tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85884311275216589672024-03-14T07:01:56.949-07:00Countdown to 2012 - Mayan Calendar EndEvents and experiences moving toward the end of the Mayan Calendar on December 21, 2012DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.comBlogger269125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-10860498264295057392012-06-18T16:07:00.001-07:002012-06-18T16:17:53.164-07:00What is the Adventure?<br />
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A lot of my inspiration comes from dreams, many of which appear archetypical. It often seems the dream world presents a scenario that could have come to anyone, at any time.<br />
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And maybe that's so. Maybe other people have had my same dream, or its essential content, though in some other form. Maybe the collective unconscious is constantly burbling up into distinct, specific impressions through whoever is open to it.<br />
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It is not hard to imagine the unconscious as an infinite soup of psychic content - a cosmic stew of all possibilities floating around, yet under pressure to rise up into awareness and become embodied in the light of human experience.<br />
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So when a simple, symbolic dream is presented, I sense that the message is universal and that it will speak to others as well as me. <br />
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<i>I see a woman working, attending to the duties life has presented. She is endeavoring to do what needs to be done without creating or having any more problems. She had experienced a lot of crisis and calamity in the past and is now careful and cautious as a result. Her overriding desire is simply to carry on, to make it through the day and the rest of her earthly cycle while avoiding suffering as much as possible. Her future seems rather bleak and uninviting.</i><br />
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<i>At the same time this woman is also blessed to have a remarkable daughter, a wise medicine child. The daughter is always available to help not only with the woman's outer, physical work but also with her inner spiritual work - of which most children would be completely unaware. </i><br />
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<i>When the woman struggles with fear and doubt, the daughter calms her spirits and enables her to cope. When circumstances are unsettling the woman turns to her daughter for guidance and thus regains her own emotional strength and mental clarity.. </i><br />
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<i>The compassionate daughter understands her mother's wounds and limitations, but also comprehends the wonder and fulness of what her mother could become. She sees a bigger picture of freedom that is possible through letting go of fear and doubt.</i><br />
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<i>So she cheerfully asks, "Mom, what is the adventure? What is the adventure we are looking for?"</i><br />
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Hmm . . . somehow that seems like the archetypal question of these times . . . <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>What is the adventure we are looking for?</b></i></span></div>
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Life can be the experience of existing in both fire and water.<br />
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An image presents of human incense, slow flames smoldering while fragrant smoke rises to He who is the bestower of that everlasting flame. It is not a comfortable sensation, but it is at least comforting.<br />
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It seems a person must become - to some degree, at least - <i>like</i> Jesus in order to <i>believe</i> in Jesus. Belief in what one cannot really comprehend or relate to must be superstition.<br />
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Only the heart knows how to believe in God, how to worship God. Only the heart understands humility, as something felt rather than conceptualized. Humility is the heart's natural state, through which it recognizes the presence and grandeur of the divine and surrenders to God in love.
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My personal view is that a flowing heart with Christ at its center is the goal or fulfillment of human existence, and that a person in whom this state becomes operative and functional is no longer living for himself. In that case he or she would become a vehicle or portal through which Christ comes into the world again . . . or more fully.
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God brought forth His begotten, Jesus Christ, to enfold mankind in salvation, to wrap all in the robe of forgiveness and absolution, to abide with and within us. This transformation into new creatures, this rising from the dead, would leave behind in the grave the abandoned husk of "individuality" with its fallacious mystique of separateness and wrongdoing.
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The living waters flowing from the wells of the heart nourish famished souls far beyond the temple boundaries.
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<i>"He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water" </i>(John 7:38).<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-20966408971993327582012-06-14T10:30:00.000-07:002012-06-14T10:43:04.962-07:00Still Coming Down the Road<br/>
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I wasn't sure I'd be coming back to this blog. After all, it was all about preparing for 2012, and then 2012 started to happen and I didn't know what was <i>really</i> happening. I didn't know what was going on in the world or in me, except that all of it was swirling rapidly and debris was flying off in every direction.<br />
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I also felt I knew nothing and therefore had nothing to say. I was speechless and in shock and suffering from feelings that arose like ghosts from the woodwork of my constructed story with its manifold cracks and crevices in which the forsaken spirits of my seemingly regrettable past and fearful future hid.<br />
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What made any of that change enough that I could return now and offer a few hesitant words? <br />
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An urgency arose to strive harder to step beyond my boundaries and to dig further into the little acre of psychic space that is mine to work with and play in, and offer what comes up to speculative consideration once more.<br />
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We'll see what becomes of the effort . . .<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-18009610860538482072011-10-04T06:40:00.000-07:002011-10-04T06:40:56.132-07:00Skeletons in the Closet<br><br />
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There is a sense that skeletons are walking out of their closets everywhere you look. The unresolved issues, inequities and inequalities upon which a seemingly workable structure of society has been built, are being called into question. <br />
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All over the world there are stirrings of this evident on the geo-political level. The Arab Spring has now spread to the shores of the USA with Occupy Wall Street. People long for truth, authenticity, fairness, honesty, and there is a growing will to demand these things. <br />
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But demand them of whom?<br />
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A sincere questioner may have to acknowledge a grisly fact: he or she has <i>internal</i> skeletons needing to come out of their closets - bones whose restless sighing whisper of souls kept in the chains of our attachment and possession, whose freedom has been long denied.<br />
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However immense those cultural skeletons may be, the ones within are even more fierce and powerful, for it is from these that the others derive their collective existence.<br />
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It is far easier to point to the supposed evil of Wall Street and foreign tyranny than to acknowledge one’s own complicity in creating a world in which selfishness and self-interest is the dominating Modus Operandi. <br />
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These times are calling for renewal and refreshment, for the final burying of the undead and the subsequent freeing of those bound under tyrannical slavery. While we rightfully labor in the world to do this, let us not neglect to expose our own skeletons so that all may rest in peace.<p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-69897065728259751052011-08-09T09:02:00.000-07:002011-08-09T09:02:29.523-07:00Jesus' Prayer Rope<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH0BEwa6zVYLws1mt1QSpfobkKUxUbFNRPe_XU_2bQTo_A73Ix18SA62YO14uh7cRTbLUU1kMnuQzyWw_4U4c7iYnVpd1VPg0A69Qb23lG6R3WNSsXqT038qzXaencQUiN5q0rav-kGe8/s1600/Prayer+Rope.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH0BEwa6zVYLws1mt1QSpfobkKUxUbFNRPe_XU_2bQTo_A73Ix18SA62YO14uh7cRTbLUU1kMnuQzyWw_4U4c7iYnVpd1VPg0A69Qb23lG6R3WNSsXqT038qzXaencQUiN5q0rav-kGe8/s400/Prayer+Rope.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
From the darkness a voice asks, “Would anyone here like to hold the prayer rope of Jesus?” <br />
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There is no reply. Everyone feels daunted by such a prospect.<br />
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The voice queries again, somewhat insistently: “Anyone?”<br />
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I struggle to overcome the inertia of trepidation and answer, “I will.”<br />
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A stubby piece of wood is placed in my hand, like a broken twig or branch, deep reddish in color. From it stretches out into infinitesimal distance an energetic cord. <br />
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The nearest bead on this cord is barely visible, and vibrating with subtle intensity.<br />
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After a moment of holding the stick, the bead’s content becomes clear. <br />
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It is a person, and with the stick he or she has punched a hole through the chest in order to be strung on Jesus prayer rope.<br />
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Seeing this, I do the same. The stick passes through my body easily, creating a spacious open void. <br />
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The piercing doesn’t seem to hurt, though I sense it reflects profound effort in the realm of human struggle, where life’s deepest issues are resolved and redeemed.<br />
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And suddenly I see that all the beads <br />
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Are glowing. <p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-52891126022533349432011-07-29T21:34:00.000-07:002011-07-29T21:36:44.557-07:00The Iboga Warrior<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGfCXzX_ffmge3Jgk53OcLniU2aaYnfojjqjanIPQrsSsaQx3W78CzuWrzVkO365MgMOJqOmUgBulCIXttiNRhs1aX8YBoToPDqI-o8jTft_o5J3ywqTdSlmDVfhMezYBcMsdpYpP1BE8/s1600/Iboga+Warrior+6-2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGfCXzX_ffmge3Jgk53OcLniU2aaYnfojjqjanIPQrsSsaQx3W78CzuWrzVkO365MgMOJqOmUgBulCIXttiNRhs1aX8YBoToPDqI-o8jTft_o5J3ywqTdSlmDVfhMezYBcMsdpYpP1BE8/s320/Iboga+Warrior+6-2011.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
Sometime during our journey the Iboga Warrior revealed himself. <br />
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He walked out of a dark wilderness toward the fire, where his rugged features gleamed rusty in the night. His eyes peered toward a vision no one else could see - another land, or another life.<br />
