F. Christopher Reynolds, M.Ed., singer-songwriter, teacher and roving alchemical bard

Have a listen!

1. The Magnification

2. Marilyn of the Whirlwind

3. Belikane

4. Creation

5. Of Your Lover’s Hopes

6. Highway Home

7. Ignatia’s Angel

8. Alive and Well

9. Remember Us

10. Rejoindre Aux Etoiles

    (You can download the songs here)

Courage-to-live-again-love is our gift to the Mystery. Bodhisattva Chrononaut Folk happens when we sing through lifetimes together.

— F. Christopher Reynolds

The current psychological renewal of culture is similar to the turning of the zodiac by the god, Mithras. The birth of Mithras marked the end of the Age of the Bull when the springtime sun rose in the constellation of Taurus. In the carving below, Mithras by his birth from the Rock transforms the sacred order of the heavens. He holds the sphere of the entire cosmos in his left hand.

It is always something ancient and precisely because of this something new, for when something long since passed away comes back again in a changed world, it is new.

To give birth to the ancient in a new time is creation. This is the creation of the new, and that redeems me. Salvation is the resolution of the task. The task is to give birth to the old in a new time.

The soul of humanity is like the great wheel of the zodiac that rolls along the way: Everything that comes up in a constant movement from below to the heights was already there. There is no part of the wheel that does not come around again.

Hence everything that has been streams upward there, and what has been will be again. For these are all things which are the inborn properties of human nature. It belongs to the essence of forward movement that what was returns. Only the ignorant can marvel at this. Yet the meaning does not lie in the eternal recurrence of the same, but in the manner of its recurring creation at any given time.

— C. G. Jung, in, The Red Book, The Way of the Cross, p. 311

We are called in 2026 to “roll along the way” through the mental climate of the Age of Aries:

…into and through the Age of Pisces:

…to here and now in the Age of Aquarius.

The sun in the sky during our winter solstice ritual at Sacred Stones Mystical Farm in Mansfield, Ohio, on December 21, 2025, was in the edge of Scorpio just exiting Sagittarius.

Here below is morning of the Age of Aquarius at the corner of American Street and Bell Street, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, the point of spring, March 21, 2026. The constellation and planetary images are part of the SkyView app:

Here is the sunrise over Bell St, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, on summer solstice, June 20, 2025. Again, using SkyView, you can see how the solstice sunrise is at the leading edge of Taurus. There is also that added bonus of the conjunction of the sun with Jupiter on this day. Again, here is an expression of Aion for 2025 on planet Earth.

Here is autumn with the leading edge of Leo as the theme for the season. Mercury, the Messenger, is about to rise.

Culturally, the clock of the Western soul has remained untended in since the Age of Aries. Thus, in our psychologically frozen spacetime awareness you can recognize Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius of the zodiac still described in the four faces of the living creatures mentioned in Ezekiel and the Book of Revelation. See below the updated spacetime piece, which means the zodiac turned counter-clockwise two signs or two “clicks.”

The updated living faces mirror 21st century scientific and psychological awareness. Pisces, Gemini, Virgo, and Sagittarius reflect how we could live together in a collective mental climate of the Anthropocene/Age of Aquarius. These faces offer a dynamic psychological mirror to the delight in living of persons who have lived through what James Joyce called, aesthetic arrest, which Joseph Campbell affirmed is the first and most essential service of a mythology. In The Inner Reaches of Outer Space:

Indeed, the first and most essential service of a mythology is this one, of opening the mind and heart to the utter wonder of all being. (p.18)

Antonella Vannini and Ulisse Di Corpo describe this mind and heart opening as, Aion. Jeffrey Kripal succinctly calls such epiphanies/anomalous/holotropic experiences a Flip:

A Flip is a life-changing moment, often catalyzed by trauma or some extreme event, in which a person enters an altered state of consciousness and subsequently reverses or "flips" her or his or their metaphysical perspective. Once holding to a strong materialist position in which consciousness is understood to be an evolutionary accident or a purely local epiphenomenon of brain processes, the flipped individual is now convinced that consciousness is a fundamental fact of the cosmos and not reducible to neurological and biological processes.

-- John Morgan, cited by Jeffrey Kripal, in, The Flip: Epiphanies of the Mind and the Future of Knowledge

The future is more coherent than the present, more animate and purposeful, and in a real sense wiser. It knows more, and some of the knowledge gets transmitted back to us by what seems to be a purely natural phenomenon. We are being talked to by a very informed Entity: that of all creation as it lies ahead of us in time.

