Insights into the New Energy
with Dr. Michael E. Brandt

Re: The Teacher's Series, Shoud 10 given by Adamus Saint-Germain through Geoffrey Hoppe, May 5^th, 2007

Dear beloved friends,

Thank you once again for being here. You may notice that I appear to "deviate" (no pun intended) at times from the subject matter of this month's shoud. Well, I never was one to stay on target ("they" call this ADD today). But I can assure you there is always a method to my madness (even if neither you nor I have the foggiest what that might be). Just one note: I am off on a much-needed family vacation, returning on 6/8. I will have some additions to this month's article after that time. Please keep an eye on the last revision date indicated above.

In the meantime, please fasten your seat belts and enjoy the ride. Saint-Germain will be our designated driver this month and as you know, nobody does it better. ;-)

The system in creation - the perfect melding of chaos and order

In the shoud Saint-Germain said this: "the omniverse is in perfect order. Everything is in order. It may appear to be chaos at times - particularly from your perspective here on planet Earth, locked into this human body and trapped at so many times by the human brain - but everything is in perfect order."

Back in January here in this forum (re shoud 6 with Saint-Germain) we described the system's view of how the omniverse "works." We discussed how over the last ~100 years science has come to realize that most natural, biological and social systems are in fact nonlinear, dynamical, and holistic (the latter term meaning that the behavior of the system taken as a whole is coherent and more than the simple summation of the way the individual pieces function.

This behavior appears to be purposeful) in their fundamental essence. As it turns out, systems in nature that happen to be linear, static (unchanging or very slowly), and reductionistic (meaning that the whole system behaves as a simple sum of the behaviors of the separate parts) are relatively uncommon to find. They are the rare cases rather than the rule as was thought concerning the latter before the discovery of chaotic and fractal systems (remember, a fractal is a geometric object with a noninteger dimension like 2.6).

In case you're wondering, a linear system is one in which its behavior has a certain predictability about it. It processes information in a proportionate manner (e.g., a stimulus with low energy presented to the system leads to a low energy system response, a high energy input into the system leads to a high energy response, etc.). A nonlinear system is one that simply does not behave or respond in a linear manner (low energy input could produce a high energy response, etc.).

The 'system in creation' is a purposeful nonlinear dynamical holistic system. It is imbued with consciousness because, according to Kabbalah as well as some other mystical wisdom traditions - Spirit's Light (Ain Soph Ohr) - a form of the Creator's "DNA" is an essential ingredient of which the system is comprised, similar to the fact that we each have a portion of our parent's biological DNA that makes up our genetic profile.

Nonlinear systems, generally speaking, have a neatness "problem" - their behavior appears messy and disordered much of the time. This appearance is very compelling, even seductive for most humans. World events appear dismal in many ways these days. Most of us can point to current events and give ourselves a belly full of worries - wars, terrorism, global warming, degradation of the environment, crime, economic issues, health, the list goes on.

The state of much of this world doesn't look very rosy. But most of the time these are mere appearances of chaos and disorder. If we infer from these appearances that the system in creation is completely "out of control" we are engaging in a form of extreme and/or mistaken thinking. Doing so, we allow our minds to get the better part of us - thus becoming trapped by them.

There is a particular class of nonlinear, dynamical, systems that are known by the technical, scientific term "chaotic systems." The behavior of these particular systems appears quite random. There seems to be little "rhyme or reason" to what one observes coming from them - in a sense, with these systems "accidents abound." Oftentime one cannot figure out on a rational basis why the system behaves as it appears to. Part of the reason for this is looking for the system's essence in the wrong place. Another is not understanding how such systems work - in particular not knowing that they have an underlying deterministic basis or foundation that is not reflected in any direct way in the system's behavior.

What this is saying in other words is that underlying the system's outward manifestation of behavior is a fundamental ordering that is somewhat hidden beneath its surface (the behavior itself). This is analogous to a person who has model good looks while lacking a heart of lovingkindness for his fellows. A technically chaotic system demonstrates "sensitivity to initial conditions" - the so-called Butterfly Effect (e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in China leads to a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean). These systems can be very complex also, meaning there is a large number of "degrees of separation" between the precipitating cause of the behavior and the behavior itself - as in the case of the Butterfly Effect.

Because the system in creation is imbued with Spirit's DNA - the blueprint of creation is "stamped" into every aspect and part of the system - it is at core perfect and in perfect working order. Why is that? Because Spirit is perfect in every way. In the Torah - God appears to the reader to act in capricious ways - one can argue even morally reprehensible at times. God is not happy with His creation in the time of Noah and so He floods the earth killing all life forms except for Noah, his family and the animals brought onto the ark.

God kills two of Aaron's sons when they offer a sacrifice as they fail to follow God's explicit instructions for doing do. God makes the Israelites wander in the dessert for 40 years so that the older generation (the ones who cannot shed their enslavement consciousness) will die out before they reach the promised land, and many other examples. There are of course a number of examples of God acting benevolently, patiently, and lovingly toward his chosen people.

Kabbalah, for several thousand years now, has attempted to make it clear that these Biblical stories concerning God and His "alleged" behaviors (along with any inferences about God's personality) are appearances only of the underlying truths. God is at core not whatever His behaviors may seem to be from these stories. Kabbalah is equally clear that we can never use words, thoughts, ideas nor any aspect of consciousness to "corral" God - to define, or say what God IS. God's perfection - hence the system in creation's, lies in "sans definition" - the very basis of the name Ain Soph.

