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Ilahinoor: a supramental light PDF Print E-mail
Like waves upon the seashore following each other in a rising tide, I feel a series of waves moving through collective human consciousness in our journey of evolution.

The cosmic energy known as "deeksha" is one such wave. Originating in south India, the movement was founded on the work of Bhagavan and Amma, two visionary mystics who have since become known as 'avatars of enlightenment'.

Along with my wife, Grace, I first experienced this energy in the summer of 2003. We happened to be at Bhagavan's ashram, known as Oneness University, the very first time the deekshas were publicly given, and ended up spending several months there working with this divine energy of awakening, including learning how to transfer this energy to others.

We had also been much inspired by the work of two other visionary mystics, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, who, it seemed to me, had initiated much the same kind of experiment a hundred years earlier, in response to an earlier wave of evolutionary impulse.

For the next three years we wrote and travelled incessantly around the world, eager to share the vision of global awakening through the deeksha, always in context of what Sri Aurobindo had spoken of as 'the supramental awakening', a time when the unified consciousness of divinity becomes fully awake within the world of matter.

Then, very gradually at first, we felt the wave pulling back. Something was changing in our inner world, and although the deeksha energy still flowed as powerfully from its cosmic evolutionary source, we realized that there were other doorways opening up as well.

I perceive evolution as moving forward in waves. One wave comes in, then goes back, making way for another wave to come in. The backwash is a time of questioning and reflection, a time when we get to examine again the foundation of our being, and do the necessary work of integration before the next wave can come in from the same cosmic ocean. I allowed myself to enter into a place of emptiness and mystery, waiting for guidance.

I was in Bangalore in late March 2006 when I got the phone call from my South African friend Vivek. He was a few hours away from me, and sounded excited. "When can I see you?" he was asking. I told him I didn't have much time at the moment since I was getting ready to head for Turkey in a few days, where Grace and I had been invited to do a few deeksha seminars.

He insisted that he had to speak with me, however. He began to blurt out his story over the phone. He had just finished talking with his friend Rajendra, who was a seer. Vivek happened to have a copy of my book, "Fire from Heaven", with him, and had shown it to Rajendra. Rajendra took the book in his hands, and without opening it, had gone into a trance state, providing Vivek with detailed information about my life - past, present and future - which he proceeded to then share with me over the phone.

I was intrigued. I don't normally seek out channels or psychics for guidance or information, but there are times in my life when I have crossed paths with someone I knew I was meant to meet who had a significant message to convey. As I listened to Vivek speak, I recognized that this was such a person, and that it was important that we get together as soon as possible.

I called up Rajendra. It turned out that he was coming to Bangalore the following day, and we arranged to meet for lunch. There was an instant soul recognition, and we began to talk about planetary events and the journey of awakening. He told me much the same information I had heard from Vivek over the phone, but then added something that caught me by surprise. "You have been doing most of your work in the Western world so far", he said to me. "However, your work has only just begun, and all this is about to change."

He went on to say that I would be focusing my attention on the Muslim world from that point on, and that I would be sharing an important message that would help bring peace in the world. I wasn't sure I wanted to hear that. I had my own stereotypes of the Muslim world, largely generated by the Western press, and sad to say, I had been stuck with a fairly fundamentalist stereotype that was not very appealing. He went on to say that I had been incarnate in Arabia during the lifetime of the prophet Mohammad, and that it was time for me now to reconnect with that lineage so I could help people connect with a long-forgotten deeper message. This would help in harmonizing the major world religions.

I was still pondering over all this when we arrived in Istanbul a few days later. We had met a spiritual teacher from Istanbul, Isik, a few months ago in Sicily, where Grace and I had been giving a week long deeksha seminar. Isik attended our seminar and we became friends. Subsequently he had invited us to Turkey to spend some time together and to do a few deeksha events there.

So it was that in the Spring of 2006 Grace and I went to Turkey, intending to do a couple seminars and then return to India. The universe, however, had a different plan. Turkey is in a unique position of bridging two continents, Europe and Asia, and all that they represent. It is also a bridge in time, a land where civilizations and ancient religions have been birthed and nurtured for 9000 years. Turks refer to this land as Anatolya, Land of the Mother, a stargate for new galactic frequencies to be anchored on the planet today.

Before very long we realized this was where we were being called to live. Other seers we met locally began confirming some of the things Rajendra had shared with me earlier. Doors continued to open, and it wasn't long before we had found a seaside home in this ancient and beautiful country, amongst a warm, open-hearted and extremely hospitable people.

