The Building 4th Podcast
Welcome to the Building 4th Podcast where we explore the Perennial Philosophy from various lenses including the psychological, theological, spiritual, conventional, and esoteric. Our points of emphasis include the Hebrew and Christian scriptures (including the non-canonical Christian texts), the Law of One material, the Enneagram, Process thought (ie Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism) integral theory, and developmental psychology.
Episodes
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Confederation Yahweh, part2
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
If we are to examine the Confederation Yahweh that is presented in the Law of One Material and in the Q’uo channelings1, we must first turn our focus upon the perennial spiritual questions that have always perplexed and delighted humanity.
Who or What is the Creator?
Why is there something (creation) rather than nothing?
Why does creation evolve?
How does creation evolve?
And to what end to creation evolve?
And what is the relationship between the Creator and creation?
All of these questions are interconnected, and each one deserves more depth and breadth that can be achieved here. However, what I offer comes from a sincere seeking and an open heart. I offer what I can based upon my background and limited points of view.
My working definition of the Creator, or God, or the Ground of Being, or Reality, is this:
The Creator is the who, the why, and the how of eternal becoming.
Through the development of Yahweh's gnosis of self as Logos, which is predicated upon the relationship between Yahweh as Creator and third-density Earth's planetary social complex (a communitarian organism) as Creator, the One Infinite Creator refines the Creator's Original Cognition to include a new twist. The Creator learns what it is like to enter into solidarity with Creatorself as third-density humanity. This step in the Creator's experience is called "Emmanuel" (Yod Heh Shin Vau Heh). Finally, with the Jehoshua Gestalt, the Creator through the medium of the sub-Logos (sun as Yahweh) comes into Earth's spacetime experience. This ushers in a new Archetype in the Creator's most articulated archetypal system of sevens. The new Archetype could be called Paschal Mystery and it is one of encounter. In other words, the Creator's own self-gnosis evolves in something like this:
I am [Yahweh]
I am with you all [Emmanuel]
I am in it with you all [Jesus]
I am within you all [Indwelling Presence]
I am you all with each other. [Panentheism in solidarity]
I am you all within each other [Panandroism within Panentheism]
I am you all within each other becoming I am [Panexperiential Relational Processism]
Friday Sep 29, 2023
Confederation Yahweh, part 1
Friday Sep 29, 2023
Friday Sep 29, 2023
Building 4th community member, Neal, gave a presentation on his exploration of the Confederation Yahweh based upon the Law of One material and the Q'uo channeling.
Images: coming soon
Friday Sep 29, 2023
The Ra-Ma Contact
Friday Sep 29, 2023
Friday Sep 29, 2023
Building 4th member, TYD, gave an interesting presentation on a spiritual community and its spiritual philosophy which inspired her. There is a lot of overlap with some of the Law of One material as well as the Confederation entity known as Oxal
Images: https://cosmicchrist.net/2023/09/29/__trashed/
Oxal as channeled by L/L Research: https://www.llresearch.org/search?q=oxal&in=ra-contact+transcripts&type=all
Friday Sep 29, 2023
UFO’s and Climate Change: Signs of the Cosmic Liminal Space
Friday Sep 29, 2023
Friday Sep 29, 2023
DeMarcus Tucker leads a discussion with the Building 4th community about some of the metaphysics described in the Law of One material and the reality of climate change on our 3rd density planet Earth. He explains that the UFO phenomenon (disclosure) and planetary warming are connected to Earth's movement into the 4th density vibrational conditions.
images: https://cosmicchrist.net/2023/09/29/audio-disclosure-and-climate-change/
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
The Perennial Tradition as Emergent Holism
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
The following was my presentation with the Institute of Global Transformation presents a (non-expert) overview of the Perennial Tradition. I try to describe the Perennial Tradition, present some distinctions in different views of Perennial Tradition, and how to embody any given teachings so that they are received, digested, and incarnated into a lived praxis.
Friday Sep 15, 2023
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Thoughtforms in Blessings and Rituals
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
This a brief introduction an important topic: Thoughtforms, sometimes called Elemetals.
Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
A Mental health therapist distills two decades of counseling plus a lifetime of seeking in different spiritual traditions, including the Law of One material, to offer a foundational teaching on the layers of human suffering and the way through.
Images can be found here:
https://cosmicchrist.net/2023/07/22/the-skin-of-primal-human-suffering-the-veil-of-forgetting-and-the-healing-balm-of-reconciliation-psychospiritual-tools-inspired-by-psychotherapy-and-the-law-of-one/
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Living Out Will and Faith in Our Daily Lives, part 2
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Friday Sep 01, 2023
This is another brief presentation on Will (desire) and Faith.
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Living Out Will and Faith in Our Daily Lives, part 1
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Friday Sep 01, 2023
This brief podcast episode is my attempt as a psychotherapist to translate good psychological techniques and the metaphysics of the Law of One material into a helpful practice.
Our Vision
Ra says, “The Original Desire is that all entities seek and become one” (20.27). The “oneing” arises across ever increasing complexity. Complexification is evolution, and evolution is gained “by the losing,” as Ra mentions in 93.24.
It is sometimes said that there are three boxes that lead to evolution: Order, Disorder, and Reorder. Individually and collectively, we have to a sense of ‘order’ so that we develop identity. Then, we have to go through ‘disorder’ so that the experience the expansion and transformation of our ‘order’ gave us. We arrive at ‘reorder,’ but not after considerable deconstruction. In a world whose sense-making worldviews and institutions are thoroughly in disorder, how can we hold the depth of meaning so that we live into new spaces of inner and collective freedom? Our podcast hopes to be a small voice in the desert (disorder) which attempts to integrate, not segregate; unite diversity, not demand uniformity; include the pieces of disorder so that we may transcend into reconstructing–reconciling–reordering–renewing–the ever ancient, and ever new.
Building 4th is the name of our small spiritual community that is centered around the cosmic law known as the Law of One.
What does “Building 4th” mean? [see below for further descriptions of each of these four points]
- Building the Fourth Density [1]
- Building the Fourth Energy Center [2]
- Building the Fourth Way [3]
- Building Forth On Our Spiritual Evolution [4]
Building 4th’s Fourth Way is to embrace an incarnational spirituality grounded in the immediacy of our life-situations.
- We seek to learn in order to serve: We affirm that whenever we study the Law of One or other spiritual material, whether on our own or as a group, this is for the purpose of crystallizing our spiritual principles and learning how to embody them.
- The mundane is sacred: We affirm that there is no separation between the ordinary world and divinity. For example, doing dishes is an act of the Creator knowing Itself and can be supremely sacred.
- Love is our metric: We affirm that any teaching or belief, whether conventional or esoteric, is valued by how well it helps us love and understand ourselves and others, including those others whom we perceive to be different or even antagonistic.
- The way down is the way up: We affirm that our ordinary lives are rich in opportunities to grow spiritually. We try to bring our full presence and open heart to each moment, even–and especially–the difficult ones. We are learning that there is no escaping the conditions that foster our personal growth and therefore our goal is to embrace each challenge wherever we discern that it is safe and appropriate to do so. And even in dangerous, unsafe situations, we want to hold the assurance that the creator’s love is with us and we are immortal spiritual beings. In short, the ascension process is not a journey up and out of this difficult third-density illusion, but rather a movement down and into it more.
- The importance of humility: Ra suggests that to become the creator, “[…]renders one the most humble servant of all, transparent in personality and able to know and accept others.” We trust that our understanding is ever evolving, thus we try to hold our own views and various identities with humility. We acknowledge that admitting we don’t know fully requires some level of vulnerability and this can be uncomfortable.
We are inspired by the perennial philosophy that undergirds most of the world’s major spiritual traditions. For us, one primary description of the perennial philosophy is the Law of One material.
We are also informed by the academic disciplines of psychology, sociology, and theology, as we endeavor to weave a healthy synthesis between the conventional and the cosmic, the exoteric and the esoteric, and micro and the macro [4].
We hope that you enter the adventure with us and that you’ll enjoy our podcast.