The Turtle supporting Mount Meru in Asian & Mesoamerican Art : Churning the Ocean

Folks , there is a point of view that the "World Mountain" , "World Tree" or "World Axis" concept , which is same as Mount Meru , actually exists inside Hollow Earth .

Now keeping the above perspective , it's fascinating to see a striking correlation between Mesoamerican mythology and Asian mythology about Mount Meru and the legendary "churning of the ocean" mythos :-

The Turtle supporting Mount Meru in Asian and Mesoamerican Art

Bibhu Dev Misra on November 22, 2016 Article, Indian Cultural Diffusion, Trans-Pacific Contacts,

Note: This article has been published on Esamskriti.

In the Hindu legend of the Churning of the Milky Ocean , the gods and the demons churned the Milky Ocean in order to acquire the Nectar of Immortality. In this grand spectacle, Vishnu, the preserver of the cosmic order, had taken the form of a massive tortoise ( Kurma Avatar ) in the middle of the Milky Ocean. His humped shell acted as a pivot for Mount Mandara or Mount Meru, which served as the churning stick, while the serpent Vasuki was the cord for the churn.

The churning of the Milky Ocean, Cambodia, Prasat Phnom Da, 12th century.\ 400x400
Fig 1: The churning of the Milky Ocean, Cambodia, Prasat Phnom Da, 12th century. Musée Guimet, Paris. Source: Wikimedia Commons / Ddalbiez

This legend may have been known to the civilizations of Mesoamerica as well, for in the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, I saw a carving of a turtle supporting a pillar on its back, looking breathtakingly similar to the depiction of Vishnu as a turtle supporting Mount Meru.

A Turtle supporting a pillar or mountain on its back. Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. \ 400x300
Fig 2: A Turtle supporting a pillar or mountain on its back. Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. Credit: Bibhu Dev Misra

Now, it is well-known that the people of Mesoamerica venerated turtles, just as in Asia, where the turtle is a sacred animal and even worshipped in temples. The Maya had a concept of a double-headed turtle god whose image can be found carved on many Late Classic altars. The double-headed turtle was called the great Divine Lord , who had appeared at the dawn of creation. A Mayan inscription states:

“On 4Ahaw 8 Kumk’u, was seen the first image of the Turtle, the great Divine Lord”.[1]

It was from the cracked shell of this double-headed turtle that the Maya Maize God emerged. The Maize God, who is the source of fertility and abundance, is also the central World Tree, an axial symbol equivalent to the Mount Meru.

The Maya Maize God emerging from the cracked shell of a double-headed turtle. Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. \ 400x378
Fig 3: The Maya Maize God emerging from the cracked shell of a double-headed turtle. Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. Credit: Bibhu Dev Misra

I was really surprised, however, when I came across the work of independent researcher Carl de Borhegyi, who has pointed out in his online publication titled Soma in the Americas [2] that the Churning of the Milky Ocean episode has been depicted in a number of Mesoamerican codices, murals and relief panels.

For instance, a ball court relief panel from the archaeological site of El Tajin, in Veracruz Mexico, depicts a turtle supporting the central axis, whose circular top can be seen. The churning mechanism used is an intertwined serpent, pulled at both ends by a pair of sky deities. All the key symbolic elements of the churning episode are present in this relief panel. It indicates that only did the cultures of Mesoamerica use very similar turtle symbolisms as those found in Asia, but they even drew from the same mythological tales.

The Churning of the Milky Ocean depicted on a relief panel at El Tajin, Mexico.\ 640x356
Fig 4: The Churning of the Milky Ocean depicted on a relief panel at El Tajin, Mexico. Source: www.mushroomstone.com

An interesting variant of the turtle symbolism can be seen in Chinese funerary architecture. It is a carved stone turtle called bixi , which serves as a base for holding memorial tablets that extol the virtues of the deceased. Bixi turtles were generally placed at the beginning of the ornate spirit way that led to the tombs of Chinese emperors. They were also installed at the entrances of palaces, temples, and walled cities.

Tortoise-mounted funerary stele can be found in many other Asian countries influenced by China such Mongolia, Japan, Vietnam and Korea. From a visual perspective, bixi turtles supporting memorial tablets on their back resemble the form of Vishnu as the cosmic turtle supporting the Mount Meru on his back.

A Ming-era bixi turtle supporting a stele near the temple of Yu the Great, Qingchuan Pavilion complex in Wuhan\ 400x395
Fig 5: A Ming-era bixi turtle supporting a stele near the temple of Yu the Great, Qingchuan Pavilion complex in Wuhan. Source Wikipedia / Vmenkov

At the Classic Period Maya city of Uxmal in Mexico I saw a stele which looks very much like a bixi turtle supporting a memorial tablet on its back – like those found in China and the other Asian countries. If we look closely we can make out the outlines of the eyes and mouth of the turtle. The turtle is placed at the bottom of a flight of stairs within the enclosure known as Nunnery Quadrangle, which corresponds to the placement of bixi turtles near the entrances to buildings and tombs.

This stele at the Maya city of Uxmal in Mexico looks like a bixi turtle supporting a memorial tablet. \ 400x300
Fig 6: This stele at the Maya city of Uxmal in Mexico looks like a bixi turtle supporting a memorial tablet. Credit: Bibhu Dev Misra

The Turtle supporting a mountain or pillar on its back, in Asian and Mesoamerican art\ 640x636
Fig 7: The Turtle supporting a mountain or pillar on its back in Asian and Mesoamerican art. Credit: Bibhu Dev Misra

So, we find the same turtle symbolisms in the art and architecture of civilizations on either side of the Pacific. Even depictions of the Churning of the Milky Ocean, a quintessentially Hindu mythological tale, can be seen in the Mesoamerican codices, murals, and relief panels. This implies that there must have been long-standing cultural contacts between the civilizations on either side of the Pacific. Betty Meggers, a research archaeologist at the Smithsonian Institution, believes that Asians have traveled to and from the Americas for thousands of years. According to her, “Ancient man saw the ocean as a superhighway and not as a barrier.”[3]

Unfortunately, however, most American archaeologists continue to ignore the evidence for trans-pacific diffusion theories and view the Mesoamerican civilizations as an in-situ development. This dogmatic view is simply not tenable any longer. Modern archaeologists must revise their theories in accordance with the evidence, which strongly suggest Pre-Columbian Trans-Pacific contacts.

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Sidhartha,

I am just amazed by the identical turtle symbolism. It means we all had contact with each other a long trime ago.

Damn the flood!

Dean

Yes , sure @deandddd . Now here's another article about how different species of humans may have coexisted in the distant past . The Ramayan epic is especially unique in terms of the numerous humanoid species it describes , that were existing along with humans .

Well, everyone may not agree , but this does pose a BIG question to Darwin's "linear" , unidirectional theory of evolution , wherein the current version of humans is seen as the best version of mankind to have ever existed on Earth - it might well be the other way round i.e. the version of mankind that existed in Satyug was far superior & more capable than humans of this ongoing Kalyug :))

Neanderthal man and hominid species in Ramayana

One of the most important characters in ramayana are Vanaras. Ramayana Never mentioned Vanaras as monkeys. As per the description laid out in Ramayana, Vanaras are special species of humans that looked like monkeys. Lord Hanuman, king Sugreev, Nal & neel(Sons of Celestial architect Vishwakarma) were some of the Vanaras mentioned in Ramayan. Valmiki also indicated that this species was dominant in southern part of India and ruled more or less whole of south India including Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia and other south east countries. In this article, we will see the various evidences that shows Neanderthal or Homo sapiens were a different species that co-existed with man. Later due to survival of the fittest and various ecological disturbances, this species became extinct

Meaning of Vanaras
Vanaras is formed by combining two sanskrit words - Van (meaning Forest) and nara(meaning human). So vanaras literally means- humans who dwelled in forests . However, some of the Sanskrit scholar’s states that Vanaras also mean "Humans who looked like monkeys", noting the fact that monkeys also dwell in forests. Vanaras were definitely not Monkeys since monkey is called as vanakapi or kapi or markata in Sanskrit.

Why finding evidences of Neanderthal man is difficult in India?
According to archeological and scientific evolutionary studies, Neanderthal was a species that inhabited Europe, Africa and western Asia, starting some 2, 30,000 years ago. Neanderthal man had a hyoid bone which enabled them to speak and look like humans very closely. Though some evidences of Neanderthal man were found in Indus valley civilization, finding any solid evidences of ancient primates in India is not so easy as Indians follows a very long cultural tradition of burning bodies after death, no matter if they were animals. Furthermore, bones in Indian peninsula decay in few thousands of years. This makes it even more difficult to find traces of Neanderthals man in India.

Neanderthal man(Left), Lord Hanuman (Vanara) hugging lord Ram*(Right)

What the indologist says about Neanderthal man and Ramayana?
Some of the indologist thinks Ramayana to be a historical story of very ancient times when Neanderthals and home sapiens existed on earth, while some of the Indian and European scientists claims of Neanderthals existence some 7000-10000 yrs ago having a tail, resembling very closely with Vanaras like lord Hanuman and king Sugreev. Some of the historians suggest Vanaras to be Neanderthals that lived in South India at least 5, 00,000 years ago but some of the indologist believes Vanaras as a separate species like hominids or apes found only in south East Asia. Description mentioned in Ramayana matches with the anthropological modern day descriptions of Neanderthals except th features of tail. Both Vanaras and Neanderthal had sloping foreheads, hairy bodies, protruding jawbones/mouths etc. The reason why modern day anthropologist didn’t find a tail was because the tail of Vanaras was boneless and hence decomposed within few years. If you read the description of Vanara kingdom (Kishkindha) then you will find that it clearly resembles a network of connected underground mountain caves.

