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Thank you Charles for this well thought out exploration. When I was 21 years old, I "woke up" in my bedroom.....but it was a different reality. There was a different girlfriend in my bed, and the posters on the wall were different. There were NO drugs, alcohol or substances involved in any way, and I was wide awake....vividly. It was early dawn, and I was scared that the "other girlfriend" would wake up and I would be stuck in that alternate reality.

Mind you, this was long before I had read anything about parallel universes or even quantum physics. I willed myself back to sleep and back to this present reality.

After that experience, I had a series of Lucid dreams about what was going on for me in "that reality". This lead me to a lifelong study of these things.

Later in life, I worked as a Supervising Producer for the Television series "STRANGE UNIVERSE" and other similar shows that ran nationally. I had the opportunity to interview 8 former astronauts, 30 military people and an eyewitness to the Roswell event. After producing over 100 segments, I came to the conclusion that this is a "dream world" and that from one POV all of it is real, and from another POV, none of is "real". We are dreaming individually and collectively in ways that our human brains cannot fully comprehend.

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Mar 7, 2022ยทedited Mar 7, 2022Liked by Charles Eisenstein

What a wonderful exploratory piece... I would highly recommend to anyone interested in the subjects you touch here, to read and study the body of work by Jane Roberts, who channelled Seth. Yes the past is as malleable as the future. Yes there have been "previous" great civilizations on earth with high technology we are currently unaware of. Yes there are infinite timelines. the universe(s) is infinite as are dimensions, and every probability ad infinitum exists "somewhere". Time is an illusion, space is an illusion. The known universe is full of paradoxes and unknowns. The Edgar Cayce body of work is also worth studying... As are the so-called mythologies and legends of the East. (Yes Vimanas are real.) All first peoples, native, indigenous lore are worthy of open-minded study. Instantaneous healing is possible. Jumping timelines is possible. The "history" of Earth is much more than what we've been told. There are blocks weighing well over 1000 tons in places that we could not even move today with our machines. There's laser holes in quartz so fine and perfect and we do not have the capacity to make them. How do they exist? Yet they do! Everything we can imagine, and everything we cannot (yet) is possible.

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Mar 7, 2022Liked by Charles Eisenstein

Oh Charles....Thankyou !

You put words to the phenomena I have been feeling and seeing. Your validation of my experience solidifies my faith in it. It's hard to describe my experiences lately. I have had many other worldly portal type experiences in my life, always on my own in thr bush or the desert. I went through these with no guidance and no way to make sense of them. As I grew older I realised that if I had been born into a tribe of people perhaps this would have been seen as normal and instruction or initiation given...but no...I was not and so it was just I and the force...and so...your essay is so powerful for me.

I've been increasingly aware of the timelines and that they stream forth from under my feet. I've watched how I have been schooled to plan and that this is a way to solidify a certain line or choice. How I was uncomfortable to leave a moment without that solidity. Now I have learnt to hold the space in between. To explore and imagine down each line of choice...but remember to return to the Zero point. Then I get observant and ask for guidance...which comes sometimes in the form of a vision or strong feeling....In this way I walk on a golden path.

Sometimes I sing a song "free from all old stories I've been told, I walk through the valley of my own shadow"

I know the way now is to hold my vision until it appears....and it Does !!!! Amazing.

I live your work so much.

Mahla

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Mar 7, 2022Liked by Charles Eisenstein

Charles, I love this exploration. My daily practice is centered around opening to realities beyond my capacity to understand. I do understand, as a consequence of this practice, that any efforts I put out to change my worldly circumstances or even to understand them, pale in comparison to what is possible simply by opening and surrendering to higher powers. Through the intentional "act" of submission, my comprehension of who I am in relationship to Life and Creation expands exponentially, even as at the same time, it remains mysterious as ever. It is just the mystery itself becomes holy in a way and, in so doing, a thing itself, a nothing with more power than I could imagine. Yet it is there. I feel it. And I gladly and willingly submit. Then I am no longer alone and no longer separate, but rather a part of something bigger than the universe. I realize this is beginning to sound very hoohoo, but the feeling and the shift in perspective is anything but. It is a blessing to live in the moment to moment submission to mystery. I believe that is what Joseph Campbell referred to as the Hero's Journey.

