Birthing a Book

Kali, c. 1855, West Bengal, Wikimedia Commons
Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom (2018), p. 107. 

[Update: As of 15 January 2018, a Kindle ebook edition of Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom is now available on Amazon.com. The ebook is available in many countries including INDIA].

So, it has been an exciting week. I finally published Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom on Amazon.com, together with the book's Press Release that has traveled far and wide across the Earth. I've also established a new Facebook page for the book. I began this book in late February of 2016 after waking from a dream vision of the vesica piscis which highlighted the connection between the 432,000-mile measure of the Sun and the 432,000 seconds of degrees (120˚) of the circle. I already knew about this connection from the work of Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (a.k.a. Thea), but she hadn’t seen or written about it in terms of the sacred geometry of the vesica piscis. I told her about this vision and she wrote:

Lori, please write a full piece on this for the [Aeon Centre of Cosmology] website and relate it to the Core of the Chamber wherein the Vesica is central to its most profound revelations. You could quote Tenth Day on this. Bring it all together. The Vesica is ancient and sacred. Show how with the descent of Supermind these ancient truths are ‘all made new’. 
Thea, Feb 27, 2016 
I thereupon started an article which grew into a 432-page book, the first draft of which I finished in April of 2017. Then came formatting, editing, fact checking, working on my graphic, creating the index, as well as creating the cover art, and then the process of getting it all up on CreateSpace which was a huge learning curve, with many rounds of proofing and such. I had had ideas that I would publish it on Sri Aurobindo’s 145th birth anniversary (15 August 2017), then on what he and the Mother called Immortality Day (26 November), then on the Winter Solstice, then on New Year’s Day, but the day it was finally ready to GO turned out to be 11 January 2018, 18 years to the day when I arrived in Pondicherry in 2000. It was on that fateful day that, while looking at the last pictures of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother ever taken alive in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram visitor’s center, I was given the information (out of thin air) that the Sri Aurobindo Ashram had fossilized (like a religion) around the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, but that there was a third level of the Supramental Descent and much more work to be done. Events thereupon arranged themselves so that circa the Spring Equinox of 2000, I would find Thea’s book The Gnostic Circle. It felt perfect that Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom chose the 18-year anniversary of this special date to be born into the world – a date which 18 years ago irreversibly changed the course of my life’s journey, and led to receiving and writing this book. 

I’ve recently been trying to express to my colleagues at Aeon Centre of Cosmology what this book represents and how it builds and expands upon the yogic accomplishments previously made by Sri Aurobindo, the Mother and Thea. Below is a bit of what I wrote to them about how the book came to be and what it IS.

'The Vesica Piscis has presented itself in a very unsubtle manner since early 2016 as an eternal, unbreakable key, weapon, and diamond of gnosis ... which slays Ignorance, and distortions heaped upon the ancient Vedic Gnosis for multiple millennia, and opens new doors in terms of Integral, Supramental Gnosis. The Vesica Piscis is a building block (the foundation stone) of the Zodiac, and of all Vishnu's mythology and iconography. Without this key the Rig Veda and the real sense of the world's religions and mythology would remain largely veiled. It is a weapon of Vedic gnosis that is destined and designed to tear down the tamasic hold or seemingly impenetrable shell of Ignorance and free the rivers of Vedic gnosis our world in this Age of Aquarius, and to help people better appreciate and understand the gifts of gnosis that Thea brought down with her, as well as the gifts of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. I hope some of you find your way to appreciating this astounding play of time and events which has born forth the victorious key and weapon that the Vesica Piscis is.'
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‘I began writing the article as Thea requested and then realized after page 30 or so that it was going to be a book and that the Vesica Piscis had a lot more to show me. Just as the Fusion GPS folks did not expect their open-ended investigations into Trump's affairs to lead into ALL that they found, I did not expect that my investigation and article about the Vesica Piscis would lead to ALL that it did. Regardless, I was compelled into the discovery of the full scope of what it IS and of its power as a weapon of Gnosis. From early on in the writing process, I knew I was on to something REAL and important in terms of the Supramental Gnosis and Cosmology. I remembered that the Vesica Piscis was given to Thea by [her son circa the age of 6] ... which provided Thea with the key of seeing the Sacred Measure of the Mother’s Temple and ALL of the Gnosis it contained.... After some eight months of learning how the Vesica Piscis is the foundation and key of understanding the mythology of Vishnu’s avatars, the week of Thea’s passing arrived, whereupon I discovered, in no uncertain terms, that the Vesica Piscis is the river, heart and master key of the Rig Veda, without which there is no release of its waters or treasures of Gnosis [i.e. of its true sense and zodiacal context].’ 
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‘I am 100% confident that what I have written is important in terms of the progressive recovery of Vedic Gnosis and hence to the progressive descent and advance of Supramental Gnosis in our world. In a nutshell, what has been accomplished is the discovery/recovery of the HEART (hṛd) of the Rig Veda, and it was accomplished the week of Thea’s passing.’ 
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‘I know [this] is true, which is why I find myself in this position right now of bringing it forth regardless of whatever obstacles attempt to keep this River or Key pent up in the Caves of Ignorance that it has been [hidden] in for thousands of years. I know that this River is the basis of Saraswati’s REAL power to destroy the forces/forts of Ignorance in the Rig Veda and in the world. Without it, there is no possibility of a full victory of the Supramental [Shakti]. So as whereas from your perspective(s) I likely seem overly confident of what I know and of the value of my contribution, from my perspective the Vesica Piscis has simply presented itself and its Power to me; and, as promised in the occult language of the Rig Veda, it is an eternal and infallible Weapon enabling those who know it, find it, etc. to carry forth the Vedic victory of releasing the Rivers, Cows, Horses, which are not physical rivers and herds, but treasures of unifying Gnosis. It turns out that this is not just a myth … it is actually true, just not in the way that most would have ever imagined.’ 

For some reason, I had the ridiculous idea that I would be able to relax a bit once I finally pushed the book out of my creative hatch, giving it its life in the world. But the reality is that I have a ton of work to do to help launch the book, and that my nervous system has gone a bit haywire. I have basically come out of the closet to my yoga colleagues and to the world as someone who has received some important new information, and therein initiating the predictable shit storm which can be summed up by the mental-egoic plight wherein “New ideas are … the enemies of old ones” (Carl Gustav Jung). In the Indian tradition this ancient plight is depicted in the Churning of the Milky Ocean mythology wherein the Gods and Demons play tug of war with a snake. So now, I must adjust to this new reality wherein my new yogically-attained discoveries are OUT THERE in the collective field, as a natural enemy of many old and deeply cherished ideas and belief systems. 
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Blogger/Author LORI TOMPKINS grew up in Virginia and received her BA in English Literature from the University of Virginia in 1991 and an MA in Education at the University of Colorado in 1994. Lori has been a student of Integral and Supramental Yoga since 1993, and she currently lives and teaches Hatha Yoga in California.

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