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Nevertheless his fierce presence was undeniable and unmistakable.<br />
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Beneath his rough cloak, muffled by strong arms, a battle raged. <br />
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A deadly creature wrestled within the warrior's chest, seeking to devour his very heart. Yet of this severe conflict he gave no outward sign.<br />
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Being the youngest, it fell to me to witness all . . .<br />
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And I saw the light of the Iboga Warrior <br />
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Rising like blue smoke <br />
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Toward the waiting stars. <p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-54276035963270601512011-05-02T11:34:00.000-07:002011-05-02T11:38:10.025-07:00Transition Times<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhecZWjjp7wvwGZEMU2gwSRZFtujIKxa49YUhDNEm_j6ZSUzpMWOvAbiRt393RjBzISFjmUq0Db2tPxbHjF1IA6E9hb6chNRfr9PMU1hKZSQy06h1SPEMqU0LSJpYeaiOQaHS89YbNJxOE/s1600/HealingHandsLight.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="285px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhecZWjjp7wvwGZEMU2gwSRZFtujIKxa49YUhDNEm_j6ZSUzpMWOvAbiRt393RjBzISFjmUq0Db2tPxbHjF1IA6E9hb6chNRfr9PMU1hKZSQy06h1SPEMqU0LSJpYeaiOQaHS89YbNJxOE/s400/HealingHandsLight.jpg" width="400px" /></a></div><br />
Day Two of the Ninth Wave and Universal Cycle (as describe by Carl Johan Calleman) ended May 1 with the beatification of Pope John Paul II. <br />
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Night Two of the Ninth Wave and Universal Cycle began May 2 with the demise of Osama Bin Laden.<br />
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Both events, obviously, are highly significant historical markers. There is a sense of transition in our times, of resolution for situations that had seemed impossibly intractible - while unprecedented developments also unfold, full of promise and potential.<br />
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This transition represents both an opening to the new and a closing of the old, movement beyond limitations of the past into more spacious realms of possibility. <br />
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How this process manifests at the collective level could be linked to a subject many know personally: the core wounding of childhood as it manifests in the adult experience. <br />
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It common, cliché actually, for those engaged in introspective therapies to arrive at a point where they conclude that most (if not all) their problems have resulted from the failure of their parents to provide what they needed as children. Not only did they not get the unconditional love that they craved, but they may well have received what they did NOT need, namely abuse and mistreatment. <br />
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From this analysis emerges a revamped opinion that is highly unflattering to mother and father. Deep hurts are uncovered and anger exposed as the child become adult gets in touch with wounded feelings that were repressed or denied in the formative years. <br />
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This is no doubt a healthy step in the process of self-recovery, but it is only a step. Many people get stuck there thinking they have reached the end point. After all, it is a convenient escape from responsibility if one’s inability to relate or behave well can be traced to faulty upbringing.<br />
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But beyond the recognition that the world represented by our parents damaged us when young is another and more mature recognition step, namely that they did what they needed to do so we could have what we needed to have. The wounds we got were the ones we were supposed to get, because they illumine the specific areas in ourselves requiring healing and transformation. <br />
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Realizing this takes blame away from the parents – more importantly it takes “power” away from the parents as in, “they had the power to make me less than myself.” And it gives power back to the individual through presenting the case that all events, including those that seem debilitating, serve one’s growth in soul maturation - whose ultimate intended end is victory.<br />
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As parents wound a child, so the world has wounded mankind as a collective child, thus forming the challenging conditions out of which this “child” must arise and reclaim its true nature. Victory starts to assume tangible form as individuals wake up and stop unconsciously following the script of that early patterning. <br />
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We are not called to repeat our parents, either in what they were or what they made us to be, but rather to transcend both them and ourselves. <br />
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Nor are we called to continually repeat the world in its ageless cycle of false assumptions about reality, of its “wars and rumors of wars” and every form of self-forgetfulness that has kept the beings we are, having been created in the “image and likeness” of God, opposed to God’s very truth.<br />
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There is no doubt that powerful energies are manifesting through the events surrounding one world leader’s beatification and another’s death. Yet it is ours to decide how we will respond to those energies – whether we will continue to feed the patterns of the past or choose a new and far better direction. <br />
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Let our decision be to release the parental patterns of the world and reclaim our own power. Let it be to not repeat the limits of childhood, but rather to claim victory over these and manifest the image and likeness of God that we truly are.<br />
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Let it be.<p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-64237550348974017792011-03-26T19:33:00.000-07:002011-03-26T21:51:12.148-07:00Universal Underworld<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeja41X8ZE39iXxTVfaLZTEo6m3VY6yfvJ3hsd_nHYl1HwfsWOcJt9sns00EW2ovi3GWjwJo3j2XN4tWqtwxFjVyRL3ziNhCQGFjYA2pgMAz5WtoGdV1lYfhujvilfFYQ17LwRRk4CuK4/s1600/seismogram+3-26-2011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeja41X8ZE39iXxTVfaLZTEo6m3VY6yfvJ3hsd_nHYl1HwfsWOcJt9sns00EW2ovi3GWjwJo3j2XN4tWqtwxFjVyRL3ziNhCQGFjYA2pgMAz5WtoGdV1lYfhujvilfFYQ17LwRRk4CuK4/s400/seismogram+3-26-2011.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1GFrbWoJ1P7caC7hcdZ-63TXkiOiMB5r3nGWftPEB_QPZkJ2K_VJkF6OoWZo8eMtcKxJDhQxMFYRdzwG5EufZqabN5M-A7R0gKiXCWZxq_Gdg80ld0OXMOPv6q730k0vPdxNbISRUZJE/s1600/seismogram+3-26-2011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
</a></div>According to Carl Johan Calleman, March 9, 2011 marked the beginning of the First Day of the Universal Underworld. This is the ninth and last underworld, which (as Calleman believes) ought to culminate in a state of unity consciousness for all mankind.<br />
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I guess we'll have to see about that, since at the moment it doesn't seem that certain segments of the human population are likely to stop behaving like barbarians and the devil's henchmen any time soon. Be that as it may, it is interesting to note some significant activities occurring on and since that date.<br />
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Calleman writes that there are nine "underworlds" (cosmic time periods), each corresponding to a unique phase in the development of life consciousness in the universe. They all started at different times and are of different lengths, but every one of them is scheduled to end on October 28, 2011. Each underworld is composed of thirteen alternating "Days" and "Nights" which may last years or centuries, depending on the overall span of the underworld involved. The Universal Underworld is the shortest one of all; its Days and Nights lasting only eighteen chronological days.<br />
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Based on his research in relating these Day/Night periods to actual historical events in the past, Calleman has assigned certain energies or themes to them. The theme for Day One (which ends today) is "seeding." What could "seeding" mean to planet earth and its human populations?<br />
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Alert observer Frank Zweers offers a clue by posting the seismic data displayed at the LISS (Live Internet Seismic Server) on March 9, the beginning of Day One of the Universal Underworld. Compare the chart below to the one above from March 26 (today). Zweers says that the LISS stations:<br />
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<i>"had gone mad during the night. All graphs from allover the world had peaked unusually. It struck me as strange, since I never have seen such a blackout before. Normally the graphs are full of quiet lines except for a few stations where an earthquake had hit, now all stations had gone bazurk. Could this be the activation of the Ninth wave? The frequency of Earth seemed to have heightened during the nightly hours everywhere." </i><br />
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<small>(The LISS live feed can be monitored at http://aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/Seismic_Data/heli2.shtml)</small><br />
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What does this seismic data of March 9 suggest about the massive 9.0 earthquake that hit Japan March 11? Calleman weighs in on this question with an article reproduced below:<br />
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<i><center>Was the Japan Earthquake Related to the Mayan Calendar?</center><center>by Carl Johan Calleman </center><br />
<div class="text">In the discussions about the meaning of “2012” suggestions have commonly been made that we would be approaching a time filled with so called Earth Changes and natural disasters of different kinds to the point where it has sometimes been presented as if this would be all that the Mayan calendar is all about. Especially in the light of the terrible disaster that has struck Japan only a few days after the beginning of the 9th wave it then becomes natural to ask if this was predictable based on the Mayan calendar and if there are more such to expect for instance in the Pacific Rim of Fire.</div><div class="text"><br />
Earthquakes have their origin in the continental drift, which is caused by convection streams in the mantle rising from the hot interior of the Earth. As these convection streams cause tectonic plates to move tensions between these plates will be created on the surface of the Earth and when these are released enormous energies may give rise to disasters. As I have presented both in Solving the Greatest Mystery of Time: The Mayan Calendar (2001) and The Purposeful Universe (2009) the continental drift in general has its origin in the alautun shifts of the Mayan calendar that in the Mammalian Underworld was behind this drift. In this very general sense you might say that all earthquakes (and Volcanic eruptions) have an origin in the shifts that the Mayan calendar describes.</div><div class="text"><br />
Given that an alautun is as much as 63.1 million years long and the size of the continents there has however hardly existed any basis for making detailed predictions as to when and where an earthquake may strike. To my knowledge no one has been able to provide a convincing pattern relating smaller Earthquakes to the Mayan calendar even though serious attempts have been made (see for instance William C. Treurniet’s <a href="http://www.treurniet.ca/MayanCal/QuakeMC.htm" target="_blank">http://www.treurniet.ca/MayanCal/QuakeMC.htm</a>). There are many factors complicating such predictions and so for instance while some sources claim that there has been an increase in earthquakes over the past decades for quakes 3.0 and above on the Richter scale the US Geological Survey maintains that the number of quakes of 7.0 (which are potentially of a disastrous nature) has remained constant over several decades. I see no reason to question their general assessment even though today with the high population density all over the world there is always a very serious risk that large numbers of human lives will be lost.</div><div class="text"><br />
