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Feelings about Climate Change Issue

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:32:19 GMT

This contribution to Blog Action Day, the Blog Action Day topic for 2009 is a guest blog, cross-posted from the website of Aloha International. The author is Serge Kahili King, a Hawaiian Huna master who has been teaching around the world for decades. (Including his process called Dynamind.)

This is the best advice I've ever seen about how to deal with the anguish, the hopelessness, the emotional challenge posed by the whole issue of climate change.

It boils down to the Serenity Prayer, though he doesn't cite that:

God grant me the power to change the things I can, the serenity to accept the things I can't change, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Yet, and yet, remember the power of intention. We can do through our Oneness, energetically through intention, far far more than we can "do" with our bodies in the world. Giving lots of attention and positive emotional energy to the kind of Earth we want, and not much emotional energy and attention to the kind of world we DON'T want, helps more than we can imagine. King's take on how to do that, which is one of the best I've ever run across, is summarized in the free and downloadable (or snail-mail-able) booklet whose picture I have included here above http://huna.org/html/aspirit.html

Here is his article titled Climate Change from the site's "Library Hut:: http://huna.org/html/climate.html

Here is the page of all the resources from the website http://huna.org/html/teaching.html

I have not personally studied or been involved with King's teachings, but have dipped into them through the years, finding them of good quality.

May the article bring you into more peace as well as more empowerment, with respect to climate change.

Tags: Blog Action Day 2009, climate change, Serge Kahili King, emotions, empowerment, fear, intention, global warming

World Upliftment Meditation

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:51:38 GMT

Guest blogger:

Thanks to Deb for posting this oldie but goodie meditation. My ministry doesn't agree with every thought or word here, including the sexist language, but I resonate with the piece as a whole and with much of the phrasing. Passing it along to you as a resource for your own efforts to uplift this world.

Here's the link to her post http://groups.gaia.com/living_metaphysics/conversations/view/480403#487254

World Healing Meditation

In the beginning
In the beginning God.
In the beginning God created the heaven
and the earth.
And God said Let there be light:
and there was light.

Now is the time of the new beginning.
I am a co-creator with God, and it is a
new Heaven that comes,
as the Good Will of God is expressed on
Earth through me.
It is the Kingdom of Light, Love, Peace and Understanding.
And I am doing my part to reveal its Reality.

I begin with me.
I am a living Soul and the Spirit of God
dwells in me, as me.
I and the Father are one,
and all that the Father has is mine.
In Truth, I am the Christ of God.

What is true of me is true of everyone,
for God is all and all is God.
I see only the Spirit of God in every Soul.
And to every man, woman and child on Earth
I say:
I love you, for you are me. You are my Holy Self.

I now open my heart, and let the pure essence of
Unconditional Love pour out.
I see it as a Golden Light radiating from the
center of my being,
and I feel its Divine Vibration in and through me,
above and below me.

I am one with the Light.
I am filled with the Light.
I am illumined by the Light.
I am the Light of the world.

With purpose of mind, I send forth the Light.
I let the radiance go before me to join
the other Lights.
I know this is happening all over the world
at this moment.
I see the merging Lights.
There is now one Light.
We are the Light of the world.

The one Light of Love, Peace and Understanding is moving.
It flows across the face of the Earth,
touching and illuminating every soul
in the shadow of the illusion.
And where there was darkness,
there is now the Light of Reality.

And the Radiance grows, permeating, saturating every form of life.
There is only the vibration of one Perfect Life now.
All the kingdoms of the Earth respond,
and the Planet is alive with Light and Love.

There is total Oneness, and in this Oneness we speak the Word.
Let the sense of separation be dissolved.
Let mankind be returned to Godkind.

Let peace come forth in every mind.
Let Love flow forth from every heart.
Let forgiveness reign in every soul.
Let understanding be the common bond.

And now from the Light of the world,
the One Presence and
Power of the Universe responds.
The Activity of God is healing and harmonizing Planet Earth.
Omnipotence is made manifest.

I am seeing the salvation of the Planet
before my very eyes, as all false beliefs
and error patterns are dissolved.
The sense of separation is no more;
the healing has taken place,
and the world is restored to sanity.

