Theresa J. Thurmond Morris: Import Notes (73)

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Import Notes (73)

Import Notes (73)
Theresa Janette Thurmond Morris Author Notes on Facebook.com

“TAKEN UP” by TJ - Reality Begins Combining One Part ET/One part Humanoid/One Part God/Goddess Essence

I am what is called in this space-time an alien hybrid. I believe we are all alien hybrids and would like to do my part to share why I believe this in this lifetime.

My story may have several twists and turns from this planet to other galaxies and even other universes, planes, and dimensions. I may use portals and wormholes for travel. The future and the past may cross one another in order for me to get my point across.

This is going to be an adventure that I have waiting my whole entire life on earth which will soon be sixty years to share. This story I have been writing all my life and waiting for this time, this year the one before 2012 to begin and write my story to be completed in one of the series of the seven seals.

This first one is called “TAKEN UP” in the TJ series of life on this omniverse for I can venture no further as a time traveler in the future outside of this omniverse until I complete this lifetime and this story for others to find that come after me. I share my path as a storyteller.

It is hoped that this will become a screenplay for a movie so that we can all see what I see in all levels of life. We need something new to know and believe in and I believe I am just the one to share that, which is in all of our beings, essences, and imaginations if you will allow me to share that which I believe is inside of us all. The truth will set us free! We are told to seek our own truth and I shall share that which is mine that I have taken to be reality in my matrix. My universal truths that are my deepest secrets of my own soul’s essence has come to be words I can use to communicate with others of my kind. That is the humanoid sentient intelligent being kind. I hope that others can find pearls of great wisdom in some of my shares, and others may find treasures that I did not even find through time while living my life. To each being who finds the time to read and share my story in this life I wish happiness, health, and prosperity to you and all that is yours that you meet. May we all leave this earth and all beings in a better way than when we arrived?

My philosophy in life I learned from my mother, which is live and let live. Mother passed away or died as she called it on May 4, 2011. She wanted me to write my story and that was her last wish and desire spoken to me aloud. That was where we are in this present life. I miss my mother and had no idea how alone one could feel without this other person we call mother not being on this planet with us. I waited to late to write my story for my mother to read but maybe there are others out there who will want to read this story for her and for all their loved ones who have already passed over to the other realm.
We can absorb thoughts into our own and make them part of us for others who we touch throughout time. This I believe to be the one truth of unity in us all.

Readers will find parts of me and my story that have not been shared among my writings as they come forth in my story called TAKEN UP for UFO Digest. I will hope to make seven books of articles that will entail how this story came to be located on earth. This story is one of supernatural and paranormal sequences of events intertwined with what we once called a normal life on planet earth. That which is different from what is normal is what we call paranormal.

How this story is told and unfolds is a human agreement with my not so human other self. I believe we are all-human and spirit as two parts that work synonymously to achieve a higher goal for our souls essence throughout what we call space-time. I believe we have two parts as conscious and subconscious that when combined with our super conscious we learn more about who we are, why we are here, and where we shall go when we leave this planet.

The reality of who I am begins off earth. That is the way I remember my original timeline or story to be told on this planet anyway. I cannot lie about my own personal truth because this story will be the one that defines me from all other sentient intelligent beings of my species.

I have had much encouragement by my peers and colleagues in this life as a paranormal writer for UFO Digest since August 2007. Peter Dirk Vander Ploeg of Canada created UFO Digest. Dirk and I share more than the North American continent in this world in this period. We share a calling and election made sure for our body-mind-spirits in this birth-life-death experience. We are soul group mates. He is male and I female. We both share a sense of belonging together and working toward the same goals in this lifetime. We are sharing the raising consciousness of our humanoid sentient intelligent being species of this cosmos.

How we came to share this calling and purpose is a story that each of us will tell in our own way. We each have a calling and purpose and this is what increases our fulfillment of being who we are as separate beings. There are many of us on earth and we are approaching the seven billion mark as separate units, vessels, and creations go in the body-mind-spirit class of humanoids.