— Philip K. Dick, in, Consciousness Unbound: Liberating Mind From The Tyranny of Materialism, p. 359

While there are no certainties here, there is at least one conviction that seems justified: consciousness is a basic feature of reality, and it will have to be recognized as such if the data, ordinary and extraordinary are to be understood. More speculatively, consciousness may itself be evolving through the development of its partial manifestations.

— Paul Marshall, in, Consciousness Unbound: Liberating Mind From The Tyranny of Materialism, p. 471

Our Western mental habit or karma over the past centuries has been to erase consciousness as a basic influential feature of reality. We have been actively co-creating our own unconsciousness, anti-consciousness, in religion, science, and culture so much that self-annihilation has simultaneously been held up as a spiritual goal and put down when in the form of drug/alcohol addiction. The past 2000 years of the Age of the Fishes can be imagined as a cosmic battle of two chained together bound by their mutual dislike for each other - like a yin and yang gone blind and unable to see themselves through the loving eye of the other. This mythology of cosmic war can be set aside now. We have reached a level of evidence that shows that war does not produce what claims about the activity propose. This is because the idea is based on ideas of the cosmos and consciousness now out-of-date.

The changing of the faces of the Ages allows us to draw on an unbroken throughline of the past centuries and future centuries in order to re-learn a mythology based on a new realization of the inherent worth of life. Like any living mythology, there is necessary psychological shadow-work. In the same way that there are “dry drunks” who are alcoholics who choose to drink no more but who do no inner psychological work, there are “dry peace-makers.” We can choose to divest the billions, the courage, love, and intelligence, once spent on chronopathological war-making. We can choose to invest on the creation of a syntropic democracy, a living future for all beings, a life-making in an inspiring, conscious cosmos. No one owns this framework. To live in conscious participation with archetypal ideas, no matter who you are, is expressed in the themes of the Recovery Movement’s Twelve Promises:

1. If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half-way through.

2. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.

3. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.

4. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.

5. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.

6. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.

7. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.

8. Self-seeking will slip away.

9. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life with change.

10. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.

11. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.

12. We will suddenly realize that the God of our understanding is doing with* us what we could not do for ourselves.

*I’ve made a change from the idea of what “God is doing for us” to what “God is doing with us” because of our current psychological understanding. We are also participating in what happens to us. We are not passive subjects of an Otherworldy King on High, nor even the earlier notion of the Otherworldly King of Kings whose Name is above all Names. Jung describes this psychological reality as: Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. The same psychological view is in the Gospel of Thomas, Saying 70:

If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you [will] kill you.

Here’s Jung saying the same thing using psychological language:

The fish symbol is thus the bridge between the historical Christ and the psychic nature of man, where the archetype of the Redeemer dwells. In this way, Christ became an inner experience, the “Christ within.”

…We have now a new symbol in place of the fish: a psychological concept of human wholeness. In as much or as little as the fish is Christ does the self mean God. It is something that corresponds to an inner experience, an assimilation of Christ into the psychic matrix, a new realization of the divine Son, no longer in theriomorphic (animal) form, but expressed in a conceptual “philosophic” symbol. This, compared with the mute and unconscious fish, marks a distinct increase in conscious development. (AION, p. 183)

To leave the Age of the Fish, we now can deepen our inherited constellation of Pisces and the Zodiac for the galactic culture of the Anthropocene/Age of Aquarius, here is what I call a COEX sidereal constellation. This COEX sidereal constellation is named, The Immanent Function, to reflect in the sky what we do on Earth. We can carry forward the psychological wisdom of evolutionary astrology and to it, add the cosmology of the galaxy, NGC 488, a spiral galaxy that we are looking at from above/below it. We are in a galactic time that reminds us to include awareness of the immense depths surrounding us, including us, and within us. This mirrors what we know of human consciousness and how we participate in our own COEX constellations/systems that unite waking consciousness with the personal, collective, perinatal, microbiomic and ecological unconscious — especially in imaginal experiences. At the very center of us, both immanent and transcendent including yet including us, there is an indestructible well-spring of renewal and joy in being alive.

The Immanent Function is a soundtrack, roadmap, framework, to encourage you through the planetary rite of passage to a new appreciation of the much expanded adventure of life ushered in by our shared world events. It is the musical version of my book, The Immanent Function.

Contact:

spiriman AT aim DOT com

What Heaven Taught

I feel the Word set fire of the Spirit in my heart,

Boldly mock the crossroads, so certain of my part.

I do not see it coming, for I have gone blind.

Now, I am broken in this deathbed of our pride.

