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Birthdays

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:41:05 GMT

So much is happening on Gaia around birthdays.

My celebration has started early, in the 50-stars Group, here. If you don't want to join that group, feel free to message me or leave a comment here!! Thanks to Deb for hostessing my party there, and thanks to all who've dropped in with gifts and wishes!! I already feel all warm-fuzzied !!

There is now a Birthday Calendar in the Gaia Networking Group, for the whole community, where you can post your birthday if you want to let people know so they can send you wishes. Then go to the special discussion thread to let us know where and how we can send you our wishes and gifts and celebration of you.

And the idea is still morphing.

Birthdays are a cool way of community bonding, IMO, and my hope is that the community activities around birthdays continue to morph.

Hugs to all,

OM Bastet

Tags: birthdays, community, celebration, love, appreciation, gratitude, life, friends

Medical Views of the Bailout

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:33:41 GMT

Guest Blog. I got this via email from another friend in Washington state (hence the reference at the end.) I rarely pass along inspiration or humor from emails, we are all overwhelmed with same, but this is toooo clever to let go by. Hope you get some health-promoting, spirit-expanding laughs from this.

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Here is the opinion of the Medical Profession on the Financial Bail-Out Package just passed by the US Congress.

The allergists voted to scratch it, and the dermatologists advised not to make any rash moves.

The gastroenterologists had sort of a gut feeling about it, but the neurologists thought the Administration had a lot of nerve, and the obstetricians felt they were all laboring under a misconception.

The ophthalmologists considered the idea short-sighted; the pathologists yelled, "Over my dead body!" while the pediatricians said, 'Oh, Grow up!'

The psychiatrists thought the whole idea was madness, the radiologists could see right through it, and the surgeons decided to wash their hands of the whole thing.

The internists thought it was a bitter pill to swallow, and the plastic surgeons said, "This puts a whole new face on the matter."

The podiatrists thought it was a step forward, but the urologists felt the scheme wouldn't hold water.

The anesthesiologists thought the whole idea was a gas; and the cardiologists didn't have the heart to say No.

In the end, the proctologists left the decision up to the people in Washington.

Tags: humor, politics

Fawn and Kitten

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:02:11 GMT

Not completely "The lion shall lie down with the lamb," but gettin' there.

Now if more people would catch this vibe......

Fawn and Kitten

Tags: love, animals, peace, benevolence, snuggling, goodwill

Profound Advice

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:34:00 GMT

Just thought I would lighten things up a bit with this profound advice. I think it somehow could be applied to the economy, but I haven't figured out how yet. When I do, I'll let the world know:

YOU ONLY NEED TWO TOOLS IN LIFE - WD-40 AND DUCT TAPE --

Well, and a hammer.

IF IT DOESN'T MOVE AND SHOULD, USE THE WD-40.

IF IT SHOULDN'T MOVE AND DOES, USE THE DUCT TAPE.

IF YOU CAN'T FIX IT WITH A HAMMER, YOU'VE GOT AN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM...

Tags: humor, advice

A New Earth Arising from Grassroots

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:26:45 GMT

Thanks, ~KES, for calling this video to my attention. I am now watching the hour-long video mentioned second below, and it's really really interesting, all the details. Well worth one's time.

A New Earth Arising from Grassroots: YES WE CAN !!!!!!

Click on the link or click on the triangle in the light rectangle in the TV-screen image. This is incredibly inspiring and uplifting, so energizing and galvanizing us to get involved each in our own way in our own neighborhoods, co-creating the world the way we want it to be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1fiubmOqH4

or

Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest and WiserEarth

This is a video talk by environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author Paul Hawken about his latest book Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. And you don't even hear about it on the media. About 6 minutes long.

I also strongly recommend this hour-long talk about the same worldwide movement, by Paul Hawken, in the Authors@Google section of YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npKaOddyrcY&feature=related

Authors@Google: Paul Hawken

He's pointing out that there are about 1-2 million grassroots organizations in the world, focused on a huge variety of ways of stopping harm to the environment and people, and fostering/implementing new ways of relating to our world and one another. This movement is non-ideological, has no leader, is composed of 100-200 million ordinary people, and is decentralized, he says. There has never been anything like it in history before.

Highly recommended for both optimists and pessimists about the future of humans and the earth.

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Tags: Paul Hawken, earth, environment, ecology, human rights, organizations, Blessed Unrest, grassroots, movement, future

Who God Is

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:00:53 GMT

I got this via email, and it's one of maybe two such things I am ever inclined to pass along, each year !! I'll let you ponder the meaning of the title of this blog entry. The photo was with the email, I don't know whether it is authentic or not.

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Our 14 year old dog, Abbey, died last month. The day after she died, my 4 year old daughter Meredith was crying and talking about how much she missed Abbey. She asked if we could write a letter to God so that when Abbey got to heaven, God would recognize her. I told her that I thought we could so she dictated these words:

Dear God,

Will you please take care of my dog? She died yesterday and is with you in heaven. I miss her very much. I am happy that you let me have her as my dog even though she got sick.

I hope you will play with her. She likes to play with balls and to swim. I am sending a picture of her so when you see her. You will know that she is my dog. I really miss her.

Love, Meredith.

We put the letter in an envelope with a picture of Abbey and Meredith, and addressed it to God/Heaven. We put our return address on it. Then Meredith pasted several stamps on the front of the envelope because she said it would take lots of stamps to get the letter all the way to heaven. That afternoon she dropped it into the letter box at the post office. A few days later, she asked if God had gotten the letter yet. I told her that I thought He had.

Yesterday, there was a package wrapped in gold paper on our front porch a addressed, 'To Meredith'...in an unfamiliar hand writing. Meredith opened it. Inside was a book by Mr. Rogers called, 'When a Pet Dies'. Taped to the inside front cover was the letter we had written to God in its opened envelope. On the opposite page was the picture of Abbey & Meredith and this note:

Dear Meredith,
Abbey arrived safely in heaven.
Having the picture was a big help. I recognized Abbey right away.
Abbey isn't sick anymore. Her spirit is here with me just like it stays in your heart. Abbey loved being your dog. Since we don't need our bodies in heaven, I don't have any pockets to keep your picture in, so I am sending it back to you in this little book for you to keep and have something to remember Abbey by.

Thank you for the beautiful letter and thank your mother for helping you write it and sending it to me. What a wonderful mother you have. I picked her especially for you.

I send my blessings every day and remember that I love you very much.

By the way, I'm easy to find, I am wherever there is love.

