Keeper of the Rainforest
Watercolor
Simone S.
Age 5
Ontario, Canada

Revealing the 5th Kingdom
by Tom Carneyvealing The Hierarchy Within

"The Kingdom of God is present on Earth today and forever has been, but only a few, relatively speaking, are aware of its signs and manifestations. The world of subtle phenomena (called formless, because unlike the physical phenomena with which we are so familiar) is ever with us and can be seen and contacted and proved as a field for experiment and experience and activity if the mechanism of perception is developed as it surely can be." Telepathy And The Etheric Vehicle P.53
 

“In times when principles of international unity are under attack, it is urgent for all those of us who appreciate the endless ways in which the people of the world are interrelated and interconnected to stand up, to assert and to enact principles which respect, assert and codify the imperative of human unity. Each of us has the responsibility and the gift to work within our sphere to construct a world where all may survive and thrive in peace and justice.” Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH)
 

Good Afternoon friends:

I need to make a little kind of disclaimer before we start this after noon. We are going to be talking about some concepts and ideas that are very far beyond the ability of the physical sciences to “prove.” I simply want to let you know that whatever I think and say about these notions and concepts, comes from the fore-search that I have engaged in over the past number of years. My comments are not meant to be seen as Truth or anything like that.
 

In the flyer we listed the four accepted and known Kingdoms of life on our planet and asked if there was a 5th. Obviously, many of us think that there is indeed a 5th Kingdom. My primary objective this afternoon is to reveal the fact of the presence of that 5th Kingdom right here in this room. Although we do not have to leave the room to get to the 5th Kingdom, we do have to go on a kind of quest. Mostly this is a quest over familiar ground. Our effort is to learn to see this much traveled-over ground from a different angle, or in a different light. In this quest we are going to be exploring several of the layers of consciousness which enfold our planet, our civilizations and our everyday lives.
 

The notion of a 5th Kingdom, has been around for a long time, for at least as long as we have any kinds of records at all. Mostly this Kingdom is referred to as Heaven. It is commonly known as the place where God lives. What the records reveal about this Kingdom is that God and/or Heaven have, for the most part always been seen--or a better way to put it--have always been represented or out-pictured in some physical dense form or structure. There are literally millions of examples of both the place, Heaven and God. One of my favorite examples of God is the classical Greek figure of this really big white guy with a long beard who does lightening blots on recalcitrant humans and showers of gold, or Swans on unsuspecting maidens.
 

Anyway, in this afternoon’s discussion, I hope we can look at this God and Heaven situation from several other points of view, and perhaps come away with a slightly more subtle or subjective understanding of what is actually going on here on planet Earth.
 

Another objective that I have is to suggest to you all that there is a way to look at what we commonly call reality that gives a decidedly different sense of what is really going on.

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Tom Carney
January 2005

Natural
Watercolor
Aleksandra C.
Age 7
Subotica, Serbia and Montenegro

Children of the New Millennium
and the Concept of Root Races
 

P.M.H.Atwater, L.H.D., Ph.D. (Hon.)

No other generation of record matches the children now arriving on the earthplane. Noted historians, William Strauss and Neil Howe, authors of Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 (William Morrow, New York City, 1991), put this into perspective for those of us in the U.S. by identifying the children born between 1982 and about 2003 as our nation's fourteenth or "millennial generation" - the most wanted, nurtured, and educated group of individuals we've ever produced, and the most protected by law. Unusually smart and assertive, these youngsters are as creative and intuitive as they are computer literate.

Not confined to the U.S., this emergence of new kids is truly global, as this observation from Mexican pediatrician, Ibarra Chavez, attests: "The new crop of infants are coming in more aware. . . eyes focused and alert, necks strong, lying in bassinets no bigger than chickens, and with a knowing-ness I cannot describe [in Spanish or English]. They are very special babies, this new crop."

Sharon Begley, author of the Newsweek magazine article entitled "The IQ Puzzle" (May 6, 1996), describes the situation this way: "IQ scores throughout the developed world have soared dramatically since the tests were introduced in the early years of this [the 20th] century. . . The rise is so sharp that it implies that the average school child today is as bright as the near-geniuses of yesteryear."

The gene pool cannot change fast enough to account for this leap, so we can't claim genetics as causal. Tests scores rose only slightly in the area of rote schooling, so education isn't the cause either. Trying to make sense of the situation, experts have surmised that young people today are simply better at taking tests - or - maybe it's because they're better nourished, or have larger vocabularies (thanks to permissive parenting), or play a lot of video games (which demand concentration before response).

