Ascension NOW

Please note: this is a 'live' document which I will update or add to whenever I revisit it. Updates will show the date when I'm updating. Additions will mostly appear in the main body of the text in the relevant place. As far as possible I will not change what I have written previously, so that the reader can see the process as it develops (according to what I'm learning or observing).

Time will tell, but I believe that we have entered a period of very great change for which we need to prepare by understanding it. At the very least we need to see it happening, because it is unprecedented in human history and we should participate in it, if only as a passive observer. At this time of beginning writing, in January 2006, the symptoms of this change are not evident for all to see, but I believe that by the spring or summer of 2006 people will be asking "What's going on?"

(Today is December 10th 2006 and still there are very few people asking "What's going on?" I'm surprised that it's taking so long. However, most people have heard about global warming, 'terrorism', globalisation of the economy, 'peak oil' and 'New World Order', all of which could have far-reaching effects - we just haven't considered how we could be affected, and we're either unwilling to contemplate change, too complacent or very trusting that life will go on as usual. Allow me to amend my prediction to 'by the end of spring or summer 2007 people will be asking "What's going on?" [29th September 2007: still no obvious signs, though September 2007 was predicted to be a time of real breakthrough for the new energies; from what I can see, it seems that things are happening on such a subtle level that it may take more time for them to work through to the surface in various ways e.g. earth changes (earthquakes, volcanism, climate change); or political events etc, etc]

Other, more positive indicators that something unusual is going on is that a higher consciousness or awareness is manifesting in the world, through such things as e.g., knowledge of all kinds, especially scientific and technological knowledge, which is being gained at an exponentially accelerating pace; large numbers of children are displaying advanced psychic and healing abilities; our ability to communicate is growing rapidly through e.g. the internet and mobile phone technology; time seems to be speeding up, etc., etc)

So I want to write about what’s going on in the world today, from my own perspective and understanding. It’s about a process which I believe to be happening right now, often called (by those whose writings I have been reading) Ascension. That is, the ascension of both the planet Earth and of humanity into a higher dimension. This process has been going on for many years but it is only now, as I begin this in January 2006, that it has begun to be evident for all to see, and ancient and contemporary prophecy appears to be coming true, and major developments are occurring in the world. It has long been a concern of mine that if this process exists, ordinary people should go through it in comfort and benefit, and not be left behind by those who in their knowingness have raced ahead in one way or another.

(Dec 10th 2006: Delete '...ordinary people should go through it in comfort and benefit...'. Replace with: 'ordinary people should understand what the process is, how to handle the process, what choices they have, what choices they are making, and then take responsibility for their choices.....' It's not my job to give people 'comfort and benefit'. If I did - it now seems - I'd be accumulating karma for myself and for them. No-one, it seems, is really a victim. We should all be taking personal responsibility for our lives. What is permissible, I understand, is to give people the facts and leave what they do with the facts entirely up to them. Hard hearted? I didn't want to be. But we all contribute, to some extent, to things as they are.)

There are so many different elements to this that it’s difficult to know where to begin. It’s also difficult to address my main target audience, which is the ordinary, average person in the street. Many would argue that it would be futile to try to reach that audience because they wouldn’t listen. That’s my whole point - it’s because they probably wouldn’t listen that I think someone has to make the effort to find a way to inspire them to listen.

(December 10th 2006: Add to the last sentence: '....as a service to them. Whether they listen or not...is up to them.)

Also, I want to produce something that people could take to their town or borough or city leaders (national leaders have their own agenda - see later) and say "What are you doing about the threats we face from global warming, terrorism, globalisation of food and energy supplies, peak oil, etc., etc.? Do you have any plans in place for when these threats start making life difficult? If you don't, please read this....it'll explain why you need contingency plans, and that you need them NOW! And I'll let the press know I've told you, so you'd better do something about it."

As I write this, I find that it is ever-more clear to me that ordinary people need to know the full truth about the origins of humanity, about who we really are and what has been going on in the world over recent centuries - and is going on today. The truth will set us free, though before it does it will probably make us mad as hell when we discover what has been going on. What people will then need is to be offered opportunities for knowledge, understanding, forgiveness and reconciliation so that freedom, love and peace can prevail. I believe it's possible to achieve what I now say at every opportunity - an amazingly wonderful outcome for all of us, more so than we can possibly imagine.

(December 10th 2006: And this is still so, though the much greater likelihood is that many people will choose something much less for themselves - our present, materialistic and (probably) ultimately suicidal lifestyle has a very firm grip on many people.)

The reader will almost immediately bring a question to mind: if what I am saying is true, why don't we all know about it? Surely Governments would know, and would tell us? My answer is that, according to my best understanding, taking all the different elements into account, the top 'leaders' of government and other major institutions have literally been held hostage by people 'above' them - behind the scenes - and prevented from disclosing information which would otherwise have transformed our lives, averted the damage to the environment, poverty, disease, wars, terrorism and other such things that bring vast riches and power to those who benefit from them. It is those people hiding behind the scenes who need to answer that question and make amends by now enabling our ascension. But they wouldn't do that. They cannot willingly relinquish their power and wealth, which full disclosure would entail.

I’m going to use the New Living website and discussion forum to publish this essay, partly to make it readily available, free, and also to get discussion and feedback along the way as I write. So to some extent this will be a collaborative effort. And I need to know that it’s getting out there NOW, because there’s no time left to wait for a year or more before a book would be published. What I'm starting here will probably be a rough outline of a book to follow. So here goes:

And just one other thing - if you spot what's obviously a typing error, would you please email me on philip.snow@newliving.org. so I can correct it. Thanks.

It became apparent to me back in the 1980s that the year 2012 will be of some considerable significance, the year when the Mayan Calendar (which is not measured in our own, Gregorian calendar, years) will come to an end and a new Golden Age will begin. At the time I was living in a community in Skelmersdale, in North-West England, where we were practising the advanced transcendental meditation technique called TM-Sidhis, or Yogic Flying, in a group about 150-strong. The idea was to raise the collective consciousness of the whole of the United Kingdom through our group practice.

I was hearing it said that in 2012 we, humanity, and perhaps the whole physical planet, will be going through a ‘quantum leap’ into a higher state of consciousness, whatever that meant, and that those who failed to develop a higher state of consciousness would not make it through to the New Age but would die, probably through cancer or suchlike because their physiology would become too low in ‘vibration’ (whatever that meant) to survive at the higher levels which would come. That didn’t sound very fair to me, and I have always kept it in mind as I have gone on through the years.

The meditators I was living with in Skelmersdale were saying that the best thing we could do was to raise our own consciousness and that would raise everyone else’s too. I could understand that, but it seemed a rather callous approach and I wanted to get the many people who wouldn’t meditate to be more directly involved in the process so that they would know what to do - or not do, if they so chose.

Eventually, at the end of the 1980s, I came to the belief that Transcendental Meditation was too eastern, too alien in culture, to be accepted by most people in the west, and I resolved to find another way of helping the whole society to rise in consciousness. (December 10th 2006: Arrogant, or what?) I left the meditators in November 1989 and returned to my home city of Stoke-on-Trent to look after my mother, who was now living alone following my father’s death in March of that year.

As it happened, my mother didn’t need looking after, and I frequently visited an ex-TM friend who was running an alternative medicine clinic using a novel diagnostic technique called ‘muscle-testing’, the formal name for which was health kinesiology. This technique had been developed by an American doctor in the 1970s as a technique for revealing what was going on in the body of a patient, or client, and the technique had proved to be very effective.

Muscle-testing involves using the patient’s muscle strength to obtain answers to questions that the practitioner would ask the patient, out loud or silently. If the practitioner could move the outstretched arm of the patient, who would resist using a modicum of strength, the answer was ‘No’. If the arm remained solidly strong, the answer was ‘Yes’. Any level of movement in-between might indicate a ‘Maybe’ or ‘Ask a different question’. Not only would the muscle-testing reveal what was wrong, but it would also state what treatment was required. The practitioner’s most pertinent question might have been ‘Where are these answers coming from?’

My friend who had started to practise this new technique had found for some reason that she couldn’t entirely understand that her use of the technique had developed a direction of its own, namely towards using it in a group context. That is, by using two or more practitioners working together in the clinic, it was possible for the muscle-testing to access different levels of diagnosis and different forms of treatment some of which, believe me, were truly bizarre by my standards and probably by most other people’s too. There was, however, no question about the effectiveness of the treatment.

Eventually, the muscle-testing itself said that I should join the practice as a member of the group. Actually it said that I shouldn’t go home again, that day, or tomorrow, or any other day unless the muscle-testing said so. That came as a bit of a shock, but since I enjoyed being with my friend and I was fascinated about where this muscle-testing technique was leading, I willingly agreed to stay. I stayed for about 18 months, until I felt that I wanted a change, and just at that time my mother became ill and needed someone to look after her. So I went home again. The group practice is still working today and I am still involved, though peripherally and remotely.

I had discovered that the answers to the muscle-testing were coming from a higher source. I learnt that, at the level of our consciousness, we are all connected, right up to the highest level there is and which, to avoid being too overwhelmed, we used to call ‘Upstairs’. Actually, to digress for a moment, there was an occasion when my friend asked a direct question: "What should we really be calling you?", to which ‘Upstairs’ replied "When you know us really well, you can call us ‘I’". In other words, when we are really well connected to the higher source, we are consciously part of what it is, and we can say ‘I say this’ or ‘I say that’, knowing that we are speaking from that higher level of consciousness.

Now, here’s the rub - as I’m writing this today, about 15 years later, I don’t know whether I’m writing this, or it’s being channelled, or I’m writing this from my higher self. I suspect the latter because the thoughts I can hear in my mind are ‘Just get on with it!’, which is probably my higher self!

There was another occasion when my friend was told by Upstairs, ‘Don’t muscle-test this, HEAR it and say it’. My friend was reluctantly forced to acknowledge that she would normally hear the answers to her muscle-testing as thoughts in her mind as well as through the weak or strong physical movements of her client’s outstretched arm. And from that point she began to ‘channel’ full-length messages from Upstairs, messages normally of a counselling nature.

