Chapter XVIII: THE LIGHT SUPERNAL

During darshan that afternoon I began to see auric lights around Baba. A ray of rainbow light seemed to connect me to him. As he returned to the Mandir, I consciously projected love and light to him. Or was it the love and light that he had already sent out to me that I found myself sending back? I wandered lost in this delightful exchange. Around him a golden aura of light danced joyously. Then, it rippled away from him in huge, billowing waves. I heard the Inner Sai speak to me as he performed some deep, psychic healing within me with a perfunctory flick of the hand.

“You are now free to love me,” he seemed to add, “and to receive, more fully, my love!”

On that dark day of such strange and disturbing energy, felt by so many at the ashram, something had shifted inside me and was clearing the way. Now I was finding him evermore on planes beyond the physical form and hearing him on other wave-lengths.

The rainbow lights around Baba reminded me of the bubbles I had seen on the day before his fifty-ninth birthday. Now, the bubbles had grown and formed themselves around his physical being as he walked across the sandy compound. They danced and shifted and danced some more. Was this another aspect of the cosmic dance he had led me through in the form of a poem?

My Soul is the Light in You,
You are the Light and the Dark.
In the dream that was Mine,
I was the Sun, Moon and Stars
And You the Light Supernal.

Once more, I found myself lost in the endless wonder of that experience. Since Swami had materialized the Shivalingam, the gift of inner sight seemed to be flowering within me. Wondrous lights formed a golden, arched halo around him as he returned towards the Mandir. The orange kafni moved gently in the cool, December breeze.

...the energies are all around;
Their patterns scintillate,
Making waves that abound in the dark;
They call a new tune
Whose lilt I cannot resist.

Everywhere, inside and outside me, the old was dying and the new was being born. The hologram of life itself was changing in microcosm and macrocosm right in that very moment. How many others must have been experiencing this holonomic shift? So many came to his feet. So many underwent these revelatory changes. So many returned to every corner of the Planet to carry his Light and his song with them to others.


There were other lights as well — the ones some Latin Americans had seen on the horizon early one morning at Prashanti. It seems that people regularly saw such lights in the sky around Baba’s ashram. Were they flying saucers or some other kind of mysterious phenomenon; part of his greater scheme? I had been attracted to the Latin Americans who, every day, sat in a group outside the roundhouses singing Hispanic bhajans to the accompaniment of their guitars. From Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela and Brazil they had come, bringing with them some of the rich colour and mystery of South American life to Prashanti.

Some of the group had a great interest in UFOs. This didn’t surprise me. South America is perhaps the most UFO-active area in the world. I had read Shirley Maclaine’s account of her journey to the Huayatapallana Ice Peaks in Chile where the mysterious lights in the sky are a well-known phenomenon among the locals.

She had driven over a mountain pass where a sign informed travellers, “Existen los Platillos Voladores. Contacto con Ovnis.” (“Flying Saucers exist. Contact with UFOs”).

After reading this, I had placed a crystal over a map of the Ice Peaks. This led to some interesting inner experiences. The Pleiadean and Taurean connection suddenly grew stronger. Meditating before the crystal, placed over a star-map of the Pleiades, I became aware of a perfumed scent inside the Shrine Room at Woodend. Briefly, I ‘saw’ a group of white, ethereal beings — tall, humanoid, and yet angelic.

Now, at Prashanti, Swami seemed to be giving me the opportunity to share my experiences with others who would not ridicule them. Many of these had occurred during Harmonic Convergence in 1987. One of the Latin Americans described how he had visited the Great Pyramid at Palenque — the Temple of the Sun — which had been reactivated with light. This event had been prophesied by the Hopis.1

I met Jorge Brauer from Mexico City who — together with Sr. Ramiro García, then director of Mexico’s Channel 13 TV — had formed a group of UFO investigators in 1968. One hot afternoon, Jorge and I sat on the steps of Roundhouse One, under the shadow of the University administration buildings, while he told me the story of his group's findings.

“We adopted the highest standards of objectivity possible,” he told me. “Our approach was rational and our method wholly empirical. Together, we read over eight hundred books on the UFO phenomena over a period of nine years. We contacted about thirty authors and UFO research groups and investigated about thirty alleged contactees.”

“What did you discover?” I asked.

