i saw AS yesterday for lunch. i met her and became her intern at 24, 25…she’s known me for 10 years or so. she told me that a girls she met recently, who’s working with her on her new exhibition, reminds her of me. a younger me. full of confidence, fiery, ambition, but with a relationship that was like dead weight. AS said she doesn’t think the relationship will last. the young woman is coming to her own. she’s having some kind of awakening.

that’s what we go through, especially as women. women have awakenings. it could be in our late 20s, or early 30s, our mid 30s or late 30s. it could be an ongoing awakening…and i think for me, it’s been some kind of awakening journey since my 28th year. and i continue to have these moments of “ding ding ding…” i continue have these little tiny growth spurts, blooms, sprouts. they catch me off guard. but when i notice this growth, i am both surprised, happy, and confused. what do i do now with this new found information about myself? do i allow the growth to continue? or do i stifle it with my old, bad ways, bad habits?

today, i had one of those moments. after getting off a very brief 15 minute conversation with J, i hung up the phone and began to sob uncontrollably. i have many of those now. i attribute that to age, red wine, being alone and comfortable enough in my skin to sob. whatever…so after i finished sobbing, i was thinking how i am such an accommodating person! i have always been. on the one hand, i am very ambivalent about many things that i have no control over, like when someone will call me, when i fall in love again, when i’ll find that great job, etc, etc, etc. i tell myself i do my best and that’s all i can do and the rest is up to magic, fate, life, universe, etc. and on the other hand, aside from ambivalence, it’s just hard to be that stiff with people. to make demands of people, especially when it comes to relationships. i know i don’t want demands made of me, so why would i want to do that to someone else. but! i also know that i don’t want demands to be made of me because i always do my best. do other people also do their best? that…i don’t know…i don’t have as much faith in others as i do in myself.

so my gripe with J is that when we talk, our conversations are always, without fail, cut before i can finish my thought, have my fill of talking/catching up, or before i want to end the conversation. J usually calls me on his way to work. or on his way to somewhere. it’s like he uses me to fill the down time. and as much as i love to hear his voice and talk to him, i’ve come to just accept whatever little time he can give…i almost never ask for/demand for more. nor do i tell him to not call if he doesn’t have time. so, i take what i can get…i yield. and that just sucks! because now it’s habitual. now i only ever talk to him during these windows of downtime. and now the precedence has been set.

and this is the pattern that i want to break when it comes to my relationships with people, but mainly with men. i have a tendency to give off this very cavalier attitude, and i am…again because i am to a certain extent ambivalent. but at some point, when i think things start to get serious, i do put in more effort and i expect the same in return. and when i don’t see the same amount of effort put in, i let the guys get away with continuing to put in very to little effort. it’s a vicious cycle that gets me no where. it doesn’t even get me beyond ambivalence. and i really don’t need more ambivalence in my life.

so i wrote J an email letting him know that i don’t want to “fit” into his life anymore. i am either in it or not. make a decision! let the chips fall where they may.

if this ends. so be it. so the “ding” moment is i have to be good to myself. i have to look out for my needs. i try. but sometimes part of trying isn’t just hunkering down and doing your thing. it’s also setting boundaries, having definitions. and it’s ok to have boundaries to have definitions. i cannot be scared of them or avoid them. because, sadly, i’m usually the one who gets hurt when there aren’t any boundaries or definitions. i just need to set them and see what happens. if things don’t work out because of them, so be it. i will continue to grow. to be me…

How much I have taken for granted.  I have lived in Miami, Florida for most of my life and I have, for most of the time, been blind to its incredible beauty.  I have often yearned for the mountains, thinking at times that the grass might be greener or at least the rocks might be bigger somewhere else.  And while looking there, I have missed here, with its amazing beaches and lush tropical foliage. So I sit in this moment, at 6 pm on Nov 19, 2009, in appreciation, with my butt firmly planted in the sand, on the beach, listening to the sound of the waves and enjoying the crisp cool breeze on my skin and in my lungs.  How amazing that I can even sit outside and enjoy nature while so many others in many parts of the world would freeze if they sat outside now.  It’s so easy to miss the stuff that’s right under your nose.  And that tends to be the most important stuff. 

So there’s the relative appreciation of one place over another.  But there’s also a new appreciation that I feel- an absolute appreciation for simply being here, alive and breathing and able to perceive through this body, through no effort of my own.  Someone or something is keeping me alive and keeping me breathing, regardless of how many problems I may be entertaining in my mind.  Who is that someone and what is that something that breathes through me, that sees through me, that lives through me???  To whatever you are, “Thank you for keeping me alive today.”

It’s like my whole life has been a dream
until now.

In one unassuming moment,
I kicked over an invisible domino
and set a whole new world in motion.

A spiritual precipitation.

But part of me is afraid
that I’m really just going insane.
And another small part of me
thinks I’m just being vain.

Still, most of me is
unconcerned
with giving this a name.

For better or for worse,
my senses are awakening.

One of the most inspiring things about this new time is the emerging spirit of co-creation.  I can remember only a few years ago being invited to speak at the Whole Life Expo in Altanta.  All of the big names were there.  On evening we had a party where all the speakers attended. I still remember scanning the room and noticing that half of the New York Times bestseller list was in the room.  The other thing I noticed at that party, back in the early 90s, was how much talking was going on, and how little listening.  Everyone had a pitch to sell, and noone was very interested in buying anyone else’s.

Times have changed!  What I love about these new times is not just the diversity of wisdom and grace that is showering on all of us from every direction, but the ways that we are open to listen and to hear each other with respect.  We come to recognize that our wisdom is made visible in our openess to listen more than our capacity to speak.

I was invited recently by a new friend named Linda Pannell, to participate in a new teleseminar series.  It started on October 21st, but has hardly got started yet.  Every Tuesday and Thursday at 4pm through February 2010, Linda has invited some of the planet’s most inspiring, provocative, and visionary scientists, healers, spiritual leaders, and wisdom keepers to explore ways to navigate the immense individual, societal, global, and universal change toward creation of a  New Shared Future.

The series is titled Science, Spirituality, and the Sacred:  Ancient Wisdom, Modern Miracles.
Take a look at the line up of speakers here
These are all  Free, live events which you can join from your own home.  They are all recorded, so you also will have the chance to buy mp3s of the whole series.

RESERVE A SPOT AS MY GUEST

Hello all.

Just “BE”cause…

Many people continually ask me “what I do.” Questions arise such as, “How do you live a life of abundance, how do you do what you do and make a living?” They are so focused on what “I do,” that they are forgeting the lesson.

I AM
It’s not what I do. It’ s who I am. This is a concept many people are struggling with. I don’t “do” anything. I just be. When I just be me, the actions flow out of me naturally.

When you begin to understand this within yourself, you will understand why I just have to be myself when I type on here and everything else just takes care of itself. This state of allowing good to flow into my life, is a result of not much logical thinking, it’s a result of just being what I know.

BE YOU

Just relax and be you. I think the confusion comes in for many people with this subject because of the conflict they experience in expectations. This expectation of themselves comes from society’s expectation and or a perceived higher “authority” figures expectation. I urge people to not conform to what society or an “authority” wants from them. I only urge this route if in fact, that what society and what your perceived “authority” demands from you, is NOT in alignment with who you really are. Simply want what you want for you simply because it feels good for you. This feeling alone acts as an energy that will get you outside of the box of trying to “do” and into “being.”

I intend to serve as an example of how to be, not what necessarily what to do.

+Baker

Just as you are
come now and understand the mystery of your life
and this existence
it is simple if you allow source to bring to you all the answers you seek
don’t force your mind to try and determine all that is
simply allow source to bring to you the answers you seek
allow source to bring to you solutions
and seek source’s guidance from moment to moment yes
know that you can be directed in all your ways
know that source can give you that sort of direction and inspiration
you must let go of the limiting belief that you are unable to reach this level of understanding
of guidance
and alignment
you must embrace the ability and know that source will guide you step by step
trust and be patient
know that all is worked out in divine order
yes
all comes to you and unfolds just as it should
expect the miracles and enjoy them
celebrate and be grateful for the richness of this life
for you are here to enjoy every breath every moment
you are here to commune with source and co-create
for you are the very nature of the divine
and you are more than just this body more than just this human form more than just the mind and thoughts you currently are aware of
so much more so much deeper so much grander than that you are indeed
for there is a part of you that is awakening day-to-day
and arising into your consciousness
you are becoming aware of the part of you that is most divine that is most sublime and that will break through the limiting beliefs and cleans your past
your present and future
cleans now so that you can be free from guilt free from disappointment free from erroneous thinking
and enter into the true meaning of living the true meaning of abundant life
of abundance
of all the good that is

that is why you are here once again
that is why you exist to be incredibly at peace and in love with all that is that is your existence
follow the bliss because bliss leads you to alignment with all that is
leads you to harmony and grace peace and love
bliss is simply an emotional and spiritual indicator that you are aligned with where you need be
do not be afraid of confused
do not tangle the limiting belief you have about bliss
the social conventions you are familiar with the true meaning of bliss for bliss is pure and good and wholesome
and righteous
And something to be enjoyed indeed every moment
which you can do
believe that you are an extension of source in all its splendor
you are the divine in human form
know that you have every right to shine and be set free from any limitations
know that you are the very nature of the almighty and that you can seek and find whatever it is your heart desires know that as an extension of source all things are for you
all things will bring about the balance your heart desires and all things are part of you
you are part of all that is
know this and understand that the balance can be enjoyed and your role is to allow source the inner connection
to guide you to fulfilment
to guide you to limitless love to guide you to doing exactly what you desire most
being of the best and highest benefit to all you can including yourself your awareness your consciousness of what is
you are expanding as you think of these things and you will continue
just allows source to do its good and know that all is well and always will be
yes that is all

- Morning stream of consciousness writing from John Stringer

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The holiday season is here and it might make you feel joy, stress or fear.

