Thursday, October 20, 2022

Animism and Lessons of Earth's Power - 3. A Broad Overview of Cosmology. Towards a Gnosis of Earth-Cosmos

by Sean Jobst

20 October 2022



From some of my local hikes in the southern foothills of
Appalachia. Getting "lost" in these woods but finding and
knowing myself in the process. Its an intimate connection
to the Source, an awakening to Animism which is Being.



   A defining delusion of our time is the collective lie that confuses authority with power; that Sovereignty allegedly comes from these authorities; and personal responsibility (living in balance with our innate Earth-given powers) is ceded to those holding the outer vestments of "authority": the State and its apparatchiks, selected "expert" micromanagers, and media echo-chambers. These are only appearances of "power" feeding off energy: "These are imitations of power and they are only ‘power’ because in our minds we allow it to be power."(1) Instead of thinking for themselves, most outsource their thinking to these authorities, whose minds become their minds; their illusions become the vision of those who cannot think (much less live coherently) for themselves. Tribal cultures around the world warned of inorganic beings who fed off the energy of human beings and infected their minds. Only their terms for these beings differed for a spiritual assault described as using the same methods. 

   Their ultraterrestrial energy works through human agents who love control over others - the psychopaths of the control matrix. These agents occult (make hidden) these spiritual realities to give them a mystique that only entrenches their authority. Such as in the abuse of language, with their "authority" being the archontic illusion that can only mimic and simulate reality but never manifest true reality. It can only offer a fake substitute for the real, implanting suggestibility in people to cede their own powers and responsibilities, which comes from repeating errors rather than correcting them. At odds with their illusion is the empowerment of Sovereignty, rooted from the Latin super "above, beyond, outside the boundaries of" + regum "rulership": To refuse to be a slave under any master.(2) Sovereignty manifests within the physical body and is transcendent above ourselves, as expansive as the galactic arms of the universe and yet grounded down to the most cellular level so that its truly our power: 

   "Power. It's very important that we understand who we are in relationship to power, because we have been tricked and lied to, almost in a way one would say, 'brainwashed', into looking at authority as power. It is very important that we make this distinction because we need to have something to pass to the next generations. Authority is not power. Authority is authority. All authority is usually based upon aggression or implied aggression or active aggression. Authority is authority. Power is something else. Power is what we come from. It is a part of the natural order of the universe -- power. Authority is something that man creates. Its limitation is that it was created by man. Power has no limitations."(3)

   As expressed by Gnostic visionary John Lamb Lash: "Authority is what you get when you don't rely on your own conscience. The Gods endowed us with their essential goodness but in order to act on our goodness, we have to act out of our own conscience. Every individual has a sovereign conscience that tells them what is true, what is not true, what is right or wrong to do. And when you do not act on that conscience, you go into a default mode and in that default mode, the authorities take over and they tell you how to act. What the word 'authorities' means in the metaphysical sense, is a voice that tells you how to act that is not the voice of your own conscience. The Archons also work through this illusionary power of the authorities. The authorities really have no power - the only power they have is when you surrender your power to them. The only real power is this sovereign power of individual conscience."(4)




   These powers are unseen and the most real, a birthright innate to our essence. We are beings birthed and grounded by our Mother Earth in addition to direct Ancestral lines connecting us to something deeper than our physical bodies. Yet we live in a narcissistic time (social media personas, instant gratification, virtue signaling, savior complexes masked as empathy, etc.) where most have forgotten, apparently sure of themselves but desperately masking their nihilism (lack of meaning and purpose) through various political and social trends.(5) Various neuroses and personality disorders stemming from an individual refusal to confront and integrate the Shadow (then manifested out on a collective level), seem to be explained away including the efforts to normalize psychopathy. People with legitimate mental health issues often the result of society's lack of meaning, purpose, initiation rites, or an empowering Mythology - and an obsession with labeling and medication to prop up Big Pharma. 

   We see promoted the unnatural delusion that one should always be "happy", so its only natural they confuse what truly leads one to be content and following our soul purpose. People hide under false selves to not align with their true selves, fed upon by these forces only too happy to distract them and harvest their energies. The incessant need for "control" which is ironically fed upon by the world's (micro-)managerial energy harvesters deliberately keeping people under mental stupor. "Inner motives spring from a deep source that is not made by consciousness and is not under its control. In the mythology of earlier times, these forces were called mana, or spirits, demons, and gods. They are as active today as ever. If they go against us, then we say that it is just bad luck, or that certain people are against us. The one thing we refuse to admit is that we are dependent upon 'powers' that are beyond our control."(6)

   Most dependent upon these false authorities are people who profess their individuality the most, for example priding themselves on "The Science" while blindly following "Experts" who replaced the scientific method with Dogma. Ultimately this is rooted in the difference made in my previous post between anthropocentrism and biocentrism. Anthropocentrism apparently places value upon humans as the alleged focus of all existence, but is really a narcissistic mind-virus imposing false authorities by projecting an illusionary sense of "power" onto human beings - its false transcendence over a nature separate from us and only leads to self-destruction on their behalf. Look at the various lies politicians tell to give people illusions of "freedom" or "greater good" while undermining their sovereignty and all goodness. "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."(7) Even the word "believe" contains a "lie" - its better to think and contemplate. 

