Thursday, December 16, 2010

Add some shine--read EnlightenNext

I receive an email from EnlightenNext every week. It has a quote or paragraph written by Andrew Cohen, a spiritual teacher and founder of EnlightenNext--the website/organization. I have been impressed and overjoyed by his modern look at spirituality--not that of organized religion--and his ideas on how to evolve and live today in a way that contributes to our overall well being.

Spiritual Practice is Spirit Lived is a wonderful article by Andrew that speaks to the seeker in a effort to help make the leap to finder. A lifetime of seeking is not what we ultimately want, is it? Finding what we are looking for, starts us on the new path of being spirit and of continual development if we so choose.

This blog is a journal of my seeking. Every step along the way has opened my mind and heart a little bit more-- has added another facet to the jewel of my being. It is what we are here for, or at least what I am here for. I figure the "finding" will begin the polishing phase of my existence, making me as shiny and bright as I can be.

Check out the online magazine EnlightenNext for the videos and writings of Andrew Cohen. Add another facet to your diamond.

Monday, December 6, 2010

What are you built for?

We all have our special purpose in this incarnation on this planet. It is what, if we are paying attention, we are here to learn and fulfill. A few of our fellow human beings have been given the gift of voice (Manifestor)--others the gift of powerful physical energy (Generator)--some are here simply to observe and partake of the experience (Reflector), others are here to guide (Projector). The whole range of human experience is born of /created by the interaction of people--either using their gifts or out of line with their purpose.

In my quest to evolve and become a better me, I have become aware of the Human Design system, presented to the world by Ra Uru Hu, (A French Canadian born in 1948). A friend has also shared with me her knowledge of the system after studying for a number of years. From the website:

The Human Design System is a synthesis of two streams of science, traditional and modern. The traditional sciences - astrology both eastern and western, the Hindu-Brahmin Chakra system, the Zohar or Kabbalah, and most importantly of all, the I’Ching, the Book of Changes - these are the traditional elements in the synthesis that is Human Design, and combined with the modern science of reading the genetic code, this offers you profound insight into how you are designed to navigate the material world.

In the Human Design System you are provided with a bodychart, based on your date and time and place of birth. Your bodychart shows how your body was designed based on 3 months before you were born, and also your actual birth time. It is all very interesting--who does not want to find out more about themselves. As I proceed I will be using some Human Design speak--if it interests you at all--check out the link above. There is a dictionary in the resources section.

I am the type known as a Manifesting Generator. My type is not what I think or feel I am, but what I am by design. My inner authority (where I go to make correct decisions) is the sacral center. My strategy in life (based on my type) should be wait to respond. Wait for what? Wait for a request to commit my energies that rings true. The ringing truth is to be obtained in the guttural primal without thinking response uh huh (yes) or uh uh (no). When making decisions from this place, supposedly I cannot go wrong. Now, how the hell does one connect with this gutty decision maker? Life is so loud.

I have quickly learned that it is almost impossible to do this unless you slow way down and pay close attention to it. Try to get a generator--a doer--to slow down and listen--not to what the mind is telling you, but what the pulsation of your core is. Rushing ahead on a wave of emotion, or with the momentum of getting on with things can get you in some trouble, or more likely waste your time and energy.

The Human Design system is very detailed with volumes of information available on your type, your design and all the little subsets of delineation that make you, you. You can dive in as deeply as you like but the most important thing to learn is your strategy and how to listen to your inner authority. New age speak, or brilliant tool? You decide.


So, what gifts have you been given?

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

More Marko

 Words of wisdom from Marko Pogacnik regarding a mind set of co-creation on this planet.
 

February 14th, 2008

The Blog

The people of the modern age, alienated to the essence of our beloved planet, believe that the Earth is endangering our lives. On one hand they feel guilty for the ecological destruction humans are causing. On the other hand people fear the consequences of our civilisations insensitivity to the life organism of the Earth.
None of both is right! Instead of bouncing between the feelings of guilt and fear, the change in the personal relationship to the Earth is needed:
Accept that we human beings are part of the Earth, also part of her heart-consciousness. What we do, she is doing. She has no other hands to create upon the Earth surface, as ours. Even the destruction in the environment can be understood in a positive way, as a means, for example, how to produce urgency for change. We are urged to change. Our civilisation has to move towards a greater wholeness, true freedom, towards a quantum leap in consciousness.
See how it is possible to collaborate with the ongoing Earth Changes instead of projecting a negative stamp on them. If the Earth is getting warmer day by day, we should also open our heart-consciousness and become warmer in our relationship towards each other, towards beings of nature, towards ourselves. Rise the heat of your heart and the heat of the planet will get revealed as a proper circumstance, enabling us and other beings of the Earth to make a quantum leap in our evolution!
Look where you can help to move away the obstacles on the path of change and transmutation. It may be obstacles on your individual path, obstacles created by the human fearful thought forms, or by the means of environmental destruction – I specifically mean the one that damages the subtle (etheric, emotional) levels of life.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Marko Pogacnik and Geomancy

I have stumbled upon a sculptor, land artist and geomantic earth healer, Marko Pogacnik thanks to a friend's discovery. His website is a treasure trove of useful tools and writings, meditations etc. to help us reconnect with the earth's co-creationary energy. Please check out his videos and his monthly meditations. I have included one from Dec 20, 2009-Jan 20, 2010 below.

The tragedy of the modern human being is expressed most clearly in a saying of Jesus the Christ from the Gospel according to Thomas: Jesus said, "The Kingdom is like a man who had in his field a treasure of which he knew nothing. And after he died, he left it to his son. The son too knew nothing of it. He took the field and sold it. And the one who bought it came and found the treasure while ploughing. He began to lend money at interest to whomever he wished". (Tm, Log. 109)
Who could in a clearer way formulate the tragedy of modern human being? Each of us carries buried in our heart centre a treasure – a focus of the divine presence bearing the code of the future development of the universe – the treasure about which multitude of individuals doesn’t know anything. Also our schools do not teach our children about the treasure that is of the uttermost importance not just for the given moment, but also for the future.
The problem is that there exist powers and civilizations in the universe, who have detected the unknown treasure. In the conditions of human ignorance they are free to manipulate peoples of the Earth, so they can use the precious information for their own purposes. In meanwhile they have developed a multitude of seductive methods through which it is possible to hold human beings in the alienated state of being…while the Earth is deteriorating.
The only way out of this dangerous path is to support all those people that start to get aware of the “treasure hidden in their field”. The scope of the meditation is to provoke fellow human beings to become who they really are.

The Meditation:

��� Enter peace, be fully present. Imagine that behind your back stands your higher self, the divine dimension of your being. Visualisation is not so important, more important is the sense of its presence in your back space.
��� Than imagine doing some steps backward to dive into its presence so that your heart centre becomes one with its heart centre, so they become one.
��� Now imagine that from the united hearts sparks fly out like bees from the beehive. They know exactly where they are heading.
��� You do not need to direct the sparks of “inspiration to be” towards a particular person because one could endanger his (her) autonomy. Allow that the sparks find their goal by themselves there where there is certain openness for the divine inspiration.
��� This way we could be daily a source of inspiration for unknown people, leading towards personal transmutation and awakening – which is not only a divine inspiration but is also coloured with our personal selfless dedication.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Interesting times

Is anyone else feeling the woozy fluctuating energy effects of the recent days? Paddling to stay afloat--buffeted by pertinent catalyst--catalyst (persons/experiences/whatever pushes your buttons and engages you in self examination) meant to be dealt with now? Does anyone else feel the urgency of the days--the stiff wind at your back propelling us all into a new paradigm?

Whew--maybe it's allergies or menopause or this exhausting election season, but the last 2 months have been a challenge. I have been feeling all of these urgencies and struggling to stay positive--struggling to make sense of it all--trying to improve and be the best human being I can be. It is amazing how old behaviors hover-- awaiting your yeah or nay--will you perpetuate this, or will you move on to a new way of doing things? All of a sudden I am asking more of myself--holding myself to a higher standard--one that I know we all be reaching for in the next......years.

The 4th density--the density of love-- that we are transitioning to, will be an unprecedented time in human development. We will be truly connected, as our telepathic abilities develop. Transparency will be the order of the day. Others thoughts will be apparent to you as will yours to them. Is this scary? Does the idea of no "mental privacy" boggle your mind? Recent goings on in my life have been a big WAKE UP call on this front. Private matters gone embarrassingly public, provide much catalyst and a big foam finger pointing to the new open paradigm we are heading for. When a hijacked email causes problems, imagine now a magnified scenario--- your thoughts however wicked-judgmental-hurtful-petty-devious-or accurate---a part of the public record. We are being prepared.

