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My guest today is Dr. Etta D. Jackson.
Etta was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and migrated to the U.S. as a student in 1965.
For 25 years, she worked in education and retired in 1994 to travel.
She has authored four books, "Understanding Your Choice," "Unveiling the Secrets of the Feminine Principle,"
"The Role of Consciousness in Governance," and "The Idea that is the United States of America."
It's a cult foundation. She founded an international NGO, a non-profit organization, the Institute for Conscious Global Change, in 2007 to assist the UN and member states in eradicating extreme poverty through development.
development. The Institute for Conscious Global Change, the ICGC, is in special consultative
status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Etta holds a BA in
Biology, MS degrees in Guidance and Counseling, and an Administrative Leadership and Supervision.
She holds a PhD in Leadership and Change from Antioch University. She has one daughter and
one grandson. So, welcome, Etta. Thank you, Rick. Thank you for inviting me. Yeah, good to have you
here. Your audience. Yeah, I was telling you before we started that Irene asked me to check out a few
people to see which one we should invite next, and so I listened to three or four different,
she was looking for a woman in particular, I listened to three or four different audios of
various potential women guests, and yours kind of stood out. I thought, well, she's really
interesting and articulate and she has an interesting personal story and I haven't talked about a lot of
the things that she talks about on Batgap before, so I think I'd like to interview her. So here we are.
Great, thank you very much. Yeah, because as I was saying before we started, I too wondered why you
invited me because I thought your path was more mystical, but then I thought to myself, this is
perfect because this is the kind of conversation I think we should be having and I would like to
have. So, I was really happy that you extended the invitation for us to have this conversation.
>> Good. Well, to me, mysticism has the connotation of being kind of exclusive and rare and
something that special people somehow in history have experienced and all. And my attitude is that
whatever mysticism involves is really the birthright of everyone and everyone can have
such experiences and you know develop higher states of consciousness and all and that those things are
not woo-woo and needn't be esoteric and and that in fact such development has very practical
implications for our world. Yeah and could actually be pivotal in the ultimate solution
to many of the problems that beset us these days.
Yes, absolutely. My work is more "co-cult" and as I was saying earlier, I always
use the phrase "I came to the planet" because in my memory I've always felt that I
came here consciously. That was a decision that I made to come here and I remember telling my mom
When I was very young I came here to help with the liberation of humanity
Not understanding of course any of what that meant
But just on a soul level even as a child that was always what I felt
And so it always it has been also interesting to me to watch how that unfolded
Because as a child, you know, you say these things because it's just in yourself
But you have no conscious understanding of what that is
And so for me, it began to take form because I told you as a child I've always been enveloped by this golden white light
Yeah, talk about that
Yes. Well, it's like a tube of light
And it's golden white
And it's sort of in overshadows me and that's how
I have been
guided or communicated to there's no
Audible voice. It's like an imprint of the light
in my cells. Is that there all the time? Like even right now? Or does it come and go? No, no,
especially when certain information needs to be communicated to me. This light would overshadow me
and the information would be like integrated into my cells as a knowing. So when the light
says such and such, I don't, it's not a if or maybe, I know that this is what's the light.
Yes, it's true. Yes, absolutely. So I never question it. So this continued throughout my life and when I was
in 1975
You can guess my age. Um in 1975. I was actually in new york living in new york
And living in brooklyn and standing at the stoplight and the light
Enveloped me again
And this time said to me write this title down
Is the title of a book that you will write so I went in my
pocket book and got out my little notepad and wrote down the title and the title that was given to me was
Understanding your choice and I thought it was such an abstract
Title so I said to myself
Understanding your choice. What is that?
I can
Possibly conceptualize what I could be writing about
Understanding your choice and then I'd never written at that level of writing a book
So I thought that that was kind of way out and I actually looked up at the light and said, are you kidding?
Might have a sense of humor
And I really thought that this was a mistake really to be honest
But it just seemed like a mistake because I didn't know what understanding your choice meant
And you have any idea what this light was and do you have any idea now or is it just something that happens and you've?
Never really know I have always known who we call God to be the light
Okay, when I am in contact with this light or this light overshadows me. I know it's God
Do you feel like it's an emissary of God like an angel or something? I know it's God God
For me, God is light.
Okay, good.
You know, some people might see God as a man with a beard and all of that.
I know God as the light.
And that light is both male and female.
There's no differentiation.
It's not a masculine, feminine.
No, it's the light and that's God and it's the all.
That's how I have always understood the light to be.
So I wrote it down, as I always follow my directives.
I wrote it down and as I said, looked up and said, "You're kidding me.
You have the wrong person because I'm not a writer.
I don't know what understanding your choice means."
And so I wrote it down, put it in my pocketbook and just went on my way because again, I thought,
You know, they'll realize they had made a mistake
and we'll correct it over time.
But every five to 10 years,
a title would pop up in my mind again.
And I would say the same thing.
You have the wrong person, it's not me.
And that continued for 25 years.
I was 29 at the time.
And in 2000, I had left New York by then
'cause I'd lived in New York, left New York,
came back and lived temporarily in Harlem, New York.
And if you're familiar with the city.
- Oh yeah, I grew up in Connecticut, so I used to go in.
- Okay, oh yes, so you know New York.
So a friend of mine was going to Kenya.
That time there was the AIDS crisis in Kenya,
and she had worked for the Peace Corps
and was also a sociologist.
And she was appointed to go to Kenya
to help the Kenyan government with a hate crisis
and needed somebody to stay in her apartment
for three months.
But when I got that email, I knew that was me
because I kept feeling that spirit
was pulling me back to New York.
So I wrote her and I said,
"I'll take your apartment for three months."
'Cause I went on a 10 year walkabout.
So I really had no apartment anywhere.
Yeah, I know that's another part of the story
where spirit had told me to give up everything.
So I took the apartment because I knew that I should be the one staying in our apartment for that three years.
Three years or three months?
Three months, I'm sorry. Three months.
So I'm in our apartment and after about a week or two, the light again said to me,
"This time, it is now time to write the book."
And at first I said, "What book?" You know, because of course it's 25 years, right?
But then I quickly remembered, "Ah, that book."
book. But for the first time in 25 years, I wasn't arguing anymore. I had got the message
that I am to write this book, and it was beginning to be clear to me what understanding or choice
might mean.
Can you convey to us the subjective experience of having these instructions from the light?
Is it like an actual audible voice?
No.
Or just an intuitive impulse?
I said before, it's not audible. It's like this light just imprints this information.
You just know it.
Your being. It's a knowing, in fact. So that's how it works. So the light said it's now time
to write the book and I was now at that place. And I really feel that it took those 25 years
for me to come into the understanding of what understanding your choice meant and why at
At that time, I was no longer arguing.
But then I had belonged also to an esoteric order, which kind of revived the memory that
I came in with.
And so I had a better platform on which to now begin to write this book.
And what was interesting, the room that I was staying in, in the apartment, was a computer
all set up in my room.
On the bookshelf in the living room was a book titled how to write a book
Okay, I'm removing all of your excuses here it is so that's how it began so I began writing
understanding your choice and I and I wrote chapter 1 there and
Then toward the end of writing chapter 1 the light said to me
you have to write the remainder of the book in London and the instructions were that the book was supposed to be written in a more
academic format with
Index and bibliography and references etc. And that there were all these esoteric libraries in London that I
Needed to use but also in retrospect also feel that the place itself of England at the UK
Was where this book needed to have been written not just because of the libraries libraries happen to be there, too
Then know their libraries all over but there's a concentration of libraries in London
Did you know that or is that something that the light knew and therefore told you to go there?
I had been in London before on that 10-year walkabout that I just mentioned in
1993 I was told that I was to give up everything that I own and
And I was going to be sent around the world
And I wouldn't know why i'm there, but when I get there, I would know why and that's exactly what happened
Of course, my family thought that I had lost my mind
Of course because i've had this relationship with the light all my life
I trust the light because I know that when the light says this is what you need to do. I know that i'm good
I'm safe
So i've never had any fear
That whenever the light gave me any instructions about anything
That I needed to be afraid of anything
So I did exactly that so I had been in london not a lot of time in london
but
I had lived in
bristol
And stayed in suppock and cornwall. So I was in england. I knew england
So when I was told to go to london, it was not a new place and I had been to london
prior to
But I didn't know about the concentration of libraries in London, which I found out
So that's how it began and I went to London. I have a friend who we had gone to high school in Jamaica together
So I called her up and said, you know, I need to come and write this book in London. Can I hang out at your?
