~ ENLIGHTENMENT ~

Exploring Inner Space

2009-07-31T16:22:00.002-04:00

Exploring Inner Space
By:Gwen Randall-Young

     "The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach." - Carl Jung
     The experience that is our life occurs in the context of a huge macrocosm composed of endless space filled with numberless universes, upon the little blue dot we call home. The experience itself, however, occurs completely within us: within our own vast, endless inner universe.
     This inner universe is created through our senses, perceptions, and beliefs. It occurs within the conscious mind, which is fuelled by the external world, but also by the world of our unconscious, our dream world, our imaginings and the archetypes of our species.
     Our inner universe is unique to us. While it may share common elements with others, it is a one-of-a-kind event that is continually evolving-creating and recreating itself with every stimulus, both internal and external.

     Exploring that world can be mystifying, enlightening, often spiritual, but can also be very lonely. There is only one inhabitant in that world. Perhaps that is why some find self-exploration or meditation to be uncomfortable. Television, computers, work or a busy social life can save one from stepping off the edge into that unfamiliar abyss.
     We cannot really avoid it completely, however. It is there always in the background of our consciousness while we are busy thinking the external world is the most real part of our experience. The external is where ego hangs out, and for ego that is center stage. It is all there is.
     To experience our soul, we must go within. Once inner space becomes familiar, it ceases to feel strange and instead becomes like a nurturing womb. Instead of feeling disconnected, we discover a connectedness that transcends anything ego has known. As we immerse ourselves in inner space, any sense of separateness disappears.
     As we go deeper, we discover a kind of portal which connects our inner space to all that is-to the vastness of the eternal. It then seems curious that we had the illusion of separation.
     The reason for the confusion is this: imagine drawing a circle on a page. The line forming the circle is all that separates the inside from the rest of what is there. Remove the line, and it all becomes one. In our case, it is ego which forms the line between inner and outer. Ego is at the interface, and allows us to connect with the outside world. Ego does have some useful functions-it is not bad, just limiting.

     However, when we identify with ego, then that separation seems real. When we transcend ego, everything changes. There is no more in here/out there. We are no longer interested in polarity, or taking sides. We still function in the world, but we no longer take things personally. We become more interested in understanding; in seeing the big picture.
     We more often find ourselves functioning like an observer, noticing what is happening, but viewing it from a perspective of wisdom. We no longer feel a need to take sides or to be right. Instead, we are more likely to mediate or facilitate. Our focus is more on finding solutions, and honoring all who are involved.
     We also release our need to control things. We still may have desires and goals, but we recognize that we are co-creating with the universe, so anything may happen. Whatever does happen is undoubtedly for our highest good, although ego often might argue with that! We develop the ability to know when to take action, and when to simply surrender and flow. We do not worry, because we trust the process of life.
     Since we no longer take things personally, and are not as attached to outcomes as we once were, all of our relationships and dealings with others seem easier and more effortless. It is not that suddenly everything magically flows, it is just that now we know how to flow. Ego may still try to get us agitated, but we are now aligned with soul, and soul just wants to enjoy the journey.

Traits Of An Empath

2009-06-03T11:49:00.003-04:00

Traits of an Empath

    Empaths are often quiet and can take a while to handle a compliment for they're more inclined to point out another's positive attributes. They are highly expressive in all areas of emotional connection, and talk openly, and, at times, quite frankly in respect to themselves. They may have few problems talking about their feelings.

    However, they can be the exact opposite: reclusive and apparently unresponsive at the best of times. They may even appear ignorant. Some are very good at blocking out others and that's not always a bad thing, at least for the learning empath struggling with a barrage of emotions from others, as well as their own feelings.

    Empaths have a tendency to openly feel what is outside of them more so than what is inside of them. This can cause empaths to ignore their own needs. In general an empath is non-violent, non-aggressive and leans more towards being the peacemaker. Any area filled with disharmony creates an uncomfortable feeling in an empath. If they find themselves in the middle of a confrontation, they will endeavor to settle the situation as quickly as possible, if not avoid it all together. If any harsh words are expressed in defending themselves, they will likely resent their lack of self-control, and have a preference to peacefully resolve the problem quickly.

    Empaths are sensitive to TV, videos, movies, news and broadcasts. Violence or emotional dramas depicting shocking scenes of physical or emotional pain inflicted on adults, children or animals can bring an empath easily to tears. At times, they may feel physically ill or choke back the tears. Some empaths will struggle to comprehend any such cruelty, and will have grave difficulty in expressing themselves in the face of another's ignorance, closed-mindedness and obvious lack of compassion. They simply cannot justify the suffering they feel and see.

    People of all walks of life and animals are attracted to the warmth and genuine compassion of empaths. Regardless of whether others are aware of one being empathic, people are drawn to them as a metal object is to a magnet! They are like beacons of light.

    Even complete strangers find it easy to talk to empaths about the most personal things, and before they know it, they have poured out their hearts and souls without intending to do so consciously. It is as though on a sub-conscious level that person knows instinctively that empaths would listen with compassionate understanding.

    Here are the listeners of life. Empaths are often problem solvers, thinkers, and studiers of many things. As far as empaths are concerned, where a problem is, so too is the answer. They often will search until they find one--if only for peace of mind.

Namaste'

The Power Of Living In The Now

2009-05-26T12:21:00.004-04:00

The Power Of Living In The Now
By Chuck Danes

Living In The Now : You’ve heard it a thousand times. You’ve read about it for years. Most everyone has been exposed to the concept of living only in the present, without giving thought to what has happened in the past or being concerned about what may happen in the future.

As good as this advice is, we as humans can sometimes find it difficult to implement this ever so simplistic principle into our day to day lives. Simple, yes. Easy, no.

In fact, to many it may initially appear to be impossible. The key word in that statement is appear. Until you know how, it will appear impossible. But once you grasp this simple concept, once you are able to make the necessary shift in your thought process, and once you are able to understand how, fully accept why, and begin to learn to implement the awesome power that this principle holds, you’ll soon discover that your life will begin to change in a dramatic and seemingly miraculous way. Mastery of this powerful principle is essential in relation to your ability to change the circumstances that you are now experiencing as your reality.

But how do you get to that point? What steps are necessary to develop the ability to not be concerned with what currently appears to be huge insurmountable obstacles? How is it possible to be able to ignore the experiences that have previously created hardship in various areas of life in the past, and learn to effectively shut off the thoughts of concern that these very things might be repeated in the future?

These are questions asked by many. All valid and all seemingly impossible to master, until you begin to develop an understanding of how the human mind and the universe were created to operate harmoniously to bring about the events, conditions and circumstances that you experience in your day to day life. That understanding, combined with the knowledge of basic and simplistic universal lawsthat determine how and why things happen as they do, will awaken you to new hope and unlimited possibilities.

This understanding will allow you to banish from your mind, the illusions of fear, worry, and guilt, and allow you to begin to replace those counter productive emotions with those that will better serve in bringing about your desired outcomes.

So, how do you do that?…

The process must begin, first of all, with developing an understanding of where these emotions and concerns originate from and why we feel certain ways about the various events, conditions, and circumstances that we experience in our day to day lives. To accomplish this, it is necessary to explore the inner workings of the human mind and develop a basic understanding of it’s operation, before you can effectively initiate a plan and begin to consciously make the changes that are necessary which allow you to begin attracting that which you want, and realizing how you have, to this point, been unconsciously attracting those things that you say you don’t want.

Once this basic understanding is mastered, the next step is discovering and developing an understanding of the ever so powerful, unfailing, and unwavering Universal Laws that determine each and every end result and which brings in to being the ultimate outcome of every thought, decision, action, event, and condition that we witness and experience in our day to day lives.

The third step is allowing the understanding of this new knowledge to permeate your innermost being, allowing it truths to become a part of you, which begins the internal process of allowing it to overwrite the self limiting, counter productive, and many times ill given advice that you have absorbed and established as truth to this point.

The fourth and final step is putting your newly acquired knowledge in to daily action and consistently and consciously applying each of the newly discovered principles acquired. The knowledge gained without proper application will be of no use to you. It is through the application of this powerful wisdom that you will begin to experience a life that you previously considered to be out of reach.

You’ll soon discover that the things that you, at one time, found to be a struggle will begin to fall into place with unbelievable ease. The once negative thoughts and emotions that at one point haunted you, will be replaced with feelings of well being, understanding and profoundly empowering deep inner peace. The financial concerns that once haunted you will melt away and be replaced with a sense of assurance. The relationships that once seemed to be difficult or impossible will become effortless, fulfilling and satisfying. The physical health that at one point was a constant concern will almost magically be renewed and you will emanate vitality, happiness, and energy far superior to anything that you have previously experienced.

Will it take effort on your part to come to realize and experience these results? Yes. Will it require discipline to go within and make the changes necessary to begin to experience the things discussed? Absolutely. Will it be necessary to seek out and find the real truth concerning the life that you were destined to experience and created to enjoy? Most definitely.

Regardless of your viewpoint concerning spiritual matters these truths are set, unwavering, unbiased and totally without prejudice. These eternal laws work exactly the same for everyone whether you are young or old, black or white, Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Agnostic, or whatever other numerous labels man has contrived to place on the human population. It is these very laws that are responsible for creating the events, conditions, and circumstances that you experience in your day to day life each and every minute of every day, regardless of who, what, or where you are.

Your awareness of them or ignorance to them is of no concellation. You are creating something every minute of every day. With this being true doesn’t it make sense to discover the process that will allow you to begin consciously creating that which you want?

Your newfound wisdom will allow you to begin the ever important process of living in the here and now, which is precisely where you want to be.

To Recap…

*Explore and discover the basic operation of your mind.

*Familiarize yourself the simple and powerful laws of the universe.

*Allow this knowledge to permeate your inner most being.

*Apply daily, the knowledge acquired.

Make the conscious effort to fulfill these steps and Your life will change in a dramatic and powerful way.

“And I say unto you, ask and ye shall receive, seek and ye shall find, knock and the door will be opened unto you. For everyone that asks receives, and he that seeks finds, and to him that knocks it shall be opened” Luke 11; 9-13

“Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them.” Mark 11;24

The Real Meaning of Life and Human Existence

2009-04-28T15:39:00.003-04:00

The Real Meaning of Life and Human Existence

Introduction
The human condition is a complex and multifaceted one. Commentary is presented on a few of the most significant aspects.

Formation of Character
It seems likely personality is formed from a combination of what is innate and from the effects of early influences. Although slight change might occur in later years personality is largely determined within the first decade of life.

The mind is complex and what creates us, and what drives us, is far from easily understood.

Freedom of the Will
Maybe we have free will, maybe we don't. The potential rewards are greater and the losses less if we work on the assumption that we do. Similarly a belief in some greater reality or purpose beyond this finite incarnation is favored.

The most likely scenario is that most of what happens in the material plane is deterministic. Occasionally, spirit is able to influence the micro-quantum level to exercise its will upon the physical.

It is therefore prudent to live purposefully in the pursuit of some predefined goal(s). See Free Will - fact or fallacy?

Significance
Every action changes forever, however slightly, the destiny of the universe. Every experience changes forever, however slightly, the nature of the man.

Life is finite. Its purpose is the achieve the dual goals of significance and satisfaction. Earthly pleasure is transient, thus it is ultimately insignificant and unsatisfying. True satisfaction comes only from making a (positive) difference to what otherwise might have been.

Materialism
Time constantly marches forwards. Whilst we may savour a moment we can never possess it. Human existence, earthly incarnation is finite. Indeed, the earth itself along with the physical universe may also have a finite existence. This existence is either part of some far greater whole, or it is completely without meaning. If it is without meaning then each and every earthly act or achievement is totally futile. If it is part of some greater whole then material acquisition beyond the satisfaction of basic need is nothing more than a distraction at the side of that infinite pathway. Far better to seek growth of the spirit through experience and understanding.

Purpose
Notwithstanding the inescapable uncertainty and transience which enshrouds human existence the rational being will still seek satisfaction. True satisfaction , i.e. that which does not die with the relentless passage of time, results not from hedonism, but from the sense of meaningful achievement resulting from living with a purpose.

The simultaneous existence of various societies with differing values, customs and ethical codes, as well as the differences in accepted values found over time within a single society/culture, supports the hypothesis that good and evil are not absolute but relative concepts. An individual is born, by pure fate, into one of these distinct groups and is generally conditioned by that particular group throughout its early years.

The more fortunate individual is born into the society best suited to its unique character. Most will find discrepancy between their environment and their ideal. These are faced with the choice of acceptance (consciously or through ignorance), moving to something more suited, seeking to change the existing order or outright rebellion (which carries the risk of potentially negative consequences).

The rational being will most likely choose to live in the society most suited to its unique character, and furthermore, that once established within that society may seek to exert its influence upon it in order to shape it even closer to its vision of an ideal.

We can pursue but a single pathway. Choices must be made between competing options and this inevitably means rejecting some potentially hopeful possibilities. Make choices based on reason supported by instinct, and having done so do not regret. Hold the knowledge that the alternative would have been worse and that the best choice was made in the light of circumstances and available knowledge.

Do not seek change for change's sake, but do not fear change when change represents opportunity for progress and growth. Evaluate risks against potential gains and decide accordingly.

We are born into unique circumstances and with unique character. The first step to fulfillment is acceptance of these realities and a resolve to make the best of them. Self may change in the light of knowledge and experience, but change should not not be sought for its own sake. Dissatisfaction is unproductive and wasteful of energies that could be used creatively. Being comfortable with the true self, and acceptance of the unalterable circumstances in which it exists, is the basis and essential prerequisite for purposeful growth.

Perfectionism
The pursuit of excellence is a noble one, and indeed the acceptance that one has done enough is tantamount to an admission of redundancy. However the harsh reality is that the the earthly incarnation, the human form, is inevitably imperfect. No single being can ever achieve all that there is to be achieved, not even within the narrowest of domains. This should not prevent individuals from striving to fulfill their full potential, nor from obtaining satisfaction from achievements, however limited these may be on a universal scale.

Right and Wrong
We are, each of us, individual and unique entities pursuing individual, unique and often conflicting goals.

But given we can prove nothing beyond our own existence who is to say what is good or evil, right or wrong? In a system without law he who is able is free to express his will in any way he desires, even to the detriment of others unable to resist him. This is the law of the jungle, of mother nature.

Where we disagree with others' conception of right and wrong I believe we have the right to do so, and we have the right to express our disagreement and our reasons for it and to attempt to persuade others to our point of view. But I do not believe we have the right to force them to change their conception to conform to ours.

The human spirit is sufficiently complex that it cannot always understand the reasons for its own leanings. But given the impossibility of defining absolute right or wrong and the finiteness of time prolonged self-examination is ultimately pointless. Instead it is better to be loyal to one's instincts whilst retaining sufficient openness to be convinced otherwise in the light of persuasive enough evidence.

Law
Mankind observed the benefits of society, of cooperation and specialization. In order to encourage maximum cooperation and hence to create maximum benefit he devised and enforced laws.

We are, each of us, born into an established society with established laws. We are conditioned by that society and by the individual knowledge and experience that we gain. We form a personal conception of right and wrong which is continually modified throughout our experience.

But laws vary from culture to culture, from society to society and from time to time. Who then is to say what is good or bad law?

And one justification of laws is to maximize the total welfare enjoyed by members of the society in which they apply, but not necessarily to maximize the total welfare of every individual. Thus there will be those who will have reason to break laws because they believe their welfare will be improved by doing so.

Breaking the law is effectively taking a gamble, a consideration of the potential gain against the potential loss weighted by the perceived probability of success.

