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Christs of the Ages

There comes a time sometimes when one individual has to learn something innovative about dharma and maintaining dharma (which involves being a good and decent person in God’s good graces) for many, many people, and the global conversation about dharmic principles is advanced. That mental and spiritual energy is felt all over the world by that person’s contemporaries. That individual can be termed a christ. This includes Jesus Christ, the Piscean Christ. Some branches of Hinduism acknowledge that Jesus Christ was an incarnation of Vishnu, and many claim that Gautama Buddha, the Aries Christ, was as well. It is also true that Krishna (the Taurean Christ) and Rama (the Gemini Christ) were the Christs of their ages. The Aquarian Christ is the next one after Pisces because it goes in the same order as the Great Precession of the equinoxes. The Christ ages occur through time as a reverse Zodiac story/sacred machine.

I had to personally uncover this religious/historical information using Earth Logos; I’d never heard it otherwise, though it is widely understood that Jesus Christ is connected with the Piscean Age, and that has been a powerful message conveyed over the last century.

Here are some notes from 🜄 (Easter egg page associated with: water) about the Gemini, Taurus, Aries, and Piscean Christs, starting with Pisces:

Notes on Jesus of Nazareth as the Piscean Christ:
Jesus of Nazareth was the Piscean Christ. He had a difficult ministry, which happened while the dismal Kali Yuga was in full swing (now in 2021 it is currently in an advanced state of decay and ready to be shed), but he spiritualized life for a lot of people. I think he was very successful in that. Many people have had it very much on their hearts over the years to makes sure that Jesus, his ministry, and his philosophies were not forgotten. Christianity, part of Jesus’s legacy, is one of the most popular religions in the world.

Jesus was Jewish, and studied Jewish sacred texts and philosophies as well as Hindu, Greek, and Egyptian philosophies. Jews were occupied and very oppressed by the Roman State in the time and place where Jesus had his ministry, and Jesus’s message was one of hope in the face of oppression and proving that miracles could happen, as well as one that ended up exploring the idea that death was not a dead end. Another key idea behind Jesus’s ministry was that God is good.

Jesus was a philosopher of the Pisces/Virgo axis, Pisces being the dominant note in the Age of Pisces and Virgo being directly across it on the zodiac wheel. Because the Zodiacal Ages (the various Christ ages) take a long time to ebb one into the other, the Christ of each age may invoke an axis of two opposing zodiac signs and some of their themes. It’s good to have two feet planted, so to speak, if you have to be on a wheel.

Pisces themes invoked:
Healing: Jesus was known to do miraculous healing, curing the sick, the disabled, and more at key points in his ministry. Pisces rules the twelfth house, the arena where most of the healing of serious illness happens (the other being the sixth house, which is across from the twelfth, and focused more about health maintenance and other routine healing).
Mysticism: It’s said that the twelfth house is where we dream and have other experiences of transcendence. Jesus had a close relationship with God that he described as feeling personal to him.
Oppression: The twelfth house is also the house that rules oppression and overcoming oppression. Jesus’s life happened across a backdrop of oppression against Jewish people in his region. His prophesied coming was attacked even before his birth, and Jewish boys his age were targeted for murder around the time he was born in case they were him. It is a very good thing he survived, and he made it clear that oppressed people could be important.
Imprisonment and execution: The twelfth house rules prisoners, punishment, and death. Jesus was murdered via unfair execution for no crime at all, and briefly imprisoned beforehand.
Poeticism: Pisces has a distinct poetic or figurative streak. Jesus was known for wording things beautifully and teaching via parables, narrative analogies that help people understand a philosophical concept without systematically analyzing the main point for them in great depth.
Maturity: Jesus had a mature outlook, and described God as a wise and loving father figure. In the gospels, his disciples seem to look up to him. Pisces is the final zodiac sign of twelve, and at its best signals a peaceful maturity.
Illusion: The devil is said to have tempted Jesus in the wilderness during the ascetic period in Jesus’s ministry. The devil is said to have shown Jesus visions of paths he knew he was not destined to take, and Jesus was able to calmly shut down these deceptions.
Peace: Jesus is known as the Prince of Peace. Pisces carries the philosophies of mutable water, the calm sea that Jesus commanded into being when a boat trip found him and some of his disciples on choppy waters.
Fish: Fish and fisherman are iconography associated with Jesus Christ and Christianity. Pisces is the sign of the fish.
Death and overcoming death: Jesus is said to have died and resurrected. Pisces is at the end of the circular zodiac cycle, and Pisces and the twelfth house represent some of the mysteries of death and dissolution. Pisces is the sign of endings in general. Despite the Zodiacal Ages going in reverse order (e.g. Gemini, then Taurus, then Aries, then Pisces, then Aquarius, etc.), the Age of Pisces is the end of a major cycle, and ends around the same time as the Kali Yuga.

