Heka is gnostic in nature, and likely was a heavy influence on Greek Gnosticism. In Heka, one of the reasons you work to awaken the Ka is that it shares in the omniscience of the gods. Not only could the Heka discern the proper condition for Maat at any given time, but they could even foresee future incidents of chaos and set down guidance to provide for that.

Mystics of all traditions seem to seek “union” with their gods. In Heka, they seek union and also individuation. There were rites for establishing oneself as an “elder” on the council of Maat, sort of a demigod if you will, but it did require purification to rid yourself of excessive Isfet or disorder.

Like the Greek “Titan.” Yes, becoming like a hero god to your descendants, and well, your entire culture. It’s what makes Heka spooky to orthodox thinkers. The equal reverence shown to the self as well as the gods.

The animistic imagery associated with alchemy also arose in part from the view of Egyptian Heka. The action of even the smallest things arose from their Ka, and alchemy was just awakening the Ka of that herb or animal part. So the description of watching the fire or the mixture as if it were a creature was likely heavily influenced by Heka.

What we know of Heka is mostly what it has left as traces either in the Egyptian culture and their ancestral ruins, or in the influence they exerted through contact with other cultures, like the Greeks and Romans.

As I awaken the Ka, do I also imprint my intention on it for a desired outcome to enact a change I want? Ah, interesting question. Heka works more like cabalism. In cabalism, you practice the meditations and rituals that reveal the various sephiroth to you, and through your having witnessed and come to understand those levels of reality, you gain insight into how best to influence and gain from “ordinary” reality. In Heka, through walking the path of Osirus or Horus, and thus awakening those parts of your personal Ka, you gain insight into the parts of the world they govern, and thus influence over them.

So more about finding it in the world and drawing it to you? Finding the sense in you and seeing the “unseen” in the world, and thus by seeing the infrastructure being able to interact with and influence that.

So perhaps an example. Name something you would seek to understand and thus get a handle on? Inter relationships with people. Ah, this would be one of two paths. The path of Isis or that of Osirus. The two blend into each other, and by initiation into the path as well as enacting the rites of let’s say Isis, you awaken the omniscience of Isis in your own Ka. You come to know as she knows.

It’s fully within the spirit of the original Heka to reconstruct and elaborate upon it as there were many traditions and they all arose as observation of the world seemed to require. And as for the Hekau, well we all have innate conceptual associations anyway, so like dream messages you can describe your understanding of one of the many gods and thus attune yourself more to that god.

I was thinking you could use a modern icon/person/character in the same way. You indeed could, as long as this image allowed for Maat. It couldn’t effectively be used if it denied the unity of the Ka.

They had dream temples, not unlike the Greeks, though perhaps being less “urban” about things. In fact, the cynic “dogs” could easily be seen as Heka aligned with Anubis.

Dogs? Yes, it was a symbol in cynic philosophy. They believed much of human establishment and behaviour was unnatural and foolish, full of hubris. They believed real wisdom was found in nature and human nature. Though they were originally called dogs by other philosophers, they liked and adopted the name, and even started barking at those who they felt were just engaging in empty intellectual pretense.

The cynic “dogs” as Heka aligned to the dog god of death? Interesting thought, no?

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

In Heka, they believed that their culture had to hold to its traditions, as the introduction of foreign policies and practices would disturb Maat. Perhaps an early model of what they feel they are just now discovering? To me, it seems our leading edge scientists are doing a lot of reinventing the wheel, though unearthing the physical basis for these things will likely have benefits as well.

Some quick catch up… Heka is Egyptian magic. Egyptians had no word for religion. Though Egypt is now Islamic, their culture still influences even those views. Ka is the broad domain of being or soul, and Heka practices are activating or reawakening the soul. The motivations and goals behind Heka are all understandable on a scale between order and chaos, Maat or Isfet.

There have been many traditions of Heka through Egyptian history and what we might consider prehistory. Heka practice is primarily pragmatic. The whole world is viewed in the terms of Maat, which could be compared to the world view of empirical science if modern science had a less restrictive view of things, and ritual and prescribed remedies for circumstances and conditions were derived from observation of the balance of things in the world around you.

There could be terrific application of these ideas in treatment of psychiatric “disorders.” Thinking specifically of schizophrenia and “borderline” personalities, but also think that the secrets to the “cure” might best be revealed by those with the “disease.” I fully agree. Some people I have met in person are somewhat amazed by how well I seem to handle the “insane.” But I can influence these people for the simple reason that I just see their world, see the world as they see it. I find how their statements and observations and behaviours make sense. It’s not very complicated, because their world was already there even before they “got sick.”

