A HANDBOOK FOR UNICORNS

This is the page that would ordinarily be reserved for a statement of copyright. After much thought, I have decided against such a statement. It seems to me that the whole idea that an author has a right to his or her written material is limiting to the human mind.Perhaps after you have read this book, you will understand how this is.

Please use this book or any of its contents in any way you see fit. I only ask that when you do so, you do it from above your ego. Love donations are accepted, but unnecessary.

Original author info:
Jim Andrisse,
4951 Laclede #IE
St. Louis MO 63108
October 28, 1983

Current author info:
James "Jym" Andris,
420 S Kirkwood Rd Apt 438
St. Louis MO 63122
February 10, 2025

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

I. Fact

The Unicorn’s Essence

Humans and Unicorns

Unity

Sensitivity

Light

Unicorns are Androgynous,

Noncompetitive,

Not focused on carnality,

And Vegetarian.

Astral Travel

Play

Love

Theories of The Rainbow Body

Reincarnation

Flowers, Birds, Mountains, and Beyond

Evil

Heart Centering

I Am a Priest

Knowledge

The Holographic Model

Dreaming and Intuiting

Lucid Dreaming and Unicorns

Magic

Altered States of Being

Health

The Unicorn and the Butterfly

II. Philosophy

Ancient consciousness

Danger

Hope

Brand New Sound

Paradox

Beautiful planet

Thesis and Antithesis

Synthesis

Embracing Holism 1: Baptism and Carnality

Embracing Holism 3: The Synchronistic Instant

Teaching as Being

He Came To Us

New Age Unicorn

Tagore’s Tale

Earth Unicorn—Sky Unicorn

Astral Endocrinology

Other De-incarnating Beasts

Rainbows and Unicorns

III. Fable

IV. Afterword

Preface and Acknowledgements

To begin with, I hope I am humble enough to realize that what is presented within these pages could well be clouded by the pretentiousness of my ego. This is the situation in which nearly all human beings find themselves, but humbleness is especially important when dealing with complex and fundamental moral and theological issues. In fact, the mark of spiritual maturity may well be the ability to combine intense devotion to a certain metaphysical viewpoint with compassionate appreciation of the truth embodied in alien theological frameworks.

I feel called to say a few things about the process by which I produced A Handbook for Unicorns and the people who made this book possible. The simplest thing I could say about the process is that these opinions were arrived at both through intuition and reasoning. However, so little is known or recognized about the process of intuition in the West, that I would like to elaborate. And since so little knowledge of a general nature about this process is available, I must necessarily talk about how it was that I came to be able to access my own intuition. In the course of describing the history of my spiritual development, I shall mention the people who, it seems to me, have more or less contributed to this Handbook.

I have come all the way from embracing Western Rationalism as my fundamental ethics and theology, to espousing a metaphysical holism that sees Western Rationalism as a limiting end point of our knowing capacities. How, then, did this transition occur?

It occurs to me that there was a necessary foundation laid for my intuitive knowledge in my childhood. My mother's side of the family believed heavily in such things as tokens (signs of things to come), fortune telling, prayer, and miracles. I was also read to from the Bible by both my parents. Even though my totally secular public school and college education had presented a rational case for the nonexistence of spiritual phenomena, I retained a somewhat closeted connectedness to things occult. For instance, I had maintained an interest in card reading all through my graduate education, which I occasionally did to the horror of my academic friends.

In 1973 I took a lover who was more a creature of intuition than reason. As it turns out, he was to introduce me to many new directions. One day, early in our relationship, he was analyzing my ways through the instrumentality of astrology. I, in turn, was plying my logical trade by exhibiting a totally negative scepticism toward astrological thinking. He said to me simply, "You call yourself open-minded, but, in fact, you are not. Have you ever actually studied astrology in any detail?" I had to admit that I hadn't. And because I was in love with David, I took this as a challenge. Eventually, I became quite good at astrological analysis, and began to recognize that some form of truth was embodied in its principles. David also was into Transactional Analysis. We both entered therapy with Jim McKenna and through this I became exposed to the powerful ideas of Eric Berne and Fritz Perls.

About this time, I also met a young man named Jim Burgess who told me about the Metropolitan Community Church. Again, I espoused my usual rational scepticism of the validity of religious thought. Just as David had done, Jim said to me, "Why don't you just go there and experience it?" So this curious Sagittarius went and sat in the back of this strange church. The Pastor was Carol Cureton, and she was filled with inspiriation and enthusiasm. When communion was served, I experienced a strange longing to participate in the ritual. However, thirty years of conditioning, plus the ego investment involved, prevented me from doing so.

At my next therapy session with McKenna, I told him of my longing. Fortunately, he was open to exploring these particular subcomponents of my self, and I had a dialog with God right there in therapy. As a result, I did go back to church the next Sunday, and I took communion. At that time I experienced the Holy Light of God and felt a total protectedness which lasted for months. Thus did I open up, as a mustard seed sprouts, to the process of communion with God.

A few years later, after attending church off and on, God spoke to me a second time. Early in 1979 my grandmother, who had always wanted me to get baptized, had become critically ill, but I had no rational knowledge of this. As I was driving home, I became certain that there was a message about her impending death waiting on my answering machine. And thus it was. To make a long story short, while flying home, I became convinced that my grandmother would not die until I had been baptized. It was just a feeling.

While at home, I was told that X-rays revealed that my grandmother's heart was too enlarged to functon more than a few days. In the midst of her suffering, I prayed to God for her to be healed or taken. Waves of healing energy burst from my hands and entered her body. A week later, the X-rays revealed a normal heart. But this incident confirmed in my mind a belief that I needed to be baptized. Thus did the order of miracles bring me Easter Sunday morning in 1979 to be baptized by Rev. Roy Birchard.

As early as 1975, my friend Byron Davidson began introducing me to New Age literature. The first book I read was Thompson's Passages about Earth, followed in about a year with Roszak's Unfinished Animal. These books opened me up to the growing field of transformational metaphysics, in which I have read insatiably in the intervening years. Pearce's Crack in the Cosmic Egg completed a trio of books which I studied intensely. I must add that Byron acted as my patient guide during these years of exploration. This foundation being laid, the single other book which was most influential in breaking the hold of Newton and Descartes on my mind was Bentov's Stalking the Wild Pendulum.

Late in 1979 I happened to enter the School of Metaphysics at Edwardsville, Illinois. Its founder, Jerry Rothermel, had collected a broad spectrum of esoteric books for the School's reading list. These readings included theosopy, prosperity metaphysics, visualization, and metaphysical dream analysis. Through the School I also met Jean Walters, whose astoundingly accurate health readings completely opened my mind to the possibility of ESP

The director of the School at Edwardsville was John Ellsworth, and he was destined to change my life in a number of important ways. To begin with, he took my best friend, then Rosanda Richards, and married her! And as synchronicity would have it, I drew him as my teacher in the School. Through the School, John had become aware of the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda which were available as a series of lessons from the Self-Realization Fellowship. John organized a meditation group in Edwardsville, which I still attend. More than anything else, it has been the guidance of Paramahansaji which has opened my spiritual eye the tiny crack that it has. John also sold me the very finest toy, tool, and toil my rational-logical intelligence has had the pleasure to kriow, my Apple II computer.

About the same time, I was corresponding with Paul Beyerl in Minneapolis. He was responsible for disseminating a neo-pagan newsletter, called The Rowan Tree. From this letter derives my first sensitivity to the unicorn as earth manifestation. Paul was to introduce me to many new ideas and some important books, such as Haich's Initiation.

In 1981 I contracted hepatitis, yet this time of illness brought me ever closer to God. It seemed as though the sicker I got, the more at peace with my death I became. I might add, that having contacted some memories of past lives over the years, death was less a threat than it otherwise would have been. One wonderful consequence of my serious illness was my discovery that there were many people who truly cared about me. I was essentially healed of lonliness by this experience. In addition, the illness allowed me to finish some reading, of which Zukav's The Dancing Wu-Li Masters is notable.

Early in 1982, I received a second baptism at the hands of Dixie Ruliffson of Christ Fellowship of Love and joined the Church. My friend Wayne Huber also introduced me to a weekly Course in Miracles group.

As my health continued to improve, all my latent powers seemed to come out. I took a trip around the country in the summer of 1982, and dowsed many important books which are scarcely readily available through standard academic channels, e.g. Macintyre's Mind in the Waters and Hitching's Dowsing. During this time, God and the Spirit of the Earth spoke to me in magic songs, the lyrics of some of which are printed in A Handbook for Unicorns.

In the fall of 1982 my book dowsing abilities received what to my mind was a convincing test. I had attended the first session of a workshop by Fred Wolf and learned from him of Targ and Puthoff's book Mind Reach. I tried for two days using my rational mind to find this book in St. Louis to no avail. In the middle of the week it occured to me that I could find the book by iituition and set my mind to that. The next day, clear as a recording, a disembodied voice said to me, "Call B. Dalton books at St. Clair Square." Within an hour I had my book and a verification of my own ESP.

In 1983 I wrote a paper for the American Humanistic Education Conference which pulled all these threads together and made me realize that I had in fact adopted a transformational metaphysical position. Byron kept saying, "Well, your training is over, now it's time to act."

In the Winter and Spring of 1983, I went through a final process of catharsis and healing which was too complex to detail here. I do, however, wish to thank these people, all of whom were involved: Shelia Dugan, Leatha Hill, Merrill Harmin, my brother (Tom Andris), Father O'Laughlin, Dixie Ruliffson, Ed Hrebec, Geoff Beal, and last but not least, Dr. Joe Unger, who helped me to unblock my fourth body.

The summer of this year saw me attending the Second Annual Midwest Men's Festival. Just the experience of this much trust and love between men was transforming. But I was to attend a workshop by Peter Demers. In some magic way, he finished, through his words and presence, connecting me to my rainbow body. I had started the process some years before by studing Ken Keyes' Handbook to Higher Consciousness and Leadbeater's The Chakras.

The stage was set for A Handbook for Unicorns to emerge. But a final healing was still required. I took my parents on a trip to Michigan. We had not vacationed together in twenty years. Yet we each had a wonderful, peaceful time. Months before, I had picked up the marvelous little Unicorn Notebook, which was illustrated by Michael Green, at a bookstore without really knowing what I would use it for. I also had developed an unexplained interest in calligraphy, unusual for one with such an illegible script.

In the total peace of a new rebirth in the Upper Michigan Peninsula, harmonized with the souls who had born mine onto this planet, I began, day by day, to write in the Unicorn Notebook in beautiful italic hand. In the beginning, I wasn't sure what was supposed to come. Yet each day, the words seemed to flow ever more naturally. Yes, it is true, what you will read in the following pages is set down just as it came to me, without planning, without foreknowledge.

Having written this account of the opening of my intuition, I see that an important factor has been left out. My attachment to my own carnality has indeed blinded me over the years. I have especially, but not exclusively, suffered through the pleasures and pains of sexuai bondings. I have not recounted these experiences because of their privileged, personal character. However, I can safely say that these special relationships were an instrument towards my "New Age baptism" as discussed later in these pages. I could not see as I do today, had I not efperienced these bondings. They were essential to my transformation, and I thank God for the souls who brought these adventures to me.

I see now, in retrospect (and with a little prodding from Byron and Ruth Hanna) that the first three sections of the book are evolutions in my awareness. In the first section I am setting down all the facts I had gleaned about unicorns. In Section II, my rational mind is able to pull together the strings and offer a clear account of a new (for me) metaphysics. Since I have never before written in mytho-poetic style, Section III seems obviously to me to be a channeling. In fact, there were many times when I was very aware during the writing of this section that my hands, indeed my whole body, were channels for these ideas. It is in Section III that I am most clearly guided by and able to harmonize with Michael Green's vision.

Finally, I thank Ruth Hanna and Byron Davidson for reading and commenting on the manuscript, and in addition, thank Ruth for suggesting this preface. I thank the New Age Community in St. Louis, confident that the people in it will know how they have helped this Handbook to manifest. And though I have not mentioned all my loved ones, they, too, know who they are, and know how much I appreciate them. In addition to those people already acknowledged in this preface, I am especially indebted to the continuing loving support of my family, Pat Artrip, Gil Fisher, Tom Dewey, and Merrill Proudfoot.