This story is one that is connected to others by their own interest in the alien ET UFO Community. I for one was brought here to this planet in the same was as most humanoid beings. I was born here. I have all that I need to prove that I am human with a birth certificate with my name as Theresa Janette Thurmond and my date of birth being Dec. 26, 1951 at 12:03 PM. I know I was born at exactly noon on that day and that it what it said on my crib sign when I was brought to the nursery. I still have that crib card in my baby book.
We are almost 60 earth years old in this lifetime.

The story I am about to share will be one that many will not want to believe or accept and that is okay with me. I am the one telling the story, I have lived my life, and if I die today or tomorrow, I die fulfilled. We all have a purpose and mine was to make sure that those who needed to know about the Ascension Center Enlightenment and the shift and uplift of our consciousness for our entire species was to happen is in place. I was to be here now in this time of the end of one era and the beginning of another. We in the past have referred to this as the end of the Mayan calendar along with many other cultures who have kept calendars and dates in time.

My story deals with what we call space and time together in what we call space-time.

Some of what I know has not been challenged yet to be proven as fact in science. This may assist some who desire to know more about how the circle of all time and eternity can be affected to bend in space in the omniverse. I bring to a space-time that which I have always known about all of us and that is that we are more than one we are two with a connection to a third.

I do not want to lose anyone and do not mean this maliciously I mean this with the utmost love and respect of a storyteller for one’s readers. There is a certain respect we all have for each other and that respect is for each other’s soul’s experiences.

I am told that I am a soul in a ninth (9) level of existence and it has been a driving force in me to find all these various levels and pieces of my spiritual essence so that I may return back to my original soul in this universe so that I may go forward in time into the future with all the wisdom, and knowledge, as my own taken talents, gifts, and resources to the higher levels in space-time.

There is the older part of me that is called my past life reincarnations that have been filled in as memories inside my brain. For now, neuro scientists do not know how we can have memories from past lives. They are just now trying to fit their findings to that which is said to be the door in our minds or the portal to our known existence not just on earth but in space.

Many of you may not follow the path of the essence of our souls and our minds inside our brains but this has been my quest and a major part of my purpose to return to from where I came. I have always had this feeling of wanting to return to our home in space in a place that was much grander than life here on earth.

What I have memories of are the various levels in time when I came here to assist others of my type called humanoids. This was a choice I made in the past in one or many of my past returns back to the place I would refer to as an ancient past setting with Kings and Queens and Scribes, and those we call Guides, Teachers, Priests, Priestesses, Angels, Guardians, Warriors, and so on and so forth. Many various positions in life we can share in the memories that were created for us in pictures like those we relate in addition, in what we now call a Tarot Deck of cards. This may not be the best analogy for those who are spiritual and religious but it is the best I can come up with at the time I am writing this for those on earth.

I use the Tarot Deck to this day to use as tools with my divination talents, which I believe, are God and Goddess given and shared. The best way I can describe my life on earth is shared with those above who originally created me.

Some in today’s time are learning about computers and how they think. If we take a brain and a computer hard drive filled with information weighing about the same, put them in a black box, and are able to address both and receive an answer, we may not know one from the other. Meaning we could create a scenario or experiment that would deal with what is wisdom and knowledge and where do we gain this information from other brains or other computers.

We may in the future be left to our own defenses for survival and this way of knowing may be all we have to tell whether we are humanoid sentient intelligent beings or highly sophisticated computers with no soul essence.

For those of you who desire to follow my future story one earth, it will be on various parts of this universe, multiverse, metaverse, xenoverse, and omniverse. I am not allowed to travel outside of this omniverse. This is also the third and last part of my calling and election made sure in the story that is mine to tell. I was born elsewhere with memories in other times and places in space. I will do my best to use words already created on earth to detect the time line, space, dimensions, and planes of existence for those who just don’t want the story line but the scientific facts that can be worked with in their lifetimes to become educated about what is more than we presently reveal to others.

