Dr Who – The Rings of Akheten and Lord of the Rings April 21, 2013

Dr Who, 7^th series, episode 2 – The Rings of Akhetan

Is there anyone interested in Dr Who as well as’ Lord of the Rings’?  The second episode in the latest series is called ‘The Rings of Akhetan’! The Rings bring to mind the One Ring which Frodo agreed to destroy in the volcanic fire of Mount Doom with the help of the Fellowship as well as the others which include the nine rings of the dread Nine Black Riders – Sauron’s servants – and the seven rings that once belonged to the dwarves.  It probably does not include the three beautiful Elven Rings that were hidden.

In the Dr Who episode the Rings of the solar system of Akhetan are bands that surround the large sun, rather like the rings of Jupiter.  A God sleeps within this fiery star whom the people of that star system believe is their creator.  He turns out to be an evil parasitic God who feeds of the Song and lives of the living people.  It is his time to awaken and when he does he fills the sun with the features of a face that are black and empty.  Compare that with the fiery Eye of Sauron, at the centre of which was a black, empty, bottomless pit.

There is also a particularly Elven theme as a ‘leaf, song and stars’ feature prominently.  The doctor’s new assistant, Clara, takes with her on the adventure the diary of her life and page 1 is the wondrous leaf that brought her parents together.  And here is another curious thing.  You can spell ‘Arwen’ out of the letters in Clara’s full name – Clara Olwen Oswald.  Arwen was the Elven princess who fell in love with Aragorn/Strider.

And another curious thing, a young girl called The Queen of Years comes in to the story.  Every thousand years the people in that Star System come together and it falls to this young girl to sing the Eternal Song that will feed the god as she knows all of the history and songs of these peoples through time.  That girl’s name is Merry Galel and Galel sounds remarkably like Galadriel and the Elves were renowned for being ‘merry’ and, since they were immortal, they had pretty long memories! Merry is also golden haired like Galadriel, whereas Clara is dark-haired like Arwen.

The evil god is like Sauron and other evil creatures in ‘Lord of the Rings’ in other ways too. Since they have denied life, they hate and envy the light, yet they have an insatiable appetite to consume that life.  Sauron wanted to rule the world and have everything under his dominion and when he had destroyed all life on the planet what then?  The doctor offers this parasitic god all his memories and life experiences which he lists and are simply mind-boggling, yet this god is still hungry at the end.  (You will be glad to hear that the doctor survives this experience!).  Forward steps Clara and offers the God her leaf.  Her father had always told her it was the most important leaf in history because it had to grow at that particular time, in that particular way so it could be blown from the tree at the precise moment it would fly in Clara’s father’s face which made him step into the path of an oncoming car and he is rescued by Clara’s mum who is a complete stranger.  Clara tells the god that because her mother died young (like Arwen’s mother leaving Middle Earth prematurely) the leaf contains an unfulfilled future and therefore infinity.  The God greedily starts feeding off the energy of the leaf and explodes! And the doctor remarks that even he cannot digest infinity.  It is about the micro/macro, and the universe held in a grain of sand. By voicing this truth it became real.

Interestingly, both Clara’s mum and Clara swear by exclaiming “Oh my stars” and Galadriel and Arwen were known as the Morning and Evening Stars and ,of course, the Elves are renowned for their love of the stars.

A ring comes into the story too. Payment for a taxi on this particular planet is paid for with objects that hold memories and the doctor has nothing on his person of value apart from his wizard’s staff/magic screwdriver.  He turns to Clara who takes off her mother’s ring and gives that. And in that moment we are right in the story of the Lord of the Rings as Clara, like Frodo, has to give up her ‘precious’ ring! At the end of the adventure, when the doctor drops Clara off home safely from the Tardis, he gives Clara back her ring which has been returned from the people with gratitude.  So things coming full circle, the adventure completed.

The number 12 and the Mayan Calendar December 5, 2012

Walking to my car at noon on Monday 3rd December I saw a large no ’12′ chalked in white on a house wall. I realised that the ’2′ is like one half of the Omega symbol.  If you take a reflection or shadow image of the no 12 it is like the Omega symbol – which means The End  as in THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA – THE BEGINNING AND THE END – split in half with the two ’1′s’ creating a door or gateway in the centre, as if we are at the End of one Age but there is a door leading to another one or to a higher consciousness and a new world.

By not including the shadow side or reflection - the one that Alice visits in Alice Through the Looking Glass where everything is back to front! – we are only seeing one half of our reality as everything has its opposite – Light/Dark, Masculine/Feminine, Hot/Cold, Good/Bad.  You cannot have one without the other. When we include the the no 12′s reflection we see the whole picture and the full meaning of the no. 12 in the Mayan Calendar - that it is both an Ending and a Beginning.

