American Indian (First Nations)

"Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it. The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought. Individual existence impresses him as a sort of prison and he wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole."
- Albert Einstein, Religion and Science

“Therefore a nature person is considered to be extremely important. That person knows the book of nature in such a way that they have the key to the evolution of our consciousness. The jungle is itself a decipherable book. When you look at nature it appears to be chaos, but you can perceive patterns in the chaos. If you only see chaos in nature it is a reflection of the chaos inside yourself. There is a very perfect order in nature. Understanding this kind of order is understanding the cosmic phenomenon. This is why, more often than not, indigenous people want to keep nature the way it is. Modification of it deletes an opportunity to decipher a very potent hieroglyphics. Perhaps this is why the modern world looks upon the indigenous as people who are not evolved, people who are primitive. In this context primitive is a reductionist word which does not depict the reality as it is, only the importance of being called primitive.”
- Malidoma Somé, Healing Wisdom of Africa

         I had previously never given any thought to the American Indian medicine wheel. I mistakenly thought it was some knickknack that people hung on their wall that only had significance to people in another place in time. Now I know that it also represents human cognition. Aboriginal peoples throughout time have noticed that different individuals have an affinity for different features of their environment. These features might include animals, plants, rocks, seasons, whether patterns, scenery, etc. I for example have always found frogs very interesting. Their dramatic stages of metamorphosis, their non-threatening and resigned nature, their predilection for eating bugs that annoy us and the simple fact they are cute all appeal to me. You could say I saw much of my own personality in this animal. Well it should come as no surprise that what I might find appealing about a frog a person with a different personality would find totally uninteresting. They may find the stealth, cunning and elusiveness of a fox more appealing. Recognition of the patterns and qualities of a person’s environment do and always have correlated with each individual’s different cognitive functional preference. Just like my graphics for the different functions differ as an INTP from those of an INTJ because of the different 'attitudes' for each function, I can understand why the animal symbols found in different medicine wheels are not always consistent.

    Prior to the arrival of Europeans a few centuries ago there were apparently about 20,000 stone or “medicine wheels” in North America. They are often located in areas that people found to have some “spiritual” significance. While I personally prefer to approach the meaning of spiritual as that which refers to consciousness and the mind, I should also point out the current scientific research in the field of consciousness involves electromagnetic fields and quantum physics. Some people claim certain places contain a 'spiritual' energy or presence.  While I can’t explain the physics behind this claim I believe they are correct. I’m not sure if any “scientist” has attempted to determine the validity of these claims but if they had it’s likely we still don’t have the technology to objectively detect this form of energy. Nevertheless I believe people are able to “subjectively” experience it. If you think this sounds silly I would ask you to look in the sky and point out the UHF, VHF, and cellular signals coursing through the air. Just because you cannot detect them with your eyes does that mean they don’t exist? You can't see infrared light but you can feel it as heat.  Consider that there are no supernatural forces, there are only natural forces we have yet to fully comprehend.

Royal Astronomical Society
20 March 2002
Their results show that the universe is full of dark energy, completely consistent with the earlier supernovae results. "It seems that Einstein did not make a blunder after all -- dark energy appears to exist and to dominate over more conventional types of matter," Efstathiou said. "An explanation of the dark energy may involve String Theory, extra dimensions or even what happened before the Big Bang. At present nobody knows. The ball is now firmly in the theorists court."

    Here is some recently released evidence supporting the argument that people who are more in tune with their own subjective sensations and the environment around them are more aware of those natural forces that have historically eluded more objective materialist measurement and explanation.  I contend those individuals most likely to notice such sensations would be those with more efficient (and consequently more developed) Sensing and Feeling cortical function.  Unfortunately because of differentiation and localization of cortical language structures this same group would also be less capable of articulating the experience using language that would satisfy those with a preference for objective descriptions.

Eerie feeling? Maybe you're just hearing things
September 18, 2003 edition
Drs. Bedard and Georges also point out that winds blowing over mountain ranges can generate infrasounds that last for days. They speculate that increases in suicides reported from the Alps and the western United States "may be due to some as yet unknown biological response" to such infrasound events. The British experiments, reported during the recent meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Manchester, England, may shed light on this.