Caves of Kishkindha kingdom in hampi, Karnataka

This is what the modern day anthropologists say about Neanderthals man who lived in caves. Obviously, Vanaras were physically different than Manavas(Humans), but definitely they were not monkeys. Actually the problem with most anthropologists and historians is that since vanaras don’t exist today, they are trying to imagine Vanaras in terms of something or somebody they know or have seen and hence, compare them with Homo erectus and Neanderthals man. May be they were a different species altogether.

Ramayana also says about bear like man(Yetis)?
Not only monkeys like animal is mentioned in Ramayana, but also bear like living beings. Jambavantha(Bear like man) mentioned in Ramayana is similar to Yetis in other parts of the world. Yetis are also known as snow man, said to be found in icy regions of world. There are many stories based on such characters though no fossils fuels have been found to conclude their presence. Bear is called as bhalluka in Sanskrit and hence, Jambavantha was definitely not bear but resembled very closely Bears, just like vanaras resembled monkeys.

Jambavan(Left) and yetis(Right)

Evidences from Ramayana that Vanaras were Neanderthals man
According to Ramayana, Vanaras existed all around in the world but were dominant in south India, especially in Kishkinda kingdom, a small place near Hampi in modern Karnataka. When Rama decided to attack Lanka, King sugreeva(Head of Vanaras) summons Vanaras from all over the world to join the Lord Rama army in south India. Vanaras from across the world were very excited to help lord rama and came from regions like Himalayas, Vindhyas (modern Madhya pradesh), Meru (in modern tibet) etc. Further, there are mention of some places not found anywhere in India like Dhumragiri, Ajjanparvat etc. Valmiki also explicitly stated that Vanaras came from far off places where the sun always shines or is always set. Any wise person will immediately understand that Valmiki is talking about Polar Regions. Since no evidence of Vanaras are found anywhere in the world, it can be inferred that Ramayana is a very ancient story, at least few millions of years old. Those days, south India was full of dense forests, a fact clearly evident from the present sahyadri range. Valmiki clearly stated that Vanaras looked like monkeys and had traits of monkeys. For Ex: Valmiki referred to members of Vanaras army as kapi kunjaraaH, which in Sanskrit means elephant sized monkeys. Valmiki inferred that Vanaras were not like normal small monkeys but a different species of monkey, having a strong physique and traits of monkeys like Neanderthal man. Valmiki also used terms like nityam asthira-chitta, meaning one whose mind fickle endlessly(traits of monkey) and kapitam anavastitam which means one who cannot stay in one place for a moment (traits of monkey).

Evidences from Mahabharata that Vanaras were Neanderthals man
In Mahabharata, when lord Krishna Encounters Jambavan (the bearman from Ramayana), lord Krishna says that Jambavan is one of the last surviving creatures of its kind. Lord Krishna also says that since his species have vanished, he is not welcomed in society anymore . Jamabavan(blessed with long life by lord Rama) lives in caves. Lord Krishna says the same thing to Lord Hanuman (Blessed with immortality) thus implying that lord Hanuman was the last among the Vanaras.

Jambavan requesting lord Krishna to accept her daughter

Mahabharata (History of 3rd millennium (3076 BC)) validates the fact that Vanaras and Yetis like species have become extinct . Thus, Mahabharata confirms the existence of lord Rama and all species mentioned in Ramayana. I don’t see any reason why Sage vyasa should mention about Jambavan(Irrelevant to the story) if he intended to write a fictional story of war between Pandavas and kauravas. This implies that Ramayana is a very ancient history of India which made it ways to other civilization in America, Asia and Europe etc.

Ramayana and Mahabharata are Indian history, not mythology
Ancient historical records in Sanskrit clearly states Ramayana and Mahabharata as Itihaasas(history), not stories. In my articles, I have detailed at least fifty evidences of both Ramayana and mahabharata. Even 18 Puranas(Meaning “Story of ancient times”) confirms the details mentioned in Mahabharata and Ramayana. Valmiki or sage Vyasa never said they were writing stories.

Sage Valmiki, a pure soul will not say fictional story as history

There is no need to detail out geographical locations, astronomical data, and chronological orders etc in fictional stories. Ancient Indians never had the tradition of writing stories since they were never short of real life heroes.

There is no contradiction in Ramayana and Mahabharata
Some of the western authors declared Ramayana as having contradiction. Just because Valmiki in one place as referred Vanaras as monkeys and other place as human-like monkeys, it doesn’t contradicts anything. Mercury is both an element as well as planet. It has dual meaning and hence its symbolism depends upon the situation.
For EX: let us assume that cats are totally wiped out of earth and some sage has written exclusively on cats as pets. Few millenniums later, when people will start reading these books, they might think that People used tigers as pets since they don’t have any fossil remains of cats but they have wild tigers that are not extinct. Some people will claim this story as false since tigers cannot become pets. While others will say tigers say Grrrrr and not meow. Tigers don't drink milk and are not small enough to be domesticated. What a crap!!! Hence proved, sages wrote a fictional story.

Why modern science doesn’t believe in Ramayana and Mahabharata?
Problem with science is that they cannot approve the historicity of Ramayana since it says about talking conscious vultures, monkeys etc, all of which shows a reverse evolution . i.e ancient humans were more advanced and conscious than present humans.

Lord rama treating talking Vulture ‘Jatayu’

Also note the fact that Indian scriptures state the degrading level of yugas and hence, humans in kaliyuga(Present age) are spiritually and consciously less advanced. This is the fact scientists are finding hard to digest as they believe they are superior and more advanced than all preceding humans. Problem with most scientists is that they try to fit everything into the current set of theories and if they find anything which doesn’t fit in current scenario, they discard it. In 1st century AD, earth was regarded as the center of the static universe but today, universe having no center, is said to be ever-expanding. People usually say, we follow a blind faith or religion but there are many scientific theories that are totally crap and were believed as true few centuries ago. Believe in science but comprehend the fact that everything written in scientific books are not proven science.

Vedic culture existed everywhere
Historian wrongly claims that Vedic culture existed only in India. Evidences of Vedic culture are found in places as far as Russia, Europe and America. Recently, 1500 year old Lord Vishnu idol was excavated in Russia.

Idol excavated in Russia
Check below link
https://globalhinduism.com/2012/12/20/ancient-idol-of-lord-vishnu-found-during-excavation-in-an-old-village-in-russias-volga-region/

Geography in Vedic texts covered entire earth and not just India. For EX: In Vedic text, arctic region is called as Ilavrta Varsha but today, nobody knows arctic region by that name. All the European languages have linguistic roots in Sanskrit. Max muller and other western authors tried their best to show their false dominance by misrepresenting facts and blunders theories like Aryan invasion theory but ultimately the truth came out and Vedic civilization has been proved indigneous to india. No other texts except Indian ancient texts talks about history beyond 10,000 BC.

Theory of evolution is totally crap
Evolution theory is a total crap theory. Evolution theories say chimpanzees, gorillas and monkeys as our ancestors, all of which exists today . Why only some of the chimpanzees, gorillas and monkeys evolved as man while others remained as it is . Just because Darwin saw some adaptation happening in some isolated island in one of the species, he derived a theory out of that and fooled everyone to believe in it. Just because he found adaptation changes in one or two species, he created a generic theory and applied it on all animals. There is no reason why I should buy such unproved shortsighted theories. Modern Day anthropologists have found skeletal remains of both Neanderthals (Tribal’s cave man) and Homosapiens(Humans) at the same sites dating back to the same time period. This confirms the fact that different species of humans co-existed and evolution theory is a crap . Actually, there is nothing like evolution, only there is adaptation. All species that adapted to the environmental changes around them survived while all other species became extinct. For ex.: Cat, a carnivore have adapted to vegetarian food. Similarly, humans have adapted to both vegetarian and non vegetarian diet. Humans always co-existed with other species of its kind like Vanaras, Homo erectus and Neanderthals man.


Lord Ram and Lord Hanuman (Last of the extinct species ‘Vanaras’)

Our earth has possibly gone through massive global destructions like Volcanoes, asteroid impact, earthquakes, cyclones, tectonic movements, ice age etc all of which totally capable of wiping out some of the weak species.

Conclusion:
Today, most of the Indians have become so westernized that they have become pseudo-scientific and hence, doubts our ancient historical records. But at the same time, western world is moving toward Indian scriptures to dig out some clues about our ancient past and supreme universal truth. Now I end up by asking a question to you

Given the fact that Ramayana occurred millions of years ago in Treta yuga, do you believe that some kind of hominid species like Bear-Humans and monkey-humans existed at that time?

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Sidhrtha,

Fantastic post. I am going to look up that Vishnu diety found in the Volga region of Russia. That is an extremely significant find. It tends to vindicate the Aryan invasion/immigration theory. The idea would be "where did they come from originally if they came from up north? And the asnwer would be "The Arctic orifice".

Hollow Earth Theory and the Aryan Invasion Revised

http://www.holloworbs.com/aryan_invasion.htm

And those Yeti-like creatures, or neandrathals, they must be the same as the Almas of The Himalayas:

http://www.holloworbs.com/Almas_of_Asia.htm

Dean

@deandddd , probably the best depiction of this mythological scene is strangely not in India , but in Thailand , inside the terminal of the Bangkok International Airport . It goes to show just how widespread this belief was in the ancient world (not just in India) :-

https://www.google.com/search?q=Bangkok+airport+depiction+for+churning+of+the+ocean&client=firefox-b-e&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=turETeXUdY7j_M%2CWb_5xwkluPkQpM%2C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kTLQ0hsDWe34GFtnzY6EgLsCaCemQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjrqtys8rfqAhXdyDgGHQBdAOEQ9QEwC3oECAYQGg&biw=1280&bih=686#imgrc=turETeXUdY7j_M

Bangkok, Thailand: The Story Behind the Impressive Serpent Statue ...