Love,
God

Tags: love, death, pets, kindness, children, God, parents

Deeper Than The Election

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:21:54 GMT

Have you been feeling, perhaps earlier but especially on Tuesday Nov. 4, 2008, lighter, even physically? An energy shift that somehow goes deeper than simply a response to current events? I am, and I know dozens/hundreds of folks around the world who are. Probably millions are.

What's going on? What does it mean? And can it help us make a difference in our lives and the world?

First, some reports. Several people said just walking down the street not thinking about anything, all of a sudden they felt lighter, less dense, less subject to gravity, safer, more optimistic, joyful, happy. Other people even before the election said, for example, their inspired writing process was hitting new levels of awesomeness, or their counseling practice had suddenly jumped to a new degree of ease and effectiveness.

Here's a typical comment from the Netherlands (Holland) from Alluvja, showing the physicality and energeticness of it: "The shift was definitely felt here. I was kind of groggy from having too little sleep but I was walking on air all day anyway and talking to some people who felt it too." (The election process had not yet even begun when she woke up that day and was going through most of her day.)

I myself was walking to my house from my mailbox after voting, in the early afternoon Pacific Time, and it's as if from one step to the next I stepped into an alternate universe, a parallel reality. One in which the very fabric of reality was not just unconditionally loving, which it has always been, but the very fabric of reality was now benevolent, supportive, wishing well to everything. My perceptions shifted, like new glasses, or like the effect of a drug. I thought "I feel safe now, for the first time in my life." Later, I thought "I feel safe to be ME now, in this world."

I have seen many other descriptions. Perhaps from these you recognize your own unique experience of the shift that you might not have labelled that way before.

I maintain that this shift is NOT the same as the renewed optimism people are having as they see and hear about what's going on in the world. I believe the feelings/perceptions described above are not a response to the election, but part of the same wave of energy that culminated in the election results. I also believe a lot of the post-election euphoria people felt was not just an emotional response to external events, not just a result of the election results, but was this deep felt sense of life that shifted in the week before the election.

I maintain what's going on is a manifestation of this deep energetic shift, and the emotional-mental responses are also manifestations of this deeper energetic change. The dancing in the streets, the enthusiasm, the strangers smiling at one another -- these can all happen after a favorite team has won a championship. This is much deeper. It is being sensed by those sensitive to higher-vibrational energies, and even more importantly it is lasting, not fading.

One description of the shift is: It's as if the very atoms of the universe were each now radiating benevolence, goodwill and everything composed of atoms had to thus be that way, too. External appearances would not change instantly, but the changes WOULD happen,; they are inevitable.

A more esoteric explanation might be that we have shifted into the long-predicted alternative timeline, or the "two Earths" of very different vibrational levels.

I don't think it's about Obama. In my perspective, political events, candidates, activities are the froth on the crest of the wave. WE are the wave. I don't think we are simply responding to events that have already happened. I think it's just time, the planet's timing, and I see him as cooperating with the timetable in his willingness to take on this role.

Whatever, what does this mean? How can we use this?

One Being (Adamu via Zingdad) said "... the energy of joy. It is making it easier and easier for you to believe in a positive and joyous outcome. It provides the planet with a certain sense of irrepressible positivity. You can much more easily choose to believe that things are going to be just fine. But you must choose. You must create."

It means that my pessimistic thoughts are easier to release, that I suddenly have extra energy, motivation, and empowerment to get more active in bringing my gifts and services to the world and I feel safer in that. So can you.

It means I have greater expectation of finding others to synergize with. You can too. It means I greet news of advances into the New World's way of living and relating not with skepticism about their fate, but with enthusiasm in knowing they will indeed bear their fruit. So can you.

The way I see it, the old will dissolve. It no longer has to be "overcome." We can relax a bit. The momentum of the new simply has to be flowed with. The new is so powerful, and the purpose of the old is done, and we shall see miracles of transformation. Inexplicable instances of things going "right." Odd instances of non-benevolent stuff simply not materializing or getting put into action. People having changes of heart and mind, that we would never expect. New alternative respectful, loving, benevolent ways of doing things that pop up seemingly from nowhere, ready to be implemented by people now oddly willing to accept them.

Our work is to accept all this! The consensus is "The work begins now." Consistent with the slogan Yes WE can, now there is not just individual personal empowerment, but also the necessity and willingness to collaborate, cooperate, synergize with others. To learn ways of not just tolerating but using differences for the betterment of all.

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Thus providing/presenting this article is one way for us to accomplish our purpose and mission. This article and our providing/presenting it are therefore an integral part of our exercise and practice of our religion.

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Tags: Obama, election, energy, planet, transformation, consciousness, world, happiness, joy

Quality of Life

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:06:42 GMT

The photo is from ~KES, source of so much beauty, thanks, Kathy.

Thanks to Sherrilene's being Featured Member of the Gaia Networking Group this month, and her personal mission of increasing people's Quality of Life, I have been inspired to set forth my ideas on the subject. It's about time to say what I really mean when I am talking and thinking about this concept, as I have been for a long time.

This is kinda a first draft of my thoughts on this subject. I will certainly add more based on comments and further contemplations and research.

To the extent you answer No (or to a few, Yes) to any of these questions, then IMO you have a diminished Quality of Life. I grant that many people for example with physical handicaps do experience what they consider an excellent Quality of Life, perhaps even enhanced in some unusual ways, by their limitations. More power to 'em, I say. Quality of Life is not an absolute, nor the same for everyone. Thus, no one can tell anyone else what is required for their Quality of Life !!!!!! Quality of Life is a totally subjective matter.

Also, each of the questions below might be phrased not as "Can you....?" but as "To what extent do you......?"

But here are what I consider to be the basics of Quality of Life, that I wish for everyone in the world.

[But, again, this is my opinion about your Quality of Life, and might not be your own opinion of your own Quality of Life ! It is really important to realize I am not placing judgment on anyone who doesn't have what I am calling a high Quality of Life. For example, I do not judge folks who feel helpless, or do not seek a sense of expansion in life. But if I were to choose, I would wish their life included these elements of what I consider to be a high Quality of Life.]

Then, on top of the basics, each of us has specifics that contribute to our personal individual Quality of Life. There is no upper limit to Quality of Life !!!!!!!

Basic safety in daily life: Can you go about your daily life without a significant risk of being attacked or harmed in any way? Can you go about your daily life without significant health risks? Are your basic needs for air, light, water, nutrition, shelter being met (not necessarily without effort)? Are you able to move about, having all the use of (and be able to express the use of) all your senses and mental and emotional faculties? Do you live free from chronic pain or physical limitations on basic ordinary activities of life?

Basic social needs: Do you have access to social interactions that are satisfying and beneficial for you and are you able to experience yourself as beneficial and contributing to others? Do you have freedom of association, to move into and out of relationships as you choose? Do you have the ability to function in groups, as you choose?

