Arabella Thaïs is a philosopher in the renaissance person style. Her research spans quantum mechanics, cosmology, chaos theory, literature, aesthetics, higher-dimensional mathematics, ontology, and metaphysics. She runs The Temple of Truth, a school of consciousness and self-realization.

When we throw ourselves into our conversation, it quickly takes off in all conceivable directions.

Beauty

Arabella emphasizes the importance of beauty, in a profound sense of the word.

Beauty and love are not the same, but they are intimately intertwined.

She cites Dante Alighieri, who said beauty will save the world.

“It’s about moral beauty. Beauty is related to truth and the good.”

Beauty is also related to the experience of this life.

Nonhuman intelligence

A few years ago, Arabella had several direct interactions with nonhuman intelligence. She saw lights and orbs appearing and disappearing, and she saw and communicated with shape shifting entities.

“That changed my life forever.”

“They’re here to support us. They help us remember what we already know.”

Free will

We are born with a divine blueprint, Arabella thinks. What about free will, then?

“It’s a paradoxical both-and”, she says.

The script is already written, but it is when we align with the path we chose before we were born here that we truly exert our free will.

“And when you truly believe this, you’re not worried, because you know that everything will work out for you. It’s all perfect.”

The latter assertion raises morally tricky questions.

Everything being perfect doesn’t mean that everything is as it should be, Arabella points out.

“None of the evil stuff is okay. It needs to be resolved and eliminated. But the journey of experience and then transcendence is perfect.”

A dream world

There are different terms for what the Hindu tradition calls maya, the material illusion we live in. Arabella prefers ‘dream’ before ‘simulation’.

The fact that we all live in this dream means that if we all shared a vision of an ideal reality, we would realize it almost instantly.

“Like in a lucid dream. When you become lucid you can create anything.”

This is also where astrology comes in. Astrological principles, by which every point in spacetime has its particular qualities, are a part of the dream construct.

A new society

How might we reorganize this world? How might we transcend the detrimental hierarchical structures and live according to our true essence?

Arabella makes a case for anarchy, which she means is a misconstrued concept. It doesn't mean chaos, it means organizing organically, without hierarchical leader figures.

“Democracy kind of works, but it’s actually not ideal. We need to move beyond that.”

“The new paradigm necessitates a higher level of consciousness to create a society that is safe, abundant and beautiful.”

Awakening

Arabella had a spontaneous spiritual awakening when she was 27.

“For many years, I was wandering this earth in a state of absolut despair, confused and perturbed. Only through the spontaneous awakening I knew my path. I just remembered everything, who I was and the nature of the universe.”

And what will precipitate humanity’s great awakening?

“It’s multi-faceted.”

Our connection with nonhuman intelligence will be part of it, Arabella thinks. But we will likely also experience systems collapsing faster than ever before, leading to civil unrest. This will force people to realize ‘we can’t go on like this’. We will probably see spontaneous awakenings as well, when people will start remembering.

“And the old materialist paradigm will collapse.”

Arabella’s website

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