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Andrew Cohen: Evolutionary Enlightenment

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:01:00 +0000

A History of Evolutionary Spirituality

“History as a whole is a progressive, gradually self-disclosing revelation of the Absolute,” wrote the German philosopher Friedrich Schelling. Indeed, evolution has always been a fundamentally spiritual concept. And over two centuries ago, he and others were beginning to intuit that the nature of reality itself was, in some essential way, going somewhere. Nature—and humanity—had a direction.

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Courtesy of EnlightenNext

Eckhart Tolle TV

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:47:00 +0000

At this time of accelerating transformation, in response to what he calls "the evolutionary impulse," Eckhart Tolle will be teaching in a pioneering new format: monthly webcasts designed to catalyze spiritual awakening, foster community, and provide clarity, guidance, and support. Now you have the opportunity to join people across the globe to experience Eckhart's life-changing teachings.

Eckhart Tolle has created a unique and revolutionary online learning platform. Composed entirely of all-new material exclusive to this site, Eckhart Tolle TV invites us to participate in a private seminar series with a growing online community.

On July 1, 2009, Eckhart presented the first issue of these one-of-a-kind streaming video teachings. He is addressing topics not ordinarily covered in his public talks—including the current economic climate—and responding directly to members’ personal inquiries.

See and subscribe more here

Wayne Dyer - Excuses Begone Online Event

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:12:00 +0000

Putting the Excuses Begone!
Paradigm into Action to Work in Your Life
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Hay House Live Online Event
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm PT

Putting the Excuses Begone! Paradigm into Action to Work in Your Life with Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Isn’t it time to finally change the lifelong, self-defeating patterns that prevent you from living the life of your dreams?

Let Dr. Wayne Dyer show you how to put his groundbreaking Excuses Begone! paradigm into action so you can dramatically transform your life. In this transformational online event, Dr. Dyer teaches you exactly how to break the thinking patterns you’ve had since childhood and eliminate the tired excuses that are holding you back. He introduces you to his seven powerful questions so you can successfully use the paradigm on your own anytime you feel stuck and frustrated.

With Dr. Dyer’s wise guidance, you’ll learn:

• What to ask yourself when you feel stuck.
• How and why your mind selects untrue thoughts to guide you.
• Understand the origins of your self-defeating habits so you can banish them for good.
• How to break free of your hidden payoff of staying stuck in old beliefs.
• How to use your imagination to envision a future free of old patterns.
• The necessity of creating a rational reason to change.
• How to access universal cooperation and align with Source.
• The nine ways to reinforce your new way of being.

While it’s often been said that old habits die hard, it doesn’t have to be that way. You truly do have the power to make dramatic changes with Dr. Dyer’s Excuses Begone! paradigm. Join him to learn how to reverse the patterns that prevent you from living at the highest levels of success, happiness, and health. No excuses!

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The Shadow Effet

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:59:00 +0000

On June 26th, over 5 million people will find out about The Shadow Effect, a movie by Debbie Ford featuring Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, James Van Praagh, and more.

Be one of the first to experience the movie everyone is talking about and the trailer that will thrill you.

Watch the trailer

The Wounded Healer

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:06:00 +0000

In Greek myths, Chiron was the wisest of the Centaurs and the archetype of the Wounded Healer

He was accidentally wounded by an arrow that had been dipped in the blood of the Hydra
In his search for his own cure, he discovered how to heal others
In teaching others the healing arts, he found a measure of solace from his own pain
The Wounded Healer understands what the patient feels because he has gone through the same pain
The suffering patient can be cared for by the Healer and be instrumental in the Healers own healing
Each encounter between Healer and patient can be transforming for both
The lesson of Chiron teaches us is that we can overcome pain and transcend into knowledge
That each of us can become a Wounded Healer

©2009 Humanity Healing.

Peace and Tolerance

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:56:00 +0000

If they can, YES! WE CAN TOO :-)

Spiritual confidence

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Mon, 18 May 2009 05:26:00 +0000

Spiritual confidence is the heaviest anchor in the midst of the unending storm that is life and death. It is an unshakable confidence in the inherent rightness of being here—confidence in the rightness of finding oneself in the very middle of the life-process, even in all its chaos and complexity. Having this kind of confidence is of the utmost importance for anyone who is convinced that they deeply care about the way things are. It's especially important to have this kind of confidence in times like these, when there is so much turbulence and individual and collective insecurity about survival.
Without this kind of confidence as a constant reference point, we may find ourselves at times without the emotional, psychological, or spiritual resources to fight the good fight. And those who care more than anything else about the perennial quest to transform the world into a powerful reflection of that which is sacred cannot afford to allow even a moment of doubt or fear to overshadow their soul. Why? Because that may be the one moment that counted the most! In other words, we can't afford not to have spiritual self-confidence if we want to change the world.

