The Minotaur and the Labyrinth

LabryinthThis morning I had a dream where I am with my best friend Daniel who died many years ago.  I am asking him if he knows the whereabouts of my friend Robert who I know also died many years ago.  I had lost contact with him years before I found out he had died.  Daniel tells me that he knows where to find him.  He then takes me to where I can meet him.  We find my friend Robert and after a few minutes I ask Robert about our old mutual friend Richard.  I lost contact with Richard many years ago and I have no knowledge on what became of him.  Robert tells me that he knows where he is.  I ask him if he will help reunite me with him.  He then takes me to where I might find him.  Upon finding my friend Richard, we all sit and chat for a few minutes.  I then ask Richard about our mutual friend Augusto.  I’m sensing that they are now aware of the trick I am playing on them to help reunite us as one.  Still unsure of my motive, Richard naively answers that he does know where Augusto is.  We all then travel back in time to a period in our lives when we were all together as one.  It is a good and happy time with many pleasant memories. 

MinotaurMy fiend Daniel and I then leave to find a quiet place where we can continue our talk.  I have a room that I rent at a nearby spa and resort which I invite him to.  When we come onto the room I draw down the shade so that the management of the establishment won’t become aware that I brought with me a non-member.  I’m caught by the management and told that I cannot bring non-members with me into this establishment.  Daniel is angry because when he was alive he had a valid membership.  He then calls upon the gay community to come with their chisels and picks to chip away at the wall they have constructed to keep people out.  I’m thinking they are never going to be able to tear down the wall that separates us but in fact they are. The wall is now crumbling.  

In tearing down the wall they expose a secret labyrinth.  There is a man at its center struggling with a demon that has the head of a bull.  I’m told if I want to confront the demon I can enter into the Seventh Ring.  Knowing this is my own interior space the demon is occupying, I venture into the labyrinth to confront the demon.  He is held behind an enclosed fence at the center of the labyrinth.  The demon sees me and immediately jumps over the fence and aggressively comes at me.  The shock wakes me up out of my sleep. 

Now awake with my eyes open, I can see the demon before me.  He has the head of a bull and the body of a man.  All I can see is the fur around his eyes because his face is pressed up against mine.  I can feel his heavy breath upon me.  Without a second thought, I snarl back at the beast pushing into him to let him know that I am not threatened by its presence. 

His image remained beside my bed for a long time as we locked eyes.  I could see the red fiery anger in the pupils of his eyes.  I had to go to the bathroom so I paid the beast no mind and got up and walked over to the bathroom.  Determined not to be frightened I intentionally left the light off and sat in the darkness that was in my bathroom.  When I was done I returned to bed where the image of the beast was now gone.

When I got to work I wanted to know the significance of the Seventh Ring.  The only thing I could think of that referenced rings was Dante’s Divine Comedy which surfaced recently by chance in a previous dream titled, The Emperian Heaven of the Green Orb so I pulled up the Divine Comedy on Wikipedia and in the section of The Circles of Hell, I found the Seventh Circle.

Seventh Circle. This circle houses the violent. Its entry is guarded by the Minotaur

My first question was what the heck is a Minotaur?   I followed that clue and to my surprise found:

In Greek mythology, the Minotaur (Greek: Μνώταυρος, Mīntauros) was a creature that was said to be part man and part bull.[1] It dwelt at the center of the Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction built for King Minos of Crete and designed by the architect Daedalus to hold the Minotaur.

Here I was lead back to the labyrinth.  It was now apparent that the beast I encountered this morning was a Minotaur.  Now my question is what is the significance of the labyrinth?  I don’t know anything about them other than the fact that they are a maze. 

Minataur in the LabyrinthIn Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (Gk. λαβύρινθος labyrinthos) was an elaborate structure constructed for King Minos of Crete and designed by the legendary artificer Daedalus to hold the Minotaur, a creature that was half man and half bull and which was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus. Daedalus had made the Labyrinth so cunningly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it.[1] Theseus was aided by Ariadne, who provided him with a fateful thread, literally the “clew,” or “clue,” to wind his way back again.

The term labyrinth is often used interchangeably with maze, but modern scholars of the subject use a stricter definition. For them, a maze is a tour puzzle in the form of a complex branching passage with choices of path and direction; while a single-path (“unicursal”) labyrinth has only a single Eulerian path to the center. A labyrinth has an unambiguous through-route to the center and back and is not designed to be difficult to navigate.

