In a place near here: very much like this; in a time near our own; where people sit listening to what someone else says; in a world much like ours: there sits a group of people trying to follow what someone else says. Most can not hear well. They hear only what they think they hear. They follow only what they think is said. None of them knows they have a hearing problem. Few of them are able to understand the content of the stories they are told.
At that time, in that place, a man standing before them tells a story about a group of people who can not hear very well. He tells them of the problems they are having in understanding what they hear and that what they think they hear is not at all what is being said.
No one listening fully hears the man's story. When he tells them, "You are deaf," it sounds to them as if he is saying, "Everything is as it should be." Then he says that hearing-aids are available to help them, but they hear him say "the Truth is beyond understanding." In frustration, he utters, "You do not know a word of what I am saying. I may as well speak to the wind." The group applauds and cheers when he is done, for they understood him to deliver an important sermon allowing them to continue in their way of living without ever having the need to change.
The storyteller then left, returning to his own place and time where people understood what each other were saying. He often relayed the tale of a place where people were deaf but did not know it and this became a popular joke in his land. But that is another story.
As will happen when such things occur in the Land of the Deaf, a fable developed of the wondrous man who arrived one day and revealed great truths to them. It was not long before this fable developed into a code for living their lives. People traveling through that land would look on with curiosity as the residents spoke to one another with blunt honesty, since the now accepted greeting had become the repetition of the magic words, "You are deaf." And, each week, one day was set aside for people to gather in remembrance of the wondrous man and recite in unison, "Hearing-aids are available." Many books were written and universities were founded to ponder the storyteller's final words to them, "You do not know a word of what I am saying. I may as well talk to the wind. "
Laws were established to uphold the word of the prophet, for that is what storytellers were called in this place. Anyone who questioned the story questioned the truth as far as these people were concerned. Travelers from other regions soon learned it was best to follow local customs in these matters since the penalty for disbelief was to have one's ears removed as proof of the prophet's words. Literalists and Fundamentalists bore witness to the truth of the words, "You do not know a word of what I am saying". Each day that passed gave proof to the veracity of the storyteller, but in ways they would ever know.
One day, a doctor arrived to visit this remarkable land. He quickly discovered that indeed what these people repeated to each other was true. He decided to establish a clinic for the hearing impaired. But understanding that the nature of people is to deny they have any problems, he developed a scheme.
After a short time, a sign appeared over a storefront near the center of town that read, MUSIC. This was something new in a community where everyone was hard of hearing. Occasionally someone would walk in and ask what this music was. They were told that it was a special kind of sound that was heard. This seemed very mysterious as it meant to them, "Music is something that can not be understood." Most people would scoff and leave the store laughing. Some people even became irate at the notion and tried to run the doctor out of town. But there were a few people who, when they heard this definition, defended the store for they took it to mean that music was a mystical experience beyond ordinary understanding.
The doctor began to offer music appreciation classes for those who sought mystic revelation. A recording would be played, and sometimes a live guitar or flute. But the devout who came in search of something mystical would only shake their heads in disbelief. "This is a strict discipline," they thought to themselves as they left the classes telling each other they were deaf. As time passed, fewer and fewer people returned for these classes, but there were always a few new ones at each session to make up for those who had given up.
It was not those who devoutly appeared over and over again without question who interested the doctor. After each class there was often one, and sometimes more, who would say to the doctor they had experienced nothing and asked if they did something wrong. These were the people with whom he worked. He would place their hands on the body of the guitar or on the grill of the speaker so they could feel the beat and rhythm of what was there. In this way, he proved to the students that there was something that could be understood if only they possessed the proper tools. Eventually, the doctor introduced to them the tools they needed in the form of hearing aids for it was these people who demonstrated they had the capacity to learn by admitting they had a problem and showing they had the desire to do something about it.
After some time, there a small number of devotees who met on a regular basis to discuss and share their musical knowledge. Of course, when one of these people told someone who was still Deaf that they were going somewhere to discuss 'music', it was heard that they were going to talk about "that which cannot be understood". And, as Truth was already known to be beyond understanding, such meetings meant that the people there would be doing no harm, thus protecting the store, the doctor, and those attending the meetings from the derision and possible danger that would come from those who did not believe music existed.
The members of the music society which developed seldom discussed music, although music was always played at their meetings as a reminder of what brought them together. Instead, these meetings explored the problem of being able to hear in a land where everyone else was deaf. A new vocabulary developed among those in the group, one that could only be fully understood by the hearing but which still made a sort of sense to those who could not hear. Much time was spent exploring the belief systems they previously relied upon, for they now could hear what really was said by that storyteller of so long ago. Understood something was needed so others in their land could know the Truth.
The doctor counseled them that this would take much time, and for now it was best to let the few who were capable of understanding use their knowledge to seek ways for others eventually to hear. Still, there were, from time to time, students who insisted on shouting out the truth to everyone. These would run up to people on the street and shout, "I can hear!" This was heard to mean, "I am mad," and the student would be rushed off to an institution for treatment if they were lucky, or killed on the spot for being a danger, subversive, or even blaspheming.
