63. Leaving a spiritual wasteland – Betty Kovacs

In the Nag Hammadi texts, Jesus says: ”If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you, but if you do not bring it forth, it will destroy you.” We have been conditioned to dismiss all signs of an inner reality and a connection with the universe. We have for millennia rejected the feminine principle and energies. The shaman-mystic knowledge about our true essence was with us when homo sapiens first appeared on this earth. The San people in southern Africa, direct descendants of the first modern humans, are living proof of that. Despite attempts by religious and secular rulers to quash this wisdom, it has survived throughout time, thanks to courageous groups of humans who have carried it with them under the radar, often at great risk: the gnostics, the sufis, the cathars, the rosicrucians and even the romantics in the early 19th century. This is the wonderful and often eye-opening story that Betty Kovacs tells us in her book ”Merchants of Light”. Kovacs has herself had personal experience of an inner reality, or higher dimensions if you will. In connection with the death of her mother, her son and her husband within a period of three years, she experienced altered states of consciousness. Judaism's first temple tradition was shaman-mystic. The feminine was seen as equal with the masculine. But around 600 BCE this tradition was destroyed. Texts were burned. Some were rescued, however, and lived on in kabbalah. Christianity’s counterpart to this was the clampdown of the Roman church from the fourth century CE, when the shaman-mystic tradition that Jesus himself represented was suppressed, and the early gnostic Christians were bloodily persecuted. What the church fathers resented was ”the tradition of going inward and experiencing the divinity of who we are and becoming the Christ”, says Betty Kovacs. The repression was terrible. ”The church fathers prepared us for totalitarian regimes.” After seven hundred years of spiritual darkness in Europe, a window opened up during the High Middle Ages. Cathedrals were built in France to revere personal connection with the higher realms and the feminine principle. ”They taught the hidden tradition.” The cathedral builders and teachers were influenced by the more open and tolerant islamic culture in Spain. But it did not last. Ironically, it was the Roman church that determined the development of materialistic science. But maybe we are leaving the spiritual wasteland. Our time could be one of rediscovering ancient spiritual knowledge and letting it merge with science. In the 20th century we began to understand the all-encompassing quantum field and that the heart is in many ways superior to the brain. We began to collect thousands of accounts of near-death experiences and found that they seem to be real. And we rediscovered the ancient shaman-mystic texts from early Judaism and Christianity. ”All these things are synchronistically happening. When I feel depressed over all the violence in the world I think about that”, says Betty Kovacs. ”We are beginning to bring together our past and realize our potential, at the same time that we've got to do business with what was not brought forth, the darkness we've allowed to be in the world.” Website: https://kamlak.com/ Books: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=betty+kovacs&ref=nb_sb_noss_1