W(h)ither ISNO

Every once in a while, a few are born with “shamanic” nervous systems, meaning they can “tip over” and enter other subtle levels of consciousness and receive instruction from intelligences hidden to the average person’s eye. In our little world of SNOB, SNOC, ISNO, Home Pharm, it was Ralph, back in 1883.

After training from his “thesis” supervisor, Mozumdar, the Blessed Ones in Light’s Regions, collectively named “Vitvan” agreed to work with the vessel, conduit, channel, named Ralph. Again and again Ralph stated the Work came through him, not from him.

If there was any central goal of his methodology and instructions, it was that others might  make the Contact for themselves also, after they got off their tape-listening asses in classroom, and got up the gumption to break into and cultivate the First Crossing.

With the enthusiasm of  a Journeyman setting out, Ralph was sure he would lead hundreds into the experience of the higher levels of consciousness he could visit.

How has that worked out? Hard knocks revealed that people are mired in a “basic state,” and you cannot push them out of it. Ralph scaled back his expectations. In the end, after 50 years of sannyasin work, founding schools, and volumes of writings, he had to say that maybe he had found 5. Eventually, one of them, Anita Hayden, succeeded him when he passed over.

Let’s look at two other men on Vitvan’s short list whom he considered capable to carrying on his Outline: Fred Hess and Dr. John Gozzi. Fred was the ex-husband of Marj Coffman, a man she could not speak of without a sneer and put-down. Perhaps that will tell you something of her nature. Dr. John eventually moved off and started a sister group in Colorado, which fell apart upon his passing, and is now making a feeble attempt to return to more tape-listening.

In 1973 I had lived for a year at Home Farm, and was disappointed in my apparent lack of ability to feel the whooshing energies other students claimed they were having in meditation with Anita. Let’s be clear: Anita had spent decades with Vitvan, in his darshan, and she had the Mojo.

But both Fred and John, of a more intellectual nature, had not broken through, despite years of practice using Ralph’s methods and his attempts to reverse-engineer why he could contact certain states but others could not follow him. Here are two men, on Vitvan’s short list of successor, after years of dedication, and still, the “Vitvan System” had not produced the result.

What’s wrong with this picture?

Ralph said that most of his followers should stick to the sweetness ‘n light if they couldn’t handle the forces encountered when doing battle with “Evil.” He said that only 2% would tough it out with his methodology; the rest should stick to the antiseptic lessor practice of  “raising your forces” (running away from confronting your own South Half); or even, go down the road to that other ashram run by Flower Newhouse, where sincere and smiley-faced pabulum was served. Vitvan proclaimed that his school served “red meat,” the real stuff.

So? How has that worked out?

Here’s what Dr. John told me. Both he and Fred Hess needed stronger medicine than the so-called “red meat” Vitvan served up. Both of them went off and underwent Reichean body work to break through their “character armoring.” This did the trick for them, and that is what he recommended for me; and that is what I did.

There is a flame inside the seeker, that may burst up into a larger Fire if they are at the right basic state, and ready. But it’s covered over by what Ralph called the “adamantine veil” that most (including his followers) cannot, or will not break through. But if and when this flame gets fanned, then there is no turning back to the former life of tape-sitting and repeating the liturgy of someone else’s words. Fred called this “the Urge.” Some have it, some don’t.
( see Fress Hess Returns )

Looking back, we have come to the conclusion that Ralph was like a traveler and scholar who wrote wonderful descriptions of the far away and foreign places he had visited; but no amount of reading his books or hearing his talks would ever succeed in transporting the student-follower there.

His methodology sucked. At least for Joe Average. After all, if it was so great, why then did Jim Dalton, Dean of the School, Anita’s successor, go on into Buddhist practices? How can you explain why Marj, Bill, Susan, Jane, Pat, Lynne, on and on, why virtuallynothing has happened in their inner life, and they even call themselves the “normals?’

Who on the Path, if they have found the Urge, would ever call themselves “normal?”

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This now brings me to wrap up with my story:

Why ISNO?

What Did and Does It Mean that I proclaimed the INNER School of the Natural Order, or ISNO?  I am nowhere near to Ralph’s stature, nor ever claimed to be. But once the Flame was ignited, it had to be nurtured, and protected against the negativity at SNO Home Farm, and it served as a Declaration that SNO had lost its way, and as a validation of what was still there, dormant, sleeping. They talk of it, but can’t serve it up, can’t show you if you ask. Even Lynne now recognizes that she'll have no one left to boss around and is begging for new ideas.

