#25. The Sacred Spiral Winds of the Kachina Christ Vision
"Stringing Out" the Symbolic Layers of Universal Visionary Imagery
11 May 2022
As I was preparing to try to provide some kind of analytical synthesis of the various messages from the Blue Star Kachina channelings that I have provided recently in previous posts in this Soul Planet Channel project, I was reminded that I might want to take a look at my earliest post regarding the Kachinas, “Kachina Visions and the Expansion of Cultural Identity,” in order to see in what ways, if any, that message correlates with the five-part message from the Blue Star Kachina. As I was turning to that Kachina Vision post, I remembered that my original notes for that essay included the text from a channeled summary from the Kachinas concerning the implications of my daylong visonary engagement with them—from Chaco Canyon to Chimayó to Taos.
I realized that this message involved a lot of the material that I had received on that day and that I should offer that information to you my readers. So here it is!
Note: When the Kachinas refer to the procedure they call “stringing out,” they are referring to a method of elaboration that had been suggested to me in an earlier channeling in 2012 in which some entities that referred to themselves simply as the Rock Beings contacted me at Old Man’s Cave in Hocking County, Ohio. I had been thinking about what to do with the information I was getting at the time in some of the telepathic communications I was receiving from various nature spirits. Often this information would involve simple phrases and images without a lot of context. The Rock Beings suggested that I meditate on the informaton I receive and “string it out” word by word and image by image. What they meant was that each word of channeled material stands in for an infinite amount of related contextual images spiraling out from a given word. Thus if I spent enough time with these messages, I could string out each idea until I got a more comprehensive view of things.
I had included some of this material in my original draft that I had sent to the editors of Journal of Contemporary Shamanism, but it turned out that they don’t include channeled material in their journal. I have discovered, much to my dismay, that this is a fairly common practice in many of the journals for esoteric information. I’m not sure what is behind this hesitation to publish channeled material, but in any case, now you’ve got it here! Enjoy!
Message from the Kachinas
21 August 2013
Gabriel, we will review with you the significance of this visionary experience, its larger meaning in terms of your own travels and development, and its larger meaning in human and extra-human terms. And this last phrase is the key: We are deliberately leading you beyond the point of cultural differentiations and towards a point of human unification. Beyond this, we are leading even beyond the limits of the current notions of the human being itself. And our key for this is the Spiral.
As with the Sídhe spirits that you have been encountering and working with [Ohio as well as in Ireland], we also find the image of the Spiral to be a powerful talisman and learning key for human consciousness. This symbol captures on many levels at once the multilayered and multidimensional levels of existence. And if we add to this image the experience and concept of the Sacred Wind, then we can provide you with a tool for stringing out the infinite layers of existence for cognitive understanding and experiential knowledge.
We distinguish between understanding and experiential knowledge for important reasons. It is one thing to have a conceptual grasp of the rules and techniques of a basketball game, for example, and quite another to know through experience how to play basketball. Only through the bodily weaving in and out of the other players’ bodies, the bodily engagement with the dimensions of the court and the movement and spinning properties of the ball, the placement and centering principles of the basket, the lineaments of the body and its relationship to cognition beyond cognition—the ability to know when and how to curve to the left at just the precise moment and angle without having to speak such instructions to oneself—all of these things move us beyond the simple notion of cognition and conceptualization as a simply mental activity. You could refer to this as hypercognition.
Hypercognition is an integral part of the sacred movement of Life. Hypercognition takes place beyond the verbal intellectual realm. And this also proves the difficulty of explaining the nature and significance of the experiences you are undergoing currently. They are not just beyond language; they are beyond the current notions of the limits and functions of language. Language, in fact, is far greater than humans currently assume, even—or maybe even especially—for those who make their living at analyzing linguistic activity. We are showing you the realms of consciousness that exceed what humans currently imagine as their own cognitive limits, their essential boundaries.
What we are asking you to do is ultimately to communicate to others just this notion of spiritual experience as surpassing all specific cultural definitions and boundaries. What we are aiming at is the awareness among humans that everything they can imagine is far larger than what they currently do imagine. By some indigenous peoples of this region, we, for example, are referred to generally as Kachinas. Yet even the common nonindigenous understandings of the notion of Kachina are far too limited and expanded simultaneously. In other words, we are at once more varied in terms of our nature as group entities than most people imagine—there is no single entity that is Kachina per se. And yet we are more universal to the extent that many other cultures have encountered us, but in very different terms. Each culture has its own way of imagining and representing what and who we are for them. And one key example of this is the Kachina Christ.
Christ Beyond Christ
The primary point of your visionary experience in Chimayó was the recognition that Christ goes far beyond “Christ.” In other words, the spiritual experience referred to as Christ by most Christians and non-Christians alike is identical in potential to certain Kachina experiences. Your experience of the Christ yesterday was of the Christ in its Kachina aspect. Your experience was profoundly shamanic, as that term is today understood among westerners. You were led by spirit guides (us Kachinas) on a journey of initiation through the portal of Christ’s wounds to the dimension beyond ordinary experience and understanding where you were given certain truths that you then brought back with you to share with the multitude of humans and other entities with whom you constantly engage.
This truth in general concerns the universally potential experience of the spiral energies of the Sacred Winds and Lights, energies that in a fractal way manifest themselves on many layers and in many dimensions simultaneously. As we said at Pueblo Bonito, As Above, So Below; As Within, So Without. The human head is itself the kiva chamber through which the Sacred Winds bring forth the experience called Kachina, the experience called Christ when the Christ experience is fully understood in its depths—beyond “Christianity.” Christ exceeds Christianity; the Kachina exceeds indigenous expressions of it. These culturally-specific experiences weave in and out of themselves and each other, forming an intricate web of human and extra-human relationships. This is the whole point of the Sacred Wind Kachina experience: To engage the infinite Web of Existence in its universal immediacy.
This truth was also behind Anna’s comments regarding the manifestations of sorrow at Chimayó: each person, each group, each culture has its own particular way of framing and representing the nature and significance of grief. We each create our own expressions and embodiments of grief and trauma. Yet humans rarely allow themselves to see beyond the immediate representations of grief to its larger implications. You were drawn through the wound of Christ into the infinite ecstatic joy of the light beyond all suffering, the light of joy that is the other side of suffering. We all suffer, and thereby we all are one. In this Oneness, we are all united. In this Unity we experience the joy of existence. We ourselves are the particular point where sorrow and joy become manifest and express themselves through the Infinite Universal Particularity of Existence.