House for a couple months and she said come on, you know, and that's how it happened
and so
During the writing of this book rick. It was just such a profound experience
there was a cube of
intense golden light
That enveloped me
Throughout the writing of that book. Wow
Intense golden light and that light was making sure that every chapter every paragraph
Every sentence was correctly placed. I always felt that the book was
constituted by that golden light
making sure that it had the right vibratory frequency by each paragraph, each sentence being
placed correctly. And I was told that it would emit a certain frequency, even if people didn't
understand the content of the book, but because of how the vibration that constituted it, that
People would be impacted by it, even if they didn't cognitively
Understand all of it. So that is how this first book was written
Toward the end of writing that first book. The light said you have two other books to write
And gave me the titles of the books
and of course after 25 years of arguing I wasn't going to argue anymore about these other books that I was
Going to have to ride. So I just accepted that and so I completed understanding your choice
and
This interesting thing happened
When I completed the book
Understanding your choice the light said
The book needs a preface, but there's only one person on the planet that can write that preface
And his name is dr. Eugene with words now when you hear extreme statements like that
And I was like, your eyebrows only the only person on the planet that can write this preface
And I thought how could that be, you know to myself and you probably hadn't never heard of the guy, right?
I had heard of him. I didn't know who dr. Pittsburgh was when I was living in New York
I taught in the New York City Public School system and I had a very good friend who one day said to me, uh,
You know, there's this dr. Eric Butterworth who what heard of who comes to Avery Fisher Hall
Every Sunday morning and give these lectures, you know new age lectures and
I think we should go together
So I would meet her at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center every Sunday morning to hear dr
Eric Butterworth and outside Avery Fisher Hall was this table and on the table were these books that they were selling
of new age authors. So there was this book by this Dr. Eugene Whitworth called the nine
faces of Christ and the subtitle a quest for initiation. And I was instantly drawn to that
book. I bought it, took it home, read it from cover to cover. So when the light said to
me that Dr. Whitworth is this person that had to write the preface, I did know of him, but
didn't know this man. So in my mind I'm saying, "How am I gonna just write this man and say,
'Could you write the preface to my book?'" But I always know that when the light says what it says,
it knows what it's doing, and it seems strange to me, but okay, if that's what you say, then,
you know, of course, somehow, somewhere, it should happen, because it always does,
But had no idea so I come back from london
And I am in southern california
Mission viejo
I'm at this friend's house. We had gone to thailand many years prior
And she had her friend come over to the house and the friend brought this friend and the friend said
I am here at a workshop given by dr. Whitworth in laguna beach. I said
dr. Whitworth
Father
Okay
Now I beginning to see this connection. So I said to her I wrote this book
And would love if dr. Whistford would write the preface for it
Rick what I was expecting from her is that lady
Dr. Whistford doesn't know you. Why would you write the preface to your book? But interestingly, she didn't say that
She said to me
I live in chicago
By the way, Dr. Whitworth lived in San Francisco.
So she lives in Chicago, but she was down for the workshop in Laguna Beach.
So when I go back to Chicago, I will write Dr. Whitworth and tell him that I met you
and ask him if he would write the preface to your book.
So she did.
And I kind of thought she would just forget about this woman,
crazy lady wanting a preface from Dr. Whitworth.
But I heard back from her a week later
She wrote dr. Whiffer told him about me
And he wrote her and said tell her I want to know everything about her and I want her to send me the synopsis
To all the chapters to the book
So I sent her my cv and I sent her a synopsis of all seven chapters of the book
She sent it to him and he wrote her back and said tell her I want to read the manuscript
So I sent her the manuscript
She sent it to him and I said tell him that in two weeks
I am going to call him to ask him after reading the manuscript of course if he would write the preface
So by then two weeks later, I was back in London and I called dr. Whispert and I
Said dr. Whispert. This is at a Jackson and
Before I could say anything else. He said kid what a contribution you're about to make to humanity
Wow, so I said dr. Whisper coming from you. That's a great compliment
And he said I don't give them out lightly either
And he says when are you coming back to the United States?
And I said, I don't know and he said when you come I want you to come and see me
So I could buy you a puffy burger. What's up?
I was gonna ask
So he says when you come you will find out well
He never did commit to writing the preface and I was not going to pressure him into doing so either
So I just kind of left it but as the universe would have it
I'm back in the United States and I got a phone call from my
older sister
Saying that that we have in San Francisco who by the way was actually the same age as dr
with
about the preface. So he said, "Of course, I would love to see you." So we arranged and
I got to his office. So I walked in, he has this office downtown San Francisco, and he's
there behind this desk, tall white man, and his wife was standing there. And before I
could sit down, he hands me the page and he says, "Here is the preface to your book."
And I was like, wow, I was so excited.
Then he said, "Sit down.
I have a story to tell you."
And I'm wondering, what story could he be wanting to tell me?
And he began the story, Rick, by saying, "Many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many,
many, many years ago."
And as he was saying the many, many, it sounded like 46 years ago.
He said, "The boys upstairs told him that there's a book to be written that contains
seven chapters.
They told me what the content of the book would be.
And they told me that I could not write this book, but that someone would come along who
would write this book.
He says, "When I read your manuscript, I knew this was the book."
You can imagine I almost fell off the chair.
And what was so profound about this story is to see that this man that I'm just meeting,
And in my mind, 46 years ago, I had been holding this vision for this book to come into manifestation.
And so I just thought, "Wow, this is interesting.
He's white, I'm black, I'm short, he's tall.
You talk about the pairs of opposites."
And here it is that we had had this relationship for all these many, many, many, many years
ago.
I understood then also later that one of the reasons I think the lady did not ask me
Lady, who are you and why dr?
Whistler would want to write breakfast for your book is because I heard because he has been holding this vision for this book
to come into manifestation
Anyone he knew who was writing a spiritual book. He would ask to see it
And so he had been looking for this book all these years
And so that's why I think she wasn't surprised didn't dismiss me rather
When I asked her about it
so he said to me
that
Just like his book that he wrote it, but it took a while for it to go out into the public
Because it wasn't time yet. He says that's also true for yours
Not yet, and I said that's exactly what I was told by the light not yet
Because humanity was not ready for this kind of information
And I knew the time would come
and I also knew that he was
Waiting to meet me to have this conversation about the book
And that he would make his transition. It's almost like one of those
Things that he needed to do before he made his transition
He needed to meet me to tell me the story and I have been awed by it
I have forgotten it over the years, but over the past few
Weeks i've thought about it and actually went back and read the preface
And it is just so right on and you see that
We're all one
And that we have connections with one another far beyond what we can imagine
So that was it
The other piece I thought was rather interesting that after I wrote the book got the preface
I reached out to this lady who was a literary agent to ask her to try to promote the book
And I never heard back from her. She wouldn't respond to me
And then one day she said because I don't understand the book
And then at first I thought oh my god, do I have to write this book all over because you know, she doesn't understand it
What does that mean?
So when I need to meditate I walk
So I left the house
I left the house and went walking so I could find out what is this? Do I have to write this book
all over again? And as I was walking, I heard this voice that we have come to associate with
Nostradamus, and I heard this voice coming out of me, "The book remains, the book explained."
And I turned around walked back home
Went to my computer and in one sitting wrote the author's note
And when I did that I knew the book was completed
And so this has been these interesting things about this first book and of course
After that, I started writing the other two unveiling the secrets of the feminine principle and that was really about
Helping humanity to understand who is the feminine who is the divine feminine?