Are you able to make the basic choices of life (via liberty) according to your own desires, such as your travel, your vocation, your place of work, your dwelling-place, what and where you will learn and receive an education, your acquisitions (what you can own), keep and hold and use the results of your physical and mental labor?

Are you able to move away (in whatever sense you choose) from anything you deem harmful to your life, and move toward or go after anything you regard as beneficial to your life? Are you able to engage, to the extent you choose, in activities of life that bring you joy and satisfaction? Can you affect those things you believe have an effect on your quality of life, or the quality of life of others?

Do you have the freedom to learn about yourself and to express yourself in ways that are satisfying (while respecting others' rights)?

Are you free from internal harsh self-judgments, fears, guilts, depression? Are you subject to deceit, fraud, manipulation by others which take advantage of your ignorance or your weaknesses? Do you experience yourself as empowered, or helpless? Do you experience yourself as the "locus of control" of your experiences, or do you feel like a victim of self or others or the world or nature or God or......?

Are you exploring all the potentials and dimensions of yourself and the world, so you have a sense of expansion of life and self and your place in the Grand Scheme of things as you go through life? Do you have a sense of meaning and purpose in your life?

There are clearly some themes here. They might include: Basic necessities of survival, either free or achieved or provided voluntarily by others. Liberty/freedom. A social context appropriate to being human. A degree of psychological freedom from innerly limiting and harm-inflicting stuff. The ability to implement one's will and achieve success as self-defined. A sense of personal empowerment and self-determination and a sense of free will. An expanding understanding of self, life, and world.

I'd like to make clear the social-interpersonal balance in all the above. I do not believe anyone owes anyone else any particular of a Quality of Life. In other words, I do not advocate taxpayer-supported health care, housing, or anything that takes anything from anyone without their explicit consent, even for a good cause. Charity, in my opinion, must, to be moral and ethical, be voluntary. I do not believe anyone is entitled to force anyone to do anything that increases someone else's Quality of Life. I just need this point to be perfectly clear, as it is not the normal usual accepted viewpoint in our society.

But I will work passionately and tirelessly to do everything I am called to do, to increase the Quality of Life of everyone on this planet. I rejoice that I have the freedom and the ability to work in the ways I believe most powerful, most efficacious, for achieving that. My own Quality of Life requires that I be doing that.

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

Head Minister

This article is presented and provided to you by

"Amplifying Divine Light in All" Church

Our main religious purpose and mission is to amplify the Divine Light in everyone. When you read this article, you will agree or disagree with its various points, and then you will know more about what is true for you. Knowing more of your own Truth amplifies your Divine Light. Thus providing/presenting this article is one way for us to accomplish our purpose and mission.
This article and our providing/presenting it are therefore an essential and integral part of our exercise and practice of our religion.
None of the contents herein are claimed as absolute truth. They represent one possible perspective which might prove useful for you.

We invite your comments and responses!

Tags: Quality of Life, life, consciousness, health, freedom, empowerment, world, community

Computer humor

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:53:58 GMT

Because of my recent computer demise and being bestowed with the gift of a newer one, I have been gifted by ~KES and Meenakshi with some great humorous pictures, thought I would share to give you a break from all the heavy stuff I blog !! Enjoy !!!!

Some of them are animated, so don't flip through this too quickly.

Tags: humor, computers, internet, laughter, cartoons

FRIDAY FIVE on Gratitude

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:05:06 GMT

Look carefully at the picture above til you see the smiling face.

I got tagged by Jessica, who said

Hello OM!

I hope you are having a lovely day. I have tagged you in my blog! We're starting up the Friday Five questions (read more here) and I tagged you, inviting you to blog your answers for these questions about gratitude:

1) What are you thankful for today?
2) What do you appreciate about the Earth?
3) Who is the last person you said "thank you" to?
4) When was the last time someone thanked you?
5) What is your favorite way to say thank you?

I look forward to seeing your answers and hope you will take me up on the invitation :)

Hugs,
Jessica

The link goes to this information: (See I am making it easy for you !)

What is the Friday Five? Well, it's a community-wide blogging party featuring five themed questions each week. It is so much fun and gets everyone on Gaia introspecting and sharing. There is so much to learn from these little questions and your answers can be as long or short as you like.

This week is all about gratitude in celebration of Thanksgiving in the United States and appreciation everywhere. Just follow these easy steps:

Step 1) Write your blog on Friday answering the loverly questions below. You can copy and paste them into your blog and just type in answers.

Step 2) Make sure you've added "Friday Five" as a tag for the blog and in the title.

Step 3) If you wish, "Tag" up to five Gaia members and send a little note letting them know they're "it" and thus called upon to blog the Friday Five too. These members can be in your friends list or new people you'd just like to connect with. Then they answer the Friday Five and can tag more Gaians :)

So, come on and play! Won't you? Open up that blog and tell us...

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Here are my thoughts:

I am not clear whether we are committing to doing all 5 questions each Friday until death do us part, or doing just one set of questions. Check into next week's Team Blog, it might clarify. Or choose.

Maybe not as much fun as the 7 Weird Things about Me tag game, but I'll definitely be up for playing with gratitude !! It's really the key !! (I call it rejoicing, which is more being-at-cause wording, IMO.)

1. Today I am thankful for every minute of breathing, and everything I experienced in each of those moments.

2. I appreciate about the Earth she is so mindblowingly beautiful !!!!!! In so many many ways, from so many viewpoints, from the inner center of a flower to the view from space.

3. The last person I said Thank you to was someone today who sought my ministerial services. I said Thank you for the opportunity to be a resource !!

4. The last time someone thanked me was a few minutes ago, arranging with a girlfriend who is finally divorcing AOL and taking up with gmail tomorrow and I am doing an in-person tutorial for her on that.

5. My favorite way to say Thank you -- hmmm. That's the toughest question of all. I say it in a variety of ways, being a Gemini and easily bored, haha. I think most often I say I AM SO GRATEFUL TO YOU.

I am tagging mascha, andrew, maxie, I P (Individual Person,) and Kris. Please be assured this game is optional, and if any of you don't want to participate, let me know and I will choose someone else !!

Blessings to all,
OM Bastet

Tags: Friday Five, tag, tag game, gratitude, appreciation, rejoicing, thanksgiving

Optimism Isn't Easy

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:44:02 GMT

Optimism Isn't Easy

So it's easy to see there's currently a wave of euphoria, optimism, hope, benevolence, enthusiasm in the world. The faces we saw in Chicago the night of November 4th, those were not just "Our team won." Those were new faces of optimism and hope, and a personal committment to Yes WE can! Those folks who are older might say "Been there, seen that. How long will it last?"