Jim Andris
October 26, 1983

Postscript: As I was preparing the ebook version of this publication, I came about some artwork that was done for me by Diane Trippensee shortly after I released the first edition. Having read my book, and having found it inspiring, Diane not only drew this wonderful unicorn, but had created sketches of the reality proposed in the Handbook. I met Diane through a former student of mine, Jane Belter. Unfortunately, both these women have now died. Since the artwork was clearly a gift to me, I have decided to place it on the cover of the ebook edition.

Jym Andris
February 10, 2025

I. Fact

I am a unicorn. That is to say, I am a creature of human imagination. With these words I affirm my true identity.

The Unicorn’s Essence

A menagerie of animals, some historical, and some fantastic, has been deployed at various times and places to represent the unicorn. In the Bible we find the wild ass of Palestine and the rhinoceros mentioned in this connection. In medieval times the double-spiraled task of a whale was sold to royal courts in the guise of the purifying horn of the “monoceros.” a rare genetic mutation of the domestic goat produces a cloven-hooved version of this single-horned beast. It seems to have been this latter animal which has inspired many contemporary artistic representations. Other modern representations resemble a horse with a single horn. Still others combine features of both goat and horse.

It would take us on a perhaps interesting, yet relatively unimportant side trip to discuss which of these several beasts “truly” represent the unicorn. More important for this journal is the insight into the concept of the unicorn, a concept which possibly predates written history. Instead of conducting a safari, I have decided that the essence of the unicorn’s cage in the planetary zoo is that it remain empty. A unicorn, caged, literally becomes something else—a crystallization, a cross-section of an evolutionary process.

Of course if our zeal for fixed comprehension were compelling enough, we might commence our hunt in the domain of the unicorn’s personality. We might say that Monoceros represents the strength of human personality armored by faith in God. Or that what is represented is the love of the soul for purity. Or that the symbolism is of the healing potentiality in a magic universe. These qualities might well stand for the current expression of what is unicorn like. But no list of qualities can capture the central feature of this creature: it is a being unfinished.

Humans and Unicorns

Here is a revolutionary thought– some, but not all, human beings are unicorns. If no specific species of animal can be found to have in controvertible claim to the title, then perhaps this animal, no this being, cut across biological species. Rozak has characterized man as Unfinished Animal in a book by the same title. Yet individual human beings must regard themselves as finished or unfinished. It is the ladder group to which the term ‘unicorn’ may well apply. Indeed, if citations are as advanced as they now appear to be, some, or all, of the narwhales, and their whale and dolphin brothers and sisters, these may be unfinished beings in just the same sense. There may even be—and this is the most revolutionary facet of this idea—unfinished beings of other planets, other galaxies which are unicorns.

Unity

Let’s look at the unicorn’s single horn more closely. It consists of a long double spiral, intertwined very tightly. The unicorn symbolizes unity. Left and right are integrated. Much is said today about “whole-brain“ thinking. Human beings have both a logical, linear mode of thinking and an intuitive, analogical mode of thinking. Yet the contemporary culture known as “Western Rational” has the former modality as its dominant one. People belonging to this culture tend to specialize in one of these two modes.

We seem to have developed our rational potential at the expense of our intuitive capabilities. Ideally, both would develop simultaneously and in an interdependent fashion. Any being open to pursuing such holistic thinking is evolving into a unicorn.

Of course we in the West have never been completely without our intuition. Even the crown jewel of our thought; physical science, is without a logic of discovery. Ultimately, great thinkers have always relied upon their insights as the fuel for their complex logical-deductive knowledge machines. But it is as if we have, until recently, hung our gaudiest emeralds, rubies, and diamonds on only the left horn of our thinking.

Sensitivity

There’s even more significance to the single horn of the unicorn. It is usually depicted as growing out of the center of the forehead. In many esoteric traditions this is the location of the spiritual eye. Some forms of meditation focus on the eyes at this point. We are told that in deep meditation a blue, five-pointed star may be “seen.” The quotation marks indicate spiritual sight, rather than normal sight.

What is the spiritual site which the unicorn possesses? Simply this: it is a sensitivity to the connectedness of everything.

Now the Western mind has come to a knowledge of the connectedness of everything, but “through the back door.” That is, our elaborate and logical science has concluded, quite reluctantly that m = e / c². In plain language, matter is a light form. But most of us in the West still do not see the truth embodied in Einstein’s famous equation. We have been told that the particles we see our waves, necessarily extended throughout time and space, necessarily interconnected.

We remember this, we deduce this connectedness of everything. But the unicorn has a sensitivity to such connectedness! Certainly, unicorns of whatever biological and/or planetary species sense a connectedness to each other, and to all of creation—not just the narrow representation of it which we piece together by our physical vision.

This is part and parcel of being unfinished! I as a unicorn sense my connectedness to everything, and so I sense how I must ever continue to interplay with all other entities, I cannot finish myself, yet I can most be myself by intuitively connecting and flowing with the universal process.

Light

The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thy eye is single, the whole body also is full of light, but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. if they whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light. St. Luke, 12: 34-36

This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all. 1 John, 1: 5

In Luke 12 there is a mysterious quote of Jesus’ words. He is to have said that the light of the body is the eye. If the eye is single, then the body is full of light. Couldn’t Jesus have been speaking of the integrated, spiritually sensitive vision we have been considering? And if so, what can it mean to say that the body is full of light?

I think that I know the answer to this latter question, but we will need to move beyond the physical body of the unicorn, if we are to propose this answer. We will need to describe the rainbow body.

We of the western world have arrived at the point where someone would not surprise us who said, “The human body is filled with, and is surrounded with energy fields.” We also know that what scientists call energy fields and what we call light are just different forms of electromagnetic radiation. We even know that devices can be built which will “translate” these vibrations into visible light.

So we might at least be open to the idea of a more evolved sensory apparatus which could directly perceive the energy fields in a living being. However, we might not be so open to the idea that the path to evolving such vision is necessarily an ethical, a spiritual path. Yet in the quote from Luke, Jesus is clearly opposing the single eye, the light of the body, with the evil eye, which somehow negates the body’s light.

Later we will talk about the rainbow body. I believe that the many versions of this body resulted from an evolving, but still not finely tuned, form of sensing.

And God said, let there be light; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. Genesis 1: 3–4.

And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John … up into an high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was as white as the light. St. Matthew 17: 1-2.

Unicorns are Androgynous,

For now, let’s see if we can continue to learn from examining how artists have represented the unicorn. One thing is certain: its sex life and its gender are somewhat shrouded in mystery.

I have never seen a picture of a unicorn family. Most often, a single adult is out roaming the meadows, hills, or even the stars. I’ve never even seen a baby unicorn, now that I think of it. Even in medieval tapestries, the unicorn is shown frequently in a small pasture surrounded by a fence, or resting its head in the lap of a virgin. And remember that it was precisely the young lady’s freedom from sexual experience which attracted the creature in the first place. At least in our visual representations, the unicorn is connected with asexuality.

Nor is there a clear gender identity depicted. To begin with, recall the use of the goat or horse in these representations. These two animals do not have as distinct male and female forms as do many creatures—say the lion or the red bird. Horses, especially, are like this. I must admit to having seen one picture of a pink unicorn with its curly mane tied in lavender bows. but most often, the impression we get is of an animal with great strength, a love of freedom, and a curiosity which fuels much exploration. Yet the unicorn is a gentle creature. I have never seen a depiction of a unicorn in combat.

What are we to make of this? I sense a clear meaning here. This creature is not limited by traditional gender polarity. It has the full range of capabilities of its species—in a word, it is androgynous.

And more than this. The unicorn is not a being focused on the expression of creative energies at the physical sexual level. It is simply attracted more to the creativity involved in free exploration of all levels of existence.

Noncompetitive,

Unicorns are not competitive, at least not in the sense of trying to be better than some other creature for one reason, this would be a force opposing their sense of connectedness to everything.

This helps to explain their androgyny. The opposite of androgyny is the heterogynic polarity. In this form of gender identity, one’s biological sex determines one’s position at one or the other extreme end of a continuum of possible ways of being human. On this theory male is logical, active, dominating, while female is intuitive, passive, nurturing. Competition arises when males try to out-dominate each other; they see this as necessary for establishing their identity at this extreme end of the continuum.

By contrast, a unicorn finds itself drawing its behavior and expressing its being all along the continuum of possibilities. One situation may call for a dominating approach, another situation, a nurturing one. A unicorn does not strive for perfection in any dimension: it simply flows perfectly with the situation.

Not focused on carnality,

Neither are they focused on carnality. I would define carnality as a dominating desire to experience pleasures of the material world, that is to say, unicorns do not focus on achieving physical security, luxury, sensations of eating, drinking, and sex, power, position, or possession. They are focused on the experiences of novelty, beauty, and union with creation.

However, unlike many human beings, unicorns are aware that they need not compete or strive for these experiences on which they focus. Beauty is everywhere, but its appreciation is not. Union with creation requires the kind of openness which unicorns naturally experience. This same open attitude is required for appreciation of the infinite novelty of every situation.

This is precisely how the soul of the unicorn (which is mostly sold to begin with) is fed. As it opens to the marvelous interchange between itself and the universe, its spirituality grows and grows.

By contrast, beings who focus on carnality do not nurture their souls. Carnal desires are quite specific. If I simply must have two scoops of Swiss almond chocolate ice cream each night, I have become closed to the other 28 or 31 flavors I could be experiencing. If I lost for 5‘6“ blondes with blue eyes who are between 28 and 31, I will not even see thousands of other wonderful people.

Under these kinds of desires I cannot accept what comes my way unless it meets specific requirements, and eventually I will become alienated from most of creation. Then I will not be able to claim my status as unicorn.

And Vegetarian.

There is another interesting facet of the fact that both the goat and the horse have been used as models for the unicorn. For both these animals are basically vegetarian. Carnivorous beasts must dominate their food. They must terminate the existence of a sentient organization of single cells—an animal—in order to feed. It would not be overgeneralizing to say that that the sustenance of flesh-eating creatures resists being prey.

Grazing creatures are a peaceful lot. True, a stallion might attack for the protection of himself or his kind. A goat might eat the farmer’s vegetables or root around in her trash barrel for some paper labels off of tin cans. But it is not clear that the unicorn is even this removed from a peaceful existence. Human beings who wish to become unicorns need to move in the direction of herbivores. To begin with, regardless of what anyone may have told you, it is not necessary to eat meat. (Although it may indeed be necessary to eat flash if one wants to maintain a dominating, polarized style of living.)

Of course, it is much simpler, much cheaper, and much more healthy to be vegetarian. But these aren’t morally compelling reasons for such a practice.

As I see it, becoming a vegetarian symbolizes a non-violent attitude towards sentient beings. Such a practice is one of many which helps human beings to tune into their sensitivity to connectedness. Meat in the body creates if you will, static or interference with our rainbow body. So do unnatural foods such as refined sugar, flour, and rice, by the way.

Astral Travel

Often, artists show unicorns exploring landscapes with flora and fauna which bear but little resemblance to earthly vegetation and creatures. Only a few human beings can recall and recount any visions of this astral world.

I, myself, can think of only two or three such experiences. Astral awareness lies somewhere in between ordinary waking reality and ordinary dreaming.

In lucid dreaming we experience events and ourselves as if we were awake within our dream. Astral awareness is like a lucid dream, yet still closer to waking reality. Events perceived during astral awareness leave their trace in space-time. Astral travel occurs when, while we are in a state of astral awareness, we dissociate the finer energy fields from our physical body and allow this “astral” body to travel through the world according to astral laws.

Many astral travelers recount stories of earthly events which are independently verified. Yet others, not so earth-bound, experiencing astral beings unlike anything found here on earth. Perhaps they are experiencing the astral dimension of other planets which support life. Astral travel of this sort is a natural consequence of the unicorn’s sensitivity to the connectedness of all things. Through this means, it (the unicorn) maintains its sense of the sublime.

Play

Only human beings work, so far as we know. A definition of play is “ the spontaneous activity of children.” Jesus has said that we must become as little children if we are to enter the kingdom of heaven. If we really enjoy what we do “for a living,” we say “ it’s not really work.” Adult humans in hierarchical society are conditioned to the dualism of work and play. How un-unicorn.