It could bring up family struggles and romantic relationship issues.You may feel bad about your unmet goals and think about what you want but don’t have now.

Your ego (your mind and awareness) tells you stories about your past and based on your interpretations of your past, you doubt yourself and worry about your future.

“What if I never have….?”

90% of our thinking is negative and we spend way too much energy thinking about what we don’t have.

Shift your thoughts to a positive perspective and be thankful for what you have in the present moment.

When you focus on what you have, you instruct the brain to look for information, resources and opportunities to be thankful now. Then, your mind will see more evidence of that every day, and you’ll find yourself having more to appreciate, satisfaction in relationships, and self growth.

Here’s a quote on gratitude by author, Melody Beattie: “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

You have the power to perceive the way in which you view the world. It’s time to change your attitude to gratitude.

Write down 3 specific things you are grateful for and e-mail it to me.

Give thanks and have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Mechanism of Mind, by Edward de Bono

The Mechanism of Mind, by Edward de Bono

“Freddie was designed as a space age pet for modern living. He is a small black sphere which is completely smooth on the outside. When Freddie is kicked he starts to roll about. To stop him you kick him again. Whenever he comes up against an obstacle he just backs away, moves along it or just changes direction as he feels inclined. The purpose of Freddie is to provide intelligent animation without the owner having to feed him, look after him or take him round the lampposts every evening.”

Freddie’s image is so intriguing that we find ourselves smiling, but not at the implication that our lives might well be similar to his own. When it comes to our mind, to our way of thinking, we resent being told that our mental processes are mechanical, and that there is no separate self or agent initiating or directing our thoughts.

Though Dr. de Bono is a physician and is currently working in the Department of Investigative Medicine at Cambridge University, England, he uses no monkeys, rabbits, rats or electronic brain probes to make his case. He seeks to convince us with models made from pins, lights, switches, blocks, jelly, water and other equally familiar materials.

Put some table jelly in a shallow dish; now spoon some hot water onto the jelly and then pour the water off: as the water melts the jelly, it creates channels. As more water is spooned onto the jelly, the patterns become more diverse and intricate. But soon, no matter where you pour it, most of the water will flow through the channels already created, thereby making these channels deeper and ensuring that any additional water will flow through them. Think of the jelly as the memory surface of the brain, and the channels as memories or associations. The flow of water through these channels is the “interpretation and recording of incoming information. . . the main point is that there is flow, and that the flow is dictated by the contours of the surface.”

In other words, the past shapes the present. But what about new ideas and perceptions? Can we receive them without their being processed by the various patterns which have accumulated through suggestion and repetition, or are we doomed to a constant repetition of past thoughts and perceptions (as the jelly model indicates)? The answer seems to demand a more precise study of the mechanics of the human mind, of the way it is “kicked” in and out of action by influences from outside as well as from within.

Dr. de Bono distinguishes between several different kinds of thought, all of which are equally mechanical, but which nevertheless differ in the results they bring. The most “primitive” form of thought is “natural thinking.” This is the passive associative flow along the contours of the memory surface. It is totally dependent on whatever happens to be accumulated at the moment. There is a momentum from cliché to cliché. “Natural thinking makes use of absolutes and extremes since these patterns become more easily established than intermediate ones.” In de Bono’s words:

“The lack of proportion in natural thinking in some ways resembles the contents of newspapers. The odd, the unusual, the emotional, all get as much emphasis as ordinary events, or more, even though the latter are much more important in real-life terms. Labels and categories are much used in natural thinking since they provide quick interpretation and firm direction of flow. There is little vagueness or indecision in natural thinking since even a slight degree of dominance in one area is sufficient to attract the flow.”

“Logical thinking” differs from natural thinking only as a result of the experience of “non-identity,” or “no.” No conveys an awareness of more than one alternative; it implies a “mismatch,” a conflict between patterns. As a result of no, one pattern or pathway is selected and another is blocked from our attention. “The effect of logical thinking is like that obtained by a farmer who directs the water to his fields by careful blocking of some irrigation channels in order to get the water to flow through the others.” The difficulty is that what may have been useful in the past may be the exact opposite of what is necessary now. Once no has blocked a particular pathway it is likely to continue doing so even when the conditions have changed. “The more emotion that was infused into the no label by upbringing, the more powerful would be its use and its effect.”

With “mathematical thinking” we come to what is supposedly the least subjective form of sequential thought. This kind of thinking, for de Bono, is based on the use of “ready-made recipes,” or “algorithms.” “An algorithm is any fixed pattern which is not derived from presented information but serves to control and sort out that information. Algorithms may be mathematical techniques but they may also be word patterns or any other type of preset pattern.” Instead of the incoming information finding its own path along the contours of the surface, specific channels are pre-cut and the information flows through them. If the “preset pattern” actually represents the given situation then mathematical thinking can avoid many of the errors of natural and logical thinking. Unfortunately, in most cases, neither the algorithm nor the choice of what it processes is itself the result of mathematical thinking.

Dr. de Bono makes it clear that none of these forms of thought can get beyond the limitations imposed by the nature of the memory surface. He therefore offers a fourth classification which he calls “lateral thinking.” This type of thinking is based on the disruption of the sequential flow of our ordinary thought:

“Lateral thinking has nothing to do with chaos for the sake of chaos. Disruption of a pattern in lateral thinking is only in order to let a better pattern form. Later the process can be repeated again. For this reason those chemical methods of disruption which work by upsetting the smooth co-ordination of the mind are useless since the smooth co-ordination of the mind is required to snap the new patterns into coherence. The art of lateral thinking is to bring about the disruption while still retaining the ability to benefit from it in terms of coherent ideas.”

How does one achieve this kind of thinking? Dr. de Bono offers a number of different methods, all of which are dependent on the ability to allow one’s thought to organize itself in a “new” way. But whether this new organization be the result of shocks coming from without, the intentional effort of turning an idea upside down, or the effort of a slight shift in attention, it is always necessary to confront what de Bono calls the “main information sin”–arrogance. “Arrogance appears in many forms. Just as one particular fixed way of looking at things leads to the arrogance of pride so another fixed way of looking at things leads to the arrogance of despair.”

How can we escape this “sin”? Dr. de Bono tells us that one way is through a “realization of the arbitrary nature and historical development. . .” of our attitudes:

“It is not suggested that the realization of the arbitrariness of patterns should lead to a loss of drive and direction. On the contrary, one realizes that patterns are useful no matter how arbitrary, and so one uses them. But uses them without arrogance, with an inquiry about better patterns, and with the willingness to change to better patterns if they should seem more useful.”

But is the interest in “better patterns” sufficient motivation to see and accept the mechanicality of one’s mind? If arrogance is not simply an information sin, if its effects are scattered through our entire being, then perhaps we do need to experience a “loss of drive and direction.” Perhaps freed for a moment from our cerebral manipulations, we will feel the need for a totally new quality of thought–one which could bring us to a wider, more fundamental sense of our existence.

This review first appeared in the journal Material for Thought, Spring 1971 (issue #3), published by Far West Editions. Far West Editions “was begun in 1968 by John Pentland, a direct pupil of G. I. Gurdjieff and president of the Gurdjieff Foundations of New York and California until his death in 1984. Its original purpose was to discover if a more impartial quality of spiritual thought can emerge when a small group of people work at writing while at the same time trying to see themselves as they are.”  Though I am “the author” of this review, it was working in these special conditions that made it possible. You can click on the above link to see what issues of Material for Thought are currently available.

Thank you, Alaya, for sending me this extraordinary youtube series! Just this morning, I was pining for the wonderful videos and music I used to post here, but some rural technological challenges have gotten in the way. If the entire series is as thought-provoking, funny, authentic and richly inspiring as these, we can surely ride this wave into The New.  French original, English subtitles, 10 minutes long. Vive the hearts and minds who brought this forth to share with the planet! Here are the first two; if they resonate with you, you can go to youtube for the remainder.