That is the telling of my life and memories that are involved with this world in this omniverse that are called, “TAKEN UP by TJ”

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COMPANY SUMMARY TJ Morris tm ACIR sm BRANDING Company is a new holding corporation in formulation with administrative offices in Beaver am, Ohio County, Kentucky. The Founder and owner is Theresa J Thurmond Morris. TJ MORRIS PUBLISHING NETWORK CONTACT Theresa J Thurmond Morris, Chief Executive Officer TYPE OF BUSINESS Holding company owning majority in subsidiary companies that will own proprietary rights to product design, development, manufacturing, distribution, licensing, marketing and promotion rights for various sustainable environmental, educational, natural, and spiritual consumer products/services . 1 ACE FOLKLIFE CLUB 2 ASCENSION CENTER ORGANIZATION 3 TJ MORRIS tm ACIR sm – TJThurmondMorris Advocate Patrons of the Arts-Culture-Education Science-Technology-Folklife ACE FOLKLIFE is created to establish volunteers in America who are willing to collect songs, Stories, crafts, and any and all products and services that have been passed down as tradecraft from Father to son and Mother to daughter in the oral tradition and in the crafts made to share with those who are loved in our country. We now have multiformat for the Internet and welcome those who would like to link their websites to our own. We presently carry the ACE FOLKLIFE logo designed by and for Theresa J. Thurmond Morris of Kentucky USA for the First ACE FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL in 2007 in Ohio County, Kentucky. We support the American Smithsonian Institute. About the American Folklife Center The twentieth century has been called the age of documentation, and folklorists and other ethnographers have taken advantage of each succeeding technology, from Thomas Edison’s wax-cylinder recording machine, invented in 1877, to the latest digital audio equipment, in order to record the voices and music of many regional, ethnic, and cultural groups, in the United States and around the world. Much of this priceless documentation has been assembled and preserved in the American Folklife Center’s Archive of Folk Culture, which founding head Robert W. Gordon, in 1928, called “a national project with many workers.” As we enter the twenty-first century the American Folklife Center is working on the critical issues of digital preservation, Web access, and archival management. The collections of the American Folklife Center include Native American song and dance; ancient English ballads; the tales of “Bruh Rabbit,” told in the Gullah dialect of the Georgia Sea Islands; the stories of ex-slaves, told while still vivid in the minds of those who endured one of the most harrowing periods of American history; an Appalachian fiddle tune that has been heard on concert stages around the world; a Cambodian wedding in Lowell, Massachusetts; a Saint Joseph’s Day Table tradition in Pueblo, Colorado; Balinese Gamelan music recorded shortly before the Second World War; documentation from the lives of cowboys, farmers, fishermen, coal miners, shop keepers, factory workers, quilt makers, professional and amateur musicians, and housewives from throughout the United States; first-hand accounts of community events from every state; and international collections from every region of the world. All of these images, sounds, written accounts, and a myriad more items of cultural documentation await researchers at the Center’s Archive of Folk Culture, where over 4,000 collections, assembled over the years from “many workers” embody the very heart and soul of our national traditional life and the cultural life of communities from many regions of the world. The collections in the Center’s Archive of Folk Culture include folk cultural material from all fifty states, as well as United States trusts, territories, and the District of Columbia. Most of these areas have been served by the American Folklife Center’s cultural surveys, equipment loan program, publications, and other projects. TJ MORRIS tm ACIR. Sm and ACE FOLKLIFE Theresa J. Morris began ACE FOLKLIFE as a club in 2003 with the Bluegrass Events. It was the interest in the festivals and tourism from the time Theresa moved to Ohio county on May 5, 1995 when she went to the Rosine Association and the last performance there of Bill Monroe the father of bluegrass music in the USA. Before that, Theresa was Theresa (TARA) Thurmond Thomas of Honolulu, Hawaii where she was an artist of Hawaii and assisted in festivals and expos there from 1988-1994 A competition-free zone where leaders of independent firms share ideas and knowledge to help them stay independent and grow. Information sharing and training on skills and management. Access to specialized expertise partners learn from to build practice areas. Professional development tools for staff. Career-enhancement opportunities for staff. Ability to provide trusted quality service and successful results for