Regards

Sidhartha,

Yes, the pastimes of Vishnu were known all over.

Know that a prominent symbol of the Mohicans was the turtle. In the nvel The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper, the character Uncas had a tattoo of a turtle on his chest.

Dean

@deandddd , that's interesting...coming back to the depiction of this scene itself - which is the ocean that got churned ?? My own guess is , the ocean of Hollow Earth , because Mount Meru is also supposed to be in Hollow Earth .

What I am saying is that this world famous "mythical" event , did NOT happen on the Earth's surface at all and hence is so difficult to believe , for anyone on the surface !

Regards

Sidhartha,

It is so hard to understand the Vedic descriptions. You know ... Meru is suposed to reach the Pole Star, too, Druvaloka.

I think there are a lot of things happening, so to speak, in the ethereal realms. I imagine that they share the space right next to us.

Dean

@deandddd , Meru is a multi-dimensional concept , literally so . Vedic Sanskrit has a tendency to assign multiple meanings to a single word...for example "go" pronounced (gau) has 8 meanings - ranging from a ray of light to a cow !

Similarly "Meru" in Sanskrit also means axis - for eg. Meru as the Earth's axis , which stretches from South Pole to North Pole , hence the association with North Pole . This "axial" interpretation of Meru aligns well with the "Yggdrasil" , or world tree of Norse mythology .

The "axial" concept of "Meru dand" is also used in traditional Ayurvedic medicine and Vedic Yoga , wherein it refers to our spinal chord . In a sense , the spinal chord is the "axis" of the human body , isn't it ?

Having said that , Mount Meru is not just a physical mountain inside the Earth - Hindu and Buddhist mythology also attribute ethereal , astral and cosmic qualities to it .

**At this point , I will speculate - Meru Mountain might also be hosting a stargate or energetic portal of some sort , because of which it is described in this strange multidimensional way.

Anyhow , that's my 2 cents on this subject - I guess some aspects of the "mythical" Meru have been forgotten by our civilisation....you may also find the following article to be relevant :-

Mount Meru Shambala And Stargate

If you possess Knowledge , you do not need to seek it.

If you do not possess Knowledge and seek for it, you will not be able to identify it as you do not possess knowledge.

One of the axioms of Hinduism, Sanatana Dharma is that what is in Microcosm is in the Macrocosm and Macrocosm is in the Microcosm.

That whatever one finds in the Universe, not just the Earth, is in the Human being.

Knowledge in Hinduism is based on this concept.

Knowledge is not some thing one acquires from outside but within.

Here it would be of interest to recall a Paradox of Zeno.

If you possess Knowledge , you do not need to seek it.

If you do not possess Knowledge and seek for it, you will not be able to identify it as you do not possess knowledge.

Kailash Mountain

Mount Kailash, Himalayas

Hindus Conception of World

The World as described in the Purans,Meru

The Sri Chakra of Devi.The Devi's Sri Chakra.iamge.jpg

Sri Chakra

So in both the cases Knowledge is impossible!

Hinduism states that Knowledge is the removal of Ignorance, Avidya.

Knowledge is Absolute and is an attribute of the Reality, Brahman.

I had touched on this in a few posts and will be discussing in detail later.

Now to what we find in the Universe , in the ultimate analysis, is made of these Five Elements,

Earth, Water, Fire ,Air and Ether.

These Five elements are present in the Human body.

I have posted articles on how the Fire element(Agni) functions in the Human body in various functions like Digestion.

And one can find the mental stages in spiritual developments, like attaining Chandra Stage is also found as the Moon in the Universe.

The examples are many.

One such is the term Meru.

Meru is explained in the Tantra Shastras as a Highly evolved stage of spiritual development.

Lalitha Devi is described as Meru Mandala Madhyastha Sriman Nagara Nayika’

It is also explained in the Hindu texts as being present in the The Universe.

‘Sadaputa presents the Bhuloka or Jambudvipa and Meru as well as other islands and seas as flat. According to Surya Siddhanta it is round like and upside-down bowl.

With Meru on the top it is in the center. One reason mathematically it is so, is that the planets are having degrees north and south and they should not “crash into” Bhuloka. If the planets crash into Bhuloka then we take Bhuloka as a “subtle” land or as “symbolic” of other things. Bhu is this land, bhavah is outer space, sva is upper spaces as in the Gayatri mantra, where we chant, om bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam . Above the Bhuloka planetary system is Bhuvarloka, and above that is Svargaloka, the heavenly planetary system'(hare krisna.com)

The current location of Mounrt Meru is variously placed at Mount Everest, Kailash, Arctic, Arkaim in Russia and in Peru.

In Japanese Buddhist philosophy, a giant mountain called Mount Sumeru (Shumisen) was believed to stand at the center of the world.”

Meru’s description in the Mahabharata.

“Dhritarashtra said.—“Thou art intelligent, O Sanjaya, and acquainted with the truth (about everything). Thou hast duly given a description of the island in brief. Tell us now of the island in detail. Tell us now of the dimension of the expanse of land that lies in the portion looking like a hare. Thou mayst then speak of the portion resembling peepul tree.”

According to Vasubandhu’s Abhidharmako?abh?syam, Sumeru is 80,000 yojanas tall. The exact measure of the yojana is uncertain, but some accounts put it at about 24,000 feet, or approximately 4 1/2 miles. It also descends beneath the surface of the surrounding waters to a depth of 80,000 yojanas, being founded upon the basal layer of Earth. Sumeru is often used as a simile for both size and stability in Buddhist texts.

Please read my posts on this.

Like Meru there is this concept of Shambala, a place 0f Perfection in Tibetan Buddhism.

Shambala.

ON TOP OF THE COSMIC MOUNTAIN... {A Representation of the Gate}.Image.jpg

The City on the Edge of Forever
by Aaron Ross Spring 1992.ON TOP OF THE COSMIC MOUNTAIN…
{A Representation of the Gate}

Tibetan texts appear to show historical facts about Shambhalla. The data recorded in these texts give names, dates and corresponding events occurring in the outside world. The Hindus and Buddhist alike regard Mount Meru, located in the Himalayas, as the location of Shambhalla. It is the center of the cosmos, having its roots in hell and its summit in heaven.

The mountain peak houses a magnificent central palace radiating a powerful, diamond like light, which is the home of Indra, King of Hindu gods.

Legends tell of her slopes being studded with glittering gemstones and thick with trees heavy with delicious fruit. She is circled by seven rings of golden mountains, each separated from the other by one of seven circular oceans. This entire superstructure rises from an outer ocean, and is flanked by four main continents, each with two subcontinents.

The southern continent, Jambudvipa, corresponds to the physical earth. Each of the other continents represents a nearby planet upon which transmigrating souls following the yellow light-path may be reborn.

Tibetan religious texts tell us that the technology of Shambhalla is supposed to be highly advanced; the palace contains special skylights made of lenses which serve as high-powered telescopes to study extraterrestrial life, and for hundreds of years Shambhalla’s inhabitants have been using aircraft and cars that shuttle through a network of underground tunnels.

On the way to enlightenment, Shambhallans acquire such powers as clairvoyance, the ability to move at great speeds, and the ability to materialize and disappear at will.

Andrew Tomas , author of ‘Shambhalla, Oasis of Light’, writes,

This remarkable kingdom reputedly exists both above and below ground, with a network of tunnels hundreds of miles long. Cars of strange design flash along their length and they are illumined by a brilliant, artificial light which affords growth to the grains and vegetables and long life without disease to the people.

Hebrew legends speak of a place called Luz which is described as an underground city near a sacred mountain called the ‘abode of immortality’.

Some Tibetans think Shambhalla might be in Tibet, perhaps in the Kunlun mountains; others point toward the region around Mongolia and Sinkiang province of China. Others believe it to in Siberia or some other part of Russia. Some lamas claim that it is hidden in the frozen Artic. Others believe Shambhalla only exists in an parallel universe or higher dimension.

In the years between 1923 and 1928, Nicholas Roerich, led an expedition across the Gobi Desert to the Atlai mountain, a journey which covered 15,500 miles across 35 of the world’s highest mountain passes.

It is rumored that he may have been on a mission to find and return what was said to be part of the sacred ‘Chintamani Stone,’ which was believed to be part of a magical meteorite from the solar system in the constellation of Orion. According to Lamaist legend, a fragment of this stone from what may be the star Sirius, is sent wherever a spiritual mission vital to humanity is set up, and is returned when that mission is completed.

The stone is said possess occult properties, capable of giving telepathic inner guidance and effecting a transformation of consciousness to those in contact with it.

Whether he retrieved the stone or not is not known, but what we do know for certain is that he was sent in search of it by the League of Nations. Just in the fact that he was sent on this expedition lends credibility to the existence of the Shambhalla legends.

Roerich was a man of great creditability.

To his credit, he was a philosopher, author, explorer, member of the Theosophical Society, member of the League of Nations, influential in the FDR administration and was the pivotal force behind placing the Great Seal of the United States on the American dollar. He also produced hundred of paintings capturing the essence of the area and its people.

Roerich strove to link all scientific and creative disciplines to advance true culture and international peace, citing the power of art and beauty to accomplish such a feat. In honor of his efforts, in 1935 The Roerich Peace Pact was established, which obligated nations to respect museums, cathedrals, universities and libraries as they did hospitals, and became part of the United Nations organizational charter.

In his travels through China and Mongolia to the borders of Tibet, Roerich met with a lama that described Shambhalla to him.

