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THE RAINBOW BRIDGE

Now deceased Bro. Wayne Teasdale gave his endorsement to Brent N. Hunter's book THE RAINBOW BRIDGE, a book for "people who are seeking a deeper understanding of the common ground between the world's major religions" according to the website. The book is being given "international media exposure on AM, FM, shortwave and television" and also being distributed at orphanages, child care centers, foster care homes, homeless shelters, hospices, retirement homes, community mental health centers, juvenile detention centers, rehabilitation centers and prisons." A number of global-thinking nonprofit organizations receive 10% of the profits from book sales. The list includes United Religions Initiative.

The Rainbow Bridge is a "global project whose goal is to facilitate the emergence of a global wisdom-based culture of peace, and also hopes to form "a bridge from our heads to our hearts and from ourselves to our higher selves."

The Rainbow Bridge is not exactly a new concept. In the years prior to 1949 when she died, Alice Bailey channeled messages from the disembodied entity Djwhal Khul, and published the books of these messages through Lucifer Publishing Company (later renamed Lucis Trust). The database of her writings provided 29 hits for "Rainbow Bridge" on November 9, 2005.

In the book DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE II - "Teachings on Meditation - Part XII" Bailey writes:

This New Group of World Servers is an aspect of the world antahkarana and it gives students of the antahkarana a sound example of the intent and purpose of the Rainbow Bridge which each disciple is endeavoring consciously to build. It is composed of those who have penetrated in consciousness upward to such an extent and height that their ascension has become invocative and has produced a descent from the Hierarchy which meets and merges with the energies of the ascending group reflection.

Or to put it in layman's language the student made contact with a disembodied entity.

Bailey explains further: "The main requirement is Meditation..." She writes "The entire Science of Invocation and Evocation is contained in the word "meditation"; this science ranges from the subjective, unconscious appeal of the inchoate, voiceless masses, through many phases, until it attains that high mode of scientific invocation which governs the contact made in the Council Chamber of Shamballa with extra-planetary sources of spiritual inflow. It is through meditation in some form or another that contact is made..." The bridge, she explains, is built through a visualization process. Meditation has an important place in Alice Bailey's Theosophy. She even uses the word "contemplatives" to refer to more advanced meditators.

Ronald B. Tiggle, Ph.D., in a website sponsored by the Truthseeker's Group also speaks of the Rainbow Bridge Techniques calling it the "Ageless Wisdom" and the "Divine Plan for the evolution of humanity".

Another website using the terminology "Rainbow Bridge" is Dreamspell Magick. This website is devoted to Aleister Crowley's "Thelema" and quotes passages from his "Liber al vel Legis", or "Book of the Law".

What odd associations for a Catholic monk to have. How did it come to this?