A single set of laws applies to all members of a society regardless of whether each and every member agrees with them. An individual or group is able, if sufficiently strong and well-resourced, to impose its will upon others. The strength or resources enjoyed by an individual or group have no bearing on its righteousness, whatever meaning, if any, may be attached to righteous. It may be the case that the most righteous view will be shared by the strongest group (in terms of numbers), but it may also be the case that the group enjoying the most privileged position will impose laws designed to protect its status. This is the mechanism by which class systems are perpetuated.

A society with just laws motivates individuals to contribute more since it guarantees greater freedom to enjoy the fruits of their labours, the more individuals contribute the more society as a whole has to offer its members.

Laws are created to favor the existence of some ideal, which might be utilitarianism, equality, maximum opportunity, maximum wealth creation Esc etc. However, since these ideals may differ determining that which should be pursued is a purely subjective process.

Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism may be defined as the ideal of the greatest good to the greatest number. But it is a hollow and meaningless ideal since the greatest good and the greatest equality are different states. Utilitarianism alone cannot be pursued within a society, instead more concrete ideals must be defined and justified. However, in the absence of absolute right and wrong there will always be competing ideals with legitimate claims to supremacy.

Human Nature
Individuals generally act to maximize the welfare of the individual, or occasionally of the small group of which it is a part. Apparent selflessness may also be a part of maximizing the welfare of the individual. A fair and equal society is one in which there is less motive for anyone to harm his neighbour. Thus an individual advocating such a society is advocating one in which there is less motive to harm him.

It is for this reason that too much power placed in the hands of any single individual or small group is dangerous.

Love
Undoubtedly one of the most powerful human motivators is love, the unconditional elevation of the rights and welfare of another to a status equal or superior to that of our own. Most commonly love is felt between a man and a woman or between parent and child and thus may be said to serve the purpose of the survival of the species. It may also be felt for an arbitrary grouping such as nation or religion and thus serves the continuing prosperity of that grouping. This latter example is surely a distortion of the inherent natural instinct.

(In)Equality
We are all born into unique circumstances. We are all born as unique individuals with unique character(istic)s, strengths and weaknesses. As we are unique so we are not equal.

We should be treated equally by the law of the society in which we live. We should be treated equally in terms of employment opportunity, if only because equality of consideration maximizes our employer's gain.

Despite the ideal of an equal society we are all influnced by personal prejudice, rational or otherwise. We have certain stereotypes we feel more positively towards than others. This is neither right nor wrong, it simply is. But we must carry the awareness that our prejudices may ultimately be detrimental to our own quality of existence.

State intervention that eliminates inequality, in terms of material reward, is as undesirable as the total lack of state intervention that would inevitably result in massive inequality of opportunity.

Some are born into far more favourable conditions than others. Those that attain material success through hard work or innate talents should have the right to pass the fruits of their achievements to whosoever they choose, most usually their offspring. However, it is undesirable for society to be so far biased against those born into less favourable circumstances that civilisation is likely to collapse as a result of those unfortunates being driven to take arms against their perceived opressors.

A compromise may be found by designing legal and fiscal systems to limit, but not eliminate inequality. We should all be guaranteed a dignified minimum standard of living, quality of education, standard of healthcare, protection under the law etc. State benefits should be directed towards those that need them, rather than those that qualify merely by age or any circumstance other than need.

Those that are most able should be taxed at higher marginal rates than their less fortunate peers. The state should not foot the bill for geriatric care for those who are able, or have descendants who are able, to foot the bill for themselves. The state should maintain the right to take a portion of the estates of those who die, where those estates exceed some threshold.

The Individual, Society and the State
The state is that central authority which makes and enforced the laws to which a particular society is subject.

Did it arise to formalize the notion of society and thus protect the resultant benefits of cooperation and division of labour through the
the creation and prosecution of laws? Such a state promotes good citizenship by virtue of both the carrot (rewards of labour) and stick (punishment for criminality).

Or did it arise as a mechanism to consolidate and legitimize the exploitation of the weak by the strong?

Or are its origins a mixture of both, or does it have some other root(s)?

Individuals are born into a given society and subject to a given set of laws by chance. They may choose to accept the conditions of the society into which they were born, to change the conditions within that society, or to join a different society to which they are more suited.

The options within the second course might include the building of popular support, the running for office in a democracy, the pursuit of position of influence or, in the extreme, undertaking vile acts in order to put one's point across.

It is the final option which is labeled terrorism and widely condemned by established regimes. Indeed it is often complete innocents who suffer from its effects. But can we dismiss the desperate acts of the hopelessly oppressed as being pure evil? The more any established regime denigrates, the more it subdues, that to which it is opposed, the further that which is opposed is driven to extreme action.

It is the greatest challenge to mankind to accept the relativity of morality and to find tolerance and space for those that hold alternative views. It is, perhaps, only those who cannot find this space and tolerance who should face universal condemnation and wrath.

Relationship with Nature
Mankind possesses by far the superior intellect on planet earth making him unquestionably the dominant species. As such do we have the right to exploit all other life forms for our own ends? Given the relativism of morality is it possible to even attempt to answer this question?

Nature may be seen as a vast self-supporting system capable of providing for its entire membership. We now stand at a point at which we have the capacity to destroy our very means of sustenance should we choose to do so, but to do so would be unwise since it would imply our own destruction too. As such any exploitation of the earth's resources should be responsible.

Democracy
Democracy is supposedly the system of governance of society which is determined by its membership. It should permit an individual to influence its society from within. In practice government is realistically open only to major parties with the means to present their case effectively to the masses. Furthermore there is usually little to choose in practical terms between the electable parties since all are subject to a non-changing establishment.

In contrast to democracy various forms of unelected dictatorship exist in which power rests with an individual or elite. Such powers may serve a variety of purposes; e.g. self-perpetuation, the good of the masses... To a certain extent these powers too exist only at the will of those they govern since the power of the whole exceeds that of a few, so any alternative which is able to gain sufficient strength of support has the capacity to itself become government.

Country
Human nature is such that the individual tends to feel loyalty towards the groups of which it is a member, be they family, neighbourhood, company, political allegiance, country, race etc. I make a distinction between those groups which one positively chooses to join (such as political party), and those over which one has no control. And in the second category I distinguish between those of which the individual has a direct, personal intimacy with (e.g. family) and those more distant (e.g. country).

It is the final category which I find hardest to comprehend since I feel no allegiance to my country whatsoever. National boundaries are man-made, and while different countries and their corresponding nationalities have distinct characteristics it is pure chance as to whether an individual born into a particular country would feel an affinity with its national characteristics.

Perhaps the widespread phenomena of patriotism is evidence for character being formed by one's environment rather than being innate. But I do not believe patriotism is a universally felt emotion and neither do I believe it is a constructive one. At its worst patriotism denigrates those of other nationalities and races and may even lead to international/interracial conflicts. At best it limits one's thinking to an artificially restricted domain.

War
War is the state in which two groups are openly aggressive to each other. The groups may be national, religious, political etc. Wars are characterized by large numbers fighting for a common objective and encouraged or forced to do so by a far smaller leadership.

Do all those engaged in war believe sincerely in the cause for which they fight? Or do they fight as a result of ignorance exploited by insidious indoctrination?

Is war one of the worse outcomes of too much power residing in the hands of too few? Is war the result of a rogue group seeking to oppress others? Or, given the impossibility of defining right and wrong, is it the ultimate, and sometimes inevitable, means of conflict resolution?

War exacts a terrible cost from its participants, both victors and vanquished. A comprehensive and unbiased (if such a thing is possible) education for all is a major disincentive to war since it provides its recipients with the tools to question.

Property
By what right may individuals stake a claim to ownership of the earth's resources? Effort is rewarded by the right to enjoy resources and this is not disputed for were it not so there would be little or no incentive to make effort. The question is more concerned with claims to ownership of the earth itself, i.e. of land.

Modern history is dominated by two major competing socio-political ideologies, namely capitalism and socialism. The former is driven by market economics underpinned by distinct ownership of land, the latter considers land to be the shared property of all and advocates the need for an all-powerful and benevolent state. Undoubtedly the former has been the more successful at wealth creation, but at the cost of greater inequality and real or perceived injustice with the result of a lessened quality of life due to crime and disregard for the welfare of others. It is highly debatable as to how much additional wealth, above and beyond necessity, adds to the more subjective measure that is quality of life.

Individuals vary in strength, ability and willingness to contribute. It follows that the rewards enjoyed by individuals will also vary, as will the levels of such rewards passed down to their descendants. But how did land come to be owned? Because some of our far distant ancestors were better at fighting for territory, or at taming nature in its raw, or were sufficiently subservient to the right masters. Whatever the reason it is now lost in the mists of time leaving a status quo in which the right to acquire a piece of the earth comes at a very high cost, and the legitimacy of those from which it must be acquired is highly questionable.

Religion
Throughout its existence mankind has felt the need to seek and identify with an unseen superior power, which may be labeled God. Some claim direct experience of such power. Whether God actually exists, and if so what its nature is are unanswerable questions, except to those claiming direct experience. However, the concept of God undeniably exists.

Numerous religions exist based upon the teachings of various prophets and enlightened ones. Undeniably religions have been abused by men as a means of control over their followers.

It is however interesting to note the commonality to be found among independent and individually developed religions which implies that they may indeed be attempts at describing a central underlying truth.

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The Healing Power of Lightworkers

2009-04-25T17:02:00.003-04:00

Lightworkers are those who volunteered, before birth, to help the planet and its population heal from the effects of fear.

Each lightworker is here for a sacred purpose. Very often, however, life on earth with its material focus creates a form of amnesia in lightworkers.

They then forget their divine and perfect identities, and also their abilities to miraculously help the earth and all living creatures.

     When lightworkers forget their true identity and purpose, they feel lost and afraid.

     Your are a lightworker if you: feel called to heal others; want to resolve the world's social and environmental problems; believe that spiritual methods can heal any situation; have had mystical experiences, such as psychic premonitions or angelic encounters; have endured harsh life experiences that eroded the knowledge of your Divine perfection; want to heal your own life as a first step in healing the world; feel compelled to write, teach, or counsel about your healing experiences, or feel a sense of time urgency to fulfill your mission before you know that you are here for a higher purpose, or even if you are unsure what it is or how to fulfill it.

     Everywhere on the planet right now, lightworkers are awakening to faint memories about why they came to earth. They hear an inner calling that can't be ignored. This call is a reminder that it is now time to stop toying with material dreams, and get to work.

     Many lightworkers are discovering innate spiritual gifts, such as psychic communication skills and spiritual healing abilities. These are the gifts that we volunteered to use to heal the earth and her population during the crucial decades surrounding the millennium.

     Prophecies predicted our coming, and now it is time for us to fulfill our Divine purposes. The world depends upon us

     We who are lightworkers don't necessarily need to add anything to ourselves to prepare for our mission. We already have innate abilities, even if they are presently dormant. Instead, we need to work on releasing fears which keep us from feeling confident in our lightworker abilities. When you remind yourself that your power as a lightworker comes from your higher self and God (not from "you") you automatically feel more assured of your abilities as a spiritual healer.

     With our focused intent, thought, and spirit, we can heal anything. There are no limits, except those we place upon our healing abilities.

     We definitely can heal the earth with our spiritual approach.

In fact, scientists have recently demonstrated that people can change water and air temperature and also cloud structures, purely through their thoughts. Researchers have known for years that prayer positively affects plants and animals. These studies reveal something that many lightworkers have already known: our collective prayers and healing thoughts can avert prophecies of world trauma.

There is only one spirit and one mind, and we are all part of this collective intelligence and love. Miraculous results in scientific laboratories are demonstrating the factual basis of the oneness of all life. Not long ago, U.S. and Japanese scientists hooked-up test subjects to blood pressure and heart monitor machines. Simultaneously, in separate and sealed rooms, other test subjects were asked to think loving or angry thoughts about the people hooked-up to the machines. At the exact instant when a subject held a loving thought, the monitored person's blood pressure and heart rate significantly dropped. And then, at the precise moment when an angry thought was projected, the person's vital signs skyrocketed upward.

We who are lightworkers are already aware of the power of our thoughts.

     What we are continuing to learn, however, is that our thoughts are even more powerful than we suspected! A large part of our lightworker function, then, is to continuously monitor our own thoughts to ensure that they are from a high and loving plane. When we occasionally slip into fearful or judgmental thoughts, we can release these thought forms to the angels who surround us, knowing that these spiritual companions want to help us fulfill our sacred purpose.

      If your intuition is urging you toward a healing function, you can be sure that this is a Divine voice and not just wishful thinking. In recent years, a spiritual call has been broadcast—like a psychic "help wanted" ad—asking for lightworkers to awaken to their healing roles. Those who have heard the call sometimes contact me, asking for reassurance that this inner voice isn't setting them up for disappointment or possible failure.

     I can certainly understand this fear, since I experienced it myself. When I was a young mother of two and an uneducated housewife, I began having spontaneous visions in which I saw myself as a healer and author. These visions frightened me, because I didn't think that I had the time, money, or intelligence to succeed. So I began overeating to silence the inner voice and visions. I didn't feel ready or qualified to awaken to my mission.

     What I was doing was the equivalent of pushing the "snooze button" on my spiritual alarm clock. Overeating was my way of delaying God's plan for me, because food would temporarily drown out the sound and sight of my Divine life plan. I gained nearly 50 pounds before I finally surrendered to the Creator and asked for help in making my inner vision a reality. I discovered that as soon as I committed to following my life purpose, doors opened up for me in succession. In miraculous ways that I could never have planned for, everything in my visions became a reality.

We cannot fail when we accept the mission we chose for ourselves prior to incarnation.

The power and intelligence of the One mind makes no mistakes. We would not have been assigned our lightworker role, were we not perfectly qualified. Since we are made in the image and likeness of One who is all-knowing, all-loving, and able to heal anything, we can relax in the sure knowledge that we were born to heal.

source: http://www.angeltherapy.com

Civilization's Cornerstone: Kindness

2009-03-19T12:46:00.002-04:00

Civilization's Cornerstone: Kindness
by Alistair McAlpine, Kate Dixey

Kindness is the fuel of civilization, politeness and courtesy its etiquette, its formalities, and dignity its aim. Civilization is about responsibility for your own actions, and it is about tolerating other people’s actions. One person trying to accept another’s habits is the essence of civilization. Kindness typically reserved for the home and loved ones can be an attitude encompassing your entire life.Kindness is a gentle, thoughtful, peaceful thing, most effective in its simplicity.

Most humans have a tendency towards altruism -- it has been proven in all parts of the world that part of the recovery process of disaster victims is altruistic behavior. Lord Byron, the famous nineteenth-century English romantic poet, wrote beautifully of kindness, “The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.” There is a gentleness to kindness that is noble. Kindness gives you not only strength, but also an inner beauty. The American philosopher and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote, “There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”Kindness, however, is not just the stuff of poetry and poets; it is also the stuff of sound business sense. You never know to whom you are being kind. Kindness to an unfortunate may result in, and indeed often has turned out, to be repaid 100 times.

The twentieth-century French writer, André Gide, had a view of kindness, “True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one’s own the suffering and joys of others.” What Gide refers to here is, in fact, sensitivity. If you are to succeed in business, you need sensitivity, and sensitivity can be developed. In fact, “Kindness can become its own motive.”It should be easy to express kindness at work as opportunity abounds with typically large groups of people around you. People who show kindness demonstrate strength of character; it is admired and it is contagious. Importantly, kindness to your colleagues shows that you have confidence in your own ability, and shows that you have strength of character.