According to this famous explorer, Roerich was told,

‘Great Shambhalla is far beyond the ocean. It is the mighty heavenly domain. It has nothing to do with our Earth… Only in some places, in the Far North, can you discern the resplendent rays of Shambhala.’

The Star Gate.

Thousands of miles in height, Meru is located somewhere beyond the physical plane of reality, in a realm of perfection and transcendence. Symbolic representations of Mount Meru are commonly found in Tibetan mandalas, contemplative diagrams designed to aid meditators in focusing.

It is said that Meru has its roots in hell, and its summit in heaven. Meru is surrounded by seven rings of golden mountains, each separated from the other by one of seven circular oceans. It is crowned by a golden palace wherein Indra, king of Hindu gods, resides. This entire superstructure rises from an outer ocean, and is flanked by four main continents, each with two subcontinents.

The southern continent, Jambudvipa, corresponds to the physical earth. Each of the other continents represents a nearby planet upon which transmigrating souls following the yellow light-path may be reborn. However, it is said that all of these worlds are undesirable, for they are non-human worlds inhabited by sheep, cattle, or horses. The teachings of Buddhism clearly state that existence as a human being is the only way to achieve Buddhahood, so rebirth in any other form (including that of a deva or demigod) is a distraction from the path to enlightenment.

According to legend, somewhere in the northwest region of Jambudvipa lies a land called Shambhala. This is a magical land which is shaped like an eight-petalled lotus flower. It has been ruled by priest-kings for many thousands of years; in fact, the legend of Shambhala predates the introduction of Buddhism into Tibet. In the aboriginal Bon religion, Shambhala is known as Olmolungrung, and is based on the square instead of the circle.

Shambhala forms a gateway between the physical and spiritual realms. It is endowed with riches, and is ideally suited for the habitat of enlightened souls. They are not attached to the fruits of karma, and are but one step from Buddhahood. This is the realm to be sought for rebirth if one desires the swiftest path to nirvana.

In the Tibetan Buddhist version of the apocalypse, barbarians will overtake the earth at the end of the Kali Yuga, the present age. It will be necessary for the king of Shambhala to join forces with the gods to wage war on the barbarians.At this time, armies will be sent forth from the city, the location of which has been kept secret for millenia. Order will be restored on earth, and the wisdom which Shambhala has been holding will be dispensed to the peoples of the world(Tibetan Buddhism)

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Folks , I even found this view of Shambhala and Meru from a Christian author :-

Mysteries of Shambhala Reveal Etheric Christ

Douglas Gabriel

Esoteric history recognizes Shambhala as an actual land or district, the seat of the greatest brotherhood of spiritual avatars and their masters on earth today. At certain times in history, messengers or envoys for spiritual and intellectual work come to humanity from a place called Shambhala. This Great Brotherhood of Masters and Avatars has etheric lodges in various parts of the world, but Shambhala is the center or chief location. Theosophists locate it in a little-known and remote district of the high tablelands of central Asia, more particularly in Tibet.



According to esoteric teachings, Vishnu is surrounded by an Akashic veil of invisibility. Airplanes might fly over it and not see it at all. Armies of soldiers might pass through it and not know that it existed. It is said that some of the most valuable records of the human race are located in its libraries. There, surrounded by the greatest and most evolved human beings, the Silent Watcher of the Earth has his invisible abode.



The physical threshold of Shambhala is said to comprise two localities on Earth. These are actually physical doorways into the etheric realm. One of them is situated in the highlands of Asia, somewhere west of the meridian line passing through Lhassa, China. Long ago, this locality was a sacred island in a vast Central Asian inland sea, known as the ‘abyss of learning’ or ‘sea of knowledge’, and was accessible via subterranean passages. According to tradition, this place exists today as an oasis surrounded by the Gobi Desert.



The other doorway is said to be in a paradisiacal, primeval land in the far north. Sometimes this sacred land is said to be located in the center or navel of the earth, which refers to the North Pole as viewed above the pole. The northern paradise is often associated with a world tree, a world mountain, or pillar from which four rivers emerge, and a serpent encircles the world. All these symbolic features can be interpreted on different levels - terrestrial, astronomical, and spiritual. But clearly are descriptions of the tattvas or ethers.  The World Tree is the Akasha ether branching out as four rivers in the other four ethers (warmth, light, sound, and life).



In other words, Shambhala is the Sacred Imperishable Land that exists beyond this physical world, yet has doorways on physical earth onto the ethers. Theosophical literature also states that there is an even higher Shambhala located in the sun. All of these realms, here on earth and on the sun, are inhabited by classes of entities to which the human race is spiritually and intellectually connected.

The Mysterious Sacred Land of the North

Theosophist H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891) taught that a series of seven root-races or humanities would develop during the present fourth round of the earth's evolution. Each root-race lives on its own continent, yet like continents that overlap, so, too, can root-races overlap one another. However, this is not the case with the continent known as the Imperishable Sacred Land, the most mysterious of the seven continents. It is said to be located in the region of the North Pole. As described in theosophy, this sacred land has never shared the fate of other continents because it is the only one whose destiny is to exist from the beginning to the end of the cycle of physical manifestation. It is the cradle of the first human and the dwelling of the last divine mortal.

According to the Hindu Kurma Purana, an island called Shveta-Dvipa, or White Island, lay in the northern sea, the paradisiacal homeland of great yogis possessing supreme wisdom and learning. As Blavatsky writes: “According to Tibetan tradition the White Island is the only locality which escapes the general fate of other continents and can be destroyed by neither fire nor water, for -- it is the eternal land.”



North of the Himalayas, possibly in the Tarim Basin, lay Uttarakuru or northern Kuru, a version of Shambhala which the Mahabharata of ancient India describes as the blissful land of the sages towards which Arjuna, the warrior prince of the Bhagavad-Gita, travelled in search of enlightenment. It is described as a place of marvels where magic fruit trees yield the nectar of immortality. This magical place is said to be one of four regions surrounding Mount Meru like the petals of a lotus and to be the homeland of the siddhas, enlightened yogis famed for their miraculous powers.  

The Sun’s Etheric Ropes of Magnetism

Legends and lore about the North Pole are told in many cultures, from the higher spiritual beings described by the Mahabharata or to contemporary stories of Santa Claus in western cultures. Whether ancient or contemporary interpretation, this place in the north is one of wonder, abundance, and magic. According to these traditions, the purified northern realms are also the home of the ethers which only now are being studied by modern science. It has been found that the electro-magnetic dynamics of the Earth’s Van Allen Belts interact with solar wind (ethers) through the North Pole and South Pole creating a complex system of electron defusion through the magnetosphere surrounding the Earth which produces the aurora borealis and aurora Australia. These electrical, magnetic, and etheric forces are only now beginning to be studied by scientists and the data indicates that the ties between the Sun and Earth are more profound than ever imagined.  



The Sun’s ethers are transformed into Earth ethers through a type of cable tow that pulls the Earth behind the spiraling motion of the Sun and its solar system as it moves towards the fixed star Vegas.

Rudolf Steiner tells us that we should study the Finnish national epic, The Kalevala, as a soul exercise of the greatest importance in our time. The Kalevala is a fairy-tale like story that directly addresses the longings of the soul that a modern person feels trying to find his place in the world and connection to spirit. The main task of the story is that three great heroes must go “to the Northland – Kalevala” and battle the Old Woman of the North to win one of her daughters who ride on the “rainbow of the north,” ostensibly the aurora borealis. The “ancient smithy”, Ilmarinen, forges the great desire of the Old Woman of the North, the Sampo, to win one of her daughters.

 Harald Falck-Ytter, a student and scholar of Rudolf Steiner, tells us in his brilliant book entitled, Aurora the Northern Lights in Mythology History and Science, that the aurora borealis is the same as the Sampo from The Kalevala.  He reminds us that the Sampo was created by the divine-human smith Ilmarinen in the dark land of the North. 

It was forged with cunning art:

On One side was a corn-mill

On another side a salt-mill

And upon the third a coin-mill.

Now was grinding the new Sampo,

And revolved the pictured cover.

        The corn, salt, and coin are the life-processes of body, soul, and spirit which are brought forth by the Sampo as it grinds. The Sampo is roofed over by a many-colored lid which also revolves and is called the ‘vaults of heaven’ or ‘heavenly spheres.’ It is defined as ‘colorful, embroidered with rune and script,’ or the revolving vault of the heavens filled with brilliant stars and colored northern lights, upon which a numerous variety of runes and written signs and forms are visible. Whoever could interpret the ‘many colored lid’ would be able to read the heavenly script.

Forging the Sampo

An elemental supersensory sheath of forces surrounding the earth dips down at the poles. The elemental sphere of forces does not move with the earth, but remains in a kind of static relationship to the sun. The structure of its forces is able to influence the earth-elements so that, for example, it can give rise to fluctuations in atmospheric pressure. In this way, a sort of friction is generated on the earth, a perpetual grinding between this sheath of forces and the earth’s sphere which produces the Schumann Wave.

In essence, a picture arises that the Sampo is the visible land of Shambhala covering the northernmost pole where the ethers rush into the atmosphere of the earth, mitigated by the magnetic torus field of the earth. “Winning” this Sampo is the ultimate prize for gods and men. It is a sort of “marriage” to another part of yourself that is transmitted from the sun and the cosmos through the currents that bring the etheric formative forces into play in the etheric body of the earth and the human etheric body.

