Anchoring the Harmony of Heaven on Earth

Bridging the Worlds of Traditional and Neo-Christianity

The End Times and the New Age

This column is devoted to bridging the worlds of Traditional Christianity and theories that some have dubbed Neo-Christianity or New Age beliefs. It is devoted to anchoring a vibration of harmony within individuals who claim entry into a life of divine love through the same energy: Christ.

Many from both sides of this gap have prophesied that we are in the End Times as described in Revelations, the last book of the New Testament. Many have seen the coming of a "New Age". Many from both sides have foreseen that those who have found the Christ within ( "accepted Christ into their hearts") will soon go to live in ( "ascend to" ) a place especially prepared for the followers of Christ ("those embodying the vibration of light and love" ). This place is alternately called "the New Earth" or in more traditional terms, "Heaven". And yet, there are vast differences and an enduring war waging between these groups. Many injuries have been inflicted. Many battles have been fought. It is time for those who are willing to clear and heal these wounds for as we bring about peace first within, and then among, ourselves we anchor the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.

The author of this website has asked that it be a place of open dialogue about Ascension. In this spirit, I reserve the right to quote from any source, including the Bible and other channeled material, historical accounts, young children, the Ascended Masters, the Black Sunflower and other blooms, rivers, musicians, television commercials, and schizophrenic persons living on the street, for while any and all of these sources will, at one time or another, fall short of an idealized expression of the highest truth, each is an aspect of our environment and as such is a teacher sent to guide us home.

 

The War

As more and more people enter into the vibration of the New Earth, we are called upon to make peace with all those we have considered enemies. As with God, all that we perceive is a reflection of ourselves, of the balance of light and dark within. Although Christ’s stated purpose in coming to Earth was the restoration of peace and the establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, the history of Christianity as an organized religion has been anything but peaceful.

Although episodes of violence and religious coercion like the current war in Iraq, the enslavement of African and Native American peoples, and the Crusades are well-known acts committed by those who call themselves Christian, any war within our perception is our war as well. The fear we decry is the fear we secretly harbor. For every fundamentalist Christian person who proclaims the certainty of "eternal damnation in the fiery lakes of hell" is a spiritualist who, perhaps subconsciously, caters to the wrath of an angry god and so cannot move forward on their spiritual path. Any aversion to the Bible or to those who claim to disbelieve the Bible is tantamount to a neon flashing in places of darkness. It points directly to that which needs healing before peace can be created within the body and anchored in the world. Whether we consider ourselves traditional Christians or people with a more open and creative approach to Christ, it is impossible to understand either the End Times or the New Age unless we understand our personal participation in this war.

War by its nature creates separation from the self and from God. Because Ascension, or the process of preparing for living in the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, is one of coming to terms with both our personal and collective history of war, this process can only be lived and understood through reflection on the experiences of each unique soul. Here, I will share a piece of the story of both my personal and our collective war:

A Piece of the Story

For myself, I was raised in an atheist, humanist home where spiritual expression was treated as sin and religion was considered the main cause of death and destruction on Earth. My childhood was peppered with stories from my mother and father about the evils they had suffered at the hands of people calling themselves Christians, including racism and other forms of intolerance. My father believed in evolution and taught this to his children. Thus, in second and third grade I sometimes ended up in religious debates and was often beat up or called names as a result. At age 11, while walking past a church near my childhood home, I had a clear premonition of my future: "In my 35^th year I will be a Christian, I will be very religious (at the time I did not know the word ‘spiritual‘), but that is not something I can do now," I concluded.

As teenager I attended church with people of the Methodist, Mormon and Catholic faiths. As I sat in church week after week I tried valiantly to make sense of what I experienced as mind-numbing sermons, tuneless hymns, vigilant and angry monitoring of sexual behavior, and a closed system of thought where Sunday school teachers, priests and pastors had all the answers and nothing was left to be explained or discovered and where nobody told the truth.