A brief excerpt on the 4th density from our friends the Ra Group. I have posted this before.

Questioner: Thank you. Is it possible for you to give a short description of the conditions in the fourth density?
Ra: I am Ra. We ask you to consider as we speak that there are not words for positively describing fourth density. We can only explain what is not and approximate what is. Beyond fourth density our ability grows more limited until we become without words.

That which fourth density is not: it is not of words, unless chosen. It is not of heavy chemical vehicles for body complex activities. It is not of disharmony within self. It is not of disharmony within peoples. It is not within limits of possibility to cause disharmony in any way.

Approximations of positive statements: it is a plane of type of bipedal vehicle which is much denser and more full of life; it is a plane wherein one is aware of the thought of other-selves; it is a plane wherein one is aware of vibrations of other-selves; it is a plane of compassion and understanding of the sorrows of third density; it is a plane striving towards wisdom or light; it is a plane wherein individual differences are pronounced although automatically harmonized by group consensus.

There is a lot of interest here in this excerpt. Where we are headed seems Utopian does it not? I wonder how our transition would go if more of us knew what was just ahead. Alas, those that are ready for the new paradigm have become aware and those not ready--would never believe it possible. 

More and more I find myself longing for the seeming simplicity of the 4th, yet wondering if I am ready for it. Doesn't election season make all of us wish for something different? Don't we all tire of the visual and emotional barrage of negativity towards others? The emphasis on separation? Now more than ever, we need to take our own stand by not buying in to the blame game. Pay no heed to what you are against or what the other guy has all wrong. Rather invest energy into what you are for--what positive steps you can take--what gaps you can bridge. How can you find and articulate common ground. That's the real work and a huge challenge.

According to Ra--"4th density is not of disharmony within peoples." Honey book my flight cause I want to be on that plane!

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Management Notice-Prepare for transfiguration

This "reading" from David Wilcock is rather long, but I found it quite interesting and supportive. Scan through it to find those things that resound with you--pass over those that confound or confuse. Click David's link to find out more about him and his ties to Edgar Cayce.


ABOUT THE READING

Just before I was on Coast, on August 10, 2010, I had a reading flow in. I was finally in a place where enough things were working properly in my life that I could trust myself to be receptive to this information.
This reading came through at an astonishingly slow speed -- only three words at a time. Except for brief parts, I was completely unaware of what was being said.
The protocol, when properly followed, involves getting your analytical mind completely out of the way, so the words can flow through without there being any analysis or understanding of what actually is being said.
It takes a lot of stored energy to do this, and I was very fortunate that this reading went on for 90 minutes straight.


MORE OF THE BACKGROUND

I had done a personal reading for myself a day or two earlier -- the first one in many months -- and it had been very useful. The stage was set for a great "global reading" that I could share with everyone.
I have been reticent to attempt any readings while my mind was so preoccupied with the tasks at hand. As Carla Rueckert, channel for the Law of One series, has said, "It is very, very easy to do channeling. It is very, very difficult to do channeling well."
Finally I am in a place where I know that my stress level has decreased enough (since finishing the main text of the book) that I can again do a quality job, and bring in data directly from the Source.
As I wrote in the previous blog, I was very jazzed by guessing our departure gate out of Heathrow Airport in London. I only had a one-in-fifty chance of getting it right and I nailed it -- when it really mattered the most.
The state of mind I went into in order to access the number '36' and have it be the correct answer is the same state I must hold for significantly longer periods of time to do a reading.
In this case, each individual set of 2-3 words comes in as a unit, much like the number 36 did. It is a long and sometimes cumbersome process, but time slips away from you after a while and you don't realize how long it has gone on for.
There is also a 'translation' process necessary to go from the natural intuitive flow, which comes in visual images that are paired with emotional impressions, to actual words -- but I have many years of experience now in doing this.

THE PRECURSOR DREAM

What tipped me off that a reading might be possible was the dream I had just woken up from.

There are very, very substantial changes going on in the world at this time, and this was clearly a dream for everyone.
In it, a former friend of mine, who was a heavy user of marijuana and alcohol, voluntarily decided to end his life by putting his head on railroad tracks as a train was coming.
For whatever reason, in the dream I decided to honor his decision and allowed him to do this.
The train came and he got swept underneath it. Now I was worried that he might be getting dragged, and going through agony before his death.
I went to find help and discovered I was in a train station that was also like a methadone clinic for recovering heroin and drug addicts.
When I finally found a staff woman and told her what had happened, she said there was nothing we could do to stop the train, and that I should accept my friend's decision.

CRUCIFIXION OF THE EGO

I realized when I woke up that this dream was talking about humanity in general at this time.
We are all moving through a transformative process where a part of ourselves is voluntarily choosing to die.
This is the part that has experienced searing pain and misery, and has consistently tried to stay in denial about what it is feeling in order to feel better.
Things like the BP oil spill have heavily shattered those walls of denial.
The train is symbolic of the transitional process we must go through to reach 'fourth density' as a collective.
There are many, many incredible signs that we are on the verge of a breakthrough, and I have plenty of notes in my journal that I can write up as time goes on and my schedule frees up to point out how much things are changing.
There is very abundant evidence that the negative elite are on their last legs, and I am stunned at the scope of data that is coming available, and how much it all interrelates.
This reading set me straight by reminding me that the goal is not to talk about when Disclosure will happen, or when the towers of the negative elite will finally whimper and groan over into ruins.
There is a much, much more important process going on at this time.

REVISITING THE LAW OF ONE MATERIAL

There has been ongoing debate about whether the shift into fourth density, described in the Law of One books, is a spontaneous energetic transfiguration -- the physical body becoming a light body -- or a slower, more 'ordinary' change.
Recently, after this reading, it occurred to me that there was additional detail in the Law of One series that I had forgotten to include.
Simply put, the source talked about how any given "third-density" planet, like the Earth is now, has a total of three 25,000-year cycles in which people can graduate to fourth density.
The fourth density is an entirely different plane of existence that is separate and inhabitable upon its own.
I realized that since people graduate from third density at the end of each 25,000-year cycle, most of the time, this means they obviously are not hanging around in any visible way for people who remain in third density.
Clearly, the transformation into fourth density life is an entirely energetic process that cannot be simply written off as a slow, gradual upgrade.
The Law of One is describing a situation where people are warping out of third-density existence as we know it and entering into a whole new reality -- once the planet itself moves into fourth density at the end of all three cycles of third density.
This may seem a minor point, but it clearly illustrated for me that the process itself MUST involve some sort of dematerialization from third density / transfiguration into a light body form in order to occur.
I've looked at a variety of scenarios for how this transition could take place, but this reading strongly reminds us that we truly are standing on the precipice of a breakthrough event in human history on Earth -- where many of us will be able to achieve this greatest of spiritual gifts, where we graduate from third density into fourth.
Without further ado, here's the reading as it flowed in as of the morning of August 10, 2010. The headings were added after the fact and I again used intuitive guidance to help write them, but not at a level as deep as the reading itself.


NEW READING AUGUST 10, 2010... "MANAGEMENT NOTICE: PREPARE FOR TRANSFIGURATION"

VIOLET FLASHES IN
 
Violet flashes in. Circumstances as they are today would be better if you were able to approach the throne of the Divine like this as often as possible.


EARTH CHANGES ARE AN EXERCISE IN DIVINE DISCIPLINE
 
Let me make a few statements regarding the coming Earth Changes. Those alleged changes are nothing more than an exercise in Divine discipline.
 
Haiti, Chile and other quakes are very real. Yes, that is true. The greater equation is an anthropocentric one. I liken it to a bird whose wings are almost ready to fly.
 

ALL THE PROPHECIES ARE NOW COMING TRUE
 
Now is the time where all the prophecies we have been giving over the years come true. Their final failing point only is that the candle wax burns lower than most would think is possible without the flame being extinguished.
 
Nonetheless, you are ripe and ready for the harvest of consciousness. The earth has cultivated its bounty, and for this we are greatly appreciative of your efforts.


YOU ARE EXPERIENCING PERSONAL EARTH CHANGES
 
There is something I want to tell you.
 
Don’t give up hope, because the messenger becomes the message. You are experiencing a shift in yourself that corresponds to these Earth Changes.
 
