When you come here you are given a body. Well by the same token that body is taken away when you leave here. Now this is not something that is stressed in our culture. We are told in effect - it isn't said explicitly but it's implied in the teaching in all the schools - that you are your molecules and your brain is your mind. You're like a bubble - at death it bursts and that's the end of you, so you might as well drink pepsi-cola while you're here. What a way to go! We're actually the first large society that has grown up not believing the most vital part of ourselves survives the death of the physical body.
Suppose now the brain is like a television receiver and we're receiving things through it. Well then, if something happens to the receiver your image is going to get blurred. But it won't hurt the program. Anyone with a good set can still receive it, as you could if you got a new television set. So the real you (the operator who is using the neurons in the brain to come through) is like a television program and the body is like a set that receives it. Then you can easily explain why very intelligent people would deteriorate with slight brain damage - with slight strokes and so on they can become vegetables. The person becomes a vegetable because their message can't get through - they have a bad receiver.

We are not our physical bodies. It is as if a hypnotist hooked up someone to a remote control robot and said, you are this robot, and the person believed it under hypnosis. If the person could move the robot around and walk it at will, they would finally believe they were the robot. Well, when you believe you are your body you are in the same condition. We are using the body and it's a marvelous instrument, but it's not the be all and end all.

(2) The Exploration of Consciousness

A tree, a table, a cloud, a stone - all are resolved in twentieth century science into one similarly constituted thing: whirling particle waves obeying the laws of quantum physics. That is, all the objects we can observe are three-dimensional images formed of standing and moving waves by electromagnetic and nuclear processes. All the objects of our world are 3-D images formed thus electromagnetically - super-hologram images if you will.

We live in a projection world of solid, neuro wired holograms - a world of simulacra. Thus what appears to our senses as a table or a vase, say, is - we are now told - actually a configuration of minute whirling particle waves, all these components constantly involved in complicated patterns of motion vying in velocity with the speed of light. That, we are told, is the reality of the table and the vase - as well as of the leaf and the sunset.

It is as if we were told while witnessing a cinema of some beautiful building that the projection machinery and lights were the ultimate reality of what is being depicted on the screen. It is merely a series of coloured dyes on some plastic film being projected at sixty-four frames a second by a thus-and-so specified apparatus and that is all. So we are told.

Yet here we demur, saying, But that is not all at all; for that scene existed somewhere or exists somewhere, and the projection apparatus is, if anything, the more illusory of the two - certainly not the ultimate reality of what is being depicted on the screen.

It is thus obvious that whatever physical science tells us is simply about the substances of the images and not about the substance of whatever realities to which those images refer. It would be as futile to expect that science could tell us the significance of the world - the point of it, its so what - as to expect that the cinema projectionist or television engineer could tell us about the meaning of a scene projected on the screen simply by virtue of being a projectionist or an engineer.

Thus the facts of science (insofar as they are not theories to be changed tomorrow) are correct but any claim to reveal final reality or significance is not warranted. Physical science has revealed the imagistic modus operandi but not ultimate reality - much less meaning on the point of life itself.

Once we begin to be aware of the fact that our hologram type of matter is not the last word in substance, we cannot accept that the projection mechanism for such superholograms is ultimate reality. We can then begin to understand that the admittedly highly intelligent and complex manner of referring to this reality by means of moving particles and their standing wave patterns is simply the means appropriate to our kind of body - and understand that such means do not exhaust reality at all.

Men change their cars yet are not educated to realize that they could acquire a much better model body, with notable improvements in the reproductive and digestive systems.

(3) The Evolutionary Way Forward or the Lion Path

So how can we find the way to regenerate ourselves, to grow beyond the relatively limited capacities of our current molecular bodies and states of awareness? Musaios discovered that the religious teachings of the Ancient Egyptians preserved records of such a process, and that the embalming procedure performed on dead bodies was the corruption of a half-remembered and initiatory way of regeneration undertaken by still living people. He deduced these teachings must have been called the Path of the Lion, or the Lion Path, because the type of couch a mummy was laid upon in its tomb was frequently that of a lion and moreover, on a fragment of painted limestone bas relief at Dahshur, the fourth dynasty king, s-Nofrw, whose name meant (He Who) Causes Beautiful Things is shown receiving the breath of immortal life from the Goddess in lioness form.