Soundless Music Shown to Produce Weird Sensations
Thu, Sep 18, 2003
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Mysteriously snuffed out candles, weird sensations and shivers down the spine may not be due to the presence of ghosts in haunted houses but to very low frequency sound that is inaudible to humans.

British scientists have shown in a controlled experiment that the extreme bass sound known as infrasound produces a range of bizarre effects in people including anxiety, extreme sorrow and chills -- supporting popular suggestions of a link between infrasound and strange sensations.

"Normally you can't hear it," Dr Richard Lord, an acoustic scientist at the National Physical Laboratory in England who worked on the project, said Monday.

Lord and his colleagues, who produced infrasound with a seven meter (yard) pipe and tested its impact on 750 people at a concert, said infrasound is also generated by natural phenomena.

"Some scientists have suggested that this level of sound may be present at some allegedly haunted sites and so cause people to have odd sensations that they attribute to a ghost -- our findings support these ideas," said Professor Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire in southern England.

 

    On this page http://www.kstrom.net/isk/stars/starkno8.html is an article on stone wheels as analog star computers. The Aztecs also had a similar and very accurate astronomical calendar. These calendars are more than 2000 years old. As mentioned previously enlightenment or “neural alignment” allows a person greater clarity in understanding their world. It’s no accident that there is a correlation with our minds and the reality beyond the earth. We are indeed made of the same stuff “energy” as stars. In fact everything including matter is simply a particular state of energy.

    American Indians practice(d) ceremonies where they walk the medicine wheel and contemplate the concepts that each of the stones represents. This is comparable to Hindu and Buddhist use of Mandalas.  Because the stones represent concepts that correspond with their environment by placing them in the appropriate locations and meditating on them they are able to find the truths of their environment and obtain enlightenment, although from what I've heard it is usually referred to as 'healing'. Because the integration of knowledge combined subconscious memories of their natural environment this made them extremely knowledgeable about the animals, plants, people and weather patterns.
 

    Prior to learning about the medicine wheel I had already conceived of a hands-on learning center and library dedicated to the same thing. I thought of it after spending some time with a toddler I believe to be ESTP. Acknowledging that different personalities have different preferences for acquiring information I thought it would be great to have a multimedia three dimensional environment for people to experience and learn about personality and cognition. When I last considered it, it would have been arranged in the following manner from out outside toward the center:

    Here is an interesting site that provides several additional relationships between people and a relationship with four types.  I found the “4 Races of Mankind” page particularly interesting because I believe it equates well with the MBTI arguments for "cultural types”.  A cultural type is the application of individual human personality type traits to the prevailing values and practices of a group.  e.g. United States could currently be considered as ESTJ and Japan as ISFJ.  (However, the founders of the United States I would consider more ENTJ.)

    I have enormous respect for wise and peaceful people.  For centuries many or most native Americans have more or less found a way to live harmoniously with other people and their environment. Despite being nearly exterminated by Europeans and having nearly everything precious to them bribed away or stolen, many maintain a profound respect for all people and the goodness that they know they capable of. They also know more about enlightenment cross culturally than any other group I’ve found. It was on an American Indian web site that I saw the reference to Stonehenge.

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
- Henri Bergson

"We could not believe our eyes."
- Astronomer Thomas Ott on the surprising discovery of a star swinging around the very heart of the Milky Way.

"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
- Marcel Proust

    The author of the following web page titled “In the Beginning” appears to recognize that the 'creator' which is symbolized by the center stone (or empty space) in the great wheel is in fact the core of our galaxy which contains a supermassive black hole (the empty space I contend also represents the absence of diagonal neural connections in the brain).  For contemporary evidence and theory supporting this view please click here.

    From what I know and as far as I’ve researched the teachings of many Native Americans and many of their traditions are among the wisest on the planet.    Here also is an article that discusses native peoples awareness of concepts that relate directly to modern concepts of quantum physics and telepathy, QLAOT -- Quantum Linguistic Aspects of Telepathy. 