clients in most regions of the world. An extension of your staff, adding local market knowledge, on-the-ground reach and industry expertise. Ability to work with partner firms with common clients. Annual meetings providing opportunities to cement relationships that create mutual accountability, assuring members that their clients are being well served in other markets. Ability to combine with partners to compete for international assignments, crossing cultures and borders effectively. A significant local advantage against other independent firms and a level playing field when competing against multi-national firms. Access to high-quality marketing communications, interactive, design, research and other services not traditionally offered by PR firms. Client Successes Cotton USA – Nothing feels like this! Brand awareness and trade marketing campaign to promote the use of US cotton in Italy. Cotton Council International (CCI) is the US organization that promotes the image of US cotton in the world across the textile supply chain (manufacturers, spinners, retailers) and among the consumers. Business Press created a PR campaign aimed at raising the brand awareness and promoting the use of US cotton in Italy towards textile manufacturers, retail chains, end users, and media. The agency rolled out an integrated campaign mixing offline tactics, online tools and initiatives for the B2B/trade target. The COTTON USA mark reached a total awareness of 36% (26% spontaneous awareness), the highest awareness level ever reached among the consumers in Italy. Overview Inspired by the slogan “PR heart, Marketing soul, Web passion,” Business Press S.p.A. is a full-service Italian PR agency that offers consulting and business communications services to clients in all sectors including Consumer Brands, Energy, Manufacturing, Technology, Professional Services, Financial Services, Tourism, Life Sciences, and Not-for-Profit. Business Press’ strengths include: a strategic approach to Clients’ problems through its proprietary v4/value for methodology the care taken in supplying effective solutions the effort made to maximize return on investment in business-supporting communications Founded in 1990, Business Press is an independent, 100% Italian-owned company. It is managed by five partners that are directly involved in day-to-day activities and are supported by a team of 40 consultants and professionals organized into five practices: Corporate PR Technology PR Marketing Communication Online Communication. Communication Training Based in Milan and in Rome, Business Press includes also now! PR (sister agency specialized in Financial Communications, Tourism, Healthcare and Technology) with an overall turnover of 3 million euros in fees in FY2007. Business Press is affiliated to Assorel (the Italian PR Agencies Association), and to Assolombarda (the largest territorial association of the entrepreneurial system in Italy). Industry Expertise Business-to-Business Consumer Products Electronics Financial Services Health Care/Medical Not-for-profit Plant/Life Sciences Real Estate Technology Telecommunications PR Specialties Brand Development Crisis Communications/Issues Management Employee Relations Event Management Financial/Investor Relations Management Consulting Marketing PR Media Relations On-line PR Public Affairs Other Specialties Advertising Graphic Design Marketing On-line Marketing Print Web Services Practice Groups Market Intelligence TJ Morris Organization Business to Business, Trade and Commerce, Public TJ Morris as Morris Publishing and imprint Timely Manor Books has a true passion for the Internet. The agency pioneered the online world since 1995. TJ Thurmond Morris established ACIR first in 1968 and renewed in Birmingham Alabama in 1978. Then in 1995 when it created an online division to integrate offline and online PR tactics, while its marketing teams worked for a number of .dotcoms (AltaVista, Google, Excite, Lycos, Ask to name a few). Consumer technology brands like Apple, Kodak, Palm, Philips, TomTom, LG, SanDisk, and NEC hired BP to develop PR campaigns to introduce new products, raise the profile, become category leaders and boost sales. TJ Morris tm ACIR sm under the guidance of Theresa J. Thurmond Morris has recently refined its communications strategy to meet the expectations of the media landscape, where online editors, bloggers and social media are redefining the rules and ask for more “Internet-ready” content. The changes in the media scenario affect not only the PR strategy that needs to embrace a broader range of media, but also the way today’s press office distributes the news. The ACIR.us agency developed an online tool that allows a more effective exchange with the social media: it’s an aggregator of rich media content (text and pictures, videoclips, hyperlinks and a whole digital context designed for the online editors and bloggers) that replaces the “old” online pressroom using WordPress online with PHP and using Go Daddy.com and