Cougar Philosophy

Most people at one time or another want to know somehow and in some way, if God/Allah really exists. It does not matter if we are atheist, agnostic, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist or Gnostic. The time will come.

Some days, even for the strongly religious among us, our faith in God only goes so far. Many people cry out for proof of God's existence at one stressful time or another. The death of a loved one can bring out the questions. Any traumatic event can make one stop and question. Most of the time, there is no answer that comes to comfort us and we live on in more suffering and in some cases, sometimes in more hate towards God and other people for 'not caring.'

God seems so far away from most of us. Even the name 'God' or 'Allah' seems to imply a male power, so some of us react by calling for the Goddess power. This is our awareness, still trapped in the reality of duality. God is above duality. God is above the Mother/Father God. God is Eternal and ineffable. This is why it is said that the One True God is above all naming. We cannot describe or name what is above our understanding. The closest I can come to describing the Source of all Life is to call It the 'Uncreated, Creating' but that still falls short of helping our knowing what is most accurately meant by calling It as such. This is one thing we cannot describe with one word. We have no true word for God, so I will simply call this ineffable power "God" here.

Since God does not walk this Earth with us (except partially, when we recognize God being in each one of us) and since we cannot describe God in a word or even in a paragraph, we feel even more distant from Him. It makes it so much more frustrating to us. Fortunately, some people are finding out that reading of near death experiences are helping them come closer to the reality of "God." Even if the adventures into Heaven are still virtually indescribable, there is a commonality within the experiences that is too universal to ignore and touches the heart. Now, a public craving has grown out of these readings.

It has been brought to my attention that it would help so much if people could experience God/Allah without having a near death experience... My answer is, "They can!" This is the trick that recently dawned on me that fools us from thinking that we ever can experience God while living in the flesh:

"The unnamable and unutterable essence of God cannot be easily described or named or understood by our limited minds and this easily misleads us to think that we then cannot experience the namelessness and unutterable, the essence of God." Stories from before our childhood tell us we may not be able to see God without burning to a crisp! This sort of thing shows our vast gulf of feeling/being separate from God. But it is not quite true! We can experience the existence of God!

We may not be able to describe or even imagine what God is, but we can most certainly Experience God and begin to know God! This is a more important point than I first thought. I am talking about something with the capability of being a life-changing event! Do not be alarmed, I am not talking about knocking on your door, Bible in hand, hawking Jesus. I am talking about something far more powerful than that! I am speaking from Soul to Soul.

There are three parts of God/Allah that can be experienced while in the body and in full consciousness to personally know The Divine does exist and that we are not alone as humans. These three parts are the Love, the Light and the Sound of God/Allah.

I am not talking about using the imagination or the heart to feel the Love, which does occur. I am not talking about meditating on hearing the Sound, which can be heard. I am not talking about seeing the Light from a distance or within and being inspired. These in themselves are valid experiences but they mostly dim with time. I am speaking of experiencing all of these fully, being surrounded and engulfed in its intoxication! No doubt what-so-ever! An experience that will never diminish from memory! A Life-changing event that can be repeated again and again when it is your time to experience them.

All other gifts and talents that we have talked about stem from these three and are of lesser importance than these three. Who really cares if one can heal or affect electricity and read peoples minds? Or travel through walls or through time to see the past and potential future? These are not the highest of what we should strive for in life. The highest gifts are receiving the Love, Light and Sound, even if but for one brief moment... In that tiny moment it can change our whole outlook on life and reaffirm our faith in a Higher Power. Not only that, it brings us healing, it brings us closer to self-actualization, closer to psychological health and closer to Enlightenment. It can even charge us with a new purpose to our lives. Wow! What else needs to be said about the importance of it?

The reality of It's existence (Boundless Love, Divine Light and the Sacred Sound) is Historical and Biblical and in most NDE stories. Shamans use the drum to slow the heart to a entranced heart beat. With this, the wise ones visit the first levels of Heaven. Interestingly enough, the return drumming of Heaven is one way the Sound of God comes to us and is connected to the heartbeat of our life.

My dad was injured in WWII and near death he heard an orchestra of violins. This is another way the Sound of God comes to us.

Let us take some Biblical and scientific references of the Sacred Sound into consideration for those that need to be reminded that these things are possible and are recorded:

Acts 2 says, "And suddenly a sound came from Heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled the house where they were sitting."

