Evolving Beyond Spiritual Infancy

 

The Spiritual Experiences Of Philip K. Dick: 

 

The Symbols Of Plato's Cave 

 

Seeking To Know Thyself   

 

When rightly understood, a lifetime is as a single day in the existence of the Soul -- see The Secret Doctrine http://SecretDoctrine.Nazirene.org  

 

In the same way that an Infant is mentally undeveloped, so too is the Mind of each of us with respecting dwelling in a state of spiritual immaturity -- with each life equal to a single Day in the many lives of the Soul.  

 

What would be the result if you could not recall your accomplishments upon awakening each day?  Your thinking and  understanding would remain undeveloped.  This inability to recall, is the problem with respect to each life that your Soul incarnates into.  Sadly, you would understand this great void in your Soul-Reality, if the post-Nicene Church (325 AD) hadn't corrupted the Gospels and changed the beliefs of the people -- see The Pre-Nicene Position Of The Church On Reincarnation   https://brotherofyeshua.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-pre-nicene-position-of-church-on.html   

 

 

 

Each of us is born with the ability to tap into the knowledge of our Soul's previous lives.  And while this ability belongs in the domain of the Feminine-Intuitive -- and the ability to recall past lives is therefore more common among women -- there are men who either possess the capacity to also recall their Soul's previous lives, or they assist their wives and develop the ability if they pursue Self-Knowledge within a Spiritual Marriage.  Most people can't, because they fail to make the effort at developing the ability to recall their Soul's previous lives -- thereby remaining Spiritually Self-Ignorant. The Atheist remains immature and makes no effort to spiritually advance, so he proclaims there is no proof of God or life after death. The Christian believes and clings to the religion of Roman Emperors -- see The Religion Of Roman Emperors http://ChristianReincarnation.org#emperors   Others seek to become wealthy in life -- others seek sexual gratification -- still others permit themselves to become immersed in the carnal elements of this world. Resulting in a lack of spiritual development. 

 

The Spiritual Holistic Lifestyle 

 

Jesus taught that you must live a Spiritually Holistic Mindset and Lifestyle to understand the meaning of the scriptures and tap into the Divine Mind of God -- see The Spiritual Holistic Lifestyle http://TheLawOfTheGospels.com#TheSpiritualHolisticLifestyle   What this means is that your ability to Know, is dependent upon the frequency and vibration of your own Mind and Consciousness.    

 

Like my own recall of my Soul's previous life as Jacob who they call James, the Brother of Yeshua who they call Jesus (see http://BrotherOfJesus.org ), author and visionary Philip K. Dick possessed degrees of past life recall. Quoting Philip Dick's account: "When a delivery person from the pharmacy brought his pain medication, he noticed the ichthys (an ancient Christian symbol consisting of two intersecting arcs forming a fish profile)  necklace she wore and asked her what it meant. She responded that it was a symbol used by the early Christians, and in that moment Dick's religious experiences began: Thus, the image of the early Christian symbol acted as a catalyst that initiated recall of his Soul's previous life as a first century Christian of which he wrote:

 

"In that instant, as I stared at the gleaming fish sign and heard her words, I suddenly experienced what I later learned is called anamnesis—a Greek word meaning, literally, "loss of forgetfulness." I remembered who I was and where I was. In an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, it all came back to me. And not only could I remember it but I could see it. The girl was a secret Christian and so was I. We lived in fear of detection by the Romans. We had to communicate with cryptic signs. She had just told me all this, and it was true. For a short time, as hard as this is to believe or explain, I saw fading into view the black, prison like contours of hateful Rome. But, of much more importance, I remembered Jesus, who had just recently been with us, and had gone temporarily away, and would very soon return. My emotion was one of joy. We were secretly preparing to welcome Him back. It would not be long. And the Romans did not know. They thought He was dead, forever dead. That was our great secret, our joyous knowledge. Despite all appearances, Christ was going to return, and our delight and anticipation were boundless."

 

 

  

The Fundamentalists who are of a physical-only three-dimensional mindset, can only grasp the text of the written words of the scriptures. But the scriptures were composed by mystics who viewed this world as a type of prison that held mankind captive in a world of shadow-images as portrayed in the analogy of Plato's Cave (see Plato's Cave http://OuterDarkness.Nazirene.org#Cave ). 

