There is a big question in physics. “Why does time seem to flow in one direction only?” From a mathematical point of view it should equally be able to flow from future to past.

A simple answer?

I have been considering this question through this autumn and there seems such a simple explanation. Time flows forward because the universe is expanding. Einstein showed that space and time are two parts of entirely one whole. Thus if the universe expands only outwards from the Big Bang, then time too must flow in the direction of expansion.

In the flow

I guess i can’t be right - but through this process there have been several moments when i felt as if I were flowing with time, like a surfer riding a wave, a wave in time. Even when I stood still, I sensed I was in this movement, a movement that had no past and no future, but is always just now.

Space gets in the way

I realised the distraction is space. The fact that I am able to choose to move in three dimensions: forwards and back, left and right, up and down, makes it seem that when I choose not to move in any direction then I must be in stillness. But this is not so. Even when I do not move in space still I am flowing in time. Space and time are two parts of one whole, like complementary colours, to have a position in space i must also have a position in time. And even if i do not move in space still time flows. And this wave of now i can never leave. Time is to life on earth as water is to the fish. Being in time we do not see it. But it is the movement we never leave our whole life long.

The future

There is much more … but that is for a later NOW.

Cows have feelings too

It was front page news recently in a local Japanese newspaper that cows who receive and are called by, a name produce more milk. Is it pink that they feel cared for? Do they have a (yellow) sense of self that responds to attention? Mooooving on to a related theme …

His Dark Materials

This is a prize-winning trilogy of three books by Phillip Pullman that addresses a host of cosmological questions in the form a children’s adventure. A vital subject in the adventure is what the author calls “Dust” A kind of golden energy, invisible to the naked eye, which surround anything that has consciousness invested in it. There is a lot of Dust around people for example, but it also clusters around human-made objects, since they have received conscious attention.

A Blackbird

These two pieces of information come together when I consider an insight I had during a pre-class walk one sunny Tokyo morning. As I returned to the hotel, I noticed a bird fluttering in a bush beside the road. I also noticed my mentally naming it – “Blackbird” and the fact that I was turning my consciousness towards it. In that moment I understood that our seeing the world with consciousness bestows consciousness upon the world. This fits Pullman’s idea of the presence of Dust that is so vital to all the worlds in his books.

Djwal Khul

I remember that I associated this realisation with Djwal Khul. I think because with DK we talk about “Objective seeing” - seeing things objectively, just as they are
without bringing any need, expectation or interpretation to them. It is a way of seeing which will give maximum support for all things to unfold just as they wish.

In this context it is interesting to note that since the early days of Aura-Soma DK has been connected to the gold as well as the Emerald Green. Perhaps it is for this reason …

And so

The importance of names, the gift of consciousness, the freedom to unfold truly …
My latest course, Equilibrium Journey, draws on many ways of looking as it seeks to understand the bigger story revealed through the Equilibrium sequence. Along with colour and number, names play an important role. It has caused me to wonder about the names of the bottles. No doubt they are all perfect, but I wonder if they are an outer name, and that perhaps there may also be inner names for each bottle which have yet to be revealed …

I saw it was the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down yesterday. I was surprised to note the date. 9th November 1989. According to the English way of writing dates that would be: 9.11.89 How strange both capitalism and communism should have suffered attacks on such important symbols on dates with the same number – 9.11 !!!

We all have walls

Speaking of walls I had a kind of “wall-coming-down moment” on a Rainbow Evolution course I presented this weekend in Switzerland. It was the last afternoon of the course and, as I collected the names for the student’s certificates, I had the idea to give one to myself too. Perhaps it was because I had enjoyed and learnt a lot from the course, perhaps it was because there was a collective, intimate feeling in the group, perhaps it was because we were exploring the coral energy just then in the course – and coral is a colour for being part of something …

Struggle

Anyway, whatever the reason that inspired me, I told the group I would make a certificate for myself too. But then while the students were working in pairs and I was filling in the certificates, I felt quite uncomfortable. How could I sign for myself? Was I being presumptuous, arrogant even? You see the coral master is Sanat Kumara and it is the last of the Cosmic Master Beings. After SK comes Maha Chohan, and this is the Greater Teacher. With the coral ray and Sanat Kumara we arrive at the point where we are ready for life itself to become our teacher. Could I really sign to that?

