ej gold - Life in the Labyrinth

Description: Life in the LabyrinthThis second book in the The Labyrinth Trilogy is the classic work on new-shamanism. E.J. Gold penetrates the secrets of traditional esoteric practice, particularly alchemy and shamanism, and presents techniques for expanded perception and attention that work in everyday contemporary life.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Unknowingly we voyage in a labyrinth, a macrodimensional maze of living electrical force, cloaked by a thick layer of ordinary life. Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention. 2. MAZE BRIGHTNESS When we awaken a higher learning process, we no longer exhibit confusion and disorientation in the macrodimensions. Through special internal processes which we can learn, we are able to penetrate far beyond the ordinary spectrum, into the macrodimensions, resembling consensus reality in form, but radically different in other ways, perceivable only with long, difficult training of the non-machine attention. 3. THE ULTIMATE PUZZLE The labyrinth, as could any maze, has puzzle-like characteristics; obeying the rules of puzzle-solving should, if the laws of the maze are understood and the signs are read correctly, enable us to voyage consciously as well as remembering previous passages and having a connected overview which takes into account everything we have ever learned in the maze. 4. THE KEYS TO ELEGANT VOYAGING The keys to elegant labyrinth voyaging are generally those little, nagging, insignificant items which we would ordinarily dismiss as inconsequential; one such key is the rudder with which we steer ourselves through the labyrinth. 5. NEURAL NETWORK PROJECTIONS Our knowledge of the environmental world is entirely dependent upon synaptic processing of organic perceptions which come to us at the speed of light; still, this is not fast enough to be in the present; bypassing these organically bound perceptions can provide us with the possibility of direct unfiltered views of the real world, unencumbered by the brain and its significances. 6. THE ILLUSION OF TIME As we upscale into the macrodimensions, we soon discover that what really prevents us from living macrodimensional life in the timeless, eternal state is our extreme psychological dependence upon the ordinary flow of time as measured by clocks; it is hard to accept time as a function of space and not a linear flow through events. 7. THE MYSTIC VISION The veil is not in the mind, but in the heart. Only the heart will lift the veil. When this happens, when we have softened and ripened, we will find ourselves to be at the very heart of the labyrinth, for which we have longed all our lives. 8. LIGHTNING HANDLERS ALWAYS CRACKLE We work to develop what remains after personal annihilation, because only that is truly able to work. To understand love is to dissolve the self and the subjective mysteries of appearances into it. 9. THE ART AND SCIENCE OF INVOCATION All macrodimensional invocation is focused on the activation of corresponding resonators between chambers until they vibrate in sympathetic unison. We also have the ability as a being to self-invoke, to expand our morphology into a space where we are not. 10. DATA RETRIEVAL IN THE HIGHER DIMENSIONS Shamanism was first developed thousands of years ago to satisfy macrodimensional needs, something rejected because it is not focused on common primate goals, subject only to higher laws beyond the reach or ken of the human world. 11. SHAPESHIFTING UP THE TOTEM Voyaging back and forth between the human and other dimensions, using powerful mental and emotional equations to produce a tangible construct, a totemic ladder, a dimensional elevator, the voyager shapeshifts through the totemic morphologies up, down or both at once. 12. ENCOUNTER WITH THE SIMURGH . A SCHOOL EXPERIMENT In the course of several centuries, it is only rarely that a large group of individuals may be able to openly organize penetrations into macrodimensions and explorations of sectors of the labyrinth ordinarily inaccessible to individuals or small groups.13. THE INITIATION OF THE ABSOLUTE The Absolute is fragmented into an infinite number of parts which take the shape of a multi-dimensional labyrinth. The Absolute in the form of the Creation is the labyrinth through which we are voyaging. The Great Work is an attempt to bring the corpse of Creation to the most profound state of livingness.14. THE LABYRINTH VOYAGER.S QUATRAIN All phenomena is illusion. Neither attracted nor repelled, Not making any sudden moves. My habits will carry me through.15. GOING MACRODIMENSIONAL Often when we think that we are at our best, we are at our worst, and when we believe we're at our worst, we are at our best, bat we can be assured that if we are in the macrodimensions with presence and attention, always and automatically our functioning in the Work chamber conforms to law; we cannot help but be correct. 16. LIFE IN THE LABYRINTH We work to overcome our fears of seeing the horror of the situation and to achieve the Heart of the Labyrinth where we are able to perform a special kind of work, view the Creation as a whole, and put life into it, if only momentarily. 17. BRINGING CREATION TO LIFE The effort to bring Creation to life is never-ending. At first distant, the actual possibility of performing this task will be achieved again and again during our work in the labyrinth. This talk is a reconstruction of a successful group voyage. EPILOGUE: THE POWER OF ATTENTION Having made several attempts at penetrating the labyrinth, we will return to our starting point, asking ourselves what the shamanic voyager's secret is. The answer is simple . everything depends upon attention. It is a tool which we all possess; the rest is up to us. AUTHOR'S AFTERWORD APPENDIX I: MACRODIMENSIONS: A MATHEMATICAL MODEL -- by David Christie APPENDIX II: MACRODMENSIONS: A PHYSICAL PERSPECTIVE -- by Dr. Claude Needham

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