The unicorn is the playmate of the universe. An integrated creature would not understand that there were separate times for work and play. Work only becomes possible when we separate the now from the future and then try to force it into a predetermined direction of our own construction. Swimming upstream all the time is work.

The unicorn always trusts the universe. It trusts itself to be in the universe, open and spontaneous. It interacts with all of creation in a spontaneous generation of ever knew experience. Just as the kitten with a piece of raveled string, the child in a new backyard, and the lovers gently teasing, so is the unicorn engaged in a rapt, deeply satisfying, playfully loving activity. Play is the perfect activity for an essentially unfinished creature. Play is never finished, always fun, and exist only for its own sake. It is what everyone would do if they had nothing that they were supposed to be doing. Play is what the unicorn does.

Love

But the time is come, my friends, to speak of the unicorn’s finest quality.The unicorn is integrated, sensitive, mostly spiritual, connected to the universe, androgynous, uncompetitive, non-violent, peaceful, sublime, appreciative of beauty, and playful. What single word could better sum up these attributes? The word is “loving.”

You see, the universe and all of the creatures in it are composed of love. Yet of all God’s creatures, the unicorn is the most loving. Love itself is the very energy of life. Love is the current which is sensed by sensitive beings when the experience connectedness to each other and to everything. It is the love which envelops and permeates each creature which we have called “the rainbow body.” It is our spiritual sensitivity which “sees” the various contours and swirling voices of this rainbow envelope.

I will tell you something interesting about God’s love. Some creatures are able to express it in a more advance form than others. It has to do with their degree of spiritual evolution.

For example, take the human unicorn on the next page. I have marked the approximate locations of seven centers of its rainbow body. These are lenses of loving energy. Each center has certain feelings associated with the flow or blockage of love energy within that center.

The Chakras or Energy Centers in the Rainbow Body of the Human Unicorn

What the Being Experiences

Center
When flow is blocked
When love flows
Level

1
Destruction, disintegration
Union with God

Functions of Christ

2
Alienation, depravity
Devotion to God

3
Disgust, revulsion
Understanding, appreciation

Functions of the heart

4
Hatred, revenge
Compassion, acceptance

5
Anger, boredom
Control—conception

Functions of the ego

6
Sadness, depression
Lust—sensation

7
Fear, anxiety
Awareness of existence, security

(for convenient identification, I have numbered these centers, but please note that Eastern tradition numbers them in the reverse order order and calls them “ chakras.”)

In a spiritually realized being the energy of all these centers is balanced or harmonized. The lower, or ego, centers are tuned to the heart centers, which in turn are tuned to the higher, or Christ, centers. Any creature experiencing blockage needs self-realization.

Theories of The Rainbow Body

Finally, we come to an explanation of the term “ rainbow body.” I will give you the facts as I know them and let you decide for yourself.

The earliest versions of this theory (C. W. Ledbeater) had labeled and assigned certain color combinations to each energy center or chakra. They supposedly whirled and sparkle like many-petaled flowers to astral vision. They were embedded in the human aura, a multi-colored astral envelope. (Still finer energies existed at higher levels.)

More recently, I have encountered systems (Christopher Hills, Peter Demers) which correlated the seven energy centers with the seven colors of the rainbow. Thus, the three ego centers are red, orange, and yellow, the heart centers are green and blue, and the higher centers are purple and white (union).

A still different system, that of Rudhyar, correlates to the centers as tones in an overtone series: 7 is C below middle C, 6 is middle C, 5 is G above middle C, and 4, 3, and 2 form a C above middle C major chord.

Now what I think is that all these different systems are analogical by nature. That is, we are dealing with wave energies here. So it is only natural that light in the visual range and audible sounds share some of the properties of this spiritual energy. Perhaps, indeed, the “colors” of the energy body do appear as a “rainbow” to spiritual sight; or perhaps the energies do “harmonize” as the notes in an extended major chord.

What is more important, to my thinking and intuiting, is that we use these systems, these analogies, as tools and ladders in our ever unfolding awareness of the spiritual dimension without becoming too attached to any one of them.

Reincarnation

The unicorn is merely the final form of a reincarnatory process. More than half of earth’s people know about reincarnation. It is the means by which a soul purifies itself. A pure soul manifests itself here on earth in a harmonized rainbow body.

You see, there are seven levels of vibratory creation. We have said a lot about the levels six and seven, the material and the astral level. However, the swirling colors of the astral level are manifestations of what is only conception and intention at the fifth, or causal, level.

Above the fifth level, things start becoming connected in different ways than we earthlings are accustomed to. For one thing, we move to an organization which is a-causal, beyond time and space, or synchronistic, as Jung said. The identity principle, that a is a and not b (a = a and a # b), no longer holds.

Level four is the intuitive level, and it can only be accessed by our intuitive and not our logical mode of thinking. At this level meaningful connections take precedence over causal connections. Reincarnation is based above this level. The meaning of 1000 lives may polarize and cluster about a single entity, the soul, which itself is a manifestation of the Divine order of Heaven, levels three, two, and one. Each soul reflects God, and hence we are created in God’s own image.

To us here on the material plane, this clustering of lives in their symbolic-spiritual significance appears as a succession or train of rebirths within the causal order. But this is not a true picture of the process. From the point of view of the Divine Order, time is just another dimension which can be accessed at will.

Flowers, Birds, Mountains, and Beyond

Flowers are beautiful to us because they stand as material symbols of the chakras of the astral level. The flight of birds represents the process of soul purification by which we see above the limits of a single material incarnation. The mountain has been our reminder of the challenge and the difficulty of elevated existence and also the true strength which lies therein.

“Beyond our earth eyes cannot see,

but, still, in dreams the soul is free

to see beyond the shadow-fall

of holy creatures, one and all.”

Evil

There are no evil unicorns. In fact, there is no evil. What appears to us as evil is an imbalance or disharmony in some level of vibratory creation. Beyond this creation is pure God—unbroken love. However, this “Being-in-itself,” to use a phrase of Sartre’s, involuted into itself and became “Being-for-itself.” Thus started the evolution of the created universe—God, the created, attempting Union with God, the uncreated.

Created Love has evolved up from the ego functions, through the heart functions, and is now proceeding, through the presence of the living Christ, toward complete reunion. Every “evil” act that emerges from the hand or mouth of humanity results from the disharmony (blockage of Love’s flow) in the astral body of some human being. This disharmony in turn resulted from the engagement of the soul-image of God and some human life. The so-called evil is like the sound of gears that don’t mesh perfectly when shifting to another speed.

Lives under ego organization express their love addictively—in compulsions, lusts, and power trips. This is not evil, for ego dominated creation must exist to experience its limitation. It must learn that carnal desire is insatiable, eventually cancerous.

We are (from the point of view of time-space) in a period of planetary unfoldment. Lives are being re-organized around the heart. The Age of Aquarius is upon us. Peace will rule this planet—when humans forgo ego organization and enter into the spirit of planetary sharing through the opening of their fourth and third centers.

Yet, eventually, the limitations (the evil) of even an earthbound existence for souls in search of God will be made known. It is then that our spiritual eyes will open completely, and we will join our unicorn companions in traveling the universe on astral beams of light.

Heart Centering

In denying the existence of evil, I am not denying that all manner of creatures exist which pray upon the spiritual confusion of humanity. But God did not create these beings. They are intelligence turned away from Love. And people experiencing negative feelings can attract to them themselves other creatures, both human and inhumane, which are motivated towards separation rather than union.

I Am a Priest

I am a priest!

I've come to lead you to the light;

the light that shines out of the dirt beneath your feet.

Come to the feast.

A feast that's hidden from your sight,

But you can have it, all of you,

Even the least of you.

But you can have it, all of you,

Even the least.

There was a time when we were closer to the earth,

When we were closer to the unity beyond all death and birth,

A time when loving people all could celebrate the seasons,

And they didn't need their reasons,

They just knew what they were worth.

I'll tell you it's coming back,

For soon we will break the backs of the bureaucratic insti-

tutions that just keep us chained in slavery to money,

So we never taste the honey flowing from the cosmic crack.

I am a priest!

I've come to show you to a vision;

It's a vision that's enveloping this planet.

Look to the East

And overcome your indecision.

Find that new, transforming fire

And start to fan it, too.

Find that new transforming fire

And start to fan it.

There'll be a time when we'll control reality,

And we'll do it for the benefit of all humanity,

A time when loving people really all become connected

By a web that is affected

By the beating of each heart.

I'll tell you it's coming soon,

The union of sun and moon in an integrated human

Race freed from the bondage of a world enslaved by power.

We'll be living in the tower growing from the cosmic crack.

One of the reasons for writing such a handbook as this is to assist the spiritual unfolding of the planet by teaching people how to protect themselves from satanic forces. Of course, the secret is so simple to elaborate: we must all strive to remain centered in the heart. Jesus understood how foolish it was to pit the human ego against the negative potential of the universe. How foolish it was to classify anyone as a sinner. How utterly hopeless it is to rail out at the universe because it is not as we would have it.

Look at the Table of Chakras on page 9. Do you see that every response of fears, tears, and anger centers us below the heart can you see the absolute necessity to view every act, every situation with compassion? All great avatars have been able to view their would-be destroyers with acceptance. In sacrificing their ego-body, they save their soul.

Through the heart is the doorway to heaven. Center yourself here, and you will deflate the disintegrative pretensions of even the most befuddled ego. And you might even assist it in its journey back to God. It is evil, not beauty, which is in the eye of the beholder!

Knowledge

To the Western mind, knowledge is something produced from the interaction of logical structures of mind with the data of observation. To the Eastern intelligence, knowledge is obtained only through a spiritual discipline such as Zen meditation or tai chi. Actually, knowledge is the permanent trace of all events in the universe on the universe. Any event is retrievable to spiritual sight. The subtotal of this knowledge is known as the Akashic Record. It is accessible to unicorns, God-realized beings, and other creatures. Nothing harmful will be revealed to spiritually realized beings. Other creatures should use extreme caution in consulting the Akashic Record. Just as an overload of electricity can blow a fuse, so can a superabundance of truth fry a mind.

The Holographic Model

We are just beginning to explore holographic theory. A holographic image of a three-dimensional subject can be reproduced on a two-dimensional photographic plate. A beam of synchronized light is split with half reflecting off the subject and half traveling directly to the plate. This produces interference patterns on the plate which look nothing like the subject. Yet when coherent light is shown through the plate, all the three-dimensional detail of the original subject is reproduced. Perhaps most astonishing of all is that even when the plate is broken into fragments, each piece contains information about the entire three-dimensional subject, although the viewer may have to move his or her head considerably up and down and from the side to side to retrieve the entire image.

Recent studies show that information may be stored in the human brain in holographic imagery. That is, information about past perceptions or thoughts may not have a specific brain location. Rather each brain cell may contain duplicate information about a range of events. More speculative still is the theory that the minds of this planet are fragments of a planetary intelligence.

Following this line of reasoning, it is possible that akashic knowledge works on holographic principles. I have a hunch that it works like this. The universe is like a holographic image in which all events are recorded. Each spiritually realized being, through opening of the “third eye,” which exists beyond time and space, has access to an infinite range of perspectives on the universal holographic image.

One point where the analogy breaks down is this. In the case of the two-dimensional hologram, the positioning of the viewer is under voluntary ego control. With akashic viewing, the would-be knower must trust the universal intelligence to determine the angle of viewing. This requires at least a centering in the heart.

Dreaming and Intuiting

Every human being in the world (and probably every mammal) spends two or three hours doing something of which many of them are almost totally unaware. They dream. Many people will tell you that they don’t dream, or don’t remember their dreams. This is understandable. We here in the West live in a society which attaches very little significance to dreaming. In fact, to be called a dreamer is usually considered a mild insult.

Now it happens that dreaming is a function of our intuitive, creative mind. Dreams are largely sequences of images. Furthermore, dream sequences and events are much more a product of the a causal, synchronistic processes of the fourth level of existence. Recall that Western thought has, until recently, recognized only fifth level, or logical-rational thinking as having a valid basis. So dreams have been swept under the linear warp and woof of the causal carpet.