Relief

After tea break we had a feedback session and students shared their experience form the coral exercise. I also shared and told them about my process with the certificate. With a wave of enthusiasm they declared they would all sign it for me. And that’s what happened, I passed it around and they all signed it.

Wall coming down?

Well it is a vital part of coral that we help each other, we are interdependent. If I had stayed in my yellow-thinking-prison about whether I could sign for myself, the breakthrough would not have come. By opening the wall of my ego and sharing my situation with the group the perfect solution came. The gift of that experience was the reminder that i am just a human being, we are all part of the circle of humanity.

There is a new government in Japan. A party that did not exist two years ago has swept to power. There is a very interesting interpretation to be taken from the colour and shape of the symbol that has been chosen by the Minshu political party. It is fitting with their promise to the Japanese people. A message of change and new beginning.

The symbol shows two red circles meeting on a white background. The red circle is an echo of the sun on the Japanese flag – and thus associates the Minshu party with Japanese identity. However the presence of the second red circle indicates something new is happening. We should pay attention. Something new is being added to the traditional situation.

Look more closely and you will see the lower circle has a shaky edge. Why? What can this mean? The lower circle seems to be more energetic, the shaky edge seems to express movement, as if this second circle is vibrating with some kind of energy. This second circle is alive. The message is the Minshu party is vibrating with energy, an energy they can bring to Japan.

Even in England the Japanese election result was treated as big news. It was described as a political earthquake. We were told that for 50 years Japan had had only one party in government, and the result was that everything had become very fixed: politics, big corporations, the bureaucracy, nothing could move anymore in this power structure. This election result has broken an important part of this fixed power structure, something new can now grow. A shaking energy has been brought to what used to be very solid. The symbol with its vibrating red circle hovering over the traditional fixed red sun perfectly expresses this new (red) awakening energy.

There is more though. See the white space where the two circles overlap. As the energised red begins to overshadow the original circle a white process happens. White is clearing, cleansing - like a blank page, white offers a fresh start for a new story. As the Minshu party move to the centre of the Japanese picture, more and more of the original red sun will be bathed in white. There will be a clearing from which a new start may be made. This is what the Minshu party and this election result offers. A fresh start from which Japan can emerge reenergised. This seems to be what so many people hope for.

Colour, shape and resonance offer insight into the messages of the symbols around us. They allow us deeper understanding of the messages offered to us. Look around and enjoy.

In 1273 December 6th Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest Christian philosophers of all time, had his enlightenment moment. Sitting at mass that December morning, he experienced something so profound that it changed for ever how he felt about all that he had done before. And he had done a lot. Recognised by his teachers as a genius while still a young student he was assigned staff who were to follow him around and write down his words. By 1273 this had amounted to almost 8.5 million words through which he had laid the foundation for the Christian church to emerge from the superstition of the Dark Ages into the dawning light of the Age of Reason.

“Words are as straw”

However, following this enlightenment moment, he was to say that all (his) “words were as straw”. Presumably he meant that the direct spiritual experience went so far beyond that which words could contain that words became almost valueless. From then on till his death a couple of years later he scarcely wrote another word.

The Butterfly Moment

Why do I mention this? Because this happened in 1273 and B73 in the Equilibrium sequence is called Chang Tsu. He was a Chinese philosopher who is also famous for an enlightenment moment. Walking along the riverbank one day he saw a butterfly flutter by. In this moment he had some out of the body synchronicity moment. He famously remarked he did not know if he was a man seeing a butterfly or a butterfly looking down on a man.

A step into soul consciousness

The butterfly can symbolise the aura. Starting as an earthbound caterpillar, it goes through a process of transformation that results in it unfurling brightly coloured wings and flying up in the sunlight. In a similar way materialistic man can enter a process of spiritual transformation whereby his primary identification moves from the physical body to the light body. At this point man becomes like a butterfly fluttering by.

Life is a lottery

Nothing about colour this this time – just about humanity.

