Uncertain or Frustrated about the Bible and its teaching for your Life?

Above is a new video I've published entitled "Uncertain or Frustrated about the Bible?"

Do you feel frustrated or uncertain about the Bible and its teaching for your life?

If you do, I've been there! 

I was committed to a literalist approach to the Bible for twenty years of my adult life. I was looking to the Bible not so much out of any fear of hell but rather because I was searching for personal transformation --

trying to change aspects of my own behavior and know the right path to take in my life -- and what was so frustrating was that no matter how hard I tried (using a literalistic approach), it wasn't working.

Religions based on literalistic approaches to the Bible (or literalistic approaches to other ancient myths and scriptures and sacred stories) promise transformation and guidance, but if they are based on a wrong approach to those ancient sources, they often invert the message entirely and can very easily cause more harm than good.

Following the wrong interpretation can really tear you up inside. The Reverend Charles Haddon Sturgeon (1834 - 1892) was one of the most well-known and popular preachers and advocates of the literal interpretation of the Bible and remains very influential within literalist Christianity to this day. But he was plagued with terrible bouts of depression throughout his life. This is not disputed by literalist Christians -- a 2018 biography of his wife Susannah written by an American Christian pastor says of Susannah: "At times she found him weeping though he didn't know why, his depressions could be so dark."

Religions that promise moral guidance and personal transformation without being able to deliver can be seen as practicing a kind of Religious Abuse.

If we are reading the Bible the wrong way, it simply stands to reason that we are likely to get the wrong message.

For the past fifteen years, after approaching the Bible literally for the previous twenty years of my adult life, I have been pursuing a different approach. And I am sharing that approach in an upcoming free zoom seminar entitled Self-Defense against Religious Bullying and Religious Abuse on June 22nd at 5pm Eastern time (USA). 

If you are not familiar with my work, my approach will probably be unlike anything you have ever heard before -- but it is backed by enormous amounts of evidence and years of research, and I will be sharing some of that evidence during this live zoom seminar.

If you or someone you know has been exposed to Religious Bullying or Abuse, or if you simply want to have confidence instead of uncertainty and frustration when it comes to the Bible and its message, I encourage you to join me or to tell your friend or loved one about this free zoom seminar.

Sign up to reserve your spot using the "Events" page on my website, The Undying Stars https://www.undyingstars.com/events

I hope to see you there!

How to Confidently Defend against Religious Bullying!

Have you ever been the victim of Religious Bullying or Religious Abuse?

Do you know someone who has?

Gain complete confidence when encountering Religious Bullying or Abuse: proof that the Bible is based on the stars, in common with other ancient myths and sacred stories, and that literalist interpretations of Bible texts are wrong. 

This knowledge, once understood, is yours forever and points the way towards healing Religious Wounds and defeating Religious Bullying and Abuse.

Join me, David Mathisen, on 22 June 2024 for a free Self-Defense against Religious Bullying live zoom seminar, which will take place at:

5pm Eastern Time (USA), which is the same as 2pm Pacific Time (USA), which is the same as 7am Sydney/Melbourne Time (Australia: note it will be 23 June in Australia)!

This live Self-Defense against Religious Bullying seminar will last approximately (exactly) two hours.

Sign up via the "Events" page at https://www.undyingstars.com/events

Please tell a friend who might benefit from this free Religious Self-Defense zoom seminar!

Orphic Hymns to Invoke the ancient gods in You

Here is another recent video that I published to YouTube, entitled "Orphic Hymns to Invoke the Ancient Gods in You."

This video builds on some of the concepts explored in the previous one, entitled "Star Myths, the Duat, and this Life," including the assertion that the realm of the gods is not separate from us -- and in fact is also within us.

Ancient cultures passed down practices for invoking the gods in you and me, as I discuss in my most-recent book, Invoking the Ancient Gods in You.

From the culture of ancient Greece, the Orphic Hymns have survived as an extremely helpful -- and extremely beneficial -- example of the practices used in ancient cultures to invoke the gods.

