The Source Field Investigations (2 page)

David Wilcock is a leading thinker amongst the latter group—and he makes a magnificent case in the pages that follow that a golden age is indeed within our grasp and can be brought into manifestation if only we choose to make it so. Skeptics react to such unorthodox notions with savage attacks on those who put them forward, and David must expect a firestorm of criticism as the influence of this book spreads. Indeed, if the establishment behaves true to form, then just about everything he says here is going to be combed through for mistakes and weakness by teams of very clever people. Whatever they find—and no author ever wrote a book without making at least some mistakes—will be used to suggest that everything else in the book is wrong as well.

Do not be discouraged. There is a tremendous amount of good science here, much of it new to Western readers because it is the work of Russian scientists. David has done a great service in bringing all this material together in one place for the first time. In some cases the implications of the Russian research are so radical that it has already been outlawed or disregarded by the mainstream.

Keep an open mind, especially where the establishment says “NO,” accept David’s invitation to dig deeper into the facts, and pretty soon you will find that things are beginning to connect before your eyes into an entirely new pattern that you might never have considered before.

It’s not my purpose to comment on all the extraordinary concepts in this big book of ideas, but here are three David puts forward, all closely interlinked, that particularly stand out for me:

In one sense these are very modern, twenty-first-century ideas that David is exploring here—ideas at the cutting edge of disciplines such as quantum physics and consciousness research. But what draws me to all of them are the ways in which they also resonate deeply with ancient wisdom traditions, reminding us that the truth is always true and indivisible, wherever—and whenever—it is expressed.

For example, the notion that the “real world” is an emanation or manifestation of a hidden realm is central to the ancient Egyptian idea of the nature of reality expressed in documents as old as the
Pyramid Texts
(circa 2200 B.C.). The same idea is reworked and restated through the various recensions of the
Coffin Texts
, the
Book of What Is in the Duat
, and the
Book of the Dead
, and finally trickles down into the Gnostic and Hermetic texts that began to be compiled in Greek and Latin around the time of Christ—and had a profound influence on mystical Christianity.

The essence of this ancient idea can be summed up in the simple and beautiful Hermetic dictum “As Above So Below”—which is to say that the pattern of things here on earth in the “real world” (the “sensible Kosmos” as it is known in the Hermetic texts) can only be understood properly when you realize that it manifests the workings of a higher, unseen domain:

I can see no difference between the Hermetic Kosmos “imperceptible to sense”—which weaves the visible Kosmos like a garment—and David’s concept of the Source Field, undetected as yet by our conventional scientific instruments, but shaping and defining every aspect of our reality.

What the Hermetic texts say about the cyclical nature of time and its interpenetration with matter also gels nicely with the latest science on the subject brought together by David in these pages. After you’ve finished
The Source Field Investigations,
come back here and reread the three passages from the Hermetica set out below and I guarantee you will see what I mean:

David’s very useful and interesting notion that the “real world” may actually be a form of lucid dream, subject to change by acts of will or imagination, is also prefigured in the Hermetic writings—which go so far as to state that “Illusion is a thing wrought by the working of Reality.”
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Even the human bodies that we inhabit are, in the Hermetic view, unreal:

In these realms of appearances, thoughts may indeed become things and we must take care with the thoughts we put out there. It’s difficult with twenty-four-hour rolling news showing us the worst aspects of humanity; if too many of us focus for too long on doom and destruction, if too many of us continue to dwell on negative emotions like hatred and envy, if too many of us fail to express love and gratitude and remain unwilling to seek forgiveness, then it will not be long before we turn our lucid dream into hell on earth.

It doesn’t have to be that way.

A fundamental message of this book, and of many ancient wisdom teachings, is that we are cocreators of our own reality and that the golden age is therefore just around the corner, all the time, for all of us. To embrace it we must set aside the negative patterns and reference frames of the past, let go of rigid habits of thought that serve us no longer, and be willing to accept a permanent shake-up in our outlook on just about everything.

It’s proof of how difficult it is to do any of this that the golden age has been so long coming. Yet if David is right, the hidden Source Field generating the lucid dream that we call reality can be expected to make its presence and its influence felt with great power and persistence in the coming years—and to have profound effects on human consciousness.