Andrew Cohen

Home 2009

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Mon, 18 May 2009 05:00:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/homeprojectfr

Website: http://www.home-2009.com/

HOME : A MOVIE HAPPENING

The movie HOME directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and co-produced by Elzévir Films and EuropaCorp (Luc Besson’s company) and supported by PPR.
HOME is a feature film composed of aerial images which have been filmed in more than fifty countries around the world. A voice-off will offer constructive hindsight into the major environmental and social challenges facing our world.The worldwide release of the movie will be organized by EuropaCorp on June 5th, 2009 –World Environment Day – in cinemas, on television, on DVD and on the Internet around theworld. The aim of this simultaneous worldwide broadcasting is to enable as many people aspossible to watch the movie together.
Participate and act, "Watch this movie !

"HOME : UN FILM EVENEMENT

HOME est un film réalisé par Yann Arthus-Bertrand, coproduit par Elzevir Films et EuropaCorp (la société de Luc Besson) et soutenu par PPR.
HOME est un long-métrage composé d’images aériennes tournées dans plus de cinquante pays dans le monde entier. Une voix-off propose une prise de recul constructive sur les grands enjeux environnementaux et sociaux de notre monde.Une sortie mondiale du film est organisée par EuropaCorp le 5 Juin 2009, journée mondiale de l’environnement, dans tous les pays au cinéma, à la télévision, en DVD et sur Internet. Cette diffusion mondiale simultanée a pour objectif de le faire partager au plus grand nombre.
Participez et agissez, "Watch this movie !"

Nous vivons une période cruciale. Les scientifiques nous disent que nous avons 10 ans pour changer nos modes de vie, éviter d'épuiser les ressources naturelles et empêcher une évolution catastrophique du climat de la Terre.
Il faut que chacun participe à l'effort collectif et c'est pour sensibiliser le plus grand monde que j'ai conçu le film HOME. Afin de diffuser ce film le plus largement possible, il fallait qu'il soit gratuit. Un mécène, le groupe PPR, a permis qui le soit.
EuropaCorp, qui en assure la distribution, s'est engagé à ne faire aucun bénéfice car HOME n'a aucune ambition commerciale.
HOME est un film compensé carbone.
J'aimerais que ce film devienne aussi votre film. Partagez-le. Et agissez.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Epigenetics

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:46:00 +0000

Healing Perceptions with Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D.

Do our genes control our health? Epigenetics research challenges the conventional beliefs about genes and reveals the role of emotion on our bodies and health. In this video, author and cellular biologist Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D. explores the importance of perception in maintaining optimal health.

Discover more from the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the Science of Peace.

Adult Neurogenesis

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:43:00 +0000

For more than a century, medical science firmly believed that our brain could not repair itself and that we were born with all the brain cells we would ever have. That belief has changed. Over the last 20 years, research has shown that neurogenesis, the creation of new brain cells, actually occurs in the adult human. Currently, work is shifting to find out where neurogenesis happens, how it happens, why it happens, and, more importantly, how it might help the brain heal itself. .../...

Already research has:

Identified areas of the brain where neurogenesis is evident.
Discovered the processes that may promote or inhibit neurogenesis.
Offered a glimpse of how new neurons may assimilate into the working brain.

Read more from the Society For Neuroscience

Prayer to Self

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:59:00 +0000

There is nothing that we need that we don’t already have within our Self.

Need, desire, are mere projections of the gap between what we have identified as missing in us, - and therefore what is already starting to manifest within us - and what we believe in illusion that the other has best than us so as to be able to give it to us.

ALL IS within SOURCE, ie SELF.

Anything else is a mere mirror aimed at showing us who we are and where we are heading to.

I believe that the only everlasting couple is the one in which each part stands centred in Self, while looking at the horizon next to the other.
And not facing the other to feed from him or her, nor bestow our sacred power upon that significant other.