This name implies nothing about Spirit in terms of direct positive logic. It only refers to a negative logic status - the only thing we can say about Spirit is It is without any possible bound. At the same time, the Tetragrammaton - the 4 letter sacred name, happens to be a peculiar conjugational form of the verb in Hebrew - hiyah - "to be." This word seems to be a kind of nonlinear melding of the three forms "I was", "I AM" and "I will be." Because Spirit is one with all of creation, everything is in perfect working order. That includes each one of us of course. Step one then is to know-gnost this. Step 2: if ever in doubt or we forget for whatever reason, return to step one and repeat. Do NOT take 2 pills AND feel free to call upon Spirit in the morning. ;-)

Abundance - the natural and most true state of All That Is

The perfection of the system in creation along with its ever-expansive nature means directly that the entire system is one of infinite abundance. Because it is a nonlinear, dynamic, holistic system of which we each are a part - this means that we are naturally abundant. If the system happened to be strictly linear this would not necessarily be the case. Because we are one with Spirit - thus we are Divine, we ARE abundant, period. Stop reading this for a few moments and just allow this truth to be with you, close your eyes, breath with it, recognize it and feel it …… ah, don't you feel better, a sense of calmness, well-being, and peace - shalom (the word shalom derives from another Hebrew word shalem, meaning "wholeness")?

As we recognize more and more our Divine self-identity we will become increasingly aware of our abundance. This is our birthright and our gift. When someone gives you a gift, it is divine to accept it graciously. We express our appreciation that someone has taken the time to acknowledge, honor and respect us. As our eyes slowly open to our truth we become increasingly aware of the many gifts in our lives. When we do so, it's like receiving each one anew, like winning the lottery each time. Recall that Kabbalah is fundamentally about reception. Here we see it is not only about receiving old traditions. It is about receiving gifts - one of which is the taking on once again the "cloak" of our Divinity.

Receiving these gifts increases our gratitude which in turn helps us become even more aware of our very own abundance. This is also directly related to ascension while in embodiment. Ascension and taking on progressively our cloak of Divinity go hand-in-hand. Note that abundance does not primarily or predominantly lie in the 4D material-physical world, nor does it reside in the world of thought. Neither does it reside in "hunting" for wealth, having to do lots of things to attain riches, or pushing oneself to achieve "their" ideas of what it means to be successful. Those things are vicious cycles - like a dog that chases its tail. They lead to addictive behaviors - you "score" some wealth, it gives you a charge, now you have to go out and obtain more money to feel even better, and so on. In this way material wealth has been given master status in one's life. It has been allowed to become one's false god - a form of worship of a graven image.

Abundance is also not just about one's own abundance. It is about humanity's collective abundance. If abundance is only about "I'm gonna get mine" and we adopt the attitude that all others should fend for themselves that's just another form of allowing an external ideal to rule over us. This is simply self-indulgence at the expense of others - a passive acceptance of the idea that it's a "dog-eat-dog world out there." As abundance is an attribute of Divinity it is like a form of glue that has the potential to bring the shattered pieces of creation back together again since Oneness is the highest truth in the Spirit-filled system of creation.

An ancient Kabbalah master asked rhetorically "Who is truly wealthy?" Answer: "He who is content with his lot." Each of our lots in life is very great, whether we realize it or not. We are wealthy beyond our current imaginings as a natural consequence of being one with Spirit. As we meditate upon this and realize more and more the true significance of our greatness because of it, we will increasingly find more joy and peace in our lives. One who lives in a perpetual state of joy and wonder in the eternal now moment is abundant indeed because they are living life to the fullest.

Whether or not one realizes that Spirit is present within them, always supportive and loving, does not change the reality of the Truth of this. However, as one progressively comes to its realization, their lives in this world change for the better, regardless of their circumstances.

There's an old story from Jewish tradition (called a midrash) that illustrates this. … There was a man named Yankel, son of Izaac, who yearned to find a treasure, one that would bring him happiness, contentment, fulfillment. He sat, night after night, at his kitchen table, imagining that treasure (he was using techniques from "The Secret" tsk tsk ;-)). One evening he had a dream, the most vivid of his life. In this dream he saw a bridge in the great city of Crackow, and under it, he saw the treasure of his lifetime buried there, just waiting to be dug up! There he rushed, before even the dawn broke to find the treasure. In the center of the city was the bridge, just as the dream had described. And under the bridge, he began to dig.

As the sun came up, he had opened a huge pit. A policeman came by and asked him what he was doing. Yankel saw there was no way to lie. So he told the policeman all about the dream and the buried treasure. The policemen laughed at him. "Why if I followed every dream of buried treasure! Last night I dreamed that there is a Jew named Yankel who doesn't know that under his kitchen floor lies a great treasure!" Hearing his name, Yankel jumped up from the pit. He grabbed his tools and ran home. He digs up the floor of the kitchen, and sure enough: there, under the table where he'd sat for so many years dreaming - there under his own kitchen floor was his treasure.

Our treasure has been with us from the very beginning, we have until now pretended to not know where it is. Now as we move toward the Quantum Leap is a good time to re-remember where it is, bring it forth, and to begin to share it with friends, family, and all the worlds.

Judgment: An integral part of the Tree of Life and creation, not just an 8 letter word

Often nowadays, in the context of spirituality, we hear that we should be very careful to not judge others and certainly not to "pass sentence" on another based on our judgments of them. We are admonished from time to time that it is better to practice unconditional love with everyone and in all things. Christianity as a religion has advocated this for the better part of 2000 years. As Yeshua said "judge not, lest you be judged."

Yet, let's be clear that there is a distinction between making a judgment and "passing sentence" against someone using our judgments as a basis. When one identifies and gives voice to what they believe are facts, or when one speaks their truth, even in regards to another - this is not being judgmental in and of itself. However, when we lose compassion for the other by our intent to prove or show that they are "wrong", that leads to an imbalance on the side of being overly judgmental.

On the other hand discernment is a process of determining whether or not a belief, situation, association with a particular individual, etc. serves one's best self-interest and is deemed appropriate to incorporate into one's life. Oftentime, people will accuse others of being judgmental simply because the other does not agree with their position on something. Now THAT is "dirty pool" if you ask me! ;-)

According to Kabbalah, judgment (which is related to the free will ability of making a choice and/or an informed decision) is an integral component of the system in creation, a natural characteristic of duality. Kabbalah teaches that our ability to judge/discern - to make key distinctions in our lives and do so both wisely and skillfully, is a critical part of the All That Is. The very "structure" of the Etz Chaim - The Kabbalistic Tree of Life, makes this abundantly clear as seen in the diagram left below, reproduced from the March Insights article.