But, they got nothin'  

I left HF in 1973 looking for “red meat.” I knew I needed help cracking my stubborn case open, and I would travel and investigate and do whatever was needed to make Contact. For 30 years I went to classes and practiced (not just read about) inner world techniques in multiple disciplines to open the doors, and travel the realms.

I tried anything that could demonstrate it could deliver a result beyond having a good talk. Five years in Reichean with Israel Regardie; five years among the disciplined Scientologists learning the workable processes they have; five years doing Taoist work in Mantak Chia’s Healing Tao system; five years with an “out-of-body” inner world travel master; five more years with advanced and liberated Scientologist auditors who had the mojo and could deliver the product free from the Church’s fanatic unsanity. Step by step, each study and practice synthesized into a set of skills that could be used to methodically dismantled hidden defenses and blindnesses within the subconscious.  Until one day making Contact with the Jewel within the Lotus.

Then the Field directed me back to the pressure cooker/incubator at Home Farm. I returned in 2001 with the unexamined expectation that while I had been away doing my extensional studies, they too had progressed. Instead I found squatters living there for cheap rent, putting on a half-hearted show of being “students.”  They were not interested in hearing anything new (extensional) that rocked their safe little good ship Lollypop. SNO was scraping the bottom and heading for the rocky shoals under the non-leadership and non-vision of the Board.

After some years of repression and effort against the psychic inertia of the “normals,” the steam built up to such an extent that I had a meltdown, & had to leave for a year to recover; once recovered I vowed not to run like so many before, & returned to do battle and Serve what I had found. During the time I struggled there for years, I used the medicines in conjunction with twice daily Holosync, digging deeper and deeper, until Contact was made.

I literally fought to push their forces away from drowning out the Flame I had found and was protecting in an Inner Temple I was consciously building.

Eventually I contacted the true Vitvan within the Field, the Lakshmi of the Lake, which was an actual download that grew within into a Citadel. Bit by bit the INNER School was being revealed and brought into consciousness, beyond being the background warmth in the incubator.

[Near the end, while the normals sat SNOozing in class knitting, or picking at their toes, I came with a notebook and came away with pages of new understandings, having heard an Inner Lecture within what was said on the tape. I knew now for a fact that there was an Inner esoteric teaching woven into the exoteric words; it was a matter of tuning in. Some looked askance: what was he doing with all those diagrams and writing? Then, as the tape ended, they turned to more gossip and garden talk. Discussing the lecture, much less any ideas and insights exotic to the “standard liturgy” was frowned on. Go Broncos.]

Eventually an Inner World Home Farm became a place I visited in my dreams, as waking and dreaming consciousness began to blend. (I have to say for the record that I ran into the same people there and we all seemed to get along fine; quite unlike the drama that runs through Home Farm on this 3D level. Souls seem bigger there; but down here on this level, when states and their respective fields collide, they first try to marginalize you, shut you up, and finally they evict and ban you)

Once I came to trust that I, the slow goat climbing the mountain, had actually found and entered this INNER School, I knew I could finally go beyond verbal teaching, and actually guide some, the few, into and upon their First Crossing,

By dint of YEARS of synthesizing inner world techniques, and working with them, I knew, with the mindset of a contractor who Knows his tools and how to use them, based on years of experience with them, that I could NOW, and not before, say that I could navigate some of the Deep Waters of the Inner Worlds.

As the Citadel formed within my consciousness, the name INNER School of the Natural Order was revealed, and it stood for what happened when IT made CONTACT with me. We do not choose this; IT chooses us when we are ready.

ISNO has a definite and sacred referent to me. It CANNOT be promoted and marketed by words or imagery. It is found ONLY after years of hard work seeking within. It is not some franchise whose name you can put on your letterhead or Facebook page, and truly represent just because you want to join the Club. SNO is a Club. I have no interest in making another Level I Club.


For newbies who are just dipping their toes into the waters, with limited practices in place, and limited use of the medicines, for these I apply the term or title Explorer. After YEARS of exploring steadily, and not as a dilettante, they MIGHT finally come to the level of the title I only recently acknowledged in myself: Navigator.  We are still coming out of the the Probationary level as found in When the Sun Moves Northward, finally glimpsing the clear air above the South Half.

I had a hard time disentangling from the Negative Glamor Field that prevails at Home Farm, but by confronting “them” I was using “Evil” in its proper way as Ralph prescribed: to bring to the surface your own buttons and reactivities. I acknowledge with gratitude those who gave me help and support during this “coming out and being separated” period.

