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Your world today is undergoing slow growth and high unemployment
with ironically rising prices, but this is malleable and easily put right by cutting short the underhanded and unseen economy.
By this many have grown rich and taken their money off shore, but the fact is they will have to answer for their actions,
as the truth is being spelled out. The decay of the past can then give way as you collectively learn to look below the surface
façade to find what is actually on offer. This can also be applied to the self, to love and value self for who you are on
the inside, and not just for what appears to grace the surface. Heavenletters™, bringing
Earth closer to Heaven. The
combination of heart and mind can’t be beaten. Some of My children lean toward the heart first. Some of My children
lean toward the mind first. For some, heart and mind are One. You have had lovely
images, such as a white sailboat on blue water, a flower blossoming, your heart beating. You have had unlovely images of diverse
kinds, and so you watch movies of various genres. On this Earth that seems so solid, you stand on spindly-legs. Ah, but, yet,
even on imagined Earth and within your imagined story, there is Truth, and, somehow, vaguely, you consciously know the Truth.
You have had glimpses of it, silent moments of Truth named Love, named Beauty. Love and Beauty connect Us. On Earth, the love
and beauty that exist in imagined time and space, sadly, fade. Even in this world-wide fantasy, you know there is something
extraordinary about Love and Beauty, for they beat a higher note in your heart. Before you read over the material in this Hathor section, I would like to offer a bit of advice—an intellectual
consideration if you will. I will tell you what I say to those who attend my workshops—keep
an “imaginary box” beside you at all times. If what I say doesn’t make sense to you or violates your
view of reality, then I suggest you just toss it in the box. Never swallow or accept as truth, anything anyone says without
sifting it through your own life-experience, your own sense of logic, and, very importantly, your own personal
values. Swallowing ideas without chewing on them and digesting them thoroughly can lead to
a type of mental and/or spiritual indigestion. And for this type of ailment, there is no such thing as an instant antacid. There are those who say that one should leave one’s sense of logic and rational thinking behind when entering
into the spiritual realms of experience—that one must fully and completely surrender to faith and not let reason enter
into the picture. Personally, I think this type of thinking is dangerous. We need all our wits about us and all the intelligence
we can muster if we are not to become deluded on our way to spiritual illumination. It is the true light of self-awareness
that we seek, not the false luminosity of personal fantasy and desire. In this regard, logic and rational thinking are not
the nemesis of channeled communications; they are critical allies. Regarding Higher Dimensions
of Consciousness If I might be so bold as to summarize the Hathors’ central message,
it is this—as humans we have access to other dimensions of consciousness. This interdimensionality is part
of our innate being, but it is something that has to be cultivated or developed. What do I mean,
exactly, when I say interdimensionality? To explain this, let’s take a look at it from several perspectives—how
interdimensional of me! As you are reading this, or hearing it read to you, the language centers
in your brain are making sense of the blabber we call English. At the same time, you might be hearing a sound from outside—perhaps
a honking horn or the sound of an animal. You could also at the same moment, feel yourself taking a breath. All of these events—the
reading of these words, the sounds you hear and your breathing—are dimensions of consciousness. You
can become aware of any of these dimensions by shifting your attention to them. But it is your attention to an event
that makes it conscious. If you don’t pay attention, you won’t notice something taking place. If, for instance,
you are completely engrossed in this article then you might not notice your breath, or the sounds outside. They exist independently
of your awareness of them, but in your world of perception it will be as if they never happened. Our
inner world of perception also has many dimensions or realms. Most of these are inaccessible to us much of the time, because—quite
frankly—we have been trained to focus on only a small bandwidth of internal experiences as significant—namely
those that make us more productive or useful to society. While such practical states of mind are undoubtedly important, they
are not the only states open to us. In order for you to experience these inner worlds of perception,
you have to alter your brain activity through meditation, or some other method. Then you can have a direct experience of these
worlds and the rather amazing phenomena that take place within you. But until you experience these worlds directly, it is
as if they do not exist, because they are outside the range of your perception. The ability to
access these higher dimensions or creative worlds within ourselves, although rather esoteric, offers unique practical benefits.