Anyway, sorry to get so wordy. What I actually wanted to say that what you've written here meshes with my intuition that all we've been made to understand about the story of the dinosaurs is off in some way. Similarly, the source of our fossil fuels remains shrouded in mystery as far as I'm concerned. Your piece here suggests an explanation for why these stories ring hollow to me. Could it be that the sources of all the dinosaur bones - and we seem to be discovering new unexpected ones on the daily - lie within a parallel timeline? I believe so. The same applies to the sources of all of the fossil fuel we continually discover beneath the ground. Are they really deposits of once thriving flora and fauna in this timeline or are they artifacts of a parallel one? My money is on a parallel one, whose ancient past, as you so wonderfully propose, continues to change as we change. Love it!!

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Well done. It's one thing to be able to grapple with concepts like these. It's altogether another thing to be able to weave a bunch of these ideas into a cohesive, pleasant and easy to read narrative such as this, providing an upbeat glimpse into some of the many possibilities that exist, so to speak.

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Mar 7, 2022Liked by Charles Eisenstein

Thanks for this thought provoking piece. I embraced Christian Science for quite a number of years and read many testimonies of instantaneous healing, and had some remarkable experiences myself. The story of the peanut reminded me of a story about Mary Baker Eddy (founder of Christian Science). To prove to some of her students that what she was teaching was true, that the source of Life is spiritual and not material, she had some plants that looked dead taken down into a basement room and not given light or water. A few days later the plants were found alive and thriving in spite of not having water or sun and having looked dead. I left the church because of the rigidities of the morality, and the rigidities around church structure and the many "shoulds" that organizations develop. But if you want to read about someone who understand the laws of metaphysics, get ahold of a copy of Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Healer.

I often think that if we are approaching times of severe supply shortages (i.e. apocalypse or war situations) we all would do well by developing our metaphysical healing and manifesting capabilities. Everyone has these capabilites. They can be learned, which is what Christian Science is all about (along the lines of A Course in Miracles). I'm interested in reading more about your wife's work.

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Mar 7, 2022Liked by Charles Eisenstein

There are stories of people being able to move very large boulders in the Western isles in Scotland in the 1930,s this was understood to be an ancient knowledge working with Elemental beings/fairies A possability for not finding any signs of a technology is that they were using organic materials and working with elemental forces

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Mar 7, 2022Liked by Charles Eisenstein

Another element to add into the mix. Yes, I think many alt theorists get bogged down by trying to view the past through the lens of the contemporary materialist paradigm, which is perhaps best exemplified by Zecharia Sitchin's interpretation of Sumerian mythology (i.e. gods as spacemen). That said, one point of contention with what you wrote: that we would find metal tools. Metal corrodes pretty quickly. A metal can left out to the elements would be completely gone in 50 years or so. We're talking about thousands of years, perhaps over 10,000 for some of these megalithic structures. Or you can check out one of the videos which explains what our current world would look like in a few hundred years if everyone left - most of our stuff would be "composted" by natural forces, or at least covered up. Actually, the artifacts that would best survive would be megalithic structures.

There are two streams of thought from different sides of the globe that, if different in detail, line up in basic agreement: the Theosophical/Anthroposophical view perhaps best extrapolated by Rudolf Steiner, and the yogic view as introduced by Sri Yukteswar, guru of Yogananda, and recently brought to attention by Walter Cruttenden (Lost Star of Myth and Time) and Joseph Selbie (The Yugas). Both views believe that physical reality isn't set in stone, but changes - as does our relationship to it. In Steiner's view, in past epochs (namely, the Atlantean), humans were able to manipulate physical reality, so the gods and wizards of myth describe feats that were then possible.