I have just spent 60 minutes sitting next to two very inspiring people. An elderly couple who were returning home to the USA after visiting her family back here in the UK. As we settled in to our seats the man turns to me and tells me he and his wife met in the war. !!! Yes. I did a double take. My mum was born in 1939 and she is 70. This couple had to be 20 years older than her. They were – both 89. I would never have guessed. They were sharp, alert, just the slightest shake when placing the luggage in the overhead locker. That’s it.

We talked about the war. In my whole life he is the first person I have spoken to who actually fought in the war. He was parachuted in to France, and then Holland, and then Germany. He carries shrapnel in his back to this day. They met in England. She was a war bride and travelled over to the US in 1946 in a hospital ship. We talked about war and peace, friends in foreign countries, retirement, geography and gardening.

It is hard to say why I feel touched exactly. More than anything I think it must have been the amazement I felt in the first moment. This unremarkable looking elderly couple who in a moment suddenly became so remarkable to me. Good people. People who have lived a lifetime and can still talk about it. People who have experienced the past but are still in the present.

Why do I call this post Life is a Lottery? From listening to some of their wartime stories it struck me how arbitrary life and death are in war. He lost fellow soldiers who died as they stood right next to him. Her wartime neighbours in London had fled Germany in 1937. Their house was hit by a stray bomb and the mother and son were killed in the blast.

Wrong time, wrong place. Right time, right place, how can we possibly know or choose. Life is so much bigger and fortune – good or bad is all around. This morning mine was to be sitting in 3F on flight KL1490.

I watched them being taken to their connecting flight and felt uplifted to have met something special in something so unremarkable.

My next post will be on twin souls. It seems to follow on nicely … Coming soon.

What happened to the titles of the past? Madam and Sir, Mister and Mrs etc. As we enter deeper into the turquoise age these words become increasingly rare in daily exchanges. How will we address each other in the future? I believe their replacements are already here, just emerging in a form we have yet to recognise: the Avatar.

This thinking began last week. A friend was telling me that Russians have some uncertainty these days in how to address each other. In Tsarist days the word was “Gaspardin” – the English equivalent would be something like “Sir”. In Soviet times the title was “Tavaresh” – (not Comrade as I always imagined - but something of similar meaning). Since the end of the Soviet system a new title has yet to emerge. They neither wish to continue the Soviet title, nor return to the Tsarist past. “Young man” and “girl” are two forms of address that are used but are often inappropriate.

In the UK we have a similar situation. When an insurance assessor visited my house recently, I did not know whether to address him as “Mister …”- (too formal) , or by his first name (too informal). In the end I simply did not address him by name at all.

So what has this to do with turquoise? First of all I have understood that titles require at least some social structure if not a social hierarchy. Thus in the USA – a country that offered a land of opportunity for all including the chance to be free of the social hierarchies of the Old World of Europe - names are far more important. In the USA for example, your waiter will introduce himself by name before serving you. The Aquarian Age is all about the individual – and to have titles would bury this. The all important question for turquoise is “Who am I?” Thus In the Aquarian Age our name – our most individual identity - is more important than any title.

So will there be a new title appearing? I think it is already happening – but in an entirely new form. The social medium of the future is the internet, and in this virtual world, the technology to create virtual representations of our self is well under way – from the choice to create our own user name, to the use of an image that represents something of us, to a full blown avatar able to move and express itself with its own style. For some the avatar will be their mask, for others their dream, and for a few their truth. In any case though, it will always be the unique presentation of our self to the world.

Titles are dead, long live the avatar.

PS And funnily enough – as I do a word count on finishing – I find this piece totals 462 words. That is a 4 - Yellow / Gold – the colour for the self, and 62 - Maha Chohan – the Pale Turquoise / Pale Turquoise which is the colour energy that is driving this change!

In a recent class a student asked “What can I say to customers who say “Give me another of those bottles - without them my life gets so bad.” Is there a danger of dependency with Aura-Soma?” This question prompted the following thoughts for me.

