So often we feel as though we are missing something vital to our lives.
We feel empty on the inside. Shouldn't there be more to this life? Maybe if I achieve the right equation of success, the right people, the right stuff...maybe then I will be complete? Nope. Wholeness is not outside of you...it is within. You contain all of the answers you need. This has probably been one of the hardest posts for me to write. Simply because the world is so subjective and the idea of Wholeness can be subjective. The path to wholeness is going to be The Religious Cope Out This is going to make some people uncomfortable. Yet, I have to address this part of current religious belief because I see it as unhealthy. I see it as an easy cope out. This an excuse for laziness and it's why a lot people who are religious aren't living a life that includes spirit. On Facebook there are posts, "Like and Share if You Love Jesus and want to go to heaven! If you don't share you'll go to Hell!" All of us know this is not true. We all know that to be a person worthy of 'heaven' requires a bit more than simply liking a Facebook page. The same goes for saying that you have found Christ. Simply "Finding Christ" and becoming baptized and being a born again Christian does not make you "Christ-like" nor does it promise you a place in heaven. All Spiritual Paths to true understanding takes dedication, self-reflection and walking the talk. Sure, you may know the golden rule but do you practice it every day in every way at every moment? How about when a driver cuts you off in traffic? Do you turn the other cheek and give them the opportunity to do it again? Probably not. So, let's dispense with the idea that merely accepting Christ as your savior has made you feel "whole" because I know for a lot of people it has not. Being baptized and saying you believe in Christ doesn't give you a ticket straight to wholeness. Living in spirit daily is a practice that eventually permeates you on such a level that you can't imagine life any other way. Relationships There is an unhealthy obsession with soul mates. Another person cannot make you whole. I have found that people fixated on finding a 'soul mate' are not really looking for a person. People looking for their soul mates think that a soul mate will complete them. That once they find them life will be so much easier. Yet, they will be sorely disappointed when they realize that's not how relationships work or what they are about. Life is not a Disney movie. The story doesn't end with a marriage where someone who has been alone all their life has found a companion. There is no "happily ever after" but a complex interaction of emotions and energy that's a real relationship. I remember a sociology class I took. The teacher described that when two injured people come together they are often attracted by the fact that the other seems to have a matching wound. Then they put those two wounds together and they form a communal scab. Such relationships are hard to end because it means ripping open those old wounds. Yet, the relationship is always unhealthy because scabs can lock in infection. This is why people need to do inner work before they get married. They need to clean out the infected part of their lives and personality to become healthy individuals on their own before seeking out a companion in life. They have to find a sense of who they are and their place in the universe. They also need to learn to love themselves as few people do. The moral of the story is that Relationships do not bring Wholeness. If we are seeking Wholeness through marriage it's going to end in bitterness and divorce. The need to "find themselves" and seek true wholeness will eventually end the enmeshed relationship with divorce. So what does? The Success Formula Society has sold us on a Success Formula. I blame this mostly on schools. In order to be happy, we are tuaght, we need to be educated, get the right job and live the American Dream. People think that there is some formula for success in life. Find a partner, buy a house, and have some kids...then poof you're happy and whole. Well, there are a few problems with this Shangrala of modern life. No formula will make you happy. If finding your soul-mate doesn't make you Whole then having kids certainly won't and neither will any personal object. Work and money won't make you feel whole either because they are merely tools. There is no magical secret Formula you can put together in the outer world to make you Whole. Self Help, Quizzes, and Psychic Readings This is another trap I've seen people fall into and never get out of when trying to find Wholeness. Constantly going to others to feed you with directions to the decisions you need to make, advice or even tell you about yourself is unhealthy and can be expensive. There are a wealth of resources there just waiting to tell you how to live your life. To me, when I hear this, what the person is really saying is they do not trust themselves, their Higher Selves or the Source (God). I remember reading reviews of the book called The Secret. The Secret was a self-help book that claimed that all wealthy happy individuals used these secrets that it contained. This was supposed to be a recipe book for becoming rich, being more successful and achieving more in life. Well, sadly, the information is wise. However, this little pocket sized book didn't go into the depth necessary to really understand these "Secrets." Besides, the focus, which I see so often, is on money and career success. Yet, as I said previously, this will not bring that sense of Wholeness people are seeking. Attracting certain objects or a parking space closest to the entrance of a busy store is all well and good but...this is just outer reflections of an inner state of being. The truth is no one knows you like you. This is something that I've said many times when offering dream interpretations for people. Each of us contains all the knowledge we need about ourselves, but it's just a matter of turning inward to see those truths and "secrets." Self-reflection is hard because it requires us to see ourselves in our entirety. Not just what we want to see, not just focusing on our flaws, but the bigger picture. We are not trained to do this, we are so trained to look at the small details that the bigger picture can often escape us. We are so focused on trees (pimples, personal failings) that we don't look at the wealth that the forest has to offer. That's why it's so much easier to go to someone with an outside perspective and have them tell us what they see and yes it can bring insight. That person can see the forest instead of focusing on the trees. But, they are also limited in their observation because we are presenting such a narrow band of information to them. These outer sources might see the forest but they don't have the higher perspective that our soul has...and they might not see that it is us that is lighting the trees on fire in the dark of night and blaming a friend, a spouse or a co-worker. Self-Actualization Abraham Maslow was the first person to really describe why and where we get hung up on on our journey to Wholeness. He described the person that has reached Wholeness as a Self-Actualized person. He believed that only one in a hundred people become self-actualized. I've written on this topic previously and I encourage everyone to research the topic. Maslow envisioned a pyramid with Self-Actualization at the top. He called this pyramid the Hierarchy of Needs. He said, to reach the top a person had to fulfill all of the other needs below it first. I will include a Youtube video at the end of this on the subject. The key thing is that it does take some work if we are hung up on one of the lower levels of the pyramid. For example, it's easy to become hung up on the level of security if we grew up abused and never felt safe. Further, we might not have that issue as a child but something in adulthood can happen and throw us back to that state. My Path To Wholeness I have re-written this part of this blog several times. I couldn't decide how to go about writing the transformations that I've under gone in my thinking as the years have progressed. Should I break it down into steps? That didn't seem right as each person has a different path to tread. So, I'm going to give a general overview. The Calling The first time I started down the path I realized that there was a bit of a mystery in the bible. This was when I completely read it from cover to cover when I was fifteen. I was shocked to see that the Old Testament discussed animal sacrifices which was something I always associated with witchcraft. I was also surprised that Yeshua eluded to deeper teachings, that there was a set of teachings given to the disciples and a set given to the people as parables. Later, I would learn that in many cultures this was the norm....the uninitiated who do not seek the knowledge are never given the knowledge. At this time I read the Celestine Prophecy series and found it interesting. I also began interpreting my dreams and was introduced to Edgar Cacye's story with my Grandfather Douglas McMasters (the Dreamer of Muscoy) America in Prophecy. I also read the book Journey of Souls. Finally, I discovered that while it was easy for me to tap into the Oneness at that age (which became harder later on and I lost the ability and desire for a long time) not everyone could. This was strange to me and I really couldn't imagine not being able to feel that way. Major Wake Up Call One For a few years I fell off the spiritual path. Although, I do feel those were wasted years of my youth something wonderful happened. In working loading trailers I managed to find that sweet spot that Athletes call "The Zone" where the mind no longer has to govern the actions of the body and everything becomes synchronized. A Wake Up call that completely destroyed how I viewed myself and ripped me out of the life I had created (friends and all) provoked me to return to my spiritual search for knowledge and wisdom. I had to start my entire life all over from scratch. When I did go back to the spiritual path I discovered more than I ever imagined. There was a lot more information out there on spirituality and a lot more on the web. Befriending the Mind I began working with meditation. I read Sakyong Mipham's book Turning The Mind Into An Ally. I began to understand that the mind is not necessarily consciousnesses. I learned how to find my center and to quiet the ceaseless chatter of my mind. A lot of it was tuning into the "zone" that I knew how to access because of the work I did loading trailers. Now, if I want to think of a subject I summon up the thoughts. My mind is no longer the director (I think most people call that self-narration portion of our mind the Ego but my thoughts on it are a little bit different and complex). I also sough to meet my "higher self" although the idea remained abstract to me. I also read Dan Millmans books at this time which further encouraged me along my road towards balancing mind and body. I realized that being able to tune into the zone, as I did at work loading trailers and when meditating was a rare gift (later I would become aware that I had practiced meditation in a previous life). I discovered at this point that I could alter and control my dreams. I also became familiar with the idea of Projection. This is where a person projects the disowned aspects of their own personality onto other people. Often when a stranger doesn't like us for any reason or a co-worker decides they don't like us...it's because of them and not us. A lot of people to do this, I'd even say the majority of people are like this because it takes a lot to look at one's own reflection and own aspects of ourselves that we don't like. So, when we start seeing a pattern in someones behavior we see that its not the other person the individual hates...but the part of themselves that they have rejected that they see reflected in the other person. ( Although I did not discover this at the time it's appropriate information to place here. The only way to stop projecting onto others is to work with our own shadow, embrace those shadow elements we have taken on and transform them. One of the methods to do this is in the video I'm attaching at the end with Christie Marie Sheldon. Her method, of finding a pattern and then "zapping it out of existence" is the best that I have ever discovered. Since using it myself and releasing a lot of old negative baggage I've carried around I feel happier and lighter. I can feel my aura, my energy, has doubled and expanded.) Then there is a concept of boundaries. Establishing firm boundaries, which you will not allow others to cross and will speak up if they do is important. Part of this requires that you decide what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior on the part of the other people. I made great strides towards self-confidence during this time period. I did a lot of work on rebuilding my self-image. I had wonderful successes, achieved three degrees and was promoted to management roles at two different companies. Major Wake Up Call Two Again, a decade later, I had another Wake Up Call. This time was different, however, and more soul shattering. Whereas I had been able to find meaning and purpose in all of my other adventures in life I could not find a purpose for this one. I felt completely abandoned by the Creator/God. I was mad at my Higher Self that had the full picture of what was going on for letting something so tragic happen to me and for me to be ripped so completely out of the life I had been creating for a second time. I struggled with this over a span of two years. Sometimes I felt completely broken and alone...completely abandoned by Spirit and unable to tap into the Oneness and harmony I once could feel so effortlessly. I felt utterly abandoned. Setting Aside Personality This time I learned that I don't have to create a persona for myself. I've never built myself up again. I don't have a self-image. I have no expectations for myself, no goals, no desire to "prove" myself to anyone. I have no need or desire to belong to groups or apply labels to myself. I know that all labels and social constructs are all..well, imaginary bull crap that divides people and I just don't want to buy into anymore to feel as though I belong. I exist, I am a part of the Source, created by Source because the Source of All-That-Is desired my existence and for me that is the only validation I need. When we are children we begin to build a personality for ourselves in this world. School starts training us in thinking that we are a vocation. I have a yearbook from elementary school where they asked us to draw our future selves and what our vocation will be...the drawing is surprisingly accurate but I learned early on that I didn't want to be a vet because I don't like to see animals in pain. This type of training is what leads so many people to base their self worth on their jobs. Not only that but we are challenged to build a personality, what we do not like, how we define ourselves in comparison to others throughout our school years and even our teachers or parents give us certain definitions- he's the underachiever, she's the teachers pet and so on. Yet, we are not, in our basic essence, those personalities. In a talk given by Edgar Cacye in Washington D.C. Februry 3rd 1935 he said this: "We have been admonished by this one, that one, and the other to develop our personality in order to be a power in the world; but if we turn rather within ourselves, where the Kingdom of Heaven is, what has been the promise? 