Second Thunder
Seeking the Black
Ishayas
By MSI
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INTRODUCTION
The Vision of the
Source Universe
Dance with me,
children of this latter age.
Dance with me as I sing of the One.
This is an invitation to share my
vision.
Other worlds lie just beneath the surface
of our rational minds.
In one, infinite yet unconscious forces
interact mindlessly in chaotic patterns, creating and destroying as if
randomly, by accident.
In another, gods and heroes struggle
against manifest evil in the all but hopeless quest to save their worlds
from destruction.
In yet another, every moment without
exception unfolds in perfect harmony with the will of the
Creator-Of-All-That-Is.
The experience of alternate universes is
more often than not repressed in our modern age. This is tragic, for
repression leads to confusion, to distorted perception, to fear.
There is nothing in life to fear. Para,
the Source Universe which has given rise to all others, floats throughout
Eternity as a radiant golden sphere, bathed in the azure flames of the
infinite Light and unending love of the omnipotent One. That Universe is
perfect. And since it is the Source of all other created universes, all
must also be perfect. Apple trees create only apples. Love creates only
love. Perfection creates only perfection. It is only identification with
the projected dream-worlds that leads to suffering.
Even then, it is dream-suffering. Only
our age-old yet moment-by-moment decision keeps us bound to our individual
dream-creations.
This can end at any moment: Para
surrounds, underlies and permeates every particle of the dream worlds.
Because this is true, anyone anywhere at any time can experience the One
Ascendant Reality. It can be found anywhere, but is most easily discovered
inside your heart. It is the essence of every good thing: life,
consciousness, joy, love.
The experience of Para results in a state
of consciousness named by various Earth traditions: salvation, nirvana,
enlightenment, infinite Awareness, satori, Cosmic Consciousness, Eternal
Freedom, praying without ceasing, the peace which passes all
understanding, Perpetual Consciousness. The name is supremely
unimportant; the content of this experience is everything.
Whatever we choose to call it, no
suffering of any kind is possible in this state. Life is lived in
permanent joy, in infinite love, in unbroken contact with the Source.
In an instant of frozen time, no longer
than the gap between two heartbeats, a being fully and permanently in
contact with the Source Universe shared his vision with me. This was a
free gift, a wordless joining of his infinite mind with mine.
In the years that have passed since that
magical, suspended instant, I have only begun to appreciate what this
means to my life, to remember that which I long ago knew fully well but
then forgot. I am an Unbounded Being. Living in a human body, I experience
the infinite Ascendant continually. The Thunder books are an attempt to
explain this state of consciousness, to describe the Reality of the wonder
of this experience.
Words are finite, limited tools, most
loved by longing minds. They will forever fall short of the experience of
Truth. Truth is lived and can be shared; the best words can do is point
the finger of understanding at it. Words can say, "The Moon is
there." They do not and cannot give the experience of the Moon. At
their best, they will inspire one to seek the experience they describe.
Seeking the Black Ishayas records
a series of visions and experiences I had while studying with the Ishayas.
The total elapsed time was only several days, but the total vision time
was of many years.
The experiences flowing through me
were far removed in space and time from the reality of this world. They
were of a series of other lifetimes that uncannily paralleled the outer
occurrences among my friends, particularly Edg and Sharon, at and around
the Ishayas’ monastery.
During this period, I fought a life
and death struggle with my ego. It nearly mastered me on four separate
occasions -- not coincidentally, after the instruction in the Second
Sphere Solar Technique, the Lunar Technique, the Earth Technique and the
Second Cognition. The visions inspired by learning each of these
techniques coincided exactly with changes in my personal life that were
intense and, in one case, as terrible as I could have ever dreamed
possible: the loss of Sharon.
If I had known from the beginning how
much I would give up to gain enlightenment would I have continued on?
Probably not. Only in hindsight do I see the beauty inherent in my
personal tragedy.
Everyone’s path is different. The
incredible ease with which some grow under the Ishayas’ care never
ceases to amaze me. I look at my life and it seems I have always chosen
the hardest possible path -- and yet I know there was no other choice for
me. And there are others who have suffered much more greatly.