This video explores the aspects of the god Ares in us, and what we can learn from the ancient Orphic Hymn to Ares.

Please share with those for whom this information would be helpful in some way!

Star Myths, the Duat, and this Life

Above is a video I published recently entitled "Star Myths, the Duat, and this Life."

It explores the question, which I am frequently asked, "Why do the Star Myths from cultures around the world use the Stars as their foundation?"

I'm convinced one reason is that they are dramatizing for our understanding the reality of the Duat, the Infinite and the Eternal, the "pure potential" from which the manifest unfolds and which is not separate from us but always present.

The ancient wisdom given to all cultures helps us to live in accordance with this uncreated undifferentiated Duat (a term from ancient Egypt -- other cultures describe it with different language but pointing to the same concept), both on an individual level and on an societal level.

Ignoring the teaching of the ancient wisdom, or deliberately trying to turn it on its head, only ends in frustration and disaster.

Please share as appropriate with those who would find this message to be positive in some way!

Photos from the Eclipse at the Canyons extravaganza!

The podcast teams of the Brothers of the Serpent and the Grimerica Show organized a fantastic weekend-long festival in Utopia, Texas called Eclipse at the Canyon to celebrate and experience the Total Solar Eclipse of 08 April 2024.

We heard eye-opening presentations and soul-enriching music from a tremendous lineup of artists and speakers, plus two nights of stand-up comedy!

The Eclipse itself was unforgettable -- made even more so by the fact that the sky was stubbornly clouded-over during the hours leading up to the big moment (see image below):

In conjunction with our collective intentions, the sky opened up for us to see the Total Eclipse in all its glory -- just as had happened previously on a different Canyons event at Bryce and Zion National Parks in Utah, when the sky opened up long enough for us to see all the constellations in all directions, before clouding back over.

Below are a few photos from this year's Eclipse at the Canyon -- Special thanks to hosts David and Laura K for having us all over to their fantastic homestead and venue, and looking forward to more events in Utopia in the years ahead!

A visit to the largest caldera in the Southern Hemisphere

According to the Hydroplate Theory of Dr. Walt Brown, the continents of our planet all slid away from the Atlantic (and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge) and towards the massive depression basin of the Pacific Ocean.

In years past this blog has published numerous examinations of various pieces of evidence around the globe which support the overall structure of Dr. Brown's Hydroplate Theory, even though I do not accept the premise that the texts contained in the Bible are literal descriptions of past history -- I have shown them to be based on celestial metaphor, in common with the world's other ancient myths, scriptures, and sacred stories.  

In other words, I do not accept that the texts contained in what we call the Bible are literal -- but that stance does not mean that I do not see massive evidence around our planet for a catastrophic world-wide flood along the lines of the theory proposed by Dr. Brown (although I believe that any timeline which tries to force events into timelines suggested by literalist readings of the Bible are demonstrably mistaken, since archaeological sites such as Gobekli Tepe are older than many literalist proposals for the date of literalist Creation and a literalist Biblical Flood, and since the texts of the Bible can be shown to be based on celestial metaphor, rather than accounts of terrestrial historical events).

If the mechanisms proposed in the Hydroplate Theory are correct, the continents of Asia and Australia would have slid eastwards, towards the great depression of the Pacific Basin, even as the continents of North and South America would have been sliding westwards towards the same Pacific Basin. 

This explanation from the Hydroplate Theory helps us to understand why the forces of friction would have been so enormous along the "leading edge" of the continents that were sliding towards that Pacific Basin, resulting in the melting of subterranean rock and the buildup of magma and lava beneath the surface, eventually erupting into the volcanoes that we find all the way around the Pacific Rim and the west coasts of North and South America, and the east coast of Asia as well as the Japanese archipelago.

This ring of volcanoes around the gigantic "hole" of the Pacific Basin is often referred to as the "Ring of Fire."

In line with the description of ancient catastrophic events provided by Walt Brown's Hydroplate Theory, we find the remnants of an enormous ancient volcano situated at the very easternmost point of the continent of Australia, just where we might expect to find such a volcano if indeed the continent of Australia slid towards the Pacific Basin, building up friction and deep subterranean magma along Australia's easternmost edge (the "leading edge" of the slide).