When you run headlong to the guns with Truth burning in your veins

For your children, for the Kingdom, for the Union, for the slaves,

The lesson of your dyin’ is hollow at the Gate.

The Keepers ask your soul what Heaven taught of hate?

We sure 'nuff give 'em Hell down at Devil's Den

The shellfire does not scare me, no, nor the last words of my friends.

Faith is your armor, then you bleed out of control.

The scales fall from my eyes, I see my Brother's soul.

He's running headlong to the guns.

He's got the Truth burning in his veins.

For his children, for their Freedom, for his Birthright to the Father's Ways.

The lesson of your dyin’, Brother, is it hollow at the Gate?

The Keepers ask your soul what Heaven taught of hate?

The Keepers?

One day, if you go marching out in a parade.

If one day you go a-ridin’ and you find a grave.

One night beneath a dark sky with moonlight shining down,

If tears heal your heart, you’ll hallow the Ground.

Run headlong with a gun and the truth burning in your veins

For your Ways.

The lesson of your dyin’ is hollow at the Gate.

The Keepers ask your soul what Heaven taught of hate?

The lesson of your dyin’?

Hey Keepers……ain't it hollow?

Joseph Campbell in his essay, No More Horizons, now re-appearing in Tarnas’ and Kelly’s edited book, Psyche Unbound: Essays in Honor of Stan Grof:

For it is simply a fact — as I believe we all now got to concede — that mythologies and their deities are productions and projections of the psyche. What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man’s imagination? We know their histories, we know by what stages they developed. Not only Freud and Jung, but all serious students of psychology and of comparative religions today have recognized and hold that the forms of myth and the figures of myth are of the nature essentially of dream. Moreover, as my old friend Dr. Geza Roheim used to say, just as there are no two ways of sleeping, so there are no two ways of dreaming. Essentially, the same mythological motifs are to be found throughout the world…

I have thought about this problem a good deal and have come to the conclusion that when the symbolic forms in which wisdom-lore has been everywhere embodied are interpreted not as referring primarily to any supposed or even actual historical personages or events, but psychologically, properly, “spiritually,” as referring to the inward potentials of our species, there then appears through all something that can be properly termed a ‘philosophia perennis’ of the human race, which, however is lost to view when the texts are interpreted literally, as history, in the usual ways of harshly orthodox thought.

(pp. 7-8)

I will prove that the Earth has motion and surpasses the moon in brightness and is not the place where the dull refuse of the universe has settled down.

— Sidereus Nuncias (Starry Messenger)

Here are key albums in my catalog since 1991. They offer a map of my journey from unconsciousness of the true depths of consciousness into an ever-deepening sensual delight in being, even during the most chaotic times:

(You can get the songs here)

Watch the clip above and I invite you to be open to the possibility that the lyrics, And your spirit won’t die, are another way to sing that our deepest Identity does not die. It’s time to embrace and to encourage in others the enduring transpersonal, trans-temporal irreducible mutlidimensional mandalic foundation of the individual as a substantial entity in itself, a morphogenetic field, a soul, to be realized, harmonized, and brought to flourish.

The changing points of view of the clip are an homage to Cubism. It is an update of the simultaneous perspectives that I invite you to imagine as a shift in consciousness along the W axis of spacetime. In Gratitude for the Cleveland Museum of Art and it’s Keithley Collection, here are 2 paintings by Picasso. Head of a Boy comes from his Rose Period, 1904-1906 and Head (Tete), is from 1926. The first is from a single point of view (W = 1/1) and the second has three points of view (W = 1/3) both sides and the frontal view.

Michael Murphy, in his 1992 book, The Future of the Body: Explorations Into The Further Evolution Of Human Nature, invites readers into remembering what is still known in Indigenous cultures as well as new potentials. He notes aspects of individuation and the sense of self:

— Awakening to a witness self that is fundamentally distinct from particular thoughts, impulses, feelings, or sensations.

— Feeling for a moment as if your body is only a small part of yourself, or that it is located at a specific point in the field of awareness.

— Feeling a new substantiality, as if you are somehow larger, stronger, and more solid.

— Spontaneously realizing a new and profound self-confidence that adverse criticism does not affect.

— Feeling as if you are suddenly more real, more authentic, more truly yourself.

— Momentarily apprehending all objects of perception as if they are contained within you.

— Experiencing an identity that self-evidently existed before your birth and that will outlast your body’s death.

