Scientist Meade Layne's Findings Correlate with the Evidence / 'Proof' of Extraterrestrial Interaction Detailed in the Preceding Blog Articles.

This Current Article is Part 3, continued from Part 1 "Key Data for 'Genius' Thinkers Regarding Science, Life and Cosmology (with Illustrations)" and Part 2 "Extraterrestrial Craft and Universal Cosmology Explained By Channeled Entities 1947-1953".

The cover of the first edition of The Magic Bag is shown alongside a portrait of Mark Probert (1907-1969) and his wife Irene. Following her untimely passing, Irene's manifesting personality became known to be the last of the identified 'Controls' (manifesting personalities or 'guides') comprising the group called 'The Inner Circle' that communicated during her husband's trance mediumship sessions (or what today is known as 'channeling').

There have been 17 previous blog articles about the Mark Probert case chronology. This is the rare situation whereupon a channeler devoted his psychic gift to scientific study. (The preceding Mark Probert articles are listed in the article "UFOs / UAP / Flying Discs Scientifically Explained by 'Channeled Entities'".) An early profile article of channeler Mark Probert written by Meade Layne for the fifth issue of Fate Magazine (Vol. 2 Vol. 1 May 1949) along with a memorial article published after he passed over in 1969 may be read in the blog article "Three Mark Probert and 'The Inner Circle' Magazine Reports . . .".

Excerpts from The Magic Bag, which is subtitled A Manuscript Received Clairaudiently Through the Mediumship of Mark Probert (Part One was first published in 1949 and Part Two in 1952)

Except for the page shown above, the first edition is the source for the excerpts in this article.

Professor Alfred Luntz (9-7-48 and 8-9-50)

Let us turn back our minds in what you perceive as time, even to the world's beginnings. If you were looking with the physical eye, you would see nothing but what would appear to you as a vast endless void; but let us use an eye that is of a higher rate of vibration and look again. Now what would you see? A sight so astounding, so majestic that were you to see it while in the physical body and unprepared, you would indeed go stark mad. For now you are looking into the Etheric World. The size alone of all in it would stagger your imagination. The vibrating, pulsating, iridescent colors, teeming with plant life, the animals and birds; the size and beauty of buildings, libraries, lecture halls, schools of learning, vast cathedrals, giant organs, orchestras consisting of every known instrument on your earth plane and many, many more you, as yet, know nothing of — tens of thousands playing at one time and the music coming from them would make you want to weep your life away with its power and sweetness of tone and perfect harmony; men and women of great height and stature, perfect of body and mind, going about in flowing robes of brilliant colors — some with mighty heads of golden hair, red hair and black hair flowing down their backs in living, gleaming waves, and rich, flowing beards that look like fine-spun silk; stately women with skin like living satin and glowing with health.

The air you would breathe would be purer than a babe's breath, for the air in this world is not particulate, as your scientists feel they know that word. Things do not move around in the manner that one may call directional motion, but by vibration motion only. Perhaps I may make such a condition a bit more clear by saying, "Being that in essence all forces are really one force, when a thing or person wishes to move, the wish automatically merges the energy force of that thing or person into the thing it or he desires to move to; in other words, it is the motion of the neutron and the proton — a complete exchange of energies, one thing becoming the other thing."

It is only when coming down into the lower etheric that one begins to run into the first stages of particulate substances or directional motion. In the physical, in order for one substance to become something else, there is a change or a rearrangement of the atomic pattern. This is the beginning of what I call directional motion. It is at a period slightly before directional motion that physical man has, for the most part, lost his ability to control substance with mental energy and must of necessity revert to his hands — the hands being extensions of the mind.

Trance, normal sleep and so-called death all are a merging of the personality of the individual with the Universal Force, or Cosmic Mind — the states being relative. All forms of life have their being in this great sea of Intelligence.

You can liken the physical world to a mirror, inasmuch as it is but the reflection of the Real and Everlasting Consciousness working through Man.

Ramon Natalli (undated transcript)

The basis of all things, we may state, is heat. In the process of breaking down and building up, heat is not only the cause, but is also the effect. It is sometimes said that the word cold means absence of heat, as the word darkness means the absence of light. Neither of these statements is true. The words heat and cold, darkness and light, are "sense" words, telling of the body's ability to measure molecular motion by its Organs of sense through the law of pressure; but where the word cold is concerned, in regard to molecular motion it simply means that the molecules of heat have lost some of their free motion and have slowed down or suffered a degree of inertia.

This is true also where light is concerned. There are no such conditions as absolute light or absolute darkness, but only degrees of these.

The degrees of light that can be seen in your three-dimensional world are brought about by certain forms of vibratory action taking place in your material substance. This action is then reflected on the permanent ether particles, which are considerably smaller, and produces a degree of change in them by expanding their electronic field so that they reach into your three-dimensional world, where the change is then measured by the sense organs of an individual according to that one's sensitivity to light pressures.