The Tree of Life, according to Kabbalah, is the blueprint of all of creation, and it is the "plan" that Mother-Father God uses to create all of humanity (we discussed some of the workings of the Tree of Life in the March Insight's article). It is a mapping of the human body as well. The Adam Kadmon - the primordial, archetypal human (that Kabbalah understands to be a symbolic, conceptual representation of Spirit as well as humanity) was created using this blueprint. The Tree consists of three vertical columns or pillars. The pillar on the right side of the body (left in the diagram) acts as a "source" - energy flows out of the three sefirot along it. These are, from top to bottom, Chochmah (wisdom), Chesed (lovingkindness) and Netzach (victory, eternity) respectively. The right pillar is thus the "giving" side of the Tree, representing masculinity in a general way (it is the seed-bearing side).

The left pillar (right side in the diagram) acts like an energy sink - it is the side of reception consisting of the three sefirot of Binah (understanding), Gevurah (power or judgment) and Hod (splendor). It represents the feminine ideal generally speaking - the nurturing side that fosters growth. So for example, we give someone something using our right hand (e.g. a gift) and accept something we are given with the left hand. The middle pillar is the "fulcrum" or balance column between the two outside pillars. It consists of the sefirot of Keter (crown, Divine Will, self-sovereignty), Tiferet (beauty, compassion, mercy), Yesod (foundation, the righteous one), and Malchut (the "kingdom", the Divine feminine's presence in the world, the earth - Gaia).

When considering that the left column of the Tree represents femininity, the right masculinity and the middle the balance of them, we recognize the entire Tree as a method, procedure or "roadmap" for bringing together and integrating our divine feminine and masculine sides. From a Kabbalistic perspective, how that ultimately occurs in an omniversal sense is the main reason Spirit created the All That Is in the first place - so that there indeed will "one-day" take place a re-union of the Divine Mother (who is currently "residing in exile" with humanity on earth) and Father.

The sense of yearning/longing for this marriage and subsequent consummation to take place - (let's think of it as "The Cosmic Yichud" - the word Yichud is related to the word echad - meaning one, Yichud means "becoming one") is reflected in the ages-old scriptural passage that reads "On that day, the Lord shall be One and His Name shall be One." This final melding of Amma and Abba is the ultimate love story of the omniverse!

The sefirah of Chesed in the right pillar, Gevurah in the left and Tiferet in the middle, form one of three interactive energetic triads in the Tree that seek to maintain a dynamic balance "over the long haul." This balance means that the masculine energy of Chesed and the feminine energy of Gevurah synergize with each other causing a resonance (an amplification of their respective energies) reflected in an energy surge in Tiferet - the sefirah which represents our heart. This balance of lovingkindness with judgment is reflected in the "balanced scales of justice" viewed in depictions of the Goddess of Justice found in many courthouses across the United States.

Here is one fascinating and beautiful rendition - a photo of a sculpture (by Glenn Acree, Roswell, Georgia) of the Goddess of Justice with the Angel of Mercy-Compassion behind her (nearby the Samford University Law Library, Birmingham, Alabama). Notice the Goddess has scale in one hand and sword in the other. Why is Justice a goddess vs. a god? Because justice is a feminine attribute as viewed in the Tree of Life.

The accompanying caption is "Seek wisdom to temper justice with compassion". The concept is that the Angel of Mercy is seen advising the Goddess of Justice. She is staying the sword to keep it from being used too swiftly, tempering it with compassion. Notice also the Book of the Law next to the Goddess. The Torah is also known as "The Law" in Hebraic tradition.

The point I wish to make here is that judgment is an integral aspect of creation, far from a "sinful" behavior to be excised and discarded.

Judgment balanced with lovingkindness results in the pure beauty of a compassionate and merciful heart. In fact another name for the sefirah of Tiferet - beauty - is Rachamim - which means compassion or mercy. The natural inclination or tendency for Life in all its Glory to return to a state of balance implies that being unconditionally loving only, or on the other hand, being 100 percent judgmental, each represent cases of extreme imbalance, something clearly not desirable in our lives. Imbalance stresses the system leading to energy drainage, similar to arterial blockages in the human heart.

Most parents come to understand this point very well with respect to their children. They know that giving unconditional love to their children untempered with wise judgment and appropriate boundary-setting is not a very effective prescription for raising well-adjusted future adults. However, when children are taught how to make good choices and how to be thoughtfully discerning, life usually goes much better for them and they mature properly.

Back in the February Insights we described the very first act of omniversal creation according to Kabbalah. In order for any such act to take place there first must be a finite or delimited "space" available for it to exist within. A fetus develops inside a mother's womb prior to its birth. So too, according to Kabbalah, room had to have been made for all subsequent creation to occur. This "space" which goes far beyond the physical, was called into existence before any substantive thing. In a paradoxical process that goes far beyond the human mind to fathom, Spirit withdrew from Self to create the vessel that would hold all of creation.

This process is known in Hebrew as the tzimtzum. To be sure, the ancient Kabbalists understood that this delimited "space" is "hyper"-dimensional meaning its dimensionality exceeds the 4 of spacetime (5, 6, 7, … to possibly infinity). One Kabbalistic legend holds that God used the sefirah of Gevurah from the Tree of Life to manifest the tzimtzum since judgment is a form of limit setting.

Understanding our Divine Family - Who Loves us, Baby?