Most everyone I meet wants to know how to make a difference. Most want to know what their gifts are, and what are their callings. Many of my clients feel they are here to help at this crucial time on earth, but many do not know where to begin.

I do my best to turn everyone inside out and help them find out for themselves just why they are here and what they have come to do.

Yet I know that even without amazing gifts or a clear calling, we can all make a difference, and that each of us are called to do so. We are all capable of making a difference. Everyone is called right now and it is my hope that everyone will answer that calling. In my work I am here to help you know what to do, to teach you how to listen to your guidance and how to follow spirit’s call.

In the beginning it was very difficult for me to answer spirit’s call. I did not trust the visions, voices and feelings that wanted to help me. I had worked many years to ignore them. My relationship with Spirit was lacking communication, at least on my part. I pretty much ignored my guides until this one day when my daughter, Lauren and I were on our way to a video store. Lauren was barely two years old and she was strapped into her car seat directly behind me. While driving slowly down the backstreets of my hometown, I had a vision. In my mind’s eye I saw a car coming at top speed through the next intersection. Approaching my car on the driver’s side, it raced through a stop sign and was about to hit the side of the car, right where Lauren was in her car seat.

Now I had learned to ignore my visions, intuition and guidance, so as I approached the cross street, I continued into the intersection. After entering the intersection, I looked to my left down the normally quiet street and the car from my vision was coming towards me at top speed. Adrenaline raced through my body and laying my foot on the gas the other car missed me by inches.

In the video store, as I wandered around clutching my daughter’s hand for assurance, I ran into my spiritual teacher. She was a woman who could see the gifts inside of me, but I had not yet been willing to accept these gifts.

“Spirit is going to teach you to trust your visions,” she said when I told her what happened. That was all she said.

A few days after that near-miss, I was on my way back to the video store, to return the movies we had rented. My daughter was once again buckled into the back seat. As I drove ever so carefully down the same streets I had another vision. This time it was an unmarked white van at an intersection and there were many vehicles in the accident, including mine.

This time I decided to heed the warning. I was beginning to listen to Spirit. And so I chose a different route to the store. And I avoided all major intersections.

We arrived safely at the video store. I did not see a white unmarked van and so as my daughter and I headed into the store doubt came to my mind.

“See. How crazy. There was no van. Your imagination was just going wild…”

But after we returned the videos and came out of the store, I stopped and stared at the intersection next to the store. There were emergency vehicles just arriving, a major pile-up and in the center was the white unmarked van of my vision.

I looked heavenward and said, “Okay. I’m listening. And thank you for keeping me out of this one.”

Then I said a prayer for those who were not spared from the drama. I sent healing light to them, I called in those who can help on the other side and I gave thanks that I was not a part of the accident.

As I drove home I understood how important it is to listen. That not only do we avoid unnecessary drama, but when we can remain separated from some of life’s hardships, we are in a better position to send healing to those who are in need.

Many years later I was finally able to live from a place of spiritual connection. I was teaching others to do the same. As I was accepting my visions as gifts and sharing this wisdom with others my life was expanding. While my life still had its share of lessons, I found that when I listened to Spirit, I was better able to handle whatever came my way in life.

One day another warning came to me as I was on my way to teach a class on Living Intuitively at Unity Temple on the Plaza in Kansas City. I was driving down a beautiful thoroughfare past some of the most beautiful homes in Kansas City. There was a green boulevard with three lanes of traffic on either side. Traffic was moving steadily on this particular day with most doing 50-55 mph in a 45 mph zone.

As I drove I was saying affirmative prayers to clear myself for my class. I didn’t need to think about what I would say, I just needed to make myself available to Spirit. As I cleared my mind I received a vision of a car swerving in front of me. In my vision the car crossed over into my lane, I then ran into that car and then many more cars behind me slammed into my car and on and on…the scene in my mind was not pretty. I could hear the sound of metal crunching and breaking glass.

Of course after all those years I knew to pay attention. I looked to my right and recognized the blue two door coupe in my vision. Everything seemed okay but I slowed way down. I knew I needed to slow the traffic down behind me so I did so in a gradual manner. And I kept an eye on the blue two door.

Just as those behind me were about to find a way around me, the blue car started swaying over into my lane, I pulled back farther letting the car come in front of me and watched it continue up over the curb. It continued until it hit a telephone pole. I had been prepared and watched the entire scene in slow motion, as I kept the traffic behind me at a safe distance.

I went around the block and watched as a young woman got out of her car. I was relieved to see she was okay, and I noticed many people were stopping and I knew she had help, so I continued on my way to class.

It was then that my guiding voice, said, “Go back.”

And it was me that said, “What? I have a class…”

The voice was commanding as it repeated, “Go back.”

But I was equally demanding as I said, “I have a class. I’m the teacher…” I looked at the time and knew I was going to make it to class in perfect time. The young woman was okay, no one else was in the accident and I felt smug that I had once again avoided an accident, was able to say a prayer for her and had a great story to use for class that night.

But my guides never give up. “Go back. She needs you.”

Oh, gosh, that was all I needed to hear to turn me around. I circled again. I could see many people had stopped, but I noticed the girl was sitting on the curb alone, and crying.

I parked my car and walked by a half dozen people sort of milling around. I walked right up to the young woman and asked her if she would like someone to sit with her. She nodded as she rocked herself there on the curb.

I sat down next to her and put my hand around her shoulders. “It’s going to be okay,” I told her.

“No it’s not! My mother is going to kill me!”

“Your mother is not going to kill you. She will be glad that you’re okay.”

I gave her lots of reassurance, first off that her mother would still love her, that she was not going to get kicked out of school and that it wasn’t that bad…I told her what anyone would tell her.

I wondered why no one else had sat down with her.

I stayed with her through paramedics who looked her over from a distance, asked some questions and left. I stayed as she talked to the police. I stayed and waited until her mother came.

Her mother finally arrived. She ran up to the young woman, hugged her, and told her it was okay. Her mother told her that the most important thing was that she was okay. They hugged a lot and they cried, together.

The young girl had explained to me she was trying to reach a cassette tape that had fallen on the floor…somehow spirit knew this was going to happen. It always amazes me…

Once I saw that her mother was there for her I stood to leave. I was walking away quietly, but she ran up to me. She put her hand on my arm and I turned around. She looked me in the eyes and said, “I’ll never forget you…thank you.” And she hugged me.

“You’re welcome. I’m glad I could be there for you.” I said with a lump in my throat.

As I drove carefully to class, over an hour late, I knew that Spirit had put me in the right place at the right time. I contemplated the message I would share with my students that night. I considered how it had all began for me, how Spirit had shaken me until I was willing to wake up. How a near miss with my own daughter had caused me to finally accept the visions, voices and feelings that are now a normal part of my everyday life. And how I was now able to use this guidance to help others.

We all have the ability to make a difference. Each and everyday, we must listen to spirit so that we can avoid our own mishaps and dramas. We can walk away from a lot of suffering if we pay attention.

By avoiding the drama, we can stand in a place of power and send love and light and healing to those who are in need. As we listen we will be guided and everyone can say a prayer, send a blessing or give healing to others even from a distance.

But the most powerful thing that we can do is to be there for someone in need. To just be there…that is a gift we can all give.

Those other people who stopped at the accident, I know they wanted to help. But a lot of times people just don’t know what to do. It seems everyone I know wants to help. It seems most people want to make a difference. But sometimes it’s hard to know what to do.

In my work and in my life I have learned that just being present with someone is all that you need to do to make a profound difference. As I sat with that young woman, I did not use any supernatural powers to straighten out her life. I did not perform any healing rituals nor did I have to look at any cards to know that her mother would still love her. Yet I made a difference just by being human and offering her a shoulder to cry on and a reassuring voice.

All we need to do to make a difference is remember we are all human and we all have certain needs. When someone is in a crisis, they need to hear that it’s going to be okay. We can reassure others. We can be there. Just showing up for others makes a huge difference.

Sometimes we want to make a huge difference and we don’t know how to begin. We are inspired by people like Princess Diana or Mother Teresa, and we know we can never do what they did, so sometimes we don’t even try.

When I look at a photo of someone such as Princess Diana, or Mother Teresa, I am moved to tears. I am moved because I feel I can never match what they did while they were here on this planet and I am moved because I know I must try.

Maybe one of us alone cannot do what Mother Teresa did. But together we can. And if each of us remembers to listen to our guidance, to avoid unnecessary drama, to be willing to be there for another, we will turn things around. If everyone could listen to their inner guidance they would know what to do.

So stop and listen more often. Make yourself available to your guidance. Pay attention to the visions that flow through your mind. Be awake and aware everyday and live an intuitive life.

From there you will notice where others are in need, and you will know what to do. Just show up. Be there for others. Notice where there is a need, where someone is crying, or hurt or hungry, and be there.