This is the only reason I would come to change my life for.
For this is the only human Love I am now willing to experience and am ready to grow for.

And So It IS.

New Abraham Hicks videos

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:24:00 +0000

Abraham: FROM GRIEF TO JOY

Excerpted from the DVD "From Grief To Joy: Moving Up The Emotional Scale" from Abraham-Hicks.In this presentation, Abraham helps a number of participants from different workshops soothe their emotions and transform their vibration on subjects ranging from the sudden death of a child and the terminal cancer of a parent, to the loss of a beloved pet and the anguish of being personally touched by the 911 terrorist attacks.

More than any of our previous DVDs, this program goes deeply into the most unique and powerful aspect of the Teachings of Abraham - the emotional feedback system.

Abraham: A NEW PARADIGM

Excerpted from the DVD "The Autistic Revolution: Children In the Time of Awakening" from Abraham-Hicks Publications.

In this presentation, Abraham addresses several questions about autism from parents and a behavioral scientist, and then reveals the surprising role that autistic children play at this unique time in Earth history. In doing so, Abraham gives their most complete explanation yet of their perspective on raising children, and shares their unique insight into the planetary Awakening now taking place around us.

SYNCD - a place for world transformers

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:18:00 +0000

SYNCD is a "virtual organization", a platform, open community and nonprofit initiative.

SYNCD's mission is "to cause a knowledge revolution by giving access to works created by today's world transformers."

Synchronization, singularity, consciousness, quantum-mind, mind-matter-interaction, unified-field, world-peace, healing, inner-space, meditation, co-creation (a growing list of dedicated and affirmative statements and lectures; sorted by upload-time)

Worth the visit !

Healing with the Masters - The Daily Work Tele-Seminar Series

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:25:00 +0000

Jennifer McLean’s free 12-week intensive gives you exclusive inside-their-mind access to 24 of the world's leading experts in new thought and wellness. These well known speakers are revealing their most personal, private and above all most effective techniques that will help you achieve whatever you want in life (and release whatever you don’t want!).

Your host for this show is Jennifer McLean. She’s an acclaimed healer, author and speaker who is applying her own process to this program, as evidenced by the list of “who's who” in New Thought participating. Obviously, she knows how to make things happen and is very passionate about helping others achieve health and success.

This remarkable lineup of the most recognized names in wellness and spirituality features:

Renowned Spiritual teacher and New Times Best Selling author, Neale Donald Walsh
Scientist and Best Selling Author of The Biology of Belief, Bruce Lipton
Best Selling Author of The Divine Matrix, Gregg Braden
Psychiatrist and Best Selling Author, Dr Judith Orloff
Best Selling Author and "World Thought Leader", James Ray
Best Selling Author, Speaker and America’s #1 coach, Jack Canfield
Cutting-edge Metaphysical Best Selling Author, Gary Renard
Author and Zen Master, Genpo Merzel, Roshil
Author, Minister and "A Complaint Free World" founder, Will Bowen
Hay House Author and Medical Inuitive, Caroline Sutherland
Healer and Founder of The Reconnection, Dr. Eric Pearl
Author and Intuitive Guide, Sonia Choquette
EMC2/AIM Founder and Author, Steven Lewis
Speaker, Radio Host and Best Selling Author, Guy Finley
Author and Executive VP of HeartMath, Howard Martin
Visionary Thinker, Teacher and Author, Richard Moss
Founder Academy of Self-Knowledge, Carol "Libby" Adams
Spiritual Teacher, and Mindset Expert, Shelby Collinge
Sound Vibration Healer Musician and Coach, Mark Romero
Best Selling Author, Transformation and Leadership Expert, Sonia Ricotti
Author, Speaker and Strategic Success Coach, Jen Blackert
Healer, Creator of H.E.A.R.T. and L.E.T. and EFT Specialist, Mary A. Hall

To hear and apply these techniques and exercises to your own life, visit http://www.healingwiththemasters.com/
There are also a lot of free downloads and material.

A MUST NOT MISS!

Is your life going supernova?

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:51:00 +0000

One of the most violently destructive cosmic events is the death of a star. When a star goes Supernova it first collapses in on itself and then explodes, casting its torn body into the void of space. I’m sure that most of us can identify with life experiences that feel like supernovas – spectacular in their destructive impact. When an aspect of your life goes supernova – it is a dying experience. We feel as if we have been scattered to the void, lost entirely to the destruction and pain. Divorce, financial collapse, loss, change, health crises – these are our supernovas.