Nonetheless, I tend to believe that the terrible 9.0 quake that hit Japan was directly related to the beginning of the Ninth wave. There are a few reasons that I believe this to be the case. The first is that already on March 9, 2011 a very unusual pattern was apparent in the printouts of global seismographs (as observed by Frank Zweers: see <a href="http://nunki.nl/post/3746640161/9-march-2011-activation-of-the-9th-wave" target="_blank">http://nunki.nl/post/3746640161/9-march-2011-activation-of-the-9th-wave</a>). This observation was made before, and lasted until, the actual quake in Japan took place and showed that something was in the works already as the energy of the Ninth wave first started to come in. The other reason to believe that the quake and tsunami in Japan was actually related to the beginning of the Ninth wave is the astonishing parallel with the great Lisbon Earthquake in 1755. Both of these quakes, and the tsunamis that followed, happened as a new wave in the Mayan calendar began, the one in Lisbon at the beginning of the Planetary Underworld and the one in Sendai at the beginning of the Universal.</div><div class="text"><br />
The one in Lisbon hit several months (on All Saints Day) after the day on which the new wave had been activated, but given that this wave had a much lower frequency this is what you would expect if you saw it as an immediate effect of this. The strength of both quakes has been estimated to 9.0, and there were in both cases also many aftershocks. They occurred at exactly the same latitude and not far from opposite longitudes on the planet and this is again exactly what you would expect if they were related to the shift in the Mayan calendar. The logic here is that as a new wave is activated changes take place in the interior of the Earth in order to create a new form of resonance to the human beings. While the Seventh Wave favored the back side of the planet (where Lisbon is located) the Ninth Wave is expected to favor the front side of the planet (where Japan is located). If this reasoning is true we would look upon these two quakes as reflections of adjustments in the interior of the Earth that are necessary to mediate the information from the Cosmic Tree of Life to the human beings.</div><div class="text"><br />
The Lisbon quake in 1755 is considered one of the most devastating of all time and prompted the development of modern systems of surveillance. It also had strong repercussions of a philosophical nature and so for instance Voltaire argued that the creator overseeing this world could not be benevolent as he allowed this disaster to destroy a whole capital of Europe taking more than 100,000 lives. In a similar way I know some people are now asking if the 9th wave that seemed to be designed to bring unity consciousness will bring many natural catastrophes such as earthquakes. Could there be a benevolent plan behind this? Before we place judgment on the intelligence that created this cosmic plan I feel we should be aware that it is not necessarily an easy thing to manifest such a plan without causing some harm. In fact, paleontologists argue that plate tectonics, which only the Earth has among the planets of the solar system, is a necessary pre-requisite for the evolution of life and so without earthquakes we would not be here in the first place. Such intellectual arguments obviously do not ease the pain of someone who has lost a daughter or a husband in an earthquake, but for others it may help us understand that there is no evil intent behind the creation of plate tectonics on the part of the Creator.</div><div class="text"><br />
I thus think that plate tectonics and earthquakes are a necessary side effect of the creation of resonance between the human beings and the Earth and that when a new wave starts its interior structure needs to undergo change. I also believe that this is a time when we need to show our solidarity with the Japanese people and offer help in the ways that it is in our power to do. My own view is that we should continue to focus on the transformation to unity consciousness and praying for and sharing the experience of the Japanese people is exactly an expression of this. I do not believe that there will necessarily be an increased frequency of strong quakes in the time to come (there was for instance not such an increase after the Lisbon quake), but this is only a guess. Yet, while we always have a choice as to how to look upon reality I believe that what will lead us forward is the light. Maybe the Earth is now adjusted to mediate unity consciousness to the human beings, which remains our highest purpose and presumably also that of the cosmic plan.</div><span class="Kapitel"> </span><br />
<span class="Kapitel">6th day of the Ninth wave<br />
March 14, 2011, 6 Eb</span></i><p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-25988423784693257942011-03-25T11:53:00.000-07:002011-03-25T11:53:15.738-07:00The Divine Mother<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgroIEID6F6bElpuK9uHW2ZdbMXh-Kdhb3WRr9qLoBy3_EebjdMHhl-b6od97_jRlkP2cymIAMSiOHOFcuJBOsgNpVxOWzFwdCyfsZHHakG9G4FdisyRrHZ1Fa2a6dBSCzJpGyr4ppwreA/s1600/divine-mother2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgroIEID6F6bElpuK9uHW2ZdbMXh-Kdhb3WRr9qLoBy3_EebjdMHhl-b6od97_jRlkP2cymIAMSiOHOFcuJBOsgNpVxOWzFwdCyfsZHHakG9G4FdisyRrHZ1Fa2a6dBSCzJpGyr4ppwreA/s400/divine-mother2.jpg" width="277" /></a></div><br />
In the silent, hopeful moments before dawn an image sometimes presents itself of a mankind preparing to live angelically in this world rather than as the devil’s henchmen. <br />
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I see people for whom truth is the only frame of reference. People whose personal darkness of despairing demons has been reconciled and saved, ending the curse of eternal damnation; people who have chosen consciously to serve the sacred in order to extend compassion into a wounded populace.<br />
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As the First Day of the Universal Underworld draws to a close, I lend my prayer to those of many others: <br />
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May this planet no longer be called “a man’s world,” but rather honored as the abode and manifestation of the Divine Mother. I pray that this material maternal being which has nurtured every living creature be respected and acknowledged, and her forceful movements seen for what they are. <br />
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In this way earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes and erupting volcanoes may be understood not merely as physical seismic events, nor even as irruptions of mankind’s collective unconscious into manifest reality, <br />
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But as expressions of a powerful living Presence <br />
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Whose voice needs to be heard. <p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-74867018078311500152011-03-13T10:15:00.000-07:002011-03-13T22:41:35.783-07:00The Psychosoma<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMUHne0Jh1q2oVcVq41mOTmWzuffd8wm3J09qqaSpC2IjDUru-aHnR17cjj89VZaQePaVLp8gWg7GoozJwtndxWDpwB5SJI_vjRXEKB41sq7II7XnJ1vlvH_M0aaDHzjBeL9OZ0xOqIMA/s1600/Brain-Power.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMUHne0Jh1q2oVcVq41mOTmWzuffd8wm3J09qqaSpC2IjDUru-aHnR17cjj89VZaQePaVLp8gWg7GoozJwtndxWDpwB5SJI_vjRXEKB41sq7II7XnJ1vlvH_M0aaDHzjBeL9OZ0xOqIMA/s400/Brain-Power.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />
In his article “Does Consciousness Depend on the Brain?” Chris Carter quotes Schiller, Bergson, and James:<br />
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<i>“The brain is not an organ that generates consciousness, but rather an instrument evolved to transmit and limit the processes of consciousness and of conscious attention so as to restrict them to those aspects of the material environment which at any moment are crucial for the terrestrial success of the individual. In that case such phenomena as telepathy and clairvoyance would be merely instances in which some of the limitations were removed.”</i><br />
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The point is well-taken, but seems incomplete. I would suggest that it is not merely the brain which transmits and limits the processes of consciousness and conscious attention, but the entire organism. The human nervous system depends on sensors throughout the body to monitor not only its relationship to its environment, but its own inner functions. Although much of what happens on this level is below the threshold of consciousness per se and occurs autonomously, it nevertheless impacts and affects consciousness. <br />
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Moreover, the effort to become more “conscious” takes the form of increased body awareness. Those who are engaged in self-inquiry or therapy may discover impacted emotional nodules, many dating from the first moments of life, lodged in their psychosomatic regions. These also serve to “transmit and limit the processes of consciousness and of conscious attention,” usually in neurotic, conflicted ways. Part of the work of enlightenment, as I see it, is unraveling these knotted complexes of emotional energy within so that they cease defining a person’s awareness along their limited pathways.<br />
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Typically such complexes and neuroses operate beneath the surface of our awareness and are fairly invisible until something happens to expose them. The triggering mechanism irritates the complex and makes it irrupt into action. This is usually an unpleasant experience not only for the person with the complex but for anyone else involved, as it represents a breach of immature, regressive patterning into the waking present. <br />
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For anyone actively seeking emotional healing or “expansion of consciousness” however, such events present an opportunity for higher-order healing. “You have to feel it to heal it,” the old saw goes, and the feelings that arise when impacted emotional nodules erupt are anything but fun. The typical tendency is to quickly repress them, which is why such nodules remain inaccessible somewhere in the psychosoma.<br />
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The higher energies flooding our solar system suggest however, that triggering mechanisms on the planetary and personal scale are going to continue to escalate, forcing both individuals and societies to deal with hidden issues that need to be resolved and healed. Balance and wholeness are needed, and anything that no longer contributes to these must be ejected.<br />
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In this process not merely the brain, but the entire psychosomatic organism, will begin to operate from a more rarified state, and its corresponding transmitting and limiting of consciousness will attain a higher level of functionality.<p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-7811959830975676942011-03-04T11:17:00.000-08:002011-03-04T11:17:07.197-08:00Psychic Heliocentrism<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlOF3yOJeuHuyvfwO5a2Yz3gGVin42ZTkbMJUIxydHmMtfaqtQXCarFsmujZd-ZS9VOlbBb8pW4pImTACvKmpiUNW8LrelNjD-4H-M1rkMZaPMlbPC5P08ENUpKl9kAAWD2zkPMaTcUgw/s1600/kopernik9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlOF3yOJeuHuyvfwO5a2Yz3gGVin42ZTkbMJUIxydHmMtfaqtQXCarFsmujZd-ZS9VOlbBb8pW4pImTACvKmpiUNW8LrelNjD-4H-M1rkMZaPMlbPC5P08ENUpKl9kAAWD2zkPMaTcUgw/s320/kopernik9.jpg" width="274" /></a></div><br />
