The definitive crib sheet on current New-Age thinking.
Continuing our whizz through current New Age morés.
Here are some more thoughts that may inspire you to delve
deeper... presented as ‘facts’ though in the realm
of the mystical you must trust your own intuition!
Connection - Seeing ourselves not as isolated blobs but rather
as part of the fabric of a unified and conscious whole that
makes up the planet. Conscious that everything we do has a
far-reaching effect (the ‘butterfly effect’ in
chaos theory) and that each of us is empowered and responsible.
Responsibility – we are responsible for everything that
happens in our lives. On a deep (soul) level, we choose and
create all our experiences, good and bad, so that we can grow
and learn. Benefit of holding this belief: puts you in an
empowering place. If you can ‘get’ the lesson
that life is trying to teach you, more rapidly, the lesson
tends to be less harsh! One also begins to really ‘flow’
with life, a feeling of co-creating with Spirit. We choose
our parents, define what they will give us and what we will
teach them, and also our main life purpose and lessons, before
we are born. Then we play it out.
Reincarnation – Life as wheel. A belief that after
each life we are reborn into another, at a level congruent
with the learning we have achieved in this one. Karma –
we reap what we sow. Everything we give is returned to us,
everything we take, anything negative we do, must be ‘paid’
for, either in this life or a later one. (These beliefs tend
to encourage people to ‘act nice’ which is a pleasant
result.) Rebirthing – Therapy in which memories of birth
and (sometimes) past lives are reactivated, enabling learning,
insights, healing, and sometimes, awareness and resolution
of karma.
The Aquarian Age – the astrological ‘Age of Aquarius’,
- a time of great awakening of consciousness. We’re
in it now! The Mer-Ka-Ba - An energy grid around the body
that can apparently be activated, enabling inner powers and
even, inter-dimensional travel. Your personal space ship.
Look up ‘Drunvalo’ on the Internet for more. Drunvalo
Melchizedek - Fascinating new-age dude who dropped in from
another realm. For depth and insight on many issues, he’s
the kiddy.
Psychic Children
As the Aquarian Age accelerates, children with more developed
souls are being born to assist. Actually they have the remarkable
psychic abilities that we once all enjoyed. Look up ‘psychic
children’ on internet for more (or try ‘indigo
children’ for a mercifully less-hyped version of same
story.) Ascendence - Going up to a higher vibratation. The
earth’s electro-magnetic frequency (‘Schumann
Resonance’) was 7.8Hz for thousands of years but has
risen to 11-12Hz since 1980. Rumour has it that if we succeed
in joining together and raising our consciousness, we’ll
break through into a more pleasant and enlightened domain.
(Hopefully free of adverts on TV.) And with or without a pole-shift.
Planetary Energy Grid - The earth is surrounded by an energy
grid in the shape of a ‘small stellated dodecahedron’,
which is a dodecahedron of twelve pentagons with five sided
pyramids elevating from each face. In the centre of each pyramid
– positive energy area. In the ‘nadirs’
in between – negative energy area (like the ‘Bermuda
Triangle’). It seems we are finally getting to understand
how our planet works! I intuit that the earth’s ‘Merkaba’
grid is what links into this larger grid surrounding the earth.
Ley lines and sacred sites are part of the grid. The whole
thing is kind of an energy-flow machine for powering the planet
(similar to the flow of prana or ‘chi’ and the
chakra system in the body).
Energy and Space, Food
The space we inhabit has a great effect on our consciousness,
as does the food we eat. Simply, a clean, tidy, comfortable
space, and fresh simple food is the best. Who said New-Age
couldn’t be practical?
Prana (or ‘chi)
The Indians call it ‘Prana’ the Chinese, ‘Chi’.
Simply, it’s natural energy that flows through the body.
We get it from eating fresh live food (eg a raw carrot), drinking
water, and from breathing. It’s also generated in the
body by doing yoga. Originally (before ‘the fall’)
we allegedly breathed prana, not oxygen. Perhaps we’ll
return to this in the ‘new age’. (I suspect this
is what is keeping that ‘non-eating’ chap in India
alive...)
Chakras - These are energy centres in the body, spaced along
the spine, from the perineum, to the crown of the head. Each
is associated with a colour (from red through the rainbow
to white) and when open and spinning (each spins like a vortex)
they emanate their colour into the aura. Ideally they should
all be activated so that energy can flow properly in the body,
so that one’s life flows, and is at balance, too.
Aura - An electro-magnetic field of energy around the body,
emanated from the chakras up to nine feet (3m) around the
body. Can be seen by ‘Kirlian photography’. Is
the extent to which our physical presence touches others.
Contains our ‘akashic record’ – all lives
experiences. And contains colours which say something about
our physical and emotional condition. A sacred beastie.
Healing – What is it?
The goal in all healing is to create balance. Generally speaking,
‘healing’ covers any form of therapeutic work
that acts on the subtle levels of the person (ie, the chakras
and energy system, aura, and psyche) rather than purely on
the physical level.. The principle is that disease emanates
from emotional imbalance – issues that have not been
dealt with tend to be expressed in the body, ultimately forcing
the individual to deal with them. The original emotional issue
usually needs dealing with as well as the physical manifestation
of it (otherwise it may recur). Louise Hay’s book ‘You
Can Heal Your Life’ is brilliant on this, also ‘The
Journey’ by Branden Bays. ‘Healing’ can
also work on emotional issues, resolving them before they
get the chance to come out in the body as illness.
Crystals – we’ve only just begun to rediscover
the power of crystals. Like ‘remembering devices’
for the planet, they have been around for aeons absorbing
information. Their energy or ‘vibration’ can be
transferred to humans by proximity. Wouldn’t surprise
me at all if you could power spaceships with them or make
bombs out of them (hopefully not, this time). Our next stage
is going to be about using tools such as crystals combined
with consciousness, with surprising results, I believe.
NEXT ISSUE: The Magical Healing Power of Crystals –
Creating Well-Being and Balance.
Jeli Lala created the ‘Ashram of Jewellery and Art’
– Gifts, Crystals, Tarot, Art, Healing, Café
- at no. 1, Sukma St., Tebesaya, Ubud, with husband, Putu
S. She has studied yoga and other spiritual practices for
over ten years. She writes “In this column, I share
some of my personal experiences and spiritual methods –
hopefully, you’ll find this interesting, and maybe it
will give some ideas for your own journey. Come visit!”
Jeli welcomes comments and may be contacted on:
Email: jelila@jelila.com
Website: www.jelila.com or www.imagine-retreats.com