 This region of the earth is a crucial connecting point between Earth and Sun. Spiritual scientists describe these etheric forces as a rope, or masonic cable tow, that reaches from the sun to Earth and “pulls” Earth behind the space that the sun has previously traversed. This “rope” or “cable” is tantamount to a magnetic tractor beam that is the source of ethers flowing into the earth’s etheric body. This concept was not taken seriously in the past, but is now making its way into scientific exploration. Four space satellites have now been put into orbit around the earth to study these phenomena which esotericists have known of since ancient times.

A NASA-funded researcher, C. Q. Wei, at the University of Iowa has figured out how to find these ropes, also known as electron diffusion regions. “We call them X-points or electron diffusion regions,” explains plasma physicist Jack Scudder of the University of Iowa. “They’re places where the magnetic field of Earth connects to the magnetic field of the Sun, creating an uninterrupted path leading from our own planet to the sun’s atmosphere 93 million miles away.”



Researchers have long known that the earth and sun must be connected. Earth’s magnetosphere (the magnetic bubble that surrounds our planet) is filled with particles from the sun that arrive via the solar wind and penetrate the planet’s magnetic defenses. They enter by following magnetic field lines that can be traced from Earth all the way back to the sun’s atmosphere.



On the dayside of Earth (the side closest to the sun), Earth’s magnetic field presses against the sun's magnetic field. Approximately every eight minutes, the two fields briefly merge or “reconnect,” forming a portal through which particles can flow. The portal takes the form of a magnetic cylinder about as wide as Earth. The European Space Agency’s fleet of four Cluster spacecraft and NASA’s five THEMIS probes have flown through and surrounded these cylinders, measuring their dimensions and sensing the particles that shoot through them. The cylindrical portals tend to form above Earth’s equator and then roll over Earth’s winter pole. In December, Flux Transfer Events roll over the North Pole; in July they roll over the South Pole. Flux Transfer Events and interplanetary magnetic clouds are associated with magnetic flux ropes or tubes containing helical magnetic field lines.



Magnetic flux ropes have been measured and there seems to be a cluster of four ropes spiraled around a central rope. It is interesting that the four ethers cluster around the Akasha ether as they “descend” into the atmosphere at the North Pole. Anthroposophist Guenther Wachsmuth describes this in more detail in his book, The Etheric Formative Forces. 

The Mythical Paradise of Shambhala

Tibetan sacred texts speak of a mystical kingdom called Shambhala, hidden behind snow peaks somewhere north of Tibet, where the most sacred Buddhist teachings - the Kalachakra or Wheel of Time - are preserved. It is prophesied that a future king of Shambhala will come with a great army to free the world from barbarism and tyranny, and will usher in a golden age. Similarly, the Hindu Puranas say that a future world redeemer - the Kalki Avatara, the tenth and final manifestation of Vishnu - will come from Shambhala. Both the Hindu and Buddhist traditions indicate that Shambhala has a magnificent central palace radiating a powerful, diamond-like light.

The mythical paradise of Shambhala is known under many different names, such as,  the Forbidden Land, the Land of White Waters, the Land of Radiant Spirits, the Land of Living Fire, the Land of the Living Gods and the Land of Wonders. Hindus have known it as Aryavarsha, the land from which the Vedas come; the Chinese as Hsi Tien, the Western Paradise of Hsi Wang Mu, the Royal Mother of the West; the Russian Old Believers knew it as Belovodye and the Kirghiz people as Janaidar. Throughout Asia it is best known by its Sanskrit name, Shambhala, meaning ‘the place of peace, of tranquility.’

It is regarded by most esoteric traditions as the true center of the planet, as the world's spiritual powerhouse and the heartland of a brotherhood of adepts from every race and country who have been influential in every major religion, every scientific advance and every positive social development in history.

Buddhist texts indicate that Shambhala can be reached only by a long and difficult journey across a wilderness of deserts and mountains, and warn that only those who are called and have the necessary spiritual preparation will be able to find it; others will find only blinding storms, empty mountains, or even death. One text says that the kingdom of Shambhala is round, but it is usually depicted as an eight-petalled lotus blossom - a symbol of the heart chakra. Indeed, an old Tibetan story states that ‘The kingdom of Shambhala is in your own heart.’



According to Lama Kunga Rimpoche, “Shambhala is probably at the North Pole, since the North Pole is surrounded by ice, and Shambhala is surrounded by ice mountains.”  A few lamas believe that Shambhala exists outside the earth on another planet or in another dimension. Other Tibetans believe that “Great Shambhala” is far beyond the ocean. It is the mighty heavenly domain. It has nothing to do with our Earth. Only in some places, in the Far North, can you discern the resplendent rays of Shambhala. The lamas concede that the heavenly Shambhala has an earthly counterpart. Indeed, the expression “the resplendent rays of Shambhala” seems to be a reference to the aurora that manifests in the polar region. The ruler of Shambhala is “ever vigilant in the cause of mankind.” He sees all the events of earth in his magic mirror and the might of his thought penetrates into far-off lands.



Uncountable are the inhabitants of Shambhala. Numerous are the splendid new forces and achievements which are being prepared there for humanity. Messengers from Shambhala are at work in the world, and the ruler himself sometimes appears in human form. The lamas stress that the secrets of Shambhala are well guarded, and that it is impossible for anybody to reach Shambhala unless their karma is ready and they are called.

Mount Meru and Shambhala

In Hindu mythology Meru is the mystical mountain at the center of the world, where Indra, king of the gods, has his jeweled palace. Mount Meru is conceived of as the earth's navel as well as its central staff, its source of life and power spreading out from the central region to the world. The symbolism here is derived from embryology; just as the embryo grows from the navel outwards, so does the earth. Meru actually has several different meanings, including a mountain in Asia, the north geographical pole, the north celestial pole, the earth's spin axis, the world axis connecting earth to higher realms, and the cerebrospinal axis of the human body.



  Like the Egyptians and the Akkadians, the Indians conceived of two opposed polar mounts: the arctic Meru, known as Sumeru (su = good, beautiful), the dwelling of the gods, and the antarctic Meru, or Kumeru (ku = bad, miserable), the dwelling of the demons.      

  Meru, the Olympus of the Indians, is said to be guarded by serpents, which “watched the entrance to the realm of Secret Knowledge.” According to tradition, it was the land of bliss of the earliest Vedic times. Occult teachings place it in the very center of the North Pole, pointing it out as the site of the first continent on our earth, after the solidification of the globe. In the ancient astronomical text, Meru is described as “passing through the middle of the earth-globe, and protruding on either side.”  H.P. Blavatsky says that Meru is not “the fabulous mountain in the navel or center of the earth,” but its roots and foundations are in that navel, though it is in the far north itself. This connects it with the “central” land “that never perishes.”



  Just as the human body contains a series of chakras, or subtle energy centers, linked by the sushumna, a central channel in the spinal cord, so there may be corresponding energy centers on and in the body of the earth. Shambhala is sometimes described as the main power center with auxiliary centers scattered about the globe. In theosophy, the heart of mother earth is said to beat “under the foot of sacred Shambhala”, and we are told of the existence of a fountain of life in the bowels of the earth and in the North Pole. It is the blood of the earth, the electro-magnetic current, which circulates through all the arteries; and which is said to be found stored in the ‘navel’ of the earth.



  This inner reservoir of physical and psycho-spiritual life-forces may correspond in one sense to the root chakra in the human body, situated at the base of the spine. From this viewpoint, Meru represents the central duct or path of terrestrial kundalini or shakti running through the earth.

The Etheric Realm of Christ

The Mysteries of the Etheric Christ are inspired by a number of lecture cycles Rudolf Steiner gave on the topic. Steiner’s revelations on this subject have been corroborated by many modern clairvoyants and found to be very accurate. It is the Wisdom of the Cosmic Christ that the Maitreya Buddha will teach in our time. The secrets of the Etheric Christ will be revealed by the Kalki Avatar because both the Maitreya Buddha and the Kalki Avatar work directly for Christ and Sophia. The past and the future meet when these two streams unite. An accurate understanding of what Christ has done in the past is necessary to understand the Turning Point of Time, or what is called the Mystery of Golgotha, for Christ died on the Mount of Calvary or Golgotha.

  Christ’s incarnation into the body of Jesus of Nazareth lasted for three and a half years only. There will not be another incarnation of Christ in a physical body. Christ Jesus conquered the physical realm and redeemed the over-hardened material world by His selfless sacrifice of a human death and descent into hell. Christ Jesus went to the core of the Earth and built a golden altar upon which Christ-like actions are offered to the heavens. He redeemed the earth and is now helping humanity turn the Planet Earth into the Star Earth. Through the polar lights, new light is born from human spiritual efforts and this is the beginning of Earth shining as a Star. 



  Christ will not come again in the physical body because He no longer needs to descend that far down the ranks of the hierarchy. At this point in time, Christ can come down into the realm of the angels, the etheric realm. Christ has risen to heaven but appears wherever two or more are gathered in His name, in the development of their Christened souls. Christ must now redeem the dying etheric realm of the earth and the human etheric body. The etheric body is essentially an “eternal youth” that builds up the physical body through forces of alternating levity and gravity. The etheric body of the earth encompasses the elements of earth, water, air, fire, light, sound, and life. These elements and ethers are manipulated by science into electrical and electromagnetic forces as a “shadow substance” of spirit. 



  We can see that humanity has spoiled the earth, water, air and the warmth of the planet. Furthermore, we have also poisoned our body’s elements and ethers and used the stomach, blood stream, and the senses as a dumping ground for toxic waste. We have defiled the earth and the human body with evil. The result is the inability to connect with the earthly and cosmic nutrition stream, thereby starving the spiritual world and our bodies. The etheric realm of Earth and the human body are in dramatic apocalypse. The Apocalypse of Revelation is happening now, in our environment and in our bodies. The dragon of materialism has taken the human body hostage and is demanding that all of our thoughts and feelings should be given over to evil. 



