Writing an article on knowledge is potentially a difficult task. It makes you ask the question what do you know and even what qualifies the writer to write knowingly.
You have to ask yourself questions like who is doing the knowing and how do you know that you know? For example, you may think you know what is true and right in your head but your gut might tell you it’s wrong. Your heart might not be in it and there may a whisper of doubt sneaking into the back of your mind.
This train of thought also brings into question where the knowing sits. Is it in our cognitive centres, in the very water of our cellular structures or somewhere even more ethereal?
What makes the whole subject even more difficult still is that ‘we know’ there are degrees of knowingness. During the Iraqi conflict, Donald Rumsfeld, the then US Defense Secretary, was caught prevaricating as there were things he knew that he’d rather not share with others. Nonetheless, inadvertently, he gave us a really useful framework for understanding the modern world in his infamous “known knowns” speech.
There’s obviously the stuff we know we know – the Known Knowns – at least that is until we find out whatever we thought we knew, we didn’t know that well after all. I get the Word of the Day from Dictionary.com every day and keep finding words I thought I knew the meaning of actually mean something else.
There’s stuff we know we don’t know – the Known Unknowns – like where we really came from, how come we are self-aware and why toast always seems to fall butter-side down.
There’s a weird category of Unknown Knowns – these are things we know but didn’t know we knew – like someone really likes you but you are just not quite fully aware of it yet.
Finally there are the Unknown Unknowns – these manifest as the Fear of the Unknown. They are the demons that stop us in our tracks. If we don’t stick our heads above the parapet to have a look, we can’t be harmed.
If this isn’t bad enough, what you think you know can get turned on its head in an instant. The ancients knew the Earth was round but in the Dark Ages we were taught it was flat. We now know its round yet everyone uses a map which is flat.
Knowing is altered by perspective. For example, if you add another dimension to the mix, literally, what is curved space and surfaces in a 3-D universe are flat sheets in 4-D. We can see in a 2-D Flatland that the ‘flat people’ could jump up. If they did this, to another ‘Flatander’ they would disappear.
So stating we absolutely know something to be true is inadvisable. All we can ever know is that we don’t know everything. Furthermore, as soon as we know something, there is inevitably something else to learn.
Claircogniscence
Traditionally knowledge has become a left-brained activity based the output from the Scientific Method which runs like this:
Observe something
Make a prediction based upon what is observed
Observe or measure something else against the new prediction
Make it into a Law – like the Laws of Gravity or Thermodynamics
This is fine until the Laws break down.
A more intuitive basis to work on is tuning into our innate claircogniscence. This a ‘knowing’ version of clairvoyance, clairaudience or clairsentience. The source of the knowing can be from any of our chakra points – normally gut, heart, 3rd eye or crown but also the alpha and omega chakras outside our bodies.
Incidentally, don’t ask me how I know all of this. I just do and I have complete faith that what I am imparting here is knowledge that will appeal to readers of the resulting article.
Claircogniscence is more than just knowing. It’s also an inner sense that it’s OK to know in itself and there is no need to share or even prove what you know. In healing and therapy, it is the most useful tool as you can instantly get a sense of issues and how to treat them.
It’s also a vital part of the creative process. You just know what you are writing, painting or composing is just perfect. You are connected both with your Muse and your audience. You are in flow – and you Know It. It is the progenitor of the most desirable output for the search for knowledge – that of gnosis.
Gnosis
Gnosis is the result of unquestioned claircogniscence and requires no qualification – it just is. The best examples end up being koans, aphorisms or maxims.
These are stories, questions or statements the meaning of which is not best understood by the application rational thinking but may be accessible through intuition. They just feel right.
Examples range from a Zen Koan that gives us an Known Unknown by asking an incisive question like:
“What is your face before your mother and father were born?”
– to one of Hippocrates’ sublime aphorisms that, on first hearing, begets the Unknown Known:
“Life is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult.”
