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SOUL RISING COAST TO COAST AM Recap and New EvidenceDecember 20th, 2010

Thank you to all who listened to my interview with George Noory on Coast to Coast am December 6, 2010. George and I focused our conversation on elements of my new SOUL RISING presentation and my quest for answers to the question, ‘what is the Next Human?’ A listener was kind enough to post the program on You Tube, it’s available in multiple parts, beginning here.

As is usual, I received masses of emails after the show from the “Coast Brain Trust”. Thank you to all who wrote with such intriguing questions and provocative comments. Also, special thanks to all that sent best wishes to Clare and I for our recent marriage.

Of particular interest to many were my observations about Jesus appearing to St. Francis as a Seraph (‘winged or fiery serpent’) and how this led me to investigate the tantalizing links between Jesus and the supernatural entity or transcendent spiritual being, Quetzalcoatl (KATES-ALL-CO-OUGHT-ALL), the feathered serpent’ of Mayan tradition.

Interesting, right?

Well, what is even more interesting is the possibility that both figures achieved the highest level of human spiritual attainment – the light body.

So, I will elaborate upon both points here.

THE RAINBOW TRIBE

First, these Seraphim or “fiery, flying serpents” are not reptiles. Nor are they ‘reptilian’ beings like those proposed by David Icke and others. The seraphs are the highest order of angels and dwell at the throne of god.

Evidence I have accumulated from numerous sacred traditions says they are actually the Next Level of humans. They have successfully ‘perfected’ or transformed the human element into its higher form – the Rainbow Body (called the Great Perfection) – and enjoy a continued existence with several abilities and characteristics:

A few key images illustrate my thinking. First is the Tibetan image of the Rainbow Body. In the Tibetan Great Perfection tradition, the mortal coil can be spun into a higher frequency, ultimately dissolving and manifesting as five colored rainbow light. The resulting ‘Rainbow Body’ is considered the highest form of human spiritual attainment.

Tibetan depictions of the Rainbow Body are strikingly similar to the way the Resurrection body of Jesus is imagined in Christian art. This side-by-side comparison of the swirling Rainbow Body of light and the Crucifixion illustrates my central thesis that Jesus achieved the Rainbow Body.

The Rainbow Body matches the Resurrection Body of Jesus

In SOUL RISING, I present numerous images of Jesus as he appears after his Resurrection. He is either on a rainbow, surrounded by rainbow light or in a rainbow. Or, in the case of St. Francis, he appears as a seraph.

I have proposed that Francis’s account of his encounter with Jesus as a seraph and depictions of him on a rainbow is evidence of Jesus having achieved the luminous body or the Rainbow Body of Light. I offer my research as speculations. However, evidence is abundant in names, artwork, mythology, epic literature and scripture, suggesting this linkage is correct.

If one studies the artwork, and sees what I have seen, I believe one will share my opinion.

JESUS WALKED THE AMERICAS – AS A RAINBOW BEING

Native American prophecy speaks of serpents of wisdom and the Rainbow Warriors or the Tribe of Many Colors. The following quotation is often attributed to Chief Seattle, who lived from 1780 to 1866: “When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear. When that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.”

I wonder if this is a reference to the colors of the human races and to the Coat of Many Colors or the Rainbow Body.

Native Americans and many Mormons believe Jesus walked the Americas after his resurrection. The crowning event in the Book of Mormon is the story of Jesus as a resurrected being visiting the people on the American continent just after his crucifixion.

The fresh perspective on this belief my research reveals is that Jesus appeared in America in light body or Rainbow Body form. Literary evidence drawn from Native American tradition supports this hypothesis and I will share it momentarily.

Further, in the minds of many Mormons, Jesus is equated with Quetzalocatl, the ‘Feathered Serpent’ of Mayan tradition.

Joseph Allen’s accumulation of the various written accounts establish the beliefs regarding Quetzalcoatl:

Taken together, these beliefs clearly mirror the accounts of Jesus’s birth, death and ministry in Palestine that are recorded in the New Testament.

Some scholars are skeptical of this similarity. There is a very simple reason for such skepticism. Spanish chroniclers, desiring to please adherents of both Christianity and the religion of the indigenous natives, emphasized the powerful symbolic continuity between the Catholic and Mesoamerican belief systems. They did this by frequently combining myth and history from pre-Hispanic times.

We must also note there are major differences between Jesus and the Plumed Serpent, Quetzalcoatl:

Quetzalcoatl was last seen immolating himself in fire. He rose in flames to become the planet Venus and vowed to return one day to his people. Legend said that he would return in another age, and when Montezuma, last king of the Aztecs, received news of the landing of Cortés and his men in 1519.