A couple months after settling in, I felt another wave of evolutionary energy moving through my life. Grace was away doing some seminars in Hawaii, and I had been doing a 3 day retreat with a small group in Dalyan, a beautiful village on the Aegean coast of Turkey. Two of the participants, Nuket and Leyla, had just returned from a trip to Egypt where they had been receiving a series of inner messages about these awakening times. Ceylan and Nur were also psychically very sensitive.

We found ourselves experiencing memories of a shared lifetime in ancient Egypt during the time of the Pharaoh Akhenaton. As in other times before and since, this was an experiment for achieving a certain amount of mastery over the physical body as the divine energies became embodied into the cellular matrix. In times past this had led to heightened possibilities for the enlightenment of the body, leading to physical immortality, or ascension.

At a certain point we connected with a Being known in ancient Egypt as Ra, who went on to speak about a living morphogenetic field of ascension frequencies that had been built up over time through the lifetimes of many initiates who had actually achieved physical immortality and ascension in those times. This morphogenetic field had been screened off from collective humanity until a point when we were ready again to re-activate this. That time was now.

Suddenly, this energy began to weave itself into the circle. I found that it was similar in many ways to what I had experienced when swimming with humpback whales in Hawaii, when I had felt like my body lost its sense of physical boundaries, and merged with Earth, Cosmos and beyond. The energy was powerful and entered deeply into the physical body. It was warm and fluid, and felt very nourishing.

Over the next few days, more information came through about the roles that each of us had played during those ancient times in awakening this energy. The details of those stories are not important here. What is important is to know that this morphogenetic field still exists, and that it can be used for healing and for the cellular integration of cosmic evolutionary energies.

We looked for a name that matched the frequency of what this energy represented. Turkey is a land with a rich history of Sufi mysticism, exemplified in the life and teachings of a man known in the West as Jalaluddin Rumi, and known here as simply Mevlana, or Lover of God. It seemed somehow that the vibration of this mystic tradition was also part of the morphogenetic field that we were experiencing, and we recognized Mevlana as another of the great lights behind this work.

We ended up calling this vibrational field, "Ilahinoor", which means 'Divine Light' in Turkish. Like the Deeksha, it is a cosmic evolutionary energy whose purpose is to awaken humanity to our highest potential. As we continued to experiment, we began to realize that these two streams of evolutionary energy were very complementary in their purpose, although quite different as well.

Over the next few months as we evolved a system to share this new energy, people began to provide enthusiastic feedback about the effectiveness of Ilahinoor in their lives. Comparisons are always relative, but many who had experienced both deeksha and ilahinoor reported that they experienced deeksha being softer and lighter, while ilahinoor was heavier and more embodied, that deeksha was more cosmic and electrical, while ilahinoor was more grounded and magnetic. People often feel the ilahinoor energy very directly in the heart, and also in the solar plexus, the center where personal will and power merges with divine will and power, and many have reported experiencing a clearing of deep-seated addictions and emotional pain.

All this is very much in its experimental stages so far. There are different ex-pressions of divine energy, each of which may have specific functions, but I see them all as braiding together into a single evolutionary focus. Having worked actively as a psychotherapist for many years, I am excited about the potential of ilahinoor to achieve profound emotional healing, as well as to deeper integrate the deeksha energies into the physical body. When working with people now I usually begin with deeksha and then move into ilahinoor, sharing with them how they can access this morphogenetic field for themselves.

I have also been encouraging people who have been initiated into the ilahinoor energy to experiment with initiating others. Each candle lights another directly from a single cosmic flame. It is a time to move beyond hierarchies and human structures. The morphogenetic field of ilahinoor is ancient and strong, and grows with the sharing. Many find that the flow is stronger when they are giving than when they are receiving. Like deeksha, the ilahinoor energy includes the potential for healing the body, mind, heart, and soul to an unprecedented extent by restructuring DNA in accordance with a divine blueprint. Our bodies are each multi-dimensional temples of God, simply waiting to be illuminated with divine light.

It is my hope that we will do this wisely and well, honoring the divine oneness rather than creating a hierarchical system, keeping it financially affordable for everyone, giving and receiving freely from the heart, awakening each other to the destiny that awaits us collectively. Sri Aurobindo spoke of the birthing of a new species of humanity, referring to this as the 'supramental awakening'. Perhaps Ilahinoor is another wave of cosmic light moving through humanity today to serve this awakening.