Here's the deeper question: Why doesn't it seem to last?

One psychobiological researcher (Lionel Tiger, Optimism: The Biology of Hope) claims humans by nature are naturally more optimistic than pessimistic; they tend to underestimate dangers and overestimate potential success. (Of course, we all know exceptions to this!)

So why might we expect optimism and enthusiasm to fade? I'd like to ponder this question with you, and examine some things to consider. I plan to raise more questions than I answer.

Is it the hard work that follows? There is an unusual amount of realization, in the current wave, that "the work is just beginning, and the work is not someone else's to do, it's mine." Is it social pressures to go back to the old ways of thinking and acting? Those certainly abound. Is it not being willing to be unpopular, to perhaps lose some friends? Is it resistance to change, fear of the new and unknown?

Is it fear of failure, or fear of success? Are we afraid to try and be disappointed with the results? Is it because we can rarely agree on goals and methods? Is it because we believe it's dangerous to expect good, that our alertness to danger will be clouded by our optimism? Do we feel unsafe to feel safe? Will success set us up for failure because we won't be on our guard enough?

Are we afraid to stay optimismtic because then we won't have any excuses for not reaching our goals? Are we afraid we'll reach our goals and they won't be what we wanted, and then we'll not know what to do next, and have to start all over?

Are we just used to our pessimism? Certainly the current world situation comes crashing in many times a day, with news that's a downer. And our personal lives, lots of downers there. Is optimism unrealistic? What does it mean, the saying that "If at first you don't succeed, failure might be more your style."

It's scary to entertain new possibilities that did not seem possible before. So many "What if's?" in the way....

There's optimism about stuff "out there," and there's the hard reality of assuming some responsibility for that, "in here." There's an uneasy balancing act, always between working as an individual and working as a team or group; we don't always know how to work together, especially with folks different from us. "Yes I can" doesn't easily morph into "Yes We Can." How shall we learn to combine those synergistically? Who can teach us that?

Optimism. What is it? Not the "Pollyanna" denial of anything except one's desired outcomes. Nothing fades faster than optimism that denies what is. Not superficial looking, either. Nothing fades faster than optimism which doesn't look deeply into causes.

Fear comes up. About what?

Does it take more effort to be optimistic than pessimistic?

What are the advantages of optimism? Helps you persevere. Helps you be creative in your efforts. Helps you be willing to expand. What are some other advantages?

What are the disadvantages to optimism? Can blind you to current reality. Can switch to discouragement really fast if expectations exist and are not met. What are some other disadvantages?

What did we have before this wave of optimism? Apathy. Hopelessness. Withdrawal. Pessimism. Cynicism. Skepticism. What's different now?

Optimism ABOUT WHAT?

The Bigger Picture as I see it: The world is more conducive now. Something in the energy of the planet has shifted, and our optimism is not just a response to events; the events are a response to the energy shift. Now the wind is at our backs. Now we can get supported when we're down. Now we can learn.

Who we are has shifted. The context in which we view our lives has shifted. What is REAL to us, has shifted. That's the process and foundation of transformation. That's how new realities are created and co-created.

Why these shifts? How these shifts? That's less important than the fact that I am optimistic about OUR optimism.

Bottom line: The optimism will last to the extent that we are WILLING for things to be different. For ourselves to be different. Don't underestimate how challenging it is to be truly WILLING for things, and us, to be different !!!

It's the willingness that opens new possibilities. Their actualization is a downstream. It flows, when there is true willingness.

What do you think?

Tags: Yes we can, hope, optimism, world, transformation, fear, enthusiasm, consciousness, politics, grassroots

Dealing with Negative Thoughts

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:51:10 GMT

Do we really need to control and avoid our negative thoughts, out of fear they will manifest? If we believe our thoughts create our reality, then we get into becoming "thought police" on our minds. This is not comfortable. In fact I believe it's counterproductive. I have a heretical view of "Our thoughts create our reality."

I've been wanting to blog about this for a long time, and just wrote a post I shall use for this blog. It'll be a quick pass through the subject. I could have more to say in the comments.

First, the usual preamble for my blogs

DEALING WITH NEGATIVE THOUGHTS

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

Head Minister

This article is presented and provided to you by

"Amplifying Divine Light in All" Church

Our main religious purpose and mission is to amplify the Divine Light in everyone. When you read this article, you will agree or disagree with its various points, and then you will know more about what is true for you. Knowing more of your own Truth amplifies your Divine Light. Thus providing/presenting this article is one way for us to accomplish our purpose and mission.
This article and our providing/presenting it are therefore an integral part of our exercise and practice of our religion.
None of the contents herein are claimed as absolute truth. They represent one possible perspective which might prove useful for you.

We invite your comments and responses! adliac@gaia.com

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We are advised to choose our thoughts, to be sure they are what we want to manifest. We are sometimes advised not to put energy into thinking about our fears, or they will manifest.

Some of my spiritual teachers pointed out that this kind of belief puts us in an impossible bind: We truly cannot control what comes into our minds. If we become "thought police" and try to control or even worse, RESIST some of our thoughts, we are not loving and accepting ourselves unconditionally, and also we end up manifesting what we DON'T want!!

These teachers pointed out that it is NOT our thoughts that manifest. It is the thoughts we believe in, and treat as REALITY, which manifest. The thoughts we give energy and attention to -- and resistance is energy and attention !!!! Treating a fear as valid or creatively powerful is energy and attention.

So in the "advice" above I say we cannot "choose our thoughts" but the second sentence offers a glimpse of the way out of manifesting our fears: do not give them energy, attention, reality, belief. They are "JUST THOUGHTS."

Thus we just witness them, accept that they are "what is" at this particular moment in the flow of what is, not resist them or condemn them or fear their consequences. Not regard them as "about reality" in any way.

This Unconditional Love extended to our thoughts sets up what might be called a filter or protective barrier that actually prevents negative thoughts from manifesting (and the negative emotions that have at root negative thoughts.)

Of course, meanwhile, we can also work on transmuting into wisdom, the illusions that create the negative thoughts. Work via direct energy healing of the energy patterns, work via various psychological or psycho-spiritual methods. Ask our highest Teachers, Healers, and Guides for help in fulfilling the purpose and harvesting the highest wisdom from these illusions, and the illusions leave because their purpose has been fulfilled.

I have been experiencing this a lot lately, as ancient fears are resurfacing, triggered by current events, and I realize the whole experience now is not about the practicalities at all, but my Spirit or Higher Self or whatever you want to call it, has simply decided it's time to fulfill the purpose of those illusions and their negative thoughts and emotions, and thus they are in fact being healed, without a whole lot of conscious ego effort on my part. Except the desire to cooperate with the healing !!