In your own way, you approach the Throne of the Divine, and release the constrictions that have formerly held you back from accomplishing the goals you set out to reach long before incarnation.
 

THERE IS NO NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THIS PROCESS
 
Let’s establish a few fundamentals here. There really is no need to worry about anything related to this process.
 
We have never strayed from the goal of protecting you from the inevitable upsets and inadequate decisions that have so often been made on your planet.
 
This spell in the woods is a temporary one. While you are trying to find your home, in one sense, in another you recognize that you have indeed arrived in the here and now.
 

AN OVERWHELMING CHANGE IN PERSPECTIVE
 
This tsunami so many concern themselves with is not a physical one. It is an overwhelming change in perspective brought on by unpredictable personal events.
 
And in that sense, we are responsible for fomenting these changes within yourself.
 
 
THIS PROCESS IS GUIDED AT THE VERY HIGHEST LEVELS
 
This process the Earth is now going through is guided at the very highest levels to insure that you will approach whatever level of progress is suitable for you, without ever straying too far, if at all, from the course at hand.


A PART OF YOUR PSYCHE NEEDS TO DIE
 
As we demonstrated in David’s dream, there is an aspect of your psychological makeup, if you will, that must allow itself to die, or at the very least give way to a greater level of beingness within yourself.
 
This is the mystery for which so many are unprepared. They haven’t experienced enough humility within their own lives to be honorably certain of the illusory nature of this so-called ‘ego’ – this false sense of self that is built upon illusion and materiality.
 
I would prefer that we reframe the discussion away from the minor trivialities of each day and its unexpected turmoils, and instead re-orient our focus towards the same spiritual practices that have sustained the masters for millennia throughout the Cosmos.
 

THE TRUTH IS VERY SIMPLE
 
The truth is indeed very simple. And with that truth comes the reconciliation of the desires of the divine self with those of the mortal mind, so to speak.
 
It isn’t that hard to ruin those castles of falsity that the ego mind or personality self, if you will, would erect.
 
This time around, I have left to you as to how to figure out the straightest and narrowest path to these changes.
 
Opening yourself to service, and being willing to help others, indeed reconciles many of the conflicts that have otherwise plagued these thoughts and actions.


EACH LIFE IS PRECIOUS BEYOND IMAGINATION
 
Comets and their dust may indeed contain organic compounds, and the Universe is alive on a level most could not conceive of.
 
That doesn’t mean that we fail to notice each and every subtle nuance of the dance of consciousness.
 
Each life is precious beyond imagination, and our goal is to topple those false castles and replace them with that which rings true throughout the millennia.


BE AWARE OF THE PEACE AND STILLNESS OF EVERY MOMENT
 
It is simpler than you may think to open yourself to this process. It does not require elaborate training or investigative protocols into arcane arts and sciences.
 
Rather, it is simply an awareness of the peace and the stillness of each and every moment.
 

OPENING YOURSELF TO RECEIVE INFORMATION
 
Within the bounty of that moment, there is endless opportunity to open yourself to receive information from higher planes in a clear and understandable manner.
 
Much of this information comes through in the form of subtle, fleeting bursts of thought that you are accustomed to seeing as imagination.
 
You may be accustomed to hiding yourself from the Divine – instinctively.
 
Many of you feel that to go topless, in the energetic sense, is far too naked and exposing.
 
By energetically topless, we mean letting go of this illusion of privacy, and actually opening yourself to receive direct communication from your own Higher Self – regarding you and your path and what is most suitable for you.


EMBRACE THE LOVE BEHIND INTUITIVE MESSAGES – EVEN THE STRENUOUS ONES
 
Regardless of the means through which communication is possible, any authentic reception of such data will invariably involve feedback notes on various manners in which you may decide to change yourself for the betterment of your own vibrational ministry, let’s say.
 
It takes a great deal of practice to learn to accept these dream messages, intuitive promptings, or other such forms of communication with the love that was intended behind them – even when the message can seem rather strenuous, as in the case of an obsessive, repeating nightmare, let’s say.
 
Every dream contains data that is relevant to your higher quest for knowledge – and they will not pull punches.
 
You will hear things about yourself that can seem overwhelmingly negative or disappointing. And in many cases, the simple lack of accountability that so many would feel, in the spiritual sense, causes them to shut down or ignore the potential value of these transactions.
 
To wake up in a sea of water and [be] barely able to reach the surface is the emotional equivalent of what we are discussing here.
 

IT IS MUCH EASIER TO DENY THE MESSAGES
 
Ultimately we are aware of the need for this fragmented sense of self that has been constructed to effectively die, and give way to a greater integration of the truth of your Being.
 
As a sovereign citizen of the Universe, you are entitled to certain inalienable rights. And of course, you have veto power over any intuitive message that would come along.
 
In fact, it is much easier for you to deny these messages, and undermine their significance by failing to appreciate the seriousness with which they are imbued.


REMEMBER THEY ARE OFFERED IN LOVE AND GRATITUDE
 
More importantly, however, when you get these notes from the Universe, please remember that they are offered in love and in gratitude to you.
 
It can seem that so many have said hurtful things to you over your years of life that any such messages of potential significance in how you may change yourself for the better could be seen and construed as insulting.
 

THE FRAGMENTED SELF SEES IT AS DEATH, NOT INTEGRATION
 
The fragmented self builds elaborate fortifications against any attempt to be identified and ultimately attacked.
 
It perceives these changes as an attack because it does not like to go along with the plan of its own projected destruction that will take place within a certain timeline – according to a sequence of events it knows well, instinctively speaking.


YOU ARE NOT BEING WEAK AND DEFERENTIAL TO FOLLOW THE SUGGESTIONS
 
In the ideal sense, the humility of your Being in the midst of these intuitive suggestions is such that an appreciative attitude and a willingness to investigate these suggestions does not imbue you with the sense of having been weak and deferential.


THE GAME IS CHANGING
 
Soon you will have new responsibilities to uphold, as the game is changing.
 
There is no need to compensate for any apparent lack that you may have felt in the past. Let’s look at what you are doing right, as opposed to what you may be doing wrong.


VERY DIFFICULT TO MAINTAIN A SENSE OF SELF WITHIN SUCH CHANGES
 
The fragile nature of identity is easy to lose track of. It can be very difficult to maintain that sense of self in the midst of such overwhelming emotional and spiritual changes.
 
And yet, the space between thoughts is indeed a fine place to be.


TRY THE SUGGESTED CHANGES ON FOR SIZE
 
I like that aspect of the journey. It doesn’t involve a marriage certificate having to be signed the minute you decide to humble yourself to the guidance.
 
You can investigate the changes that are being suggested, try them on for size, see what works for you, and discard the rest if it does not feel appropriate.


WE DO NOT WISH TO CULTIVATE DEPENDENCY
 
This message is tailor-made to the needs of the many, based upon our observations of those who have heard the messages through this instrument known as David Wilcock.
 
It is our goal to assist you in your evolutionary process, and we do not wish to cultivate a drug-like dependency on the words of this instrument.
 
We have noticed that so many are concerned with the frequency with which the one known as David writes.
 
When there is an interim period where he would otherwise be preoccupied, there are many disappointing letters indicating how deeply his presence is missed.
 
Again, our goal is not to promote David or his works. David is one aspect of a much greater collective initiative, and it has many, many facets.
 
Our goal is to reach the shoreline of your awareness, and set sail with a craft of our own design in collaboration with you – such that there is no need to worry about the future, or concern yourself with the frequency of available materials of any kind, whether they be David’s writings or otherwise.
 
[Transcription Note 8/28: I just finished a long conversation on the airplane with someone about sailing right before going back in to add in these headlines and comments. Another great synchronicity!]


LEARN TO TRUST THAT HUMANITY WILL NOT GO EXTINCT
 
This time, the victory that is at hand is your own. It is an adaptation of the deeper meaning of what it is to trust.
 
Do you really need David’s words to explain to you why each new fear-porn situation, as he calls it, is not going to transpire?
 
Have there not been enough examples, even in the recent past, such as the alleged swine flu vaccine scare and now that of the Deepwater Horizon / BP oil spill, that you may see how these events are very carefully and precisely monitored so that no actual extinction-level events take place?
 

THE STAKES HAVE TO SEEM VERY REAL TO GET YOU TO AWAKEN TO COMPASSION FOR OTHERS
 
It can be very captivating to contemplate the death of lots of people, and that is for a reason.
 
You are indeed living in an illusion. The terms of the illusion include the fact that life comes and goes, on every level, including that of the human.
 