The stars have guided ancient mariners, inspired great poets, dazzled lovers and comforted lonely hearts. But it is the supernova – the death of a star, which carries a very special insight for us. At first we may consider the death of a star to be a tragic event, but when we look deeper, we see that within every supernova is an opportunity.

Every cell in your body, every known planet and galaxy, your entire physical existence is there because of stars that have given their lives to the universe. What looks at first to be one of the universe’s most violent and tragic events – the death of a star - is in fact the most creative act imaginable. Through dying, stars seed life. Death is the creative force behind the existence of the entire universe.

Stars create the elements for life - they are creation factories. It is through their violent deaths that they literally seed creation. With their last breath, they give their blood to the universe and the shattered stars offer the elements needed to build planets, galaxies and universes.

• What can your life’s supernovas seed?

• What creative acts can the pain and destruction in your life begin?

• What is being born in the heart of that which has died or is dying (careers, relationships, ways of life, the way you see yourself) in your life?

It seems as if creation and destruction are truly sides to the same coin, a polarity that is inescapable in the physical universe. And even as too much yin becomes yang, destruction life experiences can provide the fuel to begin the creation of great things – not the least of which is a greater version of who you are.

Instead of only seeing pain and destruction look for the seeds of life, the seeds that can birth new. Love your body in its service to your soul – be tender with yourself and others. Let your self grieve and feel.

Then say “I'm going supernova!” and look for the potential to create anew. Dream, open your heart and trust that you have the seeds of new right here, right now. Look at the stars in the nights to come and let them show you how to make a brand new you!

Colleen Joy

The Whole of the Holy Life

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:07:00 +0000

In the early days of my teaching career, it became more and more obvious to me that the Buddha was right when he said: "Association with like-minded people is the whole of the holy life." And that is simply because the holy life, the spiritually enlivened and awakened life-if it is to have any real impact on the world-is about the sharing of higher values with other human beings. Any individual can experience liberating insight and clarifying revelation in the privacy of their own subjective interior.

But when insight and revelation are being experienced as part of a shared higher state, something truly sacred begins to occur. The potential of a new, more enlightened world emerges here and now. And then, when it is not only seen but also acted upon, that which was only an unmanifest potential suddenly becomes a powerful manifest reality. We see and feel the world change before our very eyes in the most real way imaginable.

Andrew Cohen

Science and Spirituality

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:48:00 +0000

In this special time of human history science and spirituality are converging into a grand new vision.
In the past decades quantum science has demonstrated unequivocally that our physical reality can not be sep-arated from our conscious aware-ness of it.

In addition quantum science discove-red an all pervasive energy field that per-meates the entire universe, the zero point field.

From this energy field sub atomic particles jump in and out of existence all the time. The material world does not seem to be as solid as we thought it was.

Read more on Science, Alternative history, Spirituality, Reality, World Mysteries, DNA, Phi, 2012, Quantum, Atlantis, Energy, Crop Circles, Fractals, Sacred Geometry, Holographic Universe, Unity, Telsa, Consciousness, Movies, Books, etc ...

from this very interesting website: Souls of Distortion

Let it be said ...

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:40:00 +0000

"Let it be said by our children’s children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God’s grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations."

OBAMA INAUGURAL SPEECH – 20 JANUARY 2009

My fellow citizens,

I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.

Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we the people have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears, and true to our founding documents.

So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans.

That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.

These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land — a nagging fear that America’s decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.

Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America — they will be met.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.

We remain a young nation, but in the words of scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.

In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted — for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things — some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.

For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and travelled across oceans in search of a new life.

For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and ploughed the hard earth.

For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; Normandy and Khe Sahn.

Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction.

This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions — that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.

For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act — not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do.

Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions — who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.

What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them — that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. And those of us who manage the public’s dollars will be held to account — to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day — because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.

Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control — and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart — not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.

As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our founding fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience’s sake. And so to all other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born: know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more.

Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions. They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please. Instead, they knew that our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint.

We are the keepers of this legacy. Guided by these principles once more, we can meet those new threats that demand even greater effort — even greater cooperation and understanding between nations. We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan. With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming planet. We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.