Look within the sequence of Equilibrium. The first Master is El Morya – Pale Blue. Blue is the opposite colour to orange. It is in orange that dependency issues lie. The first Master is opposite to dependency issues. El Morya shines the light into the blue grasping tendency. It inspires the realisation “I need nothing to be at peace”.

Equally, B1, the first bottle (after the 0 which is the nothing before the something) is also a blue energy – Blue / Deep Magenta. It is a rescue for the blue. This is the Magician in the Tarot. It carries the message “Come to realise that what you say becomes true”. Knowing this you will no longer depend on anything outside. The power to create derives from the magenta that lies within. It is enough to say “I will be happy” or “I will be at peace.” No more dependency on external circumstances, no product or drug we need.

In both these significant places in Equilibrium we find a message that is the opposite of dependency. The Aura-Soma energies nourish the being within; the soul consciousness, which is our greater power. Just as a child growing up on earth needs support before it is ready to stand by itself, the growing of our soul consciousness within this physical world also benefits from nourishment in its first steps. As time passes then, whether with or without the support of the Aura-Soma products, we attain the consciousness of the colours and the strength of the light. The Aura-Soma way is a bridge to this state of freedom.

I have been very inspired to explore the Aura-Soma Tissue Salts during my stay at the Vicky Wall Apothecary in Bratislava. The owner Janetka is a qualified pharmacist of 15 years experience who has been introduced to the Aura-Soma system of tissue salts through its creator - Alison Effting.

Most impressive to me has been the change I see in Janetka’s own family. Since she became a distributor for the salts at the start of 2009 they have been working intensively with them. Her father started taking the red salt - Kali Phos – and after 3 weeks of taking Kali Sulph – the red salt – they began to see a change in him. Before he could not be persuaded to venture outside the house, now, 6 months later, he goes out for 2 hours every day looking after the 2 year old grandchild all by himself. His comment is “The young mothers in the local park are pretty.” He has found the zest for life again.

The changes don’t stop there, her husband looks significantly fresher and her mother is free from an intense allergy that dominated periods of her life. It is for this relief that Janetka’s mother sees her daughter in a new light. It is rare in my experience to find parents who are convinced by their children’s interest in Aura-Soma. But Janetka has managed to achieve that result with the tissue salts.

So now I am really keen to try these salts too. Mike Booth’s view is that the salts supply the physical (crystalline) component which allows colour energy to be grounded in the physical body. In other words, the tissue salts support Equilibrium to do its work. I find it very exciting and have already ordered my full set of salts. If you would like to know more then visit Alison Effting’s website.
www.tissuesalts.com

I am proud to introduce my newest 3 day course. It has just been accredited by ASIACT as part of the Aura-Soma Continuing Education Programme. The first presentation will be in Holland at the end of August 2009. Contact myself or Brigitte Sutmuller at lightbow@planet.nl for details. Here is the description.

The Colour Rose is one of the central teaching tools of the Aura-Soma system. It contains many gifts and some secrets too. Its colour pattern provides a key to understand colour language and colour relationships. Yet the Colour Rose goes deeper, it is an expression of sacred geometry and its structure is intimately linked to further symbols such as the Vesica Pisces, the Star of David and the Tree of Life.

Each day the course addresses both these levels of the Colour Rose. With regard to colour, the first part of the course explores the pairs of contrasting complementary colours. Each colour axis of the Colour Rose is carefully considered in turn. Fascinating hidden connections are revealed as we go. For example, the green theme of direction requires the red association of footsteps to be complete. Once the six colour axes of the Rose have been explored they act like a key that is inserted into the Colour Rose. The key is turned and we experience the circular flow of colour around the Rose. Hidden colours, evolution of colour themes - all are illuminated in the second part of the course.

Yet the course goes deeper. Parallel to the daily development of the colour understanding runs the thread of a deeper research into the structure of the Colour Rose. Each day includes a presentation on an aspect of the Colour Rose’s structure in which its deeper secrets are hidden. These sessions explore the hidden geometric features of the Rose such as the Star of David and the Vesica Pisces. Symbols which in turn illuminate subjects such as the relationship between the Ascended Masters and The Cosmic Master Beings.

Like to learn more? Come and be part of this adventure of discovery.