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Crystal Children

Posted on Sep 24th, 2008 by 1Vector3 : zoompower(SvcMrk) 1Vector3
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Hope you enjoy my Guest Blogger today:

Reprinted by permission from author Michael J. Lincoln, Ph.D., psychologist and Cosmic Guide. Slight editing for clarity [and a few comments] by a friend of his. 
 

These are indeed paradigm-shifting times! There is a new wave of children coming in since about 2000. They are very different from the Human Soul Pool, and they are almost as different from the Indigo Soul Pool.


There is not a great deal known about them as yet because they are still very young children. But what we have discerned thus far indicates that they are a remarkably profound development in the story of human evolution and destiny.
 
These "crystal" children are the next step in human evolution. Their function is to teach us about our inner potency and divinity. They live in the "Law of One in Unity"- consciousness, and they are a profound force of love and peace, as they are in effect "human angels." Instead, they could also be called the "Christ-al" children, They are the Heart Chakra of the Cosmos, like He (Jesus) was.


The most notable thing about them is their eyes, which are large, penetrating, hypnotic and telepathic. Their aura is opalescent, like pastel mother-of-pearl. Their speech development is often delayed until about age 3 or 4. In the interim, they combine mind-to-mind communication, self-developed sign language, and various sounds, including music, in their interactions with others.


Unfortunately, like the ADD and ADHD mis-diagnosis of some normal characteristics of the Indigos, this normal delayed-onset-of-speaking characteristic of Crystal children tends to lead to a disastrous mis-diagnosis of who they are and what their way of operating means about them. They tend to be mis-diagnosed as autistic, for Pete's sake!!


Now, autistic children are on the increase of late, there is no question about that. The trouble is, we don't understand autism enough to even know what might be occurring to bring this about. [Friend's note: Check out research re Hepatitis B vaccine given to newborns.]


But one thing is crystal clear (no pun intended). And that is that autistics are intensely socially and emotionally deflecting, and they are immensely control-avoidant and uresponsive to other people. These are critical diagnostic cues that need to be very carefully assessed when considering autism as a diagnosis.


Crystal children are extremely different: intensely caring, communicative and cuddly, and at the same time they are quite philosophical and spiritually gifted in a kind and sensitive manner. They have the effect of teaching us how to walk the Walk, to be Love in action via eliciting love wherever they go. You could say they are "Love Blossoms."

They come from the sixth dimension of consciousness, with the ability to develop to the Christ consciousness level and beyond. They can not only read our minds, they can know us in our hearts. And they are profoundly people-cherishing.


They are intensely sensitive to all vibrational input such as magnetic, electromagnetic, environmental, electrical, aromatic, sound, color and all other vibrational frequencies, and they will tend to have real difficulty dealing with things and people that are not at their higher vibrational and dimensional sensitivity level. [Friend's note Thus some similarity to true autism which is possibly a hyper-sensitivity to stimuli.] They will also tend to blow out electric and electronic equipment as they adjust to being on this plane. {Friend's note: this is not unique to crystal children, many high-vibration people do the same.]


They are highly potent and creative, and they have no time for fear and victim dramas. They are very aware of the importance of being well-grounded in material reality, and of not getting lost in some vaguely ethereal paradisical state.


Nevertheless, they do have multi-dimensional awareness, and they play with spiritual development in a magical and blessed manner as they prepare to fully take their role in being an amazing resource for the planet, along with millions of spiritually advanced folks and with the Indigos.


Incidentally, there is at this point a world-famous crystal child. Her name is Marla Olmstead. She is an abstract artist of amazing profundity -- and she started at age three. Her paintings sell for tens of thousands. There is a DVD out on her called my kid could paint that. She is a classic crystal child. (She is now 7 years old in 2008.) [Friend's comment: Here is the Wikipedia entry on her. She is controversial, but then what non-ordinary person isn't the target of would-be-debunkers? The existence of crystal children doesn't depend on her story being true. If you are alert you can spot them.]


We are presently carbon-based beings, but we are transitioning into the only other four-pointed atom, silicon, in the crystalline form, like diamonds. The crystal children are here to take us all into continuous awareness of the interconnectedness of everything and into the higher dimensions as we leave biologic form and as we enter our Light Bodies, only wearing our physical bodies as "uniforms," whether they be biologic or electronic.