Non-space Time vs. Timing in Spacetime
“While for thousands of years our Western European cultures have gotten by just fine with daily and mathematical languages which treat Space and Time as separate, we couldn't notice until physics reunited them as 'spacetime' during this century that other cultures had never separated them to begin with. These Native American language/culture complexes are based on animacy and wholeness, as pointed out by Whorf and verified by Native Americans I've discussed this with -- and there is only integrated spacetime in their systems.”
- DAN MOONHAWK ALFORD, 4/99, THOUGHTS ON QuAL: QUANTUM ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS

"Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it. The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought. Individual existence impresses him as a sort of prison and he wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole."
- Albert Einstein, Religion and Science

In The Beginning
The first Stone of the Sun Bear Medicine Wheel is in honor of Creator, represents Creator, is Creator in the Wheel. In the Wheel building ceremony this Stone is placed first, with prayer and song, and in the very center of the space you have marked out for the Wheel.

Since Creator is all things, there is no particular totem or mineral for this position. The item for Creator does not need to be a Stone. Wheels have been built around an object sacred to the group, for example, a Bear skull; or a sacred Fire, Tree, or cluster of crystals.

I want to share this quotation from page 25 of Dancing With The Wheel by Sun Bear, Wabun Wind, and Crysalis Mulligan: "The Creator is the beginning of life and its ending, the Great Mystery within all things and around all things, the Universal Energy"............"In many Native languages the word for Creator......... "was a verb, indicating the movement, the activity, the motion, the pulsation of this sacred, never-ending force."

Chandra Finds Galaxy Growth Regulated by Big Black Holes
22 May 2003, By SPACE.com Staff
"These galaxies are revealing an energetic phase in which a supermassive black hole transfers considerable energy into the gas surrounding the galaxies," said Andrew Fabian, lead author of the study on 3C294, in a written statement. "This appears to be crucial in explaining the puzzling properties of present-day galaxies, especially those that group together in large clusters," he said. Fabian, a professor at Cambridge University, will publish his findings in an upcoming issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

The studies of both galaxies suggest a kind of a cosmic circle of galactic life. As a dense region of intergalactic gas cools, it forms several smaller galaxies that later merge to form a larger galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its core. Both galaxy and black hole continue to grow by absorbing other nearby galaxies.

Black holes: mothers of the Universe?
Cynthia Reynolds, January 13, 2000, EXN.ca is Discovery Channel Canada’s Website
"Black holes aren't exactly the celestial darlings of our universe. They're commonly thought of as giant space vacuums slowly and methodically sucking the universe dry. But these monsters of destruction may not be so monstrous after all. New research that identifies three new supermassive black holes - bringing the grand total so far to 20 - adds credence to the theory that massive black holes are also intricately related to the creation and evolution of galaxies. Maybe, without black holes, we wouldn't even be here."

Black hole survey sheds light on galaxy formation
SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUTE PHOTO RELEASE, Posted: June 5, 2000
“Though this secret relationship between a black hole and its host galaxy has been suspected for the past several years, it is bolstered by the Hubble discovery of 10 more supermassive black holes in galaxy centers, raising the total to more than 30 black holes now available for study. "For the first time we can put strong constraints on the relationship between galaxy formation and black hole formation and growth," says Kormendy.”

Genesis 2
¹ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
² And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Final ‘Proof’ Provided for Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
Thu Oct 17, 2002
Surprising observations of a star swiftly orbiting the cloudy heart of the Milky Way Galaxy have verified with near certainty the existence of a central black hole, a theoretical object that still eludes direct detection.

Astronomers watched the star for a decade, tracking two-thirds of its path around the galactic center. No object has ever before been seen so close to the center of any galaxy, nor has any other object previously been observed making more than a small fraction of its orbital trek around a galaxy.

"Our work proves that there is indeed a supermassive black hole in our own galaxy," said Rainer Schoedel, a PhD student at the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Germany.
…
While it’s not clear why the Milky Way’s black hole is relatively quiet, astronomers have long suspected that a black hole is a black hole, and that in a general sense what’s observed in the Milky Way can be applied to the more massive objects seen elsewhere. The Milky Way’s black hole may be simply taking a culinary break after billions of years of high consumption.

