

The Alexander Material by Ramon Stevens
Issue No. 3
Q:
What is the relationship between stone circle
structures like Avebury and Stonehenge and the energies of the earth,
and what was the actual purpose or function of those sites?
(R.L.)
A:
A circle is a two-dimensional sphere. As you
know from Conscious Life, the two most efficient shapes are
the axis (straight line) and the sphere. Energy moves most
efficiently, with the least resistance or loss of strength, in these
two patterns.
In stone circles like Stonehenge, the circle is
symbolic. That is, while the shape has an overall
circular form, there are gaps between the stones which would create
friction, loss of efficiency, were energy actually traveling around
the circle.
The builders of Stonehenge and other stone circles were
honoring the earth, the moon, and the stars by
symbolically replicating them in their circles. (We hear the protest
that the people of that time thought the world was flat. No, they
didn't; they could see the curvature of the earth and surmise
that the earth had the same shape as the sun and moon.) The circles
were used for several purposes: (1) as a daily visual reminder of the
earth- and sun-based religion of the time (not unlike cathedrals with
their soaring crosses visible for miles around); (2) for religious
ceremonies on the equinoxes and solstices. Priests would stand within
the circles (the villagers without), acting as the nexus between sun
and earth energies. The ceremonies would feature binding
of sun and earth energies, strengthening that celestial bond and
ensuring their continued cooperation in offering the
necessities of life: warmth, light, food. At winter solstice, a
ceremony would be enacted in which the vanishing sun
would be depicted as running away from the earth; the priests would
bind the sun to the earth with their songs and chants.
The priests, then, were seen as powerful enough to order
the cosmos about. Contrast this with other cultures, whose people saw
themselves at the mercy of the cosmos, placating the gods with
sacrifice. Not so among the Celts, who fancied themselves the
guardians of a cosmos of irascible and fickle celestial bodies which,
without a firm priestly hand, would spin about in random chaos.
Q:
I was wondering how our individualized soul
fits in with our probable selves and their rate of progress? How do
probable selves continue on as unique sparks of divinity within all
the higher self's infinite and cosmic possibility? Does each
probable self have its own inner ego? Is the life we create totally
unique when we have all these probable selves? How do all the inner
egos fit into the greater entity? (T.W.)
A:
We would encourage you to read our book
Earthly Cycles, if you haven't already, for an in-depth
discussion of probable selves, the higher self, etc. To answer your
questions specifically, and in order:
An individualized soul and its brethren probable selves are linked
in a common endeavor; that is, each probable self inhabits a unique
probable earth while pursuing certain common themes or life
experiences. Each probable self may be tuned to a
different set point on the life theme continuum, and in
the dream state and at other times they share their experiences. For
example, if the theme is poverty-wealth, each probable self might be
tuned to a different experience of that theme. The shoeshine-boy
probable self meets the billionaire-banker probable self to exchange
insights and experiences gleaned from their disparate experiences of
the same theme. Both sets of experience are equally valid and
fruitful for the higher self, however much the shoeshine boy may pine
for a warm bed and full belly.
Each probable self maintains its uniqueness due to its
tuning, which you can think of as a unique embedded code
(not dissimilar to bar codes on the products you buy, though
infinitely more complex). This anchors it to a specific
probable earth and a specific time period.
Yes, each probable self has its own ego.
Yes, the life you create is entirely unique, and you can see why:
the setup is unique and the stage on which you play out your life is
unique. The life experiences you garner will therefore make a unique
contribution to your higher self's store of earth-life knowledge.
Q:
What is déjà vu or does it even
exist? (L.A.)
A:
That's funny, we could swear someone asked
us that question before. People often assume a feeling of
déjà vu springs from a past-life memory. It
may, but, to follow from the previous question, it may have a variety
of other causes. If other probable selves, in their unique cocoons of
experience, have been to the probable versions of a
place; or met a probable version of a person, that can
also trigger a frisson of recognition in you (I feel like
we've met before somewhere...). Since life experience is
gathered and evaluated principally in emotional terms, if a probable
place or probable person from a probable self's experience
carries powerful emotional resonance, the likelihood of a déjà vu
experience is enhanced.
Q:
I'd like to follow up on my question
about evolution, with some "Which came first, the chicken or the
egg?" type questions. When humans were first here on the earth, did
they start as fully formed adults in a functioning tribe or troop?
Did they have no parents or ancestors? Did they know they were the
first? From what you described in my question in last month's
Q&A I imagine they sort of "rehearsed" this role as founders in
non-
physical form and then merged into being in the world. I think we
have a hard time imagining the first people without them having some
physical parents, thus the idea of humans evolving from something
else seems more reasonable to us, based on our understanding of how
the world seems to work. What can you tell us about this? (A.H.)
About your answer about the evolution theory in issue 2. I can
follow what you say that each species was created and thrust into
existence all at once. If you give the earth, like us humans, a
coordinate which attracts or repels events, e.g. species, it makes
sense. However, as an event type, a species body is an object which
can't be formed out of clay. So how do species, for instance us
humans, get fleshed out? (W.B.)