Through your sense of touch, a form is found to be hot, cold, cool or warm. Now, all things have what is called potential kinetic energy stored up in them while they are inert, but once set into motion, a body will start discharging this energy in the form of heat units and the more rapidly that body is made to move the greater will become the quantity of heat, and the more intense and penetrating each succeeding radiation. A particle moving at the rate of billions of vibratory cycles per second is emitting light of such short length that it can be detected only by an electric photo-plate.

It is in such fields of extreme motion that the X-ray and cosmic rays are found, the X-ray being about one ten-thousandth that of visible light, and cosmic rays about that much again shorter than the X-ray. Both of these rays have, therefore, an extreme potential for ionizing all matter of a longer wave-length.

There is, in theory at least, a belief that some cosmic ray particles can penetrate about twenty miles of lead. To the layman in physics this would seem to be quite an awe inspiring theory, but let us stop and ask ourselves these questions: What is space? What is its nature? Is it compressible? Does matter, as you know it, take up space?

In order to answer these questions with any degree of intelligence, we shall have to go back to the accepted theory that the world in which you live is a world of three dimensions, called width, depth and breadth. But, in order for these dimensions to exist, it becomes necessary for them to have another body in which to take form, and this other body is called space. But space is really not of your world at all, but is a fourth dimensional state that in no way infringes upon any of your three-dimensional forms of action, and in itself is a hundred thousand times denser than the densest matter in your three-dimensional world. So the theory of the cosmic ray passing through twenty miles of lead is by no means a strange one when the theory is based on the fact that even twenty miles of lead does not occupy space.

The particles that go to make up space are much smaller than any of the cosmic ray particles, and they flow right on through all three-dimensional matter. However, both cosmic rays and X-rays are moving at such high rates of vibration that they have passed out of the three-dimensional field to the extent that their passage through etheric or space-matter creates a form of friction in much the same way as a meteor creates friction in passing through your Earth’s atmosphere. This causes the cosmic or X-ray particle to discharge a light ray of infinitely short length by expanding the electronic field of the etheric particles just enough to cause that field to reach back into that of your three-dimensional world, but the very instant the work that is being done on the etheric atom by a particle from your world ceases, the form of response that the etheric atom was making also ceases.

Whenever a particle from the three-dimensional world manages to have its motion accelerated to the point where it can make a contact with fourth-dimensional matter, the response made takes place in the three-dimensional world, but fourth-dimensional matter can move into the three-dimensional world only so long as a continuous force of three-dimensional matter is brought to bear on it.

We must come to the clear understanding that the forces of Nature have no concern with bodies — whether these bodies are of man, animal, fish, fowl, insects or plants — for all of these are merely momentary manifestations of The Life Force working towards a great goal — and that goal is the acquiring of a more comprehensive understanding of Itself through Its parts. And who is this "Itself?" It is I. Yea, I even am He.

Had I known this soul-stirring truth and written it when I lived on Earth in 1624, I would have been burnt at the stake even as Galileo and his discoveries were condemned by that blood-glutting mind and soul-destroying group that headed the Roman Inquisitions.

Although I have tried in the above paragraph to give you some idea as to the over-all desires of Nature in respect to Man's inhumanity to his fellowman, I have no wish to leave you with the thought that brutality, lust and greed among men is the way of Nature, for that is far from the truth and the fact that Nature herself knew there was nothing to be gained by viciousness other than greater viciousness, is shown by her provision of a scale of balance called "cause and effect," from which there is no escape.

For the moment, let us leave the field of moral philosophy and talk of what is called "a thing in itself." In order to really learn anything at all concerning this, it will be necessary to make some rather serious changes in our way of thinking. What better way can we do this than by keeping in mind the fact that there are no such things as miracles or mysteries. Down through the ages Man has been cursed and his naturally inquisitive mind has been stymied by these two words, shoved upon him by the priestcraft and the pseudo-scientist. A mystery is only that which has not yet been studied from all of its sides. A miracle is that which happens in spite of Man's foolishness and seeming perverseness in wanting to learn anything about himself and the worlds in which he lives.

You are now living in an era that demands upon your knowing by personal experience and not by wishful thinking or faith or even by your common variety of reasoning and so-called logic — for all of these are limited to your supposed belief and understanding of a Deity or some vague patchwork called "scientific reason and logic."

Of course, in some of the higher orders of mentation there exist systems of reason and logic the nature of which borders on what may be called pure abstraction, and in that light has as much to do with your common type of reason and logic as two-and-two-make-four has to do with calculus. They are both called mathematics but that is all that can be said in comparing them.

One of the most appalling experiences a human being can have is to suddenly realize how utterly vast and completely incomprehensible is the entire scheme of life. We are like children lost in the eternal wastelands of space with nothing more to go to or come from but more space, and it is not at all strange that we are terrified by this "spaceness," for it seems to represent that entirely unknowable something called "X."