Virgo themes invoked:
Study: Jesus studied Jewish theology and multiple philosophies. In the gospels we read about him impressing adults as a child with his knowledge of scripture. Virgo and its planetary ruler Mercury are studious.
Chastity: Jesus had attractions, but chose not to be sexual during his ministry. Virgo is represented as a virgin. In Christianity, Jesus is said to have been born of a virgin mother, known as the Virgin Mary, who conceived him through a visitation by the Holy Spirit.
Mildness: We hear about two times when Jesus got angry, and one is apocryphal. He did not do violence. Virgo at its best is mild and careful, and wants to use good judgment.
Service: Christianity ended up being a religion very much dedicated to service to others, where there is good work to do. That type of service is a key Virgo theme, and the sixth house it rules is the house of dutiful service.
Wine: The Virgo constellation is often said to be holding a cup of wine. Jesus of Nazareth used wine at highly symbolic points in his ministry. He was also rumored to have performed miracles with wine.
Feeding people: Virgo is also associated with the harvest and feeding people. When the constellation Virgo is not holding a wine cup, she is often depicted with a sheaf of wheat. Jesus talked about food, especially grapes, wheat, bread, and fish, often and significantly. He was known for feeding people at one of his famous sermons when no one wanted to leave him and there was little food to go around.

Notes on the Gautama Buddha as the Aries Christ:
The Gautama Buddha was Siddharth Gautama, the Aries Christ. He was born a prince of a kingdom in India called Kapilavastu during the Kali Yuga, the most sorrowful of four time periods experienced in the Universe (Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga, and Kali Yuga). He was evaluated early in life by a diviner who declared that he would either be a great king or a great religious leader. Siddharth grew up one of those conscientious children who feel the pain of the world very keenly. Whenever he went out of the palace, he would see that things weren’t going well for the average person in his father’s kingdom, and he was often grieved by the amount of suffering to be encountered in the world. He felt that his path lay in religious innovation, examining and resolving the subject of suffering.

He renounced his engagement in worldly matters while still a young man, and became an ascetic and philosopher. He started Buddhism, a religion that is highly systematic and contemplative in nature. As a basis for Buddhism as a religious system, the Gautama Buddha, as he became known upon his enlightenment, developed the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. After experiencing both opulence and asceticism in life, he advocated the concept of a Middle Way between the two walks of life, incorporating positive things he learned from both.

The Gautama Buddha was a philosopher of the Aries/Libra axis, Aries being the dominant note in the Age of Aries and Libra being directly across it on the zodiac wheel. Because the Zodiacal Ages (the various Christ ages) take a long time to ebb one into the other, the Christ of each age may invoke an axis of two opposing zodiac signs and some of their themes. It’s good to have two feet planted, so to speak, if you have to be on a wheel (especially for many hundreds of years at a time).

