The Mind of a Planet – A few thoughts

Our Spiritual Master, Dr. George King, in his address entitled ‘If I could choose’, given on May 26th, 1968, made the following outstanding revelation:

The Earth herself could state, this morning, before you leave this church, “I’m going to start again. I want a new race of people on my back.” Shake a little bit and kill everything on the surface. And she would be peopled again. The Law of Karmic Procreation would see to it that she was not a barren planet for long. And if she was a barren planet for 10,000 years – which to her is just a moment or so – this would give her a chance to go inside of herself more, to meditate for a short while. She won’t do this – but she could.

In fact, this statement is more than just one revelation, it’s a whole stream of revelations – all within just a few sentences.

Despite having heard this address many times, I had never noticed the bit about the Earth being able to enter a state of meditation if she was uninhabited, which started a trail of thought. I do appreciate that no terrestrial can really understand the mind of a planet, but I don’t think that that should stop us from trying. After all, the more we understand the Earth, the more we can appreciate her true spiritual stature – and live in the light of her sacrifice.

We know from Dr. King and his cosmic contacts that the Earth is a living Goddess, who thinks, breathes and feels.

Let us try to imagine a Cosmic Master – the power, the wisdom, the experience, the knowledge, the compassion… and then let us multiply this many times, and we have a little glimpse, in our benighted ignorance, of what kind of an entity a planet is.

Meditation is the act of entering a superconscious state, or even a supraconscious state. Our Master states in his commentary in The Nine Freedoms, that in Cosmic Consciousness “all basic thought, as such, stops.” In other words, the conscious mind is not active as it is in normal life; it has been superseded by a higher aspect of mind, which is closer to pure Divine Spirit, which is above all mind.

In the extract above, we learn that there is a correlation between a planet being in meditation and a planet being barren. From this we might deduce that there is also a correlation between a planet not being in meditation and a planet not being barren.

The state of Cosmic Consciousness, as we understand it on Earth, is far from being the highest state of consciousness attainable in Creation. In fact, I think we can safely assume that our superconscious states are lower than the conscious state of a more advanced entity. In other words, a highly evolved Cosmic Master would have more wisdom in their conscious minds, than we would have even in the deepest state of meditation attainable on Earth. When such a Master entered their highest state of meditation attainable on their planet, this would be something vastly greater still.

If this is the case for a Cosmic Master, imagine how much more true this would be of a planet. The conscious mind of Earth may be something incomparably greater than the superconscious mind even of a Cosmic Master. And her state of meditation would be something so great as to be even more beyond our comprehension than this…!

Since being a barren planet appears to enable that planet to enter a meditative state – its equivalent of super- or supra- consciousness – we might guess that when not barren, the planet is in its equivalent of a conscious state. In other words, the natural manifestation of this planet – the Mother Earth – as we see it and experience it – is an aspect of her conscious mind.

But the natural manifestation of this planet is of course not just the plane of existence that we currently inhabit. We know of course of the six realms above this, and the four below. But that’s not the full story.

We know of at least one other realm – what our Master refers to as a “realm of waiting” – where most of us go immediately after death prior to going to the realm which we will ultimately reside upon while awaiting rebirth.

Furthermore, in his lecture on ‘The Seventh Blessing’ given in 1960, quoting from this Blessing, our Master elaborates as follows:

Thrice Blessed upon all of her hundred stages is she.

That phrase, “hundred stages”, that’s…. I believe it really means a hundred stages of manifestation, most of which are invisible or of etheric nature.

Does this mean a hundred planes of existence?

Might we be being given clues in these revelations, that some, or perhaps all, of these planes, or at least the planes that are inhabited, are aspects of the equivalent of the conscious mind of the Earth as an entity?

If this is the case, she is lowering her conscious mind to manifest it, or part of it, as planes low enough in vibration for us to reside upon. To her, even level seven is no doubt a lowly plane compared to her true potential.

But, much worse than this – consider the fact that she has even manifested her conscious mind as lower planes – the “hells” – environments vibrationally adapted to accommodate the most evil minds on Earth, so that these involved terrestrials can gain the experience they need in their evolutionary journey back to God. An utterly horrifying thought on the one hand – and a very inspiring thought on the other, as we begin to appreciate that little bit more, how great her sacrifice – her compassion – really is!

How would this line of thought apply to other planets in this system?

The civilizations on our planetary neighbors are so advanced as to be on higher planes of existence, as yet undetectable by terrestrial science. How much life there is on these planets on this plane of existence – our plane now – we do not know. Maybe some, maybe very little, maybe none.

If these planets are barren on this plane – in other words, their conscious minds are not manifesting at this plane, much if at all – their conscious minds would be functioning at a higher plane, where their planetary inhabitants reside.

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Looking at the Earth with these thoughts in mind can perhaps to some extent help to further invigorate our belief in the Earth as a great Goddess; can perhaps take us a little way from the “belief” stage, to the “realization” stage. We can’t really appreciate something unless we understand it, and we can’t understand something unless we at least try to think about it.

As far as the Mother Earth is concerned, not only should we think about her true nature and her sacrifice – but we have been commanded to do so by no less a being than the Master Jesus himself – towards the end of ‘The Seventh Blessing – Blessed is the Mother Earth’:

You are commanded to think of these things and spread them like seeds of Truth, abroad. Then, dear friends, you will be helping the Great One in the limitation She has accepted on your behalf.

What a wonderful promise – by thinking about the truths in ‘The Seventh Blessing’ – and spreading these truths – we, even in our current lowly state of evolution, can actually help the Goddess Earth!

About the author
Mark Bennett is the co-author of two books, both of which he wrote with international bestselling author Richard Lawrence, namely Prayer Energy and Gods, Guides and Guardian Angels, which was voted “best book on spirituality 2007” by readers of Kindred Spirit magazine. He is the youngest International Director of The Aetherius Society, whose teachings he chose as his spiritual path at an early age.