This does not mean that there is a callous disregard for your safety and well-being, or that you are swimming with sharks who shall inevitably tear you to pieces at a given time when they identify you.
 
Quite to the contrary, this world is [part of] a holographic universe whose purpose is to further your own process of evolution by helping you achieve levels of self-realization that would take myriad aeons of time in higher realms to achieve.
 
The stakes within this illusion have to seem very real.


THE FRAGMENTED SELF CLINGS TO THE MATERIAL WORLD

The fragmented self we spoke of before most desperately clings to the identity of the material world.
 
Its existence is predicated upon the desire to stabilize and enhance the consistency and the appreciability of the material universe for its own benefit, and the benefit of friends, acquaintances, family and people it identifies with.
 

SEEING THE DEATH AND SUFFERING OF OTHERS ULTIMATELY CREATES A DEATH OF THE EGOIC MIND
 
Therefore, when [the fragmented self] is faced with a phenomenon as complex and seemingly troublesome as suffering and death, it is inclined to feel that this desire for consistency and stability has been heavily threatened, if not eliminated. 
 
The fear of the so-called Illuminati or New World Order forces is ultimately a reflection of the egoic mind, if you will, knowing the inevitability of its own destruction.
 

EGOIC DEATH IS NOT A NEGATIVE
 
As we have said, that destruction is not a negative event at all.
 
With the collapsing of the falsehoods and the lies that one so habitually tells oneself comes the opportunity for large-scale transformation on a level never heretofore possible.


YOU WILL SEE THE COLLECTIVE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL
 
You will indeed see the collapse of things you thought stable and secure.
 
You will stare into the mouth of the dark cave, and wonder what monstrosities may lie on the other side of that portal.
 
You may indeed find yourself faced with seemingly mortal challenges – both individually and collectively as a whole.
 
 
TRANSFIGURATION COMES AFTER LETTING GO OF MANY CONVENIENT CRUTCHES
 
This [time of seemingly mortal challenge] is not without precedent. It is written into the very fabric of the Universe.
 
It allows you to be present at the moment of your own transfiguration.
 
This, of course, comes in the aftermath of the letting go of many strictures and complexities of consciousness that seemed so convenient for you in the past.


THE ELITE TRY TO USE UNIVERSAL LAW TO CREATE EARTH CHANGES
 
The material world is a feedback instrument for your consciousness.
 
There is individual and collective free will.
 
You have watched those we could deem the planetary elite attempting to use the creative power of the mind to foment said Earth Changes and other such violent events by making films and stories about them – in the hopes that all the people seeing and believing these events will in turn hasten their arrival.


NEGATIVE GROUPS TRY TO REDUCE POPULATION – BUT THIS IS HOW PLANETARY AWAKENING TAKES PLACE
 
It is absolutely correct that these power groups wish to dramatically reduce population on Earth.
 
They also feel that this is a benevolent action due to the consequences of the so-called “population bomb” – if the numbers were left unchecked.
 
There are indeed complications involved in any such population boom.
 
However, those complications are part of the greater picture of the apparent planetary crisis you shall be faced with at the end of an era such as this.
 
You have not exceeded the boundaries of any such universal plan or initiative.
 
It is instead extremely consistent with what has come before on many other worlds.


THESE PROCESSES ARE GUIDED VERY CAREFULLY – AND ARE NOT MEANT TO INVOLVE MASS DEATH
 
The changes that will transpire are not meant to involve mass death and casualties.
 
There are certain unavoidable losses, from the physical perspective, that will occur.
 
This is the result of so many hazardous situations that portray themselves to you as palpable threats to your existence.
 
Please be advised that these processes are guided very carefully, so as to preserve free will – such that no one meets with an experience that is other than most useful for them at that time.


NO ONE IN THE HIGHER REALMS ENJOYS SEEING YOU SUFFER
 
Remember your soul is outside physical form. It chooses an incarnation such as the one you now have for the purposes of its own evolution.
 
Everything in this material world that you see around you is ultimately holographic. That being said, no one in the higher realms eagerly anticipates you feeling pain, or being injured, or going through upsetting events.
 
There is no sarcasm nor sardonic glee in watching you go through your darkest moments as a person.


THE LAW OF KARMA IS IN EFFECT
 
However, there is what many have termed the law of karma in effect.
 
This, of course, means that what you measure out to others shall be measured back to you.


THE LAW OF GRACE KEEPS YOU FROM BEING FULLY ACCOUNTABLE FOR ALL YOUR KARMA
 
There are caveats to this law, which the one known as Edgar Cayce called the Law of Grace.
 
In fact, were you fully accountable for all aspects of that which you know to be an infringement upon free will, the karmic events would be much too severe for there to be any learning value in them.
 
You would feel perpetually tormented and cursed by bad luck in the vast majority of cases to which we are referring.
 

EFFORTS ARE MADE TO SCALE YOUR KARMA TO AN UNDERSTANDABLE LEVEL

Therefore, efforts are made to scale the intensity of your experiences to a believable and achievable level – where you can then appreciate what it is that comes your way, and potentially understand the deeper significance of that which has happened.
 
David has called such events, when they arrive, a “karmic blast”. And for now we will use that term.
 

WHEN KARMA APPEARS TO HAVE TAKEN PLACE, REMEMBER YOU ARE LOVED
 
We would humbly request that when you receive a “karmic blast”, you step away from the apparent feelings of judgment and criticism that your mind would be quick to assign to those events, and instead understand and reflect upon the fact that you are loved more than you could ever possibly imagine.
 
When these balancing events occur, they are administered with a hopefulness that this will finally penetrate the heavily-fortified defenses of the personality self, or ego mind, and get a message through about how those thoughts and deeds that you have created in turn affect others – by then bringing to you the reflection of those experiences through your own lens.
 
It really is never intended to be punishment, but we so often see great tears and great forlorn emotions arising from such “karmic blasts”.


IF YOU REACH CERTAIN GOALS, NEW ONES WILL MOVE INTO VIEW
 
Each soul chooses an incarnation for a particular purpose. There are indeed goals that you have set out to achieve, prior to ever taking on this body you now enjoy.
 
Should these goals be achieved, your Higher Self is more than capable of upgrading the software, so to speak, and bringing in new levels of the curriculum of evolution that may not even have been chosen for you in one lifetime otherwise.
 
It is not as if you stop growing once you reach a certain level.


THE DEATH IS PSYCHOLOGICAL BUT MAY INVOLVE PHYSICAL LOSSES AS WELL
 
The death of this distorted personality self is a psychological event, which may also be heralded by certain physical consequences and upheavals in your own life: the loss of a significant relationship, the loss of prestige, the loss of assets and financial instruments, the loss of pride.
 
Whatever the consequences may be, it is quite accurate to reflect upon the non-random nature of your experiences.
 

EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON
 
It is an illusion to assume that things have happened to you without causation in a spiritual sense.
 
I fully understand how difficult this can be to appreciate, for the mind is conditioned to see itself in an acausal universe.
 

PRIVACY AND SECRECY IS AN ILLUSION IN THE HIGHER SENSE

It is believed that there is no “glass ceiling” as you go about your private thoughts within your own mind.
 
Many have utilized the illusory nature of privacy and secrecy to foster this apparent notion of the ‘hidden’ and the unrevealed.
 
On the other hand, you can shut down these false perceptions very easily, by opening yourself to the significance of each and every moment of your life.


THE LAW OF KARMA WORKS MUCH STRONGER FOR THE POSITIVE
 
Nothing happens by accident. And the law of Karma works just as well – in fact, much more effectively – in returning and remunerating positive gifts to others as it does in balancing that which is deemed as an infringement upon others.
 
The counterbalance of positive karma is actually much more significant than any negative backlash you may feel has occurred.


YOU ARE IN A MASTER CLASS OF TRANSFIGURATION
 
So let’s not kid ourselves about the greater implications of what you go through.
 
It is not something that leads up to a person becoming similar to David or others with his intuitive talents.
 
What you are growing into will go far, far beyond that level.
 
This is a master class.
 
And the goal is nothing more than transfiguration.


YOU CAN CATCH THE WAVE – AND BECOME INTOXICATED WITH LOVE
 
You do have the opportunity to “catch the wave” of transformation that flows through your planet at this time, and [it] can captivate you in its good will to the point where you do become intoxicated with love – not in any negative way, but an overwhelmingly joyful remembrance of your true identity as the One Infinite Creator.
 
In that moment, you have become akin to a gas station.
 
