Two nights ago, an extraordinary event took place over the night sky in Norway: A white spiral that emanated a bright blue spiraling beam before it disappeared into a black circular hole, apparently witnessed by thousands of people across the country. Authorities have issued a conventional explanation, proposing this amazing apparition was caused by a failed Russian missile test. However, this seems extremely unlikely - in the category of explanations that includes the theory that the most complex and virtuosic crop circles were the products of board and rope, or that Building 7 of the World Trade Center fell as a result of the Twin Towers collapse.

The magnificent spiral spectacle manifested one night before President Obama's speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, in Oslo, and during the Copenhagen conference on climate change. It therefore seems to be a kind of focusing event for human consciousness. Following the works of the Russian scientist Alexey Dmitriev and others, Mark Heley, author of The Everything Guide to 2012, proposes that such an event could be plasma phenomena -- plasma that is artificially induced and intelligently guided. It is possible that such an apparition is somehow co-created or imprinted by the collective field of the human psyche. Whatever the case, it is hard to escape the impression that the Norway Spiral is a kind of thought-form that took tangible form and inscribed itself in the atmosphere.

The Norway spiral has resonance with the Hopi prophecies of the Blue Star Kachina, which appears at the end of the Fourth World -- if not that signifying event itself, perhaps a foreshadowing or retro-causal echo of it. The spiral seems like a message, invitation, or indication that the earth and its inhabitants are on the threshold of a deep transformation. While most of my work over the last years has been an effort to understand this transformation and help myself and others prepare for it, I admit to feeling, if anything, an increasing confusion and uncertainty about it. What is happening seems to be taking place beyond the reach of the conceptual and rational mind, requiring an innate, intuitive, heart-centered response, as much as a logical and empirical one.

I have spent a good deal of time trying to fathom the archetypal signature of Barack Obama, who seems to me, generally, not like a normal human but more like some kind of eerie interpellation into our reality. Personally, I could not bring myself to vote for him, and when I hear him speak, I am put off by his capacity to dissimulate ingeniously, to fake compassion that he does not feel, and to twist rhetoric in service of the status quo of earth-destroying Empire. This is the second significant example of "signs and wonders" seemingly associated with him: the first was the "Miracle on the Hudson," the crash-landing of a jumbo jet in the Hudson River where all passengers and crew survived, a few days before the inauguration.

I have been studying Voyagers, a series of books by Ashayana Deane, who claims to represent the Guardian Alliance, a benevolent federation of extraterrestrial and extra-dimensional civilizations, as well as the works of David Icke and Michael Tsarion, who propose the earth is under a type of quarantine and currently ruled by an extraterrestrial race that they characterize as "reptilian." Icke and Tsarion have proposed that this control group continues its dominance through genetic "bloodlines" that can be traced back to royal families in Europe. From this perspective, it is quite interesting that Obama is a distant cousin of both Dick Cheney and George Bush. I don't know how much credence to give these ideas, but I increasingly resonate with them. Obama seems like a necessarily ambiguous manifestation, a transitional agent in some larger galactic narrative that is becoming increasingly apparent to those who question the nature of this reality.

The Voyagers books propose that there are multiple dimensions and time-lines, multiple "harmonic universes" that are parallel yet contingent upon each other, and also "holographic inserts" into our seemingly solid-state reality that manifest as tangible events we collectively experience. The books are vast and detailed, and the galactic history they outline is difficult to fathom or absorb seriously. I spend a lot of time meditating on the nature of myth, story, and history. I love the writer Patrick Harpur's proposition that "history is the mythological variant we have chosen to take literally." It seems possible to me that the "end of time" proposed by many religious traditions could be a shift from the form of historical progressive linear time which we currently conceive to a far more latticed mythological unfolding. Any story we construct, like the confident explanations offered by science, is a necessary limitation. A story or a myth or a historical narrative is like a warm coat we weave around us for protection and comfort.

Deane proposes we have the capacity to reshape past, present, and future events, in this life as well as other incarnations: "Just as your internal dreams seem to take place within your consciousness while you participate within them, your external reality is also a dream-scape, manufactured by your consciousness, through which energy particles are shaped into thought-forms that will later become manifest," Deane writes in Voyagers II. "Your present manifest illusion is composed of the thought-forms of your past and future selves, and the thought-forms you presently hold. . Your past thoughts and deeds will show themselves in your present reality, but you have the absolute power to change them, by using your present focus of attention to create new thoughts and redesign those that are undesirable, whether they are coming from the past, present or future." As you evolve, Deane states, "you will train your consciousness to move backward and forward in time, to recreate undesired events and redesign more desirable outcomes."

Is it possible that the Norway spiral is a type of transmission, indicating our increasing capacity to utilize our thoughts and intentions to influence the space-time continuum? It seems to indicate some new power or energy becoming available in the world, breaking through from thought and concept to direct manifestation and percept. I frequently use the analogy of lightning and electricity to explain how a formerly untapped and unknown force could be shaped and transmuted by human consciousness in a short period of time, then channeled into a force that transforms the earth. Is it possible that psychic energy is becoming increasingly available to us, suggesting we may soon pass across a threshold into a different state of being? Is the Norway spiral the first bolt of lightning, beginning to awaken us from our long psychic slumber?

Notes

A negative spin on the apparition is given by Richard Hoagland, author of Dark Mission, here: http://www.enterprisemission.com/Norway-Message.htm  

David Wilcock argues disclosure is imminent: http://divinecosmos.com/index.php/start-here/latest-news/518-coast-disclosure-announcement-updates

The Chief Astronomer of the Vatican states: "Just like there is an abundance of creatures on earth, there could also be other beings, even intelligent ones, that were created by God. That doesn't contradict our faith, because we cannot put boundaries to God's creative freedom. As saint Francis would say, when we consider the earthly creatures to be our "brothers and sisters," why couldn't we also talk about a "extraterrestrial brother"? He would still be part of creation."

The Vatican holds conference on extraterrestrial life: http://www.universetoday.com/2009/11/10/vatican-holds-conference-on-extraterrestrial-life/