How can this be otherwise unless Man learns that He is not looking at space, but that He is Himself space. And, as the Self cannot contemplate Its Self except through one of Its lower vehicles, It cannot comprehend space. But the instant It produces anything that is in the slightest degree different than Itself, It has a something with which to compare Itself, and, in so doing, be comes both the First Cause and Effect — and thereafter, every effect not having anything to give it a Self-state of awareness becomes a first cause by creating another effect.

While a First Cause looks forward to finding Itself in Its effect, the effect has to look backwards to find itself in the First Cause, and not being able to comprehend its Father, it sees nothing. But an effect never takes place in the original dimension of the time continuum, and this is why an effect cannot see itself as being other than the First Cause, but at the same time has no awareness of itself until it creates an effect in which it finds its own identity through the degrees of difference it senses in its own creation.

Every effect finds its birth in an entirely new dimension of time from that of its cause, and this new dimension means new situations to be conformed with and that means new forms of action. So it was out of these endless forms of action and reaction taking place in dimensions of time that physical existence, as you see it, came into being. [MRB: Channeled through automatic writing by Chico Xavier, 'André Luiz' is the author of the 1956 book Action and Reaction among many others.]

So, also, we find that there is no such condition as a ding-an-sich, or "thing-in-itself," but all forms of action taking place in their own time dimension leads the unthinking to believe that the dimension in which they have their consciousness is the only existence there is. Not being able to get back of their way of thinking — or not thinking — a feeling of insecurity comes upon them, and this feeling of insecurity makes them desirous of something to lean upon. This "something to lean upon" naturally must be greater than themselves so they conceive of what they call a God, failing at the same time to realize that this God would be no more and no less, either in quality or quantity, than their own conception of Him — and because Man's physical nature is wrathful, vengeful and jealous, so is his God. It cannot be otherwise for Man can only create to the extent of his own dimension in time. It also must be remembered that in comparison to all else, your Earth is considerably less than a flick of dust.

If the Earth itself is such an insignificant thing, where, you may wonder, must Man stand in the scheme of things! Completely blinded by the hypnotic power of the ego, we little cosmic shadows move about on the face of this bit of cosmic dust that is whirling away in a sea of nothingness. But it must be kept in mind that the States called "largeness" or "smallness" are no more than the conditions of one's awareness of his own physical body in comparison to that of another body located at another point in space-time; and that also space-time itself is of the same nature — that is, a necessary formation of the consciousness to have something sufficiently different than itself to lend it the feeling of separateness.

This illusion of separateness automatically creates the illusion called space-time.

Shortly after the two hundred inch telescope had been in Operation at Palomar, I, unbeknownst to the astronomers there, studied the heavens through its complicated mechanism. To say that this new astronomical eye is one of the greatest bits of scientific art achievement of your twentieth century would be expressing my thoughts mildly. Nevertheless, it is not a thing-in-itself, but is the product of the minds of those who made it. Therefore, let us not stand in awe of it, but let us bow our heads and give thanks to the Great Mind who, working through the machine called the "brain" of these individuals, made this monumental piece of work possible.

While this "eye" can see a billion, two hundred million light years away from your Earth, and your astronomers were astounded to discover that the universe showed no signs of coming to an end, even at that staggering distance, this fact should not frighten you nor make you feel insecure, but should make you glow with joy and sincere inward pride to realize how truly great you are! I mean, of course, you as a consciousness.

A billion light years! That, my friends is no more than a mile in consciousness, and but a breath in the measurement of mind-time.

In my present state I have no use for your great telescope. I can tell you that the universe stretches out from everlasting to everlasting. There can be no end to it simply because it is all Mind, and there is no end to Mind.

Now let us look at the Universe from your materialistic standpoint. That is, from the belief that it is something in itself, apart from your individual consciousness. To begin with, it is but foolishness to even try to give in figures the number of bodies in the cosmos, for the consciousness of material man cannot comprehend such figures. But, as numerous as they are, each and every one of them is arranged in a very precise geometrical order in relation to one another, and each has its own work to do.

While it is true that many of these bodies are constantly running into one another and being destroyed, all such destruction is brought about the instant any form of unbalance starts to take place. Indeed, wherever we may look in Nature, destruction comes in the wake of inharmony.

Although it is the heat of the Sun that sustains life and growth on the Earth as well as on all other planetary bodies, it is the cosmic rays that start life and tell what forms are to be made and what changes are to take place in them during their period of existence.

Even provided such a body as the Moon had an atmosphere, its lack of density might prohibit the formation of an ionized belt in its upper layers and the lack of such a belt would automatically leave that body open to receive the full brunt of the cosmic rays which would mean death to all sap-producing bodies on such planets. Also, where there is little or no plant life, a planet will absorb heat from the sun much faster during the day but the rate of escape of the heat in its dark hours is very rapid. These sudden changes in temperature alone would prevent the existence of life on the Moon or on Mercury.