To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West — know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world’s resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us today, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages. We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet, at this moment — a moment that will define a generation — it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all.

For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter’s courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent’s willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.

This is the price and the promise of citizenship.

This is the source of our confidence — the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny.

This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed — why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.

So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America’s birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people:

“Let it be told to the future world ... that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive...that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet (it).”

America, in the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children’s children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God’s grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

The Dream Come True... !

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:19:00 +0000

2 million people not making a noise...

an amazing sound in itself

Welcome Obama, Welcome New World !

Ego: An Anti-Evolutionary Force

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:15:00 +0000

Another Quote of the Week by Andrew Cohen

What is ego?

In an enlightenment context, the word ego refers to a deeply ingrained, unconscious, compulsive, and mechanical need to remain separate and superior at all times, in all places, under all circumstances. Ego is expressed as an irrational refusal to say yes to life, to love, and to God—to an unconditionally positive relationship to the human experience.

The true face of ego is rarely seen for what it is except at those brief moments when you have recognized something as being absolutely positive, wholesome, and good, and are compelled to respond, to say a wholehearted yes to that which you have recognized. It is only in those moments that you come face to face with the force of a powerful inertia within you that blindly resists, defies, and denies that which is radically positive.
This is what ego is: that immovable stance, deep in the human heart and mind, that irrationally resists any call from within or without to embrace the greatest goodness. When we aspire to evolve at the level of consciousness, to live a spiritual life, to become an enlightened person, we open our hearts to the thrilling possibility of something so inconceivably glorious that it's just too positive for most of us to bear.
And it is only when we dare to even consider saying yes to this highest good that we will experience this kind of profound confrontation with our own self—both with the anti-evolutionary force that exists in all of us, and with our normally untapped potential for extraordinary developmental leaps.

An Integral Perspective

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:59:00 +0000

When you realize that consciousness and culture are one-not just as a metaphysical statement, but as a literal, manifest, truth-something very profound occurs. When this perspective is internalized, when the split between subject and object, between consciousness and matter is seen through in the deepest way, a fundamentally dualistic perspective that most of us are unconsciously holding disappears.

Suddenly we can no longer see the inner without seeing the outer; and we can no longer see the outer without seeing the inner. We can no longer think of the individual without thinking of the collective. This inherently holistic or integral embrace of life becomes not just a conceptual overlay, but the very way that we see.

When this occurs, when we internalize this perspective, we become a new human being-one who deeply understands the process that we have been a part of since something emerged from nothing fourteen billion years ago, and who is able to see and feel connected to that larger process in every moment.

That's what I call spiritual liberation, soul liberation, in an evolutionary context. It answers our deepest existential questions about who we are and why we are here in the most profound way. And while it doesn't remove our problems, it puts us in a position to be able to roll up our sleeves and really get down to making the world a better place, starting with ourselves.

As far as I'm concerned, that's what we're here to do!

Andrew Cohen - Quote of the Week

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Identifying Your Illusionary Ego

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:08:00 +0000

To help you identify your illusionary ego, here are a few common ego game identities that people play with. Each of these ego identities holds a belief about itself and copes with the world by embodying this way of being.

Mr. Defensive:
"I want nobody to like me. If I am unlovable, I can never be hurt again."
Mr. Enlightened:
"I am above it all and don't have any problems or places where I need to grow in my life. Everybody else has problems."
Mr. Nice Guy:
"I want everybody to like me. I am a really a great and loving person."
Miss. Perfect:
"Everything must be perfect in my world. If things are not in order something terrible will happen."
Miss. Lone Ranger:
"I don't need anybody to help me. I am so strong and independent."
Miss SuperGirl:
"I must be successful at all costs. If I am not successful, I am nothing."

One of the most important things that you can do is figure out the ego game that is running your life. The first clue to look at how you tend to act, behave and respond to others generally, specifically when you are feeling uncomfortable. Most people revert back to one way of operating and repeat it over and over their entire life. This game runs every aspect of their lives from their personal life to their financial life. For instance, if your ego plays the Superman or SuperGirl game, your whole life may be about accomplishment to such an extent that you only think of things as how will this help you be more successful. You may ignore your relationships in favor of professional success, or even use relationships to help you create more success. The point is that you build your life around whatever game your ego wants to play and this may stop you from having the kind of life you truly love.