An Acrostic on the Word ‘FEAR’ November 24, 2012

F   =   false

E   =   expectation

A   =   appearing

R   =   real

Body and Mind together

For a long time now Robert Light has been trying to get us to come out of mind time and into the Here and Now – real time. In mind time we are hardly ever in the present: our thoughts are in the past or fearing the future. To help us break the control of the  mind we can concentrate on becoming more aware of our immediate surroundings.  This is a very interesting exercise as you can feel yourself coming into the present moment. Also, we can send the mind through the body to the feet and try to become aware of them – of how they feel - warm, cold, tingly.  This helps weaken the mind’s control.  Focussing on the breathing also takes us out of the mind and in to the present.

Neither the past nor the future exists, only the flowing moments of the Present.  The body is only ever in the present but not the mind and it is this strain on the body that causes us to age.

I remember listening to a talk by the priest and speaker, Mike Yaconelli, where he mentions a week’s seminar for young priests.  Because of all the sitting they had brought in a Vietnamese lady to give massage. At the end of the week the speaker found her sobbing quietly in a corner and asked what was the matter.  She replied that the bodies of these young men had been screaming. Because of the nature of her work she had become finely attuned to the body and could therefore sense the anguish of these people’s physical bodies whose needs had for so long been ignored – perhaps never allowed to relax and, therefore always in a state of tension.  Their bodies were not integrated with the mind that was controlling them.

The young men were clearly intellectuals who lived entirely in their minds and were not connectted to their bodies and its body’s needs.

P.S. Have just read the following just a few days after the above post which migh be of interest:

‘ Mitchell L. Gaynor, M.D., a leading oncologist and director of integrative medicine at the Strang-Cornell Cancer Prevention Center.  Dr. Gaynor states in his book The Healing Power of Sound, that “the very tools high-tech scientists have used to understand modecular biology are revealing that mind-body communication occurs on the deepest levels of cellular function.  Based on my reviews of this burgeoning research, I have come to believe that mind and body are not merely connected, they are unified.  I also believe that understanding mind-body unity is essential to recognizing how sound—which has vibratory effects on cells, organs, emotional effect on the brain, and which taps a spiritual dimension as yet undefined—is the next frontier in holistic healing.”

Elements of LOTR in the Olympic Opening Ceremony August 5, 2012

Interesting references to the Lord of the Rings at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics.  Before the 5 enormous gold rings suspended in the sky linked up, they looked like 5 Rings of Power floating at another dimension.  Later, when the green and happy land of The Shire was replaced by an industrial landscape, we actually witnessed the forging of the One Ring of Power.  All those black chimneys were like the Black Tower of Sauron.  Then Sauron himself appeared in the guise of Lord Voldamort - the Harry Potter books being an updated version of Lord of the Rings –  vast, menacing and empty of real life – just a billowing black nothingness. And presiding over the whole ceremony for the duration was The Party Tree on an ancient mound or Gorsedd – the meeting place – for a party, in the case of the hobbits.

The Pyramid of Power has begun to crumble June 24, 2011

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An earlier blog about the  Pyramid of Power was written, unwittingly, at the beginning of what has come to be called ‘the Arab Spring’. It began in Tunisia in December 2010 and then spread to Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and Syria.

The clue came when someone in our group who is highly intuitive remarked at that time that ”the Pyramid of Power is beginning to crumble at its base.  And this Pyramid is ancient”. In other words the few have ruled over us in their own interests through time, taking the riches for themselves and caring little for their own people. You only have to read about the huge palaces and armies and lifestyles of the rulers of ancient civilisations to see this.

A little later, Robert asked me where these countries were built and I replied they were built on the sand. I then realised that the Great Pyramid of Giza is also built on sand and that there is a link between the Arab Spring and the crumbling of the base of the Pyramid of Power.

Age of mass greed (2) January 19, 2011

“The wear and tear on the young is very great”.  Those words uttered by Robert at an earlier meeting to the one about the Eye in the Pyramid, hit me hard. They were both heart rending and chilling. We all know what is causing this.  Trying not to sound too much like a killjoy or a prude but some of the contributory factors are, as we know, the binge drinking culture of our youth which must be playing havoc with their livers, particularly those of young women; it is the mega high decibel levels of the music in clubs etc; it is the diet of fizzy drinks and fatty take-away food; it is the drugs, microwaves into the brain from mobile phones, and it is increased pressures in the work place.

At around the same time articles began to appear making the shocking prediction that, because of their lifestyles, some of today’s youth will pre-decease their parents.

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