For one, these other dimensions of consciousness can often reveal creative insights and solutions to problems that are not
apparent in our normal ways of thinking and perceiving. The history of science is full of breakthroughs
and new insights that were brought about due to these non-ordinary states of mind. Let me be a bit more specific to help explain
what I am talking about. Science is usually thought of as the pinnacle of human reason. The scientific
method is, after all, based upon rational observation and the logical solution of problems. However, in actuality, those who
undertake science—the scientists themselves—have reported that, at times, the solution to a scientific dilemma
came to them through non-logical means. Take, for instance, the German chemist Kekule who discovered
the molecular structure of benzene. He said that he struggled with this dilemma incessantly; it was an obsession, but no resolution
was in sight. Then one night he had a dream. In the dream, he saw a snake swallowing its tail.
He woke up and realized that this was, in fact, the structure of the benzene ring. After translating his vision into the language
of mathematics, he was able to prove that his nighttime insight had been correct. One of the interesting
things about Kekule’s dream image is that it was centered around a classic alchemical symbol—the uroboros.
This iconographic element depicts a serpent swallowing its tail—just as in Kekule’s dream. Thus, significant information can be revealed to us when we enter other dimensions of our own consciousness. The
physicist, Albert Einstein, reported that he uncovered the principles of General Relativity through a series of fantasies.
And he once quipped that one cannot solve a problem at the level of the problem; one has to go to a higher level to solve
it. The question of dimensions has intrigued physicists and mathematicians as well as metaphysicians
for a very long time. The first consideration in regards to dimensionality is from what standpoint one is considering it.
Mathematicians, for instance, often view dimensions in a different manner than do physicists. The
Hathors have a unique perspective on dimensionality, specifically the dimensionality of consciousness. It is their view that
the higher dimensions of our consciousness can and do affect what we call material reality. Flatland,
Where We Live When I conduct Hathor workshops in which people experience them directly
through inner attention, I like to talk a bit about the concept of other dimensions of consciousness before their
first encounters with these beings. To do this, I sometimes start with a brief description of a fascinating book called Flatland,
written in 1884 by the Victorian satirist, Edwin Abbott. I bring this novella into our discussion
because it explores the paradox of how those living in a given dimension can never fully understand other dimensions outside
their own. Here is a very brief summary. Once upon a time there was
an imaginary world called Flatland. It only had two dimensions—length and width. Those who lived on Flatland were called
Flatlanders. No one on Flatland had ever seen anything three-dimensional since Flatland was…well…flat. One day a sphere (a ball) passed through Flatland. As it made first contact, a single point appeared in their world,
which grew to be a small circle. And then the circle grew larger and larger. At one moment, the circle was very large, the
largest it ever got. This moment corresponded, of course, when the ball’s largest circumference was passing through
Flatland. And then, for no apparent reason, the circle started getting smaller and smaller until
it disappeared into a point. And then the point disappeared. There were many ideas about what
had happened, but no one on Flatland knew what had actually occurred. The Flatlanders simply could not imagine anything like
a sphere because they could not conceive of anything outside the reference of their two-dimensional world. I think we are like that. We live in our day-to-day three-dimensional world thinking
that this is all there is. If time is the fourth dimension, as some theorists (though not all) have suggested, then most of
us have a pretty good grasp of it as well. By that I mean we can tell time, and can show up at meetings and appointments on
time. And for most of us that is all we are interested in. The Paradox of Time But there are other ways of looking at time. Our modern mechanistic perception of time is only one aspect, and when
we transcend or stop perceived time all together (as in meditation or certain types of esoteric practices) things get very
interesting. Indeed, when we step out from the rut of perceived time (via meditation, etc.) we more easily enter other realms
of human experience. These unusual states of mental and physical being have been described by mystics, yogis, and other illuminated
beings for eons. Their descriptions of their encounters with the numinous (a Jungian
term for the light filled realms of being) were, of course, expressed through the cultural filters of their time. Thus the
mystical language of Christian contemplatives and mystics are, on the surface, different from their Judaic and Islamic cousins.