Others are naturally filled with abundance by simply being in your presence.
 
There is a positive attitude that radiates from you without there being naïveté.
 
 
APPRECIATE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WHY THESE THINGS HAPPEN
 
In such cases you are able to see through the seeming pain and destruction of certain experiences that come along, and appreciate the deeper significance of why these things are meant to happen.
 

THE EXPERIENCE OF A PHYSICAL UNIVERSE INTRODUCES DUALITY
 
This illusion of a physical universe with stars, planets and voids of space has been carefully and delicately constructed from a single thought – a single identity that is One.
 
Of course, the experience of a physical universe introduces apparent duality into this Identity.
 

REMEMBERING YOUR TRUE SELF
 
However, with this apparent duality comes the shackling of an aspect of the mind to a continuum of incarnations and strenuous experiences in the course of its remembrance of its true self.
 
Cascading like a waterfall through each and every new twist and turn in the plot, your beingness approaches itself yet again.
 
For every experience, every environment, every other self you meet is but a reflection of the timelessness and the foreverness of your own identity.
 
That is the great realization that collapses the mysteries of the physical world.
 
That is the moment where you no longer see your environment as somehow separate from yourself, or your experiences as somehow separate from yourself.
 
 
YOU ARE THE COSMOS

Your identity is the Earth. It is the others around you. It is the planets. It is the Sun. It is the Galaxy. It is the Cosmos. And it is all the different densities within said Cosmos.
 
Let us be clear that even a single moment of realization of your cosmic identity can be more than enough to brighten up the walls and let a little light in to a room that may at times have felt like solitary confinement.
 
But you are not confined to a body.
 
 
YOU ARE NOT RESTRICTED BY BEING ON EARTH

You have not been restricted by incarnating on Earth at this time – or whatever planet you may be reading this from, or hearing these words within.
 
Instead, the table has been set for you to come and have a meal that is the harvest of your own labors.
 
 
WHAT YOU ARE BEING SERVED IS WHAT YOU HAVE CULTIVATED

Nothing that comes your way is by accident.
 
It is the result of what you have created.
 
So like the farmer who enjoys her home-grown vegetables with each meal, your life is akin to a meal. And what you are being served is what you have cultivated.
 
 
A LOSS OF STABILITY IS OFTEN NECESSARY TO OPEN YOU TO SPIRIT

If you do not appreciate what life has been serving up, look to that which you have cultivated for insights into how you may seemingly improve your experience.
 
This does not require exceptional talent or even stability in any physical or financial sense.
 
In fact, the more destabilized you become, the more open you are to receiving these messages from Spirit within your own dance of existence.
 
It is in those moments when the comfort and convenience of the physical world are disrupted that you then have even more opportunities to turn within and rely upon that trust.
 
 
LEARN TO TRUST THE GREATER INITIATIVE RATHER THAN OVER-ANALYZING

I wouldn’t get too concerned about the stages that you will go through, or what will happen and when.
 
These are the flailings of the egoic mind in its attempt to control the experiences it shall have, rather than handing over its delicate and fastidious analytical abilities to the much greater trust that can come with an awakening to the initiative that has been brought through to this planet by its very existence within this Cosmos.
 
You don’t need to over-analyze. You don’t need to judge. And you don’t need to fear.
 
 
EVERY EXPERIENCE IS A MIRROR

Whatever experience comes your way, even if it is strenuous and difficult, know that at this magical time in your planet’s history, it is manifested for a specific purpose.
 
In almost all cases, it serves as the mirror – showing you a slightly, if not greatly exaggerated version of what you yourself have been doing.
 
 
EVEN THE VILLAINS WILL EVENTUALLY GO POSITIVE – OR ELSE DISSOLVE BACK INTO UNIVERSAL ENERGY

In order for this illusion to work properly, those who would serve as villains must be led to believe that what they are doing is part of their own cosmic destiny and plan.
 
And in some senses, that is true.
 
However, even those who have indulged in the left-hand or service-to-self path shall most likely turn positive – as the other option is, of course, to eventually dissolve back into the background energy of the Universe.
 
This comes in time, over what you would consider many, many eons – but the shift can be made quite rapidly once greater illumination is attained.
 
 
OUR TEACHINGS ABOUT INITIATION WERE GREATLY DISTORTED

Long ago, in your physical terms, we visited your planet and gave certain teachings about the integration of the Higher Self with the mortal flesh.
 
We spoke in detail about the necessity of the death of this egoic mind and its constructs.
 
We also offered a path of initiation whereby this procedure could be dramatized in the course of sacred work.
 
As you probably well know, or have intuited, these practices were not lost – but the compassionate nature of them was indeed filtered away in the apparent violence of that which transpires during the course of one’s own initiation.
 
It was believed that God, if you will, was a rapacious, destructive force with sharp teeth and little concern for your sorrows as you go through the great churning upheavals of the personality self.
 
It was believed that chaos was the key to evolution, and the deliberate creation of chaos an essential element of compassionately helping others to evolve to their potential.
 
 
WE DID NOT ANTICIPATE HOW SEVERELY OUR MESSAGE WOULD BE CONTORTED

We now understand the necessity for this type of misunderstanding to have arisen, but it does not mean that we agree with such a perspective.
 
It should be obvious that after many thousands of years, a phenomenon not unlike the telephone game can happen – and many misunderstandings can and will occur.
 
What we did not anticipate was the degree to which those beings in the Universe who lean towards the negative path would be capable of contorting our message beyond all rational nuances.
 
We did not anticipate that it would lead to the worshipping of death and chaos as if it were a spiritual path.
 
 
THOSE WHO WISH FOR CHAOS HAVE LOST TOUCH WITH THE ORIGINAL TEACHINGS

At this time, there are those active within your planetary elite who very much wish to incite chaos on a planetary level.
 
In their blood lust, they have completely lost touch with whatever it was they felt this process would do that was positive.
 
Their own sense of egotism has grown far beyond the ability to self-reflect and understand the compassion with which these messages were originally offered.
 
 
MANY WITHIN THE ELITE ARE NOW AWAKENING TO GENUINE COMPASSION

What intrigues us, however, is to observe how many of those who are within these groups are coming now to a personal realization about the greater nature of what it means to be human, and the compassion for others that comes out of that understanding.
 
To actually worship and embrace chaos and death as if that were the path is to greatly move away from the most natural, organic feelings within oneself – which is the desire to love and be loved in return.
 
 
THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE

It seems so simple, and yet much as in the legend of the tortoise and the hare, the calm persistence of love will eventually win out over the seemingly rapid race run by those who believe themselves to be far ahead of the game at this time, in the planetary sense.
 
There is no need to repeat the lessons for millennia and millennia, but if that is what has been chosen [by those within the elite], then it shall be honored by the Universe.
 
 
AN INCREASING NUMBER OF DEFECTORS

An increasing number of defectors are coming out at this time, for they appreciate others on a level where this sardonic glee in their sorrow no longer has any emotional resonance.
 
 
THERE IS MORE THAN ENOUGH CHAOS FROM THE FORCES OF NATURE ALONE

It was believed that by fomenting chaos, order would result – and that this was a compassionate action.
 
However, at this time, the transitions your planet is going through create more than enough emotionally valuable experience for others to move through. There is no need for any other forms of chaos to be introduced.
 
 
THOSE ON THE NEGATIVE PATH WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO PROCEED PAST CERTAIN LEVELS

With that being said, it is also the case that those who would wish to deliberately create such upheaval will find themselves unable to ever proceed past certain levels.
 
And thus you do see many plans that have been made, and continue to be made – and literally a religious worshipping of the thought and the idea of that worldwide disruption and chaos coming to fruition.
 
It is what many of these insider groups cling to like a life raft, as they well understand that in the teachable moments of chaos, there are opportunities to shift the equation and create sudden and explicit changes in how societies run and how peoples may think and conduct themselves.
 
Yet, these plans will continue to be foiled by a seemingly hidden force. They will continue to just not work out.
 
There will be upsets and seemingly inexplicable problems.
 
Expectations, computer modelings will just not work out the way they had been planned.
 
Somehow, things always change in a way that benefits the collective.
 
 
THEIR DOWNFALL COMES FROM WITHIN

The identification and exposure of these negative groups is happening from within.
 
It does not require any Universal admission from higher forces, stepping in and manifesting before you on a planetary level, to then tell you what has been going wrong and why it must be stopped.
 
Instead, the transformation is happening now – from within the groups themselves.
 
There are various factions, and then within those factions there are further sub-factions, and so on – ad infinitum.
 