   Biocentrism is true power of our creative role within the energetic interconnectedness of Earth-Cosmos. Its the liberating Gnosis that we are exceptional not "superior" due to our unique sacred gift of remarkable latitude to experience different outcomes based on our choices. Authentic transcendence is through Nature, from which we are inseparable. Within our world is an abundance of false individuality masking complexes and co-dependency (such as Statism in any of its ideological expressions), while true Individuation is suppressed and ridiculed. Central to the wholeness of Individuation is knowing we are connected to something above but also innate to ourselves, more timeless than the current cycle that has been a great clarity about how people relate to authoritarian appeals to conformity - the potential is within us depending on how clear and authentic our minds. Confusion and inauthenticity allows the archontic to thrive, but the power is ours to choose. Nor is it about errors that make us feel guilt and shame, but our divine capacity to correct and rise above those errors.

   Sovereignty supersedes the mastery of false beliefs, by asserting oneself as a true Heretic (from the Greek hairetikós "able to choose") which means not only thinking for ourselves but the power of discernment. This is more true now as when Nikola Tesla observed in 1934: "The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."(8) Two of our guiding principles should be: Do not confuse every thought as coming from us, especially when we are inundated with a barrage of "information" designed to program our minds; and We should embrace the recognition that not everything can be quantified, indeed that Earth and Cosmos are enriched with interactive Mysteries just waiting to be experienced.


A famous engraving by an unknown artist in an 1888 book
by the French astronomer Camille Flammarion. To me its a
perfect representation of our place within Earth-Cosmos.


The Creative Gnosis of Cosmology

    Gnosis is the Divine Knowing of what it means to be human. Cosmology is studying the Natural Order of the Cosmos, its role in our spiritual growth often neglected. Their relation through Animism is expressed in the universal themes of an Earth seen as sentient and alive, personified as a Mother Goddess (her energies often channeled down in the aspects of nature represented by other Goddesses), and a Father associated with the Sky and Time. We see this theme in such myths as the Greek Chronos and Gaia, or Quechua Pachamama and Pachatata. Even our modern words for the Divine stem from the Proto-Indo-European *Dyeus Pater "Sky Father". The same energies are present within Earth and Cosmos, including polarities allegorized as feminine or masculine (necessary for balance): convergence and divergence, creation and destruction, or contraction and expansion. 

    Everything is Energy, working through frequencies - cosmic energies spreading outward and causing differentiation. The Cosmos work through movements, with Ether "whirling" to cause matter to either form or disappear. Even particles come from energy fields around a central point. What we call mass, magnitude, and volume result from a divergent magnetic field. Space has no properties but only attributes; and time is but a measure of masses and magnitudes.(9) The Scientism cult only sees things in terms of atoms and cannot explain non-physical phenomena, such as the Ether or energy fields. Such phenomena as synchronicities challenge their perception of time as static and linear. Heretical physicists have proposed a "double causality" where our creative intentions cause effects in the future and become future causes of our present effects. The future is in transformation and influenced by our intentions. Our Consciousness generates our mind's impressions of space and time.(10) 

   The ancients recognized the creative role in "time", personified as feminine beings of time such as the Germanic Nornir who "weave" the threads of a Fate that is in constant flux and not fixed. What is being woven is the active intelligence that manifests life. There is a shamanic awareness with cosmic "threads" or "cords" that allows one to ascend and descend across different realms and channels communication and the vital force, as it is with the Hawaiian akka thread or Tibetan dmu cord. To the Dakota, one's nagi (soul) is connected to Sky world through the cekpa "navel/umbilical cord". Rather than being a "creation" of the world, tribal Myths described creation of every individual via deep awareness of reproductive cycles and our interconnectedness with Earth-Cosmos. A symbolic representation of this is the World Tree, a common theme across cultures that will be discussed later.

   These emergence Myths encode much about how its about a constant movement. The future is but a projection of your present thoughts into the present. Emotion is energy in motion, which is why emotions such as fear are so vital to the energy harvesters. Natural Law works in time and historical epochs through polarities of ascension and descension; cultures by rise and decline. Even the "now" is already over the very moment its verbalized or even thought, underscoring our unmanifested potential every moment. Memories are the movement of past moments activated through the present act of remembrance, which is why it was stressed within the initiatory ordeals of Wodan. (I use our original continental name for Him, going back to the roots of wode, the life-force energetic breath). Science is only recently catching up to the truths known for countless thousands of years, that Memory is contained within the universe, the Earth, even within the smallest molecules of water. Everything in the cosmos is also within the human body, including memory, information, and energies.




   Our measurement of time being cyclical, there are certain requirements as we move through different epochs. As noted by comparative cosmologist Laird Scranton, a change in our ability to perceive the non-material accompanying a physical change in materiality. He cites the Vedic metaphysics of Sankhya: Universes form in pairs, with a cycle of energy between them making one more material than the other. It describes seven pairs of parallel universes, with ours being the fourth. Scranton cites the teachings of the Dogon tribe of Mali, most known for their incredible awareness of Sirius B long before science "discovered" it. The Dogon express life as a movement of energy between parallel material and non-material realms. Its seen as a fluctuating cycle, dipole centers of positive and negative energies that converge or diverge. This dynamic between material and non-material manifests as unity to multiplicity.(11) As a polytheist and animist, its easy for me to recognize the harmony between one sentient Earth abounding with a multiplicity of energies and divinities.  