Those around you will notice both of these and admire them. Both of these characteristics, strength of character and confidence, are qualifications for promotion. Admiration is totally different from popularity in the workplace. Bosses prefer to promote those who people admire and are often suspicious of those who are merely popular. Often it is believed that there is an emotional expense in giving kindness. People often avoid giving kindness in the belief that it makes them feel emotionally drained. These people are mistaken.

The truth is, as we have to learn everything else in life, we must learn about giving kindness. Giving in a truly profound way is wonderful. If you really give profoundly, you will feel it in your heart and you will see it reflected in the people around you.“We are made kind by being kind,” wrote Eric Hoffer, the American social philosopher in the 1950s. And in the first century A.D., Publius Syrus, a Roman slave and mime, knew what some biologists and social scientists claim now to have proven, “You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot do by force.” Kindness requires patience, an appreciation of the importance of others, a certain diplomacy.

Compassion and kindness may sound sentimental but they actually lead to a deeper connection and rapport that create trust, a friendly atmosphere, compassion, and most importantly for business, an enjoyable synchronicity and harmony in the working environment. The people who are able to create such an environment and display these qualities are people who others trust to become a leader in the business world and the community.Leadership evolves out of expertise, ambition and luck, but true inspiration comes with a willingness to connect your own vulnerability with somebody else’s. So do not pass up the opportunity to remain silent and caring if the need arises. This so-called “soft” management approach is the ability to make yourself open and sensitive to others’ feelings. It takes courage to be quiet and listen to someone else’s discomfort. This can feel strange within a working framework, but actually it forms a greater professional respect.

The art of kindness is not just approaching a market challenge, but meeting the needs of each individual to find a resolution.Kindness to those around you is important, but perhaps more important is kindness to yourself, the most difficult form of kindness to practice. Reward not only your success but also your effort. Kindness to yourself helps deal with rejection. You may get disheartened, and self-kindness alleviates frustration brought on by an initial lack of success. Often, other people do not want you to succeed, so self-kindness is not only important, it is necessary.

You cannot get it from others.

Kindness to those who fail wins appreciation.
Kindness to those who win when you fail brings respect.
Kindness is a building block of a happy life.
Kindness is born in consideration and love.

Teach yourself to be considerate, mostly in small matters, and consideration for others in big matters will become second nature.In relationships of all natures, it is well worth remembering that your perspective of other people will change with the differing situations in which you find yourself. The memory of a life is made up of many small incidents. Even large incidents are made up of small incidents, some details well remembered, some half remembered; some, in the nature of folklore, are distorted fact and embellished fantasy -- details invented that for you have become facts. These incidents, as the dots that comprise a photograph, are the picture of your life and become a complete memory.

When the circumstances of your life change, the pre-eminencies of these small dots rearrange themselves and the picture of your life alters. Your attitude and perception change to issues and people. In extreme cases, heroes become villains and vice versa. In truth, however, they have not changed; merely how you see them has changed.Kindness must always be meaningful. When you are pivoting in your life, it is easy to be confused about meaningful kindness. Just being lovely to everyone is no solution. Rather, as always, kindness must be carefully considered, directed with as full knowledge of the facts as possible. Haphazard kindness, as exemplified by the comedy routine of the boy scout who took an unwilling old lady far out of her way across a busy road to earn “a good deed for the day,” can only cause confusion and distress.

As Thomas Fuller, an African slave and mathematician, wrote in 1732, “Unreasonable kindness gets no thanks.”Kindness has its own rewards, for those who have succeeded in developing their instincts and sensitivity can physically experience the sensation of their own kindness around the area of their heart. The sensation is so memorable that it is astonishing. Yet we fear and resist that sensation, perhaps because we simply think that it will feel so good and then disappear, leaving us sad and disappointed, unhappy that this memorable feeling could come and go so easily.

As a sensation, kindness may frighten people.
They are scared because they do not trust
kindness in themselves or others.

These people believe that there must be
"a catch" in being kind.

For them kindness is associated with weakness and brutal honesty,
which they regard as an admirable quality but is actually unkindness.

Often these people see themselves as “saying what they think.” More often, they do not take the simple precaution of thinking before their victims hear what they have to say. These types of people believe that you are being kind to them only because you want something from them. They are sad people trapped in a sad suspicious world incapable of coming to terms with even the first building block in the construction of happiness.Conversely, kindness quite often comes from a totally unexpected source, a person who you do not know well, and certainly did not expect to be kind to you. Even a total stranger can make an act of kindness to you spontaneously, just because they felt like giving more than was required. How wonderful you feel when a total stranger is kind to you; conversely, how wonderful you feel when you are kind to a total stranger. It is an amazing moment, sparked perhaps by an action that can be so small as to pass for good manners. The scale of the kindness does not matter. Kindness has a disproportionate effect on the well being of both the giver and the recipient.

Samuel Johnson, the eighteenth-century English writer and thinker, is quoted in Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson in 1781 as speaking well of spontaneous kindness. “Always set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.”Learn to enjoy receiving kindness, learn to enjoy being thanked. It will make the giver of the thanks glow and it may produce a second or two of shyness, so intimate that it will touch the other person deep down inside.

Enjoy the acts of giving and receiving,
for they are moments of true beauty.

The least expected these moments are,
the greater their beauty.

How strange it is that we so often receive kindness from the most unexpected sources and unkindness from those who we would most expect to be kind. Kindness over time, however, accumulates into a pile in our psyche and helps us come to terms with times when people are rude or unkind.Kindness is fundamentally different from a desire to please, which is a deferential activity. Kindness is an instinct, mutual to two people. An instinct evolved in one returned by another in equal measure. Kindness is without doubt at least a layer of building blocks in the construction of happiness. Kindness and how you deal with others are closely intertwined.

Do not make that smart remark
that is devastating to the ego of others,
forget it, put it out of your mind.

Even to think of hurtful remarks colors your attitude to others and leaves a stain on your own spirit. Put aside the jibe that leaves even the smallest scar on your relationship with others. Avoid that verbal passage of arms, as the argument that often leads to sensuality is not to be confused with the path to happiness.

Needless to say, it is a lot easier to be kind to someone who is kind to you, than to a person who is unkind to you.

Kindness is not an abstract quality.

To promise kindness and not to fulfill that promise
is one of the surest ways to damage a relationship.

Trust is suspended by such an action; you are left with a question mark over you in the mind of other people. Misused kindness, such as giving to take, is again an action that will break down trust, which is a basis for a satisfactory relationship. As Juvenal, a Roman satirist, wrote around the year 100, “Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.” There are no dangers in kindness. People say to each other that you can be too kind, but this is untrue.

There is no downside to kindness; you cannot lose through practicing kindness. By being kind you show strength and attract people. People will want to work with you. They will think of you as being fair and confident. Other people will know that because you are kind you are not likely to make judgments based on petty biases and the prejudices of other people. Other people who you work with will know that you are your own person and in their confidence you will find encouragement and feel better about yourself. Even if your kindness is rebuffed and not reciprocated, however shabby the treatment you receive in return, your own kindness will fortify your spirit, enhance your life, and lead you towards happiness. You can never be too kind. Kindness is not a sign of weakness.

As Franklin D. Roosevelt said in a radio address on October 13, 1940,

“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina
or softened the fiber of a free people.

A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”

Sweetening a Sour Apple

2009-03-03T18:37:00.000-05:00

Sweetening a Sour Apple

When A Bad Apple Spoils the Bunch

Because life requires that we interact with different personalities, it is not uncommon for us to encounter a situation where there is one person whose behavior may negatively impact the experiences of others. Someone who is loud and crass can interrupt the serenity of those who come together to practice peace. A disruptive worker can cause rules to be imposed that affect their colleagues’ professional lives. A team member who is pessimistic or highly critical may destroy the morale of their fellow members. And one “bad apple” in your personal life can be a potent distraction that makes it difficult to focus on the blessings you’ve been given and the people who love you.

There may always be people in your life who take it upon themselves to create disruption, foster chaos, stamp out hope, and act as if they are above reproach “ even when, in doing so, they put a blight on their own experiences. But you don’t need to allow their negativity and callousness to sour your good mood. Often, our first impulse upon coming head-to-head with a bad apple is to express our anger and frustration in no uncertain terms. However, bad apples only have the power to turn our lives sour if we let them.

If you can exercise patience and choose not to respond to their words or actions, you will significantly limit the effect they are able to have on you and your environment. You can also attempt to encourage a bad apple to change their behavior by letting your good behavior stand as an example. If your bad apple is simply hoping to attract notice, they may come to realize that receiving positive attention is much more satisfying than making a negative impression. While you may be tempted to simply disassociate yourself entirely from a bad apple, consider why they might be inclined to cause disturbances. Understanding their motivation can help you see that bad apples are not necessarily bad people.

Though bad apples are a fact of life, minimizing the impact you allow them to have upon you is empowering because you are not letting anyone else affect the quality of your experiences. You may discover that buried at the very heart of a bad apple is a seed of goodness.

By: K. Sarnac,

Coming Full Circle

2009-02-01T12:33:00.004-05:00

Coming Full Circle
Lisa Renee

      Right now is a moment in time where our human evolution has reached unchartered territory. With the vibrational choices being made at this time, ( see last month’s article) razor thin discernment of personal resonance is more enhanced than ever before. The multidimensional timeline and future direction of our consciousness is standing at a critical mass and directly based upon the energetic signature and resonance being held. This is activating a level of completion in many ways that have previously influenced our experience of ourselves as a human consciousness.

      As a consciousness of a species called “human beings” we experience ourselves as an “idea” that we have had, a dream that we have had in order to experience what we believe it is to be a human being. This happens at every level of the hologram, at a personal and collective consciousness level. This is very much like understanding the nature of programming, it is a series of belief systems, values and archetypes that define an identity.

Questioning Group Identity

      Similarly that group holographic identity is what defines the nature of the group holographic reality experience. It is this personal and group identity that we have believed to be the experiential reality of a human being as a species. This entire Identity at every level, is being questioned, reassessed and revalued. We are undergoing a series of processes that is like going through every level of our lives with a fine toothed comb. We are checking for inconsistency and incongruency in every pattern of our lives, our ideas of identity and discarding and retooling much of it.

      Similarly it is like describing that we have had influences since our birth on this plane that were like being a train on a “track”. We were being propelled forward through time in a direction that kept us on the “track”. This track was influencing our future probable possibilities, to understand this track of moving forward through the timeline was what is described as an “event horizon”. As a group human consciousness, as we stay on the track together, we influence our future reality into a series of probabilities based upon the energetic resonance and vibrational choices that are being made.

      Now the tracks are being removed and nothing is there, nothing is being used to propel us in a forward momentum. Some may still use the tracks at this time, largely from habitual programming and resistance to change our beliefs. However, many of us are being freed from their connection that used to directly influence our direction. There are still energies/entities that are choosing to manipulate these old tracks in order to maintain the status quo of control by resisting the change of evolution. It does not matter as this is their choice, it does not have to be yours.

Testing Inner Integrity

      This is a necessary phase of our evolution and growth and may result in change or withdrawal from the group activity or a time of personal sequestering. Many of us are in the process of Questioning the Group Identity in every situation that appears in what we perceive as our external “personal” reality.

       As we Question the Group Identity we Test our Inner Integrity and we learn how to sustain our inner connection as the Truth Vibration and develop our personal relationship to the God Source. We test our inner integrity and inner connection against the external values of what is showing up. This is a process of learning how to self source your own inner connection by testing yourself against your external view and verifying it or not with what you feel is your personal resonance.

      Many of us are utilizing this technique at this time and what is important to remember is not to judge the external based on your personal resonance. No thing or no person is good or bad or ugly it just IS. This is a personal test of your inner congruency in self sourcing so that you are not unconsciously using the external to “feed” yourself. This is to understand all things feed on something, and you can choose your personal level of inner sustainability by commanding your inner integrity to the God Source as the Ultimate Authority. No matter what it looks like, or what shows up. As you connect inside yourself, YOU KNOW THE TRUTH no matter how chaotic it may get outside.

      If you are not inner sustained, or self sourced, you will be a vampire to something outside of yourself in order to feed the nature of your reality programming. Or to feed the emotion or identity that has been held rigidly in place as an illusion of security or safety in these uncertain times. (Most of the planet population is in this phase of feeling fear and thus using the personal ego will to control and manipulate their illusion to manifest some idea into a belief of their security)

      Popular manipulation techniques being used now are all polarity thinking: Us vs.Them, Enemy patterning ( there is a terrorist to get you), not that way - but my way is better, ( imposing your will on another) fear of the unknown, nowhere is safe, I know the truth, he/she doesn’t, that person is evil or that person is “good” or whatever else is fabricated from the holographic projection of the personal or group identity. This is all an ego trip of judgment, emotional vampirism and distraction that takes you outside of yourself, instead of being inside of yourself. Every opportunity to distract you from yourself is happening right now so take care to be with your inner sanctum. These activities and thought forms will drain you of your personal power.

      You will experience a myriad of emotion or feeling in these multitudes of resonances. The best use of this experience is as a tool to empower you, however remember nothing external is what it appears to be so do not judge it or create panic. There is no need to be anxious or urgent in order to have to explain yourself by creating any drama around this. Now, there is a plethora of intensified energies, entities and experiences and many of these will test your personal experience about what you know to be true and aligned in your heart. Do not succumb to lower nature by harming yourself with negative thoughts or emotions. Understand what this is and stand in your power by commanding your right to God sovereignty at ALL TIMES. It is the game that is being played out here in this realm, pure and simple.

      Choose your resonance knowing your personal vibration is your sovereign power and right to express your fully creative nature, free from manipulation or control. It is you alone that is responsible to self source your God Power, nothing outside of you can take this away, even though in many cases you are challenged to do so in order to retain your inner integrity.

Completion of Birth Agreement

      Consequently many of us have come to a Full Circle with our birth agreements (Blueprint of our incarnation or spiritual purpose) with this planet and hence this is a time of experiencing completion. Completion and endings of an Identity in the world, including the belief systems, values and images that others have held of who they think you are. Much of these agreements have stemmed from the genetic pattern we have received from the history of our ancestral past, and that which has been encoded in our cells since our birth.

      Our bodies are the sum total of all of our experiences at every level of the time space continuum. The time space continuum exists as a multidimensional platform and includes every potential experience that you can imagine or not. These collective images of “recorded” cellular experiences are coming to a surface review in our consciousness. Some of this is similar to a death review we have had experienced on the Astral plane many times before in between physical incarnation, and so a feeling of “phantom death” energy may be prevalent during this time. The vision of the archetype of the tarot card “Death” is useful to remember as it is being experienced at this time, and means not of a literal physical death in most cases, but a huge inner transformation is present that feels like a death to the old order. Some apathy, sluggishness and sadness can be present when we are dying to the “old order”, as a part of us is grieving the change as a loss. Know that we are being transformed as what follows the “death process” is a new beginning.

      Many of these memory records of the “old order” of the human experience have energized a platform of energetic architecture of false or enslaved human programming and are now being dissolved at radical speeds. We each experience this dissolution in a unique way to our vibrational level and our genetic configuration as this is our unique contribution to the overall pattern of evolution at this time.

      When we understand that every thought, emotion and experience of our ancestors is recorded in our cells (and at the next vibrational level of service to clear this planet), also includes that memory of the collective human soul, we then understand the interconnectedness of All things as One. There can be no separation in this experience as the energetic reality is of One. Our energetic responsibility as a human being is to remember our Unification principle, that we are here together as One. No darkness, shadow or entity is separate from ourselves and cannot be judged as good or bad. It just IS. And it is this understanding how these polarities exist in ourselves and our hologram that actually will free us from its bondage. We will have to face the synthesis of these polarities to reach our entire Unification. It starts with us and ends with us. We cannot point fingers at each other or blame anymore. We cannot rise one onto a pedestal of perfection only to knock them off when they displease you. It is a time of Ultimate Responsibility to Accept our connection unilaterally with All things, whatever has been once deemed, the good, the bad and the ugly.