Nonetheless, anyone who tries to market, promote, run up the flag of some kind of structure, organization, product, that they call ISNO, has missed the point entirely. I have to disassociate myself from this Reification and anyone prematurely claiming the title of Navigator. 

For IT chooses you when you are ready; you do not choose IT, join a Club, or get a Members Only jacket because you made a monthly donation.

Marjie's Farm

"Marjie's Farm" 
(thanks Bob)

I ain't gonna work on Marjie's farm no more
No, I ain't gonna work on Marjie's farm no more
Well, I wake up in the morning
Fold my hands and pray for rain
I got a head full of ideas
But I’m livin’ with the insane
It's a shame the way she makes me scrub the floor
I ain't gonna work on Marjie's farm no more.

I ain't gonna work for Marjie’s guard dog no more
No, I aint gonna work for Susie Doozie no more
Well, she hands you a nickel
She hands you a dime
She asks you with a grin
If you're havin' a good time
Then she fines you every time you slam the door
I ain't gonna work for Marjie's yap dog no more.

I ain't gonna work for Marjie's crew no more
No, I aint gonna work for Jabba Dabba Do no more
Well, she puts you on her work list
Adds demerits just for kicks
Her bedroom window
It is made out of bricks
The National Guard stands around her door
Ah, I ain't gonna work for Marjie Junior no more.

I ain't gonna go to Marjie's class no more
No, I ain't gonna sit and knit on my ass no more
Well, they turn on the tape

Then everyone takes a SNOoze
The Old Man talks about God and law

But they talk garden news
It’s 2015 but they think it’s fifty-four
I ain't gonna smile and be senile no more.

I ain't gonna live on Marjie's farm no more
No, I aint gonna live on Marjie's farm no more
Well, I try my best
To be just like I am
But everybody wants you
To be just like them
They say sing while you slave and I just get bored
I ain't gonna  live on Marjie's farm no more.

Cognition is the fruit of Lumination

"Lumination” is a term from Wilhelm Reich’s work, where he observed that when the body of flesh is not transversely blocked with ridges from traumas and energy suppression, waves of energy can travel from toe to head and back, just as we see in a chortling baby who can be tickled into waves of pleasure giggles anywhere on the body. When energy can flow freely like this, we glow and “illuminate” or as he called it “luminate.”  Light is given off from waves of cascading pleasure flows. Or rather, we can say that cascading flows of energy (not too strong) are felt as pleasure.

Over time we learn to suppress our emotions by clenching down musculature in the body (tight pelvis, flat chest, clenched chin, dry eyes, rigid solar plexus., etc.,) and these clenchings lay in transverse muscular and cellular ridges which interrupt the free cascade. For babies, orgasm is body long and wide. For adults, their built up “character armoring” means orgasm (Life energy cascade thru the Root and sexual centers) does not flow body wide, but is usually felt (and trapped) only in the genital areas.

The release of such armoring and restoration of body wide light-energy cascade is the goal of classic Reichian work. Each release of the cellular ridges also brings back memory of the root trauma that caused the block, and thus we gain understanding of how our percepts have been warped]

Information (as from experience, or the absorption of wave gunas) is patterning that is recorded and imprinted in “matter,:” “flesh,” “cellular membrane,” ...etc., some kind of imprintable recording medium. Over time this builds up layers in a disorganized fashion, like an archeological dig. If it is then stirred by a higher field of energy, the amplification causes the layers to organize by resonant musical tones into a higher structure.

But first, those elements that are discordant with the lattice of organization have to be purged out. This cleaning phase gives rise to negative reactions, illness, grumpiness, moodiness, until "every tree not planted by the Father" is flushed from the system. This is the famed First Crossing or Purificatory Process.

As it becomes organized or coherent, it starts to luminate under the amplifying force. When lumination reaches critical mass, it cascades and releases light. This is the Aha! Moment when the light bulb of understanding (cognition) goes off and we feel a release of tension: “Aha! NOW I see what underlay this!”

So wave frequencies collect and nest in recording medium as experience and memory. Under favorable conditions a higher energy input can organize this data into new patterns to measure Cosmos against (labeling, abstracting, for feel-know taste of qualities). Organization leads to a cascade when energized, and there is an “orgasm” or release of light energy felt as “understanding.” (getting “under” or to the root of the causation or pattern developed)

So this is the routine pattern of life learning. This is how the generative force boot-straps itself “upward,” or as in Taoism, the ching chi distills itself up through the tan tiens (retorts) into more and more subtle essence. This collected essence can then be consciously built into a new subtle body, the body of the Golden Flower.

