Sant Mat Gnosis
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{"It was for the sake of the God-conscious beings
that our True Lord created this earth, and began
this play of birth and death". ------ Guru Nanak}
The Pilgrimage of James -- An Odyssey of Inner Space, George Arnsby
Jones, Peacehaven Press
By James Bean
Mixed Media: Book Reviews, Website Reviews, Music Reviews
The Pilgrimage of James -- An Odyssey of Inner Space, by George
Arnsby Jones, Peacehaven Press, HC 72 Box 235, Jasper, Arkansas
72641, $9.00 postage paid
Book Cover JPG Image:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sant_Mat_Fellowship_AV/files/pilg
OOBE's and NDE's Are Not A New Phenomena
In the world of mystical literature there is a small but growing
number of books that record people's experiences of soul travel
through the heavens, out-of-body and near-death experiences. Some
books in this genre have even been quite popular, such as, Embraced
By the Light, Betty Eadie, Life After Life, Dr. Raymond Moody, and,
Heading Toward Omega, by Dr. Kenneth Ring. In earlier centuries,
Gnostic gospels, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Songs of the Sabbath
Sacrifice (Dead Sea Scroll text), The Prayerbook of the Mandaeans
(from Iraq and Iran), Sar Bachan Radhaswami Poetry, and other world
scriptures have also described people's journeys into heavenly
realms, and their communications with angels, souls in the beyond,
beings of Light, and the Supreme Being.
One of the most eloquent contemporary examples of this is a book by
George Arnsby Jones called, The Pilgrimage of James, An Odyssey of
Inner Space, a record of one soul's explorations of higher planes of
consciousness or heavenly realms. The late George Arnsby Jones was
the person who first coined the term "new age music" or "NAM" back in
the 1950's, referring to certain types of music that have healing or
other spiritual properties. He developed a technique for working with
sound called "Psychophonics." His meditation practice also focused on
sound -- inner Sound or Heavenly Music, the art of hearing Mystic
Sound not normally audible to the human ear, a form of meditation
called "Surat Shabad Yoga," the Yoga of the Audible Life Stream,
taught to him by his Indian spiritual Master: Kirpal Singh of Delhi,
India. Mr. Jones eventually founded Peacehaven, a Center for Human
Unity and Fulfillment, located in the Ozark mountains of North West
Arkansas, as well as Peacehaven Press. His work is being continued by
family members and his books remain in print through Peacehaven
Press.
The Soul's Existence Before Birth
The book begins by recording events just PRIOR to the birth
of "James" when, as a spirit he lived in what's called "the astral
realm of the Nightmusic." Then he came to the earth-plane:
"AND I, James, stirred after the interregnum between incarnations,
which was the spirit's waking dream of great duration; and I wanted
to see the physical world now, as it truly is, and I yearned to meet
the living spiritual adept of this time. My longing focused my
consciousness downwards; my spirit moved in a wide and glowing
tangent, then it veered earthward in a plummeting fall."
"I, James, have known love, and love is an immense madness of
spiritual intoxication. I remembered that I had once stood on the
edge of a vast ocean of love, and love had saturated my soul like
music. Love is the eternal primavera of the heart, arising out of the
bleak sepulcher of the spirit's winter. Before the creation of mind
and matter, my love was a boundless sea of all-consciousness. The
nature of James was all-bliss, sufficient unto myself. Every
electron, every atom, every particle of dust in my personal creation
was imbued with love. There was no void in my universe of love, no
place where love was not, no place where love and bliss were non-
existent. No other being now existed, for I was love and you were
love. We were love and we are love. I am the self of all selves. All
was love and all is love -- if I can but seize that truth for ever."
"My great madness of love had brought me into the physical world many
times, but now had dawned that incarnation in which I would reach the
feet of the living spiritual adept of this time, here in the physical
world. That cumulus of mist which had hovered over my mother's bridal
bed, an anxious James waiting to be conceived and born again into
flesh, acknowledged the fact of myself as the prime-mover in my new
earthly existence. All acts of love progress from mirage to fact. And
now, as I returned to the physical after the long respite of the
soul, I trembled as I sensed the cyclonic vortex of the world's rage.