Aries themes invoked:
Leadership: Aries is a sign sometimes associated with leadership (especially military leadership). The Gautama Buddha was born into a royal family, and was raised to be a leader. He became a popular and charismatic religious leader after devoutly pursuing religious philosophy.
Ears: Aries rules the head, including the ears. The Gautama Buddha lived during a time when long earlobes were considered auspicious, and is often depicted with very long earlobes. He pulled them habitually throughout his life so that they’d be longer, as I understand it.
Nirvana: Nirvana is a term for disappearing into union with the divine. Esoteric Aries is known (per Alice Bailey) as being where the will of God is known, where a person’s mind can dissolve into the divine mind with the correct amount of discipline and merit.
Nontheistic options: I’ve said before that Aries wants to believe in God, and that tends to be true of that energy, but neither does Aries tend to feel that they absolutely require it to go forward correctly. This is also a precept of Buddhism, which embraces an amount of skepticism (a theme both Aries and Libra have in common), and presents a religious philosophy that can include reference to a divine mind/deity or not.
Extremes: Siddharth Gautama experienced extreme wealth as well as long periods of asceticism. Aries is comfortable with extremes, and as the Buddha he was motivated to learn from them and cheerfully reconcile them, showing mastery.
Choosing to operate as a single person: The Gautama Buddha married young, but chose a monastic lifestyle quite soon thereafter, veering toward the first house (ruled by Aries) and away from the seventh house (ruled by Libra), where themes of long-term partnerships are found. Many other people he knew followed suit and joined his monastery, inspired by him.
Innovation: The Gautama Buddha wanted to go his own way in life, rather than take after his father. He wanted to develop new philosophies to help people. Aries is a sign that tends to be comfortable with innovation, and a lot of personal innovation comes from a person’s first house, which influences nearly everything we do, rendering it more personal to us.
Mendicant tradition: The Gautama Buddha advocated a medicant tradition, that of a community supporting a dedicated religious devotee comfortably, arguing that a community can benefit a lot from sincere religious practice and the wisdom it brings. In a way, this relates to Aries being related to newborns (under the theory where an average person’s biographical life follows Aries to Pisces in stages that range from birth to elder status and finally death), insofar as newborns must in part rely on their community and its correct customs for survival, while offering hope and innocence to the group as a whole.
Dissatisfaction: Buddhism closely relates the concepts of suffering and dissatisfaction, which is a very Aries outlook indeed. Of course there are other kinds of suffering, and Buddhism does admittedly have less to say about those.
Atavism and ancient wisdom: Aries energy– brand new feeling and naturalistically wholesome at its best– suggests something of atavism. Before Siddharth Gautama’s birth, his mother had a dream featuring a six-tusked elephant, which was considered a sign of the Buddha. The six-tusked elephant may have been something to do with the idea of “thinking older”, subtly evoking by-then-extinct four-tusked Primelephas of the Miocene and Pliocene epochs. The Gautama Buddha claimed to have recovered an ancient system that had been used before the full-fledged development of widespread theism, and adapted that into parts of Buddhism.
Aries and the cycle of rebirth: Buddhism discusses the cycle of rebirth, and how to exit it. Aries itself is a symbol of the cycle of rebirth.

Libra themes invoked:
Luxury and the problems of excess: Libra, being ruled by Venus exoterically, is one of the signs most related to luxury, and it also advocates moderation. Siddharth Gautama was born into luxury in a mismanaged society. His parents’ kingdom was not a happy place for its subjects, and poverty and crime were widespread.
Balance: Buddhism’s concept of a Middle Way recalls the symbolism of Libra: a set of scales, balancing on a central point. There’s a sense in Buddhism of moving from Taurus’s Venus values (e.g. consumption, sensuousness, hedonism) to Libra’s Venus values (e.g. mindfulness, balance, sincere points of satisfaction).
Reaction to injustice: The Gautama Buddha’s renunciation of his royal duties in favor of a religious path was in part a reaction to rampant injustice in his parents’ kingdom. Libra is associated with the tarot card called Justice.
Analysis and systematizing: Libra is an air sign that enjoys analysis and utilizing and developing systems. This is a common theme in Buddhism. It’s fairly easy to pick up on how thoughtful and systematic Buddhism is, even from afar.

Notes on Krishna as the Taurean Christ:
Krishna, the Christ of the Age of Taurus, lived in a very traumatic time. The Dvapara Yuga was almost over during his lifetime, and people were feeling currents carrying premonitions of the dim and downgraded Kali Yuga to come.

Sri Krishna (Sri being an honorific) was beloved and wise, though he did have a difficult childhood. He took refuge in the time he spent with his childhood peers. He grew up to be charming, attractive, and popular, and he stayed nice.

Krishna became a powerful king, who was known for his philosophies and his many wives and concubines, whom he may have been able to visit astrally. He was a responsible and ethically decent husband.

Like Rama before him and Buddha and Jesus after him, Krishna is one of the most important and popular religious figures in the world today.

Krishna was a philosopher of the Taurus/Scorpio axis, Taurus being the dominant note in the Age of Taurus and Scorpio being directly across it on the zodiac wheel. Because the Zodiacal Ages (the various Christ ages) take a long time to ebb one into the other, the Christ of each age may invoke an axis of two opposing zodiac signs and some of their themes. It’s good to have two feet planted, so to speak, if you have to be on a wheel (especially for many hundreds of years at a time).

