Transition from Fourth To Fifth World: The "Thunder Beings" Return
by
Richard Boylan, Ph.D.
(c)1998
At the Native American Star Knowledge Conference held in South Dakota in
June, 1996, senior Oglala Sioux spiritual elder Looks-For-Buffalo (Floyd
Hand) revealed that ancient prophecies are now coming true. These
prophecies, heralding immense changes for humankind, point to the imminent
return of the Star Nations, what the white man would call extraterrestrial
cultures.
The Hopi, Sioux and other tribal traditions hold that at this point in
history, we are about to transition from the current pattern of
civilization to a radically-different way of living. This change is so
profound that it is called the passage from the Fourth (current) World to
the Fifth World! By "world", the native traditions refer to a slow gradual
rise of the human population to a period of widely-shared cultural and
technological high civilization. The implications of these indigenous
teachings are staggering. For this means that we humans have gone through
three previous Worlds, in which our ancestors rose to a peak of civilized
living, only to crash back to a primitive level.
From halfway around the Earth comes additional corroborative information.
Mac Ruka, a Maori spiritual teacher, has toured America at the behest of
his Maori people to share their ancient history. Ruka tells of a
civilization, Mu, from which the Maori came. This civilization once
reached ascendancy in the Melanesian Pacific, before it destroyed itself
and its island empire sank beneath the ocean. Fragmentary memory of this
empire still resides in the mythic history of the West as a place called
Lemuria. And what of that other high civilization, Atlantis, which the
Greek philosopher Plato stated he learned about from Egyptian historians?
Were Atlantis and Lemuria the Second and Third Worlds which the Native
American oral histories refer to?
If our present "Fourth-World" high civilization is about to fall and be
swept away, we would do well to learn from the history held by these
native teachers. For, as philosopher George Santayana has said, "Those who
do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Let us examine in more
detail what those master keepers of oral tradition, the Hopi, reveal about
our previous Worlds. [1]
The First World was called Tokpela ("Endless Space"). The First People
understood that although they had human parents, their real parents were
the universal entities which had created them through their parents:
Father Sun and Mother Earth. Each learned that they had two aspects: as a
member of an earthly family and clan, and as a citizen of the great
universe. Gradually the First People forgot to respect their creator. They
began to use the vibratory centers of their body [chakras] only for
earthly purposes. They began to perceive differences and separation
between people and animals, and between different ethnic, linguistic and
religious groups. The animals began to draw away from people. The First
People began to divide up and draw away from each other. They became
warlike and fought. The First World's fatal flaw, then, was forgetting the
unifying Oneness of all creation.
But there were a few in every group who held to the original spiritual
enlightened path. These were directed by Spirit to migrate to a special
underground location. Then, the First World was destroyed by fire:
volcanoes erupting and fire raining down from the sky, until there was
nothing left but the few faithful people inside the Earth.
After a long time the world cooled off, and a Second World emerged. There
was land where water had been, and water where land had been. When the
faithful remnant emerged from underground, there was nothing to remind
them of the previous wicked world.
They emerged into the Second World, Tokpa ("Dark Midnight"), a big land.
The people spread across the land. They communicated telepathically. But
this time, the animals stayed apart from them. As the Second World people
developed material goods to barter, they became greedy, and traded for
things they didn't need and became avaricious. They began to quarrel and
fight, and wars broke out. The Second World's fatal flaw, then, was
absorption in greed and materialism.
But again, there were a few people who kept faithful to the path of
spiritual awareness. And, again, Spirit directed these people to go to a
safe underground place. Then Spirit commanded the twin entities who
safeguard the Earth's North and South Poles to leave their posts and stop
keeping the Earth properly rotating. The Earth teetered off balance, spun
around crazily, and rolled over twice. Mountains plunged into seas with a
great splash; seas and lakes sloshed over the land. Then the world became
cold and lifeless, and froze into solid ice.
Eventually, Spirit ordered the polar entities back to the ends of the
Earth's axis. With a great splintering of ice and a shudder, the Earth
began rotating again. The ice melted, and the world warmed to life.