“Well, we concluded that the millions of sightings which people had made all over the world could not be simply dismissed. But it was important to discriminate between a variety of source material. Some contactees had gone on to form religio-mystic cults centred around UFOs and some of these exhibited an almost fanatical zeal.”

“Despite this, we concluded that UFOs were a genuine phenomenon and not simply something cranks believed in. Governments know of their existence but, for a variety of reasons, play down the matter.”

“Did your group establish why they do this?” I asked.

“We concluded that this was mainly because UFOs can provide us with more than high technology. They operate on the fourth dimension and this presupposes a form of civilization light years ahead of ours. Such an advanced civilization poses a real threat to the coercive controls our governments exercise over their populations. Better not to delve into an area which threatens to upset the status quo and which, moreover, clearly has a powerful psychic effect on humans.”

“Yet, we believed that about ninety-eight percent of so-called UFO contacts emanated as illusions from the subconscious. The subject is unfortunately overshadowed by charlatans who undermine the work of genuine researchers.”

My own work, using the Alpha state condition, had led to several questions concerning the validity of subconscious experiences. Were they always necessarily of a lower, hence negative, quality? Or do we store archetypal images in that area from other times and other civilizations in which perhaps we had been in contact with extraterrestrial civilizations? Indeed, had many of us lived on other worlds and planets in other lives?

Jorge’s group had maintained that the vast majority of contacts originated on lower Astral levels and this led to confusion and distortions, discrediting the few genuine contacts. Such negative sources could often appear to be philanthropic whereas their intentions were questionable.

“It is evident that the Earth has been visited — both during the past and in the present — by extraterrestrials. It is possible that another civilization with UFO technology lives beside us, here, on Earth ... perhaps in the polar areas or other such inaccessible terrain.

“Perhaps such a civilization has no wish to contact us,” he continued. “However, all our evidence pointed to the fact that the UFO phenomena originate on the fourth dimension. A form of energy which is conscious and intelligent — and not necessarily benevolent.”

“From time to time they make contact with humans and are capable of taking on any form. Either ones to which humans could relate — such as deities, mythical figures or, maybe, fairy folk — or quite unusual forms which are guaranteed to leave an impact on the contactee.”

“But why have UFOs not made proper contact with the mass of humanity?” I asked Jorge.

He shrugged his shoulders. “Maybe we are being prepared for a time in the future when this might happen. All the groups we investigated had one thing in common. They believe that extraterrestrials would, one day —like the gods and goddesses of old — return to help humanity. Whatever the time-frame, our research established that the only genuine UFO contacts are those made on a higher spiritual level akin to that of Sathya Sai Baba.”

I told Jorge about the vision I had had during the time of Baba’s birthday and of other experiences which followed.

“This vision has remained with me, acting like a mandala, continually supplying me with deeper and clearer insights into the kind of changes dealt with by the Hopi and Mayan prophecies.”

I had received a message — evidently from Baba — just before the days of Harmonic Convergence that August. In this message, Baba advised the exercise of discrimination between various psychic sources. Then he had gone on to state that the global gatherings which were to take place during Harmonic Convergence would provide the space people with evidence of the active spiritual cooperation of large groups of humanity.

“It is really more for the extraterrestrial ones who, through your activities (on Earth) will be able to see that you are in tune with them.”

Baba’s message was confirmed by what Sir George had been given by his friend, Lady Cynthia Sandys, which he had read us at Woodend just before our departure for India.

This gave me a new insight into the meaning of Harmonic Convergence. The grids and leylines that often guide us to places and situations provide subtle energies which are most active on the psychic levels. They are a vital aspect of Gaia’s unified field of life-force consciousness. Those who worked with these energies and power centres during Harmonic Convergence would inevitably come into contact with other finer levels of intelligence which were also working with higher harmonics of light. Perhaps the extraterrestrials had been preparing humanity for the crucial events of Harmonic Convergence for several millennia.


One of the questions I had asked Swami in the letter I had forgotten to give him had asked about the UFO mystery. The telepathic messages many receive from these beings are, at least in part, akin to what Baba tells us. Humanity is undergoing a vast change in its evolution and it is each individual’s choice to aspire to the highest spiritual standards during this crucial time.