'All of these things shall be added unto you, in their place.' We are all on our way for a development." At another talk given to a Norfolk Study Group Open Meeting Edgar Cacye said this: "Apparently, I am one of the few who can lay aside their own personality sufficiently to allow their souls to make this attunement to this universal source of knowledge- but I say this without any desire to brag about it. In fact, I do not to claim to possess anything that other individuals do not inheriently possess. Really and truly, I do not believe there is a single individual that doesn't possess this same ability I have. I am certain that all human beings have much greater powers than they are ever conscious of- if they would only be willing to pay the price of detachment from self-interest that it takes to develop those abilities. Would you be willing, even once a year, to put aside, pass out entirely from, your own personality?" I have absolutely no reason to view myself as superior to anyone and I do not view anyone else as superior to me. As I have progressed along the path of spiritual knowledge I've learned no one is a superior to anyone else but I do have a deep seated respect for each person as a reflection of the Source (God). Each of us has a gift or a talent that we can use for humanity. The Creator didn't create us without a purpose or strength. Not everyone's purpose or strengths are the same. Each of us has to turn inward to find what our purpose and strengths are...then we have to learn how to apply them to the outer world. Owning Our Flaws I worked on owning all of the aspects of myself that I had tried to reject and repress. By embracing those darker aspects of myself and owning them I realized I saw people differently. I could see them for who they were not what I wanted them to be or needed them to be to justify my own actions. I just saw the movie Suicide Squad and there was one point, when Diablo discusses how he killed his family by losing himself to rage (the monster within) and Harlequin tells him to, "Own that shit!" That's what we have to do in our life. We have the choice to be the victims of our own actions by disowning what we have done or parts of our past we don't like. We have the free will to spend our entire lives feeling sorry for ourselves if we want and there is no Judgment from Spirit. The greatest judge we face in the afterlife is ourselves. We can also choose Responsibility. We can choose to own those mistakes, embrace them, realize we are imperfect humans that are going to make mistakes. The Great Spirit already forgave us, he knew all what we would do when he conceived the idea of us in his mind before he unleashed us into the universe...and he did it anyways because he knew that our Spiritual potential is great. All of us are a little twisted, we are all a little flawed and if we don't embrace that aspect of ourselves and transmute it then we are going to create a shadow self. That shadow self of all of our disowned junk that we don't want to face and didn't even know we are creating can pull us down into a mire of unhappiness. I see this as naming our own demons so that we can cast them out in the way that Christine Sheldon describes. A Higher Perspective Perhaps, what transformed my view of life the most was my experiences of Past Life Regression and meeting my Higher Self in a dream that explained a few things to me. This sounds strange, I'm sure, and I'm sure you're wondering what the Higher Self means so I'll go a bit deeper into my personal interpretation and experience of that in another blog. What I discovered was a perspective of life here on Earth far removed from what my parents, society, teachers and religious dogma taught me. That our souls don't view it as a punishment or a prison sentence because of a Fall. That we voluntarily come to Earth (my soul sees Earth as a sort of Disneyland that is incredibly fun and exciting ) and that we learn the most on a spiritual level when we face adversity and experience what some might call 'suffering.' Because strangely from 'suffering' we learn Compassion, Patience and Unconditional Love. In Spirit there are no "Good Guys" and there are no "Bad Guys." We are just Spiritual Beings on a Human Journey of Self Knowledge. Our souls can be damaged if we do evil deeds, but that is a different subject and that still does not provoke judgement on the part of Spirit. I realized also that life is subjective. That two people can have the same exact experience and create lives that are totally different. Another Insight is that the Soul really doesn't care what the nature of the experience is as long as we are experiencing something. Our soul chose these lives because they knew the risks and they knew how much wisdom they would gain. In fact, the entire purpose of incarnating is to gain the hard won knowledge from experiences. (Remember Eve ate the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and that knowledge came from the existence of death). The Great Spirit Then I realized that we are souls, not our bodies, we are created in the spiritual image of the Great Spirit and it clicked. The Great Spirit is the great spiritual fire and our consciousnesses are little sparks of the divine. That means that all of the people we meet are also an undeniably perfect aspect of the Great Spirit and even if they don't realize it, even if they abuse their creative abilities, to insult them or treat them poorly is like mistreating ourselves and the Great Spirit. From John 10:34 we learn, "Jesus answered them, 'Is it not written in your law, "I have said you are Gods?" This is a quote from Psalm 82:6, "I said, "You're Gods." You are all sons of the Most High." Then I learned that God/The Great Spirit is never separate from us, that we are part of the Great Spirit (the word God doesn't seem to capture the depth of the Great Spirit) and he is a part of us and there is never separation. Just a sense of it in this realm. I will go into these concepts a bit more in a future post that I will share on Friday called The Mind of God. Further, it dawned on me how the Mind is the Builder and how we create our own reality. I realized I was putting out a lot of frustration and anger towards others in this world. This misdirected energy was coming back to me and short circuiting my attempts at a more peaceful life filled with what I truly desire. With all of this combined, and continuing to find information that validates my own intuitions I have found an inner peace that cannot be taken from me. There is more, and I will go into all of this in more depth (to go into all of it here would turn this post into a novel) but I wake up most mornings refreshed. I have occasional low energy days just like everyone else but compared to last year, when I was in the depths of despair mourning my daughter and wishing I had joined her in death, it's been a miraculous turn around. I haven't gotten it all correct, yet, but I have become more balanced, more grounded and more aware. My current mantra when I start to give into negative thoughts about others or the world when reading a political article is to say, "Peace, Healing and Love," within my mind and imagine a tremendous ray of light from Source, from God, from All-That-Is being emitted from me to the person harboring such negativity in the hopes that their burdens become lighter. This is helping me to consciously rewire how I think and to place my focus on what I want to think about instead of falling into typical knee-jerk reactions. Achieving Wholeness I can't explain when this deep seated peacefulness took up residence in my heart. There was no magical moment where I reached Wholeness, no sense of nirvana, it was just a progression and one day I realized that I felt entirely complete. The amount of joy and peace that I feel on a day to day basis cannot even be expressed in words. The person I am today is totally different than the person I was one, ten, fifteen, and even twenty years ago. I feel whole and complete. I do not desire anything. I realize that everything is impermanent and bound to change. If things are wonderful and blissful at the moment...that will change. If things are challenging, chaotic and barely tolerable...that too will change. I just ride out the different eddies in the current of the river of life peacefully knowing that it leads to the The Great Spirit or Source (God) (as you can tell, I see all of these terms as interchangeable). My life is comfortable and while it continues to morph as time progresses, as all lives do, I find it is incredibly fulfilling. Yes, I'm still in a processes of self-discovery and experience but I'm a willing participant able to to see how I direct the flow of energy in my life in different directions depending on how I'm thinking. Conclusion Reaching Wholeness is a process that starts off with self-reflection...then we realize the entire world reflects back to us our own inner state. Meeting others can be a study in self-reflection once we know boundaries. When we identify certain patterns in our lives we can learn that by identifying them (naming them) and dismissing them (zapping them out of existence as Christie Sheldon describes it) we can transform our lives. I strongly believe we come to Earth to learn Patience, Compassion and Love. I believe that it is rare for souls to take on this quest. With some key realizations life becomes really obvious and simple. Yet, it is a complex progression of realization that diverges greatly from what we are initially taught. The way I perceive the world has become more flexible. There is no hard and true reality that exists the same way for everyone. I will delve more deeply into this change in perspective and how it differs so wildly from how I initially perceived the universe in a future post. I apologize that this is such a small snippet of this huge subject but to summarize what I have said....there is no outer path to Wholeness. The Great Spirit by whatever name you wish to call it does not exist outside of us. We have deep inner resources...a plethora of spiritual help....that we can tap into for guidance but ultimately our Higher Self and Source is what we should seek. There is no right way to reaching Wholeness. There are many paths. Yet, I am proof that it can be achieved on this level of existence (some claim that it cannot be achieved) no matter how terrible our experiences have been and without guidance from a specific guru or "master." On each step of the road after each Wake Up Call, where I found I wasn't living in attunement with my Higher Purpose....I learned a lot. So, even though painful Wake Up Calls from Spirit are undesirable they are always beneficial. The key I've learned, is not to ignore Spirit...because at first the Wake Up calls are subtle...but when I've ignored they become even louder and louder until they can be a life shattering experience. Yet, at the end of the transformations I find myself right back where I started just a little bit more wiser. You might ask, what is the point? Well, that is a completely different post but, suffice to say, inner peace in light of all of the struggle and suffering I see is more than enough of a reward for me...and that sense of Wholeness and At-One-Ment with all of Creation. I find it similar to training a new employee, if you do everything for them they will not learn. Sure, they may fail. Yet, failure is often the greatest learning experience.
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There has been a trend regarding the idea of "Awakening." This trend goes back to 1998.
As I explained in my Zombie blog post, a lot of people are walking around spiritually dead. They are stuck in the seemingly hard and fast rules of the world that we are taught by our parents, society and our schools. In that world all that there is gaining material possessions, hitting certain hallmarks of achievement and death. They define themselves by the groups they hang out with, the possessions they have, their children or their jobs. There is, clearly, something going on in the Collective Consciousness of humanity. The desire to wake up and the idea that we were waking up on some level. There are more people feeling the Spiritual Call then ever before but it's been a slow gradual trend upward. The question I had, when I was analyzing this trend and explaining how I saw it, what does waking up mean? Why do we have this urge to wake up now? Why does it seem so urgent? There is a definite pattern to this desire to wake up. So, let's explore this first. The First Group Awakening 1998 I find it interesting that Edgar Cayce marked 1998 as a milestone year. There was a not a lot of information that came out at this time. This was about the time that the song "Awake" came out by the rock artist Godsmack. Prior to this period there was very little "New Age" material on the shelves. In my collection of books there are three from this time period. Those three are Celestine Vision By James Redfield from 1997, Dancing the Dream by Jamie Sames (1998), Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock (1995) and Dan Millman's The Life You Were Born to Live (1993). These people were the precursors to the movement we see now, the people who awoke the earliest, and could see a spiritual pattern in what was happening. There was not a lot of information out there that really spoke about a spiritual path. Yet, these topics were not exactly embraced by the larger community. The idea that we are all interconnected, that how one behaves affects others and an Inclusive perspective of all cultures was just seen as being the stuff of tree hugging hippies. Sure, Celestine Prophecy and Graham Hancock's book had both become Bestsellers. Yet, the interest just wasn't there for most people and it was still very much a part of the counter culture that didn't interest many. That was the first opportunity for a more inclusive spiritual approach to life. Perhaps this was amount of awareness largely due to the imminent approach of 2000 which people saw as important. After all, we were leaving the 1900's behind and even in the 1980's people hadn't really envisioned the future past 2000. That date seemed so very far away. The movie Back to the Future had some wildly interesting ideas about what a future world would look like in the 2000's, but, unfortunately progress is a bit slow and we now have cellphones instead of Hoverboards. The Second Awakening 2008 This Second Awakening really centered around the date of 2012. A lot of people looked at that date with anticipation. Of course it got associated with the Apocalypse and then became the whole debacle that evolved into that 2012 movie and everyone thinking it would usher in the rapture. Some thought that it heralded the return of Zechariah Stitchins Annunaki. However, there were ideas spread then that began to take hold in humanity. Hence, the wide popularity of these ideas. Of course, the movie and what was fed to the general population at large was a majority cataclysmic horror and not the spiritual ideas. About this time period there was also the book the Secret that hit stores and Depak Chopra became as sensation (his books are okay). Yet, the 2012 movement was inspired mostly by spiritual concepts. The big deal about 2012 was the Precessional year. Undoubtedly the world is in the process of moving from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius. The actual process started approximately in 1960 and probably will end about 1940. The Doomsday people thought that because the alignment with the Galactic Center of our Universe happened in 2012 some sort of catastrophe would happen. They paired that along with the end of the 13 Mayan Backtun calendar (the Mayan's had many calendars and a Mayan Elder visiting the A.R.E. during the 2012 nonsense actually commented that he was more worried about surviving the two following 13 year cycles that end in 2038) and assumed that it would be the "end of the world. People, though, in a negative way, opened their minds enough to consider the idea that the way that the universe operates may actually affect them. They also began looking at the stories of ancient cultures and seeing parallels and similarities. Yet, amazingly in seeing these parallels with the Bible people are starting to connect the same stories with other stories around the world. They are seeing the connection that there are remarkably similar stories and perhaps this isn't because they were primitive people worshiping nature. Maybe, just maybe, there was more to these stories that should unite us. From a spiritual stand point this Inclusive sort of view is a huge step forward compared to the very negative literal tunnel vision that has dominated this world for thousands of years. Perhaps, on the Collective Consciousness level, we decided instead of being pushed into this spiritual awakening through a catastrophe that we would experience it in a different way. Third Awakening These days there are more people awakening then in the previous two groups. There are more people talking about the Annunaki, about ancient mysteries, about the 'spooky science' of Quantum physics and people are thinking about the world in totally different ways. There is so much out there now to read about Spiritual Awakening. There are so many songs, for example, Imagine Dragon's Radioactive that I included at the start of this post which was a huge phenomenon and quite honestly I got sick of hearing it on the radio. Sadly, as is quite normal, everyone is attaching negative beliefs to these ideas. There is a prevalance of people believing that they are being controlled by beings more powerful than them (which means they carry a belief of not being powerful enough). There are people who think that CERN is messing with the fabric of the universe in attempt to free Satan from the abyss (a strong fear belief). Even the Christians are getting into the act with "the convergence" that was supposedly going to happen on September 23rd of last year where they really thought the rapture would happen (a belief that the world is evil and they cannot change it so they must escape it). Then there are all of the people who are so excited about the Blood Moon Tetrad and Jonathon Kahn's the Harbinger. Of course, the Harbinger is all about God's Negative Judgement on our nation and that he may allow it to be destroyed because we have 'turned from him.' The Annunaki have actually been mentioned on television on the Ancient Alien Show. In fact, Ancient Aliens is presenting a very Inclusive look into the history of our planet. This show has been on the air for years and it's popularity is so strong that it does not show any signs of stopping in the near future. Heck, the concept of possible Alien 'creators' has influenced a couple of movies (Prometheus and Jupiter Ascending). Suddenly, we are not looking at our ancestors as Primitive idiots who were barely a step above the cave man. We are looking at them as possibly being more advanced than we are now and perhaps knowing more about their origin then our current society does. We are contemplating that perhaps we are not the epitome of human evolution. This mass level of spiritual awareness