  True spiritual Imaginations, Inspirations, and Intuitions feed the spiritual world. In return, the spiritual world feeds the aspirant with heavenly dew, the elixir of life, ambrosia and nectar, and the philosopher’s stone as reciprocal nourishment. When dead brain-bound thinking makes lifeless gray shadow thoughts of materialistic concepts, the etheric world dies. Human spiritual thought builds up the ethers while gray shadow thoughts kill the ethers and don’t allow for new spiritual matter to be created in the human heart. This would be similar to all plants on the earth dying, thereby ending the production of oxygen. Subsequently, humans would die without the oxygen created by plants.



Likewise, the spiritual world and our bodies are in a symbiotic relationship. We are not the highest organism on the food chain. We create food for the gods, and they create the spiritual nourishment our souls need to be able to fuel the search for spirit. 



  There is an etheric realm around Earth and it interpenetrates all life on the planet.  This etheric realm is the “womb of life” on Earth. It is the body of the Mother of All, Sophia the Goddess of Wisdom. It is being killed by technologies that humans have not evolved high enough to utilize with wisdom. We are on a dying planet that some want to kill even quicker. The thoughtless ones want personal gain immediately, leaving Earth as a trash heap upon their mortal exit. This is offset by Christ’s deed in the realm of the living etheric formative forces. He has come to re-enliven the etheric realm and make it new, just as He has done with the physical Earth. Christ will resurrect the etheric realm and save the source of life that renews the physical.



  Rudolf Steiner pointed out that the Mystery of Golgotha was the greatest event in world history. He also said that the Mystery of Christ’s resurrection in the etheric realms of the Earth is the second most important event in history. Human history could end if Christ is not successful. Christ needs every person who knows eternal life in their heart to help enthrone His nature in their thinking. Imaginations need to flame up as living spiritual deeds so that the etheric realm can be filled with the warmth of spiritual thoughts imbued with the light of wisdom. Each person who develops a living cosmology of Christ that places Him as the cosmic and human solution to the challenges of the forces of death can be a gardener who plants the seeds of the Tree of Life so that all may live. We can be sky-dancers and heroines of the Labors of the Sophia who re-enliven a new Imagination of the Wisdom of Christ, Sophia Christos. These Imaginations can feed our souls and renew the earth so that we can behold a new heaven and a new Earth.



  Rudolf Steiner indicated in his book, The Reappearance of the Christ in the Etheric, that Christ would start to appear to some people around 1933 and beyond in a “new type of spiritual vision.” He also said that many people would start to experience the Etheric Christ in the fashion that Paul experienced Christ on the road to Damascus. One could say that this is similar to the ascension body that Christ developed before He died. This ascension body is a body created out of etheric substance instead of physical substance.  Christ can utilize the entire etheric body of the earth to congeal His form wherever and whenever He wishes. This manifestation is in advance of what all aspirants will be able to experience in the far future. Sophia and Christ will walk among us and be with us whenever we need them.



  It has often been imagined that Christ will appear to the whole world in a rapture moment, “seen from East to West, coming on a cloud.”  This vision of the Second Coming of Christ is confused with the apocalyptic accounts of Christ manifesting as the “judge of time.”  The moment of death, sleep, or when the aspirant consciously crosses the threshold are opportunities for a personal apocalypse to occur. The aspirant will experience Christ during that revelation because Christ is the guardian of the threshold.  Christ, not the Egyptian God Anubis, weighs and judges the soul to see if it has gained spiritual merit. Christ stands at the threshold between the physical and spiritual worlds as the Lord of Karma, the one who weighs the merit of the soul. Truly, death is an awful apocalypse for the materialist who has been killing the etheric realm and who has not been nourished spiritually.



These materialistic beliefs create a terrifying experience of fear, doubt, and hatred as the unredeemed aspects of the soul that cannot cross into the spiritual realm burn the soul clean, a hell realm of sorts. As Christ is working hard to enliven the etheric realms, the materialistic thinker is raping his soul and starving the spiritual world of the nourishment that he can give it.



  This battle for the life of the etheric is another war in heaven. Lucifer and Ahriman, pride and fear, have been loosed upon Earth and attempt to steal the wings of every human soul so they cannot rise up to the etheric realm and find nourishment. These evil specters can be tamed and properly utilized by the Christ forces in the human soul.  Balancing the trinity of thinking, feeling, and willing is the prerequisite for conquering the evil forces that would are working to steal life from humans. 



  There is a wonderful source of ever renewing forces of life surrounding the Earth. It is called the super-etheric realm of Earth, or Shambhala in the East, and New Jerusalem or Eden Redeemed in the West.  This realm has been claimed by Sophia Christos as the redeemed part of the etheric already under Their control. Every perfected body of a saint, avatar, bodhisattva, or spiritual person is imprinted and saved for all time to come in this etheric realm. Once a perfected “vehicle” is imprinted into this realm, it is available to copy itself for the use of any initiate who wishes to embody it. This super-etheric realm is also called the “Realm of Spiritual Economy,” where the spirit employs wise economy by replicating perfected bodies for those in like resonance.



  The most profound aspect of the Realm of Spiritual Economy is that even the perfected bodies of Christ Jesus and Maria Sophia are imprinted in the super-etheric realm of Shambhala. St. Augustine, Johannes Tauler, Meister Ekhart, St. Francis, and Rudolf Steiner all used perfected vehicles from this realm. There is no need to create other perfected vehicles because the spirit knows how to utilize multi-dimensional holographic mirroring in the processes of creation and maintenance of the universe.  Humans who are emulating Christ, Sophia, saints, and great thinkers may use this realm of spiritual economy.



  Christ joined His physical karma with the Earth as a whole and gave His life to re-enkindle the forces of life that were waning. Earth would have died and humanity would have failed in its evolution to become angelic without Christ’s intervention. Christ’s blood and body went into the earth and descended to its core. When Christ rose from the dead, He brought the physical life of the earth along with Him. After ascending to heaven, Christ is now bringing the dying etheric realm of the earth and the human etheric body along with Him again in His continuing ascent. The battle is engaged but the victory is not yet won. Each human soul is an entire world. Worlds are being lost to Lucifer, Ahriman, and the Asuric beings who wish to tie thinking to sense-bound desire of the physical and not let Christ enliven their thoughts with spiritual Imaginations.   Christ is giving wisdom, love, and the “waters of life” in the realms of the super etheric, whereas the demons are giving lies, jealousy, and evil that drain life from the etheric body. 



  Materialistic enslavement to physical pleasures and selfishness darken the spiritual world at night when sense-bound thinkers sleep. Instead of shining like a star as they sleep, the materialist weaves spider webs of desire that are gray and filled with blind vices that bind the soul to earthly matter. Their nights are filled with horrors and fears, instead of the light and nourishment of the spiritual food of the gods. They fight demons all night who act like “living darkness” that swallows light. They remain bound to the earth and the fiery hells that arise from unconscious desire.



  When you reading spiritual books and thinking spiritual thoughts, you are providing a banquet for the gods. Reflecting and meditating on spiritual content is a fountain of living water that refreshes and nourishes your guardian angel. Prayer and spiritual practices are solemn rituals of communion with the spirit, dialogues that nurture both sides. A good conversation about lofty ideas will raise the human spirit, so, too, it feeds the spiritual world. As a wondrous spirit-filled dream continues to impress living pictures and Imaginations upon the soul for long periods of time, so the loving deeds of a human light up the etheric world and drive away the darkness. By seeking self-initiation and having the desire to embody the spirit, the aspirant joins in the battle for the etheric realm with every thought, feeling, and deed.



  Christ continues His ascent through the physical, etheric, astral, and ego realms of the Earth and the human body. Each new realm needs a new turning point in time to align it with the macrocosmic evolution of Christ as He brings the Earth and humanity along with His development. Christ redeemed the physical and is now trying to permanently redeem the etheric realm. We are the battleground. Sides have been chosen and you are on a side, whether you know it or not. Self-initiation is to Know Yourself so that you might know the gods and the world. It is taking responsibility for your own development and being a witness and participant in the new War in Heaven, the battle for the etheric realm.

Christ in the Etheric Realm is the Second Coming

Seeing Christ in the etheric realm is a cure for the illness of materialism. Christ engenders love and love creates light wherever it flows. He implanted a drop of His blood that was enlivened through the Mystery of Golgotha in every human heart. It brings the “light of life” that shows us the way back to heaven and feeds our soul spiritual nourishment. In the darkest times, this light will draw Christ to us if we are in desperate need of His presence. Often, at the lowest point in a person’s life, Christ will walk into their presence and heal her. This has been reported many times by people who have wanted to commit suicide, but didn’t after Christ appeared to them. Steiner pointed out that after 1933 Christ would appear to more and more people. He also warned that if they reported their wondrous experience it, they might be considered crazy and have to be locked up in the psychological ward.

  At the same time, those aspirants who have advanced along the path will also be able to develop “etheric vision” that will be able to see Christ and His manifestations in the etheric realm. This new “vision” will be able to see Christ active in a variety of ways in the resurrected etheric formative forces. The Etheric Christ will be visible to advanced souls and His presence can be with them on a continuous basis. Christ manifests in the etheric realm and is visible for those with “eyes to see” this realm of Shambhala.