So what part did these beings have to play in times to come? And had Swami guided me to Jorge just so that I might begin to find out more about the great conundrum? Our meeting had certainly been very productive and exciting. What Jorge’s group had obtained through an empirical, left-brained inquiry, I seemed to have discovered via the right-brained vehicle. It seemed to me that both approaches had reached the same, essential truth: that the most appropriate method available to contact these higher dimensional beings is through meditation on finer levels of light.

I believe that the beings we associate with UFOs have long been working with Spirit on levels of higher intelligence and that they await the command of the Avathar to serve his galactic purpose.


As a child in Sri Lanka I remember hearing the story of a wonderful aerial chariot in the Ramayana legend. Several decades later, a synchronous connection between UFOs and Rama occurred for in the spring of 1987, as I began to write notes for the early chapters of this book, I began to experience a remarkable series of synchronicities.

We had already done some work on establishing a small circle of stones in the front garden at Woodend. For many reasons, it felt important to stabilize the energy around the farm with such a construction. As well as this, the creation of this circle seems to have provided a doorway into other dimensions.

That March, I sat by a window overlooking the distant mountains of the Scottish Highlands, grappling with the meaning of it all. While writing about the Vision of Sagittarius, the space people and Rama, I began to receive ‘messages’. First, a friend of mine from Aberdeen, also a Sai devotee, rang me and invited our group to the Rameswaran celebrations to take place later that month.

The same evening, Jenny returned from the Findhorn Community with a huge batik of Rama that she had purchased some years ago on the island of Bali. Bali was one of the two planetary sites where the primary leylines of St Michael and Quetzalcoatl were to cross. The other was Lake Titicaca in Peru — very much part of the ancient Amerindian cultures that had left us the 260-unit Tzolkin which, once decoded, explained the significance of Harmonic Convergence.

Since 1984, I had treasured a beautiful picture of Vishnu-Lakshmi. The picture adorned the Shrine Room at Woodend and now joined company with the Balinese Rama. Today, Baba is the reincarnation of Rama —the avatharic incarnation of Vishnu in our age. It was no wonder that Bhagavan had made himself known to me only a few months after I had come under the protection of Vishnu-Lakshmi!

In the twenty-ninth Chapter of Bhagavan’s RAMAKATHA RASAVAHINI we may read how Rama and Sita returned from Lanka in the aerial chariot, ‘Pushpaka’.

"The Pushpaka took off and turned north (towards Bharath). When it rose, there was a great commotion on the ground; Vanara hordes raised thunderous shouts of ‘Jai’ — ‘Victory to Rama. Victory to Sita, Rama and Lakshmana.’ Inside the Pushpaka, there was a high throne charmingly carved and designed. Sita and Rama took their seats on it. They then appeared to all as cloud with a lightning flash resting on the Sumeru Peak."2

Ascending into the sky, Rama showed Sita the battlefield below where Lakshmana had overpowered and killed Meghanada. Travelling over what is today called Adam’s Bridge, Rama pointed to the bridge that the Vanaras had built across the sea.

After landing twice to pay homage to various sages the aerial vehicle soared into the sky once more. Then, Rama “showed Sita the City of Kishkinda from the chariot itself. Even while the Pushpaka was speeding fast, Rama indicated to her the sacred rivers Yamuna and Ganga. Sita offered worship to the holy streams in her mind. Soon, they could see the thrice-holy Prayag, where the Yamuna flows into the Ganga. They could get a far glimpse from that position of the splendorous City of Ayodhya itself.”3

In the Ramayana, Rama represents Dharma or Right Conduct. Sita is Truth. The story of the Ramayana tells how this truth is lost when Sita becomes the hostage of the Rakshasas who represent the lower aspects of Man. But, through Right Conduct, Rama and the forces of good vanquish the Rakshasas (or Yakkas) and regain Sita and Lanka. Only when Rama and Sita are reunited does spiritual balance return. Hence, the Ramayana as well as the Mahabharata point to the imminent victory of the forces of good in every dark age. It is to oversee this victory that the Avathar has incarnated in the form of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba.

The Lord has promised that “the calamity which has come upon mankind will be averted; a new Golden Age will recur. I shall not fail. It is not in the nature of Avatars to fail.” And he also tells us that, “the time will come when I will have to move across the sky and use the sky as an auditorium. Yes, that too will happen, believe me.”4

Does this mean perhaps that Bhagavan shall ride across the skies once more in a modern-day Pushpaka as I have seen him do in the Vision of Sagittarius? How many others all around our world today must be experiencing similar subjective insights into the future?


