Barbara Hand Clow - 1 October

To Gerry Clow

MAKING HOME

We [the gods] have not taken away any of your original integrity because no one can do that. But we have badly distorted one part of your reality. Since we journey so far, we are great warriors, and we are very male. You are meant to Make Home and live in harmony with all species on Earth. To resonate with Gaia, you need to be very female. We have forced you to be too warlike, too compulsive, too focused in linear space and time, too fearful. Now these incompatible tendencies are exploding your cells. Luckily your genetic matrix also has stellar contributions, and now this stellar-cellular matrix must awaken. You must interact with other dimensions to heal.

Acknowledgments

This book would never have been written without the incredible support given to me by Gerry Clow. Gerry was the main editor on this book, and his extraordinary skill and dedication is what made it possible to express such a broad and difficult range of material.

Thank you, Brian Swimme, for introducing this book. As we transit from the heliocentric mind to the galactic mind, you have always been with me during this radical shift in consciousness.

I channeled this book to Gerry Clow, John Kaminski, and Audrey Peterson. Thank you, John, for transcribing the tapes and assisting with editing, and for being on guard for any untruths or misplaced emphases. Audrey, thank you for your openness, your love, and your vision of the light, and I thank the three of you for being willing to go on another wild ride with the Pleiadians!

I would like to thank the people who helped me the most to clarify my Pleiadian voice. They are Barbara Marciniak, Ken Carey, Lyssa Royal, Wendy Munro, Tom Cratsley, and Tobi and Teri Weiss of Power Places Tours. Thank you Jeanne Scoville and filmmaker David Drewry, for your unfailing ability to see the importance of this work in time to film it in Egypt in 1994.

I would like to thank the people who have helped me understand the Mayan Great Calendar. They are Hunbatz Men, Alberto Ruz Buenfil, Jos and Lloydine Argelles, Tony Shearer, John Major Jenkins, Terence McKenna, Stephen McFadden, Hugh Harleston, and Jos Diaz-Bolio.

I would like to thank all the Bears for supporting me on this project. I am deeply grateful to Mindy Belter for her excellent design and illustrations, Sonya Moore for her careful proofing, Lightbourne Images for an exquisite cover design, and Malcolm MacKinnon for a great photo.

Thank you Carol White, Audrey Peterson, and Nicki Scully for helping me see the elementals; Dawn Erhart Wingard for keeping me in my body while I was working too hard; and Barbara Morgan for the gardens. I might not have always been so clear about the equality of animals, insects, rocks, humans, and stars without the truthful gentleness of my four children, Tom, Matthew, Christopher, and Elizabeth; thank you for sharing Earth with me.

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Foreword

Entering The Universe

BARBARA HAND CLOWS NEW BOOK, THE PLEIADIAN AGENDA, CAN BEST BE approached by seeing it within the traditional cosmological task of learning how to enter the universe. For most modern people, this may seem to be a strange task, even an entirely trivial one. After all, where is the universe but all around us? So what could be easier than entering it? But, in fact, this challenge of entering the universe is an ancient one indeed. And we humans in particular are challenged in a way unique as a species because we do not rely solely on our genetic inheritance. Other animals are spared all this. At least in most situations, the instructions for how to behave are right there at hand.

We have an entirely different challenge. Weve amassed storehouses of information concerning the universe and how it operates, and all of this is to be drawn upon to learn how to act intelligently in the universe.

To enter the universe simply means learning the ways of the wider world and how a person is to relate to all this. The first humans felt this to be a deep and pressing challenge. Possibly for as long as 300,000 years, and certainly for at least 40,000 years, humans gathered in the night and pondered the ways of the universe in order to find their way through the Great World. No matter what continent humans lived on, no matter what culture, no matter what era, they gathered in the nightaround the fire of the African plains, in the caves of the Eurasian forests, under the brilliant night sky of the Australian land mass, in the long houses of North Americaand there they told the sacred stories of the universe, and of what it takes to live a noble human life.

I say that every culture did this, but that of course is not exactly true. For we contemporary humans do not. Modern humanity seems to be the first culture to break with this primordial tradition of celebrating the mysteries of the universe. What can it mean that we have abandoned something thats worked for 300,000 years?

Modern industrial society does it differently. Questions of ultimate meaning are dealt with not in caves or on the open plains, but in the churches, mosques, and temples. Here each weekend billions of humans gather to reflect on their relationship with the divine. In all these millions of weekly religious ceremonies, so essential to the health and spirituality of humanity as a whole, one will find a diversity of religious celebrations, but one rarely finds any serious contemplation of the universe, where by universe I mean simply the universe of stars and topsoil and amphibians and mammals and insects and rivers and wetlands.

Thus we have the contemporary impasse: contemporary religions have come to focus primarily on the relationships of humans with each other and with the divine, and have pushed aside the ancient questions of how to enter the universe; whereas science, on the other hand, even though it does focus on the universe, teaches a universe that has no sacred meaning or destiny, and avoids speaking of the essential role of humans in the universe.

Now we come to Barbara Hand Clows latest book. From beginning to end she is concerned with the universe as a sacred realm, a universe of matter and energy and information but also a universe filled with spiritual beings. And hers is a universe with a sacred destiny. As well, and again from beginning to end, Clow is focused on the role that humans have to play in this cosmic drama. She writes that she will help each one of us remember how to swim in the stars. She promises that she will help us activate our cosmic selves. In exact opposition to the nihilistic post-modern temper that haunts most modern universities, she speaks of the central role humans, and Earth as a whole, have to play, for she writes,... you are the bodies for all [cosmic] dimensions as Earth enters the Age of Aquarius.

Nor does she commit the besetting sin of even the best of classical western philosophy which extols the human while denigrating the entire nonhuman world. For Clow, all life is sacred, and every species plays a vital role. In a beautiful phrase she writes that animals are the source for the star wisdom of humans. And not just our close kin, the mammals. In her vision, the reptiles too have a special power that we must respect, as when she writes that we reptiles who remain in Earth are the ones who hold this incredible [Gaian] intelligence. We hold this knowledge right within our physical bodies.