Utlimately of course, we cannot choose just one side of a polarity of negative and positive. We just evolve to dwell in a place that accepts both, does not resist either, but has an infinite eternal perspective on it all. Sometimes that's called Enlightenment or God-realization.

Anyway, pulling the "reality" out of our negative thoughts to pull out their creative power, is a "trick" one can use.....

Here's an even more powerful trick that gets us out of the polarity and also out of fear not only of our negative thoughts but also fear of our desires, which is the other trap we can fall into, resisting our desires as just "ego." [I'll blog about that sometime.]

This trick is, focus all your attention on the "truth," accept as true, that everything which manifests in your experience is what is chosen by your Higher Self, or Spirit, or you might even say God, or whatever your word for that is. This is, in my view, what has always been the truth all along, and your ego and mind and fears are also choices and chosen experiences from that higher level of your Being. But shifting your identity -- the creator and chooser of your human experiences -- to be above, larger, vaster, than your human self, is part of spiritual evolution, and can really help you relax about both your fears and your desires !!

Hope some of this is understandable and helpful to you !

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Bright and Dim Chakras

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:29:03 GMT

Here is the link to the source of this image which I got via a Google Image search: www.crystalinks.com/medmusichakras.html

BRIGHT AND DIM LEVELS OF CHAKRAS

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

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I believe it is dangerous and handicapping to say -- as many in the New Age movement do -- "We must learn to COME FROM our upper chakras, and no longer come from our lower chakras." That arises from a mind-body split worldview.

It is even more dangerous to try to LIVE that way, thinking it is "the spiritual way to live." If you are a spiritually-aware person and your life is not working well on the practical level, read and you might discover you have some illusions.

The chakras are like the engines of human-embodiment life, transformers stepping down the voltage of higher-vibrational energies into the lower-vibrational energies we need to live our embodied human lives. Like a prism, they break the white light of Divine Light/Life Energy into the colors of the most basic aspects of our functioning. We need every single one to be fully operational, for us to fully function in this life in this world as humans. Spiritual energies are not just located in the heart and higher chakras; spiritual energies are the actual energies of each and every chakra.

Thus, in this perspective, there is no directionality or progression FROM the lower TO the upper chakras. That fallacy of evolution or directionality underlies most of Tantric sexuality practices as well as lots of Eastern religious thought. Each chakra has its own purpose and its own energy that it translates from higher dimensions to our dimension, and all are equally "spiritual."

However, each chakra has its own higher/Light Side/Bright Level and lower/Dark Side/Dim Level vibrational levels of functioning. The bright level has more of the Light of life and existence functioning in us, through us, as us. We glow more with life. Our lives are more vivid, more alive; our lives work better. That's what "brighter" chakra levels do.

What has happened in the mind-body split is that the lower chakras are characterized as ONLY their dim/dark aspects or levels, and the upper chakras are characterized as ONLY their bright/light aspects or levels. This error, of course, wreaks havoc with our everyday lives and with our spiritual development.

So to say we "must come from our upper chakras and not our lower" opens the door for a life filled with terror, disempowerment, lack of will--a life that doesn't work in this world--and also opens the door for some "very bad" folks who are "coming from" the DARK levels of their upper chakras! Even to say "We must come from the heart" needs specification. Lots of people's hearts are not in a condition or vibrational level we would want THEM to be coming from!

Also, as long as one is alive, all chakras are indeed functioning, though perhaps not very brightly, and perhaps not in their highest vibrational expressions. It is incorrect to assume that people who are functioning with dim lower chakras have no functional upper chakras. Those are just dim, as well!!

There is a widespread nonacceptance of the true purpose, role, and power of the lower chakras. This results in many people not being fully embodied in this body, not fully accepting embodiment, their soul not fully occupying and operating the lower chakras, due to a falsity, an illusion, in the understanding of the nature of these chakras. This is quite handicapping to a good life, a full life.

Because for so long on this plane, the functioning of the lower chakras in humankind in general was even dimmer than the functioning of the heart and upper chakras, there is a widespread illusion now that this difference is intrinsic, that the upper and lower are inevitably incompatible, that there is no Bright or heart-full kind of functioning of the lower chakras nor is there any Dim functioning of the upper chakras.

Nothing could be further from the Truth as I see it. In fact, human embodiments are evolving toward One Chakra, in which all chakras merge and function together as One, not just compatible, not just integrated! It's time to end the illusion of separation and embrace a life that includes the full functioning in full harmony, in full integration, of each and every chakra.

All this is an oversimplification of a complex subject. Below is almost the standard over-simplified list of chakras. There are many more chakras, smaller ones, located at various points all over the body, which I shall not discuss. Also I am not going to discuss how or why chakras get to be bright or dim, and I am not going to discuss the dimness being not only less amount of light but also distortions of light.