can be seen everywhere. More and more people are waking up and realizing there might be more to these Dusty Old Religions and beliefs. Heck, maybe there is more than our five senses and indulging our physical whims. People are running radio television shows and YouTube pages talking about this change in consciousness, spirituality and how Mind is the Builder. There are people talking about Kundalini Awakenings and what it means in a practical sense and that it can happen to anyone not just some ancient Yogi in India that has been practicing it for decades. The Call of Spirit I felt goosebumps the first time I watched the Force Awakens trailer. There have been, through various channels, the suggestion that we are going to regain powers that we had in Atlantis. That in those times we destroyed ourselves with those powers. Some think that these powers are of a technological nature, and they may well have been, but I think there was a great deal of spiritual power. We absolutely create the world that we live in. When we look at the world and we see chaos, hatred and so much evil it is a reflection of our own inner turmoil. Psychology points towards individual manifestation with the many experiments that prove Self-Fulfilling prophecies. We have the unique ability to manifest our desires and format the world around us to our liking. I believe there is a reason that so many people are awakening, or feeling the need to go back to their spiritual roots and examine all of those old stories Reason, Logic, and Science told us were no more than nursery rhymes to soothe the Primitive soul. We possess technology that can destroy the world. The Nuclear threat is something that we have been aware of for a very long time. The more we stray from the belief that we are all interconnected, that we share a communal spiritual history, and (when we reach a certain level of understanding) that we are all One...the more likely we are to try and annihilate each other and destroy humanity. I recently came across the information involving something called the Maharishi Effect. In this experiment that was done in the 1970's they discovered that if only 1% of a population practiced meditation there was an effect on crime. In one city there was a 17% drop in the crime rate. Further studies showed a correlation in a drop of sickness and a drop in accidents as well. (http://www.trancenet.org/maharishieffect.htm). I am a little skeptical, after doing some research, that this correlation is only present with a certain type of meditation that a certain type of school teaches. This seems to be a very self-serving method of driving in students to a particular program. Do I think that this needs to be researched by science? Absolutely. Do I think they will study it? Nope. This strays to close to the idea of validating spiritual ideas. Let's just say that this phenomenon does exist and it's not just the Maharishi meditation technique that causes this decrease in crime, health and accidents in the local community. Let's say each person that has awakened an remembered their spiritual nature has the same effect. Their path to that connection and that remembering of their spiritual nature can be many fold (not just a specific form of meditation) but the effect of all of those awakened people will surely be felt. Now, let me be clear about my own practice. I do not work with anything beyond myself...I work with Source and my Higher Self. As I meditate and go into the 'zone' I am able to hold more and more of that energy that originates from my Higher Self and ground it into this reality. What that means is that I'm literally bringing heaven to Earth and holding it here. That is what I feel is the most important aspect of my own Spiritual Practice and I don't doubt that is what causes the Maharishi Effect. By acting as a clear vessel for my own Spiritual Energy it helps embody and be an example to others that it can be done...and there are almost intangible effects that I see on the people around me. But Why Is There So Much Bad In the World? Times are, as far as the media portrays, far worse than they have ever been when it comes to unity. People are being polarized by the narratives that the media is offering. Yet, I can't blame it all on the media. There is the Flat Earth guy on YouTube and the Dark Age Christians running amok saying we need to burn the 'music witches' and that symbols are the language of Satan not Spirit. This is mind boggling to me but it makes sense that as more people become more positively connected with remembering their spiritual nature that it would trigger a tremendous push of energy back by those who have not. A good part of the population really seems to want to see the world destroyed as it was in the days of Noah so that we can begin again. These people have, for all intents and purposes, given up on humanity and think that they will be part of the Elite 144,000 that will be spared out of the Billions of people on Earth. Sadly, it is probably about a billion people who think this way. One recent end of the world video on YouTube managed to rack up 1 million hits and was even shared on Television. To me this is madness. The Polarization This is where things become a bit odd. I have noted the polarization that we are seeing around the globe on different issues. From the movies to the political process there is a polarization among the people. I didn't really comprehend what this meant until I watched a video by an entity known as Adronis. Something he said just made it click. Frequency is something I studying because I intuitively know what it means and I think of it like music. Trying to sort it out for people who don't comprehend it right off the bat can be a bit confusing. I don't have musical training so, for those who are musically trained such as my husband, when I describe it a musical sort of way he scoffs and criticizes my lack of music knowledge saying that I am talking nonsense. To borrow from Bashar all of us are like little radios. We are tuned into a certain bandwith on the radio- let's say 102.7 or 98.7. Now, most of us have used the radio so we know that every radio station is very different. The feeling you get from listening to Big Band as opposed to Rock Music is totally different. People are like radio stations. Depending on our mood, mindset and what we are creating in our life we are tuned into a particular radio station. We also act a little like an attenna and we give off the energy of the radio station we are tuned into. For example, when we watch Winnie the Pooh...it's clear that Tigger and Eeyore have a different energy about them. Tigger gives off the energy of excitement, of too much energy, and a bouncy uncontrollable cantankerous energy. Eeyore expresses a very sad, gray, droopy...low energy. People are like this as well and when we are around people with a lot of energy it tends to be contagious just as a depressed mood can be contageous. The same goes for people who are holding the pure vibration of energy grounded in their bodies. Only, what happens is that when they are around people who have not done personal work inevitably it brings up the issues that the other person has buried in their subconscious. When this happens all kinds of weird reactions can ensue because the people who are burying their heads in the sand, spiritually speaking, don't want to face the subconscious shadow versions of themselves, which the pure spiritual "frequency" or energy provokes. So, the natural reaction is for some people to rise higher while those who are not ready to deal with their issues fall quickly to separate themselves from an experience they view as negative. This is happening because so many people have awakened and ground this spiritual energy. There is so much friction between these two groups of people that it's bringing the most ugly aspects and issues out of those who aren't ready to remember their spiritual nature. What Do I Need To Do? I've run into a lot of people feeling the pressure, what do they do now that they know they are important and that answer can be found in the bible and it is the most important rule we were very taught. We start conducting ourselves in a more loving fashion of support and service to others. As Yeshua said the Golden Rule and his most important teaching is: the "Treat others as you would have them treat you." Even more important is to share your own perspective. Share your experiences with other people. Coming across people that have had similar experiences to my own has been tremendously helpful. The trolls that like to ground negative energy have already banded together and formed groups. It is just as important for those of us who are working more in the positive to join together in support. Each unique expression of the Source needs to contribute their piece to this "Awakening" or "Acsension" experience. I think it's important to that we don't get caught up into the negative belief that we are going to leave everyone behind. I don't really think it's going to be that obvious or blatant. No one can really say how each of us will experience this change. All that I can say for certain is that it is very obvious that a change is occurring. From Jonathon Kahn's Harbinger, to Bashar and Adronis saying that everything that will in the Fall of this year, and just based on the current strange mood in this country it's clear that change has arrived. Perhaps, the amount of Light Workers that have Awakened have reached a criticle mass such as the 100th monkey phenomenon that I've spoke about before...so many people have spiritually awakened it's causing spontaneous awakenings in others. Jamie Sams hints at this in her book Dancing The Dream when she says that previous Dreamers and Seers forged a path for others to follow into the Dream Weave and to the Rainbow Whirl Dream. Those words really appear to be felt by many of the people experiencing this new spiritual paradigm. Most importantly don't become just another animal in a group. Express your individuality. Conclusion We are in midst of a Spiritual Awakening that as been happening since 1998. This is what so many musicians have sensed and why they have wrote songs about waking up. According to Adronis this is the start of an eight year period where we will see a restructuring of the infrastructure of the world. Even weirder is some people are calling the "Awakening" a "Harvest" and it does make you wonder about Revelations. This Spiritual Awakening may last until 2040 and may lead to a new "root race" where people are more aware than they were before of their relationship with others and Source (God/All-That-Is). We are at the end of the Age of Separation from Creator/Source that started with the Destruction of Atlantis. Yet, the survivors of Atlantis knew that forgetfullness was just a temporary phase in human existence. They knew when Humans would start to wake up to their Spiritual origin and Spiritual nature. They knew that we would regain our 'God Hood' that humanity had in the days of Atlantis. They left us messages, one is the Hopi Prophecy Rock, another is Gobekli Tepe where pillar 43 indicates this time and place which only happens once in 26,000 years (at the half way point is when Yeshua appeared). The Great Pyramid points to 2038 which is the end of the cycle it predicts and describes. At the same time the very real danger of destroying ourselves exists. There are a lot of people that seem to want that to happen and are willing it into existence. Our strange tendency to think negatively and not to be optimistic and hopeful as a species makes this time particularly precarious. I could probably include a dozen other media items about "Waking Up". There are about a dozen songs that I can think of that have that theme. But I'm sure that you're just aware of this theme as I am.
I meant to post this blog a while back. I will be posting blogs on Monday and Friday until my muse decides to take a vacation and the flow of topics ceases.
I came to this realization when I was drifting off to sleep wondering about a question I posed in my last blog. Why do people continue to elect Ruthless Predators as our leaders? I have spoke about how religion and science has led to a disconnect with Spirit. Strangely, Darwin's Theory of Evolution didn't just change how we see the world it also changed our society. We saw the ideas he described at work within the human community and we applied them to various areas of our society. Scientists seem to think this is some sort of natural law of behavior of animals that includes humans. Science, for the most part, is against all things that might appear to coincide with religion. The last thing they want to do is support religious beliefs or reinforce them in any way. The antagonism between Science and the Church is understandable as many scientists were killed for telling the truth. The idea that humans have a responsibility that is above that of animals is equated to suggesting that the Earth is Flat or that the Sun actually revolves around the Earth. Strangely, there is a sad little group that believes the latter and would still not consider the former in our science focused society. Survival of The Fittest There is another aspect of science that has done a great disservice to our Society. When Darwin described his Theory of Evolution many of the ideas that he suggested began to be identified in our society. The most dangerous of these is the idea of Survival of the Fittest. The idea of Survival of Fittest is applied in our politics, economics and business policy. The idea is that competition will cause the weaker people to be removed and lead to a healthier environment. I see this as a natural aspect of the Hopi World of the Animal. When we were experiencing life as animals perhaps this makes sense. However, as I will explain, I don't think that this fits into a truly Human Experience. There will not be room for this in the 'next world' of the Human Being. Survival of the Fittest In the Animal Kingdom When we look at the Animal World Survival of the Fittest does exist. The most prominent and recent case of this was in Yellowstone. The wolf had been hunted to extinction in that region. As a result the Bison of Yellowstone began to become sick and their herds were becoming smaller. With the reintroduction of their natural predator, the wolves, the Bison packs are now more healthier than ever. The weak and sick are no longer allowed to live very long. So they are not able to pass their viruses, diseases, or genetic disorders to the rest of the pack as they were in the past. The wolves are also thriving. The natural balance of predator and prey in that region has been restored. In both of these animal species we have a common behavior. Both the wolves and the Bison actually protect the weakest among them. The Bison place the weakest at the center of the herd so that they are no easily picked off. The Wolves have the weak and older members of their packs lead setting the pace for the rest while the Alpha Wolf actually takes up the rear. The species don't turn on themselves and destroy those that are different! This is going to be an important aspect of animal behavior that I will return to in the next section. I will also note that Humpback whales have been observed protecting other species from the Predatory Killer Whales. They have physically put themselves into danger to keep the Killer Whales from killing the animals. In the video that I am going to share a pair of Humpback Whales unsuccessfully try to save a Gray Whale Calf. This selfless form of compassion is definitely something we see in the animal kingdom but is unaddressed by Darwin's Theory regarding Survival of the Fittest. Survival of the Fittest in Humanity The problem with applying this idea to humanity is very simple and obvious. Humans do not have a natural predator that will pick off our weak and sick. Further, such an idea is abhorrent in the view of modern humanity. We try to find cures for those with diseases and viruses instead of simply killing them off. We protect the elderly, those with genetic disorders, the handicapped and the mentally disabled. Also, because we don't have a natural predator our species separates itself into predator and prey. We call this competition. We reward the person who acts like a predator and competes the best defeating everyone else. This behavior of acting like predators among our own species is unnatural. As I pointed out, this is actually different than what we seen in animal behavior. Wolves, the predators in the Yellowstone scenario, are just doing what they do when they hunt the bison but they protect their own kind including the sick and elderly. They work to benefit every individual within the pack. Therefore, this idea of competition of survival of the fittest within humanity is unnatural and found nowhere else in the Animal Kingdom. This is a psychological sickness that needs to be addressed. Humans Are Unlike Anything Else On Earth Secondly, if we depart from the "spiritual ideas" are bad mentality of Science and realize how unnatural we are to this Earth it begs some other questions. First, we are able to recreate our environment into what we see fit. We do this by using our uncanny imagination to design the environment the way we see fit and then our ability to practically apply this idea to our environment. The Chimp, our closest relative according to