Four hundred fifty years ago the typical European believed the Sun and all other planets, indeed the entire universe, revolved around the earth. Copernicus set this false concept on its ear by looking into his telescope and noticing that the facts were otherwise. <br />
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And while a corrected reorientation of cosmology ultimately formed in the intellectual framework of general mankind, this shift has yet to occur within his deeper psyche. <br />
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If we posit the Sun as symbolic of God and the earth as symbolic of personhood, an emanation of spiritual reality into manifestation, it is clear that mankind as a collective has continued to believe the entire cosmos revolves around himself. <br />
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The “me” dominated (and denominated) mentality so prevalent everywhere is behind all expressions of control, manipulation and domination of others. In the scientific, political, economic and even religious realms, the concept of ME trumps all other considerations. <br />
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This “me” may be expanded to include a community, a tribe, a business, a state, or a nation – but the principle remains the same. ME must be defended at all costs. ME must succeed, ME must overcome, ME must live and not die! <br />
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At this point it must be acknowledged that such an attitude of virulent self-preservation is destructive and reflects psychic immaturity and ignorance – much like the geocentrism of the 1600’s. <br />
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Wisdom is recognizing that what one had imagined “special” about oneself is both ordinary and expendable, and only the divine within is precious.<br />
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Psychic heliocentrism comes about through a shift of focus to the heart-space, in which the ego is relegated to its proper role as an orbiting functionality around the divine Self, eternally intimate with God. <br />
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This transition of consciousness, one must hope, is accelerating throughout the world. But it does not come about through reliance on ideation. <br />
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Political parties, for example, are by definition and default separating entities that depend on the egos of their members for cohesion, and whose underlying goal is to subsume all opponents. The same can be said for nation-states. We will not help the world by taking sides on issues, but rather by becoming “side-less” within ourselves. <br />
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By reorienting from a perspective in which the center is “me,” to one where the center is the true Source and Foundation of “me,” we begin to live out a new paradigm. <br />
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The wisdom that comes from this will reveal how we can most effectively serve the global transformation. <p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-57069510196706443932011-03-02T16:28:00.000-08:002011-03-03T09:38:38.829-08:00A Celebration of Crisis<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxfpjxwfXySWULiGTDlZd-R8-A6U1zmqcTIdXETE3coE5WizE7kWR4Vyzr-bfTmL34y_8Q2NkrJkPMaw-7DewB72XO3Hl7H9PgdFWXkjxh0pf5tQ2sjn2OVPqltXuHvudft4cnpMAFYag/s1600/sos.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxfpjxwfXySWULiGTDlZd-R8-A6U1zmqcTIdXETE3coE5WizE7kWR4Vyzr-bfTmL34y_8Q2NkrJkPMaw-7DewB72XO3Hl7H9PgdFWXkjxh0pf5tQ2sjn2OVPqltXuHvudft4cnpMAFYag/s400/sos.bmp" width="400" /></a></div><br />
“Consciousness is a continuous process of unfolding,” writes Thom Cavalli, “punctuated by dislocations and reunions.” These dislocations are necessary so that opposite polarities of consciousness, which are incomplete in themselves, can view each other clearly and make the adjustments necessary to come into synthesis and reunion again.<br />
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Such dislocations may come in the form of crisis, an abrupt intrusion of imbalanced energy into what had seemed a stable field. Under the influence of this intrusion hitherto hidden psychic factors make their unexpected appearance.<br />
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Crisis serves to expose polarities that have been suppressed by the prevailing order. Polarization manifests the Yin/Yang in its more extreme states – a turbulence we interpret as chaos and experience as disorientation and distress. And yet such chaos can be a necessary prelude for those opposing polarities to be reconciled. <br />
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In the realm of self-awareness, the Yin/Yang polarities are represented by consciousness and unconsciousness. Within a person's unconscious are repressed patterns (called shadows) that reflect our disenfranchised self – ways we have been, things we have experienced, that we intensely dislike and so push out of awareness. Being unconscious, they can irrupt into waking life without our quite realizing what is happening or the part we are playing in it. <br />
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To bring one of these patterns into consciousness requires dreaming it awake – luring it into objective view where it can be witnessed in all its luridness. Such a dreaming awake usually produces an uncomfortable situation thoroughly infused with the wounded qualities of our suppressed psyche, a drama in which antagonist and victim seem indisputably identified.<br />
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Once such a psychic polarization has occurred, an opportunity for resolving that irrupted pattern is at hand. The shadow cannot be effectively confronted until it has manifested consciously, therefore bringing it out - through dreaming it awake - is a necessary (though extremely difficult) part of the healing process. <br />
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When the urge becomes overpowering to assume some past role, along with the familiar (though usually unpleasant) emotions that role dictates, this is a signal the shadow has emerged from unconsciousness and is parasitically living through us. We, as host of this unintegrated manifestation, assume its unconscious state and therefore offer no resistance to its imbalanced energies.<br />
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In fact, the natural propensity is to identify with superficial characterizations (victim, perpetrator, etc.) and fully accept the shame these roles prescribe. Nourished by this, the shadow drinks from the intensity of our involvement in the drama it has unleashed. After filling up at the pump of our darker emotions it can slink back unnoticed into the unconscious until hungry once more.<br />
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In that moment when the shadow seems most powerful – in its outward manifestation – it is paradoxically also most vulnerable. Here is the point of intentionally “dreaming it awake,” for in bringing unconscious content into view we have the chance to sooth and balance disturbed and distorted portions of our psyche that are usually beyond reach.<br />
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Taking advantage of this weakness is challenging however. To begin with, we must recognize that the conflict is not really between, or about, external parties. Anyone involved in facilitating this process is a friend, provided our overreaching intent is to be healed. Nevertheless it is we ourselves who must do what seems impossible when the shadow is ravenously stalking – namely, <b>not feed it</b>. <br />
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“Not feeding it” means not allowing the shadow (which will feel like <strong>us</strong>) to embody whatever emotions (self-justification, self-vindication, blame, etc.) the situation seems to bring up and entitle us to. Nor can we simply numb out. Rather, we need to be consciously present with the intensity of the uncomfortable feelings that arise - while doing nothing to either express or expiate them.<br />
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If we can sit in this nerve-jangling state, giving all those wild and wounded emotions our fullest compassionate attention - while simultaneously denying them their usual destructive discharge routes - we will be performing a microcosmic salvific act. The energy that would have continued to feed our sense of disempowerment, as personified by the shadow, will be retained for consciousness and fuel our own awakening. <br />
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By surrendering to what had seemed like death – and not dying – we will experience a resurrection that institutes a new and true awareness of personal empowerment.<br />
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And what had seemed a hopeless crisis will transform into joyful celebration.<p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-22214337595933523852011-02-16T14:52:00.000-08:002011-02-16T16:56:36.260-08:00A Vision of Unity Consciousness<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDqxEGqfAr35m4ZPVMqugcng08UwMuwdwZIAwxJbRiIo7xFhiPokexICK9tl4csBQXJC0Gs2mGaPipFVOE07fJWzviJ9SYw86lSAi7X6UxTcDnvVDnd8I9WpJNa-Dhrtq-lpe64VLSU_c/s1600/bodhisattva.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDqxEGqfAr35m4ZPVMqugcng08UwMuwdwZIAwxJbRiIo7xFhiPokexICK9tl4csBQXJC0Gs2mGaPipFVOE07fJWzviJ9SYw86lSAi7X6UxTcDnvVDnd8I9WpJNa-Dhrtq-lpe64VLSU_c/s320/bodhisattva.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
Unity Consciousness infiltrates the planetary field, gently enfolding the globe. The effect is subtle at first, similar to gradually decreasing the density of earth’s atmosphere. All life is affected; every organism throughout the plant and animal kingdom is elevated in awareness to some degree, though local variations occur. <br />
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This change in the field of consciousness is experienced as either mild or severe depending on the emotional integrity and mental cohesion of the person affected. Those unprepared for the shift feel discomfort and disorientation, resulting in a broad spectrum of reactions ranging from irritability to intense acting-out of unresolved processes.<br />
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On the other hand, people in a state of anticipatory acceptance experience the shift more purposefully and intentionally. Inner attention moves toward the heart region of the central corpus, and mental “noise” begins to clear. Thought ebbs out of the foreground of awareness, becoming less distracting and interruptive. <br />
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Such individuals feel a sensation of upward mobility characterized as “letting go.” This is a voluntary relinquishing of attachments to personal identity with their attendant implications - an act that is self-reinforcing since the more whole-heartedly and single-mindedly it is done, the greater the resulting satisfaction and consequent desire to repeat the process.<br />
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Some people, due to their prior work with radical self-inquiry and spiritual healing, find themselves comparatively comfortable within the changing field of consciousness. These serve a vital role in helping others navigate the transformational flux, a prospect that is extremely demanding for most – especially those with strong habits of emotional suppression and hardened conceptual viewpoints. <br />
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As enlightened beings have always stood out from the crowd, this distinction is likely to be more, rather than less, pervasive at the End of the Age. During previous eras the average person was so far removed from an enlightened state that saints and bodhisattvas were regarded as somewhat distorted replicas of the norm – deformed individuals in whom something called “holiness” resulted from important human components being missing. Such sanctity was often considered not merely impossible for ordinary men, but undesirable.<br />