   If the Cosmos is about energies and frequencies, its only natural those would "mirror" back to us, appearing parallel to our own world. These realms mirroring ours is the divergence polarity to the convergence that brought about our cosmos. The stars and all beings are the cells of a sentient, evolving cosmos, their mitosis through planets sustained by the Sun's magnetic field. Even the same fractal patterns can be observed throughout the cosmos, nature, and within the human body. Identical symbols appear worldwide from the most ancient cave art down to being allegorized in mythology and enacted through ritual, manifesting the timeless principle: As Above, So Below. As Within, So WithoutAncient seers and sages were also the astrologers and astronomers of their tribes, for knowing how to live in balance with Earth and Her interactive powers of magic is awareness of the Cosmos. They understood that stars and constellations have direct effects upon our lives.

   Myths expressed how events in the heavenly realm are reflected in this worldly realm, as in the battlefield dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna in the Bhagavad-Gita, how Ragnarök (Twilight of the Gods) in the Norse Eddas can be related to events in this worldly realm of Midgard, or battles between the three groups of supernatural beings in Gaelic mythology describing the historical cycles of Ireland. All these Myths have multiple layers of meaning, related to the Cosmos above, the Earth enveloping, or Consciousness within. Irish myths for example can also be related to our psyche: The Otherworld could relate to the Subconscious, and the Tuatha De Danaan "tribe of gods" part of the individual's tribal DNA.(12) Worldwide was the recognition of guardian spirits that exist parallel to your own life, such as the Fylgja or Fetch. The Dakota spoke of the wanagi "other soul" in the sky world, parallel to our own soul in this world. The physical body being spiritual energy transformed into matter, we have a life-soul animated by a parallel non-material free-soul that undergoes different incarnations in a cosmic cycle while our bodies are returned back to the Earth.



Just some sights from my pilgrimage to the
magical Quinta da Regaleira, Sintra, Portugal,
30 June 2017. An amazing place of Gnosis and 
Self-Initiation by reflecting on the Aesthetic.


Singularity, Panspermia, and the Three Worlds

   These cosmic energies worked through singularity, "a purepoint of spiritual energy" that can also be called Spirit or Consciousness as noted by Gregory Little. Energies "churning" within themselves created two opposite forces, the shamanic Upper and Lower Worlds. The Zuni of New Mexico referred to the "container of all" which thought outward, a close similarity with the Vedic teaching of the cosmos arising out of vibrations, or the Hermetic principle of  Mentalism ("The All is Mind; the Universe is Mental"). This notion of three shamanic worlds was expressed by different cultures, which further divided them into other realms. The Upper World represents the energy of creation and order; the Lower World the energy of chaos and entropy - everything degrades back into its most primordial state. Our realm is the Middle World, created to balance these two Worlds that interplay with our 3D world. All energies are spirit, including rocks (solidified spirit), water (flowing spirit), fire (spiritual energy released), and crystals (purified spirit).(13) More on the Middle World later in this article. 

   Singularity has a deeper esoteric meaning than the one given to it by physicists obsess with quantifying. In the Nag Hammadi Gnostic texts as recounted by John Lamb Lash, the Greek word Monogenes is used meaning "singularity" or "single-generating", referring to our human potential with the exceptional latitude for both error and innovation.(14) Singularity has nothing to do with its hijacking by Transhumanists like Ray Kurzweil, presuming a merger of human intelligence with AI, or any anthropocentric delusions of an ascending spiral of evolution. Rather, monogenes is our unique human contribution (Biocentrism) to the self-organizing ecosystem: "A system that has emerged from the reciprocal evolution of organisms and their environment over the eons of life on Earth."(15) 

   Panspermia is a theory first proposed by Swedish physicist and chemist Svante Arrhenius and embraced by English biologist Francis Crick, a co-discoverer of the helix structure of DNA. Through panspermia, the seeds of organic life floated through the universe until arriving on Earth, a favorable environment from which they could sprout. In the Gaia Hypothesis of Lynn Margulis and James Lovelock, these seeds interacted with inorganic surroundings upon Earth to form a synergistic, self-regulating system that maintains and perpetuates the conditions for life. This interplay of elements (spiritual energies) form the basis behind various origin Myths, for example, the Celtic Mother Goddess Danu "falling" from the sky and interacting with the oak Bilé ("sacred tree"): Could her fall relate to that of the Fallen Goddess and the oak's acorns recalling "seeds" that spawned our species? According to Margulis, these spores were driven by solar winds, a description reminding me of what the Incans call Inti Muju (solar seeds of Consciousness). She observes that even if life originated here on our planet, "Earth itself is suspended in space, so any way you look at it, life came from space."(16)



Symbols such as the Andean chakana or the
Norse aegishjalmur (Helm of Awe) have 
multiple layers of meaning, generally the
interconnectedness of energies, directions,
elements, and the Earth-Cosmos-Psyche



   Panspermia explains the complementary Myths that we are both star beings and birthed from Earth. The seeding of life from the cosmos forms the point right before the process then picked up by origin Myths. There is deep wisdom in the Greek term autochthones  ("self/people sprung from the soil"). Using its Latin translation indigenas  (source of the word indigenous), Tacitus recounted the "antiquis" (ancientGermanic origin myth of "a god born of the Earth, Tuisto."(17) Being offspring of the Sky Father Tiwaz and the Earth Mother, Tuisto stemmed from the Proto-Indo-European "twin founders" motif. In his later expression in the Eddas, the body of primeval giant (chthonic being) Ymir ("screamer", primordial vibrations?) underwent entropy because this spiritual energy had to materialize into the body of Earth to be perceived and experienced. Could this be a latent memory of the Goddess morphed into the Earth after Her plunge from the Galactic Center?