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Are Hurricanes Beneficial?

Posted on Sep 14th, 2008 by 1Vector3 : zoompower(SvcMrk) 1Vector3
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This is another venture into having a Guest Blogger today:

Environmentalists, listen up. Here is a rather far-out perspective, one that you might or might not consider, ponder, allow as possible. I just offer it as food for thought.

[Sorry blogs are coming fast and furious. Hate to overload my audience, but I simply can't string these out.....]

Normally I find fault with almost every piece of "channeling" I run across, but I can't (yet) find anything of any significance to quibble about here in terms of what I would consider spiritual correctness, haha. (That is independent of whether this stuff is TRUE. It just doesn't violate any of my own sense of how things work, spiritually.) I will say normally I do not resonate much if at all with Metatron, and I might decide in the future that I don't like this piece either. In fact, I will say right now I do not "believe" all of this is 'true." I don't have any sense of the level of truth of all this. I just find it interesting to consider.

Well, one truth, the part I underlined. Praying for "safety," in fear, IMO creates the opposite of that prayed for. I have written about this, and so have others. It is the subtle trap of a great deal of "environmentalist" activism. So I ask you to especially consider the wisdom of that part, aside from the descriptions of the various earth phenomena.

And if you don't like channeling, pretend your grocery store clerk is saying these things to you. Who cares, it's the information or the ideas or perspectives that matter, IMO. Do you resonate or not? Are the ideas reasonable, sensible, plausible, possible? What difference might they make in your life if you grant them some credibility? Those are the important questions, not who said it.

IMO.
OM Bastet
The rest of this is strictly cut and paste.


The Perfect Storm . Archangel Metatron
AA Metatron Channel


The Perfect Storm

Archangel Metatron via James Tyberonn
September 12, 2008


Greeting Beloved! I am Metatron, Lord of Light, and I welcome you this
moment, and I encircle you with Celestial Light.

And so Dear Ones, we
tell you that there is even greater life that circles about and above
you, above the sacred Earth , and these are now flowing into your
planet and available to enter your field of awareness. It is light of
a subtle nature. It is not the light of expectation, it is does not
hold logic, rather it is the light of wellness, and indeed carries the
energy of 'home' of the angelic realm.


We will say to you upon this
special planet of duality, this beloved and sacred Earth, that all
who open and allow this Celestial Light to enter their sphere of
influence, their field of consciousness, will immediately find
themselves blessed in spirit, and glowing in divine serenity. This
energy is quiet, this energy is reconciling, and this energy connects
your chakras with your celestial home. It is available to all who come
here, and readily so. This is a place of healing and wellness. Humans
on the path as yet do not always seek to include wellness in their
search for understanding, but all should, as it is complimentary to
truth and all parts of your trinity being cry out for it.


Planetary Change


Now most of you are well aware that your planet is undergoing many
changes at present. We tell you that these are indeed appropriate. All
are designed to clean, clear and upshift the vibrations of the
planet. Many humans feel the phenomenon of global warming is to be
feared and stopped. This is not the case. The melting of the polar ice
caps and such is appropriate, it is necessary. Global warming brings
about the very evolution. It receives the energies of the sun,
melting the ice caps, as it were, releasing that which has been
encoded, traveling through the waters and the fields of energy of the
earth, attaching and activating all that touches upon it as well.

In this way, even evolution, consciousness and such begins to move forward.

Many fear that the warming, the volcanic eruptions, the storms, the
earth quaking, the magnetic shifts will create a global cataclysm. We
tell you that for now it will be more gradual depending somewhat on
the reaction of humanity, whether it be with more fear or with a
restructuring and such, this is what will determine whether there is
to be a great cataclysm or small localized cataclysms.

Make no
mistake, dear ones, the changes will and must continue and if the
public were to be duly educated and such, appropriate changes could be
made much sooner rather than later.



Many are those who wish to 'save the planet' in your terms. So the
channel asks what is the nature of mans relationship to the living
planet. It would be best if the relationships were to be
synchronistic and be aware that truly a dialogue can take place now
between the earth and humankind. For those of you who have spent
lifetimes as the Earth-Keepers, the indigenous, the Druid, the
Atla-Ra, indeed many of you such as the channel are here now
specifically to hold the energy of these dialogues, and they are
occurring.