Once understood then we ask how can we cooperate and maximize this progression into higher refined percepts? Into a more sensitive nervous structure?

Answer: we increase lumination.

How: by enhancing wave cascade, which means layering energy upon energy as overtones. When one meditates or contemplates, AND, can hold a tone or frequency in a feedback manner, layering tone upon itself, it starts a nesting process. The waveforms can be packed in when using harmonics, much like data can be compressed in a zip file of binary 1’s and 0’s. Fractal compression. Turns out this idealizes at the phi ratios for maximum compaction and nesting.

Phi-loading is nesting waves until a cascade builds and releases.

Orgasm is a phi-cascade, drawing from Root earth generative flows up, thru sexual organs.  Animals rely on cyclical earth energies to luminate, then they rut and cascade in mating. Humans can draw on other higher energy fields and thus luminate at any season or time.

In addition, external energy can be added to increase amplitude. Old standbys like rhythmic breath, steady state calm, chanting, smooth flow of thoughts arising, will work. The key is repetition in a feedback loop, layered on so each repeat snuggles into the "arms" of the previous wave. You can start out doing it mechanically but as you get a feeling for it you can feel the "bumb" as each layer nestles in. The essence of mediation is watching yourself, self watching self, then self watching self watching self (!)... and this leads to the emergence of Self (with capital S), the Viewer, which could also be seen as the ego (protector watch dog) maturing into a compassionate "hypervisor" who forgives and loves and encourages the little self like a good parent does the child.

Also more powerful is entheogenic doping (as a laser beam is “doped” to entrain the waves). When done judiciously, the cascade can be enormously increased and thus so can the lumination, and cognition can occur in fruiting clusters and blow out photonic orgasms.

Key here is our desire to use the cascade to reorganize our nervous system (and etheric structures) into more complex transceivers. It is better to push the envelope of the pneumatic ovum steadily and gently rather than repeatedly blowing out the building energy (with possible ruptures or tears in the Ovum membrane). Occasional blow-outs of course can also be wonderful and instructive. But building in faculty is the goal so you must absorb the fruit of the cascade. (and layer it back! Tree makes fruit with seed, then drops it to the ground and fertilizes itself! The serpent Oroboros eats its tail. You are the lover of yourself!)

Eventually we see that there is a method of gathering gunas thru experience, collecting, holding, then bringing in energy to organize and cascade the packed “juice” in this Malkuthian substance into uprising branchings, flowerings and fruiting. Your prayer becomes “Lord, bring it on!” Bring it down, hold it, hand shake and feel-know,  and then let it rise up according to the self-organizing Seed unfolding  You "surrender" to the Process not because you are subjected by force, but rather you surrender to cooperating with yourself as the Process itself.

While the unfoldment of the Seed must occur according to natural order timelines, time is also a waveform and can be accelerated as dimensions interpenetrate. “Short-cutting” really comes to down conscious co-operation with the removal of roadblocks, and adopting accelerants to increase cascade If you can’t stand the heat, it’s OK to keep out of the kitchen. Maybe later.

You can haphazardly go along (“Life is my teacher”); or you can initiate a regular practice to co-operate and not obstruct the Natural Order Process. It seems to come down to How Much Lumination can you take? When cascade is too much it become pain, and few want to explore that to get to the other side.

When beings in higher frequencies contact us, their fields initiate amplification, which brings up blockages. Thus there is always a purificatory process as we Self-organize our structure “upward.” Old patterns once useful have to be upgraded.

[re-edited with some additions Mar 6 9pm PST]

Tipping Over

There has been an eons long struggle for the control of our most precious resource, the Light within each of us, which Light is called Soul.

Some of us were called to be Scapegoats for the tribe, to dare and look into the Darkness that has crept up around Our Innocence. As we looked deep into our own dissatisfactions, we drew the fear and rejection of those who also want to be freed from their inner fear of Self, but who lack the needed stamina, and so have settled into a rut of cautious and conservative clinging to old identities. They were not the adventurers and explorers, but those who stayed home.

I, as your ISNO Shaman, have come to the tipping point. The Darnkess that overtook SNO has had its glamour broken. We took this on like an anvil upon which the collective sins of the tribe could be beaten, hammered, and heated to incandesence in the Forge of Love's Fire.

this Love is not soft and sentimental; this Love does not look backward to imitation of former days, which now are spun into mythologies that never were. The Real Work was always about being on the Forge, being hammered, until all the personal heartstrings we keep strumming next to our breasts, our doorway back to innocence, but also our trap of identity; until we come to the breakthrough Realization that we cling to our Sadnesses because it was at those times of deepest loss we also felt most Alive and in touch with our Fearless Self.