From this point forward and for several years after, my spiritual behavior was characterized by bitterness, judgment and separation. Although I considered myself an open person who wanted to know the truth, I had learned the habits of both my parents and my Christian counterparts. I openly ridiculed those who turned to God and found not so subtle ways to explain to any Christian who crossed my path the hypocrisy of the Christian church even when they offered no provocation other than calling themselves Christian. I held spontaneous gripe sessions about the poison I felt religion to be, I evangelized the cause of anyone hurt by Christians from gays and lesbians disowned by Christian parents to single mothers hurt by Christians who used the Bible to justify poverty. And I bring this up not because I now believe that using the Bible as an excuse to participate in the victimization of others is a divinely appropriate path, but rather to point out that I was at war. I was at war with the Christians who were at war with me.

At about age 23 or 24 something shifted. Though I did not abandon my war, I began spontaneously to go to church and pray. Yet, the church did not fulfill my longing for truth and I became convinced that if there were truth to God it could not be found in Christianity. I began to explore other spiritual traditions including Buddhism and indigenous practices through which I was offered tools that allowed me to change my life and open to direct communication with the spirit world.

Beginning at about age 28, I suffered for several years in poverty, isolation, violence and terror beyond my comprehension. I became physically and emotionally ill to the point of disability. I lived under nearly constant threat of physical and emotional violence both in the workplace and in my most intimate relationships. I was mentally unstable. Although I did not know it at the time, these were the hard years of my Ascension process, my years of tribulation. It was a time in which I came to consciously understand what some may call evil and my participation in it. I fought viciously with everyone around me, all of us doing much damage. And then, in my early 30s, something happened.

The first time it happened, I had argued with a Yoruba medicine woman who had become a spiritual teacher to me. One day as she struggled to integrate her own deeply fragmented selves, she ragefully disowned me as a student. She told me that I was more trouble than I was worth and that she did not wish to ever be in my presence again. I had looked on this woman as a mother and when she cast me out, I begged with tears, saying that I would never leave her. Later, when the dust had settled, every time I opened my mouth to speak her name, I called her "Ruth." There was no forethought in this, it simply came out though "Ruth" was not her name. After several weeks of this I sat down to focus to discover the identity of this Ruth. The only Ruth I could name was she of the Bible.

I pulled an old green bible of my bookshelf, the same Jehovah witness Bible I use to today as an as a preacher in mainstream Church, the one that belonged to my former Christian-weary Jewish in-laws, the one with notes scribbled in the margins where someone believed they had found anti-Semitic sentiments nestled in the scripture, the one I lifted from their bookshelf when I was 22 supposing they’d never miss it and carted around with me for 10 years because even though I hated Christians and had no intention of reading the thing, thought it would be a good idea to have a Bible around. There I found Ruth‘s story. As I read I was filled with a deep knowing that this story of Ruth and her daughters-in-law and myself and the medicine woman were the same story, as my medicine woman’s words of leaving and mine of loyalty were repeated almost verbatim in the Bible.

Still, I put it up to coincidence and went on with my warring ways, confused, baffled and dismayed at the state of my existence. It was a time of enormous imbalance and confusion. I did not recognize myself. Through my pursuit of God, the rules had changed somehow and I was not longer able to hide, even from myself.

Two weeks later, I had a disagreement, which turned into a fight thatquickly developed into a full scale war with my law partner. The war involved demotions, resignations, accusations, reports to governing bodies, dreams and visions of unjust incarceration, and threats of violence leading me to flee my home and commit finally to peace. During this conflict, I began spontaneously to call my soon to be ex-partner by the name "Paul." Even in my state of stubborn rejection of Christ, I knew that while the first time may be a coincidence, the second time could only be a pretty straightforward attempt to get my attention. This time I knew where to go. Although Paul appears in many places in the Bible, I randomly opened the book to the passage that, once again, described in detail the argument I had had with my law partner. If I had read further I would have discovered more of my life, including my metaphorical blinding and opening to Ascension. At this time though, I only understood that I, and those with whom I had fought, had been Paul as much as we had been Ruth and that I must add Christianity to my already varied list of spiritual pursuits.