Prehistoric labyrinths are believed to have served as traps for malevolent spirits or as defined paths for ritual dances. In medieval times, the labyrinth symbolized a hard path to God with a clearly defined center (God) and one entrance (birth).

Labyrinths can be thought of as symbolic forms of pilgrimage; people can walk the path, ascending toward salvation or enlightenment. Many people could not afford to travel to holy sites and lands, so labyrinths and prayer substituted for such travel. Later the religious significance of labyrinths faded, and they served primarily for entertainment, though recently their spiritual aspect has seen a resurgence.

Elohim: Hopi and The Warriors of the Rainbow

ElohimToday I had an incredibly powerful experience as I was waking up this morning.  As a side note, I’m supposed to give a short inspirational talk later this evening and I’ve been worried about having the right words to say.  Well I now definitely know I’m not alone.  I’ve learned to follow my dreams down the rabbit hole to see where they lead.  They never cease to amaze me.  Here is what happened. 

About an hour before my alarm was set to sound I had the urge to go to the bathroom.  I woke up and beside my bed was the spirit of Potamous laying quietly next to me.  He turned to make eye contact with me.  I acknowledged him as I gazed at his pale blue colored pudgy cheeks.  I told him telepathically that I had to get by him to go to the restroom.  He then moved to the side to let me by not that he really needed to because he was after all in spirit form.  I went to the bathroom to do my business.  As is unusual I turned on the lights to see if anything was out of place.  The bathroom was normal so I did my business and returned to bed.  I picked up my voice recorder to capture what I remembered of the dream I had just had before awaking. 

I went back to sleep.  An hour later my alarm clock rang and I hit the snooze button to begin my meditation.  I must have snoozed it 3 times.  On the 3rd time I simply turned it off.  I was ready to get up…but wait just one minute I thought to myself.  In that minute I drifted off into to a deep state of consciousness where I had a false awakening.  In the false awakening, I got up out of bed and reached over to grab my voice recorder when I noticed Potamous had left a journal beside my bed.  I picked up the journal which had a picture of him embossed on the cover with the words, “Ruben’s Journal” I set it down amazed with what I was experiencing.  This felt so real.  I was in an alternate reality.  I picked up the journal again to look at it more closely when I noticed the picture of Potamous and the words were now gone.  The journal was becoming translucent.  I quickly ran over to the window to open the journal to read whatever I could.  On the pages I clearly saw three rubber stamps.  Each rubber stamp had a single word on it.  They reminded me of the stamps they use when you check out books at the library to denote the due date on the book’s return.  The first word read, Celestian, the second, akin and the third Elohim. Telepathically I received the message, “Me and you will do this together.” 

I knew I would forget what the words were because they were words I did not perceive to be English.  I asked to be shown the words one more time.  In sequence the words appeared on the blank page of the journal one by one. 

 

CELESTIAN

AKIN

ELOHIM

 

I quickly opened my eyes and immediately grabbed my voice recorder and phonetically sounded them out.  The first word I knew was a derivative of the word “celestial” but the other two I had no clue what they meant.  I figured when I got to work I would do a search and see if I could uncover their meaning. 

When I got to work the first thing I did was check to see if there were any new messages for me on the Intention Experiment.  I stumbled across a post by Dirk Hertveldt titled “Hopi the Rainbow Warriors” In his post he linked to a You Tube video about a Hopi Prophesy. On one of the first screens on that video I caught my third word.  I couldn’t believe it. 

HopiWhen the Earth is dying there shall arise a new tribe of all colours and all creeds.  The tribe shall be called “The Warriors of the Rainbow” and it will put its faith in actions not words”

The Warriors of the Rainbow would spread these messages to teach all peoples of Earth or “Elohi.”  They would teach them how to live the “Way of the Great Spirit”.

There was my word without the “m” at the end.  I then did a search for the word Elohim on Wikipedia and to my surprise the word came up.   

Elohim (אֱלוֹהִים , אלהים ) is a Hebrew word which expresses concepts of divinity.  Elohim is the third word in the Hebrew text of Genesis and occurs frequently throughout the Hebrew Bible.

Here too Elohim was the third word. 

Exodus 3:4, “… Elohim called unto him out of the midst of the bush ….” 

Exodus 4:16, “He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you [Moses] were Elohim to him [Aaron]… ,”

The second verse from Exodus 4:16 really rang true with me.  It’s message was very similar to the telepathic message that I received “me and you will do this together”.  I then continued my search looking up akin.  On first glance the word didn’t even register with me as an english word but come to find out it is. 