She is in fact the third aspect of the divine
triad
the divine mother
The holy spirit that people have been waiting for it is she and she's saying I am unveiling
Myself it is now time for you to know who I really am
As the creative principle of the universe
And that's what that book is about
And then the third book, of course all titles were given to me the role of consciousness and governance
to help us understand that
all governments below are an imperfect reflection of the
Governance above and that everything here was put in place
for the development of society for the establishment of the rule of law
And to understand how this government below reflects the government above
So I was asked this was my remit as I understood it
That I was to take this body of ancient knowledge
and make it
available to humanity in the simplest form possible and
That is what I hope I did
in these three volumes
The fourth book is actually chapter eight of my third book, but I thought that that chapter needed to be
Expanded on a little bit and made more accessible
So I made it into an ebook and then this, you know, finally paperback is available
also
But to help us understand the role of the united states why the united states was established
The purpose for which it was established not only for america
But for the world because it has an integral role
It was created to
Bring light to the world and I know that people might say light to the world with all the things that it's doing
But one of the other things and in that same regard
One of the things that I was told by the light in writing understanding your choice that the book should be couched
In the story of the prodigal son and like the prodigal son who left home
Those who know the story and it's a symbolic story. It's really not a religious story. It's really one of the most esoteric
stories
that transcends
religion
Cultures it's about us
We came here
Just like the prodigal son left home and came into the far country
So that the humanities this planet
So one of the other points of the prodigal son that the light wanted me to emphasize was that the prodigal son was not thrown
Out of the father's house. He made a choice
Again understanding your choice. He made a choice
He knew that he could not
Expand if he were to stay in this cloistered environment
Here was he in the palace had all access everything he needed servants and everything. He wasn't stretched
as a human being. He came to the realization that if I am to become more,
if I am to realize who I really am, I need to get out of this cloistered
environment, this secure environment, and go out into the distant lands to meet my
brothers and sisters so I can know myself. And in the same way, humanity came to
this distant land we call Earth, the farthest reaches of the galaxy, to have
an experience that we could not have otherwise. So that's the analogy that he
wanted me to make to the story of the prodigal son and our own collective and
individual journey. As you know there's no way you can know more if you ever stay
mentally physically in the same place and never go out from that place. So that's
the story that he wanted me to convey in this book and that at some point as is
the story of the prodigal son. As the story went, there's a certain point in his
journey after he had spent all the money that his father had given him and he had
sort of gone to the lowest possible level of his life. The story says he came
to himself and esoterically that place that one comes to in oneself is at that
Scorpio place. You know about the chakras. There's a return of that energy in the
body and that is the going home. And just like on a planetary level, humanity is on the path of return
now that we have at the end of the Piscian Age. The prodigal son came to that place in himself
where he says, "I now must return to my father's house." And unlike the Christian story that felt
that he had done wrong and he was going to be punished by the father, there was no such thing.
The father was always looking down the road waiting for his son to come back home because the father who was a wise man
Knew that the information that he would gather going out into the far country would only expand him
So the father was always looking for him and he looked down the street one day and there he was
Coming back home and he ran to meet him
And actually put a cloak around him
And escorted him home and as the story goes he was elevated
There were these two sons the older was stayed at home and the younger went into the far country
And he was elevated above the son that remained because of the consciousness
That he had gained by the experiences that he had had
Having gone out and experienced life to the depths of the experiences as the story went
So the light wanted me to convey that story that there's no
Condemnation that we're here to have experiences
So that those experiences would expand us
As human beings and it would come back into a knowing of who we are as not just
humans, but also god
and that was one of the essential points of
Understanding Your Choice" to help humanity to understand that he's here having an experience
that he couldn't otherwise have anywhere else.
And we're on an experiment and that we chose and why the title "Understanding Your Choice".
I was also told that toward the end of the Piscean Age that humanity would be in turmoil
trying to understand what's going on.
Because as we know, we're at this change point in our evolution.
We're at the end of the Piscean Age, the mystical age, and we're on the path of return, moving
into the age of occultism, which is another part of this conversation.
And they told me that at this point that humanity would be in a lot of turmoil, trying to figure
out what's going on, what's happening, all these changes are taking place, and wanted
me to write the books to put context to people's experiences.
hear astrologers say this is happening and mediums say that is happening, whatever, and
wanting the books to help contextualize the experiences that we're having. They're not
willy-nilly and it's not because there's some force trying to destroy you, but there's a
context and the context is that we chose to come here to be part of an experiment. We
chose to do this. And if you understand the context of the choice that you made, then
the experiences that you have, they would have more meaning. They would make more sense.
It's like a woman giving birth. The midwife knows exactly all the stages of the birthing
process. So when the mother is going through all these different changes, she doesn't get
excited and thrown off because she knows that this takes place and then this happens and
and that happens and that's the process.
And so this is part of why the books are to be written, so that humanity when they see
these things or hear about these things, they have a context for what's happening so that
they're not frightened and petrified and scared.
So that was why also they wanted me to wait until humanity was at a point where they could
intellectually understand and not just respond from an emotional perspective.
David Good, well there's a lot to unpack in all
that, and we have about an hour and a half in which to unpack it.
Maybe a couple of questions to get you started in unpacking it.
I deduce from your comments about the prodigal son that we're all prodigal sons and daughters
and that we've all chosen to come here and as rough as life may sometimes be, there is
a valuable lesson in it and none of us are doomed to ultimate failure.
learning and in many cases it's difficult that learning process but in the end it
will prove to have been necessary and valuable. Perhaps you could define
occultism versus mysticism. How do you define those two words? I hope people
don't get offended by this but I remember saying to me that I should
explain. I think it's chapter two, I can't remember now, really explaining that
Mysticism is like 11th grade and Occultism is 12th grade.
The age of Pisces is the age of Mysticism that we're ending.
And we're now moving into the age of Occultism.
And interestingly, a couple minutes before the show, I went to my library and looked at this book.
It's called "The Light of the Soul"
And there is this statement here on page 47 that says,
"The mystic must eventually become the occultist.
The head qualities and the heart qualities must be equally developed,
for both are equally divine."
And when I read it, I said, "Wow, it's almost like the Spurge sent me to the library
and picked up that book and opened the page and there it was."
Because I knew that you follow more mystical paths.
But in my book, I talk about this, that it's the next step up,
"Occultism". And I know for many people, that's the term "Occultism". I was talking with a friend
recently and she says, "I always thought that Occultism is about Ouija boards, you know,
and all those dark forces." And I said, "The definition of Occult is veiled knowledge."
That's what it means. She says, "Are you kidding me? That's what it is?" Yes, that's it. It's not
all those dark ideas that you have in your head. We talk about the heart and the mind. They must
be fused. There is no way that you can surrender your mind. And it also speaks to the fact that
there is no separation. There is no this or that. It's always this and that because everything is
part of one whole. And so we're moving now out of the age of mysticism into the age of occultism
and why this information that I am bringing to the public is timely. Because mysticism tends to be
more of a feeling. I feel God and now you must know God. It's no longer a feeling, it's a knowing.
So occultism is the knower and so this information is meant to help walk you through mysticism
into occultism and help you better understand that. And I think that's why also I was asked
to write the books in a more academic format so that it's not just what Edda is saying,
there are all these references to this work so that you can go and research for yourself
because you must use your mind. It's only when the mind and the heart are fused together that
you can achieve enlightenment. And I have also looked at my books after I finished reading them
and realized that they're all about initiation. In different forms are the other, but they're all
about initiation. So I hope that answers the question about mysticism and occultism, that
we're on a path. We're on a path of return because the age of Pisces oversaw the coming in of bodies
and the development of the physical, emotional and mental bodies
in preparation for your soul to be able to dwell within. But it has to have a vehicle.
The personality vehicle consists of the physical, emotional and mental bodies.
Those bodies have to be prepared so that you can house your spirit to dwell in you,
So that god can dwell in man in earth because this earth is supposed to be virtualized
But in order for that to happen the vehicle must be prepared
So you must lift yourself up. This word is not going to come all the way down
You have to do some of the lifting and get yourself to a certain place. So your vibration is able to
accommodate
the frequency of that higher vibration that you want to house in your body so that you become
God and man because that's who you really are and you are in this physical
dimension to realize that to see them separated out mentally and to be able to
then bring them back together consciously as the whole. Sure the body is the temple
of the soul. Absolutely. So you know we hear about the Christian mystics such as
Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint John of the Cross and many others and they're
They're obviously mystics in every tradition, South American shamans and Indian yogis and
Tibetan yogis and so on and so forth.
