earthship WIZARDS: Part 1
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The Ebook version of this text has been broken up into three parts and for the first time we are able to offer 19 full color illustrations (illustrated by Michael Reynolds) included in part 1 of "A Coming of Wizards".
Michael Reynolds
Major General Michael Reynolds CB joined the British Army in 1948, and was commissioned into the Queens Royal Regiment in 1950. In the course of a long and distinguished career, he served in Korea, where he was severely wounded, Northern Ireland and West Germany. On promotion to Major General he assumed command of NATO's Allied Command Europe Mobile Force (Land). In retirement, he became guest speaker on British Army and NATO battlefield tours in the Ardennes, publishing a number of detailed histories on World War 2 operations in Europe. He died in 2015.
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earthship WIZARDS - Michael Reynolds
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Preface
Immediately after graduating from architecture school in 1969, I moved to Taos, New Mexico, because I had been there on vacation and loved it. Taos is a Spanish/ Indian/ Anglo valley flanked on the northeast by beautiful mountains including the sacred mountain of the Pueblo Indians. This mountain is said to be one of the power spots on the planet. To the southwest of Taos lie rolling mesas covered with sage and cactus, cut sharply by e Rio Grande Gorge and extending on into the sunset and the ever more distant mountains.
Since I moved here I have never wanted to leave. Something happened to me here. I felt so at home that I think I must have stumbled onto my own energy. What I mean is, I found that particular state of mind which allows the oneness or the wholeness of the universe to prevail over human dogma. I believe this state of mind is a key to the limitless energy of the universe.
This realization may have been enhanced by the research I had been doing with pyramids. Both historical and scientific research in this realm lead me to believe that matter appropriately aligned and proportioned in the pyramid shape allows an intensified contact with the energy of the universe at large.
I became so enthralled with pyramids that I built a large, perfectly scaled one on top of my house and had my bed right at the king's chamber location. So here I was, sleeping in a pyramid in a beautiful valley at the base of a sacred power mountain, in a land so akin to the very existence of my own being that it felt like it ran in my body, through my veins and out again.
My work as an architect/builder began to reflect what was happening to me. The earth became a sacred place that I wanted human life to embrace rather than exploit. I set about trying to achieve this for myself and others. I became focused on developing self sufficient housing made from recycled materials using energy from the sun and wind.
During this time, in the early 1970's, I began having intense experiences, dreams, instances of automatic writing, and out-right visions. The highlight came one afternoon when I was lying up in the pyramid on my back just gazing into space. I was not on any drug, alcohol or other mind altering substance. In this relaxed, open state of mind enhanced by the pyramid, I was visited in a vision by four wizards. They clearly and vividly made me aware of a way of seeing and moving that grows in potential through use, with apparently infinite resonance.
I gave cautious consideration to this at first, but then as I began to find similarities between their information, eastern mysticism and quantum physics ( which are currently finding similarities to each other ) along with traditional religion, the ways of the Shaman, the nature of plants and animals, and the processes of the planet itself, I became less cautious and more focused about this information. I found myself on a journey to a world that reflects more than just the human condition.
This book is my documentation of that journey. In the appendix are a few unedited excerpts from a journal I was keeping at the time. They are included to frame the state of mind from which I pursued my work, lived my life and wrote this book.
Because this book is based on a journal, it is simply a telling of what I have seen. In order to communicate this in terms acceptable to our reality, I have related certain aspects of the text to currently existing realms of thought such as quantum physics, astro-physics, religion, psychology, ecology, and nature in general. I have also used such currently accepted methods of communication as language, mathematics, and graphics.
All of the above realms of thought and methods of communication have limits because they are all conceived by and for the human condition. However, if one wishes to communicate something to others, one must relate in terms that those others are open to. Unfortunately, the power we give existing realms of thought and methods of communication ( our collective dogma ) tends to limit our ability