science, cannot even conceive of changing it's environment in such a way to suit its needs. Mankind is the only one able to recreate the environment in a way that suits our needs. This is a very grave responsibility because we have to question how such a way of living may throw off the natural balance of the world. We must also realize that it makes us very different from the rest of the world. Thus, we cannot live in the same way that the animals do and behave as animals. We are not subject to those 'natural laws' that Darwin put forth regarding animal behavior. Instead, we must regulate ourselves. Competitive Humanity Gives Rise to Ruthless Leaders We have based many of our ideas of Survival of Fittest and Competition on the faulty logic that we are no better than our animal cousins. Yet, within our own species we deviate from the normal behavior of other species. We unnaturally behave as both predator and prey. Victim's become Victimizers and an unending unhealthy psychological chain of pain stretching back eons continues. Further, we reward predatory behavior with power. The strongest most ruthless leaders are the ones that we put into power thinking that surely their strength will protect us. When in fact, these people do not change their behavior and have never cared for the 'little man' or anyone but themselves in order to achieve their power. Instead of protecting the citizens that look up to them they exploit them ruthlessly. Those who decide to chase power, in truth, are those who feel the most powerless and will do anything to keep that power. At some point they were the ultimate victims, and they do not seek power out of some altruistic need to serve, but to create a multitude of victims that suffer as they did. Strangely, competition within our species is so unnatural that we see businesses practicing something really profane. These companies are cannibalizing and gobbling up companies that are similar to them. They do this to stay competitive and retain their supremacy in a market because they must continually grow according to our current way of think about business. This completely illogical drive for ever more profit is destructive in it's very nature. Human society is far removed from the natural order of life. Some people will say that it is power that corrupts people. Some say it is money that corrupts. This is a very backwards and upside down way of thinking. This suggests that spoons make people fat. This goes back to what I was writing in my blog on Service. People who wish to be teachers or leaders need to do personal work in order to truly achieve that goal. Only the most psychologically healthy should be placed into roles of power and that includes teaching. Disassociating Oneself From The Group In order to be a good leader a person must be able to distinguish between their own needs and the Groups needs. Sometimes, what the group needs is a detriment to the leader. For example, the popular saying of the Three Muskateers, "One for All, All for One!" A good leader must be willing to make personal sacrifices sometimes to save the One. To be able to distinguish one owns needs from the needs of the group requires a certain amount of detachment. That detachment from self requires personal psychological work. The person must go about identifying their own personal failings and shortcomings as well as belief systems in order to differentiate them from the group. If they fail to do this they might think what they want is what the entire group wants instead of really observing and listening to every member of the group. As Yeshua said in Matthew 7:5: "First remove from the plank from your own eye; then you will see well enough to remove the splinter from your brothers eye!" First, we must work on ourselves and then we may see clearly (called clairvoyance) other people and we can then address their needs. If we do not do this work first we will inevitably project our own issues onto others and may end up doing more harm than good. The sad thing is that the people that haven't worked on themselves psychologically might think that they are working for the betterment of their people- such as in the case of Stalin or Hitler. When, inevitably, they destroy the very group they were trying to help. Few People Tread This Path I have read that the people who do this work very rarely go for positions of power. They are usually so focused on working on themselves that it never occurs to them to pursue it in any other fashion. This is why so many of the spiritual people are depicted as homeless monks living in caves. The people attracted to money and splendor rarely devote the time to develop themselves spiritually. This is why Yeshua said in Matthew 19:24 "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich person to Enter The Kingdom of Heaven." If the Kingdom of Heaven is truly a state of consciousness or state of mind of the servant we can see how true this is in our lives. The rich man often sets himself up as a predator because he is focused on money, sometimes even referring to themselves as a tiger among men, and so he does not have the attributes of a servant. He will never reach the state of consciousnesses known as Self-Actualization that Maslow talked about (I will cover this topic in my post on Wholeness). Those that do reach such a state don't seek power, because they realize that power is just an illusion and they prefer working behind the scenes because they don't have a thirst for recognition. However, it is my deepest dream that as a society we walk away from this "surviival of the fittest" point of view where competition is considered sacred and the predators are rewarded. To do this we need to start encouraging all children to begin the process of self-reflection when they are young. The process never really ends but can go on on for a lifetime, perhaps many lifetimes in the case of Buddha and Yeshua. Yet, if we start encouraging and embracing this self-reflection and it is the majority of our people as opposed to a minority of the people on our planet we will really begin to see change. Good leaders that are servants to the people will emerge...not because they thirst for power...but as administrators to ensure all people have a better life. Conclusion My sincere hope is that we will see less people choosing to be unnatural predators who hunt their fellow humans and more servants of humanity. With this change there will be far better leaders in the vein of Yeshua and Buddha. They shared a vision of humanity so long ago that has not yet come to fruition. However, in our technological age, we are able to change the way we think and with a great deal of love for our own species we may yet return to the natural way that a species operates with Compassion for each other. We can begin to heal the pain we have caused among ourselves by separating ourselves into predator and prey among our own kind. We can also begin to heal the pain we have caused the planet with our unnatural abuse of resources. Further, as the video that I posted at the start of this blog shows...Humpback Whales show inter-species compassion. Why is it, in humanity, we have so little compassion for our fellow humans? Survival of the Fittest is clearly not the way of nature.
A trend that is happily coming to an end because it is no longer 'fresh and new' is that of the Zombie Apocalypse. I think most of us are over the Zombie Apocalypse idea but it did have a deeper meaning. There was an obvious reason why the Collective Unconscious was fixated on this idea in particular. Even people that I don't consider spiritually inclined could see that it was a reflection of society.
This ties in with our Spiritual Awakening which I will cover in my next blog called "Waking Up." The Walking Dead No, I'm not talking about the Television show. I never liked that show and found it too boring to even watch one episode. I found it funny, however, when a recent friend observed, "I never realized it was the main characters that were the Walking Dead in that show. I thought it was named after the Zombies they call Walkers!" Of course, the main characters were dead people walking because they were not going to be able to over come the zombies. There were just too many dead people for them to survive. So, they were going to die and it was just a matter of time so that's why the show was called, "The Walking Dead." Yet, most people are zombies. This phenomenon was being noticed in the late nineties. Movies like Office Space and Fight Club spoke to the way that most people felt. Most people get up, go to work, come home, eat and go to bed. Rinse, wash, repeat. The same routine day after day. Add in kids and it may become a little bit more complicated. Wake up, wake up kids, take kids to school, go to work, pick up kids, go home, eat and go to sleep. They call them working stiffs- again, working dead people. When life is only about what you can detect through the five senses, what you can gain material wise, about gaining followers on Facebook or collecting virtual monsters on your phone....but little else....it's natural to feel dead inside. Worse yet, when you think that there is no after life (let alone past lives)...it all really seems pointless. Such people feel empty. They feel like they are missing something important. They feel like life is incomplete. That there has to be something more than this... People seek a deeper purpose and a deeper meaning to life but with our society the way it is currently there is no spiritual sustenance on television, in the movies, in our music or in our schools. Our Society Perhaps one of the things that has actually led to taking such routine in life so lightly is that we do have such abundance. People can take what they have for granted because of the abundance. We look at what other people have and out of some desire to fill that missing item in ourselves we are encouraged to buy stuff. If you have this cell phone you will finally be cool and accepted! If you collect all of the Pokemon you're cool! Not to mention that our society perpetuates the ideas of Natural Selection insisting that people act as Predators to one another for survival in the business realm and you can add another entirely soul-numbing level to the mix. Commercials encourages us to just indulge yourself, never mind where it came from or what it might be doing to the environment, this is the latest greatest thing and we think you need it. This again, leads to be people becoming disillusioned. The feeling is unless you are someone important you won't be remembered. This has led to the atrocious acts of crime against humanity. Only when we see others as objects instead of important sacred beings would we think of taking their lives. Also, if we do not see ourselves as anything more than an object we have no regard for our own lives. The mass shootings are a product of this. At least two mass shooters said that the reason they killed so many people is because they wanted to go down in history and get on news. That was the easiest and only way they could feel important in our society. They are right. Unless you are a leader of a country or a great conqueror you're probably not going to make it into the history books. Sadly, these mass shooters may be studied by future generations. Educational System Part of the issue is the educational system that we have. Since we are a nation of different religions and belief systems spiritual ideas are taught not as ways of life but studies of individual cultures. In a way, just by studying them in this manner implies that they are outdated and foreign. I remember we spent a very short time on Buddhism in one of my social studies classes in Middle School. I came away from that class with the erroneous belief that it was the same as Confucianism. Also, Academic Science has, to some extent, become a religion of it's own. As far as school is concerned every thing we experience can be explained fully by science. There is no room in that ideology for spiritual considerations and so we become beings with a short expiration date and no more. There is no Great Mystery in the world of science. Everything can be weighed, measured and explained away. I do not believe entirely that morality should be anchored upon religious or spiritual beliefs. Yet, there are no classes instructing people on etiquette and morality in our society outside of religious institutions. Considering that so many parents don't have the time to teach their children these important lessons or lack a social or moral codes themselves the school needs to teach what being a contributing citizen means. Perhaps, by giving these children moral compasses they will keep out of jail. Nor do I believe that religious beliefs should be taught in the schools on any level. Different historical cultures should be taught but students shouldn't have to make presentations on different religions (such as I did on Buddhism and Confuciusim) for school because it won't capture the essence of those spiritual ideas in an unbiased way. Based on what I was taught in school the educational system has a bias against religious beliefs reducing them to nothing more than a couple of paragraphs is a disservice to humanity. Business System I have said this before that Corporate America needs a moral overhaul. I think that the recent push towards socialism is a result of people seeing that Corporate America promotes, sometimes literally, the worst in human behavior. This is the result of a predatory environment in which trading stocks and making deals ensures there is only one victor. We honor and reward the most ruthless among us in the business world while the people who do most of the work are openly treated with disdain. This is part of the Capitalistic ideology that worships competition. Socialism has been tried and proven to fail however. Expecting the United States to make it work when so many other systems have proven that is a failure...even hybrid systems such as in Greece...makes it evident that's not a path we should go down and only really greedy naieve people would. Since our current economic/corporate model promotes workers as being mere cogs in a well oiled machine (again it seems human beings wish they could leave behind their true nature and become programmed robots) most corporations do nothing to promote the well being of their employees. Since the Great Recession companies don't have the funds to celebrate birthdays or even acknowledge events in their employees lives. Instead, in the United States, they try to restrict vacation time, ensure that their employees can't get a second job, and ensure that their employees stay at the lowest possible income so that they have bigger profits. When looking at one-self only as a cog in a system it is very easy to become disenfranchised from being human. A business and corporate paradigm that sees people as objects is one of the things that's leading to the decay of society. I for one am all for adopting a new economic strategy that is not based on failed strategies of the past. Experimenting with a cashless society such as that seen in Star Trek would be a tremendous step forward for society or Michael Tellenger's Ubuntu Economics. We definitely need to think outside of the box when it comes to trade and services. There needs to be more of an emphasis on the individual person as being valuable human beings and less cogs in a machine. The Government really can't do this and the Unions certainly don't have an interest in promoting this idea as they would cease to exist. The only way we achieve this is through a change in what our society deems acceptable in exchange for our service. Conclusion People have felt for some time that something is missing. They have felt empty. They have felt that there should be more to life. That life shouldn't be so hard. They want to feel important and cherished. When a person is reduced to nothing more than a slave to the system or cog in the machine with no recognizable soul it is easy for them to break the law and harm others. That is why we see such a level of depravity among so many of our people. They don't just feel entitled, they don't feel that there is a reason not to harm other people or take what they want. I'm always reminded of the end of the movie Fight Club which in return reminds me of The Dark Knight. Once a person is so disenfranchised by society it's easy to want to see the entire system destroyed. There are some people that lose touch with the soul completely and they just want to see the world burn...because they are empty inside. When people come so disenfranchised and separated from their soul they inevitably have no compassion for others. The only way they feel alive is by hurting others- the ultimate spiritual vampire. Merely educating people, with a broken educational system, is not going to change our nation. Knowledge to some degree is power but our educational system doesn't teach knowledge or wisdom. Our education system does not challenge the students to be better human beings with respect for others. Instead, they teach them how to memorize information and a mountain of ideas built upon one another while discouraging independent thought. Yet, science and society tells them that this world is all there is so-YOLO! You only live life once so indulge yourself as much as you can and who cares who you hurt in the process? Death is oblivion