And my understanding of them was always that these are people who had deep spiritual experience,
it wasn't just philosophizing or imagination, they were definitely cognizing deeper levels
of reality and embodying them, but that they were considered rare and unusual souls, not
your average person, and the average person generally hasn't aspired to that kind of thing
or considered it possible for them.
But I also believe and know this, that in all of those traditions, there's occultism.
They might not be expressed to they, because I was brought up a Catholic, but that's a
a very occult institution, and they might not divulge many of what they know to the public,
and it seems more they go to the priests and tell their woes, but there is occultism in
all of the ancient religion, and I'm saying now in a much more overt way, and in a more
conscious way, we're going to see the veils removed from many of these ancient religions
who even are expressed as mystical, that they will begin to see that in fact there is much
deeper knowledge in all of those religions.
So, for instance...
They're not separated from...
So maybe as a for instance, maybe this will clarify the point you're making, these days
we have the internet and all this knowledge is spreading around and you can hear lectures
on the Upanishads and other esoteric scriptures that at a certain stage you had to join an
ashram and serve the guru for X number of years before you would be allowed to hear that kind
of knowledge.
Now, it's there on YouTube.
Yes.
So, is this an example of what you're talking about?
Absolutely.
This hidden knowledge is becoming public.
Because the Pius C.N.A. was about developing the mental, emotional bodies.
Because there's certain kind of information or levels of information you're not able to
integrate.
When you're a vehicle, you don't have the capacity to understand certain levels of knowledge.
So more and more, and why, like you're saying, this information is now becoming public knowledge.
Because we now, as Pisces has so ably done, facilitated the development of the physical,
emotional and mental bodies and matured them to the point where now many of humanity have
the capacity to understand this level of information and why the veil, this is really the removing
of the veil, is being removed because humanity is now capable.
Just like how you wouldn't teach calculus to a 10 year old because he will in the future
have the capacity to understand calculus, but at that age, he does not yet have the capacity
to understand that level of knowledge. And that's all it is. And it's not a good or bad or wrong or
right. It's just, it's a continuum. It's an evolution of development. Yeah.
Jesus said, don't cast your pearls before swine. Basically, don't give out stuff to people that
they can't understand because they'll misunderstand it and turn again and rend you.
Exactly, exactly. Of course in these days everything is just being propagated everywhere on the internet
and I can think of examples where people misinterpret some of these higher teachings
and it turns into something that actually damages their lives instead of enhances them.
Absolutely. But I guess that's the way it is because you can't really filter it so that only
certain people can see something if they're going to do it on the internet. Yeah, but then the whole
world cannot stop for the few. And I read somewhere that statement that was made over 100 years ago,
that toward the end of the Piscean Age, there is 67% of humanity that will develop the capacity to
move into the Aquarian Age, and 33% won't. And there's also the understanding that many souls
are here that are new, and they have to go through the process of understanding what Earth is. They
They came here purposely to understand this earth experiment and they will not have developed
the capacity to transition into the Aquarian age.
So we just need to bless them and understand that they have their path to travel and allow
them to move through this process as they're able.
Are you implying that there will be a lot of death?
There will be a lot of death.
The population will be sort of diminished?
Dr. Debra Hixson There will be, interesting that you say that,
Pisces oversaw the coming in of bodies, large numbers of bodies, and Aquarius will oversee
the quality of bodies.
So there will be a number of souls that will leave because the coming vibration is not
something that they can handle.
They would not have the capacity to handle this level of vibration that's coming in for
the Aquarian age.
And so it's merciful.
Yeah, I've often wondered about that.
And of course, you know, certain Christian sects think that they're the chosen ones and
they're going to get lifted up and everybody else is going to be destroyed or whatever.
So everybody wants to be in the end group.
But in this context, I've often wondered because, you know, I'm the kind of person who has long
felt that the world is going to undergo a huge change.
And that there are a lot of things that are very entrenched economic systems, business
system, all kinds of things, even religious institutions that wouldn't really fit in too
well in a more enlightened age and somehow or other they're either going to have to be
transformed or destroyed.
Yeah, and that's true.
And that's why I was saying that souls leaving the planet, for many souls who just can't
accommodate the new frequency that's coming in, it's really merciful for them to leave.
know, we think about death as being so, in many cases, cruel and whatever, but it can
be of great mercy for souls to transition because it would be more painful to be in a body where
you're tormented by a frequency of energy that is just so disruptive to everything that
you're capable of understanding.
David Well, as the Gita puts it, certain indeed is
death for the born and certain is birth for the dead. So, I think we've all been through it many
times. Yes, yes we have. Yeah. You know, the much worse things that can happen to you than dying.
No, and you know, there's really no death as such. We transition.
It's like changing clothes in a way, just a little bit more inconvenient.
Yes. But those souls also chose to come in. Everybody's life passed and as unfair as it
might appear. In fact, we all signed up for this journey.
Yeah, what would you say about, say someone's listening and they say,
"Really? I mean, people chose to go through the Holocaust or they chose to be born in the Sudan,
you know, where everybody's starving to death. And why would somebody choose something like that?
You know, what are they learning from that?"
But you don't choose that. That's why when you come in, you forget.
You forget that you chose. But apparently you did choose that kind of fate.
you chose but in the coming in we begin to lose our memory. Why do you lose your memory? If I
remember that I was all that and I chose to come in to go through the suffering and I still have
this conscious memory that life is like wonderful on the other side and none of this is true,
how tormenting would that be? Yeah, it'd be worse. And also you could not give your full attention to
the experience that you have. Now I talk about this in my books. In order for you to have a complete
experience in matter, you have to not know that there is something else. You have to go through
it so that your body, because we came here to feel, and then the mind to make meaning out of
that experience. And so if you always remember that what I'm experiencing is just a, I am on a stage,
and this is all mocked up, then the experience cannot be as authentic as it needs to be.
Because your selves, that experience needs to be integrated into your selves as knowledge.
Then you make meaning out of it as you start to come out of the darkness.
Yeah, I had a very bright young friend who all of his life, I didn't know him all of his life,
so his parents said that all of his life he kept saying, "I don't belong here. This is not my true
home and I really should check out, you know, and they're saying, "No, no, stay, you know,
we love you, you're our son."
And we became good friends and then around the time I was starting BatGap, about 14, 13
years ago, he was about 25 years old, he killed himself.
And he was really a bright guy, very intelligent, very spiritual, and I thought it was a wrong
choice.
But I tell the story to emphasize the point you're making, which is that if we had this
clear recollection that we don't belong here, we might be tempted to check out and then we
wouldn't really learn the lessons we came here to learn. Yeah, and there are many of these young
people. I used to be a guidance counselor and I used to have my office filled with these young
people sitting on the floor and we're just having these wonderful conversations because here are
these brilliant souls who came in to help us transition into the next stage. But they're new
to this and it's harsh. You come here and you come from this place where you know what your
experience is nothing like where you came from and that's why we need older souls to help these
young people. Listen to them. They're the ones who are going to help us into the new age. They come in
with information that will need to take us to the next step but they also need orientation and I
And I think that there is a reason why Aquarius is ruled by both Saturn, the old, and Uranus,
the new.
So here we have these polar opposites again, and the older people with their knowledge
and wisdom need to take these young people under their wings and help them orient to life
on planet Earth and what it's about.
And again, this information will better help these young people to understand, yes, you
came in because there's this fantastic thing that is happening as awful as it appears.
There's this wonderful transition that is taking this transformation that's taking place on this
planet and you chose to come here to be a part of it to experience it and it might be only for 25
years that this soul needed to be on this planet to experience this but he left with an information
that he never would have had had he not come here. So it's all part of the dance. Yeah and I think
by the same token, the older people need to recognize that the younger people that you're
referring to might have something that they, the older people, don't have. You know that line from
Dylan, he said, what is it, "Mothers and fathers across the land, don't criticize what you can't
understand. Your sons and daughters are beyond your command, for the old road is rapidly aging."
Get out of the new one if you can't lend a hand for the times they are changing.