But soon the mists of forgetfulness would be drawn across the
consciousness of the new-born child."
The Rainbow Bridge of Celestial Tonal Fire
Though there are numerous descriptions of heavenly regions of Light
and Love, a spinning vortex of blue light, the astral realm of the
Nightmusic, a meeting with a Persian Sufi poet, baptisms in a lake of
nectar, waterfalls that make music -- whole skies filled with music!,
an encounter with the person who invented the sitar who lamented that
it was his "failed" attempt to "capture the music of the Spirit in
terms of the physical world," -- in addition to all that, there is
much wisdom and insight for living to be found in this most unusual
little book:
"The pathway to the highest realms of Life, my Persian teacher
informed me, is by way of the Unstruck Music. This Music is the
creative spiritual fiat, the rainbow bridge of Celestial Tonal Fire
and Supernal Light that the pilgrim soul traverses in order to reach
that ultimate Abode of Love. And, I, James, a weak mortal, had caught
some faint spirant of that Heavenly Music in this incarnation."
"All beautiful forms and tones of this world are mere reflections of
some aspect of that ultimate Love-Music of the Great Creative Word.
Within the vast complex of creation, each individual spirit is
himself/herself a spark of that Eternal Song of Love."
"To explore the far reaches of the inner realms one must understand
one's true nature. Perhaps it is not entirely the fault of modern man
that he does not understand his own inner universe. He has achieved
much, and if such concepts escape his own consciousness it is because
he has no flaming falcon of the spirit on his fist to soar beyond the
confining reaches of the intellect. Men have journeyed to the
physical moon, but they know nothing of the regions of the blissful
music within themselves -- regions which lie beyond the moon, beyond
the sun, beyond the most distant stars and galaxies."
"There are those who have wandered among the darting comets and the
shimmering orbs of sounding fire. The soul-explorer is not alone,
for there are those who have traveled the highways of the inner
cosmos; far more than one may at first realize."
"...The planes of heaven are about you everywhere. Man has only to
know this simple truth consciously, and then he will be free."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/santmatfellowship
{"It was for the sake of the God-conscious beings
that our True Lord created this earth, and began
this play of birth and death". ------ Guru Nanak}
The Pilgrimage of James -- An Odyssey of Inner Space, George Arnsby
Jones, Peacehaven Press
By James Bean
Mixed Media: Book Reviews, Website Reviews, Music Reviews
The Pilgrimage of James -- An Odyssey of Inner Space, by George
Arnsby Jones, Peacehaven Press, HC 72 Box 235, Jasper, Arkansas
72641, $9.00 postage paid
Book Cover JPG Image:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sant_Mat_Fellowship_AV/files/pilg
OOBE's and NDE's Are Not A New Phenomena
In the world of mystical literature there is a small but growing
number of books that record people's experiences of soul travel
through the heavens, out-of-body and near-death experiences. Some
books in this genre have even been quite popular, such as, Embraced
By the Light, Betty Eadie, Life After Life, Dr. Raymond Moody, and,
Heading Toward Omega, by Dr. Kenneth Ring. In earlier centuries,
Gnostic gospels, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Songs of the Sabbath
Sacrifice (Dead Sea Scroll text), The Prayerbook of the Mandaeans
(from Iraq and Iran), Sar Bachan Radhaswami Poetry, and other world
scriptures have also described people's journeys into heavenly
realms, and their communications with angels, souls in the beyond,
beings of Light, and the Supreme Being.
One of the most eloquent contemporary examples of this is a book by
George Arnsby Jones called, The Pilgrimage of James, An Odyssey of
Inner Space, a record of one soul's explorations of higher planes of
consciousness or heavenly realms. The late George Arnsby Jones was
the person who first coined the term "new age music" or "NAM" back in
the 1950's, referring to certain types of music that have healing or
other spiritual properties. He developed a technique for working with
sound called "Psychophonics." His meditation practice also focused on
sound -- inner Sound or Heavenly Music, the art of hearing Mystic
Sound not normally audible to the human ear, a form of meditation
called "Surat Shabad Yoga," the Yoga of the Audible Life Stream,
taught to him by his Indian spiritual Master: Kirpal Singh of Delhi,
India. Mr. Jones eventually founded Peacehaven, a Center for Human
Unity and Fulfillment, located in the Ozark mountains of North West
Arkansas, as well as Peacehaven Press. His work is being continued by
family members and his books remain in print through Peacehaven
Press.