Spirit created the Third World, Kuskurza [meaning lost over time][Mu?],
arranging land and seas, mountains and plains, and all forms of life. Then
Spirit sent a message to the few faithful people underground that it was
time to emerge. These survivors multiplied and created great cities,
eventually countries, and a whole civilization. But then they became
completely occupied with their own earthly plans. They created craft
shaped like a shield that could fly, and used them to fly to big cities
and attack them. Soon many peoples and countries were engaged in aerial
warfare. These Third People also engaged in degraded sexual practices. The
Third World's fatalflaw, then, was misusing flight for aerial warfare and
misusing sex for promiscuity.
So Spirit directed the few people who lived according to wisdom that they
should build vessels and store food in them. Then rainwater was loosed all
over the Earth. Waves higher than mountains rolled in upon the land.
Continents broke asunder and sank beneath the seas.
Meanwhile, Spirit directed the faithful survivors to travel first to one,
then to another island, until finally they reached the Fourth World,
Tuwaqachi ("Complete World"). After they had hopscotched across the
islands to arrive in the Fourth World, those islands sank into the sea.
That Fourth World is this present world we live in. The survivors spread
across the broad lands, and gradually began building up the high
civilizations which surround us today. Since this Fourth World is the one
we have grown up in, we are aware of the behaviors of those in it. It can
accurately be said that, after an initial time of fidelity to the path of
wise consciousness, many have fallen into a low level of consciousness. In
fact, it can honestly be stated that many people of this Fourth World have
fallen into the fatal flaws of the three previous Worlds: forgetting the
Oneness of all creation, sinking into greed and materialism, and engaging
in promiscuity and aerial mass warfare. But we have added an additional
serious element: mass destruction of Earth and its ecological systems.
Thus, the Fourth World's fatal flaws are: all of the previous Worlds'
ones, plus ecocide, the killing of one's own environment.
And now this Fourth World is coming to an end. Some of the signs
indicating this are: extinctions of plant and animal species; poisoning of
lands by toxic materials; pollution of the seas; and thinning of the upper
atmosphere, "ozone holes", letting in excessive ultraviolet energy, which
in turn is killing plant life, causing cancer in humans, and die-offs of
phytoplankton, the source of 90%of the oxygen necessary for life. Global
warming is destabilizing climates, and upsetting the ecosystems that
plants, animals and humans live in.
As the Fourth World careens towards its end, a major new factor is
entering the equation: a widespread series of contacts by various
extraterrestrial cultures with human individuals. What are these
extraterrestrials communicating when they make contact? They express grave
concern for how we are killing our planet and therefore ourselves. Their
concern extends to the warfare we are almost continually engaged in, and
the other forms of violence going on: including people allowing whole
populations to die of starvation or disease, while affluent countries
stand by. The ETs want us to take responsibility and turn these situations
around, before it is too late.
But the extraterrestrials also have come to make us aware that we are not
alone; and that our rightful place is to be participants in the larger,
cosmic family of intelligent peoples spread across the universe. But first
we must eliminate our fatal flaws and reorder our lifestyle. We must live
with consciousness of our oneness with all creatures, and with the
Creative Source. We must lay aside our greed and materialism, and learn to
live more simply and without undue attachments. We must reject
promiscuity, and exercise love with consciousness of the sacredness of
sexuality. We must set aside aerial mass warfare, and begin to settle
differences by diplomacy, by setting good example, by positive peer
pressure, and by empowering all peoples. We need to start treating Earth
and its ecosystems like our Mother, with respect and cherishing.
As at the end of the previous Worlds, there will be a faithful remnant of
this Fourth World who will survive, while the others perish. The Hopi
Prophecies say what will happen soon. World War III will be started in the
East. Much of the United States will be destroyed, land and people, by
nuclear weapon radioactivity. The Four corners area around the Hopi will
be preserved as an oasis, to which refugees will flee. But what about
those elaborate underground shelters which FEMA [2] has been secretly
constructing for the elite to survive in during the coming Earth Changes?
The Hopi Prophecy says that underground shelters are a fallacy this time.
"It is only materialistic people who seek to make shelters. Those who are
at peace in their hearts already are in the great shelter of life."