   Just as "our bones, flesh and blood are made up of the metals, liquids and minerals of the earth," as stated by John Trudell, so too is it a fact that we are made from the same elements and minerals as the stars. This was known by ancient cultures long before modern scientists proposed that we are "stardust." Accepting there were many migrations across history, for the most part life was seeded into physical existence through this interplay of the Cosmos and Earth, so peoples have this primal connection to their various biospheres. Our connection is lived through what the Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis termed Ethnosphere, "the sum total of all thoughts, dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness"...."The myriad cultures of the world make up a web of spiritual life and cultural life that envelopes the planet and is as important to the well being of the planet as the biosphere."(18)

   Biospheres nurture our common experience as the same species across Earth. We experience Her energies through Natural phenomena, expressed through universal and eternal symbols and myth-themes that are primal and transcendent across cultures. Ethnospheres give us an intimate connection via our unbroken chain of ancestors. Our physical bodies are the vehicles for our spirit to experience, shaped by the elements from which our earliest ancestors arose. We live the unique ways of Ethnosphere through inherited symbols, myths, and customs.(19) A better appreciation of one's own Ethnosphere means a mutual respect for that of others, including willingness to learn from others while appreciating what makes them unique. The relation of Mother Earth to the Cosmos is expressed through a masculine, non-material cosmic force personified in a "shining" Sky Father. Expressing this theme in Celtic terms, we can refer to the balance between Danu and Bel, the "Shining One" also known as Belenus or Belenos. We experience His energies through cosmic phenomena interacting with our Earth.



My hike upon the Birkenkopf, Stuttgart, 9 July 2016. It was
a very spiritual place, awakening something within me as I
meditated over the forests and valleys an hour-and-a-half to
the east that were home to most of my paternal ancestors.




Earth-Sun-Moon: Three-Bodied Planetary Ecosystem

   Mother Earth nurtures all beings on our planet with Her energies and holds our space within the universe so we may experience ourselves physically. She is our dimension, her movements linked to those of the Cosmos. One of the biggest delusions of scientism is to dismiss Her as "just" one planet among other planets. Her unique sentience was embraced by the esoteric Mysteries, with their teachings about the trimorphic protennoia "three-bodied original intention" of the Earth Goddess meaning she forms a closed, integrated, symbiotic ecosystem with a satellite (the Moon) and a central star (the Sun). "We on Earth inhabit a three-body cosmos. Sophia is essentially the matriarch of a single-parent family - a single-planet goddess, if you will. But she relies on the support of the surrogate bodies, sun and moon, to manage her terrestrial brood."(20) As John Lamb Lash expresses it, the protennoia was the right cosmic setting for our species to emerge and demonstrate our singularity.

   Our three-bodied ecosystem was expressed in lunisolar calendars reckoning time from a harmony of Sun and Moon cycles, synchronized with Nature. Solar cults were as widespread as Mother Earth veneration, as the Sun's rays provided the light and warmth necessary for life to thrive. Germanic etymology links the Sun to "Soul" and Moon to "mind" and "memory", as these are two different aspects of one ecosystem together with Earth - all three bodies give us Consciousness down to the darkest parts of our psyche. These celestial bodies form a feedback loop, with the Mind (Moon) reflecting the light of the Soul (Sun) upon the Earth; our soul has this connection with the Nous or Divine Mind (known as Citta in the Vedic tradition). Mind is not only the intellect but is also the Gaian/Sophianic energy of care and intuition, the sacred feminine heart-based intelligence joined with the sacred masculine critical-based intelligence, united into the right action that would radiate our true Soul purpose. 

   Whether the official view of the Moon born from a collision between Earth and another planet, or the "capture" theory of the Moon being captured within the Earth's gravitational force, there is much to back up the remarkable anomalies of our Moon. Its larger than the moons of other planets, underscoring our unique the trimorphic ecosystem. So is it larger when rising on the horizon, while the Sun remains consistent whether it rises or sets. The light reflected by the full moon cause certain flowers to bloom, animals to migrate, and affects human behavior in weird ways. Like Earth's two poles (North and South), the two Moon nodes (Rahu and Ketu in Vedic astrology) create two areas of electromagnetic energies opposite each other. Like Earth, the Moon has a liquid iron-core and tectonic plates. Its gravitational pull causes ocean tides to rise and fall. Menstrual cycles align with lunar cycles (despite recent unnatural disruptions), honoring women with a self-cleansing ability like Mother Earth's. 