I had exactly the same experience with adults with profound mental retardation and psychiatric diagnoses as well. It should be used more often.

The core of empathy and compassion. Yes. Awakening ones Ka could be said to be a profound act of compassion as well as an ambitious power grab. The way to awaken the Ka was to walk the path of the gods, which were more like primordial parents than supernatural lords and masters. Basically the advice would be, walk a mile in the shoes of the cat to grow in your understanding of your own Ka.

I ponder cat-whisperer. Well, a practitioner of Heka is basically an everything whisperer.

Would a ritual be like the Native American shamans and their animal masks? Definitely would have things in common, but less ecstatic and more analytical. More like a priesthood in that sense than the Native American shamans were.

I ponder Cosmos-whisperer. They did make offerings to the gods, but those were just as much for the purposes of putting you in the shoes of that spiritual power as they were any effort to appease that god. You offered Anubis anise seed based incense to awaken that part of your Ka, as well as to contact and communicate with Anubis.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

Could you give us a bit of an historical time-frame for this way of thinking? Are we talking ancient Egypt? Like 4000-5000 years ago? Well, the chronology is spotty, but it ended more or less with the Roman subjugation.

Is the cosmology represented in hieroglyphics then? It is indeed and differently in different necropoleis. There were multiple traditions of Heka even when it was a current tradition, and it shares something in common with Native American practice. Heka was a word used synonymously with medicine. One reason for engaging in Heka rituals was that they were healing. They could restore balance between you and the god that you have Isfet with.

I ponder Native American healing circles, mandalas. Hieroglyphs could be compared to mandalas easily, just without the circle motif.

People considered these “gods” to be very, very close, didn’t they, not just some lofty entity far, far away? Exactly. The gods weren’t hiding in the machine. They were the machine, not beyond it. The only thing beyond creation in the Egyptian tradition is chaos or meta-creation. In fact, Egyptian traditions likely did migrate to the Greeks and beyond.

A Heka, which was also the name of their priests, was a student of astrology as well as mathematics and medicine. Pythagorean mathematics to be specific. Of course as with many migrating deities, the male god Heka, as concepts were gods also in the Egyptian tradition, became the female goddess Hekate, and went from a pillar of the community to a spooky foreign power. Though to describe Heka as male is generally incorrect. Gender identity is rather mysterious in Egyptian lore.

Goddess of magic? Yes. Memetic influences could be considered gods, including their ability to influence beyond just the individuals holding the concept.

I haz a sacrifice 4 U? Actually appropriate, perhaps Bastet now enjoys cheezeburger sacrifices.

That would explain why people believed some things should not be spoken. You would be creating a god. Or creating a demon. That was another purpose Heka was used for, repelling foreign demons. Interesting and actually true. A lie can spread very quickly. Most public personas ascribed to our celebrities these days would have more of the demonic than the deific, even to the illicit sexualization aspect.

Heka could perhaps be at least intuited these days, if not reconstructed, from the Hekau. Hekau are hieroglyphic phrases. Statements in the picture concepts that illustrated their original world view. When describing an abstract idea involved the more or less direct depiction of elements of your environment, seeing the unity of the Ka probably wasn’t a huge stretch of the imagination.

I wonder if it has any relation to haiku. I suppose that is possible. The Asian Kanji are more or less hieroglyphic in nature. Some similar form found throughout nature, and more and more archaeological evidence is pointing to culture having existed well before current reckoning thought it did.

Something like a Jungian archetype? Indeed.

“Unity of the Ka” feels to me like an isomorph. The eye, for example, found in many species of different phyla and orders. Exactly. Even current neuroscience supports a simple observation. The patterns formed in our brain that give rise to our experiences can be reconfigured, and are at times reconfigured in what might seem to be a spontaneous way. We do have “artifacts” or sensory webs that primarily exist only in what we think of as a narrow subset of the animal kingdom. Humans do have an echo location sense, and it can even be reactivated.

“Reptilian brain”? Yes, or Apophis brain? Sobek brain? Seen from the point of view of Heka.

So through Heka, the priest, for lack of a better term, activates or re-activates connections with the natural world, and then can intuit the Maat or order that either currently exists or needs to be restored.

Opens the gates of resonance? Exactly.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

Maat forms the backdrop for the practice of Heka. The opposite of Maat is called Isfet, the Egyptian word for chaos or disorder.

So Heka is magic? Heka is Egypt’s tradition of magic, and likely did influence the magi, as well as being influenced by them.

