ASCENSION
SUPPORT TEAM. DAVID
AND YVONNE BRITTAIN
Hubble, and the Electron Microscope, or A Spanner in the Works of Dogma.
Often in our articles
we the authors cheerfully reveal our ongoing suspicions about
“Experts”. More to the point our hackles arise in alarm when we hear
the authoritative tone that is used by experts. This tone is sometimes
acceptable when limited to the expert’s field of expertise.
Unfortunately confusion
reigns amongst us lay people when the tone continues to be used even
when the expert enters the heady and blurred realms of conjecture. More
confusion is caused when would-be (but certainly are
not) experts discover that the use of the authoritative tone is enough
to baffle and intimidate many lay people. As a result of the confusion,
many lay persons give up the struggle to think things out for
themselves. It is easier and less intimidating to rely upon those who
are, or who long to be and sound as if they are, experts.
In the world of
business this general reluctance to tackle the users of the
authoritative-tone was decades ago clearly demonstrated, in a hilarious
book entitled ‘Parkinson’s Law’ by an author named Parkinson. A large
committee meets to vote about three items on the agenda. The first item
is a nuclear power station that will require a massive outlay of money
to build. Within less than five minutes this is unanimously voted for
without general discussion because out of the committee of thirty
members only two have nuclear expertise; these two are employed by the
contractor who wants the job.
The second item
requires committee approval for a new bicycle shed for the staff. This
item is discussed for one hour and a half because everyone knows
something about bicycle sheds. The third item concerns the expense of
catering supplies for staff coffee breaks. Four hours later this item
is still being loudly and heatedly discussed until time runs out and
the vote has to be postponed.
Another generous
harvest of specialist experts is to be found in the fields of religion,
religious dogma, and “New-Age” thought. Here we must at least try to
define the word, Expert. In the modern field of nuclear physics we
could roughly define an expert as one whose expertise, at least so far,
has not blown mankind off of the planet. It is more difficult to define
expertise in the field of religion, the nuclear physicist or the
genetic engineer to be classed, as expert at least has to achieve
something original. The former either benevolently or traumatically
affects mankind. The efforts of the latter, either will, or will not
alter mankind beyond all recognition.
To be classed as an
expert, who is qualified to teach in the field of religion, publicly
expressed originality of thought must be shunned at all costs. Instead,
with the authoritative tone of the expert the teacher is simply
required to quote the established, traditional dogma. This applies to
all established religious belief systems throughout the world.
Respected and revered religious teachers are expected by all to ignore
modern, scientifically proven knowledge. Instead they must continue to
teach medieval interpretations of even more ancient interpretations of
spiritual knowledge. The traumatic effect of this teaching upon mankind
is equal and has been more long lasting than the effect of anything
that may yet be devised by our nuclear or genetic experts.
This is no exaggeration
because even when seekers of truth flee from traditional purveyors of
dogma they are faced with more dogma thinly disguised as “New-Age”
thought. This sad state of affairs even applies when we seek logical
knowledge about the ascension process. A few decades ago no one knew
much about Ascension. Ascension was just a date in the church calendar.
Mostly we all were breaking free from the dogmatic, dust-coated idea of
physically arising from our future graves. New-agers had then tottered
through the period when it had been fashionable to visit India, and to
sit for a while in an ashram at the feet of this or that guru. They
would then return to the west to teach their own variations and
interpretations of eastern religions. One fortunate result was that the
knowledge of reincarnation became acceptable and more widely understood
across the new-age scene.
During the late
eighties and early nineties the Ascension Process information once more
flooded in to offer all seekers a logical target to aim for. No longer
was self-illumination or as we know it, the ascension process, believed
to be limited to Jesus and a few solitary, remote and ancient eastern
gurus. Ascension is intended as the goal for every human being without
exception. To accept this target we had to expand the way we think. We
had to take a clear and logical look at ourselves, and the world around
us. Also we had to look beyond our ascension.
We all had to re-assess
for value, logic, and truth what the world’s traditional religious
experts had always taught us. It has been an exciting period because
there has been so much to unlearn, and then so much more to learn. But we must not allow
ourselves to fall into the same trap, as did the traditional religious
experts. So rather than any of us adopt the self-assertive tone of
new-age experts each of us must be sure that we have expanded our
thoughts enough to qualify simply for the role of a new-age thinker. To
be a new-age thinker requires, as best you may, thatyou
sort the wheat from the abundance of chaff, and then you think
deeply about the wheat.