A young, fourteen-year-old girl, living in western Australia, is reported to have dreamt that Swami had visited her in a silvery white spacecraft. “It was the hour of twilight and the colours in the sky were yellow, pink, and orange-gold. I was walking around looking at the roses, and looked up at the beautiful sky and, as I did so, I felt a great feeling of wonder and love.”

“I saw a spacecraft. The colour of it was white-silver. It moved closer and I could hear the bhajan, ‘Sai, Sai, Sai’, and the tune sounded like it was coming from the heavens. Then I heard the bhajan Ganesha Sharanam. This was repeated about six times ... Everyone looked up. Then the spacecraft descended! The door opened and one of the companions stepped out. There seemed to be about eight.”5

What strikes me about this story is the remarkable similarity of the young girl’s description of the bhajans and Bhagavan’s recollection of the adulatory hymns of the Vanaras as the Pushpaka ascended into the air before its return to Bharath with the once-more united Rama and Sita aboard. In her account, the girl continues: “All the companions were dressed in white robes. The last person to step out was Sai Baba! And as he did so he said, ‘Why fear when I am here?’”6

It is my belief that through such visions, dreams and close encounters the Lord is opening us up to a world that lies beyond the dualistic perceptions that limit us at present. My own experiences since coming to Baba — and with Jorge and the Latin Americans at Prashanti — seem to coincide quite neatly with Swami’s inner guidance to me during Harmonic Convergence.


I had anticipated that my visit to the ashram would tell me more about the meaning of the visions and experiences I had had since 1984. Hence the importance of having met Jorge. The day after we had talked on the steps of the Roundhouse I met him in the canteen at breakfast.

“Early this morning — about five AM — a group of us were returning from a meditation when we saw a group of lights flying low in the sky to the south-west,” Jorge told me. “Then they shot across the horizon and disappeared.” Once again, the mysterious lights had been seen over Prashanti.

Elsewhere, I have read that such lights are commonly seen in south India. They are well-known in the north, in Tibet, where they are said to be the Bodhisattvas.7 This description of the glowing balls of luminous light may provide a clue to their origins but to grasp its meaning requires a leap of the imagination.

Since my days at Prashanti this is what I have discovered through a process of synchronous learning. I believe that this knowledge may provide a more detailed answer to the questions about UFOs I had intended to ask Baba during the personal interview.

THE AWAKENING

This, our Mother Planet Gaia, is a living, intelligent Being who, through her compassion, provides a home and mortal form for those spirits who need to come here to fulfil karma and to begin the return to the true divine form. Through the eyes of living creatures, the Planet is able to see herself. She is awaking into consciousness, is becoming infused with the eternal spirit of the Divine which is received as an impulse of Light (Shakti) from the centre of all the universes.

This Light is received as an evolutionary ray sent out by the Creator whose dream of Life is thus transmitted to every living form within the universe. Received by each galaxy, the impulse is directed to each solar system via its local stars which act as gigantic, binary receiver-transmitters. Our local star is the heavenly Being we call the Sun —Lord Surya.

Around our sun, Gaia and her sister planets revolve as would a gyroscope, receiving, assimilating and returning informational light-particles of evolutionary data to and from the Galaxy beyond.

All the planets, stars and constellations are in constant and unbroken communication with each other. They weave a web of light on the most subtle, sub-atomic planes. As that light pulsates, sending out waves of causation, so the Dream of Creation is spun, expanding to its fullest being over many eons of time, creating a vast, holographic tapestry of form. Into this form enters the Spirit of Creation to infuse even the grossest atomic particle with the consciousness of Male-Female, Shiva-Shakti energy.

In their material aspect, the gravitational bodies create heavenly music ... the ‘music of the spheres’ thus named by Pythagoras in the Sixth Century BC and rediscovered by radioastronomers in the ‘thirties and ‘forties of this present century.

Each heavenly Being gives off its own note of ultrasound as it rotates around a parent Star. Older civilizations understood how to work with these sounds, to receive and amplify them through circles and pyramids. They used Gaia’s energies like a gigantic crystal set or receiver-transmitter. Stone circles are like windows into infinity. They were built at specific distances, creating different notes of ultrasound as well as amplifying the Earth’s note through a meshwork of light and sound into space.