 

Main Entry: akin
Pronunciation: &-‘kin
Function: adjective
1 : related by blood : descended from a common ancestor or prototype
2 : essentially similar, related, or compatible <his interests are akin to mine>

Oh my! Is the vision trying to tell me look at the story of Moses and take strength from that example?  On with the search and again to my surprise the word Celestian did come up exactly on Wikipedia.

Celestian is the god of Stars, Space and Wanderers. Celestian is Neutral Good, but his worshippers may be any alignment of good. His symbol is a black circle set with seven stars. His home plane is the Astral Plane. His colour is black.

Lawful Good

Neutral Good

Chaotic Good

Lawful Neutral

Neutral

Chaotic Neutral

Lawful Evil

Neutral Evil

Chaotic Evil

 

Neutral Good
Neutral Good is known as the “Benefactor” alignment. A neutral good character is guided by his conscience and typically acts altruistically, without regard for or against Lawful precepts such as rules or tradition. A doctor that treats soldiers from both sides in a war would be considered Neutral Good. Examples of neutral good creatures include the Guardinals, a type of celestial.
  

I then marched into the bathroom to get ready for work and the first thing I noticed on the floor of the bathroom was a fallen maple leaf in it’s full fall color clearly displaying the many viens in the leaf.  The leaf was not there earlier this morning.  Is mother earth trying to tell me something?

The Emperian Heaven of the Green Orb

Emperian HeavenToday I slept in late but first I had to let the dog out to do his business.  When he was done we returned to bed where I began my meditation.  I struggled to achieve a deep state of consciousness when all of the sudden I broke through, I saw clear as day two figures neither male nor female, two beings of the highest order.  Their complexion was shiny glowing and porcelain in nature.  They looked surreal.  They were standing gazing at a green orb that remained suspended in the space they held between them.  I was invited to gaze at the ball of green light.  I knew what I was experiencing was not of the 3rd dimension.  I was at the top of it all looking upon every dimension.  Everything that ever was and is I knew was contained within this green orb.  Outside of us and the orb was nothing but void space. I had never seen the color black so dark black as this. 

 

The vision slowly faded and I ran downstairs to look up green orbs on the internet. I thought maybe a search would lead me somewhere. I soon found my way to celestial spheres on Wikipedia and when I scrolled down I found what I was looking for. It was a drawing of Dante and Beatrice gazing upon the highest Heaven; from Gustave Doré‘s illustrations to the Divine Comedy Paradiso Canto 31. It was an image hauntingly similar to what I had experienced. The only difference was that the beings and myself were much larger than the orb. I understood that our gazing at it was what held everything in place. The size of the orb was about 6 inches in diameter.

Mary Magdalene A Ray of Light

Mary MagdaleneI just finished a course on the life of Mary Magdalene.  I never had the level of appreciation and respect for her that I do now.  I definitely glossed over her importance as I’m sure many Christians have.  I do know now that I want to read The Gospel of Mary.  The Gospel of Mary is one of the gospels that did not make the cut into the Bible that we know now.  One of the reasons I’m sure is because it was from the perspective a woman.  She literally was the 12th apostle or more accurately the 1st

One thing is for sure, she was the first to see the risen Christ.  I know it was not by chance that Christ revealed himself to her before anyone else.  This course illuminated the many theories about Mary and Jesus. Whether you subscribe to the possibilities raised or not it does raise new dimensions of thought surrounding their relationship. 

It is a love story so incredibly touching and non-traditional it resonates so deeply within my soul.  So many things I was simply unaware of.  Whether she was a prostitute, a lesbian or whatever else that might give them cause to want to stone her, she suffered greatly alongside Jesus.  Having experienced the Crucifixion had to have been heart wrenching for a loved one to endure.  I would have been completely devastated then to be taken up so high upon seeing the risen Christ would have been a rollercoaster ride of emotion to say the least.  What a beautiful angle to come in on this story.  It is so out of the box it is refreshing.  It shows a humanness so tender and yet so divine. 

Last night I had a dream, where I am angry at my brother’s wife Maggie for having disrespected my mother.  She is lying about her actions and I want her to come clean and admit and repent of what she has done but she does not she simply continues to lie and deny it.  She infuriates me so much I slap her across the face.  My brother then walks in and tells her he has finally had it with her.  She is begging him to reconsider his actions.  My brother refuses and in the heart ache of losing her and the decision which is forced upon him, he locks himself in a vaulted room and turns on the gas.  He is about to commit suicide because he can no longer endure the pain.  They look at each other through a glass window in the vaulted door. 