Esoteric tradition we will discuss shortly says Jesus may have set himself ablaze, too.

QUETZALCOATL, JESUS AND THE RAFT OF SERPENTS

After Quetzalcoatl turned into flame, all priests in the Toltec cult were given the title of Quetzalcoatl. It means essentially the same thing as sage or wise person. One such priest by the name of Ce Acatl Topiltzin rose to power and proclaimed himself as the second coming of Quetzaloatl returning as promised, and in 968 AD became king of the Toltec people once again. He reigned for decades and built the Toltec capital of Tula.

Eventually, his enemies disposed of him and this time he sailed east on a raft of snakes, vowing, like the first Quetzaloatl, to return one day to rule his people. This raft of snakes carried Quetzaloatl east and south across the gulf of Mexico to a Yucatan beach.

It is this snake reference that has caused the artwork depicting Quetzalcoatl as emerging, or being “reborn” as he emerges from the mouth of a serpent. Maya prophecy promises his return, perhaps in 2012, riding upon a ‘serpent rope’ that emanates from the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Quetzalcoatl leaving Mexico on his raft of serpents

Incredibly, the ‘raft of snakes’ also appears in one-of-a-kind mosaic of the baptism of Jesus in St. George’s Church in Madaba, Jordon. My friend, Evans Bowen, took the photo below of Jesus riding upon a serpent raft while being baptized by John the Baptist in the River Jordan.

The comparison between these two images has never before been made. Its implications are profound as it forges an important pictographic link between Jesus and Quetzalcoatl.

I mean, show me another rendering of Jesus on a ‘serpent raft’!

In the Madaba mosaic, we see the Dove of the Holy Spirit (‘cosmic energy’) descending in a golden star. As usual, John directs this energy into the open crown chakra of Jesus, indicating an attunement of his consciousness. The swift moving (swooshing or swirling) current of the Jordan is highly energetic (note the lone fish swimming upstream) and moves me to think of Jesus as ‘surfing’ this cosmic River of Life.

As I discuss in detail in SOUL RISING, the baptism marks the transformation of Jesus from a man to a god-man and the commencement of his ministry. My focus is on the cosmic nature of this event. Based upon 25 plus years of research, I propose John is baptizing Jesus in a bio-electric or cosmic energy likely emanating from the center of the galaxy. In part, this notion is based on the etymology of the word Jordan, which comes from the Babylonian word Eridanus, ‘the river of life…the Milky Way.”

For me, this stream of thought may take us closest to the original intent of this extraordinary mosaic. Surf comes from suffe, which means “a rushing sound.” Indeed, during the baptism, the heavens were torn open and the Dove of the Holy Spirit descended (rushed?) from Heaven. Viewed through this lens, Jesus could be surfing a sound current.

Sound and Light are the twin aspects of the Holy Spirit.

Is Jesus, therefore, surfing a rushing current (from corre) of light or electrical force, possibly emanating from the galactic core?

Flash! Swoosh! Holy logo of Nike!

What if Jesus is doing both?

Is it actually the harmonizing of our light/sound/wave-particle duality that transforms us?

Suffe, of course, rings of sufi, the inner, mystical dimension of Islam. A Sufi is one who knows mystical secrets. The word is traced to suf, meaning ‘wool’, referring to either the simple cloaks the early Sufis wore, or possibly, to safa, meaning “purity.” Jesus is shown receiving this cloak of perfection or purity in baptism scenes. The Baptism is described in Gnostic texts as putting on a spiritual garment, a robe of glory. This garment, veil, sheath or covering is necessary equipment for the soul as it journeys through the halls (holes) of the mystic mansions of creation.

By some accounts, Quetzalcoatl wore a long white robe. Some believe it was lined with crosses. One can only wonder if this is the same robe Jesus received at the Baptism and, later, displayed at the Transfiguration.

JESUS AND THE HOLY I.N.R.I. FIRE

Let’s return to the belief that Quetzalcoatl killed himself by setting himself on fire and the possibility that Jesus did the same.

That’s a powerful statement. As Apple says, ‘Think Different’.

This possibility is suggested to me by the placard reading “I.N.R.I” was placed above the Cross of Crucifixion. In Esoteric Christianity, one of the interpretations of I.N.R.I. is Igen Natura Renovatura Integra or ‘By fire, humanity is renewed or regenerated’. From this, one may infer that a ‘fire’ (a spiritual energy) was kindled or enflamed at the Crucifixion.