   Their unnatural schemes include a geoengineering(21) desperate to destroy Earth's life-force energies and vibrations and replace them with their own archontic simulations, motivated by their envy and hatred of Earth and Humanity. Massive electrification is an effort to blot out and replace the natural auras of Earth by creating a false one of their own. Despite their best efforts, these are ultimately destined to fail since their motives are profane and against Natural Law, succeeding in the present only by the compliance of most people. This should make us even more responsible to expose them and work against their efforts. They were preceded by other centralizing  social-engineering efforts, such as unbalanced Solar cults (i.e. Akhenaten, Sol Invictus, and Aztec temple sacrifices), or erroneous identification some occultists make between the Moon and an "Eighth Sphere" (not to deny there is validity to an Eighth Sphere in principle). Nor should the importance of the Sun be denied: We should expose insane schemes to "block out" the Sun backed by certain technocratic oligarchs and Globalist agencies, using global warming as an excuse but actually about their "Smart Cities" Reset of 2030.(22) 



The true frequencies of Earth form a natural resonance, not to be
confused with their false geoengineering/electrification efforts.
The matter always goes back to Energy and Vibrations.



   The problem is when the lunar or solar are unbalanced and not synchronized with Animism. Its not about only the visible bodies but their spiritual energies, with a link between water as flowing spirit and fire or sunlight as the release of spirit. Mesoamerican cosmology holds that the Soul comes from the skies, engendered by the Sun and entering the fetus head born within the waters. The Celts spoke of the Soul residing in the head; the face provides individuation in psychological terms. Waters are symbolic of the Subconscious and were seen as "portals" to the Otherworld. Scientists admit that water holds memories, bringing what was unconscious back to Consciousness. The Mayan Popol Vuh mentions a time when the sky was in suspense and the Earth submerged in water, until "the waters were agitated by the will of Hurakan (the Heart of Heaven)." This refers to our (human) conscious emergence out of spiritual energies. 

   We can find deep wisdom within the Mayan creation myth. As noted by the late Guatemalan Mayan elder and spiritual guide Carlos Barrios, Sky and Earth arose out of an Infinite Void, "the matrix from which every Universe arose."(23) This Infinite Void appears similar to the Norse and Germanic Ginnungagap, with interaction between the fire and water/ice elements.(24) Our physical realm was manifested by two deities named Heart of Earth and Heart of Sky, the "Great Father" whose name contains the Mayan word Hu for both "heart" and "one".(25) Barrios mentioned how the Heart of Sky is related to the Sun but not the hidden Sun which is "the Heart of Hearts, the Sun of Suns, the center and generator of the universe."(26) The concept of a primordial void or abyss represents pure unmanifested potential, the true meaning of "nothingness". Out of this Galactic Center, the ceiba World Tree that serves as a conduit between the three worlds and represents the Milky Way, four directions emanated, each defining one's purpose and destiny in life.

   Just as the Galactic Center emanates the outward arms of the Cosmos and the World Tree represents the central interconnectedness of Earth with other worlds, our Heart is the central organ without which our physical body could not experience life, the joining of spirit with matter so consciousness can experience itself. Barrios expressed the Mayan view that the heart is one of the four aspects of the human alongside spirit, mind, and body: "Find your heart, and you will find your way." There has been too much disassociation between the body and spirit, heart and mind, that need to find alignment again. Simplicity is the key, not elaborate rituals and distracting thoughts planted in our minds to perpetuate our disconnect. As noted by anthropologist Enna Reittort, many Asian languages have a unified "heart-mind": Citta means "mind" in Sanskrit but also "heart" in Bengali. In Chinese, xin refers to both the physical heart but also "mind" and "will". The Japanese have kokoro, a concept joining together the heart, mind, spirit, and soul in harmony. 

   The point of all these wisdom teachings is not to delineate ourselves into different parts, but to achieve inner unity within outer multiplicity. Much like the Sun, its the Heart that warms our intelligence and mind. Like the Moon that reflects sunlight, the Heart can reflect our spiritual energies to cultivate true alignment with the "fire" within and without us. The benefits of sunlight are well-known (despite efforts by the medical tyranny to exaggerate or outright invent the harms) and long known as an important source of prana "life-force" energy. It was affirmed worldwide in various mythological motifs of an outstretched figure planted within the underworld, enveloped by our Mother Earth, and serving as a conduit for the energies of the upper world. Various energies from the Earth and Sun are sources for the life-power known to Norse and Germanic peoples as Megin or Magina. All these esoteric teachings were encoded from the earliest prehistoric finds up to Leonardo da Vinci's Vetruvian Man during the Renaissance, and throughout various indigenous spiritual practices.



The sacred Irminsul, continental Germanic form of
the World Tree that represents interconnectedness
of all life (Animism) and conduit of energies and
communication between the seven worlds. (It was
nine worlds for the Norse, connected by Yggdrasil).



Middle Earth, World Tree, and Polar Symbolisms

   The world we can sense, perceive, and know is in the sacred middle, inseparable from the upper and lower worlds. These spiritual energies and symbolisms are so real they cannot be reduced to a "physical" place.(27) The middle world with an "enclosed garden" is a primal awareness evolved from our earliest Stone Age ancestors.(28) For the Celts, Mediolanum  "sanctuary, sacred enclosure, center", deriving from Proto Celtic *medyos "middle" + lanom  "plain, field", is "a Middle Earth whose sacred sites correspond to places in the upper and lower worlds."(29) The Germanic terms for middle world, such as Norse midgard, Old High German mittilgart, or Old English middangeard, literally mean "middle enclosure". Germanic animism is expressed in the name for the various worlds, -heim "home". Even the word environment contains environs that connect and envelop us within Middle Earth. Its not so much the physical world as the deeper metaphysical and spiritual existence on all levels that our spirit experiences through the material.