One day, there was a message for me. Unfortunately I can’t find the typed copy, which I certainly had up to December 2004 when I moved out of my mother’s home, after we’d sold it to wind up her estate after she’d died. At the time of moving I was of a mind to ‘let go’ of everything from the past, at least the physical things, so I threw out everything other than the barest of necessities. I left the house with very little, and moved into a small flat which I’ve just searched briefly and I can’t find the message. I’m a bit surprised that I threw that particular message out because it formed the basis of all my work thereafter, part of which I suspected would include writing a book, as I am now doing, and I would want to be able to reprint the message. Anyway, if I come across it I’ll add it in later.

The message told me that I was using a clairaudient ability to access information and I should practice and develop my ability until it became telepathic, at which point I could be passing messages from the Spiritual Hierarchy on to others "for their support and encouragement". Up to that point I had no idea I had a clairaudient ability, which means ‘hearing’ beyond the usual limits, in the same way as clairvoyant means ‘seeing’ beyond the usual limits. In my experience, the only things I hear are my own thoughts, but I must admit that I often ‘think’ things that later turn out to be prescient, that is, knowing things that will happen in the future, but I have usually thought that it was a case of simply extrapolating trends that I could see already occurring.

Today, in January 2006, I feel no differently about my clairaudient or telepathic abilities, except to say that I have greater confidence that the thoughts I have, and particularly the instincts I have, about how things are going to develop, are pretty near to the mark. So when I feel comfortable about talking about things that most people would say are preposterous, such as the whole idea of Ascension itself, it’s because I feel I’m right to think that way. Mostly, my own predictions, or my acceptance of other people’s predictions, have been justified.

(December 10th 2006: In recent months I've found many sources saying that 'Ascension' isn't really the right word. However there is no great agreement as to the most appropriate word, so I'll stick with it, for now.)

Predictions about the Ascension process come both from ancient sources such as the Mayan Calendar and also from many present-day sources, almost all of which are channelled messages from higher dimensional sources. Many people would dispute the possibility of receiving channelled messages from higher sources, but the basis I have received through both meditation and muscle-testing makes the possibility acceptable to me.

Also, I think that I have spent my life working up to this time. The fact that I started thinking along these lines when I was only 12 years old could suggest that I incarnated at this time in order to do what I’m doing today. I grew up in a family of middle-class professionals who mixed with some owner-class industrialists, and I saw the great contrast between their lives and those of the working classes whom I saw at school and play. I distinctly remember, at the age of 12, walking alongside the tennis courts in Trentham Gardens, a leisure park near to where I lived, and thinking to myself "I can see there’s something wrong in society, and I’m going to spend the rest of my life sorting it out."

I think what I was seeing at that time was a lack of love in society, a lack of concern for the well-being of others, and a wrong-headed, or wrong-hearted emphasis on material success. Also at that time I had scored near the bottom of my class in school, whereas my twin brother had scored nearly top, and I was acutely aware of the difference. Clearly there was greater approval for those who achieved intellectually, but no particular recognition of those who, like myself I felt, were just nice guys who had, as I did, a quite profound awareness of spiritual values.

At that time I consciously decided to stop worrying about exam marks and find my way through life with my heart rather than my intellect. In view of what I’m doing today it seems I got it right.

Like many young people I forgot the great insights I had at an early age, and it would be another 20 years before I returned to fulfil the promise I made at the age of 12.

In the meantime I was seeing clues that our lives are being subtly influenced and controlled from behind the scenes, and that people whom we would have expected to know better, actually don’t.

While I was still living at home in the early 1960s, that is, before the age of 18, I was regularly attending the local Church of England early evening Sunday Services. I was confirmed into the Church at the age of 13 though I had never particularly ‘bought’ the teachings, but the hymns were nice and my friends were there, and it was the 'done thing' to do, so I went. However, a book newly-published at that time, ‘Chariots of the Gods’ by archaeologist Erik von Daniken, showing rock drawings and other discoveries from the ancient Americas, suggested that Earth has been visited by ‘gods’ from space, or space-men, in the pre-historical past. Von Daniken even suggested that humanity is the product of seeding or genetic engineering by these extra-terrestrial ‘gods’ or men and women.

Frankly, to me, von Daniken’s theories seemed much more likely than Adam and Eve, and the Book of Genesis. I began to feel that the teachings of the church were more inspired by man than by God, and were intended to control rather than liberate us. I began to feel that I was not becoming spiritually enlightened, that I was not having spiritual experiences. And, to judge by the grey faces of the congregation, nor was anyone else. So at that time I left the church behind.

The second thing that gave me serious doubts about the judgment of people whom you would think knew better followed a feature article in the American ‘Life’ magazine, a big glossy monthly magazine. This was in 1965 if I remember correctly. The article concerned Teilhard de Chardin and his ideas on existentialism. Without fully understanding the article, I wrote a ‘letter to the editor’ about it, and lo and behold, a few weeks later my letter appeared as the ‘letter of the month’. I just can’t imagine why the editor thought my letter was worth publishing. Even today I don’t understand what existentialism is.

Then, late in 1973, the British Prime Minister at the time, Edward Heath, fell out with the coal miners once again and electricity supplies were rationed. This had a devastating effect on the business of which I was co-owner and director, the Caiystane Park Hotel in Edinburgh, and our weakened financial position eventually forced us into liquidation some couple of years later. It was clear to me that even Prime Ministers had serious trouble with their judgment.

I began to wonder what it would take to be able to make decisions that are always right. I felt sure there must be some level one could attain at which one’s decisions were somehow so in tune with life itself that they would be spontaneously right. Most people, I imagined, would say that one’s hard-won experience of making decisions eventually enables more decisions to be right, and this is why people work to gain experience. But somehow I felt there must be more to it. At some higher level, I mused to myself, such as ‘the angels’, or the laws of nature, spontaneously right decision-making must be possible. Does God make mistakes? I thought probably not. Therefore, how far down the hierarchy of life would right decision-making come into play?

I had an experience in 1975 which answered my question. Whilst running the hotel-restaurant in Edinburgh, my co-director and I began to operate ‘outside catering’ of various kinds. We were asked to provide the catering for an event taking place over several sites in Edinburgh. This was a prestige, 3-day event, a Radiology Congress. We were asked by three large companies, namely the British firm G.E.C., the German firm Siemens and the Belgian firm Agfa-Gevaert, to provide catering for their hospitality suites. This included a no-expense-spared wine-buffet reception for 1000 guests at the Assembly Rooms in George Street, as well as all-day catering on exhibition stands and hospitality suites, and barbecues. For us, it was a big affair. I did most of the prior organising and on-site management whilst my co-director looked after our hotel-restaurant.

At the time of the event itself something strange happened. Everything started to go really smoothly! This was not exactly the first time things had gone smoothly, but there was a quality of effortlessness that I had not experienced before. As I travelled repeatedly across Edinburgh, between the various sites at which we were catering, it was as if the traffic lights were turning green for me, and I had the curious feeling that everything was happening all by itself. It was a blissful feeling, extremely pleasant, like a ‘peak experience’ of some sort, like being ‘in the zone’.

This feeling persisted through the three days of the Congress, including the wine-buffet reception for 1000 which was a glorious success, and at the end of the week I said to my co-director, "I don’t know what happened this week, but whatever it was, I want it to be like this all the time. And I’m not going to do anything more until I find out what it was." What I felt I had seen was an example of things being ‘right’.

Well, it took me almost three years to find an answer which led me somewhere. I had a thought that, if I were ever to align myself with some level at which my decision-making would be spontaneously right, I would need to be living what was right for me, being truly myself, being all that I could be.

(December 10th 2006: Living in the ever-present 'Now', which many sources commend as the key to right-living and the way to connect with the omnipresence of God - and the will of God, and the organising power of God - is probably what I was articulating to myself - somewhat.)

Very shortly after having that thought, which turned out to be more correct than I felt justified in believing, I met an Australian chap named Mike Halthorpe, a student parapsychologist living in Edinburgh. Mike was practising Transcendental Meditation. I asked him what that was, and of all the things he could have said, he said the exact words I wanted to hear. "It’s to do with unfolding your full potential." I took the course of instruction that very weekend. That was in October 1978.

I noticed a poster on the wall of the main lounge in the Edinburgh TM Centre, showing a chap sitting in full lotus, crossed-legs position, seemingly levitating. This was the practice of the recently-introduced TM-Sidhi programme, which later became known as Yogic Flying. The programme was intended 'to create coherence in collective consciousness’, whereby the whole nation could enjoy life ‘spontaneously in accordance with natural law’. As you can imagine, this sounded very interesting to me.

Curiously this was only two months after I had been managing the catering for the annual Scottish Kennel Club dog show at Ingliston Showground, near Edinburgh Airport. I remember collecting one of my staff, a chap called Nigel, on our way there at about 5.30 in the morning and complaining that I hadn’t slept well but I’d had a very vivid dream in which I was in a room with some other people and we were sitting cross-legged and flapping our arms and rising up and down off the floor. Remember, this was before I saw the poster in the TM Centre, and I had never heard of people levitating like that. So when I saw the poster, I was reminded of the dream and I felt that the dream must have been a premonition that I would learn the Yogic Flying technique. And, sure enough, I did, in July 1980.

Whilst I was attending the two-week study course to learn the Yogic Flying technique, at Swythamley Park, near Leek in Staffordshire, there was an announcement about a community project to be set up in Skelmersdale, near Liverpool. The intention was to create a large enough group of Yogic Flyers to raise the collective consciousness of the whole of Britain. This should be a group of 800 Yogic Flyers. The reason why it should be 800 was that, it was claimed, the coherence generated by people practising the TM-Sidhi technique in a group would be generated according to the same laws of physics that enable the incredibly powerful light of the laser to be generated, namely that when the square root of 1% of a group of atoms becomes perfectly coherent, the whole group becomes equally coherent, and vastly more powerful. So, with the population of Great Britain being notionally reckoned to be 64 million, near enough for the ease of calculation, 1% would be 640,000 and the square root of 640,000 is 800. So 800 people attaining coherent consciousness through the TM-Sidhi technique would make the whole of Britain coherent. Ideally, 800 would be a minimum, daily number so that a sufficiently high level of coherence could be maintained for the whole of Britain on a continuous basis to make a significant difference to the quality of life for the whole of Britain.