CHAKRA LOCATION, NAME, NUMBER	BRIGHT (HIGHER) LEVEL	DIM (LOWER) LEVEL
Tailbone Base First Chakra 1	A sense of living in a world where it is safe to be, and safe to be oneself; the sense of living in a benevolent universe conducive to one's survival and even wellbeing. Feeling one has the right to exist. Enjoying the physical external world, finding it workable, beautiful, and a source of delight and wonder. The sense of having a functional body. Exuberance. "Joy of life." A sense of flowing, of forward movement in life. Groundedness.	Terror, ultimate separateness, insecurity, the sense of living in a malevolent universe. Feeling un-nourished, unsupplied, unsupported. Feeling one has no right to exist. Lack of acceptance of embodiment. The sense of living in an alien or hostile or unfriendly or unworkable world. Rejecting the physical external world. The sense of having a nonfunctional body, or impaired or diminished body. Severe depression. Experiences of starvation, poverty. Paralysis. Experiences of one disaster after another. Chronic diseases. Possibly allergies.
Perineum (not on most chakra charts)	Sexuality as a natural part of life, an expression of life energy, as an arena for caring and even for a spiritual path. Creativity of all kinds. Centeredness.	Sexuality as an arena for playing out dark aspects of other chakras: power games, seeking reassurance, etc. Sexuality disconnected from relationship with others. Sexuality as a life energy repressed and erupting in harmful or illness-producing ways. Lack of vitality.
Below navel Hara Second Chakra 2	Knowing one has the ability to do things and be effective in creating, carrying out or manifesting whatever one wills to do; personal empowerment, the sense one can be efficacious, successful. Unconditional joy. Life Energy Center.	Fear, powerlessness, helplessness, victim-identity. Fear of one's own power from past abuses of power. Frustration. Anger. Seeking "power over" others. Domination through actions. Living through others. Energy vampires. Depression. Feeling dominated. Avoidance of responsibility. Feeling overwhelmed. Life as effortful, struggle. Feeling blocked in life. Feeling defective, broken, deficient. Despair.
Solar Plexus Third Chakra 3	A sense of personal will. The ability to determine and know what one wants. Enthusiasm. Motivation. Self-determination. A healthy "ego." Knowing what is beneficial or harmful to self.	Drifting, being too influenced by others, codependency, alienation from self. Denial of own wants. A dry, "unjuicy" life. Merging into a cult or group and submission to their agenda. Lack of motivation. Living vicariously through children, grandchildren, etc. Not knowing what one wants, thus career-jumping. Putting others always first. Not paying attention to self.
Heart Fourth Chakra 4	Love, connection, caring, relating, belonging. The sense of loving life, the external world, and one's own body. Ability to embrace, to nurture, to protect. All the flavors of human love. Love as a state of Being, not just a human emotion: unconditional love.	Playing the martyr, neediness, emotional unavailability, sense of isolation or disconnection, emotional shielding or numbness. Hating life, the world, one's body. Feeling unworthy.
Throat Fifth Chakra 5	The sense of being safe to and able to express oneself, to communicate, to speak one's truth, to express and manifest what one wills. Talking.	Domination through expression (threats, intimidation) or silence: steamrollering and overriding others' expressions, or withdrawing into one's own world. Extremes of extroversion or introversion. Biting one's tongue. Resentment at self-inhibition of self- expression. Sneaky and indirect communications or expressions.
Forehead Brow Sixth Chakra 6	Wisdom, understanding, insight, mental functioning, knowledge. Ability to "see through another's eyes." Clairvoyance, clairaudience, inner knowing. Inner visions. Visions as plans. Telepathy. Full Listening, full apprehending, full perceiving, and full recognizing.	Psychic attack, black magic. Manipulating others by sleight-of-word and "snow jobs". Dazzling people by mental displays, using intelligence as a weapon. Rationalizing. Guilt. Repression. Judging self and others. Living in the mind, avoiding other levels of experience. Being too deliberate; lack of spontaneity. Control trips (different from power trips.) Mistaking the map for the territory. Righteousness. Feeling bad, wrong, or evil. Self-blame.
Back of head just above neck (not on most chakra charts)	Intuition, guidance from and merging with non-physical Beings such as Guides, channeling, spiritual healing done by full-body channeling of healing Entities	Psychic domination and manipulation of others. Initiation or experience of possession. Deliberate falsification of "reality" to manipulate someone. All the "evil shaman" stuff. (These can all involve the Sixth Chakra as well.)
Top of Head Crown Seventh Chakra 7	Connection with the higher dimensions, cosmic connection, identity as a Larger-than-human Self. Feeling integrated with all of existence. Ultimate "belonging," ultimate support. Ability to accept "what is" and yet be in Ultimate Creativity. Vast perspectives, a cosmic sense of inclusiveness, ability to embrace diversity and apparent paradoxes. Cosmic bliss. Unconditional peace.	Denial of any consciousness above the human mind. Fear of anything above the human mind. "Running on ego," and feeling alone, overwhelmed, exhausted, and terrified by total-responsibility for one's life in a world ultimately out of one's control.

Three important aspects of our functioning are not mentioned above because they are combinations:

Passion (sexual or as extreme enthusiasm/commitment) is probably a combination of perineal, navel, solar plexus, heart, and throat chakras.

Empathy is a combination of heart and forehead as well as probably navel (second) chakras. It is more than the ability to see through others' eyes, because it involves feeling through their hearts and bodies as well.

Compassion is also a combination of heart and forehead chakras. Compassion involves empathetic feeling combined with perspective. Possibly the crown chakra is also a necessary component of true compassion.

I would like to add that sexuality as an expression of multi-dimensional Beingness, when actually integrated with "spirituality," is an all-chakra experience, not just one chakra, not even just the perineal chakra and/or second chakra combined with the heart chakra. Much more could be said about this. Contact us for further information.

I would also like to say a few more words about the One Chakra mentioned briefly above: as the veils of forgetfulness and illusion are removed from our consciousness and we move back into our natural state of God-realization, the various chakras begin to merge and blend, so that every function is performed all over the body, and cannot be distinctly associated with any particular body part or location. This is a very different experience, which each of us adapts to as part of our individual spiritual evolution.

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Crystal Children

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:21:51 GMT

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.

Tags: children, love, crystal children, Indigos, Indigo children, spirituality, autism, autistic, consciousness, evolution

Are Hurricanes Beneficial?

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:14:30 GMT

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/

Tags: ecology, hurricanes, earth, energy, disasters, earth changes, earthquakes, life, humanity, prayer

Women-voting-USA-death-torture

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:21:48 GMT

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

So, let's get out the vote!

Kay

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>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."

Tags: women, politics, suffragettes, courage, voting, torture, imprisonment, America, history

What is Reality? Part I

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:10:19 GMT

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

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 by all those who perform the same interior experiment.It's very public, very reproducible, very fallibilist {OM: he means can be proven wrong if wrong] very communal knowledge; its results exist in the rational worldspace and can be readily checked in that space by all who learn the experiment.

Just so with any of the other interior experiments in awareness, of which meditation is one of the oldest, most tested, and most reproduced. So if you're skeptical, that's a healthy attitude, and we invite you to find out for yourself, and perform this interior experiment with us, and get the data, and help us interpret it. But if you won't perform the experiment, please don't ridicule those who do.

And by far the most common interpretation of those who have seen this data is: you are face to face with the Divine.

Note: This essay is not meant to address the pathologies which can arise in various later realities or worldspaces, or in levels of awareness just prior to those later worldspaces from those who engage conceptually but not experientially or ontologically. Some folks in the Symposium were, I believe, attempting to fend off or reject those pathologies, such as rejection of the rational and engagement in individual ego hyper-inflation by a lot of New Agers. I wonder about some babies getting thrown out with those bathwaters, though. I guess this essay is one of my attempts to address the possibility that was happening.

Again, that's my two cents. What's yours????

Tags: consciousness, reality, development, levels, stages, phenomena, viewpoints, worldviews, psychic, spiritual

Pods/Groups I Belong To

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:44:21 GMT

More pruning of my profile. The list was transferred to this blog and will be updated when I join more !! If you find a link that doesn't work, please be kind and let me know. The totally private pods are not listed because they are only accessible/viewable by members.Sorry these are not in any kind of order (actually the order of joining, mostly.) To try to rearrange them would I think contaminate the links.

