Stepping Through
The Concordance Paradox
Jan Mirehiel

One of my favorite sayings is “It’s Time to Stop Behaving as Though We Are Only Human.”  When I first heard it, I felt an incredible rush of energy.  At the same time, I understood that what I felt was merely a small sample of the energy that will be brought to this planet when thousands of us, simultaneously, decide to stop behaving as only our HUMAN selves.

As a result of having been exposed to the high frequencies of the contributors to this site, through working with their materials, I have felt that same rush in their “ether.”  There is a common quickening in the arterial and etheric blood that occurs when one understands that we are, indeed, so much more than “only human.” 

This is the essence of what the Concordance Moment and the Concordance Paradox is about: in that heartbeat of understanding, the moment is made manifest.  It is literally brought into being in the same instant that it is comprehended.

In linear time, the Concordance Moment is of course, a future event.  Like other previously announced, spiritually significant times—such as the Harmonic Convergence, for example—it will, no doubt, pull a great many people into a prayerful alignment at one time for a higher purpose.  In this case, the larger purpose is the ascension of Mother Earth and her inhabitants.

I happen to think that this “ascension” will carry those who practice it as a possibility into a world where the spiritual path is lived almost innately, manifesting in forms of infinite beauty.

Swami Muktananda ¹ writes of our ability to create with consciousness: “This inner consciousness is the same thing which creates and animates the entire universe.  But we are not aware of this.  Even though we have come from this consciousness, we have changed our understanding about ourselves.”

He further quotes a poignant little song, which goes:

“O man, how did you change?
The earth has not changed, water has not changed.
Fire has not changed, air and ether have not changed.
The sun has not changed, the moon has not changed.
Animals have not changed, trees have not changed.
O man, how did you change?”

His essential message is that the ultimate perfection of that ascended world exists, right now.  If we accept that idea—“Money in the bank,” says Rumi ² --then it MUST also exist behind the exterior world that we project around us.  But to acknowledge that we are the ones responsible for the appearance of that projection means that we must understand what immense and limitless beings we are.  Unfortunately, we often have trouble accepting that thought.

One major block to this realization lies in our persistent belief in solid space and linear time.  In their book, Secrets of Shamanism, Dr. Jose and Lena Stevens tell the story of the student who had the opportunity to spend a day in a remote desert village, studying with a local shaman.  The shaman reportedly spoke some English and would, therefore, be able to help her understand his work.

He was eager to talk and shared many stories with her, such as the one about a day when two different men came to the shaman to ask where they might find a herd of wild burros.  To each he had given the same directions, but one was told that the herd held six burros, and the other, that it held eighteen.  Thinking that she must have misunderstood what she had heard, the student asked the shaman if he had been describing the same herd.  He replied, in his broken English, “Same burros, same place.  Not same as how many find.”  In other words, the man who could only imagine owning six burros would be able to see only six burros!³

In the 2000 publication of The Four Winds Society, Shamanic practitioner, Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., writes of “Inka Prophecies of the Time to Come.”  These prophecies, he tells us, have come to us from the Q’ero nation, descendants of the Incan medicine men and medicine women who fled to the 23,000’ heights of Mt. Ausangate in Peru to escape the Spanish Conquistadors.  The prophecies say that the time of the next Pachakuti, or Earth Transformation, has already started, and that it will continue for the next four years.

Villoldo states, “For the last of the Inkas, this next Pachakuti means the possible end of the world as we know it.  But while they present the possibility of annihilation and the return to chaos, they also promise the emergence of a new human being at the end of this period of turmoil.” 

“Even more importantly,” he continues, “the prophecies speak of a tear in the fabric of time itself.”  Significantly, the four-year period to which Villoldo refers ends at approximately the same time the Harmonic Concordance configuration occurs.⁴ 

In the past, shamans and sorcerers have depended upon their own strength, coupled with the appropriate rites and rituals, to gain the power to slip through a crack in time and into a luminous body connected to “the source of stars.”  In this state, shamans are able to transcend their ordinary relationship with time.  In spite of their training and preparation, however, not all of those who have made this attempt have been able to make the leap successfully.