What will the Fifth World to which we are headed be like? The Prophecy
gives a brief glimpse of what is in store. "Those who take no part in the
making of world division by ideology are ready to resume life in another
World, be they of the Black, White, Red or Yellow race. They are all one,
brothers [and sisters]." As for this Fourth World, "Material matters will
be destroyed by spiritual beings, who shall remain to create one world and
one nation under one power, that of the Creator." The Prophecy goes on to
declare the stage we are in now. "The emergence to the future Fifth World
has begun. It is being made of the humble people of little nations, tribes
and racial minorities. You can read this in the Earth itself. Plant forms
from previous Worlds are beginning to spring up as seeds. The same kind of
seeds are being planted in the sky as stars. The same kind of seeds are
being planted in our hearts. All these are the same." [3]
We are entering the time of Great Purification, as Earth prepares to
transition to the Fifth World. This is a period of Earth Changes: major
earthquakes, tidal waves, many volcanoes erupting, land subsidence,
emergence of new land, climatic changes, disease pandemics, and widespread
starvation. Catastrophes of human origin are also in the offing,
including: warfare involving weapons of mass destruction, including
nuclear, rioting and looting, collapse of monetary systems, and forced
migrations. As with the previous Worlds, there will be those who want to
cling to the old ways of the Fourth World and resist the need to change.
We see them all around us now. And just as surely there will be those who
seek to live in harmony with the rest of creation. Sensitive co-existence
with other life is not ecological romanticism or fuzzy metaphysics. It is
recognition of the true extent of family.
During this transition more than ever before, each of us is being called
to serve the Great Spirit, that Center of Consciousness from which
everything derives its being. Each of us has an important role during this
Great Purification. We need to help find ways for nations, races and
tribes to put aside differences, and join together for the good of
everyone. We need to help plant and animal species survive. We have to
bring to an end the pollution of Earth, and return to our proper role as
caretakers of Earth's ecosystems. We need to lay aside the "success"
lifestyle of greed and materialism, and learn to adopt a lifestyle of
"just enough" and "good enough". We need to move away from the twin
follies of promiscuity and puritanism, and learn to reverence sex as the
delightful yet sacred activity of appropriately joining opposites to
create a higher truth. And we need to lay aside the weapons of war, and
operate with that compassion, understanding and economic justice which
make for peace.
Where ultimately is this human voyage through a succession of Worlds
headed? The Prophecy says that at the center of the universe, there is a
place where all the nations originated. It is in the Star Nations galaxy.
Before we arrive there, we will transit through nine Worlds.
Native American tradition honors the existence of Thunder Beings. These
Thunder Beings are understood by Native Americans to be messengers from
the powers on high, the Star People (extraterrestrial visitors). The
Thunder Beings are a force for both dissolution and re-creation. In the
Plains Indian tradition, a person who has a visit by a Thunder Being, in
person, in vision or in dream, becomes a heyoka, a "contrary". [4] This
heyoka then customarily soon starts behaving in a way opposite to the
conventions of the dominant culture. The heyoka does so, precisely in
order to wake up society to see that there are other and fresher ways of
doing things. Thus, the heyokais the human counterpart of the Thunder
Beings, who repeatedly dissolve the existing order and fashion a new
arrangement from the pieces.
As we transition from the Fourth into the Fifth World, it occurs to me
that not all heyokasare Plains Indians. Some have yellow skin, others
black, others white. These heyokas of every color are experiencers, and
have been changed by their experience of extraterrestrial contact by
messengers from the sky (Thunder Beings). As modern-day heyokas,
experiencers are charged to live as active witnesses against the ignorance
and corruption of the Fourth World, and to live as witnesses of the Fifth
World which is emerging. In doing so, modern heyokas honor the Thunder
Beings, the extraterrestrials, who have come as cosmic midwives to help us
birth the Fifth World.
And there are others, too, who have not had a personal extraterrestrial
encounter, but who are actively helping humanity move towards cosmic
citizenship, and helping usher in the Fifth World society. These are
heyokas as well.
In Winter, 1996, high in the Rockies west of Fort Collins, Colorado, a
Star Visions Conference was convened by Lakota-Dakota spiritual advisor
Standing Elk. There numerous speakers talked about our imminent transition
from the current Fourth World to a new Fifth World. On the evening of
November 9th, Conference ceremonial leadership switched from Native
American males to the women. A Cherokee grandmother recited Crazy Horse's
prophecy about these very times, as the Old Age (Fourth World) closes.
