CHAPTER 1

The Opening

In 1971 two softly glowing spheres of light, one a bright green and the other anultraviolet color, entered into the room where I was meditating and identifiedthemselves by saying, "We are not separate from you. We are you."

From that moment on, my heart opened to new possibilities of life and hascontinued to open wider each day. Sure, I have the same everyday problems aseveryone else. I have a wife and kids. I have to pay the bills and give much ofmy energy to my responsibilities as a father, but these beings that callthemselves angels and appear as beautiful spheres of light have kept meconnected to the inner Light within my heart, and that Light has always led methrough the outer circumstances in ways that are hard to believe from theviewpoint of a spectator observing by the sidelines.

And know for certain, this same inner Light is within your heart also. No one isspecial in the eyes of God. We are all exactly the same, for there is only OneSpirit that moves through absolutely everything and everyone.

It is the simple Truth of reality as spoken by St. Thomas in his Gospel of theChrist, "God is all around you and within you." It is easy in this modern world,with the images of television and the Internet flooding the mind, to forget theTruth of our reality. Just look at the moon—I mean really look at the moon—andit is easy to sense the incredibleness of our existence. So the Truth is stillthe Truth no matter how much man distorts it.

From 1972 until 1994 I studied with these spheres of light a subject that theworld has named sacred geometry, which showed me, for certain, that all ofcreation was created by a single pattern, the Flower of Life. This gave me theproof that my mind needed to understand that there is only One Consciousness inthis One Universe, and this undeniable proof let my mind surrender to my heart.Finally, life begins in a simple way, in what could be called the original way.

To let you know a little bit more about myself, I offer the following. Igraduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in finearts, and a minor in physics and mathematics. I have studied human consciousnesswith over seventy spiritual teachers from all over the world and from almostevery religion and discipline. My first book, The Ancient Secret of the Flowerof Life: Volume I, was published in 1998, and Volume II in 2000. Within a fewshort years these books were in many languages all over the world and on everycontinent, reaching out to over 100 countries.

A school on teaching the Mer-Ka-Ba meditation, the human light body, coming fromthe instructions of the second volume, emerged in 1994 (before the books wereprinted) and soon led to the creation of schools in over sixty countries, withover 150 trained teachers.

By 2004 a new book, Living in the Heart, was published. This work opened up newinformation about human consciousness that was, and still is, hardly known bythe world's population, as it has been kept secret by almost all of the world'sspiritual and religious teachings. This book also has spread worldwide.

Slowly, I have been responding to requests and invitations to teach thisknowledge in seminars and workshops, lectures, magazine articles, Web sites, andon radio and television, and I have, at present, visited and taught in overfifty-some countries.

The knowing of this story about the Serpent of Light has come to me slowly—inpieces at the beginning, but more quickly in the last five years. At first Ididn't understand the full significance of what was being presented to me. Notuntil just after the turn of the millennium did I begin to truly understand allthat was happening to me and to this energy now called the Serpent of Light, asit was named hundreds of thousands of years ago. (In the Orient it wassimultaneously called, "The Great White Snake.")

When you read these stories, stay within your heart, not your mind, for yourmind will never understand how people can coordinate themselves over thousandsof years and how complex human events can realize themselves without any humanplanning. But your heart will know. Within your heart is all knowledge and allwisdom.

For sure your heart will know the Truth and hopefully will respond.

I am using my life stories to give you inspiration to help you find the sameplace that is in both of our hearts. When you are in your heart, nothing needsto be done to bring change; it will happen automatically and with grace. But toreach your heart, as every indigenous tribe I know has told me, you must firstremember your Divine Mother. If you remember this first great understanding ofall indigenous people on Earth, then the inner meaning of what is given withinwill appear. Your Mother is alive and very much conscious—extremely conscious,beyond what twenty-first-century industrialized man understands.

Earth is not a rock; she has a name and a personality in the cosmos. And believeme, she knows your name. And it is her spirit, the spirit of Mother Earth, thatis behind each one of these stories. It is She who created these stories that,woven with thousands of other stories from other men and women worldwide, willsurely lead to an entire transformation of humanity. When you finish thesestories, how could you not know how much your Mother loves you? And ingratitude, how could you not offer your service to your Mother's needs?

Ceremony

And finally, the awesome significance of ceremony. Mankind long ago lived notfrom the mind, but the heart. It was dreaming that created the world, but now itis thinking that is shaping our way of life. The old way has tremendous powerthat most of us have long forgotten, and, as you will see in these stories, itis possible that unless we remember the old way, we may be faced with animbalance that will not resolve itself until we do.