The Tree of Life is also a representation of the Family of Divine humanity. We will not get into the fine details here - there are many. Rather, we will summarize some general features. The Tree tells a kind of a story of how Spirit creates the omniverse and how that is equivalent to the creation of the Divine Family. The tzimtzum itself - the womb of creation, represents the Divine feminine - Amma. Recall that the vessel is "inseminated" with Divine Light - Ain Soph Ohr, representative of the Father - Abba. The vessel shatters - analogous to the Big Bang in cosmology - the "grand-daddy" of omniversal explosions!

This event represents the creation of duality in the form of the diversity we see "out there" in the world. It is the birthing of the omniverse, the process of its evolution, and the genealogical development of the entire family. Modern day physics recognizes this explosion in a very limited way as the so-called second law of thermodynamics - the tendency for the universe to become increasingly "messy", more chaotic and literally cold (the universe is said to be suffering a slow, inexorable "heat death"). Stated another way - on balance, universal entropy is ever-increasing.

Yet, Kabbalah is clear that this (physics') view is dramatically opposed to its own. Kabbalah holds that the ultimate "endpoint" of creation is that all will move together and eventually become one once again with-in Spirit. The Divine Light that is entrapped within all the shards of the shattered vessel will be freed up in time so that they may return to their Divine Source. The entire Family will then be re-united as One!

Humanity - every embodied human soul, of course, is all part of this Divine Family. We are the "descendants" of Amma and Abba. Because there is a system in creation, there is an ordering or a structure to this Family. Yeshua, in his lifetime 2000 years ago, was the embodied soul representative of the Adam Kadmon - the archetype in Kabbalah of all of humanity. Within Adam Kadmon IS humanity. Remember that Adam had within him Eve - they were one before she was separated from him and given her own independent existence. Even so, Adam and Eve are always intrinsically connected. Within each of us is both feminine and masculine existing in potential, our true twin flames that will one day be fully integrated in us.

We are all members of the Divine Family and there are further divisions into clans, tribes, peoples, and "sub-families", just as is so within humanity as a whole. In the Divine Family, no soul is "higher", "better", or more adored by Spirit than any other, Yeshua included. We are all equally unique, blessed, and deeply revered "card-carrying" members of this Spiritual Family, all having come into embodiment once again in this human life and at this time, each with unique gifts, talents and reasons for being here at this time.

Our becoming increasingly aware of the ramifications of these truths are key now to our collective future success in the New Energy - the main ramification being that no individual can truly ascend on his or her own without ALL ascending in a unified way. This takes us into a discussion of messianism.

Tidying up "Messy"anism ;-)

This principle has been around in Western culture for at least three thousand years, tracing its roots to a time well before even King David. The Hebrew word for messiah - mashiach - means "the anointed one" referring to a king of an earthly kingdom. The messiah, a descendant of the Davidic line, would someday appear on the scene, be anointed with holy oil as a king and usher in a long reign of freedom and peace on earth for the Jews and indeed all of humanity. Many of the prescriptions or specifications concerning the conditions of the appearance of the messiah and/or the beginning of the messianic age were prophesied in the biblical books of Isaiah, as well as a few other prophets (Ezekiel, Zechariah, Zephaniah, and Jeremiah).

Although Judaism does not have any officially "sanctioned doctrines" of faith that are universally recognized by all its peoples and group, there is a general consensus in this religion that a messianic era will occur sometime in the future - one which will mark a threshold shift in humanity's consciousness toward the "gnostic" understanding that humans are one with Spirit. If there is a single creed in Judaism it is indeed embodied in the words of the shema - "Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One." Yet, different Jewish groups have differing conceptions about the meaning of messianism - specifically whether it refers to a human king who will appear on the scene (the Orthodox sect's position), or whether it represents a shift in consciousness bringing in an age of significantly increased enlightenment and peace (the Reform Jewish view).

The latter is actually related to the Kabbalistic idea of tikkun olam - repair of the omniverse (specifically the restoration of the shattered vessel - the tzimtzum). This repair can only occur through humanity's individual and collective efforts resulting from a shift in its consciousness and not through the actions of one embodied human. The reason why the 131 year old Reform Jewish Movement gave up the need for and belief in a messiah who would one day bring judgment, and perhaps salvation, to the world is one of humanity's collective responsbility - the fact that Spirit imbues us with free choice mitigates the need for a messianic figure.

In reality, for these thousands of years, many in our Judeo-Christian culture have (and continue to) wait for a messiah in the guise of a single embodied human who will appear and welcome in a messianic era of peace and plenty. In ancient Judaism's case this individual would be a fully human king who has yet to appear. In the case of Christianity, the Christ will return once again as God fully embodied in a human form (Yeshua) to redeem humanity, according to its religious beliefs.

Saint-Germain had this to say in the shoud, "So here you have religions holding the consciousness, waiting for the Messiah. (The) Messiah's not coming. It was an old and cheap promise that the church has put out to keep waiting, to keep people in control. The Messiah's not coming back. If you wanted to look at it perhaps in its most optimistic way, you'd say that you are your Messiah. You are your own Christ seed. You are the New Energy. If you wanted to look at it perhaps in its most optimistic light, you could say that the Messiah was not a person, the Messiah was an event. The Messiah is the quantum leap in consciousness for humanity."

The Jewish Talmud (commentaries by the rabbis on the Torah) which often uses stories to make a moral point tells the tale of a highly respected rabbi who found the Messiah at the gates of Rome and asked him "When will you finally come?" He was quite surprised when he was told, "Today." Overjoyed and full of anticipation, the man waited all day. The next day he returned, disappointed and puzzled, and asked, "You said messiah would come 'today' but he didn't come! What happened?" The Messiah replied, "Scripture says, 'Today, if you will but hearken to His voice!'" (Psalms 95:7).

Up until the present, I believe that humanity purposefully mislead itself by using the generally ccepted understanding of the messianic concept (an individual who would arrive on the scene to "save" humanity and rule over them). It was necessary for us to do this so that we could arrive at this time of the impending quantum leap in which each of us, all together as one, will reclaim our true divinity - without having to suffer physical death or worldly destruction. The quantum leap is the realization that humanity as a whole and each individual human, IS the Moshiach, the Christos - the anointed of Spirit.