I am driving my mom around in a golf cart to remove her from what she is about to experience; the loss of her son.  We ride over to where there are several pools filled with glowing blue waters.  My mother is afraid that I’m going to endanger her by driving the cart too close to the edge of the pool.  She doesn’t understand the spiritual nature of what she is about to experience by bathing in the refreshing waters of the pools.  I am bringing her here to renew her life.  I’m trying to reason with her but she is set and determined to remain in her own fear. 

I then become lucid and realize it is close to the time when I need to wake up to get ready for work.  I observe my surroundings within the dream realizing what I have just done.  I’m thinking, I’m now going to get phone calls from everyone in the family blaming me for antagonizing the situation by pushing the issue to a confrontation

Ray of LightMy alarm clock rings.  I wake up thinking sarcastically…..”wonderful dream Ruben.”  I snoozed the alarm and laid my head back down to meditate.  I immediately began having a vision.  A ray of beautiful blue light so intense filled every corner of my vision.  The rays of light were broken by something; a shadow in the distance.  The light was so intense like the blue torch flame on a welder’s gun yet it did not hurt my eyes.  I knew something had to be in the distance obstructing the light that was coming through.  I stayed within the divine light for 9 minutes until my alarm clock went off a second time.  

Again, I hit the snooze button.  I returned to my vision where I now saw a bearded man in spirit wearing a long white robe seated with a book on his lap and a pen in one hand.  He was writing in his journal.  With every couple words that he wrote, he would pause to reflect and meditate on what he had just written.  What he was writing was apparently very dear and close to his heart. I could tell by the expression in his face.  His fingers gently caressed the pages upon which his pen lay.  My alarm sounded a second time. 

The connections in this dream did not hit me immediately.  Even the obvious connection between Magdalene and my sister-in-law Maggie I missed at first.  It wasn’t until I began to write that it made perfect sense.  I tried to think back to the last time I saw the light as bright as this.  It was the time I had the vision of Christ on the Cross surrounded by concentric circles of arched angles.  Had I been that close once again to the presence of the Christ Light?  Remembering back to the vision of Christ on the Cross where at his feet were kneeling both Mary the mother of God and Mary Magdalene.  Yes it was Mary Magdalene whose image was obstructing the light before my eyes this morning.

I have to ask myself, if I am Maggie, am I dealing too harshly with myself?  Are there things, I’m not admitting to that are keeping me set in my old ways preventing me from renewing my life by bathing in the illuminated waters of the Light of Christ.  What can I do today to honor this dream as Christ honored his beloved Magdalene as imperfect and divinely human as she was?  Maybe I can look at both Maggies in a different light.

A Stargate Science: The Living Faces

StargateI have been pondering the mystery of these Moai referenced in my recent dreams and visions.  Anytime synchronicity appears around me it is a clear indication for me to pay close attention to what is happening.  The universe is trying to get my attention.  This began with my Red Riding Hood vision, followed by the Coneheads, which lead to the Moai’s from Easter Island. Research into the Moai left me speechless when I came across the reference to the Living Faces

So often in my mediations and contemplation on the stars have I seen through the darkness within the minds eye, Living Faces swept by the sea of consciousness.  Are these the gods of the stars and the heavens, beings from other dimensions those described by the people of Easter Island?  I know there is a Stargate Science here. Within us is a portal to other dimensions.  Within us is a mirror of what we experience as out there in the heavens, those bodies of light we call stars.

A Life lived off the Cuff

Off the CuffThanksgiving 2005 was the day my life would change forever. I dropped dead and somehow was allowed to return because I had yet to fulfill my true calling. I saw the life drain from my eyes as the lights were turned off in my head. I saw the light in the tunnel where I was met by others who showed me what I had done with my life. On the gurney was a withered hand and forearm, a symbol of that part of me that I had not yet extended to humanity. My book, my life and these websites are an attempt now to offer a loving hand. It has become my calling. There is no other reason for my living than to fulfill what had yet to be fulfilled.

I sometimes feel stuck. Not knowing the right answers or the next right move. I’m told in deep meditation, “You already know the way. You have done this before.” There is a place within me that does have the answers. It is a place within us all where we share in the light of our True Self. The answers received are not however the instructional answers we are used to receiving like a recipe with measured amounts. Life is meant to be lived in the moment and off the cuff.