games that go on for weeks and months at a time. I'm thinking about basketball and football and baseball and golf and all of these things that are distractions for the public at large. We're very much like them, although the cycle has come around, and we're at a higher level, hopefully, than the Romans were-for example, we don't kill the gladiators anymore-but we're still very much hooked on these distractions!
These distractions area carefully crafted, in a mystical sense, by an archetypal force who is known as the Master of Illusion. The job of the Master of Illusion, as I've said, is to ensnare us and capture us, so we never find out who we are, what we're doing here, and what this is all about. And so the Master of Illusion is a kind of threshold guardian. He isn't evil; he's more like a threshold guardian, when you think about it. Once you pass the test, once you see who this dude is and you turn off the TV set, or you turn off your little things that are plugged into your ears, you start paying attention to what's going on around you, you've reached a point where it's a definite step up.
You know, I often think of Mahatma Gandhi's statement when he arrived in England all those many years ago, 50, 60 years ago, when some British reporter came up to him and said, "Mr. Gandhi, what do you think about Western civilization?"
He answered, "Oh, I think it's a very good idea!"
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"The Ancestral Grand Plan," is about Makua creating the foundation upon which we can build the next cycle. I didn't really think about that until I really began to formally write that book up and consider these concepts, but as you will remember, the beginning of the ancestral grand plan involves involving ourselves in those activities that are designed to expand the consciousness of humankind-in other words, create expansion, rather than separation.
The second part of the plan involves all of the teachers, all of the gurus, all of the kahunas, all of the mystical guy and women who are out there on the path teaching. It involves all of us bringing our students and our acolytes and our initiates together, connecting with each other, creating connection, rather than separation, so that we can really come together to create an entirely new world that we're going to pass on to our descendants. This is really what the goal is.