Whatever it takes. That is the only
attitude that is real, the only attitude that works, the only attitude
that assists one to reach the goal. Whatever I have to do in order to
realize enlightenment, that I will do. This was the viewpoint I
adopted in the Himalayas, and the only one that could have carried me
through my trials to the end.
For those who seek enlightenment, no
other frame of mind can be substituted for this one. No other frame of
mind will succeed. One must be willing to give up everything --
every belief, every judgment, every attachment -- then only can there be
progress. For it is exactly where one digs in one’s heels and says,
"So far and no farther" that the ego draws the battleline.
It is not possessions, it is attachments
which cause trouble. What must be given up? Nothing. What must one be
willing to give up? Everything. When one is ready to be free from
everything, life begins in earnest. The dawning of the True Light is never
far behind.
The Thunder series describes the opening
of the consciousness of the human race to ever deeper and subtler
experiences of enlightenment. There exists a collective consciousness of
humanity that underlies and permeates all of our beliefs and experiences.
This collective identity is responsible for most of our world-views and
individual experiences of reality. To change this collective belief system
is typically quite slow, as it takes continual effort on the part of many
over a long period of time.
In this and the subsequent books, the
collective consciousness of humanity is personified and individualized as
Lord Gana, a semi-divine prince who lived far before recorded history.
Since Gana is the representative of all humanity, his struggles to master
his own beliefs and judgments have the effect of transforming everyone
else. At times aware of his universal status, at times ignorant of it,
Gana moves through various life-experiences in the attempt to master the
lower aspects of his nature and rise to complete consciousness. This
continues with ever-greater complexity as his understanding of the
connection of the individual to the Universe unfolds.
Gana does not work alone. He is never
long without divine inspiration -- which most often takes the form of an
unusual master of form transmutation, the Vidyadhara Airavata, also known
as Heramann. Airavata is quite old and quite wise, the last of the ancient
Vidyadharas, an intelligent race that was prevalent before the descent of
our current human species. Usually unaware of his subtle and Eternal
connection to the underlying essence of the incarnations of Gana, Heramann
is nevertheless often drawn to assist him in his growth.
The omnipotent Power of the upward
current of the Laws of Nature is also always present to support Gana; but
he is not often aware of this. This force is personified as his feminine
aspect, Almira. Almira is the second half of Gana’s soul, ever
conscious; she is the Goddess, always in divine communion with the One;
she is the Earth Mother, the Source of all Good for humanity, the
personified Holy Spirit.
Gana is also ever watched, protected and
guided by the incarnate wisdom of higher consciousness, portrayed in the
Thunder books as his seven Teachers Vasuki, Mordom, Rodavi, who was later
reborn as Joab, Vaga, Atri, Brihas, and Matri. Their relationship to Gana
is one of gentle guidance and discipline.
All the other characters in this History
are either manifestations of partial aspects of Gana’s infinite mind or
else are his creations. Some of these creations are positive and represent
the creative forces of nature: his children and the peoples he attempts to
save from destruction and guide to higher levels of understanding. And
some of these creations are negative, the destructive forces of nature
personified and given form by Gana’s incomplete understanding of life:
the Emperor
Valin and Valin’s agents and minions,
the Asurs and Rakshasas. In both cases, although having independent form
and life, all his creations remain rooted in Gana’s mind.
Thus the rest of the Thunder series is a
history of humanity’s age-old attempts to achieve a stable and upwardly
directed civilization. They stand also as a description of an individual’s
journey to enlightenment through numerous births.
Either reading is correct, for we are
continually creating our own world. We project our beliefs and judgments
outward; these return to us as our experiences of others, of history, of
life, of matter. Each of us dreams our own world -- this means that each
of us is ultimately responsible for our own creation. And therefore, each
of us can change any of the rules governing our world at any time,
resulting in a completely different world-view and a completely different
world. Full realization of this simple fact is an acceptable definition of
enlightenment. It is the Ishayas’ hope that learning of the different
levels of reality woven into this work will assist others to rise more
quickly to the recognition of their primary authority in their own worlds.
Then the healing of this Earth will be the sooner accomplished.
-- MSI
If you'd
like to know the rest of the story, you can order Second Thunder
here.
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