Perhaps the epoch of 2012 really does mark a crossroads in our story. And perhaps the time has come for us to pay close attention to the Kosmos—both seen and unseen—which does not idly send us signs and wonders, or speak to us through dreams and visions, but which ungrudgingly favors our welfare and seeks always to set us on the right track.

 

Graham Hancock
Author,
Fingerprints of the Gods
www.grahamhancock.com

PART ONE

PREFACE

S
ince the dawn of self-awareness on earth, we have been inexorably driven to ask the “big questions”: Who am I? Where did I come from? How did I get here—and where am I going? Various teachers have come along who claimed to have the answers—and the differences of opinion on these overwhelmingly profound concepts have led to many of the greatest sorrows and atrocities in recorded history. Nonetheless, consistent themes emerge in almost all spiritual traditions—including the idea that the Universe is not made of “dead” and inert matter, but is rather a living, conscious Being. This superintelligence, we are told, has woven the strands of space, time, energy, matter, biology and consciousness together in Its own image. Despite the vastness of the Universe, we all apparently have a personal connection to this majestic Identity—and we will live on long past the death of our physical bodies.

Most spiritual teachings also say we will eventually reunite with this “Oneness”—and even when we walk in complete ignorance of these greater realities, a hidden spiritual curriculum is influencing our lives—and will eventually guide us back Home. We also consistently hear that benevolent super-beings, such as Jesus, Buddha, Krishna and others, have directly intervened in earth’s history to help show us the way to this greater Truth. As Graham Hancock, Zecharia Sitchin and others have reported, many of the oldest cultures speak of “gods” who gave them practical assistance—written language, mathematics, astronomy, agriculture, animal husbandry, ethics, law and architecture—including massive stone edifices, built out of impossibly heavy multiton blocks, which apparently served some useful purpose. Despite the immense difficulty in duplicating these feats even with today’s technology, these “megalithic” structures appear all over the world.

In our own “modern” era, the awe-inspiring origins of major world religions and spiritual traditions are usually written off as mythology and superstition. Due to the seemingly irresolvable differences between these various philosophical systems, and our ever-increasing desire for information that is provable, Science has replaced Religion as the ultimate arbiter of Truth in many people’s minds—and this formerly majestic, wonderful view of a Divine Cosmos has been dismissed. The Universe has become a giant collection of dead, empty “stuff.” Our minds, thoughts and emotions—not to mention all the richness and diversity of species on this planet—are now seen to be the result of sheer coincidence and happenstance in an otherwise unthinking, unfeeling, infinitely cold, and depressing void. We have nothing to live for, nothing to look forward to after we die—and even the need for ethics or morality at all becomes a subject of healthy philosophical debate. If we know we can’t escape death, and all we have is this one chance to exist, then why not devote our lives to the pursuit of as much pleasure as we can find? Why not throw ourselves fully and completely into a hedonistic lust for money, power and privilege, and hope we can then pass on these same benefits to our children, who are created from our own bodies?

The more we think we know, the more lonely our lives seem to be. The magic has been stripped away. We have no special abilities or mystical powers. We have nothing to look forward to after we die. We have no one else in the Universe to meet. And before we ever even get the chance to travel out into space on any sustainable basis, we may all perish in a planetary catastrophe—either by our own weapons of mass destruction, or by natural causes we apparently have no ability to control or prevent. A seemingly endless lineup of big-budget disaster movies entertains audiences by threatening the earth with total annihilation. You may now be listening to the “profits of doom” a little more carefully—and might indeed be wondering if, in fact, all is well.

If you have seen my YouTube documentary that was the genesis for this book entitled
The 2012 Enigma,
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my Web site, Divine Cosmos,
²
or some of my television appearances, you probably know I do not believe our future is depressing, terrifying or cataclysmic. Instead, I feel our destinies on earth are being carefully and meticulously guided by a hidden intelligence—a living energy field the entire Universe is built from. Many great researchers have independently discovered this unseen Universal force and given it their own names, without there ever being a single, unifying standard. Since this force may well be the source of all space, time, matter, energy, biology and consciousness in the Universe, the simplest all-inclusive term I use is the Source Field.