Part of the initial announcement was that the community would start businesses in order to become self-sufficient. That came as an unwelcome shock to me, having recently put a hotel-restaurant business into voluntary liquidation despite having been trained at Ross Hall, the Scottish Hotel School in Glasgow, one of the top hotel management schools in Britain. It struck me at the time that the meditators were not experienced businessmen and so I would probably need to contribute my own experience to help the new community survive, and therefore I should move to the community and become involved with its businesses. I moved to Skelmersdale to join the project in October 1980, about three weeks after the first group had moved there to make a start.

In the event I did become deeply involved with helping the businesses, and was eventually, in 1984, one of two people who, having become joint managing directors of the holding company with numerous divisions, had to deal with the Official Receiver in winding up the company. That’s another story which doesn’t need to be told here, and I’m recording it here just to confirm that my instincts about becoming involved with the project were well-founded. I’m trying to make the point that my instincts have proven to be well-founded at many stages of my life. Whether instinct or intuition or channelled from above is not entirely clear, but this is the basis of my confidence in the validity of channelled information, upon which my confidence in the process of Ascension, as described through channelled messages, rests.

The other facet of my confidence in channelled information is my experience of higher states of consciousness, through the creation of coherence in collective consciousness by the group in Skelmersdale and elsewhere. I am one of a very small group of people who have experienced the practical benefits of coherent consciousness at first hand. Having a catering background, I was usually appointed to manage the catering for the large courses we held at Skelmersdale on various weekends. In the early days of the community, whilst enthusiasm for the project was most intense, there were 700 or more Yogic Flyers attending the courses. My experiences of coherence, and the practical benefits of coherence, became thoroughly reliable and predictable.

What would happen was that, on the Friday before the weekend course, whilst those attending were preparing or travelling to attend, and probably a bit stressed-out, things became quite incoherent in Skelmersdale. For me, organising the catering, things would not go well. We used to describe it as ‘working in mud’. It was heavy going. On the Saturday, whilst the course was settling in, things would ease off and go rather more smoothly, especially later in the day; but on Sunday, when the course was completely settled and coherence was greatest, that same qualitative experience that I had enjoyed during the Radiology Congress in Edinburgh would be there again - very smooth, very effortless, very blissful. This occurred every time. So I am completely confident that the effects that are claimed for Yogic Flying do indeed occur.

There was a time in 1984 or thereabouts when I attended a global coherence-creating course held in The Hague, in Holland. There were about 6000 Yogic Flyers participating, almost enough to affect the whole world (according to the previously-mentioned natural law, it would need nearly 8000 to produce coherence for the world population of 6 billion). A scientific study was carried out producing statistics on crime and other quality-of-life factors such as positive statements by world leaders, to assess whether the coherence generated by the course was having any beneficial effect. The results showed clearly enough that we were indeed having such an effect.

For me, then, there is definitely such a thing as a higher state of consciousness which can be experienced as a permanent, day-to-day reality. A question that needs answering, however, is why was I experiencing coherent consciousness whilst I was catering for the Radiology Congress in Edinburgh, those few years previously? On the basis of what I learned as a Yogic Flyer, which included not only the practice but an intellectual understanding of what was happening, I can say that the group of businessmen involved in the Radiology Congress were focussed together on having a successful Congress. They probably had a fairly coherent consciousness to begin with, being successful businessmen, and they had the skills to focus their organising power in a powerful way. I think that my experience was that I was riding on the back of the prevailing coherent consciousness at the Congress. It wasn’t that my consciousness was coherent, although my own focus of attention probably contributed. It was the group focus that made the difference. The group focus created the higher state of consciousness. The same can happen in group sports, especially at a professional or competitive team level.

So, one might ask, how is it possible to achieve that coherent state of consciousness whilst one is by oneself? Ah ha! Now we get to something of a different order.

First of all, we should ask: why should we need a coherent state of consciousness? Well, it makes it more likely that spontaneous right decision-making would occur. Why? Because that higher state of consciousness draws on a higher level of organising power which would know spontaneously what to do in the circumstances. Can we say this is a higher state of consciousness?

Let’s extrapolate this several stages further. If coherent consciousness means a higher state of consciousness, then a very much more coherent state of consciousness means a very much higher state of consciousness, and the higher one goes, the closer it becomes to the highest possible, which is, let’s say, The Source, this being the source of all creation, and of all natural law.

Now, it is fairly clear to us here on Earth that there is a degree of order in the universe. There are the planets which appear to follow certain stable orbits around our sun, at a stable speed, and our Milky Way galaxy with many suns appears to have a structure which stays more or less the same over millions of years. There is also Nature which we can see in our back garden and everywhere around. There is clearly some inherent intelligence in Nature. And the more one studies this, the more intelligent Nature appears to be.

In a moment I’m going to show that there is far more intelligence in nature than we have previously recognised, and the whole of creation has a definite purpose, as well as order.

Now, everything that was created in this universe is, at some level, connected to the source of everything. It must be. It may not look as if it’s connected, but that’s because we see the physical object, not the energy field. The energy field is part of the larger energy field.

You’ve probably heard that human beings have an aura around them. The aura can be photographed. Kirlian photography popularised this. Different people have different colours in their aura. The Kirlian photograph shows that the aura fades away at its extremities. It appears to fade away completely because the quality of the photograph only shows so much. We can deduce that eventually the aura does fade away, but we can imagine that it simply merges with the larger energy in the space, the air, around it. And at every point close to the body the human energy field merges and interacts with the larger energy field around it.

When two or more people are standing close together, their energy fields interact with each other’s. We can feel it. We can sense how other people are feeling. The more we develop this, through empathy, for example, the more we can ‘read’ another’s energy. So what we are, as physical human beings, is localised, concentrated energy fields. But our consciousness is more than that, it is also non-local. Just as we can sense the energy field of someone close to us, we can sense the field of someone far away. We can develop that faculty. We could only do that on the level of energy. That energy is synonymous with consciousness because we sense outside ourselves using that energy. And in that way we can say that our energy-consciousness is connected to everything else in creation.

The spiritual masters say that our soul is a ‘spark’ of the creator. The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is an individual spark from the Light which is our Creator. The Creator sparked off countless numbers of individual sparks of light, and we are one of those. So they say.

The energy which we are, that individuated spark of energy which says ‘I am’, exists eternally until it eventually returns to its source, once it has experienced what it was created to experience. It was (we were) created to go out and explore the universe, and return full of information. Did you see the first full-length Star Trek movie in which the Voyager space probe which humanity sent out into the cosmos eventually returned to Earth as an inconceivably vast, complex, enlightened, conscious energy field comprising innumerable mechanical entities? "V---ger seeks the creator", it said to Captain Kirk, not realising that mankind was its creator. That’s what humanity is in the process of doing, but what we are seeking is what we call God.

Now, please bear with me through this because it’s completely central to this whole thesis.

So if we can make the rather large leap to saying that whoever or whatever started the whole creation in the first place must have had an intrinsic intelligence, and probably an awareness or consciousness of what it was doing, then we can say that our own consciousness must be related to our Creator, that which created us. There is a saying from the Vedas, the ancient body of spiritual knowledge from India, ‘I am That, Thou are That, and All of This is That.’

What ‘That’ is, is spirit, Light, consciousness. Our connection with our Creator is therefore on the level of consciousness. ‘I am that consciousness’. We experience a certain amount, a spark, of our creator’s consciousness. And it is apparently inherent within us to strive to make that connection stronger, to reconnect with our creator. But are we really capable of doing that? Especially, are we capable of doing that on our own? I believe the answer to that is yes, and it is part of human nature to be striving to do this all the time.

Okay, that was me using a degree of logic to attempt to explain, in exceedingly sketchy terms, something that far more enlightened people than myself have failed to explain effectively at any time in known history. Why should I make such a statement? Because we ordinary people are not knowingly connected to our creator to any great extent. Despite the great teachers such as Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed and well-known others, we are not sufficiently connected to our creator that we have learned to live at the level of our full potential and create a peaceful, loving, compassionate, joyous, creative society - at least, not sufficiently so.

So, what does it take? What does it take to gear up our consciousness to the level where we enjoy spontaneous right action, where our daily lives are so much more in accordance with the universal order that we live our lives in a much more ideal way?

Time, it seems, is part of the divine order of things, at least at our level, here in this space-time continuum. And to see how time follows a divinely-ordered timetable, we need to look at the Mayan Calendar.

The Mayan Calendar ends on 21st December 2012, according to most exponents. There is one principal exponent, Swedish scientist Carl Johan Calleman, who argues that the calendar ends on 28th October 2011, and I trust Carl Calleman greatly, but we’ll leave the argument to one side for now. Carl Calleman has endorsed the theory of Jose Arguelles who was the first to describe the Mayan Calendar as a timetable for the evolution of consciousness, and Carl has plotted the known historical record against the Mayan Calendar to show that human history has unerringly followed the Mayan Calendar to a hitherto unknown extent. What this means, by implication, is that when the calendar ends in 2012, the evolution of human consciousness will be complete, and thereby we will enjoy fully developed consciousness and be re-connected to our divine creator.

If this seems in any way unlikely to you, let me propose that the reason why you are reading this is that you are interested in the development of consciousness, something that many people are also interested in at this time, in one way or another. Other manifestations of this might include an interest in alternative medicine, yoga, meditation, angels and various ‘new age’ topics. Such things have been identified as the manifestation of the rising Age of Aquarius, the ‘New Age’.

However, is it really conceivable that in the space of under seven years, from today as I write, in January 2006, to the end of the Mayan Calendar in December 2012, we can transform our level of consciousness so greatly that we would live in an enlightened world, a new Golden Age?

The answer to this, I am assured, is yes, and I will now begin to explain why this is apparently so.

The Mayan Calendar describes time as cycles which repeat themselves ever faster. That is, each next cycle moves twenty times faster than the cycle preceding it. It follows a path of exponential growth.

The Mayan Calendar consists of nine main cycles starting about 16 billion years ago at approximately the time of what we call the Big Bang when, according to the Bible's Book of Genesis, the Lord said ‘Let there be light’ and the physical universe began. That first cycle, which Calleman has named 'The Cellular Cycle', denoting the time when the first cells of matter began to form, ends, according to the Mayan Calendar, on 21st December 2012, so you can see that we’re talking in big, big concepts when we're talking about that 16 billion-year-cycle ending in seven years time, in 2012. As you probably already know, the Mayan Calendar does not work according to our Gregorian calendar, and we are merely translating Mayan time into Gregorian time to find the date 21st December 2012.