Much has happened between then and now. I am now 36 going on 37 human years. On March, 19, 2005 I woke to feel myself sitting on the Mother of All That Is, her vast heartbeat ringing upward through my body. It was as if all the charkas below my neck had emptied themselves to make space for her. Her heart beat in perfect synchronicity with my own. Then Christ spoke, "You are one of us now," he said, "Your life will never be the same." My immediate response was, "What does that mean?" It is a question to which I am still learning the answer.

The New Age, The Christian Church and The Bible

I am still convinced that God cannot, by and large, be found in the church, except by those who have found God within and are able to bring God to church with them. What is Christ? What is Christ Consciousness?

Christ is not a personality. Christ is not George Bush’s personal companion. Christ is not employed by religious zealots to bully free-thinkers into compliance. Christ is Divine Love. In the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ it states,

"I cannot show you the king, unless you see with eyes of the soul, because the kingdom of the king is in the soul. And every soul a kingdom is. There is a king for every man. This king is love, and when this love becomes the greatest power in life, it is the Christ; so Christ is king. And every one may have this Christ dwell in his soul, as Christ dwells in my soul. . . . . The man of God is pure in heart; he sees the king; he sees with eyes of soul: and when he rises to the plane of Christine consciousness, he knows that he himself is king, is love, is Christ, and so is son of God."(1)

Divine love is a tool that fuels our spiritual growth. The Pleiadians, channeled through Barbara Marciniak have said it: "Love is one of your major tools to living" (2). Doctor Bonner, the soap doctor, has said it: "Who else but God gave man Love that can spark mere dust to life? (3)" If Christ is Divine Love that can only be found within, to reject Christ is not only to reject God. It is to reject love and to reject the self. Perhaps this is the truth some Christians are trying to realize for themselves when they repeat emphatically the seemingly empty slogan that Christ must be the center of our lives.

Likewise, many New Age theories are paralleled in Biblical teachings, though these same parallels may be largely ignored in human interpretations of the Bible. For instance, the Pleiadians through Barbara Marciniak, state "The Gods came here eons ago and mated with humans. . . . They started the lineage of blue blood … a select group [that] rules your world in secret. . . . . When the Gods came, they left a hierarchy of presidents and popes, kings and queens, princes and princesses and patriarchs." (4); In the Bible, Genesis 6:4-5, we are told that "when the sons of the God continued to have relations with the daughters of men and they bore sons to them, they were the mighty ones who were of old, the men of fame." (5)

The New Age speaks of deliberate creation and embraces the concept that all things are possible as a product of focused, aligned human thought while the Bible speaks of faith as a virtue and equates it with human creative potential. In the famous mustard seed parable, when the disciples are unable to heal a boy with their hands, Jesus informs them of the reason for their failure: "Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ’Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." (6);

Teachers of ascension taught Reiki as a method for planetary healing and ascension. (7) The Toa and Earth channeled through Karen Danrich state that "Reiki is useful to those who are ascending …. Reiki triggers key codes that will cause ascension amongst those who use it." Likewise, the Bible tells several tales in which the laying on of hands imparts spiritual awareness and physical health.(8) Moreover, the New Age cautions that in order to ascend we must have scrupulous energetic hygiene and avoid allowing others "bad vibrations" to enter our energy fields, while the Bible cautions "Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, and do not share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure." (9)

Many in the New Age claim that the human body was meant to last at least 1000 years. In the Genesis, the human life span is lowered to "a hundred and twenty years"(10) (an event which likely also correlates with a New Age understanding about how and when the "fall of man" occurred). Just prior to this passage, the lifespans of Adam and his descendants are listed. It is written that "all the days of Adam …amounted to nine hundred and thirty years …. and all the years of Enosh … amounted to nine hundred and five years …. and all the years of Mahalalel amounted to eight hundred and ninety-five years." (11)

Some in the New Age movement believe that the prophecy of the second coming of Christ is fulfilled at least in part through the opening of the high heart chakra and the entrance of light and Christ consciousness into body. In the Bible, Peter writes to the followers of Christ, "Consequently, we have the prophetic word made more sure; and you are doing well in paying attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until day dawns and a daystar rises in your hearts."(12)