Now, the difficulty with many others who well intended, is that they
are not intuned, not of a high enough light quotient to accept the
true paradigm of the nature of reality. And so these masses , while
they wish to assist, truly know not how. They believe that to
prevent the change or to move it elsewhere is appropriate; better
there than here, you see? Not all that wish to assist truly
understand the greater good, the higher purpose of those events you
term super hurricanes, volcanics, earthquakes and tsunamis.


So most simply react in fear to these events, and wish to be free of
the anxiety. But to dissolve fear is not the same as understanding the
fear and therefore the masses of humankind transmute and actually
recreate it. To dissolve or to dissipate events of change is not
necessarily of benefit, not to the earth and not to humanity. The
difficulty with those that wish to assist is that they believe they
know better or believe they are more academic in their understanding
and know better. Yet they omit the divine, they omit the integrity
of that termed spirit, in your vernacular as the metaphysical. They
do not understand or see the perfection in what takes place because
there is great difficulty for those in not understanding that all is
in perfection, that all is in good order, then in essence, they do not
add grease to the squeaky wheel, rather, they try to prevent the cogs
which then become still and stuck and so the evolution becomes that
much more difficult, you see? Always fear is the great culprit.


The Perfect Storm


Now one of the very important frequency upshift mechanisms taking
place on your planet are the super hurricanes. These are greatly
misunderstood, and greatly feared. Again the fear. These are truly
intended to charge the oceans with magnificent energies. They are not
intended to be drawn to the lands. But it is as if, the entire world
becomes focused on where it will land, what destruction it will cause,
and the experts predict where it will come to shore. And so with such
global focus, indeed the hurricane is pulled into shore as expected
by the humans who watch in fascination and fear.



The true purpose of these storms, is to increase the energy of the
waters and to allow it to electrically expand. If these remain at sea,
then the electrical energy is simply conducted as gentle current waves
to very great proportion of the planet. As such it is conducted to the
land and peoples, not by wind and waves, but by its energy current so
that it may reach that many more beings. There is a perfection to it,
you see? There is what is called the perfect storm in some ways, but
the perfect storm is that which is the perfect blend of
electromagnetic currents. As these then move through the fields of
humanity, they are of benefit, for the frequential ascension of the
planet and as such to the entirety of mankind.


Question to Metatron : There have been some very powerful hurricanes
that occurred several years ago in the Gulf Coast, and there is one
headed this week to Houston. Is it accurate to say that when energy
amasses in such an organized fashion that it has a consciousness?


Metatron : It has an awareness , yes, correct, but to call it a
consciousness is not appropriate. There is an awareness that comes
together. Do you see the difference? An awareness is that which is a
unit that works for a common purpose. A school of fish has an
awareness, as a unit working in harmony toward a common goal, a common
purpose, a single unit made of many individual components. This is
not the same as a consciousness, a succinct energy that expands and
becomes a mind, a very capable mind that truly wishes to become more,
and is imbued with that termed Divine Mind. That is consciousness, you
see?


Question to Metatron : There were and are literally millions of
people, particularly on the Gulf Coast, praying to soften the impact
of the hurricanes that occurred 3 years ago, and the one that is
occurring now, and I do believe that this can have an impact. Is that
correct?


Metatron: Yes. In essence, that which can be prayed as well, is
toward highest good, and that is to allow the benevolent
electromagnetic shift that are the true purpose of the hurricanes, but
to have them remain at sea. To have them dissipate and decrease before
reaching land. You see, they are very necessary, but they are not as
necessary on land. Yet the reaction of the masses is to pray in FEAR.
As we have said, what amplifies and draws hurricanes to specific
locales is in part, mans fear, mans emotionally negative focus on
them.

A group consciousness , an enormous group mass field of FEARFUL
EXCITEMENT is amassed that in fact draws them onto the land as well.

As you say, there are millions praying, but what most are projecting
is fear. "We do not want this, we do not wish this, send it away !"

