Kal had given me a few DVDs that someone who had attended this year’s Glastonbury Symposium had obtained. Sadly, this person had not purchased the one containing Philip Carr-Gomm‘s talk, Luckily, that particular speech can be heard in two of the recent Druidcast MP3s (nos.31 and 32). And jolly interesting they were too. Nor did this kind benefactor obtain the talk by Andy Thomas (crop circles/conspiracy/2012), Nick Nicholson (photos of crop circles) or Christopher Dunn (pyramid mysteries). No, the ones that Kal got hold of were one about global warming (yawn – like we haven’t heard enough about that!), and the rather bizarrely-named Solara An-Ra, whose chosen subject was…channelling a message to us all from the star people.
Now, I know what you’re thinking. It’s exactly what Kal was thinking when he jokingly offered the DVD to me, saying “You’ve gotta watch this!“, and which I immediately thought myself when he began to describe its contents. So, for several weeks I put off watching it. When, exactly, would I get a spare hour to go through that kind of stuff? Would I be prepared to spare ANY time for that? Well, as it turns out, I did. And what unfolded not only startled me, but rather unsettled me too, but probably not for the reasons that Madame Solara may have been anticipating.
I have to admit, I couldn’t watch it all. I just couldn’t. It was pretty…out there. I mean, the lady’s attractive – well, I think she is – and with a comely figure, but that’s not enough to keep my attention for more than a few minutes. She started out asking everyone to do a meditation- fair enough! Embarrassing for those there, but not completely off the wall. It WAS Glastonbury, after all. She starts the meditation off by grounding herself, then connecting with the earth’s core by a golden thread of light,… [hold on – that sounds familiar!]…then she extends the thread up to embrace the sun and the moon [hey! this is sounding mighty similar to…], and then she brings it back into the centre to spread out a globe of light…[Right! Hold it right there, lady! That’s MY meditation you’re doing!]. She then goes on to have a Golden Shower in front of everyone in the room, but an imaginary one, so perhaps you can make your own rude imagery up for that visualisation!
I have to say I was pretty miffed. I have read a couple of meditation techniques from druidry books, but have tended not to take any of them literally, rather my meditations have grown and changed to the point where I was comfortable with my own form and imagery. Here Solara An-She-Ra-Mistress-of-the-Universe was – using my exact meditation technique! I was a bit gob-smacked. But I left it running to see what came next…
Then she explains that she channels….OK, edging towards the outer reaches now….and that she is surrounded by her guides. Well, you know, I’m not closed-minded – she might be for all I know – I haven’t got “the sight”, so…benefit of the doubt there. Then she says they’re from The Pleiades (angelic sweet voices) and from The Sirius System (rather abrupt frank voices, she explains). I wonder which one we’re going to hear? It was those kooky Sirians. When she started I nearly fell off my chair – What the b’jeezus is THAT!!?? I won’t spoil the surprise, but when that voice comes out of her you have to bite your tongue to stop yourself from either choking or laughing! Anyway – that wasn’t what made me freak out (much), it was what she was talking about.
A few minutes in she started to say that we needed to all dis-engage from the media – stop watching TV and listening to radio – it was not doing us any good. Not a radical message in this day and age, certainly not for me to hear, because I’d been saying that for the last few years to anyone who’ll listen to my rants. So, again, I got that “That’s my idea, that is!” feeling. Although, of course, I’m not laying sole claim to the idea – I’m just saying I got that eerily familiar feeling again.
Addendum 9th December:
On Philip Carr-Gomm’s blog Paul Milne had posted “Jerry Mander”‘s four reasons to stop watching TV. For fun, I’ve included them here:
1) The mediation of experience: “As humans have moved into totally artificial environments, our direct contact with and knowledge of the planet has been snapped. Disconnected, like astronauts floating in space, we cannot know up from down or truth from fiction. Conditions are appropriate for the implantation of arbitrary realities. Television is one recent example of this, a serious one, since it greatly accelerates the problem.”
2) The Colonization of Experience: “It is no accident that television has been dominated by a handful of corporate powers. Neither is it accidental that television has been used to re-create human beings into a new form that matches the artificial, commercial environment. A conspiracy of technological and economic factors made this inevitable and continue to.”
3) Effects of Television on the Human Being: “Television technology produces neuro-physiological responses in the people who watch it. It may create illness, it certainly produces confusion and submission to external imagery. Taken together, the effects amount to conditioning for autocratic control.
4) The Inherent Biases of Television: “Along with the venality of its controllers, the technology of television predetermines the boundaries of its content. Some information can be conveyed completely, some partially, some not at all. The most effective telecommunications are the gross, simplified linear messages and programs which conveniently fit the purposes of the medium’s commercial controllers. Television’s highest potential is advertising. This cannot be changed. The bias is inherent in the technology.”
Panic a bit now – skip fast forward to somewhere else in the talk. What’s the Sirian saying now? “LOVE – is not – the high-est – vibration.” Yeaaaahhh….and….? “The high-test vi-bra-tion…is the comb-ination…of LOVE and GRAT-IT-UDE [nod, nod].” HEY – now you’re really taking the mickey! That’s exactly what I say when I receive information from…[now I’m going to sound nuts]…speaking with trees (hey – at least they’re here and tangible!). I thank them and send them a feeling of love in return for their help and guidance – and she’s stolen that TOO!!
