1. My journey into the mystery of myself consciously began in the summer of 1987 when the
Harmonic Convergence took New York by storm. I was on the Sagaponic beach in East
Hampton NY at sunrise. This was the beginning of last cycle of the Mayan calendar which is
supposed to end on December 24th 2012. That is when the Mayan god Quetzalcoatl, the winged,
feathered, serpent is supposed to return. For the Mayans Quetzalcoatl is the equivalent of Thoth.
In 1990 I was introduced to the Pleiadian Transmissions through Barbara Marciniak. The
Pleiadians admit to taking over this planet, as well as many others by rearranging DNA. They
say that part of the DNA system consists of invisible magnetic strands that transmit the
morphogenetic information from cell to cell. This magnetic information helps the cells to know
what their purpose is, as well as each cell‟s “regeneration properties.” The extra strands of
DNA were also originally our connection with our „higher self‟, that part of us from which we
have now been „disconnected‟. But they emphasize that were not the only group who
experimented with our genetic codes.
When the Annunaki gods from Sirius B reduced our 12-stranded DNA, they effectively made
us what we are, a race of slaves waiting for Thoth to return. The Egyptian god held the
caduceus, the double helix, the structure of the Adamic DNA, as his personal symbol. We see
this same image of the double-stranded DNA today on the caduceus, the Hippocratic symbol
representing the medical profession of the world.
Over 100,000 years ago when our levels of consciousness were directly related to the number of
chromosomes in our genetic structure which activates the DNA. Thoth‟s intention was to
“impose on Eve the image of the gods.” The problem was how to make us like „him,‟ and yet
also not like „him‟. The original plan was to eliminate those parts of the DNA which made
Adam „equal‟ to the Gods. But for reasons known only to Thoth he did not eliminate DNA
but deactivated them until the planet changed its dimensional vibration. DNA is light-encoded
fiber optics which are influenced by a transmission from stars and planets at the time of birth.
DNA is programmed by planetary forces and previous existences. One of the lessons of the
Tarot is that these symbols are encoded within us. They are the personality. The Pleiadians
emphasize that the big secret that has been kept from the human species is that thought creates
experience. Thought creates reality. All reality is a subjective experience within your spectrum
of reality.
Russian scientists have discovered that the 97% of empty space in our DNA is filled with
something called torsion wave energy. I believe that this energy could also be called love.
Scientists now believe that torsion wave energy not only exists before the DNA, that it actually
tells the DNA what to do. Our DNA is a hard drive. The Love/Torsion energy is the software
that interacts with our soul and heart which tells the DNA how to arrange itself. This creates not
only our physical body but our whole REALITY. I believe that the ancient Mayans and other
indigenous people knew and understood this.
In 1990 I opened my multi-level New York apartment to share new thought in a salon
setting and was introduced to the idea of changing the consciousness of the morphogenic

2. fields of the cells in the body. I was fascinated by the story “The Hundredth Monkey” which
gave me an easily understood background to the theory of morphogenetic fields.
According to its founder, the biologist Rupert Sheldrake, a morphogenetic field, is an
equivalent to an electromagnetic field that carries information only, not energy, and are
available throughout time and space without any loss of intensity after they have been
created. Morphogenetic fields can be used to describe how the human consciousness is
shared. The Morphogenetic fields therefore play the main role in the idea that humanity at
one point in time will go thru a dramatic collective shift in consciousness.
I did not become aware of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother‟s discovery of the „Supramental Force‟
until recently. They discovered that our cells have been a dormant seed of this force since the
beginning of our evolution whenever that might be. This momentous discovery concerned the
capacity that her own body cells had over the years acquired this new energy correctly.
Moreover, she found that this capacity was „contagious‟! That is, it could be passed on to cells in
other bodies almost automatically if they were receptive. Were Rupert Sheldrake‟s morphic
fields influenced by them? They all agree that a shift that will happen when a certain
number of spiritually awakened individuals are reached. Read more on Morphogenetic
fields according to Robert Gilman, Terence Mckenna and Rupert Sheldrake
The following week some theosophists made a presentation of H.P.Blavatsky‟s variation on the
same theme. She says that the sun, moon, planets, earth, and human brain are all magnets in
contact with a common network of "live" wires of consciousness. Ramesh Balzekar underscore
this when he said, “The final truth, as Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta Maharaj and all the
sages before them have clearly stated, is that there is neither creation nor destruction, neither
birth nor death, neither destiny nor free will, neither any path nor any achievement. All there is is
Consciousness.”
