John Little Bear

Excerpt from “Initiation”

 ‘In the material world there are four levels of manifestation which we call matter, vegetable life, animal life, and human life, depending on the outward appearance of the degree of consciousness attained. Compared with the human being, we can hardly speak at all of the “consciousness” of matter, and yet a crystal may serve to show that matter too has a sort of consciousness. Each level of manifestation of life is characterized by its own degree of consciousness which is one octave removed from the next. Only man has the power to manifest several degrees of consciousness, all the way up to the divine level. If we keep in mind the intervals – octaves – by which we classify levels of evolution, we find that man, as a category, occupies four steps of the great ladder of evolution reaching from earth up to heaven; furthermore we see that each step corresponds to one octave on the scale of vibrations. Man knows about these four steps or degrees and has given them names: man characterized by his intellect; genius, characterized by intuition; prophet, characterized by his wisdom and universal love; and the last and highest degree, that of the God man, characterized by his omniscience and omnipotence.

 ‘Thus, in the material world, we find four manifestations which together reveal seven octaves of vibration.

 ‘Every creature emits the vibrations of which it is made, that is, those which it consciously supports. Matter, the very lowest degree of consciousness, manifests itself only through contraction, cooling off, and hardening.

 ‘The plant manifests itself on two levels; the material and the level of force – vegetative force – that gives life to it. The plant manifests material vibrations unconsciously; it carries its body like a dress, but its level of consciousness is the vegetative level of force giving life to matter. Force manifested on this level has three distinctive aspects by which it can be recognized wherever it appears: the search for food, the taking in of food, and the assimilation or digestion of food.

 ‘The animal manifests three forces, the material, the vegetative and animal. It has a body, it seeks out its food, eats and digests and is conscious on the animal level: it has emotions, instincts, urges, feelings, sympathy antipathy and desires. The animal is conscious in the third developmental stage, only one degree lower than man.

 ‘The average man stands one octave of vibrations higher: he is conscious on the mental level. He has intellect and the ability to think. But at the same time he manifests the three other levels. On the material, he has a body; on the vegetative, he seeks out his food, eats it and digests it; on the animal, he has emotions, drives, sympathy, antipathy and desires. But is most outstanding characteristic is his intellect. Man thinks consciously.

 With the next degree of development, man makes a great jump; he lifts his consciousness out of the world of effects into the plane of causes. He draws on the divine source of the causal plan and manifests this force that appears in his consciousness as intuition. With the help of his intellect and spiritual power, he is able to express his experiences on a higher plane in words and transmit them to his fellow men. He can also prove the existence of his intuition in other arts: without dimensions, in music, as a composer; in two dimensions with lines and colours, as a painter; in three dimensional forms as a sculptor or as a dancer. People call the creative person a genius. He manifests the five octaves of vibration of the material, vegetative animal, mental and causal forces.

 ‘The degree of consciousness of the next higher octave of vibrations, in the language of human beings, is called that of a prophet. The prophet manifests all the forces that work on the previously mentioned planes of consciousness, but he is also conscious on the next higher level too, the plane of divine wisdom and universal love. We must be careful never to confuse this universal love, which is manifested on the sixth plane and is a completely spiritual power, with the “love” of the third, animal plane which is the manifestation of animal instincts. This latter “love” is a vibration operating three levels lower at the source of which is the urge to propagate the species. Such “love” is desire for possession and always only seeks the body. It forces a person to come close to the loved one, and embrace, kiss, and hug him or her – in a word – to possess.

 ‘Whoever is subject to this kind of love is still living in his consciousness in the condition of dividedness and separation and seeks a complementary physical partner in order to find satisfaction. This love always seeks to take, to have something, to possess. Love in the sixth plane of manifestation, the love of the prophet, does not come from a condition of division, but from the primordial condition of divine unity! Hence, this love is universal, always giving, never taking, needs to supplement, no physical manifestation, but always radiates from the consciousness of divine all-unity. People who are conscious on this plane to not want to possess anybody; they feel themselves one with the infinite all.

 ‘The seventh and most perfect manifestation of God is the completely conscious man the God-man. All other forms of revelation manifest only transformed vibrations, only part of God. A God-man is a person who manifests God – his own divine self – completely and perfectly through a perfect consciousness; one who experiences and radiates the divine creative forces in their primordial untransformed vibrations and frequencies. He is supremely conscious; no part of him is unconscious.