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But in the Last Days unity consciousness will extend beyond a few historical anomalies into the furthest reaches of incarnate awareness. As this gradual but inexorable process unfolds, those able to bear Christ’s divine Light will be detectable through their self-composure, grace and good-humor, being at peace even in the midst of a society in shock. Having become grounded in Truth, they will have nothing to fear – and know it. <br />
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This knowledge will effectively make them kings among men in terms of spiritual riches. Yet such royalty will be borne humbly while they busy themselves assisting those struggling to navigate the seas of cosmic awareness. As learning to swim in ordinary water requires overcoming one’s natural fear of drowning through mastering a complex set of non-intuitive skills, so navigating the Deep of unity consciousness will necessitate the development of abilities which - for many people – are at this time still far from functional. <p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-68071830866523820842011-02-11T08:57:00.000-08:002011-02-11T08:57:09.549-08:00Beginning a Tzolkin Round Today<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdoS5loiybe-4BrQeJRNBdBQ8MBniLtWHP3iDbvjYPhq83w1WHmublmRvEh6lOWRwoM-9DLUUw2VxokJ323smcs_NiKpku6FxhJQQfdUdtNtwIfrbXt4Hj0qwSf3kXmQy6NoaNJa6AzyY/s1600/maya-calendar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdoS5loiybe-4BrQeJRNBdBQ8MBniLtWHP3iDbvjYPhq83w1WHmublmRvEh6lOWRwoM-9DLUUw2VxokJ323smcs_NiKpku6FxhJQQfdUdtNtwIfrbXt4Hj0qwSf3kXmQy6NoaNJa6AzyY/s320/maya-calendar.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<center>The following is written by Carl Johan Calleman:</center><br />
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<i>I have got so many emails from people asking about February 11, 2011 versus March 9, 2011 that I feel it is necessary to write a special note about this particular issue, where I am largely responsible for the confusion myself. The question is: What is the beginning date of the Ninth wave? To address this I need to backtrack somewhat.<br />
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When I started my independent work on the Mayan calendar late in 1993 I already suggested two things that seemed controversial and unorthodox: One was the proposal that there were not only one, but nine waves, (underworlds, supports, levels of evolution, long calendars) of different frequencies of different durations that were creating the universe. A second was the proposal that the end date of the True Long Count is October 28, 2011. Naturally both of those assumptions came under attack by various people who had concocted suggestions as to what would happen on December 21, 2012, without foundation in Mayan texts. I however argued that the use of the Mayan calendar had undergone significant changes over the ages and the only criterion we could apply when it came to finding its true form would be that this actually would explain evolution in all of its aspects and would be useful for making predictions.If it was not reasonable useful for this why take an interest in the Mayan calendar to begin with? Such a criterion of rationality would have to be applied also to the Universal Underworld, which however at the time seemed to be far into the future and thus not completely clear to me.<br />
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Regarding the beginning of the ninth wave I thus wrote in my first book in English Solving the Greatest Mystery of Our Time: The Mayan Calendar (Garev 2001): "The short Universal Cycle of 2011, probably totaling 13 x 18 = 234 days, but possibly 260 days..." leaving an opening to the orthodox answer that it would just be another traditional tzolkin count starting February 11, 2011 (which has the added appeal of being an amazing palindrome date (11.02.2011 in international notation)). This quote reflected a vacillation or uncertainty on my own part not certain whether I could introduce a third unorthodoxy such as the return of the nine day count. Before taking such a step I wanted to feel a little more secure that my overall model of nine levels all completing on October 28, 2011 was true (that is to say accurately described the evolution of consciousness and the emerging paradigm shifts). In the Mayan calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness (Bear and Co 2004) I place more emphasis on the final 260 day tzolkin round as the duration of the ninth wave (and so did, I think, always Ian Lungold who did so much to spread my work). Nonetheless, also in this book I wrote ("or possibly, if it is one twentieth of the Galactic Underworld, 234 days; I cannot tell yet," page 216). The point here is that there is nothing that has changed, but rather a vacillation on my own part that has now come to an end. In the early nineties, when these notions were first developed, I had a much less certain view of how the Mayan calendar was going to evolve.<br />
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February 11, 2011 (1 Imix) thus remains the beginning of a tzolkin round and may for this reason be a cause for celebration for anyone following the traditional Mayan calendar. It is only that on my own part I tend to think that the experience of its inherent rhythm will be broken up by the ninth wave starting March 9, 2011, in which days and nights are each 18 = 9+9 days long. The tzolkin I believe will remain an undercurrent of energies whose power will however come to be superseded by a 18 = 9 + 9 day rhythm. It was Robert Gunn who through a manuscript he had sent me prompted me to lean over to these 234 days as the duration of the Ninth Wave. But generally, you might say that the fact that the two earlier mentioned unorthodoxies have now been verified, or at least given tremendous additional support, gives me the confidence to place the emphasis on the March 9 date as the beginning date of the Ninth wave. What I am referring to here is partly the support from the Tortuguero monument, which in no ambiguous terms states (http://www.calleman.com/content/articles/the_tortuguero%20_monument.htm) that indeed we are up for the simultaneous manifestation of nine waves (and not just one Long Count) and partly the verification of the October 28, 2011 date through my predictions about the Fifth night of the Galactic Underworld in the Mayan calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness. To the latter should be added the arguments that are presented in my interview in three parts on YouTube with Mayanist Mark van Stone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSu-SWJILQU) that December 21, 2012 cannot be the end date of the true Long Count (it is the end date of the Izapan Long Count, which is another matter) and that the ancient Maya who developed this calendar system were not at all interested in solstices (which is more of a thing for the currently dominating northern cultures of our planet).<br />
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If you ask me today I would then say that February 11, 2011 is the beginning (1 Imix) of a new tzolkin round of 260 days, but that March 9, 2011 is the beginning of the 234 day long ninth wave or the Universal Underworld. Naturally, some may react to my earlier vacillation with surprise, but the fact is that an explanation to the Mayan calendar is not cut in stone anywhere. Even the Tortuguero monument can only be made sense of with a background of all cosmic evolution in its entirety and when I started my work this monument was not even known. You also have to see such a monument in the right perspective and use your critical faculties in trying to make sense of such an archaic text.<br />
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To uncritically just take over a date or concept from the ancient Maya without further verification is much like saying that something is true just because it is written in the Bible. Clearly ancient peoples did see a lot of things we mostly are not able to see and so they may guide us, but in terms of overall factual knowledge the modern world is vastly ahead of the ancient world. Despite this knowledge basis whatever view we endorse regarding the Mayan calendar our models will always involve assumptions and interpretation that will require our best judgment (and putting our own egos aside). In doing so I feel that there are a few rules that we need to follow. One is not to base any aspect of the calendar on a personal (such as your own birthday) or local (such as the solar zenith in Izapa) agenda. Another is that the calendar should be able to describe the evolution of consciousness and the paradigm shifts through which this is expressed. Most importantly we need to follow a model that is process-related that accurately describes the processes that we want to co-create.</i><p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-70603461111717595132010-12-30T12:09:00.000-08:002010-12-31T11:19:01.437-08:00Shamans of 2011<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc-GZdCVpOCp0ogH288t-ktj0ADfunuWSKxTad-qgVeLPc2edEPVAWtR_63jesRBZBmxvZCXI7ZLFUDZ1iiyg4Coa120gMdzdoHy6YIUipXpbjppYuFYWO1HH8tJNvBbCUlkkO4P40fqk/s1600/shaman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc-GZdCVpOCp0ogH288t-ktj0ADfunuWSKxTad-qgVeLPc2edEPVAWtR_63jesRBZBmxvZCXI7ZLFUDZ1iiyg4Coa120gMdzdoHy6YIUipXpbjppYuFYWO1HH8tJNvBbCUlkkO4P40fqk/s400/shaman.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><br />
As 2010 winds to a close, questions abound as to what to expect in 2011. Will the economy rebound or regress? What new toys will technology produce? How will the senseless push-me/pull-you of the political arena grandstand, etc.? All of these considerations presume that people will stay the same as they were – another year older but otherwise unchanged. <br />
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The ego dominated mentality that imagines Democrats have a better plan than Republicans (or vice-versa), that believes technology can fix the planetary crises caused by technology, that gets excited over making money in the stock market when people everywhere are suffering hunger, murder, destitution, persecution and injustice at the hands of other humans – this mentality expects to continue just as it was into the New Year.<br />
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And for many it will. There is a lot of inertia behind the image humanity has created of itself for itself, both individually and collectively. People who have invested energy into believing the truth is “X” are not likely to suddenly decide it is “Y.” Since belief presupposes a state of unknowing, they have only dogmatized ideas about what truth might be, and identify with these fiercely. To lose such ideas is equivalent to losing themselves as egos.<br />
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But 2011, it appears, is introducing a new dynamic into the human process: choice. It seems the Awakening has progressed far enough that (for some) the ego’s dominance is beginning to slip and become dislodged. When that happens, the ego can be perceived not as THE Self, but rather as a tool of the Self – a tool that can be set aside. <br />
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With this realization there arises the possibility of choosing a perspective that is not egocentric and mental, but rather heart-based. In times past such a choice might have seemed spiritually motivated, the “enlightened” path of bliss and feeling good. But in the days to come practical considerations will take increasing precedence, as enlightenment becomes a matter not of <em>preference</em> but of <em>survival</em> in the New Age, or New Jerusalem. <br />
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Like those prehistoric fish that grew lungs and stubby feet in order to emerge on dry land from evaporating Paleolithic lakes, people who learn to live from the heart will be able to successfully breathe and navigate in a world in which the ego-mentality is collapsing catastrophically upon itself and radiating toxic destruction all around. <br />