Maybe you can’t do what Princess Diana did. Maybe I can’t either. But together, all of us working together, we can touch millions of lives.

We can. We must. And we will…

Revival is a phrase that often gets used to describe moves of the Holy Spirit upon a people. In some ways I understand its usage, in other ways I believe it’s misapplied. Revival in my understanding is a full scale event where believers are sanctified, and unbelievers are convicted of their sin and mass repentance happens. The result of revival would be a town, city, or region thriving in the message of the gospel and thriving in lifestyles that reflect the Sermon on the Mount as many embrace the transforming power and grace of the Holy Spirit.

The fruit of revival:  It’s masses of human beings saved. It’s Christians walking in the endless power of The Holy Spirit and not the lethargy of endless entertainment. It’s believers being confident in love, no longer deficient in love. It’s the lame walking, It’s the blind seeing, It’s the power of sickness and demonic oppression being broken off of image bearers of God. It’s millions walking in agreement with the cross energized with the hope and message of the second advent. It’s the Spirit and the Bride crying: COME!

I am in my 8^th year of asking the Lord for such revival before judgment from heaven is righteously released on this nation. What is currently happening at IHOP is not yet that. However I do believe it is the Preface to the chapters of Revival soon to be written by many believers all over the world. After 6 to 8 to 10 hours of prayer a day for nearly eight years I’m finally seeing some of those weak prayers answered. It is a beautiful thing.

The Holy Spirit is awakening hearts at IHOP and in Kansas City not because there is a special anointing for this ministry or this city to receive the Holy Spirit in ways others can’t, it’s that we’ve simply been faithful to say “Come” and God is proving His faithfulness to that cry.

Thousands in Kansas City are pouring into our little conference center and are leaving with clear physical healings, water baptized, free from bitterness, fear, depression, oppression, and saved. I’ve been watching marriages get restored, emotional wounds healed, and countless pastors, teachers, and missionaries tired from their labors get refreshed in life changing ways. Friends of mine who I have always prayed for, who had issues of insomnia, anxiety, bitterness, and wounds from past abuse are getting free in ways I’ve never seen. Their eyes reflect the light of Christ for the first time. For many I know I am seeing the hope and peace of Christ on their faces like I have not seen in my entire history of knowing them. Including my self, my life has been changed.

I grew up loving Jesus. Not in the sentimental sense but in the deep devotional sense. When I was eight, nine, and ten, years old I would spend hours by myself talking to the Lord in my back yard, prophesying to people I had never met. Jesus was not a deistic metaphor but a personal friend who walked and talked with me. I used to get up with my Dad before work and read to him Matthew 5, 6, and 7 every morning. When I was in Jr. high school I carried my Bible everywhere I went. I fasted and prayed for my classmates, even had their names on a white board in my bed room. In the midst of all of this, I was made fun of, physically beaten up on a regular basis, and had no friends at 14 to speak of.

At some point before I was 15 I had had enough. I was tired of being “radical” I was tired of my classmates and kids in the neighborhood beating me up and belittling me for my faith. I was tired of my friends at youth group telling me to “Chill out” and not be so “intense” about my faith. So I quit, and shut my heart down. Since then I have had the hardest time loving Jesus apart from shame. Since I quit I have always loved him, but there was always a steady anxiousness in my heart to venture too far down the road to devotion. There was always this fear of being vulnerable in prayer before the Lord, the way I used to when He was my best friend. Jesus had become a doctrine, a Theology that I was faithful to. He was a living and active man that I truly did love, but from a distance. I would preach about Him with real conviction, share about Him with others in real tenderness, but ALWAYS felt like there was a wall in my heart that was reserved for just me, and I was too terrified to let Him in there. Last week this all changed.

It was my third night of attending the Awakening meetings. I had been greatly touched by what The Holy Spirit was doing. Watching friends get set free, praying for teens of mine to hear the Lord; even crying some what during worship. But there I was, standing in a sea of people praying for this young man to get healed when a friend of mine who I greatly respect got up and gave a testimony about how the Lord had revealed His love to him. I decided to do something I hadn’t done in years. Stop praying for people, and hold out my hands and receive prayer.

My friend’s testimony had given me real boldness. So I “maned up”. I was tiered of praying for people to receive the love of Christ, when I hadn’t felt it in years. I was tired of asking for revival when my soul felt like a dry wasteland. I was sick and tired of preaching about the love of God at conferences and being envious of the people in the pews receiving love from God when my heart felt num. I was tired of being Martha in the kitchen while Mary got to sit at Jesus’ feet. I voiced this to the Lord, and just when I did I felt like my shoulder was on fire.

A couple of friends and leaders I knew had gathered around me, and began to pray for me. I was shocked that I was feeling some sort of physical manifestation, especially since I was the biggest skeptic of such things. My friend Jennifer Roberts, not knowing anything about my life as a kid or as a teenager began to prophecy to me my life’s story. She began to tell me that when I was 14 I quit, and the enemy had been robbing me of feeling the love of God like I did when I was a kid. Then she said the phrase: “Zack you are a Mary meant to sit at the feet of Jesus and you’ve been trying to be a Martha”. The phrase felt like someone punched me in the gut. I bent over and wept like I’ve never wept in public. As I did I felt the joy of the Father’s delight in my life. I felt the love of God like I had when I was a kid. I felt free to be able to love God with my whole heart, when I hadn’t before. I will never be the same.

Is revival happening at IHOP? Not yet. Is the Holy Spirit moving in such a way to prepare us and the rest of the nation to faithful steward a full scale revival of souls that is coming soon? Yes.

The day is coming, and is nearly here when the prayers of many saints will be answered and Revival will sweep through this land in a way that will make the Great Awakening of Jonathan Edwards look small. Not because the prayers of the saints today are any different than those in the 1700’s, but because a Jewish man, fully divine named Jesus is following through on His promise to come back to the Earth to judge the Living and the Dead, and His desire is that none should perish. This tiny, little, blip on the move of the spirit radar in Kansas City gives my heart courage that it’s soon. And make no bones about it, This blip will soon become a roar.

Even so Lord, Come!

So I’ve been neglecting this little blog for about 9 months now… and no it was not due to pregnancy.

Anyway I’m writing to inform that I will be updating at least once per week. Because I was feeling inspired by the bloggers over at largeheartedboy.com I’ve decided to start reading 52 Books in 52 Weeks. Every Sunday I will write a brief amateur review of the book and recommend it… or not recommend it.

As a brief preview for tomorrow, I am currently engrossed in Flowers For Algernon – which I’m almost positive I will recommend, unless the last 30 or so pages I’ve yet to read completely change my mind (which is highly unlikely).

[Insert awkward segue here.]

I’d like to take a moment to explain my current page banner. It is a screen shot from an anime short film called 5 cm per Second. It’s a tale of young love and how that romance eventually fades through the path to adulthood. It’s a really great way to spend a half hour, in my opinion. The animation is top notch, especially since it’s nearly all animated by one man in his independent studio.

Here’s a fan-made music video of the film set to Awakening by Mae :

A free self is the true taste of freedom. It is free even in the midst of chaos and clamor. But what is it free from?

It is free from
- limited knowledge
- limited energy
- limited action
- limited happiness

…and you dont need drugs. Now, how cool is that !!!

But how to get there ? No two paths are strictly the same. No two travelers are the same.

All journeys however, have somethings in common

The beginning: It is characterized by dissatisfaction, hope, doubt. Also called ‘the tap on the shoulder’. When, through the course of events in your personal life or work,  you stop and ask ‘what the f@#$ is going on?’. You google desperately to get the answers, but there are none to the fire that consumes your mind. After all, where you can you go to find reality, meaning, wisdom, your purpose in life, the Truth ?  Who can you trust to get the answers from? But at least, you are stirred into action, learning, questioning. You have become a seeker. You have paused on the treadmill. You are ready to take a fresh look at life. You are up and away. But you need to prepare, with a specific set of tools. They are your body, mind, heart and spirit. You need to energize them for the journey. They have been left uncared for all these years, so treat them with care, but keep working on them. They will respond positively, when they find out you are serious about this.

The middle: It is characterized by insights, practice, patience. It is the best phase of the journey. Light bulbs are flashing in your mind every now and then. You are discovering new things, new ways of looking at the same things and are getting help from unseen forces on your journey. There’s increased serendipity, intuition, trust in the unknown and openness to knowledge. Your barriers are dropping, and insights are increasing. Years of conditioned views, beliefs, values are being shed like layers of dead skin. You feel lighter and are filled with vitality. But, it is also the toughest phase of the journey. You dont know when you will reach the end, how many miles there are left and if you need to choose a different path. and then, one day, it just happens. naturally. you reach the end.