This was a period of divine discontent when I found that my work with advertising agencies lost
its appeal. I have been raised in a society where what other people think was important. I no
longer wanted to remain asleep to the potential lying dormant within me and continue to live in
illusion. I had seen the power of adverting to control mass consciousness. However, as my
awakening began my inner guidance took over and I could no longer effectively do the work that
I had enjoyed for 45 years. I observed that I began to break my bonds of social convention.
The following weekend I attended a workshop to experience my archetypal god. As I knew I
was a Virgo, and a number 5 who is ruled by Mercury I started to focus on Hermes who I
discovered later to be Thoth. Soon after that someone I had met that weekend sent me an almost
illegible copy of the Emerald Tablets of Thoth-Hermes the Atlantean. It should be noted now
that I was just reinventing myself after 35 years of being involved with commercial art so they
meant nothing to me.
That night I was lying in my loft bed in the middle of Manhattan and a face of a dog-headed
baboon loomed in my face scaring me out of my wits. Later that year I was in the Egyptian

3. section of the British Museum and found myself in front of small statue of Thoth in his baboon
faced form. Much later when studying The Secret Doctrine I discovered that Thoth and
Hanuman are both called Cynocephalus [from Latin canus dog + cephalus head] The dog-
headed ape was a glyph to symbolize the sun and moon, and it is the hieroglyph of Mercury of
the Alchemical philosophers. The mission of the Cynocephalus was to show the way for the
Dead to the Seat of Judgment and Osiris. Thoth-Hermes, was an emblem of secret wisdom as
was Hanuman, the monkey god of India. ' Cynocephalus, whenever represented with the
Caduceus, the Crescent, or the Lotus, is a glyph of the 'philosophical' Mercury; but when seen
with a reed, or a roll of parchment, he stands for Hermes, the secretary and adviser of Isis, as
Hanuman filled the same office with Rama" (SD 1:388).
Since then I‟ve discovered that the sacred knowledge of the cosmos encoded in an emerald tablet
is reminiscent of the legend of the Holy Grail, in which the Grail is identified with „an emerald
jewel‟. In retrospect the teachings of the Emerald Tablets of Thoth-Hermes are pure Advaita
Vedanta. Here are some of the similarities: Preserve and keep the command of the Primordial:
(Life Force) Look in your life for disorder. Balance and order your life. Quell all the chaos of
the emotions and you shall have order in life. Conquer by silence the bondage of words. Keep
ever your eyes on the Light! Open the soul, O man, to the cosmos and let it flow in as one with
the soul.
Man is in process of changing to forms that are not of this world. Grows he in time to the
formless,… (to live on a higher) plane. Know that you must become formless before you are
(one) with the Light, Know, O man, you are only a soul. The body is nothing. The soul is
everything! Let not your body be a fetter! Cast off the darkness and travel in Light! Cast off your
body, O man, and be free, be truly Light that is one with the (Higher) Light.* Know that
throughout the time-space Consciousness surely exists. Though from superficial knowledge it is
hidden, yet still forever exists.
In 1991 I had a private session with Michael Morgan, a trance channeler for Yokar, the
Atlantean Scientist-priest who teaches the Atlantean Healing Ray Life Force. As I had so many
Thoth-Hermes experiences I asked him if I was an incarnation of Thoth? He said that I had been
a priest who escaped from Alexandria when the Christians burnt the Alexandrian Library which
contained a treasure house of esoteric literature from all the ancient civilizations including the
Book of Thoth. This answered my question as to why I had thrown caution to the winds and
totally immersed myself in ancient wisdom. It was the first time that I was being reminded that
my role on the planet was to bring our origins and ancient wisdom back into consciousness.