Embarking a New Platform

      Having come through a full circle of our current birth agreements also means at this time we may experience many closures, endings and completions in all areas of our life to make room for the new. I have experienced seeing the layers of a new reality architecture in place that appears like a new scaffolding of pristine support that allows for the possibility of a new human emotional/heart experience.

      It is akin to seeing an improved foundation being built of which spiritual frequency can be raised in ever higher octaves. If one rung in the ladder is broken, it is very hard to reach the next step of the ladder. This broken ladder was keeping many levels of consciousness in the Astral layers without realizing that was where it was residing. The Astral Plane relates to the 4th Chakra, the heart complex in the human light body. The Astral Plane was compared to one “rung” in the ladder that was very damaged (equating to the relative emotional damage of most human beings) and therefore many beings were stuck in the rungs of the octaves within the Astral Layers. From my experience with the Guardians throughout 2008, I have experienced a huge change underway in the Astral Plane layers of our personal light body as well as that which has impacted the Astral Body of the Planet. This is like an upgrade to the way the human being can process and experience “emotional” intelligence.

      The Astral Plane damage had interfered with this level of the human heart and its emotional bodies ability to experience direct knowingness though the source connection. This astral body reconfiguration is an answer to that issue both at the planetary and personal experience level. It was expressed by the Guardians that it was projected that more beings would heart awaken through the Galactic frequency activations in 2008, and with this astral body upgrade it would support more awakening waves in 2009.

      The journey into Source is a feeling experience, and if we are cut off from the depths of our heart it interferes with our ability to perceive the intuitional feeling of our guidance and connection to our source. The deeper levels of our heart complex open into the gateways of Universal Intelligence and are that which give us the direct cognition of cellular knowingness as our experience of self. This is much different than a “thinking” process that impulses from the mind principle. The heart intelligence is the direct knowingness of the experience rather than a perception coming from an intellectual concept. This is a function of the energy receivers in our human lightbody when it is actually working properly.

      It does appear so close to us now, as if we are soon to phase transition to this level. For some of us this may be an interim phase of growth which will feel much easier. It has been explained from the Guardian perspective that the emotional bodies damage in the mass population of the human lightbody had such intense blockages that it was suppressing the ability of the consciousness to experience itself as a “soul” or connected to its “source”. This new platform is an Astral Body and Emotional Upgrade that will allow the Heart Chakra and its energetic intelligence to be experienced differently. Thus allowing a connection to the soul matrix that allows the first steps of awakening to activate the lightbody.

      Additionally this reconfiguration will not allow the same level of the human emotional body (the level of addiction, and pain body) to be manipulated by entities that have controlled humanity in the same way. This has created an aggression to reassert control mechanisms in the Astral plane recently. For those of us sensitive, such as the planet grid workers or Polarity Integrators, it may have been a tough time. Our group experiences more of this shift than most, and our lightbody becomes a source of attempts to drain or siphon our source.

Update for the Galactic Polarity Integrator

      Those of us working with the energetic architecture of dismantling the old and building the new energy reality systems have been mediating some incredibly intense polarities to synthesize. New galactic energies and the related memory of their timelines have been pouring through the 11th Stargate in the United Kingdom. I referred to this briefly last month and in the ES member community forums as the Nibiruian timeline of “wormwood”.

      As mentioned last month as these energetic memories are reintroduced to our surface grid they hold a theme of “pole shift” (catastrophe) and “invasion” (terrorism) and there is some of this playing out in the mass consciousness. The fear of catastrophe brings up anxiety amplified as we may experience anxiety for no apparent reason, except we have this feeling the other shoe is about to drop without knowing when. Also, the theme of invasion brings up fears that relate to the current terrorism rhetoric and to those unconscious of how this is manipulating their actions, some are the pawn to act out that play in the global theatre. Again this is mentioned to empower your understanding of seeing the macro and micro relationships to the movement of the global human agreement through the entire holographic reality we perceive. Nothing is separate and everything has architecture and pattern. There is no need to buy into these patterns as they will be amplified now by those wishing to sway mass consciousness by fear.

      The grid work has been intense and much soul retrieval and replacement has been necessary to relieve souls, fragments that have been bound to pieces of the planet’s grid and therefore the planet’s lightbody. This is mentioned in previous news about the clearing of sacrificial energy grids made to a perceived “God”, or the human historical holographic record of the wars created in the name of a “God”. One of the main grid projects is to clear the Christ Crucifixion Implant Memory out of the planetary field, by rehabilitating the consciousness that was traumatized from that memory in multiple time space continuums. This is a primary project underway to disentangle and transport these entities and energies to help return them to their source, or merge back into the Galactic Core, the Center Point of All Union.

      Heavy coordinate points that cross into and flood the energy tributaries into the Axiatonal Lines from the 4th and 7th Dimension are being repaired. Since the planetary 7th dimensional axiatonal line is the main disruption of the false christ crucifixion implants this has been a primary repair project. The 7th ray (Violet Flame) is transmitted through the planetary 7th Axiatonal lines and is being recoded. Previously this false crucifixion energy implanted in the 7th Axiatonal line was feeding another false program being used in the Astral plane which was like a mirage. This mirage I have referred to in previous articles is the “False Ascension Matrix” Program. This is why the 4th (astral plane) and the 7th dimensions (violet flame and planetary logos/group mind) are so important in how they intersect and feed the levels of false (enslavement) programming.

      I will add that this is such a major piece that determines the future of the planet’s territorial dispute over controlling human consciousness that aggression has been intensified. Incredible interference, direct psychic attack, holographic inserts and projections have been more aggressive than ever. Generally I see it more directed at this group of Polarity Integrators that interface with the Planet Lightbody Planes and its Grid. As anytime a piece of enslavement or control is being released from the collective consciousness there are groups resisting that are not happy with this change.

      The new technology being used is a type of holographic insert that projects an image to a remote viewer. Many channels and intuitives will scan another beings energy field, many times without permission from the being they are scanning. This is a type of “remote viewing”. Without invitation from the object being scanned, or that they have not addressed you personally for interaction, there is no agreement and this becomes a field intrusion. This breaks the higher sovereign agreement held between the two entities and allows the choice of exercising one’s personal will (superimposition) over the divine will ( pure beingness). It is an act that does not honor the beings freedom and sovereign right to creative expression. What this personal will choice does is allow for “intrusion” and manipulation and triggers a holographic insert that acts as a mirage. When the remote viewer sees the “mirage” it sees an illusion of a program placed there to create a negatively judged experience. Since personal will is about applying judgment, judgment becomes the playing field of manipulation.

       What I am noticing is many of these holographic field inserts happening are on spiritual leaders or group facilitators. As a group it may empower us to be aware of these potentials, ( holographic inserts) as this is an aggressive tactic to employ a last ditch effort to thwart us from our collaborative group impact. Conquer and Divide is the main agenda to keep separation consciousness alive. If spiritual leaders or facilitators become competitive, judgmental with each other or publically diss another spiritual leader, use this as a benchmark to put your own ego in check. Perceived power over others is an extremely slippery pitfall of the ego consciousness. There is never any excuse to put down any being ever, as each and every one of us is here to provide a specific niche and unique frequency to collaborate into the whole of creation. It is each and every beings responsibility to decide their own personal pathway of resonance and not rely or depend on any outside source through attachment. Discernment over judgment, preference over attachment and self sourcing your inner sustenance is a huge path of mastery at this time. Walk the tightrope carefully however be kind in every way you can. The current adversity can pound us out of our kindness towards our self and others, and it is a time where kindness and compassion are the most needed.

      At the time of our monthly Q & A Class (December 17th) I will answer any questions around this to bring more clarity if this is resonant as a part of your planetary service at this time. Naturally this is not everyone’s role here, however there is a group of us that work together to perform group planet grid repair projects.

Stay in the luminosity of your heart and soul path! We are here as One!

Love, Lisa

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EARTH LOG-JANUARY 2009

2009-01-23T14:09:00.004-05:00

EARTH LOG - JANUARY 2009
by Celia Fenn

January ....
      Barack Obama "arrives" as President of the USA...a time of Deep and Profound Change for our Planet on many levels....the 20th of January, was a big day for the people of the United States. Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States ( and I will resist the temptation to wax lyrical about the numerology of that one), the first African American President.

      I think it was a celebration that belonged entirely to the people of the USA, giving them an opportunity to really welcome and experience the first real stirrings of the deep and profound change that is taking place on the planet right now.

Welcome to 2009...
      and yes....we are facing some Challenges as the Illusions begin to Crumble..... Welcome to the first Earth Log of 2009! It promises to be a very "light-filled" year, with many deep and fundamental changes in the way that we think. And that means all of us, not just the "unenlightened" ones out there, but us too. We are all being forced to examine how and what we think and feel, as many long cherished illusions begin to hit the wall....at speed! Melt Down!

      This is not a process to be feared, it is, as the Michael channel noted, the precursors to our Freedom and Liberty on Planet Earth. We are freeing ourselves to experience the Beauty and Joy of the "Hologram" as we choose, and not as someone else dictates to us for our "good".

      What makes my heart sing right now, is that people are truly waking up to how the holographic reality of the Higher Dimensions and the Law of One works. Cosmic Harmony and Beauty in a Field of Light. Choices. Responsible Choices. Love. Here is an extract from a letter that I received from Jennifer in the USA:

      "I thought about this Earth, which has been in existence long before we arrived and how we then decided to carve it up, place borders and boundaries here and there. Once again I wonder “why?” Why have we tried so hard to place fences between us and take this piece as “mine”. I wonder if one day we can look at this Earth, this Life, this Energy, this Source, this Light, this Love, this Power, this Divinity, this Existence, this Consciousness and see it all as One, as Us and celebrate in the shared evolution of consciousness, of which we have all been part, of which we are all aware at our core. Is this the next step for us? As we all start to become more aware of who we really are, as we sense more of our Divine Spirit and Light and Power, as we start to question some of our long held beliefs and relax, we will notice our fields of awareness expand and we will see a different reality, through our Spiritual eyes. It is happening now.

      Have you noticed flickering light out the corner of your eye? Have you seen shimmering light on the walls but thought you were imaging it? Do you sometimes see light around people, as if they are glowing, radiant? Do you look across the ocean and see light dancing across the water? Are you becoming more aware of your own Being, your own Truth, who you are and why you are here in the bigger scheme of things? These are indeed times of beautiful Golden Light and we are Beings of Light. As we notice messages coming to us through books and movies and conversations, our fields of awareness expand. I watched Kung-Fu Panda again a few days ago and smiled as the wise Turtle said to Shifu “Let go of the Illusion of Control”. My jaw dropped the first time I heard it as I had been pondering over this idea that our reality is an illusion, just a hologram, a projection of the mind. The movie also says there is no secret ingredient in life, something is special because we BELIEVE it is special. As we all start to Believe in Truth and our own Light and our Divine Essence and our Creativity and Love and our Power to manifest we will See the magic and miracles that abound in life, we will see a New Reality. We will Believe Existence is Special and See it is so. "

      Wow Jennifer....yes indeed.....life is magic and miraculous when we see how we spin out the "dream" from our consciousness, and how we can create the Joy and Love in that Consciousness when we understand the "shared evolution of consciouseness".

      I also think that what is significant is Jennifer's desire to "question some of our long held beliefs and relax".....and allow the process to unfold as it will.

      I have noticed among Lightworkers in the last year, and especially now, a kind of low level hysteria, where, desperate for external manifestations of Change, they latch onto events, dates and hopes for number popping miracles. When we reach this particular date there will be a "great" event and everyone will reach the promised land, or at least those who are specifically chosen. The Spaceships will land, money will be handed out, and everything will be wonderful. This builds up a tension of expectation that creates exhaustion, and yes, disillusionment.There is no doubt that there are important cycles and events, and there are moments of numerological significance and change, but they are now being abused and manufactured at alarming speed.

      There is also no doubt that we are being assisted and guided from the Higher Dimensions at all times, but in a way that empowers us to empower ourselves as the co-creators on earth. But, we are now creating a kind of Spiritual TV culture where the "sensation" of the day or month is the next moment that fits into someone's timeline for a world shattering event. And what results is that what should be a quiet and beautiful process of the unfolding of Higher Consciousness in our lives becomes a desperate gallop from one "event" to another. There is no doubt for me, that the Solstice of 21st December was significant, as Michael noted, for the introduction of a Higher Level of Light Consciousness. And Higher Consciousness is Peaceful, Gentle and Loving. It is Calm and Accepting and knows that All is in Divine Order at All Times!

So, I have also been getting letters like this one from a woman in the Netherlands"

      "I thought that change were coming to me to let go old patterns because on 21 ste of december the gate is openend ,but my body is so tired again , I feel like a old woman with not much energy to live, and in your channels I read whats happening in energy and all the emotional aspects of that I can feel for the whole collective.How must I deal with all of this feelings in me that not only are my emotions.It s so heavy for me that its difficult to feel the Light. My Heartdesire is to feel free from all of these feelings from others and to feel the real me to live in Love and peace and happines,and my heart will go on and on to make all One ".

      Yes indeed, many feel this way. My advice would be, rest, relax, see some good friends, have some fun, get some exercise, and start to see the miracles in your own every day life. Start to enjoy your own every day life...gently and in peace.

      The "real you" is a Collective Being, yes indeed, you will feel the energy of the Collective because we are One. But, as Lightworkers, we can contribute to that Collective Energy by remaining Calm and Peaceful and entering into that Light with Peace and Joy. Read Jennifer's paragraph above again!

      So, as the year begins, excuse me while I go and relax and enjoy these lazy days of summer as the New Year begins to unfold here in South Africa!

JANUARY 2009 - by: by Celia Fenn
Entire article at: http://www.starchildglobal.com

Who Is The Inner Critic?

2008-09-06T15:13:00.001-04:00

Who Is This Inner Critic?

The Inner Critic, the Censor, the Committee, the Judge, Monkey Mind – these are just a few of the names for that voice in our heads that decides to speak up just when we are about to embark on a new challenge. It judges our work, our new projects and ideas, and provides a running commentary or critique on most every action we take.

You know this voice. When you sit down to write, it will tell you that you can’t even spell. When you start a new job it tells you that you made a mistake to take the job in the first place. It may tell you that you are way out of your league at this job. Or when you are giving a presentation, everyone in the room seems to be smarter, richer and better than you are. It suggests that you just don’t have the skills to take on that new project. It loves to remind you that true artists are born with a gift, and somehow you managed to be absent from the school of life the day they handed out these special gifts.

In Buddhist texts, Monkey Mind is described as a self-criticizing aspect of our mind that swings us from doubt, to worry, and back to doubt. This chatter gets loudest when we threaten to change the status quo – even if the status quo is something we long to leave behind. This voice is concerned with survival, logic, solving problems and being sensible.

There are ways to live in peace with this part of us:

- we can notice the inner chatter and do the task at hand anyway,
- we can step away from logic for a moment and try a different approach,
- we can free up the energy we use listening to this voice by choosing to focus on our dreams and goals,
- we can re-program the way we think about this part of our brain.

Julia Cameron in The Artist’s Way has a variety of exercises that deal with the Censor. And Maria Nemeth in The Energy of Money has extensive information and exercises for the Monkey Mind. The most important action we can take in making peace with this side of ourselves is: recognize that this voice is not who you are. It doesn’t come from your inner core or true self.