So Heka is order and Isfet is disorder? Actually, Maat is order, Isfet is disorder. Heka is activating or awakening the Ka. Ka is personality, sort of like karma. It is the mold of the spirit. The shape ones spirit takes.

The practice of Heka comes from the creation model layed out in Egyptian tradition. The gods in Egyptian tradition are not necessarily any more holy than humans or anything like that. They are older and wiser and more mature, more powerful, but in the Egyptian world everything and everyone is more or less equal. The only thing diverting from that being the measure of Isfet clouding your Ka.

So if you visualize a mandala with the normal world as the center and the Egyptian heavens on the circumference, each figure in the mandala would all have one thing in common. They are all Ka. Ka as a noun, not as an identity. The role of the gods in the Egyptian world view is preservation of Maat, and application of Isfet on a case by case basis. Mostly, Isfet was to be kept to a minimum. If Maat is the ancient Egyptian creed, then Heka is the ancient Egyptian ritual.

A little chaos can add to beauty. Indeed, and Maat is destroyed with a total absence of Isfet. It arose from the chaos so has chaos for its essence or substance if not being governed by that. That’s what sets ones Ka apart from the general mass of spiritual energy, the potential for self-awareness of pseudo-autonomy.

So Heka is the body or insight and ritual derived from observation of Maat that leads to greater awakening of one’s personal Ka. For those possessed of a more awakened Ka, they gain more ability to interact with and influence the gods. But in order to do that they have to walk in their shoes so to speak, thus the origin of the Egyptian mystery rites. By understanding the ways of Anubis through ritual re-enactment, you come into closer contact with, and gain more influence over, Anubis.

Heka would be seen as a left hand path, because of its views of the self and divinity. They would view the effort to abandon or eliminate the self as unwise, even misguided, and their attitudes toward the gods were reverent but not worshipful in the popular sense used today.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

Yet sometimes there are unrelated and surprising occurrences, paths crossing, apparitions, and sudden new elements. There are no events. You have never actually experienced an event as you think of them. There are only waves, ripples or tones, words at least metaphorically speaking, and these tones struck by the contact between any two morphic fields give rise to the apparent pattern of activities and circumstances we call events. Otherwise, all the energy going into the event would not take any specific form. It instead forms a background tone that you could call the absolute or the zero point.

Morphic fields colliding. Yes, like bell and clapper.

I have a koan for you. What is the sound of two morphic fields connecting? Event! All of life. Yes, everything. So the part of the event you recognize as stemming from your own involvement of intention is there even though that can be confusing at times. But the wave, or sound of that event, ripples through all other morphic fields also, and manifests in an “interpreted” form in that field or small set of fields. Everyone and everything feels everything you do.

We should be mindful not to shatter glass houses? Well, yes that is true, but not too mindful. Because just as on the one hand your every intention has infinite consequences, your every action also arose from infinite intentions that came before. This communicated sound wave energy is everyone’s energy. It’s the metaphorical air we breathe. Air needs all its elements, even those that if isolated by themselves we consider being repellent, stinky.

All needed to create the whole, yes. Just as people have to flatulate, they have to make mistakes.

So the two things to take away from this are as follows. Understand your life as an energy that is an event that originates from your centre, and realize that by your choices you are engineering the means for all future choices you might make. The consequences of that cake you ate won’t come later. It’s already happened. The cake you ate combined with the argument you had, combined with a stupid commercial you watched on TV, will come together to create an event in what you perceive as your future, especially if you remain disengaged, remain asleep.

Karma? Momentum? Karma, momentum, snoring in bed, all the same thing. Crisis is just a bout of restless leg syndrome. It’s still your leg causing it.

So yes, if I toss this pen on my desk across the living room, it might seem meaningless, but no event occurs in a vacuum, and it will add energy to a forming pattern that will result in an outcome.

Want to know your future? You already do, because anything that moves your body will move your mind, which will then express as action, which will manifest consequences. Your individual thoughts do not by themselves predict your future. They can’t. You are of too many minds for that. It’s your heart that predicts your future. The overall feeling that you tend to describe to others as ideas such as “life is good” or “life is hell.” Do you know why your life is hell? If so, it will remain hell. Some people would claim that they do not know why their life is hell, but then if I ask them why they suffer so, they won’t have any problem at all telling me that.

So they already know the answer? Yes. If you move your mind out of that state, then the problems cease. You didn’t solve them. They actually didn’t even exist. You just shifted your own morphic field.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

New forms arise in one of two ways, communication or realization.