In the Yukteswar/Cruttenden/Selbie view, we ascend and descent through yuga cycles, due to an orbit of some kind with another star (probably Sirius)--thus Cruttenden's Binary Star Institute--that brings us closer and then further away from the galactic center, effecting our consciousness and perhaps the physical substance of reality itself. This jives with what you say about rediscovering lost "technologies," for as we go further along the "ascending arc" we re-awaken to subtler elements of reality. The good news is that, In Yukteswar's view, we reached the nadir of the cycle in 500 AD and are on the way back up, leaving the Kali Yuga several hundred years ago and are now in the ascending Dwapara Yuga, which correlates with awareness of subtler energies. Of course now we face a new set of dangers directly related to our increasing understanding, whether we're talking about subtler frequencies, electricity, nuclear energy, etc.

I'm fairly certain you're familiar with the above, but one more idea to throw into the mix. I would highly recommend checking out the series on Precession on the Youtube channel, See the Pattern, which includes an inquiry into the work of Jim Weninger, a proponent of Electric Universe theory. Weninger believes that we are in a co-orbit with Sirius in a 25,000 year cycle within a Birkeland current, and in turn spiral around Arcturus every 550,000 years, and the Pleiades every 25 million years or so. Cycles within cycles within cycles - with perhaps "unknown" (at least to the modern scientific paradigm) cosmic influences at work. Fascinating stuff. Here's a link to the Precession series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gza1pEjRX6Y&list=PLeeyNowkGd8PBMqxTwqwYzhTmWxEac2yM&index=7

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Mar 7, 2022ยทedited Mar 8, 2022Liked by Charles Eisenstein

To account for artifacts like the pyramids, I don't think it's necessary to invoke either a long-lost materialistic technology that can sculpt granite, or parallel histories bending their ways through space-time. The loss of enchantment mentioned by some contributors here is perhaps a tip of the iceberg of the past that remains otherwise invisible to normal historic vision. Why should their technology have been one that can move 'dead' matter, when we know from so many pre-historic accounts - mythic, legendary, and so on - that the world was always experienced as alive? Only our 'dead' consciousness feels matter to be dead. We know some rocks are the corpses of living beings. What we don't know, and certainly don't accept, is that life preceded matter, that the whole cosmos is made of living beings some of which manifest as 'stuff'. The ancient Egyptians still lived in a world where the formative forces of what we call mere matter were as accessible to them as the force of gravity is to us. To suggest that those huge rocks were 'led' from their source to the sites of the pyramids as one might lead a herd of cattle is to invite splutters of ridicule. Or might we dare to imagine ourselves participating so intimately in the living wholeness of the world, that we could move mountains?

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Mar 8, 2022Liked by Charles Eisenstein

Oh Charles, this could be my favorite writing thus far! I was in Egypt in November of 2021, with almost no tourists, being guided by the lovely Meagan Maria, who shares your idea and brings you into Egypt's mystery with these curiosities being explored. I have to say not only was it a journey of a lifetime, but it truly changed me.

To be in the presence of such wonder and power, to be able to meditate in the pyramids and other sacred sites(because we were the only people there), tapped into something I can only describe as ancient knowing.

Then this year, exploring the quantum field more with Dr Joe Dispenza and taking part in Coherence Healing, much like you describe, gives me such hope during these times of transition.

Transition often involves loss, suffering, grief, and despair. We are undoubtedly getting our fair share, but looking through this lens helps me at least have complete trust in the evolutionary process despite what appears and tries to move me from my heart center.

"The self-sovereignty and trust they entail brings me quickly up against core wounds, unresolved traumas, and legacy programming. I am being asked to accept things I cannot explain or control, to step into a deeper level of trust."

These lines describe my last two years, and although they were filled with despair, I wouldn't give them back because I found authenticity and sovereignty not previously available to me in them.

It's a work in progress lol! Thanks Charles!