Now that there is more excitement about “right-brain thinking,” we can expect a resurgence of popular interest in dreaming. And thank God for this. If we remember that intuitive thinking is more connected with creation, we may realize that in dreams, the universe speaks to us.

I have often noticed that my dreams vividly portray insightful relationships between myself and significant others. I have used dreaming therapeutically. A dream journal will yield great returns. As Ann Faraday suggests, a simple way to start is to give your dreams each a title, as if they were a movie. Also try to grasp the plot and feeling tone.

Lucid Dreaming and Unicorns

Nothing is more important to a unicorn than its dreams. Unicorns have a very high proportion of lucid dreams. What produces lucid dreaming is simply the harmonious presence of both rational and intuitive thought processes. In the West we have so tied our logical thinking to sense data that we tend to turn off our left brain when we go to sleep. But the left brain can be plugged into intuitive dream-data.

The problem with remaining so plugged into sense experience is that what counts as an observable event is largely determined by our culture. In dreaming we are more tuned into the total range of possibility.

And the unicorn, on a cloud of lucid dreams, plays out endless creative interactions with a host of possible worlds. Yet these experiences have the quality of reality about them.

One point about dreaming should be mentioned. As Castaneda suggests in The Eagle’s Gift, it is possible that two people can explore together a dream space. What is required is simply the trust in the shared space to do so. Perhaps in the not too distant future one friend will say to another, “Come over tonight, and we’ll go dreaming together.”

Magic

And so, our exploration of the unicorn’s ways has brought us far above and beyond the space-locked rigidity of causal reality. We are at the very borders of the magical side of creation.

Magic is simple in concept. It is any a-causal connectedness which occurs because it was willed. We are, of course, familiar with quite a range of a-causal phenomena. Extra-sensory perception, such as clairvoyance, telepathy, psychokinesis, and dowsing are now recognized to exist, at least by some who are not wedded to the metaphysical principal of local causation. Most of these phenomena, however, do not appear to be willed by the people who experience them. Psychic healing is a clearer example of a magical event, yet even here there is much confusion about how the will is used to focus on the desired end of health.

The unicorn’s horn has long been averred to possess the magical property of purifying water which has been poisoned. My own thoughts on the basis of this belief are that it is largely symbolic: an integrated spiritual vision (the horn) can heal (can purify) negative feelings (poisoned water). At any rate, the intrigues of medieval sorcerers and necromancers were largely an affair of black magic, that is to say, the intentions of the would-be magicians were ego functions. The magic of the unicorn grows out of the fact that it is centered in its heart; it works white magic. Magic worked from the Christ center results in miracles.

Altered States of Being￼

In order to see where magic falls into the scheme of things, consider the six-pointed circle below. In day dreams we are permitting the intuitive or fourth level to construct possibilities of which we are aware, but the causal or fifth level is still the criterion for reality. In night dreams these possibilities seem real, yet are not. In lucid dreams, these possibilities are real, yet leave no trace on consensual reality.

With astral travel we begin to generate possibilities which intersect the causal order without altering it. And finally, with magic, possibilities are generated by the fourth level which actually do alter the space-time sequencing of events.

Magic works through a focusing of the will. An implicit or explicit deterministic metaphysics will never permit such a focusing. In order to work magic, it other words, the person must be operating on the metaphysical assumption that magic does work. Beyond this requirement, the biggest hurdle seems to be mental discipline. Affirmations said for a number of days seem to work. (I have found that writing an affirmation for four consecutive days, ten times a day, is foolproof.) There are also techniques of single-pointed concentration which can be learned.

A lot of prayers have been said and answered which really amount to black magic. Not that this is evil, but we should be aware that this strengthens the ego. All that black magic is, after all, is magic without light. We are not seeing what we ask for in its intimate connectedness to the universe, and hence the unforeseen consequences of our blind prayers will probably come back to haunt us.

Health

Now the unicorn is intimately connected with the earth and its universe through its higher centers. Hence, to be in the presence of a unicorn is to be in a force-field centered in the heart and connected to the Planet Spirit. Unicorns reinforce good intentions.

Life here on earth has not evolved in a disconnected manner. It is the earth in combination with the universe which generates and sustains all life here. The natural tendency to health which is present in each creature is an earth presence. With our three ego centers we individuate from the planet, and with our two heart centers, we connect to the web of sentience sustained by earth mother-sky father.

Mother Earth has compassion for all God’s creatures. It is by tuning in to our first heart chakra that we receive this healing compassion. In a way, we work white magic just by centering in the middle chakra, because in doing so, we remove our own ego from the web of confusion which interlaces with the web of light. (Both webs are love, however, one kind illuminated, the other, not.)

Once we do open our hearts and connect with unselfish love, it is only a matter of time before our reservoir is brimming. All effective white magicians have an overflow of compassion. They have opened their second heart chakra, located in or just below the throat, with extension to tongue and hands. These healers radiate love and peace. Their words and invocations have a special healing force; their hands work magic with bent and diseased bodies.

Once again, those beings who have cleared the crystal channels of the heart will not long remain unconnected with The Christ. As it turns out, we do not have to find our way back to God unassisted. For in addition to the loving energy which bubbled out of the rocks of Planet Earth to produce the Evolutionary Tree, Uncreated God is reflected in the created universe as The Christ, a Holy Principle which actively seeks the return of life to heaven. This Principle has already manifested in the several avatars Buddha, Krishna, Babaji, and Jesus The Christ, the perfect and final reflection of God in human form.

When the open human heart is connected with the Living Christ, then does truly miraculous holy magic occur. However, this magic is no longer in the control of humanity; it occurs by Divine intercession and for Divine purposes. And so appealing is the reflected light of God that there is a tendency for divinely inspired healers to spend more and more time in holy contemplation. Sometimes when the sick congregate around Holy men and women, the healings occur almost as an afterthought.

A plethora of heavenly beings attend the Christ emanation; angels, archangels, cherubim and seraphim. The unicorn, however, is not a heavenly being. It is a perfectly evolved earth creature whose partaking of the Divine Order is perfectly integrated with its earth presence. That is its place in creation, its Divine purpose if you will: to be—to roam and fly. Perfectly beautiful, appreciative of all lovely existence, a harmonious balance of loving energy magically interacting with all of creation—that is the unicorn. It may travel to the stars, but the earth is its home.

This is why we most frequently see it pictured in a green field of colored flowers against a blue sky with puffy white clouds, or soaring against the black moon-filled night sky. These are the most basic facts of life here on earth. This is the background against with the creatures of this planet parade.

The Unicorn and the Butterfly

See the opalescent horn that turns upon itself:

Intertwining silver, as if from a land of elves.

The unicorn is silhouetted dark against the sky

Wanting only freedom now to be—to roam and fly.

And hear the magic music coming from another space,

Casting dancing shadows through your ears onto your face.

See that you and he will soon no longer be apart.

Sense the mellow movement, feel the racing of his heart.

Multicolored butterfly, he sees you waiting there,

Resting undulating wings that soon will beat the air.

He knows that he’s affecting you in certain subtle ways.

The beauty of your fleeting form is cradled in his gaze.

He knows that what you are is what his soul can only sing;

His song is like the dazzling, silky crystals of your wings.

He’s been soaring near your flower-covered hillside as of late,

And he wonders if the unicorn and the butterfly can mate.

II. Philosophy

It is not a generally recognized fact, but there are two different kinds of unicorns. That both the horse and the goat have been used to depict this creature is no accident. Later we will discuss sky unicorns which are more like the horse. For the present we will be discussing earth unicorns which are the more earthly of these two kinds. Their story is intertwined with the mythology of the Celtic earth religions.

Ancient consciousness

Imagine life is a pagan. You are very close to the Earth. If you were born in a temperate, wooded land, you probably dropped onto the cool, fertile soil of earth from your squatting mother’s womb. You were regarded by your parents and your tribe as a natural miracle over which they had had little control. For the first years of your life, the close proximity between mother and earth which treated your birth was maintained.

You were only minimally aware of your status as boy or girl. You were a child, and at that, literally a child of nature. The earth was everything to you, yet you did not know earth as a separate entity. What you knew in intimate detail were the men, women, and children of your tribe, the animals and plants on which you depended for your sustenance, and the rocks, streams, hills, forests, glades, valleys, sun, rain, clouds, heat, and cold of your day-to-day existence.

Except in times of extreme weather, you probably spent nearly all of your waking hours outdoors absorbing the sights, sounds, and textures of the earth. Precious little in your life was made by man or woman. You became aware of a certain cyclic rhythm to your life—night and day, sun and rain, new moon and full moon, summer and winter, birth and death.

To you, everything was alive, and what animated everything was spirit. The trees, rocks, streams, and flowers were alive. This was not your imagination, this was your reality. Every plant, every animal, every substance, you learned, had a place and a use. You were grateful for this as was your tribe. There was an immediate spiritual connection between you and everything. You communicated with every situation in which you found yourself.

Periodically, with the seasons, and with special points of each person’s life cycle, the tribe celebrated. These festivals were ritualized, yet you threw yourself into them with all of the single-minded intensity of a child freshly and deeply engrossed at play. There was an intentional communing with the deeper and greater spiritual forces in the world of the tribe.

You worshiped the cyclic manifestations; you worshiped the ebb and flow, the powerful Father Sun and fecund Mother Earth. All spirit was personified— that is, made into a perceived form with which you interacted, flowed, and expressed your desires. God walked with you and in many forms. In fact, for you and your tribe, there was no God, there were only many greater and lesser spirits.

In Western Europe around the time of Christ Jesus there existed such a pagan culture. It is out of this seething interconnectedness of spirit emanating from the Earth through her creatures that grew the fairies, sprites, elves, gnomes, leprechauns, trolls, centaurs, goblins, and the like. Were they real? I believe so. I believe that they were Planet Spirit manifesting in noble personal form to humanity at a certain stage of development. They were a joint creation of intuitive mind striving to know God, a Planet Spirit, which loved them enough to generate and nurture their lives.

The goat, the first domesticated creature of agrarian paganism, was a manifestation of Nature’s love for Humanity. Through her milk, grass was transformed into food. This surely must have appeared as magic. But other wild goats effortlessly climbed the high hills with their delicate balance and their cloven hoofs. Goat—at once friendly and free-spirited. Planet spirit has its playful side. Out of this helpmate of humanity, out of this soaring mountain-side explorer grew the first unicorn. A cloven-hooved, single-horned, magical beast that shared the woods and green morning misted valleys with the rock divas, the fairies, and other playful earth manifestations.

Danger

We in the Western World have come to think of ourselves as a superior form of humanity to this pagan world of Spirit individuated and personified. We referred to these people as “primitive.” Having constructed a Cartesian box into which animal spirit does not fit, we declare ourselves to have advanced beyond such superstitious nonsense. We can’t sense it, so they couldn’t either.

Fine and good; we began to exploit the earth for our “scientific and technological” purposes. We began to re-create the sterile Cartesian three-dimensional frame in our dwellings, building boxes within boxes within boxes. We separated work from play and insisted that the latter was for the sake of the former. We enclosed ourselves from the wind and the rain, created our own day-night cycle with artificial light, covered the grass with concrete. With all of this came a loss of connectedness to the earth.

We became, as a society, obsessed with wrenching from nature every last vestige of novelty and replacing it with predictable laws and machines. And we pointed with pride at huge monuments of stone and garbage we called “cities.” Progress, we said, this is progress. We must do it faster and faster. Bigger buildings, more powerful vehicles. More sterile homes. Not a trace of mother should remain, unless it is sterilized and put in human-made receptacles called “flower pots.”

Our tribes became cities, our cities, states, and our states, nations. And now the nations fight to determine which one is the most; most powerful, most scientific, most modern. There is no place for the unicorn in such serious and advanced business as war. No time to touch the rich, black earth with reverence.

And in all of this, the earth unicorn has had to search high and wide for a human playmate. Two centuries ago there were still earth people in this North American continent with whom a unicorn could commune. But the white man came and covered their land with cities and their forest with tractor-tilled fields. He called it manifest destiny. Mother Earth cried with each gaping stripped mine, oil spill, and seal clubbing. Just as a great whale will blow blood with a fatal harpooning, so Mother Earth’s Own precious fluids were spilled and her body contaminated and ridden with stench.