After a time, the idea of music was less of a threat to the people of that land. It even became a field of study in the universities. Many books were written on the phenomenon of music and the supposed practitioners of music. Careers were built for non-musicians on their theories of music and what it might be, if indeed there were such a thing. There were many who claimed to be teachers of music, but most of these never themselves ever heard music. Usually, they were people who gave up after feeling sound through touch but were unwilling to admit it was something that might be heard. Others of these false teachers built their reputations on applying the theories of scholars they read without actually having the ability to hear. None of them ever lacked for students in their classes for they often attracted those who did not really care about hearing but only wanted to feel the supposed sensation of music and the ecstatic emotions claimed to be a part of such an experience.
But a few real music teachers developed over time. Some compose and perform music as a means of attracting people who wanted to learn. Others study medicine and do much to further research on the causes of deafness in an attempt to find a cure for the problem. And there are those who have become successful in business by way of importing or manufacturing hearing aids and the other new technologies developing to help the deaf. There are even a few of the hearing who purposely teach counterfeit classes in order to distract the sensation seekers away from those who truly need to learn. It is difficult work but is showing much progress.
This still goes on in a place near here, very much like this, in a time near our own where a group of people sit trying to follow what someone else says.
"Thanks to Stanley for his permission to share this wonderful story.
I feel its is very timely, and points to things outside of our boxed reality, if we can just open ourselves to the possibilities. "
There is a disinformation and distraction campaign clogging the Internet to which I will give the label the Oct. 14 Hoax. It concerns a tale which originated in Australia and features a supposed "channeler", Blossom Goodchild, supposedly giving utterance to messages from an non-existent "Galactic Federation of Light", and a supposed overflight of Earth's "southern region" by a very lage antigravity craft. Since there is no "Galactic Federation of Light", Ms. Goodchild is purveying false information. Beware false "channelers". There is only one organization of advanced civilizations in this galaxy. It is Star Nations. Blossom Goodchild may feel that she is "channeling" star beings, but she is not. What she produces may come from her subconscious mind's imagination. It is also possible that she is the target of remote, high-technology, thought-message-beaming by the Cabal for purposes of disinformation and propaganda. IF any large craft makes an appearance on that date, it will be a Cabal antigravity craft masquerading as a Star Visitors craft. And its appearance would be part of an ultimate Cabal plan to stir up trouble and blame it on Star Nations. On the subject of the Cabal's planned fake "alien inasion", see: http://www.drboylan.com/openltr2ufocomm.html
The octagram or eight-pointed star is a symbol of fullness and regeneration. Through its links with the great eight-fold systems of East and West - the trigrams of the I Ching and the pagan wheel of the year - the octagram gains its connotations of wholeness, rebirth and cyclical infinity. The octagram's association with infinity is further strengthened by the lemniscate, the symbol for infinity, taking the form of a figure eight on its side, and through its links to the eight primal deities of ancient Egypt, the Ogdoad.
The octagram's associated polygon, the octagon, is intermediate between square and circle, confirming the sense of spiritual regeneration. Thus many baptisteries and fonts are octagonal, though twelve sided figures are sometimes used as twelve is linked to totality.
As an expression of the number eight and in its aspect of making sense of and communicating wholeness and regeneration, the octagram is linked to the Kabbalistic sefira Hod.
I also know that the octagram was a symbol of Ishtar, Akkadian Goddess representing Venus and invoking the force of life.
The Octagon, first form; reflected from every second point.
The Octangle can be reflected in three ways; reflected from every second point when it is called the Octagon; and as the Octagram reflected from every third, and from every fourth point.
The Octangle naturally representeth the power of the Ogdoad. The Octagon showeth the Ogdoad operating in nature by the dispersal of the rays of the Elements in their dual aspect under the presidency of the 8 letters of the name Yod Heh Vau Heh and Aleph Daleth Nun Yod.
Translated this means the Octagon shows the 8 fold nature of the elements in positive and negative space and how they connect from the Great Spirit (Infinity) to the Inner Spirit within us all.
8x8 = 64 I Ching Hexagrams 64x8 = 256
We currently make 20 amino acids but we have the potential for 64. 8x8. Activating these amino acids would be the next step in our evolution of our DNA and Spirituality.
Chakras and 888
What do we see above. Chakras moving like gears all connecting. 3 figure 8's stacked one above the other. Taking us to the Third Eye Chakra and conecting us to the source of the infinte.
8 of wands = Swiftness.
Rapid, clear communication. Freedom, explosive energy, Inspiration, Enlightenment after confusion. The mind and the will working as One.
Adjustment is key to 888
Adjustment can be active or passive, Silent judgement or Divine Justice. The Wheels of Karma revolve. We can create good or bad karma it all depends on the adjustments that we make. Re-ordering, Correcting of errors. Small things can have big effects if we connect through the 888 of our activated chakras back to the orginal Unity which is infinite (8).
A balancing of the energy of the eight of Wands. By Balancing the Light we achieve Enlightenment and Total Freedom.
The 8 of Wands is the message that we are sending. The message connects us to the universal mind network. The Message we are sending is to our selves and to the stars. To the farthest reaches of this Universe and to the core of our DNA. The Message is we are ready to awake into the full light of consciousness and evolve from what we were (Not Being), into Being - Becoming.
Time & Space will feel different because we will sense the connection to everything else.
awake