   The Celts taught that the soul can transcend the body, with the Druids formulating a Five Fold system corresponding each part of an individual with an element, direction, and Moon phase. The Spirit/Soul is "at the Center of the Four Elements, joining them all and creating a balanced, and unified empowerment." Linked to the element of Air, Spirit/Soul is inseparable from Animism, which is also why it corresponds to the Overworld enveloping all other realms through the sacred center. Symbolic of the perpetual flame "that transforms and interconnects the Three Realms of Water, Earth, and Fire": "Through the Fire we honor the Sky, the Otherworld, and the Solar Deities, carrying our offerings upwards. This concept of unity let us understand that the spirit is present in all, as part of the oneness of body, spirit, and mind. The passage of the Otherworld is within us. This is the highest expression of the Druidic Ritual World, the interconnection of the clan, the self, and the cosmos."(30)

   At the Sacred Center connecting all realms, beings, and energies is the World Tree. This is the "great pillar" or universal column known to ancient Germans as the Irminsul and Norse as Yggdrasil. Its the axis mundi that channels the Earth's energy lines and their resonance with movements of the Cosmos, like a spoke rotating a wheel. This movement is symbolic in the dual meaning of Yggdrasil being also the stead of Óðinn who "slips" across worlds. Its branches expand outward across the skies while its three roots (or "wells" within the lore) seep into the underworld, to represent the cyclical journey of the Soul from waters of the Mother's womb (both human and Earth), up through the "afterlife" journey into the stars, and back into the Underworld realm of our Ancestors. The World Tree balances masculine and feminine energies, being both a phallic symbol and representing female reproduction, including the umbilical cord that is symbolic of our connection with the sky world. The World Tree symbolizes the Cosmic Order around which everything is structured and naturally flows.

   For Celtic and Germanic peoples, the World Tree was connected with through sacred groves centered around a large tree, such as the nemetons. Of course, they knew these trees weren't the literal World Tree but representations so much as all is imbued with the Spirit and Consciousness since we are Animists. Its no coincidence the Abrahamic god possessed a strange fanatical hatred of trees (despite calling himself "creator"), from his jealousy against the tree poles of Asherah (see Deuteronomy 12: 3–4, 2 Kings 23:14–15) the Semitic Mother Goddess(31), up to their destruction of our sacred groves across Europe (and what followed elsewhere due to the Victim-Perpetrator Bond). It was a desperate attempt to sever our innate connection to a sacred, vibrant Earth and disrupt the Cosmic Order - I'll discuss this in a future article on Irminsul. 



There are many efforts to correlate Vedic chakra systems to the
World Tree and aspects of native European spirituality. Source
for the image is the excellent "Norse Magic and Beliefs" channel.



   Trees are highly symbolic of the interplay of elements, whether it be fire sparked by lightning striking its bark and branches, the air it breathes to us and we exchange with it through our carbon, and indeed the ether permeating Earth-Cosmos. Norse lore refers to Óðinn breathing into wood, creating his "brothers" Villi and Ve, who then blew Consciousness into human beings. This was not a literal "creation" of human beings but an allegory for the Spirit/Soul (Óðinn) that "creates" the conscious Will/Desire/Mind (Vili) and Heart/Passion (Ve). The interplay of the air, water, and fire elements, which also exists within Celtic cosmology. Its no accident the Irish sacred letters known as Ogham, each relates to a tree and is pronounced like the "Om" sound that represents the essence of Atman/Consciousness in the Vedas. For the same principle we look at how the Germanic Runes were "discovered" through Wodan's initiation upon the World Tree - its about the "writing" (manifested reality) coming out of the primordial vibrations of the Cosmos. 

   Relating the principle "As Above, So Below", we can perceive the Milky Way as a central "column" or "pillar", its expanse symbolized by "two arms" much as the Galactic Center emanates its "arms" outward. This could be another reason for the motif of a figure with outstretched arms to conduct and exchange energies. The Irminsul could also be seen on a cosmic level as the unmoving center around which bodies of the galaxy "swirled", an expansive generative force towards multiplicity. Irmingweg happens to be a German name for the "Milky Way" cited in some historical sources. As noted by the Austrian Germanist Rudolf Simek, the realms of Middle Earth and that of the Gods were joined through a Way (uueg), "the swaying road to heaven."(32) Much as the World Tree is the axis upon which Earth and Cosmic energies flow and channel, so too our bodies have Kundalini energies, related to the German Wirbelsäule "whirl column". The same esoteric principle is imbued in the Triskele, the ancient Celtic triple spirals which can be related to harmony of mind, body, and spirit.

