In the fall of 2003, on a silent retreat for a few days that I did in Las Caletillas, on the island of Tenerife, I met a Canadian researcher, a student of music as a system of knowledge, whose name was Melki Mankhandar. Melki was preparing a trip to Mauritania, a twelve-day journey on Saharan camels to the still infrequent Adrar Massif, passing through the holy city of Chingetti, through the bicolor mountain of Zagra, through the palm groves of M’hairet, El Gleittat and El Yeddah, through the ravines of Oued El Abiod, and through the Al Amatlich dune range. On the journey we would do certain types of psychodynamic exercises to increase internal discipline.
The political circumstances, including the North American espionage observatory in Tammanraset, recently installed for the fight against “The Base”, as well as the politics of the Mauritanian government regarding the discovery of oil fields in the desert interior of the country, advised against the journey, but we discussed that here it was revealed that the main tool would be «psychic archaeology», as designated by Jeffrey Goodman, excavator in the ruins of Flagstaff, Arizona. Goodman, having been practicing in Flagstaff with “psychic” Aron Abrahamson, with another group of St. Louis psychics led by Beverly Jaegers, with psychic Sol Lewis, recommended by the Michigan Metaphysical Society, and with others, established corollaries of which I will remember the following.
Obtaining psychic information is not categorical, there are many ways in which the psychic accesses information that, subjectively, implies the acceptance of conceptual schemes of the world that are out of place for a researcher who only wants to use the data. You have to respect the universe of the psychic. Goodman says: “Aron, for example, claims that he uses disembodied entities to obtain certain information, and the akashic records for others.” “Akashic record” is a classic concept in nineteenth-century esotericism that conceptualizes a kind of area in which all the events of the world have been recorded in some immaterial way. Realizing its reality is not something that is demonstrable in the Western way, with machines, for example. However, it happens that certain psychically sensitive men access something that has been called that, and obtain information that inexplicably is impossible to obtain by ordinary means. Is it opportune to enter into a classification or categorization of such phenomena? In a typification of the spirits and their tasks? in a description of the heavenly registers, levels, or circles where the cherubs or angels or archangels who come to give information dwell? I think that it is something as varied as the characteristics of each psychic sensitive, and that, in one way or another, it is filtered by the particular and subjective personality of each one. It is impossible, or at least irrelevant, to enter those classifications, or even find an explanation for such a mess of fantastic data.
For example, following Goodman: “An interesting phenomenon for the investigator to take into consideration is that sometimes the psychic and his source wish to convey a message on their own, apart from the specific questions presented to them. I learned this during some of my early work with Aron. As he answered each of my questions, Aron continually interjected news about the first government of Atlantis. I ended up understanding the meaning and asked him what he could tell us about that first government. He then delivered an eloquent speech on the subject, until he was totally emptied, so to speak. The channels cleared again, allowing me to move on to specific questions he had prepared. The investigator must respect the world of the psychic and the things he values; and ideally share the spiritual concerns that are his motivating force. Since psychics receive their particular impressions during altered states of consciousness, the investigator has to familiarize himself with these states in order to get an idea of what the psychic is dealing with.” Frederick Bligh Bond, director of excavations at Glastonbury Abbey, in 1907, communicated through the automatic writing of the psychic John Bartlett, with the ancient inhabitants of the Abbey, supposedly deceased centuries ago. By this means, the plans of the place were reconstructed, discovering remains that, otherwise, would never have come to light. The set of communications received is published in the Journal of The American Society for Psychical Research. Curious are the following statements by the “spirits” of “The Company,” as Bond called it; For example, on one occasion one of the informants said: “He always had a happy heart, but sometimes he burst into tears. Such was my condition. You don’t have to blame me. Quick of thought, he avoided thoughts he could not express and understood light jokes. Cheerful spirit! If I had directed my soul to great things, I would not be a child among toys now. But he had never wanted to be a monk. I was placed here in the choir, when I would have liked to brandish a sword. Jeffrey Goodman observes in the first chapter of his book: “How are all these details and all these complexities to be evaluated? The simplest interpretation is that The Company was precisely what it purported to be: the surviving intelligences of many individuals who once inhabited the place. From the way they identified themselves in writing, it seems as if some were bound to the land, permanently chained to place through their intense devotion to their beloved abbey. Other communicators, on the other hand, appear independent, free, selflessly helping Bond and the others. Some of these earthbound entities indicate that their existence is in a dream mode, while others are in a complex and acutely analytical state of thought and existence. For the most part, they constantly declare that they speak based on their memories of those times. Sometimes a certain entity could not answer a historical question, if it referred to a period in which it had not lived. The situation was soon rectified by another of the members, who appeared to narrate what the other cannot. History, folks, can be rewritten.