Jesus flashes in a radiant sun/son burst with the inscription I.N.R.I. Rennes-le-Chateau, France

The Shroud of Turin could be interpreted as a relic of Jesus setting himself on fire, i.e. raising the frequency of his body until, F-L-A-S-H (in a sudden burst of light or flame), he resurrected into a radiant being of light, a Shining One or a Seraph (‘fiery serpent’).

One hypothesis suggests that the body inside the Shroud experienced a dematerialization due to the influx of intense energy that overcame the strong (nuclear) forces that bind the protons and neutrons, and released the matter into energy – instantly. The sharp detail of the blood combined with what appear to be teeth, bones, flowers and other objects on the cloth have provoked several scientists to hypothesize that intense radiation involving a uniform light and X-ray frequencies produced the images on the linen.

As a side note, the most important new observation about the Shroud is one that confirmed my intuition expressed in a Dreamland interview with Whitley Strieber in 1998. During this interview I blurted that the man in the Shroud was floating or levitating. In a recent History Channel special that revealed a 3-D image of the face on the Shroud, a team member remarked that the only way to reproduce the shadows on the cloth was by suspending a human in a standing position in mid air.

Could the obvious be the truth...the Shroud of Turin contains the physical evidence left by the dead body of Jesus, but the image is produced by the resurrection of Christ, who ‘lit himself on fire’ and rose from the dead three days after the Crucifixion?

ASCENSION: THE GREAT MYSTERY

In the gospel accounts, Jesus’ body was taken down from the cross and buried in Joseph of Arimathea’s tomb. Roman guards next sealed the tomb, and secured it with a 24-hour watch. Three days later something happened in the sealed tomb. What happened, exactly, is a subject of great mystery. The result is the body of Jesus disappeared from the tomb. Jesus then reappeared to Mary Magdalene, who also discovered the empty tomb.

Mary informed the disciples, who returned to their homes in confusion. Magdalene remained at the tomb, crying. Suddenly, she saw a man, whom she took to be the gardener, who asked her why she was crying. Mary realize the man was Jesus.John 20:10-18

Later, according to the eyewitness accounts, all the disciples saw Jesus on more than ten separate occasions. He came and went at will, stepping between the visible and invisible realms. He illustrated His perfect suit or beaming garment, and His quantum ability to toggle between the two realms. They wrote that He showed them His hands and feet and told them to touch Him. And He reportedly later appeared alive to more than 500 followers over a period of 40 days before his Ascension (1 Corinthians 15:1-11).

At the end of the forty days, we are told that Jesus was lifted up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. A cloud of God’s presence appeared, into which Jesus disappeared (Acts 1:9).

When Stephen was about to die, he saw heaven opened and Jesus standing in the glory of God. He was not looking far up into the sky, but right in front of him. The veil, or curtain, was withdrawn so that he could look into the invisible realm. Heaven is in this invisible spirit dimension. When Jesus vanished, two angels suddenly stepped out of that dimension and appeared to the disciples. They had a message: “This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner, as you have seen Him go into heaven” (Acts 1:11).

At the end of the forty days, we are told that Jesus was lifted up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. A cloud of God’s presence appeared, into which Jesus disappeared (Acts 1:9). He will return the same way he left… through a gateway or portal of light.

THE GLORY BODY

According to these accounts, Jesus possessed a new, resurrected or glorified spiritual body – one that could dematerialize and materialize at will. This immaterial body could ‘toggle’ between the world of spirit and the material world. Instances of this include his appearances to his followers after the Resurrection:

Luke 24:31: Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight.

Luke 24:36-39: While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”

Mark 16:14: Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

John 20:19-23: “On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”

John 20:26: A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”

There are 12 different recorded appearances of Jesus:

Jesus’ followers claim not only to have seen him but also to have eaten with him, touched him, and received a cosmic essence, the Holy Spirit, from him while in his new body.

Paul encountered him on the road to Damascus. This meeting caused him to transform from Christian persecutor to champion. The description of Paul’s encounter is described in Acts 9. It is supernatural, miraculous, revelatory.

“As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven FLASHED around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

The voice from the light belonged to Jesus, who is often portrayed in Christian art speaking to Paul in the midst of or enveloped by an almond-shaped gateway or amidst, in the center of, an energy orb.

Swoosh! Vision of Paul. Byzantine mosaic. Location :Church, Kavala, Greece

The Conversion of Saint Paul, 1335-1350. Fresco in the naos. Location :Decani Monastery, Decani (Kosovo), Bosnia and Herzegovina

DID JESUS APPEAR IN AMERICA IN THE RESURRECTION/RAINBOW BODY?