This was at the time I had changed my Christian name from Bryan to Hugh. I was concerned
about my psychological programming at that time and I did a number of sessions with Dorothy
Espiau who created a sacred geometry language called Geotran as part of her program called
Circle’s of Life. I had heard her say that names can carry negative baggage and I decided to
change mine. I had a restless night thinking of possible names but I was unable to make a
decision until we started working together and the name Hugh muscle tested positively. I
discovered later that that Hugh de Fleurs was burnt at the stake with Jacques de Molay and Hugh
de Payens was the founder of the Templars. Paradoxically the name Bryan stems from the Celtic
god Bran Fendigaid (the Blessed), the son of the Sea God. Druids knew him as Hu Gadarn, the

4. Honored God. Ancient Celtic images show him seated in a lotus position ... Hun in Maya-Naga
means the Universal One. The name Hu is chanted by Sufi whirling dervishes.
Simultaneously I had been studying Lexigrams and the word druids to penetrate the secrets of
names, the genotype of the name. Gene is a lexigram of genotye, thereby containing the basis of
the names meaning. In my original name Bryan Ivan Colmer I extracted the names Lyra and
Orion. Interestingly enough Thoth himself-proclaims "I am pure Rigelian blood from Orion"
Thoth, who created homosapiens, revealed to his progeny that although the Annunaki had
tampered with their DNA they were still angels. The Tarot has taken me on the Path of the Soul.
It is time for the Truth to rise from the depths of our sub-conscious. Perhaps that is why my
Higher Self wanted me to create the Tarot and to trace the origins of the Tarot even to Orion.
In June of 1993 I went to an evening with Terrence Mc.Kenna who discussed his experiences
with magic mushrooms. McKenna went one step further than Gordon Wasson, who claimed that
experimentation with psychoactive plants was the origin of religious experience, but not of
higher consciousness itself, as McKenna argued. McKenna then asked us to take an even bigger
leap and proposed that mushroom spores can circulate freely through interstellar space, seeding
various worlds with trans-galactic intelligence. He proposed that the 'humble mushroom teacher
to the million worlds" carries the essence of experience of many species and weaves countless
life-threads into a vast tapestry of living intelligence.
In short, McKenna saw in the "starseed" mushrooms a transcendent species capable of
integrating the vast and varied realms of experience known to the creatures in those worlds.
Mc.Kenna also referred to a meeting held at Harvard University where a number of eminent
mystics agreed on the indisputable historical fact of the widespread use of visionary plants in
religious contexts. They were: William James, Aldous Huxley, Gerald Heard, Robert Graves,
Gordon Wasson, Alan Watts, and Professor Walter T. Stace of Princeton, who, when asked
whether the drug experience is similar to the mystical experience, answered, "It's not a question
of being similar to mystical experience; it is mystical experience."
Mc.Kenna reminded me of Maria Sabina‟s eloquent observation: The sacred powers of the
Psilocybe mushrooms are not open to all; the mushroom is similar to your soul. And not all souls
are the same. The night that I took psilocybe I traveled backwards and forwards through many
existences. I experienced being the dragon, I swirled through the night sky breathing fire feeling
like the primordial serpent who brought liberating knowledge to humanity. I saw that the
universe started with a Cosmic Orgasm rather than a „Big Bang.‟ At that moment I saw the
connection between celestial and terrestrial phenomena, and the connection between human
consciousness and the Cosmos. I realized that my mission is to rise from bestiality to
celestiality. Much of my early life was lived in „Divine Discontent‟ because I did not even know
about my supra-conscious mind. Therefore my life has been out of sync with this consciousness.
I later read the Gnostic creation myth, which says that the Serpent in the Garden of Eden is not a
tempter, not the enemy, not a vile reptile who deceives the first woman, but the benefactor who
brings illuminating wisdom to primal humanity. Since the Serpent does so by offering them a
mysterious fruit to eat, Gnostic myth may be seen to align closely with the entheogenic (Entheos
literally means "god (theos) within" theory proposed by R. Gordon Wasson.

5. Lady Ashtar Athena visited us in Windham at our retreat in 1994 after she had integrated Pallas
Athena who was an earlier aspect of her Soul with a different mission. She was traveling with
Dr. Solariel St. Mary-Michael who was sent by Ashtar to anchor the Ashtar Command Heart
Center with her in 1992. That night I went to bed early with my wife but was restless. I felt as if
a strange power drawing me to go downstairs. When I entered the drawing room the ladies said
to me. “We‟ve been waiting for you.” Ashtar Athena told me that her present body-aspect on
Earth is located in a past time cell, for she had came back in time from the future just as I had
experienced with Psilosybin the year before. As the session progressed I saw Ashtar Athena start
to sparkle and change shape as she gradually took the form of a man.