Above is a map of Australia showing that easternmost point, and the location of the massive ancient volcano is indicated by a red box in the map above, which corresponds to the area shown in larger scale in the zoomed-in map below:

Can you make out the remnants of a massive ancient volcano in the above terrain map? It is situated just along the coastline, in between the words "Tweed Heads" to the north and "Byron Bay" and "Lismore" to the south, and it is the skeletal remains (or "erosion caldera") of a massive ancient volcano sometimes called the "Tweed Volcano," about 62 miles in diameter.

Below is yet another map, zooming in more closely still:

Continuing to zoom in closer, we can see that the distinctive rock formation to which Captain Cook gave the name "Mt. Warning" (because it is visible from the sea, through a break in the remaining walls of the ancient caldera, and gives warning to ships to avoid the offshore reefs of Point Danger) is in fact the remains of the central eruption shaft of the volcano:

Below is a photograph I took of Mt. Warning, looking from the southern rim region and positioned slightly east of the mountain itself (that is, looking northwest towards the mountain):

The outer edges of the remaining crater ring around the central point of Mt. Warning show deep channels and folds, as we would expect from the sides of a massive ancient volcano. One section of the remaining rim along the southern side is known as the Nightcap Range, and is labeled in the map below:

Below is a photograph of this deeply-rutted side of the ancient volcano, the Nightcap Range, taken from a point somewhat south of the letter "T" in the arrow-label that I have added to the above map (the arrow that reads: "Nightcap Range"), and looking towards the north and west:

Note that the Moon is visible in the above photograph, which is taken looking towards the north and the west, because from the Southern Hemisphere below the tropics, an observer must look towards the north to see the path of the Sun, Moon, planets and zodiac constellations, whereas from the Northern Hemisphere above the tropics an observer must look towards the south. 

The evidence around our planet pointing towards an ancient catastrophe or catastrophes of massive proportions is abundant and convincing. It is very likely that some type of massive catastrophe separates the ancient civilizations known to our conventional scholars and historians (such as ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, ancient India, ancient China and so forth) from some much more ancient (and advanced) predecessor culture or cultures, and that the Star Myths of the World known to cultures around the globe in different forms originated from that now-forgotten culture or cultures.

The event that separates what I call the "Near Ancient" cultures known to conventional history (such as ancient Egypt) from the "Deep Ancient" culture or cultures who may be the source of the system underlying the world's Star Myths was probably not a world-wide catastrophic flood, even though I believe the evidence is overwhelming that our planet did once experience such a flood. I believe it is more likely that any world-wide catastrophic flood was far more ancient than whatever catastrophe separates the Near Ancient cultures from the Deep Ancient cultures.

However, the evidence for massive globe-altering catastrophes in our planet's past is so abundant that the fact of catastrophes should be more widely understood and acknowledged in our attempts to understand deep history. Strangely, the proponents of conventional historical models demonstrate stubborn resistance to any mention of catastrophism, preferring to impose uniformitarian explanations for almost every geological phenomenon, punctuated of course by local catastrophes such as volcanoes, but never considering the possibility that all the volcanoes around the Ring of Fire, for instance, might be linked and explained by a common catastrophic model.

Back from our Wedding Celebration

This long-running blog is still going, but I didn't post during April or May (so far) because Kesenya and I celebrated our marriage at the end of April.

As the cycles of heaven would have it, there was also a Total Solar Eclipse visible in the United States on the 8th of April, and I was invited to be part of a fantastic event in Utopia, Texas for that Solar Eclipse, so April was particularly busy! I will post some images from that event in a following post.

After the wedding Kesenya and I had a chance to visit Australia's Gold Coast which, while still thoroughly Australian, felt more to me like California than anywhere I'd been in Australia so far (with a little touch of Hawaii thrown in). I will post a few images from that intriguing part of the country later as well.

Thank you for your kind wishes!