Taurus themes invoked:
Devotion: Krishna advocated bhakti yoga (which is not a kind of physical yoga, which is often referred to as hatha yoga), the practice of spending devotional time with deities. Taurus’s exoteric ruler Venus hints at this when expressed spiritually through Taurus: the connectivity between the divine and a person.
Sex positivity: One of the major spiritual motifs of Krishna’s life is his relatively reckless relationship with his lover Radha, who’d been married off young to another man. Their love is often used as a metaphor for a devotee’s very close relationship with God (or a god or goddess) that emerges when they practice bhakti yoga. Krishna also reportedly had hundreds of wives, later in his life. Taurus is sometimes seen as overindulgent, but is certainly one of the signs most associated with sensuality and sex positivity, being Venus’s primary sensual outlet in the zodiac.
Wealth: Taurus rules the second house, which is assigned to our concrete assets. Krishna was wealthy, and lived a lavish lifestyle. He was able to take care of many, many wives adequately.
Food: One of the most famous stories about Krishna’s early life features the time when Krishna found a large storage container of butter when he was exploring as a toddler, and ended up eating some of it. Food is a theme of Taurus, an energy that often likes to live large and enjoy gustatory pleasures. Butter is a dairy product, usually produced from cow’s milk.
Cows: Krishna grew up in a cow-herding community, where virtually everyone was taking care of cows. The community may have been Shaivite. Bhakti images of Krishna often feature him with pretty white cows (also with Radha, playing the flute, with fists full of butter, and more). Taurus is the sign of the bull (Shiva’s vahana), and by extension, the cow.
Lila: The concept of lila is that life is playful and pleasurable. These are Taurus themes. Krishna was very fun and fun-loving, and he lived passionately.
Music: The planet Venus often manifests in Taurus as musical or appreciative of music. Krishna was famously a musician, being very accomplished at the flute.
Throat: Taurus rules the throat in Western Astrology, and a flute is the type of instrument that functions most like a throat. It’s also true that Krishna gave long speeches. The Bhagavad Gita, a sacred text that describes his life, philosophies, and visions, features a lot of monologue.
Quality: The planet Venus often manifests in Taurus as caring about quality in various ways. Krishna was recognized as an extremely high quality person (right at a point when people were noticing a pronounced dip in quality, as the Dvapara Yuga was starting to evanesce): nice, fundamentally decent, and often correct about things.

Scorpio themes invoked:
Transgressive sex: Krishna’s story features nonmonogamy (unto polygamy) and affairs, and how with careful ethics those situations turned out to be mostly okay. These kinds of complicated sexual patterns are often associated with Scorpio and the eighth house it rules, and it’s interesting to think about how Krishna was able to balance them and keep things running fairly smoothly.
Forgiveness: Krishna and his married lover Radha were recognized as a sincere and caring non-traditional partnership, and their love is usually not seen as sinning, precisely. But what they were doing did require a certain amount of forgiveness, which was extended to them. There’s a certain amount of forgiveness that is both practical and humane, and multiple scenarios in Krishna’s life illustrated this. Scorpio energy must be gracious and forgiving enough, or it is in a state of too much decay.
Wealth: The Taurus-Scorpio axis deals with wealth. Scorpio and the eighth house involve types of wealth that deal with dependency, complexity, financial losses, charity, and money changing hands. One story of Krishna details how one of his wives once offered to give away Krishna’s weight in gold as part of a silly game, with fairly fraught results until Krishna’s first wife stepped in to save the day with a devout gesture.
Death: The Kali Yuga, known as a comparatively afflicted time (compared to the glorious Satya Yuga, the propitious Treta Yuga, and the adequate Dvapara Yuga), began with Krishna’s death. Scorpio and the eighth house deal somewhat with the deaths that you live through, and in this case it was the human world who lived through the trauma of losing Sri Krishna.

Notes on Rama as the Gemini Christ:
Rama (Vishnu’s first human avatar) was the Gemini Christ. His life was characterized by a lot of success, and some hardship. He was born a prince, and heir to a great and prosperous kingdom. The Age of Gemini, and the Age of Cancer and Age of Leo before it, took place (partially in the case of Leo, I believe) during the Dvapara Yuga, which is still remembered as a very gracious time. The Ramayana, an epic poem which describes Rama’s life, is full of people who gave each other lavish gifts, openly respected and adored one another, tried to do what was right, and trusted one another when possible. In fact, other records mention Rama’s father King Dasharatha giving up his only daughter to be adopted by and live with another king in a neighboring kingdom, on the grounds that the latter king had no children. King Dasharatha had no other children at that time. Rama and his three brothers were born later.