The biggest game of all however is believing that your ego is real. It's about as real as a mirage in the desert.

You walk up to a mirage and think there is an oasis of water there, yet when you reach into it you only pull up a handful of sand. When we hold onto this illusion that the ego exists, we remain trapped in the cyclical wheel of suffering forever. The truth is that the game you are playing will eventually blow up like a balloon and explode! This way may be painful, yet you will one day see how the ego never truly satisfies. Only finding your true authentic self will satisfy you, and truly abolish the illusionary ego from its grip on you forever.

It is difficult to manifest what you truly desire when your ego is in the way. It causes an energetic block to the feelings and thoughts that allow your dreams to manifest. Uncovering your ego game will make you into a manifesting magician! It will set you soooo free so that you stay focused in the direction of your dreams and naturally attract whatever you desire.

Remember that behind this ego masquerade is what you have been searching for, the infinite loving essence that loves every part of who you are. So let's strip off that ego mask today, and discover the truth of who you really are. You deserve to live from the most enlightened place of all, where you know yourself as the Divine Authentic Self.

Courtesy of enlightenedbeings.com

Imagining the Tenth Dimension

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:49:00 +0000

I have come across very interesting material from Rob Bryanton's on Imagining The Tenth Dimension. The website and blog are really worth visiting.

Here's an extract:

"Most of us have gotten used to the idea of there being 4 dimensions: but how can we possibly imagine the 10th?
Rob Bryanton's project starts from the unique argument that time really is just one of the directions in the 4th spatial dimension, and our spacetime universe is being created one planck length at a time as we twist and turn in the available branches of the 5th dimension. For many people, this "new way of thinking about time and space" has resonances with their own ways of understanding reality.

"Rob Bryanton's Imagining the Tenth Dimension is one of the most brilliantly-conceived and mind-stretching books that I've ever encountered. Bryanton presents a uniquely compelling model of our 10-dimensional universe, that allows one to visualize and grasp the topography of the higher dimensions in a step-by-step manner. This is must reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of physics, shamanic exploration, or the nature of reality." -- author and psychobiologist David Jay Brown.

Read more here ..!

Leap! The Movie

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:53:00 +0000

Leap! The Movie

Leap! is a new film that explores the ageless idea that the world is an illusion.
This idea may challenge your current beliefs and ideals, but then again Einstein did say “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

Featuring (among others) Peter Russell, Dan Millman, Joe Vitale, Fred Alan Wolf, James Twyman, Max Simon, and Puppetji, this film asks, Is the world literally an Illusion or is it just your perception that is the illusion?

This movie is not about denying our physical experience. Leap! takes you on a journey that offers a powerful way to perceive yourself and the world. To leap beyond the illusion is to let go and live from inspiration—to leap beyond the constraints of your current perceived reality and what you think you know.

Read more on Peter Russell's Blog

See also these amazing count downs and world clocks from Peter Russell

Timewave 2013

noreply@blogger.com (areveda) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:03:00 +0000

The Odyssey II: The Future is Now

What lies ahead for the human race? Will we reach the destiny that awaits us?

In the film 2012 The Odyssey, author Sharron Rose went on a quest to understand the many prophecies around the year 2012. In this sequel to that film, she travels far beyond the world of 2012.

During this fascinating expedition into the nature of time itself, Ms. Rose speaks to many of the world’s experts on mythology, alchemy, astrology, anthropology and ancient history; Jose Arguelles, Gregg Braden, Riane Eisler, William Henry, Jean Houston, John Major Jenkins, Rick Levine, Dennis McKenna, Terence McKenna, Daniel Pinchbeck, Geoff Stray, Whitley Strieber, Alberto Villoldo and Jay Weidner. They discuss topics such as the shift of the ages, the galactic alignment, global warming, the pervasive role of the media in our lives, the secret place of refuge, the mystic work of Benjamin Franklin, renewal of the American spirit and the transformation of humanity.

Journey with Ms. Rose beyond the Georgia Guidestones, Denver Airport, Cross of Hendaye and Mayan Calendar to the Sacred Valley of Peru where we sit in ceremony with the powerful Shaman/healers of the Q’ero people and listen to their powerful prophecies for the future of humankind.

While firmly based in a rich perspective on our past history, and a new understanding of the nature of the times we live in, Timewave 2013 offers a clear, yet positive vision of what is to come.