This is the beginning of Peace on Earth
and Good Will toward all,
as Love flows forth from every heart,
forgiveness reigns in every soul,
and all hearts and minds are one in perfect understanding.

It is done. And it is so

Tags: earth, meditation, world, healing, prayer

The Translucent Revolution

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:44:53 GMT

I have no idea why it has taken 4 years for some of us to discover this book, The Translucent Revolution, by Arjuna Ardagh. I'm just starting to read it, and it's describing my experience of life, and the lives of most of the people I encounter here in Gaia and in my regular life: Millions of people are "waking up," in a kind of what I would call grounded, embodied, and evolving enlightenment that doesn't fit the standard definitions. It's part of "changing the world," and quite related to the survey research done by Paul Hawken about grassroots organizations that are changing the world, which I blogged about.

What is Translucence?

Here's a simple description of the phenomenon, in a 7 1/2 minute video.

Do an Internet search on the title to find all kinds of stuff about it. Can buy on amazon.com, find the guy's website, and his facebook profile, which is where I found this video.

I feel as if I am the last kid on the block to find out about this book. What do you know? What's been your experience of the book or the phenomenon?

Tags: The Translucent Revolution, awakening, enlightenment, change, life, Arjuna Ardagh, consciousness, community

Past Life Memories

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:02:12 GMT

Someone asked whether I have past life memories and if so, how do I know? This was my answer, thought I would share it here to see what comments get evoked!!

I have considerable and varied pastlife memories. How do I "know" they are memories? The same way I "know" my memory of breakfast is a memory. And, to some extent, since memories are subject to error, there can be errors, mistaking imaginings for memories. But generally they do feel different, to me.

Some of the memories came spontaneously, and some were "triggered" by people helping me in my spiritual growth.

The more interesting question is "What good are they? Do they benefit at all?" For me, the main benefit is that I can see how present-life issues fit a larger pattern, and that really does make the issue with its illusions easier to let go of. With 15 widely differing examples of a pattern instead of 6 from this lifetime, for example, it's easier to see the illusion involved, and harvest its wisdom by seeing the corresponding Higher Truth, thus transcending the illusion, letting it go.

Also, while some people seem to seek pride from past-life identities, for me they have generated nothing but a profound humility....

Having past-life memories also helps us break our identity with this embodiment and this mind, which helps us realize Who we Are.

It also helps us have compassion for "perpetrators," as we remember we have been on both sides, actually on ALL sides of the victim-perpetrator-rescuer triangle, so it helps us transcend those perspectives into Compassion and a clearer realization of what human life is all about, why things happen.

Tags: past life memories, compassion, memory, pride, spiritual growth, development, evolution, knowing

Live, Sing, Dance

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:41:52 GMT

This combination of orchestral music, dancing, and singing, in a huge group of people, is a most inspiring example of "amplified divine light in all." This is music as it was naturally meant to be experienced. To hear music without moving is quite unnatural, a noted philosopher (Friedrich Nietzsche) once said.

Enjoy this example of the fully alive, benevolent-world "New Life" that we in our church celebrate, and promote for all people everywhere!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX1fiE0U1qA

and check out other stuff by the same conductor. It's all similarly wonderful!!

Andre Rieu - Shostakovich' Second Waltz

Thanks to my Gaia Friend Albert in Germany for turning me on to this great stuff!!

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Tags: music, dance, life, celebration, play, laughter, aliveness

Some Good News

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:34:06 GMT

Ex-U.S. President Jimmy Carter has left the Baptist church, after 60 years there, over their attitudes toward women.

http://tinyurl.com/lxeyqr
[Open in new window]

Click on blue words Open in new window, to see the article. Or copy-paste the address into your browser's address space.

Tags: women, politics, religion, Jimmy Carter, patriarchy, consciousness, evolution, church, feminism, equality

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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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

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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.

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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 !

Tags: fear, negative emotions, thoughts, reality, creating, desires, belief, spirituality, consciousness, evolution

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.

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

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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Tags: chakras, health, spirituality, development, evolution, Light, Dark, mental health, energy, body

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