The end: It is characterized by trials, flow, contentment and compassion. You look around, you see people suffering. You are moved in your heart to help. You have reached the end, but your new journey is just beginning. There are plenty of trials to test your realization and wisdom. Plenty of opportunities to lead and to serve. The seeds of dissatisfaction are still there and appear stronger to challenge you, in more creative forms. But this time, you don’t need to worry. Strength comes from within. Clarity comes from within. There is no doubt any longer – just flow. Burn up residual traces. Don’t let the seeds sprout again. Starve the fire off any additional fuel. Live freely. You are an urban monk now.

In the pages to follow, I have catalogued tools and resources to help urban monks in different stages of this journey. It contains wisdom that speaks through the ages, which I was lucky enough to stumble across. If there are any shortcomings, I ask for your forgiveness and understanding. The shortcomings are mine alone and they do not take away even a bit from the brilliance of those great masters I learnt from.

Lucy Campbell, Libertad

Someone recently gave me the Eckhart Tolle book with the Oprah book club sticker on the front. I’m not finished yet, but I read in the beginning that a bird, a dove specifically, is the symbol of enlightenment and the evolution of human consciousness. So when I came across this piece of art my knees buckled. The image of the closed eyed dove and the bleeding heart brings together the concepts in the Tolle book and what I believe about string theory.

I’m a Virgo, so I don’t have much patience for theories. I like to think about things in a practical sense, so this is how the string theory translates for me. It’s a fluid connection between one point in time and space and another point. To take it one step further, it’s the connection of you at one point reaching around and connecting with you at a different point in time and space. I’m sure there are scientists out there itching to correct me, but I’m okay with this understanding; it’s comforting.

I like to think there is some alternate version of me that I am connected to that makes me a more enlightened person. The girl’s expression in the painting says to me that she was cut off from that other part of herself in that other space in time. How did this happen? How will she come back from here? She’s so utterly alone, cold, and lost without it.

It’s important to connect with others, but imperative to stay connected with ourselves. No matter how tenuous the string, don’t let go.

i always wanted to share with you
the best of who i am

reap and replenish the fruits
of succulent succor

i remained at the ready

heart open
door more than ajar

while you cantered
cantilevered

your variant mutterings echoed
like quicksilver
maybe maybe not
whatever

hovering just above the surface
hummingbird
in flight
midair frenzy
of wings
would gentle soaring somehow destroy your nature?

all creation would be served by
your earthly arrival
battling against gravity
is food for fools

time is but an essence
concentrated experience that leaps
flutters
drifts past us vaguely somnambulant
 until we blink

and it disappears from view

illusion is like that,
you know,
it no longer holds my attention

please may i have
another piece of pie?

perhaps the pecan
this time

Stars In His Eyes, originally uploaded by use2blost.

     Naivete in his heart.
     History and Political Science have been an embarrassingly rude awakening awakening to me. I knew about slavery, of course, and you would have to have lived on the moon to not realize we took a big dump on the Indians. Somehow, I still thought we were fairly well behaved, as a nation. It seems this is not the case. I realized we had migrated away from the vision of government our forefathers held, but I had no idea the level of blatant self interest voter apathy permits in our elected officials, and I had never reflected on the truth that a selfish, fearful population is the one most easily manipulated. I find myself alarmed, but try to keep in mind I am like a emotional savant, with childish expectations of virture, and a petulant cynicism born of growing up in what counts for poverty in the one of the most prosperous countries in the world. I find myself considering political issues, and wondering at a lasting solution. It seems to me, probably the best thing we could do to straighten out politics would be to eliminate the middleman. The selfishness of the general population creates more than enough chaos. We want what serves us best, and to hell with the other faction. This makes the American Public easy to manipulate, and the politcal machine, which to me seems to include business, government, and organized religion, grows in wealth and power by siphoning these off of the American people. Most of us seem to realize that the roofies has worn off…we even know who is screwing us. We just can’t seem to reach enough lucidity to do anything about it. A platform of specific reforms would be lengthy, and probably impractical after the editing required to get a huge grass roots movement to all agree on it. Perhaps just a few things at a time, is the ticket. we could chisel away at the problem rather than specific symptoms. I think the election process need to be more about competency than money, and the name recognition generated by the media exposure the money purchases. So from now on, no reporting on elections. every candidate gets equal time, his voting record on past issues is published, and media coverage is limited to live rhetoric or debate. Please do not analyze the candidates for us. We wanna grow up and learn to do it ourselves.
     I also think election campaigns should have a cap on spending. If we remove the need to compete for campaign contirutions, the public interest will begin to have the same clout as the corporate interest, and citizens will be as important as lobbyists. And we pay them too much. Pay them less, and make them utilize public health care. They’ll come up with a great plan, overnight. I promise. My little pea brain thinks this would completely change the political climate of America.

By Sol Luckman

Posted on Sep 19th, 2009 by Sol

 http://sol.gaia.com/blog/2009/9/the-shift-in-human-consciousness-part-ii-transcript

[Note: The following transcript is adapted from the updated and expanded 2nd edition of Conscious Healing: Book One on the Regenetics Method. The transcript, which has been divided into three parts to be posted sequentially, is from an audio seminar presented July 10, 2009, and can be listened to here.]

Part II: Unconditional Love & Human Evolution

Another point related to human evolution that needs emphasizing is that the Shift now occurring is related directly to an increase in cosmic consciousness based in unconditional love. The Shift may be visualized as simultaneously evolution, revolution and, to borrow a term from the Weinholds, “LOVEvolution.”

For some, the current global blossoming of consciousness is viewed as a natural process of human evolution. To others, this phenomenon appears more radical, a spontaneous genetic leap forward. Still others believe that this step is merely the bringing forth of what has existed always as a human potential: a revolution back in the direction of wholeness and integration. I trust by now the listener understands that these ways of envisioning our species’ present evolutionary phase are by no means mutually exclusive.

As the term LOVEvolution suggests, many believe that the dawning Age of Light or Age of Consciousness defines itself in relation to our capacity for unconditional love, our ability to transcend enemy patterning and victim consciousness while adopting unity consciousness that sees divinity in all things. From this standpoint, it might be said humans are evolving into a “biologically conscious” species capable of holding and sharing the light of unconditional love. As we will see momentarily, modern scientific research indeed supports the notion that the emotion of love is the key to true healing as well as conscious evolution.

It has been said that long ago, the ancient Maya conceptualized this next evolutionary stage occurring in the years leading up to 2013 as Mastery of Intention. Mastery of Intention appears to be another way of envisioning what I call conscious personal mastery, defined as unconditional love of oneself as simultaneously the Creator and the created extended outward to all perceived others.

Conscious personal mastery is achieved through activation of an embodied unity consciousness capable of infusing biology itself with new structures and possibilities quite outside the box of even much of today’s “advanced” thinking about human bio-spiritual potential.

According to Joseph Chilton Pearce in The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit, “Transcendence is our biological imperative, a state we have been moving toward for millennia.” The title of another intriguing study by Pearce neatly summarizes the name of the endgame we now are playing: Evolution’s End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence.

How does one master intention in order to claim this potential? How does one consciously evolve bodily into “transcendence through immanence”? In other words, how can we best foster conscious personal mastery to facilitate our own metamorphosis, our own transmutation into a higher way of being?

The previously cited research by Bruce Lipton proves that consciousness can reprogram DNA. Our earlier discussion of this topic centered on galactic consciousness, torsion waves spurring human evolution as Earth moves into a denser, brighter and “more conscious” area of the Photon Band. But what role does an individual’s consciousness play in this cosmic drama of becoming?

Clairvoyance is unnecessary to see that human consciousness is expanding at a tremendous rate. A trip to the local bookstore demonstrates that consciousness, along with associated terms such as “intention” and “manifestation,” has become a cultural buzz word.

It must be emphasized that the exponentially increasing focus on consciousness we are witnessing is not merely a “new age” phenomenon, as some in the old guard have tried to paint it. Popular bestsellers such as Michael Talbot’s The Holographic Universe and Dr. Larry Dossey’s Reinventing Medicine make a clear and compelling case that science is beginning to admit the ancient hermetic principle that Mind is reality’s primary building block.

On this subject, renowned psychiatrist Stanislov Grof has written that “modern consciousness research reveals that our psyches have no real or absolute boundaries; on the contrary, we are part of an infinite field of consciousness that encompasses all there is–beyond space-time and into realities we have yet to explore.”

Such an expansive view of consciousness also informs Dr. Leonard Horowitz’s review of the science of quantum holography in DNA: Pirates of the Sacred Spiral, where he reminds us not only that a unified field of consciousness exists, but also that it “may be explained as emerging from a previously overlooked physical vacuum or energy matrix.” From a human perspective, based on mounting evidence I barely have touched on, this nonlocal energy field functions through quantum connections between DNA and universal creative consciousness or torsion energy.

On much the same wavelength, in The Divine Matrix Braden examines the vast implications of three genetic experiments conducted between 1992 and 2000 that “shatter” the old materialistic paradigm on which traditional Newtonian science, and the resulting mechanical view of the body as a machine isolated from mind and spirit, are based.

