The Celestial Speed-Up

Purpose & Introduction “A Universal Theology is not possible But a universal experience is not only possible, but necessary.” This is the Celestial Speed-Up. “A Course in Miracles” Why We Must Rethink the Book of Revelation We need a new way to look at the Book of Revelation. Fortunately, one has been given. This book is a “time saving” device for those seeking a new understanding of the Apocalyptic Myth and The End of Time. It is based on teachings from “A Course in Miracles” but more specifically on an unpublished manuscript given to Edgar Cayce’s Library. This edition contains terms and concepts of great import in rethinking our Myth of the Apocalypse. From this new perspective, there are no tales of death and destruction or any horrific end of time. By redefining its purpose, the Book of Revelation releases its grip of grief and suffering on humankind. This plague on Western minds, a torment for more than 2,000 years, is coming to an end. Hastening that end, we will experience a rapid expansion of spiritual knowledge, in the minds of a few, followed by a transfer and awareness of spiritual knowledge into our universal collective consciousness. Expanding at an accelerated rate, it will heal the minds of many. As a continuous stream of miracles, this quickening in the Spirit is the purpose of the Celestial Speed-Up. Recent opinion polls from popular news magazines indicate more than 60 percent of Americans choose a literal belief in the Book of Revelation. These inerrant beliefs become a prescription for wars and chaos under a holy commission to fight evil. Fears engendered by this apocalyptic thinking are reflective of an intense craving for certainty and assurance. We must reconsider this choice for fear and seek a new perspective on “end times” scenarios that generated terror. A change is needed. We have an intelligent facility for change in our unconscious mind. It is the focal point of The Book of Revelation. Understood by enlightened minds for centuries, this perspective provides a pathway to awakening a higher level of spiritual understanding in every man, woman and child. This is the message of our Myth of the Apocalypse. “A Course in Miracles” (ACIM) has the same purpose. Forgiveness is the means of awakening this greater spiritual understanding. This is not forgiveness as in a pardon. Rather, it is an admission of our misperceptions about each other. This key unlocks a process connecting desire to realization. Traveling such a path is more than a means; it is an end unto itself. This way is paved with personal meaning and fulfillment. We no longer need pursue passions outside ourselves, chasing endless forms and appearances for answers. Get a Hold of Your Self Dr. Carl G. Jung gave a name to this universal intelligent facility in all of us. He called this agent for order and change the Self. According to Jung it is the central and ordering archetypical energy of our conscious and unconscious minds. It is their whole circumference, as well. As an archetype of wholeness, its transpersonal power transcends our egos. In this context, the ego is the center of our conscious mind and is referred to as the “smaller self.” As a speck is to the universe, so the ego is to the Self. Archetypical images are patterns of thought and behavior that are common to mankind, at all times and in all places. The greater Self, as an archetypical image, is a transcendental concept that presupposes our unconscious mind where the archetypical energy resides. Jung suggested this analogy: if the Self is the mover, the ego is the one moved. The greater Self is both individualized and collective. Jung’s theory of a “collective mind” suggested we have a universal thought system in which everyone participates. This controversial concept, the collective mind in the unconscious, is that aspect of our collective unconscious that manifests inherited, universal themes that run through all human life. As primordial images, they reflect the basic patterns common to each of us that have existed universally since the dawn of time. We experience this archetypical energy in our conscious minds as dreams and in our imaginations, visions and instincts. A process brings us into partial but conscious awareness of our greater Self. Jung named the process for initiating this change and then awakening “individuation.” This is when we become whole or indivisible. Our “true Self” is experienced through individuation, a process of integrating the many aspects of our conscious and unconscious personality. The entire essence of the Self is unknowable, but its manifestations in our personal lives carry the greater meaning which we seek. Words lack in explaining this mystery. Jung’s definitions and processes are similar to those detailed in “ACIM.” Each gives a description of how we become conscious of a new understanding of our Self. This is not something we acquire through effort or merit; this is knowledge we already have in our unconscious mind seeking to come into our conscious awareness. Its pathway is a gift of grace from our Universal Divinity. Traveling this path toward its end will result in a new understanding of our spirituality, as foretold by the Apocalyptic Myth. This is the process of Self-realization or individuation. In this context, Self-realization also relates to Hindu religion referring to a profound spiritual awakening from the illusory self identified image created by our ego. What emerges is the true, divine and perfect condition that each individual will become. The Hindu sub-school of Advaita Vedanta fosters this concept. Noted psychologist Abraham Maslow, has defined the concept (he used the term “self-actualization”) as the “impulse to convert oneself into what one is capable of being.” The terms of Self-realization, self-actualization and individuation, while used interchangeably in this work, should be thought of as complementing each other rather than as equating concepts. They are but aspects of a many sided whole which we seek to understand. In the meantime, it is seeking to come into our conscious awareness. That which we seek is seeking us. The “Archetype of the Apocalypse” and the “Celestial Speed-Up” “ACIM” uses apocalyptic term from the Book of Revelation to describe our awakening to this higher spiritual identity, the Self. Our ego’s fear of initiating this process creates turmoil and terror in individual thoughts. Manifested in the “collective unconscious mind,” they become a source of chaos in our external world. As we experience these fears, we project them onto an outer source, blame follows. This mental constellation of fear, angst and terror which resists the coming of individuation or Self-realization may be thought of as the “Archetype of the Apocalypse.” This Archetype of the Apocalypse is a powerful transpersonal energy in our collective unconscious. It is laden with affect and seething to release. It can and does possess individuals and groups to the point of self-destruction. Consider the 1992 siege in Waco, Texas where an entire religious community was engulfed in a flaming inferno or the mass suicide at Rev. Jim Jones’ Jonestown that claimed the lives of more than 900 cult members. Possession is fatal for individuals, but for cultures it becomes apocalyptic: catastrophe follows. When fixated in the grip of this transpersonal energy, inhumanity has no limits. This fixation creates anomie: wars, famine, blight and disease. This need not be. Jung was asked during World War II if he thought we, as a culture, would survive the holocaust of death and destruction then underway. He responded, “Yes, if enough of us do our inner work.” The focus of this inner work he referred to was individuation or Self-realization. We each have the capacity to attain this awareness with the development of a personal relationship with our highest Divinity: the Christ or Self within. Self-realization leads us to our ultimate