   Energy and elements is present in Celtic mythology of a primordial Cauldron, whose three elements correlate to three wells and Nornir at the World Tree's trunk within Germanic mythology. A shamanic allegory preserved by the Druids can be seen in a mysterious Irish poem discovered in the medieval era, that also relates "three cauldrons" to energy points within the human body: "Where is the root of poetry in a person - in the body or in this soul? Some say it is in the soul, for the body does nothing without the soul. Some say it is in the body, where the arts are learned, passed through the bodies of our ancestors ['to father from grandfather' in the literal Irish]. It is said that this is the truth remaining over the root of poetry and wisdom in every person's ancestry does not come from the Northern Sky into every one, but into every other person."(33)

   The "Northern Sky" refers to the Pole Star, the point around which everything rotates. A symbolic North which is the realm of the Gods, the center of wisdom, and place where the Soul journeys into the body through the ancestral cycle. Mother Earth's ambient frequencies known as the Schumann resonance, "rotate" while pointed towards this star. This Pole or the "trunk" of the World Tree, is the point where the fiery Muspelheim (unmanifested pure energy) meets the icy/watery Niflheim (the material, structural energy) - emanation from the center coming back into itself. Mythological symbols and figures now viewed as Solar were often initially Polar, the former relating more towards the external and the latter to the internal.(34) As I've expressed through this article, our Earth is a vibrant, sentient place enchanted with Sacred Mysteries. She forms part of a three-bodied ecosystem so we can arrive at an animistic Gnosis  of Cosmology: Knowing ourselves and our powers/energies related to Earth and Cosmos.


"Spirit of the Elements" by Josephine Wall



Footnotes and Sources:

(1) John Trudell, from his "We are Power" speech on Thanksgiving 1980: <https://airwalker.tumblr.com/post/69013049722/john-trudells-1980-thanksgiving-day-address>. These are the masks or persona of authority, as I discussed in an article last November: <https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/11/addendum-20-on-death-pathology-neuro.html>.

(2) For more on these core foundations, see Mark Passio's presentations on Sovereignty and Natural Law. For more on the archons, see the work of John Lamb Lash. For how these relate to the warnings of tribal peoples about psychopathic viruses, I recommend the work of Paul Levy on wetiko, the Algonquin term for this virus that eats away at spirit and mind.

(3) From John Trudell's speech at Berkeley, 26 April 1997: <http://sisis.nativeweb.org/sov/trudbari.html>. His work long resonated with me for my past activism, but only after awakening to my own native European spirituality four years ago have I found a deeper appreciation of what this great Santee poet and thinker was expressing. For more on how I came to realize my pro-Indigenous activism was foremost an internal process of my unconscious ancestral awakening (beyond just the external justice and human decency motives), see my article: "Reflections of a Wašíču on the Pine Ridge Rez," <https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/05/reflections-of-wasicu-on-pine-ridge-rez.html>.

(4) From his talk "Direct Access to The Divine," recorded on 16 Dec. 2011, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ-4S8FV82w>. The great Pagan philosophers ("lovers of wisdom") stressed the essential Goodness of the Deities while the concept of "perfection" was entirely alien to them, thus avoiding the endless debates over "evil" that obsess Abrahamic theologians and their atheist detractors alike. 

(5) Another perfect example is the scheme to erase student debt: The State "forgives" those loans by passing the burden of paying to others whose resources and wealth they steal. Over 60% of student debt here in America is incurred by the wealthiest and upper-middle classes - contrary to either the State's or their "Progressive" supporters' propaganda. Those who bought into the lie of degrees that are now mostly centered around one's Social Credit and compliance to the State, a racket that churns out minds infected with Marxist doctrines and entrenches the Bankers' Debt machine. Narcissism works hand in glove with irresponsibility. 

(6) Carl Jung, "Approaching the Unconscious," in Man and His Symbols, Dell Publishing, 1968, p. 71.

(7) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Wahlverwandtschaften (Elective Affinities), 1809; München: dtv Verlag, 1982, Book II, Chapter 5, p. 397.

(8) "Radio Power will Revolutionize the World, by Nikola Tesla as told to Alfred Albelli," Modern Mechanix and Inventions, Vol. XII, No. 3, July, 1934. Available online: <https://teslaresearch.jimdofree.com/articles-interviews/radio-power-will-revolutionize-the-world-modern-mechanics-july-1934/>.

(9) For these scientific observations, I am indebted to the work of Ken Wheeler (Theoria Apophasis), who challenges the presumptions of atomist-materialistic Scientism with a profound knowledge of ancient Vedic and Greek metaphysics.

(10) See the recent talks of French astronomer and paranormal researcher Jacques Vallée, who cites the work of physicist Dr. Philippe Guillemant, La route de temps (The Road of Time, 2018). Vallée broke through the extraterrestrial dogma of ufology with his pioneering research about the ultraterrestrial beings and phenomena long described by tribal cultures worldwide.

(11) See his Higherside Chat interview "Comparative Cosmology, Gobekli Tepe, & The Spirit World," <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K3TGcf6md0>.

(12) Thomas Sheridan and Neil McDonald, Atlantis: An Empire Lost and Found, Megalithic Publishing, 2022, pp. 96-97. For more elaboration on this theme, see Sheridan's book The Druid Code: Magic, Megaliths and Mythology, Street Druid, 2017.

(13) Gregory L. Little and Andrew Collins, Origins of the Gods: Qesem Cave, Skinwalkers, and Contact with Transdimensional Intelligences, Rochester, VT: Bear & Company, 2022.

(14) John Lamb Lash, Not In His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief, 15th Anniversary Edition, White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2021, pp. 398, 404.