The first of these experiments was Gariaev and Poponin’s discovery of the “DNA Phantom Effect,” which proves, to quote Braden, that: 1) “A type of energy exists that has previously gone unrecognized”; and 2) “Cells/DNA influence matter through this form of energy.” (I engage in a more thorough discussion of this mind-blowing Effect in Chapter Twelve of Conscious Healing.)

The second experiment, reported in the journal Advances, was performed by the United States Army in the tradition of similar experiments conducted by Cleve Backster. The Army’s experiment clearly demonstrated that the connection between DNA and emotion continues intact following physical separation between a person’s DNA (sampled from inside the person’s mouth) and the actual person experiencing the emotion.

In Braden’s words, this experiment suggests that 1) “A previously unrecognized form of energy exists between living tissues”; 2) “Cells and DNA communicate through this field of energy”; 3) “Human emotion has a direct influence on living DNA”; and 4) “Distance appears to be of no consequence with regard to the effect.”

The third and final experiment cited by Braden is the extraordinary research of cell biologist Glen Rein on the impact of coherent human emotion on DNA. Here, DNA inside human cells was isolated in a glass beaker and then analyzed (chemically and visually) in order to determine the impact of clearly sustained emotions, negative and positive, on genetic material as well as expression. According to Dr. Rein, “These experiments revealed that different intentions produced different effects on the DNA molecule causing it to either wind or unwind.”

Rein and his colleagues discovered that anger, fear and similar emotions have the power to “unwind” the DNA molecule, literally decompressing and killing it. On the other hand, emotions such as joy, gratitude and love “wind” or compress DNA exposed to them, making DNA stronger and healthier.

According to Rein’s data, it even may be possible for positive emotions rooted in love to revive or resurrect DNA apparently destroyed by negative emotions–an astounding phenomenon with truly enormous implications. Lest the skeptical listener dismiss this possibility, let us ponder the related implications of Gariaev’s assertion that “research in wave-genetics … reveals potential applications with significant prospects for solving issues regarding the aging process and thus increasing life expectancy. This view is solidly grounded in [experimental] evidence.”

Rein’s findings on the impact of coherent emotion on DNA can help us answer the critical question of how to participate consciously in our own evolution in a very specific manner. His research makes a direct connection between life-giving torsion energy and uplifting emotions, particularly unconditional love, the most “coherent” of all emotions, indicating that love promotes healing and also literally may propel evolution.

Only the love-based emotions stimulate DNA to wind and become healthier and thus more capable of interacting productively with environmental stimuli. Hatred, depression, boredom and the like cause DNA to unwind, destroying the viability of genetic information necessary for healing as well as evolution.

In keeping with Rein’s research, Barbara Marciniak in Path of Empowerment writes that “genuine feelings of love and appreciation for your body convey a positive message containing essential life-sustaining signals that result in excellent health.” In direct contrast, maintaining “feelings of doom and despair, loneliness, helplessness, denial, anger, resentment, jealousy, greed, and fear conveys a negative message that promotes discord within the physical functions of the body.” Marciniak concludes that the “ability to both give and receive love … holds the true key to healing because it is the most life-sustaining and affirming form of emotional expression.”

Rein’s brilliant research, supported by Marciniak’s inspired keys for surviving and thriving in a chaotic world in the process of transformation, indicates that the single most important factor in our personal evolution is our commitment to open ourselves to our own healing by giving and receiving the primary torsion wave known as unconditional love.

Appropriately, Wilcock’s evolutionary model, founded in The Law of One, is crystal clear on the point that Earth and humans are evolving from a logos anchored in the third dimension to an existence rooted in fourth-dimensional, heart-based consciousness.

In The Biology of Transcendence, Pearce advances a hypothesis supporting this radical assertion based on the little-known fact that humans actually possess four neural centers in addition to the brain. One of these, currently in a state of development, is the “brain” located in and around the heart. Not surprisingly, the fourth or “heart” chakra, linked to the fourth “density” in The Law of One, typically is associated with Christ consciousness or unconditional love.

It is crucial that we understand the evolutionary engine behind this momentous developmental stage for our species, unconditional love, not as a weak abstraction, but as an omnipotent creational force of torsion energy that birthed–as it is still birthing–everything in the multiverse, including ourselves.

Unconditional love is named aptly because the creative principle of love places no conditions on its creations, allowing for the exercise of free will in the upward karmic spiral of evolving human consciousness. The Bible sums up this foundational concept in three words: God is love. For the ancient Egyptians and Maya, to cite but two examples, such infinite love associated with the life-giving feminine principle emanates from Galactic Center, also called the Central or Healing Sun.

Today this Core of our galaxy is thought by most scientists to be a black hole of massive proportions: the equivalent of as many as 4 million of our suns, or more. For decades it was believed black holes destroy everything that falls into them. Not too long ago, however, physicist Stephen Hawking performed an abrupt about-face when he was quoted as saying, “It seems that black holes may after all allow information within them to escape.”

If we understand “information” to include hyperdimensional torsion-wave codes that create and modify life such as those that find expression meta-genetically via transposons in DNA, life indeed may originate, as whole civilizations of ancients claimed, from black holes.

Alternatively, it is possible that Galactic Center contains not only a black hole, but also a “white hole.” In the words of investigative mythologist William Henry, “Of all the high-energy photons beamed at us by the Core, probably none are more puzzling than those emitted in gamma ray bursts. Astrophysicists speculate these bursts are coming from a white hole, a ‘cosmic gusher’ of matter and energy … [W]hatever a black hole can devour, a white hole can spit out. These white holes precisely conform to the image the ancients held of the center of our galaxy.”

In Chinese the character for “crisis,” “wei-chi,” also means “opportunity.” Writing on this subject in Terra Christa years ago, Ken Carey wisely observed, as if referencing the exact period of history we now are experiencing, “IF THERE IS A MEGACRISIS, THERE IS ALSO A MEGAOPPORTUNITY.”

“Within a larger framework of reality,” writes Marciniak, “a crisis can be thought of as a meeting of minds at the crossroads of opportunity–a juncture where you recognize exactly where you are and consciously choose the best possible outcome for where you are going.”

The crisis, as well as the opportunity, of our time is to surrender the controlling aspects of our ego and its conditioned fear mechanisms to the primary torsion energy of unconditional love that is seeking to evolve us and is calling us as a species home.

This “home” may be simply a state of awareness that transcends duality and consciously exists in a multidimensional continuum. Wilcock sees “returning home” as a dimensional Shift referred to in the Bible as Ascension and in The Law of One as the “Harvest,” in both cases envisioned as a spontaneous metamorphosis or transmutation involving consciousness as well as biology similar to what happened to Jesus in the Resurrection.

“There is a parallel in the Shroud of Turin,” Wilcock notes, “where certain researchers have found that Jesus’ body burned a complete three-dimensional image of itself into the cloth.” Through experimentation it was determined that “such a burn could only be caused by an instantaneous blast at a very high temperature, ‘zapping’ the cloth like an X-ray.”

Others also visualize returning home in terms of a radical Shift. Barbara Hand Clow has remarked that, in the final analysis, all dilemmas are perceptual–which implies that all solutions are perceptual as well. This sentiment is echoed by Judith Bluestone Polich in Return of the Children of Light, where humanity is described as standing on the brink of a collective perceptual “awakening. As the cosmic cycles of time are telling us, it is the time for a major turn upon the spiral path of evolving human consciousness, when the light that has descended into matter begins the ascent back to its origin.”

The preceding quote also suggests that the home to which we have been referring may indicate some other place entirely. The 2012 alignment of the December solstice sun with Galactic Center creates what some ancients called the Black Road. It is conceivable we are meant to follow the Black Road home to our “transdimensional” Source, where we experience a state of being that altogether transcends this holographic reality composed of various “frequency domains,” dimensions, or densities.

After all, a white hole is basically a black hole reversed. The two are thought to meet at their small ends like a pair of funnels. Mathematically, it should be possible to enter a black hole and emerge from a white hole in a completely new universe.

Are you aware that a Shift in human consciousness is occurring even as you read these words that employs celestial triggers such as Earth’s alignment with Galactic Center to trigger the evolution of our species?

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Sol Luckman

http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=977789

Are you aware that a Shift in human consciousness is occurring even as you read these words that employs celestial triggers such as supernovas and Earth’s alignment with Galactic Center in the years leading up to 2012 to trigger the evolution of our species? This Shift has been documented in a stimulating multimedia presentation entitled “Preparing for the Shift,” by Barry and Janae Weinhold, Ph.D.s. Over decades devoted to the study of consciousness and evolution, the Weinholds, both trained psychologists, have gathered overwhelming evidence that humanity is in the middle of a long-awaited Shift in consciousness predicted in hundreds of indigenous cultures worldwide.

