Matthew Coleridge - The Big Blue Turtle: The Meaning of Life and How to Survive Death

Chapter 1

The Biggest Truths

This will be a very short chapter because, as I said in the introduction, I want to stay on topic, and this bit is simple enough and should be remembered. Lets begin with the biggest truths of this book right off the bat because who knows how long any of us have. This will not be like one of those scam internet videos that keeps saying, Keep watching this video, and I will tell you how to realize your greatest dreams! Thats bullshit. I will get straight to the point. So lets get right to it, shall we?

The biggest truths:

1. There are only T wo Rules of Life :
   1. Never harm any other sentient being, physically or emotionally. If you do (and you likely will at this stage of the game), apologize.
   2. Never, ever enforce your opinions, beliefs, or ideologies on others. Live how you choose but allow others the same courtesy.
2. The Meaning of Life : This world, this experience of life, is a school. You are here to learn to be better, more capable, and more powerful souls. You are here to learn how to perfect your consciousness so that you may join with other perfected consciousnesses to form a collective consciousness, a universal mind, and this will be God. I use the term God for lack of a better term, something akin to a conscious universe or universal consciousness. As we will get into later, the God or gods mentioned in our collective histories are likely just entities far more advanced than ourselves. As for our collective consciousness, we are talking about reproduction on a cosmic scale: the procreation of universal consciousness, gods (read: conscious universes) creating gods, if you willor, perhaps, a god beyond time creating itself. As the esoteric paraphrase of the second verse of the Emerald Tablet suggests, as above, so below. You are here in a physical form to learn to develop integrity , not only regarding your character but in your ability to hold your consciousnessyour soultogether once outside the physical mold (body). We will be talking a lot about how to develop this integrity so that you may survive outside the physical. This is how you survive death and attain that eternal life that all religions seem to promise but never really deliver. I am going to tell you how to do that. And this is why I may be in trouble.
3. The Bible is a broken text. It still contains a few remnants of the truths it once was meant to convey, but it has been mistranslated, retranslated, and edited by kings and tyrants since its inception. Entire books have been removed. We will look at what is left, which isnt much, but it is still sacred.
4. You should not fear death. Its nothing you havent experienced before. Those memories are just walled off from your conscious self for this trip around so that you can develop aspects of your soul that are wanting.
5. This one I got from a bumper sticker I saw at a Grateful Dead concert, but it is truth: You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

There we are, well leave it at the first five that occurred to me. There will be other truths revealed as we continue, but I feel those are the big ones. Continue reading to see if you agree with my assessment.

So where to begin? Lets begin with the beginning of the Bible, specifically, the first words spoken by God in Genesis 1:3: L et there be light.

Chapter 2

Let There Be Light

Before it was fractured by corrupted hands, the Bible was intended to be a collection of multilayered texts. For the beginner, the uninitiated, it was meant to be a collection of historical details, simple rules, and parables to help guide one onto the path of a perfected soul. To the initiated, it contained symbolic truths hidden within the simple text, and this symbolism also held advanced scientific knowledge, often indicated by the repetition of prime numbers like 3, 5, and 7. Prime numbers indicate a truth. The number 40 is also a sacred number, and it represents a period of probation and trial. The number 40 is mentioned 146 times in scripture. It rained on Noahs ark for 40 days and 40 nights, the Jews wandered in the desert for 40 years, and Jesus fasted in the desert for 40 days. There are several academic papers available that explain the significance of certain numbers in the pages of the Bible, as well as the Apocryphon, those books the church removed from the Bible because they contained passages that did not agree with their view or posed a threat to their control.

Parable and analogy also play a big role in the text. The tale of Jesus turning water into wine is analogous to the process of photosynthesis: the sun (here as symbolic Son of God) turns water into wine via the grapes taking nourishment from the leaves producing energy through photosynthesis. In this way, the Bible was meant to be seen more as a symbolic text, not as a literal historical account. Among its more basic literal interpretations, the Bible offered a way for ascended masters, scholars, and higher consciousnesses to conceal what may have been considered sensitive information. Artists such as da Vinci did the same with their works. Any information truly worth having is always hidden.

The concept of the Son of God representing the actual sun is common in studies of the Bible: it gives sight to the blind, it raises the dead (in terms of much of the natural world dying in the winter only to be rejuvenated in the spring), and if youve ever marveled at sunshine on the water as John Denver did, then you could say the sun walked on the water. And it can reveal things once hidden, just as Jesus did, and lets put that down right away, his name was not Jesus. There is no J in the Aramaic alphabet. His name was Yeshua. Jesus is an Italian mistranslation of the Greek J, which was pronounced as Y. So all these Christians praying to Jesus, theyve got the wrong guy there.

I am not trying to suggest that Yeshua did not perform the miracles attributed to him. His awesome deeds could very well be what inspired his comparison to the sun, which had represented God itself not long before. And I have no idea what occult knowledge Yeshua had learned in his studies. I am using the true definition of the word occult here: it simply means hidden. The movie industry and pop culture have really screwed with our understanding of the true etymology of much of our language. I know Yeshua was a powerful priest, a member of an order of high initiates, he may have even been a higher entity himself. But I also know that many of the accounts of Yeshuas life are borrowed from earlier god-king deities who were also called sons of God. Krishna, for example, has a life story that matches that of Yeshua to a T, and yet he lived a thousand years prior. Other sons of God with similar backstories include Tammuz, Adonis, and Osiris. Perhaps these stories were simply attributed to Yeshua to further legitimize his claim as the Messiah? Either way, it does not, in my opinion, detract from the power and significance of Yeshua or his message.

On the subject of the sun and vineyards, I would be remiss if I did not mention the famous parable of the bad tenants. This parable appears in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and (noncanonical) Thomas, so I can only assume it is important. This is the story told by Yeshua of the landlord who builds a beautiful vineyard and rents it out to some farmers. When harvest time comes, the landlord sends his slave(s) to collect his share of the fruit. The tenants beat, stone, and kill one or more slaves (depending on the version), so the landlord sends more slaves. These people (or person) meet the same nasty reception. Finally, the landlord sends his son, figuring the tenants will have to respect his heir. But no. The tenants figure, Hey, this guy is the bosss son! Lets kill him and take his inheritance! Disregarding the idiocy of this plan (What did they think the landlord was going to say? Oh, you killed my son! Looks like youre entitled to his inheritance!), the important thing is that they do, indeed, murder the landlords son. Now most biblical scholars consider this parable in regard to supporting Yeshuas death in his role as Messiah. The true message should be regarded in terms of the earth itself and how wethe tenantstake care of the environment.