anyway. That is why the Awakening is happening. People are starting to discover that there is more to life and more to our human history than we have thought and accepted for the last hundred years. There is still mystery and wonder in the world that can't be explained away by Science. That all of us in this time, in this age, are very important and chose to be here for an important moment. This spiritual awakening is on a very deep level and has been a slow progression. I don't believe that what we are being taught or that society is limiting on purpose. As I explained before, consciousness itself has changed slowly over thousands of years. People were only able to think in very limiting literal ideas because they couldn't conceive of the abstract ideas as we can. We just need to realize that there has been a change and that we need to update our ideas. We need to acknowledge the limitations of the people who came before us and that does not invalidate their opinions but it does suggest that we need to revise the information they proposed. My next blog will be about the Awakening as I perceive it and followed by one pondering Wholeness. To Be Of Service One of the things that really struck me when I was reading the 7 paths of initiation by Jamie Sams was the necessity that an initiate wishes to be of service. In fact, along the path it is one of the most integral steps. I will be sharing the stories of my past lives that I have recalled (both in regression sessions and dreams) in a future blog that I have already written. One of the things that I discovered was how my soul valued the lives where I was a service to others. In the lives where I was self-indulgent and materialistic my soul didn't judge or regret them but there was the sense that they were not valued as much because there was no spiritual progress. To me, to really be a student of Spirit one has to dedicate themselves entirely to service. Now, that doesn't mean that we have to serve others in a spiritual function if it is a conscious choice to be so choosing to be a parent can be a form of service (not all parents provide the 'service' of parenting their children and, in fact, some fail to be the parent at all). Service can consist of many levels. So many people search for what they should be doing in life. People, especially when they have a profound Wake Up call (such as realizing that the Mandela affect is present in their lives) wonder what exactly they are meant to do. Well, Being of Service is what all of us is meant to do in our lives and it really isn't that hard. The first step is the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have done unto you." Why I Prefer Service For me, personally, the greatest thing about the jobs that I have held for the majority of my time working is Customer Service. I love connecting to people and learning about them. Regulars in particular are very sweet and when they come into the shop every day or every week there is a relationship that develops. You ask about their kids or their husband. You know when their parents are ill or someone in their family dies. This loving relationship with strangers is a form of service. To some, in our materialistic world such an experience may just be the way they lay down the foundation for a Network. They can then use that network to the best of their benefit by developing relationships with people they want to do with business with in the future. For me, it has nothing to do with money or business. One time, I had a girl telling me how she was having a terribly hard time getting into the college she wanted into. I asked her how many she applied to and she admitted only the one. I challenged her to look into other schools, that clearly the one she was trying to get into wasn't meant to be given all of the challenges she had been handed. Getting into a college really shouldn't be that hard. Weeks later, she came to thank me profusely. She had been accepted by another college easily and it turns out that it was a better fit than one she had been so focused on. She had no one else in her life that would have pointed it out but, somehow, she wound up having that conversation with at 'lowly' customer service employee and it changed her life. To me, that is true service. Choosing Service As My Job If you asked me when I was younger if I would end up wanting to serve others I would say it's a crazy idea. I was very introverted and did not like interacting with people at all. Even now, it takes me a long time to recharge after a particularly demanding day of customers. Further, there are jobs that claim to be customer service jobs that are not. Anything entirely sales based is not really focused on the relationship with the customer. The moment I realized that I want to be of service to humanity is a crystal clear memory for me. I had returned to working at Starbucks, albeit at Albertsons, and I realized just why I liked the job before when I had worked for corporate Starbucks. I realized the real connection that it afforded and the ability to really take care of people. When people come into Starbucks having a bad day I make sure their drink is made especially good. In the very least, I am uplifting them at that moment. Over my years of experience I have witnessed that a drink made with love, with the intention of making another person's day better, can have that affect. I have also witnessed employees charged with negative emotions, who hate their lives, hate the job and think the majority of people in the world are 'dumb' make a drink and the customer complain that it tastes absolutely awful. In one case, a customer returned saying her coffee tasted like, "used cigarettes." Subsequently, customers will seek me out specifically to make the drink simply because they feel that I make it better even when I make a mistake with the recipe. Perhaps, as our intentions manifest more quickly the people with ill intentions will be made clear because their 'creations' will be tainted and detected by others in a more telling way. I have no ulterior motive, no sales gimmick, and I am not taking advantage of them. I am purely giving them the best service that I can give to them while striving to give them exactly what they want. I honor that they know what they want and do not try to persuade or argue with them about the small nuances. As long as they are happy with the final outcome the rest does not matter. Some people can't handle customer service. They become very negative and burnt out. They do not know how to recharge through their connection with the Universal Source ( I am not always the best at taking time out to do so) and become very bitter. There can be many downsides to customer service. I will not list them here. However, for me personally, the wonderful moments are what make it so worth it. For example, around Christmas I helped save a life. A man had a mysterious seizure that the doctors don't understand. I saw him fall, yelled for my co-worker to call 911 and ran to him. The store manager ran to him and having experienced something similar before told me to turn him on his side. Three of us, two of my male managers and myself got him on his side and held him there. Even in the fits of his seizure he calmed every time I talked to him. I told him that help was on the way and that everything was going to be alright. Despite how tense his body was because of the seizure he did relax when I said those words and did not attempt to go onto his back. When I did not talk to him he did try to go back to laying on his back and tried to fight us which might have killed him. The quick response we had to his seizure and calling 911 got him to the hospital in time. He was told that if he had gone back to his car, as he was attempting to do when I saw him fall over, he would have died. I did not have to think twice to go to his aide. Other customers stepped over him and still others, while the situation was going on, were ordering coffee as though oblivious. I found it heart breaking. Other people might have been afraid to get involved. I, however, after reading stories such as the Genovese syndrome. The Genovese syndrome was named after a woman was stabbed to death in the street with thirty-eight people watching and no one went to help her. One person only called the police after she was dead. There were a lot of reasons why people didn't get involved. Some expected someone else to call others while others were just too tired to deal with it and still others didn't want to be tattle-tales. Sadly, this is all too often the case. I have, personally, decided to intervene. I have decided that when I see a situation where someone is truly desperately in need. I do not look at homeless men wanting cash so he can get his next drug fix or a fake homeless person on a street corner collecting money to pay his bills with the guilt money from the wealthy to be truly in need. In our country, this has become a racket for people who don't want to get an ordinary job and too often the people are faking their poverty. Sometimes ordinary people are in dire straights and need a helping hand. For some reason some people are afraid to help and others just won't be inconvenienced. They will throw a few dollars a drunk filthy man holding a sign but when someone is bleeding on the ground dying they walk by without care. If I see a drunk driver I call the cops. I don't do it to get that person in trouble, not at all, I do it to save lives. Possibly the life of the driver and definitely the lives of people they could potentially hit. That, to me, is really being of service. Why I blog I write my blogs to be of service to others. I write them less for myself and more for other people I would be just as happy writing this in a personal diary. I had a dream, however, that impressed on me the need to share the information that I have found, what I have learned and the beliefs that I have with others. In the dream I was shown a very large warehouse. I knew that the different fascinating baubles and items were things that I had learned. But the warehouse was empty and lonely. I realized it was a shame to keep all of this to myself and that it would be of benefit to share it with others. Where is the fun in finding new exciting insights and points of view...or any form of enlightenment if you keep it to yourself? How does that really benefit humanity? That's the feelings the dream impressed on me and I realized my error. I have also seen so many negative people sharing their points of view. The Dark Age Christians who see the Apocalypse in every potential date of importance. The people who want to interpret any idea of something, from the Mandela effect to the end of the Processional Year, in a negative light. These people seem to want to call down the Apocalypse for no other reason than to punish other people. There are so many people who assume that some date associated with a turning point in human history must involve a terrible calamity whether economic, political or environmental. I understand the desire for such things. There is an inherent mechanism within us to see humanity as a blight on the Earth. I have heard it argued that we are a disease that is destroying everything in our path. I do not believe that this is so, precisely, certain practices we have put into place have been allowed to go wild without human intervention. This has caused an unhealthy imbalance in the world. I believe this can be fixed. I believe the majority of people want to fix it but don't know how. If, in some small way, my meanderings through different thoughts about several areas of life somehow contributes to a solution I am happy to be of service in that function. I hope, that as Jamie Sams explained about the Whirling Rainbow Dream, I am helping to bring the idea nurtured by Dreamers, Seers, Sages and Shaman's for centuries into reality. I would far prefer to see humanity living in harmony with the Earth and each other than any doomsday Apocalypse. Unlike others, I do not look outside myself for the answers or to a savior to fix things for me. Instead, I believe in the idea that if we change ourselves we can become examples to others and in turn save the world. People will want to emulate a way of being that brings true happiness which very few people really come to know. The Servant Leader This is exactly what Yeshua taught when he said in Matthew 20:25-28: "Jesus called all the followers together and said, "You know that the rulers of the non-Jewish people love to show their power over the people. And their important leaders love to use all their authority. But it should not be that way among you. Whoever wants to become great among you must serve the rest of you like a servant. Whoever wants to become first among you must serve the rest of you like a slave. In the same way, the Son of Man did not come to be served. He came to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many people." I do not believe that this should only apply to the clergy. I believe this should apply to any person given any iota of power in the world. Those who would not be the servant automatically fail the test of being a suitable leader. Those who would use power to dominate and gloat in their superiority over others should not be leaders and no one should give them the chance to be leaders. Yeshua said it so simply over two thousand years ago, how did we get it so wrong? Why do we give power to bullies, why do we seem to value them more, why reward the person willing to stab another in the back, and not the servant who has shown nothing but loyalty and faithfulness to their fellow human beings? Why isn't the spirit of the servant cultivated and upheld as the the prime example of how humans should behave in general society? Why do we reward the crooked and the one who will do anything to get to the top? Conclusion Being a servant is not easy. Sacrificing for others, going that extra mile when other people might not appreciate it in the moment is something few people can manage. That takes a lot of energy that might not be returned. However, it can also be returned on an overwhelming level. Just the other day, I worked to uplift every person I encountered and perhaps three out of forty did not respond in kind. Yet, in serving, even when unappreciated you can alter the course of another persons life. The manner of service does not need to be specific. You don't have to be a part of a clergy, a cop, a firefighter or in the military. You don't have to be in a prestigious form of service. The janitor, the cashier, the fast food clerk, and the local gardener are all just as valuable forms of service! You can always tell the people who are not sincere leaders or teachers. They do not wish to be of service. They are not humble, as a servant would be, and they make it clear they feel a form of superiority to those they lead. They claim to have all of the answers but no one, absolutely no one on this Earth today, has all of the answers. True servants and teachers know they do not know everything. They do not gloat about their own authority over their students. They admit that they are fallible. A true teacher/leader admits that they are learning as they go and that they learn from their followers. They admit that what they represent is their own point of view and beliefs that might not be the same for everyone else. In fact, good teachers and leaders admit that they learn from their students or employees. This provides a balanced exchange of experience that makes everyone wiser. I choose to be of service. I choose not to pursue just my selfish desires and things that benefit only me. I choose to do all that I can to uplift humanity, to help my fellow human being and I humbly acknowledge that I am learning just like everyone else. Not everyone is a studious as I am, but that's why I try to bring ideas down to Earth in simple plain English so that everyone can understand them in a easily applicable manner. That is why I love the job that I do and can't imagine doing anything else anymore. Humble, simple and pure. A customer not so long ago asked me what I was doing in a grocery store when I shared a nugget of wisdom and some information with her that blew her mind. I admitted it was odd but I can't see where else I would be...because where I am at I can be more of service to a random person in need then any organization that focuses on the information I talk about. I touch the lives of a multitude of people of very faith, background and ideology instead of just being an example to like minded people. To me this is a huge plus. I will end on this note...I appreciate the fashions of the Hijab and Henna tattoos. Hijabs remind me of the 1950's fashion of wearing a bandanna over a woman's hair. I commented to a woman who had Henna that it was beautiful and complemented her Hijab using the correct term. As she was walking out of the store she commented to her husband, "See, the world is changing..." She did not try to convert me to Islam. She did not try to tell me I need to obey Sharia law...she was just happy to be recognized, appreciated and accepted. Isn't that, deep down, what we all want?
Today is going to be a little bit of a deviation and a recap before I move onto other subjects. My heart is telling me to post the blog I wrote about Service but I will do so soon. This one, however, is more timely given that I wanted to include the above video.