Today this Shift is visible nearly every time you open a newspaper or turn on the TV. It can be seen in the breakdown of many old structures such as those that underpin governments, churches and corporations, as well as in families and individuals. It is also evident in the ecological breakdown of numerous Earth systems, a widespread perception time is accelerating, drastic changes in weather patterns, more people feeling overwhelmed by modern life’s complexity, and increased polarization between groups, religions, and regions.

Fortunately, along with signs of breakdown, the Weinholds emphasize there is also considerable evidence of breakthrough: the appearance of stunningly gifted children in unprecedented numbers, the emergence of innovative and integrated healing modalities, people becoming less “religious” and more “spiritual,” and the dawning of new communities and social structures based on servant leadership and other partnership principles.

The significance of the winter solstice on December 21, 2012, according to the Mayan, Aztec, Incan and Hopi traditions, is that this date marks the close of several cycles of time. The first is the end of the 26,000-year Mayan calendar, also called a “precession” and the Annus Magnus (“Great Year”), considered by many a gestational or birth cycle for Earth. Mayan timekeepers believe that human evolution unfolds as a result of such precisely calibrated master cycles of time. They predict that Earth and humanity are about to be birthed into a new reality based on unity predicated on a dramatic advance in consciousness.

From a Mayan perspective, the Weinholds ask, “What began 26,000 years ago?” Their extensive psychohistorical research indicates this marked the beginning of humanity’s psychological individuation. In human terms, becoming “individuated” means moving from being unconsciously united with the Creator or Ground of Being, to choosing to become divided from the Creator and developing separate individual consciousness, to finally returning to the Creator as conscious, aware individuals. Once people fully individuate, it becomes possible for them to make empowered, discerning choices and use intention to co-create reality with Source–or perhaps more accurately, to create reality as Source.

The second cycle of time ending in 2012 highlighted in “Preparing for the Shift” is the close of the Galactic Year. It takes 225 million Earth years for the Milky Way Galaxy to make one complete rotation in the sky, which is believed to be a birth cycle for our galaxy. From a galactic perspective, the Weinholds ask, “What was conceived on Earth 225 million years ago?”

They point out this was when Earth’s landmass, Pangaea, began separating into what we now know as the seven continents. This process of planetary individuation not only correlates with continental drift theory; my research indicates there is also an energetic correspondence between Earth’s twelve tectonic plates responsible for continental drift and the twelve pairs of cranial nerves in the human brain, which are themselves linked to the biblical Twelve Tribes. Considered together, this evidence suggests that Earth, like humans, has undergone her own “separating out” or individuation. Based on such interconnectedness, it is also reasonable to expect that as human consciousness exponentially increases, Earth will also undergo a significant–and observable–transformation.

Astronomers studying Galactic Center report that it periodically becomes extremely active. During these episodes, it spews out fierce barrages of cosmic energy equal to thousands of supernova explosions. These outbursts are the most energetic phenomenon in the known universe. A growing number of researchers such as Sergey Smelyakov, author of a fascinating paper entitled “The Auric Time Scale and the Mayan Factor,” in addition to many indigenous peoples worldwide, theorize that as Galactic Center becomes more energized, it catalyzes human evolution through frequency emissions in the form of higher-dimensional “torsion” waves transmitted to Earth via the sun.

A comprehensive scientific model for the “Energetic Engine of Evolution” has been proposed by David Wilcock, a highly gifted psychic and speculative scientist whose theory of “Evolution as ‘Intelligent Design’” deserves summarizing. Citing the work of a vanguard of researchers, Wilcock presents a model that unites many disciplines and provides several critical missing pieces to the evolutionary puzzle. In his own words, this provocative model “suggests that humanity is on the verge of a near-spontaneous metamorphosis into a more highly evolved state of consciousness.”

Basing his analysis on the realization, embraced by more and more of today’s scientists, that Darwinian evolutionary theory is “extinct,” Wilcock observes that the “probabilities that DNA could evolve by ‘random mutation’ are so minute as to be utterly laughable–akin to the idea that if you have enough monkeys tapping away on typewriters, one of them will eventually produce a complete Shakespearean play.” Far surpassing the reach of gradual, incremental evolution, which certainly occurs as environmental adaptation, the fossil record from all over the planet makes it abundantly clear that species regularly evolve in heretofore inexplicable leaps and bounds, skipping what would seem from a Darwinian perspective to be crucial evolutionary phases. At the top of a long list of species whose evolution has baffled science is the human species.

Although for more than a century a “missing link” has been assumed to exist based on largely unchallenged Darwinian presumptions, scientists have never managed to discover it. “When we consider that the size of the brain literally doubled between that of humanity’s apparent ancestors and ourselves, with no evidence of a smooth transformation whatsoever,” writes Wilcock, “once again we see a spontaneous evolution of the creatures on Earth.” One scientist associated with National Geographic, studying the intricate bone carvings dating to 70,000 B.C.E. found at Blombos Cave in South Africa, concluded that behavioral evolution mirrors anatomical development–an important observation meaning, in Wilcock’s words, that “spontaneous evolution is not simply physiological, but consciousness-related as well. When a new bodily form has emerged, consciousness changes appear to occur.”

Moreover, as indicated by the Mayan calendar, rather than in fits and starts, such evolutionary fast-forwards of physiology and consciousness happen in organized, predictable cycles. Theorizing a “harmonic relationship” between the 26,000-year Mayan calendar and 26-million-year period between extinctions/evolutionary leaps in the fossil record, Wilcock notes that all Earth species have suddenly evolved, or metamorphosed, every 26 million years, making a strong case for “an outside energetic influence that operates in a regular, cyclic fashion.”

Hello all.

The real secret to getting something you need, is by first giving it away. If you are missing love in your life, give love away for free, if you have very little money, give whatever you have away. If you want more happiness, make it your aim first to bring happiness to someone else. If you want peace, send others peace. The list goes on. This goes to the simple universal laws of creation. As you sow so shall you reap. You can’t have more of something unless you are ready to give it away first. By giving it away first, you prove to the universe that you really have it, therefore receiving more of what you want.

+Baker

The Life and Death of the Identity

If you have been reading my posts you may have guessed that a major driver for me has been awakening.  I have enthusiastically followed a path that has moved me to ever deepening levels of understanding about the true nature of being, consistently opening up and dropping into places within me that now hold no identity, where the personal is totally unimportant, and the impulse of pure, unrestricted creation is able to shine out.  As I have shed the structures that have held my identity, I have come across some interesting challenges in relating to others and in relating to all those things to which our culture in the West gives value.    

I have been looking at my experiences as my relationship to the ego and identity – prime structures of separation – have changed and how that relates to my movement through life back towards the pulse of Creation….. It starts for us all around the time of birth when we come into form, into Life, and create an I-dentity.

The ego-identity is part of the personality structure that develops throughout life.  As a young child we are loved, nurtured, fed, held….or not.  Out of these experiences we individuate into the people that we bring into our relationships both with ourselves and with others. We individuate from our parents but also from the pure impulse of Life, learning ways that hold us apart from the true nature of our beings as unfettered expressions of all creation. We move from a state of universal union in which the heart freely resonates with everything, without fear, to one that sees itself as a unique thing, separate, special, quantifiable, defended, and we develop a personality with defenses formed by fears related to perceived threats to our survival.  These defenses create protective armoring not only in our musculature – affecting how we hold our bodies – but in how we express our energy through our emotional and mental responses to specific situations. With the fleshing out of our defenses, the ego is fully formed and with it a sense of ‘I’ – the I-dentity is born.  And the bulk of this happens before our 7^th birthdays!! 

None of us, unless Avataric, are spared this process of separation from the Mystery that is the Divine Creator.  As we incarnate numerous veils of separation are created with the strength and resistance of Teflon, yet so thin as to be almost undetectable to microscopic ethereal examination.  They are part of the spiritual skeleton of our beings. The presence of these veils makes any evolutionary move back into the unified field of pure creation impossible.  You cannot awaken with them in place, and your unique life challenges and dramas will continue to repeat themselves for as long as you identify with the places of forgetting that they support.  Unless spiritual evolution is one of your drivers they are unlikely to go, and you are equally unlikely to be interested in what might be the deeper truth behind your identity.  But if it is, and when they do go, the ego can no longer hold onto its position as the leading character in the play that is your life, and so you lose your identity.