And certainly these descriptions are even more dissimilar from their Asian counterparts—Hindu and Buddhist yogas, the
Taoist alchemies of China as well as indigenous shamanism throughout the world. But beneath the surface of their apparent
differences, there are deep currents of similarity. The similarities that I am speaking of here
are not related to belief, spiritual lineage, or dogma. Indeed, many spiritual traditions are in complete opposition to each
other on fundamental points of dogma. In spite of these differences, there are striking commonalities in regards to the methods
these mystical, yogic and shamanic disciplines employ to enter the numinous. And the alteration of perceived time—whether
attained through meditative trance, contemplative prayer, drumming or chanting—is central to all these traditions. Indeed, we could say from the standpoint of modern neurophysiology that it is through their alteration of perceived
time (and its attendant changes in brain state) that all yogis, mystics, saints and shamans apprehend what they call the Divine,
the Transcendent Self, the Tao, or Great Spirit (depending upon their intellectual and philosophical
bent). In other words, mystical and religious experiences occur (neurologically speaking) due
to distinct changes in brain processing. Please note I am not saying that mystical experiences can be reduced to, and are
the sole result of physical changes in the brain, but such experiences are definitely characterized by simultaneous events
in the nervous system. This may sound like splitting hairs to some, but for those of us involved in the pursuit of scientific
insight into mystical states of mind, it is crucial to be as rigorous as possible. My personal
conviction is that the numinous realms of being (i.e. mystical experience) open to us a fascinatingly rich area of human potential,
but only when the imprisonment of dogma (religious and/or cultural belief) has been stripped away. The
methods used by mystics, yogis and shamans to generate altered states of consciousness—the types that lead to numinous
and transpersonal experiences—have been a long-standing interest to me. I even wrote a book, Brain States,
which is a guide that shows the reader how to create altered states of awareness—as a means to access the more creative
potentials of his/her brain and mind. From the standpoint of neuropsychology, channeling is just
another expression of our brain/mind’s potential—albeit an unusual one. As a psychotherapist
and as someone who was involved with brain research for over ten years, I regard channelings—in general—as a type
of transpersonal psycho-artifact. By this I mean that the information (or message) that comes forward through the
act of channeling is born from an interface between the personal psychology and transpersonal aspects of the channel. The Process of Channeling Anyone who channels does so by altering his or her
awareness in some manner. The result, regardless of the method used, is that the channel enters into a deeply altered state
of internalized awareness (trance). For the time-period of the communication one is more or less detached,
and somehow suspended from one’s normal ways of being in the world, including one’s perception of perceived time.
This is a direct result of changes in brain state, i.e. an increase in alpha and theta activity on the part of the channel. As exotic as the channeling state may sound, I believe that it is an inherent ability that most, if not all of us,
possess. It is simply a matter of learning how to voluntarily change one’s own brain state. But
there is another element in the channeling phenomenon that is critical for us to understand. It is the question of “filters.”
I personally don’t think that there is such a thing as a totally clear channel. We can approach being a clear and
open channel, and hopefully get ever more impeccable, but the Presence or information that presents
itself through the channel is somehow affected by the channel—especially by his or her emotional state, subconscious
beliefs and miasmas (toxic personal distortions). This unavoidable filtering of information
by the channel is why I said earlier to always have an imaginary box by your side. If something doesn’t make sense to
you, toss it in the box. Don’t accept it as truth. Test it through your own sense of logic, your own life experience
and own your values. It is my hope that those of you who read these Hathor messages will do just
that. See what works for you. Toss out the rest. One of the worst things that could happen with
this type of information, in my opinion, would be to deify it in some kind of new age cultism. Instead, look at the
messages simply as another perspective on our world. If the information helps you to be more resourceful and happy in
how you deal with your life (as it has with mine) then this channeling stuff will have been worth the effort. Tom Kenyon
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