The scurry to find answers to what is happening to our youth centers around one glaring fact: the extreme jump in intelligence, between 24 to 26 points, concerns "nonverbal intelligence" - the ability to know or intuit information. This means that the new children are natural "creative problem solvers." Yet in the area of genius, once ranked with scores between 134 to 136 points (some say 140), a preponderance of today's youth regularly test out at 150 to 160; many over 184. No precedent exists to explain this.

The anomaly in IQ scores immediately caught my eye because it exactly reflected what I was finding with child experiencers of near-death states. The more sources I studied, the more professionals I interviewed, the more confident I became that humankind's long predicted quantum leap in evolution was happening right now, and on several fronts: kids being born "different," and children "changed" either because of an intensely powerful life event or from an encounter with the "power punch" that best describes the impact of a near-death or otherworldly experience. Although my research of the near-death phenomenon didn't begin until 1978 (the year after my own experiences), I actually began tracking the impact of consciousness transformations, especially with children, back in 1966. Five books cover the findings from my research: Coming Back To Life, Beyond The Light, Future Memory, Children Of The New Millennium, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Near-Death Experiences.

Let's explore this issue, at least to the extent that we can here, by identifying various traits and characteristics being noticed in these newcomers, and then let's discuss the critical issue of timing.

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Lessons on the Path: January 28 2005, Volume 1, No. 21
 

Sir George Trevelyan: thoughts and writings

Stewards of the Planet

Excerpts from A Vision of the Aquarian Age

WE ARE ALL too easily awed by the very size of the universe as it is depicted by modem astronomy. Science cowes us, even bludgeons us, with mathematical data – the vast distances, the billions of galaxies, the infinite aeons of time through which this huge lifeless mechanism of gaseous and electronic vortices has been turning. How unimportant is the life of man on his tiny planet, we are told – a flare of a match struck momentarily in the vast darkness, burning itself out after a transient and ephemeral instant of consciousness. And we are asked to believe that this mechanistic structure of the universe is all that exists, all there is to reality. The terrible and autocratic authority of science silences the protests of imagination and even of common sense...

Now, however, basic human instinct, vision and the new spiritual science are rising in protest. To quote John Cowper Powys in his essay on Walt Whitman:

Surely such a limited universe is a grotesque and preposterous substitute for the teeming Reservoirs, Levels, Regions and Dimensions of Life, which not only the mysticism of Walt Whitman, but the natural normal inevitable mysticism of ordinary humanity, the mysticism that springs from the calmest and clearest portion of the human mind, feels assured must be discoverable, somehow or other, in the bosom of the All.

...We are entering the space age not only with our rockets, but through the expansion of mind, to meet the intelligences of the universe.

The spiritual view of the universe, then, restores man to a plane of central importance. This, by contrast, brings to us a new and true humility – quite different from the arrogance bred by materialism and its mechanistic perspective. If we are integrally part of the whole of living nature, we are indeed stewards of the planet, given "dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth". What have we done with our stewardship? The answer is appalling. But we can yet make good the terrible damage we have inflicted on the living earth and its creatures – damage for which, through our greed, we are directly responsible.

The dynamic and spiritual view of the universe now opening to our understanding does not in any way belittle the great intellectual accomplishments of modern astronomy. It complements that view while at the same time offering a broader and more meaningful context.

Now we are beginning to awaken to a brighter alternative – the new certainty that, seen from a different perspective, the Ptolemaic system still reflects a certain profound truth. Whatever its physical mechanics, the universe can still be teeming with spiritual energies and qualities of being. Life on earth can be a part of the life of the entire universe. Distance is irrelevant. We experience that consciousness can be anywhere instantly. As Andrew Glazewski says, "Our consciousness is not in our body: our body is in our consciousness". At will, consciousness can be anywhere in its vast field, the body merely being the focal point for its operation in earthly life. Our "ego" is where we choose to direct our attention; it can instantly be where it sends its thought. And when we remember that thought can move faster than light, the vast distances of modern astronomy cease to appall or intimidate. The spiritual world view thus restores optimism and opens a new dimension of vision.

The possibilities inherent in such a view are admirably summarised by John Charles Earle's sonnet, "Bodily Extension":

The body is not bounded by its skin;
Its effluence, like a gentle cloud of scent,
Is wide into the air diffused and blent
With elements unseen, its way doth win
To ether frontiers, where take origin
Far subtler systems, nobler regions meant
To be the area and the instrument
Of operations ever to begin
Anew and never end. Thus every man
Wears as his robe the garment of the sky –
So close his union with the cosmic plan,
So perfectly he pierces low and high –
Reaching as far in space as creature can,
And co-existing with Immensity.