Here is the basic rule of the Shaman: everyone keeps trying to use their Loss as a wedge in time that opened them, however briefly, to the Greater Self, the One who has nothing to Fear, who can lose all the Past, who needs not old books and club memberships. But the One who lives in the Adventure Of Now.

We have broken the Spell. We are at the Tipping Point. Some will glibly say "let the healing begin" but until they can confess their part, and bravely enter their own Shamanic Odyssesy through the dark continents of their psyches, we must hold them at arm's length, until they enter upon the Journey in earnest.

If the Path may be summarized in what it is all about, it is that we are Seekers trying to find out again, the Goodness and Pleasure of Being, being yourself. Of finding and holding a Sanctuary where others can admit to their fears and try and work back into Loving themselves, the All of them.

This is not about higher states, and modes of behavior, and all that roundabout approach we take as we come into the center of the Labyrinth of ourself. We have to come to the pure love of ourself; and only then can we help others to find it.

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Negative Field Glamor

How did things become so degenerate as they are today at Home Farm (2015) ?

Until you have lived at Home Farm, or possibly any spiritual place where once a master resided, you may not understand the mechanics of how such former beacons of Light can reverse into negative oppressive generators.

A “Master” is one who has developed to the stage wherein they transcend their configuration or personality. A higher  power can flow through them.

This higher power is the underlying field in which all of us are “floating” and embedded. Like the soil of Mother Earth, from which all plants arise and draw their being, in Vitvan’s work we speak of the World Mother, or Genetrix, which is that creative level of Cosmos wherein the astrological cycles operate, each new baby body being an expression of the ever moving collective of forces which modify moment to moment.

Each of us has a prescribed part to play in an ongoing Drama. Sometimes the part is played by a more experienced actor, or sometimes perhaps a younger soul, but the actual configuration of the “body” is mapped out astrologically. Nature is unbroken and gives birth within the confines of its unfolding timelines.

A “Master” is one who has passed through many lives in these levels, or else comes in as an “avatar,” one whose incarnating force is so strong it can override the character limits and guidelines of the personality.

In any case, such a Master can find the Root of his/her self in the deeper Mother Substance, which is closer to an undifferentiated substance, and is the essential substance of Life that informs each and every one of our differentiated personalities.

This force is like a bank account. It is energy. It is neither ‘good’ nor ‘bad.’ It simply ensouls each and all. As is said, “The sun shines on all equally, the good and the bad.”

A master such as Vitvan builds up reservoir of force, which we call the “Field.” People coming to his School have in the past felt an amplifying energy, they are stirred, their dreams may become vivid. When the man with the title “Vitvan”  (namely Ralph) left  his body and passed over, his Force Field remained, much like a Trust Fund that future students could call on and draw from. 

This is why even when masters die, their physical locations can become holy places, which continue to stir up those who come later. It is as if the force were embedded into the landscape (mother substance) itself.

But we must understand what the process of being with a master is. It is to stir us up so that those elements in us which program us negatively are brought to the surface and expunged. We must all clean the lens of personality so that we might  “reflect” the higher worlds in clarity, and come into co-operative alignment, finding our Dharma.

Now Vitvan has summarized this process of cleaning the lens as the “Purificatory Process” or “First Crossing.” When asked to boil this down from his usual turgid long-winded prose, he said it is essentially “bringing all the content of the subconscious up into consciousness.” (and, through reintegrating these fragmented part of ourselves, end internal discord, and return to the ‘natural order’ within outselves)

This is a tricky thing. For in our deep Shadow Self, we have repressed many aspects of our self wherein we reject who we are. Usually due to some adult telling us not to do something or be some other way when we were a child. Try to fit in. Be like everyone else.

This turns our own creative life force against us and from being expressed in this lifetime in this personality.

All of that must be undone to clean the lens.

But bringing up such explosive reactive suppressed content is messy. We need a guide. When a man like Vitvan was around, not only did his frequency and force stir us and bring up the hidden content, so we might see the “jackals and peacocks” of our instinctual forces; but also, his energy could ameliorate  this negativity so we wouldn’t poison the community and group.

Once Vitvan had left his School, his Field continued to “cook the frogs” and bubble up the negative in each person. BUT, without someone at a higher level who could process this garbage, it continued to accumulate.