The point is that these different factional groups turned against one another because the very nature of these elite super-secret societies is to worship betrayal, and to constantly hunt around the pecking order for one’s position.
 
There are inevitable and invariable challenges to any perceived hierarchy of authority, and no one can agree upon the goals or the fulfillment or the timelines with which said fulfillments will occur.
 
 
LACK OF CONSENSUS CAUSES A ‘DUMBING DOWN’

There is, in a very real sense, a dumbing down that happens as a result of this lack of consensus.
 
Overall goals are still espoused as being of great significance and value, but there are many, many denominations of faith, if you will, each of whom believe their path to be the right one – and that their ticket shall win the lottery when the time comes.
 
Of course, we are now speaking to some of those within these groups in this message, as well as others who simply appreciate our perspective, but are not in any way actively involved.
 
 
MOST EXTRATERRESTRIALS ARE BENEVOLENT – AND CANNOT INTERFERE BEYOND A MINIMAL LEVEL

It is absolutely true that the vast majority of extraterrestrials are benevolent and peaceful in nature.
 
It is also true that they operate within, to some extent, a structured illusion of their own.
 
They are obliged to help and participate in this planet’s evolution by working with so many on a spiritual level as guides, protectors and wayshowers.
 
That is not to say that they understand the greater inevitability of the change that is happening.
 
They too need to be inspired by the potential threat that they perceive – that these events may not go in the way that is most beneficial for humanity.
 
And the charter they must work within at that level does not permit them to interfere with what is going on beyond a minimum level.
 
 
AT ‘MANAGEMENT’ LEVEL A GREAT DEAL OF INTERVENTION OCCURS

However, the level at which we operate is a level in which we can indeed manage and transfer planetary populations.
 
You are free to laugh at this if you choose, but know that there are levels of the game, if you would call it that – this evolution of consciousness – wherein these planetary ascension procedures are carefully guarded and guided.
 
 
IT MUST APPEAR THAT NO INTERVENTION HAS EVER TAKEN PLACE

In order to do our job most effectively, we must work from a level wherein it does not seem that anything is being done at all.
 
Coincidences seem to happen. Things just have a way of working out.
 
Every time that a destructive event is thwarted, it could be very much analyzed and traced back to easily discernible causes that seem to have nothing to do with spiritual intervention.
 
That is the nature of how we work.
 
 
YOU ARE HELPED ON A LEVEL EVEN THE BENEVOLENT ET’S ARE NOT AWARE OF

There is a level which you do not perceive, which even the benevolent extraterrestrials who help your planet usually are not aware of.
 
This level does not involve sudden manifestation of ships throughout your skies – at least not until the appropriate moment has been reached.
 
For you are indeed rejoining a Galactic family of humans. That is one of the greatest metaphysical truths you can approach.
 
 
YOU HAVE MANY, MANY FRIENDS IN THE UNIVERSE

How truly well-populated this Universe is with those who would be as your friends!
 
For they are not “aliens”. They are not other than you. They are your Self, as they are made of the same Consciousness that has imbued this Cosmos with the awareness you now enjoy as you hear these words.
 
How can they be anything other than very close encounters when they happen?
 
It is a family reunion. A rejoining with aspects of your Self that you may indeed seem to have lost – but truly were never far away.
 
 
TIME-VIEWING TECHNOLOGIES DO NOT SEE THE ACTUAL TIMELINES THAT WILL OCCUR

Even the devices that the planetary elite would use to view through time and see events that have not yet transpired can be easily modified by these higher forces, if you will, so as not to telegraph what will actually transpire.
 
Otherwise, the game would be spoiled.
 
 
WE CALL IT A ‘GAME’ BECAUSE IT DOES HAVE A WAY YOU CAN ‘WIN’

And the reason why we keep referring to this as a game is not to denigrate, in any way, the value and the importance of one’s individual experience.
 
It is instead to uplift the nature of what you experience with the knowingness that it is all part of a curriculum that is headed towards a destination.
 
There is indeed a way in which the game may be won, for lack of a better term.
 

APPRECIATING WHO YOU REALLY ARE
 
Winning the game involves appreciating who you are.
 
And that is the greatest question you can ever ask yourself.
 
To meditate on the truth of your identity, and the vastness of that truth, is to eclipse the apparent significance of all the things the body would like to have –
 
all the comfort and all the material pleasures it would seek to stack around itself –
 
and replace those longings with the greater knowingness that in every moment, regardless of how difficult it may seem at the time, this truth of your Identity is right there.
 
And it comes to you through simply awakening to the purity and stillness of the Now.
 
 
SEE ETERNITY IN THIS MOMENT

This moment contains love. This moment contains peace. This moment is eternal.
 
And even the nature of Time as that which indicates duration must ultimately fall away, for Timelessness is accessible in the moment as well.
 
No past, no future – merely Existence. But it is not that mere. It is much greater and vaster than most could ever comprehend within the constructs of a finite mortal mind.
 
 
THE FINITE MORTAL MIND IS A SPRINGBOARD TO YOUR COSMIC IDENTITY

Thankfully, the finite, mortal mind does not represent the fullness of who you are.
 
It is a jumping-off point – a vehicle through which you may indeed embrace your cosmic identity, and catch a glimpse of that greater I AM presence that you can step into at any time.
 
 
YOU NEED NOT FEAR THE PROCESS

The experiences that are being offered to you at this point are truly monumental. And you need not fear the process.
 
For in the greater sense, you are the light. You are the love. You are the One Infinite Creator.
 
This is as it was, as it is now, and as it always shall be. And nothing and no one can take that from you.
 

TURN WITHIN AND YOU WILL RECEIVE ANSWERS
 
We stand at the ready, willing to assist any and all who call upon us for support.
 
Rather than tormenting this instrument, David, with requests for his time and energy, you need only turn within.
 
For you are the Cosmos. You are Eternity.
 
If you appreciate our vibrations, you are more than welcome to call upon us for support.
 
And there are many others to assist you as well. We are but one voice.
 
We thank you, and remind you that you are indeed loved more than you could ever possibly imagine. Adonai, and amen.

Friday, September 3, 2010

Homecoming

I will be hanging out with 33 of my closest fellow wanderers on Sunday at the L/L Research Homecoming in Anchorage, KY. These are the folks--Carla and Jim-- who were instrumental in obtaining and recording the Ra material that I have spoken about in previous posts (Wanderers Unite and RA RA RA). Carla has been on a slow recovery path from serious back surgery--I haven't seen her since March. All of us are hoping to bolster her strength with our presence at the meeting.
Homecoming is a three day event for those who are on the path of discovery (self) and growth (self). I will be attending on Sunday--the agenda for Sunday is:

8-9 am: Breakfast and morning caffeination
9-930 am: Morning Offering --Carla and Jim
930-1030: Carla presents: 2012-Polarity
1030-1045: Break
1045-1145: Q&A
1145-230pm: Lunch
230-400: Our Greatest Challenge--Round Robin Discussion
400-415: Break (snacks)
415-530: Q'uo Channelling
630-900: Supper--Captain's Quarters on the Ohio River
900-915: Gaia Meditation
915-930: Stained Glass art of Pupak H.

One thing that is obvious from the schedule is that all this intense seeking gives one an appetite ;-}. I am looking forward to the day for sure, especially the 2012 Polarity presentation by Carla, and plan to pay keen attention so I can l report back to RandEE.

Stay tuned.

Friday, August 13, 2010

Free Will

I ran across this wonderful thoughtful missive by Rob Brezny--the Free Will Horoscope guy. I love his weekly horoscopes--they are interesting--and so is his take on Dec 21, 2012. Read on, and see if you agree.

week of August 12, 2010
It's Already December 21, 2012
(excerpted from the revised and expanded edition of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia)

Many visionaries and prophets expect there to be a huge and sudden shift in the world's story sometime soon. Whether it happens on December 21, 2012 or a later date, a sizable proportion of them even predict that it will be "in the twinkling of an eye" -- a sudden cascade of events that completely changes everything everywhere.

Some paint the scenario in broad, catastrophic strokes, expecting something -- they're not sure what -- that will have the impact of a large meteor strike or nuclear war or pandemic disease. Others harbor a more benign but equally fuzzy expectation, speculating that maybe some higher psychic powers will kick in to the multitudes all at once, or that benevolent extraterrestrials will arrive to solve our energy crisis.