By Rama’s time, the Dvapara Yuga was in a slight state of decay, but only so much that the Ramayana shows people being sometimes gracious to a fault, or in the wrong directions. Conduct seems very encoded and formalized during this time, more perhaps than we’re used to in the Kali Yuga that followed.

Rama was a philosopher of the Gemini/Sagittarius axis, Gemini being the dominant note in the Age of Gemini and Sagittarius being directly across it on the zodiac wheel. Because the Zodiacal Ages (the various Christ ages) take a long time to ebb one into the other, the Christ of each age may invoke an axis of two opposing zodiac signs and some of their themes. It’s good to have two feet planted, so to speak, if you have to be on a wheel.

Gemini themes invoked:
Twins and siblings: Gemini, sign of the twins, rules the third house, the house of siblings. Rama had three brothers all born on the same day to three different mothers, and the boys were very close. Two of the brothers were twins, though Rama was not a twin. One of them even went into exile with Rama when their stepmother tried to promote her own son as King Dasharatha’s successor, and that son selected to stay loyal to Rama during the exile. The brothers demonstrate true kinship between siblings, and all ended up marrying women from the same family, another royal house.
Marriage and love: Rama is often mentioned in the same breath as Sita, his beloved wife, and they are often shown together in bhakti images, the triumphant couple. Sita was known as a daughter of Earth, and Rama was the divine incarnation of Vishnu, which may recall the twin brothers Castor and Pullox, one of whom was a terrestrial man while the other was a son of Zeus. Rama and Sita had a celebrated love, one that lasted a lifetime (despite varying accounts on the matter). Gemini is associated with the tarot card called The Lovers.
Being nice: King Dasharatha was a nice, thoughtful, and generous ruler. Rama is known to be one too, in his time. King Dasharatha’s household seems to be so much in harmony that his three wives appear to coexist happily, and their sons love each other. Rama in particular is known to be extremely nice. Even when his stepmother Kaikeyi used an old promise from her husband King Dasharatha to oust Rama into exile for fourteen years, Rama is nice and courteous about it. He even parts with his three mothers lovingly, showing no grudge. Cancer, the sign associated with motherhood and the name of the age that precedes Gemini (a sign for whom it is important to stay personable and nice in general) in the precession, had already decayed. Kaikeyi’s perversity at requesting so much suffering on Rama’s part may be a nod to the passing of the Age of Cancer.
Problem solving: It is in the third house that we first learn the basics of problem solving. In the Ramayana, there are very few problems that have no solutions. In fact, Rama was born to solve a problem and slay a terrifying demonic being who couldn’t be killed by anything mightier than a man.
Verbal weapons: Rama and his brother Lakshmana studied with a holy man in their youth and were given sacred mantras to use as weapons that could slay demons handily. Gemini and the third house are particularly focused on language.
Friendship: Gemini is a sign that values true friendship highly. The friendship between Rama and the monkey leader Hanuman is celebrated throughout the world. Hanuman helped Rama find his wife Sita after she was abducted and aided in her rescue. One common bhakti image of Hanuman is a monkey tearing open his chest to reveal a heart with Rama and Sita visible inside it, as if he holds them always in his heart.
Local community: The third house is the house of our local community. In the Ramayana, Rama is so beloved in his local community that there was widespread mourning in his father’s kingdom when Rama was exiled.

Sagittarius themes invoked:
Not being mean: Jupiter is the ruler of Sagittarius, and prescribes good humor and broad mindedness. In Rama’s culture, meanness seems to be so rare that his stepmother Kaikeyi’s betrayal of Rama is shocking, and the grief ends up killing his father.
Rape and abduction: Barbaric Ravana abducts Sita and seems intent on raping her. Sagittarius’s symbol is a centaur, a creature that brings up themes of that sort of behavior.
Chivalry: Central to the story of Rama is that Rama must rescue his love, Sita, from a violent villain who has abducted her. Sagittarius is an energy that thrives on chivalry.
Destiny: Sagittarius is a sign concerned with destiny and finding one’s destiny. Rama wasn’t just born a king, he was born to vanquish the evil Ravana, and many events in his life set him and kept him firmly on the path to doing so.
Wilderness: Sagittarius is very connected to the wild. Rama was exiled to the wilderness for fourteen years to delay his accession to the throne.
Good and evil: The Ramayana is a classic tale of good versus evil. The humans are mostly very markedly good in the story of Rama, and they defy evil. Sagittarius rules the ninth house, one of the houses where we confront questions of good and evil in the philosophical sense.
Bow and arrows: The centaur of Sagittarius is a bowman. Rama is known to have carried a bow and arrow, and he had to lift a huge artifact called Shiva’s bow to win his bride Sita in a contest for her hand in marriage.
Devotion: Hanuman is known for his personal and practical devotion to Rama and Sita, and his willingness to help and serve them. He is known as an example of devotion to God. Sagittarius and the ninth house do well to never forget devotion to the good higher power that they answer to.