If the Resurrected Jesus could appear so many times in Palestine, then why not in America, as proclaimed by American tradition?

For evidence of this we need look no further than L. Taylor Hanson’s book He Walked the Americas, an invaluable source of legends from coast to coast telling of Jesus’s activities in America. I relied heavily on this book for my book, The Peacemaker and the Key of Life, in which I traced several of the incarnations of the Pale One, the Prophet or the Peacemaker, as he was known.

Chad Stuemke, a researcher and friend, called my attention to page 57 of He Walked the Americas, which describes the appearance of the Pale One at the Capitol City of Cahokia, IL.

“Then a fire lit up the east sky, where cloud banks had been piled up, and everyone turned in wonder as consternation hushed the chanting. Suddenly He was there among them!

Like a creature from another planet, shining with a strange radiance, each hair on His head luminescent, a weird glow rippling from His garments and His sea-eyes flashing with lightning, He stood staring at the Pawnee People.”

Ms. Hanson recounts a Seneca story of the Prophet leading the Chant of the Dawning. This was a prayer chant He had taught the people. Everyone joined in and then, suddenly, a miracle happened.

“Before anyone else saw the sunlight, a golden shaft of radiant beauty came down from some clouds banked high with fire-light, and touched the curling hair of the Prophet, diffusing itself like a halo until He stood, a luminous creature, painting all the ground around Him with gold.”

“The people then fell down saying? “’Behold He is indeed the Dawn God who has come to walk among us! And ‘He draws his power from the Star of the Dawning.”

In his book, Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life, Dennis Hedlock tells of a Catholic friar named Juan de Cordova who wrote the following account while working among the Zapotec Indians of Oaxaca,Mexico. Quoting them, he recorded:

On the date we call Tecpatl a great light came from the northeastern sky. It glowed for four days in the sky, then lowered itself to the rock . . . in the Valle [Valley] in Oaxaca. From the light there came a great, very powerful being, who stood on the very top of the rock and glowed like the sun in the sky…Then he spoke, his voice was like thunder, booming across the valley.

These stories tell us that a being associated with intense light made a profound impression on the natives of the New World. While they do not prove that Jesus was in America, they do suggest this possibility.

It wasn’t only Jesus who appeared in America in light body form.

Catholocism usurped Quetzalcoatl’s religion after the Mother Mary appeared in a vision to a Mexican peasant named Juan Diego in the 16th century. Three days later her image appeared miraculously on the peasant’s cloak. Her name, ‘Our Lady of Guadalupe’ means ‘the serpent destroyer’. This event occurred ten years after Cortez appeared to the Natives who mistook him for the return of Quetzalcoatl.

After viewing the Tibetan Rainbow Body and Resurrection Body images, one can more easily interpret the representations of the appearance of Mary. It appears she manifested in the Rainbow Body.

Juan Diego’s mesmerizing story affirms my speculation. He arrived at the foot of a hill called Tepeyac and suddenly began hearing otherworldly chants coming from the hilltop. The celestial chanting reminded him of birds calling back and forth to one another. He saw a shiny white cloud and a rainbow of many colors.

He questioned where he was? Was he dreaming? Was he in between worlds? “Perhaps I am there where our old ancestors, our grandparents have said: in the lad of the flowers, in the land of corn, of our flesh, of our sustenance, perhaps in the land of Heaven.” Enraptured by the language of the birds, the chanting stopped and Juan Diego now heard the voice of a woman who called his name from atop Tepayac. She called him to her.

Upon reaching her he realized: “Her dress shone as the sun, as if vibrating, and the stone where She stood, as if shooting rays. Her splendor was like precious stones, like a jewel, everything that is most beautiful, She was. The ground dazzled with the resplendence of the rainbow in the fog. The mesquites and the cacti and all the other plants that usually grow there looked like emeralds, the foliage like turquoises, and their stems and thorns shone like gold.”

She – Mary - manifested in the radiant Rainbow Body.

Every day we find that we live in a bigger and bigger universe. We find more and more planets everyday. New theories on how the universe began come out all the time. Theories on physics are changing, M-theory, string theory, multiple dimensions. In this context, the revelation of the existence of a secret race or tribe of transformed humans that have achieved the Rainbow Body of Light – Rainbow Beings – should not surprise us. I believe these benevolent beings will intervene on behalf of humanity to help us avert a cosmic catastrophe that includes control by dictatorial forces, terrestrial and otherwise.

I shall have much more to say about this soon…

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