Those of us who do realize this, constitute a Family that will take it upon themselves to bring forth and manifest the post-QL consciousness of the New Energy, "out" into the world. "On that day" we will realize that the messiah has already arrived - and she is us! Who knows? We might even turn around then, recognize Yeshua standing way over to one side with a knowing smile on his face, and hear him say "oh, I've been here all along just watching and waiting for you all to realize that our Family has always been the omniversal 'repair crew'!" It's ok if you choose not to directly quote me on this - I wouldn't be offended. ;-)

Leadership revisited - let's have another chat, shall we?

Back in the February Insights article we discussed the topic of teachers, students and "way showers." There we pointed out that one who shows the way - a teacher, has also assumed a leadership role. Saint-Germain brought this topic up again in this month's shoud where he mentioned the paucity in the world of dynamic, charismatic, and I will add trustworthy leaders. It's interesting to speculate about what defines a leader and leadership in the New Energy as distinct from our present day world leaders. Clearly, as Saint-Germain pointed out, the expression of one's ego-self highlights a significant difference between today's leaders and future New Energy leaders.

Those who aspire to leadership driven by ego desires such as power, fame, wealth, attention, in short "it's all about me," will not thrive nor prevail in the New Energy. Saint-Germain gave two key characteristics of this new type of leader: they will not be energy feeders and they will "hold" themselves at the exact same level as everyone else. Here are a few practices that such leaders will not be found engaging in, most pretty obvious:

• Shirking their responsibility to serve those they've agreed to help serve. This would be a no-no because the one who has agreed to assume the leadership role is at the same exact level as those whom she serves! This also includes using the idea that "people are responsible for everything that happens to themselves" as an excuse to not assume a leader's responsibility of service to others.
• Not honoring their agreements with others. For example, they agree to pay someone X dollars and instead pay them X - Y dollars for the same services rendered.
• Using "bait and switch" tactics - substituting a service of lesser value without informing the "customer".
• Engaging in posturing behavior, haughtiness, or behaving passive-aggressively.
• Lying, cheating and misrepresenting themselves. Putting up a front or smoke screen to hide their less-than-honorable intentions.
• Welching on their obligations to pay or reimburse others to whom they owe money or being late with payments owed.
• Treating others with disdain, intentionally or not, for example using the attitude "my time is more important and valuable than yours" (indicating that they consider themselves "better" than the other person).
• Not getting back to folks they had been conducting business with in a timely manner because it wasn't convenient for them, they prioritized other things, they tell you "I simply don't have time to respond", or it ran counter to their own perceived self-interest (in the vernacular, leaving folks "hanging and dangling"). The silence that this message sends to the other has a mean-spirited edge to it: "I do not value or respect you" or "it's all about me not you." This is as old energy as it gets.
• Not making excuses for behaviors that result from a lack of enlightenment, forethought, and/or compassion, or not assuming personal responsibility.
• Not expressing Truth from the place of their Higher Self.
• Not recognizing their role as a student, choosing to be closed off to Spirit's guidance, and therefore not expressing Spirit's Light through themself as a channel.
• Playing the "counter-victim card" with those whom they agreed to serve by pointing fingers at them or voicing blame in any way such as by telling them "YOU are playing the victim." This is an abuse of the responsibility they agreed to take on as a leader.

The Return of The Spiritual Scientist

In the shoud, Saint-Germain brought in the energies, unbeknownst to them, of 12 living research scientists - quantum energy physicists, medical researchers and food scientists. Tesla's energy was also brought in and Saint-Germain noted that he is working with these twelve, assisting/coaching them with trying to bring their various developments to fruition on earth. These include new energy sources, medical advances, psychological and food technologies that have the potential to ensure that once the date of the QL is passed the shift that will take place to a new "gear" of consciousness will further accelerate the pace of humanity's enlightenment and ascension process.

We will one day look back on this time as a new Renaissance as Saint-Germain pointed out: "If you go ahead in time 20, 30, 40 years from now, this era right now on Earth, this time, will become known as the New Renaissance. Not just the renaissance of the social structure or the artistic structure, but the renaissance of science and the renaissance of physics. And tied right into that is going to be the renaissance of a new spirituality, because as you know, they're all connected together. Spirituality, or the understanding of one's own self in spirit, science, physics, even math - they are all associated with each other.

As I listened to this part of Saint-Germain's message so much came to me, no doubt because I have been a physicist, engineer and biomedical research scientist in this life over the past 25 years. I am still heavily involved in several human biological research studies in my role as a professor of biomedicine in a respected health sciences university. I can tell you that for those few scientists who "woke up" in a spiritual sense years ago and were, like myself, faced with the prospects of "no going backward" (they would be the pioneers in attempting to integrate/bring together spirituality with science) the road for them as scientists has been a daunting challenge. I dare say a few "bodies" have even been left by the side of that road.

Since Einstein's days, the "business" of the way science is done has undergone radical transformation. Gone are the days when individual scientists or even a few working together can make discoveries from their small labs that will have any significant impact on their fields let alone the world - even if these might have been considered landmark in the first half of the 20^th century. Science and engineering have grown to depend heavily on each other as the need to "prove", validate and confirm theory with actual experimentation followed by technological development has increased significantly over the past 50 years.

As a result, science became and is still a "big money" enterprise with most of the funding provided through government/military agencies such as the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Defense (DOD) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It's important that we not underestimate the effect this has had on the "making of science" in most of our lifetimes up until now. Since the 1960's university research scientists have had to compete to obtain funding for their work from the government through grant programs. At that time private foundations accounted for only a small percentage of science funding. Most researchers who applied for grants (as required of them by their university employers) had around a 50 percent chance of obtaining the support needed - excellent odds.