I may expand more on these later. This mystery of the Ages has many mystical and practical features.

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Sacred writ

If you have a holy book that you cherish, it is almost certainly connected to some religion or another. It’s very important that a holy book have sound and adequate morals that it conveys. It’s very important to pay attention to the valid moral elements of the holy writ, and not to take its message too much out of context.

In the case of the Bible, for instance, it’s best to keep in mind its unique context in history, also to consider how modern politics have shifted in ways that demand further interpretation of the spirit of the work, and to stay away from falling into the quagmire of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism is an aggressive interpretation of scripture and/or religion that takes excerpts out of context and/or has a tendency to focus on the wrong points. Looked at in-depth, fundamentalism often becomes indistinguishable from superstition, and at that point, it usually carries no philosophy whatsoever. Superstition beggars belief.

Another way that fundamentalism can creep in is when something entirely out of context is selected from a sacred writ and applied to the reader’s life or the contemporary world without a clear connection to the moral message of the scripture. Again, to use the Bible as an example, it is particularly rewarding to read entire chapters in order to complete one book at a time rather than read random excerpts, and to pay close attention to the spirit of the work and its moral message in context (though this would be less applicable in the case of Psalms, for instance). Many people actually use the Bible for divination (instead of using the tarot, for instance) by flipping through it randomly and applying whatever text their eyes land on to their current situation or whatever question they’re focusing on. This is not equivalent to Bible study, and tends not to convey the same things a complete book of the Bible communicates.

Certain kinds of fundamentalists have promoted the idea that Earth is about 6,000 years old, and others have promoted the idea that we can use ancient imagery talking about time and its vagaries to conclude we have to wait hundreds of thousands of years to reach the Satya Yuga. Both theories can be disheartening. In truth, humans in general have never been as good at calendars as we are now, and old scriptures are at their best when we interpret them responsibly and deftly.

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Fun (likely?) facts from Earth Logos

  1. Humans only invented the concept of money once. It happened in Africa.
  2. The worldwide bovine spiritual leader of cows is referred to as Least Dangerous Cow. The bovine world leader of cows is referred to as Most Dangerous Cow.
  3. In the 18th Century (1700s), most early Americans (United States of America) spoke with what sounded like Scottish accents. This had to do with morphic fields as well as where people emigrated from and how they identified.
  4. Demons should be vanquished now (note: remind them that they’re vanquished, if you run into one, and see if that helps). There were demons once, of various origins. Goetic demons had some of the most recognized demonic names, like Asmodeus and Belial. In what you might call “fae culture”, demons often chose exotic-sounding (to them) English language names for themselves like Actress and Gross boy.
  5. Certain animals have created agreements with humanity to exchange meat for respectful maintenance of their thus-abbreviated lives and full numbers. They’ve noticed that they tend to like their lives that way if the agreement is honored correctly.
  6. According to Earth Logos, EFL (English as a first language) speakers are significantly less likely to become hyper fluent in another language. ESL (English as a second language) speakers starting at many certain various languages are extremely likely to become hyper fluent in English.
  7. The Moon in the birth chart has a lot to do with physical beauty. The Moon is one of the most beautiful things you can possibly see in the sky.
  8. Civilization has never fallen entirely. That’s not exactly how it happens (so far).

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Good ships (the ancient African trade guilds had them)

In the ancient world, Africans knew where everything was, more or less. They had enormous ships of ingenious design that could cross the oceans with ease. It has been long known that Africans and later Vikings both probably discovered parts of the Americas long before Western Europeans arrived there bringing war. It’s true. Africans seemed to consider the Americas full of good destinations for fair trade, and they didn’t stop at crossing the Atlantic. They traveled everywhere, discovering landmass after landmass.