From the day that Adam and Eve were created, taking care of the "gardens" wastheir inherent purpose. And as humanity slowly developed over hundreds ofthousands of years, this initial purpose has never changed or faltered.

Taking care of Mother Earth eventually crystallized into what is now recognizedas ceremony. And ceremony to all primitive and indigenous cultures over theentire world has always been understood to hold the essence of a tribe'sresponsibilities to their ancestors, of course, in their hearts all the way backto the first man and woman.

In my tribe, the Taos, a ceremony was held every year on September 30, a daythat was given the name "San Geranamo Day." The Taos believed that this ceremonywas absolutely necessary to be completed or the Earth would literally spin offof its axis and all would be lost for all people on the planet. People wouldcome from all over the world to watch the "Indians" climb this incredibly highpole, a 100-foot-high tree stripped of all its branches and buried in the earthabout eight feet, so that it stood vertical in the way it grew. From hangingropes, four Indians would attempt to climb this pole and through this ceremonygive the Earth another year to round the sun.

It was a beautiful and dangerous ceremony that pulled people from all over theworld to this pueblo, but did they really believe that if the Indians didn'tclimb this pole that all would be lost? Hardly. Perhaps one or two. But most ofthe world believes that indigenous ceremony is superstition and something thathas no grounding in science. To the Indians (Native Americans), however, this isthe truth of their reality. They believe it in every cell of their bodies.

Mankind has moved away from the heart of the world to the logic of the mind, andtheir belief is in the chemist, the physicist, and the mathematician. Sciencehas proven to them that all this ancient belief in ceremony is simply ignorance.

And yet modern man has created, with its great science, which it is certain isthe ultimate "truth," a world on the brink of total destruction in less than twohundred years and perhaps only a few years left to exist if something drastic isnot done. Whereas ancient man, with its silly ceremonies, managed to sustainitself for millions of years. Perhaps if we wish to survive at all, we shouldconsider this ancient wisdom, at least to understand, even with our logicalmind, how it is possible that ceremony actually can create a world in balance.

As a Native American in a white body, I have followed the indigenous ways, asthey have shown me the secret to creation. It is not the mind that is sobrilliant, but the light of the world that comes from the heart. Creation alwaysbegins in the heart, and then it is transferred to the mind. We have forgottenour essence, and if we do not remember it very soon, our great technologicalmind will lead us into a world of massive pain and worldwide destruction. Aworld without heart is a mechanical world separating itself from the Reality.

What follows are stories of remembering our intimate interconnection with Godand the creation process. My stories are given to you so that you also willremember and return into the harmony and flow of the Universe.

Love is the answer to every question—even the questions of the mind.

CHAPTER 2

Ancient Cosmology 101 and Modern Changes

In order for you to hear these stories that will follow with understanding, sothat everything makes sense, there is a bit of cosmology that must beunderstood. This cosmology, the underlying landscape of what is being presentedin these pages, is based primarily upon the Precession of the Equinox and thecycles of change that are associated with it.

The Precession of the Equinox

You may believe you know what the Precession of the Equinox is and what itmeans, but please, there is something extraordinary about this cycle that youprobably have not heard. As far as I know, it has never been written aboutbefore, but kept only in oral traditions by indigenous tribes and culturesaround the world. This is called the Serpent of Light.

In the simplest terms, the Precession of the Equinox itself (hereafter referredto as simply POE) is merely a wobble in the Earth's axis. It's a wobble, orrevolution, that requires a little less than 26,000 years to complete. To beexact, this period of one revolution is 25,920 years. If the axis of the Earthwere a pencil, the circle drawn from one of the ends would appear as below.

(Additional wobbles exist within the POE and are discussed in The Ancient Secretof the Flower of Life: Volume I. It is the primary POE we're now concerned within this story.)

As the wobble of the Earth's axis slowly turns in a circle, it eventually pointsto and passes through all twelve of the heavenly constellations, one afteranother. This means that the POE points to or "enters" a new constellation aboutevery 2,160 years. In other words, there are twelve divisions in the POE, eachdivision representing a different constellation and a considerably differenttype of energy. Most ancient civilizations were aware of the POE and of thesetwelve divisions of the night sky—even the oldest civilization known to us, theSumerians, which existed about 6,000 years ago.