The persona that we identify with is reinforced throughout our lives, firstly by our parents who name us and generally instill in us certain values, beliefs, and prejudices that create the foundations of our realities.  Then the reflection of our friends, acquaintances, and life experiences are added to the pot, and all these elements are embraced by our egos.  Our identity, unique and separate, is then constantly reinforced by whoever we come into contact with.  It happens on many levels but the first one is likely to be on meeting someone, when the questions we ask help form an impression of ‘self’ and ‘other’ in our minds. These ‘I am’s….’ that we exchange with each other help us to relate and each question asked builds an instantaneous picture, giving a sense of identity, interests and lifestyle.  For example:

What do you do?                        ‘I am an art consultant/I am an energy therapist’

Where do you come from?         ‘I am English, and I live in New York’

You can change your identity superficially by leaving your job without having the security of another to go to, or selling your home without any plans to find another, as I did. Either will most likely send a tremor of anxiety through your community of family and friends, and you may find that they attempt to lure you back by sending out tendrils of fear unconsciously designed to scare you back into the fold.  You will be breaking the accepted mold, leaving behind the identity that defines you to them, and which they have helped you forge.  You will probably find that you need to make adjustments as you create new relationships that reflect the movements in the axis of your existence. 

Evolutionary levels of transformation and the human response to it, will occur when you move from merely swopping or adding identities to undermining core positions and beliefs, and the supports that hold them in place. When you do this the ego will be seriously threatened and the nature of the ego-identity has to adapt or die.  Surface changes, like the ones mentioned above, can be the forerunners of the seismic movements that are going on in the inner planes of your being as you start dissolving the structures of your existence, and so too your I-dentity.  A signature of significant change is the dropping away of things, habits, and people whose presence in your life no longer resonate with you or serve you.  In relationships, if you can’t bridge the divides that can form as you change – and the onus falls on you to do this – then you will find that gradually your worlds drift apart.

As you embrace a new direction and challenge the nature of reality your extremely resilient ego is dented, but it takes on the changes as if it was going to gain from the direction you are taking.  It embraces this change from an intellectual place and creates a new identity as you embark on your search for the truth.  My ego-identity took on the identity of a spiritual path AND the spiritual seeker alongside the existing identities and the defended personality structures it already ruled.  It was happy!  It was behind this new venture!  Everything was under control, and all was well in its new world.  My interest in returning to Source had become something that my I-dentity , my ego, embraced as being fruitful to its long term wellbeing as an individual, even though it was not.  It didn’t recognize that it had everything to lose – that for it the perception of gain was just another illusion. 

Personally speaking, my journey is not unique.  Like many, I created a fabulous and strong ego that allowed me to successfully navigate the challenges that I met on my life’s path.  The impulse to awaken to the true nature of my being was not apparent to me and it didn’t start to emerge until I was in my 30s and I started to feel some dissatisfaction with what I was creating in my life. Whether we know it consciously or not, there is generally a subliminal pull that leads us, by hook or by crook, forward towards a reunion with Self. Until that point the ego, and its many masks, rules.  In my case it was never asked to step aside and allow what was behind the mask of identity to come through, because there was no awareness that there was anything other to relate with.  My identity until that time, had shifted, morphed, been knocked a little, but remained clear.  Looking back, I can chart how I, as an adult, moved through life and how I got to where I am today.  My true nature remained quietly hidden, waiting until I got fed up with the play that I had created. It has gone something like this:

• I lived a materially successful and socially active life – I conformed with the accepted standards of my peers to a large degree.
• I started to get panic attacks when some of the most painful relational woundings of my childhood began to appear in my adult relationships.  My passion for my work into which I had put 100% of my being was seriously compromised and I turned to the healing arts for help, through therapy and hands-on healing.
• I connected, with the help of my healer, to parts of me that I never realized existed before or had forgotten – I experienced expanded states of being and became fascinated with quantum theories and realities.
• I started to read about, train in, and experience other levels of existence. My awareness and my energetic container expanded enormously.
• I found teachers who reflected to me the true nature of being and encouraged me as I stepped into the stream of the awakening path.  Their awake and aware consciousness helped me to evolve.
• I stopped planning, dropped structure, and went with the flow of Life.   I sold my apartment and put all my belongings with the exception of a suitcase of clothes into storage and I traveled to places around the world that I felt called to visit. 
• I lost my sense of the personal; my sense of being in any way special; my identity with a spiritual or any other path; my templates for existence, and my identity.

It wasn’t until the supports that maintained the drama of my existence began to crumble that the ego’s throttle-hold on my life weakened, and so did my sense of identity.  But it wasn’t until the core veils went that held me in separation from Self, that the nature of my journey shifted.  I had had transcendent experiences, tastes of bliss or emptiness that felt like they must be what enlightenment is all about, but until the structures of separation disappeared, I didn’t recognize that these were little more than expanded states, amazing experiences that have very little to do with true awakening.  My I-dentity remained intact until the intellectual understanding dropped from my head and traveled right through my heart into the core of existence.  Often, for this to happen, you are called to face your greatest fear – the one that holds your deepest life-long wounding – and this is what happened for me too.  Only by surrendering did the structures that I had thought were there to protect me reveal themselves to be keeping me from my heart’s desire for reunion with the Beloved, the Creator of All that Is, and with this awareness they dissolved.  When this happens there is no choice but to wake up from your dream to the reality that there is ‘no one’ there. 

Firstly, and most importantly, you wake up to the knowledge that there is no personal I-dentity with who you were.  When you actively hunt for it in the corridors and rooms of your existence there is no ‘I’.  I was then aware that I am nothing but an expression of the pulse of creation. This knowing was slim at the beginning, but as I started to live life from this place, embodying it as fully as I could, each aspect of identity that had built up over the course of my life started to crumble.  For me it was two years from a point where I recognized that the Identity had gone to a point where I had embodied this awareness to a place of real understanding.  Like me, you may feel echoes of your identity through the conditioned responses that still trigger you – and language demands that you refer to it all the time – but the seeker, the do-er, the sense of personal, they go, along with other aspects of your being.  For me, one amazing part of this was in finding commonality with beautiful or mundane lifeforms around me, and really seeing that with the ‘death’ of my ego-identity I was just another essence expressed in Life, no different from any other, and part of the whole.

This life is a journey, that’s for sure! The death of the identity is not The End.  It is one step deeper into The Mystery!

©2009 Sarah Lidsey

Con’t…And believe me, so far this has whole thing has been a trip.  As I reflect on the words from “White Rabbit” I see that these words shimmer with great metaphorical parallels to my mid-life “waking up,” “self-healing” experience.  Here’s some of the words I connect with:

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you’re going to fall…
When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go…
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen’s “off with her head!
“
Remember what the dormouse said;
“feed YOUR HEAD.  Feed your head.…

Over the last six year of tunneling into my unconscious and desiring to connect with my sub-conscious in order to become conscious and experience inner healing, I have done a lot of falling.  I have had more moments than imaginable where what had seemed logical to me at one time, needed to go all sloppy dead.  And so I replaced it with true logic.  Then there have been realities I have had to face at times that have seared so deeply that it seemed my head floated off and and I tripped out into the delirium that pain inflicts.  In that place White Knights were talking backwards and chessboard men were telling me where to go.  And more times then I can count the Red Queen has been waving her hand in the air screaming, “Off with her head.”  And it only stood to reason, my head needed to come off.  I needed to replace it with reality.   Then finally I have needed to feed my head.  Feed it with truth.  The only way to true healing.  True awakening.  In the words of Jesus, “The truth shall set you free.”   True.  True.  But let me tell you friend, it’s going to hurt like hell first…

Grace Slick at Woodstock singing, White Rabbit

Here is a practice you can use right away, from my book “Leap Before You Look.”

At the end of your day
Kneel down in gratitude
And give thanks for the blessings of the day.
Release all sense of accomplishment for now.
Let go of any entitlement.
It was all a gift.
Find a picture of one who represents the divine to you,
Or pictures of all those who do.
Give thanks for each and every thing.

We were all born into this world with empty hands, and one day we will all die in the same way. No matter how much power we may assume, how much wealth we may accumulate, or how many people we may persuade to support us, in the end we will all die in the same way: alone and empty-handed. You will most likely also suffer small deaths in your life along the way: bad investments, crushed expectations, the end of a marriage, the death of a loved one. In these deaths, you are shocked out of the feeling of entitlement so prevalent in our society, and into the recognition that everything has been borrowed; everything has been a gift. Alexander the Great was a supremely powerful king and conqueror. At the age of thirty-two, he became very sick, and soon realized he would die. He called his generals to him, and told them that he had three last wishes. The first was that his doctor would carry his coffin alone. The second was that gold, silver, and gems should be scattered along the path where his coffin would be carried. And the third was that he should be buried with his hands outside the coffin. Only his closest general dared ask why. It is said that Alexander explained that these were the three lessons he had learned: that there is no physician who can save you from death when the time comes; that wealth ultimately means nothing to you; and, most important, that he came into this world with empty hands and so now he would also leave the world with his hands empty. He closed his eyes, fell silent, and died.

Giving thanks every night for blessings you have received releases that sense of entitlement. It reminds us that we are, essentially, always empty-handed. To live life in desire, no matter how much or how little you may have, is to live in lack. To live life in gratitude, no matter how rich or poor you may be, is to live in genuine abundance.

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