She told me that she had merged with her twin flame Ashtar in 1991. She warned that Twin Ray
relationships are always extremely intense and powerful, rarely peaceful. These unions are
characterized by a love bond which transcends human romance, family relationship, and even in
many instances, gender. The passion generated in such unions forms the story line of the world‟s
greatest love stories. I know exactly what she referring to as I have such a marriage. My
experience is that Soul Mate unions are aspects from previous lives in other star systems .These
are usually compatible as the essence is so similar but not necessarily overly passionate.
Sometimes they last for a given contractual span during one‟s life, or mission. She reminded me
that everyone is a unique, great and glorious, immortal Being. She emphasized that I was
created for one purpose, for Love. Since then I have experienced that each Teacher or Master
has their own thought-forms, cosmology, terminology, Hierarchical reference points, and
specific Spiritual lineage.
She warned me that everyone's personal experiences, conditioning, background and perception
will differ. This is the Divine plan, of Unity in Diversity. No two mind sets anywhere will be
identical. I observed that this true even in the case of identical twins. I was reassured to know
that my reality is valid, for I perceive life through the unique lens of my individual
consciousness. Our beliefs determine what we see, dream, and experience as our reality.
Everything that we are capable of experiencing at any time is encoded within our DNA-RNA.
Each one of us exists as a cell within the Mind-Heart-Body of the—Divine Source— God.
My ego always wanted to be right. For me everything had to be black and white. I‟ve now learnt
that all I need to be is authentic at any given moment in time. I find it exciting that there will
always be more to be revealed, discovered and learned. Enlightenment is eternal within an open
ended, ever expanding cosmos. That being said Ashtar Athena urged me to remember that...IN
THE HIGHEST TRUTH WE HAVE NEVER LEFT THE HEART OF GOD. The following
morning as I shared my experiences with our group at the breakfast table Athena asked me what
Ashtar looked like. She showed me a photograph. Did he look like that? She asked. Amazingly
he did.
That year I went to London to promote my first collaborative book, Hidden Gods: The
Doorway by Anthony Masters & Hugh Colmer (Constable, Oct ‟95). A futuristic thriller, set
against a backdrop of international intrigue surrounding the Gulf War and its aftermath, about a
news photographer on a quest to find the secrets of Atlantis encoded into the Great Pyramid. The
survival of the planet depended on his success.

6. After a week of promoting the book on radio shows I spent some time with my father in
Scotland who had retired near Prince Charles „School, Gordonstoun in Elgin. He showed me a
copy of our family tree and I found an obscure connection to the Fitzroys who are descendants
of the Stuarts in this case Charles II‟s illegitimate son Charles Fitzroy. The name Colmer
derives from the name, Collymore, and John Colmer was the Lord Mayor of Plymouth in 1562
when the Brethren were leaving for Plymouth Rock in America. My father also gave me a
painting he had done of the Colmer Family Crest which had a Moors head and crescents
indicating a Knights Templar connection.
The raison d‟etre for the Knights Templar was to protect the knowledge of the true Christianity
which originated in Babylon, Chaldea Sumeria, and Egypt, but may go back into the mists of
time in Lemuria. Though many of the accusations brought against them by Philip IV, were false,
the main charges were correct, from the stand-point of Church, heresy. The Templars did not
believe in Jesus as the Savior of the world or in transubstantiation, the saints, holy relics, hell,
etc.
Now that the days of the Inquisition are nearly over, I say nearly over as we still have the most
recent inquisitor, the omnipresent, Cardinal Ratzinger as the new Pope in the Vatican. It is no
longer necessary to have the medieval Tarot deck of the Templars so I feel justified in my
version of the original meaning of the Tarot. When I discovered that Tarot cards reached
Southern Europe from India by way of Arabia and even China it was reassuring to know that
they were entirely different in shape and design from the ones introduced into Europe by the
Templars. The Templar connection to the Tarot is hotly disputed by some of the today‟s experts
in the field so I was excited to read Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas‟ book, The Second
Messiah.’