Too much. I stopped the DVD and put it back into the paper sleeve that accompanied it. I can’t watch any more of that! She’s making everything I’ve worked on and kept close to me a mockery with her dalek-voice proselytising Derren Brown nod-nod delivery! I’m gutted. Maybe I should turn to the Syrians, sorry Sirians for guidance. Maybe they’ve got the textbook on druidry techniques and have been feeding me this stuff all the time, when I thought I’d made it up myself?
Thanks Solara An-Ra – you’ve ruined (or validated) my spiritual work! I can’t work that out, but you’ve certainly stolen my soul!
Gwas
Following the Sirian Star Guide’stextbook of mystical techniques and ideas for transformation.
You are not the only “soul” this woman appears to be “borrowing” – she borrows and distorts information to confuse the masses. I cannot sit through more than a few seconds of her talking. It is the same with Drunvalo Melchizadek. So many people love these two- I think they are a perfect match! Alot of their information is snips and bits from other people and ancient traditions. Alot of Solara An-Ra’s info I noticed was taken & distorted from Solara and the 11:11- http://www.nvisible.com. Its a real shame because the true 11:11 journey is so powerful and real, and what this woman does is strip it of its essence and makes it stuck in duality. I feel there are alot of fake prophets on the planet right now trying to cash in on this time, distort information and keep us from whats really going on. Keep out your truth filters- clearly anyone who calls themselves a Warrior of Light is suffering from an ego distortion!
You know, I’ve come to think that these people are just living their own dreams, and as long as they are injecting the right emotions into their work there are far worse things that could be (and are being) done to the world’s sacred centres. I’m inclined to just leave them to their own weirdness, and watch those crazy sheep bleating along with her, it just makes me smile.
And as I say, there are worse reactions. I’m not abhorred by her work, it just makes me smile with a sympathetic glint in my eye. I may be going down an equally odd road myself, and I’m sure others laugh at my own exploits. I just thank the stars that I haven’t yet risen to the level of ego mastery that these folks seem to profess with their fluorescent pink websites advertising world tours for mass love-ins. When I get to that stage I will have truly passed beyond the bounds of taste and humility.
Good day, Yes I am alive! Like your post on Solana. Fortunately I broke into her place the other night and retrieved your soul along with a missing Dalek. So next time we meet – hopefully in Borders – I will return your soul, which is still very much intact and in place.
Expect a post up this evening – promise!
Kal
PS – Ali – I have to agree with you, I have a theory based on Synasthesia and Psychology as to why it is people gain intuitive knowledge in the ways that they do. Thanks for the comments! Gwas and Kal
Hi there, I’ve been reading for a while, but finally got around to registering so I can comment. Really love the work you’re doing and sharing here. 🙂
As far as Solana An-Ra… I have a theory, based on long discussions with my partner about our very different experiences of deity within Druidry. I tend to have much more subtle, “poetic” intuitions about Spirit, whereas my partner has full-blown visions (while in meditation) of literal external-to-himself gods and goddesses complete with various recognizable iconographic symbols and imagery. I think one reason this is the case is that he is much more externally focused than I am. He often claims, for instance, not to “get” poetry, whereas I’ve been writing it for more than fifteen years. Symbols, images and archetypes that for him are powerful and meaningful come across to me as a bit predictable, cliché or even silly.
So what I suspect is that this Solana An-Ra person is the kind of person who needs to hear this type of stuff from Star People, because that’s how her mind works. Things that you might learn from connecting to the energies of trees (the same ideas that I’ve been playing with through poetry and the creative arts and I would attribute to my “muse” or awen), make the most sense to her when she goes through elaborate meditative trances and speaks in funny voices. 🙂 Which I think is probably okay in the end, even if a little embarrassing for everyone else. After all, she’s saying some pretty wise stuff, it sounds like, and things you yourself have verified as meaningful truths through your own experiences. People’s individual minds work differently, though, and what may be common sense to one person can feel obscure and mysterious to another, and literal and strange, even superstitious, to somebody else.
Anyway, just an idea. 🙂 Like the post. Keep up the intriguing work!
Hello Ali,
Sorry I took so long to respond but I never considered that anyone was actually commenting and so I deleted all the notifiers thinking they were spam! How mad is that? Anyway, I read you response with interest, and I can appreciate your position regarding the different ways that people come by their gnostic information. Your comments were very all-embracing. I do appreciate what you say, and I agree with you.
I was, unfortunately, just having a bit of a go at Solana because she was so outrageously….flamboyant… in her “performance”. And I did rate it as a performance at the Glastonbury Symposium. This lady is not simply communicating from another space, she’s “channeling”, which is not something I get along with. I don’t mind people communicating with The Other (how could I after what I say) but I do find the giving over of oneself to possession by these entities to be an objectionable and disturbing transgression.
Maybe one day I may be more understanding, gracious an accepting, but for now – it creeps me out! And she was clearly “faking it” in parts.
Gwas.
Seeking truth in communion