The regenerative process has strong affinities with the metamorphosis that transforms the limited, crawling caterpillar (its larval form) into the winged imago - the butterfly that emerges from its pupal case and flies aloft into the sky. For this reason the higher human entity - that which survives bodily death just as the butterfly survives the caterpillar's disappearance - was symbolized as a butterfly in cultures worldwide. Ancient Eyyptian teachings used the same metaphor: the bandaged mummy was like the silk-enswathed larva, with the folded wings depicted on sarcophagus or coffin lids indicating the folded wing-forms embossed on every lepidoptera pupa or chrysalis case. The outer cocoon was symbolized by the Mes-Khent or birth-tent of skin placed around the mummy or in the funeral chamber - the very word for which actually meant the birth chamber in the Ancient Egyptian language.

Just like the caterpillars, we humans have a regenerative gland associated within the vicinity of the thalamus - a group of as yet by-and-large unknown cells that can in turn be stimulated into activity when the hypothalamus is resonantly and appropriately stimulated. The key to this resonant stimulation is timing, the waves of time itself. This was known to the initiates of Ancient Egypt. Coffin Texts 467 and 468 read: 'Sothis (the Great Goddess presiding over the regenerative process) speaks to me in her own good time' and 'I embrace Sothis in her hours.'

Musaios had long known the importance of time as a resonant power of causality and developed the concept of time-surfing: learning to ride the waves to time to accelerate evolution. The forces of time, which ultimately cause all physical events in our cosmos, operate like a great computer. Just as a computer has a screen through which its activities can be monitored, so the night skies hold the keys to reading the great computer: the movements of planetary and stellar bodies are like the needle on an ammeter, indicating the flow of an otherwise invisible current of power.

And in the last two decades of the twentieth century there was a special configuration of several mportant celestial phenomena, heralding a unique evolutionary opportunity on our planet. In 1978 the planet Pluto crossed within the orbit of Neptune (something no other planet can ever do) and remained there through 1999. As Neptune was further from the Earth than Pluto, its power for universal compassion enlarged and directed Pluto's tremendous power for regenerative transformation unleashed in those years. This plutonic power was at its height because Pluto was from 1984-95 in its own zodiacal sector of Scorpio - the sector classically allocated to death and transfiguration. These two cosmic events also achieved a rare and precise synchrony with the

Sirius-Hieroglyphe

periastron Sirius A and B in April 1994. The brightest star in the heavens, Sirius A, was identified with the Great Goddess Sothis in Ancient Egyptian religion, and her dense, dark companion star (invisible to the naked eye) was also known to them as Horus. As the deities who presided over and protected the initiate in the regenerative process, the enhancement of their mutual power through their hieros gamos (sacred marriage) at this watershed in human evolution was crucial. The synchronicity of these three cosmic phenomena occurs only once every ninety thousand years, showing the stunning rarity of this evolutionary opportunity.

(4) Connecting with the Earth's Lion Path Cycle

The Lion Path Cycle for the whole planet began with its first timed-release of evolutionary energies when the Sun conjoined Pluto in Scorpio in October 1984. Thereafter this worldwide cycle, the Earth Cycle, proceeded for some years with successive releases of energy about every four months. These energy releases are the Lion Path sessions; they were interspersed with intervals during which the power of that session could be effectively assimilated in the lives of those on the Path. (People interested in the timetable of these sessions should read pages 106-25 of the fifth edition of The Lion Path.)

The vital thing to realize about this regenerative process is that it was and is freely available to anyone on this planet who desires it, that is to say, to anyone of basically good will and heart. If your main focus in life has been to become more loving, and to learn how to manifest that love by helping others in increasingly wise ways, then the Lion Path Cycle energies have been providing you with opportunities to rapidly evolve in that direction.

In general we humans are not aware of the trans-human or superconscious part of the psyche which is hidden far beyond the threshold of our consciousness and is mistakenly called the unconscious. Actually it is our own more conscious mind since the conscious mind is ordinarily unaware of it. Included in this vast and more aware part of ourselves that we don't ordinarily know is our own metamorphic power. And it is through the power of the superconscious mind that these regenerative energies have been infused into our lives and destinies.