The New Etheric Earth as a Star

  One Imagination of Christ in the etheric realm is found in the aurora borealis. Just as human etherize blood, Earth, as a whole, etherizes elements that are fueled by forces of human spiritual activity that rise up from the core of the earth towards the magnetic North Pole flowing along the magnetic lines of the Van Allen belts. When solar wind collides with these rising etheric particles, a fantastic light display illuminates the sky.  This “new light” from the Earth constitutes the first star-light of our “Earth as Sun.”  One could say that the Christened efforts of humanity light up the globe with a halo.  This also happens in the human body and appears to a clairvoyant as a “rainbow light” emitted from the midbrain that lights up the aura making it shine like a halo. Saints are noted to create this rainbow bridge. The human etheric body and the earth’s etheric body have many resonant associations. 



  The aurora borealis is a living Imagination of what happens in the human body through the wise and loving interaction between Sophia and Christ. When the baptism of fire alights upon the brow of the initiate, we can see the forces of Christ illuminating the Christened self of the individual. Christ heals the etheric body of Earth and the etheric body of the individual through a new World Pentecost.



  Rudolf Steiner indicated in, The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric, Lecture I: The Event of the Appearance of Christ in the Etheric World, that “the Etheric Christ would be able to be seen especially in 1933, 1935, and 1937.” Clairvoyant capacities will become natural abilities. Great changes will take place, and Biblical prophecies will be fulfilled. Human souls will begin to develop “new faculties out of themselves” and exhibit “clairvoyant powers.” He said that “a new age is at hand, in which the souls of human beings must take a step upward into the kingdom of heaven.” Then, Christ will reappear because human beings will be raising themselves toward Him in etheric vision.  Spiritual science is preparation for the return of Christ. 



Just as Paul of Damascus, others will be “convinced through experiences in the etheric realm that Christ truly lives.” Steiner said that the “greatest mystery of our time is the second coming of Christ.” Human beings must advance to this etheric vision and see it in their own etheric body. Steiner speaks of the second coming of Christ and tells us that we must “raise ourselves up to Christ in the spiritual world by acquiring etheric vision.”  If humanity were to ignore the second coming of Christ in the etheric, the “vision of Christ in the etheric body would be limited to those who, through esoteric training, prove themselves to be ready to rise to such an experience.”

In Lecture II: Spiritual Science as Preparation for a New Etheric Vision, Steiner indicates that Paul was convinced Jesus was Christ when he saw Christ clairvoyantly in the atmosphere of the earth. Paul became convinced that the descent of Christ to the earth consummated the ancient mysteries. Paul’s experience of Christ in the atmosphere of the earth can be clairvoyantly experienced after esoteric schooling or through natural clairvoyance that will become entirely natural to humanity. This “Damascus Event” will be experienced by people as a “return of Christ.” Christ is present for all those who are able to ascend as far as the “vision of the etheric body.” He is always present within the etheric atmosphere of the earth. The second coming of Christ will happen when human beings advance to beholding Christ in the etheric.

Shambhala as the Fountainhead of the Super-Etheric

In Lecture V: The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric, Dr. Steiner indicates that initiates in the past always went to “an ancient country” in order to “fetch from it” the guiding impulses of humanity and the “strength and wisdom for their missions.” This land is often referred to as Shambhala or the fountainhead of the super-etheric realm and ancient clairvoyants could see into these worlds like some sort of fairyland. This land of Shambhala is said to have risen up into the atmosphere and became invisible. Shambhala will be seen again, at first only for a few, then for more and more human beings.
This light-woven, light-gleaming Shambhala abounds in infinite fullness of life that fills hearts with wisdom. Christ is the Lord of this realm. It is from this realm that understanding of the cosmic nature of the deed of Christ flows forth as wisdom. The more humans can witness Christ in this realm, the more they will be able to understand the wisdom in the Gospels. As we grow into this mysterious land of Shambhala, it is possible to have a “Damascus Event or Experience” wherein the aspirant directly encounters the living Christ in the etheric realm, just as Paul did on the road to Damascus. The initiate rises into this land and can have this Damascus Experience as part of self-initiation, a kind of etheric revelation or apocalypse, an uncovering of the soul. This experience can be the foundation for a “new faith” or “religion of one.” A direct dialogue begins with the being of Christ as He appears there as a “second coming” for the awakened initiate.
Christ only comes to Earth once in a physical body and now appears in His etheric body to awakened souls as a natural initiation. According to the level of the initiate, a spiritual kingdom can be felt surrounding him that is led by Christ who will be acknowledged by all who rise into the etheric realm, no matter what their prior religious affiliations have been. Clear waking consciousness is the tool to enter this land under the guidance of Christ. The initiate must go there often to draw new forces from the radiant light and enter the portal to the land of the super-etheric, Shambhala. In The Return of Christ, Dr. Steiner goes further to say that new faculties will arise in humanity that will be able to perceive the human etheric body. Another capacity will develop wherein the aspirant will be able to look within himself and behold a dream-like picture that is the karmic outcome of a deed about to be performed. This is a prefiguring or precognitive perception, but not a dream. It is a “seeing into the karma of a deed,” a sort of taking responsibility for the karmic outcome of an action.



There will also be the experience of Christ that Paul had before Damascus, but now instead of it being a personal experience, it will become a common experience for certain people. Paul could only be convinced that Jesus was the Christ through a direct clairvoyant experience of Christ in the etheric realm. This clairvoyant experience will be more and more common in the future. Many people will have a direct encounter with the living being of Christ in the etheric realm as a ‘second coming.’  Previously, only initiates could reach this realm through initiation.   



All of the faculties attained by initiation will become universal faculties of humanity.  Human beings with etheric clairvoyance will behold the Christ appearing before them in an etheric body. This etheric vision is a spiritual seed in the soul that awaits development by the individual. Etheric clairvoyance can appear without an individual understanding its meaning and can be interpreted as delusion, fantasy, and mental illness. We must be ready to help and understand those who may appear to be psychologically ill, but in fact are witnessing the etheric sphere. People should have this experience in a healthy way as part of spiritual development. It is imperative that Christ be found in the etheric realm before death because the individual cannot come to an understanding of Christ’s physical incarnation after death. This is a most important spiritual task, to encounter Christ in the etheric while alive on Earth so that the Wisdom (Sophia) of Christ can accompany the aspirant through death. It is the development of the higher senses and sense organs that allow this vision of the etheric Christ to arise.



  To develop the supersensible organs to perceive Christ’s Second Coming in the realm of Shambhala, the aspirant should train the astral body to become a sheath for the astral body of Christ to use. This body is developed through wonder, astonishment, devotion and reverence towards the spirit. To develop the etheric sheath for Christ to utilize, the aspirant should express love and compassion towards all beings. To develop the physical sheath for Christ to utilize, the aspirant should purify his conscience into a new transformative energy of life that adds to the work of the group Ego of humanity through Christ. This development leads the aspirant to understand Christ’s role as the Lord of Karma.  These three sheaths for Christ are developed through wonder, love, and conscience.

Initiation and the Etheric Realm

To reach the etheric body, the aspirant must first advance through the more immediate concern of the astral body. The “astral body of desires” impresses its good and bad habits on the “time-body of the etheric.” Before you can reach Christ in the etheric, you usually must tame the astral body of desires. The aspirant will not methodically advance without stopping bad habits and developing new spiritual habits that impress healthy rhythms into the etheric body. Daily prayer, meditation, and spiritual practice must be well established before the aspirant can “look into” the realm of Shambhala. The aspirant must stop the habits that create astral impurities and then the positive spiritual habits can help raise the aspirant to etheric vision.
References to rising and going up into the etheric realm refer to the super-etheric sphere around the earth. There is also the etheric body of the human being. The two etheric bodies are connected but different. We rise up to the super-etheric but we look inside our own bodies to find the personal, human etheric body. The forces of warmth and light alternate with sound and life in both etheric realms. In the near future, we will be able to look into the super-etheric sphere with the help of the human etheric body and find the connecting links. When a human beholds the etheric body with etheric vision, Christ is seen in the human etheric body and the super-etheric sphere. The same mechanisms underlie the development of new spiritual organs that are commonly used by initiates and will become more and more common for humanity over the next two thousand years. Initiates are the avant-garde of human development.



The gradual path to seeing Christ in the etheric is through first developing thinking, feeling, and willing into new capacities of soul, new supersensible organs that can see, hear, and dialogue in the spiritual world.  This path of development is steady, gradual, and step by step.  Seeing Christ in the etheric is seeing Christ in living Imaginations.  The purified etheric body can be the organ of perception of this cosmic light.  The aspirant can train the mind to receive these Imaginations by meditating on sense free qualities of the spirit, like the Seven Heavenly Virtues. Through development of a complete cosmology, the aspirant can exercise the spiritual organs of vision by thinking about the invisible spiritual world and the beings who inhabit that world. Envisioning the workings of the hierarchies is one of the best ways to see the forces of life that are commonly thought of as invisible. Enough meditation and thinking about spiritual matters will eventually bring those realms into the purview of the aspirant. Angels have little to do with anything visible, but they can be imagined in ways that bring them “into view.”



The etheric body of Earth and the human etheric body are ruled by rhythm. Our breath and heartbeat are two examples of cosmic timing that we only partially control.  In sleep, we have no control over those rhythms and they reset to the universal rhythm of four heart beats to one breath. These cosmic rhythms accompany our life and are created by a type of “sound.” Rhythm is the tool of the spirit that brings life and health.  When natural rhythms are disturbed, the human body falls ill. We were somewhat asleep in Eden and were healthy and without illness. When we awoke to the outside world, the forces of dissonance brought illness. When we take on unnatural rhythms in our life, they will deaden our etheric bodies. The initiate builds into their life healthy rhythms that nourish the etheric body to become a tool of spiritual perception. Christ feeds the initiate through the life of the etheric body. 