The second cycle, 'The Mammalian Cycle' according to Calleman, denoting when the first mammals appeared, started about 820 million years ago, with the evolutionary process moving 20 times faster than in the first cycle, and also ends on 21st December 2012, as all the cycles do. Or on 28th October 2011 as Carl Calleman argues.

The previous cycle to the 20x-accelerated one we’re in today, in 2006, started in 1756, around the time that the Industrial Revolution began. It lasts for about 256 years. Calleman calls this 'The Planetary Cycle', culminating in a global consciousness of the planet as an ecosphere in its own right, 'Gaia', and the emergence of global awareness of the need for environmental sustainability.

The cycle we’re in now started in 1999, the time when the Information Age really got into its stride. This cycle, proceeding twenty times faster than the preceding, lasts about 13 years. In these 13 years there will be as much evolution taking place as in the first 16 billion years. This, remember, is evolution of consciousness, not physical evolution. Calleman calls this 'The Galactic Cycle' when he predicts mankind will attain an awareness of our place in the galaxy. This might include contact with extraterrestrials, though Calleman restricts himself to the likelihood of finding planets orbiting other suns, possibly life-bearing planets if they follow a near 360-day annual rotation like ours.

And then the final cycle, which Calleman calls 'The Universal Cycle', starts in February 2011 and lasts just a few months, after which the whole process will be complete and a Golden Age will begin.

In terms of exponential growth, the curve will have reached a vertical phase at that time. This means that, in effect, time will cease to exist, but will become an eternal ‘Now’. You may be aware that many spiritual masters have described time as an illusion and, according to their reality, past, present and future co-exist in an eternal ‘Now’. This is consistent with what appears to lie ahead for us: the calendar will stop in time, and our consciousness will have risen to the level where we perceive time to be an illusion.

Or, that time goes in cycles, at different speeds, rather than in a straight line at the same rate. And time is a construct in that particular universe, rather than a universal absolute. It's still difficult to imagine, isn't it.

(December 10th 2006: Having read more about 'Now' as the ever-existing moment when we truly connect ourselves with God, or our Prime Source, I have conceived of the end of the Mayan Calendar as the time when we will live in the 'Now' completely; that is, we will have left our ego behind and will be living as our true Godself, our inner self, literally in the present moment and truly surrendered to the Will of God, allowing Him to direct our every thought and activity through our instinct and intuition. We will be totally mindless of past and future, both of which would otherwise take us out of Now and back into the ego. Time will be meaningless. There will be no need for a calendar.)

So during the next seven years, the evolution of our consciousness will progress at an inconceivably rapid pace. If so, how? And surely we would be experiencing this now, today? If so, in what ways are we experiencing it? What will this mean for our daily lives? What changes will it bring? Ah, questions, so many questions.

I will begin to describe how these changes will manifest in our daily lives, but first I need to give some more background about what is going on. The Mayan Calendar is not the only source of information about what is happening today. Up to a point, it’s a case of ‘all roads lead to Rome’, but were it ever so simple....

Firstly a little more about the Mayan Calendar, which for me was a stepping stone to another way of looking at things: western astrology, with its signs of the zodiac and personal horoscopes etc.

Carl Calleman has written a number of books, two of which have been published widely. The second of these, ‘The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness" was published in 2004. As an active supporter of Carl, I helped in the publication of this book by proof-reading it before its printing in the USA, and of course this gave me an early (free!) look at the material it contained.

I invited Carl to England for the UK launch of his new book, shortly prior to a major event taking place in June 2004, the Venus Transit. This was the passage of Venus over the face of the sun. It wasn’t an eclipse because Venus is far too small to hide the sun, but in any terms it was an important astrological and astronomical event, occurring only 120 years or so in a pair of Venus Transits 8 years apart. The second of the pair will therefore take place in 2012, a year pregnant with fate, it seems.

Carl described the significance of these Venus Transits in great detail in his new book, as he had in his first book, as doorways into the higher state of consciousness. What I found particularly interesting was his belief that Venus represents the feminine principle (Venus synonymous with Goddess of Love etc.), and that the transit would stimulate our right brain hemispheres, the part of our brain which is understood to mediate feminine qualities such as intuition, nurturing, spirituality, community, creativity and the holistic approach.

Carl saw this as an extremely important development for the human brain, balancing the two hemispheres which hitherto had historically favoured the left hemisphere which mediates masculine characteristics such as analytical thinking, calculation, sequential logic, individualism, materialism and power. The imbalance of left-brain dominance is what has given us a patriarchal, hierarchical society since at least the time of the ancient Egyptians.

So apart from the possibility of transforming our society through a balancing of masculine and feminine energies, the stimulation of the right brain hemisphere especially in men should also have the effect of raising consciousness by opening up aspects of ourselves that we had no idea existed.

This would benefit women as well, because many women, whom one would expect to be naturally right-brain- dominant, have adopted a pseudo-masculine approach to life, living as they have done in a masculine-oriented world. It has been difficult for women to be truly feminine in a world which, to all intents and purposes, operates in an overwhelmingly masculine way. The benefit to women would be that now they can be truly feminine because increasingly the value of feminine characteristics will become more evident especially to men.

As a short aside from that, I seem to have a particular connection with the Venus Transit that I’d appreciate some help in explaining. The Transit on 8th June 2004 took place when the sun and Venus were at 17 degrees Gemini. In my birth chart I also have Venus at 17 degrees Gemini, and my sun sign is Leo, with my sun at 0 degrees, sextile to Venus. I am, and always have been, I believe, right-brain dominant, which is unusual for a man, and I am left-handed. Left-handedness seems to be a right-brain function, though not always so, apparently. So in some ways I seem to be the very embodiment of the Venus Transit, having talked about it on local radio, BBC Radio Stoke, as I did with Carl Calleman when he was here, and by myself just prior to me hosting a group meditation and celebration at the precise time of the Venus Transit. What is that connection all about, I ask myself. If anyone knows, please tell me!

So, getting back on track, the Mayan Calendar has at least some common ground with western astrology.

Western astrology does also talk about a passage into a New Age. We have been talking about the Age of Aquarius since the 1960s when actors were cavorting naked on stage in "Hair" - "When the Moon is in the Seventh House, and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then peace shall guide the planets, and love will steer the stars, this is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius....". Well, not quite. The Age of Aquarius according to western astrology is really dawning more about this time now. But no-one seems entirely sure about this. In fact just less than a week ago from the time I write this, an American astrologer, Mark David Gerson described January 20th 2006, when the sun entered the sign of Aquarius, as the day for: "your walk through the Aquarian Earth Gateway into the New Earth, the Heaven on Earth of your own Ascension, the legendary Age of Aquarius". Some astrologers have talked about the profound influence of Pluto in Sagittarius as the gateway to the Age of Aquarius. Pluto entered the sign of Sagittarius on January 18th 1995 and will remain until January 26th, 2008. The Pluto in Sagittarius cycle provides the catalyst for universal regeneration. "Like the centaur (half-man, half-horse), aiming high with his arrow, we are compelled to transform our preconceptions to create a world of tolerance on many levels. This is Pluto in Sagittarius! Rising out of the darkness to see the light . . ." Others point to the winter solstice (December 21st) 2012, the date on which most people agree the Mayan Calendar will end, as the key entry-point to the Age of Aquarius.

Aquarius is believed to be synonymous with enlightenment. It is also the sign which begins the second half of the ‘precession of the equinoxes’, a 25,800-year cycle in which each of the twelve signs of the zodiac are the rising constellation as seen from Earth at the spring equinox for periods of around 2,160 years each. So ‘the dawning of the Age of Aquarius’ is a major time in astrological terms and it’s happening around now.

It was through taking a look at western astrology that I began to see the term ‘ascension’. I began to read about ‘ascension from the 3rd to the 4th (or even 5th) dimension’, for the planet and for ourselves.

For me, this was a new ‘take’ on the rise into a higher state of consciousness, and it seemed, to judge by the number of websites talking about it, that it was quite well known as a process occurring now.

There is quite a large body of people known as ‘Lightworkers’ who have been engaged in consciousness-raising practices and global meditations for several decades. In 1987, the above-mentioned Jose Arguelles organised a ‘Harmonic Convergence’ global meditation in which great numbers of Lightworkers participated.

These lightworkers have been working to raise collective consciousness through their light-bringing techniques, working towards a breakthrough into a higher dimensional state. There are two aspects to this: firstly, we can raise our individual and collective states of consciousness through our own, conscious efforts, and secondly the vibrationary frequencies of the planet are being raised through the planet’s own efforts. In both cases, we are being supplemented by rising vibrations of light coming to Earth from the wider galaxy, possibly from an invisible, higher dimensional sun at the heart of the galaxy.

In 1975, environmentalist Sir James Lovelock in the UK hypothesised that the living matter of the planet functioned like a single organism and he named this self-regulating living system after the Greek goddess, Gaia. Since then, the planet, Gaia, or Mother Earth, has become more widely accepted to be a spiritual - as well as physical - living, conscious entity which has decided to rise into a higher vibrational frequency. And we can’t do a thing about it. Not that we ought to want to.

According to the various ‘schools of ascension’, Mother Earth has her own evolutionary path and believes the time is right for her to rise, or ascend, into a higher vibrational state. It seems that Mother Earth has played a part, a very difficult and onerous part, in the process which has been taking place in our galaxy over aeons of time, and the time has arrived for her to regain her former, higher dimensional state.

To do this, Mother Earth needs to physically transform. And this explains global warming, climate irregularities, the rising frequency and intensity of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and suchlike. Mother Earth is literally transforming herself right under our feet. I understand that she will become a 12-faceted dodecahedron instead of her current egg shape. That’s a pretty big transformation. She needs to do this not only to be the functioning body she should be, but also to purify herself of the toxicity and negative energy that is kinetically stored up in the Earth, the accumulated detritus of humanity’s activities over umpteen thousands of years. It sounds pretty bad for us, doesn’t it?

At the same time, humanity is also undergoing its own transformation into beings of higher dimensional states, the 4th, 5th and 6th dimensions, depending upon our own choices and efforts. In the 4th dimension, currently known as the Astral dimension, we will cease to be merely physical beings, we become both spiritual and physical, though physical in a much more refined, subtle, light, state. In the 5th dimension we will, it seems, become as we have always become when we ‘died and went to Heaven’ and became subtle beings of light. Heaven, it seems, is coming to Earth.

