I believe Endjoy you took Milk and Honey’s criticism of James out-of-context. The point he/she was making was that James did make a sweeping generalization or statement, declared as fact, that all the great minds of this world, despite their greatness and Oneness with the SI, are still inferior because they are still connected or are trapped with the HMS. I, for one, believe the Great Minds have already encountered the SI, or why should they be called “the Enlightened Ones”?
The problem with James is that there is nothing largely ORIGINAL with all of his writings. Other than the esoteric writing, fancy names and acronyms James uses – which up to now I am having a hard time remembering -- it is, to my analysis, an amalgamation of different philosophical and spiritual sayings from some of the great minds of this Earth. This is one reason why a lot of us, including initially myself, highly resonate with these writings.
But content-wise, it doesn’t mean that we cannot use it. I still think his “Techniques of the Intuitive Mind” are most helpful in generating compassion from the heart. But to say that these are original ideas is certainly and obviously a lie and even a sacrilege to the great masters of spiritual thought. And that is where the problem is – when people might mistake it for such – the work of an even greater mind.
The image of the SI in this link:
http://www.sovereignintegral.org/ is also not unique. Rather a combination of the 3rd eye chakra system and that of the winged discs out of Ancient Egypt. I would rather continue meditating under Buddhist tenets which teaches of compassion, moderation and also, Oneness in Mind than to be eternally trapped in an SI of such mediocrity and blandness.
Another thing that I actually found odd ever since I started reading the Wingmakers materials since 2003, when I was researching on the internet for info to explain my newly heightened faculties, was that I never resonated with the paintings nor the so-called futuristic music. Try as I might, I could not elicit a “heightened awareness”, which is what the WMM has been claiming will be generated, every time I looked at the paintings or even listened to snippets of the music.
I find this rather odd because I could go into feelings of rapture while listening to the Gregorian Chants since I was a child (basically the traditional choral recordings or live performances of the chants, not the modern, synthesized, jazzed up versions), even before I found out that they were the Solfeggio frequencies, as discussed by GregorArturo, one of our Project Avalon members in a separate thread. Or be humbly enthralled while looking at Salvador Dali’s painting, the Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus), certainly an astounding work of art by the master.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t say the same for the WMM chamber paintings. I find them a curious hodgepodge of different tribal and ethnic symbolisms put together, with a touch of new age mysticism for effect. Other than that – it doesn’t raise my vibrations, try as I might. But perhaps, as the site had said, it was created for a specific purpose – to raise our higher faculties to meet the SI. I personally find them entertaining ― no more than that.
Now as I was researching a bit into this Wingmakers lore, I found this link:
http://www.bielek-debunked.com/Wingmaker.html. It is written by Marshall Barnes, the UFO researcher, and claims of having talked with Hempel through written correspondence as early as 1998 – something that I have not known since I started reading the WMM materials only in 2003.
Apparently according to this link, the UFO scientific community back in 1998 was already grilling Mark Hempel for his very commercially oriented Wingmakers website and its veracity. Mark, according to the interview, even went out to comment that James “. . . is meeting with scientists and is not someone who aspires to be in the limelight.”. Now I thought he was publicity-shy?
Have a read and judge for yourself.
Endjoy, after reading all your postings, I do honestly and strongly believe you are the one with an agenda.