Here is more from Chris Bache:

However we eventually conceptualize the makeup of the Soul, the story of the Soul is in essence a story of individual consciousness — ultimately sourced in the Creative Intelligence of the cosmos - moving systematically back and forth between the physical universe and a surrounding meta-universe on a long journey of self-development. The pulse of the Soul is the pulse of reincarnation, our awareness narrowing at birth and expanding at death. Reincarnation is a dance in which our earthly lives emerge from and return to our Soul, the larger consciousness that preserves every thought, every tear, every joy we experience on Earth and in-between our earthly living folding all our experiences elegantly into its expanding radiance. Reincarnation gives individual consciousness an open-ended amount of time in which to learn from its mistakes and develop its innate capacities. Properly understood, reincarnation is a work of genius…

[in LSD and the Mind of the Universe, p. 91]

Bache’s surrounding meta-universe is expressed in evolutionary astrology and earlier works over the centuries, like Yeats’, A Vision, in the symbolism of the moon. Steven Forrest notes:

The point of all this is simply that the Moon, with its vast baggage of internal, subjective biases, is the true ruler of the only thing any of us can reliably keep or take out of this world: the core, underlying moods and attitudes that our memories have generated in us…As you age, you, like Carl Jung, might find that your literal memories grow vague. But the moods and attitudes you have created in your heart will remain. that Moon memory will shine out through your rheumy, geriatric eyes, even if your brain fails. It will define much of the mysterious experience you face after your heart stops.

And when, after a moment of rest upon the wind, you have two clear eyes and a child’s impressionable heart again, it will shine on. [The Book of the Moon, pp. 315-316]

C. G. Jung had hinted at the same understanding decades earlier in his essay, The Undiscovered Self:

The structure and physiology of the brain furnish no explanation of the psychic process. The psyche has a peculiar nature which cannot be reduced to anything else. Like physiology, it presents a relatively self-contained field of experience, to which we must attribute a quite special importance because it includes one of the two indispensable conditions for existence as such, namely, the phenomenon of consciousness. Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists for us only in as far as it is consciously reflected by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being. Thus the psyche is endowed with the dignity of a cosmic principle, which philosophically and in fact gives it a position co-equal with the principle of physical being. The carrier of this consciousness is the individual who does not produce the psyche of his own volition but is, on the contrary, performed by it and nourished by the gradual awakening of consciousness during childhood. If therefore the psyche is of overriding empirical importance, so also is the individual, who is the only immediate manifestation of the psyche. (p. 27)

The cosmology that affirms the larger consciousness that preserves every thought, every tear, every joy we experience on Earth and in-between our earthly living folding all our experiences elegantly into its expanding radiance where our minds can circulate in Eternity and space-time, is the four-dimensional quantum cosmos of Einstein’s universal law of gravitation published in 1915. Since July of 1969, with its human perspective of boots on the moon looking back at Earth in infinite space-time. Steven Forrest offers an excellent account and is an exemplar of how our culture could learn to integrate reincarnation into its world view. The planetary mind will heal the end of the Holocene Epoch and reveal the dawning radiance of our souls’ flowerings in the vast ecological illumination of all life of the Anthropocene Epoch/Age of Aquarius.

Ecomasculine, Ecofluid, Ecofeminine, Ecofluid = LGBTQH+

The clip below, Monticello, in sound and image, represents part 2 of the four-part YouTube American global climate vaccine available on this website: Everything Has a (w)Hole, Monticello, All Failing (Crown of Stars for You), and, The Ghost of Jacques Brel. My hope is they inspire/irk you into taking on the task of re-claiming your right to freedom and the duty of individual responsibility. As our American Ancestors dreamed their way into an independent self-hood during the Revolutionary period from 1740-1840, as all members of American culture dreamed their way into a new possibility for true equality from 1840-1870, as human beings dreamed their way into a possibility of world peace among nations in the 20th century, so, we too, can take up dreams in a choice to unite our consciousness with our personal, collective, ecological, cosmological unconscious - a life aligned to the Apex of the Sun’s Way for the good of all beings past, present, future.

We can evolve the American Dream to a next step beyond the Epicurean pursuit of happiness into the greater hearts into the embodied delight of the pursuit of the happiness of all beings.

We are all in this together.

We can say, Yes, to life. Once again, the clip moves along the W-axis of consciousness in spacetime.

THE END OF THE WORLD: (with a Scotch accent) Wha’ll dance the keel row, the keel row, the keel row?

(Over the possing drift and choking breathcoughs, Elijah’s voice, harsh as a corncrake’s, jars on high. Perspiring in a loose lawn surplice with funnel sleeves he is seen, vergerfaced, above a rostrum about which the banner of old glory is draped. He thumps the parapet.)