But wait, before you consider this the worst thing imaginable - you have a choice. You don’t need to go through this transformation. If you would prefer to continue living in a state of being such as the more grossly physical, disconnected from your spiritual inheritance, warring, polluting, keeping-up-with-the-Jones’s, Mercedes or BMW convertible-driving materialistic, couldn’t care less about anyone else, it’s a choice you can take and no-one will try to persuade you otherwise. It’s fine. There are planets out there similar to Earth as she has been until now, and you’re welcome to go there. No pressure. It’s your choice. It’s just that you can’t stay here on Earth, because she’s going somewhere you can’t go at your present level of consciousness. How you’re going to get to those other planets before 2012 is something I can explain, a little later. I am already, however, insisting to those from higher dimensions who will manage this process that it should be a very attractive option made available to us. So relax.

(December 10th 2006: Sorry, but no good news on this. To make direct contact with those from higher dimensions I wrote to Matthew Ward, via his mother Suzanne who channels from Matthew who died in 1980. Matthew has channelled several books through his mother and frequently sends 'Messages from Matthew' which can be read at www.matthewbooks.com.

Matthew said in his message received today (February 11th 2006) that "Many, many millions will not make the journey with her into the higher vibrations due to...." and "This is NOT a judgment call or punishment for those souls!"

That being the case, I hope to hear that these people will be transported by the ETs to other worlds where they will enjoy a reward in this lifetime, or at least will die in peace, for having participated and suffered in this great cosmic drama for so long.

Could it really be that ordinary, unascending people have such negative karma that they are due to suffer in these coming times? Who amongst us, at every level of society, has not been ruthlessly prevented from knowing the spiritual reality which would otherwise inform and guide our lives?

I have yet to read or hear of any channelled messages in which those who will not ascend here on Earth will recognise in their present lifetimes the contribution they have unknowingly been making - unknowingly, that is, at a conscious level, until now, and will be able to enjoy the fruits of their contribution.

These people are victims enough of the dark side here on Earth without having to pay the ultimate price of losing their lives as the ascension process continues without them.

Somewhere in the Bible it talks about 'wailing and gnashing of teeth' at the end-time. If that applies to the dark side, then fair enough, perhaps. But it would not be acceptable for those millions, if not billions, of ordinary people who have no conscious awareness of all that is going on, if they were to become aware that the death-rate is multiplying fast and they may be next on the list. They have been prevented from knowing their spiritual reality, and have been too busy surviving to even think about the higher things.

I hope to hear from Matthew that all is in hand to give the ordinary, unascending people of this Earth their due, and their choice, consciously, in this lifetime. Choices could include relocating to another planet, and there must be virgin, unpopulated planets where the adventurous ones would jump at the chance of going to make a new start (assisted and guided by ETs), or a planet where beautiful new, underground cities and holiday resorts could be made ready in advance for those who like their comforts. Others, who feel they could do with a rest from it all, could choose to go to Nirvana, but should not have to suffer in death. Peacefully, in one's sleep, or even in the wakeful state, through conscious choice, having made their peace, would be acceptable, I dare say......

Most of the ordinary people here on Earth would not want their lives to change at all, but they could be sold on the idea of helping the Earth to ascend by leaving here if the options were attractive....

There is injustice enough. Do the higher dimensional ones really understand what being an ordinary human being is like on this dimension?

I know one shouldn't judge the people in one's life, but most people seem worthy of such compassion and gratitude that they don't seem to deserve to suffer any more.

With much appreciation for your work and Matthew's messages.

This business of ascension is worth going into a little more, especially as it’s the title of the book:

Ascension is about rising into a higher state of consciousness. Okay, what exactly does that mean? Well.......considering that I’ve been working on raising my consciousness for at least 25 years you would expect me to know, so here goes.....

1. Consciousness is that which we experience as "I am.....me". It’s awareness of oneself and the outside world. "I am alive.....you are alive." Whether we regard animals or trees as conscious is only a matter of degree.

2. So, let’s talk about degrees of consciousness. "I am aware that I am alive and that I am myself.....but I am separate from you." This is a state of consciousness which is based on purely physical values. "Everything I can see is separate from me." This is, no offence intended, a relatively low level of consciousness. It is the prevailing state of consciousness especially in the western world. It is one where we experience "the other" as separate, and where qualities of good and bad are identified as separate. This is called duality, or polarity. There is little awareness of an underlying unity.

3. At a higher level of consciousness, we begin to move away from duality or polarity and towards unity. "Whatever I can see in myself, I can also see in you. Whatever I can see in you I can also see in myself." This means, if we look really deeply into ourselves, and if we are brutally honest with ourselves, we can see some aspect, or some degree, of the same qualities in other people and in ourselves too. You don’t think of yourself as a murderer? How long is it since you killed an insect? Or an animal, which was killed because you expected to buy it from the supermarket to eat? You don’t think of yourself as gay. If ‘gay’ is a preference, that may be true, but can you honestly say you have never found a member of the same sex sexually attractive? I’m sure that for men there’s a thin line between admiring a sportsman’s physique and a sexual attraction. Okay, bad examples, but only because I’m treading on dangerous ground here. The more we consider this, the more we will find that, under the superficial differences, we’re all the same. We all know what love is, don’t we? I'm not talking about sexual attraction or lust or 'first love', but that feeling of deep, never-changing feeling that we realise is there even after all those years, that’s love. We all feel that, towards some people or things in our lives, don't we? That's just one example of the deeper we look, the more we find we’re the same.

4. A higher level, or degree, of consciousness is one where we realise through direct experience that we are connected at a deeper level. That is why we sometimes experience telepathy, or have an intuition that the phone’s going to ring and we know who it will be; or where we have ‘chemistry’ with someone; or when we respond to the sight of something or someone at a deep emotional level. These may be temporary, fleeting experiences but they are experiences of a higher level of awareness, or consciousness. At that higher level of consciousness, we realise as an actual, personal experience that we are connected at a non-physical level. This is spiritual.

5. Rising by degrees, we may find that we can sense what a tree feels like. It has ‘vibes’ (vibrating energy, radiating outwardly and resonating with your energy field so you can sense it - sorry, you knew what I meant, didn’t you). If you really focus your attention on a tree, you may find that it has vibes of a particular quality. And if you focus your attention on a different kind of tree, you can tell the difference between their vibes. They’re different energy patterns. You can identify trees with your eyes closed. And the more you do this, the more you realise that everything has energy patterns, even rocks, though you’d be hard pushed to feel so sensitively. But even rocks are alive; next time you get hold of an electron-microscope, put a piece of rock under it, and you’ll see energy patterns, and sparks of light, even in a rock that’s been lying there for thousands of years. Everything is alive, and conscious to a degree. There’s a relationship between the strength of the energy vibes and the state of consciousness. Also, the more you can see these energy patterns, the higher is your state of consciousness.

6. I can’t see these energy patterns. At least, I don’t try, certainly not with trees these days, but I can ‘feel’ the energy of people; but not particularly well. At least, I don’t think so. There was a time when I was practising the TM-Sidhi meditation programme when everything seemed far more alive and full of vibes than it does now, and the presence of a group of TM-Sidhi meditators was enough to blow your head off. But I don’t practise the TM-Sidhis now, so my perception has dulled. I’m also not as spaced-out as I used to be, thank goodness.

7. The way we live affects our state of consciousness. If we’re a meat-eater, our awareness is duller than a vegetarian’s, sorry but no exceptions. If we live in a big city, we probably have a lower state of consciousness than a country-dweller, because the concrete jungle is a very low-vibe place, even when it’s a nightlife hot-spot bursting with life and lights and sound. Vibe-wise, it’s the pits, mainly because of the dense vibrations of concrete but also because of the relatively coarse human consciousness in such places. Sorry, but these are the facts.

8. At the other end of the scale, we have heard of spiritually-inclined people, or great masters like the Buddha, or Jesus, or Mohammed, who clearly have an exalted state of consciousness. We may imagine that such states of consciousness are way beyond our ability, but I wouldn’t be so sure. The process of ascension that we’re now undergoing is intended to take us that far. Such ascended masters urge us to love. Love is the most sublime, most divine, most unifying, most universal energy we can experience, beyond all duality and polarity. And love is all we need. "All you need is love." The Beatles were so in touch with the times, in those fleeting years of the first impulse of Aquarius. When we’re wondering what is our state of consciousness, we have only to look at how much, how far, how unconditionally and how deeply we love.

I need to tell you more about what I understand an ascended world will look like, and also what will happen to those who choose not to ascend. Also, what will happen between now and then. But firstly I need to tell you that you have to make the choice between ascending or not ascending. You can’t get away without making a choice.

To a considerable extent you have already made your choice. I could venture to suggest that the fact that you’re reading this could mean that you have made your choice to ascend, but let’s not get too far ahead.

You made a choice before you were born into this lifetime. It’s not generally known that we have a conscious life before we were born, but if you accept the idea of reincarnation, and that of a heaven between incarnations, then it’s not too great a leap to consider that between incarnations your spiritual soul is engaged in some productive activity. It is said that we have spiritual guardians and counsellors in heaven who help us to choose the terms and conditions of our next incarnation, according to where we are in our personal evolution of consciousness and what we need to experience and learn. We choose our parents, the time and place to be born and a whole raft of circumstances which will enable us to live the kind of life we have chosen for ourselves.

So you chose to be here at this unprecedented time. You knew that the ascension was going to happen. You chose whether to put the work in to your own personal ascension, or not. You might have chosen some other scenario relating to the ascension process, such as helping to pay off some karma of your own or humanity’s. For instance, those people who died in the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and the Himalayan earthquake in 2005 played a major role in resolving some of humanity’s negative karma, and they should be greatly honoured for it. It was a very great sacrifice. It was no accident they were there. They had agreed to be there.

So, my question to you is: what was your decision? You can probably get some idea from how you have lived your life, and the extent to which you feel drawn or repelled by the information I am setting out here. As I’ve just hinted, if you’ve read this far, you’re probably drawn to the ideas here and you probably feel you would want to go through with ascension.

On the other hand, it’s not too late to change your mind. You are a free, sovereign individual who can decide for yourself what to do with your life. If you feel that ascension sounds like too much work and what I’m predicting an ascended world will be like is not to your taste, or you would miss your 3rd dimensional life too much, you can now decide to stay in 3D.