I chose this Cherry Blossoms in Japan photo because each group/pod is kinda like a blossom in my life -- except the Groups blossoms are all different from one another.

I have asterisked the ones I am most active in, or that are most important to me, but many others are very worthwhile. I have also indicated which are dormant as far as I know right now.

PODS/GAIA COMMUNITY GROUPS I BELONG TO

(the names are links)

Chrome Browser User Group I help moderate this one

Integral Archipelago

Dark Night of the Soul

Integral Relationships

,
Sacred Sexuality Group

* I moderate the English Idioms Board in the Multilingual Group

The Chakra Club (new group started by my friend Marianna)

* Gaia Ambassadors

The Cup of Joe Project

Gaian Humor

Spiral Dynamics -- Evolution of Consciousness (dormant, darn it)

Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality Group

God Pod, or Life, The Universe and Everything

* one I moderate: Gaia Networking: Enhance Your Community Experience

* one I moderate: Gaia Groups Community ("The Mod Pod")

* one I moderate: Starseed Sanctuary

4-Give-Nes (dormant)

a ZPro group Earth Harmony Home

What is Enlightenment?

Great News Show

* Living Metaphysics

* one I sprouted: Collective Wisdom: The Library of Community Threads

Altered Realities

Cosmic Gifts of the Universe

Donations and Microdonations for Individuals and Groups (dormant)

The Shadow Knows (almost dormant, darn it)

Transpersonal Dating (dormant, darn it)

a zPro group: Love without Limits Online Village

50 Stars -- 50 Years of Life on Planet Earth

Vision Cafe-Visionaries Unite!

* The Integral Pod

Sex in R/evolution! (almost dormant, darn it)

Introduction to Multi-dimensional Loving and Polyamory (dormant, darn it)

The Gaia Lounge

* Gaia Community Vision

Spiritual Cinema Circle

* one I cultivate: Community Film Picks (zFilms) Group

Empowered by Poetry

MFA on Zaadz

* Thinktank

* Gaia Support

* HOW TOs and FAQs

Anastasia (dormant)

Galactic Federation and Emissaries of Light (dormant)

Seattle (The Emerald City)

Love Bomb (subtle energy) science and technology research (dormant, darn it)

Tags: pods, groups, belong, community, networking, discussion

Links to Valuable Websites

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:41:34 GMT

GENERAL LINKS TO GREAT STUFF (last update 9/24/08)

These are websites I think other Community Members would find inspiring or uplifting or useful. This list is ongoingly updated, so check my profile/status reports for when new additions are made.

This list is a small fraction, really, and it's on my To Do list to at least double this list !!!!!

In process of transferring these to My (and the site database of) zBookmarks, which is on the sub-menu of Nursery tab in my top menu bar. Those already transferred have zB at the beginning.

Added 9/24: List of logical fallacies. These are false arguments or errors in thinking that you encounter all the time, that you encounter in discussions here too. Get to know this list, explore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

Gawd, if you like photos of space, check out the Astronomy Pictures of the Day Top 12 for 2007, at http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/apoys2007.html
And if you don't like pictures of space, you just might change your mind!

zB   Guess you can tell from my photos I love space pictures. Here's a new one every day:    http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

If you are into changing the world on a planetary scale and are into updates on Cosmic/Earth energies as they manifest in the lives of planet-improvers, then check out the best finger-on-the-pulse source I have found, Karen Bishop, http://www.whatsuponplanetearth.com/. I have her books in my zBooks, they really resonate for me.

zB   Heartmath Institute does cutting-edge research on the heart (and not just the physical heart) and its relationship to all aspects of life. Plus they have great techniques for learning calm and peace and they emphasize the value of Appreciation. They are far-out and wonderful folks I have studied with. Also check out   http://www.heartmath.com/

zB   Just saw this magazine mentioned on Zaadz. It looks great. I believe the more we focus on the world we want, the faster we will live in it. This helps focus our attention on the growing amount of wonderfulness.     http://www.odemagazine.com/

If you haven't checked out the matter of mercury dental fillings yet, you might find it advantageous to do so. You can start at the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, http://www.iaomt.org/ I will add another site or two soon, but you of course can Search "dental mercury filling toxicity" or some related terms. In Seattle-region, check out http://www.drpaulrubin.com/

National Geographic has a Green Guide. You can access some info about eco-friendly living at http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/environment/going-green  and other information at http://www.thegreenguide.com/

http://www.intenders.org/ and http://www.intenders.com/ provide you with lots of inspiration and instruction in the process of manifesting or creating your ideal life and world. Our church has a local Intenders group.

http://www.noetic.org/ The Institute of Noetic Sciences. Mission: "Advancing the science of consciousness and human experience to serve individual and collective transformation." Founded by astronaut Edgar Mitchell. Don't know if they do it strictly Integrally or not, but they publish and do a lot of interesting stuff. Inspiring "The Shift in Action" information.

Do you value Wikipedia online user-run encyclopedia? I discovered they operate on donations! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising You can donate online or other ways, and in any currency. 501c3 tax-deductible in USA. Zaadsters support things that help build our better world.

Very few of us seem to be into the Pay It Forward idea (see ZBooks and see the video of the movie) but I encourage you to check out http://www.payitforwardfoundation.org/ or http://www.payitforwardmovement.org/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pay_it_forward

Also few of us are formally into Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty (see ZBooks) but I encourage you to check out http://www.actsofkindness.org/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_act-of_kindness or
http://www.theraokgroup.com/ or http://www.randomactsofkindness.org/, and do a search on the phrase, also.

http://www.huna.org/ for the best summary (Climate Change Article) I have found for those who despair about global warming, etc.

www.alohainternational.org/html/aspirit1.html will take you to The Little Pink Booklet which is "The Secret" in brief form. I love it, and have distributed hundreds. It is the whole secret to creating the life and the world you want, in very few words. Tags might include blessing, gratitude, creation, manifestation.

http://www.radicalforgiveness.com/, a world-famous multi-lifetime perspective that powerfully enables forgiveness of self and others, really freeing up the soul.

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Presence vs Awareness of Presence

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:57:30 GMT

A Heretical View of the The Nature of "Presence"

by Rev. O.M. Bastet, Ph.D., Head Minister

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Preface:

I believe this paper can be useful to anyone, not just Tolle readers/students, if you translate the word "Presence" into your own language: God, Spirit, Great Spirit, The Supreme Ultimate, the Tao, All That Is, The Universe, Goddess, Allah, Isness, Suchness, Infinite Beingness, Creator, Nondual Reality, The Ground of Being -- whatever !!!