To find Christ in the etheric realm, the aspirant on the path of self-initiation will first conquer the dragon of his astral desires and develop higher forms of Imagination to approach Christ in the etheric. Through rhythmic spiritual practices, the etheric realm will begin to enliven thinking until it is full of warmth and the light of wisdom. Then, the aspirant can find Christ in His second coming, long before death and without an apocalypse in the outer world. The revelation and apocalypse comes in the soul of the aspirant as the threshold is crossed and the images of ascension appear before the higher soul.



These images are the spiritual body of the aspirant coming to him through the intervention of Sophia and Christ in the etheric realm. The etheric realm holds the past, present, and future parts of the individual and the world. It is ever alive and renewing everything. The etheric body is essentially a complete picture of the universe from beginning to end as an ever present now rushing in from the future. Christ has claimed the etheric realm for humanity and thereby has assured a future where love and wisdom will reign.



The battle for the etheric realms (Earth and human) is the battle between Ahriman and Christ in our time. Lucifer should have already been tamed and turned into a good force through the intervention of the Holy Spirit and Holy Sophia. This intervention created the new World Pentecost or baptism by fire. The tongues of flame were the sign that the apostles and the three Mary’s had tamed their astral bodies, which was denoted by the idea that they “spoke as angels” in a language that everyone could hear and understand.      

The training of the etheric body is much more difficult. The habits and rituals of life create the etheric body’s relationship to the spirit and to matter. Most people spend their time active in and thinking about the material realm. The initiate spends more time focused on and thinking about the spiritual realm. The daily spiritual practice of an initiate is more important to her than things in the outer world of materialism. Human relationships and spiritual relationships are much more important for advancement than material things. The rhythms of synchronicity and spiritual influence can begin to “sound” in the initiate and become impressed in the etheric body over time. The etheric body becomes the musical instrument of the initiate and living sound is heard as the initiate “ascends” to the super-etheric body around the Earth. The music of the spheres sounds in the etheric body and brings the forces of the planets to the organs and systems of the human etheric body. The planets and stars sing forth continuously, just as the etheric body does. Both are mirrors of the divine plan that is a grand symphony in which we play our humble instrument.    

Are You Ready for Second Coming of Christ in the Etheric?

Experiencing Christ in the etheric is accompanied by amazing sights, sounds, and words. We learn that sights denote the astral, sounds denote the etheric, and words denote the physical. Christ has already redeemed the physical nature of the Earth and humanity by the Mystery of Golgotha, His death and resurrection. Christ is known as the “Word” or “Logos”, implying that He is the word of God that sounded forth creation as a spoken Language of the Spirit. The human body is a manifestation of the “word of the spirit.” Christ descended from the Trinity into a human body so that He could make all of humanity whole and renewed so that they might become suitable vessels for spirit.  This physical body is the word becoming flesh. Through the pre-earthly deeds of Christ, humans became able to stand erect, speak, and think. Christ brought with Him to Earth the “ego capacity to think as a free being” and donated it to humanity as His fourth gift.  In our time, Christ is renewing the etheric body of humanity so that it will continue to have eternal life. Christ is found intimately in every part of the human physical constitution because He is the divine archetype of the human being.



  Christ is active in the etheric realms, bringing the living forces of His resurrection body into these realms. Christ is bringing the warmth, light, and levity to counteract the cold darkness of Ahrimanic gravity. The human soul stands in the middle of the battle and much will be lost in both Earthly and humanly etheric realms if the Wisdom of Christ is not found. An initiate can receive the forces of the risen Christ and remake his personal etheric body into the image of Christ’s etheric body, thus assuring eternal life.



  The etheric realm is the realm of time. Christ rules time and is the Lord of karma, destiny, and providence. If Christ cannot win the battle for life in the etheric, the Earth will change its destiny and destroy itself.  The same is true for each individual who can either kill or enliven his or her own etheric body of formative forces. The aspirant can choose between the life and love of Christ or the selfish egotism of Lucifer and the cold dead nihilism of Ahriman, the Lord of Materialism. Lucifer distracts the aspirant from the light, while Ahriman darkens and extinguishes the light.  The landscape of the etheric body of the human is the domain that each person can make a difference in, for better or worse.  Christ and the entire spiritual world stand ready to help each aspirant. 



It is the free deed of the aspirant that either builds or destroys her personal etheric body. As for the etheric body of the earth, suffice it to say, that the battle is very visible and heated. The greedy are winning at this point and the earth’s life body has suffered great damage. Consciousness is being raised slowly to focus on sustainability and environmental homeostasis. All of our lives are ultimately connected to that global battle. Inner and outer etheric awareness is crucial for the continuity of life on Earth.



  As we behold Christ’s activity in human evolution, we are struck with awe, reverence, wonder, and amazement. The intricate design of Christ’s wisdom manifesting through love is wondrous to contemplate. Christ’s divine deed for humanity is miraculous, and He continues His loving offerings in the etheric world to vouchsafe humanity’s future.   This knowledge fires the initiate with spiritual resolve to accomplish moral, conscientious deeds. It is a type of spiritual nourishment that engenders further spiritual deeds that again feed the divine world. This great Mystery of the Etheric Christ is the wonder of our age.



  To behold the etheric realm of the Earth is to lift the veils of Sophia. This is the sign of the resurrection of Sophia from the darkness of history. As the Wisdom of Sophia is added to a picture of a living Earth, science gets the chance to re-think what life is really based upon. New discoveries are happening every day that reveal another living aspect of Natura. Everywhere, Sophia is alive and inspiring the world. Sophia brings to us the Wisdom of the Cosmic Christ that is necessary to fully understand the Mystery of Golgotha and the Mystery of the Etheric Christ. This Wisdom is Sophia Christos, the Wisdom of Christ. Christ can represent love active through time while Sophia represents wisdom active through space. Together, they create consciousness of the past and future. 



  The Mysteries of the Etheric Christ are the most personal and profound mysteries of the human being. Evolution hangs in the balance as human soul life is fought over between the forces of good and evil. Each day is a battle in this war, and each person and humanity as a whole, is in danger of dying to spirit. If this happens, it will darken the etheric realm and the spiritual world.



Each of us holds the key to whether the battle will be won or lost. Each individual will be called on to declare whose side they are on, and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. Joining together with Sophia, in all of Her many names, is one way to rise up to the refined realms of the super-etheric where we can meet Christ. Sophia is our guide, and She teaches us the very wisdom we need to understand Christ and the language He speaks. As we join our virtuous development and the fruits of the Labors of Sophia with the risen ONE, or the “Christ in me”, we can rise into the higher realms and participate in the work of the divine. Sophia has been our personal midwife in the process of spirit birth and Christ is the being who gives us our higher self to wed. The soul filled with Wisdom can then join with the spirit of Love, Sophia Christos, and maintain the living realm of Shambhala as a home for masters and initiates.

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Folks , please watch this video carefully...imagine this to be the interior structure of Hollow Earth , with the bright spot at the center , representing the Inner Sun & the two Polar openings , clearly visible .

The Earth's magnetic field can be visualised here , as also the shape of the Van Allen belt . Faint outlines of the bowl shaped magnetic fields or Primer fields (proven by David LaPoint) can also be observed . You can even see the beautiful Auroras emerging from the Poles - it's such a peaceful "ethereal" scene , with soothing music to accompany this video :))

Notice the hour glass shaped funnel from the North Pole down to the South Pole . That shape could also be described as cylindrical in the middle portion...hmm - what I am trying to get at is that Meru has been described in ancient texts as an hour glass or cylindrical shaped mountain , aligned to the Earth's axis ! If you think about it - even the Yggdrasil or "World Tree" of Norse mythology fits into such a shape . Maybe , it's not a physical structure all through but represents the shape of energy flow through the Hollow Earth's interior ! This simulation also reminds me of the ancient "snake eating it's own tail" analogy...

Either way , it's really exciting to contemplate how sacred geometry could one day reveal the truth about hollow planets and stars . Strangely , this visual also resembles the shape of an apple , which is used a lot in esoteric symbolism by secret societies...

" Sumeru is said to be shaped like an hourglass , with a top and base of 80,000 yojanas square, but narrowing in the middle (i.e., at a height of 40,000 yojanas) to 20,000 yojanas square. Sumeru is the polar center of a mandala-like complex of seas and mountains."

**By the way , let me share some trivia - the erstwhile Soviet Union's Space Station MIR , was named after Meru , because MIR is the Russian language name for Meru . In India , the suffix "Mir" in the name of the state of Kashmir , also stands for Meru .

"However, the ending mir, found in many Slavic names, has developed from the Old Slavic term *meru which meant 'large, great, greatly"

https://www.definitions.net/definition/dragomir

Even the old civilisation of Sumer (in present day Syria) seems to have been influenced by the concept of Meru (notice the similarity in the name itself) :-

Akkadian King Naram Sin (2620 BCE) overlooking Cosmic Mountain (Meru)

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Folks , the dynamic double torus framework provides an excellent explanation for Polar vortexes . There is a physical dimension to this vortex (as in the Polar openings) and an energetic dimension as well, that determines the direction of energy flow .

Science is yet to provide a convincing explanation as to why our atmosphere has powerful jet streams . However , it seems likely that jet streams are the "channel" through which the atmosphere of Earth's Hollow interior , connects with the atmosphere on Earth's surface...there is likely a continuous flow and interchange of energy , "global circulation" happening through this channel .

It's incredible that the characteristic "Coriolis effect" and "Polar Vortexes" have been observed on every planet that has a proper atmosphere (which is why such phenomena are subdued on Mars that has a thin atmosphere) .

Till date, ONLY the "dynamic double torus" theory has been able to explain all of these phenomena , within the same framework . The solid sphere (sterile billiard ball) model of planets can explain ZILCH :))

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