INITIATION AND THE QUEST FOR THE OTHERWORLD

The 3-hour lecture.

Initiation means ‘to become conscious’. But just how does one become conscious?

Long ago there existed a secret ritual from which initiates returned ‘awakened’ or ‘risen from the dead’, and up to the Greek era the experience was considered a pinnacle of spiritual development. With roots in Japan c.8000 BC, this Way of the Gods moved westward, to be eventually adopted by Christian gnostics as the ‘living resurrection’. As one gnostic gospel explains, “to live a human existence ordinarily is to live a spiritual death, but the moment a person experiences living resurrection is the moment they discover enlightenment: It is the revealing of what truly exists and a transition into newness,” and anyone exposed to this practice became spiritually awakened.

It involved a dangerous out-of-body experience using techniques to guide energy that raised the body’s frequencies. The benefit was direct experience of the Otherworld.

It was regarded as the most secret of all practices within Mysteries schools, whose practitioners included Pythagoras and Plato.

Discover where initiation was practiced, why no bodies were found in Egyptian pyramids, why priestesses held the highest level of office, and how a sacred narrative was twisted to create the false story of one practitioner, Jesus.

This 3-hour presentation was originally recorded at The Arlington Institute


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