The unicorn runs cautiously today, with its head down; it senses that its mother may be dying. Its purpose is to play, but there is so little playfulness left.

Hope

And yet, occasionally, in some hidden mountain glen, unicorn meets butterfly. Attracted by the peaceful heart of the one-horned creature, the shimmering, mica-crystalled wings hover and gently land on the twined bands of silver. At that moment playful spirit meets playful spirit. Earth meets earth; God meets God. At that moment there is hope.

There is hope wherever people find a place away from the technological jungle that has grown out of man’s desire to dominate the Earth. There is peace where human hearts open to the streams of harmony that flow from what grows in undisturbed hills and valleys.

Have you noticed how many small groups are finding a place aside from the hurricane of greed and pride where they can give and receive love?

Yes, it is true, we find the world deeply in crisis. Humanity finds itself racing across a shaky bridge of steel and concrete which our planet can hardly support. Some have begun to see what monuments to foolishness we have built, yet the vast majority continue to plot along the crumbling way, pushed from behind and pulled from in front.

Yet the earth unicorn sees a grim waterfall on the other side of this bridge from the harmony of the past. It will take all of our vision encourage to follow its lead. Our bridge must find a future foundation once again firmly anchored in the brown-green soil of our home planet.

Brand New Sound

Everybody listen—there’s a brand new sound.

It’s coming from the tree tops and up from under the ground.

I hear it in the stirring breezes high above my head.

I hear it in the swirling waters of the river bed.

I sense it in the throbbing heart that beats within my chest.

It seems to come from all around—from north, east, south and west.

There is a spirit moving in the earth.

Witnessing a planet giving birth

To an age of love and unity that makes me want to shout:

“You know, there is no up or down, there’s only in and out.

People, please believe me; it started long ago

The spirit glowed with golden light and filled the earth below.

It swirled around each tiny plant and filled its leaves with grace.

It blessed the dolphins and the whales; it changed the human race.

It planted all the seeds from which were born the avatars,

Who came to help connect us with the galaxies and stars.

There is a spirit moving in each heart,

Teaching us how we can do our part

To remove all selfish boundaries of nation, sex and race,

And help the people find a time when satisfaction

Shines from every face.

Paradox

And so we arrive at this completely paradoxical situation. Here we are in a world nearly overcome by pollution, greed, war, violent crime, hunger, nationalistic bickering, and racial hatred. Our streets, our homes, even our bodies are not safe. Everyone has a favorite theory, yet no one seems to be able to stem the tide of confusion and selfishness. We live in an atmosphere of lust and violence that even subtly permeates the play of our children.

Yet in the midst of this madness, a few percent of the people are crying, “Peace! Love! Justice!” We do, some of us, have hope. We have not given up. But this is not just a replay of the ‘60s. These are not diehard hippies who cry for change.

We have something new! We have a new metaphysics, literally a metaphysical revolution. We foresee a possibility that the metaphysics of analysis, separation, linearity, materiality, egocentricity, and causality will be replaced by a metaphysics of synthesis, union, intuition, spirituality, compassion and synchronicity. Like the earth unicorn, we race across the bridge hoping to ground ourselves and even our blinded, groping society in the very connectedness of the universe itself.

We sing of the beauty of the earth. We build centers of appropriate technology. We plan and experiment with model communities. We explore altered states of consciousness. We meditate. We lead lives of voluntary simplicity in the midst of gross consumptive materiality. We talk about, dream of, work toward, and pray for the New Age.

Beautiful planet

We have a beautiful planet.

Everything we need is here.

Sun in the blue sky above us.

Bare feet in green grass down here.

Purple mountainsides over rolling hills,

Lakes reflecting willows and daffodils,

How they fill my eyes and satisfy my soul.

All of the folks on this planet

Come from a union of love.

Some folks just don't realize this.

What can they be thinking of?

When there's rustling leaves, bright red singing cardinals,

Children laughing in my backyard.

How they fill my ears and satisfy my soul.

So while you live on this planet

Do this one thing if you will:

Just take what you need, and remember

To leave it more beautiful still.

åIt can be the way it was meant to be;

People living in perfect harmony.

That would fill our hearts and satisfy our souls.

We have a beautiful planet.

Everything we need is here.

The light fills the blue sky around us.

And bare feet in green grass down here,

Bare feet in green grass down here.

Thesis and Antithesis

We are not headed back to a form of neopaganism. Indeed, true pagan practice is no longer possible. I owe this insight to Dane Rudhyar, who argues that this age of egocentricity through which we are now passing is a necessary corrective to the complete lack of sense of separateness from the tribe of the preceding era.

Not that there was not much that was marvelous in paganism and still possible to some degree with neopaganism. Unlike the addictive lusts of the ego-organized personality, the pagan, in his or her experience of existence, sex, and the social order of the tribe, also experienced complete union with spirit. In some ritualized orgies, pagans apprehended their sexual-carnal being with a religious awe. They also could experience a perfect social belongingness.

But without the ego differentiation of “modern” society, paganism would have remained an evolutionary cul-de-sac. With all of its obvious ills, Western-Rational culture brought an advance. Not, as many might argue, technological wonders, miraculous medical drug cures, effective and rapid transportation and the like. Rather, this culture brought a social structure in which the individual holographic image of the world was clearly differentiated from the common social order.

We are now at the point where a synthesis is possible. The synthesis of humanity in the New Age will be both like and unlike paganism and its antithesis, which we might call dimensionism, the belief that everything has its dimensions and can be distinguished from everything else along these dimensions.

Synthesis

No, we cannot return to a tribe-bound, earth-bound existence. No. The new unity will have to be written within the individual hologram that now radiates from each heart.

New waters are being tasted now here on earth, but they have a sparkle and a scintillation that has not been suspected before. Pagans connected to water as a form of spirit emanating from the earth. Dimensionism, when it waxed spiritual at all, looked up and away from the Earth, looked eventually outward to the vast reaches of the physical universe. But having built an external platform, from that vantage point, it became possible to seek a deeper interior than pagan was capable of knowing.

Pagans, after all, only partook of the Earth Mother through their total connectedness to the tribe. They did not distinctively intuit the deeper support out of which the earth is manifested. They did not experience the earth as a speck in the cosmos. Dimensionists only partook of Sky Father as in infinite extension by analogy of the vast causal order. They did not experience the God within, by and large. The few who did, in clinging to the identity principle, could not embrace whole-heartedly that “I and the Father are one.” Indeed, such “arrogance” was blasphemous.

The new sparkle in the waters is our sense that we are connected to each thing both inside and outside. We can know the water whether we go out to it or we go intuit. For lack of a better word, I will call this kind of metaphysics holism. In the speck is the whole, in the whole is the speck, yet the two are distinct. It is, in effect, the acknowledgment of a non-dimensional geometry which is nontrivial: everything is everywhere, yet there are distinct things.

Embracing Holism 1: Baptism and Carnality

There is a Christian concept that will help us to focus on how one embraces the metaphysics of holism. That concept is baptism. In traditional Christian teaching baptism by water was only symbolic of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. “My sins were washed away, and my night was turned to day. Heaven came down and glory filled my soul.” These words of an old hymn express this well.

Unfortunately, it has always been difficult for Christians to hold to a concept of sin and also embrace the idea of non-judgement. And so I would like to express the idea of baptism in terms of New Age thinking.

The holistic perspective views carnality as necessitating dimensionist thinking. The carnal view of the world identifies totally with the history and future of a particular incarnation. As a carnally identified being, all that I have to go on is what my five senses have told or may tell me and the lusts and desires and motivations that are sourced entirely in my physical body. In fact, I am satisfied only by interacting with other physical bodies. In the carnally identified being, what is called “conscious mind” is thought to be encapsulated, even alienated somewhere in the physical body. A mind such as this, encased in matter, is literally in the dark. Blindness, physical or mental, is no sin. And carnality is a form of blindness.

So you see there isn’t an exact parallel between the Christian concept and the New Age concept. Viewed as dirt, lust must be washed away. But viewed as blindness, lust must simply be exposed or illuminated. In the New Age, priest is replaced by teacher.

Embracing Holism 2: Baptism and Planet-Identification

But we must ultimately deal with a much larger issue than our own carnality. For when you consider it, our attachment to beautiful, blue-green mother earth with her misty white veil and pearl moon ring is a form of dimension thinking. As perfect and calmly as is the earth unicorn, it exists as an extension of planet spirit.

Several billion years ago, when the universe set in motion our solar system, uncreated God said, “It is good.” sHe left us to evolve here on earth and trusted us to return to the Universe the same Love that has been received. God’s Love and Trust has always been here.

But now it appears that we may not make it as a planet. A certain human race has advanced its physical power far beyond its moral and spiritual wisdom. We need help. We may not make it unassisted. And, from beyond time and space, God has planted seeds in certain human form, seeds which grew into avatars. These avatars are teachers, and the baptism of earth into a new age is under their direction.

There has long been operating a force to synchronize to the Earth’s rhythm the vibrations of her creatures. Those beings who center in their heart, giving and receiving love to the planet, are with this force. However with the advent of Christ incarnations, there existed a still higher force operating to synchronize the earth and all her creatures with God.

The New Age comes at two levels. At the coming of Christ, the planet was flooded with light. But each earth creature, whose place it is to do so, is flooded with light as the spiritual eye opens. In terms of the rainbow body, spiritual baptism is the centering, not in the heart, but in the brow. when this occurs, the new platform on which the “born again” creature stands is Christ, sole reflected image of vibratory creation of uncreated God. With this, the order of miracles gains hierarchy over the causal order in the consciousness of the individual, who then becomes a non-dimensional being within a dimensional body.

Embracing Holism 3: The Synchronistic Instant

Some existentialist philosophers talk about an “existential moment” in each person’s life, when he or she realizes that he/she alone is responsible for the choices which he/she makes. There is a similar moment in the life of the New Age person, which we might call the “synchronistic instant.” This is the moment when we perceive a meaningful connection of such significance that we are certain that it was intentional, yet we also are certain that it could not have occurred according to the laws of the causal order. Most of us can recount such a moment of connectedness to the universe. And in this instant, we are transformed to a holistic metaphysics.

Yet the pull of the lower three centers is extremely strong. We want reality to follow orderly causal patterns. We want security (level 7), and if there is a threat to our existence, we want to see it coming. We are so attached to the objects of our sensual lusts (level 6), that the thought of disembodied experience is depressing. And our will to dominate (level 5) expressed both as a desire for certain causal knowledge and foolproof politics and technology, demands that we be separate, not connected. These are powerful motives to deny and to continue to deny the existence of synchronistic instants in our lives. Committed dimensionists become frustrated and angry when presented with this possibility. They say, “It cannot be true. There must be a logical reason.”

Teaching as Being

There are three teaching levels through which he heart of the carnally-identified person can be opened. They correspond to the three centers between the diaphragm and the crown.

Recall that when a person’s lower heart chakra is open, he or she is receiving the love of the planet and/or Christ. Such a person is a first level teacher. Since he/she is being filled, there is no need to manipulate others. The first level teacher just by being what he/she is, teaches by example and by removing self from the web of carnal illusion.

As a person’s heart becomes full, the higher heart chakra opens, and his/her words and deeds become genuinely helpful to any and all. This is the second level teacher, who also teaches by example, and, in addition, by actively intervening to bring good in to replace disharmonious aspects of others’ lives.

The third level teacher is the Very Christ, and Christ does this by making the causal order of the dimension-minded person “teach that person a lesson.” In other words, miracles are third level teachers. The person with the brow chakra open, in addition to having the good qualities of the first two levels of teaching, also teaches by becoming a channel for Christ’s miracles.

He Came To Us

He came to us, a babe in a stable;

The kings and shepherds knelt at His feet.

The heavens opened up, and the beautiful

Angels sang His praises sweet.

He walked the earth for thirty-three years,

And he taught us all the lesson of love.

He always said that all of the power in Him

Came from God above.

But some of the people hated Him,

And, blinded by their own sin,

They nailed Him upon a cross and thought

He'd never come again.

Yet then, somehow, a miracle happened,

He left the earth and rose to the sky.

And that is why when I see a beautiful cloud—

Why, I laugh, and I cry.