‘Only man has the ability to master and to radiate all seven octaves of vibration, as the nervous centres corresponding to the seven octaves of transformed and untransformed creative power exist in his nervous system. On the other hand, he is only able to radiate vibrations on the levels on which he has become conscious, because until he becomes conscious on a given level, the corresponding nerve centres remain in a latent condition. Thus the average human being will radiate vibrations up to the fourth plane, the genius up to the fifth, the prophet up to the sixth, and only the God-man is able consciously to radiate all seven octaves and to radiate the divine creative power, according to his own will, in its untransformed form or to transform it, to change it, and transmit it in lower (transformed) frequencies.

Comments by John – it is reasonably easy to look back and see where you fit in on any of these levels of initiation, but really hard to see where you are at a given point in time. It is also easy to see the lessons after you have learned the lessons, but not while you are in the process of learning the lesson. Furthermore, the higher up the levels a person goes – the lessons seem to be more subtle and therefore more difficult to grasp until a moment of clarity hits you in the face. Sadly our lessons are often learned at the expense of another who is left confused at best, or deeply wounded by the events or the conversations that have taken place. When this happens, and we become aware of the effect our own lessons have on other people – we need to do our best to repair this damage in the best way we can and try to achieve healing of both the event(s) and the relationships that have been effected. again, sadly, this is not always possible if the other party is not willing to participate in this healing process. When this happens the best we can do is to do an inner process of seeking healing within ourselves and to ask for clearing of the effects of the events at soul level.

Lastly – for those who have begun to experience the open heart of Universal Love – the task is yours of finding new ways to relate to people that you interact with so that your thoughts, words and actions are not misunderstood. When I look at friends who are manifesting Universal Love and the confusion this reflects in the eyes of some of the people who interact with them – then I think that this must be one of the hardest levels to achieve clarity on. In the understanding from the extract above – one can not DO love at that level – one can only BE love. And when we can BE love – it allows others to see a state of BEING that they can aspire to.

Namaste

Aitutaki – Cook Islands 2009, an opportunity to join International Group SHIFT to participate in a meditation for Global Climate Change and world peace in this stunning location. How could I resist.

The journey is a hard one.

Time and money are a problem, as well as the loads of flying, and then on top of that, most likely very difficult to connect to the internet unless at great cost. But I am not daunted.

I left Cape Town on Thursday 18th Sept, arriving in Auckland at midnight the next night. Wow, tired is no longer just a word. I met some nice people while flying though. Great conversations. Auckland was colder than Cape Town, but not bad. I was met at the airport by a cousin I had not seen in over 40 years. Was great to begin catching up.

Early morning Saturday we head off to the Otara market to see if we can find a Maori lady I met there in Feb 2006. Long shot I know, but I have “sent her the message to meet me there” during a meditation. We arrive, and find her within minutes, and she tells us she has not been to the market for months and did not want to go that day but felt herself compelled to go. Both of us are glad she got the message.

After that we head up to the Northlands where Gandharvo stays. What pretty country, and what nice people. I meet some of her friends and we have two great days of conversation and sightseeing. I hope it is not so long before I see Gandharvo again.

The trip back to Auckland is pretty, and the bus driver nice. Then a great nights sleep and I am back at the airport ready to fly to Rarotonga. I lkeave Auckland on Monday 21st and will arrive in Rarotonga on Sunday 20th. A bit of a mindshift needed. Punny since we are on the way to a SHIFT event to SHIFT our MINDS.

The flight is delayed, so I do the only logicaln thing. I eat sushi at 8AM at the airport while typing this Blog.

More to follow, watch this space.

Having been an avid user and lover of technology and gadgets for most of my life, and, dare I admit this, not very tolerant of the technologically challenged in our society, I find myself in somewhat of a conundrum.

It seems that every new “thing” that comes out, instead of making our lives easier, makes it more difficult and seriously more complicated.

Now perhaps this is because I have always been able to rip the guts out of anything with mechanical or electronic innards with relative impunity and put it back together better, faster, more reliable etc.

Now, sadly, I seem to be stuck with “things” that challenge me and drive me towards dreaming of walking in the desert with no signals, power cords, wireless devices, 3G transmissions that can make me want to …..

Let me give you a for instance.