Quantum physics has revealed the existence of phonon, quanta or bundles of longitudinal wave energy that can be thought of as ultimate sound. They can travel not only through air, but through water, rock and even the physical vacuum, aether - a nonmolecular form of substance and the ultimate transmitter of sound. These ultimate sounds, far above the range of human hearing, have in successively released power waves penetrated the superconscious minds of all basically benign beings on the planet. Musaios was intuitively tuning into the unseen rescuing force of the Earth's Lion Path when he wrote the poem,

As we mentioned before, the Lion Path is essentially the way to evolve beyond our rela-tively limited molecular bodies and s tates of consciousness. Just as the larval caterpillar goes through the metamorphic process by which it becomes its imago form, the butterfly, so the sessions of the Lion Path transform our larval-like powers into those of much greater or imago-like capabilities. Musaios referred to these imago powers as pleromic powers, using the old Gnostic word for something that has been developed to its full and divine potential.

The Earth's Lion Path sessions began in the mid-1980s with the manifestation of the seven basic larval powers in the order: Venus, Saturn, Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury and Jupiter. During subsequent sessions in the years through 1998 these powers gradually metamorphosed and transformed into their pleromic forms, the initial manifestation of these powers occurring between January and August 1999. That was the end of the first phase of the Earth's Lion Path. The second phase - that of gradual maturation of the pleromic powers during annual Cycles of Initiation - then began.

These ancient Cycles, rediscovered by Musaios in 1998, are related to the four ancient Celtic festivals of Samhain (Halloween), Imbolc, Beltane and Lughnasadh. However, the four sessions of each Cycle did not take place on exactly the same date each year as they were dependent upon the phases of the Moon. Thus true Samhain was not November 1st but the time of the new moon in the sign of Scorpio. The second session (true Imbolc) began not on February 1st but with the new moon in Aquarius. The third session, Beltane, was not May 1st, but began with the full moon when the Sun was in Taurus, and the fourth session, Lughnasadh, was not August 1st, but started at the full moon with the Sun in Leo. Then the next Cycle of Initiation would begin at the following Samhain.

The final goal of the Lion Path is to awaken the key seventh pleromic power, Mercury, which grants access to and control of a higher body made of a nonmolecular substance. Such a body is as far beyond our current molecular bodies and their limited capabilities as the butterfly is beyond the caterpillar. However, before that could be achieved, the other six pleromic powers (Saturn, Moon, Venus, Sun, Mars and Jupiter) had to be fully awakened in their preliminary pleromic forms - levels of power that can be activated from within our molecular bodies on earth.

This is what happened during the second phase of the Lion Path. There were four Cycles of Initiation, beginning in November 1998 and ending on November 4, 2002. (Those who want further description of the seven pleromic powers - their nature, functions and capabilities - are referred to the heading Pleroma in the glossary on this web site.)

Those who wish to know more about the Cycles of Initiation should read chapter one of Access: The Lion Path for the 21st Century. It is sufficient to say here that the first Cycle (1998-1999) activated the six pleromic powers as powers of will or desire to achieve. The second Cycle (1999-2000) activated them with respect to compassion and feeling - what is often called the heart. The third Cycle (2000-2001) activated those powers as wisdom or knowledge. The fourth Cycle (2001-2002) brought together all the effects of the prior three cycles, harmonizing the powers so that each true Lion Path candidate could balance the inner faculties of love, will and wisdom. It is essential in any evolving person that these qualities are as harmonious and even as possible - too much will and/or love leads to unwise actions, too much wisdom without love to meaningless curiosity and/or unloving behavior.

Now we are in the third and final phase of the Path: when Pleromic Mercury (a power that belongs to the higher non-molecular body only) awakens and enhances the other six pleromic powers in turn. They are then awakened on a higher and non-molecular level of functioning. This finally completes the formation of one's higher non-molecular body.

Below is a list of the final sessions of the Lion Path:

Samhain : (new Moon in Scorpio)
Nov. 4, 2002:
12:34 pm PST
3:34 pm EST
(add eight hours to EST to obtain time of the session in GMT). The power of Pleromic Mercury began to awaken between the November 4th session and the subsequent session at the winter solstice.

Winter Solstice :
Dec. 21, 2002:
5:15 pm PST
8:15 pm EST
The awakened Mercury power uplifts pleromic Moon so that it can function as part of one's higher non-molecular body.