He lives with you and me in our hearts.

And soon my friend, he'll come, he'll come.

New Age Unicorn

We come in this round about metaphysical way back to the unicorn. The earth unicorn has always reached out to the clear night sky and embraced the stars. But as I have told you, it was a perfectly balanced earth creature. Yet since the incarnation of Jesus the Christ, the balance of earth itself is changed.

And because of this, a new evolution becomes possible for the unicorn. We have never seen the unicorns of Mars or Jupiter, or of the planets of Vega or Alpha Centauri. However, whenever their life evolves to a point where a Christ incarnation occurs, a similar evolution will become possible for these unicorns.

Tagore’s Tale

Rabindranath Tagore, in a delightful fable, tells how Man caught the Horse, and then tricked Brahma, who was upset by this, into allowing Man to keep the Horse in captivity. We need not recount the entire tail here; however, we do find this fable a fascinating account of the creation and nature of the horse.

According to Tagore, Brahma had been rather extravagant in the first creatures He had made. When the inspiration for the Horse struck Him, He called his Storekeeper for a quantity of each of the five elements. Come to find out, they were very low on earth, water, and fire, but had more than enough air and ether.

Undaunted, Brahma constructed the Horse out of the limited supplies remaining. The resulting creature had neither horns nor claws, and teeth only for chewing, not for biting. Since little fire was used, the Horse, though necessary in war, was not warlike.

The excess of air and ether made the horse “perpetually struggle to outreach the wind, to outrun space itself.” Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin. He had no desire to chase, or to kill, but only to fly on and on until he dwindled into a dot, melted into a swoon, blurred into a shadow, and vanished into vacancy.

“The Creator is glad. He had given habitations to his other creatures, forests to some, caves to others, but because of his enjoyment of the disinterested spirit of energy in the Horse, he gave him an open meadow under the eye of heaven.”

Tagore’s loving and insightful characterization helps us to understand why the horse has so frequently been chosen by artists to represent the essence of the unicorn. In the horse we have a concrete symbol of the unicorn of the sky—an earth creature with vibrations so fine that it has a universal, ethereal quality about it.

Earth Unicorn—Sky Unicorn

The contrast between the earth unicorn and the sky unicorn is striking. The former plays in the earth-reflected light, while the latter seeks the Source of the light itself. The former is a settled creature, the latter, a creature in transformation. The former seeks to harmonize sky and earth, centering at the highest level of earthly vibration. The latter seeks to shed the lower vibrations of its being as it goes back to the source from which it emanated.

Put simply, it is the nature of the sky unicorn to quest for purification. In fact, if we are to be technically correct, we must record here that a truly purified sky unicorn could not even be experienced by earthlings. It is only the ones which are still questing for purification which we have a chance of catching a glimpse of. This is because they still contain enough “higher-density” vibrations to comprise a part of earth experience.

I must confess to you that in the parts of this journal, before I had made the distinction between earth and sky unicorns, much of what I said about unicorns really applies to unicorns in the earlier stages of transformation from earth to sky. It is not that more evolved unicorns do not possess some of these qualities, such as androgyny, non-violence, and integratedness. It is rather that as their metamorphosis unfolds, their devotion to the Source of Creation plays more and more of a role in their being.

To take a specific example, it is true that less evolved unicorns are vegetarian rather than carnivorous. However, as a unicorn begins to shed layers of more carnal energy, even their desire to eat plants begins to wane. They begin to recognize that the act of eating itself is a carnal motivation.

It is hard for us to understand existence at this level. For eventually, the metamorphosing unicorn will absorb and harmonize all of its carnal vibrations into its higher centers. It loses a desire for a specific incarnation. What it is like to be a unicorn composed of pure planetary love, I frankly still have not managed to imagine, so much am I still in the grips of dimensionist thinking.

De-incarnation

We can use the elements as expressed in the Tagore fable to understand the precise nature of this transformation through which the unicorn is going. In Western astrology as received in the Twentieth Century, there are four elements; fire, earth, air, and water, which are combined with three triplicities; cardinal (enterprising), stable, and mutable, to form 4 x 3 or twelve basic types of personality. It is one of these 12 personality types that expresses in each incarnation of a human being, although never in pure form.

If you study the Zodiac, you will find that the elements and triplicities repeat in a specific cycle fashion, both within in between signs. Below as a table which illustrates these relationships between signs.

Cardinal
Stable
Mutable

Fire
Aries
Leo
Sagittarius

Earth
Capricorn
Taurus
Virgo

Air
Libra
Aquarius
Gemini

Water
Cancer
Scorpio
Pisces

Aside from the fact that this organization helps to explain certain aspects of the seasons, it also helps to explain how karmic balancing will work in a series of incarnations of any particular soul. Thus Taurus is said to be the karmic teacher of Aries, Gemini, of Taurus, Cancer, of Gemini, and so forth.

The unicorn, being already perfectly balanced, is undergoing a different kind of evolution: one from dense incarnation through successive refinements, to no incarnation at all. If we arrange Tagore’s five elements in order of decreasing density, we get earth, water, fire, air, and ether. Light is still less dense that ether, and God has no density at all. Thus, Tagore was trying to tell us, through mythic imagery, that the horse has a very refined nature. And in terms that we earthlings can understand, the sky unicorn is one whose transformation has progressed even beyond that of the horse’s stage of refinement.

Astral Endocrinology

We are now in a position to pull together many of the esoteric threads of this journal. You may recall the seven levels of vibratory creation mentioned early in our travels: material, 7, astral, 6, mental or causal, 5, intuitive or planetary, 4, etheric, 3, light, 2, and created God, 1. For the sake of completeness, let me point out the correlation between these levels and Tagore’s elements—earth, 7, water, 6, fire, 5, air, 4, and ether, 3.

You may now see why I chose to number the seven chakras of the astral body in the reverse of the traditional order. The three ego centers (recall the table of energy centers in the rainbow body on p. 10), are 7, the security center, corresponding to the material level, 6, the sensation center, corresponding to the astral level, and 5, the center of conception-control, which corresponds to the mental-causal level. The two heart centers are 4, the acceptance center, corresponding to the intuitive level, and 3, the center of understanding, which corresponds to the etheric level. Finally, the two Christ centers are 2, the devotion center, corresponding to the spiritual eye, or light of the body, and 1, the crown chakra, the center of union, corresponding to the level of Divine Love.

What we have just charted is a functional analysis of the endocrine glands at their astral level of emanation. That is, it is the function of the seven chakras of the rainbow body to exchange energy at the seven levels of vibratory creation. And so we finally arrive at an understanding of the rainbow metaphor in New Age literature: just as there are seven colors of the rainbow, from lower wavelength (red) to higher wavelength (violet), so are there seven “colors” of the astral rainbow, from greater density (the energies of the security center) to no density at all (the energies of the crown chakra).

Other De-incarnating Beasts

It is interesting that other cultures than ours have noted a bird-like creature with the ability to materialize and dematerialize. The phoenix was a fabulous scarlet and gold plumed firebird with a 600 year life-span. Only one at a time existed. Near the end of its incarnation, it fashioned an aromatic nest which it set on fire. From this funeral pyre sprang the reborn phoenix which embalmed the feathers of the old form in a myrrh egg which it deposited on the altar of the temple of Re. Both China and Egypt knew the phoenix.

In the New World the Quetzalcoatl or feathered serpent started as an earth and water deity of the Eighth Century Teotihuacan civilization. It was astralized into The Morning and Evening Star by the Toltecs. Quetzalcoatl sacrificed butterflies to the sun and was expelled by the god of the night sky for black magic. Consequently, it immolated itself on the funeral pyre.

Both eastern and western firebird were symbols of death, resurrection, and immortality. In China, the dragon also moved from a subterranean world, through an irrigation ditch, up to heaven to conquer a new empire. However, its arrogance caused it regret. In these creatures we see a mythological expression of absorbing and also of re-expressing various levels of vibratory creation: earth, water, fire, air, ether, and light.

Rainbows and Unicorns

We are now able to state very succinctly the connection between rainbows and unicorns. To the unicorn, at least as it initially evolved on the planet, the rainbow stands as a material symbol of the true nature of its being: a harmonized blend of energies. It manifests at each of these levels—animal, astral being, idea, and planetary love itself.

However, when (or since) humanity plunged the earth perilously close to destruction, due to an over-fascination with carnality, a higher, new star, the Christ, was set over the planetary rainbow by God. The same colors which were separated out by the Prism at the beginning of creation, were now to be condensed again, one by one, to white light by the prism of the spiritual eye.

And so the unicorn evolved into a creature with a quest: to find its own way back to God by gradually reabsorbing the colors of its rainbow body into a single point of white light. Thus began a great search. A search for security not begat of corporeal humors, and for choice not spawned by the lust for power. And still more—a fervent hope for Love not dependent on the whims of an aging planet.

III. Fable

SEVEN

And so, thought the unicorn, “I can easily do without the material level of my projection of self. So few of my playmates remain there anyway, since human beings have become obsessed with consumption and domination. My native American friends are almost gone from their continent, though their spirits still roam the Canadian and Alaskan wilderness. My great whale companions tell woeful tales of incomprehensible slaughter. Caught in planetary karma, even the bees have become more violent. The web of sentience, once sustained by the Cetaceans and the Hymenoptera, is now jammed with the static of thousands of radio stations. Scarcely more than a handful of fairy glens remain.

“In China 4700 years ago I was a welcome creature in the garden of Huang Ti and was revered as “ch’i-lin,” harbinger of offsprings. In those days those with wisdom sought my companionship. So holy was the earth then, that I floated above the green carpeted meadows. Love emanated from every rock, every stream!

“Then in the middle ages I became the subject of crazed hunts. Men sought the material manifest of my spiritual eye so that they could further their own black magical exploitations. They abused my body and feared my soul, even as did they Jesus the Christ.

“I will do it! By my will. No longer will the seventh level of vibratory creation hold a necessary attraction to my center. When that rare meadow of earth, uncorrupted by human fears, intersects my life space then may I make my material incarnation appear. But for the most part I shall make the astral plane my lowest field of play and of the quest for purification that I now feel.”

SIX

Having freed itself of the necessity to project a material existence, the unicorn felt a strange, new, and exciting kinship with the creatures of the sea. “Perhaps I am now a water unicorn,” thought the magic beast.

One night in a lucid dream the unicorn found itself communing with a great whale. It struggled down a rocky cliff to a broad beach near where the whale waited. Ominously, in the distance a volcanic isle belched fire and clouds of smoke.

Suddenly, the unicorn heard the voice of the great whale. Even though its shrill whistles and low groans were unfamiliar, the message was clear at an intellectual level. “Don’t be afraid; jump into the ocean from whence you came,” the sonorous voice seemed to cry. The unicorn jumped.

As it felt the cold, soothing waters enclose around its physical form, it also felt a wonderful transformation take place. The crystal hooves that had danced so lightly in elf coves were becoming sensitive tips of astral flippers, beating the swirling sea. Its body elongated, and hindquarters became a tapering cone ending in flukes. Mysterious changes in its head, brain, and nasal passages seemed to connect it with the whole ocean. The spiral, single horn, which now became lighter and almost hollow, seemed to channel the flow of flesh around it.

It felt the great whale’s thoughts at the very center of its being, which is now located about half way between its heart and its throat. “You have manifested as unicorn of the sea, the astral expression of Monodon Monocerous, or narwhale. Of all the creatures of the lower order of earthly life, you are most holy. Your horn has never been used in spearing, digging food, or combat. It is rather the outer form of a sensitive astral organ which connects you with all the sentient life of the oceans of the world. As an earth unicorn, though you were harmonized with the earth, you were more disconnected than now. It is no longer possible for you to remain unaware of the suffering that ocean life has experienced in the modern era.

As the newly evolved seacorn absorbed the whale’s thought vibrations, it suddenly achieved an amazing new awareness. It found that somehow it was tuned into the vast network of sea life. It was like being a living three-dimensional map of the world’s waters. And the seacorn found that just by focusing its awareness, it could experience exactly what were the feelings, thoughts, and perspectives of each and every sea creature.