It doesn’t matter what
anyone else thinks or believes. What matters, is whatyou think
and believe. Until you give it thought this is difficult to accept and
to do, especially if your early religious training demanded of you
unquestioning faith in what was taught. Even today the traditional
laid-on guilt implication is that to question what is taught equates
with disloyalty to the teachers and the teachings, and in turn this
equates with disloyalty to the church, mosque, or synagogue and
therefore also disloyalty to God. What a clever way to discourage
original thought, “Stick to the rulebook and no one needs to actually think.”
The problem is who wrote the rulebooks, and how many times have the
rulebooks been re-written and re-interpreted according to the then
current level of understanding, or for what was then currently
politically expedient?
Optimistically we must
not doubt the sincerity of those olden times teachers of spirituality
that now are so often authoritatively quoted. But we must also keep
firmly in mind the beliefs that were current during the lifetimes of
those characters. As an example, for many centuries it was generally
believed that our world was dish-shaped, rested on the back of several
hefty elephants that in turn stood on the back of a giant turtle. The
star-filled sky was believed to be an inverted, bowl perforated with
holes through which the light of Heaven gleamed. If you went to the
edge of the world you would fall off. In a similar way until modern
times no one, scientists or theologians, had any reliable data and so
could only conjecture on the nature of physical matter.
As a result the belief
that the dead would physically arise from their graves, could not be
argued with. Today astronomy has revealed the true energy nature of the
universe and electron microscopy has revealed the same true energy
nature of physical matter. It would be the height of arrogance to
assume that those revered characters of ancient times would not have
revised their beliefs and teachings to include our modern-day data, had
they had access to it. Unfortunately for their followers, modern-day
teachers of established religions seem to have made that assumption.
To be a new-age thinker
requires that the seeker will refuse to be content with a blurred
picture of his or her ultimate destination. This means that the seeker
casts out of his or her personal stock of cosy homilies the well-worn
phrase, “There are things in heaven and earth that we are not meant to
know.” Once you have dumped this cosy ‘get-out’ you are left with a
vacuum. This is a vacuum that only you can satisfactorily fill with
knowledge, knowledge that you personally have taken apart and thought
deeply about. The new-age scene is awash both, with ancient wisdom, and
a multitude of new-agers’ personal, authoritative interpretations of
that ancient wisdom.
The ancient wisdom may
have been received from an ascended master via a human channel. But
even this is not sufficient because the limitations and childhood
conditioning of each fallible human channel may distort the ascended
master’s message. When you become a seeker you also cease to be a
passive follower of believers in this or that interpretation. All knowledge, no matter whence its source,
must be personally tested by you intuitively guided
by your higher self. Your higher self will provide the
intuitive guidance but you must provide the
discernment. You will need to develop discernment
as well as to develop your intuitional
link with your higher self. Then your self-honesty will
discern between knowledge that flatters your ego and knowledge that
intuitively ‘feels right and true’. There’s lots of either of these
types of knowledge on offer.
Even at the risk that
you may seem unsociable it is better to do this on your own than to do
this in a group. The temptation is to go along with, and succumb to,
the beliefs of the group and its leader rather than develop your very
own links and beliefs. Conversely a very powerful and effective group
may be created when each member adds his or her previously highly
developed intuitive link and discernment to the group total. In this
way each member, in his or her own timing, has
already become a leader of self and so needs no leadership.
To become a
self-confident leader of self will be even more vital in the days to
come. We don’t need global tilts and the grind of tectonic plates to
observe the barely hidden growth of confusion and bewilderment of our
leaders/experts. This same confusion and bewilderment is reflected more
and more by a mankind who from birth has been taught to rely entirely
upon leadership from experts. As this situation worsens, each seeker
that has become a leader of self will be a lighthouse that stands alone
amid the ongoing storm. But even this is not enough.
Yes of course you will
radiate your soul light to all of those walking-wounded. But mankind
has been cheated and lied to by their leaders for so long that now they
will also demand from you accurate knowledge that you
personally have tested.
This is the tough
assignment that you volunteered for, and it has to
be ordinary, old, you, with your backache and your
mortgage repayments to find, that will fulfil it. After all there would
be little point in droves of ascended masters descending to earth to
walk amid mankind. We’d be back to ‘square one’ because half of mankind
would want to bow down and worship them, and the other half would
cynically be looking for the 3D Holograph projectors.