It is interesting to note that astronomically and mathematically speaking, ittakes 2,160 years of continuous observation of the night sky to become awarethat there even is this wobble in the Earth's axis. From an archeological pointof view, before the Sumerians, we humans were thought to be hairy barbarians wholacked the intelligence and discipline required to observe and record the nightsky for such a long period of time. Yet the Sumerians knew exactly of the POEfrom the very beginning of their civilization.

It is an archeological bewilderment to scientists who have studied this matter,but it is true. From ancient Sumerian cities that were buried deep under theearth, thousands of clay tablets have been discovered in recent times. Writtenin the first and oldest known human language—ancient Cuneiform—these tablets goback to the beginning of the Sumerian civilization and fully describe the POE ingreat and exact detail. The ancient Sumerians possessed this cosmic knowledgeeven though it is impossible by the understanding of history that we now hold.

How can this be? In my first two books, The Ancient Secret of the Flower ofLife: Volume I and Volume II, I have offered a possible answer, but I'm notgoing to go into this information now, as it is not pertinent to this story.

The Tibetans and the Hindus also recorded the movements of the POE from ancienttimes. Both cultures placed vast importance on each of the twelve divisions andreferred to the divisions as "Yugas," or "periods of time," giving each Yuga adifferent characteristic that they believed affected all of mankind during thatspecific Yuga. Remember, each Yuga also represented a different constellationand would therefore be an integral part of astrology.

We have all heard that we are moving into the Age of Aquarius. This is true. OnDecember 21, 2012, the axis of the Earth will be on the edge of thisconstellation, and, for the first time in 12,920 years, it will also be movingtoward the center of the galaxy instead of away from it. For the next 2,160years, the axis of the Earth will be moving through the constellation ofAquarius. But there is so much more about this phenomenon that generally is notknown and will actually affect your life as you live and breathe and fulfillyour destiny.

Modern Astrology

Today the vast majority of the Earth's population doesn't really believe inastrology. It's looked on as something of an old wives' tale, primarilyidentified with the birthday of an individual and the star patterns at themoment of birth, but it has not always been this way.

Astrology has been adopted in human consciousness since the beginning ofcivilization to understand and predict various aspects of the future. But itsmain use was not for personal consideration. In ancient times, as with Babyloniaand Assyria, going back into Egypt 6,200 years ago, the interpretation of themovement and the patterns of the stars and planets was used to assist the publicwelfare and the person of the king, because his person was linked to thepublic's survival. It was not until the occupation of Egypt by Alexander theGreat in 332 B.C. that individual "horoscopic astrology" first appeared.

The Earth's closest star, the sun, is a major part of astrology. The sun alsoaffects our weather, places our satellites and our worldwide communicationsnetwork in jeopardy when there are solar flares, and even affects the Earth'smagnetic fields. Without the radiation from the sun, there would be no lifewhatsoever on this planet. Earth would simply be a rock floating through space.

The moon moves the Earth's oceans and creates the tides. It also deeplyinfluences our weather, affects biological mating and birthing patterns of life-formsall over the Earth, and even influences human emotions, as police blottersin any major city prove. There are more crimes the day before, the day of, andthe day after the full moon than at any other time. This crime rate is not justa coincidence. People become more emotional during the full moon andconsequently do things that they normally would not do without the influence ofthe moon.

So to say that the heavens have no effect on people or the Earth is ratherignorant and not scientifically true.

Since there are influences such as those just described, would there be aninfluence if the Earth herself were facing in a different direction relative tothe entire heavens? According to the ancient civilizations, yes; we change everytime the axis of the Earth rotates into a new position and a new constellation.In fact, according to ancient beliefs, everything on Earth changes.

The Serpent of Light

The Kundalini of the Earth changes locations on the surface of the Earth at twovery specific points on the POE. It is not the apogee, the farthest point fromthe center of the galaxy, nor the perigee, the closest point, that we areinterested in. Rather, it is the points when the direction of the axis of theEarth begins to point toward the center of the galaxy and when it begins topoint away from the center. On Dec 21, 2012, the axis begins pointing to thecenter of the galaxy, and the Kundalini of the Earth begins to change locationson the surface of the Earth.

Life is organic and is not always perfect and mathematical, since most of lifeis based upon the Fibonacci Series (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc.), which onlyapproximates the Golden Mean. In other words, Dec 21, 2012, is the mathematicaldate when this occurs, but in fact this shift of the Kundalini has alreadyhappened in 2002. But on an elliptical cycle of 25,920 years, ten years isalmost perfect and very organic. Still the actual major impact on humanconsciousness is only beginning and will not be reached until sometime in theimmediate future. What a great time to be alive!