I have a laptop. It works. Works well actually. I buy a 500gig external notebook hard drive to use as a backup. Works lekker (“great” for the non South Africans). I make my backups. My world is rosy. Except. I put the external drive away, spend some days doing non work stuff, and then, suddenly. Microsoft Word, Outlook, and certain other pieces of software start to give me error messages. I do the normal thing. Microsoft sucks. Reinstall it. It does not help. I tear my hair out for a week.

After eventually getting down to reading the forums (the equivalent to reading the instruction manual – you know like the preacher says every Sunday – when in doubt read the instruction manual), and lo and behold, I find other poor lost puppies like me with the self same problem, but one of them and put 2 and 2 together and made 6. He plugged his external drive in and voila, everything worked again. Except?? it only works if the drive is installed.

So now I ask you. Does this sound like an efficient use of a weeks worth of my life, to sort out an idiotic problem caused by a failure to communicate between the makers of various bits of technology that is designed to make life easier, but actually seems to want to keep us enslaved to some guy at Dial a Nerd (yes people they DO exist http://www.dialanerd.co.za/ ) who in turn will look upon us as a lesser mortal (did I do that to other people) while clicking his way to sucess in mere minutes.

I think it is time that I take these magical hands of mine and get them to do the other things that they so love to do, and do so well. To stroke, caress, and bring to life the object of their attention and in doing so to inspire passion and desire of the observer. Yes, it really is time. To once again take a raw lifeless object and make lovingly turn it into an object of beauty which can grace someones home. I saw many pieces of driftwood while walking the Otter Trail and must admit that I long for that intimate connection one can have with a piece of wood while creating magic . the smell, the feel, and the look of the wood as it is transformed is simply divine. I guess it is similar to an artist with a blank canvas, or a composer with a blank music sheet.

Oh well, to sleep, perchance to dream, and then a trip to find some wood.

I was honoured to spend a few days helping out at a school in Khayalitsha in Cape Town this past week. The project was to teach and entertain some of the children during the school holidays.

I decided to take my drum and do a little bit of drumming in between doing some storytelling.

I had a great time telling some of my favourite stories to the children. Of course I had to modify some of the stories  for the young ones as the bulk of my stories are for adults.

This EarthChild project is certainly one which I shall consider supporting again, and I was stoked to be able to spend time with a really amazing group of children.

On the surface of the world right now there is

war and violence and things seem dark.
But calmly and quietly, at the same time,

something else is happening underground
An inner revolution is taking place

and certain individuals are being called to a higher light.
It is a silent revolution.
From the inside out. From the ground up.
This is a Global operation.
A Spiritual Conspiracy.
There are sleeper cells in every nation on the planet.
You wont see us on the T.V.
You wont read about us in the newspaper
You wont hear about us on the radio
We dont seek any glory
We dont wear any uniform
We come in all shapes and sizes, colors and styles
Most of us work anonymously
We are quietly working behind the scenes

in every country and culture of the world
Cities big and small, mountains and valleys,

in farms and villages, tribes and remote islands
You could pass by one of us on the street

and not even notice
We go undercover
We remain behind the scenes
It is of no concern to us who takes the final credit
But simply that the work gets done
Occasionally we spot each other in the street
We give a quiet nod and continue on our way
During the day many of us pretend we have normal jobs
But behind the false storefront at night

is where the real work takes a place
Some call us the Conscious Army
We are slowly creating a new world

with the power of our minds and hearts
We follow, with passion and joy
Our orders come from from the Central Spiritual Intelligence
We are dropping soft, secret love bombs when no one is looking

Poems ~ Hugs ~ Music ~ Photography ~ Movies ~ Kind words ~
Smiles ~ Meditation and prayer ~ Dance ~ Social activism ~ Websites
Blogs ~ Random acts of kindness…

We each express ourselves in our own unique ways

with our own unique gifts and talents
Be the change you want to see in the world
That is the motto that fills our hearts
We know it is the only way real transformation takes place
We know that quietly and humbly we have the

power of all the oceans combined
Our work is slow and meticulous
Like the formation of mountains
It is not even visible at first glance
And yet with it entire tectonic plates

shall be moved in the centuries to come
Love is the new religion of the 21st century
You dont have to be a highly educated person
Or have any exceptional knowledge to understand it
It comes from the intelligence of the heart
Embedded in the timeless evolutionary pulse of all human beings
Be the change you want to see in the world
Nobody else can do it for you
We are now recruiting
Perhaps you will join us
Or already have.
All are welcome
The door is open

~ author unknown