Matthew 24 says, "And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call" (another version says, "send out His angels with a great sound").

Revelation 1 says, "His voice was like the sound of many waters."

Rev. 14 says, "And I heard a voice from Heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder."

Rev. 22 says, "Then He showed me the river of the water of Life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God."

Many people know of Paul's journey to Damascus in which at midday a light from Heaven, brighter than the sun flashed about him and he heard a voice speak to him. (The voice inside the sound)

Eckankar is much more specific and goes on to describe that the Sound that emanates from God is heard as a different kind of Sound depending what level we have reached into the Heavens.

It starts out at the top (beginning of Creation) as a roar of atoms breathing life into the material worlds and is an active process of creation.

A PBS channel recently broadcasted 'The Elegant Universe.' They tried to explain the 11 dimensional String theory. Below atoms and quarks even, are the basic units that present the material universe. These seem to be strings. Some are open-end strings and some are hoops. They vibrate at different frequencies. This makes Sound and harmonies of Sound. This relates to an earlier suggestion that the smallest part of the universe is not composed of particles, but of waves.

Looking in the book 'The Key to Secret Worlds' this morning, I smiled when I found Paul Twitchell speak of the Bani as, "This wave is actually the supreme Sugmad in action, vibrating throughout the universes.... The sound is actually the humming of the atoms as they flow out from God's great center into the worlds below, via the great wave which touches all things. It is often similar to the sound of bees humming in the sunlight, searching for the nectar in flowers."

The Sound is the breath of God and to hear it is our beginning of the journey back into our true home. Being somewhat of a poetic mystic, myself, I have written in my first book from personal experience that, "The Sound is God, chanting into time and space." (Or, "chanting out time and space.")

Scientists have recently discovered that Black Holes make a great sound and the voice of one deep, deep bass in the Persius galaxy cluster measures at 57 octaves below our middle C.... far beyond the hearing range of humans... I quote: "The distance between the sound waves determines the pitch. But the voice of the black hole could never be heard by the human ear because there are 10 million years between each of the sound waves, clearly not within human experience..."

Just for comparison, the average human ear needs to sense at least 16 waves (cycles) per second in order to hear it as sound. After around 20,000 cycles per second it goes beyond our range to hear it in the other direction. We only sample a section of reality. Ponder on the idea that this goes for light and love as well... It is all waves of vibration! Humans are focused within only one bandwidth of it all! But we cannot be trapped here forever!

Being a NDEr and an out of body traveler, it is not hard for me to imagine the feeling of flying toward a black hole faster than the speed of light. Once that speed is achieved, the waves emanating from it are relatively passing my astral ear drums much faster than one every 10 million years.... Fast enough to hear the awesome sound of one of God's mighty creations.

Can the Black Hole be a portal to the Void of God? Through the tunnel of Light! Each galaxy has a black hole at its center for each 'local' resident to enter one day, by the intense gravitational field pulling us into it, or rather, our instinctive attraction to it. The beauty of the mystery of it all!!! The many Big Bangs (Not just the one scientists subscribe to at this time) may represent God breathing out into the Multiverse and the many Black Holes are God breathing duality back in to its bosom of Eternal life.

So, now, exhausting you with all this Sound stuff, which has been more rarely known to many of you, I shall not bore you with a lot of Light and Love references, which have been more commonly addressed by others.

I will give you two different brief references to Light:

Psalms 104: God, thou art clothed with honor and majesty, who coverest thyself with light as with a garment.

The visionary musical group, the Moody Blues, sang: "A beam of light will fill your head and you'll remember what's been said by all the good men this world has ever known."

For those who would like more than just references from the dim past; For those who would like to be reassured by personal experiences happening within their lifetime, I offer up myself as one living example that you may know this Love, Light and Sound as well.

I have experienced these out of the body, in the body and in full consciousness and know the reality of it. It is virtually impossible to describe the power and significance of having this transformative experience. I share this gift with you. I emphasize that I am telling you this not to brag but to indicate to you that you, too, can have this experience!!!