BlueHost.com Folklife is an integral part of all American lives and an essential part of the National Library. The story of America is reflected in the cultural productions of ordinary people who live everyday lives, from cooking and eating meals, to the activities of work and play, to religious observances and seasonal celebration. ACE Folklife includes the songs we sing, the stories we tell, and the crafts we make. The American Folklife Center was created in 1976 by the U.S. Congress to “preserve and present” this great heritage of American folklife through programs of research, documentation, archival preservation, reference service, live performance, exhibition, publication, and training. The American Folklife Center was made permanent in 1999. The Center includes the Archive of Folk Culture, which was established in the Library of Congress in 1928, and is now one of the largest collections of ethnographic material from the United States and around the world. On this Web site you will find not only an introduction to the activities of the American Folklife Center and its Archive of Folk Culture but also news about programs and activities, online presentations of multiformat collections, and other resources to facilitate folklife projects and study. The American Folklife Center aims to be the national center for folklife documentation and research, and this Web site offers a virtual destination for those who cannot visit the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. ACE FOLKLIFE CLUB is now a contract managed by TJ Morris Organization with the logo brand trade mark and service mark created by Theresa J. Thurmond Morris ACE Folklife has been represented in Ohio County, Kentucky since January, 2007 where the first meeting was held at the Veteran’s building in the Ohio County Park Area. Folklife is an integral part of all American lives and an essential part of the National Library. The story of America is reflected in the cultural productions of ordinary people who live everyday lives, from cooking and eating meals, to the activities of work and play, to religious observances and seasonal celebration. Folklife includes the songs we sing, the stories we tell, and the crafts we make. The American Folklife Center was created in 1976 by the U.S. Congress to “preserve and present” this great heritage of American folklife through programs of research, documentation, archival preservation, reference service, live performance, exhibition, publication, and training. The American Folklife Center was made permanent in 1999. The Center includes the Archive of Folk Culture, which was established in the Library of Congress in 1928, and is now one of the largest collections of ethnographic material from the United States and around the world. On this Web site you will find not only an introduction to the activities of the American Folklife Center and its Archive of Folk Culture but also news about programs and activities, online presentations of multiformat collections, and other resources to facilitate folklife projects and study. The American Folklife Center aims to be the national center for folklife documentation and research, and this Web site offers a virtual destination for those who cannot visit the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Anthroposophy, a philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner, postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world accessible to direct experience through inner development. More specifically, it aims to develop faculties of perceptive imagination, inspiration and intuition through cultivating a form of thinking independent of sensory experience, and to present the results thus derived in a manner subject to rational verification. In its investigations of the spiritual world, anthroposophy aims to attain the precision and clarity attained by the natural sciences in their investigations of the physical world. Anthroposophical ideas have been applied practically in many areas including Steiner/Waldorf education, special education (most prominently through the Camphill Movement), agriculture, medicine, ethical banking, organizational development, and the arts. TheAnthroposophical Society has its international center at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. The early work of the founder of anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner, culminated in his Philosophy of Freedom (also translated as The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity and Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path). Here, Steiner developed a concept of free will based on inner experiences, especially those that occur in the creative activity of independent thought. By the beginning of the twentieth century, Steiner's interests were leading him further and further into explicitly spiritual areas of research. These studies were of interest to others who were already oriented towards spiritual ideas; among these was the Theosophical Society. Theosophy