– to the pithy and witty Known Known maxims that are the stuff of urban myths such as:
“In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.”
These kind of statements are just right; we feel it in our water. They are incontestable and don’t lend them to analysis unless you are feeling particularly fastidious.
True gnosis though more traditionally applies to a spiritual knowing.
What’s important here though is that gnosis is something which is personal. For example, it’s said that there are 33 paths of spiritual awakening. Now I don’t know if it’s true there are 33, there could be more or less. What I do know is that as soon as the path or the type of awakening is defined and proclaimed to be “The Way”, we have slipped from gnosis to dogma. All I know for sure is the path and way that I am following seems to be working for me but that I can’t wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone else.
Once you assume a dogmatic position, the acquisition of new knowledge becomes difficult and we are closed off from the next level of awakening.
I’ll leave you with one of my favourite “knowings” from the mind that was Chief Seattle –
“This we know. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. All things are connected. This we know.”
Rachel Willis, CEO and insightful editor of Lightworker Magazine posed a little problem for me recently to submit an article about a subject I realised I write little about.
Namely Love …
I took the decision to ‘channel’ it raw and this is what came out …
In conversation with Rachel Willis, CEO of Lightworker Magazine …
So Tom, I’ve been hearing some glowing reports about the Cube but what in the world is it?
Thanks Rachel, in short it’s a one-to-one mentoring programme to take people on an elegant path of accelerated evolution.
That sounds fantastic but you can’t just say that and leave it there, where did it come from? Did you just make it up or channel it?
It’s based on some esoteric knowledge called the Cube of Space which I came across a few years ago and didn’t know what to do with. When I wrote my book Flavours of Thought last year, which is inspired by the Major Arcana, I realised I could map my Flavours on to the Cube. Then, in an amazing light bulb moment, I realised that I’d simplified what was a bit arcane and obscure and made it accessible to a contemporary audience.
So how does it work?
It starts with a bit of pre-work where we establish a person’s karmic purpose. This includes listening to a guided visualisation and completing a simple questionnaire. I also tune into the person’s etheric body which tells me about residual karmic issues that may need voiding.
Sorry, what’s voiding?
It’s kind of the opposite of avoiding. We often procrastinate and become busy fools and a-void what we came to do. By voiding issues and tackling them, you both cleanse your aura and fulfill your pre-agreed karmic destiny.
Are you saying that our life is pre-agreed and pre-determined?
Yes and no – this is one of the great mysteries that results from us being inside our so-called 3D reality. Our life is BOTH predetermined AND we have complete free will to change it at any time. This apparent paradox only becomes clear when we can see ourselves from outside the illusion.
So when people embark on a trip around the Cube, does this become any clearer?
Yes, the key to understanding this paradox and to jumping up an evolutionary step is to see our lives as a series of ‘things that arrive’ as opposed to events we instigate. When you start journeying around the Cube, you get amazing objectivity and clarity about this. Everything starts to make sense and really wonderful serendipities come your way, as if by magic.
And how long does a trip around the Cube take?
Well there are six faces to the Cube and some hidden internal pathways. The number of sessions depends a lot on how far someone has already come but typically we’d be looking at between 3 and 6 sessions ranging from 1 to 2 hours each. I recommend these sessions are spread over a few months too.
And how do people get embark on a journey?
Well the first step is to have a listen to the visualisation I mentioned which takes people on a trip the Akashic Records Office where we make our life plan for each incarnation. It’s only 11 minutes long and people get some amazing insights from it.
If you want to take a tour and bring magic into your life, click here …
When we meet people we’ve not seen for a while, we often ask “What’s new?”. If you get confronted with this question when not expecting it, you can get caught of guard, end up scratching your head and might even feel compelled to make something up.
On ‘slow news days’, you can imagine journalists do not have a good time and some have even been known to make up ‘news’. I love it when breakfast TV reports what is ‘new’ in the newspapers. At the same time, morning papers talk about what is ‘new’ on TV. This cycle feeds itself. We all know this is all not really ‘news’ at all, even though it’s on the News and in the News-papers.