The amount of things that I want to write is tremendous and I'm putting the blogs together now as the writing bug has bitten me. I still need to write the Ages post for The Shift series but as I am going through a period of renewal after a busy stretch in my life I'm putting aside researching that topic. Currently, I am just enjoying the pure pleasure of reading about Atlantis. I will probably read and research the three books that I have on the subject a couple of times before I write blogs on the subject as there is a lot of material I want to double check. I never take anyone's words at face value. My next blog will be on Service but I just want to share some synchrnoistic experiences that I have had recently. Including the video at the start here by Collette Baron-Reid where she explains the Universal Energies. I find it fascinating that just as I wrote a blog on the subject of the Disconnection From Spirit that people have experienced thanks to the influence of the Religious belief that only the elect can approach God and science telling us that we are nothing but animals (more on this in a blog I am currently writing) that other people are becoming aware of this issue. At the very least, it seems I am in tune with the readings that Collette gave this week on the Universal Energies. If, these Energies are true, and a great deal of the world is experiencing this realization at the same time it is a beautiful moment to be alive. I have heard spirit works that way, new ideas pop up simultaneously and spontaneously around the globe at the same time- take for example both Edison and Tesla working with electricity which would redefine how we live. We may be entering a true thought Renaissance. Atlantis Preview Strangely, I have never really believed in Atlantis or given the idea much thought. In our society the current skeptical scientific paradigm has been so set in stone that we really don't allow for much. A lot of people, and I am sad to say far more than I would ever suspect, find it really challenging to their faith to look beyond the accepted parameters of a the paradigm they have been taught by their parents and society since they were children. Further, sciences paradigm that we have evolved over a period of time, starting off as cave people, evolving to "primitive" Hunter/Gatherers and then slowly began the process of agriculture further alienates us from the idea that our ancestors might have been wise let alone that a society once existed that was 'advanced' compared to the rest of the world that consisted of 'stone age' cultures. We are taught that it has only been since the recent ages that mankind has earned the mental capacity to create advanced technology and civilizations. Only recently, within the last few years have I heard that different cultures that were at different rates existed on Earth at the same time. This is partly due to the realization that only a small fraction of people are the descendants of Neanderthals who were here before modern humans and we now realize must have interacted with modern humans. Originally, it was thought that the human race was the evolution of the Neanderthals but the scientific proof that both species lived on the Earth for a significant period of time and DNA has proven that this is not true. I might add that the process of human fossils being created is so rare that those bones that we do have do not give us a very clear picture of the history of mankind. Gobekli Tepe is one of the places that is rewriting the rules and challenging scientific dogma that has built up around the accepted scientific process humanity underwent in it's evolution. There megalithic architecture, agriculture and "religion" appear to have risen at 9600 (as suggested by Edgar Cacye and Plato) and at the end of an inexplicable cold spell called the Younger Dryas. Further, evidence of a flood caused by a comet impact on the northern ice sheets that spanned both the North American continent and the Eur-Asian continent suggest that there is a very good reason the Flood Story exist in so many cultures. Modern science or comparative religion classes would tell us that the fact so many societies have a Flood story only indicates that there is a universal archetype or template that humans use to relate to their natural world. Usually, they explain that this is born of out fear and reverence based on the need for survival. Again, we get the idea that our ancestors were brutish creatures unable to understand natural processes so they worshiped them. Perhaps it was not the Annunaki who introduced the idea of civilization to the Hunter Gatherers but human beings from Atlantis who, once their homeland and culture was destroyed, sought to preserve it. Further, perhaps it is true that as Burley suggests in the following article that I will provide a link for that the creators of Gobeki Tepe actually buried the site to be uncovered at this specific time. Is it possible that Gobekli Tepe is nothing less than a time capsule that they knew would be discovered at this time of the changing of the Ages? Here is the link to the article and I apologize that you will have to copy and paste it into your browser : https://grahamhancock.com/burleyp1/. I will be covering this topic in depth later in other blogs. The information about Atlantis comes from Edgar Cacyes Atlantis (Drs. Gregory and Lora Little and John Van Auken), Rudolf Steiner's Atlantis (Rudolf Steiner) and Magicians of the Gods (Graham Hancock). Each has a different perspective of the puzzle and strangely they are in agreement. Two More Sevens In a previous post I covered the significance of number 7. The number 7 has cropped up in two other places. One is the story of Moses which can be seen on the John Van Auken video I shared but was placed in Edgar Cacye's Atlantis. The other mention of 7 is from Graham Hancock's book so I will be sharing snippets for both of these as I find it fascinating. I will add that I had a dream after thinking on this topic a few nights ago. In it, I was shown that there were Three original emanations from the Source, Then there were the 7 emanations that are found in the Dreamweave. I was told then, in the dream, that these together make 10 which is the number of completion. An odd dream but it's an interesting idea. Paraphrased from page 93 Edgar Cacye's Atlantis (Drs, Gregory and Lora Little and John Van Auken) Jesus gave Nicodemus three key teachings (John 3:14). The first is that "we must be born again." We have been born physically but we need to give birth to our spiritual self. The second teaching was that no one ascends to heaven but he or she who first descended from it, referring to the involution of mind into matter prior to the current evolution up through matter... Key to our study is the third teaching which Jesus stated as, "As Moses raised the serpent in the desert, so must the son of man be raised up to eternal life..." Here Jesus is referring to the time when Moses left the kingdom of Pharaoh (so symbolic of the outer ego- power and worldly possessions) to search for his true self and God in the desert. In his search he comes upon a deep well around which seven virgins are attempting to water their flocks. Seen virgins in the desert; is there some deeper meaning here? Of course there is. These seven virgins, daughters of a high priest, are symbolic of the seven spiritual centers, the seven chakras, and the seven lotuses within each being. Moses waters them and their flocks, ultimately marrying the eldest one. Afterwards, he meets God in a burning bush and for the first time is instructed how to transform his staff into a serpent and raise the serpent up again into a staff." (Exodus 2,3, and 4). From Graham Hancocks Magicians of the Gods pg 28: "The fullest account we have of Oannes is found in surviving fragments of the works of a Babylonian priest called Berossos who wrote in the third century BC. Fortunately, I have a translation of all of Berossos fragments in one volume in my library so I dig it out along with a few other sources on ancient Mesopotamian myths and traditions. It doesn't take me long to discover that Oannes did not do his work alone but was supposedly the leader of a group of beings know as the "Seven Apkallu"- the "Seven Sages"- who were said to have lived "before the flood" (a cataclysmic global deluge features prominently in many Mesopotamian traditions, including those of Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylon). Alongside Oannes, these sages are portrayed as bringers of civilization who, in the most ancient past, gave humans a moral code, arts, crafts and agriculture and taught them architecture building and engineering skills." Polarization This is the perfect world to describe what is happening across the globe. I came across this word when watching reviews for multiple movies this year. I realized that it perfectly describes what I started to observe based on the upcoming movies of this year and the election at the start of the year. I could see that people were becoming more divided than ever before on subjects. This, for example, has become extreme in many things. There are movies coming out that only half the population can get behind and the other half simply can't comprehend. We also see this Polarization in our national election as neither side can seem to understand the reasoning of the other. In fact, we are reaching a point where there are two distinct aspects of society and they can no longer comprehend each other. This polarization, is a symptom, I think, of the changes that we are going through on Earth. This is where people are dividing into camps based on how they view the world. This can be seen as the Negative and the Positive. I have mentioned three different sources, although now it is closer to five that I know of, that suggest that this would happen. One reality will get to experience the Rainbow Whirl Dream and one set will "not end so well." In fact, I'd say that the latter is more likely to go down the path of Ancient Atlantis. This idea is exactly why I decided to study Atlantis. More or less, Atlantis became very fearful and chose to dominate the landscape of the Earth modifying it based on their fears. Their fear based actions caused a Comet to come too close to the Earth and it destroyed them. To me this brings to mind Revelation 6:16 that says: "They called to the mountains and the rocks, 'Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb!" If mind is the builder and the universe responds, in a way, to human thought (through interactions with the Dreamweave/Akashic Record) than those who wish to be destroyed will have their wish fulfilled. This makes sense if we are mini-creators in training to join the Great Spirit in creating all of the universe. Matter and the creation naturally bends to our wishes and if that is our own self-destruction because we look around and can only see evil negative things than we will call destruction down upon ourselves. Experiencing Polarization In My Own Life I have acutely felt this separation caused by this polarization in my life on many levels and it is becoming more acute as the year progress. Prior to this, I could easily slip in and out of other peoples points of view with ease even if it was negatively charged or charged by 'shadow energy.' I could tolerate scary movies depicting demon possession and the Dark Age Christian view of the world. Yet, I have reached the point where I can no longer do this and I realized that it means that these two forces are charging up...and will seperate. Bashar describes this as the two train tracks. He explained that the ability to shift from one reality to another is going to become harder and harder. He explained we need to decide which alignment best suits us and work to remain in that alignment and in that energy. Soon, he explains, with the Splitting of the Prism we won't be able to bounce back and forth from those points of views as we once did. Boy can I see this in my own life! Here is a link to someone discussing this subject in more detail: http://teleportation.co.nz/e-t-wiki/splitting-prism/ Watching Rihanna's video Sledgehammer I understood the concepts and the ideas that the music video conveyed in Symbol which is the language of Spirit as anyone who works with Dreams knows. I saw that it was a beautiful and empowering video that was speaking of Wholeness. Wholeness is a very important topic that I hope to cover by the end of the year. Wholeness can only be achieved with a great deal of personal work and clearing out old belief systems/habits that didn't benefit the person. Very few have gone through this process, Buddha and Yeshua are both examples of people who mastered this after many lifetimes. Wholeness does not come magically just by accepting Yeshua as a our personal savior but is something takes dedicated work on the part of the individual that he instructs us in the New Testament to undertake.. As this work is completed, when we have traveled the 7 paths of initiation, we discover that we are an aspect of the universe but that we are simultaneously the universe. This is a very enlightened point of view. So, to me the video was extraordinarily profound. When watching the Dark Age Christians, however, as they tried to explain that all that I saw as positive was "work of the devil" I became sick. To them the language of Symbolism belongs to the Devil and is to be feared because it is 'entrapping' human beings! By looking through their eyes I absorbed some of the Negative energy that they were pouring off. Their "energy" or "vibration" is so completely opposite of that which I possess that they simply did not mesh. If I did not actively try to understand what they were saying and seeing their words were appeared to me to be utter lunatic ravings. They were, in short, incomprehensible to me at this stage of my development unless I devoted a lot of my energy to try to understand them. I felt the same way when I was watching the Batman vs. Superman movie. The dark disgusting depiction of the DC world utterly did not appeal to me. They are creating a universe of such darkness that even beloved characters are not appealing. Upon watching those movies, unlike the Marvel Movies, I find that I would not wish to be a part of that world. My complete and utter lack of desire to exist in such a negative world is what prevented me from being immersed in that world. Often, at the movies what immerses me in the movie is the desire to want to be there. The concepts, the characters and the plot are so appealing that they are desirable experiences. I would love to meet Iron Man, Captain America, or Black Widow. They are uplifting characters. Even Deadpool was highly enjoyable and I'd love to have his experience even though it doesn't sound so wonderful. Not so with the DC universe where I felt disgusted and immersed in shadow material after watching how it portrayed such a negative world view. Strangely, the movie Watchmen was of a similar vein (Lex Luther's charecter in Batman vs. Superman is the same as Ozymandias, the villain of Watchman willing to kill people in a nuclear blast so that the Earth will be united in peace because of the devastation) was not so uncomfortable. Perhaps because I felt it was a spoof of other comic movies and so in an alternate history sort of way that I would not want to be a part of I could learn how a really twisted person thinks but it was not as polarizing. I have in my own life realized how incredibly important it is important to distinguish between good and bad teachers or leaders. Well, films are a form of teaching in many ways and it is a way of experiencing things we do not in ordinary life. I have found, that just as I have to be picky about what teachers I listen to, least I pick up their energy, I must do the same when going to see films and listening to music. This has reached a point where I am repelled, like two ends of a magnet that are the same, from music, people and entertainment that are equally filled with negativity. The amount of positivism that I carry and faith in humanity because the Creator put enough faith in us to allow the Human Experiment to exist is equal in opposition to the faith people put in the idea that humanity is a corrupt virus in this world created by the Devil. Naturally, when two equal but opposing energies collide they repel from each other and that is what I think that we are seeing with this polarization. We are seeing people this with people as they organize into specific frequencies by the polarizing effects in multiple areas of our lives. Final Thoughts As I have said before, it can drive a person insane if they focus on any particular set of numbers. 11:11, for example, pops up in my life a lot. I watched Collete-Baron Reid's video this morning at exactly 11:11. I take it as a nod that I am in the flow of vibration, especially when there is pertinent information that correlates with my own point of view that I developed. Yet, it is significant to me how often the number 3 shows up in spiritual belief systems of antiquity (Think the Trinity) and how often 7 shows up as well and I have to wonder if it is a coincidence. Not to mention to the people outside of the individuals experience it seems a little bit much (I personally don't care too much about the synchronicity regarding numbers that people experience as I do the meaning they take from it in their own lives). As always, I am continuously going deeper into these mysteries and exploring them. For reference, one of the reasons that I have always looked deeper into the belief system's of all cultures came from the rather mysterious phrase: "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear." Mark 4:9 To me, this always suggested that these were not physical ears that he spoke of but something more. Everyone has ears to hear but that doesn't always mean they understand the deeper meanings. To me, Yeshua always hinted that there was deeper knowledge. The person just had to develop the ability to truly hear what was being said. Dogma, to me does not develop this ability to truly hear the teachings but buries them under layers suggesting only a trained elite can possess this knowledge. That only the elite dare approach God. Yet, in "mystery traditions" around the world the curious, who asked the right questions and learned to probe deeper into the "the mystery" that is life were the ones rewarded extra and deeper knowledge. Very few people really search for knowledge in a selfless manner. Yet, there are more Seekers now than I can ever recall. Finally, I want to leave on a note that is quite curious. I was watching an interview of Daryl Anka with some sort of UK mainstream magazine. When asked if Bashar was demonic he replied in a very curious way. He said that was racist, to think entities outside our normal realm of experience are automatically evil. I agree with him, that is absolutely wrong. Although, again, we need to practice discernment with all supposed teachers. For example, I find Rudolf Steiner fascinating but it is clear he wants to be seen as an authority on the subject of Clairvoyance (clear seeing) and all things spiritual and not a servant. I have learned the clearest channels for the divine are those who have chosen to Serve humanity, first and foremost. (I will get into this in my next blog on Service.) Ultimately, along the path of seeking, I have found, there comes a time when that which is outside merely serves as a form of validation for personal internal revelations. We have been taught to doubt our own intuition and guidance in preference to someone who claims to have knowledge and authority directly from God. I find it interesting that we have been so trained that a Doomsday will come or that we have experience doom in order to wash away the corrupt and 'begin again'...as though we are stuck in some sort of cycle and unable to free ourselves. We have been dwelling so much on dreading and fearing the One World Order, fearing the idea of the End of Days...despite that it might herald the return of Yeshua...that at any single "special date" such as 2000 or 2012 people automatically assume that it is bad and will usher in the Apocalypse. What is with our culture wanting to believe and create a reality where everything must end horribly before it gets better? Is it, perhaps, the memory of Atlantis? Or is it that we have been so negative seeking dominance over one another for so many years that being positive and optimistic is foreign to us as a species? I personally, take my role in ushering in the Rainbow Whirl Dream as a privlage. I can see it leaking into our culture bit by tiny bit as people begin to explore ideas outside of the limiting paradigm that we have been taught for generations in the West. I am very optimistic about the future of humanity. I didn't want to dwell too long on The Shift as I said, originally, I meant to tell in a very short condensed version of one blog but realized I needed to do a little history. From all that I can tell The Shift primarily started in the early 1990's and it reached a maximum recently. All of it was simply affecting human consciousnesses.
