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