Doing past life work last year, I uncovered reports from King Solomon of ancient Israel (reign circa 970–931 B.C.) that he was aware (during his lifetime) of many West Africans knowing about every continent besides Australia, and that they could describe where they were and what they were like, along with islands in every ocean, and had done trade most everywhere. He also reported that the designs of their ships were proprietary to specific trade guilds and kept secret, and that you could not buy them.


image of carvings from the Temple of Seti I in Abydos depicting some mysterious objects that appear to be machines
Carvings of mysterious objects that look like vehicular machines at the Temple of Seti I at Abydos

At the Temple of Seti I at Abydos in Egypt, there are famous carvings depicting mysterious objects that many people have speculated to be early aircraft, technological prophecy, or UFOs. The carvings resemble vehicles. My process as a shaman has uncovered that the carvings in question may depict highly sophisticated seafaring ships from other kingdoms in Africa outside of Egypt. The kings of Egypt did not have any such ships, but perhaps felt that they could in a sense “own” them by having them carved in relief at the temple, according to what we know of the ancient Egyptian belief system. King Seti I (reign circa 1294–1279 B.C.) named himself after Set, a god of immigrants and foreign lands, and perhaps it stands to reason that he might have shown particular interest in foreign technologies. These carvings may be the best surviving record of what those astounding ancient African vessels really looked like.

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Confronting overpopulation

I was taught young that it isn’t the best idea to have too many billions of people on Earth. Elementary school, if I’m remembering correctly: there was some math, and at least one graph. They said food production couldn’t keep up. I think that factory farming methods and workhorse cultivars may have proven by now that technically, it can keep up. All my adult life I’ve thought about that gratefully.

Now the conversation about overpopulation is more about climate change, and has been since the early 2000s. The Georgia Guidestones, a mysterious monument erected anonymously in 1980 in the United States, are sometimes quoted as the potential key to a sustainable world.

Their inscription states the following suggestions (note: I will add my impressions in italics below each point):

  1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
    (note: I mean, why? We would need at least three billion people on Earth to maintain our current diversity of industries, though [according to Earth Logos]. If we want professional sports, comprehensive travel, and exotic pets, a half a billion just isn’t enough people.)
  2. Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
    (note: But, really? Tell me this isn’t about eugenics. Disregard this one, maybe.)
  3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
    (note: People really like their current languages. There’s the hitch. A universal second language might emerge at some point in the future, and that seems rather exciting.)
  4. Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
    (note: Sure thing. I’m doing that now. Good stuff.)
  5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
    (note: Yes, this is very good.)
  6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
    (note: This is a nice idea about ending wars eventually, right? Most everyone always likes this sort of thing in theory and most generations going forward are going to be the ones that try it, I think.)
    (note: If we had only 500,000,000 people in perpetual balance with nature we’d probably be extremely worried about losing any to wars.)
  7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
    (note: Probably good. Avoid pettiness in exercising power. Avoid corruption.)
  8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
    (note: Yeah, let us not forget the social contract. It’s the stuff of civilization.)
  9. Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
    (note: Prize decency too, and wisdom, and kindness, understanding, and productive vision for the future. Prize goodness.)
  10. Be not a cancer on the Earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.
    (note: Leave room for civilization in thought, word, and deed. And civilization must leave room for nature. That’s our ecosystem.)

Terence McKenna famously said that education was the way to approach overpopulation and reduce carbon emissions. In his lectures, he’d often point out that women with more formal education tend to have fewer children. The truth is, the education about overpopulation has begun. I think a lot of people worry about it already; but we still like people, right?

Population loss has something to do with what’s been called the Great Reset. Presumably, the Great Reset is about how certain parties have planned for (or perhaps even wanted?) a smaller population, possibly looking forward and foreseeing massive fatalities from climate change, pandemics, and other causes. One crucial point in this matter is to avoid anyone engineering population losses through violent means, or forcibly, which would never be justifiable. It strikes me that on some level it made sense to do economic and civic planning for a population drop, as many countries developed much of their modern infrastructure and systems after a post-1940s “baby boom”, and they were perhaps a little too close to perpetual growth models. Note that I have no idea if the set of plans described as the Great Reset are the right ones, nor even if they are cogent. Many have speculated that those plans may involve new taxes on the megawealthy or on certain industries, especially in light of how skewed wealth distribution has become since the mid 20th Century.