Mars and Neptune, however, not only can but do have certain kinds of plant life which means that they possess an atmosphere whose upper layers are ionized. Neptune's vast distance from the Sun permits it to get some sixty-four hundred times less light and heat than Mercury, figuring that light and heat diminish proportionately to the square of the distance. However, light is not a "something" moving through another something called "space," but is kinetic energy created and let loose by the tremendous perturbation of the Sun's particles.

The vibratory motion of these heat units creates a wave-pattern. These heatwaves then excite by induction the etheric particles into changing their magnetic alignment, which causes them to reflect the motion of heatwaves. Nevertheless, the action would still be measured by the inverse square of the distance, but this time in proportion to mass vibratory intensity. If we were to take into consideration the fact that no atom of matter ever actually touches another, we may say with a great deal of truth that all action takes place by induction.

some Mars NASA images: the one at top was originally found designated online as "Spirit :: Panoramic Camera :: Sol 728" (article)

Versions of this currently 'viral' image (23.2 million views) have been posted on X.com. Chris Ramsey wrote: "Photo from a square structure on Mars posted to reddit. It is indeed real. This image originates from the Mars Global Surveyor's Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) The original image can be viewed through Arizona State University's Mars Image Explorer." (Reddit version; there's also a panormaic image video of the vicinity on Mars showing "more mysterious anomalies."

Jay Dook offered the following context: "Context: both of these images were edited to make the square shape clearer." He has posted the original image detail (shown below) with a link to the official image at https://viewer.mars.asu.edu/planetview/inst/moc/E1000462#T=2&P=E1000462.

(Ramon Natalli [cont'd]) On both Mars and Neptune, plant life growth is much heavier in substance. While Martian plant life is more of a mossy, funguslike growth, in color mostly gray and rust-red with faded shades of orange-yellow, Neptune's plant life is considerable and spread over a comparatively large area. It is very fibrous, with the quality of heavy rubber, and in color much like that of Mars — a great deal of sickly gray and rust-red, and some black. These plants produce large, heavy leaves, but no flowers. The sap in them is very thick, is of a mud-brown or very dark red color and smells to high heaven. It would mean instant death were an earth-man to breathe it since it consists mostly of carbon monoxide gas taken from an atmosphere that is heavy with ammonia.

The Martian atmosphere is somewhat like the Earth's, but it too is well filled with ammonia gas, especially at its poles, the central portion being the purest. There we find some plant life that nearly resembles that found on the Earth, even to its greenness.

Tremendous winds sweep across the central part from time to time, being more prevalent in the summer months and they sweep millions of tons of iron oxide dust into the Martian skies. Sometimes it happens that this red Martian dust is driven into outer space where it moves between the Sun and the Earth, causing the Sun to appear red for many days.

This sloughing off of planets and asteroids is much more prevalent than is commonly believed. Quite often, too, some of this planet and asteroid dust comes close enough to Earth to be caught in the clouds. Then the water that falls to Earth may be black, red, or almost any other color and the suns may appear red, green or blue.

To speak again of Neptune — because this planet is some thirty times further from your Sun than is the Earth, it is thought to be a world of eternal darkness and ice. This is not true, however, for while Neptune does get little radiation of heat units from the Earth's sun, it is in alignment with suns in other solar Systems which are millions of times larger than the Earth's sun, so it is anything but frozen wasteland. Its summers are very long but mild — somewhat on the order of the Earth's fall months. Its winters, while long in comparison to Earth's, are very much shorter than its summers, but unbelievably cold, and in more or less of a constant state of agitation by bitterly cold winds, both of its poles remaining in a constant state of ice.

Due to its huge size and mass weight, Neptune attracts to itself far more cosmic rays than either Mars or the Earth.

Now I would like to speak briefly of what is called gravity and its nature. As much of what I have already said about matter and its varied forms of action is perhaps new to many of your physicists, and may not meet with the approval of some of these able-minded men and women, it is probably too late to turn back from my sinful ways, so I must continue on the path I set out upon. By this, I simply mean that my views on gravity and its laws also, no doubt, will be outside the pale of accepted beliefs.

Everything being equal, perhaps it would be advisable that in our learning we take everything cum grano salis. In so doing, we are not liable to be too far wrong in the things we finally accept as facts. So now, if the reader has his salt-shaker in hand, I shall proceed to expound by theory of gravity.

Let us start by pretending space to be a vast sea, as in many ways it really is. The deeper we go into a body of water the greater becomes the pressure on our bodies per square inch of the body surface and we find this same condition is true in the sea of space.

Man on Earth is like the fish that live in the depths of the ocean, for both can rise only to a given level of sea or space, or they will die from lack of oxygen or too much of it. And if taken too far up, the growing lack of pressure which their body structure has been designed to stand will cause it to burst outward.

It may seem that I have been speaking of air and water pressure alone, but you will soon see that neither water nor air has any pressure in itself, for the force they exert against man or fish is due to the force called "gravity," and the degree of the pressure varies considerably depending on the cosmic body one inhabits and its mass weight.

If the mass weight of every body in space could be given, we would find that the Cosmic Designer must be a stupendous genius in geometrical precision.