You’ve also heard that phrase – “There’s nothing new under the Sun”.
So is it possible that anything is actually new? Now having a dig at journalists is not the point here – they have a job to do and provide a service many people want to consume. The point is for something to be really new, it has to possess some important characteristics.
Firstly, it only has to be new to us. You might know something that’s quite ‘old’ that I don’t and when you share it with me, it’s news to me. I may thank you and pass it on if I think it’s newsworthy.
Secondly, it might be something that has occurred for the first time. This could be some permutation that causes us to take notice. All too often, our news reports focus on ‘bad news’ only offering a token ‘And finally …’ good news snippet at the end. What a breath of fresh air a ‘good news only’ news broadcast would be.
Thirdly is the class of news I personally find the most exciting and fascinating and that’s when something new is discovered or invented. Here we are acting in a generative capacity fabricating something new from existing parts or conditions.
When you are involved with ‘bringing in the new’ in this manner, and on a regular basis, it has an amazing affect on your health and well being. Being in an environment where renewal is the order of the day causes our brains to continually rewire and keeps our mind active. In turn, this active mind renews our body.
What makes generation of this type of news even more attractive to workers of light is that the two practices that encourage this type of ‘newness’ are meditation and respiration.
Meditation sets up the perfect conditions for light bulb moments to occur. A still mind allows ‘the new’ to arrive. In the converse situation, the same thinking delivers the same ‘old’ results. Fresh thinking leads to a fresh mind and a fresh body.
The fuel to encourage the introduction of such fresh thought is specifically delivered during the in-spiration phase of the re-spiration process. The hyphenation is not only intentional but provides some elucidation as to what is occurring.
As neurons do not have internal reserves for oxygen, more neuronal activity requires more oxygen to be delivered rapidly through the blood stream. Conventional wisdom suggests that more neuronal activity creates more connections and the likelihood of a ‘new’ connection being forged increases as a result. So deeper breathing while meditating causes more interconnectivity in the brain.
Now this might well be ‘news’ to you but I had the light bulb moment that it might be fun to use this technique to channel in what really goes on during this process. This was the result.
When you move your diaphragm, your spiritual muscle, it pump primes your pranic tube. This in turn stimulates your main chakra centres and a massive amount of intercommunication ensues. Initially this is mainly between your gut, heart and third eye.
After a few minutes, the pranic force seeps outside your physical body. Via your omega chakra, a few inches below your root chakra point, your prana seeps into Mother Earth and informs her you are ready to receive.
A microsecond later, it rises past your crown to your alpha chakra point just above your head. At this time, you become the pivot point between the superconsciousness and Lady Gaia – your heart being at the very centre.
If at that time, you are internally silent, information transfer occurs. It seems to happen outside time and inside space. Every neuron in your brain lights up and you experience the beginning of a light bulb moment. The process is not yet complete.
The information is passed to Mother Earth who checks it is safe and timely for you to receive it. It then passes into your gut centre for further ‘internal quality assurance’. Your gut then passes it to your heart centre so you can fall in love with the idea.
Finally, it returns to your third eye and is allowed to enter your outer cortex and your consciousness and you get a ‘new idea’. In real time, less than a second has elapsed. Yet, as all your ‘minds’ are in agreement, you know you have to act on this ‘news’ – it just feels right.
Your throat chakra might even get it on the act and shout “Eureka”!
Now I am hoping this mechanism for how we receive light bulb moments is ‘news’ to some of you. It certainly is to me.
Writing an article on knowledge is potentially a difficult task. It makes you ask the question what do you know and even what qualifies the writer to write knowingly.
When we meet people we’ve not seen for a while, we often ask “What’s new?”. If you get confronted with this question when not expecting it, you can get caught of guard, end up scratching your head and might even feel compelled to make something up.