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2011 carries within itself the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4, representing the complete manifestation of spiritual activation into the physical realm. Even now, a balance point is detectable that heralds the actuality of choice on a widespread scale. As that choice is made, many will find that they can discern between the ego as a tool, and the Self using that tool - and they will elect to live in the Deep.<br />
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Functioning from the heart-Self, a new field of vision opens to which the ego is completely blind and oblivious. This is the world as seen from a shamanic point of view, in which the immensity of life is felt and one’s connection and place in the greater consciousness perceived more clearly. <br />
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The heart is fearless and wise. It looks without flinching and understands deeply. It feels the wounds of our planet and her people, and longs to heal them. <br />
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This is the wondrous path into which 2011 is calling those prepared to choose the heart: <br />
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<em>To stop living for the blind personal interests of the ego, <br />
and live instead for the All.</em> <br />
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<em>To heal Mother Earth and transform this planet <br />
into the Paradise it was meant to be.</em><br />
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<em>To step into their true Selves as shamanic servants.</em></center><p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-19932411471262985442010-12-25T17:46:00.000-08:002010-12-25T17:47:11.527-08:00The Christmas Present<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8swo8Vcr5EuD7HPxtIL3lHhsTq9LuBW9UXkdPhbZJuaAHcRXTv4RUeyFXRlhV1NBYDsJtqlzHnl0bo6wmmS7c0pFuFRyT7s01aeZaaCRu_DbdxWb__1RmVmHhDV4I9Y2ry_V_hQ0lnfM/s1600/peach+pit.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8swo8Vcr5EuD7HPxtIL3lHhsTq9LuBW9UXkdPhbZJuaAHcRXTv4RUeyFXRlhV1NBYDsJtqlzHnl0bo6wmmS7c0pFuFRyT7s01aeZaaCRu_DbdxWb__1RmVmHhDV4I9Y2ry_V_hQ0lnfM/s320/peach+pit.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
While I slept a gift was given – an unusual necklace was slipped around my neck. <br />
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The necklace was not elegant like fashion jewelry, but simple and primitive. It consisted of perhaps eight green roughhewn beads strung on a vine-like cord. Dangling from the center of the cord, spaced between the beads, was a large brown seed that looked something like a peach pit.<br />
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I felt the necklace more than saw it, for it hung directly over my heart chakra and radiated its fierce energy within. A voice whispered that the seed had come from the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the original Garden of Eden. <br />
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With this necklace around my neck, the hard situations and conflicted relationships of my life were presented one by one for consideration. And the perturbations of these, the disturbances that had always before seemed so impossible of resolution, dissipated like clouds into nothingness.<br />
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In their place, a sense of trust in ultimate goodness unfolded, a confidence that all was well and could only ever be so. <br />
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The necklace revealed what had been hidden from my man’s mind, allowing the feeling heart to perceive those deeper patterns and connections by which life is sustained and nourished. <br />
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With it on, I felt my path had become illumined and my next step sure. I felt relieved of concern about outcomes and expectations. <br />
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I felt alert, attentive, open, loving and present.<br />
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Ultimately the present . . . was the Present.<p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-29814482843927003112010-12-24T08:08:00.000-08:002010-12-24T08:14:08.278-08:00Christmas Compassion<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF9Mjz1TI0yGiPj-2lrN7Id7G99R_ZwdhPEp7BusRQTlpAmnm18fLXfLs4b9N39JSHzZXOKHxp4QzOdMLA5xiuhhgOvGIukLjTr-3bFfPyGV5hhXJ80Xo-Sw2wVQNJSQE_w-dBd0Bid8E/s1600/british_muslim_women.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF9Mjz1TI0yGiPj-2lrN7Id7G99R_ZwdhPEp7BusRQTlpAmnm18fLXfLs4b9N39JSHzZXOKHxp4QzOdMLA5xiuhhgOvGIukLjTr-3bFfPyGV5hhXJ80Xo-Sw2wVQNJSQE_w-dBd0Bid8E/s400/british_muslim_women.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">~ A Christmas Eve Dream ~</div><br />
A terrorist had snuck into the USA and killed people. She was caught and put on public display in the marketplace. Passers-by would hurl both sharp words and sharp objects at her, expressing complete contempt. It seemed certain she would soon be destroyed by their intense hatred.<br />
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Yet even while this was happening another spirit began to arise - compassion for the terrorist. Compassion not only <i>in spite</i> of the evil she had done, but actually <i>because</i> of it. Conscience awakened in some who had suffered from the terrorism, and they perceived the part they had played in allowing evil to stalk not only their streets, but their own hearts as well. <br />
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They saw that active compassion was not only the "right" course of action moralistically and spiritually, but the rational response as well - the only possible way to end the ancient cycle of evil begetting more evil.<br />
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Such compassion was no mere insipid sentimentality, but an incredibly potent power that penetrated those who embraced it, kindling a fiery furnace of force. It decimated the darkness of self-protective fear and destroyed the weakness of self-indulgent vindictiveness. <br />
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Those who felt this compassion grew from few to many, encircling the globe with the ferocity of their determination to herald a New World premised on authenticity of heart and integrity of mind.<br />
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Then the image of the Savior appeared to their humbled gaze, He who in ultimate compassion was born into this world and died to bring about its complete transformation and renewal.<br />
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And they understood that the vision of compassion was given from above to be implemented here below, and that they were not alone in the daunting task of rising above human ignorance and darkness. <br />
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The Lord walks with them, and Victory is at hand.<br />
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Glory be to God for the birth of the Way, the Truth and the Light!<p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-68687251352898992762010-12-03T12:23:00.000-08:002010-12-03T12:27:30.043-08:00The Key<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrRDAG4-HFUZxHTHRhPmqc6sJCGVZsh_I_15pWJ2-WsIQbycFjtLD29PqM5fUyZDsr3eDbO-aLzrk_2lLcJat2mxsS8EoHI8k7e4Xa7AsdWbghSM-FuLONMezVkHJQZoUHwq8dZMsz-h8/s1600/golden-key.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrRDAG4-HFUZxHTHRhPmqc6sJCGVZsh_I_15pWJ2-WsIQbycFjtLD29PqM5fUyZDsr3eDbO-aLzrk_2lLcJat2mxsS8EoHI8k7e4Xa7AsdWbghSM-FuLONMezVkHJQZoUHwq8dZMsz-h8/s200/golden-key.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />
“The me” is a flavor of being - a particular flavor out of all possible flavors in the vast universe. <br />
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Sometimes this flavor seems diluted, for instance when one sees himself as a harried victim of unpleasant vagaries. On the other hand sometimes it is concentrated and pungent, as when one stands in his power. <br />
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Then “the me” is perceived as passing through life’s stages intact and inviolable, deepening awareness without altering identity.<br />
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Being “the me” is not easy, since it requires a moment by moment sensitivity to the difficulties of incarnation. We experience ourselves as distinct entities separated from one another and from God, subject to birth, aging, and death, faced with necessity and sorrow, craving love yet knowing neither how to give or receive it. <br />
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To keep such existential discomfort in plain view is the opposite of what most people want. Yet this is what becoming “the me” requires. One must set his hand in the fire (so to speak) and leave it there, allowing the flames to burn without withdrawing into numbness and dumbness.<br />
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One must also renounce junk thoughts with the same relish as junk food, refusing to acknowledge any mental excursion offering a distracting reprieve from the awareness that one’s hand is in the fire.<br />
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With the energy gained from this arduous discipline, “the me” carves a tunnel through its inner psychic landscape, a tunnel which connects distant childhood to the present moment. By this means it gathers its various fragmented selves and unifies them into one coherent persona, ending the ancient inner conflict and crisis of identity. <br />
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Having thus consolidated its power, “the me” surveys this precious lifespan - its destiny to fulfill - and does so with high purpose and determination. It recognizes the world no longer as an adversary, but rather a colleague in its quest for wholeness. It sees itself as part of a milieu in which every circumstance serves its wondrous goal, functioning to provide whatsoever destiny may require.<br />
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Former threats dissolve and are replaced by guides, oracles pointing toward a door which had never before been visible. The door cannot be forced – no effort of will prevails against it. Yet it opens freely of its own accord when presented with the right key. And once opened, never closes again.<br />
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Thus “the me” pursues its silent and solitary purpose, widening the inner tunnel, consolidating all personal selves and intensifying its unique flavor of being.<br />
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In so doing it grows both more distant from the world, yet (ironically) more present within it.<br />
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Until at last it has become the very key<br />
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Able to unlock the brazen door<br />
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Of its own freedom . . . <p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-4009094983800069812010-11-29T09:27:00.000-08:002010-11-29T09:27:28.054-08:00The Midwife<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPzcZhmhq7WyR_kwlHA_ROLBWCwiqPMUMSijQcCTxbY-r8nhCgNzH7LvLtg2KXWnfO-Z_RGzS53mZ5xnpGSkuvHFqXtW8H3DW221I5sHyGq-ArKXh57_2Uv1KLdi9Pw3F6S6XieBZUoYk/s1600/Joseph-Mary-Bethlehem-mormon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPzcZhmhq7WyR_kwlHA_ROLBWCwiqPMUMSijQcCTxbY-r8nhCgNzH7LvLtg2KXWnfO-Z_RGzS53mZ5xnpGSkuvHFqXtW8H3DW221I5sHyGq-ArKXh57_2Uv1KLdi9Pw3F6S6XieBZUoYk/s400/Joseph-Mary-Bethlehem-mormon.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
Fear disintegrates on the periphery of the radiance of the Being God brought into existence, who is now being born into this world. <br />
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The ego stands as midwife, a guardian who has done its duty in protecting the infant until now, like St. Joseph who took in the Virgin Mary, trusting that the angel had spoken truth and that her Baby was the Holy Savior.<br />