And there was pain, to be sure. Like a vast, planetary amoeba protecting itself, this ocean web of awareness withdrew from poisoned continental shelves, massive oil slicks, nuclear waste canisters, and demon whale and seal killers. Yet much joy pulsated through the web. The loving, playful connectedness of the dolphins and the Odontoceti whales dazzled the mind of the seagoat.

Here was a whole school—thousands of saddleback dolphins entirely in harmony with each other. Organized on loyalty and due respect, the school was grouped by needs of individuals. And other than hunger and safety, play seemed to be the nearly exclusive agenda for these creatures. Shifting to a group of bottle-nosed whales a few hundred miles away, Capricorn tuned into the deep, confident satisfaction in these hearts— born of the knowledge that should one of them become endangered, some one or more of the others could be counted on for completely selfless assistance.

Though the bittersweet connectedness of the sea unicorn was powerful beyond all its past experience, it was again mindful of the quest which had brought it here. Capricorn spoke in thought to Great Blue. “My earthly existence, once peaceful, yet ever-changing and playful, became limited by the expanding borders of humanity. In my horn, I felt a call from a limitless point of light. I was to seek perfection in a new place than the Earth, once so dear. My quest has led me to this vast, connected sea. I sense your connection in the most primal source of life and love on earth. Can you help me?”

“Most blessed being,” the whale thought-spoke, “we of the Cetacean Common know of higher realms which it is beyond us to enter. I can give you guidance. I can show you to the Isle of Belching Fire, out of which still pours some of the original thought-acts that spawned first sea life, and beyond that, land and air life. Your quest, if it is to be successful, must carry you into the very center of this fifth level of reality. I will give you one clue. On this aisle, the worst fears of your mind become as external reality. There, you have but to fear something to experience it. In your dark night of terror, you must remember this: do not run. Only acceptance and compassion will save you.”

Mysticeti, the great baleen whale, continued: “But first, you must release the sixth, or astral, level. We, the largest creatures ever to inhabit the Earth, are also the most peaceful. We eat only plankton. Yet while we know of higher levels of existence from our dreams, we have not been able to release our sexual karma.

“I will share with you a vision sent to me from a point of light beyond the earth. When uncreated God created the universes, he did it through successive applications of the principle of duality. The seventh level of vibratory creation manifested through a separation of positive and negative within the unbroken void. Thus, protons and electrons combine to form all atoms, these combined to form molecules. Through the superposition upon this diversity of the principle of unity, the first life forms emerged.

“In the second epoch, the sixth level of vibratory creation emerged from the introduction of the duality of male and female within the unity of life. This polarization within life was necessary. From it grew a greater and more diverse variety of life. The sexual bonding of polar opposites was the basis for later complex social structuring within the species. Later, you will need to know how the principles of natural selection and synchronistic selection (genetic mutation) operated to integrate the developments of the second epoch.

“Thus, sexual union is an attempt of created polarities to experience the unity of life. Orgasm is a total centering in the sixth level of creation, and it its proper usage is holy. However, as evolution proceeded, higher centers of creation emerged. We whales and dolphins have remained centered at the level of sexual play, although we form an essential part of the web of planetary love that has evolved.”

The seacorn replied, “When I remained tied to the material level of earth, I partook of all astral currents. I learned the lesson with which you now struggle. I found beauty in all creation, and experienced astral union with all peaceful creatures. Being an androgynous animal, I could fully relate to the sensual and sexual beauty of all unicorns. I even found the astral currents of my own form to be wholly satisfying.

“Before I became a quester for purity, I was content in experiencing astral beauty. Now, great mysterious giant, you have led me to see hat I cannot complete my quest unless I am completely willing to release my attachment to astral manifestation. When that harmonized sensuality, so rare, crosses my life space, then may I make my astral appearance. But for now, I totally remove myself to that land of fire, which, until now, I have not faced.”

FIVE

With these words, it was as if the unicorn awakened within the lucid dream. It had resumed its original goat-like form, yet was aware of an ocean to its rear which contained the very seacorn body of an instant previously. Its connection to the sea unicorn was much like the connection of an astral body to a sleeping material body. As it looked around its new environment, it discerned a strange, eerie landscape of leafless and twisted trees and plants. Everything seemed to glow with a sort of pale yellow fire. In fact, whenever the unicorn fixed its gaze on some particular spot, in a few seconds the particular branch or twig seemed to flicker and change form, as if it were pale, living flame. Ineffable things scurried to avoid being seen. The unicorn knew instinctively that this was the Isle of Fire.

The unicorn gave a sudden start, for it felt within its own body the same strange flicker that it had seen in the dense undergrowth. It felt as though it was actually made of pale yellow fire.

And then, as if both far in he distance and yet just behind its head, a faint murmur occurred, almost, yet not quite, a voice. There was a feeling of urgency, sickening-sweet, that the unicorn could sense.

It began to gallop toward a steep sloping rise that led up to a high plateau. Another shock. The unicorn found that it could anticipate every stone, every crevice an instant before it came into view. It was as if the creature were creating its own path up the steep slope. The line between what it was seeing and what it was anticipating in imagination had become blurred! It seemed to hear that same distant-near, dimensionless voice urging it to the very pinnacle of this mysterious, flickering island. The unicorn stopped momentarily to look back.

Below was an orange sea lapping at a yellow-grey shoreline. Pale orange creatures flitted in and out of the foliage like maggots in carrion. For the first time since it had begun its quest, the unicorn began to doubt. It doubted that purity lay in this cursed isle. It doubted the glib courage with which it took leave of Mysticeti. It doubted the reality of this experience, and it even doubted its own sanity.

With racing heart, it renewed its climb. The voice was clearer and more insistent: “Climb to the very top of this slope! There will I guide your quest throughout its final stages!” The voice sounded as though it had emerged from a roaring surf. Now the unicorn felt absolute terror, for it seemed to be disintegrating. It longed to return to its more stable form as sea unicorn. It cried out in thought, “Great whale, I took leave of you too quickly. I need your help!”

From a far-near place came the faint reply. “You have made the choice. You must continue. If you turn back now, everything is lost. Everything!” Then the surf-like voice seemed to well up still stronger, urging it on. “To the center of your island! To the center of your I-land!”

With its last ounce of courage the flickering form created the remainder of the climb to the rocky pinnacle at the center of the Isle of Fire.

Now the living flame unicorn paused at the very topmost rocks of the island, shaken but alert. It realized that its horn was acting as a lens for tuning in the voice that had been urging it on. Now the voice was speaking, free of all but a faint hum: “I am the voice of uncreated God. Some have called me Om, or I Am. As an earth unicorn, you were centered in your beating heart, and consequently felt my comforting presence. In your astral manifestation as a sea goat, I spoke to you through the voice of the great blue whale. You have just immanated to the fifth level of vibratory creation. As such, you are centered in your speaking heart: you are no longer spiritually deaf and dumb, but rather are clairaudient, and your actions will manifest the presence of the Living Christ, my soul reflection in vibratory creation.

“You can now hear knowledge read from the Book of Life, or Akashic Record, as some have called it. I will relate to you the story of the third epoch of vibratory creation. Near the middle of the second epoch, the principle of unity was again applied, and life was imbued with a desire to know God in all of His/Her created forms. In this capacity, male and female are equal. Men and women are not equal at the level of sexual creativity, or reproduction, since only the woman bears fruit. But in their capacity to know God, both man and woman bear fruit.

“And this was the way it happened. The duality of external/internal was introduced, and it contained within it the previous dualities of positive/negative and of male/female. It was given unto woman to maintain her internal connectedness with God. It the third epoch she developed and shared with man her intuitiveness, which is an internal connectedness with uncreated God manifesting in creation.

“It was given unto man to mirror in creation the creativity of uncreated God. In the third epoch he developed and shared with woman his rationality, which is an extended frame by which the creativity of uncreated God may be reflected within creation.

“Humanity is experiencing at this time the third application of the principle of unity. Whether a child is male or female, it carries within it the chemical and structural potential and function of both modes of knowing—direct and indirect. Now each thinking person, regardless of sex, fells a call to unity of knowledge. First women claimed their rationality, and now men are claiming their intuitiveness. It is good.

However, a segment of humanity has glorified their external creativity. They have set up kingdoms based on greed and domination and fear, and they threaten to destroy this Holyest Erthe. Because of this, you have been called to balance the Erthe with Christ realization.

“Now you face the most difficult part of your quest. You have arrived at the fifth level of vibratory creation, at which imagination and reality are not distinguished; you are at the level of magic. At this level everything you experience is real and is also your imagination. Because of this, as you learn to control this level you will experience a tremendous sense of omnipotence. Yet this power is illusory, since you are still maintaining the distinction between yourself and what you have created. Make no mistake: you are created, only I AM is uncreated.

“As created, you must choose between mortality and immortality. The irony is, that in choosing to glorify your creativity over your createdness, you choose death. This is because you cannot maintain your connection with I AM unless you glorify your createdness over your creativity. In losing this connectedness, you lose your omniscience, and unknowingly plant the seeds of your own destruction. In maintaining this connectedness, you retain the ability to immanate, that is, to be absorbed into the Light of God, yet remain a distinct and knowing soul. And so, you are now to live or die, for yourself, and for the beauty of the Erthe.”

With these words, the Voice of God was silent. Instead, the firecorn now faced an enormous red and yellow dragon. Its many eyes had the look of unfeeling power and passion. Orange smoke and fire belched from its throat and swirled around the unicorn. Its tail was so long that the tip could scarcely be seen in the distance.

With an intensity that was hard to bear, the dragon thought-roared, “I am the creator of all that you see. I am omnipotent beast of land and Zodiac. You will do well to obey me, unicorn, for in an instant, I can scorch your frail flesh flames and disintegrate you in one breath. And this is the irony of the situation: I am demonic God, created God without compassion, and you are powerless to control me. For I am You! I am a manifestation of your own lust for power.

“You cannot win, unicorn, for whether you attack or submit, and you will submit, you will be destroyed. For if you destroy me, you destroy all my creation, and that is the very ground on which you stand. And more, I must destroy you, for you claim to access a truth I do not know, and that is unthinkable.

“But first, I must dominate and humiliate you, as I have every other creature of this I-land. That is why they flicker in and out of the bush; they dare not assert themselves. I am the greatest, I am the most powerful, no one, no thing can approach equality to me. No being may share in my creation. No choice that is not mine may remain. I will break your will!

The unicorn was shaken to its foundation. For as it had received these hateful thoughts of the fire dragon, it had also felt that same strange connectedness to them, as if this terrifying reality were a fantasy being staged in its own mind. In desperation, the unicorn reached out to Mysticeti, but the connection to its seacorn form had now been severed. It searched its innermost mind for the voice of God, but heard only the dull background hiss of the Cosmic Ocean. Yet, even this small connectedness gave it hope.

And the degradation began. “Look down, you fool,” sneered the the great beast, “your feet are sinking in disgusting, putrid slime.” Foul stench filled the nostrils of the unicorn. “You are sinking into the excrement which spawned you,” the savage creature continued. Then the demon laughed hideously. “Are you beginning to experience the pleasure of wallowing in your own shit?”

The heart of the unicorn glowed a light green. “Shit is excrement cut off from its proper use. Waste is to be returned to the cycle of life. When creatures live in harmony with each other, earth, and God, they take care to place their waste where it balances creation. You cannot degrade me with material vibrations of any kind, for I have absorbed them into myself in a nurturing way.

“In the same way, material manifestation is the lowest level of vibratory creation, but it is only degrading if it is degraded—that is, cut off from God. I float above your illusion of degradation and I send forth only pure material emanations.”

An indescribable current of delight flickered through the great beast’s body, a current which the unicorn was discomfortingly aware of. The dragon roared with self-confident glee.

“So you think your purity puts you above my power, do you? I have long been aware of your pretentious holiness. You will not long remain above my influence. I am aware of the secret lust which you so sanctimoniously hide! I can manifest as the flawless beast for which your loins have ached an eternity!

And with that the dragon assumed the most amazing form. On the promontory opposite the fire unicorn stood another unicorn, made of flames so pure that the first unicorn was devastated. Its hooves were sparkling crystal, its eyes electric blue, and the sinews of its perfectly proportioned body were all strength and gentleness blended.