During the course of their investigation into the Knights Templar they discovered that the real
task of the nine knights was to carry out research in the area, in order to obtain certain relics and
manuscripts which contain the essence of the secret traditions of Judaism and ancient Egypt…the
Templars had found what was concealed below the ruins of Herod‟s Temple. They came to the
conclusion that this is why the Templars were persecuted and destroyed as a secret heretical cult.
As they looked for new insights into the subject they came across the suggestion that Tarot cards
have a Templar connection. What impresses me is that they had no interest at all in the Tarot and
almost ignored the idea but thought that as strange things were already happening they should
invest the time to study what they considered to be „„fairground fortune-telling cards.”
They discovered that the Templars used the cards to tell stories that had several interpretations
depending on how the cards were shuffled and described. The Templars brought the Tarot to
Europe but they did not invent them for undoubtedly they saw the Saracens using them during
the crusades The Saracens inherited them from Egypt and Egypt and were probably adapted
from India. The Templars were dedicated to reviving the sacred teachings from ancient times.
They wanted to pay homage to those initiates who gave their life for their ideals. I can relate to
their urge to bring new light to the study of Tarot because it reveals another dimension of ancient
times which I find myself obsessed by. Returning to Europe, the Templars, to avoid persecution
by the Church, concealed the hidden meaning of the symbols, they introduced two separate

7. layers of understanding to educate the uninitiated by presenting the pages of their magical book
as a tool for enlightenment and amusement.
The Order of the Knights Templar was founded in 1118 by the Knights , Hugh de Payens and
Geoffrey de St.Omer, ostensibly for the protection of pilgrims, but its true purpose was the
restoration of the ancient Mystery Schools of India and Egypt. The true version of the history of
Jesus and early Christianity was imparted to Hugh de Payens by the Order of the Temple of the
Nazarene sect. They lived a life of chaste simplicity in true Cabalistic tradition, and their
mission was to restore one universal religion.
While they were resident in the Holy Land the Templars cultivated long lasting relationships
with Gnostic and Muslim secret societies, particularly the Mandeans. The Mandean hierophant
was John the Baptist whom they named the "King of Light." Mandeans originated in Egypt not
Israel. Their traditions reveal John the Baptist to have been a highly respected Magus from
Alexandria whose teachings incorporated the feminine "Sophic" principle so offensive to the
male dominated Church. The Knights of John the Baptist regarded John as their patron, but
never viewed him in the light in which he is presented in the Bible. For them the Christ Jesus
was, in their opinion, a false prophet, but the man Jesus a Brother.
H. P. Blavatsky‟s. “Isis “Unveiled,” clearly states that the Knights Templar were anti-Catholic
from the beginning and the red cross on their white mantle, the investment of the Order, had the
same significance as the symbols of every other religion. In all ancient civilizations the cross is a
symbol of the four primary forces that originate from the creator. Without knowing why at the
time I formed a company called The Crosscircle Group as I had a flash of inspiration that the
cross and a circle are the most meaningful symbols of all time as they represent the eternal love
of Shiva/Shakti.
These transmissions directed me to R.A.Boulay‟s, “Serpents and Dragons,” which introduced the
idea that the Serpent in the Garden of Eden was literally the Serpent, Yahweh and that the
reptilian Pleiadians themselves had genetically manipulated the human DNA. Madame
H.P.Blavatsky writes about Serpents and Dragons in the Secret Doctrine but sees them as
symbols of wisdom. I met John Anthony West in 1994 after he had written Serpent in the Sky
based on Swaller de Lubitz‟s work on Egypt and, he was of a similar opinion.
Now I was really between the devil and the deep blue sea. Who was I to believe? When I
returned from a trip to India to see Satya Sai Baba in 1996 I went to a conference hosted by John
Anthony West, Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval. The most striking thing for me at this
conference was that there was no mention of H.P.Blavatsky and her work which I believe has the
big picture of our ancient past. When I was in an ashram in Puttaparthi in Southern India I was
pleased to hear that Sai Baba had a great deal of respect for H.P. Blavatsky and after reading his
books I was encouraged to understand my own Christian mystical roots and spent a great deal of
time on that subject only to discover that the Celtic Fisher Kings line of succession to Jesus went
all the way back to the Babylonian half- human, half -fish god Dag or Oannes, the
Mesopotamian version of the Hindu Matsya (Fish) avatar the first incarnation of Vishnu, the
amphibian man-fish. Sai Baba is said to be a reincarnation of Vishnu.