These ‘windows’ may have enabled megalithic civilizations to enter into Gaia’s unified field-system and to lift themselves onto finer planes of consciousness ... into the memory banks of the Planet itself.

Stored in Gaia’s dream memory — the ionosphere — is the cumulative akashic record of all its past. Here, in her Astral body, dwell the forms or elementals that, from time to time, reveal themselves to humanity as gods, bodhisattvas, saints, mythical heroes, fairy folk and space people. These ectoplasmic forms are simply vehicles which are used by higher intelligences, navigators of the stars — the Maya — to enter the grosser planes of our ‘sea bed’ of existence and experience.

Here are the UFOs, vehicles that can travel faster than light itself and which may move and dance across the sky with ease. UFOs seem to appear most commonly over areas of the Planet where geological faults or other sources of seismic or piezo-electric activity radiate from the surface. Intermeshed with a planetary ‘nervous system’ of leylines, they are the Planet’s energy nodal points. Many stone circles and star temples link Gaia to Venus, the Moon, the Sun, the Pleiades, Sirius, Arcturus, Ursa Major and other great stars and constellations.

Through these constructions, earlier — more spiritually attuned — civilizations were able to geomantically construct a planetary network of light, sound and intergalactic communication through fine alignment at the meditational or Alpha brain-wave levels of experience.

In working with the Planet’s nodal points they entered the very consciousness of Gaia herself. Thus they were able to travel on that vehicle to the heart of the Divine. This vehicle the Mayans called Kuxaan Suum. The Indians know it as Kundalini — the serpent energy of Shiva-Shakti that lies coiled in the Muladhara chakra.

To human eyes the bodhisattvas, saints and Arthurian heroes — known to the Celts as ‘the Shining Ones’ — appear on the third or fourth dimensions in order that we may be stimulated into thinking more deeply of our own causal origins. They appear to remind us that our ancestors came to this Planet from the stars and that it is in those heavens where the future of our race is to be played out.

They are stretching our psychic awareness so that we may be encouraged to pull ourselves up by our own boot strings to see beyond the limitations of these transient bodies which are the gross vehicles of Spirit — aspects of the hologram of form which constantly dies and reforms in an eternal light play wherein we may learn to live in love with Ourself — the One Totality, the holonomic Being.8

Now the Avathar has come to answer the countless prayers that humanity has made throughout this present Dark Age. This Age, or world, is now over and we are already moving into a new Heaven. This is the reason for the Lord’s coming. To assure us that we are destined to travel on an eternal voyage of joy as co-creators together with the Lord Vishnu who is actually amongst us today.

“The day of awakening is not far off and when it comes there will be a great revelation of the true power of God. This will be the signal for a great move forward and the weeding out of those who are not ready to accept the challenge of the moment. It will be just so, mark my words. But few will listen, very few. After the storm there will be a new beginning and the atmosphere will be completely different. It will be like a new age, the age of love, harmony, and cooperation replacing the age of war, fighting, hatred, jealousy, greed and all those negative aspects of life. Everyone should prepare now for the change, for I promise you it will come, and only those who are ready will survive.” 9

The UFOs, or Unified Field Organizers as José Argüelles calls them, cooperate with the harmony of this Divine Plan. As Baba has said, “they have much work to do.” Dr Argüelles believes them to be interdimensional, Earth-generated, galactically programmed, electromagnetic cells or vehicles to which we may attune through Alpha levels of consciousness. They provide us with the telepathic and telekinetic forces that await a collective awakening to the human hologram. Here lies our pathway to the stars where — on a dimension that is universally accessible to all other galactic intelligences — we may meet and play with all those other divine Astral children.

Together we shall travel across the universe as navigators of the stars, traversing galactic channels in the dream of a new life that has only just begun for our race.

For humanity, the long dark night of materialism is nearly at an end.10 The Day of Awakening that Baba predicts cannot be far away. On that day I believe we must be prepared to receive even greater transformative energies of light, information and sound as the Milky Way itself ascends into a new harmonic of light. We should be prepared for anything — the most unexpected and most unimaginable realities as the fullness of the Lord’s being is sounded throughout the Universe.


© RW 1989