(15) ibid., p. 326, citing James Lovelock, Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine, Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 11.

(16) Lynn Margulis and Dorian Saga, What is Life?, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995, pp. 59-60.

(17) Tacitus, Germania, Chapter 2: "deum terra editum". 

(18) Wade Davis, "Dreams from Endangered Cultures," <https://home.csulb.edu/~acargile/resources/WadeDaves.pdf>.

(19) From a Heathen view, Arfr forms "a set of universal and eternal ideas that are common to all spiritual traditions and are accessible through initiation into them." Arfr is "the higher philosophy and universal principles" behind Siðr/Sidu/Situ/*Siduz: Germanic words denoting "custom" and used synonymously with the "Old Ways" before our tribes were converted to the Abrahamic mind-virus. What survived through folk-customs and can be traced to our ancient practices, has been crucial in my Pagan path honoring the three aspects of my heritage. For more on the Arfr/Siðr distinction and how it relates to Tradition, see: Matthew Hern, "The Marriage of Heathenry and Chaos Magic: A Dagazian Paradox that Gave Birth to a Bastard Child," in Elhaz Ablaze: A Compendium of Chaos Heathenry, Elhaz Press, 2018, p. 37. 

(20) Lamb Lash, op. cit., p. 184. 

(21) For more research on the evidence behind and harm caused by geoengineering and the electrification of Earth, I highly recommend the work of Elana Freeland. 

(22) Jeff Tollefson, "First sun-dimming experiment will test a way to cool Earth," Nature, Nov. 27, 2018; Trevor Nace, "Harvard Scientists Begin Experiment To Block Out The Sun," Forbes, Dec. 5, 2018; Jason Murdock, "Fact Check: Is Bill Gates Trying to Block the Sun?," Newsweek, March 2, 2021; David Vetter, "Solar Geoengineering: Why Bill Gates Wants It, But These Experts Want To Stop It," Forbes, Jan. 20, 2022. There is a 1991 patent for "stratospheric aerosol injection", openly discussed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 

(23) Carlos Barrios, The Book of Destiny: Unlocking the Secrets of the Ancient Mayans and the Prophecy of 2012, trans. Lisa Carter. New York: HarperOne, 2009, p. 47. The word matrix actually means "womb", surviving in words like the Spanish la matriz. Its not the inverted simulation or "prison planet" it has been manipulated to denote in modern English.

(24) "In the myths of these forest people, in particular the Germanic and Celtic tribes, the world was created out of the interplay between fire and water or, for the northern Germanic people, between fire and ice. These oppositional forces make up the totality of the world. Thereby, water symbolizes the beginning and fire the end: we are born from the watery uterus, and the funeral pyre releases us again from earthly existence." Wolf-Dieter Storl, The Untold History of Healing: Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic From the Stone Age to Present, Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2017, p. 36.

(25) Hu is a primal vibration from the breath. I recall it from my past experience as a Sufi, among whom its an important dhikr "remembrance", uttered out-loud as it was in my tariqa, or silently uttered with the heart among other tariqat. Among Sufis, Hu refers to the essence or "oneness" of their god whose "spirit" or "breath" is often invoked. As one who left the Abrahamic paradigm in all of its iterations, I can now infer it was a primal sound carried over from the shamanic traditions conquered and absorbed by mystical Islam. There is value to breath-work in spiritual practice - just taking the natural magic (energy/vibrations) and not inverting it with the mind-virus, taking it back to one's indigenous forms.

(26) Barrios, op. cit., p. 52.

(27) See the article by Norwegian scholar Eldar Heide, "Contradictory cosmology in Old Norse myth and religion - but still a system?", in Maal og Minne: Norske Studier (Oslo), Vol. 106, 2014, pp. 102-143.

(28) Storl, op. cit., pp. 102-103.

(29) Graham Robb, The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe, London: Picador, 2014, p. xvi.

(30) Eliseo Mauas Pinto, The Celtic Otherworld, CreateSpace, 2015, pp. 8-10.

(31) The meanings of Asherah's epithets, such as Akkadian rabitu "lady", Ugaritic Atirat "lady of the sea", qnyt 'ilm "creatrix of the deities", and "mother of all living", all relate to their local Levantine forms of Mother Earth, whom combined within Herself aspects of various feminine energies through which cultures worldwide related such as Dawn and Sea Goddesses. So there was this envy and jealousy that Yaldabaoth who proclaimed his "Kingdom" off-planet but wanted it "on Earth as it is on Heaven", possessed against the Goddess who morphed into the Earth. He wanted to break the innate connection all Ethnikos had with Her.

(32) Rudolf Simek, Dictionary of Northern Mythology, trans. Angela Hall, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1993, pp. 36-37.  

(33) The Cauldron of Poesy. For a deeper analysis of The Cauldron, see two articles: <http://obsidianmagazine.com/Pages/cauldronpoesy.html> and <https://www.urban-druid.com/2019/04/19/the-cauldron-of-poesy/>.

(34) See the work of esoteric teacher Mario Garza, who cites the work of John O'Neill, The Night of the Gods: An Inquiry into Cosmic and Cosmogonic Mythology and Symbolism  (London: 2 volumes, 1893/1897); and an interesting Finnish text called the Bock Saga that contains many ancient esoteric teachings despite being "modern".