A:
In the previous issue we answered your question
by advising that all plant and animal species which have ever
inhabited, or will ever inhabit, the earth were created
in the nonphysical realmthe realm of pure
consciousnessand only later seeded into manifestation in the
space-time dimension as conditions warranted. Your current questions
ask the How? How did the human species manifest for the very first
time?
Every species, every individual creature, arises from an energetic
blueprint which remains in the nonphysical realm and
pulses to life in space-time terms. The pulses occur far
too rapidly for you to detect; your matter-based consciousness
smooths the on-off pulsations into an illusion of
continuity. It would certainly be disconcerting to be speaking with
someone and have him blinking in and out of his chairappearing
and reappearing with alarming rapidity. You spare yourself the
disorientation by simply not seeing the off
pulsations.
To ask about the first parents of humankind therefore misses the
point. Every body, your body, exists primarily as a field of energy
whose life force is vitalized with every on
pulsation. Your biological parents played an important, but
secondary, role in your creation: the energetic blueprint came first.
As the earth passes through oceanic cycles of accelerating and
decelerating vibration, it attracts species hovering on the
nonphysical side of the membrane as conditions ripen for their
manifestation. In time terms, the first attempts at
manifestation are subtle ones, as the magnetic attraction of
favorable earth conditions pulls on the generic blueprint hovering on
the other side. There is a period of give and take, subtle interplay,
as the generic blueprint pushes across the membrane and checks its
fit with earth conditions. There is a period of
adjustment to the unfamiliar environment and slower pulsations of the
earth (like you plunging into the ocean from a warm beach, or from a
cozy house into a wintry landscape).
If all goes well, meaning the generic blueprint finds compatible
energies and environment, it begins the process of materialization.
This is still a period of give-and-take across the membrane. Each
pinpoint of vibration within the generic blueprint must find a
matching earth element in order to build bone and blood and tissue
(the process can abort at any time if matching earth elements are not
found).
When it is ascertained that sufficient earth elements exist to allow
a species to survive, even thrive, the generic blueprint generates
countless copies of itself (not unlike a cell reproducing itself) and
presses them into manifestation across the membrane and
into disparate earth environments. There is, then, no first
parent of humankind or any other species; there is a sudden
manifestation across the globe of a theretofore nonexistent species
carving out patterns of survival from disparate ecosystems. Were you
standing in the right place at the right time, then yes, you would
see a novel animal simply appear from the ether. Because
humankind is the last species to have appeared for many millennia,
the chances of your enjoying such a spectacle are slim indeed!
We have said that evolution occurs within species, but not
between species. So when conditions were ripe for reptiles,
or birds, or fish, to manifest, their generic blueprint was thrust
into form in myriad forms across the globe. Some thrived in their
ecological niches; many perished. If you study the fossil record with
this understanding, and free yourself of the linearevolution
approach, you will find evidence that species appeared at
once around the globe.
Similarly, humankind appeared in scattered clusters around the globe
all at once. There was no Adam and Eve in the Garden,
then, no common progenitor as the current theory holds.
Archaeologists keep digging up earlier and earlier settlements,
confounding the Bering Land Bridge theory and other notions concocted
to force the evidence into a clean linear-evolution line. No such
line exists, as the evidence shows. North and South America, Asia,
and Africa all hosted early humans at about the same time. Of course,
later migrations have smeared the DNA trail beyond hope of recovery.
But what evidence you do have undercuts the validity of the linear-
evolution theory.
Q:
Why are there so many cases of autism today?
(K.Y.)
Why is Celiac disease becoming so popular? Is it any way related to
Autism? And why is Autism so prevalent? (W.K.)
A:
While in college, our host (Ramón)
volunteered at a children's mental hospital. There
he was befriended by a boy suffering from a classic case
of autism: repetitive rocking, magazine eating, grunting in lieu of
speech, and avoidance of direct eye contact. Nonetheless, the boy
responded to Ramón's kindness in his own oblique way,
such that the staff commented that he (Ramón) was the
boy's favorite person. The boy would grab Ramón's
arm, avoiding eye contact, but grunting as he pulled Ramón out
to the hallway, where they would play chase up and down
the hallways, the boy shrieking with the thrill. At other times, the
boy's sense of humor was evident, again expressed in his
oblique, sideways manner.
At the time, the theory du jour of the then-primitive field was that
autism was caused by a refrigerator mother whose coldness
stunted the child's psychological growth. Fast-forward to today
and autism is understood as a neurological impairment in which normal
interpersonal relations are stunted, locking the child inside his own
mind. Repetitive behavior and the need for rigidly maintained
schedules also manifest, evincing a need to order the
world in comforting routine, as the autistic is unable to
order the worldto express needs and
desiresthrough normal interpersonal means.
Autism appears to have a strong basis in genetic mutations. The
question to ask then is, Why are genetic mutations increasing? For
they cause far more diseases, including cancer, than just autism. You
live in a toxic soup, eat an unnatural diet, and live unnatural
lifestyles. All of these stressors can affect the highly
complex process of genetic recombination.
In the case of autism, we sense that heavy metals are particularly
implicated; that is, those living in environments with elevated
levels of heavy metals in the air and water are more likely to suffer
genetic abnormalities leading to impaired neurological development.