That's exactly it. I surround myself with young people because I know they have something to teach me
And I have something to teach them and when you enter into a relationship with them with that mutual respect
that
They are here to teach you just as much as you are here to teach them. I think it becomes a wonderful relationship
And everybody benefits. Yeah, and so I agree totally and you know these days there's all these culture wars and
Rhonda Sanders is hooting and hollering about everybody woke and there's a lot of people who
are very uncomfortable with a lot of the changes that are taking place. So there's this polarity
or tension between those who want it to be the good old way and those who are just breaking out
of the shackles and doing things differently. And I think because things are moving so rapidly,
Those who cannot keep up with the change
Want things to remain as they have been
Which cannot be that's why I listened to
Ron de santis and I just understand that he's playing the role but
that cannot be
because
The planet is going in a different direction
He's where he is and want to stay there, but my friend
Sorry
It's not going to be
So I suspect that he won't be in that position for long.
- I hope not, or someone worse.
- No.
- So again, we have a fair amount of time here,
and so we want to really get into the nitty-gritty of your books more.
We're kind of doing that, I guess, as we speak, but I want to make sure that
you feel by the end of this conversation that you've had a chance to really
hit on the main points that you've tried to convey in your books.
And I'll leave it to you to guide us in the order in which you want to unveil these points. Yeah
One of the other things about these books, they're not self-help books
And I always say they're not for the curious
They're for people who are really serious about wanting to have a deeper understanding
Of who they are where they came from why they're here and what is their destiny and i've laid that out. Well
I think i've done my remit
So the information is there and it's really basically those questions that I just cited who am I?
Where did I come from? What am I doing here? And where am I going?
And that's what I attempt to do in the three books to really go deep
Into who we are as part of this vast universe
And that we are much more than we think we are
And to help take us back home
Again, like the prodigal son going back home to her godhood
That you know, I talk about and understand that you are both god and man
You are a god man
And I know that for many people it's offensive to even say that but that's who you are and that's why
Again, it took a while, you know, I was told that people are not ready yet
Because you need to be mature enough emotionally and mentally
To be able to look at my works and read them and say hmm
Let me ponder this instead of emotionally
Rejecting this because this is not something that you were taught
So I hope that people will take the time to go into the information
On amazon and I think on my website too. I go through a synopsis of each of the chapters
In my books so that you get an idea of what each chapter is about
So you can get a sense of what this is about
But as I said earlier also, I also got to see after I finished writing the books that they're all about initiations
How do we make our journey home?
In the second book unveiling the secrets of the feminine principle. I talk about this german lad
There is this treatise that was written back in 1610
in europe called the farm of fraternitis
artist. And it's another story of the prodigal son. In the Palm of Pratanasda, this work that
was written back then, there was this German lad of high nobility, like the prodigal son,
you know, had access, money, and all of that. And then one day he said to himself, "I now
recognize how poor I am, that in spite of all this physical wealth, I am spiritually
poor and that's what initiated his journey to Jerusalem. Now the term Jerusalem is symbolic,
it's not the Jerusalem that is a symbolic place called the abode of peace and that all of us
are on our way to Jerusalem and on that journey by the German lad on his way to Jerusalem he had
to pass through all of these cities in the desert. Saudi Arabia, Damascus, Syria and all of these
places are symbolic because at each one of these places something happens within the individual.
He learned something, he tarried in Egypt. Egypt symbolically is known as the place of bondage and
illusion. But all of these experiences is what each one of us need on our journey to Jerusalem,
because we're all going there. So I'm hoping that people will take the time to really understand
symbolisms, because again, Age of Aquarius is the age of symbolism, and why also you need to be
emotionally and mentally mature enough, and why our educational system was designed to help us
Developed the ability to reason logically rationally and objectively
So that you can read this information now and said now I can see myself in that of the German lad or the prodigal son
and in the third book the role of consciousness and governance I go into
Masonry quite a bit to talk about this thing that many people have termed
evil
Repulsive and those people are doing horrible things and in that context
I also want you to realize that when we chose to come here we chose to come to
Grow within the context of the peers of opposites good and evil light and dark the above and the below
the within and without
That's what we chose to we needed to experience both for wisdom to be gained
And I know people become very upset about the fact that they have to experience things that
are unpleasant, but then I say, "Well, welcome to the experience that you chose to be a part
of," because that's what it is.
And again, why I was given these books to write, to put context to people's experience, that
what you're experiencing is you want to know, "How can I say I know all things?
How can I say I'm God, but I only know the things over here that I like, and I don't
want to experience those other things?
So your soul knows that this is what you came here to do.
So your soul creates these experiences of both light and dark, because they're two sides
of the same coin.
You know, in Solomon's temple, we have these two temples, one black and one white.
And in the middle, we have the hermit wearing a cloak of gray, because he had reconciled
pairs of opposites. Not white, not black, gray. Because gray is a symbol of wisdom. And so if
you curse the darkness, because these in the Bible, it talks about do not curse the darkness,
because all darkness is as veiled light. So when I have an experience, or when we have an experience
that we don't like, instead of saying, "Why did this happen to me?" Ask your soul, "What do I need
to understand from this experience?" That's a different question. And like the ancients say,
if you ask the right questions, you'll get the right answer. So you have to even develop the ability
to ask the right questions. Then you will get the answer that you need. Because we all here
to grow it are here to grow in wisdom and understanding and knowledge. And you can't
happen if we keep cursing one half of our experiences. Just like how we curse women,
were a vital part, you know, we used to call them darkness. But again, all of my works are to help
you understand the oneness of all things. You think that a wise person or an enlightened person,
however you define that, such as Jesus or any of the great saints and seers,
that they've reconciled light and darkness. They've managed to sort of encompass and engulf
the pairs of opposites within their being, within their consciousness. But do you think that that
is going to mean that they will be found behaving both in good and bad ways? Or do you associate
saintliness or positive good behavior with the highest wisdom or enlightenment?
Is it that alone in your question? Good behavior, bad behavior? You came here to have experiences
And what you color it as bad experience or good experience
Allows you to stay in that space
If I have experiences, whatever they are all my experiences
Have the same
Outcome is to be that I know more I understand more
Now because i've had this experience and i've had that experience. I now i'm able to
make sense out of both experiences. What did the so-called dark experience teach me? That this
wonderful experience over here never did teach me. But that's on the journey, but if there's an end
to the journey or a higher state, let me be more explicit. There have been a number of spiritual
teachers who come from the east who were supposedly enlightened, who it turned out were sexually
abusing their young female students and things like that. And some people excuse that as
some crazy wisdom or something. Others think it's well, it's reprehensible and they must
not have been enlightened.
Yeah, it's such an interesting dance. Right? Because at the same time, you're here to also
develop the ability to discriminate, to be able to look at this person who is presenting
this information to you and telling you who they are and I should have the ability to
look at, listen to what you're saying and gathering my data. I work with geospatial
information. I'm always gathering data. And then you analyze the data and make good decisions
based on the data because we're always gathering data, whether we are conscious of it or not.
And so part of it also is the development of our own ability to discriminate. And I mean
discriminate being able to look at things and be able to weigh them based on data, facts,
or my ability to look at something and say, "Is this something that I want for me or not?"
So these situations are presented in our lives to give us the ability, to allow us the ability
to discriminate, to develop our own ability to reason, to say, "No, this is not what I
want and if this is what your soul needs for evolution and I know that is
difficult for many people, how could your soul want this for you? But you see
because we're thinking as humans and not as gods. In this space what you call this
horrible thing, do I need to have a sexual experience that was communicate
inform me of information that I need as a soul to develop? What do I need in my
portfolio as a soul on this planet, coming in and wanting to experience what Earth is about.
Maybe in the next incarnation, I said, "No, I recognize you for who you are, and I know that
you are a sex addict and you're a whomever you are, and I don't want that in my experience.
It doesn't serve me because I can recognize that this is not for me."
So are you saying that a spiritual teacher who is behaving that way, there's some kind of cosmic
justification for it because they're setting up a situation in which their students will learn
discrimination? Or are you saying that this person is actually ethically compromised and has not
reached the highest level of spiritual mastery? Yeah, and it's all of it together. Because when
you enter into a relationship with anybody, as we are, there are so many things that are
happening at so many levels simultaneously. And so whatever the soul knows that that individual
needs in that experience, that is what is going to come out of it. We all have an over soul
that guide our journey through this experience. And because the soul doesn't think in this way
that humans think, then the interpretation of what you experience is different from the level
of the consciousness that you're operating at.
Yeah.