Today, the situation for academic scientists (and most science is still university-based today) is quite different. First, the costs for doing research are much, much higher than they were even 15 years ago - and rising. While the total pool of funding available for science today is greater (in absolute dollars, not inflated ones) than 40 years ago, the number of grant applications has skyrocketed over the years, and the chances of a new principal investigator obtaining a government grant has dropped from 50 to about 7 percent! Before the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq funding for biomedical research in the US doubled in about 8 years.

Since 2003 budgets have been down about 8 percent per year. Next year's NIH budget is projected to be $500 million less than this year's. That trend will continue into the foreseeable future. An article in this week's Washington Post (5/28/07) reported that Stanford University biochemist Dr. Roger Kornberg, 60, winner of the Nobel Prize last year for work he began in the 1970's, testified before congress that he is pretty sure that if he had been born a generation later, he never would have had a chance to be awarded the Nobel Prize, given the ultraconservative nature of research funding decisions today.

A typical grant application is about 120 pages in length, mostly filled with beaurocratic paperwork and background data. It takes a researcher a good 4-6 weeks of nearly fulltime effort to put together a respectable grant proposal. Once it is submitted, the review process for most government grants takes about 10 months. With a 7 percent funding probability, less than 1 in 14 applications will be approved on the first pass. If a non-funded proposal applicant decides to modify and resubmit in the next round, the review process takes another 10 months. Most agencies allow only two revised applications for a given proposed project.

This means that a scientist applying for such funding could wait more than 36 months to learn that her project will not be supported. A scientist could be doing the "greatest work in the field" and still be forced to change science fields, do other work, or even change professions altogether (I personally have had to change gears a few times in my scientific career). This has happened with more frequency over the past 7 years, along with the closing of formerly well-established laboratories that have lost their government and even industrial support after as many as 20 years of highly successful operations and discoveries.

On the one hand the universities are caught in the middle as they need more and more funding to support their research enterprise while the numbers of college students in science and engineering in the West is decreasing significantly compared to for example China which currently has about 10 times the number of engineering students as the US. On the other hand, the universities are demanding that science and engineering faculty bring in more and more funding, putting an increasing burden on them which further reduces their ability to "make science" (they have to spend significant time on the acquisition of funding rather than actually doing science, in addition to the same amount or more of teaching).

Tenure as an important and longstanding institution in the university system is under threat as well - it is being seriously eroded and may become extinct. Tenure was always understood as an achievement and recognition that a professor earned a permanent position as a faculty member after 5-8 years of being on probationary status (employed on a year-to-year renewable contract). Tenure was always tied to consideration of compensation - once achieved, a faculty member's salary could not be reduced without significant justification on the part of university administration.

Although it is still next to impossible today to strip a professor's tenure (there must be some sort of malfeasance), in the US a number of states have recently enacted legislation which renders tenure no longer permanent. Tenured faculty are now required to go through a review process every few years (essentially a re-tenuring process). In addition, many universities are attempting to separate one's tenure status from salary consideration: they can reduce a tenured faculty member's salary without legal justification or cause.

As a result science and scientists are turning more and more to private foundations for their funding even though the amount available is much less right now than from government sources. Newly trained scientists and engineers are looking for employment in industry, but the major problem with this is that industry's bottom line is profits and shareholder's financial interests much more so than the betterment of humanity as a whole. This seems to be shifting a bit and hopefully that trend will continue, especially after the QL.

Corporations will hopefully become increasingly enlightened about the "heart line" - specifically, the realization that we are all in "this" together, that humanity has a collective responsibility for its own health and welfare coupled with a responsibility to take care of Gaia (even though Gaia can take care of herself and will, humanity has an obligation to honor her). We are certainly seeing that in the environmental sector, better late than never. We're not seeing this to any appreciable extent yet in "big pharma" - the pharmaceutical industry. This indicates that we have a great deal of work to do in the health/medical science areas as Shaumbra are well aware.

Major developments in all scientific fields undergo a rigorous process of documentation through media (mainly scientific journals, also news reports, and documentaries). The main form of this is publication of peer-reviewed scientific articles that describe research studies. Like grant applications, not every "paper" submitted is accepted for publication and for those that are, the average time to publication is around 6 months. Yet, the numbers of scientific publications have skyrocketed over the past three decades. The good news is we have a great deal more open access to the many exciting developments in science while the potential downside is that society is exposed to increasing "information overload."

Some of you are familiar with the fact that there is presently a renewed, and intense debate ongoing right now in the general area of the neural and genomic sciences concerning the very nature and existence of Spirit - specifically whether or not the expression of human spirituality results from the evolution over millions of years of the human brain - in other words that the concept of God (and specifically religion) is a human-mind creation resulting from Darwinian evolution of the brain. This may sound rather silly or even preposterous to many Shaumbra, however I can assure you that this new round of an old debate remains a very serious one with a great deal at stake and ramifications far beyond science.

Fundamentally it has everything to do with the nature of who we are, where we "come from" and where we are "going." It also has a great deal to do with the true nature of consciousness as well as what constitutes reality. Notice that the notion of spirituality being "born of" the human brain implies a return to a materialistic philosophy of life - that consciousness and Spirit emanate from the physical 4D world of spacetime. In the interests of time, we will not go into the details of the debate here (see the book "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins and recent books by the philosopher Daniel Dennett).

Suffice to say that "in my humble opinion" we, as the teachers, leaders and ambassadors of The New Energy, must understand the key nature of our responsibility in projecting the Truth that Spirit, consciousness and energy not only precede the physical but that everything in the 4D world of our everyday experience arises from those three. What will tip the balance toward this view as we rapidly approach the QL now?

It will be whether or not Shaumbra assume their responsibility and do their part to ensure that two things occur: 1) that the current cadre of brilliant, talented scientists are provided with the appropriate energetic support they need for their work to become the optimal melding of science and Spirit; and 2) to foster the development of a new breed of scientist-engineers who will have an innate capacity to create a brand new spiritually-empowered scientific reality, the likes of which have never been seen before in all the omniverse!