There is one aspect I did not get into in my last post, which was my initial purpose of writing it, but the religious point of view came to be the focus of that post. I have a strong feeling that, as I have said, all that occurred in the way of religion was orchestrated for a reason. Although, I do not think that it was for the purest intentions and that history has proven that great atrocities have been performed in the name of a few religions I cannot judge the people involved. I simply note these items in order to give a context and a reasoning for the way that we form our paradigms, that is our view of the world, today. Naturally, what we view as normal was handed down over the years from our ancestors. Has Thinking Evolved? There is a theory that I read but I cannot remember the source. Rudolf Steiner hints at it in his work but he doesn't say it the way that I originally read the idea. He's a bit grandiose in his explanations and it's clear he enjoyed talking to a crowd as though he were an elite. So, I will write this as I remember reading it. We can see a parallel with artwork during these times indicating the ability of humans to comprehend certain ways of thinking. Originally, when humans began living on Earth their thinking was different from ours. They were more inclined to the way that they thought in Spirit, which was more abstract, because they had more memory of the time when they were fully Spirit. They may have even retained the ability to remember what life was like when they traveled in Spirit form. Yet, that way of thinking did not allow them to focus on the experience of being human. This abstract way of thinking is the reason why so many ancient societies used Symbolism as their form of language. Symbols were easily understood by the general population as each was familiar with the different symbolic representations of life whether in their anthropomorphic forms or natural forms. That is why humans, in a way, lost some of the greater ability to think in an abstract form which came to a peak during the Middle Ages and people became so literal. This was mostly done so people could focus on the fearsome and daunting task of living on this Earth. This allowed for the illusion of being Finite and becoming lost in the material world to such a degree that the world of Spirit could not be recalled. This was needed because humans needed to know how the animals of the Earth felt and how their fight for survival was their key experience on this Earth. This sort of experience, this 'suffering,' resulted in some very deep lessons and a great deal of spiritual growth. This limited way of thinking in an literal, earthly only, sense was very limiting, however, and in many ways killed creativity and imagination. The results were societies that were not inventive and did not progress rapidly but remained the same with very little innovation for hundreds of years. Art was very literal, even when depicting abstract concepts such as God's or Angels they were personified and evoked only with imagery and forms that are familiar to us in our Earthly experience. If we were to go back in time and talk to someone from the Dark Ages about much of our world they would think that we were talking nonsense! Most of our technology would be viewed as magical in nature and if we talked about other "planes" or "dimensions" they would really think we were talking nonsense. That is how much thinking has changed since that time. In recent times, people have been able to grasp the concept of Metaphor. Metaphor is defined as: A figure of speech where a word or phrase is applied to an object which is not literally applicable. Or: A thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially abstract. I suppose, to make the difference between thinking literally and thinking in metaphor it is best that we define Literal: Literal: 1. Taking words in their usual or basic sense without metaphor or allegor. 2. Representing the exact words of the original text. In recent years we have been more aware of symbolism. We have been able to return to the ability to look at an image that contains no words and grasp that there is a greater meaning. This ability has been used to give us an interesting glimpse into the way Ancient Civilizations thought (such is in the case of Laird Scranton) and in the unfortunate case of the Dark Ages Christians who seem symbols for Satan everywhere they go. People, such as Einstein, were able to use the symbolism from their dreams to create fantastic breakthroughs in scientific thinking. Others, such as Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell were able to identify Universal Archetypes, that is symbols, that have deep meaning to humanities unconscious. I would propose that the ability to think symbolically and in metaphor was never completely removed from the human psyche. The ability, however, was simply pushed back into the unconscious which is where many people argue the wisdom of the Soul is stored. A Shift In Consciousness So, as we can see, at the very least there has been a significant shift in humanities ability to understand. There is a large percentage of the population, still in the minority, but they are there...that comprehends symbolism and metaphor. These are people who are, generally speaking, thinking in a way that their grandparents and the generations before them could not comprehend. I have heard the argument that the reason that we are able to shift from thinking in a literal sense of daily survival to the abstract symbolic way of thinking is because we have reached a degree of comfort. When people were focused on meeting their daily needs of survival there was no time, some would claim, for people to spend pondering the mysteries of the cosmos, let alone, to have a vocation where someone can stare into a microscope or a telescope for hours on end. I admit that this is true to a certain degree but there was always a small portion of the population that did dedicate themselves to contemplation and that would be the priestly class. While they were limited to thinking about their religious point of view many did branch out and study other ideas. Certainly, even from 1564-1642 Galiileo found time to study the heavens. While life has become a little bit easier than that time it is not as dramatic as some people want to believe. In fact, the time when Agriculture actually came into existence- around 9600 BC (that's when Gobekli Tepe was built). With the advent of Agriculture people were able to go into specialized areas of work. Prior to that, the Hunters and Gatherers were truly focused on survival. With Agriculture, some people were farmers, some were able to be leaders of the community, some were smiths, etc. So, arguably, we can say that the ability to contemplate the cosmos was less prevalent than today but there have certainly been people with the time and the ability to do so (because they relied on farmers and carpenters to attend to the basic needs of food and shelter) for thousands of years! Knowing that progress from 9600 B.C. until the late 18th century was at a snails pace gives us even more cause to wonder what happened in the last hundred years. Clearly, the way that humanity thinks has changed. The process in the way we think has not been as swift as some might try to claim. Instead, it has been a slow process and we are living in the peak of the experience where a large percentage of people are capable of thinking symbolically and in metaphor. There are some who will not and will choose to not progress. That's fine. The wonderful thing is that we have a choice. Conclusion I think that I have exhausted every recourse in explaining how I see The Shift that so many people are talking about. The process has been slow, although, when looking at the width and breadth of human experience it does appear to be quite abrupt. We will be looking more in depth at the reason why and how this 'descent into matter' or 'Involution of Souls' was necessary when I write about Atlantis. I am in the process of reading several books on the topic and I'm looking forward to presenting the information. I will also be looking more in depth at how many cultures have a idea of a time period that will come to an end and occasionally ends/begins new ages with "trials by fire or water." We have the Kali Yuga (which we are said to be at the end of) in the Hindu version of things where Kali eventually destroys the world and Ragnarock where the 9 worlds are destroyed in a great battle only to be 'reset' with the Gods not remembering that they repeatedly die and are reborn in the same manner. There is the Maya epochs, or ages which so many have talked about. In the Hopi we are leaving behind the Fourth World of the Animal and entering the World of the Human. Then, of course,we have the Age of Aquarius idea. I will note that there are people such as Dolores Cannon who literally thought we would die in this world and then "come to life" on another world. I don't believe that "The Shift" is so dramatic. Instead, it is merely a shift in thinking as we learn that we are multidimensional beings. The outpouring of knowledge from so many realms, the ability to think in more abstract terms instead of black and white exclusive terms will change humanity. That is how we will find peace, that is when we will beat our swords into plows and set about feeding the hungry as opposed to waging war. The ability to expand our consciousness out from the limited scope of one individual competing to survive day to day... to one that encompasses all of humanity- with plenty of room for individuality- is the Path to Peace. The Mandela Effect may be one of those affects of this shift in consciousness. People knowing that things were different once...books that we read that never were in print (as in my case) or Berenstain bears instead of Bernstein (which I remember from just a few years ago, 2007, which makes this switch relatively recent). There is an entire list of things on Youtube from movie quotes to ads. That is what we are heading towards and it might be a relatively small percentage of humanity that is doing the work but it will be enough because we are buoyed by the generations able to do so that came before us. The Choice There is evidence that there are two paths we can take. The Great Pyramid and the Hopi Prophecy rock contain images that suggest one set of people will go to their destruction and one set will go to a Golden Age of Harmony with the Earth. In the Great Pyramid, some, but not all ascend up to the Kings Chamber but the rest go down into the subterranean pit. At the Hopi Prophecy rock, there is one line that continues on with corn plants at the end of which Masauwu awaits them while the ascending line goes into a zig zag path that ends abruptly and said to be the destruction of the Earth. I will leave you with these enigmatic words from Jamie Sams but keep in mind this was written in 1994 when far fewer people were seeing and feeling the effects: "These days, many people on all paths are experiencing these same unexplainable events, but they do not know how or why they are happening. This is because so many people have encountered the crack between worlds that the points of access to the parallel world of physicality are now more available. The parallel world of physicality is identical to the one we experience in daily life; however, the time is slightly altered. That duplicate world is less than one second of time different from what we consider to be the correct time.This duplicate world or parallel reality was called the Rainbow Dream by my teachers. This unified or collective prophecy from many tribes is a vision that fortells the coming together of all races and nations. The common symbol accompanying such visions and dreams for centuries was a Whirling Rainbow, and the recurring them was one of unity, harmony and peace. The Whirling Rainbow was originally encountered by secret societies of Native American Seers and Dreamers. Visions of the future worlds potential gathered energy over the years as more gifted and healed human beings discovered those ideas within the Dream Weave. The dream of world peace exists in energetic form and is a reality that has been nurtured by visionaries around the world for centuries. That energetic world has taken form and is physically merging with our own. Those who are feeling or sensing themselves being drawn into the duplicate world, where discord is only a forgotten memory, may experience a flutter or flip-flop in the stomach, goose bumps of energy, or the slight shaking of muscles when entering or leaving that layer of consciousness. As people merge with the Dream Weave of the Fifth Path, they are given the opportunity to explore this second physical world. Sometimes the experience can included the unexplainable aspects of altered time, place or space, or mixtures of sensations that confound or scare those who do not understand what is occurring." (pages 90-91) Then on page 231 of Jamie Sams Dancing the Dream: "The potential that exists for human beings to be come fully conscious and clear is represented by the original thirteen crystal skulls that were given to the people of the Earth by another culture that came from beyond the stars. The Mayans called these people the "Sky Gods." The thirteen crystal skulls contain a metaphoric message that reflects the thirteen hertz that will be experienced by everyone on Earth in the year 2012. Along with the lowering of the magnetic field of the planet, the higher electrical waves of the thirteen hertz will shift the collective consciousnesses of humankind to a new level of awareness,which will contain all the understandings acquired by experiencing every lesson on all seven paths of initiation. The assimilation of these understandings will create the actual manifestation of the Whirling Rainbow Dream of world peace." A Sidenote On a side note of interest. The 13 hertz claim seems to be referring to Schumann Resonances. This seems to be something that actually involves the atmosphere of the Earth and not necessarily the core so it might not be technically "coming" from the Earth per se but is a a reaction of cosmic influences such as the sun's energetic relationship with the Earth. I could not find the current Schumann Resonance. I have found references saying that there it is currently at 16hz but these were not from scientific sources (although, they cited sources that might have been scientific that I could not find). I have not done an exhaustive search on this subject. I find it interesting that she hones in on the 2012 date. Clearly, those who are of Maya ancestry knew that would be the end of the 13th Backtun. 13 being a sacred number for them. (To some it represented completion and creation). There were a few books in the 1970's that apparently tried to attach 'doomsday' to this notion but the one that really set it forth was written in 1995, after Jamie Sam's book came out. Also notice, she doesn't attach it to 'doomsday' but a prophecy of hope. Also, it is interesting that the Channeled Entity Kryon claims to have been involved in changing the magnetic structure of the Earth. In fact when introducing itself it says that it is the Kryon of the Magnetic Service. The "work" with Kryon started in 1989, just five years before Jamie Sams wrote her book and I cannot say if it influenced this bit of her work or not but it's doubtful as new information didn't travel as fast as it does on the internet today. Finally, the fact many people are contemplating economic ideas that are not based on Socialism or Captalisim is fascinating. I am, personally, most interested in Trek-Economics, a book that came out recently. Although, Micheal Tellinger has also proposed a different economic system based on one found in Africa. Finally, I'm including a fascinating video from the Venus Project by Jaque Fresco. It is a long video but it is an example that the idealism that we had in the 1980's for a future Earth not overrun by zombies or destroyed in an End Times scenario can still be found.
