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MORE THAN MONEY, HIGH PRIESTS, QUANTUM GENES: TRUE PROSPERITY: A Wholistic Science, Religion and the Theory of Guide...To Having It All Everything by Michael J. Roads by Michael Hayes SilverRoads Publishing, USA, 2003 Black Spring Press Ltd, UK, 2004 ISBN 1-57983-013-7 (216pp tpb) ISBN 1-948238-29-1 (256pp tpb) Availability: SilverRoads Publishing, Availability: Black Spring Press, http://www.silverroads.com http://www.blackspringpress.co.uk rue prosperity is not about having mater- L ancient times, sages, philosophers, ial wealth but about appreciating the priest-kings and architects understood the abundance of life, says international author, _ unifying principles that explain life, the uni- speaker and teacher Michael Roads (The verse and everything. Modern-day seeker Magic of Mulch; Into a Timeless Realm, Mike Hayes (The Infinite Harmony) believes 3/03). Developing this appreciation is the the fundamental ordering principle to be the secret to living life fruitfully and is all that so-called Hermetic Code, and he's found its matters in the long run. One of the keys to resonance going all the way back to ancient this is trust—and the world is your oyster Egypt (although evidence suggests knowl- when you can trust yourself, for youcannot —_ edge of the code is way, way older). be trusting and anxious at the same time. In High Priests, Quantum Genes (with When you realise that life supports you, that —_ introduction by acclaimed author Colin life has an intelligent design, then self-trust Wilson), Hayes defines this "as above, so is an expression of that same intelligence. below" code as based on sound, music and number—the same numbers found in the Chinese J Ching and in our genes, he was amazed to discover. These numbers repre- sent the law of three, involving active, pas- sive and neutral forces, and the law of octaves, which holds that vibrations ascend or descend in proportional steps of seven or eight, representing erratic evolutionary as well as musical scales. Hayes realised that two other key numbers, 22 and 64, are hidden in the DNA: four kinds of chemical bases, three of which make a triplet codon or amino-acid template, of which there are 64 variations, with each of those codons corresponding to one of 22 more complex components, i.e., the 20 amino acids and two coded instructions for starting and stopping the process of synthe- MICHAEL |. ROADS sis. He had to wonder about the coincidence . oe with the J Ching, as the 64 hexagrams are Michael and his wife Treenie (parents of constructed from four basic two-line sym- our illustrious editor, Duncan) established Australia's answer to Findhorn at the Homeland Community in northern New South Wales, having already been intrinsic to the rise of the organic growing movement in Tasmania. But preoccupation with the famed "big veggies" is a distraction, and one of Roads's messages is that quantity does not necessarily equal quality! Having heaps of assets is also no guarantee of a healthy life. Embracing a wholistic lifestyle is ultimately more enriching and rewarding. Taking personal responsibility, honouring oneself and having an "attitude of gratitude" are important pointers on the road to abundance and prosperity. However, Michael Roads warns that we may have to be prepared to analyse our dark side and deal with it to get to our core truth. With its many positive messages, this is a life-affirming book that gets down to basics. bols of broken or unbroken, yin or yang, lines. Then there's the 22/7 number, equiva- lent to pi, which the ancients were quite familiar with if their megalithic structures and pyramids are any guide. There's no limit to the possibilities, for Hayes has identified a system that applies from the microscopic to the cosmic scale. In the process of arriving at these revelations, he was inspired by the works of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky and also by exploratory LSD trips wherein he perceived the very vibratory "dancing sparks" nature of the universe that the sages and shamans have been describing for aeons and is behind all the great religious experiences. His apparent discovery of the unifying keys of the code of life may help us take our next evolutionary step. At the very least, Hayes offers us a differ- ent, harmonised way of seeing and hearing our multidimensional world. Michael and his wife Treenie (parents of our illustrious editor, Duncan) established Australia's answer to Findhorn at the Homeland Community in northern New South Wales, having already been intrinsic to the rise of the organic growing movement in Tasmania. But preoccupation with the famed "big veggies" is a distraction, and one of Roads's messages is that quantity does not necessarily equal quality! Having heaps of assets is also no guarantee of a healthy life. Embracing a wholistic lifestyle is ultimately more enriching and rewarding. Taking personal responsibility, honouring oneself and having an "attitude of gratitude" are important pointers on the road to abundance and prosperity. However, Michael Roads warns that we may have to be prepared to analyse our dark side and deal with it to get to our core truth. With its many positive messages, this is a life-affirming book that gets down to basics. NEXUS 71 OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2004 www.nexusmagazine.com