What very few of the prophets do, however, is make a precise prediction about exactly will happen. Their visions contain no assurances, no specifics. And in my view, that's worse than useless. It fills us with a vague buzz of fear or amorphous sense of hope, but offers no concrete directions about what to do to prevent the dreaded thing or help create the hoped-for thing.

And the fact is, as I see it, they can't possibly know what the Big Shift is -- if, that is, a Big Shift is really looming. The very nature of any Big Shift will be so unexpected, so beyond our imaginations, and so utterly alien to what we understand, that we can't possibly delineate its contours in advance.

I'm reminded of Jung's formula, which is that we don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.

This theory can be applied in reverse: If we have not yet grown wiser than our current predicament, then we can't see what the evolved state is beyond the predicament. Our minds are as-yet incapable of embodying the vision that will catapult us beyond the problem we're stuck in.

When the Big Shift comes, whether or not it comes in the twinkling of an eye, it will be something that no one foresaw, let alone described in detail. It will be beyond our comprehension, unlike anything we could have visualized headed our way. (Thirty years ago, did anyone imagine the Internet or the impact it's having?)

And if that's true, then the inescapable conclusion is: There's no use trying to plan ahead for it. It's counterproductive to hold a particular scenario in our mind as the likely development. And it's downright crazy to harbor a chronic sense of dread about an unknowable, unimaginable series of events.

The best way to prepare for a Big Shift is to cultivate mental and emotional states that ripen us to be ready for anything:

* a commitment to not getting lost inside our own heads;

* a strategy to avoid being enthralled with the hypnotic lure of painful emotions, past events, and worries about the future;

* a trust in empirical evidence over our time-worn beliefs and old habits;

* a talent for turning up our curiosity full blast and tuning in to the raw truth of every moment with our beginner's mind fully engaged;

* and an eagerness to dwell gracefully in the midst of all the interesting questions that tease and teach us.

Everything I just described also happens to be an excellent way to prime yourself for a chronic, low-grade, always-on, simmering-at-low-heat brand of ecstasy -- a state of being more-or-less permanently in the Tao, in the groove, in the zone.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Summer time and the livin' is easy

It has been a hot hot summer, and full of travel for me. There is nothing like time away from your local scene to revitalize and revamp your spirits, especially if one can escape to a more pleasant climate. When I return, I sometimes feel like a different person--rejuvenated--more reflective--wrapped in new energy, and ready for a new direction. I have been thinking alot about big picture stuff in the last year. My head has been thoroughly cloud-bound --some of my closest can attest ;-}--and so, less connected in this-here real-live d2d.

So I am present now, looking at a 98 degree summer afternoon and wondering ........when am I going to enjoy being in the garden again, and what im/practical new direction is beckoning me? A bit of earth and cloud.

Living is easy. It is so easy that we can navigate our way through our days only partially engaged---paying half attention. I know I do. Too often. Dealing with and enduring the present, always anticipating what is coming next, I have hustled through so many years it is not hard to realize why the memories of those years are so fuzzy (it's not just the margaritas at fault). Breaking the rush rush habit is not so easy, but I realize that when I travel I kind of do just that. The habits fall away and one is left with attention and discovery. No wonder I return with such vitality and a sense of more that I can experience and become.

How long does it take to fall back into the old life/old patterns/old dynamics? A few days-a few weeks? At some point a person has to grab the ring--make a change--jump to the next level--take the other fork in the road. All it takes is self discipline, focus, commitment-- all those qualities that lay dormant on a hot summer afternoon like this one. It would be easy enough to let this wild agitating hair (so you've seen me?) I acquired on my latest trip to gently fade away--easy enough to join the local/general malaise.

But tonight I will try to harness a little bit of that special energy and use it for good--maybe a new work of art, or plan the next trip (I know--it's future stuff) or envelop someone else in the cocoon with me. Summer time is for sharing, if one is lucky.

Friday, July 16, 2010

Guruji

 I had to post this article I read on Ken Wilber's website--I had vaguely heard of Guruji--interesting stuff. Is he of the new wave of persons physically equipped for the 4th density?

A Narrative on Guruji
June 21, 2010 14:11

Recently, I have been getting a lot of email asking me if I have, in fact, written several endorsements for the work of a spiritual teacher, Mr. Trivedi ("Guruji" to his friends and students), and if so, why?
The answer is yes (see the full essay below), and the reason is based entirely on direct, specific, scientific evidence. This evidence is so astonishing that I myself have never seen anything quite like it. Is Guruji "enlightened"? Well, you can meet him and decide that issue for yourself. What I am claiming—and supporting—is that Guruji's capacity to conduct and transmit universal spiritual energy (or "shakti") is utterly remarkable, as proven by scientific experiments themselves. It is these direct, specific, scientific experiments and their results that I am reporting, and on which I am basing my endorsement. This is a scientific conclusion, not a spiritual one (although, of course, you are free to make those as well—but I am reporting the direct science, which is indeed astonishing).
To put it briefly, Mr. Trivedi has an empirically demonstrated capacity to alter the atomic and molecular structure of phenomena simply through his conscious intentionality. The number of experiments done on this capacity (known in Sanskrit as shaktipat) that have been done in coordination with Mr. Trivedi is quite extraordinary—so far, over 5,000 empirical studies by universities and scientific research organizations all over the world (including the world renowned materials scientist Dr. Rustum Roy at the University of Pennsylvania). A very brief sampling of these experiments include:
  • Dr. Rustum Roy is a world renown scholar/researcher of impeccable credentials in materials science (at the University of Pennsylvania). Experiments in his laboratory showed, according to Dr. Roy, "Mr. Trivedi's capacity to alter the very structure of water molecules"—among other minerals and elemental molecules. Dr. Roy is now a very strong advocate of Guruji's shaktipat capacities—based, again, on direct experimental science—and has attended and helped coordinate several conferences showcasing Guruji's capacities.
  • "Blessed" crops ("blessed" is the word Mr. Trivedi uses to indicate the action of his intentionality in consciousness to bring about the desired change in the blessed object) show yields up to an astonishing 500% higher than a field of the same (but unblessed) crops lying right next to it. Seeing photos of these fields is actually rather hard to believe. The blessed half of the field (in this case, a mango field) looks like the Amazon Rainforest, with lush green vegetation everywhere; the other half of the field (the unblessed half) looks straggly, thin, and pale.
  • Likewise, blessed crops show almost 0% infection by harmful viruses and bacteria, compared to over 80% infection rates in the (unblessed) field next to them (just as astonishing, this is reversible: the "blessed" field can be "unblessed," resulting in major crop infections)
  • in some cases, viral loads in mammals are reduced by up to 99.8% (including hepatitis b and c and cytomegalovirus)
  • significantly altered bacterial sensitivity to antibiotics (including "superbugs")
  • aspects of genus and species altered in bacteria
  • in material sciences research, the mass and size of the atom, as well as the energy within and between atoms, was significantly altered by "blessing" activity
  • Although the following results are only anecdotal, there have been over 50,000 reported cases of human healing. Although these are not scientifically determined, I mention them simply as an indication of possibilities. Scientific tests are now officially being conducted.
In any event, it is, as I said, simply and solely the results of these scientific experiments that have lead to my endorsement of Guruji's rather extraordinary capacity for shaktipat, or the transmission of a universal bioenergy with the capacity to alter material structure all the way to the atomic and molecular levels. Especially if you see photos of these results, you can't help but be struck by the rather intense capacity for this transmission demonstrated by Guruji. Most people receiving a blessing from Guruji can feel a direct and powerful jolt—if you get a chance, try it and see for yourself. But, to say it one last time, it is the direct results of scientific experiments upon which I base my endorsement, and I suggest you check out those results for yourself and see. They are truly quite remarkable.