The Boundless Love, I have tasted in some out-of-body and in-the-body experiences but felt deeply in two of my NDEs. Total surrounding, enveloping Love. Love more ancient than the unconditional love from grandparents. Love more refreshing and invigorating than the present moment of youth. Love more Eternal than anything this universe can offer. The Eternal Love all around me that also generated Eternal Love from within my very being as well. Everything was known from the space of Eternal Love... This is about all I can say on this and it falls so short of the actual experiences. Before having these experiences, I thought that the occasional experiences of pure bliss I have had through the practice of contemplation were as much as we could ask for. Funny! How relative it all is! There seems to be no end to it all!

The Divine Light, I have seen in some out-of-body and in-the-body experiences and experienced fully in one NDE. I have seen the garments of Light of what many people call the Angels, visiting me at night on many occasions. On more than one occasion during a sitting contemplative state I had the Light come from above and wash through my body and scatter out across the floor dancing away into the darkness of the light of this world. These experiences are not only seen but felt. There are too many to talk about but I do want to mention two that happened during the months I was writing my 'Angels in the Light' book:

One day as I lay down to nap, a light came through the top of my head and felt like a real tube of light being placed in my brain. This was not any imagination technique. It caught me by surprise. I was filled with love as intense as the fullness of one of my NDEs. It also caused my vision to extend out into the Universe. I embraced the universe because of this Love given me.

On another afternoon I lay down to rest, another light tube entered through the top of my head. This time, instead of love, I was filled with the knowledge of the universe and anything I wanted to know about man. (A beam of light will fill your head...) I have been in this state of mind several times before, but not with a conscious memory of a 'real' light tube like this. I was amazed to realize that Divine Light not only brings Wisdom but brings Love as well and can do so together or separately!

One time around 1987 in the middle of a sacred drum dance that I took part in, I saw the tunnel of light come to me in full consciousness! It was a full rainbow of light and compelling love. I knew if I left my body to travel into it, I would not be able to return down through it. I had sensed that the humans here have all but given up on genuine love from what I had experienced with this group over the past three years. I found I was ready to go. I was quietly preparing to go. I thought I was doing this unnoticed.

Other dancers and healers around me did not see this tunnel but strongly sensed something was not going to happen, if they could help it. Five of them came over to me, now outside the circle and held me down with their ten hands grounding me to the earth until I gave up the struggle to leave. They never did any thing like this to me in any other dance. Because of this tunnel that called to me, the energy of the dance changed back into people trying to close the gap on the emotional distance that had been created over a thoughtless period of time.

I speculate that the tunnel of light might be the same as the tube of light, the same power shifting to different diameters. One is big enough to enter and leave the planet. The other one will not permit that.

The Sacred Sound can be experienced in many different types as written earlier and as I can personally attest to. In the body, I have heard it as a heavy wind or a light bell and as a hum. Some say they hear a flute. At times of consciously leaving the body, I have heard it as rushing water, as rapid drumming, as an undulating buzzing sound or humming like a transformer or even the Huuu. In dreams I have heard it as an orchestra and as the Huuu. Concentration on the sound can make the dream more vivid until you wake up inside the dream.

One of the most remarkable types of experience for me has been when I am almost out of body, I have heard rolling thunder that leads me on to the Source once I get out of body. I compare this thunder to a thousand b-12 bombers flying overhead and the roar of water in a heat and steam system in one apartment I had lived in, with pipes running across the baseboards of all the walls. This helped encourage more of these experiences.

Inside this great internal rolling thunder that sounds like it is all around me outside as well, I have heard the great voice of God speaking to me as I journeyed forth to see the face of God. This is probably why these stand out as the most remarkable and most sacred to me. The more pure (higher) form of this thunder was the Great Huuu I heard in my second NDE and in a dream vision or two. The voices of 'God' and the angels were much clearer here as well. This is where life review and sacred prophecy is revealed.

One day, in the dense woods behind my house, I found two pieces of abandoned railroad wood that was perfectly cut to size as if it were made for a cross! All I had to do was notch them a little and nail them together. I put the smaller of the two across my shoulders to carry it home. When I got about thirty feet away from the other one I heard this awful buzzing sound! I knew it well... I must have disturbed a nest of yellow jackets! I picked up my pace. The noise got louder and louder until I knew they must be almost on top of me and I let the piece of wood drop and ran at top speed. Glancing back, I saw nothing! I should have been stung by now as I had been on several other occasions. I could still hear them all around me so I kept running, checking my clothes as I went. They love to climb you while you run and get inside your clothing. Trust me, I know this!

