Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Hilde Wieland-Maier for helping me with my
English and Otto Reich for editing part 2 of this article.
Cologne, Germany, June 2008.
Part 1
Introduction
'Westerners tend to believe in a kind of soul-principle that constitutes
individuality.
'[Richard Howey]
[ Angels carrying the soul of St. Bertin to heaven,
Simon Marmion, 1480 ]
Long before I discovered the Forbidden Letters to Philip Gardiner and
Gary Osborn, I asked myself what chakra's could be made of. Are they
photonic? Subtle? Or matter gross after all? And what are you and I made of
in the first place?
With Eric Olson 'I don't mean our chemical composition here. I want to know
whether we are made of matter at all.' [2007:13] Or whether we are made of
something other than matter. 'Or partly matter and partly something else.
Come to that, are we made of anything at all?' [ibid]
The alchemical theory of the Paris 4, as well as the numerous
response-articles on that theory, all seem to imply that whatever we are
made of ends with death. Nihil post mortem: there is nothing after death.
Yet, many people around the globe claim to have had Near Death Experiences,
or NDE's. Experiences suggesting that the Paris 4 could be wrong if they
assume that the soul, our psychic tissue, dies with our body. - But are
NDE's about death?
On page 138 of Timothy Ferris' 1992 book The Mind's Sky, Ferris
informs us about a Swiss NDE dating from 1871. In that year the Zurich
Alpinist Professor Albert Heim fell from an alpine glacier while climbing at
an altitude of 5,900 feet. He saw his whole past life 'take place in many
images while falling.' [Ferris] 'Everything was transfigured as though by a
heavenly light and everything was beautiful, without grief, without anxiety,
and without pain.' [Heim]
Now, a climber falling from a cliff is not dead. 'He is not even ailing.
He is fully fit and is near death only in the sense that he has every reason
to expect that he is about to die. If, as we have seen, the
mental transfigurations he experiences closely resemble modern near death
accounts, then the NDE phenomenon tells us about trauma, not death. And if
it doesn't tell us about death,
it doesn't tell us about life after death either.' [Ferris/emphasis added]
It appears then, as Ferris says, and I would agree here, that the
physiological basis of a Near Death Experience is stress: the human nervous
system releasing a deluge of chemicals into the bloodstream in response to a
life threatening situation.
Part 2
Introduction
'So how do you guys know all this? That gay's can't handle kundalini for
instance?' [Hermetic Research]
'The practice of homosexuality pollutes the energies of the chakras,
spills the kundalini fires into vortices of deceleration, and causes the
three-fold flame to be incrementally lost, which is the worst form of
imbalance. Because the practice of homosexuality causes the disintegration
of the spiritual life support systems of man, the lifestyle must be forsaken
if the soul is ever to take and master the initiations necessary to return
home to the sacred heart. The return to the sacred heart is our passport
home to the divine city, the Kingdom of God, which is the only context for
eternal life.' [The Homeward Bound Journal]
'Homophobic myths are even more creative than anti-Semitic ones.'
[Heinrich Sommer]
'Read a book where it was mentioned that a study was done in San
Francisco where 50 straights and 50 homosexual people were filmed having sex
with Kirlian photography. The straights exchanged noticeable amounts of
energy, and the same sex partners did not. This would fall in line with
sexual alchemy which is defined as the divine union of opposites.' [www.abovetopsecrets.com]
'It has escaped most people that the Divine Sex leading to the Alchemical
Wedding is sex between the inner male and female, and that it
has, therefore, nothing to do with heterosexual sex. In the words of Otto
Reich: 'male and female belong together. But not in bed.' [
Günter Preis in an email to me in May 2008/ presented with permission by
both Preis and Reich/ emphasis added]
'As Stephen Jay Gould and Ashley Montagu suggest, it is through neoteny,
as well as through natural selection, and random mutation - that man has
evolved. This is true morphologically as well as rationally and emotionally.
Montagu writes that neoteny is "the retention into adult life of those human
traits associated with childhood."- '[Stanley Carruth]
According to Timothy Materer 'Robert Duncan and James Merrill found in
the occult art of alchemy a lost understanding of sexual identity that
tolerated rather than repressed androgyny
and homosexuality. '[Timothy Materer, Cornell University
Press, Dec. 1995:12/ emphasis added]
The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung seems to have been the first physician
who realized that homosexuality might possibly be about psychic
androgyny. In paragraph 146 of 'Concerning the Archetypes and the
Anima Concept' he conjectures that homosexuality might represent an
'incomplete detachment from the hermaphroditic archetype, coupled with a
distinct resistance to identify with the role of a one-sided sexual being,
(...) preserving the archetype of the Original Man, which a one sided
sexual being has, up to a point, lost.' [emphasis added]
In their March 2007-article on the Forbidden Letters at World Mysteries,
de Renzi, Fenelon and de la Censerie, quoting Wilson and Rachman from their
1998 book Born Gay, pointed out that...
'...evidence from independent laboratories across the world has shown
that the brain of gay men and lesbian women are cross-sex shifted in
certain respects more than those of heterosexuals.'
This all seems confirmed in a June 2008 Sunday Times article by
Science Editor Jonathan Leake. 'Scientists investigating human sexuality
have found that the brains of homosexuals have structural and functional
differences from those of "straight" people. Lesbians appear to have a lower
proportion of grey matter in their brains than straight women, giving their
brains a more “male-like” structure. The brains of gay men appear to have
structural similarities to those of heterosexual women. They also exhibit
the same powerful response as straight women to the sex hormones released in
male sweat.(...) In one study researchers (...) at University College London
used Magnetic Resonance Imaging (...) to look at the brains of 80 men and
women, including 16 gay men and 15 lesbians. They found that lesbians had a
“male-like” proportion and distribution of grey matter in their brain when
compared with heterosexual women.
In a paper published in the Public Library of Science, the researchers
said:
“In homosexual women the perirhinal cortex grey matter displayed a
male-like structural pattern.” The perirhinal area is associated with
social and sexual behavior.' [Sunday Times]
Seven months earlier another article on homosexuality, this time by
Richard Brooks, had been published in the Sunday Times. In that article it
was suggested that the inner child in homosexual people is more alive then
in heterosexual people. That child allegedly has to be peeled out in a certain
crisis in alchemy, the ludus puerorum or Play of the Children. According to
Jung that 'child lurkes in every adult,'[1970:311] representing 'exactly
that part of the human personality which wants to become whole.' [ibid] That
child is also called puer aeternus (eternal boy). Brooks:
'Desmond Morris who became a bestselling author by applying zoology to
explain human behaviour, has now utilised the techniques to put forward an
explanation for homosexuality. In his latest book, The Naked Man, he
concludes that men are “made gay” because they retain infantile or
juvenile characteristics into adulthood - a phenomenon known as neoteny.
[emphasis added]
(...) Morris points to work done by Clive Bromhall, who produced some of
his television programmes.
“Gays do infantile behaviour in the extreme,” said Bromhall, who, after
gaining a PhD in zoology from Oxford, left academia to form a company
making educational films.
Morris (...) long thought that absent fathers led to boys and young male
adults becoming gay.
“(It is) the dominant and ever-present mother theory,” he said. “But
now I’m convinced that (theory) is wrong, and that it is neoteny which
makes people gay." [Morris] - '[Sunday Times]
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