So what is an Initiation? I like to say it's how the soul goes to earth school, through grade upon grade of direct experience. Each initiation we take is an expansion of consciousness — a means of opening the mind and heart to that which already is in reality, but now seen through a wider lens. No one passes through an initiatory crisis without something of wide usefulness and trained intelligent activity being an actual manifested result. Initiation is the process wherein the spiritual being within your personality becomes aware of itself as the Soul, and you'll realize you have soul powers, soul relationships, and soul purpose. Initiation is but an expanding series of inclusive recognitions of that which already IS. Our ego brain thinks through cognition. Our soul "thinks" through re-cognition; it re-members.

Taking a metaphysical Initiation is always a crisis, because it requires a series of progressive renunciations. Sacrifice is seen and felt by the personality as giving up parts of its ego gratification… Initiation happens through the process of Revelation that Divinity is slowly dawning upon our human consciousness. All initiations prove themselves to be an aspect of "the one Great Revelation." All come from the Will-to-Good or the love nature of Deity. Relentlessly letting go of the lesser for the greater, the Way of Initiation is the Path of Liberation that eventually guides us Home. (Jacquelyn Small) - www.eupsychia.com/myst/articles/initiation.html

…any time of crisis is also a time of opportunity. When powerful forces constellate, they carry the potential for transformation as well as destruction. What is true of our individual journey is also true for the world. The tremendous clash of opposites, of light and dark - that is threatening such destruction and seemingly polarizing the world - belongs to the birth pains of a global transformation. But in order for this transformation to be successful it needs our attention. It needs the participation of those committed to service, whose consciousness can be aligned to something greater than their personal well-being... We are the guardians of the planet. Working together with the power and love of the divine, we can help turn this moment of crisis into a time of global awakening. (Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee) - www.caduceus.info

…we give you this warning and we also give you a promise. For those of you who can "hear," know that the ticket is love in your heart. By love, we do not mean the mushy, romanticized stuff of your movies and novels. By love, we mean the absence of fear, trust in the Creator, and a willingness to put one's life on the line for the truth. In a very short time from now, those traits are going to be the only ones that gets one the "ticket to ride." A great wave of change is building now that will soon sweep the petty affairs of humans away, a great wave of purification and the cleansing of everything that is not in alignment with the destiny of this planet. (The Hosts of Heaven through Lyara) - www.operationterra.com

Times such as these, when the opposites are totally polarized, are apocalyptic, end-times. We are living in a time in which a deeper process that has been unfolding since the birth of human history is emerging and becoming visible. The word apocalypse means something hidden being revealed. What is being revealed is the dark or the hidden God, the shadow side of God, so to speak. Interestingly, the inner meaning of the word Satan is "shadow of the Lord." It is as if the evil that was operating underground and hiding in the shadows is revealing itself and has become visible for all who have eyes to see. To quote Jung, "God asserts his power through the revelation of his darkness and destructiveness. Man is merely instrumental in carrying out the divine plan."

We have all gotten drafted into playing roles in a deeper, mythic, archetypal drama, what Jung would call a "divine drama of incarnation." This deeper archetypal process has endlessly re-created itself all throughout history. If Bush and Cheney weren't around, for example, there would have been others to get dreamed up to pick up these roles, as these are archetypal roles that exist deep inside the psyche of every one of us. Our country is unconsciously playing out a deeper, archetypal pattern that has previously resulted in the self-destruction of many powerful civilizations throughout history. Becoming conscious of the deeper archetypal process that is collectively playing itself out through us unconsciously, however, is the very act that effects its transformation, and enables us to collaboratively channel this energy constructively.

The daemonic is a transpersonal energy that is supraordinate to us, which means it is a power that is mightier than us and can thereby overpower us. The daemonic can possess an individual or a group, thereby giving shape and form to itself as it acts itself out through those who unwittingly fall asleep and become its agents. To quote Jung "the daemonic is that moment when an unconscious content of seemingly overwhelming power appears on the threshold of consciousness. It can cross this threshold and seize hold of the personality [of the individual or group]. Then it is possession." As Jung points out, when a daemonic energy is ready to be integrated, it always appears physically, "since it forces the subject into its own form," or we could say gets dreamed up into materialization. What this means is that the full-bodied playing out of archetypal evil such as we have on the world stage right now is initiatory and is itself an expression that something is being shown to us and is available for assimilation. Encoded, in hidden symbolic form, in the revelation of the darkness itself is the key to its own re-solution and transcendence. This is why Jung questions whether "in this very power of evil, God might not have placed some special purpose which it is most important for us to know."

Jung defines the daemonic as the "not yet made real creative," by which he is pointing at that if gotten in conscious relationship with, the daemonic contains our highest creativity and genius. If not related to consciously, however, the daemonic possesses us from behind and beneath our conscious awareness and acts itself out through us in a destructive way that is truly demonic. Whether the darkness destroys us or unfolds its blessings depends on no one but ourselves.