Setting The Tone
The opening words to Galadriel's prologue in the Lord of the Rings has always given me goosebumps: "The world has changed, I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, I smell it in the air, Much that once was is lost, For now none live that remember it." I have stated my belief that authors, artists and musicians are Shaman's. That to write they are channeling the divine (in Greece they would say a Muse was helping them) but in the case of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings I believe that he was trying to recapture old myths and in so doing touched on the story of mankind. As always, the perspective of soul of the channel affects the writing so it gets filtered through certain beliefs. However, these words uttered before the story of the One Ring rings true for the story I'm going to tell today. Introduction My apologies for not getting back to this earlier. I'm attempting to post at least once a week as writing is very therapeutic for me. However, I had a very busy two weeks filled with doctor appointments and even a jury summons that, thankfully, I was dismissed from serving. So, today I want to look at another aspect of this "Induction" of souls that started the entire grand experiment of incarnating souls on Earth. In previous blogs that were lost I covered the idea that he world is an experiment. I rejected the idea that we are an Alien experiment of some sort where we were seeded on the Earth to see what would happen. I have heard this suggested in a few places but if there was a seeding it was a spiritually motivated one and yes, I believe that it was a spiritual experiment. This next part is still somewhat of a gray area for me and I can't say exactly where I heard it at first. I'm not sure of the initial source however in the Books I have recently read Edgar Cacye's Atlantis by Gregory Little, Dora Little and John Van Auken and even Rudolf Steiner's work seem to indicate this idea. I also think that there is some information from Bashar that coincides. The Great Forgetting When beings first came to Earth and began "pushing themselves" into matter it seems that they retained a lot more knowledge of their Spiritual ancestry and they still had contact with the Source. They knew that they were naturally spiritual beings. They knew that they were a soul and belonged in the dimension from which that soul had come from where the Source exists- and that this material world/dimension is an illusion. Edgar Cacye and Rudolf Steiner describe the very first people as living in complicated nest within Trees and sometimes in caves. To me this brings to mind the idea of the Elves. However, it appears that at some point- perhaps in Atlantis- a travesty happened. According to the the Edgar Cacye material this occurred when there was the mishandling of a crystal by Atlantis. This occurred when a new set of Souls began incarnating on the Earth that would become what Edgar Cacye called the Followers of Belial. This might be what Rudolf Steiner considers the "Luciferic" influence. Interestingly, in one of the sessions named Interstellar Enneagram, Bashar explained that originally Earth was of a positive high vibration. Because of this when beings from Orion, who's prior world were devastated and destroyed by war, began incarnating here it brought down the vibration of the Earth. (Vibration is an idea that we see in a lot of metaphysical topics and in psychology. I will cover it more in a future post). I find it very possible that in some way these beings might have been the ones that Edgar Cacye called the Sons of Belial. After the Crystal, now called the Firestone, was mercilessly turned on animals it was decided in the Spiritual Realm that there would have to be a full "descent" into matter from which we would then "ascend" out of at a future date. The beings who had turned the crystal on the animals had no empathy for the animals or for the planet. This required the great Forgetting. This Forgetting can also be considered a great "Separateness" as Jamie Sams refers to in her book Dancing the Dream. In this she uses the Mayan term the "Fourth World of Separation" which, according to her, we have been going through for the past 60,000 to 70,000 years! Amazingly, Jamie Sams date does match up with the first destruction of Atlantis that Edgar Cacye gives of 50,722 BC when the "descent" of consciousness is said to have begun. Entering Spiritual Darkness The situation that seemed to tip humanity into the deepest darkest days was actually the arrival of Christ. Interestingly, while the life and death of Yeshua is hailed by many sources as being an incredibly crucial point in our history. I admit, it is hard for me to talk about these times and not appear to be biased against them. As a spiritually minded person that feels the Oneness with all things in life (to the point where I can pick up on the pain that animals feel) the dogma of the Catholic Church seems to be cruel. Yet, in many ways, it retained some of the old beliefs. The Saints, in a way, are a form of multiple deities especially given that some of them (St. Bridget for example) were originally Gods or Goddesses. So, in some ways it is easier for a Catholic to conceive some Spiritual ideas than it is for a Born Again Christian of other sects. First, it appears, from all of the research that I have done that Yeshua (the Christ) and possibly even the Jewish people were familiar with and may have beleived in reincarnation. There is a sect of Jewish people called the Druze who appear to believe that they are the reincarnated priests of Atlantis. The idea that Elijah and Moses would both be involved in the events of the Revelation certainly makes it possible that they were to be reincarnated. The one part in the bible that always represented reincarnation to me is Matthew 17 when Yeshua says that John the Baptist is Elias. What else could John the Baptist be but the reincarnation of Elias? John the Baptist's birth is even detailed in the book of Matthew so clearly the body of Elias was not found and then resurrected back to life. I have argued before that cultures did not just sit in little test tubes and grow on their own as our telling of history seems to indicate. Instead, there was always trade among nations encouraging the mingling of people and ideas. There is even the possibility that Yeshua traveled with one of his uncles (a story often told in Europe) who was a merchant and went to distant lands. At the time of Yeshua the Indian culture was already developed and Buddhism already existed. I have absolutely no doubt that Yeshua's sojourns into the desert were based on the practice of isolated meditation that Yogis perform. Yet, with the adoption of Christianity by the Roman Empire much of the religion was changed and set into dogma. The religion was taught as very literal. The majority of the dogma was held to be true even by subsequent churches that separated from the Catholic Church. The dogma is rarely based on anything that is actually written in the bible or Jewish traditions. The most damaging ideas to the soul that are believed to be true by the Church are: 1.) That only the Pope and Priests have access to God. All others cannot even dare to approach God (let alone be connected with God/The Source). 2.) That we only have one life in which we may earn either eternal damnation or eternal bliss upon Christ's return. Upon Christ's return corpses would rise up from their graves like Lazarus. Hence, why people began to be buried in cemeteries instead of cremated. 3.) That any sort of claim to be connected to God or 'powers of healing' that are not of the Clergy is demonic. These people were usually burned at the stake even if they were merely offering herbal remedies for illnesses. 4.) That anyone who believes in anything that is not Christian is a Savage or Pagan that must be converted to Christianity by force. Just as the people above they represented a threat of temptation to the God fearing Christian. Perhaps, Yeshua came to bring into existence this dark period because it was necessary for the development of human souls. He served as a light in the darkness of those days even as the people who brought the darkness did so in his name. The Renaissance Strangely, after the Dark Ages where superstitions and religion was so strict there came the Renaissance. This was a period where there was a little bit more freedom for belief and some of the older stories and myths were 'rediscovered.' This is also the period of the Reformation. The brutal control that the Roman Empire had over thought and belief was finally broken. As a result humanity entered a period of great achievements and advancements. The Spiritualist Movement We're going to skip ahead to a period of time even closer to our own. This, however, occurred at the end of the 1800's and went into the 1950's. This period marked when Western ideas once again met with Eastern ideas. Probably the most widely known information about the Spiritualist movement was that mediums and psychics were no longer chased out of towns. Instead, people began turning to them to get advice and information about dead loved ones. Abraham Lincoln's wife and even the president himself attended seances. This was also the time when Edgar Cacye was giving his information, Rudolf Steiner was doing tours of Europe giving his speeches and the Theosophy movement began. In many ways this could be seen as the seed of the current New Age Movement. For the first time, religions were being blended together in an attempt to understand Spirit. Materialism By far one of the most interesting situations to come about after our long descent and "Separation" from the Source (which is kind of impossible as God is All-That-Is) is how involved people have become with material reality. Just watching one episode of Hoarders is truly mind blowing (and can spur anyone into a cleaning spree or a trip to Goodwill). The only reason people would latch on so much to material things is because they believe that is all that they have. With Science telling us that we are just animals that have gained a rare intellect and are effectively a scourge or virus on this planet there is a great deal of alienation within our own species. There are people who really believe that population control is necessary. Further, the insistence that with medical and other interventions that people have been able to procreate on an unnatural scale that is going to destroy our planet is a prevalent idea. These are ideas that only people without faith in nature or a higher power can believe. This has also lead to the absurd "YOLO" people in my current generation. These people justify abhorrent acts based the idea that "You only live once," and they don't appear to believe in the afterlife at all. Conclusion The idea of Separation, that we are so far from the Creator that we no longer know that we are Spiritual beings having a physical experience, has been so slow and complete that people really believe that Earth is all that exists. The connection with an alien race might change that idea. Indeed, it would certainly fly in the face of Religion. After all, it was religious authorities that believed that we were the center of the universe (and killed people who dared to prove otherwise). They also insisted that the Earth is flat (and there is some crazy guy on Youtube still supporting this belief) until Columbus (re)discovered the Americas. Now, we have moved on to the Scientific idea that we are the only intelligent species in a universe filled with billions of planets because we have no irrefutable proof to prove otherwise. Even Science knows that it is impossible that we are the only 'intelligent' species in the universe but why is it that we have had no irrefutable proof that other species exist? Perhaps, it is because humanity had to make this descent. We had to explore and play out every possible drama that we could think of experiencing this Separation from Source and Forgetting Our Divine Nature to understand how the mineral, the plant and the animals experienced life. Maybe, through the process we learned how to be individuals that have consciousness of their own (as opposed to being a just a thought projection of the Source). Perhaps, through our many lessons in the flesh we learn compassion (which was apparently lacking in the Atlantis experience with the Firestone), understand the importance of balance (which I will cover in depth in a later blog), and we can empathize with any creature that is suffering because we too have suffered. If you are wondering, by the way, about how the Sumerian Annunaki (those from Heaven to Earth Came) fit into this...there is the mystery of the "perfected body" that showed up after the time of Atlantis. This "perfected body" is the one that we have now. As Edgar Cacye describes Atlantis the people there did not look like us and he talks about root races (as does Steiner and the Theosophy movement). However, he does go into the story of the first (lived in caves made nests in trees), second- androgynous lived in Atlantis, third (Amilius and Lilith) when the two sexes were separated....and, yet there appears to be very little on when and how the Fourth (which we are currently in) came about. I'm currently investigating this topic but it is very possible the "lulu" that the Annunaki interfered with genetically might have been the third root race and they created the fourth. I'm currently investigating this idea. The Buddhists have the idea of Samsara, which they say our souls are trying to escape. I have told this story before but I will do so again and it's from Pema Chodron. In it a woman is running through the forest when she discovers there is a tiger behind her. She runs to a cliff and she begins to climb down a vine. When she looks below her she sees a tiger below her as well. A tiger above her and a tiger below her. On the vine, she sees a ripe strawberry. She plucks the strawberry from the vine and it is the most brilliant wonderful taste. This story of the Tiger above and a Tiger below represents the Death before this life and the Death after it. Because of this balance the Strawberry, the experience, can be appreciated. Our souls, I have come to believe, are all about experience. That is how we learn. Whether the experience is good or bad is up to us and is largely due to perspective because life is inherently subjective (as I have stated before). Each persons perspective of life is absolutely unique and that is why we can say that each of us is a unique emanation of the Source. Interestingly, Bashar said that this period that we currently left is "The Span." The Span ended in 2015 as did the Quarantine on humans. We have entered a time known as the "Splitting of the Prisim." This Quarantine might have been put in place so we could act out all of these different scenarios...so that we could be the oppressor and the oppressed. The thief and the store owner. According to Bashar these scenarios, for the most part, have been played out and it's time for something new. Almost all literature from many sources- Native American and "Spiritual" points to a "New Age" where the Separation ends and we are again aware of our connection with and the presence of the Source. I, personally, have always felt the Oneness. I have always been able to send my consciousness out to surf the energy (which feels like an ocean) of that Oneness. That has been harder as I've become older, and it was very hard when I was stuck in the "rat race." Yet, the warmth of it, even the memory of doing that, brings me great peace and comfort. I cannot imagine not feeling in harmony with creation and the ebb and flow of life. One of the major realizations that I have had is that others do not feel this connection. I really hope and pray that everyone comes to feel it because once you do the idea of willfully hurting another just falls away. Accidents do still happen, and learning to defend myself from other peoples abuse (and being a doormat) has been one of my biggest lessons in this life but I could never willingly hurt another for no other purpose than some sort of feeling of self-entitlement because it is, in essence, hurting myself. What Is The Shift? Finally, both Edgar Cacye and Bashar are in agreement that we are going into a period where our world is in a more positive state. This state, however, might be a wee bit dangerous if we do not understand it. Because, we are coming to the time where we will have the powers that Atlantis had....and Atlantis destroyed itself. Strangely, Bashar and Edgar Cacye (based on the Pyramid Prophecy) are in agreement that 2038 is the time when we will see the most change and the transition from one Age to Another will be complete. In an interview, Peter Woodbury, he says that a Mayan teacher he spoke to talked about 2038. They were having the Mayan teacher at the A.R.E. and he explained he was more worried about the two thirteen year intervals after 2012 and not 2012. That's the pinnacle to which we have been climbing. |
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