Regular readers of our
articles will know that usually we offer them four pages that explore
different facets of the ascension process as we at the Ascension
Support Team interpret them. But really it doesn’t matter what anyone
else or we believe. This time we decided to limit the article to place
emphasis on the importance only of what YOU think
and believe. Let us explain.
Globally mankind’s
problem is that a world that was and still should be entirely guided by
love and trust has been cleverly distorted so that mostly fear and
miss-trust guide it. Now in this year 2003 it doesn’t matter whether it
was Satan, or villainous extra-terrestrials, or an aeons-old ongoing
conspiracy of fear-filled men that made this clever switch. The result
has been the same, fear, guides and controls mankind and so though
love, virtue and trust exist upon earth they have been tightly isolated
into countless family-sized pockets. Each family is made up of
individuals. It is each individual that dares not allow his or her love
and trust to expand beyond family and trusted friends. This applies
whether we refer to the president of the USA, or a powerful Mafia
family, or the family of a factory worker. This is why it is so
important for workers of the light to teach individuals, by word,
writing, and example, to think for self and to break free from
fear-manipulated mass thought. Somehow we have to blend spirituality
and spiritual knowledge into everyday life. Yes, we new-agers may
confidently reassure each other about guidance from spirit, incoming
energies, ascended masters’ help and Ashtar’s fleet standing by.
But to your average
factory worker, worried about his or her job, all of this sounds like
dreamtime wishful thinking. This means that before he or she is ready
to believe us we have to persuade him or her to take a long, hard look
at this planet. Earlier in this article we explained that when we
acquired the knowledge of the ascension process this required us to see
our familiar world and ourselves from a totally different slant. Really
we had to continue to be full time participants whilst we also adopted
the full time role of observers. Very quickly for each new seeker this
additional role bore strange fruit and then our familiar world seems
less and less familiar to us. Other writers have already written at
length about a deliberately dis-empowered mankind. Here are a few
examples to offer as seeds of doubt to your unaware factory worker.
We began to notice
things that we never bothered to notice before. We began to notice how
advertisers and media to the point where we all regard this as normal
practice manipulate our fears and our hopes with lies and half-truths.
We noticed how tightly our personal freedom and freedom of speech, and
freedom to be published is quite legally circumscribed. We observed the
meaninglessness of our freewill to choose between maybe five or six
high street banks that supposedly compete but in fact are linked to a
national bank. In turn all of the national banks are linked to a World
Bank that decides what your wages will or won’t be worth. Once upon a
time paper money was simply your reliable bank receipt for a certain
weight of gold. Today, paper or electronic money has no reliable value,
and so we ask ourselves why? Here is another example.
At the start of the
1900’s orthodox cancer treatment consisted of the knife, radioactivity,
or vicious chemicals. Then after a century of media-encouraged generous
and vast public donation of money, whilst all alternative proven cancer
cures were deliberately ignored, today we are offered the knife, or
radioactivity, or vicious chemicals. Yes we have sent men to the moon
and satellites to closely watch us from the sky. We have Internet that
might, without censorship, allow us to know what really happens in the
world, but may also be used to dis-credit our credit card at any
electronic cash point in the world. In truth our biggest doubt about
experts is that it is hidden, powerful people, whose fears drive them
to need to control us all, that
mostly employ experts. Eventually the curiosity of your factory worker
will lead him or her to seek the bigger picture, but in his or her own
timing, not yours or ours. We all can only try to trigger awareness.
Love
and Laughter from David & Yvonne Brittain.
1-10-2003.
Below
is a list of books written, and produced as E-Books by David &
Yvonne Brittain.
“Not just how but why?”
“Food For Thought on the Path to
Ascension.”
An E-Book of published ascension essays, articles, and poetry.
“Life
is Hell, and then you are dead!” Or “Would you run that by me one more
time?” (Re-assurance and a clearly written explanation of
Reincarnation, for all
whom fear death)
“ The gentle art of trapped souls
rescue/ release work” and Meditations around Payes du Cathare: written
by Yvonne Brittain.
“A Journey through the Spheres.”(A fable about
Ascension for the young at heart, of all ages.)
Note:
David and Yvonne continuously drew down and anchored the light in
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