Everything depends on if we can have the expansion of consciousness that the darkness itself is demanding of us. To quote Jung, "the only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane of consciousness, in order to be equal to the superhuman powers which the fallen angels have played into his hands." Even though Jung died over forty years ago, it is as if he is describing our current world situation. This is because Jung was articulating in his day the same archetypal pattern that is re-enacting itself today.

The fact that evil is incarnating in this world of ours is itself an expression that light is nearby, for shadows are nothing other than expressions of light. Demons are actually blessings in drag. It is darkest right before the dawn. Right before a demon gets vanquished is when it makes its worst destructive outburst. This is because the demon can't stand and will violently resist the light of consciousness; for to be seen de-potentiates and exorcises the demon, so to speak. Once the evil is seen, however, it loses its power and control over us, as it can no longer act itself out through us.

Lucifer, which means "the bringer of light"’ is the necessary dark side of life, of shadow revealing light by contrast. Jung goes so far as to point out that Lucifer was "necessary and indeed indispensable for the unfolding and completion of the divine drama." Jung even refers to Satan as "the godfather of man as a spiritual being," by which he means that the appearance of evil can activate in humankind a process of spiritual awakening.

We are not in a position to judge or to know God's secret intentions. It is clearly God's will that George Bush be president, as it IS what is happening. It could be that George Bush needed to get re-elected, because if John Kerry got elected, maybe people would fall back to sleep, thinking everything was OK. I find myself imagining, however, that the evil that is enacting itself through George Bush will activate a collective awakening unimaginable before Bush came on the scene. I imagine that with George Bush as president "we the people" will connect with each other in lucid awareness, and tap into how we can, in real time, the present moment, creatively and collaboratively effect real change in this world of ours.

The antonym and antidote to the "diabolic"’ whose inner meaning is that which separates and divides, is the "symbolic"’ whose inner meaning is that which unites. Symbols are the language of dreams. To connect in symbolic awareness is to realize that we are all collaboratively dreaming up this universe together, which is the very revelation that the universe itself is symbolically reflecting back to us. If this is a mass shared dream then we are not separate from each other but are all interconnected parts of one another and are all on the same side. Once we recognize this, we can get in phase with each other, connecting our lucidity together as we unite as one, co-operatively transmuting this archetypal, daemonic energy into our highest creative inspiration and genius. Having Bush as president might precipitate a radical, revolutionary, evolutionary and epochal quantum leap in human consciousness undreamed of until now. I find myself wondering, maybe George Bush getting elected is an actual blessing in a very convincing disguise that it's not. (Paul Levy) - www.awakeninthedream.com

The demon screams the loudest as it's about to die. (Unknown)

The dark fight, scream and struggle as they are called to answer for their actions. The energy for change has never been stronger, and those of you who are sensitive to them feel a new buoyancy around you. Having waited so long, you are impatient for the actions to quickly bring you what you see as the first leap forward. By the nature of what has been taking place, it was always envisaged that events would take a sudden turn when least expected. The Illuminati face the day of reckoning and their reign is nearly over. What was once the unspeakable is happening, and the bastions of power are crumbling because the people have provided the energy for it. There is a magical point where once the energies of Light reach a certain level; there can be no turning back. The power of the Light then grows exponentially and transforms the energies of dark. (Ag-agria through Mike Quinsey)

The combat of the war [on Terror], and its life and land destruction will so profoundly affect your world that souls who have been thinking that war will lead to peace or just "fence-straddling" will be forced to clearly see the truth - that only peaceful means of settling any dispute will ever result in peace on Earth. And feeling love is the way to peace. Those who resist this will not continue in positions of power and their physical lives will end as the ascension of the planet and her light-filled life forms hastens into the higher frequencies of fourth density. (Matthew through Suzie Ward) - www.matthewbooks.com

All the causes of humanity's many strifes are now directly irradiated with divine light. This is not an easy process, as all that which is ugly and has over the ages been festering and remained hidden, must now be lifted up to the surface to be seen clearly for what it is. Only when the ugliness, corruption, selfishness and separativeness has been brought to the surface and seen for what it is, will humanity be able to release it forever and thus make right choice and enter freely into the new. (David Keane) - The Transition Years of Magic and Wonder

Bless you who are persevering through these intense lessons of spiritual growth, for as any ONE grows, so does the Whole of Creation. It is a grand and glorious journey, indeed! (Archangel Gabriel) - www.educate-yourself.org/cn/AAGabrielbugsmeetcarwash26apr03.shtml

He who lives in darkness shall learn to find the light. (Unknown)

There is no end of the world, it's just waking up from the illusion. (Unknown)

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly. (Richard Bach)

Heading into the future is a little like a caterpillar entering a cocoon. The caterpillar doesn't know that he'll come out a butterfly. All he knows is that he's alone, it's dark, and it's a little scary. (Unknown)