The sound faded away, which was scary too, because that meant they were all on you and not flying any more! I checked very closely. I even pawed at the space between my neck and beard (Their favorite spot). Nothing was on me and nothing happened. There were no bees and no yellow jackets but that intense humming haunts me to this very day!

Now, I have introduced you to the Love, Light and Sound of God. I shall tell of a fourth power from God that is even less known than the Sound. I didn't believe it myself until I had experienced it myself less than a hand full of years ago. I was falling asleep during a sitting contemplation. It was the first time I fell asleep in a group of other contemplators. I found myself in this wonderful land. I ended up sitting under a tree of Enlightenment and found myself drinking in a sweet nectar that was dripping off the leaves into my open mouth. This nectar was more wondrous than any sweet taste I ever experienced. It went down my throat slowly, so savoring. I drank it in until I was full and yet never was too full. It was very intoxicating and it seemed that I could taste it forever! I came out of sleep back into contemplation and could still taste it for some time after. This was so amazing! I have never experienced anything like it before or after! I had felt as though God had satisfied all of my spiritual hunger.

How do we experience God without risking our physical life? How do we experience this Love, Light and Sound from the very Throne of God? This is not an easy task. But with this writing, I hope I have encouraged you to seek this out with more determination. All I can do is give suggestions. The real work is up to you. Some keys have already been given. Do the best you can to find truth in yourself and in others and call upon this Love and Light and Sound from the Above. It is not easy to face truth within ourselves. We must not be merely curious. We must be fearless. We must desire this with all our heart and soul! We will not be given anything important until we are willing and ready to see truth.

God/Allah will give you what you need at the proper time. For some, it may only take a week, for others, it may take years. It does not matter... we must not waver from our goal, our hearts desire. Remember what the twin enemies are that keep you from discovering Truth and keep you from allowing Divine power to come in to you. The mind and the protective ego are meant to be tools only, and good ones at that! The mind and the protective ego try to remain as your task masters, driving you. It is in your power to change this. This Divine Light and Love can really come at any time, regardless of any effort. It is in Gods timing.

The Sacred Sound can come to you regardless of any efforts on your part. It may come to you while you are in the midst of a dark night of the soul... It may come to you while you are having the time of your life... One thing I know for sure (Here it comes!!!) is that if you constantly improve the quality of how you pray to God, it will come sooner than later. Strive for 'Thy will, not mine' in all that you do... Start with that close-up parking space you so desire. Give it all up to God and strive to do what is within your truest heart. The more you can line up your desires with Gods desires, the closer you will become aligned with God. The more you can give it up to God, the more you will see what those desires/designs are. This merging of desire between man and God will allow for the most high Love, Light and Sound to then enter you! It is that simple, and most difficult! There you go!!!

Be a moth to the flame... but do not burn up into a crisp! Transform into a phoenix, or a butterfly. Join us, the inheritors of Eternity. :)

Just as I am wrapping up this article, I have been led to a statement in an out-of-print book called, "Dialogues With the Master" by Paul Twitchell. I had been a little concerned if my article would cause people to go chasing after the BIG events of God when perhaps we have been told we should not call upon these great powers like this but must wait patiently for them to come, if at all. People are thinking that we should be happy with the little events and that they mean just as much. From one level, this is true. Not everyone will see the earth shake and see mountains move. For after all, it really must only come when IT must.

This passage is even bolder than what I have attempted here myself so I will leave you with this as another measuring rod: "In the simplest terms I tell you that divine power is that which flows out of (the) universal body to sustain all the worlds. Call it Light and Sound.

"Man is sustained by (both the Light and Sound). Man must seek this and contain IT, master IT, subdue IT and make IT his servant along with the rest of his united, individual self.

"I know the secret, and tell man of it... (for man too IS the Light, if he would only look inwardly for it)

"Once (the Light and Sound) is bestowed upon the individual his responsibility to the divine cause becomes absolute. He cannot escape his destiny. To do so will only create chaos in his universe."

My final thought is:

We all know that with great power comes great responsibility.