The important thing is that you need to make a choice and you need to make it fast. That’s because you don’t have much time to prepare for whatever you’ve chosen. And that’s why I’m working to get this information out NOW, because there’s no time left to play around.

This is the whole point of this story I’m telling. You need to decide which side of a rapidly-widening gulf you are standing upon, and then move with some determination into whatever lies ahead.

For many years I thought that I was to be a gatekeeper, standing at the gate to a bridge which stretched over a divide between the old age and the new. I was imagining myself waving people through, over to the new age, encouraging people to decide to get over there before the widening divide made the bridge fall into the gulf and the option would be closed. I feel my instinct was right: that’s what I’m doing. But there’s very little time left for choices. It’s time to make the choice and then commit yourself to your choice, in certain knowledge that you’ve made your own choice and you’re happy with it, whatever it may bring. And that’s why you need all the information you can get, and that’s why I’m writing this to give you that information, or at least point you in various directions where you can get more information

At least for the first few months of 2006, and perhaps beyond that, what happens will happen to all of us whatever our choice has been. We will all be affected in some way, directly or indirectly. However, how we deal with it will probably be determined by our choice, and by our understanding of what is happening.

For example, the Earth still has many changes to make. There could be many more earthquakes and volcanic eruptions large enough to devastate whole areas or regions. Climate irregularities could occur over whole countries or continents, and as I write the north and east of Europe is experiencing the coldest temperatures for 50 years. The added complication of exploded gas pipelines in Georgia is making life particularly difficult for the people there. This is an example of the combination of separate phenomena exacerbating the challenges related to the ascension process.

There are various threats to our national and international infrastructure which could impact our day-to-day lives. Some of these threats are credible, such as global warming and climate irregularities, and terrorism, and earthquakes etc., and others are not so credible such as bird flu pandemics which appear to be used more as a fear-inducing factor and an excuse for validating future, unnecessary government control measures. More on that later.

(December 10th 2006: There has been a number of waves of powerful energy from unknown origins which have impacted on Earth in recent weeks and months, and it seems that many more such waves are to come. These are said to be causing the ambient vibrationary frequency to rise. According to my muscle-testing, my own vibrationary frequency has risen from 61 to 69.6 within a few weeks, entirely because of rises in the ambient frequency. Everyone is being affected by these rises in frequency, and due to the relationship between energy and consciousness (same thing), this will cause changes in behaviour. In turn, these will cause outward effects in society and in the wider world.

It seems that some people will react to the rising energies by becoming more spiritual (wanting to help others, for example) and some will become more materialistic (self-seeking); in this way, the great divisions will occur - dividing the sheep from the goats: to quote from the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ:

I’m finding I have reached the point where I need to introduce what may be an altogether unexpected element: the extraterrestrials. I’m going to introduce our galactic neighbours now because they are central and, I feel, prerequisite to the process of change in our lives which will unfold ahead. 'Prerequisite' might be too strong a word, because some sources say that humanity has to take full responsibility for its actions in the years ahead; I personally feel, however, that a sincere appeal to the extraterrestrials for guidance and some physical support would be in order.

Despite a large number of sightings over the years of unidentified flying objects looking like spacecraft we are still not convinced there are such things. Perhaps we have a mental and emotional block to the idea that there are extra-terrestrial beings visiting our planet. After all, the implications of such a thing would be huge. In any case, there is no proof because the governments would know about such proof and would tell us, right? And if there are such things as flying saucers, well, they’re not making any kind of a difference to our lives, so we might as well ignore them, right?

We are not alone. There are thousands of human races in the galaxy, and the only ones who think they’re alone in the universe are us. Everyone else knows that the universe is teeming with intelligent life. Just as in the Star Trek movies there is a Federation of Planets. It’s called the Galactic Federation of Light, and it has thousands of planetary members.

How do I know this? Well, I’ve read it on the internet, and in books. I’ve never seen a ufo, I’ve never been abducted, I’ve never seen an extraterrestrial (to my knowledge) and I don’t have a telepathic connection to extraterrestrials. Ah, there I go again, denying myself.

I do have a telepathic connection to extraterrestrials. Or at least to the Spiritual Hierarchy, who apparently work closely with the Galactic Federation. And that’s why I believe in them. In any case, I'm Andromedan, apparently - according to my muscle-testing. I've spent most recent times in (on?) Andromeda and I've come here to write this book, amongst other things. Apparently.

As I said earlier, near the beginning of my story, I have a clairaudient facility which I was told, back in 1991, I should develop until it became telepathic, at which point I would be able to relay messages from the Spiritual Hierarchy for people’s support and encouragement. Over the years I thought I was being lazy, if not downright somnambulant, over this and failing to do what I was told. However, at some point when I muscled-tested about it, I was told that my telepathic ability was developing as I went along, and the thoughts that were coming into my head were not always mine, but were from my guiding influence, my source, ‘Upstairs’.

And I recognised that this was true, as I found myself driven to study this and that, and I couldn’t help myself but follow a path which has led me to where I am today. The information I have accumulated over the years has put me in a position to talk, and write, in the way I do. The fact that I am open to the idea of extraterrestrials and to channelled information from higher sources is the result of my connection to my inner source which has guided me to those things.

It’s not that I hear voices in my head - not at all. What I hear are my thoughts. They seem like my thoughts. In a sense they are my thoughts even when they don’t originate in my thinking processes but come from a higher source - because ‘I’ is really the whole of life, and my experience of ‘I’ is limited only by my openness to it. So I’m receptive to extraterrestrials and to channelled messages from higher sources because I’m open to them. The thought energy comes into my brain and I translate the energy into English. Apparently that's how telepathy between different races works - using the brain as a universal translator.

Consequently, although I have no direct, physical experience of extraterrestrials, I am confident that they do actually exist, and when people say they are receiving channelled messages from them, I am confident that they do. I should say that channelled messages are not always entirely clear, but that depends more on the ability of the channeller than the source. And false messages are published by the dark side here on Earth in order to deceive us, but more of that later. So it is necessary to be very discerning about what information to believe. However, I feel I am fairly good at this, and I believe that what I am about to tell you is indeed true.

According to what I believe to be true, there is a vast fleet of ufos waiting in near space to come to Earth to help us through the ascension process.

This fleet is literally thousands of ships strong, including motherships of an absolutely enormous size, e.g. hundreds or even thousands of miles across, and the ships are sentient i.e. living, organic beings, containing large numbers of scout ships of one sort or another. Most of these ships are higher-dimensional and are invisible to our eyes but some can be seen through infra-red cameras, and most have ‘cloaking’ devices, just as you see in the Star Trek movies, hence the reason why we don’t see them, although apparently Earth governments know very well that they are there and waiting.

(December 10th 2006: For astounding evidence of Ufos, and especially their inter-dimensional propulsion systems, go to Google videos and search for 'Evidence: The Case for NASA UFOs')

I’d just like to say that, apparently, the Star Trek movies are far from being science fiction. Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek and other science fiction blockbusters, is described by Upstairs as a telepath, time-traveller and channeller who sees the images he ‘creates’ from real-life. Much of what we see in Star Trek is apparently very much like the real thing.

We are now waiting for First Contact. This will come at a time which is considered by the ETs to be ‘right’ as part of a universal process, and it will happen when they feel it is safe for them to make First Contact, and when we are inviting them to come and will welcome them. Whether all these things will happen at the same time remains to be seen.

The ETs will not feel safe until the present U.S. government is out of office. The ETs consider the present U.S. government to be a serious threat to them. The U.S. military has the technology to attack ufos though not to any great effect, but more importantly, face-to-face contact between ETs and U.S. government personnel would be fraught with danger to the ETs at the present time. In any case, the U.S. Government will not invite First Contact. They have far too much to lose, as their power base would suddenly lose credibility.

The U.S. government is engaged in creating their New World Order, or their Project for the New American Century, which seems to be the same thing. There is a group behind the U.S. government which the ETs call ‘the last dark cabal’. This cabal wants world domination. It is the last bastion of the dark side which has been working towards world domination for a very long time, and although its dark masters have now left the planet and joined the Forces of Light, the remaining cabal is not yet willing to give up.

The U.S. government's ideas about invading Iran, and anywhere else it deems fit, are part of this aim for world domination. At this time, considering the economic and military rise of China which holds the future of the U.S. dollar in its hands, it is difficult to imagine how the dark cabal feels it has much of a hand to play. It is almost as if it is willing to go for a scorched-earth policy if all else fails, which looks like happening. "If we can’t have the planet, you can’t either" seems to be the cabal's approach right now. Fortunately, the ETs know how to neutralise nuclear bombs and anything else the U.S. military has in its armoury. So there’s no possibility of the U.S. destroying the planet. However, the cabal can still make things difficult for the rest of us.

At this point I’d like to introduce the Spiritual Hierarchy, who are working hand-in-glove with the ETs. This will reconcile the spiritual sources and context that I have been describing earlier, with the First Contact scenario.

One of the major things the ETs will do is to teach us about our true history. This will change altogether our concepts of who we are and what we’re doing here. It will completely alter the way we live, although there will be an interim period that will need some organisation, and this is another of the main reasons why I’m writing this - to help prepare us for this interim period.

The ETs will turn this teaching role over to the Spiritual Hierarchy who will arrive with them. What I mean by that is that a number of ascended masters will arrive with them - not physically by spacecraft but by 'stepping-down' into materiality.

There is a divine creator. This is not the one some of us call ‘God’, because He/She is just the god responsible for this universe. The ultimate Creator is that Being which fashioned a multiplicity of universes which coexist in parallel or different dimensions. Different dimensions can coexist in the same physical space but at different frequencies of light - just as we know radio waves occupy the same air space but we have to tune-in to each one separately.

This particular universe, which I now understand is called Nebadon, was created by the Creator’s son Christ Michael, one of the Archangels. At first this universe was based entirely in the Light, with no trace of the ‘dark’. However, the Creator decided to introduce the concept of freewill into this universe, so that He (no gender intended) could watch His creations evolve in a much more uncontrolled way than He had previously entertained. In this way, He would learn more about His own creative potential. This is actually very much like the concepts in the book ‘Star Maker’, written in the late 1940s by a Liverpudlian university professor Olaf Stapledon. The book became something of a cult science fiction. It is certainly exquisitely written, and a tour-de-force of literary style and artistic imagination. Perhaps it too was channelled from a higher source.

