ASCENT
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SPIRITUAL ANTHOLOGY
Dedicated to Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Who continues to be my Guiding Light
“You are a child of God, and it is your God-given role to help others to remember that they are also children of God”
[Divine decree received 2010]
‘Energy cannot be created or destroyed;
It can only be changed from one form to another.
Everything is energy and that is all there is to it.
Match the frequency of the reality you want,
And you cannot help but get that reality.
It can be no other way.
This is not philosophy;
This is physics’
[Albert Einstein]
Why these Writings?
On completion of the Labyrinth here at Jacaranda Haven in 2010, I walked it on my own for the first time and then stood – silent and empty- in the centre. A loud voice spoke telepathically to me:
“You are a child of God, and it is your God-given role to help others to remember that they are also children of God”
Sai Baba had gifted me a pen and vibhuti (sacred ash) whilst leaving Puttaparthi in 1999, renowned psychic Joan Moylan had told me in 1998 to write, and psychic Jennifer Starlight conveyed to me from Spirit in early 2022 that I was meant to write…but what ?
And then I realised that all I could write about to assist others on their paths was my own experiences, teachings and learnings in order to “…help others to remember that they are also children of God”. Hence these autobiographical writings…
Modules
This is but one ‘module’ in this collection of autobiographical writings that I choose to call ‘modules’. Each one stands alone, but some cross-reference others. A completed book is a static thing once finished: however, these modules are flexible in that I can add to them at any time should new experiences/information comes to hand, and the reader can pick & choose which particular modules attract them. The collection of modules thereby constitutes an’ anthology’.
The intent of writing these is to share experiences and teachings that I have been blessed with along the way of a human incarnation – the ascent of consciousness – such that the reader may also benefit to illumine their own path/ascent to the ultimate inevitable goal for all humans: that of ‘self-realisation’.
Belief vs Truth
As a precursor to reading any of these Modules, there is a need to clarify the difference between ‘Belief’ and ‘Truth’: one may ‘believe’ eg it is raining outside by the sound on the roof, but when you actually see the rain falling/walk out and get wet, you actually then ‘know’ it is so – ie it is ‘true’, and so ‘belief’ about that instantly ceases.
Many go through life accumulating fixed ‘beliefs’ about people/things, and, as Krishnamurti taught:”… the moment you arrive at a conclusion/form an opinion/a belief, you block the possibility of further enquiry and discovery”.
So, a hot air balloon called ‘Ascent’ awaits: I invite you to climb into its basket with me, throw overboard the ballast of all those accumulated ‘beliefs/opinions’ you have acquired to feel safe, and therefore allow this balloon to rise free and drift to destinations unknown.
Because, otherwise, some of what you read herein may sorely challenge your accumulated beliefs…
Everything recounted within the Anthology is absolutely true, unless I have qualified otherwise.
John Stephen Butterworth
CLIMATE CHANGE
Just a brief comment on this vexed subject:
An extraordinary thing about all the debate over recent years about burning of fossil fuels increasing the carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere etc, not once have I heard acknowledgement that, as a historic fact, global temperatures DO vary over thousands of years: 4-5,000 years ago, the Earth’s temperatures cooled enough to cause the polar ice caps to take up more water and so lower sea levels globally by some 4-5m. I grew up here in Eastern Australia able to observe the geological evidence of such (it’s still there to be observed by anyone interested! eg the sandy soils of low lying coastal lands along the east coast of Australia, so obviously once covered by the ocean or oyster beds visible about 4-5m above sea level around the shoreline of harbours and inlets near Sydney – where I grew up) and it is taught as part of any basic course on geomorphology…likewise, about 10,000 years ago occurred warming (did someone say “global warming?”) that brought an end to the last Ice Age, melted much ice from both polar regions, and caused global sea levels to rise cutting off eg the former landbridge that connected Australia with SE Asia, New Guinea became islands, as did Tasmania and the islands in Bass Strait …but seemingly never alluded to in recent debates/conferences about global warming, rising sea levels, inundation of occupied low lying coastal lands NB Pacific Ocean island nations…curiouser and curiouser…
This is not to say that the current global warming is not being accelerated by human activities of burning fossil fuels etc, but actual geomorphological history seems to never warrant acknowledgement…interesting…