ELIJAH: No yapping, if you please, in this booth. Jake Crane, Creole Sue, Dove Campbell, Abe Kirschner, do your coughing with your mouths shut. Say, I am operating all this trunk line. Boys, do it now. God’s time is 12.25. Tell mother you’ll be there. Rush your order and you play a slick ace. Join on right here. Book through to eternity junction, the nonstop run. Just one word more. Are you a god or a doggone clod? If the second advent came to Coney Island are we ready?

Florry Christ, Stephen Christ, Zoe Christ, Bloom Christ, Kitty Christ, Lynch Christ, it’s up to you to sense that cosmic force. Have we cold feet about the cosmos? No. Be on the side of the angels. Be a prism. You have that something within, the higher self. You can rub shoulders with a Jesus, a Gautama, an Ingersoll. Are you all in this vibration? I say you are. You once nobble that, congregation, and a buck joyride to heaven becomes a back number. You got me? It’s a lifebrightener, sure. The hottest stuff ever was. It’s the whole pie with jam in. It’s just the cutest snappiest line out. It is immense, supersumptuous. It restores. It vibrates. I know and I am some vibrator.

Joking apart and, getting down to bedrock, A. J. Christ Dowie and the harmonial philosophy, have you got that? O. K. Seventyseven west sixtyninth street. Got me? That’s it. You call me up by sunphone any old time. Bumboosers, save your stamps. (He shouts) Now then our glory song. All join heartily in the singing. Encore! (He sings)… [Ulysses, 1922]

You are encouraged to consciously take up a cultural path untaken. The W-axis of the 4th dimension that brings depths to consciousness arrived in America from Europe in the 1913 Armory Show in NYC. The two infinities of the W-axis are upward and downward, named; ana and kata. In Hermeticism, these two infinities are the ever-virgin Father and ever-virgin Mother - implying always beyond the limits of our apprehension. These are the two infinities of human awareness. Upward/ana/Father simultaneously perceives many space-times from a single present space-time perspective. Downward/kata/Mother perceives a single present space-time perspective from many simultaneous space-times.

As an individual, when you align the W-axis, it’s called, the transcendent function, by C. G. Jung - the experience of the union of conscious and unconscious. Fr. John Bryde noted this same unification among the indigenous persons and tribes he met. He called the transcendent function, the innermost. Both Europe and America chose the shallow path into the First World War in 1914. We are at a time when the mental climate of the 20th century can be set aside.

As a community, where two or more are gathered for the good of all beings, a collective alignment of the W-axis, a union of transcendent functions, a one-heart/one-mind of innermosts, I call this, the Immanent Function. Another way to describe the Immanent Function is transimmanence.

Cubism was an art-form that showed the many points of view of now, the downward direction of the W-axis. The videos for Monticello, Everything Has a (w)Hole, and All Failing (Crown of Stars for You) on this website are all post-Cubist/neo-cubist works. They all invoke 4 Downward, 1/4, on the W-axis. They encourage transcendent function and immanent function. Dadaism, founded a few years after Cubism, is the source for an example of invoking Upward, 12/1 on the W axis. Post-dada/neo-dada informs the clip of the song, The Ghost of Jacques Brel.

As noted above psychological experiences, whether as transcendent or Immanent functions, the union of conscious with unconscious of the W-axis can be described as the now participatory "I Am Who Am" of evolutionary ecological waking and dreaming human lifetimes. We are all ecomasculine, ecofluid, ecofeminine, citizens of the Waking and Dreaming Earth.

Every one's a turning-Point to Light the earth.

As America hopes to re-birth the dream of its founding, it’s inspiring to read in Mechal Sobel’s, Teach Me Dreams: The Search for Self in the Revolutionary Era, published in 2000. If you read her work with an open mind and open heart, you can see how America was founded in ways inspired by dreaming of all peoples. It was a national Dream sustained by dreaming. We can do this again now. However, in our era, we are to approach our understanding of self in profoundly deeper and participatory ways.

We are called to recover a wholeness lost over the centuries. We can revision Monticello as a middle way, a middle mountain.

Monticello

Down below my Monticello

Is a grey-lit temple underground,

Tall totem on the doorwayMirror

Where there stands a stag-horned baboon god.

Down below my Monticello

On stone foundation walls is writ

A hymn in painted-gold inscription,

A hymn Hermetic, a living myth

Down below my Monticello

Issues forth a vital stream

Where there was Dreaming of Jefferson

Before Jefferson could ever dream.

Down below my Monticello,

If dreaming be our only gift,

Then enduring ayes we all offer.

every one’s a Turning-point to light the Earth

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