But let us go back to consideration of the fish in the sea and man in the atmosphere. If the mass weight of the fish, let us say, is four pounds, he will displace four pounds of water; or, if it is a whale, weighing up into the tons, he will displace an equal tonnage of water, and this is also true of men as well as all other things living or existing in the Earth's atmosphere. However, as we move out into space, away from whatever body we have been living upon, we find our bodies either expanding, due to lack of accustomed pressures, or contracting, due to too much pressure — which means that our bodies will explode or be crushed into a more compact state. For instance, if an Earth man landed on Neptune he would not be able to move around. And more — he would likely be crushed to a pulp, due to the tremendous pull gravity has on that body; and a Neptune man, if he could land on the Earth would soon explode for lack of gravitational pressure per square inch on his body.

Provided all the above is true about the force called "gravity," and provided that we are agreed that all is matter working in one form of motion or another, then perhaps we may concede that gravity is matter out of which comes all form and shape — as indeed we suggest to be the case.

Gravity, being made up of fields of successive grades of densities (or, if you prefer, degrees of rarefaction), and not necessarily electro-magnetic in itself, but simply magnetic and electrical when working upon bodies of greater mass, varies in its nature according to the density of the body or the lack of it. Now, if we consider the ethers as gravitational fields of varied densities, we can say that there are what are called ether drifts, which means that while a steady downdrift of the ethers on one part of the Earth may be, speaking arbitrarily, 60 miles per second, on another it may be 80 to 86. Where such drifts are very slow, it may well be due to some erratic action taking place on another heavenly body closely related to the Earth, and such action may produce either a warp or a vortex in the gravitational fields. The Sun is the body most likely to bring about this condition.

I could go on writing about these things until I had a volume so vast that, no matter how fast one were capable of reading, he could spend his entire life reading it and still have plenty for his children and his children's children to spend a lifetime with. This will give you an idea not only of the endless nature of this subject, but of the minute amount that I have given here.

Maharajah Natcha (undated transcript)

Where the theory and teachings of what is called "reincarnation" orginated seems to be a moot question among the students of this law. Some think they came from Asia, some from India, and still others believe they came from Persia during the life and teachings of Zoroaster, 307 B.C. There is some belief, also, that ancient Egypt was their source. This latter belief seems to have arisen from the fact that in the time of the Egyptian Pharaohs certain mystical rites were performed in one of the lower chambers of the Sphinx at Gizeh. During these rites the most advanced teacher of the secret Lodge received the last and highest initiation that could be conferred upon him.

I shall give you but a very brief outline of this initiation so that you may understand how and why some feel it to be the source and cause of the teachings of reincarnation, or reimbodiment.

The one to take this initiation is placed upon a cross, the cross being the symbolic form of what you recognize today as the Roman numeral "X" — or a numerical sign representing the ultimate, or infinity, or the end of a known dimension. To the initiate it also means the renouncing of the world of matter and the entering into what is called the fourth dimension of time (not time as understood by motion of three-dimensional matter).

After the initiate has been bound to the cross with leather or fiber thongs, he permits himself to fall into a deep cataleptic or deep trance state. While he is thus engaged, the other members of the Lodge form a half-circle and chant in mystical words and tones. These mantrams constitute a pleading to the gods of the etheric worlds to make clear the path for the initiate to the stars and other cosmic bodies where he is now intending to project his ka, or psychic body.

This kind of projection is fraught with many dangers and there is always the likelihood that the ka, or psyche, may lose his awareness of his physical body. A form of disassociation may come upon him akin to what you call amnesia, and the energies of his physical body may play out before he can get back to it, in which case he dies. This means that he has failed and must wait to come back in a new body as a baby. But should he be successful, he brings back with him a great amount of accurate knowledge concerning the nature and condition of the specified bodies in space which he has been sent to investigate. The time limit is three days. His findings are then compared with those of the many other initiates who have gone before him and if they compare favorably it is considered proven that he has actually been where he has been sent. In this case his return to the physical body represents reincarnating, or the returning to the world of flesh.

So now, my dear friends, you can see at least one way that it became possible for the teachings of reincarnation to have come to the student as originating in ancient Egypt. However, I wish to remind all students of this subject that the aforementioned kind of initiation by no means belonged solely to the ancient Egyptians. All races of man have had secret Orders from time immemorial and performed similar rituals. The Incas of Peru, the Aztecs, the Mayans, all performed ceremonies and rituals wherein psychic projection was practiced.

But projection is not a complete separation of the life from the physical body. Indeed, it is not a separation at all but merely an accentuated sense of expansion of the awareness. Death is a complete withdrawing of all conscious life forces and energies from the Chemical body. The ego that once occupied that body cannot return to it, so it must stay in the astral world till it can build a new physical body. The nature of the individual, the length of time experienced in the body he or she has just quit, what the one’s desires were, the extent of his or her education in respect to the inner laws of life — all these factors and many more go to govern the period of stay in the astral. Some remain out for only a nine-month period, others for from fifty to several thousand years. Those who stay out merely the nine-month period are, as a rule, those who died at birth or shortly thereafter. Those who stay out for great periods of time are ones far advanced in wisdom. These sometimes stay in the low astral to act as helpers and teachers, but, despite their desire to so unselfishly sacrifice themselves, they are not permitted to do this unless they go on to higher States for periodical times of rest.