A Narrative on Guruji
by Ken Wilber
This is a short account of what appears to be the emergence of a new form of Life Energy. This Energy is presently being transmitted by an individual affectionately known as Guruji, in a process he calls "blessing." The results of this transfer are rather remarkable, as demonstrated by empirical testing on items such as plant growth and human health.
My understanding of this Life Energy and the process of "blessing" is that, as many theorists have already noted, we seem to have entered a new evolutionary epoch on Earth and in humankind's history. There have been important major transformations in the past-including foraging (with an archaic worldview), horticultural (with a magic worldview), agrarian (with a mythic worldview), industrial (with a modern worldview), and informational (with a postmodern worldview).
Several of us have been predicting for some time that a significant new transformation is beginning on Earth at this time. Various psychological tests and sociological indications tend to show that there is the beginning emergence of a new type of consciousness. It's been referred to as integrative or integral or truly holistic. According to Integral Theory, every state or type of consciousness is accompanied by a specific type of energy (gross physical energy, subtle bioenergy, causal spiritual energy), and so the emergence of this new consciousness should be accompanied by a new degree of energy along that spectrum.
This is in accord with Guruji's own account. According to him, the Earth has entered a new Energy Field, which completely surrounds the earth and all its inhabitants, an Energy that is occurring at a significantly higher frequency than the previous Earth energy. All life forms on this planet are therefore, at this time, "out of sync" with this New Energy. Guruji's "blessing" transmission acts to recalibrate the individual (or plant or animal or whatever is blessed) with this New (and spiritual) Energy, and this results in numerous benefits, physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. In other words, it might be that the Energy that Guruji is working with is the energetic support or correlate of this new Integral transformation. And that's really pretty extraordinary. It's pretty amazing that that might be happening.
With blessings, many people report that they can literally feel an increase in the restructuring of the cells, an increase in energy, a kind of transformation of all of the human bodies-gross, subtle, causal—and these feel like, to me, that they are very much a correlate of this overall integral consciousness that is starting to emerge around the globe.
It is indeed a global situation-a new consciousness with a new and corresponding Life Energy. Having somebody who can directly transmit the corresponding energy of this transformation is pretty amazing . This would account for the fairly dramatic reports of people all over the world who have experienced this "blessing." It's shaktipat raised to a new evolutionary level.
I mentioned how I thought that this energy was newly emerging with this new stage of evolution. That it was a new evolutionary emergent in the past ten, fifteen, twenty years. And also that we seem to be seeing, in other dimensions of human beings, the emergence of more integral levels of consciousness and awareness. There are psychological tests for this and sociological tests for this, and right now there's only about four percent of the population that's moving into these integral areas, but that's starting to increase.
The point is that various psychological and sociological tests have verified the emergence of a new level of consciousness-again, one generally referred to as " integrative" or " integral." In other words, this is not just some hair-brained academic theory, but a reality disclosed by specific testing. What hasn't been disclosed is the new Life Energy that would be expected to underlie this new level of consciousness (what Integral Theory calls the Upper-Right quadrant aspect that would correlate with the newly emergent Upper-Left quadrant reality). But it is this new Integral energy that seems to be what Guruji is transmitting.
The results of empirical tests of this blessing are quite remarkable, and have so far been done on everything from mineral structures to microbes to agriculture to human health. In agriculture, for example, a blessed field of fruit shows up to 300% increased yield compared to a field next to it that is unblessed, and more astonishingly, the blessed field-without the use of any pesticides-is entirely free of bacterial or viral infection (versus close to 100% infection in the unblessed field). Similar results have come in for everything from the structure of bacteria to human illnesses. Clearly, this is all in the initial stages of testing and development, but the results so far are literally staggering (especially if you see photos of this for yourself).
So how should we view this phenomenon? Evolution itself is a process of creating greater and greater and greater unity. Thus, it starts out with quarks, which are then joined together into atoms, which are then joined together into molecules, which are then joined together into cells, which are then joined together into organisms-so that each step of evolution is an increase in a capacity for unity. The same thing happens in human growth and development, where individuals grow from egocentric stages of awareness ("me") to ethnocentric stages ("us") to worldcentric stages ("all of us"). And, as I mentioned, in the past ten or fifteen years there's been a new type of consciousness that has begun to emerge around the world. It's generally referred to as an integral consciousness, and it represents a further increase in unity and in the number of things that it can unify, the number of perspectives that it can take into account (reaching, by some tests, into a 5th-person perspective).
What we haven't seen is the corresponding energy that's driving this. My opinion is that the Life Energy, that is, the new degree of Life Energy that Guruji is transmitting, might very well be that energy. Of course, more testing needs to be done (and is being done at this time), but the initial results are very promising. And if so, one of the main things it's going to be able to do is not only recalibrate human energy to match this new level of energy that's starting to emerge around the earth, but also see this energy be able to create greater unities.
One of the unifications that will be most interesting in human beings seems to be the ability to unify the sub-conscious rear brain with the self-conscious fore brain . As Guruji explains it, the rear brain operates particularly during the first six years of life, and then during the next six years, up to age twelve, the fore brain increasingly takes over. But these can, and often are, out of sync. And no amount of medication, and no amount of meditation, and no amount of faith-healing can unify these two, can get them in sync, according to Guruji. Except, according to Guruji, blessing-or a direct infusion of this New Life energy into the organism.
If so, I think that's a really important example of the increasing unity that might be coming our way with this new turn in evolution. Because having the subcomponents of the brain out of sync is directly or indirectly responsible for most of humanity's problems. From Plato to modern psychotherapy, the conclusion is the same: humanity on the whole suffers from an interior civil war, with its lower and higher natures constantly at battle. So we're not going to have a truly unified humanity until we have a unified brain system, and then until the human organism itself is in sync with this new evolutionary Earth Energy. Guruji constantly explains that what he's doing is recalibrating the individual organism to this new planet-wide Energy that has emerged, and that human beings so far are not in unity with.
Once the individual has become in touch with this new level of bioenergy, that Energy acts, according to Guruji, as a new blueprint for the entire body, and it begins the recalibration and re-organization of virtually every fragmentation and dysfunction found in the system. If so, then this new evolutionary Energy indeed brings a new unity and coherence to everything it touches, gross, subtle, or causal, thus bringing the organism into alignment for this new transformation and evolutionary unfolding.
So I think that's one way of viewing this phenomenon, and the results that are occurring in its wake. A new and higher level of consciousness (integrally and spiritually driven) is beginning to emerge, and it is driven and supported by a new and higher level of bioenergy (subtle/ causal). One of the main ways humans can contact this new Energy is through a transmission from someone who is already in touch with this Energy, and this is something that Guruji's "blessings" are an example of. Once in touch with this new evolutionary Energy, the structure of the organism itself is profoundly reorganized to be in harmony with this Energy, and thus in health and harmony with itself.
This doesn't mean that this new Energy is for everyone. Guruji constantly repeats that there is just a relatively small percentage of humans that are ready for and open to it. In developmental terms, individuals must grow and develop through the first 5 major levels of transformation before they are ready for the newly emergent 6th level, to speak generally. According to psychological testing, this is presently less than 10% of the world's population, but that percentage is increasing, and can be expected to increase even more when and if this new Energy is increasingly made available.
Guruji says that individuals have to be open for this, and I think that's exactly right. You can't force people to be free. It's a choice they have to make, if they have evolved enough. Not even God can force a human to be free. That would just defeat the whole purpose. So whatever percentage of people are actually open to this-ten percent, twenty percent, fifty percent, whatever-we'll find out. But if there is a really strong doubt and negativity, then it doesn't surprise me that this transmission doesn't have a chance. So right now we're waiting to see the percentage of people that can become open to this type of transmission.
One of the important things to increase acceptance of this transmission is the type of hard scientific research and experiments that Guruji is doing - on mineral structure, microbes, plants, human illness. Because he's quite right, the God of the modem West is science. And if we can prove the structural power of this new Energy using science then that's going to help erase a lot of the doubt and negativity that is just inherently there. Most people just don't believe this kind of thing can happen - most people are even unaware of the existence of bioenergy, even though the contemplative traditions have been pointing to it for millennia. So I think this is exactly the right course to take, in order to get this new evolutionary development available to as many people as are ready to receive it.
So, that's kind of a short summary of how I would see this New Energy, and how it fits with evolution, and its basic job of increasing unity and resonance on the planet-a new and higher blueprint. Whether or not it finds a welcome home, we shall certainly have to wait and see.
In short, it's possible that this blueprint is the blueprint of this new worldwide Divine life energy. So it's not just Guruji's ideas. He's just the conduit; he's just the connection between this literally Divine Life Force, in its new emergence, in its new evolutionary form. And like I said, several major human transformations have occurred four or five times in the past, going from foraging to horticulture to agrarian to industrial to informational. I believe there is a subtle energetic shift with each of those and I believe that this is possibly the next shift, and it's the next form of Spirit's own unfolding, of Spirit's own energy. And for whatever reason, that I don't think even Guruji understands, he got tapped on the shoulder to be a main conduit for this. In all ages past it's gotten transferred to human beings one way or another, and blessing appears to be one of the main ways that this new blueprint is being transmitted to those that are open for it. Again, much awaits more testing, but so far, this is incredibly promising. So stay tuned!
Ken Wilber
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