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Yessssss! The 7 year old me who wanted to be a dinosaur expert / Egyptologist / movie star (LOL) is THRILLED at all the possibilities you mention! I've been so frustrated lately with folks who keep saying the Earth is dying or that we are "past the point of no return"-- nothing is over until it's over! Change can be tedious or quantum-- and I love the idea that even history itself is pushing forward through us. It's like the Rune description for Sowelu (wholeness)-- "even in loving, it is Love that loves through us." How many more ways can we be shown the extent we've been lied to by the Over Culture? The hard part is just holding HOPEFUL EXPECTANCY amidst the chaos.

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Charles! I want to say how much I appreciate this article. As someone else mentioned, this is the Charles I've been missing during this whole covid pandemic.

I'm glad to see you've apparently extricated yourself from the covid contention. (or maybe I've extricated myself and aligned myself with the Charles who is himself not mired in it)

What drew me to your work originally was the idea of embodying a vision and a possibility of reality so strongly that others are invited into it. This article seems a return to that idea with even more far reaching and profound implications. I feel myself becoming more and more liberated from the consensus and stepping more into greater possibilities. Old calcified beliefs are themselves becoming more like styrofoam. Articles like this support and magnify that change. Thank you. ๐Ÿ™

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I think basically, this article is saying we create our own reality . A concept embraced by people such as Bruce Lipton, Greg Braden and others. Given the state of our world today if this is true, we ourselves have created the present chaos and perpetuate it by our attention and beliefs about it. I believe this is true .I also believe that we can therefore change our present world if we collectively envision how we want that world to be.

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I love this. One possible idea is that we each live in the world we believe we live in. That is, what we believe to be true, is. We interact with one another but from our own worlds. Very interesting to contemplate. And a reason to be discerning about our beliefs.

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Mar 8, 2022Liked by Charles Eisenstein

Thank you for this insightful piece Charles. Iโ€™m a healer, been in oractice for 23 hears now, and part of my healing techniques I was never taught, just could always do it even as a child. I think it us similar to your wife when you spoke of removing issues.

I find the moment of true healing, one story (the one with the disease/pain/injury etc) becomes obsolete, that story is no longer the reality of the patients past, it is replaced by another story, one of perfect cellular health and genetic balance. You can change the most long standing, or difficult condition in just a moment as they no longer exist as they were before. Their entire timeline is changed to something else.

Physically, genetically, energetically.

Turning on or off particular gene expressions and /or accelerating tissue repair till the injury or ailment no longer exists and the area recognises not only it's perfect health but a deep love of its wholeness is Also similar.

I never thought of it as anything besides healing a patient (or self) but since reading your message I realise this us my experience of the fluidity of past realities, like you described.

So thought Iโ€™d share. Thank you again for all your wonderful insights and wisdom.

With appreciation and love

Lee

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Mar 7, 2022Liked by Charles Eisenstein

Hello Charles,

I loved your article and would like to provide the following feedback

I am French native speaker. Technology sounds too limited syllables in the modernist narrative to vehiculate the concept of a process of quantum synchronization of awareness and communication with granit and ask the Stones to shift density. Although I understand you choice ( I got your point and was amazed ), I think we may want to forge a new name for this. Actually, some friends working in the development sector say โ€œtechnology is a social processโ€. For if you think only in tems of control and forget to synchronize with fellow humans, solar panels are just used to dey laundry.

Concerning the narratives, I will not cite the current example of how much the past is being reforged to support political claims in the present. Thank you for sharing the memories of old granite gateways. Rocks remember.

I found it fascinating that technology control driven society Is actually letting โ€œan invisible handย ยป controlling the future. No economic actor has a plan or vision for the collective future. Future is perceived through individual vรฉhicules.

Could we coin a world for shared perceived future + technology of reunion?

Could such a world be typed or sung and dansed?

Can technology vehiculate such concepts ?

Thanks again fo the inspiration

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