And it's very intertwined. And I know that it might seem like a cop-out,
but it's not. We want to believe that everything is linear, and that it's black and white,
and it's not true.
I'll just belabor this point a little bit more, and then we'll switch to some stuff,
and some questions have come in. I grant you that everybody learns from everything.
People in the Holocaust learned from that experience, but that doesn't mean Hitler is
somebody that we should emulate or respect or anything. He played a role, not a role I would
want to play. And many people become disillusioned with spirituality even these days because it's so
common for spiritual teachers whom people had revered or respected to end up with feet of clay,
so to speak, to end up being discovered to have been abusing their position as a spiritual leader.
and it really freaks people out, confuses them.
And in many cases, their supporters make excuses.
"Oh, he was just conferring blessings upon you," or, you know, whatever.
Yeah, and again, when you learn how to identify people for where they are in there,
I talk about another thing that, and reason why the books needed to be held back,
This notion that who we call God and who we call devil are two sides of the same coin.
That is a difficult concept for people.
But there's no separation.
I get that, yeah.
I mean, if it's all God, if God is omnipresent...
It's all God.
And if we're saying that then, logically, what are we saying?
Yeah, if it's not all God, then God is not omnipresent by definition.
Absolutely.
And there's big holes in God here and there.
That's a logical conclusion, right?
Yeah, yeah.
So we can't hold these two opposing ideas at the same time. It is or it isn't.
This is also again that paradox that you just talked about, the gurus,
and why we're also moving out of the age of mysticism into the age of aquautism,
where instead of trusting and feeling, and this is my teacher, and I write in my book that we're
moving from a horizontal relationship with who we call teachers to a vertical relationship. Your
soul is your real teacher, not anybody, because they're going through their own transformation.
They might be at a different place, but where this is now the relationship that needs to be
established, where you allow your soul to reveal to you the knowledge that is in yourselves,
actually, because all of it is in yours. You've had lifetimes and lifetimes of knowledge that
you've taken from one incarnation to another. And then is there the other aspect, Rick, of when we
look at, oh this, you know, look at what this one is doing and that one is doing,
we're talking about disincarnation. We're not looking from the 3,000 feet perspective,
where you see the bigger picture and all the lifetimes and what you did and what relationship
that you had with all of these people and stuff. So when we begin to talk about this one is bad
and this one is good. It's more nuanced than that. I mean, nobody's black and white.
Everybody's a mixed bag. Yes. But I guess proportions vary. Yes. So it's all of those
factors that have to be taken into account when we're talking about this. And why, again,
I'm pushing my books, but yes I am. Because... That's okay, push them away.
Yes, I want you to read them because I think that I have answered the remit that was given to me
to take this body of knowledge. I remember after I got the information to write the books,
I was walking down the street one day and the light said to me, "Remember when you used to teach
math, how the kids used to say to you, 'Ms. Jackson, for the first time I understand this
mathematical concept,' because you make them relatable." That I helped to show them that
They use math in everything that they did. They wake up at a certain time. They walk so many feet or miles to school
They eat so many ounces of food that math was a part of everything that they did, but they never saw it
It was this abstract thing that only brilliant people could handle
So what the light said to me I want you to take this body of knowledge and do to it
What you did with math to those students
break it down, and of course it can only break it down but so far, and why we need to be mentally
and emotionally capable of reading the material and say, "Now this makes more sense to me."
And this is my gift to humanity. This is part of what I came here to do, and I hope I did a good
job. Yeah, your books are deep. You have to put on your thinking cap and really understand what
what you're saying when you read them. Let me ask you a few questions that have come in.
So this is from Gilberto Peninich from New York. Could you please explain how this is
an experiment? How? I think he means that this, being here in this life. I'll explain it this
way. For one, just like I talked about, you know, the prodigal son leaving home and going
into a far country. We decided that we wanted to come to this planet because this is a unique
experience that is taking place on planet Earth. And we also came just like the prodigal son that
says, "I have to leave home in this pristine environment and go out to go meet my brothers
and sisters from distant lands." Because they know that he knew that the experiences that he would
have meeting all these different people from all these different places, different cultures,
different languages, would expand his knowledge of who he is. And that's the reason planet Earth
has beings, life forms from all these different star systems in the galaxy that chose to come to
be a part of this experiment on planet Earth because it's unique. How can we, and I also use
the analogy of New York. New York is a place where every kindred tongue a nation in the world is.
I was saying to somebody one of one of those electronic boards in New York the other day I
saw where 800 different languages are spoken in New York every day. That's an experiment in itself.
How can all these different people from all these different places just like all these different
Life forms from all these different star systems come and live in this place called earth
and
Remember that you and I are one after we have been immersed in matter and forgotten who we are
How can we wake up out of that dream and say?
You are my brother after all even though I look different from you
But who you are not what I look like but who I am
I and you are one we have the same mother
And divine mother we have the same divine father
Is that awakening that allows you to come into that knowledge consciously?
That I and you are one and that's what will break down the wars and the famine and the poverty
when we begin to move away like the ancients say from what things look like and instead be able to see into
And recognize the oneness that connect all of us
And so that's the big experiment that we're on here from people from different cultures different star system different experiences
recognizing that in spite of all the external differences
There is this core thing that connect all of us together
And it's in that awakening that you realize that that is in fact what it is
And that we are one and that when peace will reign
And I don't think all these differences are an impediment to the realization of oneness
And in fact, I think the realization of oneness on a more of a mass scale. It's not going to homogenize us
all. I think it will actually perhaps enrich the diversity just the way, like you have the
rainforest where it's so fertile and you have so much diversity of animals and plants and everything.
- Exactly. That this is God and this is also God and that is God and that is God and everything,
as different as it looks, it's all God. - Yeah. Okay, let me ask you another question
here that came in. This is from Emile Picard in Santa Monica. "What would you say to someone
who doesn't feel they belong on this earth, where they've ended up working in soul-crushing mundane
jobs for which they're overqualified and overeducated. The struggle can seem so harrowing,
although I do look at life as a spiritual journey where even mundane jobs can provide
some material for my writing. I've also said many times, say to your soul, "I think I'm done with
with this experience, this current experience.
I think I'm ready.
And I think also being able to formulate that question
about instead, why am I here?
I think I'm done.
What else is there for me to learn from this experience?
Why I'm still here?
Because in my soul, I feel that I have completed it.
If there's something else that's keeping me here,
why I'm still here, please make it known to me
so that I can move on to an experience
that is more in alignment with what I wanna do,
what I feel I need to be doing, and it will happen.
I think that sometimes people feel
that they speak to their soul, that they're not heard,
but trust me, just speak it.
Be clear and firm about what it is that you want,
And the answer of your state,
the desire of your soul will be answered.
I know that from my experience.
Yeah.
- Also, as George Harrison sang,
"All things must pass."
And I know in my own life,
I've gone from doing really interesting, inspiring things,
teaching and all, lecturing to large groups,
to literally shoveling common ore for a summer.
Or, you know, when I first started Batgap,
I was doing a search engine optimization,
which involves sitting at the computer all day
doing really picky, nitty gritty kinds of stuff.
And then that just gradually faded away
and shifted into this.
So we're never gonna be stuck in anything perpetually.
- Yeah.
- Hang on, Irene is saying,
"If you work in a button factory,
you can listen to spiritual stuff."
Yeah, well, it's funny she should say that
because our video editor, who is a wonderful person,
brilliant person, when she first got in touch with us,
she was working at a place
called the Busy Beaver Button Factory,
together those little political buttons that people pin on their shirts, stuff like that,
making $11 an hour or something, but listening to spiritual stuff like Batgap while she was doing
that. And now one thing has led to the next and her life has completely changed. She has a nice
house that's no longer in a dangerous part of Chicago. So things change. So people shouldn't
be too discouraged if they see that. Yeah, and give intent to what you want to do. Yes, yes.
Clear, intentful, imperfect.
Yeah, and like you were saying with the light telling you things, I mean, most people don't
have that kind of an explicit message coming from light, but I do believe that the universe
is intelligent and that it hears us. It knows our innermost heart and our intentions, and life can
rearrange itself in surprising ways if we really desire it.