Into this particular galaxy, the Milky Way, the Creator introduced the dark element, and gave instructions that the dark element should be allowed full sway over the Light. The purpose of this was to enable the Light to learn about the dark, and by doing so learn more about itself. When you live exclusively in one way, it is impossible to learn fully about yourself unless you also experience other, different qualities. And in this way, the Light would become more than it was previously. This would lead to another creation, which I believe will be the sixth creation of this Creator. The fifth creation is due to end on Earth in 2012. Then there will be 1000 years of peace, a null-point in time, after which time will start again. Something like that, anyway.

So far, far away in this galaxy, long, long ago, there were........Star Wars. I’m not kidding. The first sentient beings included reptilians, dinosaurians, vulturians, insectoids and cetaceans (now the dolphins and whales, but previously furry, land-based creatures), who evolved many tens of million years ago. They had full run of the galaxy, setting down civilisations on many planets. Most of the stars in our galaxy seem to have a series of planets very much like our own, with smaller, hot, dry planets near the sun, then one or two water planets further out from the sun, and then three or four giant gas planets further out still. The reptilians and dinosaurians were able to inhabit the hot, dry planets and also the water planets which were preferred by the cetaceans.

Later, about 25 million years ago, certain species of Light beings formed a mighty league of 250 star nations and went into battle against the dark forces which included mainly reptilians and dinosaurians. This began Star Wars which have raged throughout our galaxy ever since, right up to this present day.

However, the Lord Michael had issued an edict right at the beginning saying that the day would come when a permanent peace would arrive, with the dark joining the light to form an even greater Light, the brilliance of which will forever change the ways of all physicality.

This has actually now happened, just within the last few years, around 1995. Could we just stop for a moment and consider the magnitude of the times we live in? I have already described these as the end-days of the Mayan Calendar, and now I am talking about us living in the end days, the last six or seven Gregorian years of a Creation, the end of a process which began many, many millions of years ago. It really is a mind-boggling thing.

Around 35 million years ago, three highly sentient civilisations (reptilian, dinosaurian and cetacean) were placed here on our planet Earth (or Terra, as many higher sources call it) and they enjoyed a peaceful coexistence. Other star nations spoke of the unique diversity of sentient life forms living in remarkable harmony here on Earth. Our solar system became the stuff of legend, and began to attract the attention of the dark forces, the Anchara Alliance. The dark forces looked upon the coexistence of reptilians, dinosaurians and cetaceans with deep suspicion, feeling that they threatened the hold of the reptilians and dinosaurians over the cetaceans, and planned an attack.

In the event, the cetaceans, assisted by the forces of Heaven, destroyed the surface of the Earth in order to repel the invaders. The cetaceans took to the oceans and evolved into aquatic mammals. They are, today, the most spiritual and intellectually-gifted beings here on Earth - mankind included. Their role is to anchor the light energies constantly being beamed to Earth from the distant cosmos. We entirely underestimate the role of these magnificent creatures. Unfortunately, the dark forces on our planet do not, hence the constant threat from man to the lives of the cetaceans.

About 8 million years ago, the dolphins and whales, in collaboration with Earth’s Spiritual Hierarchy, sought another creature to replace them as land-based Earth guardians. A hopeful subject was found in the Vega system in the constellation of Lyra about 25 million light-years from Earth. This was an aquatic ape which was only beginning to emerge from the water.

In further collaboration with the Galactic Spiritual Hierarchy and the Spiritual Hierarchy of the Vega system, this group of aquatic primates was rapidly altered into full sentiency to become the guardian species for a vast number of star systems. They eventually became the chosen land-based guardian species for Mother Earth. This land-based species is the human species - ourselves.

Approximately 6.4 million years ago, the humanoid Vegans began to spread throughout the Lyra constellation. They found themselves embroiled in battles with the Anchara Alliance but were able to defeat them. Over the next four million years they continued their stellar and cultural migrations to the edge of our solar system. By the end of this period, galactic humans had agreed with our local Spiritual Hierarchy to colonise Earth and other planets in our solar system, namely Mars, Venus and Maldek. Humanity arrived on Earth, then, about 2.5 million years ago. This more or less fits in with the known emergence of Homo Sapiens, and it fills in the Missing Link.

Our solar system, incidentally, was unique in the galaxy in having four water planets. Water is a rare commodity in the galaxy and thus our solar system was highly desirable. Of these four planets, Earth was the most desired, being the most beautiful and having the greatest diversity of fauna and flora as well as abundant natural resources, especially copper and gold which are wanted by many civilisations to support advanced technologies.

Maldek lay just beyond the orbit of Mars. Approximately 29,000 miles in diameter, it had five moons - four natural and one artificial. This artificial moon was used for observational purposes, had a titanium shell with a hollow core full of laboratories and living regions and so on. It is now our own moon, having been transported here following the destruction of Maldek. I’m taking this information from the book ‘Your First Contact’ by Sheldan Nidle, listed in the links at the end of this. I know it doesn’t sound likely but you haven’t heard the full story yet.

Around a million years ago, the forces of the Ancharan Alliance began a broad-based attack on our solar system. They were able to destroy the Galactic Federation of Light’s colonies on Mars, Venus and Earth. These attacks depleted most of Mars’ atmosphere and water*, and left Venus in a virtual greenhouse condition. A series of quick, savage attacks thoroughly decimated Earth’s original human colony of Hybornea.

(December 10th 2006: * NASA's Rover lander has recently photographed sea shells on Mars, confirming the previous existence of water. See at www.xenotechresearch.com)

For the next 100,000 years, the Orion-based Alliance group held sway. About 900,000 years ago, the Federation pushed the dark Alliance back and humans were able to return to this solar system.

To enable their return, the Galactic Federation of Light brought in a large, 5th-dimensional battle planet, which legends refer to as Nibiru. Its purpose was to destroy Maldek, the headquarters of the Anchara Alliance. The battle was won, Earth was secured, and humans returned to colonise her.

In the battle, Maldek was destroyed, and it became what we know today as the Asteroid Belt. That was Maldek.

The human settlers on Earth settled in Lemuria, a large island continent in the Pacific Ocean. Over the next 850,000 years, the Lemurian Empire stretched across the planet. One of their daughter empires developed in Atlantis, another island continent, located in the Atlantic Ocean.

Over the succeeding millennia, Atlantis began plotting to destroy the Lemurian motherland. I’m going to skip over the details at this point, and leave them for when I retrace and add to what I’ve written above.

Using advanced technologies which they had inherited from their galactic friends, the Atlanteans destroyed Lemuria. At that time, Earth had two natural moons. With the help of Pleiadian and Centaurian renegade star-nations, the moons were moved into a trajectory which took them close enough to Earth’s Lagrangian point at which Earth's gravity was strong enough to explode them. The resulting shower of giant meteors devastated Lemuria, exploding huge underground gas chambers, and Lemuria sank literally overnight with untold loss of life.

To return, for a moment, to what I said earlier about people on Earth today having karma for previous natural disasters on Earth, this is one of those events for which a karmic price must be paid off. And since many of us were probably incarnate at that time, many of us may be directly involved in natural disasters yet to come. Unless, that is, we can find another way to pay off that unresolved karma.

Another great daughter-empire of Lemuria was the Yu Empire located in Central Asia. The Yu Empire issued a series of edicts demanding that the Atlanteans apologise to its other daughter empires. Six months after the obliteration of Lemuria, the Atlanteans attacked the Yu Empire which was decimated. Its survivors fled underground into the hollow Earth and formed what is known today as the Kingdom of Agartha, or Shamballa. It is today a magnificent empire. You didn’t know that, did you? It’s surprising how much we don’t know. But more of that later.

To cut a long story short, for the present purposes of giving an overview of the whole historic process leading up to today, and which is covered in some detail in Sheldan Nidle’s book ‘Your First Contact’, Atlantis, the fabled continent which really did exist, was destroyed when the firmament, a two-level structure of ice particles located at around 15,000 feet and 35,000 feet high in the Earth’s atmosphere, was destroyed during a war between the Sumerian empire in Egypt and the Rama empire in India. That was the cause of the Great Flood which inundated the entire Earth, extensively damaging the Americas, Asia, Europe and Africa as well as Earth’s many ocean basins. The flood washed away many of the artefacts of the ancient history of humanity, and left behind the legends and myths that persist even to this day. So now you know their origin.

The Great Flood marked the beginning of modern history. The world which we have created evolved from that time. The people of those former times are now our ‘gods’ and ‘goddesses’ and their exploits and adventures and misdemeanours are the mythology of a ‘Golden Age’.

Unfortunately for us, the destruction of Atlantis left humanity needing leadership, and it opened an opportunity for another race to come to Earth as ‘gods’ - the Annunaki.

The original governing hierarchy of Atlantis had fled from Earth in anticipation of the devastation of the Flood. But they left behind a race of beings, humanity, which they had reduced to a state of servitude - slavery. The Atlanteans had, in their evil cunning, genetically-engineered humanity into a regressive phase which turned them into limited-consciousness beings. This was what we refer to as the ‘Fall’. It was a fall in consciousness from our previously fully-conscious state in which we were aware of our status as spiritual, as well as physical, beings to a point where we lacked a spiritual perspective altogether and thought of ourselves as separate from one another, and mortal, and quite needing to be slaves to anyone strong enough to be our leaders - much as we see ourselves today, if the truth be told.

The Atlantean scientists had disabled our DNA. Originally we had a 3-strand RNA/DNA which was constructed in such a way as to form 12 strands. The third strand was disconnected, somehow, leaving us with only two operational strands, what we know today as the double-helix DNA structure. We think of this as a most marvellous structure, but it is a mere shadow of what is our birthright as human beings.

Fortunately, the Atlantean scientists had fled before they could complete the job, leaving open the possibility of our DNA reconnecting itself. So the potential for our return to full consciousness has always been inherent within us. And now, today, we are mutating back into the full 12-strand DNA, returning us to full consciousness. THIS is what ascension is all about.

However, for all this time, for the last 13,000 years, humanity has been imprisoned in a state of limited consciousness. Despite the technology which by now it must be obvious to you exists throughout the galaxy, humanity has been stranded here on Earth in our imprisoned, ensnared, enslaved condition. And no-one has come to help us. You may justifiably ask: "Why????"