The New History of Black Holes: 'Co-evolution' Dramatically Alters Dark Reputation
By Robert Roy Britt, 28 January 2003
Black holes suffer a bad rap. Indicted by the press as gravity monsters, labeled highly secretive by astronomers, and long considered in theoretical circles as mere endpoints of cosmic evolution, these unseen objects are depicted as mysterious drains of destruction and death.

So it may seem odd to reconsider them as indispensable forces of creation.

Yet this is the bright new picture of black holes and their role in the evolution of the universe. Interviews with more than a half dozen experts presently involved in rewriting the slippery history of these elusive objects reveals black holes as galactic sculptors.

Black Holes Tied to Galaxy Growth, Study Says
Stefan Lovgren
for National Geographic News
April 6, 2005
By peering into the deep belly of the universe, scientists have found that massive black holes are growing simultaneously with the galaxies in which they are situated.

Using powerful x-ray technology, astronomers surveyed distant galaxies more than ten billion light-years away. They found that the black hole in the center of each galaxy appears to be growing continuously throughout a burst of star formation.

The observations confirm a theory that the total mass of the stars in a galaxy corresponds to the mass of the black hole. The findings suggest that black holes are pivotal to the formation of galaxies and the structure of the universe.

special relativity: Yahoo! Reference: American Heritage® Dictionary
NOUN: The physical theory of space and time developed by Albert Einstein, based on the postulates that all the laws of physics are equally valid in all frames of reference moving at a uniform velocity and that the speed of light from a uniformly moving source is always the same, regardless of how fast or slow the source or its observer is moving. The theory has as consequences the relativistic mass increase of rapidly moving objects, the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction, time dilatation, and the principle of mass-energy equivalence.

2 Peter 3:7-9 :: King James Version (KJV)
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." "What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of "humility." This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism"
- Albert Einstein, What I Believe, 1930

In The Beginning
"The Creator is the beginning of life and its ending, the Great Mystery within all things and around all things, the Universal Energy"............"In many Native languages the word for Creator......... "was a verb, indicating the movement, the activity, the motion, the pulsation of this sacred, never-ending force."

The Prayer To Our 'Father'
"The Aramaic Language has (like the Hebrew and Arabic) different levels of meaning. The words are organized and defined by a poetical system where different meanings of every word are possible."
(in the original Aramaic)
Abwûn
"Oh Thou, from whom the breath of life comes,
d'bwaschmâja
who fills all realms of sound, light and vibration.
Nethkâdasch schmach
May Your light be experienced in my utmost holiest.
Têtê malkuthach.
Your Heavenly Domain approaches.
Nehwê tzevjânach aikâna d'bwaschmâja af b'arha.
Let Your will come true - in the universe (all that vibrates)
just as on earth (that is material and dense).
Hawvlân lachma d'sûnkanân jaomâna.
Give us bread (understanding, assistance) for our daily need,
...

Advanced physics, accelerated for mass consumption
Diana Steele
Trying to untangle some of the more esoteric concepts of modern physics might tie most people up in knots, but Columbia's Brian Greene has string theory wrapped around his finger. Greene's new book, The Elegant Universe (NY: Norton, 1999), succeeds in explaining string theory in accessible language, visualizing the microscopic world in terms of garden hoses and violins. His patient eloquence brings string theory within range of even the most phobic of math- and physics-phobes.
...
At its most basic, string theory posits that the fundamental ingredients in matter are vibrating loops resembling unimaginably tiny, taut rubber bands. "If you take anything at all, and just keep slicing it into smaller and smaller pieces," says Greene, "the theory suggests that the smallest things that you will ultimately come upon are these strings." Envisioning the fundamental bits of matter as tiny strings rather than point-like particles gives scientists the theoretical framework to probe the physical properties of things like black holes. The theory has begun to sew together our fragmented understanding of the universe.

The vibration patterns of the strings, like the vibrations of violin strings, give rise to slightly more familiar fundamental particles such as quarks and gluons. These, in turn, are the constituents of protons, neutrons, and electrons, which make up atoms and molecules.

String theory suggests that as many as nine or 10 spatial dimensions, plus time, may exist, for a total of 10 or 11 spacetime dimensions. Most of them are tiny and curled up, so small we may never be able to perceive them. It's the complex patterns of vibrations throughout these 10 or 11 dimensions that give rise to the rich family of particles scientists can detect experimentally.