Saint-Germain asked the following: "Who's going to teach humans how to let their body heal using these new technologies? Who's going to help structure and define, in a very New Energy, way some of the new applications of New Energy - this non fuel-based source? Who's going to help, particularly counsel, humans in the new spirituality - where it's not about religion and it's not about techniques, it's not about doing some old type of ceremonies, not about just a different set of rules - but a true new spirituality that allows a person to integrate the essence of their humanity with the absolute pure essence of their divinity - without blowing their mind apart?"

The answer in my mind is: Shaumbra University on Earth. This brings us to our next little chat.;-)

Shaumbra University on Earth - time to get real now folks!

Clearly, a new kind of university is needed to support the development and further manifestation of New Energy, especially in regards to science considerations in the post QL era. Such a university would be the natural agent for achieving the two objectives I listed just above - to support the efforts of scientists such as the 12 Saint-Germain brought in and to develop a brand new breed of spiritually endowed science "practitioners" and engineering types as well as New Energy health practitioners, counselors and healing facilitators who will also need comprehensive training in, and understanding of the health and biomedical sciences. This will require more comprehensive and well-integrated programs, including (but not just limited to) workshops, classes and seminars.

The university can serve as an umbrella organization for experienced researchers to conduct studies and produce media publications that not only explain what New Energy is all about but are able to demonstrate its usefulness and benefits to humanity as a whole. This is especially important as there is a large group of individuals "out there" who will be awakening to the New Energy, coming "online" with it. They will need support and training in many areas of life, not just in for example dreamwalking or sexual energies.

From the time that I first heard Tobias discuss Shaumbra University in 2003 (with great excitement), I assumed that it would fulfill the above role. Tobias never referred to it as anything other than a university, so "in my humble opinion" we need now more than ever before to give some thought about what would distinguish Shaumbra University from "Shaumbra College" or another type of institution.

A university is far more than a patchwork of workshops to train future teachers a few skill sets, as important as these may be. A university in the truest sense is a seat of higher learning as well as of service to all its students and the greater community. It is, in its ideal form, a seeker and discoverer of, repository for, and disseminator of deep, profound knowledge, wisdom and understanding. A university is also a standard, in particular Shaumbra University must aspire to be a particular, special kind of standard - a New Energy one.

I believe Shaumbra University needs a much stronger foundation than it has currently in order to support a flexibly expandable structure that would allow for a well-paced growth in time. The various programs and courses of study must be integrated both horizontally as well as vertically - they must fit together in a coherent and flexible framework. Curricula have to be developed for those programs of study as well as for individual units (workshops, classes, etc.). This will require experienced leadership that understands the workings (positives and pitfalls) of current universities in order to successfully build this very first New Energy university.

In particular, Shaumbra University needs an overall leader, a CEO - one who holds a comprehensive, overarching vision of what Shaumbra University aspires to become in the future, one who can assemble and lead a Board of Directors and put together an advisory board. One who can take as well as give advice, and above all one who will serve Shaumbra faithfully and honorably. That individual must be capable of implementing a plan that supports this vision. That person must have a credible and appropriate scholarly background with the academic and leadership credentials "to boot." The university also will require the involvement of Scholars and Professors to guide/oversee the programs of study as well as to teach. At the same time, Shaumbra University must not become an intellectual "thinktank" characterized by snobbery or "highbrow" behaviors (like some well-known US universities).

It must address the needs of all those who come "through its doors" from all levels of personal evolvement. Without the will to do these things, let's just change the name of SU to something else as it will not be a university.

Friends, write your "congresspersons" in the CC and CCEC. Let them know how much is at stake here as we approach the QL. For Shaumbra University to be successful WE are the ones that must not allow nor accept anything other than the complete fulfillment of its mission - to bring to full fruition the New Energy so that the new earth may be born on time and in the best possible health. We can no longer afford to procrastinate - the time for these changes is upon us. Again, who will step to the plate and take their "cuts"? Only time will tell - may it be short and sweet.

The quantum leap - finite and infinite are one

The term "quantum leap" comes from the branch of physics known as quantum mechanics or quantum theory which was "discovered" about 130 years ago. This expression is related to the more standard physics term - "quantum jump." When used in the vernacular (as it is here) it refers to a dramatic shift - a large leap. Let's understand the original use of this term so we can gain insight into the QL New Energy process that is to take place in September.

In physics, a quantum jump refers to a specific discrete (set amount of) change of an electron from one energetic state to another within an atom. This change is very tiny as opposed to the usual way we think of a leap as being rather large. Physicists learned over many decades of research that this tiny change is highly significant and cannot be ignored or discarded. In fact the very existence of the physical omniverse is dependent on this tiny energy difference.

What is an electron? It is a very small, electrically (negative) charged energy-matter packet. It has a dual, paradoxical nature: it acts as both a particle and as a wave. As such the finite (its particle nature) and the continuous-infinite (its wave aspect) are combined characteristics living within it. Electrons move in what are referred to as orbital paths or virtual "shells" encircling the atomic nucleus at a comparatively large distance from it.

From the classical physics viewpoint, electrons are seen as particles that orbit the nucleus, much like a model of the solar system with the planets circling round the sun. The quantum mechanical "camera view" is radically different from the classical Newtonian picture: an electron is a circular standing wave that vibrates/oscillates in place with a certain frequency and fixed amount of energy. Equally fascinating is that electrons never completely "use up" or dissipate their inherent energy due to quantum mechanics. Without the latter, electrons would disappear and atoms would cease to exist along with the rest of the known universe.

The lowest energetic electrons are said to occupy the "ground state" of the atom. Higher energy electrons exist at discrete multiples of this ground state energy referred to by the symbol h with a diagonal line through its stem ("h-bar") called Planck's constant (named for the German physicist Max Planck). It is one of the smallest constants known in all of physics (for one particular set of units it has 33 zeros to the RIGHT of the decimal point!). This reflects the extremely small scales at which quantum mechanical effects are observed, and hence why we are not familiar with quantum physics in our daily experiences as we are with classical physics.