was in vogue in Esotericism in Germany and Austria during that time. From 1900 on, thanks to the positive reception given to his ideas, Steiner's involvement with the Theosophical Society confirmed and reinforced his spiritual identity as a charismatic seer; this became key to breaking the feeling of imposed silence that characterized his earlier life. It was here that he was to find not only the woman who was to become his esoteric partner and second wife, Marie von Sievers (owner of the Berlin Theosophical headquarters), but the answer to the question asked in his Autobiography '...how can I find the way to express in terms understandable to my contemporaries what I inwardly perceive directly as the truth?' Steiner took a leading role in the Theosophical Society's section in Germany, becoming its secretary in 1902. During the years of his leadership, membership increased dramatically, from a few individuals to sixty-nine Lodges. By 1907, a split between Steiner and the mainstream Theosophical Society had begun to become apparent. While the Society was oriented toward an Eastern and especially Indian approach, Steiner was trying to develop a path that embraced Christianity and natural science. The split became irrevocable when Annie Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society, began to present the child Jiddu Krishnamurtias the reincarnated Christ. Steiner strongly objected and considered any comparison between Krishnamurti and Christ to be nonsense; many years later, Krishnamurti also repudiated the assertion. Steiner's continuing differences with Besant led him to separate from theTheosophical Society Adyar; he was followed by the great majority of the membership of the Theosophical Society's German Section, as well as members of other national sections. By this time, Steiner had reached considerable stature as a spiritual teacher. He spoke about what he considered to be his direct experience of the Akashic Records (sometimes called the "Akasha Chronicle"), thought to be a spiritual chronicle of the history, pre-history, and future of the world and mankind. In a number of works, Steiner described a path of inner development he felt would let anyone attain comparable spiritual experiences. Sound vision could be developed, in part, by practicing rigorous forms of ethical and cognitive self-discipline, concentration, and meditation; in particular, a person's moral development must precede the development of spiritual faculties. Second Goetheanum, seat of the Anthroposophical Society. In 1912, the Anthroposophical Society was founded. After World War I, the Anthroposophical movement took on new directions. Projects such as schools, centers for those with special needs,organic farms and medical clinics were established, all inspired by anthroposophy. In 1923, faced with differences between older members focusing on inner development and younger members eager to become active in the social transformations of the time, Steiner refounded the Society in an inclusive manner and established a School for Spiritual Science. As a spiritual basis for the refounded movement, Steiner wrote the mantric poem Foundation Stone Meditation expressing the aspects of the human soul in relation to the outer and spiritual worlds. Steiner died just over a year later, in 1925. The Second World War temporarily hindered the anthroposophical movement in most of Continental Europe, as the Anthroposophical Society and most of its daughter movements (e.g. Steiner/Waldorf education) were banned by the National Socialists (Nazis); virtually no anthroposophists ever joined the National Socialist Party. By 2007, national branches of the Anthroposophical Society had been established in fifty countries, and about 10,000 institutions around the world were working on the basis of anthroposophy. In the same year, the Anthroposophical Society was called the "most important esoteric society in European history." Etymology of anthroposophy The term anthroposophy is from the Greek, from human", and "wisdom". It is listed by Nathan Bailey (1742) as meaning "the knowledge of the nature of man" (OED). Authors whose usage predates Steiner's include occultist Agrippa von Nettesheim, alchemist Thomas Vaughn (Anthroposophia Theomagica), and philosophers Immanuel Hermann Fichte and Robert Zimmermann(Anthroposophie im Umriss); Steiner wrote his doctoral thesis on Fichte and attended Zimmermann's classes at the University of Vienna. Steiner began using the word to refer to his philosophy in the early 1900s as an alternative to theosophy, the term for Madame Blavatsky's movement, itself from the Greek, with a longer history with a meaning of "divine wisdom". Spiritual knowledge and freedom Anthroposophical proponents aim to extend the clarity of the scientific method to phenomena of human soul-life and to spiritual experiences. This requires developing new faculties of objective spiritual perception, which Steiner maintained was possible for humanity today. The steps