A way to re-program our thinking about this part of our brain is to accept that it does serve a function. Survival and problem solving are part of its job.
In A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative, Roger Von Oech states that there are four roles to the creative process:

Your Explorer
is your role for searching for new
information and resources;
Your Artist
is your role for turning these
resources into new ideas;
Your Judge
is your role for evaluating the merits of an idea
and deciding what to do with it; and,
Your Warrior
is your role for carrying your idea into wing pains" is associated with growth? You can and will succeed if you recognize that fear is only a part of the growth process. It is not the end result of the process.

- Take a moment to remember specific times and areas in your life where you have succeeded. Make an accomplishment list. It is a great reminder that have you succeeded with challenges in the past and have the ability to succeed in this current situation as well.

- Challenge the negative self-talk. Ask yourself: Does this thought contribute to my stress? Where did I learn this thought? Is this a logical thought? Is this thought true? Once you become aware of a negative thought pattern, you can confront the thought, challenge the logic and replace the thoughts with a kinder and a more gentle way of thinking that will move you forward on your personal path.

- Write a worse case scenario. What is the worst thing that could possibly happen if you were to take on this new challenge? Give yourself 20 minutes or half an hour and play the negative tape all the way through. Have fun with the worry. Get it all out into the open. Once you reach the end of the time that you've allocated for yourself -- that's it, no more. What usually happens when we "play the tape through" is that we notice that things aren't as terrible as our minds have imagined them to be.

- People make mistakes they aren't mistakes. There is the possibility you might fail or make a mistake when you try something new. One way to guarantee that you won’t move forward in your life is by not be willing to let yourself make mistakes. When Thomas Edison was working on the light bulb he had one failure after another during the process. He said to critics who commented about all the times it appeared he had failed with his invention: "I've simply eliminated twenty-seven ways that don't work." Breakdowns can lead to breakthroughs.

- Thank the Inner Critic for sharing its opinion about the challenge or situation and take action anyway.

by: Lea Brandenburg
www. creatingstrategies. com

Paths To A Beautiful Life!

2008-08-22T12:51:00.000-04:00

Christian D Larson
Influential early New Thought leader

Christian D. Larson was an outstanding and highly influential early New Thought leader and teacher as well as a prolific writer of New Thought books who believed that people have tremendous latent powers, which could be harnessed for success with the proper attitude...

PATHS TO A BEAUTIFUL LIFE

We have believed for a long time, and with good reason, that life could be everything that we have hoped for; even as fair and wonderful as what we have seen when thinking was deep and clear; and we now feel that such a life is a definite possibility

We are learning to expand our concepts of truth and of life as a whole; and so we are able to discern the way. Then, as we proceed, we discover, to our amazement, that life in the real is so large and so immensely rich that we will need eternity to live it all... This discovery is inspiring to a high degree-- But what are the methods and the principles that we should apply so that we may continue to go forward upon this remarkable road? That is what we all are eager to know

First, recognize the great truth that you have the ability to live your own life exactly as you may desire to live-- You are the real master of your own existence and you, yourself, may determine how beautiful that existence is to be

Your life is in your own hands. You may live as you wish... You may secure from life whatever you desire, because there is no limit to life, and no limit to your capacity to live-- The elements of life can be modified, changed, developed and perfected to comply with your own supreme demand; the increase of life can be realized in the exact measure of your largest need; you are in living touch with Infinite life, and there is neither limit nor end to the source of your supply

To live in the constant recognition of this great truth, is to rise continually into higher and higher degrees of that mastery of life that gives you the power to live your life according to your most perfect ideals... To reach the goal that every ascending mind has in view, this truth, therefore, must ever be recognized and applied-- It is one of those principles that you shall always require, no matter how high you may rise in the scale of divine being

You invariably receive what you desire, no more, no less-- You get what you wish for if the power within that wish is as strong as you can make it

The fact that you can have an ideal, proves that you have the power to secure it... The fact that you can formulate and appreciate a desire for something larger and better, proves that you can fulfill that desire-- The great essential is to desire with the whole heart; that is, to give your desires all the life and power that you can possibly arouse from the depths of invincible being

The true desire and the true prayer are synonymous-- The true prayer is invariably some immensely strong desire expressed when your human mind feels the sublime touch of the Infinite mind; and the true desire must be in perfect touch with Infinite life in order to be filled with the invincible power of that life

To cause every wish to come true, you must express all the power of mind and soul through every wish; but you cannot give expression to all the power within you until you awaken your spiritual nature, and you cannot awaken your spiritual nature until you begin to live with the Infinite-- The largeness and immensity of the supreme spiritual life within you comes forth only as consciousness is spiritualized, and you gain spiritual consciousness by living and thinking constantly in the lofty state where you actually feel that God is closer than breathing, nearer than hands and feet

We cannot desire too much, and when we desire with all the life and power that is within us, our desires shall positively be fulfilled-- The wish must be whole-hearted, not half-hearted; it must contain all the power we have, not simply the limited actions - shallow thinking; and it must contain soul, not simply emotion, but that deep, spiritual feeling that touches the very spirit of limitless life and power

Have faith in God, have faith in humanity, have faith in yourself, have faith in everything; and have faith in faith. When you have confidence in yourself you arouse everything that is stronger, greater and superior in yourself... In consequence, the more confidence you have in yourself, the more you will attain and accomplish-- But the power of self-confidence is but an atom in comparison with the marvelous power of faith

Faith takes mind and soul into the greater realms of life... It goes out upon the boundless, and awakens those interior spiritual forces that have the power to do anything-- This is why all things become possible when you have faith

It is the nature of faith to break bounds; to transcend limitations, and take life, thought and action into the universal. It is the nature of faith to unite the lesser with the greater, to unite your individual mind with the mind of God... Therefore, you shall always require faith; however far you may go into the greater, the superior and the boundless today, faith will take you farther still to-morrow-- And that is your purpose; to realize your largest and dearest desires in the present, and then press on to the realization of other and far greater desires in the future

Depend upon the superior spiritual self within for results, and give this greater Essence the credit for everything you accomplish-- When you depend upon the personal self, you place yourself in touch only with the lesser forces on the surface; you therefore will accomplish but little; but when you depend upon the supreme spiritual self, you place yourself in touch with the greater powers within, and results will be greater in proportion

When you give credit to the personal self, you ignore the interior spiritual self; you thereby fail to secure that greater wisdom and power that the spiritual self alone can supply.... Instead of being led by that inner light that knows, you are led by the confusion of outer thought; you are turned away from the path that leads to truth, freedom and the perfect life, and your mistakes are many-- Instead of being taken into the current of that invincible life that can carry you through to your very highest goal, you remain in the hands of mere physical energy, that energy that can do nothing more than simply keep your body alive

Whenever you accomplish something worth while, and give the praise to your own outer personal self, you immediately lose your hold on those powers through which those results were gained; in consequence, failure will begin, and you will have to retrace all your former steps to again gain possession of that power that can do whatever you may wish to have done

To constantly depend upon the greater self, to constantly expect the desired results from the greater self, and to always give credit to the greater self, is to constantly draw upon the limitless wisdom and power of the greater self – the supreme spiritual self within you... You thereby become larger and stronger in all the elements of your being, rising ever in the scale, gaining ground perpetually, and passing from victory to victory-- What you desire you will receive because higher power is working through you, and as you ascend in the scale, there is nothing that you will not attain and accomplish

The principal cause of failure among those who are trying to live in harmony with real truth, may be found in the general tendency to think of the outer person as the power that does things on the visible plane... But it is the interior spiritual person that gives the power, though the outer person is required to apply it-- And the more thought we give to the interior person, the more life and power we bring forth from within

The interior person is the true self, created in the image and likeness of God; it is therefore evident that when you begin to live with the life and the power of the interior person, the expression of real greatness and real spirituality will begin-- And from that moment you will not be limited to the power of the personal self; instead you will fill the personal self with that divine power from on high that is limitless, inexhaustible and invincible

Live for a great purpose, and hold the central idea of that purpose constantly before mind. Do not live for the mere sake of prolonging existence; live for something that magnifies, on the largest possible scale, all the elements of existence. To live for a great purpose is to live a great life, and the greater your life, the greater the good that you will receive from life...
The ruling desire of every living soul is to have life, and have it more abundantly; therefore, to fulfill that desire we must continue perpetually to live for that which produces more life-- No matter how rich we may become in the real, spiritual life, here is a principle that we must ever remember and apply

Do not work for yourself; work for the great idea that stands at the apex of your greatest purpose... The greater the idea for which you work, the greater will be your work; and it is he who does the greatest work that does the most for everybody, himself included-- When your work is great you become a great power for good among thousands, and at the same time you do more for yourself than you could possibly do in any other manner

When you begin to live and work for a great purpose, you get into the current of great forces, great minds and great souls-- You gain from every source; -all the powerful lives in the world will work with you; you become a living part of that movement in the world that determines the greater destiny of humanity; you become one of the chief elements upon which will depend the future of countless generations yet to be; you become one of the chosen of the Most High

To live for a great purpose is to live in the world of great ideas, and great ideas awaken great thoughts
You are as you think-- Great thoughts produce great minds; from great minds proceed great works, and great works constitute the building material with which the kingdom upon earth is to be constructed

When you begin to live for a great and good purpose, you place in action that law that causes all things to work together for good- Henceforth, nothing is in vain; every person, thing or event that comes into your world will add to the welfare, the richness and the beauty of that world-- All things become ministers of the life that is real life, you have been giving your best everywhere, and you are receiving the best from every source in return

To live for that which is high, lofty and sublime, is to walk with God; the love, the life, the power and the wisdom of the Infinite will ever be with you, and to have such companions is to be blessed indeed-- Every moment will give you the peace that passes understanding, every hour will be filled with the joy everlasting, and every day will be as a thousand years in celestial kingdoms on high

Managing Emotional Responses with NLP

2008-07-31T15:13:00.003-04:00

Managing Emotional Responses with NLP

bJules Collingwood NLP Trainer

Contrary to popular belief, NLP is not a therapy, although therapy practitioners who use it get spectacular results. It is not a sales training programme, yet sales people who use it also get spectacular results. It is not a personal development medium, yet personal developers who use it get spectacular results too. And it is not a suitable subject for home study. It works too well to be safe in the hands of the untrained, and is best learned with experienced and qualified NLP trainers. Would you attempt to learn scuba diving from a book, or from your neighbour who did a week end course in the local swimming pool? This article offers insight into one of our cultural assumptions and ways, using NLP information, to learn to manage it ourselves.

NLP studies how we put our thoughts together, how we know what we know and how we construct our own experiences. And yes, our own subjective experiences are different from everyone else's. And everyone else's experiences are different from each others'. All of our thoughts, emotions, memories and imaginings are made from pictures, sounds and sensations. The differences between our common experiences come from the myriad sequences and placings we can make with sounds and pictures and sensations and in the choice of subject matter that attracts our attention.

Many people in the west find it easy to see their mental pictures and the rest can be taught quite easily. Everyone makes mental pictures; it is just that some people have not yet learned to notice them. Think about your own mental pictures of something you enjoy, for a moment. Are they coloured or black and white, still or moving, are they close to you or far away, large or small, portrait, landscape or wraparound? Which parts are in focus? Are you watching the scene as if it were live, or are you watching yourself in it, as if on video?

These are examples of how we can do the same thing differently from each other. You can change the meaning of an experience by changing one of these options. If you have chosen something you enjoy, find out what happens if you bring the picture closer to you, or make it bigger. You can move mental pictures simply by intending to do so. If you like the result, keep it. Otherwise put it back as it was and find out what happens if you intensify the colour. Make one change at a time. And remember to put it back the way it was between each change. If you find one or more changes that you like better than the original, keep them. Be careful to keep track of the changes you make to your pictures. If you do anything that you do not like, reverse it immediately. Ensure you finish with an experience at least as pleasant as when you began.

For most westerners, pictures are the easiest sensory representation to notice and alter deliberately. You can learn to make similar alterations to the sounds you hear and the sensations you feel just as easily. Move sounds from where they are to another location; changing the speed, the tones, the volume, as if you had a sophisticated mixing desk. You can increase or decrease the intensity of sensations, change the texture, heat them up or cool them down, slow the rhythm or speed it up, move them around, make them bigger or smaller or disappear completely.

You may have noticed that if you change a picture in one specific way, the sound and feeling change too, or if you change a particular aspect of the sound, the picture and feeling shift simultaneously. These are known as 'drivers'. You will also have found that other elements change alone. Finding your particular driver differences is a quick way into your least easily accessed system (sight, hearing or feeling). For example, if your picture is moderately exciting, and it felt more exciting when you made it bigger, you changed the sensations by changing the picture. If your picture were fuzzy and it had distorted sound and scratchy sensations, would the picture come into focus if you clarified the sound and could the sensations become smooth through changing the sound?

There is a commonly held belief in western society that sensation cannot be changed at will and neither can emotion. There is a related myth that anyone who can change their emotions is faking, shallow, uncaring, or untrustworthy, unenlightened, repressed or 'not ready' to be 'authentic'. Most cultures believe that one system (sight, hearing and feeling) is outside their control, but not all find feeling the most difficult. For example, Native American culture has a reputation for changing feelings and sensations with facility.

For Native Americans, visible mental pictures are equated with visions from their gods, and therefore given religious significance. The Sun Dance and Vision Quest rituals are specifically designed to heighten the chance of mental pictures becoming visible. Both rituals involve the initiate in extreme discomfort to a level that most westerners would find unacceptable. For Native Americans the pain control they practice during these rituals shifts their attention and alters their mental state sufficiently for them to see pictures. It works by overloading their preferred system (feeling) for normal purposes so that they have to do something else; in this case, see. As the ritual is framed as religious or spiritual, it is culturally encouraged for them to see mental pictures in that context.

The western equivalent is the personal development market, bungy jumping, adventure training, drug use and religious ritual. Westerners rate peak experiences by the intensity of sensation they experience at the time whether the vehicle is secular or religious. Some call it emotion, but the structure of emotion is ... pictures, sounds and sensations, and the most convincing of these in the west is sensation.

The ability to feel what we want to, when we want to is a very useful skill. It frees us from the expense of seeking repeated peak experiences. One exposure is sufficient to use as the beginning of a personal library. After that you can alter it, intensify it, customise it in any number of ways by playing with the pictures, sounds and feelings that first went with it. Or you can build your library from scratch, using attractive bits of ordinary pleasure and enhancing and mixing them to your liking. The way in, as described above, is through pictures and sounds. Simply remember a pleasing occasion and make it big, bright, life-like, and maybe slightly slower. Step into it and turn up the sensations. Through practice you can increase your facility with sensation and learn to turn it up and down directly.

The next stage is literally managing emotion. There are two immediate ways of doing this. The first is good for neutralising unwanted emotional responses. If you are laughing at a funeral, crying at work or angry with an innocent person, to neutralise any of them, move the picture a long way from you, or shrink it down to the size of a postage stamp. You can always come back to it later if you want to regardless of what is in it. Make it small enough, or distant enough and for most people it will become less intense.

To invoke a particular emotion you want to display, remember or imagine a time when you would do that, and make a big, bright, close picture. Then step into it. This is great for thanking a special person for an awful present, or for producing remorse when you break someone's favourite ornament that you have hated for years. Have you ever wished you could be more patient when training a child or an animal? Do you want to say 'No' to someone and mean it? Find a picture in your memory that has the quality of emotion you want. Make it big, close, bright and life-like, and a suitable state will follow.