"In the beginning of all things wisdom and knowledge were with the animals, for Tirawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent certain animals to tell men that he showed himself through the beasts, and that from them, and from the stars and the sun and the moon should man learn .... all things tell of Tirawa."
- Eagle Chief (Letakots-Lesa) (late 19th century): Pawnee

    Here is evidence of a positive and encouraging prophecy coming true.  While it's initially a few years old (1994) I was alerted to it on May 13, 2002 by CNN Headline News.  For more of "Tirawa" speaking through animals please see the following prophecy related to the Middle East conflict and peace.

"American Legend is made flesh" No longer mythical White Buffalo a beacon to Plains tribes......
from the Houston Chronicle, Sept. 24, 1994
“Miracle stands in her mother’s shadow, her champagne coat, ghostlike against the chocolate-colored herd. She is a mat of fuzz on a newborn frame. Yet Miracle is rarely among land-roving beasts. She is the mythical White Buffalo - symbol of hope, rebirth and unity for the Great Plains tribes.”

“Searching for Miracle will take you down long gravel path on the Heider family farm in south central Wisconsin. Three thousand pilgrims made the walk down the coarse stones earlier this month hoping to catch a glimpse of Miracle. Every day more come from all corners of the country. One man came from Ireland.”

“If all of this sounds a little crazy to you, consider this: The chance of a white buffalo being born makes your odds of winning the lottery look good, Miracles likelihood, according to the numbers from the National Buffalo Association, is somewhere in the range of 6 billion. Consider also that the only other documented white buffalo this century died in 1959. His name was Big Medicine. He lived for 36 years.

Now, there is Miracle, the infant calf born to a 1,100 -pound mother and now deceased father on Dave and Valerie Heider’s farm on the banks of the Rock River. She is a beacon for believers.”

"The arrival of the white buffalo is like the second coming of Christ, says Floyd Hand, a Sioux medicine man from Pine Ridge, S.D., who was one of the first to make the pilgrimage. It "will bring about purity of mind, body and spirit, and unify all nations, black, red, yellow, and white."

White Buffalo Woman -- Prayers for Peace are being answered
She told people to "...always remember that the two-leggeds and all other peoples who stand upon this Earth are sacred and should be treated as such... I am leaving now, but I shall look back upon you in every age, and at the end I shall return." When she left, she turned into a buffalo that changed into four different colors -- red, black, yellow and white, which represent the races of humanity. White Buffalo Woman said that one day she would return to "mend the hoop" and establish brotherhood between all races. According to the Lakota keeper of the sacred pipe, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, "It was told the next time there is chaos and disparity, she would return again."

HOMELAND - The Legend of the White Buffalo Calf Woman
It was the young Indian woman the warrior had spoken of.

But in person, she was far more beautiful than words could tell. She was dressed in white buckskins and her long dark hair glowed like hot, liquid stone.

On her face, was a most peaceful countenance and her smile showered the people in warmth and happiness.

"I have something special for you," she whispered.

And then she opened her bundle and revealed a sacred pipe adorned with 12 eagle feathers.

The people stared in awe as she showed them how to pray with the pipe... and then she blessed the people.

She blessed the women saying, "it is the work of your hands and the fruit of your wombs that keep your people alive."

She looked upon the children, saying, "You are the greatest possession of any nation, you are the coming generations, the life of the people and the circle without end."

Then she turned to the men and said, "Offer prayers to the Wakantanka (Great Spirit) and love your children and women."

    And here are the pictures of the Buffalo as her fur changes color from white to black to red to yellow. She’s apparently brown now and if the prophecy is correct I suppose she should be changing white any day now.  Miracle's Life and Color Changes in Pictures: 1994 through 1997....  Well, now in Aug. 2003 comes an announcement that helps explain the significance of environmental influence on gene expression.  It seems to me this type of research may be important for understanding and explaining the discrepancy between the scientific evidence that all homo sapiens are more or less genetically identical with the superficial yet significant differences in our appearance (see Epigenetics)

Mother's diet changes pups' colour
Mouse study suggests mechanism for affect of maternal nutrition on infant health.
4 August 2003, Nature.com Article
The study is the first to find a clear mechanism for the effect of maternal nutrition on disease development in mammals without mutating the offspring's genes.