If autism is increasing, it serves as yet another red flag warning
you of the dangers of swimming in a toxic soup of your creation.
Q:
What exactly is kundalini and what purpose
does it serve? How can one who is going through an awakening
facilitate the process? (L.A.)
A:
Kundalini is an Eastern/Indian
concept used to represent, in visual/spatial form, the blossoming and
flowering of consciousness. We have written elsewhere* about the flow
of energy in the spine, which we term the coordinate. Awakening
kundalini simply means waking up from a state of
unconsciousnessliving at an animal level of
consciousnessto one growing toward enlightenement. From our
perspective, there is no actual stuff thereno
coiled energy at the root of the spine, waiting to be triggered and
released. Kundalini is a metaphor, then, for the process of spiritual
awakening.
[*See Conscious Life, Ch. 17.]
Q:
My question is about cancer. Advancement in
technology made it possible for scientists to unlock the entire
genetic code of two of the most common cancersskin and lung.
The scientists found the DNA code for a skin cancer called melanoma
contained more than 30,000 errors or mutations almost entirely caused
by too much sun exposure. The lung cancer DNA code had more than
23,000 errors largely triggered by cigarette smoke exposure. Are they
correct? The promise of this technology is that they will be able to
pinpoint the genes that cause the cancer and develop "gene fixing"
treatments. (W.B.)
A:
As always when discussing matters of health,
there are several interpenetrating levels of reality to consider. The
surface level is the one you discuss: the realm of genes, cells,
mutations, and DNA repairs. Below the surface, however, lies the
meaning of a disease state (for every disease has one). Here
lie deeper psychological, emotional, even metaphysical
triggers which cause the disease to manifest in the first
place. In other words, the deeper meaning comes firstcreating a
field of disharmonious energy patterns in a localized body
areafollowed by the secondary manifestation of the disease
which you recognize.
Much of the cancer epidemic is caused by insults to the
body, which include living an unnatural lifestyle, eating a diet at
variance from a natural diet, or the deliberate
inhalation/injection/etc. of harmful substances. As far as the first
two factors go, it is virtually impossible for a member of modern
civilization to avoid at least some disrespect toward the
body. This includes watching the evening news and having one's
pulse race over events occurring thousands of miles away, with no
connection to one's safety. The usual suspects, whose toxic
effects you already understand, include a diet heavy in meat, fried
foods, sugar, and caffeine; smoking and drinking (both willful
ingestions of poison); excessive exposure to sunlight, x-rays and
other radiation, etc.
So the insult to the body's integritya willful disrespect
shown to the divine vehicle of your soulcreates a field of
disharmonious energy patterns. When genes mutateas they
constantly dothat field of scrambled energy makes it more
difficult for the body to locate and heal the damaged DNA. The
mutations go unrestored and, as they multiply, make it more likely
that a precancerous cell will not be detected and destroyed aborning.
The cause of cancer, then, is chronic disrespect toward the
body, especially the parts of the body directly affected (e.g. a
smoker's lungs). The effect is that the body's
normal cancer-detecting and destroying mechanisms are
impaired.
Q:
Since you answered the question from our
brother or sister from Malaysia, I'm from the Netherlands.
It's a densely populated coastal area beneath sea level so
there's not a high score or no score as far the safety zone you
mentioned is concerned. But we anticipated and prepare ourselves for
more extreme weather and other circumstances, rising sea levels,
extreme storms, more rain. Over the years we brought our sea defenses
to new higher standards. So before I go looking for
property in Spain could it be that we turned ourselves into a safe
pocket? (W.B.)
A:
Why is it that those living in areas especially
threatened by global warming seek reassurance that their perilous
homeland is an exception to the laws of nature?
It may well be that an advanced nation such as the Netherlands has
erected sufficiently strong defenses against rising, stormy seas. But
that begs the larger question: If the effects of global warming in
Europe include impaired food production and fresh water supplies, as
well as general chaos and mass migrations, being in your
situationwhere resources will have to be devoted to holding
back the stormy seasmeans fewer resources available to answer
the other challenges climate change portends. Also, the Netherlands
lie north of the northern boundary of the safety zone as
we have outlined it, though its low elevation and seaside locale mean
severe cold would be moderated to some degree. Depending on your age,
you may live out your life in comfort; but a century hence, the
Netherlands will be no one's idea of paradise.
Q:
Much is being made of the date Dec. 21, 2012,
the end of the Mayan long-count calendar. Is this date going to be
significant, or is Dec. 22nd just going to be the start of a new
calendar? (Just like Jan. 1st is for our present culture.) (J.R.)
I hear the angst in the previous questions and see the fear it comes
from. Wouldn't it be more productive if we all got on with
building a microcosm which can feed the tone of the macrocosm we say
we wantinstead of continuing to feast on fear? (L.H.)
A:
We second the second commentperhaps the
best way to combat 2012 mania is to set a target of making a
significant move toward a more sustainable lifestyle, or moving to a
safety zone, by December 21, 2012. Then, when that
dreaded day arrives and nothing happens, you will feel a sense of
accomplishment rather than foolishness.
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