If we’re anxious at all for the population to go down here on Earth, it can be done with birth rates (which are already dropping in most places, they say, perhaps especially since the COVID-19 precautions began). The first-pass solution is probably to make oral contraceptives available over-the-counter (OTC) in as many places as possible. They are safe and effective, and I think their wider availability would help many people in my country, where they are currently sold by prescription only. The population initiative will be further helped by making sure birth control pills are affordable (possibly through insurance, the way some medical supplies are covered by most insurance plans). Hard to say how much we’d see the population go down organically and peacefully in a hundred years, but it is very likely we’d see sustainable population numbers by then.

Are we panicked about population? I don’t think we have to be.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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Nontheistic morals and ethics

In general, morals and ethics are related terms. Morals are valid encoded or natural and universal-enough ideas of right and wrong. Ethics are systems by which people navigate doing right over wrong, so that one’s conduct is good enough to satisfy the light, sweet burden of humanity.

In Kali Yuga-era religious traditions, there are a few different objectives that morals are designed to achieve.

  • Harm reduction
    • Some of the rules you’ll find in religious laws are extremely straight forward. They exist to reduce the harm that people cause through unjustified self interest and other antisocial motives.
    • These rules usually concentrate on minimizing interpersonal harm— the ways that people sometimes hurt, violate, and exploit one another. However, various religious codes also seek to reduce the harm that people cause to themselves, animals, their environment, etc.
    • Generally, religious laws that focus on harm reduction have a great deal of overlap with secular ethics. Most people— of any faith or lack thereof— tend to agree that rules that minimize interpersonal harm tend to be sensible, and are necessary for a peaceful society.
  • Social Cohesion and Continuity
    • Religions are in the business of building communities. Sometimes religious rules restrict behaviors, but don’t actively prevent harm in an obvious way. These rules have a community-based purpose. Restricting and encouraging specific behaviors can help define a community, and strengthen members’ identification with the group. This becomes an extreme problem in cases of dangerous cults.
    • For example, if I belong to a religion that instructs me to eat a certain way or dress a certain way, it’s not necessarily mitigating any harm I might do in the world. But it’s informing my identity. It’s making me feel closer to other people who eat and dress and worship the way I do. We’ve become a community of “us” in a sea of “them”. This too becomes an extreme problem in cases of dangerous cults.
    • Rules that achieve social cohesion vary widely between different faiths. As such, they’re extremely subjective, and usually have very little to do with secular codes of ethics.
  • Maintaining Power Structures and Institutions
    • Often, religious rules are put in place to perpetuate the power structures and institutions inside the faith. These often take the form of specific protocols and taboos intended to prevent reform, power struggles, and other shifts in the community.
    • Wherever hierarchies form, the people at the top tend to get very invested in maintaining the current power distribution. That’s human nature. (Whenever religious laws dovetail perfectly with keeping the people in power more happy than uncorrupted, I do think it’s worth asking how divine they actually.)
    • Rules that maintain specific hierarchies within religions aren’t necessarily supported by secular ethics (although they often are, if those hierarchies are doing good in the world). However, similar rules concerning governmental hierarchy are almost always encoded into secular law.

So when we’re talking about morals inside a theistic worldview, they might fall into one or more of those three categories.

Religions tend to have a lot of variation when it comes to moral laws that don’t focus on harm reduction.

Name an activity that’s not hurting anyone. You can probably find a handful of religions that embrace it, and others that consider it a terrible sin.

In this sense, some religious “morals” don’t have an objective reality. They’re sometimes highly subjective and variable, depending on which religion or sect or denomination we’re discussing.

However, the ethical notion of reducing the harm that humans do to other humans is close to universal. You find people in nearly every religion talking about reducing harm, needless suffering, and damage. You find atheists (and agnostics) saying the exact same things.

A rare sort of religious person might think that driving a car is evil.

A rare sort of religious person might think that any song with a repetitive, driving beat is the devil’s music.

A rare sort of religious person might believe that it’s morally repugnant for a woman to wear pants.

An ethical atheist probably doesn’t hold those beliefs. But an ethical atheist is almost certainly going to think that murder and terrorism are wrong, as would anyone, because murder and terrorism cause concrete and unjustifiable harm.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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(This article by Lync Dalton first appeared on Quora in 2017)