But the major emotion behind their reaction is fear and that fear
magnetizes the event, and fear attracts that which is feared
. The
entire hurricane occurrence becomes a media event, and the masses ,
particularly along the Gulf Coast become glued to the television
screen and radios. The meteorologist draw direction models and make
predictions of where landfall will occur, and the targeted area become
magnetized. As such, a mass consciousness energy, of human emotional
interference can become so enormous that it interfaces and effects
somewhat the events natural course.

Now of course the use of your
technologies to give advance warning to people of coming storms is in
itself quite useful, quite benevolent, but it is the aggrandizement by
some media that to some extinct refashions the occurrence into an
opportunity for sensationalism to capture viewer attention, and that
is done in a manner that exacerbates fear and drama. Do you understand
the difference.


It is not to say that human emotion creates the event, but rather that
the amassed fear, when accumulated to a certain volumous inertia can
and will magnetize and attract the energy of the hurricane to varying
degrees. If this massive emotional energy were not fear based, it
could in fact have the effect of having the hurricane remain at sea,
or to landfall in a much less potent energy. So were the mass
reactions attuned to prayers of greatest good and harmlessness,
without panic and fear, the effect would have a very beneficial
influence on the 'natural occurrence'. It could dissipate it rather
than amplify it you see.


Question to Metatron : What is the higher purpose of the hurricanes?


Metatron: As we have said, the purpose is to enlarge the harmonic
energies and to expand the frequential increase and resonance over the
water covered areas of the planet, which in fact represent two thirds
of the earth's surface. Tornadoes fill that purpose over land.
Cyclones, typhoons, hurricanes and tornadoes all have the vortexial
spinning and that specific pattern both cleans and steps up energy not
just on the surface seas and lands, but feeds it deep into the planet
in the spinning vortexial format. The velocities and size carry
specific ratios and are dispersed into areas far wider than just the
areas that it traverses. They feed into ley and axialtonal; energies
to a very great proportion that it may reach that many more beings.
There is a perfection to it, you see?


So what is happening form the greater stance, from the higher
perspective is in perfect order. This is then the perfect storm in the
aspect of that which is the perfect blend of electromagnetic
currents. The imperfection that is attributed to it , is truly from
the stance of duality, from misunderstanding, from fear.


Global Warming


We have told you that the primary cause of global warming is the
increase in spin of the inner molten core of the earth. The increase
in spin, increases the inner core and outer inner-core counter spin
mass, and the heat generated has a profound effect on the mantle, and
the effects axial rotation ratio. It is the very mechanism of this
torque change that is increasing the flash of your time sequence on
your planet. It is also the increase mass of the inner core that
subsequently increases the ionic discharge you term the Schumann
Resonance.


At present this adjustment is not complete, and so there is currently
an imbalance within the center of the planet, within the very core, as
to how the core spins both clockwise and counterclockwise and so then
there must be a balancing upon the earth as well. Otherwise, without
such balance the earth cannot truly move into its higher octaves in
requisite preparation for receival of higher dimensions. So in truth
and in irony, the paradox and greater reality unknown to masses of
mankind is that without such balancing of the electromagnetics, there
would be even more earth changes. There would be first an earthquake,
then the hurricane and tornado to balance, you see? Then another
earthquake, then the hurricane and tornado creating a pattern of its
own, which would not be of assistance.

In this way, then, there is
an anticipatory energy of how electromagnetics move about the planet,
circulating about the grid system and then permeating the earth and
then balancing within as well. It is not done necessarily to prevent
earth changes, but to bring balance where balance is appropriate. The
imbalance, left unadjusted, we assure you, would lead to cataclysm on
the macro scale. Better then that the micro events occur to bring the
balance and in so doing prevent the macro you see.


In kind, there have been coronal mass ejections, solar storms
creating what is called solar winds that have been greater and greater
and greater in intensity ,some of the largest ever recorded. So you
ask what is the role of the solar winds, or the coronal mass ejections
on the ascension of the planet? We tell you these are changing the
vibration that affects the earth. They change the frequencies at
which humanity's minds operate. They provide the interface to higher
dimensional access.


How does this work? The energy that comes from the coronal mass
ejections is being absorbed into the tectonic plates of the earth and
increasing the vibratory resonance of the earth through that method.
These work particularly with certain power points and sacred sites.
Particularly those of geometric crystalline overlay. .