of this process of inner development he identified as consciously achieved imagination, inspiration and intuition. Steiner believed results of this form of spiritual research should be expressed in a way that can be understood and evaluated on the same basis as the results of natural science: "The anthroposophical schooling of thinking leads to the development of a non-sensory, or so-called supersensory consciousness, whereby the spiritual researcher brings the experiences of this realm into ideas, concepts, and expressive language in a form which people can understand who do not yet have the capacity to achieve the supersensory experiences necessary for individual research." Steiner hoped to form a spiritual movement that would free the individual from any external authority: "The most important problem of all human thinking is this: to comprehend the human being as a personality grounded in him or herself." For Steiner, the human capacity for rational thought would allow individuals to comprehend spiritual research on their own and bypass the danger of dependency on an authority. Steiner contrasted the anthroposophical approach with both conventional mysticism, which he considered lacking the clarity necessary for exact knowledge, and natural science, which he considered arbitrarily limited to investigating the outer world. Nature of the human being The Representative of Humanity, detail of a sculpture in wood by Rudolf Steiner and Edith Maryon.Main article: Anthroposophical view of the human being Steiner saw human beings as consisting of a physical body of a nature common to the inorganic world; a life body (also called the etheric body), which all living creatures (including plants) possess; the bearer ofsentience or consciousness (also called the astral body), held also by all animals; and the ego, which anchors the faculty of self-awareness unique to human beings. Anthroposophy describes a broad evolution of human consciousness as follows. Early stages of human evolution possess an intuitive perception of reality, including a clairvoyant perception of spiritual realities. Humanity has progressively evolved an increasing reliance on intellectual faculties and a corresponding loss of intuitive or clairvoyant experiences, which have become atavistic. The increasing intellectualization of consciousness, initially a progressive direction of evolution, has led to an excessive reliance onabstraction and a loss of contact with both natural and spiritual realities. However, to go further requires new capacities that combine the clarity of intellectual thought with the imagination, and beyond this with consciously achieved inspiration and intuitive insights. Anthroposophy speaks of the reincarnation of the human spirit: that the human being passes between stages of existence, incarnating into an earthly body, living on earth, leaving the body behind and entering into the spiritual worlds before returning to be born again into a new life on earth. After the death of the physical body, the human spirit recapitulates the past life, perceiving its events as they were experienced by the objects of its actions. A complex transformation takes place between the review of the past life and the preparation for the next life. The individual's karmic condition eventually leads to a choice of parents, physical body, disposition, and capacities that provide the challenges and opportunities that further development requires, which includes karmically chosen tasks for the future life. Steiner described some conditions that determine the interdependence of a person's lives, or karma. Evolution The anthroposophical view of evolution considers all animals to have evolved from an early, unspecialized form. Human beings are the least specialized animal, and as such maintain the closest connection to the archetypal form. Christ between Lucifer and Ahriman The anthroposophical view is that good is found in the balance between two polar, generally evil influences on world and human evolution. Two spiritual adversaries endeavour to tempt and corrupt humanity: Lucifer and his counterpart Ahriman. Steiner described both positive and negative aspects of both figures. Lucifer is the light spirit, which "plays on human pride and offers the delusion of divinity", but also motivatescreativity and spirituality; Ahriman is the dark spirit, which tempts human beings to "...deny link with divinity and to live entirely on the material plane", but also stimulates intellectuality and technology. Both figures exert a negative effect on humanity when their influence becomes misplaced or one-sided, yet their influences are necessary for human freedom to unfold. Each human being has the task to find a balance between these opposing influences, and each is helped in this task by the mediation of the Representative of Humanity, also known as the Christ being, a spiritual entity who stands between and harmonizes the two extremes.

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