The second way to manage emotion involves the feeling more directly. Leslie Cameron Bandler lists seven changeable parts to any emotion in her book 'The Emotional Hostage'. These include rhythm, tempo, intensity, time frame, and personal involvement. Like the changes we made to pictures at the beginning of this article, Cameron-Bandler suggests making similar changes to the feeling of emotions to change them directly. For example, anxiety commonly has a fast, uneven rhythm, and is always concerned with the future. If you slow down the rhythm to an even 120 beats per minute, the feeling changes to something more comfortable. If you imagine being in a time after the event, anxiety vanishes. Remember a previous occasion when you were anxious about something and how much less alarming the event was in retrospect.

Guilt and shame require personal involvement. Guilt happens if you offend someone else's values and it matters to you. Shame happens if you offend your own values, without recognising the more important value that you kept. If you imagine you are back before the event, there is no guilt or shame, because you have not done the deed yet. Alternatively you can reduce the intensity and change the rhythm. You may discover that you acted on another value of your own, or that you made a mistake. Mistakes are feedback to learn from. The consequences may be sad or irreversible, but they can become acceptable if you can consider them. For any emotion that you want to change, take the most obvious feature and alter it. Find out what happens. To enhance an emotion, take a feature and increase it. You may build a peak experience all by yourself. Wouldn't that be something?

nlp.com.au

EGO--The False Self

2008-07-24T12:44:00.002-04:00

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Ego - The False Self
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What is ego? I'm not going to define it or debate it, I am going to tell you outright what ego is: ego is the false self we build up from the day we are born. It is a character, or a persona if you will. It is not "real" or "legit" or "authentic"....

Let me explain...

When you are born, you are innocent, trusting, requiring nothing more than love, nurturing, and care. As you grow up, your family, eventually your school and friends and society around you, help you to shape your personality...

Imagine for a moment, that you grew up completely differently than you did. Imagine you were rich, if you grew up poor, or that you were black if you are white or Asian or Latino. Imagine that your childhood was completely different than it was in your memory, and then ask yourself "Would my personality be the same?"...

Of course not. There would be different factors, status-wise, heritage and culturally, societal. You would be a completely different person on the "inside" if your outside circumstances were different than they had been for you...

So now come back to you - who you believe yourself to be. You can probably define yourself in a few words or statements, such as "I am strong" or "I am compassionate" or "I am depressed", right? You can sum up your personality, your persona and character. This is because you have finely tuned, honed and perfected your persona as the years have gone by. You have been told by family and friends "you are so funny!" and so you continue to be funny. Or you were told in school "you have a learning disability" so you continue to perpetuate that disability upon yourself. You may have been told "you are ugly" by someone in the past, and that has sat eating at your confidence for years later...

All of these things, these definitions and labels, are nothing more than collected information of a "past you" which is not real. The past is gone. So should be the "you" who you identified yourself being in that past. Hold on to the memories, for they are part of your whole heritage in this lifetime, however, let yourself be liberated of the stereotypes, labels, and stigmas...

The Spirit - the truth of who you Are, is God. The Universe. Oneness. Essence. Light. Call "it" what you will, but in the grandest scheme of all things - you are the only One of you there is. Beyond your mind. Beyond your identity...

When you realize that the ego is nothing more than a collection of responses, insecurities, fears, and doubts, you can then easily shed it, watch it fall away and reveal the true Self. The ego is a character in a play - the true self is the Author...

It is natural to identify with your personality, in fact I was quite attached to mine for a very long time, having an internal struggle of faith based on my fear of letting my identity go. But I eventually realized, I am not letting go any of the beauty I love about "my Self"... rather I am stripping away the false layers of ego (pain) by revealing the truth of Self - One...

Ego will fight to remain as you...

Ego is nothing more than a tool - created at a very early age to help you relate and identify in your human body - conditioned by all around you to behave the way it now does. And when you really grasp within your heart that it is not "real", it will rebel. That is a wonderful thing to move through, because it gives you opportunity after opportunity to re-align your thoughts to those of your truth, and to put ego in it's place - which is nowhere...

Ego is not real. It is a character on stage. Nothing more. Scripted - and scripts can be re-written...

Let the Author be the star on the stage ..

As for the ego of other people - you can not change them. You can only accept that they are letting the character on stage call the shots, and you can love them for being lost in the illusion of the performance, and you can see within them a reflection of yourself...

Because we are all One outside of the ego game...

I hope this is helpful to anyone who is reading it...

With much Love,
Dee

....awakeningstarseeds. com

DON'T WASTE YOUR LIFE!

2008-07-22T13:51:00.001-04:00

DON’T WASTE YOUR LIFE

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DON'T WASTE YOUR LIFE
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Don't waste your life. Whether you're just starting out, or nearing the finish line, don't waste your life. It's a gift, a possibility, that deserves to be released into the world. It's a responsibility, an obligation, that demands to be met head on.

There's a thousand reasons not to live, to exist without being you:

The danger of trying to attain a dream and failing, of finding out you couldn't, rather than protecting your self-image with infinite postponement;

loyalty to those who are not in touch with your soul and its imperatives; the desire not to disappoint, offend, or let down the unenlightened;

ideals of self-sacrifice, nobility knocked off course; sometimes fear disguised as nobility, a palatable excuse for hiding from yourself;

fear of rejection, misunderstanding, opposition, hatred, jealousy, ostracism or harm; fear of being trampled underneath the social stampede, drowned in the sea of the beaten multitudes which have been conditioned to pour over any reminder of their own surrender, to wash anyone still left fighting; fear of doing something different, of catching the eye of the hunting lion and being singled out from the rest of the herd;

a dread of the stress of standing on the mountain top - what if you fall, what if someone wants to throw you off?; the ease of living "below yourself", of betraying the soul that no one else has peered into, by pretending its purpose is not there, that you, too, were meant for nothing, born to waste away in the arms of frivolous pursuits; the comfort of vanishing into utter passivity, of accepting someone else's existential priorities and justifications for living so that you will not encounter social resistance or be challenged to carve out your own place of meaning in the chaos; the exhalation of everything you are, in order to be less; "letting it go", sometimes disguised as wisdom.

Don't waste your life!

A thousand reasons not to be you cannot stand up to a single reason to be you.

Don't deny the fabric of reality the color that you can bring. Others need the beauty you can manifest; and sometimes, they need you to step on their toes. People rise to new heights when others don't bow down to them. Don't discount the little ways and perhaps the great ways you can make the world better; and don't undervalue the importance of your happiness: the kind of happiness that is not anxious with evasion and flight, as it tries to cover over abandoned parts of yourself, but the kind of happiness that is rich and fulfilling with the knowledge that it grows from who you are; the kind of happiness that resonates with your soul, that both motivates and rewards.

Don't crush the pieces of your ego that you need to do your soul's work, the little bits of self-indulgence that can give birth to a mountain range, or put a star to see by into the sightless wall of the night. Don't cut yourself off from the joy that feeds the greatest triumphs of human energy; don't freeze the vulnerability that drives you, the trace of self-absorption that builds the temple of concentration where creators of beauty and usefulness worship (even so, don't be afraid to be not useful); don't surrender ambition to enlightenment, unless you have truly become a Buddha. (There is nowhere more dangerous to be than the place that is one notch below enlightenment.)

Don't make excuses for surrendering to the power of the generic life. You are unique. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Don't throw away what you were meant to bring!

Don't waste your life!

In his 1996 bestseller, The Soul's Code, psychologist James Hillman seeks to legitimize the concept of a "soul purpose" or a "soul mission" within the context of modern-day psychology. He seeks to transplant the idea of "personal destiny" from spiritual and mystical realms into the realm of Western materialist thought, and to enrich the idea that who we are is but the product of nature (genetics) and nurture (our environment), with the idea that we come into the world with a sort of cosmic quality that both defines us and gives us a unique life purpose.

We are not mere offshoots of our parents' DNA and child-rearing techniques, but beings far more deeply connected to the Universe than that, who come through our parents and forbears, but whose ultimate reality is not determined by them. For Hillman, the mainstream psychological paradigm teaches us to fixate on our relation with our family, at times to turn ourselves into permanent victims of our upbringing; trapped in endless replays of our childhood dramas, and self-limited by them, we distract ourselves from greater callings, shut ourselves off from the potential of forces that are greater and beyond what was done to us. To heal, to be free, to spread our wings, we need to be conscious of those other powers that have shaped us, to find them and reenergize our lives with them.

To wield this concept, Hillman returns to the ancient Greek word "daimon", which refers to a kind of spiritual "soul-companion", or driving force that links the individual with his destiny, leading him towards the place where he fits into the cosmic order; you could consider the daimon to be a form of inner mystical knowledge of one's capabilities and the openings which exist for those capabilities in the world; an ability seeking a matching need that pushes the individual along through life towards where he is "meant to be", unless he, himself, silences that inner voice through inattentiveness, fear, or overreceptivity to the opposition or indifference of others. Not quite the same as "the soul", the daimon is that part of the soul which recognizes the individual's place in the "grand plan", and drives the individual towards full participation in that plan. The Soul's Code abounds with examples of well-known people who evidenced the presence of this daimon in childhood, including Judy Garland, RG Collingwood, Josephine Baker and Ingmar Bergman. In the same way that Dr. Ian Stevenson considers the strongest claims for reincarnation to come from the memories of children, who have had less time to be socialized and have the raw material of fantasies planted into their minds, so Hillman seeks childhood proofs of calling to support his theory of the daimon: incidents in which young, relatively unshaped minds display a surprisingly powerful vision of what they must do with their lives. It does not come from the parents, says Hillman, but from something else.

Although we are all endowed with, or accompanied by, a daimon of our own, Hillman writes: "A calling may be postponed, avoided, intermittently missed. It may also possess you completely. Whatever; eventually it will out. It makes its claim. The daimon does not go away." [1] Obviously, the world goes on whether we miss our calling or not; is the Universe's plan amended by our reticence to show up, or is that part of the plan? Are we needed, or only insurance against the failure of others? Arguments on this terrain could go around in endless circles, without ever reaching a conclusion. We simply don't know the answer. The mystery deflects us. Somehow, though, I believe we all lose something precious when a fellow human being chooses not to listen to his daimon. [2] The world loses a color; the weight of its potential drops ever so slightly, though sometimes greatly, in the scales that measure the meaning of our lives. What does seem clear beyond a doubt is that, for the individual in question, disconnection from his daimon and evasion of his purpose, are painful and debilitating experiences. Like many other sources of frustration and conflict which can potentially lead to depression, illness, or neurosis, the avoidance of one's life purpose may lurk below the surface of the conscious mind, never detected, never explored, yet powerfully hurtful from within its hiding place, strangling one's sense of worth in secret until one is broken, seemingly without cause; creating a sense of emptiness that no distraction or consolation goal can completely cover over. We come into the world for a reason; when we jettison that reason, we lose our right to be here, and we know it. We feel like parasites (no matter how hard we work for someone who is not God); like traitors, like cowards. This is the poison that seeps into the water of everything else we do and think.

For those who are young, the message is clear:

Don't waste your life!

It is fitting that you should seek, within yourself, the purpose of your existence, and seek to live in accordance with that purpose. This fervent exhortation, which I give to you from beside the crater of my own unlived life, is not meant to be a "pied piper's call" to self-destructive romanticism. Prudence and care are most often needed to prevent the unique personal impulse we all carry within us from floundering on the rocks of prematurely high expectations; as any strategist, study your environment; don't succumb to it, but don't discount it; sheathe your visions with an understanding of reality; run away with your inspirations, but don't burn the bridges behind you; audacity without stamina is nearly always fatal. I remember once, in a chess match, I had a wonderful attack set up and ready to unfold, I could not wait to make the board blossom with it; but just then my opponent got in the way, by launching an attack of his own! After briefly studying the situation, I realized that he had the advantage in tempo and that, much as it grated on my personality, I must temporarily put my offensive on hold, and carry out a series of defensive maneuvers in order to ward off his assault. I successfully did so, whereupon I was finally able to manifest the (somewhat altered) attack I had so carefully constructed before. In this case, I lived for my desire, but my desire did not cut the tethers that bound it to a working strategy. I give this example, not to glorify my mediocre chess-playing abilities, but to emphasize that meeting your daimon, and following his lead, is not the same as thoughtlessly jumping, lemming-like, into the sea. (Some souls die by running with the lemmings; some, by trying too hard not to be a lemming, perish in a sea of their own making.) Give your daimon armor, it's not an easy world for dreams!

For the young, I say, "know thyself." If you are not yet there, seek to get in touch with your heart, and your soul; knock on the door of the house where your daimon lives, and ask him to show you the journey that awaits you. Do not throw preparation to the winds, do not put the gun of all-or-nothing to your head; but neither lock yourself into the cage of a life that's not your own. Eighty years of living your life on the wrong road is the same as dying young, though you may not realize it until you're old.

And what about us, who've already stood our daimon up; who've limped through the long years alone, secretly knowing that we collapsed along the way, though no one else discerns the real core of our catastrophe? What about us who've survived the danger of our glory by being faithless, who've eaten the bread of not being ourselves and lived in the house of the Universe without paying the rent of being true to who we really are? Are we doomed, damned, forever lost? Fugitives from God? Ghosts?

In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare has Brutus say:

There is a tide in the affairs of men

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;

Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries. [3]

Are we truly defeated, without redemption, because we missed the moment that had our name written on it, gave up the years that were supposed to be ours? Are we out of sync with time, out of step with the rhythm of our dance with the Universe; forever cursed to dance alone with who we might have been and what we might have done; exiled from our destiny, shorn of hope, condemned to die in a foreign land? The whole world is a foreign land for one who has failed himself and God. Are heartbreak and nostalgia all that men such as us have to look forward to?

Make no mistake. It is better to begin young and to never lose your way. And yet, Fate rarely writes history or life without the input of the human Will. Sometimes the value of what has been thrown away is only appreciated once it's gone, and the longing which that rekindles creates another chance. There is rarely one turn of the wheel in a man's life, which means that there is often another opportunity to accept one's Destiny, after one has learned the bitterness of living without it. What one can accomplish this time around may be altered, it may be diminished, but within what is possible, enough of the original essence remains to excite the soul and give it one last chance to achieve meaning, and to perform its divine duty. It is crucial for those who have reached this point, not to let the wheel go by again without stepping aboard the life that is meant for them.

Sometimes, fixated on the past, frozen in mourning, the wounded fail to notice the offerings of the new day. Sometimes, demoralized by yesterday's passivity or by the "bad breaks" they could not overcome, they lie down to die, vanquished by themselves, unable to rise again. Sometimes, self-hatred engulfs them, they despise themselves so much for what they did or did not do one day, that every other day grows beyond their reach. The wheel comes back to their soul, but they have nothing left with which to answer the generosity of God. Again they let it go; because instead of recognizing their longing, and empowering it with lessons learned, they struggle helplessly on the flypaper of believing it's all over. The strong can be broken more than once; true lovers of beauty, let beauty give you strength! And what is more beautiful than a human being who is true to himself?