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Now Joseph witnesses the emergence of the young King, and bows in gratitude as his long labor reaches its honorable conclusion. Joseph has done what he could with limited abilities and now carefully surrenders the protectorate. At last he may worship as others do, withdrawing into the subservient role of the Holy One's esteemed patron, counselor on some matters and obedient subject on all others. <br />
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Praise God, the Child lives! He arises into the Light, for he IS the Light. <br />
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The sun is in His wings,<br />
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Beauty is on His brow,<br />
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Salvation in His touch.<p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-47838198946562691292010-11-21T19:39:00.000-08:002010-11-21T19:47:28.447-08:00The Cold<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx7QE2n6uEfW3Ib2cgAfK3ErYz2kw5qDr-JqZOaqQqyw1ep6xzpU4lyW7pyg1d_9U_tWM5q8tjAIMBKEJ7HDREZyj817BGbYUp-vvfw66aCxgKQqkeQrnxDIF0L2yCKbI1qvosutFQGzk/s1600/common-cold-child.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx7QE2n6uEfW3Ib2cgAfK3ErYz2kw5qDr-JqZOaqQqyw1ep6xzpU4lyW7pyg1d_9U_tWM5q8tjAIMBKEJ7HDREZyj817BGbYUp-vvfw66aCxgKQqkeQrnxDIF0L2yCKbI1qvosutFQGzk/s1600/common-cold-child.gif" /></a></div><br />
I sat in a Starbucks quaffing an eggnog latte. The warm milk felt good to my throat, which had been hoarse and sore for several days.<br />
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“You need to be clear about why this is happening,” a soft voice said in my ear. The absence of a visible speaker did not in the least surprise me. I understood that my psyche was talking to itself.<br />
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“I <i>am</i> clear about it,” I replied. “I have a cold. Quite common in November.”<br />
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“No you don’t,” the voice said. “It only seems like you do.”<br />
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“All the symptoms are present,” I noted. “Sneezing, coughing, aching limbs. Germs cause it.” I sipped the latte again and braced for a painful swallowing sensation.<br />
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“Germs are a consequence, not a cause.”<br />
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I was becoming a bit exasperated at this invisible haranguing. Besides, I had felt bad for weeks and was tired of blowing my nose.<br />
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“OK, wise guy,” I said. “What is happening then? Tell me how to get rid of my congestion.”<br />
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“The congestion in your chest is no worse than the congestion in your soul,” said the voice. “Matter of fact, one is a reflection of the other. The ‘cold’ is to help release that. All you have to do is stop resisting it and let it work.”<br />
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“Right,” I muttered, opening an aspirin bottle.<br />
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“Put that away!” the voice commanded. “Accept the healing that is trying to happen! Stop trying to make yourself feel better artificially - you’ll feel better when those impacted emotional nodules inside get dislodged.”<br />
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I closed the bottle grimly. “You want me to hurt, is that it? What are you, a sadist?”<br />
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“You’ve already BEEN hurting for as long as you can remember. Do you want to keep on hurting for the rest of your life as well? Do you want to be like the Titanic, voyaging through a dark existence until some unprecedented crisis finally sinks it? Take a look inside. What do you see?”<br />
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Reluctantly, I felt to where the sickness had been working within. In my mind’s eye I could see dark gelatinous globules shimmering in some kind of congealed intensity. They looked like concentrated, ultimate <i>YUK</i>, the kind of thing you would walk a mile to avoid . . . and there they were inside me! <br />
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I shook my head at the disgusting plight. “OK, OK,” I said in resignation, “now what?”<br />
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“You need to get to work,” the voice said, a bit more reassuringly. “Those emotional nodules are buried deep because in the past you believed them to be true - that they were valid assessments of you as a person. This belief makes them unbearably painful, so they get pushed out of sight. You still feel them, just not consciously. They still hurt, but you don’t know where the pain is coming from. Healing requires that they be released, and the feelings trapped inside them exposed. Now that you are older, you can re-experience them with a greater maturity and see that they are NOT true. They do <i>not</i> describe the person you really are. This is an uncomfortable process, as most honest healing work is. But in the end you will gain not only your health, but your freedom.”<br />
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My fingers reached for a cough drop, but I stopped them. The voice was right - more was going on here than met the eye. I realized that the energies of love and will, represented by the heart and throat, had been in abeyance since I was a child. Those energies were struggling to come to life again, and to do so they had to negotiate through a system obstructed by impacted emotional nodules.<br />
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"Impacted emotional nodules," I thought. "Who comes up with such terms?"<br />
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I sighed, pitched the aspirin and the cough drops, and sipped the latte manfully.<br />
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The discomfort of a cold was a small price to pay, I reflected,<br />
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Especially if it might really lead to health <br />
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And freedom.<p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-76631566911452052372010-11-13T08:40:00.000-08:002010-11-13T09:12:51.783-08:00Trust<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlRu77hS-_flLjLT09l_vFQIgUzcKFEEw3Su3IUV91W444HPrRYEJMaw3kOIqMoDOJqXQPJvSmCf-TeTQhyphenhyphenXxS6tVO5A5YK2aDsoBwEl84moxEM3s_xe-K-W5Fy0y2CeI5xYjI_5y_bQM/s1600/TrustOpenJPG.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlRu77hS-_flLjLT09l_vFQIgUzcKFEEw3Su3IUV91W444HPrRYEJMaw3kOIqMoDOJqXQPJvSmCf-TeTQhyphenhyphenXxS6tVO5A5YK2aDsoBwEl84moxEM3s_xe-K-W5Fy0y2CeI5xYjI_5y_bQM/s400/TrustOpenJPG.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<center><i>“There is none good but one, that is God”</i> (Mark 10:18).</center> <br />
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Only God is good, and therefore completely trustworthy, as Jesus says. And yet, we seek ways to trust our fellow human sojourners on this earth. <br />
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Life is uncertain, so who can claim such a grip on principle or intent as to never vary from a prescribed course?<br />
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Or, if someone could do so, would this really be beneficial and healthy? Do we truly understand the needs of the soul well enough to dictate from a legalistic point of view which experiences should be permitted and which ones denied?<br />
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No living thing is wholly predictable – variations in form and behavior are intrinsic to being. Who can know for certain how anyone will react to every possible situation or stimulus? We may conceptually decide what will constitute the “best” or most acceptable response, but this formulation is based on conscious deliberation.<br />
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Our unconscious will also have a voice and vote in the matter, and it is quite capable of bringing elements into our experience that were totally unexpected, unpremeditated, and in fact beyond anything we could have anticipated or deemed remotely possible.<br />
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Mistrust is based on a failure to appreciate another person’s psychic process, which is a combination of conscious and unconscious contents and their out-workings. It is a misapprehension of the vast range that this dynamic must traverse over a lifespan in order to fulfill its purpose, which is to totally comprehend itself and then transform into what is beyond that. <br />
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The person who always stays on a flat trajectory, on an apparently stable and unyielding emotional/mental plane, is a person who never grows and matures beyond spiritual adolescence.<br />
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Trust of others is ultimately a choice we make within, in which the object of such trust is somewhat irrelevant. Evaluations from the mind magnify ambiguity and produce problematic conclusions. Heart-based evaluations however, illuminate the character of that which is under consideration and enable judgments based not on subjective historical data but energetic traits. <br />
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If from the heart we say “I trust you,” it should not mean we expect to never be disappointed, frustrated or upset by someone. It should mean that we embrace that person’s process with all its inherent uncertainty and unpredictability, and that we are prepared to willingly suffer their pain as our own when shadows loom, as they invariably will.<br />
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A compassionate soul feels that those who have hurt us, betrayed us, abandoned us, and broken our hearts were only piecing together a necessary and unavoidable destiny – for themselves and us as well. <br />
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Rather than trusting them less, we could decide to trust them more - since suffering <i>with</i> them and <i>through</i> them enables us to see more clearly the height and depth of their difficult path – and our own. <br />
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From a point of greater soul maturity we may perceive more clearly what lessons have been on our plates, <br />
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And what extremities we all must undergo on our vast trek <br />
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. . . to the stars. <p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-21536416372684253252010-11-12T07:45:00.000-08:002010-11-12T11:57:51.782-08:00Growing Up<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYAhdG5hUe_WxZAf5Lns9H3sVmhN_3NPgsGLfPQtV4-0CZdB9xli-Vt9IWVNQkXUr7SxWE1UPckOoG1Z5wg3ZiCiHXpENunrCCcoeaRk4K8bVciLEvxAth5mRXOo8YWeUZgYRSh_G6EW4/s1600/shoot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYAhdG5hUe_WxZAf5Lns9H3sVmhN_3NPgsGLfPQtV4-0CZdB9xli-Vt9IWVNQkXUr7SxWE1UPckOoG1Z5wg3ZiCiHXpENunrCCcoeaRk4K8bVciLEvxAth5mRXOo8YWeUZgYRSh_G6EW4/s400/shoot.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
The psychic body shivers, sensing what it is being called to: the awakening of the heart, opening like a sprouted seed into the brilliant light of reality.<br />
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This seed has been nurtured in Mother's embrace, focused on becoming. Now it breaks through the surface, transitioning from the realm of earth and water to that of of fire and air. No longer is it merely a potential, but suddenly an actuality. The pattern of its inner design comes into visible manifestation. <br />
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With this change in state comes a change in function. The heart must relate to what is <i>beyond</i> itself, yet not <i>for</i> itself. It opens compassionately to others, while also experiencing more clearly than ever the solitary nature of Being. <br />