The implications for cloning, nutrition and disease research are huge, says Rob Waterland of the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, who took part in the study. "For decades, there has been research linking prenatal diet to diseases like diabetes, obesity and cancer but the explanation was missing," he says.

Waterland and his colleague Randy Jirtle worked with Agouti Yellow mice. Members of this strain have an extra piece of DNA in the Agouti gene, making them obese and yellow. When fed the vitamin B12, folic acid, choline and betaine before, during and after pregnancy, the animals gave birth to thin, brown pups. Control animals' offspring were fat and yellow.

The nutrients had silenced the Agouti gene, but had not altered its sequence, Waterland and Jirtle found. Molecules containing carbon and hydrogen had been attached to the gene. Cells often use this process, called DNA methylation, to switch genes on or off during development.

"Far more probable is that visits from intelligent entities from another planet represent a merger of an evolved intelligent species with its even more evolved intelligent computational technology.  A civilization sufficiently evolved to make the trek to Earth has likely long since passed the "merger" threshold discussed above."
- Ray Kurzweil, Delegations from Faraway Places, p. 257, "The Age of Spiritual Machines - when computers exceed human intelligence"

    Here is what I believe to be a painting of the individual many call 'God' and seven observers (angels/ETI/amesha spentas/etc.).  The painting was apparently created sometime between 2000-8000 years ago in what is now Utah.  Note the many features of the central figure with the Book of Revelation author's description of the, "one like unto the Son of Man".  The eyes "as flame of fire", the garment, the two edged sword from the mouth and even the seven 'angels' around him.  For best affect examine the picture after each verse.  For more explanation of the significance of this evidence please read my Revelation page.

Revelation 1 :: King James Version (KJV)
¹⁰   I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
¹¹   Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
¹²   And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
¹³   And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
¹⁴   His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
¹⁵   And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
¹⁶   And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
¹⁷   And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
¹⁸   I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
¹⁹   Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
²⁰   The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.

    Not surprisingly the prominent figure is referred to as the "Holy Ghost".  This is not just a random image I tried to find that would match John's description of 'the one'.  It is an historically exceptional piece of artwork and has features that would not be found elsewhere for thousands of years.

THE BARRIER CANYON ROCK ART STYLE
David Sucec, BCS PROJECT
The Holy Ghost composition has the appearance of visual depth. At a distance, it is easy to see the composition, framed by a shallow arch, as a group of dark figures standing, or hovering, around (behind, in front, and to the sides) a tall light figure (Holy Ghost) which is, literally and figuratively, "head and shoulders" above them. In addition, the head of the Holy Ghost is represented in a three-quarter view—the only three-dimensional representation of an anthropomorphic head in Utah and, probably, the United States.

We are accustomed to seeing convincing representations of visual space in the paintings of today but this interest (on the part of the artist) in recreating a three-dimensional space on a flat surface really only extends, scholars think, to the classical Greeks (ca. 300 b.c.e.) and, certainly, the European Renaissance (ca. c.e. 1400). The Holy Ghost Group was probably painted before 2,000 b.c.e., perhaps well before.

What could account for this early, clearly intentional, representation of the space of the "real world"—in a world of prehistoric rock art, which was, for tens of thousands of years, dominated by a flat-looking, frontal or profile, two-dimensional image and format or visual space?

    Consider the coincidence of such a being and seven 'angels' with the identification of seven beneficent immortals in Zoroastrianism.  The book of Genesis also refers repeatedly to a plurality of 'Gods'.

Ahura Mazda and the Beneficent Immortals.
"Zoroaster's teachings, as noted above, centred on Ahura Mazda, who is the highest god and alone is worthy of worship. He is, according to the Gathas, the creator of heaven and earth; i.e., of the material and the spiritual world. He is the source of the alternation of light and darkness, the sovereign lawgiver, and the very centre of nature, as well as the originator of the moral order and judge of the entire world.... He is surrounded by six or seven beings, or entities, which the later Avesta calls amesha spentas, "beneficent immortals."