Finally, The Book of Common Prayer used by the Episcopal Church speaks of being made "a new people by water and the Spirit.(13)" In a series of books channeled from the Source by Ceanne DeRohan, the need to balance Spirit and Will to achieve spiritual growth is described. "The Spirit and the Will are partners in the body and must find their balance in the Heart." The Will is meant to select what is right for the moment among all possibilities. It does this through emotion. (14)" (The emotions are, of course, associated with Water.) Heart is defined as the son of God.(15) And on the topic of health and healing this book states, "If there is any dis-ease or aging of the Body, the Spirit and the Will are at odds in some way. If there is balance between the Spirit and Will, only health, agelessness and vitality are manifested and the physical plane is no longer experienced as cutoff from any other plane of existence." (16); Again we are brought to similarities in Biblical and New Age descriptions of the physical vitality, wholeness and longevity that reflects the spiritual vibration of the Ascended being.

Similarities between the New Age and Biblical teachings can be seen as places of truth and the areas of argument split within each of our psyches, a split in search of healing. And the truth lies not somewhere in the middle, but within the state of pure being brought forth by the clear light of understanding. If ascension to the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth is our goal, perhaps modern Christianity would do well to incorporate ascension theory into its theology and members of the New Age would do well to reconsider Biblical teachings.

 

Please join us for a continued exploration of our places of oneness and our places of separation as we transition from the End Times to the New Age. Send an email to Akasha and Gibbon

 

 

About the Author: Chela Akasha Andemuneodwe (pronounced /An-day-moon-knee-odd-way/) walks her path with input from many spiritual traditional including Buddhism, the Yoruba practices of Nigeria, the practices of the Eastern Shoshone and North Arapahoe peoples of the Americas, Hinduism, Christianity and New Age philosophies. She is a shamanic healer, a Reiki practitioner, one who wildcrafts flower and earth essences and an emotional and spiritual counselor. She is also a licensed preacher within the Christian church. She is an attorney and African- American and lives with her son and partner in the United States.

Note by Gibbon: To read a few of my responses to this article please read 'Why Use the Son of God Concept?' page.

FOOTNOTES:

(1) The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, Transcribed from the Akashic Records by Levi, DeVorss & Co., Publishers, Marina Del Ray, CA, Chap 71:4-7, 15-17.
(2) Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living, channeled through Barbara Marciniak, Bear & Company Publishing, Santa Fe New Mexico, 1999, pp 30.
(3) Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, 18-in-1 Hemp Peppermint PURE CASTILLE SOAP Bottle.
(4) See footnote 1 above, pp 42.
(5) Other translations of this passage read: "This was back in the days (and also later) when there were giants in the land. The giants came from the union of the sons of God and the daughters of men. These were the mighty men of ancient lore, the famous ones". Among ordained Christian ministers this passage is often understood to imply sexual relations between Gods and humans, although for many of these ministers the presence of this passage in the Bible cannot be explained. As a consequence it is largely ignored.
(6) New Testament, Matthew 17:20.
(7) See "Anatomy of an Ascending Energy Field: The Toa and Earth Mother through Karen Danrich "Mila", (November 22, 2002); see also The Essential Reiki: A Complete Guide to an Ancient Healing Art by Diane Stein, The Crossing Press, Inc., Freedom, CA, 1995, pp 142, ("In this time of change and violence on Earth, Reiki is part of planetary healing.").
(8) See for instance the Gospel of Luke 4:40, "When the sun was setting, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one, he healed them." See also 1 Timothy 1:6, Jesus states "For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on my hands"; Acts 8:18 "…the Sprit was given at the laying on of the apostles hands."
(9) 1 Timothy 5:22.
(10) Genesis 6:3
(11) Genesis 5:5-17.
(12) 2 Peter 1:19.
(13) The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, Charles Mortimer Guilbert, Custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer, September 1979, pp 371.
(14) The Right Use of Will: Healing and Evolving the Emotional Body, channeled by Ceanne DeRohan, Four Winds Publications, Sante Fe, New Mexico, 1984, 1986, pp 1.
(15) Original Cause: The Unseen Role of Denial, channeled by Ceanne DeRohan, Four Winds Publications, Sante Fe, New Mexico, 1984, 1986, pp 25-33.
(16) See footnote 7 above.

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