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Approaching Love eternal, the heart is called to release those personal loves which have been its preoccupation in times past.<br />
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Immense gain and immeasurable loss are tasted together in one blissfully bitter swallow. An excruciating joy mixes with an equally excruciating sorrow as the truth of Love comes into view, a love that cannot be possessed as “mine.”<br />
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One's life story, with all its emotional investments and implications, becomes dislodged from the arena of false importance, like a rope ladder falling away from the Mother Ship as it nudges out of orbit around this paltry earth.<br />
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The awakening heart begins to perceive itself as but a part, a fraction, a cell within a much greater enterprise whose self-identity is likewise surrendered to an even greater whole, and it understands that none of these cells ever had any more exalted function than to serve.<br />
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We are departing from the childhood of self-absorption, of belief in a life centered around ego-goals and private aspirations.<br />
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We are growing up . . . at last.<p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-48874188225564823292010-11-06T13:37:00.000-07:002010-11-06T13:37:25.550-07:00The New Jerusalem<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYK7ZMAz6YKZzNRHghv-5Vj_QkdTJzSAPU55nFiJsq_ee3Cl7XY7l7R1zxlJPiOXOKw3Dq8W1Aml0KyUqPovaXjRYhESrik-323OBtAG68PMebE-KfhI6v28ZtbJdllqHFHO22VbS9p3M/s1600/the-new-jerusalem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYK7ZMAz6YKZzNRHghv-5Vj_QkdTJzSAPU55nFiJsq_ee3Cl7XY7l7R1zxlJPiOXOKw3Dq8W1Aml0KyUqPovaXjRYhESrik-323OBtAG68PMebE-KfhI6v28ZtbJdllqHFHO22VbS9p3M/s400/the-new-jerusalem.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
It is a matter of survival in the New Jerusalem to live by the heart. There are no other lights but love lights, of which the mind of man knows nothing. This is why heaven seems invisible from earth: only the eye of the heart can see it.<br />
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Only this eye can discern the times and the seasons, and navigate the rough waters of this world’s collapsing Old Order.<br />
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The eye of the heart sees deeply and understands. It fathoms the craving for radical intimacy in human connections, and comprehends the immutable necessity underlying the multiplexed stories of an eternity of broken souls.<br />
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And yet we run from the brutal challenge of this truth, to comfortable lies told by unconscious folk who are just biding their time. We claim to want love, but seek where it is convenient and no hurt is permitted to disturb our slumber. <br />
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The heart does not live in this sterile place. It does not flee from life's persistent pain because it looks beyond this moment’s Cross to God’s final Resurrection.<br />
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We ask for a guidance that evades us, for the mind of man never knows what to believe. But the heart grasps an answer before its question is uttered. It senses life’s continuum, the movement of beginnings into endings into beginnings.<br />
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The heart is not dismayed at the ceaseless cycle of death and rebirth, of integration and disintegration.<br />
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For it seeks above all the loving Presence of a divine Superior, valuing His will more than its own apparent freedom.<p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-80964325998382841202010-11-04T13:36:00.000-07:002010-11-04T13:36:45.963-07:00Seventh Day of the Galactic Underworld<br><em>Below is Carl Johan Calleman's article about the beginning of the Seventh Day of the Galactic Underworld, November 3-7, 2010</em><br />
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Humanity’s climb of the cosmic pyramid continues. The actual Ninth wave will not begin until March 9, 2011 although we are already beginning to feel its approach. Before the final climb to the ninth wave and the ninth level of consciousness can begin we will however need to complete the foundation of the eighth level so that we have something to stand on. The eighth level of consciousness of the cosmic pyramid is what has been carried by the wave movement of the Galactic Underworld that began January 5th 1999 and, as all we nine waves will be completed on October 28, 2011.<br />
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As the thirteenth energy, or seventh day, of the Galactic Underworld starts on November 3, 2010 we may say that the particular Yin/Yang-polarity that this has been projecting onto the Earth is locked into position and will not be replaced by any further night in this Underworld.<br />
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I feel it is important to realize that the field of consciousness that each of the waves brings is different and that so they have a distinct influence on the human mind and to get an idea of this we may look at figure 1. In this figure we may see that while the ninth wave, starting March 9, 2011, serves to create unity consciousness (absence of darkening filters) the eighth wave endows the human beings with a filter that favors the right brain half. Hence the nature of the consciousness that the eighth and the ninth waves will be bringing is different and the ceremonies and spiritual processes that we may participate in in order to align with these polarities are different.<br />
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Just looked upon at face value it would then seem as what we are to align with and celebrate on the weekend of November 6-7 (which follows upon the shift) is a world where the feminine, the intuitive mind and the eastern hemisphere comes to dominate since they would all be linked to this enlightenment of the right brain half. Yet, as we can see from the figure this is not exactly the case since the world was for about 5100 years dominated by the consciousness of the sixth wave where the light fell on the left brain half and so as a result favored the rational mind, male dominance and the West and this is sort part of the platform that we are all already standing on. Hence as the seventh day of the galactic Underworld is activated we will actually finally come to a point when it is time to celebrate the end to male, western and rational dominance and we will be able to create a balance between the different aspects of the human mind associated with the left and right brain halves.<br />
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It would thus seem that the weekend of November 6-7 2010 would be a perfect time to perform ceremonies to recreate, celebrate and align with this new balance which is established on a cosmic scale and waiting for us to download it.<br />
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As it turns out during this weekend Don Alejandro and the Buddhist spiritual leader<br />
Reverend Seiyu Kiriyama will be performing a Buddhist-Mayan fire ceremony, which we may all look upon as a balancing of the energies of the West and the East: (See http://bit.ly/czeUhz).<br />
I feel however that these energies will also be an excellent opportunity for anyone who wants to be a co-creator with the divine process of creation to bring this balancing to have an immediate meaning in our individual lives by performing ceremonies around the theme of the return of the feminine and intuitive in all of us in such a way that both human expression is seen as having equal value and an equal place in the human civilization.<br />
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For the beginning of the Seventh day of the Galactic Underworld and its following weekend, November 6-7 I would thus like to encourage every human being to take part in some balancing process to celebrate the return of the divine feminine into their lives. I encourage everyone to be creative in developing ceremonies and processes to co-create the manifestation of this shift in the most constructive and positive way.<br />
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This does not preclude that to attain such a balance within ourselves and between the genders externally we will need to do some serious spiritual inner work, and forgiveness processes in order to leave the past dominance paradigm behind. In order to support you in this a facebook page (http://on.fb.me/baXtyB) and a rudimentary www.treeoflifecelebration.com website have been created. Increasingly we will now find that we will all need to co-create the upcoming shifts and that they will not happen automatically. Increasingly also I believe that we will be required to take the transformative processes and ceremonies home and not just look for it to happen in the external world. I call all co-creators of the cosmic plan to participate in the creation of a balanced fundament to stand on November 6-7. It is from this fundament that we will soon begin our process into the unity consciousness that will be carried by the ninth wave that will be activated on March 9, 2011.<br />
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Carl Johan Calleman<br />
Seattle 11 Imix, October 14, 2010<p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8588431127521658967.post-45371328671593575332010-10-12T15:04:00.000-07:002010-10-12T15:04:17.707-07:00Ego Comfort<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5cwczYN6TiJ1fZMKUo9gc94FLZn3e-REhU61cPMEogT_Ualo4AxRVn_n5QU6Dzfg1jCzPmnlSk6zmW2aDgxkjGWyyee0U2UKoialBVMdTs6AJeNboZoccpqLTyM3gKhPNmiZDnVLqWSU/s1600/ego+reflection.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5cwczYN6TiJ1fZMKUo9gc94FLZn3e-REhU61cPMEogT_Ualo4AxRVn_n5QU6Dzfg1jCzPmnlSk6zmW2aDgxkjGWyyee0U2UKoialBVMdTs6AJeNboZoccpqLTyM3gKhPNmiZDnVLqWSU/s400/ego+reflection.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
It is not at all comfortable to be an ego, and so elaborate mechanisms are created to mitigate the irritation of existing. The ego is highly motivated to seek comfort, and proficient at using mental processes to achieve this. <br />
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By withdrawing perspective into “the head,” the emotional and physical traumas lodged in the body and psyche can be tuned out to a large degree. What is too painful to simply ignore may be desensitized through suppression and sedation.<br />
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It is contrary to the deepest orientation of the Self to be protective, enclosed within a shell of secreted boundaries. Yet the immature heart needs a defense against the encroachments of the world as it learns to navigate this chaotic realm.<br />
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As a result the ego is called upon to buffer, like a shock-absorber, the disturbances of daily life. But typically the "servant" usurps its master’s throne, and the tool assumes itself to be the carpenter. Before long, the only conscious reality is that which the ego posits, and this is imperfect at best. <br />
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The ego is incapable of being farsighted and wise, and may court the very disaster it should avoid. It lacks insight into its own nature, and cannot voluntarily release control of the life it is supposed to guard.<br />
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Therefore the Self must emerge, radiating Presence through the heart, and assume its rightful place. The ego detects this unfolding, and gradually begins to release its death grip on the individual’s life process.<p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/CountdownTo2012-MayanCalendarEnd" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p></p></div>DEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00658452725061948770noreply@blogger.com1