An electron in a low atomic orbit can only absorb energy of whole number multiples of Planck's constant. When it does so it makes a "quantum jump" to a higher atomic orbit (and vice-versa: a higher energy electron can jump-step down to a lower orbit). The electron can only make this jump when the energy it absorbs exceeds a threshold based on Planck's constant. In fact, it will only absorb energy of this amount and nothing less (for example, multiples of ½ h-bar are not allowed)!

Here's what's really interesting about this: when the absorbed energy exceeds the threshold resulting in a "jump", the electron effectively appears to cease to exist in-between the two orbitals. In other words, the electron absorbs the energy, and seems to magically disappear, followed by reappearing at the higher orbital. It "winks" out of existence, then winks back in like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat - an example of what some refer to as "quantum weirdness."

But this behavior only seems strange from the "camera view" that an electron exists in a localized region of 4 dimensional space-time. If we were to consider the idea that electrons are distributed in a potential sense across all of spacetime and possibly that their existence "spans" higher dimensions as well, then this jumping behavior does not appear nearly as weird after all. From that viewpoint its seeming disappearance can be considered as an illusion just like the magician's rabbit trick.

So does this have anything to do with the Quantum Leap coming up in September? We can say that the QL will be a shift to a higher energy level with respect to the evolution of humanity's consciousness. Essentially a threshold will have been exceeded by that time, marking a shift of humanity into a whole new era. A possible difference between the QL and an electronic quantum jump is that with the QL (hopefully), once it has taken place, humanity will never fall back to the former consciousness of pre QL times. It will be a point of no return. And that hopefully and truly will be "good news for modern humanity" as we all make our way back "home."

The Expansion into New Energy Health and healing

Saint-Germain said this: "New Energy medicine - is different. Why is it different? … has to do with the desire or what you would call the intent of the patient, of the one who's sick. It has to do with their ability to participate with the whole program."

This is a key difference between so-called allopathic medicine and New Energy medicine: that the client (as opposed to the "patient") is not merely a passive participant in a practitioners treatment plan for them. The client is an active agent in their health, welfare and healing. In fact they are not just the "healee." They are healer as well - of themselves and of others whom they come into contact with in the course of their everyday interactions - friends, family, even the practitioner herself!

I wrote an article on this topic a few years ago which discusses this from a system's viewpoint. I think you'll find it of interest and not overly technical (no equations I promise, a few nice diagrams ;-)). It's called The Art of Healing: An Information and System Theory Approach." Click to read it.

Religion and God

Saint-Germain made the following point: "Now, we talk about religion a lot, because religion tries to own consciousness. Religion ... we're not speaking of any one religion here, but we are talking about religions in general ... religions are purely man-made. They have nothing to do with God. They do not understand God. Their God is a man, their God has human attributes. You are better off being an atheist rather than being religious right now, because they do not understand the true definition of God. They have never gone into sans definition. They are trying to define God - they've been trying for thousands and thousands of years - in their image, in their limitations and in their mind."

I highlight this because it is so on point. Humanity created religions to serve a unique, desirable, and "good" purpose throughout history for themselves. That was to provide a "place" where people could join together forming supportive communities for living peacefully and holistically (physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually healthy). Unfortunately in many cases, this was used to control others and to bring power to itself by dominating other religious groups and peoples, sometimes with devastating consequences. Some of that was done through deliberate misrepresentation of Spirit and the nature of spirituality.

I don't believe we should abandon religion because of these things. There is still a role for religion in humanity's journey. Religion needs to evolve and continue undergoing reform (a topic for many books unto itself).

I do want to address a key point made by Saint-Germain - that religion tries to define and impose its limited conceptuality of Spirit on humanity - very true and problematic throughout history. As we have discussed numerous times in this column, God-Spirit cannot be "corralled" by any words, thoughts, ideas, or substantive thing of any kind. Not even the words "sans definition" or Ain Soph are descriptive of Spirit in any possible sense! Kabbalah has understood and taught this for literally thousands of years. The term Ain Soph is used in Kabbalah to actually express this idea along with the notion that the only true understanding we can have about Spirit is that "it" is boundless - other than that, epistemologically speaking, there is nothing in a positive logical sense ("It IS X ..") we know about Spirit. If we accept the existence of the omniverse then a necessary condition of the expansive nature of the system in creation is ineffable Spirit.

The last point of Saint-Germain's I'd like to address is "religion has nothing to do with God." Spirit is not an exclusive member of any religion. Spirit is not Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, etc. ALL is Spirit and Spirit is beyond ALL. Spirit loves all of creation - the entire omniverse and everything in it, because there is nothing but Spirit, and no thing beyond it, except itself. To many this seems like common sense, yet to many religious individuals they have essentially created God in their image and believe that God's religion is that of their church, mosque, synagogue, etc.

When we look at the core spirituality of religions we begin to see that this too has nothing to do with religion in general. It addresses rather the human condition, its relationship with Divinity, and humanity's re-remembrance of its Divine essence.

In closing …

My friends, may we all increasingly come to recognize ourselves in all others and all others in ourselves - this is the true definition of family. May we come to know that we are one AND we each are the world. May we realize that no one is above any other, no one better, more special - we are all blessed to the max. May we come to awareness that when we each support the other knowing that they are divine just as we are, we ascend, expand and elevate ALL of creation altogether - and do so forever. Amen!

Michael E. Brandt is a tenured medical professor and research scientist-engineer working in a major health sciences university in the Houston Texas Medical Center. He has degrees in physics (BS) and biomedical engineering (MS and PhD). He has performed research into the human brain-mind, the heart, and the immune system for over 24 years. But his "real" work is in teaching how science and Spirit relate to each other. He applies this information in his counseling and Kabbalistic healing practice. For further information please link to www.DivineHealingPrayers.com.

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