This paper is about Eckhart Tolle's concept of "Presence" -- based on my limited understanding of what he means by that concept. I call my view "heretical" because I am disagreeing with some of his statements and teachings - at least as people commonly interpret them based on his wordings -- and I am also disagreeing with some commonly held "New Age" viewpoints/beliefs.

I am not seeking agreement; I disagree only to offer us all food for thought, alternatives to consider, to expand our awareness of possibilities.

The practices Tolle recommends and the way he words his teachings, lends itself to some conclusions I disagree with. For example, many people conclude he is saying that Presence is "more present" in silence, in the gap between thoughts, than it is in words or thoughts. In my opinion, his teaching does not carefully distinguish that it is only our Awareness of Presence that is "more present" in silence or gaps; Presence itself is equally present in thoughts and silence, in words and gaps. Presence being aware of itself in us can begin as awareness of the gap between thoughts, but Presence itself is no less the thoughts than the gaps.

Any serious attempt to "discuss" Presence soon degenerates into paradox, because presence is vaster and more complex than mind or language can handle. So please regard what I wrote as partly poetry, and read as much with your "right brain" as with your left.

The Nature of Presence is more than our experience of the Nature of Presence. I am pointing to the Nature of Presence itself, which is of course beyond description, beyond experience, beyond the pointing, and cannot be contained by them.

Also please realize I am stating my own truths, my own story about "the way it is." I am open to yours being different, even though I appear to believe I am stating "facts." I am not really believing I am stating facts. I am hoping to stimulate you to know more about your own truths as you respond to mine.

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Presence is not a thought, not a feeling, not an attitude, not a mood. It is not a viewpoint, not a perspective, not an experience, not an emotion, not a belief. It is not a concept, not an idea, not an understanding, not an insight. It is not a knowledge or an intelligence or a fact. It is not a sense, not a sensory impression, not a perception. It is not a space without content. It is not silence without noise, nor is it noise without silence.

Presence is not instead of judgment, not instead of anger, not instead of frustration, not instead of sadness, boredom, grief, depression, hopelessness, concern, or worry.

Presence is not instead of a thought, instead of a feeling, instead of an attitude or mood. It is not instead of a viewpoint, a perspective, an experience, an emotion, a belief. It is not instead of remembering or imagining. It is not instead of labelling or interpreting. It is not instead of conditioning. It is not instead of the Painbody. It is not instead of opposites. (It includes all opposites.)

All those are activities of Presence.

Presence itself is not instead of words, not under or between words. All those are activities of Presence.

Presence is words and beyond words, is language and beyond language, behind and above and around and under and within all that can be named or experienced. Presence exists as the substance of and all activities of, all that can be named or experienced. Presence is Beingness itself, the very nature of our awareness, as well as each and every bit of the content of it.

Presence is around and within and under and above and beside, and exists as the substance of and all activity of, all anger, all sadness, all frustration, all unawareness, all unconsciousness, all moods, all thoughts, all experiences, all perspectives.

Presence can go out of our awareness, yet is never anything but our awareness and our unawareness. Presence is who you are, whether you are aware of it or not. Presence does not come into existence only when we "take a step back" from our thoughts. Our Awareness of Presence does not bring Presence into existence, nor does our unawareness of it make it go out of existence.

Presence is the substance and form and activity of everything that is. Presence is that from which everything that is arises, and it is everything that is not, is not yet, or could be.

Presence is not different from matter. Presence is not different from energy. Presence is not different from Life, from awareness, from what exists, and yet Presence contains all of these. Presence is not in time, but time is nothing but an activity of Presence. Experience and matter are nothing but the substance and form and activity of Presence.

Ego is nothing but one activity of Presence.

Presence is, already. Presence is, always. Only Presence is.

"We seek what already is, here and now." Presence is inescapable. There is nowhere else you can go but Presence, nowhere else you can be except Presence, nothing else you can experience but Presence.

Presence is and expresses itself as and contains your awareness of Presence. Presence is and expresses itself as and contains your unawareness of Presence. Presence is and expresses itself as and contains your forgetfulness of Presence. Presence is not other than your forgetfulness of Presence. Presence is always always present.

Presence itself is not more present in your silence than in your thoughts. It is not more present in your sensory awareness of the world than in your lost-in-thought introspections, your daydreams, your deep sleep. Therefore, Awareness of Presence is not more possible when you are aware of the sounds around you than when you are aware of thinking about your motives for saying x to person y. Might be easier, but not more possible.

Bringing "the light of awareness" to anything at all, a sound or a thought or a feeling, brings Awareness of Presence, but does not bring Presence itself, which is the thought or sound, and the attention, and the process of transfer of attention, and the results of that transfer.

Our only choice is, are we aware of the always-presence of Presence, or not? Is Presence, through and as us, aware of itself or not? Those are the same question. Thus, the choice is not ours as separate from Presence. It's Presence's choice, in us and through us and as us.

There are no "blocks" to Presence, but sometimes Presence creates blocks to its awareness of itself in us.

Since there is never anything except Presence, all we as Presence need to do is relax out of our effort to be unaware ourselves as Presence. There is nothing to achieve, and nowhere else to be but here now, whether Presence as us is choosing forgetfulness of itself or not.

Seeking and searching and striving for Presence are simply activities of Presence. Thus, they are not a "waste of time" and not a reason for self-blame, though those feelings are also activities of Presence.

One might well turn one's attention then, to what Quality of Life for self and others, one prefers.

That is the real issue, question, challenge.

The way I see it, doing the "practices" Tolle teaches will greatly enhance a person's Quality of Life, but they do not affect the nature of Presence. The "practice of Presence" lends itself to the misunderstanding that somehow we are sometimes separate from Presence, that we are not always an activity of Presence. Whatever state of awareness or unawareness you are in, that's Presence.

So that's not the question.

But the questions might be: How aware do you want to be? Do you just want to be Presence, or would you like to be aware of being Presence? How "awake" would you like to be? How many repetitive useless thoughts do you want? How much do you want to be run by conditioning? How big a picture do you want of your life and your place in the scheme of things? How much inner freedom do you desire? How much inner noise are you willing to have?

Dealing with these questions can increase Quality of Life, but none of the practices bring Presence where it was not before. Presence can be pretending to not be Present to itself, but truly there is no either-or to Presence, no alternative to it.

What changes as Presence becomes aware of itself within us is that we are tuning in to what is, rather than something becoming different. Perception shifts, but "what is" does not. Awareness of Presence simply exchanges the activity of Presence in us as "forgetting" to the activity of Presence in us as "remembering." Both are fully activities of Presence itself.

"How do you experience Presence in your life?" As everything I am, do, experience, feel, think - and everything I don't.

"How are you experiencing Presence in this moment?" As all of this moment.

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