By the time we get to the year 2000, the collective garbage from people who ran the place like Coffman, Wetmore, the Murrays, etc., people who DID NOT really do the inner work of dealing with repressed negativity, but who only do mental masturbation in putting on a good face, saying the right things, trying to act ‘spiritual’ by which they mean posturing as being somehow in-the-know, and mechanical repetition of liturgy; by that time their collective negativity which was released by the neutral amplifying Field energy, had built up to such a state that the collective negativity (“my way or no way” Coffman) has now become a Negative Force.

Their own unexpurgated imps have taken over Home Farm, while they, zombie like, are oblivious to the repressive pall they cast.  Come for a week to a smiley face seminar when they are on good behavior, you might not notice it. Live there for some time and you will feel the cancer eating at the School’s entrails.

WHAT IS BLACK MAGIC?

That is when you impose your values and ideas of how another must develop. You repress others who are exploring their dharma. This is the current state of affairs at Home Farm. We even know from witnesses who were there that both Lynne Hoffman and Susan Wetmore checked out many books from the library on Black Magic. Now WHY would someone who grants freedom and honors each soul’s path study a subject used to CONTROL others? Could it be they have the need to “be in charge” and don’t trust the Process which unfolds differently and individually in each?

“Trust only your own experience.” 

“Grant Freedom and claim it for yourself”

“Mesmerism, hypnotism, mental domination--in short, any practice which influences another against his human will or desire or against the law of his being--is a step on the Lefthand Path, the path of black magic.”   Vitvan.

So what we have found is that these people who do not have the tools or integrity to do the inner exploration and purification in themselves, now constitute and are themselves controlled by a Negative Field. They have no respect for the Process inasmuch as they know little of it themselves. They are using the neutral energy bequeathed all by Vitvan to dominate others.  And they don’t even know it.

Thus there is now a Negative Glamor which like a Tar Baby will slowly entangle those who stay there. It will pray upon your own negativity, and you have two choices:
1) stay there and be subsumed into this low level version of a ‘spiritual’ School

2) wake up, feel the Urge, find your true heart, feel the Higher Power... and then leave.

Thus we find the interesting phenomena that many who lived there for years became slowly oppressed by this growing Negativity, like being stuck to a Tar Baby. They remembered when it was uplifting to be at Home Farm and so continued somewhat unconsciously to remain associated. When it came time to leave as they realized how Home Farm no longer lived up to Vitvan’s Principles, they were oddly oppressed by what we now recognize as a Negative Glamor.

Breaking this Glamor has been the principle inner work those affinitized to ISNO have done. It has been a fight against forces, with psychic attacks, and the necessity to call on the Blessed Ones, the Vitvan Field, and to become disentangled with old ideas and associations with Home Farm. Home Farm no longer represents the liberating energy and force that Vitvan was pointing us to find in ourselves. It is now a Cult based up fitting into Collective Think. Where once it was said that the individual was who made things happen, under the Hoffman-Coffman-Wetmore period of Degeneration, all is run by Committee (so that the Cult Core can control all).

For this reason, until these Cultists are gone or out of control, SNO can no longer be seen by any awake soul as representing the essence of Vitvan. They serve no more purpose than a Dick and Jane book for beginners.  

When a higher energy field activates you, you will become a disturbance to the “harmony” (Cult think) at SNO, and they will drive you out. One by one students advancing in their inner work have been pushed out. As things stand now, there is now room at SNO Home Farm for higher level work. 

http://cista.net/vitvancom/dedication.htm

Besides that “Many are called, but few are chosen.” 

Those who prize the world of appearances or belonging to a “Cool Cult” will always gravitate and join in with the Smug Club at Home Farm.  This is a necessary baby stage to go through, but it is lamentable that a once high energy Field such as Vitvan’s is now petering out in the unable hands of sophists and pretenders.

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

If you meet the Christ on the road, crucify Him!

It’s nearly Xmas time again, and so here is my gift from the I AM in me to the I AM in you.

We’ve evolved enough to know that the stories of external “saviors” and “god-men” are really a mythos describing the software of Unfoldment found in the kernel of each of us, part of the OS of our soul-self (a developing entity and vehicle for communicating the collective memory of our Oversoul, and each incarnational bio-bot).

The “enlightened” ones tell us pretty much the same tale: that we live in a collectively hallucinated consensus reality, a soup of private worlds, each of us adding our own slant and flavor to the stew. The collective densit y of our overlapping precepts gives weight and inertia to “reality.” It persists because we reinforce it.

Put  simply, they said we live in a maya, or construct. Parts of it are “true” but much is freighted with personal projection, hence an “illusion.”

