Theos-Talk Archives (November 2003 Message tt00160)

Gerald wrote (to Dallas, on Theosophy Study 
List): <<I just want to show that we can 
read the SD and come away with different 
interpretations.>>

That brings to mind an article I read today 
in the Nov/Dec 2003 issue of "Phenomena" 
magazine contributed by Whitley Strieber. 
Some quotes from that article:

<<There are two reasons why our visi­tors 
cannot save us now. The first is that we are 
very limited in our ability even to see them, 
and thus they cannot, as things are now 
constituted, express themselves into our 
minds and our world fully enough to 
communicate with us in a reli­able and 
consistent manner. Those who are trying to 
prevent this know this, and are engaging in a 
subtle and brillian holding action on behalf 
of the status quo. They believe that they 
are fighting for our 'way of life' and our 
free­dom. What they are actually fighting for 
is the death of mankind, because unless we 
can find a way to see our situation more 
clearly, we are going to ignore the 
environmental warning signs until it's too 
late. As we have perhaps less than ten years 
left before the situation becomes 
irreversible, it's obvious that the 'crisis 
of contact' must come soon.>>

The words <<perhaps less than ten years left 
before the situation becomes irreversible>> 
seem interesting to me in that just yesterday 
I watched a Nova program about, among other 
things, a computer model (of phycisist Gary 
Stretmeir, or something like that) who talked 
about what he referred to as his "proof," 
unless I'm mistaken, that the next flip of 
earth's magnetic poles is overdue. And, in a 
separate article in the same issue of 
Phenomena I read that apparently there will be:

<< ... a culminating event on Dec 22, 2012>> 
that will, apparently,<<affect all earth 
like. That is also the date which ends the 
Mayan grand calendar.>>

Another quote from Strieber that I thought 
represented an interpretive parallel with 
Theosophy:

<<By 'conscious,' I do not mean the state of 
awareness that human beings presently 
experience. This is not con­sciousness. It is 
only perception. Con­sciousness is a much 
larger state. It is fully potentiated outside 
of space-time. Such minds see everything, 
from the beginning to the end of time, all at 
once. This awful seeing is what all of those 
who seek to deny the inexorable emergence of 
consciousness fear. It is why, for example, 
that denial is so strident, and why being 
face to face with conscious entities is so 
very frighten­ing. To face such an awareness, 
whether it is in oneself or in another, feels 
to the mind as if it is in danger of 
annihilation. This is because the world is 
assembled by such a mind in a vastly more 
accurate and therefore more potent manner 
than a mind diminished by immersion in 
space-time can ever achieve. It is why it is 
so difficult for us to dif­ferentiate between 
'good' and 'evil' enti­ties. The presence 
that we face is always pressing us in the 
direction of entropy. It must, because unless 
we are strong enough to resist this pressure, 
any joining of us to its own state is just an 
illusion.>>

Speculatively,
Mauri