These then move through the entire node systems of the earth. If such
coronal mass ejections create such a vibration, then the entire
electromagnetic flow of the earth is affected. The tides are
affected, the tectonic plates, the mind of humanity is affected, how
humanity creates the reality in which it lives, the illusion it
believes, how it feels toward its own life, how there is a community
of beings or individual beings. All of this is affected by that which
comes from the sun, that which comes from the solar wind.


Question to Metatron: Many people have had great concerns about global
warming and concerns about a cataclysm that was going to occur on the
earth. Is there going to be a cataclysmic event or will it be a more
gradual change?


Metatron : For now it will be more gradual depending on the reaction
of humanity-whether it be with more fear or with a restructuring and
such, this is what will determine whether there is to be a great macro
cataclysm or a small regional micro cataclysm. Make no mistake, dear,
the changes will and must continue and if the public were to be duly
educated and such, appropriate changes could be made much sooner
rather than later.


Indeed, there are myriad other energy sources that are having a great
effect upon the ascension, beyond coronal mass ejections. It is best
to say that the sun coordinates all the others as well. When there
are other rays of influence, even these are absorbed, coordinated and
reflected by the sun.


Now the other celestial bodies, other planets also effect and
influence your planet. This has long been known, but greatly
misunderstood, greatly discounted. The channel asks how, exactly, do
the gravitational influences from other celestial bodies affect the earth?

We tell you they move outward in rings of intention that are then
carried by celestial intent, as it were, toward the earth. Some of
these are magnetic, some electromagnetic, others of a more subtle
matter, that of zero field energy.


Now the greatest mechanism of these energetic and frequential
distributes are what you term powerpoints. Particularly, as mentioned,
those of geometric overlay are among the greatest of these. It is the
crystallization, the sacred geometric matrix that both receives,
refines and distributes these harmonics. This planetary node system of
sacred sites, grid points and powerpoints are is greatly involved in
the ascension process. Both for the planet and for mankind, you see.


The Head of the Dove


Now we will add one piece. The area of Galveston Island is in truth
the 'Head of the Dove'. This was shared with you through Enoch. The
bountiful and profound book, "The Keys of Enoch" channeled by a great
Master, has within it diagrams that map this. The area of Galveston is
the closest area to Houston that is capable of carrying the celestial
Light that we have spoken of at the beginning of this assay. Upon the
Island are three modern Pyramids, called Moody Gardens. One is a
botanical garden containing massive crystals , one an aquarium with
dolphins, another dedicated to science, all created for the greater
good.

We tell you that when the channel and Ronna Herman took a group
to align intent to these enormous glass pyramids two years ago, it
created a spiral, which has been growing. That spiral counters the
thick energy of the energy industrial complex of Houston.

The storms the hurricanes offer further clearing, and soften and
brighten these energies. Not as a retribution, rather as a
recalibration, rather as a softening of the pendulum of duality.
Indeed many of the industrial cities in the Americas are being so
effected. You see as those termed the Indigos and Crystal children
come into power, this area will serve as a beacon in the New Energy.


The Earth is an omnipotent presence. The Earth cannot be destroyed.
Whether you accept it or not, nothing is taken from the Earth that the
Earth does not allow. Man cannot destroy the earth, only his ability
to live on her. The Earth was just as conscious as a burning sphere of
lava, as she is now. The changes that are coming are agreed to by
Gaia, indeed to a great degree orchestrated by the sentience of earth,
sun and that you term Creator God. Know that all is in perfect order.


It is the Perfect Storm. Fear not.

I am Metatron, and You are Beloved."

and so it is.


This channel is copyrighted to www.Earth-Keeper. com. Posting on
websites is permitted as long as the information is not altered and
credit of authorship and website is included. It may not be published
in journals, magazines or print without expressed permission from
Earth-Keeper. Permissions may be requested at Tyberonn@hotmail. com

Much love and radiant health,
 
Shakeh Manjikian
Angel Eyes Healing System
www.AngelEyesHealing.com
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/angeleyeshealing/
 

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Women-voting-USA-death-torture

Posted on Sep 13th, 2008 by 1Vector3 : zoompower(SvcMrk) 1Vector3
Suffragette

I believe this is my third venture into having a Guest Blogger!