Friends, it is not necessary that you believe in rebirth, for rebirth is like all else — if the law of it exists you will follow its pattern to the letter, regardless of what you may feel about it. And since each and every one of us will eventually come to know the truth of all things by personal experience, is it not foolish to try to foist our opinions on another?

Now let us turn for a moment to the whys and wherefores of reincarnation. Look around at the world you are living in. Study not only your fellowmen, but observe closely all forms of life. What do you see? You see little more than constant and ever-increasing turmoil, suffering, pain, greed, lust, hate. Now, as brutal as these words sound and as the actions of them are, they can yet be summed up under a single heading consisting of one word. That word is “striving.”

The word “strife” means action of an intense kind. On the face of it, those of you who are just beginning to come into what is called “the light,” find this picture of the world anything but a pleasant one. But try to remember that you too were once a “sleeper”; you did not see clearly. Being in the forest you could not see the trees. Now, however, you have come out into a clearing and are looking back, and it has become painful for you to find so many of the trees blighted by various diseases and blasted and gnarled by fire, wind and rain.

With this new perspective of the forest, the novice may become overwhelmed with two conflicting emotions — the first being a sense of the hopelessness of it all, which gives him a terrifying feeling of frustration; and next, a fanatical craving to dive back into the distorted forest with axes, saws and dynamite to cut down and blast out each and every tree that he feels to be evil and ugly. Not being a forester, and therefore not qualified to determine what really constitutes a good tree, in his blind zeal he becomes a greater menace to the forest than all the strongest winds, the hottest fires and the greatest plagues a forest ever suffered in the course of its life and growth.

Returning to the main body of our topic, I feel it advisable to state here and now that which all of us of the "Inner Circle" have stated in the past — and that is that Man is not body, but mind, and all forms and shapes are but mind substance manifesting out of the law of need and that this kind of action goes on upon all planes, without end.

It is thought by some schools that your physical-chemical world is the one world of illusion and deception, but we say to you that all worlds all planes have their illusions and deceptivity; and it is well that this is so, for without it there could be no room for advancement. In fact, that which we call “life” and “consciousness” would be impossible. We take our illusions and form them into our needed realities, and as the belief in our needs change, we see again the lack of concreteness to that which we considered a necessary reality. In other words, just so long as a thing proves useful to us, it is a reality with a nature sufficiently concrete so that we would be but fools to argue with it. This is as true of the theory of reincarnation as it is of all else.

Please note that in the last statement I used the word "theory" instead of the word "law" which I used earlier in saying it makes no difference whether or not we believe a thing; if it is a law we shall follow its pattern to the letter. I should like to soften that statement a bit by saying this: A theory is a preconceived idea about a thing; it is a kind of springboard off of which we plunge in the hope of finding a usable reality. A law is that which we find ourselves consciously working with.

While many of us may appear to be working under the law, we are not if we are not aware of our actions. It is this sense of awareness of our action that makes the difference between law and theory, or illusion and reality.

Friends, if we are to be actually free on our path of learning, we must endeavor to acknowledge to ourselves this truth, and keep it uppermost in our minds at all times — the fact that no one is infallible — from the most ignorant to the profoundest of scholars in academic subjects; from the layman to the greatest master in occult studies. So do not feel either afraid or ashamed to make mistakes. Sincerity should always be the keynote. Say what you feel, and feel what you say!

The new body, in all of its ramifications, will be governed by the number and quality of the hormones which it is able to manufacture from the Chemicals of the mother's body. These hormones are extremely complex chemical compounds produced by the endocrine glands and have a great deal to do with determining the sex nature of an individual.

Then, there are equally complex substances known as genes. The work of these little bodies is to register the physical characteristics of one or both of the parents in one degree or another and then impart their impressions to the mother-cell of the "new" body. Sometimes, however, due to the great sensitivity of these bodies, they can be made to register some of the physical characteristics of any one of the ancestors of a family; or — to go further — they may record in a blurred or confused way, and in so doing cause blindness, or a crippled body and often what are called "freaks" or "sports."

Such blurred or confused recordings can be due to any one of a number of things — such as fright or prolonged anxiety of the expectant mother, or they may be due to some of the mental picturing of the incoming entity itself, brought over from a past life.