Imbolc : (new Moon in Aquarius)
Feb. 1, 2003:
2:48 am PST
5:48 am EST
Pleromic Mercury uplifts pleromic Venus.

Spring Equinox :
Mar. 20, 2003:
5:00 pm PST
8:00 pm EST
Pleromic Mercury uplifts pleromic Sun.

Beltane :
(full Moon with Sun in Taurus)
May 15, 2003:
8:36 pm PDT
11:36 pm EDT
Pleromic Mercury uplifts pleromic Jupiter.

Summer Solstice :
June 21, 2003 :
12 :11 pm PDT
3 :11 pm EDT
Pleromic Mercury uplifts pleromic Saturn.

Lughnasadh :
(full Moon with Sun in Leo)
Aug. 11, 2003
9 :48 pm PDT
Aug. 12, 2003
0 :48 am EDT
Pleromic Mercury uplifts pleromic Mars.

Fall or Autumn Equinox :
Sep. 23, 2003
3 :47 am PDT
6 :47 am EDT
One's higher, nonmolecular body is now completely formed.

During the interval between the fall equinox and Samhain (October 24, 2003), it becomes fully functional. After that Samhain, there are no further formal Lion Path sessions - development be-comes individual and unique to each person. For more information on this stage of the Path, see chapter 2 and appendix 1 of Access, as well as the update of October 2002 on this web site.

Note: The above sessions can be observed either by quiet meditation or by listening to The Lords of Shambhala cassette at those times. If that is not possible because one is at work, then the tape can be played in the evening after returning home. On the other hand, should a session occur in the very early morning, then one can listen to the tape the pre-vious night, just before one goes to bed. In between these sessions it is good to listen to The Lords of Shambhala on Wednesdays, as this helps stimulate the pleromic Mercury power which is working on all the others. On other days of the week one can listen to the sustaining cassette, The Pleromic Journey, if one wishes to do so. After October 24, 2003 one can still play The Lords of Shambhala on Wednesdays if one wishes, as this will continue to stimulate Pleromic Mercury and ease one's way to learn-ing how to control the higher body.

(6) Where the Lion Path is Taking Us

There is a vast realm of existence beyond our human societies on earth: a reality of higher-than-human communities already existing in higher dimensional worlds. These beings are of a more mysterious and advanced evolutionary level than our own, and are endowed with capabilities vastly surpassing ours. The worlds they inhabit are based upon a symbiotic rather than a predatory ecology - on a quite different and more advanced kind of nature than could exist here on earth: a nature lifted up out of the agonizing trap of predation.

The great question animating all the life forms in a symbiotic ecology is not the struggle for survival and Who eats whom? but How does one express love and wisdom in action? These are the qualities of Heart, Head and Hand, all acting in Harmony. The Lion Path is the map and living road from here to there, providing the answer to this vital question. It is a journey to a transformed environment and an ecological community surpassing the farthest reaches of our present senses and imagination.

All beings on earth who have made a lasting connection with the energies of the first 45 sessions of the Lion Path now have a living map within themselves - one that bestows a vital ongoing connection with every type of world within our cosmos, and is accessible within the deepest reaches of the superconscious mind.

(7) Types of Worlds and the Proportion of Predation to Symbiosis within them

What we mean by a type of world is a life-bearing planet where certain characteristics are very strongly marked within all the inhabitants. Our own planet, Earth, is to the type that resonates most powerfully to the power of Pluto: the power of metamorphosis or transformation, the deployment of which can either raise one to superb spiritual heights, or if misused, plunge one into the depths of psychosis and degeneration.

It is clear from the history of our planet that most of its political leaders have chosen the latter course. The political history of our earth has been an almost unbroken chain of needless cruelty: mass murder legitimized as war, sabotage, treachery and deception. Likewise the ecological history of our world has been predominantly that of human abuse and plunder of the natural environment to the detriment of all other species - a process exacerbated since the industrial revolution by the twin evils of overpopulation and the inevitably indiscriminate and widespread use of technology this generates. The plutonic nature of our world is further underlined by the choice of our scientists to revive the lethal element plutonium (which had long since been naturally purged from our planet) and its horrific fire of atomic fission.

Cosmic Worlds  —  19th century Chucki drawing from Eastern Siberia