It is important to be kind to oneself when a thwarted life unfolds in one's mirror. Most often, we are not as worthless as we think. At times, our blunders and our evasions put us more in sync with our life's purpose than we believe. They build our frustration to the "breaking point", until the motivation we need to succeed finally pops out of apathy; until fatalism is felled by Will, and pretenses of wisdom are swept aside by the life force which knows better. They save us from premature deployment and hold us in reserve for the day that is really ours; they prevent us from being mauled by our immaturity, and season the dream with failures that turn it into iron. At times, they are not signs of our foolishness or cowardice, but of the genius of our intuition, which knows that our brilliance and our courage are uncommon, and that they need more time to reach the level we have chosen to live at. James Hillman characterizes Manolete, the famous Spanish bullfighter who stunned the world with his fearless style and apparent indifference to the threat of the gigantic bulls which hurtled past him, as a "timid and fearful child" who spent his time at home painting and reading, clinging to his mother, and avoiding the games of other boys, who played soccer and pretended to be famous bullfighters. Strange and melancholy, Manolete's withdrawal from the world of his peers seemed to be a way of hiding from his Fate, at the same time as he slowly conserved the energy and developed the focus and the gravity he would need to meet it. Although he sensed what was to come, Hillman writes, "How could this nine-year-old boy stand up to his destiny?" [4] He needed time. Sometimes, our apparent flight from our purpose is a way of preparing ourselves for it. Like little ants, some of us are born to carry great loads. No wonder so many of us flee from the weight, seek the refuge of lighter lives, try to "disappear into the crowd." Somehow the daimon always manages to track us down, either with remorse or with renewed commitment. He who would be born again must understand that the Universe is filled with wheels, that beginnings and ends are only moments, and that there are many places and many ways to get back on board, to reclaim what is precious.

No doubt, time changes the face of many dreams. Sometimes it is for the better; sometimes something irreplaceable is lost, but there is still gold in the debris. I remember once, when I was very ill, feeling myself sliding down the slippery slope of meaninglessness into complete blackness, towards extinction; my body, unenthused by any sense of worth, was compliant, and I could feel it beginning to come apart. That's when, suddenly, in the blackness before my closed eyes, appeared a golden light, and in that light the shining faces of some of the kids I had taught in the school, years before. At that moment I knew that, even though I was far off course in life, I had still made a difference even as I fell out of the sky of my most cherished dreams. Where I had crashed, I had loved, and I had beautified the place of my accident. Thanks to the gratitude that radiated from those shining faces which I had thought were not enough to justify my life, the sickness that preyed upon my sense of pointlessness receded.

A man who loves is never pointless.

A man who is fair, is never worthless; even if he was meant to save the world, that small part of himself he did not betray or fumble is still worth its weight in gold. Our life purpose is like that, a construct of many layers.

Even if we cannot revive the full glory of dreams not known, or not lived in their prime - even if Autumn can never carry the missed Spring on its shoulders - there is still redemption in salvaging that part of our purpose that we can.

Our foolishness, the opposition we meet, the gaps between our eyes and hands, the trembling legs which flee instead of stand, until tears give us courage, all of these obstacles and shortcomings peel the layers of our dream away, one by one; and yet, there is never a final layer to us, there is never an end to the pages in the book.

It is never too late to be a part of oneself, never too late to rescue the jewel of the soul's crown from one's mistakes. Whether it is connected to a world or to a single life, it still matters.

The old and the beaten have one more season, if they can learn to forgive themselves.

The daimon's youthful face, now so different from yours, may be streaked with tears, but it still knows the way; and you, and who you are meant to be to us, are still the reason it has not gone.

Young or old, new or aged, confident or wounded, do not waste your life!

May no false barrier, inner or outer, kill your joy and keep you from yourself. And never let our prejudices or our ignorance deter you!

Don't waste your life!

The spirit you thought had left you is still nearby. You are closer to being you than you imagine.

Don't waste your life!

We are on your side, even those of us who do not know it.

Don't waste your life!

*excerpts from:

http://rainsnow.org

NOTES:

[1] Hillman, James. The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling. New York: Warner Books, 1997. Page 8.

[2] "… we all lose something precious when a fellow human being chooses not to listen to his daimon", unless, of course, it is a case of what Hillman refers to as "the bad seed": a man who is driven towards the attainment of infamy, like Hitler, or Escobar. (Then, the question must be asked, can the daimon be diverted towards a positive alternative; can it be guided to choose another path than darkness to express its tremendous energy?) For a contrasting view of the "bad seed", see Alice Miller's For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-rearing and the Roots of Violence, which examines the life of Hitler with the perspective that behavior is far more malleable than the "he-was-born-evil" approach allows. While some find that approach too sympathetic to Hitler, Miller's exploration is actually an effort to help Humanity by preventing a recurrence of future Hitlers, by means of providing a paradigm for understanding his genesis through family dynamics.

[3] Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. Act IV, Scene III, Lines 246-249.

[4] Hillman, p. 15-16. I first saw parts of this material on Manolete quoted in "Free Will Astrology" by Rob Brezsny, in The Village Voice.

What Are You Trying To Prove?...

2008-07-12T07:24:00.003-04:00

What Are You Trying To Prove?...
by Melodie Beattie

You don't have to prove anything to anyone.
Not even to yourself.
A subconscious desire to prove ourselves may be hiding at the root of our fears, the root of our tension,
the root of our need to do and be more...

Accompanying it can be a burning belief that we aren't good enough, that we need to compensate for some deficiency in ourselves in order to take our place on this planet...

We may feel like we have to earn our place, earn our right to be here. Like we're being watched and judged, graded...

You don't have to prove anything to anyone.

You're fine just the way you are. You have energy, vitality. You have particular gifts and talents. You have been learning your lessons just right in your life...

Let go of the need to prove yourself to others -
to parents, people from the past, people in your life today

Could it be the one you've really been trying to prove something to is yourself?

The answer is simple:

Learn to approve of yourself.
Love and accept yourself the way you are.

Then step right up and take your place in the universe!

Take Back Your Personal Power---

2008-07-07T16:58:00.003-04:00

---Take Back Your Personal Power---

Stop Being Blamed and Start Creating An Incredible Life---..by Lisa Whatley

Have you ever had a person in your life who literally thrived on playing the blame game? You know the ones that are constantly belly aching that it’s your fault? Then you actually believe them, so you play the game of fixing all of their problems! You become the rescuer? I did! I didn’t realize it at the time of course because that is a life lesson that I was working on mastering and boy did we play a good game together! We danced in victim consciousness together creating disaster after disaster for ten years! He created, I rescued! He created, I rescued! Then one day he got himself in another situation (and of course this was all my fault!) I was so sick and tired of continually putting forth all my energy into fixing his problems that I threw in the towel--
I quit That’s the day the light bulb came on! I realized that I was not allowing him to take responsibility for his own life

I was doing him the worst service possible-

I was dis-empowering him! I was taking his power away by fixing all his problems not to mention dis-empowering myself! That’s the day I gladly, and I mean gladly, handed him his life back on a gold lined platter! Ahh to peace once again----

Blamers are people that refuse to take any kind of responsibility for their own lives-- When things go wrong in their life they tend to blame other people-- Whether something goes wrong at home, work or school they try to find someone else to blame-- I have found they tend to blame those that love them the most-- Why? Because these will be the first people to ‘fix’ their problems and become their rescuers-- Blamers will rarely admit to their own problems-- Typically the statements you will hear from them are “It wasn’t my fault--- How was I suppose to know?-- “It’s your fault--” etc-- Their dialogue usually goes something like this------ -If only you had done something differently, then I wouldn’t be in the predicament that I’m in--- It’s your fault-

By blaming other people for the problems in their life, they become powerless to change anything Their thoughts hold them in victim consciousness

They believe and hold thoughts of:

* I cannot change my life

* I am a victim of circumstance

* I am a victim of my past

* Life is hard

* There is always more work to be done

* Plus numerous other ones

In order to move past this, they must begin to think differently-- They must change themselves-- We all know by now, that we can’t change anyone but ourself, right? We can’t change the blamer, we can only work on changing ourself and our reaction to the blamer-- I learnt that I needed to stop being the rescuer! We know it’s not our fault, so no more fixing it! How far are you willing to sacrifice yourself for someone else’s problem? That’s a tough question, but how low will you go? Take a tough love stance and let them take responsibility for their own life-- They created it-- They need to learn whatever it is that they have created so let them experience it themselves! If this is a spouse or child, it’s even harder because nine times out of ten, the problem effects your marriage and your family-- I’m certainly not saying this is going to be a walk in the park! It isn’t easy but you have to stand your ground the second they present their next problem to you
Ask them what ‘they’ are going to do about ‘their’ problem

A temper tantrum will likely ensue, leave the room if you have to and don’t send negative energy back into the cycle! Come back to it after they have completed their dramatic hissy fit

This is an excellent opportunity for you to learn the limits on your boundaries and also stretch your compassionate detachment muscles! All very empowering tasks and ones that will bring empowerment knocking on your door---

Knowing beforehand that this is a repetitive cycle where both people are getting their desired energy fix, will make it easier to remain de-attached to the blamers problem

Why? Because now you as the rescuer will be taking responsibility for your part in the game! The blamers gets satisfaction for not taking responsibility for their life along with the boost of power and control they feel they have over you when you do fix their problem

The rescuer gets satisfaction for being the hero and solving the problem

If you are at the point now in your life of rolling your eyeballs in disgust because here comes another problem to be fixed, then you are well aware that it is time to change things! Where do you start? Yourself-- You can use positive affirmations-- Write them down on some index cards and carry them with you, put them beside your night stand, hang them above the kitchen sink, on the mirror in the bathroom and even stick them in your visor of your car! You can also change your thought pattern by replacing a negative thought with a positive one whenever they creep in-- Once you become aware of your thoughts you will be amazed at how much negativity is hanging around up there having a pity party! Another method is going into a slight meditative state and re-programming your mind with positive beliefs and positive thoughts-- Visualization is also very effective-- You can visualize yourself with the desired outcome of resolving the issue at hand-- Not fixing the person’s problem, but resolving the issue between yourself and the blamer-- Hard feelings, how you will handle it, how you see them re-acting to you, etc------

Throughout our history, there have been many great, wise people from all walks of life that carry the same basic understanding: what we believe we will somehow create This is so much more powerful and truthful than once thought! We truly are the creators of our life! The continual thoughts flowing through our minds is the projection of our soon to be reality! Regardless if the thoughts are positive or negative, what you think, you will create! James Allen once said, “The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs” Maitri Upanishad says that everything that happens in our own world is a reflection of how we think---
“One’s own thought is one’s world---

What a person thinks is what he becomes
We are powerful beings, waking up to the true potential of who we really are--

Be aware of what thoughts you allow to stay in mind-
Your future is being created by you and only you----

I remember reading a study a while ago. In this particular experiment, they had ten ‘average’ people dress the same and line up in front of a panel of convicted robbers. Five of these ‘average’ people had low self-esteem, had fears of being attacked by someone and no self-confidence. The other five ‘average’ people had high self-esteem, didn’t carry any thoughts of being attacked and were very confident. The panel of criminals knew none of this information. They were asked to pick three people they would choose to be their next victim by appearance only. Each criminal picked three out of the five low self-esteem category! Why am I telling you this? Your thoughts are energy. What you think is sent out. For these particular people, their thoughts are projecting I am a victim. The criminal picks up the signal and targets that person. Even though these thoughts were fearful and not something they wanted to happen, it happened because they were thinking it. They created it Powerful! This is what I would classify as a fatal attraction! These attractions occur daily through this hidden language of energy/thought

Granted it goes both ways, negative creation and positive creation

We interact through our energetic body...
the invisible field surrounding our physical body

Our thoughts make up a part of this energetic body-

If you have the desire to change your life, regardless of what condition you want to change, change your thoughts and your belief system Thoughts and beliefs that we have about ourselves and the world alter our perception, our hope, our energy, our health, our mood, our actions, our relationships, our entire life! Thoughts are extremely powerful and creative

The example above was a negative one, now imagine how powerful you can be if you change your thoughts to positive ones

Attracting wealth, great health, vitality, love, positive relationships, the list is endless! It is yours to create as you are the creator, so start creating joy and the perfect life you have always wanted today----

What kind of thoughts are you allowing to create your life--
ummmm......

May Your day be full Of Wonder and Awe...
May Your Heart Sing Nothing But Love Songs---
And May Your Words Speak-The same---

BLESSINGS OF LOVE & LIGHT

Be Blessed...

Losing friends

2008-07-05T17:43:00.002-04:00

It’s been that kind of year for me.
Losing friends.
Major changes in my life this year for spiritual reasons have really tested my friendships.
I found out some who I thought were friends, have failed me.
But then there have been those who have stuck by me in some of the toughest of times. THANKS TO THOSE _<*>_

Sounds like God is purifying us and getting rid of the dross,
like refining gold or silver.

And then...
there have been those,
& then...
there are those...that still are...
And that will continue to be...

I know I'll have many opportunities to develop new friends.

Maybe It's For the Best.

Journey Of The Soul

2008-06-30T17:01:00.003-04:00

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Journey Of The Soul
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We come together as always from the consciousness of Oneness. We come together not as separate entities from different places, but as the consciousness of the one entity of the soul expressing, sharing, and being the totality of that consciousness. This is not an easy perception for the world of duality to comprehend, but it is the foundation and is the truth of the existence of the soul.
It is the foundation and is the truth that the soul yearns to discover and that all souls in their individually created and constructed manner search for moment by moment, event by event, thought by thought, action by action

It is possible for the soul to discover its true self as there is a blending of consciousness, blending of that which is the assumed consciousness externally of the worldly patterns of existence, blending that outer consciousness with the emerging consciousness that comes from the infinite depths of the soul’s linkage with all of creation and with the Creator. All souls are on a journey. It has been called the journey of the soul and rightly so, for that is the only journey that exists.
All else that is externalized and is given the appearance of being the purpose for one’s existence is but a stopping point, an observation point, an overlook, a scenic vista point to observe, to learn, and to experience in order to truly continue on the eternal journey of the soul

It is important that a soul takes the perspective that is available in order to view the landscape of life’s experiences in a manner in which there is not the segmentation and departmentalization of activities and events, but there is the homogeneous blending of all that is observed and experienced into a common pattern of unfolding in consciousness, pulling from each experience that which is the essence of the interaction that calls forth the perfected quality of an attribute of the soul which is the purpose the particular event occurred in the first place

It is important to see that the journey is one of constructed step by step evolution of consciousness and that each stop along the way, or each bend in the track of the journey provides an experience and an interaction with the world of attachment, the world of physical, emotional and mental interactions that call forth and demand from the soul to be seen from the perspective of soul consciousness

As observations and interactions are made along the journey and there is then an involvement in and attachment to or an absorption by the particular event or observation, then it is like taking a sidetrack. It is like taking a detour which certainly for the moment appears to be interesting and appears to have certain substance and reality, but as the sidetrack or detour is taken, it is seen that the ultimate satisfaction from that sidetrack or detour comes from realizing the interaction of the perfection of the soul, of realizing the attribute of the soul that is being called upon to be consciously realized.
It is the fulfillment of that realization that becomes the ultimate purpose for having taken a particular sidetrack or detour

Consider the life pattern of a soul in the earthly experience...

* There are emotional interactions -
* There are ego driven success patterns that are followed-
* There are patterns of emotional behavior that call upon satisfying both the emotional and physical desires-
* There are the intellectual pursuits that seem to be so important in terms of coming into an understanding of the mechanisms and philosophies of the worldly way-

If you look at each of these detours very carefully and observe from an inner intuitive perspective what is really occurring on each of these varied detours, it will be seen that there is at the core of all activity, an ego driven response that is being generated that creates the illusion of separateness, that creates the illusion of importance. And that creates the illusion of a reality that can be sustained within the experience pattern of the soul.

As a soul approaches the completion of a current life cycle there is often a realization that so much of what has been accomplished from the worldly perspective, so much of what has been realized from the various detours and sidetracks that have been taken and from the various experiences that have occurred, so much is of little sustaining value other than that these various activities along the journey of the soul have indeed evoked and brought forth not only the desire for discovering the eternal nature of the soul, but in fact call forth the manifestation of the Attributes of the Soul. There is a sense of peace, a sense of harmony, a sense of beauty, a sense of recognizing the internal infinite mightiness of the Creator that is part of and in fact the very core of the existence of the soul.