We are but Immortal babes here in this world. The tests are astounding! Beyond myth! Beyond record! Do not fear failure! The tests are always there waiting for us to eventually pass through when we can finally flow like pure gold from the crucible.

Love and Light..... and Sound, :) Cougar 3

SUPERMAN REVEALED

Smallville began it's 5th season Thursday night, 29 Sept. 2005. This is a show about Superman in his teen years. Clark was confronted about knowing his secret, undeniably witnessing his strength and other powers. There are others who are coming and going on the show who developed special, mostly singular powers from the meteor shower of 15 years ago. They knew this, being the campus investigative reporters they were, so he is compelled to finally tell the truth during this confrontation. Clark distinguishes himself by stating that his powers did NOT come from the meteor shower. He was born that way. He was not from Earth, not even from this galaxy. (He came to Earth in that meteor shower.) The friend exclaimed, "You are an Alien? But you are more Human than most humans. You save lives without drawing attention to yourself! If only more people were like you, the world would be a better place."

This fits very well with what Quentin Tarantino says in the climax of his movie, Kill Bill vol. 2. (I was talked into watching it less than two weeks ago and do not necessarily recommend it!) David Carradine enlightens Uma Thurman with the Superman mythology. For most Super hero's, it is an alter ego. Peter Parker wakes up in the morning as Peter Parker. He has to put on a costume to become Spiderman. This is an alter ego. Same with Batman.

Superman wakes up in the morning as Superman. The clothes he wears with the 'S' on it, is made from the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby. (Immortal cloth. It does not tear nor wear.) It is not a costume! It is part of his true identity. He does not wear a mask when being his true self.

The following is going to sound Uber-racist, or at the least as Separatism, so remember, Tarantino said this, not me..... :) "The glasses and the business suit is the costume Superman wears to blend in. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent? He is weak. He is unsure of himself. He is a coward. This is Superman's critique of the whole human race." Their costume is to be more than they normally are. His costume is to pretend mortality to get along with others, to not stand out.

I like the blend of these mythologies best: Many people develop a special gift or two as they grow from the genetic/spiritual potential. It is not so much as an alter ego as it is displaying a power/gift/talent or two from, within and mixed up with their ego/weakness/ frailty. There is much beauty and sadness in the results/fruit here. Their contributions to society can be seen for thousands of years!

A very few are born Supermen and Superwomen. The biggest difference is not in taking on a super power or two from day to day, but Being Super naturally. Being a complete human being. Every other Super Hero has a special Super Power. Superman has them all wrapped up in One body! I could suggest Enlightenment here:

Knowing first hand of one's own Immortality (Invincible. Superman cannot be killed or die).

Out of body flying (Faster than a speeding bullet. Leap tall building in a single bound , x-ray vision and super hearing, all fit this category).

Having the most correct response to Life.

Psychologically healthy. Self awareness, self acceptance. Self Actualized.

Forgiving of others. Forgiving Society. Forgiving mankind.

May die a complete unknown.

We are all to reach this state of Being one day, as we all are, in Eternity.

i hope the mythologies inspire us to become more than we see we are today.

They spring from hidden Truths. Or rather, we have hidden away from them.

Kal-El & Inanna.

Jor-El is Superman's True Father. He is transcendent-beyond human form. When Clark was shot through the lung and died on the third episode of this season, Jor-El brought him back to life, and with his super powers back. This is like an NDEr gaining super wisdom, insight and sometimes psychic gifts.

The amazing part was Jor-El told him now someone close to him, someone he loves, would have to die since he was brought back to life. Life needs to balance a life for a life! I was so frustrated because it sounded like the Inanna myth that matched my third NDE. This one is from before the 18th Century BC. We are told Inanna could only come back if someone close to her took her place in Hell. I never understood it...........until now by comparing the two stories together: An adult NDEr often loses someone close to them because of the major changes they go through after an NDE!!! I am pulling the truths out of the myths. It is not that they really die....its that they die to you. All the old values and old friends are gone out of necessity.

Clark (Kal-El) had to tell his earth parents at the end, "I am not human anymore. That is the only way I could come back." In the first episode he was glad he had lost his powers because now he could get closer to Lana Lang and not keep any secrets from her. Now he is afraid to tell anyone that by coming back different than others he will lose someone he loves!!! Wow!!!

Enter the Love & Light, Cougar