The problem is when people try to imagine what it would feel like to perceive without their normal current of self-identifying, self-promoting predictive filtering of the vast streaming ocean of incoming sensory data. They can’t do it UNLESS they are somehow shocked out of the normal mode of processing.

Meditation advocates promote that their particular set of tools will do this, and they always point to a very small handful of adepts in their tradition. But other than these natural savants the overwhelming majority cannot lift themselves out of their ordinary repetitive patterns of massaging “reality.”

Vitvan came to this conclusion based on the dismal results seen watching the non-progress of his students. The feel-know Delphic emotional approach only worked for some...some whose internal structures were sufficiently “loose” so that they could enter what Michael Hoffman of egodeath.com calls “loose-cog,” the ability to watch yourself construct realities, standing aside and seeing the thoughts arise and get sorted into categories.

Along came GS, General Semantics, which finally  put forth a pretty clear explanation of how the nervous system automatically “abstracts,” sorts and files sensory input. It all happens behind the scenes as daily models of reality are constructed and reinforced. If only one could become aware of this process, then they could begin to eliminate erroneous calculations. One could become more “sane” meaning what they perceived had a better alignment with what is “out there” and thus improve their survival ability. After all, whether we say it is blind evolution, or a spiritual component forever increasing higher levels of identity and organization which we call the I AM within us, it’s always a story about getting the maps to match the territory better. Which means greater cooperation and even surrender to the Intelligence of Self-organizing Cosmos.

Alas, jamming this mentalization down student’s throats did NOT “stop the mind,” and lift the “soul” or “spiritual viewer” very far out of their constructed reality... if at all. One has only to look at those still plodding in his School of the Natural Order. This has become some sort of Smug Club where those persons pride themselves on “owning” a “superior product.”  “My teaching is more advanced that yours!” And now, they have even reductively dwindled back the force of Vitvan’s maps and outline by insisting their purpose is to (only) “disseminate Vitvan.”  All one has to do is read the Mission Statement put forth by Vitvan himself in the Incorporation papers for SNO: he says their purpose is to share and teach the relationship between man and God, and to pass on the wisdom teachings of ancient masters and methods. In fact, he does not even mention himself by name!

SNO never lifts the student any higher than into a mentalizing model about the nature of Cosmos. The real work, or Purificatory Process ONLY begins after one contacts a higher Field, and repetitively learns to enter loose-cog states, allowing the energy of the higher field to flush through them and rattle out the stuck knots of personal history and poor map-to-territory self-justifying emotional constructs.

And should any student contact  this higher field (the true Home Farm in the inner worlds) they will find their energized state increasingly in conflict with the Procrustean status quo at Home Farm, until the ruling culture there can no longer stand having its presumptive authority undermined, and drives this student away. Be of good cheer! To be pushed out of that nest means you are no longer a fledgling in an incubator for babies.

The value of psychedelics (“mind manifesting) substances as sacraments and medicine, in the hands of those who can use them as tools intelligently, is that they shut down normal abstracting, induce loose-cog and the chance to see through the constructed thicket of the persona, to the shining yet Awe-Full core of meta-human consciousness that we are; that we are not this suit, this construct, this meatbag of harvested perceptions and prejudices. That we are in fact an embedded and immutable thread within a larger Intelligence, with which we must cooperate. IT is driving us until we become operable fingers upon ITs Hand.

To pretend that because the Vitvan that spoke through Ralph did not discuss some subject, then we cannot talk of it  or incorporate new information into the set of maps he left behind, is patently stupid,  not at all in line with his instructions, and is the narrow defense mode of the unawakened children who impose their sandbox values on students who come into his School. SNO has become Plato’s Playpen in the Cave.

Vitvan succinctly defines the First Crossing (the Core Curriculum of his teaching and work) to be simply the "bringing up of the content of the Unconscious into conscious awareness."

Psychedelics can do that. Meditation as taught by SNO, and even by Vitvan himself, has a notable track record of failure. But when you read deeper into him, you realize he was not promoting this Unwinding dissolving process for the average camp follower and student. It would be premature and too much for them. So he bequeathed tame palliatives that might calm down a reactive mind... but little more. It takes power, shock, and a higher energy field to crack open the nut of the personality vehicle so that Mind might manifest.

I conclude with this passage from Michael Hoffman:

Meditation *can*, "can", induce panic attack and enlightenment -- except, in fact and in practice, meditation does not, without psychedelics, lead to enlightenment about non-control and fatedness and recognizing religious mythic metaphor as referring to entheogens revealing Heimarmene and Cybernetics.