Realization is like birth. A new form arises from the nature of the originating source. In the case of being human, realization arises through contact with other beings and the events that are just simply the extension of those beings forms. You in a sense become infected or impregnated with a hybrid mass of intention.

Creative cooties. Yes, and with one dis-ease you have a longer life. With no dis-ease you have a sterile life, shorter life.

To go with the infection metaphor, communication comes from introducing the vector or association into the environment. You have the seed or intention of the thing, and you ground it through action in the morphic field around you, and in time it assumes the imagined form. That’s the tricky part. It assumes the imagined form, not the intended form.

That’s why people come to see what they built and are surprised as it wasn’t what they intended? Exactly. You actually have no ability to create your exact intention.

Whenever you intend something your imagination always surfaces, because this is the field in which intention can occur. All imagination is a combination of both personal and borrowed energy.

This is why idea and execution are very different. Yes.

Suggest a deeper intention — something “far more deeply interfused” — to quote Wordsworth? Indeed.

This is why the ‘dream’ is so important in successful people’s lives more than the intention to be famous or rich, etc.? Yes.

Your brain is constantly dreaming. Always. There is no difference between dreaming brain activity and waking brain activity by themselves. Taken as their own processes these are the same thing. This is even why we speak of daydreaming. What differentiates waking activity from sleeping dreams is while awake your brains activity is modulated by the information of “form-ation” fields around you. Contact between morphic fields right there. So simple it goes unnoticed, and you utilize this contact to organize a response to what you are experiencing. That is the resonance part of the picture.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~

The behaviour of your flesh and blood biology is not itself strictly dictated by its inherent structure. Outside substances and even internal stresses can alter your DNA, either activating a code that was dormant or blocking a code that was active. This outside influence is simply outside intention. If we can create what amounts to DNA even out of things that aren’t “naturally” DNA, then how is anything outside of the realm of intention?

Well, how this all comes together is simple. We have male humans, right? And we have male humans because there were earlier male humans. They share a morphic filed in common. Because there were some before, there can be more.

No new males. Actually, yes new males. Because we have male humans because there were male simians, and before that there were male mammals, and before that there were male insects, and male structures in plants, all sharing a common field.

‘Made in God’s image’ could then be translated as, god = universes intention? Indeed.

Now it traces even farther back than that, but as you go back the fields begin to lose the qualities we recognize as form. They don’t describe objects as we know them. Instead, they form a big mass of associated energy or impulses.

The morphic fields evolve? They do through contact with each other.

Resonance? Yes. But what is that part of our experience we call thought but a big mass of abstract impulses only suggestive of form? You are in touch with your own morphic resonance, but we just call it your life. You are in touch with your own morphic field, but we just call it your mind.

This is why body types are so closely linked to personality? Yes indeed, and why seemingly radical alterations can show up even before the actual “event” that we recognize as an ailment say. Your own morphic field doesn’t just contain your physical body. It forms a sort of mandala that also contains the potential forms your body can move into. It dictates motion and describes relationship to time and space. This even shows up in your brain, and is why scientists are coming to some of the strange conclusions they are about consciousness.

So, the morphic field precedes the egg AND the chicken? It does. You aren’t just thinking the thoughts of your current self, but also of your future selves, and your past selves. The structure, if it were drawn out, might look rather much like a neuron, and this formation forms the seed for all future options you have, as well as provides roots into the energy field that can also grow and change configuration. It’s those changing links to the past that create the ripple effect that leads to our future like a person rolling over in their sleep.

Does intention fit in here? Intention is the fit. It is the form and the energy that guides any assumption of any specific configuration.

The steering wheel? Yes, like the dan-tien in tai chi, or the hara if you prefer the Japanese term, the sacral chakra.

The center of gravity. Yes. As you practice tai chi you come to experience for yourself how all of your bodies motions and intended motion organize themselves around that one seemingly still or empty point, and you also come to experience what you are missing if you align poorly with this centre. It’s like having two almost entirely different bodies.

Well, the same applies on the intentional level. In a sense, you can “reincarnate” in this life. Even do it multiple times before your biological life span is concluded, and in fact you actually do, often without wanting to. People resist change. So instead of moving into it, they stumble and fall into it. This uses up more potential energy than absolutely necessary, but you “evolve” one way or another. The collective force of the universe itself sees to that.

I trust the collective force of the universe. It’s a good thing to trust. It’s why you live and breathe and have enjoyed anything in the first place. The collective force of the universe, or rather collective form / intention.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~