 

The author and visionary Philip K. Dick was able to recall his Soul's previous life in the first century where he lived as an original follower of Jesus. He also wrote with respect to the original disciples of Jesus that: "Christ ...taught his followers how to enter the kingdom while still alive, where other mystery religions only bring about amnesis: knowledge of it at the 'other time' in 'the other realm,' not here. His (teachings) causes it to come here, and is the living agency to the Sole Good God (i.e. the Logos)." These other mystery religions that Philip Dick was making reference to, sacrificed the earthly in order to achieve amnesis insights and vision. Under the heading of Anamnesis (Philosophy), the Wikipedia states: It is the idea that humans possess knowledge from past incarnations and that learning consists of rediscovering that knowledge within us". The article then goes on to say:  Socrates' response is to develop his theory of anamnesis. He suggests that the soul is immortal, and repeatedly incarnated; knowledge is actually in the soul from eternity... What one perceives to be learning, then, is actually the recovery of what one has forgotten. (Once it has been brought back it is true belief, to be turned into genuine knowledge by understanding.) And thus Socrates (and Plato) sees himself, not as a teacher, but as a midwife, aiding with the birth of knowledge that was already there in the student. 

 

 

 

Organic man is subject to the illusions of Plato's Cave, because he cannot see and understand with any degree of Wholeness -- i.e., "They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Mark 2:17).   

 

While higher vision can be achieved via Anamnesis through the focus on the third-eye associated with meditation and the sixth spiritual center -- as well as the raising of what is portrayed as the kundalini energy from the base of the spine into the upper spiritual centers. The limitation of what Philip K. Dick portrayed as the Mystery Religions is presented in his words when he referenced these "...other mystery religions only bring about amnesis: knowledge of it at the 'other time' in 'the other realm,' not here."  Many of these mystery religions claim that the goal is to "get above the mind" -- thereby leaving the mind itself undeveloped. What was the basis of Philip Dick's assessment? The Answer: You must build a Living Temple where all duality is developed and brought into the Center of your Being. Most of these paths embraced meditation and celibacy -- which of course suppressed the generative power.   

 

To see and understand man's Higher Soul and Spiritual Reality, he must bring his Mind into Wholeness -- ceasing to be divided by Male and Female as stated in the Gospel of Philip:  “When Eve was still with Adam, death did not exist. When she was separated from him, death came into being. If he enters again and attains his former self, death will be no more”.  The Process of which is in the Gospel of Thomas: "Jesus said to them, When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female, female; ...then will you enter the kingdom."   Jesus taught that this Wholeness of Male/Adam and Woman/Eve must be achieved while in the physical body-vessel.  And if it is not, physical death can be portrayed as a Spiritual Miscarriage http://DivineMarriage.org#FailureOfBirth -- where the incarnation of the Soul fails to achieve the Final Birth -- see The Law Of Birth http://DivineMarriage.org#TheLawOfBirth        

 

In the allegorical account of Genesis, when Eve was drawn from the side of Adam, what is being personified is the fact that when our Soul entered this physical realm that is portrayed as the Far Country in the parable of the prodigal son, that the mind  of Mankind became divided across the polarities of Male/Positive and Female/Negative when we entered this world. What this means is that when man meets woman, it is in reality one half of the mind meeting and interacting with the other half -- both of them divided opposites with greatly differing mental perceptions and abilities that must be joined together as One, to bring about Wholeness -- which is in fact the purpose and objective of the Gospel teachings as seen in the statement: "They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Mark 2:17).  

 

When the Soul-Incarnation achieves the Final Birth through a Spiritually Divine Coverture Marriage, then having achieved Wholeness of Mind and Consciousness, the person is able to overcome the illusions of Plato's Cave, and is able to see and understand in Wholeness.    

 

Sperm and Ovum bring about a Total Integration to the degree that each physical cell possesses the same DNA as the Whole.   You were born into this life as a Mental-Sperm or Mental-Ovum -- and when Jesus said:  "...When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female, female; ...then will you enter the kingdom" -- he was making reference to a Total Integration of the Male and Female Polarities of Mind that brought about Wholeness of Mind and Consciousness with our Higher Source of Being at a level where the Totality of our Being is At-One with the Divine Mind (God).   

 

The Kingdom Within And The Narrow Gate 

 

 

Jesus taught that the Kingdom is within each of us (Luke 17:20-21).  The "narrow gate" represents the  inner journey to our Source or True-Self that is historically portrayed by the mystics.  And with respect to this inner journey to our Source of Being, author and visionary Philip K. Dick stated in The Ten Principles Of The Gnostic Revelation where he portrays the realty of the person you are in this world with your higher soul-self where he wrote: "Each of us has a divine counterpart unfallen who can reach a hand down to us to awaken us. This other personality is the authentic waking self; the one we have now is asleep and minor" -- which confirms the statements of Giordano Bruno. Which should raise the question: What does each person have to do to make this inward journey to their True-Self? 

 

While Giordano Bruno was bunt at the stake for teaching Christians the Original Gospel concepts and teachings that were suppressed by the Church (see The Restored Gospel Teachings http://OriginalGospel.Ebionite.com ), the account of Philip K. Dick reveals to seekers the purpose of the allegorical catalysts used in the scriptures to connect the person we are in this world with our Higher Source of Being.