If you claim that you care about meditation, then you are wrong unless you also advocate our right to meditation with psychedelics otherwise you are just another Tool of the state, fraudulent authoritarian liars, prostituting yourself to be used by the prohibitionists - you are a sellout to the prohibitionist state and an enemy of actual religious experiencing.

To advocate meditation while belittling psychedelics is to be a fraud and to be complicit in Prohibition. Advocates of meditation who falsely belittle psychedelics are guilty and complicit in putting people in jail under fraudulent pretenses. They have the blood of today's martyrs on their hands. If you advocate meditation, you must advocate psychedelics even more so, or else you're acting foolish, spouting prohibitionist lies that oppress people.

The meditation advocates are privileged aggressors who cooperate, collaborationist with the prohibitionists. These drug-slandering meditation advocates' thinking is infected by prohibitionist biased attitudes. These meditation bullies beat up on psychedelics, taking unfair cheap flimsy pot-shots from their privileged Establishment-friendly positions. Due to Prohibition-based censorship, no worthwhile writers are allowed to publish rebuttals to the absurd claims, the absurd put-downs that the meditation advocates make against psychedelics.

Learn to Give Value

There's a phrase of so-called "wisdom" bandied about by students at SNO. "Learn to give no value."

Reflecting on this, it struck me how out of context it is, and generally what inappropriate advice it also is.

When Vitvan examined his own inner working, he could comment: “Hmmm, I don’t seem to get caught up in giving value anymore. So then, O my chela, Learn to Give No Value.”

Then what happens? Some student is trying to reverse engineer a higher state, and then IMITATE it. This is the kind of “shortcut” that is rightly condemned. (for one who is actively training honestly in their level, there are, as in all training, worse and better methods, hence actual “shortcuts” which experience and testing will reveal)

But a higher state is not something you LEARN by some practice, by constantly stopping and correcting your natural self.

Giving value, making decisions, judgment calls, seeing distinctions, this is what the ego mind in the South Half does. And correctly so.

Here’s my big critique of this kind of yogic process: Yes you can still the South Half with discipline and suppression of its forces so that you go into a quiescent reflective state. But will it stick? Are you “naturally” there? Did you grow to it through expression from the I AM ? Or is this an ego based practice on the pleasure-profit motive level, someone seeking to end ‘suffering?’ and get more pleasure. Does anyone see how much “value giving” is in this kind of method? So what happens? These guys will have to reincarnate and pick up where they artificially pushed themselves off the track.

You don’t like certain foods? You’re giving value. You don’t want certain people as lovers? You’re giving value. In fact we do it all the time, and it is appropriate to find out what the personality is composed of. After all your so-called Higher Self apparently found it necessary or of "value" to put forth this personality you have identified with.

If you brought your computer to me and said “It’s got viruses. What do I do?” and my learned response was “Just turn it off and voila! you won’t be troubled any more.” Then why have a computer?

One doesn’t “learn” to give no value, they burn out value giving until they outgrow that phase. Correctly allowing the Natural Order to express itself means give value again and again and again, refining it, watching it, streamlining it.

When an teacher in higher states tries to describe his conscious state behavior, it should NOT be taken as what to do. This only derails the student from his levels of growth. This leads to inauthentic students derailed onto some siding in their development. They may look peaceful or detached, but they are really disassociated, with an unintegrated psyche, and will sit stuck on this spur because they are not developing through refining being reactive. A student driven by pleasure-profit motive will only abandon non-effective reactions IF they continue to give value and test out their psychic machinery.

You see it everywhere, guru groupies clustered like chicks around Mama Guru Hen. They live for the contact high. But unless pushed out of the nest, they will not outgrow the value they give to being a chela, and thus cannot one day find the master in themselves.

When YOU move beyond sitting in church and reading about or listening to someone else's patter about THEIR state, and begin to touch on new states in yourself, then you will begin to have faith that  there really is a Plan of Unfoldment; then you begin to stop trying to grade yourself and "how far along you are," and trust in the Process to do Its thing on you. Next you'll realize that YOU are the PROCESS Itself, and It was perfectly happy to create and put forth a "you." WHY are you messing with the program? Just Be It and let It be you.

 They keep saying "it's all energy" but then condemn certain expressions of this divine energy. That's what you do when your ego is not yet ready to surrender to the Process working you over. Don't worry what "they" think or say, don't worry about trying to be "nice." Be "good," be "bad;" when you let it all hang out and honor your expression as it arises, then you may discover how Being is beyond value giving.