I don't even know which suffragette this photo is of, no label. Isn't that sad, that I don't even know her name?

Not my usual blogging subject, but something I feel passionately about, so am reposting here. I have no TV so didn't see the HBO thing, and can't, but perhaps you can. Or just realize from these words. And I would remind us all that women in other countries aren't even as far along as we are. They are suffer - agettes in their countries, or not even able yet to do that.

The email is from my friend Kay but the > parts are from someone else, I don't know who. I have woven in some comments of my own, in boldface.
--------------------

I have seen the movie and it was MOST MOVING and graphic!

So, let's get out the vote!

Kay

------------------------------

>A Message for all people

>   HOW QUICKLY WE FORGET.....IF ....WE EVER KNEW......WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE

> This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago.

> Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.

This is a reminder of one of the many ordeals of some of the Suffragists. There were many many other ordeals not unlike this. Not to mention the women who were just made to suffer emotionally or financially in their families or circles of friends.

There is no intention on my  (OM's) part of man-bashing here. Remember, not all women supported these women. They were hated and ostracized and even attacked by many other women. And supported, of course, by some men.

This was a phase in human development. No judgments, just awe and admiration for those who did what they thought was right, what needed to be done.

> The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote.

> And by the end of the night, they were barely alive.

 Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'

 (Lucy Burns)
> They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.
>
> (Dora Lewis)
> They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack.
> Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.
>
> Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote.

> For weeks, [did you read that? WEEKS] the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms.
>
> (Alice Paul)
> When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks [Did you read that? WEEKS] until word was smuggled out to the press. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/prisoners.pdf  
>
> So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because--why, exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining?
>
> Last week, I went to a sparsely attended screening of HBO's new movie 'Iron Jawed Angels.' It is a graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so that I could pull the curtain at the polling booth and have my say. I am ashamed to say I needed the reminder.
>
> All these years later, voter registration is still my passion. But the actual act of voting had become less personal for me, more rote. Frankly, voting often felt more like an obligation than a privilege. Sometimes it was inconvenient.
>
> My friend Wendy, who is my age and studied women's history, saw the HBO movie, too. When she stopped by my desk to talk about it, she looked angry. She was angry--with herself.

> 'One thought kept coming back to me as I watched that movie,' she said.
> 'What would those women think of the way I use, or don't use my right to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn. The right to vote, she said, had become valuable to her 'all over again.'
>
> HBO released the movie on video and DVD . I wish all history, social studies and government teachers would include the movie in their curriculum I want it shown on Bunco night, too, and anywhere else women gather. I realize this isn't our usual idea of socializing, but we are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and I think a little shock therapy is in order.
>
> It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy.
>
> The doctor admonished the men: 'Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.'
>
> Please, if you are so inclined, pass this on to all the women [people] you know.
>
> We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by these very courageous women. Whether you vote democratic, republican or independent party - remember to vote.
>
> History is being made.

OM adds: As you go into the voting booth, or drop your ballot in the mail, you might whisper "Thank you Alice. Thank you Dora. Thank you Lucy. Thank you all the women who suffered in great and small ways so that I could do this easy thing, now taken for granted, that you bought me with your blood, sweat, tears, pain, and courage."

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What is Reality? Part I

Posted on Sep 9th, 2008 by 1Vector3 : zoompower(SvcMrk) 1Vector3
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  Wow, this blog just shoved itself ahead in line this morning, elbowing out others already being written or planned. So, here it is !!!
What is Reality? Part I

Rev. O.M. Bastet, Ph
.D.

Head Minister


This article is provided and presented by "Amplifying Divine Light in All" Church as part of the exercise and practice of our religion.


adliac@gaia.com


All rights reserved under the Common Law, which means, please respect our Creatorship.


This is somewhat of an "insider" paper for those who have some familiarity with the Spiral Dynamics descriptions of human consciousness levels, as described by Beck and Cowan, and by Ken Wilber. I strongly hope and expect that other folks can understand enough to get some value from the paper anyway.


I will certainly write more on the topic of reality/real, from other angles, thus I label this article as Part I.