As has been said before, upon entering the physical world, Man falls under a deep hypnotic spell, a condition he cannot avoid due to the fact that the physical body is one large organ of feeling poked into a three-dimensional plane while the owner of this organ remains in a fourth dimensional state. Hearing, seeing, tasting and smelling are but variations of the mechanics of feeling. The only real purpose in having more than one channel of reception or sense organ is to give the Self a broader field of receptivity of what is taking place in the three-dimensional world, thus avoiding many of the dangers It would encounter minus one or more of these "feelers." Of course, it is known that the loss of any one of the senses can be overcome in a number of ways and by some to a remarkable degree. Nevertheless, the clarity of reception is never the same as before, and therefore all the rest suffer degrees of loss accordingly.

Let us go back for a moment to the principal part of this chapter, on the subject of reincarnation. It appears that many exponents of this law labor under the belief that when an individual goes through the change called "death," he pauses for a duration of time on the low astral plane and then dies again, leaving another corpse for others to contend with while he glides on to a peaceful state of bliss called "Nirvana."

Aside from the fact that no stipulated time is mentioned that a newly-departed person may spend on the low astral, nor can this time element be reckoned with as a norm for everyone, there are many other things to be taken into consideration, and none of them have anything to do with emotional opinions concerning the activity of what is called "Nature."

Friends, I have no desire to change your beliefs, nor could I do so, however I may desire, for only you can make such changes. Therefore, if you find these teachings comforting to live with, by all means hold on to them! They are yours by the right of your degree of understanding. To those of you who have advanced somewhat further along the Path, I say this: that which is called "death" is but a crude interpretation of the word "change." The word "death" implies cessation of all activity. To accept a law of inactivity would be to believe that action or motion can rise out of inactivity, or nothingness; and to follow such a theory would but force you to assume a definite beginning and end to life and consciousness of any kind.

All attempts at such reasoning leads one but to the blank wall of hopelessness and despair, so let us who are fearlessly and honestly seeking inner wisdom avoid such thoughts as we would shun the plague. And this applies to such teachings as those concerning "shades" and "astral corpses" and "devils" and "witches" and the personal God and vicarious atonement by a personal Savior.

True, there are forces that can work an evil for you but you need only to refrain from centering your thoughts in their direction to avoid them. And, true, there is a kind of personal Savior and God — but these are not apart from you. Indeed, they are you. The word "Christ" is a title, and it is bestowed upon each and every individual on Earth — but only after many life experiences does each one gain that glorious title, by diligently working for it, not simply by being what is called "good." For the mere act of being kindly and following the laws made in your own environment, while very commendable, has no bearing on attaining the Christ state.

Remember, friends, let nothing keep you from constantly striving in this direction. I say to you in the most sincere way I know: There is no other way to attain your final freedom from the steel chains that bind you to the hell of material living and regain your lost paradise, which lies in the vast and beautiful Etheric World.

In the name of the Blessed Triune —

Maharajah Natcha.

This design follows the Maharajah Natcha transcript in the first edition of The Magic Bag Part Two (1952).

There are parallels between channeled commentary in 'The Inner Circle' transcripts (including in regard to the design shown above) and data presented in other blog articles. Yet another example of this is offered with this quotation of 'Silver Birch' speaking through trance medium Maurice Barbanell.

The Great Spirit, with infinite wisdom and love, has created earthly children and given them some free will. The Great Spirit has also arranged the whole of their minds, spirits and bodies so that they can unfold the divinity that lies within them which, in full flower, can provide infallible signposts as to how individuals should live. The Great Spirit could have created all the earthly children as marionettes, puppets, whose actions would be strictly regulated with no power of choice, no freedom. But you cannot have free will without, at the same time, the responsibilities of your actions. If you have the choice to do good, you also have the choice to do evil. Good and evil are opposite sides of the same coin. So are love and hate, light and dark, storm and peace. This is a polarity. Yours is the choice as to which it should be. So you must come back to the motive and ask: "Why do people wage war? What is it that they seek to share in common? Or is it to gain domination over others?" You must answer these questions. It is your world. You can make it a paradise or a hell because you have the means and the choice to do so. (article)

This is an example video of a conscious channeler (Paul Selig). Another extensively documented conscious channeling case chronology is that of Ryuho Okawa. An example channeling session of his is shown below. Other than the 18 articles at this blog, his career was seldom if ever meaningful assessed throughout Western news media during his lifetime.

The letter M has been observed to express 'The M Pattern' / 'The Michael Pattern' as mentioned in previous articles. (incl. 1, 2)

This was the first occasion when this blogger recognized the fateful 'M' pattern documented during phenomenal interactions — left in bird gravel in the house of the Oklahoma family experiencing 'talking poltergeist' phenomena with the predominant manifesting entity known as 'Michael.' The incident is described in an interview transcript in the case study book TESTAMENT (1997).

A Concluding Comment From This Blogger about Correlations Between 'Contactee' and 'Channeling' Case Chronologies Among the Gamut of documented 'Paranormal' Manifestions and 'Psychic Phenomena'

Among the subjects of recent UFOlogy blog articles is unusual states of mentality experienced and described by such 'flying saucer contactees' as Truman Bethurum and Orfeo Angelucci. Truman described and manifested a fully conscious ability for 'automatic writing.' He reported: "When I was back at the Desert Inn in Overton, I took papers and pencil and sat down to write as they [the space people from the planet Clarion] had instructed me to do. The results were surprising to me! It seemed as though someone was holding the pencil and actually forming the words!"