The green glow of the first firecorn became very pale as it felt its heart center being drawn down into the astral level. It lusted for union with the golden-maned beast. Orange flames shot from the sixth center of this beast and caressed the genitals of the trembling unicorn. “You see how easy you are dominated,” glowered fire-beast. “Open to me and experience the agonizing ecstasy of being fucked into nothingness.”

Again the aura of the unicorn of fire glowed. This time, the flames were blue and serrated, like the patterns of a Kirlian photograph. “It is you who is deceived into assuming your superiority. It is true that you manifested in a physically and astrally perfect image of a unicorn. But the moment you experienced the will to dominate me sexually, to my destruction, your astral rainbow body collapsed. Only a dull, monotonous yellow-grey with traces of orange and red remained. My lust is tempered with devotion, appreciation, and compassion. No blue-greens or violets flow from your brow and chest. My lust for you is gone, magic beast, and all that remains is acceptance and understanding.

“Thus it is with all astral attractions. They are at root holy energies and only become perverted when they are given precedence over the requirements of the heart and the brow. I float above and beyond your illusion of perversion, and I send forth only astral vibrations which will help all God’s creatures celebrate the joy of mutually satisfying play.” And with that, the astral rainbow of the firecorn’s body glowed with colors of astonishing purity!

The dragon was totally enraged! He was no longer the image of satanic self-control, but rather the incarnation of he lust to power itself. His eyes glowed from the darkest depths of depravity possible, and he seethed and vibrated from pure, uncontrolled hatred. “Unicorn, you are dead!” He spewed venomously. “You and I are interdependent; the one cannot exist without the other. If either of us dies, so does the other. That is the way of magic, for we are but each other’s thought-images. That I cannot dominate you is inconceivable!” And with that the dragon drew a huge breath in preparation for the total annihilation of everything, including itself.

The unicorn knew with certainty that the dragon intended to destroy it, and everything with it, if necessary. It could run, or it could attack, or … could it … love?

FOUR

As the unicorn gazed into those compassionless yellow-slitted eyes, it thought, “I am looking into a two-way mirror. But … so is the dragon. And with that, the unicorn looked all the way through created God and saw itself through the dragon’s eyes. It felt a great wave of compassion for the dragon. “I love you,” was all it said.

With this, both forms disintegrated along with all the creations of the Isle of Fire. The dragon, having not been able to incorporate passion into its being, was destroyed. But the awareness of the unicorn remained distinct. There was no form, only the green glow. It had become pure, intuitive potential, dispersed throughout a cloud of planetary love.

You must understand that at this level, the fourth level of vibratory creation, no dialog exists. Here we are beyond time and space, and all relationships, possible and actual, coexist simultaneously. And so, while the unicorn’s spirit interpenetrated every aspect of this level of creation, and while its awareness was extended to all time, we present this synchronistic relationship between planet and unicorn as if it were in dialog form. Otherwise, the reader manifesting in a dimensioned form would have no access to this knowledge.

The unicorn spirit, or air unicorn, was simultaneously aware of two things. On the one hand, it sensed the beautiful plan of Mother Earth for a perfect planetary unfolding at the three lower levels of creation. On the other hand, it sensed an insistent drain on this potential. Somehow, cells had organized themselves on a principle of duality and would not accede to the unity of the third epoch. Mother Earth said to the disembodied spirit, “You are my child and the child of the Living God. At first, you had no father, yet as the earth became dominated by compulsive love, especially that of the level of conception-control, you were, through Christ’s intercession, invested with the single-pointed light of God. Had you remained an earth unicorn, you could have died, as I man die of blind love gone mad. As an air unicorn, you have a choice.

You may free yourself entirely of these earthly vibrations and become a child of the sky. Sometimes the mother dies in giving birth to the child. If Mother Earth is to die in the gestation of the sky unicorn, then so be it. In that case, all of the earth’s history would be recorded through you in the Christ hologram, and you might be sent to other troubled planets as an emissary of God.

“But there is another choice for you. It is part of God’s plan that when a certain level of Christ awareness is reached in the incarnated souls of this planet, there will be a divine outpouring of Spirit, and every eye shall see Christ. Yet I feel a cancerous growth of incarnated souls in the midst of my lower emanations which are devoid of Christ realization. Holy Unicorn of the Air, having purified and harmonized your lower levels, you could speed up the process of spiritual outpouring from the point of view of time-space. Of course, the Christ Order will eventually manifest on earth, even if it takes another two billion years.

“When Christ Jesus walked my hills and valleys, God Uncreated truly walked in God Created. He loved His enemies as you have loved yours. When He died and resurrected, Uncreated God no longer walked in creation. However, Christ Jesus sent His Comforter into the third level of vibratory creation. This was the Voice that guided you as you absorbed the three lowest levels of your being—first as a felt presence, then as the voice of the blue whale, and finally as Om.

“I am to be the fourth major application of the principle of unity. By virtue of the interference of the direct light of intuition and the reflected light of rationality, each integrated knowing human being becomes a fragment of a vast planetary holographic image. No further synthesis would be necessary, since the third and second levels (Holy Sound and Light) are not dualistic in nature, but rather single-pointed manifestations of the unity of Uncreated God.

“Unicorn, you occupy a unique place in the divine history of earth. You are created yet you so loved purity that you stand at the threshold of joining the Christ, freed even of the discolored aura of Earth which now interpenetrates you. And, indeed, you must leave the earth, whichever choice you make.

“Should you leave me now, and remain with Christ, you will be the first return of Created God to Uncreated God. Should you leave me now, yet return from Christ, you will be the first return of Created God to earth. As such, your holy purifying vibrations will be and inspiration to all earth creatures, and a healing force at all levels of earthly existence.”

“I nurtured you, I bore you, I loved you unconditionally. I will always love you unconditionally. I have felt your compassion for me and your longing for God. The choice is yours.

THREE

Then the disembodied unicorn-spirit had the most wonderful feeling it had ever felt. It thought, “I am being drawn straight into heaven!” It began as a shrinking sensation. What had been the green glow of planet spirit was now condensed through various shades of blue-green into a single point of blue. The color of the point was living blue and the sound of the point was Ohmmm.

But more than this was happening! As the shrinking progressed, what had been the dim suggestions of a holy vision became more and more definite. For as the sky unicorn had shed the last vestige of incarnation, it had become a wholly ethereal creature centered in its spiritual eye. Its aura was the envelope of blue light-sound.

With its spiritual vision it beheld the Blessed Countenance of the Living Christ. From the mouth of Christ came the omnipresent word of God, which comforts the open human heart. From the eyes of Christ came the purest, whitest, Light of God. And from the purple heart of Christ there radiated pure Divine Love.

The eyes of Christ illuminated all of Holy Creation, and in particular, this Holyest Erthe, from the Beginning to the End of Time. And there it was, in Black and White, so to speak, God’s Plan for the Salvation of Erthe. The rapture which filled the unicorn has not been known by earthly beasts.

TWO

And the sky blue beast now knew its holy mission, its place in the Divine Scheme. It was as if the Mouth of God had already spoken these words: “Holy Creature, you are the Unicorn. You are a creature of human imagination. Just as is Christ the sole reflection of Uncreated God, so are you the most pure expression of Created God. Just as the Holy Spirit has come to inhabit each human heart, so have you returned from humanity to dwell in the Heart of Christ. You are a Living Symbol of the willingness of humanity to accept the salvation which is there.

So blessed are you that you have been instilled with special powers. Since you reside in the Center of the Living Christ, your image is even now projecting back onto the Erthe as part of God’s Holy Plan. To the earthbound mortal you are a fresh breath. The religions of humanity have gotten logged down in obscure symbolism and mistaken expressions of the true nature of Christ. Jew and Arab, Moslem and Hindu, Catholic and Protestant conduct “holy” wars in My Name. How far they have been separated from Truth, which is not separation, but—I AM, union.

“But you, Holy Creature, speak directly to the human heart, having emanated from there and returned to Me. Without speaking a single word, your message is clear to all humans, regardless of their other religious beliefs. When human eyes fall upon your image, even those who flounder in the ego-stirred sea of confusion are opened to spirit. These are the feelings you stir: peace, gentleness, unity, love of purity. If unicorns were carried to the battlefields of the world, there would be no war. If unicorns were let do the rivers of Erthe, they would be purified. The planet’s balance would be restored.

“And so I have relieved you of the choice of returning to Me or returning to Erthe by creating a universe where both are possible. The separation from the rest of Creation and from Uncreated God which mortals experience is the result of their acceptance of the dualities of positive and negative, male and female, and external and internal. You have ceased to accept these dualities, and so you can both remain with me and return to Erthe. At once, you are fixed at each point of the Universal Hologram

ONE

From the Mouth of the Unicorn spoke the Living God these Words: I AM CREATED AND I AM UNCREATED. I AND THE FATHER ARE ONE AND I AND THE MOTHER ARE ONE. I AM OUTSIDE AND I AM INSIDE. I AM ERTHE AND I AM SKY. I AM OHM. I AM LIGHT. I AM THAT I AM. I AM.” And it truly was the unicorn which spoke.

IV. Afterword

We have come to the end of this journal, but not to the end of our journey. The purpose of the journal is to communicate what it means to say, “I am a unicorn.” The purpose of the journey is to mean what we say when we say “I am a unicorn.” Each unicorn has a different journey to make, yet each separate path is part of the same journey recorded in this journal.

And let no unicorn's insistence that your path be its path deter you from your unique spiritual unfoldment. Rather, with love in your heart, thank it for its concern, offer to help it on its way, consider its words and the example of its life, and then proceed, as you must, by continuing to focus somewhere beyond the ego.

You may answer to the call of the earth unicorn. Your unblocked rainbow body may be tending to flow here with.all earthly creation, passing no judgement, feeling the connection to a pagan past. You may celebrate the seasons, dance unadorned, save with flowers, in the full moon light, work white magic, and commune directly with the spirits of plants and animals. Your sexuality may flow in communion with all other earth unicorns.

It may be the call of the spirit of the narwhal that entrances you. If so, find your mate, build your cottage by the sea, feel the ecstasy of creating children in your own image, celebrate the joy of the return of your grandchildren. Endure, with that sweet-sad tear in eye or heart, the complex tugs of tightly defined sex-linked bondings. Pass from younger to older generation in the security of your protecting community. Rejoice in your gender and glorify it, for it is an aspect of God.

Or it may fall to you to embody the unicorn of fire. If so, encourage your external creative visions. As you grow from childhood to maturity, know that you occupy a special place in the race’s history. You may find yourself defending the rational point of view, most at home with facts and logical argument. Perhaps you will create a new business, or be a builder of houses. Perhaps you will organize a charitable foundation or assist in the formation of a league for world government. There will be a few who will make lasting contributions to objective knowledge, birthing new countries, exploring frontiers. Fight your battles with your sexual energies and with your competitors. Know with pride that you are special.

If air is your deepest nature, you may ride like the wind on the surface of this planet. You may find yourself climbing the tallest trees or hills, flying over checkered fields in a plane or balloon, skiing down a crystalline mountainside, racing for the pure joy of going as fast as you can. And it will seem as if, in this free motion, in being nearly in more than one place at once, you are somehow connecting with Planet Spirit. In those moments, rejoice, for you are so connected.

And finally, it may be the sky unicorn which most closely embodies your spirit. If so, you may find that you care little for earth's accomplishments, pleasures or pastures. You may find in your heart that still, small urging for purification. Material comforts will loose their soothing quality, sexual attachments may seem to separate you from God. You may spend hours in prayer or meditation. You may reflect daily on the beauty of being in a Holy Presence. You may long to shed your earthly ·incarnation, remaining here only because you are a spirit and have obligations here to other incarnated spirit. If this be your path, then do your earthly duties in the spirit of loving service, and be with God in communion as sHe permits.

Holy Unicorn, this Unicorn greets you with the harmony of the fourth, third, and second chakras. As a self-realized dragon, or unicorn of fire, I greet you in each of your five possible manifestations: earth, Blessed Be; water, God be with you; fire, Good luck; air, Peace; and sky, Ohm. Know that together, just by being, we teach just by being centered above the ego. As such, we can only reinforce good intentions. “And it truly was the unicorn that spoke.”

Love,
Jim Andrisse
September 27, 1983