The Soul's Existence Before Birth
The book begins by recording events just PRIOR to the birth
of "James" when, as a spirit he lived in what's called "the astral
realm of the Nightmusic." Then he came to the earth-plane:
"AND I, James, stirred after the interregnum between incarnations,
which was the spirit's waking dream of great duration; and I wanted
to see the physical world now, as it truly is, and I yearned to meet
the living spiritual adept of this time. My longing focused my
consciousness downwards; my spirit moved in a wide and glowing
tangent, then it veered earthward in a plummeting fall."
"I, James, have known love, and love is an immense madness of
spiritual intoxication. I remembered that I had once stood on the
edge of a vast ocean of love, and love had saturated my soul like
music. Love is the eternal primavera of the heart, arising out of the
bleak sepulcher of the spirit's winter. Before the creation of mind
and matter, my love was a boundless sea of all-consciousness. The
nature of James was all-bliss, sufficient unto myself. Every
electron, every atom, every particle of dust in my personal creation
was imbued with love. There was no void in my universe of love, no
place where love was not, no place where love and bliss were non-
existent. No other being now existed, for I was love and you were
love. We were love and we are love. I am the self of all selves. All
was love and all is love -- if I can but seize that truth for ever."
"My great madness of love had brought me into the physical world many
times, but now had dawned that incarnation in which I would reach the
feet of the living spiritual adept of this time, here in the physical
world. That cumulus of mist which had hovered over my mother's bridal
bed, an anxious James waiting to be conceived and born again into
flesh, acknowledged the fact of myself as the prime-mover in my new
earthly existence. All acts of love progress from mirage to fact. And
now, as I returned to the physical after the long respite of the
soul, I trembled as I sensed the cyclonic vortex of the world's rage.
But soon the mists of forgetfulness would be drawn across the
consciousness of the new-born child."
The Rainbow Bridge of Celestial Tonal Fire
Though there are numerous descriptions of heavenly regions of Light
and Love, a spinning vortex of blue light, the astral realm of the
Nightmusic, a meeting with a Persian Sufi poet, baptisms in a lake of
nectar, waterfalls that make music -- whole skies filled with music!,
an encounter with the person who invented the sitar who lamented that
it was his "failed" attempt to "capture the music of the Spirit in
terms of the physical world," -- in addition to all that, there is
much wisdom and insight for living to be found in this most unusual
little book:
"The pathway to the highest realms of Life, my Persian teacher
informed me, is by way of the Unstruck Music. This Music is the
creative spiritual fiat, the rainbow bridge of Celestial Tonal Fire
and Supernal Light that the pilgrim soul traverses in order to reach
that ultimate Abode of Love. And, I, James, a weak mortal, had caught
some faint spirant of that Heavenly Music in this incarnation."
"All beautiful forms and tones of this world are mere reflections of
some aspect of that ultimate Love-Music of the Great Creative Word.
Within the vast complex of creation, each individual spirit is
himself/herself a spark of that Eternal Song of Love."
"To explore the far reaches of the inner realms one must understand
one's true nature. Perhaps it is not entirely the fault of modern man
that he does not understand his own inner universe. He has achieved
much, and if such concepts escape his own consciousness it is because
he has no flaming falcon of the spirit on his fist to soar beyond the
confining reaches of the intellect. Men have journeyed to the
physical moon, but they know nothing of the regions of the blissful
music within themselves -- regions which lie beyond the moon, beyond
the sun, beyond the most distant stars and galaxies."
"There are those who have wandered among the darting comets and the
shimmering orbs of sounding fire. The soul-explorer is not alone,
for there are those who have traveled the highways of the inner
cosmos; far more than one may at first realize."
"...The planes of heaven are about you everywhere. Man has only to
know this simple truth consciously, and then he will be free."