Then, after a series of moving prayers and ritual declarations, the
grandmother elders made a startling official ceremonial declaration: the
old era (Fourth World) was ended, and the new age (Fifth World) was being
born! A joyous explosion of tumultuous celebration broke out all over the
conference auditorium. After a half-hour, the grandmother elders were
finally able to call the conference back to order. The elders then
declared that this new Fifth World would have as its hallmark the
attributes of positive feminine energy. They explained that the Fourth
World, which had been hallmarked by male energy dominance, had had its
time, and made its contributions. Now that World is passing away. The
grandmothers pointed out that the Fifth World being born must not be one
of separatist female dominance, but rather one of forming a renewed
society of women and men as equals. Fifth World society is shaped by the
feminine paths of cooperation, nonaggression, inclusiveness,
noncompetitiveness, service rather than dominance, use of psychic and
spiritual gifts as well as technology, and living in conscious harmony
with nature's ways. [5]
The next morning, a major Colorado newspaper, the Rocky Mountain News,
carried the story that "a bold group at Estes Park Center [Star Vision
Conference] had declared an end to the current era and the beginning of a
Fifth Dimension [World] reality." Word of formal declaration of the birth
of the Fifth World was beginning to spread out to the wider society. This
process will take time. But it is important to realize that the Fifth
World has already begun. Just as the Period of Purification which will end
the Fourth World has already begun. During this painful but exciting
period of transition, each of us must stand up and choose: status quo, or
helping usher in the Fifth World.
Finally, permit me to share with you a personal Thunder Being experience,
and then my understanding of the role of heyokas in the Fifth World.
Some years ago I did a hanblechia (vision quest) in the desert near Death
Valley. During my isolation, I was presented with a image of a Thunderbird
formed by the shadow of a cloud on a snowfield atop a nearby mountain. The
image remained a long time, then finally dissipated. The skeptical part of
my mind at first tried to minimize this event. However, an hour later
another identical Thunderbird image appeared on the same snowfield, and
persisted a while. I could not escape the implication for my vision quest:
a calling to the path of the heyoka. Later my encounter with Star People
confirmed this heyoka journey.
Any and all of you who choose to work to bring in the Fifth World are in
my opinionheyokas. Recognize your calling in your behaviors. And then
let's get down to work in fashioning this Fifth World. The negative power
of the Fourth World cannot be annihilated. It can only be transmuted,by
being confronted by the simplicity and cosmic consciousness of the Fifth
World's midwives, the heyokas, you (if you wish). We are not alone in this
task. The Thunder Beings (ETs) have come to awaken us, test us, and help
us transmute. As heyokas, our role is to confront the Fourth World's
negative energies, channel and transmute them into cooperative, spiritual,
nonaggressive, inclusive, noncompetitive, service-oriented,
dominance-rejecting, psychic, highly-conscious, natural and harmonious
energies.
As we do so, and thereby evolve forward, the vibratory rate of the
biological and consciousness energy fields within us increases. I have
noticed that people of like vibratory rate can "hear" and feel each
other's inner consciousness level. And here is a miracle. A
higher-vibrating person (or heyoka, if you will) is like a tuning fork,
tending to create a higher matching (sympathetic) vibration rate in others
around who are functioning at a lower (Fourth World)
vibratory/consciousness level. Just like a soprano's high note can cause a
crystal glass to vibrate, heyokas can cause Fourth Worlders around them to
tend to increase their vibratory rate. But Fourth Worlders have choices.
They can go along with the higher vibratory/consciousness rate, and
transition into the Fifth World. Or they can resist and, like the glass,
"shatter", as their outlook is increasingly dissonant with the emerging
Fifth World. If they remove themselves from all contact with Fifth World
people, they may buy some little time, but in the end they will still have
to choose.
As for the heyoka midwives of the Fifth World, recognize that your role is
in harmony with your fundamental way of being, and is therefore
unavoidable. Therefore, I encourage you to operate at your highest
vibration, and help usher in the Fifth World.
[In a following article, Dr. Richard Boylan will explore some of the
aspects of what this Fifth World will look and operate like, which is now
being created.]
End Notes
1. Waters, F. (1963, 1977). The Book of the Hopi. Penguin Books: New York.
2. The Federal Emergency Management Agency.
3. Waters, ibid.
4. Thunderhorse, I. and Le Vie, D., Jr. (1990). Return of the
Thunderbeings. Bear & Co.
Publishing: Santa FE, NM.
5. Boylan, R. J., (1996). Worlds In Transition: Report on the Star Visions
Conference, Contact Forum 4:6 (Nov.-Dec.), 1-13
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