Absolutely. The desire has to be, the intent has to be there, and the desire has to be strong
enough. And it's also for the development of the individual to help you understand how you make
things happen because you're creating your life all the time. Yeah, there's a phrase that some
people say which is "deserve then desire". Yeah, I think you can increase your deserving ability by
working on your spiritual development. Things come more readily to you as you evolve. Yeah,
But again rick, I feel that when you contextualize your life within the context
of having made a decision to come here even that place that seems so boring and
Uneventful that this is part of the journey and life path that I chose
It doesn't have to dictate how you feel about yourself and your life, right?
Like you said my life is very different from how it was
20, 30 years ago. I live in a studio apartment here in New York. And I remember when I came here,
I said, "I'm not staying here more than a year."
But I felt this ley line running through the apartment. And I realized that-
A ley line, L-E-Y?
L-E-Y.
Yes. A line of energy running through this apartment. And it became clear to me,
I needed to be here. I could be probably you know, I
Have all the degrees and whatever
And I could be making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and living in this fancy place
But what I recognize is that living in this apartment?
This is where the work that I need to do. I need to stay on this line
And this line runs through this apartment
this studio apartment
So it's not about a fancy place. You see if you come here to serve
Humanity and this is part of your work. This is where it is. So what I did I just
Decorated it and make it really nice so that I can be and I used to travel a lot
Through the un and I was saying this to my friends
It says I think the reason I decorated my apartment because brit knew that I was gonna stay here
I wasn't going to be traveling much. But you know, it's always again how you think about things that
really determine, because our minds really create our reality, doesn't it? It's not always what it
looks like. Yeah, good. Okay, this is a question that will bring us back to your books. This is
from someone named Rita, who would like to know which of your books you would recommend starting
with?
You know, people ask me that a lot and I said, "Allow whichever one pulls you in to be the
first."
Of course, Understanding Your Choice is my first book, but I don't think you have to
read them in that order.
I was told all my books were going to be made into movies and that the second one should
go first.
So because I was told the second one should go first, then I realized lately it's really
in relationship to the movies.
Was that the feminine principle or governance?
Yeah, unveiling the secrets of the feminine principle.
Okay.
Yes.
So I would say whichever one, you know, pulls you in.
But I think understanding your choice really helps you to context, especially now, contextualize
what is happening.
It helps you make sense, especially because there's so much turmoil that is taking place.
We're at the end of a 2160 year Piscean cycle. The age of Pisces has come to an end.
And we're also simultaneously at the end of a cosmic year of Pisces, of 25,920, roughly 26,000
years. So we're at the end of two huge cycles and so the upheaval that we are experiencing both
physically the earth itself and our physical bodies and the emotional bodies of the planet
and our individual emotional and mental bodies is because of that. We're moving into a new energy,
a new period, a new consciousness, a new understanding of who we are and so again
when I was given the books to write, I was told that because of this upheaval, that understanding
your choice will really help to contextualize the challenges that people are having. So in that
regard, then I would say understanding your choice. Okay, good. That answers your question. In my case,
I started with the role of consciousness in governance because I'm interested in world
Affairs and things like that. I'm kind of a news junkie, but I try to fathom the deeper significance
of it all. Because like you, I feel like there's this huge shift taking place and I'm wondering how
more day-to-day events fit into that bigger picture. And I really do... Go ahead. Yeah, go ahead.
Sorry. In that regard, we all watch what's happening or watching what's happening in
Washington DC, right? And the January 6th and Trump being president and stuff. And I know
that when I talk about this, sometimes people, you know, get a little bit angry with me,
but all of it is playing out exactly as it should. And again, because if you understand
the context, first of all, it's about light and dark. It's about the evolution of consciousness,
understanding the United States and why I also wanted that book on the idea that
is the United States of America to be more available because if you understood
the foundation on which the United States was established and you are able
to see not just look at but look into what is happening you'll see all of it
being played out. The United States was founded on Masonic principles. That's a
a fact.
Explain that a bit. I mean, I'd heard of heard of Masons, but I just thought of it as a bunch
of guys wearing funny hats and meeting in a lodge.
Which is not, yeah. And a lot of people associate Masonry with that. These men who run around.
So there is outer Masonry and inner Masonry. There's an inner lodge that many of the members
are almost all of them who are members of the outer lodge, which is really more a social
organization with spiritual symbolisms, but there's an inner lodge and the inner lodge is the real
lodge. These are real conscious evolved human beings that are not members of the outer organization
and there is the inner lodge that really actually orchestrate the events that take place on the
planet. When did this start? Is this some eternal thing or did it start a thousand years ago?
From the very beginning. There's always been the inner lodge and the inner lodge is made up of
initiates. You know, you've heard of Saint Germain. Right, so you're talking about like
ascended masters and that kind of thing. Yes, that's the real lodge. That's the inner lodge
that people are not aware of. And so in my book, The Role of Consciousness in Governance, I go
into detail about what the lodge, the inner lodge really is, how it's constituted, how it works,
and how it's playing out in the affairs of every country. And America is especially established
to really externalize what the inner lodge. But just like the prodigal son who went into a far
country. America went into the
far country also, we all went
into the far country. But we
must learn all on the path of
return. And America must come
back to what it was seeded to do.
You think it will? Or is it like
either way? It must. I say to
people all the time I came here
to help with this and I didn't
come here on a failed mission.
Confident. Sometimes the way
things are going, you think, are
we going to even have a country anymore after a while?
But again, again, if you understand the steps like I was saying to you about a mother giving
birth to the mother going through the process for the first time is like, oh my God, this
is death. Everything is chaos. The water is breaking. I'm having pain and all of that.
But to the trained midwife, what she sees is something completely different. She sees
a process and there's order to it. And that's why, again, the information in the book will
help you to understand that what you're seeing, like the ancients always said, "Nothing is
ever what it appears to be." And that's a fact.
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
Always does. Always does. And when you're able to see with your inner eye, you'll see it.
what I'm hoping that by reading these books you'll get to see what this
construct of this planet is and what the plan is and you'll see that it's moving
very systematically and orderly toward this evolution of consciousness and the
enlightenment of humanity. I share your optimism in my heart of hearts. I'm
concerned about how chaotic the transition may be and all but I do
feel that all is well and wisely put and is being divinely orchestrated. It is, it is,
contrary to appearances. Right. Maybe it's a belief for people, maybe it's a knowledge, but
even as a belief it's a good thing to have because it can lighten your load a bit. I mean, if you just
feel like everything is just chaos and doesn't make any sense and we're going to hell in a hand
basket, it can be very depressing. Yes, it can be. And again, why I was told, not yet but now.
And I think that's why I'm talking to you, Rick. Yeah, it'll help. We have maybe 25 minutes.
What important things have you not had a chance to say? I want you to come away from this feeling
like, okay, I really got out the main points. What can I say? Let's go back to the Mason thing.
You mentioned that the US was founded on the principle of masonry and that many of the
founding fathers were Masons, so if that is the case, and Masonry being as high a thing as you
have indicated, you know, with some sort of divine representation, then these guys were
divinely inspired. Just as you had a light telling you, "Right, you gotta write this book," one would
like to think that many of them were guided from, even though many of them were slaveholders and
not such nice guys by our current standards, they did come out with some brilliant things.
Yes, and so understanding, thanks for that, this body of knowledge called Masonry was
given to humanity. You know like when you're going on a journey, your mother says, "Here
is a guide for how to make your way back. This is what this experience is going to be,
and this is what Masonry really is." Also, I told you originally, it took 25 years for
me to write the book. I joined an esoteric order in 1986. Masonry or something else?
Was a masonry. It's called the Builders of the Adytum. It's a fantastic order. Saint Germain
actually appeared to the founder of the order and transcribed the information. There are lessons
that are given and people contact me I can give them the it's really bota.org that's the website
but it's a fantastic order and I also think that the reason why it took 25 years is because the
information for me it was not like I the first time I knew about this because like I said from
a child intuitively even when I was going to church I used to tell my mother there's much
more to the story than these books and I just gradually walked out of church.