As with everything I write, I regard this as a draft, and actively solicit input from readers. As with everything I write, this is presented as my best take at this time, but as speculation and opinion, not as Truth. As usual, my purpose is to be thought-provoking and useful, not to be correct or to engage in a presentation of The Truth. I am interested in offering new possibilities to those who are shopping for new viewpoints, and in helping some folks recognize their own experiences, and I have no interest in being believed or in persuading/convincing.


I am not quoting Ken Wilber to pull authority on you. I am quoting him because he says what I want to say, better than I could say it.


So let's focus on the question "What is reality? What is "real?"


BEGINNING OF QUOTATIONS FROM KEN WILBER:


A Brief History of Everything, Shambala paperback, 1996


p. 207-208 Chapter 12: Realms of the Superconscious: Part I


The italics are his, the underlining and bolding is my emphasis added:


... the beginnning transcendence of gross-oriented reality, the transcendence of the ordinary body and mind and culture.


Some of the transcendental phenomena include preliminary meditative states; shamanic visions and voyages; arousal of kundalini energy (and disclosure of the whoel psychic anatomy of subtle channels, energies, and essences); overwhelming feelings of the numinous; spontaneous spiritual awakenings; reliving of deep past traumas, even the birth trauma; identification with aspects of nature - plant identification, animal identification - up to an identification with all of nature (cosmic consciousness, nature mysticism, and the World Soul).


Q: How do you know these phenomena actually exist?


K.W.: As the observing Self begins to transcend the centaur [ OM adds: This means Integral, Yellow/Teal] deeper or higher dimensions of consciousness come into being, and a new worldview or worldspace comes into focus. All of the items on that list are objects that can be directly perceived in this new psychic worldspace.Those items are as real in the psychic worldspace as rocks are in the sensorimotor worldspace and concepts are in the mental worldspace.


If cognition awakens or develops to this psychic level, you simply perceive these new objects, as simply as you perceive rocks in the sensory world or images in the mental world. They are simply given to awareness, they simply present themselves, and you don't have to spend a lot of time trying to figure out if they're real or not.


Of course, if you haven't awakened psychic cognition, then you will see none of this, just as a rock [OM says, or better image, an amoeba] cannot see mental images. And you will probably have unpleasant things to say about people who do see them. [OM says : Like "speculation" or "hallucinations" or "figments of imagination."]


Q: So the psychic level is simply a broad space, a worldspace, within which a vast array of different phenomena can occur.


K.W.: Yes, which is true of any worldspace. ....


p. 211-2:


As we said, all depth must be interpreted, and these interpretations are not possible without a whole set of background contexts which provide many of the tools with which the interpretation will proceed. One's own individual background, one's cultural background, and one's social institutions will all have a hand in interpreting this depth-experience. This is unavoidable.


So these higher structures are not like fully formed little treasure chests buried in your psyche, waiting to pop to the surface. The deep structures are given, but the surface structures are not, and the experience itself involves an interpretive component, which cannot proceed without various backgrounds - and those backgrounds do not exist merely in your psyche!


But if we reject that pregiven extreme, it doesn't mean we have to fall into the opposite error of extreme constructivism. The basic reality of this [OM says: From his previous page he is discussing an example here of] subtle experience of interior illumination is not simply or arbitrarily constructed by culture, because these experiences occur cross-culturally, and further, in many cases the cultural background officially denies or prohibits these experiences, and yet they still happen all the time anyway.


So just because these experiences have an interpretive component does not mean they are merely cultural creations. When you watch the sun set, you will bring interpretations to that experience as well-perhaps romantic, perhaps rational, each with a cultural coloring, but that doesn't mean that the sun ceases to exist if your culture disappears!


No, these are ontologically real events. They actually exist. They have real referents. But these referents do not exist in the sensorimotor worldspace, they do not exist in the rational worldspace, they do not exist in the existential [OM: by which he means Integral level] worldspace. So you can find evidence for them in none of these worldspaces! Rather, they exist in the subtle worldspace, and evidence for them can be plentifully found there.