Now, however, the Peruvian Shamans believe that a new day is dawning and the doorways between the worlds are opening up again, as holes that we can step safely through, into a place where we can “explode our human capabilities.”  Villoldo concludes, “In doing so, we will craft new physical bodies that age differently, that heal differently, and that die differently, and that possibly will never die.”⁵

The Harmonic Concordance chart represents these same possibilities in astrological notation, but it is the “Concordance Paradox” that is most closely allied with the shamanic conception of time as a dimension which can be transcended through focused intent.  The existence of this paradox means that it is not necessary, nor even desirable to wait until November 8, 2003 in order to develop that focus. 

If you can conceive of how it might feel to live as an ascended master in an ascended world, you can step through the “hole in time,” anytime, and bring that existence back into your daily experience, right then and there.  The more frequently you are willing to do this, the more you will come to know what it means to live the “18 Burro Deluxe” version of life.

From that expanded awareness, you will soon see miracles happening on a routine basis.  You will begin to see the physicality of Mother Earth through new eyes, as you become aware, for example, of a previously unseen pearlescent tint in the clouds above, or of a vibrating greenness where new plants are growing, or of the consciousness peering out from a seemingly ordinary configuration of boulders.  In these moments, you are being shown a preview of your ascended planet.  Welcome these signs and honor them, remembering that they are truly reflections of the ever more luminous being that you are becoming and, as a matter of fact, already are. 

If only you would allow yourself to believe that it might be so!  Philosophically, I find a significant connection between the promises of the Harmonic Concordance, and the  (shamanic) saying that “There is no such thing as the imagination,” or, as it has been said in other traditions, “As a (hu)man thinketh…”  Yet, we often allow our best and brightest moments of awareness to be shut down by our perpetually vigilant “doubt reflex.” 

At these times, the small (unexploded) self—the ego—challenges the Knowing of the I AM, or the larger Self.  When the little self wins, the hole in time closes again and we are trapped for another cycle of time during which we are ruled by illusion, fear, and insecurity.

The undisciplined mind can wreak havoc with the best of intent, which is, of course, why meditation and prayer are universally recommended as tools to help us to stay in our spiritual centers.  However, it is often difficult to carry insights from those centered moments back into practice in the outer world.  In order to do this, it helps to have many other tools of remembrance at hand.  The Harmonic Concordance chart, in addition to its astrological meaning, also portrays a multi-dimensional mandala in sacred geometry, offering a variety of these reminders through symbols that are significant in many different belief systems. 

It contains, for example, figurative associations with several Native American spiritual traditions.  The chart may be seen as portraying a “medicine wheel” like that which exists in any astrological chart, with the four directions represented by the points of the ascendant, the descendant, Midheaven, and the Imum Coeli.  The geometry of the chart also resembles the figures formed in the crossing of willows at the top of a sweat lodge, which pay homage, not only to the directions, but also to Mother Earth, and Father Sun.

The space enclosed by the interlocking squares at the center top of the lodge represents the Creator, or “The Great Mystery.”  I like to think of this as a representational “hole” in time through which we are able to travel as the intent behind the prayers we offer.  Indeed, time does seem to stop inside the inipi while the ceremony is being conducted.

As I look at the chart, I see yet another (time-related) mandala in the 6-pointed star of the Merkaba.  This symbol represents us in our light body forms, as seen by those who CAN perceive on this level, and I am reminded that the Merkaba meditation is another form of remembrance.  Practitioners are essentially taught how to roll their light bodies through time, from one present moment into the next.  This exercise allows them to stay in an eternally perfect present.

In The Seth Material, Seth, speaking through Jane Roberts, proposes that “…an idea IS an event…” that comes into being through temporal consciousness, a consciousness which he describes, not as a concept, but as a dimension of action.⁶  The Concordance message comes as an open invitation to us to play in this temporal dimension, through the mental creation of an idyllic “future” world.  Why not do so in the most inspired possible manner?

In our quiet and reflective moments we can direct our thoughts toward a vision of Eden (reborn in this moment!) here on earth.  We also can apply the lessons of the Concordance Mandala throughout our day-to-day lives, by remembering that all that is asked of us is to: “Stay in balance.  Operate from the center.  Express through love.”

From this point that we are able to see the Universal Perfection that is.  And it is from this point that we step through the Concordance Paradox and into a divine state of existence right now.

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