Church has its place, but I knew that there was a higher order of things,
and when I joined the order it was almost like I was brought back into a physical school to kind of
refresh my memory on what I knew a long time ago that I came in with. And the builders of the
Additum, that's the name of the esoteric order, really takes you through step by step and I
really would recommend that to anybody who really want to get deeply into the ancient mysteries in a
very finite way to understand. I'll put a link to it on your back up page. Okay, it's a Masonic
kind of order but you will get to understand you're not separated by gender that you know
only men. Again, the age of Aquarius is the age of the brotherhood of man. Brotherhood,
brotherhood of mankind, not of men. And so here we are moving into this age where we get to
understand what masonry really is. It's about brotherhood. But it also, what masonry does,
is help you to move through the planet in an orderly way. The profession of masonry,
Very precise you have a rule you have a shovel you're actually building your personality the temple
This is what you're constructing and what made that's what masonry true masonry not the social organization
True masonry helps you to build
this personality vehicle
So that you can
Have a house
That your spirit can dwell in that's what masonry really is and if you really understand true masonry
Not the social one
This is what it will help you to do and in a very precise way as masonry is
You can't just put two feet there three feet there and kind of hope that everything will fit together
It's a very precise and this is what spiritist says. It's not just what I feel
You know, I feel good. So i'm enlightened. No, you're not
There is precision to the process of your enlightenment and masonry true masonry takes you through that
And like I said, bota is a fantastic order that will help you through that process
bota.org. Yeah
Www.bota.org. Yeah. Okay. Great. Yes
So if you're involved in that or in your own case, do you have like a regular?
Spiritual practice, you know you do for I don't know half an hour twice a day or some such thing
Yes, yeah, well they're lessons, right? And you get the lessons and their instructions.
Nobody's telling you what to do and why also these books are meant for you to develop your
own relationship with yourself. So the lessons, they're guides to contact your inner teacher
because this is now the time when I don't need a guru anymore because Pisces has made
sure that I have developed my mental and emotional capacities so that I can think for myself,
I can look at information and I don't need the guru and the teacher to interpret this information
for me anymore. I am now capable, thank you very much, for being able to do that for myself. And
this is what the age of Aquarius offers and that's why it's the age of Aquatism. This is where you
know, you come to know, because all of your cells in your body, the memory of who you are is awakened.
And the lessons are meant to just trigger, trigger that memory in yourselves into conscious
remembering of who you are as both God and man. I recommend it highly.
That's good. I would suggest, and would have been interesting in your comments,
that thinking for oneself does not necessarily mean just rejecting all mainstream knowledge
and information, scientific knowledge and stuff like that. Because a lot of times you hear people
saying that these days, they say, "Well, I'm thinking for myself now, so I think the earth
is flat. I don't care what NASA says, they're lying to us." Or that kind of thing.
But that is supposing that this is God and this is not God, and that's not true. Everything is,
right? Science, sociology is part of the one life. And I think that also the big thing that will come
out of this is removing the separation in our mind of this is God, this is not God, whatever.
It's all God. And this is what the masons talk about, that God is defined in masonry as height
and depth and breadth and length. Everything is contained.
Totality, right?
Yes. And so it's the separation in our minds that allow us to decide that,
okay, they're saying this, or this couldn't be, and this is, again, your ability to look at
information, the data, and make sense and meaning out of it. This is your job. Make sense out of it,
Because it does make sense even though it might look disconnected
disjointed and
Not connected they are
And if you look deeply enough, you'll see the connection because it's there because god is one there is no such thing
As them and us and that and that it's and
Not or
And that is the challenge and this is the growth of this aquarium age
This is a promise of the Aquarian Age that you'll come to see that and know that to be a fact.
Rick Yeah, so I guess one way of putting it is if
you look deeply enough, as you just said, you get down to a level at which everything is unified.
Dr. Anneke Yes, you'll see the connection.
Rick Here's an analogy, let's say a bicycle wheel
with spokes coming out. If you're out on one of the spokes, then all the other spokes seem
disconnected. Everything's disconnected. But if you're at the hub, then yeah, you connect
everything, everything radiates from your essential nature.
Yes, yes, and this is what we are being challenged to be able to see.
And it takes discipline, it takes mental and emotional discipline to be able to
see that. To see is to understand and to be unveiled.
And would you also say as part of that discipline
the habit of not jumping to the assumption that,
just taking things lightly, not being cocksure of yourself and not being riddled with doubts,
but at the same time being willing to continue to re-examine and question and the way a scientist
would. Absolutely, inquiry, inquiry into everything. I remember years ago, I used to live in Milwaukee
and I used to go down by the lake a lot, being a water sign myself, I just love the water anyway,
And just sit by the water and just look into the water and say open me up and let me know
Open me up and let me know and it's amazing rick how much information can come to you when you're willing to empty yourself
There is a key in the tarot key five
called the hierophant and the hierophant is
Symbolically the soul and in kneeling at the feet of the hierophant are these two acolytes
One represents the mind and the other represents the heart, emotions and the mind.
And they're kneeling at the feet of the Hierophant in humility.
Because conversely, you can stand with your knee straight and on bending and on yielding.
This is what I know, this is it, and nobody can tell me differently.
Or you can take the posture of the Acolytes kneeling at the feet of the Acolyte and said,
"I am now ready." Just like the prodigal son, until you have come to a place where you are broken
of your egotism or of your know-it-all or whatever, and you're ready because the
Hierophant, as I said, represents your soul. I'm ready to learn from you. But you have to
come to that place. You have to bring yourself to that place where you can kneel in humility
at the feet of your soul and say, "I am now ready to learn from you." Then amazing things happen,
but it's a journey again and you have to make a decision within yourself. There's so much of a
play on that title, "Understanding Your Choice." Over the years I have seen, I've thought about it
in so many ways, always understanding your choice.
It's a choice that you make.
You can kneel in humility at the feet of your soul
and ask for information, ask for your soul to reveal to you
the mystery of your own life,
or you can stand resolute and obstinate
and determine that I know it all
and I don't need to hear anything more
and you will stay in ignorance.
So it's a choice, always a choice.
Yeah. Obviously, we've just scratched the surface. There's so much in your books and we couldn't
possibly get into all the details, but if people's curiosity has been piqued by what
we've been saying today, then they can start delving into them. Do you have any kind of
other way of interacting with people besides your books? Do you do Zoom meetings or anything
like that?
- No, you know, interestingly,
I was laying in bed three months ago
and Spirit said to me, "You need to do a podcast."
- Oh, there you go.
- So I went online and I saw this guy
and I reached out to him and said,
"Can I appear on your podcast?"
And he said, "Yes."
And I was really so pleasantly surprised
to see the responses that came back from that interview.
And out of that, some other people have reached out to me.
So I asked myself should I appear on podcasts or should I do my own podcast?
And I think it could be a mix of both
That initially appearing on your show, for example
Is a good way for people to hear about my books and hear me talk about them
But I could also see myself eventually doing a podcast of my own
So that is something that I have been thinking about
Right now I'm in the middle of a lot of UN work.
So I have been going back and forth in my mind.
Oh my god, am I going to be able to do a podcast and with all of what's developing the UN and stuff.
But I know it will work itself out.
But initially at this point, I think it's nice to be invited to talk about this information
and I welcome that and thank you again for inviting me to share.
Sure.
And if you do decide to start one get in touch with me because I could give you some tips
Oh my gosh, thank you very much. I definitely will be reaching out
Yeah, because i've seen people start them and and I think no you could be having much more impact by doing such and such
So get in touch. Awesome. Thank you so much for that offer
I will be contacting you
All right. Thanks ed. So it's great spending time with you and having listened to your books
I mostly listening or I was riding my bike or walking in the woods and stuff
That's what I do, but it was a nice way to do that. I go walking when I need to
Yeah, so much information comes for those who've been listening or watching. This is an ongoing series as you probably know and
There's an upcoming interviews page on backup where we announce the ones that are scheduled
I'll put a page for edits interview as I do for each one and
There I'll have links to her books and links to her website and to that organization that you mentioned
And feel free in the in the future if you write a new book or you want to change what I have written on that page
Just let me know and I'll change it or add a book. Okay. Thank you. Oh my gosh. This was wonderful
Good. Well, I really enjoyed it, too
Thanks so much for spending this time with me and thanks to those who've been listening or watching
Yeah, and you'll be hearing from me
Keep up the good work. Thank you very much. Thank you. Alrighty. Bye. Bye. Bye
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