END OF QUOTATIONS, BEGINNING OF MY SPIEL


I believe these matters, better articulated by Ken Wilber there than anyplace else I have seen, form the basis for a schism in discussions among those interested in, aspiring to, or abiding in, Integral level of consciousness-development, a schism amply demonstrated in and plaguing the recent Symposium discussions. http://brucealderman.gaia.com/blog/2008/8/symposium_4_play_sheet Cross-level discussions, across these steps in the development of consciousness expansion, didn't seem to succeed really well IMO -- despite good and great efforts by some folks whose level of awareness included all the earlier steps. How can people have a coherent discussion about phenomena, evolution, etc. when they don't even agree as to what "phenomena" are "real?!!!"


I have been seeing this schism for a long time in many places, the schism about what is real, what is ontologically "given" to various levels of awareness, what phenomena can and do or do not present themselves as perceptions, what the "myth of the given" regards as "given," haha, on various levels.


IMO even many serious students of Ken Wilber's ideas/descriptions don't really "get" this notion of differing "realities," simply because it is a later step than the one they are standing on. I believe being able to encompass or understand differing viewpoints is radically different from being able to encompass or understand the notion or existence of differing realities/dimensions/universes/timelines. This is the schism, and I am now going to attempt to describe it more.


My way of describing it might be that there is a step in expansion/transcendence/inclusion from the opinions/dogma on which one stands in any discussion (First Tier) to the ability to stand on and take and value multiple perspectives and multiple viewpoints (Integral/Yellow/Teal level.) And a step beyond that in expansion/transcendence/inclusion is to be able to stand in multiple experiential worlds (consisting not of opinions or viewpoints, but consisting of what one notices, what is important to one, the color of glasses through which one sees the world.)


And there is IMO yet a step beyond that, into multiple "objective" (inter-subjective) realities. These are composed of differing timelines, parallel universes, different phenomena as real and possible in each one, all tetra-enacted (individual, social, and "objectively existing" as intersubjectively verifiable.)


Opinions to viewpoints to worldviews/experiential worlds to worldspaces/realities. Who takes those leaps, and who rejects the possibility? Those whose lives have prepared them take the steps. Those who are not ready, reject any possibility of anything "real" beyond where they are. There is certainly within a given reality, a clear lack of evidence or proof of anything "more," that is the nature of consciousness, as described above by Ken Wilber. No other "reality" or "worldspace" or "phenomena" can be PROVED to exist in an earlier or prior worldspace. Seeking evidence or proof is not the way to go, as many of us have said many places. Following what KW calls "injunctions" (see below.) is the way to obtain the evidence or proof as the phenomena simply arise in one's worldspace.


Note these worldspace beyond the sensorimotor, beyond the rational, beyond the existential, are nonetheless intersubjective, not solipsistic, not the creations/hallucinations of isolated individuals.


Thus, what appears to be a delusion or speculation, to folks occupying earlier levels, less expanded levels of awareness, is a ho-hum no-big-deal daily intersubjective reality for other folks. Many hotly reject the possibility of phenomena which others simply naturally and with humility abide in, live in.


The best possible attitude for those on the earlier steps is a bit of healthy openness along with healthy skepticism, and an eschewing of ridicule. The best possible attitude for those on the later steps is a good memory (of what it was like,) a bit of healthy patience, and healthy compassion, and an eschewing of attempts to persuade.


That's my say on this subject. What's yours?


An extended P.S. This is what Ken Wilber says on page 219 of the same book, A Brief History of Everything, about "injunctions" to discover what is "real" in a given worldspace. Again the underlining is mine, italics his.


Chapter 13: Realms of the Superconscious: Part 2


Q: You said that .... you are looking into the Face of the Divine, the ... Forms of the Divine. Most modern researchers reject all of that as "mere metaphysics" at best, none which which can be verified.


KW: First, you yourself must perform this experiment and look at the data yourself. Then you can help interpret it. [OM says he means add to the collective inter-subjective pool of existing interpretations.] If you don't perform the experiment-the meditative injunction, the exemplar, the paradigm-then you don't have the data from which to make an interpretation.


If you take somebody from the madic or mythic worldview, and you try to explain to them that the sume of the squares [OM says: of the sides] of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares {sic: square] of the hypotenuse, you won't get very far. What you are doing cannot be seen in the empirical world. It doesn't have a simple location. And yet you are correct. You are performing an experiment in interior awareness, and your mathematical results can be checked b