Well, it seems it was meant to be this way, although part of the mechanism for our isolation was an electromagnetic grid thrown around the Earth by the Annunaki, preventing our galactic friends from making contact with us, even telepathically. It seems that we were predestined to fall in consciousness so that we could go through a very long learning process, an extended experience of subjugation by the dark side, so that when the time came for our restitution to full consciousness we would know very, very well what the dark side means. And, at the same time, we would recognise and affirm the enduring and compelling nature of the Light, which we experience as love, and joy, compassion and all those positive facets of the human spirit which do endure no matter what. And in that way, we would bring into being a Greater Light, the nature of which will change physicality forever. And the time for that is now.

The Annunaki have been ruling Planet Earth for the last 13,000 years, completely unknown to most of us, but their clawed footprints are everywhere. There is a great deal of archaeological evidence of their existence. You can see something of this on video at the X-Facts website.

I’m quoting this from Sheldan Nidle’s ‘Your First Contact’ book. It mirrors what I’ve read about the Annunaki elsewhere. The words are spoken by Mikala, one of Sirius’ most honoured historians, director of the Galactic Federation of Light’s Institute of Human Exo-Paleontology and one of eleven principal authors of a 209-volume work on inter-stellar humanity: "When Atlantis was destroyed nearly 13,000 years ago, the sole representatives of the so-called, ‘god-like’ master race were the sinister humanoid hybrids (i.e. mainly reptilian, part human), the Annunaki. They ruled your solar system with an iron hand from a former Galactic Federation battle planet you call Nibiru (I mentioned it earlier as having been used to destroy Maldek). Originally lightly crewed by the Pleiadian Star League, it was subsequently overrun by fleeing, armed renegade bands from Atlantis. Nibiru has been the ‘ultimate weapon' kept at the very edge of this solar system since early Atlantean times. The Annunaki used it as their off-world headquarters.

"The Annunaki positioned this enormous planet-sized ship into a highly elliptical orbit with a revolution of nearly 3,600 years. They have ruled your planet from this artificial world, at first openly, and then secretly. Their primary purpose has always been to control by deception, division, and deceit. The Annunaki realised that what they had created in Atlantis was inadequate for executing their various selfish agendas. Accordingly, they adopted extremely sophisticated and diabolical means by which they have ruled your planet for nearly 13,000 years."

Are we talking about the same planet here? Planet Earth? The reptilian hybrid Annunaki have been ruling us for 13,000 years? Where’s the evidence? In what way have they been ruling us? From where?

It doesn’t much feel like we’ve been ruled by reptilians, does it? It doesn’t much feel like we’ve been imprisoned, ensnared, and enslaved, does it? Or does it?

The biggest clue I can offer you, to make this ludicrous suggestion just a tad more likely, is your money situation. Are you in debt? Have you ever been in debt? Have you ever paid interest on a debt of some sort? Ah ha! There you have it!

Have you ever wondered why so many of us are in debt, not just a little bit of debt but seriously big debt? And not just us but whole nations? The National Debt. What is it, who lends us the money, what does it cost us?

Did you know that most of the world’s nations are in debt, including Great Britain, and even the great United States of America? The USA has the largest debt of all, by far. The richest nation has the largest debt. Does this compute with you? To whom is the money owed?

The answer to this conundrum is the banks, particularly the international banks, including the central banks and the well-known banking names, and let’s put Rothschild at the top of the tree because they’ve been at or near the top of the tree since the mid-1700s and still are today.

The banks operate a cartel of sorts, with a common practice, whereby it is they who control and supply the money for all the greatest, most prosperous nations, the nations that are also the most in debt. Meyer Amschel Rothschild, the founding father of one of the world's most powerful financial dynasties, has been quoted, perhaps apocryphally, as having said: "Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws."

The Rothschilds, the Rockefellers and other great banking family dynasties have an unholy alliance through which they control entire economies, and through them, the world. It is impossible to know the true wealth of these families, because it is spread across so many assets. But it is estimated to run into multi-trillions of dollars or pounds, whichever way you look at it. The Rothschilds, particularly, were financing both sides of wars from the time of Napoleon. They were financing all sides in World War II. They have controlled most if not all of the main manufacturing industries.

The story of how the great banking family dynasties have controlled the world’s economies would fill several books, and there is a vast amount of information about it on the internet. Many people would write this off as conspiracy theorising. But if you were to study our monetary system, you would see how essentially destructive it is, and how many alternatives there could be.

One thing that compels me to believe in the conspiracy theories is my own personal experience of the Rothschilds. They are widely reputed to have been heavily involved with black magic. I used to live at Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire. Built around 1848 in an Elizabethan style this was the largest and most magnificent of the Rothschild mansions in England. It was sold in the late 1970s to the Transcendental Meditation organisation and I lived there as House Manager around 1984/85. When you enter the front door and go into the Grand Hall, the most dominating feature is an enormous black marble fireplace, on which are white marble carvings of goat heads and candlesticks and such other symbols which I would understand to be part of black magic. It is a very, very sinister looking structure. I shuddered when I first saw it.

Actually when I think about it, it’s strange how many connections I have to that background. When I had previously lived in Scotland I did some work for the Duke of Argyll who wanted to save Mentmore Towers for the nation, and I lived near Roslyn Chapel near Edinburgh which is connected to Freemasonry and featured in the Da Vinci Code book and film. And I have had lots, and lots, of dealings with many banks. Shudder!

Personally I don’t think the Rothschilds et al are shape-shifting reptilians. I know people who do think so, including some well-known writers on the subject. But I do think such people as the Rothschilds have sold their souls to the reptilians who live out of sight, probably underground or on Nibiru. The reptilians are believed to have powerful mind-control techniques, and can offer vast rewards of money and power to their minions.

On the other hand, the Rothschilds were known to marry only within their family, to keep the bloodline pure, and presumably to keep the karma intact and provide a place for themselves to reincarnate into for each lifetime. It is believed that they create illegitimate offspring to be their minions, people who would be given positions of great power but only as front-men and women to do the bidding of their masters. So there may be a more direct connection between the Rothschilds and the Annunaki, as many people suggest

Whatever, it is clear that the banking families have enormous control over wealth and power in the world.

They don't have the ultimate control, though, because there’s the Jesuits to bring into the picture. To quote Greg Szymanski at arcticbeacon.com, author Eric Jon Phelps says "The Jesuits are a military organisation, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is POWER. Power in its most despotic exercise. Absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man...

"The General of the Jesuits insists on being master, sovereign, over the sovereign. Wherever the Jesuits are admitted they will be masters, cost what it may... Every act, every crime, however atrocious, is a meritorious work, if committed for the interest of the Society of the Jesuits, or by the order of the general."

According to Phelps, the Jesuits truly are the missing "evil link" when it comes to fully understanding how and why America is turning into a fascist state and being used as a second Nazi Germany.

Normally when thinking of the New World Order, one immediately refers to the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderbergers, the Committee of 300, composed of the 17 wealthiest "elite" families, the Rothschilds in England, Rockefellers in America and Bronfmans in Canada.

When it comes to adding the Jesuits in the mix, most people brush them aside, thinking they are just another benign and innocent Catholic order of priests in robes, saying Mass, serving the poor and spreading the word of God.

But think again. Behind the veil of the good lies evil, behind the veil of the deity lies a deadly band of Luciferian followers who are deviously controlling all the most powerful religions and governments in the world, including Judaism, Islam and Christianity.

And according to Phelps, religious researcher and historian and working on Vatican, all the above statements are fact not fiction, as the Jesuits truly are "the evilest of all evils" and the quintessential masters of deception.

"It's just staggering the amount of control the Jesuits really wield throughout the world," reminds Phelps who provides a chart of the Order's corrupt power on his web site at www.vaticanassassins.org.

The following is just a portion of some of the organizations under the Jesuit command, according to Phelps: Under the Jesuit Order, the Illuminati organizations are Council of the 13? of the Bavarian Illuminati, Council of the 33rd degree Masons of the Scottish Rite, The 13 Satanic Bloodlines, The Committee of 300, B'Nai B'Rith and the Grand Orient.

Further, other secret societies found by Phelps to be under the Jesuit control include Freemason (Scottish Rite/York Rite), Skull and Bones, Grand Orient Lodge, Grand Alpha Lodge, Knights Templar, Royal Order of the Garter, Priory de Sion, Rosicrucian's, Thule Society, Knights of Malta, Knights of Columbus and the P2 Lodge.

And going down the chart-list even further what's even more astounding is that most every major religious group, educational group, political group and intelligence organization like the CIA, MI6 and Mossad have been in one way or another infiltrated and under the despotic control of the Jesuits.

Phelps also claims behind the organizations, Kolvenbach, the top Luciferian, is the one calling the shots, pulling the strings and controlling the Pope and top world leaders like George W. Bush and Tony Blair, while leading the whole nasty pack of deceptive "chump chickens" right down the serpent's slippery slope into World War III. [end quote from http://www.arcticbeacon.com/9-Feb-2006.html]

Whether the Annunaki are behind the Jesuits, is not clear. To quote from another source: "According to various sources, the German immigrant Rockefellers are not the "top of the ladder" for the world conspiracy. True, they 'control' much of the eco-political system in the UNITED STATES of America, however they are following the agenda of the Bilderberger cult: the 13 Wicca Masons, 13 Black Nobility, and 13 Maltese Jesuits who have joined together UNDER the covering of the Bavarian Illuminati -- which in turn is the modern manifestation of the joint human-alien 'serpent cult' which seems to have had its origins within the ancient underground Masonic systems of Egypt, a cult or collaboration that was brought to Bavaria by the early Germanic Trade Guilds during the height of the so-called Holy Roman (German) Empire." And from another source: "The Illuminati are what you could call the favoured sons of the Annunaki. They are the result of interbreeding between the Annunaki and the early humans here. And they work closely together to control this planet."

What a tangled web they weave! I suspect that although the Annunaki reportedly left the planet in 1995, the plans for world domination laid down by the Jesuits are still being progressed in 2006 as we head towards a World War between East and West - a war that only the ETs can and will stop before it starts.

So what we need to consider now is, in view of the Mayan Calendar ending in 2012, and the waiting ufo fleet, and the U.S. Government aiming for world domination, and the Annunaki having left but their minions such as the bankers