There are many patterns which unfold and in each instance the pattern is always leading toward the evolution of consciousness of the soul realizing its true identity and discarding the outer assumed identity

So the journey of the soul is a most beautiful concept to observe, to internalize, to understand and to know of its progression as the soul goes step by step through the experiences of the life pattern recognizing that each experience is not an end in itself, but is an integrated pattern that is part of the whole, that connects with all other patterns that are being expressed by the soul, and have only one purpose which is to call forth the unity of consciousness, the consciousness of Oneness, the consciousness of the eternal reality of who and why the soul is

Observe the journey carefully. Integrate the understanding that is suggested into each and every experience and know the truth of why you are.

Know the truth of the journey and embark upon the final stage of the journey which is a reunion, the merging with, the coming into the fullness of the consciousness of the soul as One with all creation

The journey of the soul began with an idea, with a thought, with a projection of consciousness from the very center of all creation. The soul became a packet of energized Love and Light that has been extended into the vastness of the created universe. The soul has the journey to complete, returning to that very center. The consciousness of the soul is the reality, the realizing of that consciousness is the purpose.
The achieving of the total unity of consciousness with the Creator is the goal, nothing else exists

I embrace you in the Love and Light of the Creator-
I embrace you from the depths of the consciousness-
of who you are for we are One-

We are you-
I AM, the Love, the Light-
and the Life of the universe-

'Lessons from the Soul' http://www.%20sacredwind.%20org/

_________ B L E S S I N G S _________

Universal Consciousness...in Every Particle of Existence

2008-06-26T14:06:00.002-04:00

Universal Consciousness...
in Every Particle of Existence

Creatures in thousands of varieties populate the Universe.

How sad to believe in dirt amidst a garden of dreams. The oscillation of history’s events proves repeatedly that when offered the chance to deceive many will.

Animals as you know them now will no longer remain on Earth if there is not a major diversion from the current course. One day, stories of them will be doubted by the majority of remaining humans as ancient myths of a primitive people.

There are many examples of animals speaking in clear human language. With the Universal Consciousness anything is possible. The eye looking back at you has seen much in many forms and traveled very far.

Some of the dinosaurs died and some moved on. Many never left the astral realms. They are not available to the highest wisdom until they incarnate as mammalians. There is a subset of the species that refuses to make this leap.

Try not to think too hard...
because it will block the remembrance that supercedes such dense gyrations.

OUT THERE is not nearly as vast as IN HERE.

OUT THERE is IN HERE but the reverse is not true.

No filters; no interpretations.

Aware of the ‘I’ and the ‘Super I’, the wanderer sets off in search of dispersion into all things. The connection is the vibration within every particle of Existence.

Your chair can tell you the truth if you coax it hard enough.

Begging for bits we nibble nimbly. Shouting for enlightenment we provoke the lightning to strike our heart. Foolish devils try to beguile with a sly smile. They will meet their own Armageddon on the killing fields of humanity.

..~Christopher Moors

Armageddon of the Mind

2008-06-26T13:55:00.002-04:00

Armageddon of the Mind

Though we may see Armageddon in the outer world, the inner condition which brought it on is far more intense. The cosmic tug of war between light and dark is fought inside the mind of humanity and is merely reflected externally.The images on TV of this occurrence may strike fear into our heart, but is it not merely showing us what lurks in our own subconscious?

Angels of Truth have sounded and Demons of Darkness are struggling hard to hold their deceptive ground. Some humans consciously choose to ascend in light, while others grasp tightly to their Denials and shout, “I want it my way!” Heavenly friends may hurt for those who harm themselves, but they should not let it stop them from walking on inspired by Love from/for their Creator.

The winding ‘this and that’ path becomes straight and paved with gold when you realize that the destination is each step and the glow on the horizon is there so you know you are not alone. Flowing through invisible bonds between your Soul, the Sun, the Earth, and the Moon, the Aum melts away barriers, releasing enough starlight to fill the entire Universe. A living constellation, you can write your own mythology.Old ideas fall away and the implications of a crumbling edifice may take a few moments to settle. Pain of loss is fostered by emotional attachment to stagnation.

For awhile we were allowed to believe that things had stopped, but borrowing from our own future, it was intrinsic to the situation that the explosion of pent up energy would inevitably seek its freedom.Suffering is necessary and for awhile it had to be so. When the edges have cut you deeply enough to crack the mental prison and let the long awaited morning arrive, shadows flee, and the frozen places begin to melt, shedding tears to release the frustration. Deep breaths and inner hugs transform the ache to ecstasy and the joy of life becomes awakened, never to be lost again.

C.Moors,

Pearly Gates PressArticle:

http://www. creativecosmos. org

"What Do You Want?

2008-06-26T13:10:00.001-04:00

"What Do You Want? Where Do You Want to Go?"

"The only Veils which now remain---separating you from that which you fear, or that which seems to elude you--are those you have chosen to keep in place. If you don't believe this, then you are doubly fortified against awakening from your Dream at this time. First, you believe in the chains that bind you. Second, you give over your power to someone else, someone you firmly believe keeps the chains there. That energy places a DOUBLE LOCK on the door of your cell.

The Earth Plane is no longer a prison, my friends! It is a now PRISM of diversity and possibility, there at your command. All you need to get anything you wish is present within you now. Just wipe away the cobwebs from your mind so you can clearly see the path that is laying itself before you.

And it will come, in time. It always does. There is no one left to condemn you. Those who appear to do so are simply reflections of the condemnations you still hold about yourself. They are demons, standing guard over a prison door that has no ceiling or walls! Just step out and you're free.

Go inside yourself. All the answers are there. The 3D Worlds continue to exist, and will continue to exist so that you can appreciate and explore the QUESTIONS for as long as you wish. The life you are living (or rather the LIVES you are living, for there are many) have already come to fruition, somewhere in the Multiverse. Your current Journey here involves a deep need, on your part, to understand the reasons for all these choices you have made........to understand the very framework of what it means to be human and alive.

So go! Run away and play! It's all there for you to enjoy...........the horror, the wonder, the awe, and the awfulness. Go ahead. Drink your full cup of living. Sometimes, you will opt for bitter wine. Sometimes, you will opt for sweet. Both Heaven and Hell are there for your instruction, for your amusement. They are merely slides, placed under the 3D Microscope of Experience.........examined thoroughly, for as long as you desire, and then returned to the archives of All That Is.

The only question, to which you will continually return, is: "Is this still what I want?" And instantly, with the asking (if it is sincere and forthright), there will be an automatic adjustment to whatever reality context you currently inhabit..

<From The Reconnections>

BECOMING the Storm...(the Reconnections)

2008-06-26T13:02:00.001-04:00

BECOMING the Storm........ (the Reconnections)

If desire causes suffering it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire.

Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against temptation,
why not get better at fulfilling desire?
Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think.

I don't want salvation
I want life, all of life .............
I will have tasted the banquet that they have before me on this rich, round planet,
rather than recoiling from it like a toothless bunny.

I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us to capture the grand prize: the safety of the void.

To fashion of life such a petty game is unworthy
of both men and gods.

~From "Jitterbug Perfume," by Tom Robbins

Know how to use your energies

2008-06-25T11:44:00.001-04:00

Know How To Use Your Energies

If you read the great Book of Living Nature you will realize that, in order to evolve satisfactorily, it is essential to know exactly where one's energies go, what one spends them on, what use one makes of them. This is just one more area in which human beings do not have the light they need.

They squander their energies frivolously and unthinkingly on whatever takes their fancy. But to live in ignorance of how to use one's energies makes it virually impossible to advance and evolve. We are responsible for our energies; Heaven has not given them to us so that we can waste them, and the use we make of them will be noted on our record. The Book of Living Nature says, "Blessed are those who devote all their physical, emotional and mental energies to working for the good of mankind and for the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness."

A close look at human beings will show you that they are not really aware of all the energy that has been given to them so that they may live. They have no idea how precious it is, how much the Lord values it, where it comes from or what it has cost nature to manufacture it for them. It is in things like this that one sees that man is not very highly evolved, for he wastes his energies on fits of anger, orgies of sensuality and selfish, criminal activities without realizing that, in this way, all that priceless treasure goes to feed forces of Hell. If I told you that it was human beings that nourished the forces of Hell you would be astonished, and yet this is the truth. Out of ignorance, most human beings spend their lives nourishing, sustaining and supporting Hell. They never been told that they are responsible for the way in which they use their energies - and it is not at University that they are going to learn this.

One of the first tasks of a disciple is to become conscious of how he spends his energies, for they have been carefully counted, weighed and measured.

When Heaven sees someone wasting his energies in harmful activities, it shuts off the supply. It says, "That man is dangerous; he has got to be put out of action." Do you know, for example, why some people are drunkards? It is because the Invisible World chose that way to render them harmless. If they were in full possession of their faculties they would use their destructive energies to create havoc in the world, but their abuse of alcohol chloroforms and stupefies them. They are incapable of doing any harm. This is not true in every case, of course; there are all kinds of reasons why people become alcoholics.

You should continually be aware of how you are using your energies, continually ask yourself to what purpose, in what direction you are using them. There is nothing more important than this, for Heaven watches you and sees what you are doing with all that wealth it has entrusted to you, whether you are using it for purely selfish purposes or for a divine purpose. That is the question. If you ask yourself this question lucidly every day, many things within you will improve unbelievably. To be sure, you will not succeed in bringing everything into line from one day to the next, but at least you will learn to be conscious. Never forget that without this consciousness you will continue to be subject to karma.

As long as you have still not consciously taken control of your life and started to synchronize the vibrations of every particle of your being with the vibrations of the divine world, you will be subject to the blind forces of nature. This is the situation of most human beings, because no one has ever shown them the importance of working on their inner life. It is of vital importance to realize that, if you oppose Cosmic Intelligence with a way of life contrary to Its design, you will progressively disintegrate until there is nothing left of you. Perhaps you will exclaim at the cruelty of Cosmic Intelligence in destroying those who reject Its laws, but the truth is that it is not Cosmic Intelligence that destoys people. It has never wished to destroy anyone. But if a man is stupid enough to pit himself against Immensity, the forces opposing him are so powerful that he will, inevitably, be torn to pieces. It is only to be expected. If one puny human being tries to stand up to a whole army, he will soon be wiped out. If an insect batters itself against a window-pane until it knocks itself out, is it the fault of the window? Men behave like insects: they pit their strength against the divine law, against the splendour of the universe... they love a good fight! But they are heading straight for destruction and it will not be God who destroys them, but themselves.

A disciple must seek, first and foremost, to attune himself to Cosmic Intelligence. Every day, he must try to vibrate in harmony with this Immensity, to melt into It, to open himself to It, to let himself be caught up and swept away by It. The only way to do this is by love, for the only way to become one with another being is to love them. This is why Jesus said, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength." God does not need our love, He can get along very well without it. It is we who need to love Him; it is to our advantage. Jesus did not say, "Think of the Lord, unite yourselves to Him, do His will". He simply said, "You shall love the Lord your God", because only those who love each other can be in tune with each other.

And this is what I am saying, also, when I ask you to attune yourselves every day to that Supreme Intelligence, to act in accordance with His will without even knowing exactly what it is. We often do not know what God's will is, but we should always be ready to do it whatever it may be. That is what love is. When you love someone you are always in harmony with him; even before you know what he is going to ask of you, you are ready to trust him and do everything in your power to please him

Amongst all the things I tell you, there are some points that you should think about every day and others that may apply only in certain circumstances. What I am telling you, today, about how you use your energies, is one of the things that you must note down and think about every single day, for I shall not always be there to remind you of it. There are great many things that you can leave to one side, but this is not one of them. Every day, in all the different circumstances in which you find yourself, you are asked to be conscious of how you are using your energies. You can do this wherever you are: in the street, on the but, at the dentist's, in your own kitchen - wherever you are you can glance into yourself and ask yourself, "Let's see, if I do this or that, what is it going to cost me? Ah, I can see that I shall be feeding the swine with all that is most pure and divine in me. No, I'm certainly not going to commit myself in that direction. I don't intend to spend my energies on bringing back the dead." As Jesus said, "Follow me and let the dead bury their own dead."

As you see, it is essential to be clear about the work to which we must devote our energies. I cannot insist too much on this point.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

"Compassion & Love"

2008-05-23T18:38:00.006-04:00

"Compassion & Love"

The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the skin" of the other. We "go inside" their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness for ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outsider is not enough to see their suffering.

We must become one with the subject of our observation. When we are in contact with another's suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. Compassion means, literally, "to suffer with."

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

- Jiddu Krishnamurt i-

LoVe & PeAcE

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WHO BE YOU?

2008-05-04T19:47:00.002-04:00

I COME TO YOU FROM TIME ETERNAL.

THE EVERLASTING NOW.

THE SOURCE OF ALL CREATION.

I come to You because you have called upon me:

I arrive not from 'outside of You'.

I AM YOU.

I AM THAT I AM.

AS YOU ARE THAT YOU ARE.

I have returned from within the collective consciousness that You Are.

I bring the following knowledge to put before Your Heart:

All That You Are is Sacred, only You 'forget' Who You Are?

In order to walk the Paths.Forever calling Me.You call Me through your love, through your work, through your art and song, through your dance, through every expression of beauty, and through your prayers.

There are two paths of human experience...

the Path of Light and the path of darkness.

'Light' is the same as knowledge and truth;

'Darkness' is the same as ignorance and fear.

There is no such thing as judgement or punishment.

You are not as responsible as you believe you are to be.

There are no 'demons' to exorcise;

there is only CHOICE to EXERCISE.

If you CHOOSE the Path of Light, what appears 'real' and what appears as 'illusion' will diminish into a solid Divine Truth of awakening of what IS. For those that choose to walk the path of darkness 'real and illusion' is the alternate pole-reality of the potential available of your soul's birthright.

You have choice.Humans have developed their intellect throughout the generations. This has been by design. There have been many 'leaps', but never as there have been in the closing century of this millenium.There is a reason for this.

The leaps of 'science' will lead to the discovery that there is a mystery that leaves its 'signature' in the cosmos, the atom, and the web of life.The 'mystics' of this time are also being led to a greater truth, as the esoteric reveals secrets preserved through the ages.

The two paths of knowledge will meet.

And when they meet,

THE TRUTH WILL EXPLODE INTO YOUR WORLD.

That Divine Consciousness will manifest directly into the human consciousness. And the Earth will divide; as the wheat is divided from the chaff, or the gold from the dross. And in this event, the chaff will be set upon the winds of change, and the gold will be removed from the fire.

There is no thing to fear!

There will be no apocalypse (unless you fear that it could be)

There will be no gnashing of teeth (unless your fear creates a beast)

There will be no deliverance (do you believe fear to be so real?)

Imagine you are standing upon ice, and there is a crack in running down the middle. One side is love, there other is fear. You are straddling the crack, and the two sections begin to separate.

What will you do?

Jump to love!

You have consciousness, you have choice and you have the Now.

IT IS THAT SIMPLE.

This process is called 'ascension'.

It is not a matter of 'needing' to believe.Yet some things must be 'believed to be seen'.All that is required is trust, faith and love.

Then belief will come through clarity.All life is drawn through the cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

To 'believe' that the most treasured sentient beings in this universe are 'above' this cycle is vain ignorance. And quite typical of the Path of Darkness.

The crack in the ice is the branching of a Tree trunk,or the fork in a River.

Do you play victim once more and float,

or do you use your God-given power of choice?

You see, intent shapes Light, and Light is the consciousness that connects you with all? There is no time like the pre-sent: and that moment arrives with your next breath.Cast your illusions into the fire and leave all your fear behind you!