8. That night Deborah Belle Forman introduced me to Jocelyn Godwin over dinner which was
exciting for me as I had read his book, Arktos, which explains that the gods symbolized the
North Pole before they symbolized the Sun. I then became more influenced by another school of
thought which included Colin Wilson, David Fideler, David Ulansey, John Michel, John
Anthony West, Robert Bauval, and Graham Hancock. All were aware of the precession of the
equinoxes and Giorgio de Santillana and Gerta von Herzog‟s book, “ Hamlet‟s Mill,” which the
authors feel made a step toward "breaking the code" of archaic cosmogonic symbolism,
tracing it back to an astronomical explanation of the familiar myths and legends that describe the
world's scientific origins. These myths have the global range and synthesis which I believe is
encoded in the Tarot.
In his book, The Case for Astrology, published in 1970, John Anthony West tells us that the
knowledge of the precession of the equinoxes calls for an organized scientific effort extended
over long periods of time, and proves that early priest/scientists looked to the heavens for
spiritual solutions. And he comes to the conclusion that these ancient high civilizations did not
evolve but began that way. All of these ancient civilizations were obsessed with the correlation
between planets and stars with the gods and goddesses which in essence is a sacred science.
Sacred science is based on the premise of a pre-existent „Divine Consciousness‟ which raises no
question that the universe is ruled by Natural Law. Ancient astronomer/priests believed that we
are here to play a specific role according to the „Blue Print‟ of our mission on earth. Recognition
and acceptance of that role is at the core of spirituality.
It is Memorial Day 2004 and my friend Patricia Walsh, a Past Life Regressionist associate of
Roger Woolger, reminded me of my past incarnation as a Knights Templar and suggested that a
session into the past may revitalize my nervous system. I had told her how I was chilled to the
bone when I first reawakened to Christianity‟s links to pagan religions in The Secret Teachings
of All Ages.
Patricia took me back in time to a cold, dank prison cell in the fourteenth century, as I awaited
my trial for heresy by the Inquisition. During the trial I confessed to denying Christ and
trampling on the Holy Cross, but I denied the accusations that the initiation of the Templars
ritual consisted of homosexual practices
She then guided me to the torture chamber where my feet were seared with a branding iron in the
shape of a cross, and finally I reenacted the excruciating pain as I suffocated with fumes of the
smoke which I later discovered was the easy way out of a long painful death. At the end of the
session Patricia asked me why my feet are always cold and as I pondered the question a flash of
clarity hit me. I saw that since I‟ve been writing and designing the Tarot I‟m subconsciously
remembering the scorching heat from the flames of the Inquisitional fire and that the antidote to
fire is ice...thus my icy feet.
A year later I was guided to take ayahuasca as I heard from sources that I trusted that it is a
catalyst to accelerate the merging of the Soul with the personality. During the third experience I
lay on my back looking up at the pitch darkness, my arms stretched out like DaVinci‟s Vitrino
Man. I started to experience again the power of my inner sat- guru. I was distinctly aware that

9. there was a power within me that knew what was impeding my awareness of my spiritual
essence. I intellectually knew that I‟m not the body/mind complex but I hadn‟t experienced it
until that moment in the eternal now. When I opened my eyes the room was enveloped in a
cobweb of fantastic art in a style reminiscent of the artists Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter
Bruegel who Jung called, “The masters of the monstrous... the discoverer of the unconscious.
Later the imagery changed into classic Latin American surrealism of bizarre and exaggerated
expressions of bird and serpent like forms.
As I swirled formlessly through the universe I knew that "I am love”. A mantra played in my
head that, “I am infinite.” Then my inner guru started scanning my physical body and I felt the
energy seeking out the negativity in the deepest crevices of my personality that had to be sent out
in the cosmos to be healed. There was nowhere for my personality to hide in the subconscious.
My inner guru wanted to get rid of as much stuff as possible that night. As each negative trait
appeared on the screen I wanted to vomit but I found myself breathing through it with
incredibly expansive cosmic breaths as if I were creating a new universe within me. I was
literally Shiva destroying my universe so that a new one could be reborn. Now it made sense that
Shiva represented the heart because the heart has to destroy the ego driven personality that
makes life a misery.