The paragraphs that resulted for Truman are in a poetic and rhyming form. He explained: ". . . through thought transference, they can make one do as they wish. I had never written any poetry and could not rhyme two words [prior to this]. I just didn't have it in me to do that — but now it's different!" (1, 2, 3)

Orfeo precisely recounted his transcendental experiences for a Mystic Magazine journalist and then in his autobiographical case study book The Secret of the Saucers (1955). The late summer of 1953 became the time when, in Orfeo's words: ". . . the most beautiful and revealing of all my experiences with the etheric beings developed . . . apparently the most profound of all had to be revealed to my conscious mind in gradual steps of understanding, because the experience actually occurred in January of 1953 while I was still on the job at Lockheed, but it was not until six months later that I had any idea of the tremendous experience that had been mine. During those bewildering intervening six months I honestly believed that for seven days of my life in January, 1953 I had been a victim of complete amnesia." (1, 2)

Orfeo Angelucci's interaction with another flying saucer contactee named Adam is recounted in his other book Son of the Sun (1959). Orfeo's ability to recount the entirety of Adam's experiences in vivid detail is something that shouldn't be ignored. (article) The recent UFOlogy articles make available an array of data suggesting how the multitude of correlations with 'paranormal phenomena' manifestations make possible for the reader.

When considering the Daniel W. Fry contact case chronology, it is useful to acknowledge that his interaction with the unseen 'Alan' may be expressed as what essentially could be described as a 'disembodied voice.' This fact offers a parallel with such transcendental communication aspects today associated categorically with such terms as 'Talking Poltergeist' hauntings (as chronicled in TESTAMENT where voices of apparent 'aliens' were among those described as having manifested), Extrasensory Perception, clairaudient mediumship, Direct Voice, Electronic Voice Phenomena and Instrumental Transcommunication. The blog article "Hearing Voices: A Common Human Experience" provides further circumstances to place in perspective. The diverse phenomena chronicled by UFOlogy journalist and contactee Arthur Shuttlewood (incl. 1, 2, 3) in five books also divulge manifold parallels relating to occurrences categorized among the mystified as involving what is popularly known as 'unexplained' or 'anomalous' phenomena.

Considering what Truman called 'thought transference' in comparison with what occurs with channelers in a variety of circumstances and conditions encompassing conscious and unconscious states of mentality, what people accept as 'normal' conscious creativity becomes a complex subject for study when one faces the essential question is what is the source/s (or Source, as in metaphysical annals) of the thoughts and ideas that in the totality become the synthesis constituting a person's individual personality and identity. In one blog article last year, this blogger commented —

Topics of recent blog articles incorporate perspectives about 'good' or 'evil' polarities reflecting orientations to 'God' and 'The Devil' in relation to life and the afterlife. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Some blog articles consider the effects upon human conscious creativity of these polarities with one article mentioning that filmmaker George Lucas presented his own conception of a 'Dark Side' of 'The Force' in his original "Star Wars" trilogy. The 'entertainment trance' of countless people programmed to be consumers of commercial media instead of engaging in self-development for expansion of consciousness is among the negative conditions perpetrating collective life experiences in the contemporary world, where institutionalized military indoctrination of governing officials has rendered obsolete the common sense international diplomacy of the past.

UFOlogy researchers may remember the array of psychic phenomena reported in the case chronology of Maureen Puddy in Australia. UFO sightings and voice hearing instances included the message "All of your tests will be negative." This blogger commented:

The issue of tests and testing would impress me as being important when considering some incidents or interactions where 'unexplained phenomena' is or are a factor although it is also apparent that many are involved with revealing / teaching. Furthermore, the customary expressions 'auditory hallucination' or 'verbal hallucination' seem to me to be obvious misnomers in connection to many incidents of 'hearing voices' and this is supported by what is recorded about the Maureen Puddy case.

This blogger should also note for new readers that this blogger has experienced a conscious ability to remember precise details and therefore recognize innumerable parallels among the contents of the 750+ articles at this blog. As mentioned in one account of 'automatic writing' that was experienced by Elizabeth Fuller, a message that preceded a succession of proverbs is "For as far as you shall look, that is as near as you shall come." (article)

Among the blog articles providing data making possible insights to universal cosmology are "UFOS, Transcendental Communication and Expansion of Consciousness", "UFOlogy and Seance Phenomena Correlations – Testimonials Mentioning Blue Light or Blue", "UFOlogy In Review – The Most Important Comprehension", "The Ectoplasmic Flying Saucer", "Your Metaphysical Initiation" and "'Channeling' Phenomena Evidence for Scientists, Journalists and Anyone Uninformed or Misinformed (Including 16 Example Videos)".